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La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Magazine University Publications 4-1961 La Salle College Magazine April 1961 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle College Magazine April 1961" (1961). La Salle Magazine. 193. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine/193 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in La Salle Magazine by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. iAU^k :€ LLEGrteRAR^ fr.-S? y«-- •uj r r 'Tfl If I^ Kl A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI, STUDENTS AND FRIENDS OF LA SALLE COLLEGE FENTENNIAL YEAR/ Volume 5, Number 3, April, 1961 1963 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/lasalle171973unse La Salle VOLUME 5 APRIL, 1961 NUMBER ; 9^ TkU 9^Mue President's Page Joseph L. Hanley, '59 This Is Your Union Editor and La Salle Centenary Fund Director of Alumni Campus Events j Sportsrts . Alumni Spring Reception ! Personal Patter 1 Candidates for Alumni Offices 1 Ralph W. Howard, '60 Graduate Welcome Dance l! Assistant Editor and Director of News Bureau CaUh4iat Annual Glee Club Concert April 19,22, College Union Theatre, 8:30 p.m.—Admission $1.00 ANNUAL ALUMNI SPRING RECEPTION (see advertisement) April Lecture, Dr. Hans Heinrich, German Vice-Counsel April College Union 301, 7:30 p.m.—Admission free Robert S. Lyons '61 'April in Paris" Dance April Sports Editor College Union Ballroom, 9:00 p.m.—Admission $ 1 .00 Fine Film Program (Laurence Olivier's HENRY V) April 28, 29, College Union Theatre—Admission $.50 BLUE AND GOLD DAY May Masque Spring Musical (HIGH BUTTON SHOES) May 7 -II Spring Fling Dance May College Union Ballroom, 9:00 p.m.—Admission $1.00 Reunion of Class of 1951 May Board of Directors Social May i! FOUNDER'S DAY May CciDet ALUMNI LECTURE May College Union Theatre, 8.:00 p.m.—Admission Free features the This month's cover La Jazz Concert (Jimmy DePriest Orchestra) May Salle College Union Committees College Union Theatre, 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. Board and its adviser, Mr. John H. Admission: Students Alumni, $1.00; all others, $2.00 Veen. Reunion of Class of 1936 May GRADUATE WELCOME DANCE (see advertisement) May Photographs by Mike Maicher The La Salle Magazine is published four times yearly by ha Salle College f Alumni, faculty, students and friends of La Salle College. Editorial and Business ofEo at Olumni Office, La Salle College, Philadelphia 41, Pa. Member of American Alum Council. Printed by Clark Printing House, Inc., 1228 Cherry Street, Philadelphia Pa. Engravings by Basil Smith System, 1016 Cherry Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa. Secor class mail privileges authorijcd at Philadelphia, Pa. rapidly becoming one of the key cul- tural centers for the arts in the Greater THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE Philadelphia area. During the current academic year, the College has already presented a dozen concerts and ballets, "Christian education takes in the ag- The College Union Movement at La a continuous series of art exhibitions, '^regate of human life, physical and Salle: This organization is a very i-ecent and numerous outstanding national and Spiritual, intellectual and moral, indi- addition to our college life, although its international iddual, domestic, and social, not with a goals of informal education and recrea- speakers and performers. l^iew of reducing it in any way but in tion have always been a part of our The Alumni Forum program of eminent jirder to elevate, regulate, and perfect it, program of higher education. At La speakers has also enhanced La Salle's n accordance with the example and Salle, the homey world of campus, li- position as a major center of intellec- reaching of Chi-ist." Since Pope Pius XII brary, and classroom—the realm of tra- tually stimulating events. jirst promulgated this definition of Chris- ditional routine and almost unvarying The College Experimental Theatre: tian education, writers in every land, class programs—has now taken on the Directed by Mr. Daniel Rodden, assisted •ecognizing the essential wisdom inher- rapid pace of change caused by magnifi- by Mr. Sidney MacLeod, the Masque of ent in this concept, have accepted the cent additions to our campus life—the La Salle, since the recent presentation ^ope's viewpoint and have reflected it College Union Building, Mr. John Veen, n their writings. and the College Union Committees. of three one-act plays, now has an "ex- perimental" theatre. Traditionally, the With this concept as a point of de- What is aptly described as the "Hearth ; Masque has presented a drama each Fall of the Campus" is also becoming a simi- jarture, it should be obvious that true and a musical in the Spring, to which lar center for the entire community, with Christian education cannot be completely the one-act plays were added this year. iichieved by any program which is limited literally scores of cultural events being A one-act play contest for high schools held in '.o merely private study or even to formal the Union throughout the year. has completed its second successful year. lass instruction. On the college campus After witnessing its numerous activities, This pattern is to be expanded. fvery well-regulated activity or experi- who could doubt that the College Union, ence in which the student engages must under the direction of Mr. John Veen, You and Marriage Series: The seventh kffect his educational maturity. May we ably seconded by the thirteen student annua! series was completed on Passion committees, its iiot admit that these outside activities has as primary objective Sunday. This program of lenten lectures assistance implement the ordinary undergraduate in the education of students and discussions has attracted an average through services and programs for a instruction program, supplying occasions of 200 persons each week. Members of fuller and richer life as responsible citi- for educational growth which the every- the alumni have been among the lec- |lay classroom life cannot provide? zens in our modern society? The turers and panelists. The audience is Instruction college is program of a con- mostly of college students All this implies that the College Union comprised erned with thinking, knowledge, and Salle and the neighboring col- is an organization as well as a building. from La iinderstanding, and, when well done, It is a social and cultural center of the leges for young men and women who •hould contribute to this maturing of the first order. It has served as an art gal- recognize a need to prepare for the life- Vhole person. We must admit, however, lery, workshop, concei't hall, educational long adventure into marriage. Although !hat certain phases of the growth of the foiiim headquarters, banquet I'oom, en- attendance is not a substitute for the luman personality cannot come to full tertainment center, club meeting area, couples, leight through this abstract activity instructions given to engaged communication center, games room, and lone. Must we not admit that actual re- the College Chaplain, Father Mark public relations office. Also, it has been ationships with situations and people Heath, Brother D. Augustine, Moderator, a laboratory of student management utside the classroom favorable to edu- and the N.F.C.C.S. personnel keep in and self-directed social and cultural ac- ational development should complement close contact with the Archdiocesan tivity. It has been fundamentally anothei' his abstract activity. Family Life Bureau. The Director of this name for the people of the College in Bureau, Monsignor James R. Cummiskey, their time outside the classroom and If it is true—and I believe it is—that participated several times and has I has library. It has been a natural laboratory ihis "extra" curricular life is left to been responsible for many speakers, for the practice of citizenship (some jhance or is neglected by the family or medical doctors and priests who are on succeed, some do not) where students |he community, then the college is left his staff. and faculty are influenced to become |o encourage or supply such a program. service-minded and socially responsible. The Ph.T. Program: Founded in 1954, jVoodrow Wilson at the beginning of this the "Ph.T. — Putting Him Through" entury voiced those cynically-turned Since this issue of the La Salle Maga- degree — is given each year to the wives ifords that "the side show has become zine is dedicated to the activities of the of graduating seniors, and a special inore important than the main tent." College Union, it is to the point to pay award is given for "fulfilling the role of lUthough the undergraduate curriculum tribute primarily to Mr. John Veen, Mi-. O'Neill and the student committees, then an unselfish Christian wife and mother." 3 still the "heart of the matter," pro- to Mr. Daniel Rodden, Mr. Sidney Mac- Last year, this special award was given cessors in their classrooms and deans in Leod and the Masque, to Mr. William to Mrs. Eugene Fitzgerald, wife of a La Iheir offices could well learn from the Hall and his staff, to Mr. Francis Kerr Salle Faculty member, and at this same nergy, enthusiasm, and interest of those and his capable assistants, to Mr. "Pete" graduation ceremony the wives of 183 I'ho run such "side shows." The proper Paranzino, and, finally, to Brother Fi- seniors received "Ph.T.'s." The success ilace and importance of these "extra" delian of Mary and his culture and lec- of this little graduation program is due urricular activities in the educational ture program.