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A QUARTERLY LA SALLE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
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One of the Liniversity's most popular professors is now experiencing a new lifestyle as a teacher in Kenya.
LIKE A SOFT KISS, OFF THE GLASS
Everyone knew that Bill Rafteiy was destined for pro basketball. As a player, not an annoLincer.
CAMELOT AT LA SALLE
The lives of an American president and an English novelist were entwined in 1963 and Robert S. Lyons, Jr., '61, Editor the university played a major role. '58, James J. McDonald, Alumni Director
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AROUND CAMPUS Maria Tucker Cusick, '83, President Joseph H. Cloran, '61, Executive Vice President La Salle recently honored the first female U.S. '62, Nicholas J. Lisi, Esq.. Vice President stirgeon general and again was named one of James M. Boligitz, '83, Treasurer the best regional universities by U.S. News & Elizabeth R. Leneweaver, '87, Secretary World Report.
LA SALLE (ISPS 299-940) is published quarterly by La Salle University, 1900 W. Olney Avenue, AZARIAS, THE HELP OF GOD Philadelphia, PA 19141-1199, for the alumni, students, faculty, and friends of the University. One of the most prominent 19th century Editorial and business offices are located at the News Bureau, La Salle L'niversiry. Philadelphia, PA classical scholars got his start at La Salle 19141-1199. Changes be at of address should sent more than 100 years ago. Today he is leasl 50 days prior to the Alumni Office, La Salle University, 1900 W, Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, PA nearly forgotten. 19141-1199 POSTMASTER: send change of address to office list- ed above. ALUMNI NOTES Member of the Council for the Advancement and
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FRONT COVER Rest On The Flight Into Egypt," oil on canvas by Noel Nicolas Coypel (1690-I"s i I, French, is part of the collection of the La Salle University An Museum
BACK COVER: Father Maurice Schepers conducts a liturgy with several Christian Brother novices in Kenya. Volume 38 / Number 1 LA SALLE Winter 1993-1994 AFRICA
aurice Schepers, a 65-year- old Dominican priest, came to La Salle in 1968. After For almost a quarter of a teaching in our Religion century, Father Maurice department for almost 25 years, he was Schepers taught at granted a leave of absence to study La Salle. Last year he Swahili in Tanzania. Last year he gave up the comfortable taught at a seminary on the outskirts of life and decided to move Nairobi, Kenya. After spending two to Kenya where he now months in the States this past summer, he returned to Kenya where he re- delivers his Sunday sumed his teaching. homily in Swahili
Located in East Africa—touching the Indian Ocean and bordered by Somalia. Ethiopia, Sudan. Uganda, and Tanzania—Kenya, 25% Roman Catholic, reportedly has
the highest annual birth rate in the world. While it will take an estimated 88 years in the United States for the
population to double, that expectation in Kenya is 19 years. Additionally, 50% of the Kenyan people are under Seydow, Ph.D., '65 ByJack the age of 15, as opposed to 22% in the U.S. In L979, the
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population density in Kenya was 26.4 persons per square kilometer; by L989, that had increased to 36.9. In a country slightly smaller than Texas, over 26 million live; what exacerbates that situation is that 75% of Kenya's people inhabit only 10% of its land, making the density in what is termed Kenya's "favoured areas" some 400 persons per square kilometer. This spring, in Kenya's first election since 1978, and despite widespread allegations of corruption and improprieties in the election process, Daniel arap Moi was renamed president. Following that election, and primarily in response to Moi's new economic reforms, both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund im- posed much tighter restrictions termed "cruel" by President Moi—on lending money to Kenya. In 1990, the World Bank calculated Kenya's GDP at $380 per capita (versus $440 in Haiti, for example).
This interview took place at La Salle in July, a day before Father Schepers departed for Africa. In 1983,
Schepers was featured in a LA SALLE roots in colonialism. So it was a kind question, the Roman Catholic
Magazine article, written by Jack of colonial type mission: religion or Church of Kenya is very Roman. It Seydow, titled "Marathon Man." cult, commerce, civilization. By the kind of reminds me of the saying time Pius XII had written Fidei about the Catholic Church in France,
Donum, I guess we had come to Spain, and Italy: the French Church
recognize that that's not the way it is most Christian, the Spanish
works. But that was before Indepen- Church is most Roman, and the In his encyclical "The Future of dence Day— 1963 in Kenya—and Italian Church is most Catholic. Africa," Pius XII proclaimed even before that time there was a Anyway, it's very Roman because that "the expansion of the kind of movement among the mis- the episcopacy in Eastern Africa is Church in Africa over the last sionaries to separate religion from very much tied into the Roman decades is a reason for joy and Western civilization. Church because of their training. pride among all Christians." But that was 1957, and the Would you be considered a You fit right in there, then? Pope was talking about Africa missionary? in general. What are your Well, what 1 would say is that the views of the state of Roman In the popular mind, yes. I don't Vatican is really afraid of what's
Catholicism in Kenya today? think of myself as a missionary, happening in Africa today. It's kind though, but as a minister with the of analogous to what was happening first The thing that I would say is church—a minister to and with towards the end of the 19th century that the Catholic Church as well as people, a teacher and preacher. in America: the fear that the Ameri- the Protestant churches have their However, in answer to your original can church was going astray. And I page 2 LA SALLE A Mass can take hours. They're used to public speakers who seem to think that's very real today in Africa. The growth of the Church has been so explosive and the movement go on forever. toward enculturation so intense that the people who are really interested in promoting centralization are very
afraid. So I think that's the basic tension: ideologically, the ecclesiology of a worldwide church with a central authority and then the that kind of catechesis takes place in Where are the Brothers com- local churches somehow functioning the small Christian community. ing from? America? The in relation to the central authority, as Baltimore province? contrasted with an ecclesiology Other than the Capuchins, where you are in communion with what other "outsiders" are Yes, Bud Knight, Leo Smith, and each other and somehow honoring ministering to those East Paul Joslin are three American the central authority. African Catholics? How many Christian Brothers who head up the Dominicans, for example? formation communities in Nairobi. Isn't that sort of what exists in Then there are some other Broth- South America? This coming year there will be five ers. The vicar of that group is a Dominican friars from the U.S. and man named Marty Spellman; he's Sort of, yes. The bishops of East one Dominican brother from the from the mid-West. Africa, perhaps as early as 1974, Czech republic—six in all—in two made their primary pastoral priority small communities, teaching in two Any culture shock? For ex- the organizing and promoting of regional seminaries. ample, where do you live, what they termed "the small Chris- what do you eat, what did you
tian community." It's what the Latin I hadn't been aware of the miss most? Americans call the communidades Christian Brothers' presence in
de base. And that does threaten a East Africa. What role do they Chocolate! Although I don't really
Church which functions out of a play? miss it any more because I found a central authority. source. But, anyhow, we acquired a Their presence in East Africa prob- property in Nairobi, owned by a
I saw that work in Tanzania where I ably goes back some 30, 35 years. British businessman, built for his went for language training, particu- Within the past 15 years or so, family and his three sisters. He was larly in one of its dioceses where the they've retrenched somewhat, going home, put the house on the bishop is European educated and though. They had founded minor market just as we arrived, and we strongly supports the concept of the seminaries or secondary schools run got this very spacious, rather small Christian community. Living in now by missionaries. The expecta- comfortable home, which we have
this village are two Swiss priests and tion is that five per cent of the retrofitted to house 17 people. It three Capuchin brothers—one of students will go on to a major has a dining room and a chapi whom is the superior of the commu- seminary and study philosophy. The sitting room faces East >n
nity7 —and in the parish that they Their schools, then, are very decent the end of it we have on i^hip
service there are about twenty or secondary schools, which in a way space. The sun comes 1 1 right over
twenty-five small Christian communi- seed vocations to the diocesan that space, and it's really wonderful. ties. The parents prepare their clergy. The Christian Brothers are children in the community for mainly concentrating now in Kenya, You were getting a cow? Baptism, for marriage, and for with really good schools in about Confirmation. Then they are brought four different places, focusing on We were, and we may have already-
into the parish church for the leadership training of lay leaders, obtained it. celebration of the Eucharist. So all with a big emphasis on agriculture.
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Lots of traffic?
Bicycles all over the place. Chinese and Indian made. In the center of Nairobi town, unbelievable traffic. But as soon as you get out to the suburbs, you see lots of people walking along the road astonishing to me
when I first got to Nairobi and travelled from the airport to
where I was living.
I understand that Kenya has the Father Schepers con- highest popula- ducts a liturgy with tion density of any same Christian Brothers sub-Saharan nation. novices. The presence of Is there a problem with hunger the Brothers in East in Nairobi? Well, we're still a rural population, Africa goes hackfor at with only 20% of the population least three decades The food is there as long as yon like — living in the city. But, despite that beans but not everybody can get at — density that you mentioned, there it. Because in the slums most every- are places where nobody lives, just body is unemployed and there's just cattle. no money around. Most people are I art of the really scratching for survival. What's the climate like? What about transportation? blessing for Where we are, in the highlands of was Gasoline prices? Nairobi at 5,000 feet, it's very moder- me to spit at the ate. So, in our sense of the word, I walk, ride a bicycle, by mini-van, there are no seasons. During July bus. Gasoline costs between eight and August, it's cool. The weather in end of Mass. The and ten dollars a gallon. September and October is beautiful, clear and breezy and warm, not hot. would be the hourly African people What wage Then the wind comes up from the for, say, a secondary school Indian Ocean, and it starts to rain. teacher? were astounded Then, until December, everything is mud, and you literally get around We calculate the salaries by the that it would from house to vehicle, from bus to month, and a school teacher would house—in gum boots. The rains probably make about shillings, happen and they 3,000 taper off around Christmas, and or about $37, a month. A school there's a hot period until the middle teacher doesn't have a car. therefore, of February. But, again, it's really were delighted. and gets around either walking or by never that hot. Despite an unforgiv- bus. ing equatorial sun in the middle of
page i LA SALLE the day, the temperature is not that That's a fact. And it's a kind of a They're treated, then, as under
when it with the old as chattel, intolerable. At the end of March it paradox you compare system, as begins getting cooler, and the long what I said about the Roman quality. men's property? What about
rains begin and last until the first of They're very loyal to the central the law? June. Then you have a period of authority of the Church. At the same marvelous, beautiful weather. time they're very concerned with the As far as I can tell, there are very few social conditions in their own nation laws which protect women and We had talked one other time and so much so that they will really children. They really are at the mercy about the repressive govern- go out and risk themselves. I really of people who wield authority within ment, and the potential of civil think they are risking themselves. the family or the tribe. war and other instabilities. The Pope did not get a very Any hope that such attitudes in If There's that and it's complicated by good reception Jamaica. and behaviors will change? the conflicts within the tribes, among he came to Kenya, what kind How much cultural exchange, the tribes. And that's fomented, in of a reception would he get? for example, do Kenyans have part, by the government. They know with the West, thus seeing that tribal conflict is an essential Among the Catholic people he women empowered in positions condition for their exercise of that would be welcomed with great love. of leadership and control? repressive power. And the economy And I think that would be true for
is in the hands of a few very power- people generally, not just Catholics: Well, in that respect I think there is ful people. The people at the very he would be welcomed as a great lots of hope. I have a sense that the top are extremely large landowners, religious leader. He was in Kenya in young men with whom I am in the president himself and the vice- 1985 and was very well received. touch, in the seminary and the president. They are people, though, university, are very positive in their whom you sense really know they're What about women in Kenya? resolve to give women their due. I in jeopardy: they're always somehow don't know what happens when covering their bases. Then you have They are beasts of burden. When I these young fellows are ordained a very united group of Catholic say beasts of burden, I'm referring to and they go back to their villages; I bishops who, from the time the one of the first things that one think there is a great temptation for election grew on the horizon a notices in driving from the airport in them to become chiefs and not to be couple of years ago. have been very Nairobi out to the suburbs: women revolutionary. But I have hope that forthright in their criticism of the bearing, quite literally, burdens. they will work to correct that wrong. There is a division of labor in the There are, too. some remarkable government—so forthright that it shocks me to see how political they agricultural area. The women culti- women leaders in Kenya who are are. They have proclaimed that the vate the garden, with the children, speaking out. I was in a seminar in government has lost credibility, and while the men harvest. The women January that included arguably the even suggested publicly that the then bear the harvest. And they bear most notorious of the women activ- government step down, resign. everything else, not just children. ists, a young woman who is con- The women walk with great bur- stantly the target of persecution li- From the pulpit? dens—cans of water, weighing about the government because of her 60 pounds—on their heads, and it candor in speaking out ag Yes, in the sense that they publish looks very7 efficient and they look so unjust treatment of wome their letters. So the lower clergy in dignified. But when they get to be students there the Catholic Church are really older—just in their 40's and early What are the licensed by those letters to somehow 50's—they're really bent over, really like? You're teaching what? be activists themselves. old looking. We have had to inter- vene in our own household with an Ecclesiology, mostly, and students The Church is much more employee regarding certain kinds of ecumenism. The university revolutionary in Kenya than, exploitation of his wife. would be basically the same age as say, in the U.S.? vour students at La Salle, men and
WINTER 1993-94 ! women, some of them a bit older, taught me how to spit. Did I tell you We're so western? with some work experience, includ- about their teaching me to spit? ing some who have done some Well, partly, but another thing teaching on the primary level, No, no—that I would remember. suggested by that is their respect for because it's obviously not necessary the elders and for authorities. In the part blessing to have a college degree in order to Yes, of the was for me classroom, for example, it's a prob- to spit. is teach. They come from families not This the blessing of the lem. The first problem is not to get father: to spit or even to spit into really poor—poor circumstances, — people to listen, but to get them certainly by our standards, but the face of—and to touch the son. involved in the process. The stu- coming from families that are able to They said that we ought to do this, dents' questions are few and far support them in some ways to that I ought to do this, at the end of between, because the presumption matriculate at the university. In the Mass. So, they suggested that, just is that a question from the floor calls seminary, you have a fairly broad before the final blessing, I take a into question the authority of the spectrum of people because it's mouthful of water at the altar and spit teacher. Their respect for the elder is regional; therefore, you have semi- it out onto the ground. And the very precious, but at the same time narians from a number of tribes. So African people, they were astounded it's a very delicate thing because you
that it they the various tribes are represented, in would happen, and were can exploit it. There's a continual a beautiful sense, even in the sem- delighted. They talked after the Mass exploitation of that virtue by elders, inary. to me, and told me that I did it right, and by authorities even more that I did it well. And I didn't feel as generally: by the chiefs, by the post
What have the students taught if I were acting, actually, because it office, by the church, even. But it's a you? And, in essence, what do was so much a part of their culture, very authentic value, the respect for the Kenyan people have to and they were so welcoming. the elder, that our society could be teach all of us? educated about. You had said something to me
There's a sense in which they are before about the Kenyans' That environment is quite patience. ahead of us at what I would call the different from what would symbolic level. That probably goes have been anticipated from a with their culture, which you could They stand in line, they wait, for boy growing up in a Dutch say is less sophisticated than ours, hours—for water, to get a doctor to Reformed household in Hol- but much more in touch with the sign a form, and at the post office, land, Michigan during the great symbols of tribal existence, which is the worst. And their patience Depression. How many African- initiation rites, things like that, which is tied to a kind of pace, the regular, Americans were in your high are still very much a part of their natural cycles of daylight and night- school? And have you felt heritage, though dying out a little bit time hours when you live on the yourself being looked now. Those great symbols of rites of equator. Nothing is ever hurried. Not at in Kenya as, well, the Great passage are very explicit in their to romanticize this, but I do think White Father? culture. And they're by and large they have a sense that it's the event simple, straightforward people, but that counts, not the time it takes. For You're right: who would have very in touch with the great arche- example, a Mass can take hours. thought? My high school graduating They're used to public speakers who typal symbols, although not in a class was. I recall, all white. And as kind of reflecth e way. We know a seem to go on forever. It is nothing, for perceptions, what I've experi- lot about those things because we've then, for a bishop to get up at the enced is that if you're white then the read Karl Jung. But when Brother end of mass and deliver extempora- expectation is that you have money. Bud Knight asked these young neous remarks for 30-45 minutes That unfortunate perception has novices if (hey wanted to put to- even. It's expected. been a matter of great personal gether a ritual for one of our Masses, embarrassment for me. Our commu- they responded with relish. They What exasperates you about nity, for example, has tried to live were itching to do it, and they really the culture? what Americans would consider a enjoyed doing it. It was not .1 show. rather austere life. Yet by East And at the end of the ritual they Things like that. Absolutely! African standards, we live lavishly. page 6 LA SALLE Earlier, you mentioned television; the whole country has only about one million TV sets, and we decided to do without one.
Here, in the spawning ground of the world's great- est long distance runners, are you still running?
Well, yes. On the weekends I work out on the track at the Marist school not far from us. But I'd call my running recreational rather than what you would call competi- tive. And these Kenyan runners are the truly competitive ones. I see them running on the roads near us. Most are in the military, and that seems to give them the time to train in really systematic, disciplined ways. I haven't had the opportunity to talk to any of them, though.
Is your Swahili good enough to converse without an inter- Father Schepers stands preter? outside the Religion
Department 's Wister Hall offices in 1992. Before I think so. Learning Swahili has joining La Salle's faculty, he been very difficult, however. But I studied and taught in Paris. give my Sunday homily in Swahili. Rome, and Washington. I write it by, say, Tuesday, and leopard was seeking at that then get one of the African novices altitude." May I ask what you to go over it with me. are seeking at that altitude? teaching has not been easy and I That is, why did you go to have a lot yet to learn—but it's just I understand that you've been Africa, and why are you re- something that I felt I had to do. invited to climb Mount turning? Kilimanjaro this coming year.
Since I know that you know Well, that's right at the nitty gritty. Hemingway's "The Snows of There's a lot of ways I could Kilimanjaro," you'll certainly answer that. You know about my recall the epigraph to the story Dr Seydow, professor of English, interest in Jung and in myth, and and the details about the joined the La Salle faculty in 1968. that was certainly part of what Masai' calling the of the same year that Man, ice summit attracted me. Less pedantically, that mountain the "House of Schepers started teaching in the though, I guess pan of it has to do Cod" and the perplexing ob- Religion Department. In the early with being a Dominican. servation, referring to the '70s, be and Fr. Schepers team La Salle is a tough place to leave, carcass of a leopard found taught courses in English ami and yet I think a Dominican should close to that summit, that "No Religion in the Sophomore be someone on the move. The one has explained what the Interdisciplinary Program, challenges there are great—the
WINTER 1993-94 page Like a soft kiss, off the glass
Everyone just knew that Bill Raftery was destined for pro basketball. As a player, not an announcer
By Frank Bilovsky, '62
verybody knew it was inevitable What everybody knew right away
from the first time they saw Bill was that Raftery was destined for the E Raftery with a basketball. National Basketball Association. La Salle's basketball coach Dudey Moore Of course they all thought that he
knew it when he saw Raftery in 1958, the was going to play pro basketball, not
first year he scouted him at tell people about it while it was
St. Cecelia's High School in being played. Kearney, N.J. But fate has a strange way of dealing John Christel and Phil with people's lives. Or maybe McGuire, who lived across Raftery knows how to express that
the hall on the first floor of thought even better.
St. Albert's Hall, in Septem- "I guess everything works the way ber 1959 knew it when they God wants it to work," he said. "I V saw Raftery in pickup really enjoyed my four years at games on the asphalt court La Salle. And I really enjoyed the behind the dorms. game. I came up short in terms of
English professor Dan pursuing it any further, but the
Rodden knew it the first alternate was pretty darn good." time he saw Raftery play a And not just for the 52-year-old game for the Explorer frosh Raftery, but all those college and pro that December. And no basketball fans across the country doubt told Brother Henry who get the opportunity to listen and about it the next time he to see him work 125 or more games saw him on campus. on television from early November to Brother Henry probably late May every year. told Rodden, "Yeah, I
knew it a month ago when He does the New Jersey Nets - home
I was watching practice." and away - on Sports Channel New York. Danny McDyre, Raftery 's classmate from Marlton, He does the Big East and other top N.J., might have been able conferences during the college to throw a javelin a heck season on ESPN. When La Salle was of a lot farther than Bill could shoot a in the Metro-Atlantic Conference, he
basketball. But even he knew it almost did the conference tournament from immediately. the Knickerbocker Center in Albany and got to see Speedy Morris and the page s LA SALLE Explorer players accomplish some- In the 34 years thing he missed in his four years at since he showed
20th and Olney - making the NCAA up on the tournament field. La Salle campus from his North These days, though, Raftery makes Jersey home, Bill the tournament as a commentator for Raftery has CBS. And in an age where college polished his style basketball commentary is too catego- without feeling rized as a frenetic "SLAM, BAM, like he has to JAM," Raftery's analysis is as refresh- polish his silver- ing as an after-dinner mint following ware. a meal of linquini and clams with a side of garlic bread. "He's never gone uptown," said Raftery doesn't call up-and-down Donald "Dee" performers "Dow Jonesers." He Rowe, the former doesn't call talented freshmen An "Irish breakaway" hampered University of "Diaper Dandies." But if you need a Raftery's career at La Salle Connecticut basketball coach "T.O., Baby," from the Omnipresent in a moment of truth and Oracle of Overstatement, Raftery is candor during the Bill Raftery Roast verse salesman, head coach at Seton the one you'll like. at Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal Hall, banker.
The sad thing about Dick Vitale is last September. But when he talks about his respon- that he knows the game and can And Raftery7 got the chance to prove sibility as one of America's best color analyze it with the best of them. But it during his rebuttal at the roast. analysts, he turns serious. he has become a parody of himself
and an unwelcome guest in many , He told the story of the first time he He said he has worked with some- family rooms. went to the home of his wife, Joan, where between 40 and 60 play-by- when they were dating in the late play men since Len Berman and he- Raftery, on the other hand, picks up 1960s. started doing the Big East Monday- defensive changes quicker than any Night Game of the Week in 1980. college basketball analyst. He raises He said he was a row-house, his voice when the play warrants it. Kensington kind of guy — still is, in "I always feel the play-by-play guy
He is never bigger than the game, fact. And he recalled driving to his sets the tone and it's your job to get a la Vitale and, in an earlier time, date's home and commenting to her in sync and make the thing work."
Howard Cosell. And not only doctor father that he certainly had an he said. "And it's worked for me. doesn't he overshadow what is impressive alleyway out there. The play-by-play man is the m happening on the floor, he also and potatoes. My job is jus "Lip here, we cal it a driveway," the remains subordinated to the man screw the thing up. father said. with the headset and microphone "I think it's important t< watch the sitting next to him. True story? Hardly. But believable? game and not be overbearing and If you know Raftery, definitely. He He's calling the Nets and the Big East see some lightness or some enter- enjoys poking fun at himself in again this season, neatly turning taining facet, be into it enough so whatever of his past lives is appli- phrases and sounding more like your that you don't ruin it for the guy who cable - Division III coach at Fairleigh next door neighbor than Dickie knows everything and yet (don't talk Dickinson Madison campus before it Know-It-All. < iver) a lot of people who are first was even called Division III, Con- time viewers.
c WINTER 1993-94 page > "Raftery's analysis is as refreshing
as an after-dinner mint following
a meal of linguini and clams with
a side of garlic bread."
"So many people understand the Raftery wound up spinning and The following year, tournament
game, so to state the obvious is a hitting the basket support with his hopes were dashed before the first problem. You've got to see the lower back at full force. game.
other thing — why it's happened "I finished the game but I was sore,' The Explorers went to New York to rather than what's happened." he said. scrimmage against NYU, then a Someone once told him that broad- national power. From there, it got worse. casting style was not something you "I hurt the back again," he said. "I determined. "Just do your game and "I hurt it again in pre-season my went down for a ball and couldn't your style will occur," he was told. sophomore year but I played my come back up. I played 18 minutes whole sophomore year with it," he It has happened. His style has that year. Dudey used to start me said. He scored 392 points as the become as smooth as his favorite because they figured if I was loose I 1960-61 Explorers finished 15-7 but term for a banked shot — "the soft might be able to run. But when I failed to earn a post-season bid. kiss off the glass." came out of the game, I was finished. We were in a But if you grew tip with him tournament at the Garden in Kearney or spent time that year and I remember with him at La Salle, which going up to the Garden and won a recruiting battle with trying to run underneath the Seton Hall, Georgetown, stands. No good." Holy Cross, and Notre Dame for his talents, none of this Raftery underwent surgery surprises you. The only for removal of a slipped disc
mystery is how good a on January 26. Within font- professional basketball months, he was back in
player he might have been if uniform, playing against an
it hadn't been for that alumni team at Wister Hall. summer league game in And then his senior year, he I960. and Frank Corace led La Raftery was coming off a Salle to a 16-7 season, a bid sensational freshman season to the National Invitation following a Panicle High Tournament and a first- School All-America prep round game against St. Louis career. But right at that University. moment he was engaging in In the final minute, the the practice of the "Irish Explorers had a one-point breakaway.'' Some call it lead and the ball. It was basket-hanging. time for nothing but a layup.
"I'm chippie-hanging and But it was then that Raftery I'm going for the layup and took what was called at somebody tried to save the September's roast "the worst Seton I kill for more than a basket.'' he said. He and single shot in the history of decade. the defender's legs hooked and college basketball."
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tionship that included reviving an ailing pro- gram and entering the powerful Big East
Conference. It was in the conference that Ratten" learned, among other things, you had to go to Syracuse in the It a shot from the was winter. And that was to corner, it missed, the play the Orangemen, not Billikins took the to sell them sneakers. rebound and. shortly after that, the game. "We became modestly Raftery finished with successful for about 732 career points in seven years from 1973 to Helping to "roast" Raftery (thin!from right) barely over two 1980," he said. "As far as at the Trump Taj Mahal Hotel Casino in seasons. the Big East. I always Atlantic City on Sept. 24 were (from left): said that Dave Gavin wanted us Raftery went to the York New Digger Phelps. Speedy Morris. Billy in there so he would have Knickerbockers' was a camp. He Cunningham. Chuck Daly, and Dee Rowe. somebody to beat." 6-foot-3 1/2 guard, trying to make a 1963-64 team that had His 1 1-year record at the Hall four good backcourt players, includ- was 154-141. And during that Seton Hall star and Blond Bomber ing former La Salle great Tom Gola. tenure, he was approached by his for the NBA Rochester Royals, called alma mater. He was a late cut. Was it because with an opportunity, Raftery ac- the back injury had eroded his skills? cepted a job in promotion and sales "I went clown and talked to (athletic with the Converse Rubber Co. director Bill) Bradshaw and Tom "1 don't know," he says. "It's always Gola and Bill DiMarco," he said. "It You played college basketball in been a great excuse. People are nice was one of those feel-you-out kind enough to say what could have those days, you just did it in canvas of deals. This was in the 1970s. I been, but I feel I was fortunate to get Cons. And the promotions and sales asked about this and that, and Gola in the last year at La Salle and when guy visited the coaches on campus a said, 'Well, if they do all that. I'll take
I didn't make the Knicks. I had couple times a year, handing out the job back myself." So I decided if something else in mind." samples, taking orders. Raftery's push came to shove, I thought territory was New York and New might take it if he wanted it. A generation later, his mind would Tommy Jersey. Davis explained the ground it worked out well for every- have been on playing in Europe, But rules: you visit Upstate New York earning a six- or seven-figure salary body." campuses in Syracuse, Rochester and and learning a new language. In- Buffalo in the fall and the spring. Especially when the broadcasting stead he would up coaching You do Jersey and Metro New York opportunity developed. Even here, Fairleigh Dickinson Madison where in the winter. You do not, repeat there was a La Salle tie-in. the pay was several figures smaller DO NOT, go to Syracuse in the last year w and the language was foreign only if "Our NIT game my winter. you weren't a North Jersey native. national TV," he said. "Bo After selling for a year and a half. was doing it. He had - couple He stayed for five successful years, Raftery got a call from Richie Regan, days at La Salli d 1 lis then smacked into the small college who was moving from the head unofficial host. Bob said, 'You ought barricade. c( taching job at Seton Hall to the to look into m\ .1 of the business.'
tin mis. I used to help "We were spinning our wheels," he athletic director's position. Would And in him with the Knick broadcasts when said. "It was not the kind of place to Raftery, who had earned his master's
I was with Converse — doing charts get a better situation from." degree at the Hall, be interested? and chatting during timeouts. That
He was. It began an 1 1-vear rela- So when Bob Davies. the former save me a taste."
WINTER 1993-94 page 1 "The La Salle background is
something I could never regret.
It was a great atmosphere to
grow up in."
ESPN began doing NCAA tournament Georgetown. Daughter Susie is a si. 500. We thought we could drink .studio shows in the late 1970s and student at Cheshire Academy in Ortleib's and Miller Lite for life on it decided to have a college coach as Connecticut and son Billy is in — and we pretty much did. But we an on-camera analyst. seventh grade. made a pretty good salary for the
"They wanted to make sure to have And, though he never made the campus. I think my last year was a coach whose team wouldn't be NCAA tournament in his playing $40,000 at Seton Hall, which was a busy during March — and that was days, he said he often thinks of his ton of money for the times." me," he said. old friends and coaches at La Salle, Nor does Raftery have any negative especially Dudey Moore, the main Raftery enjoyed the work. And feelings about his life at La Salle. reason he picked the school. when Gavitt formed the Big East in Not even the clip-on bow tie and 1979, Raftery was serious about a He feels that Moore never received letter sweater that were required career change. the credit he deserved after coming dress for class. to Philadelphia from Duquesne "The hair was turning gray, the jokes "The La Salle background is some- University in 1959. were growing old," he said. "I told thing I could never regret," he said.
Dave, I think I'd love to do the "He was a big fish in a small pond in "We had more Christian Brothers games." We had started practice in Pittsburgh," he said. "In Philly he then, which I liked. They were
1981 when Dave called and said. 'If became the reverse. There was Jack religious, but they were guys who you'd like to do the games, I'm not Ramsay and (AD Severance and mixed it up with you. It was a great going to do them this year. Call me Harry (Litwack) and Jack McCloskey atmosphere to grow up in. in two days and let me know.'" - and Cjack) Kraft on the way. He "We had a great cross-section at never got his due because he was an Forty-eight hours later, Raftery had a La Salle. I used to compare it to outsider in a sense. new profession. It wasn't full-time at Seton Hall when I was coaching first, so he took a job as a govern- "I still remember when we went to there — kids from all sections of the ment banker for a North Jersey bank. Pittsburgh for a game and at the city and all economic backgrounds In 1981, he started working the Nets' airport, you'd have thought the thrown into this healthy pot. And games and college games for TVS/ Messiah was coming. In Philly, he nobody was no better or no worse NBC. The next year he joined both was just another guy." than the other guy. We were not CBS and ESPN as a regular. And last docile but we were damn close." Like a baseball player from the summer he conducted the fifth 1950s, Raftery could brood about the Like a soft kiss, off the glass. annual Sharp Bill Raftery Broadcast- big money that coaches are making ing Camp, a two-week learning these days - salaries, radio and experience for about 50 students at television shows, and sneaker Frank Bilovsky lived across the hall Monclair State. Heart bypass surgery contracts. from Bill Raftery during the 1959-60 in August 1992 has not slowed him school year. Bilovsky, note a business down. He doesn't. writer caul columnist for the Roches- He and Joan still live in the West "It's part of the process," he said. ter Democrat and Chronicle caul
Orange, N.J., home they bought 21 "When you leave, the next guy Times-Union, also thought it was years ago. Their oldest daughter, should get more things. My last inevitable that Raftery would
Christie, is a Seton Hall grad. An- year, Converse gave us five grand. I end u/> in the NBA. other daughter. Kelly, is at gave my assistant $2,500 and I kept page 12 LA SALLE —
"Once there was a spot": CAMELOT HI LA SALLE
met, but in a three-week period beginning on that infamous day of November 22, 1963, the legacies of John F. Kennedy and T. H. White entwined forever. On the day Kennedy was assassinated, T.H. White was scheduled to speak at La Salle University but cancelled because of illness; by the time White did speak here on December 16, his work had given a name to an epoch in American history.
Volumes containing some sections of White's classic Arthurian re-telling appeared in the late 1930s and early 1940s. But when White finished his grand epic in the summer of 1941,
wartime paper shortages prevented its publica- tion as a whole. Not until early in 1958 did The Once and Future King finally appear: White immediately became famous (and rich, as the
book improbably made the best-seller lists).
In that year of 1958 John F. Kennedy himself was—if not yet quite internationally known well on his way. As a Catholic senator, By James A. Butler. Kennedy was especially appropriate for La Salle Ph.D.. '67 to honor. In February 1958 the La Salle commu-
nity gathered in the old auditorium ( now the university chapel) on the lower level of College the summer of 1941 an American and Hall to award Kennedy an honorary degree. The lives of an Inan Englishman—sharers of the same "We need voters and politicians capable of birthday but eight years apart—decided making the hard and unpopular decisions our American president how they would each confront the terrify- times require." he told us. And, writing in ing international situation. The choices La Salle's literary Four Quarters. and an English magazine they made that summer in large part Kennedy (narrowly elected president in the novelist were shaped their lives. The younger man. an November the issue appeared) called foi -a American of Irish descent, enlisted in the ideals, the ideal especially of a "creative entwined in 1963 Navy and parleyed his becoming a war America . . . peopled by articulate and creative hero into a political career that reached the individuals. For those who cannot speak, those and La Salle Univer- heights. The older man (evading the war who cannot bring forth new ideas and put them by decamping from England to before their fellows for judgment and action, sity played a major Doolistown, County Meath. Ireland) cannot lead and they cannot be free." finished reshaping for his century the One of the conundrums of the Arthurian role legends of King Arthur in what he called legend, T. H. White wrote to a friend, was "an anti-Hitler measure." The never men Arthur's struggle with himself over whether to
WINTER 1993-94 page 13 value the Law more than his personal love for his wife and for his friend, once Guenever and Lancelot become enmeshed
in a love affair: "(Arthur) invents Law . . . and is prepared to sacrifice Lancelot & Guenever to the ideal." This central point became the focus of Lerner and Loewe's musical Camelot, based on White's The Once and Future King. Late in I960
( 'amelot opened on Broadway starring Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, and Robert Goulet. The reviewer for the New York Post accurately described the new musical: "The wistful tale of an idealistic young king whose dream of bringing about a wiser and Brother President Emeritus Daniel Burke showi better world is shattered by mankind's Ted Kennedy, Jr., the spot where his uncle frailty and stubbornness." received an honorary degree in the <>/
Port in Massachusetts: "She wanted me to come," the students' lives; Kennedy's call for an idealistic life had for some been journalist recalled shortly before his own death, damaged, for others snuffed out. Despair had not yet become cyni-
"because she had a message for the American cism, but it was a near thing. people: She said that when Jack quoted lyrics they T. H. White looked us over, seemed to catch our mood, and were usually classical. But, she said. 'At night, before quoted from the wizard Merlyn's words in The Once and Future King: we'd go to sleep. Jack liked to play records, and the "The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only song he loved most came at the end of the (Camelot)
thing that never fails. . . . You may see the world about you devas- record, and the lines he loved to hear were: tated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of
Don 7 let it be forgot baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn. . . . That is That once there tins a spot the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, For one briefshining moment never be tormented by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of that was known as Camelot. regretting."
'This was Camelot, Teddy,' she told me. 'Let's not La Salle students' applause for T. H. White, he himself wrote in his " forget the time of Camelot.' journal, was "stunning" and made his "heart turn over." He did not
With the presses at LIFE magazine stopped to "want to stop ever ever ever." But death stopped White a month later; await the story, the journalist called in from the La Salle lecture was his last.
Jacqueline's kitchen words that tied together T. H. Lettering on a wall in La Salle University's chapel commemorates White and John Kennedy and made "Camelot" the place where John F. Kennedy received an honorary degree on
(rightly or wrongly) synonymous with the era. February 11, 1958. Sixty yards away, in La Salle's Connelly Library, is
Shortly after this LIFE magazine issue appeared preserved an outstanding special collection of T. H. White's work. on December 9, T.H. White recorded in his journal La Salle University is the only place I know of that honors the Ameri- that "one of President Kennedy's favorite discs was can president together with the English novelist whose work (assisted by Lerner the signature to those times. the cast recording of Camelot- It is an odd coinci- and Loewe) gave dence, because I have been told that when King George VI of England died, my book called 77ie Goshawkwas found on his bed." And on December Dr. Butler is professor and chair of the university's English 16, a bright, cold Monday at the end of what had Department and a recipient ofa Lindback Awardfor sudden!} become a ghastly semester, T. H. White distinguished teaching. came to La Salle.
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La Salle Management Professor Develops Cost-Benefit Method for Kennedy Space Center
D r. Prafulla N. Joglekar, a professor of management at the university, recently spent ten weeks at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, as a Summer Faculty Fellow developing a methodology for assessing the costs and benefits of advanced software development projects.
The primary objective of this fellow- ship program, conducted jointly by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the American Society for Engineering
Education (ASEE). is the exchange of ideas between NASA employees and the academic community.
Joglekar found that teamwork was the central theme of the manage- ment philosophy at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Every major decision had to be approved by one Dr. Prafulla Joglekar displays autographed or more of the many Change Control NASA photograph Boards (CCB) consisting of experts from appropriate disciplines. In general, these CCBs operated by The La Salle professor says that he advanced technologies available consensus to ensure that every type was "amazed" to learn that the today." of a system (e.g., hydraulics, electri- computer systems used in the cal, thermal protection, etc.) oper- launch command and control Joglekar also found that safety has ated efficiently. systems at KSC had not changed been the "overriding concern" at KSC, much since the early 1980s. He also especially since the 1986 Challenger Joglekar discovered that the team found that many shuttle processing disaster. Advancing technology, on the approach to decision-making was a tasks were performed by using other hand, has a very low priority. strength as well as a weakness at established, costly, and slow KSC. manual methods. "Furthermore." added Joglekar. "with the uncertainties of support from
"The team approach ensures full "Before this summer, I equated Washington and the continual ieduc- coordination of the very complex NASA with the embodiment of tions in budgets. NASA, as a whole, series of operations involved in the cutting-edge of technology," said has been unable to de\ elop a bold preparation and launch of a space Joglekar. "As such. I was surprised new program thai would push the shuttle at a safety level as close to to find KSC unwilling to deviate frontiers of technology during the 100% as is humanly possible," he from traditions and practices that 1990s. Perhaps the practices at KSC explained. "But it also leads to very had clearly worked in the past but are symptomatic of our larger national slow adoption of new ideas and that may be inferior and costly problems." ad\ anced technologies." compared to the use of some (continued mi [>nf>e 16
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(continuedfrom page I 5) La Salle Awarded Federal Talking about his own project, Joglekar observed that the existing practice of cost Grant For Nursing Center benefit analysis at KSC had many short- comings. "CBAs were done primarily to justify decisions already made." he ex- plained. "They were done by software engineers who had no training in the ka Salle University has been awarded a five year, underlying theory and principles. They S02S,120 Special Projects grant from the U.S. Department of were based on a single perspective, Health and Human Services, Bureau of Health Professions, Divi-
questionable assumptions, and unsound sion of Nursing, to expand the services of its Neighborhood methods. Consequently, available CBA Nursing Center. estimates were highly unreliable and of
little value in rational allocation of re- Dr. Gloria Donnelly, dean of La Salle's School of Nursing, sources to alternative software develop- said that the grant will enable the Neighborhood Nursing Center
ment projects." to double its health care services to the university's surrounding urban communities of Germantown, Logan. Olney, and West Oak Joglekar developed a methodology for Lane in Northwest Philadelphia. conducting cost-benefit analyses (CBA) that required a "multi-perspective analy- Through the grant. La Salle will continue and expand the sis" that "should be used not merely to services of certified nurse practitioners in pediatric nursing and justify decisions already made, but to women's health and add a full-time public health nurse who will arrive at the right decisions." make home visits. The center will also add a part-time graduate assistant from La Salle's Graduate Nursing Program who will The La Salle professor proposed method- specialize in community health issues. ology that should enable KSC to "begin a virtuous circle whereby: Good methodol- La Salle's Neighborhood Nursing Center, which is directed to reliable estimates. Reliable ogy leads by Dr. Patricia Gerrity, RN, was established in 1991. It currently estimates assist rational decision-making. provides services from two sites: at the Germantown YWCA, 5820 Then, management takes CBAs seriously Germantown ave., and at 2011 Olney ave. on the western and allocates adequate resources and edge of the university's campus. |£ appropriate expertise to their conduct. In turn, adequate resources and proper expertise lead to improved methodology and more reliable estimates. And so on."
Dr. Joglekar, who is the Lindback profes- sor of production and operations manage-
ment at La Salle, said that it was exciting to witness space exploration from the vantage point of an academic consultant.
"It was an honor to be in the company of highly motivated and dedicated scientists and engineers from some 50 different disciplines," he explained. "Although RobertJ. La Ratta (right), a long-time official with the U.S. many of these individuals were world Treasury Department, has been named the university's director
(.lass experts in their own disciplines, I ofsafety and security succeedingfohn Travers (left). who retired was impressed by their warmth, openness, on Sept. 30 after serving in that position for 17 years lie/ore and humility. They realized that although founding his own investigative and consulting firm. La Ratta their individual expertise was crucial to servedfor 24 years as a supervisory special agent with the mission, none KSC's of them could single- Treasury Department's office ofEnforcement in Philadelphia. He handedly ensure the mission's success." was a detective with the Philadelphia Police Department's
Narcotic I 'nit from 1963 to 1968.
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Chemistry Professor Spends 1 5 Weeks at Aveiro in Portugal as Fulbright Fellow
European Commu- D r. William A. Price, an associate nity has since professor of chemistry funnelled consider- and biochemistry, able financial recently returned to the support to modern- university from a 15 ize some of their week stint in Portugal as newer member a Fulbright Fellow with a nations. Much of renewed enthusiasm for the money has been teaching and a real used for new appreciation of Portu- buildings and guese people. facilities at universi- ties such as Aveiro
which is expected to expand from "Chemistry, I think, is the same everywhere," explained Price, 5,000 to 8,000 students within the next few years. a synthetic, organic chemist who And I have a fairly decent back- has served on La Salle's faculty ground in nuclear magnetic reso- Price's major challenge was since 1985. "I think that I got more nance." the Portuguese language—which he culture than I did chemistry over there." (Price learned while he was had studied before going abroad on research leave that the National because English was only spoken by Price, who earned his Science Foundation had awarded an professors and graduate students at university. "It doctorate at the University of $85,410 grant to La Salle's Chemistry the was trial by fire, Maryland, did research and lec- Department for a Fourier Transform learn as you go," he recalled. "It was of just to tured at the University of Aveiro, a NMR Spectrometer. an enormous amount effort rapidly-growing institution located go shopping. The first 6-8 weeks, I on the Portuguese coast about 250 Price said that his time in didn't understand a thing. By the
I it. but I still kilometers north of Lisbon. He Aveiro, "just a fascinating place," end was understanding couldn't it." worked .in a Chemistry Department was well-spent, but a little too-short. speak
laboratory with five graduate "Basically it allowed us to establish a students, primarily doing research tie with the university's Chemistry Price, who advised graduate on the synthesis of some medici- Department," he explained. "The students and also learned quite a bit about the machines in Portu nally-active compounds. university is brand new by our NMR
gal. says that representatives of 1 standards and it's growth in 19 years
nations equally-benefitted fro i the "We were working on a is just astounding. It's modern. They Fulbright Academic Exchange class of compounds that have some have a lot of equipment that we can "I bac with a real remarkable anti-leukemia activity only dream of." Program. came k
which is very exciting," said Price. renewed enthusiasm for teaching," "They wanted me not only to work Aveiro was one of the he said. "The kids sensed my excite- with the synthesis end of things, universities opened in 1974 when ment just like they sensed my anticipation last all but the structure elucidation end of Portugal's government went from a year. They were things, identifying the compounds. dictatorship to a democracy. The anxious to hear about it."
WINTER 1993-94 page 1" First Female U.S. Surgeon General and Two Other Medical Leaders Awarded Honorary Degrees
Brother PresidentJoseph Burke presents honorary degrees toAntonia C. Novello
( secondfrom left). Mabel Harmon Morris, andJohn
Thomas Potts. Jr., at the Fall Honors Convocation.
Li a Salle University honored Antonia serves as a special representative of UNICEF C. Novello, M.D., M.P.H., the first for Health and Nutrition, for Women, Hispanic female surgeon general of the Children and Youth.
United States, John Thomas Potts, Jr., As surgeon general. Dr. Novello M.D., '53, chief of general medical advised the public on health matters such as services at Massachusetts General Hospi- smoking, AIDS, diet and nutrition, environ- tal, and Mabel Harmon Morris, R.N., a mental health hazards, and the importance public health nurse consultant, during of immunization and disease prevention. the 1993 Fall Honors Convocation, on She oversaw the activities of the 6,400 October 24 in the Union Ballroom on members of the PHS Commissioned Corps. campus. Born and educated in Puerto Rico, La Salle's Brother President Dr. Novello worked in the private practice Joseph F. Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D.. presided of pediatrics and nephrology before she over the Convocation, which also recog- entered the PHS in 1978. She spent much nized 568 La Salle Dean's List students, of her career at the National Institute of including 70 from the School of Continu- Health where she served in various posi- ing Studies. In addition, seven faculty tions, rising to the deputy director of the members were honored for 25 years <>l National Institute of Child Health and service to the university. Human Development with responsibility For the direction of pediatric AIDS research.
Dr. Novello served as the 14th surgeon Dr. Novello was sponsored lor her general of the U.S. Public Health Service honorary doctor of humane letters degree (PHS) from March 1990 until 1993. She by Dr. Henry De Vincent, a prominent was the first woman and first Hispanic Philadelphia orthopedic surgeon and a ever to hold the position. Today she member of La Salle's Board of Trustees. He
page 18 LA SALLE ues to contribute time, advice, and resources to praised the former surgeon general for her work as an La Salle University on many levels. Most of all, she is administrator, researcher, lecturer, and author, adding committed to improving the health and well-being of that she "is first and foremost a physician whose motto is the residents of the community." "Good Science and Good Sense.'" During more than a quarter of a century- in the public health care field, Morris served in numerous Dr. Potts has had a distinguished medical career positions including director of the Division of Health as an administrator, teacher, physician, and researcher. Resources Development. In this position she was addition at In to his work Massachusetts Gen- responsible for planning and directing PHS regional eral, University Pennsylvania the of Medical School health programs and activities concerned with promot- graduate serves professor of also as medicine and ing and developing quality health resources in Region chairman of the executive committee on minority faculty III. She has also served as the director of the Office development at Harvard University Medical School. of Management, Planning and Program Integration has extensive research endocrinology He done on and at PHS. has published hundreds of reports in various medical A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania journals. and Columbia University, she was elected vice presi- Dr. Potts has received numerous awards and dent of the American Public Health Association in honors including the Distinguished Graduate Award from 1989. the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the Fred Konrad Koch Award from the Endocrine Society, and the William F. Neumann Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
"Dr. Potts's profound accomplishments have been recognized by the worldwide medical community," said his sponsor for an honorary doctor of science degree, Brother Thomas McPhillips, F.S.C., Ph.D., associ- ate professor of biology at La Salle. "His work has provided contributions to our understanding and treat- ment of conditions such as hyperparathyroidism, osteoporosis, paget's disease, and certain forms of malignancies."
Morris is an independent Public Health Nurse Consultant to the U.S. Public Health Service on special projects.. An advocate for the elderly on health care and health insurance problems, she joined the Nursing Department faculty at La Salle in 1984 to "end her career as a teacher in a city that she loved and in a university committed to community."
Morris was sponsored for her honorary doctor of Dr. Beth Paulin deft), director La Sail humane letters degree by Gloria Donnelly, R.N., Ph.D., of II Women's Studies Program, and Si dean of La Salle's School of Nursing, who recalled how Scullion. R.SM., founder and dire* >j she would prod her colleagues at La Salle to broaden Philadelphia s Project HOME, disc uss the their perspective of public health. newest edition of Gender Lines, a bi-annual "Working with Mabel meant never saying. I publication of the Women's studies Program can't, I give up,' or 'I don't have the time,'" said Dr. highlighting the writing talents of the Donnelly. "And, she was patient with us. coaching, university's undergraduate population. prodding, getting us to believe that we could risk Sister Scullion was the keynote speaker at a rejection, learn from experience, and eventually succeed recent campus reception celebrating the which, I suppose, has been her life pattern. She contin- publication of Volume 6 of Gender Lines.
WINTER 1993-94 page 19 University Hosts 600 High School Students at Business, Communication & Geology Workshops
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Communication Departmen t award recipients pose with Brother President Joseph F.
Burke (left) and Brother Gerard Molyneaux, chairman of the department. They are (from
left): Kevin Lowry, Wendy Samter, Joseph Nardelli, and Ken Adelberger.
s >me 600 high school George Latella, marketing manager communications, Campbell Soup students from Pennsylvania and of Tasty Baking Company, offered Co.; Joseph F. Nardelli. 78, a New New Jersey attended day-long the concluding remarks at the York-based film producer, and Dr. workshops sponsored by La Salle afternoon session, "Being a Success- Wendy Samter, '81, a communica-
1 ni\ ersity's School of Business ful Businessperson in the 21st tions professor at the University of Administration, Communication, and Century." Delaware. Geology Departments on October 2 on campus. The Communication Workshop was The Environmental Science work- held in Olney Hall, the College Hall shop featured laboratory sessions in
The School of Business Administra- Chapel, and St. Cassian Hall in the the Holroyd Hall Science Building
tion presented workshops in Col- North Dorm complex. It included and Olney Hall Classroom Building lege Hall on such topics as "Making sessions in TV production and on such topics as radiation, water Your $100,000 Grow: A Stock writing, journalism, press confer- pollution, and stream pollution. The Market Game," "FRODS and DORFS: ences, and panel discussions. Academy of Natural Sciences pre- Solving a Business Problem," sented an "Endangered Species" "Tower of Team Power: An Exercise La Salle University's Communication demonstration in the Dan Rodden in Leadership and Communication," Awards to distinguished graduates of Theatre and the Schuylkill Valley
and "Taste Testing": a comparison the program were presented at a Nature Center offered tours of its of brand-name baked goods con- session in Olney Hall 100. This "Eco-Van." ducted by Tasty Baking Company year's recipients were Ken officials. The sessions were de- Adelberger, '82, PRISM-TV sports signed to show that studying producer and anchor; Kevin G. business in college can be fun. Lowery, '86, director of financial page -in LA SALLE National Science Foundation Awards $115,529 to La Salle
ka Salle University has been awarded a pair of National Science Founda- tion grants totaling 5115,529 to obtain state- of-the-art equipment for student research and study in science and mathematics courses.
Dr. Henry A. Bart, chairman of the Geology Depart- One grant for $85,410 will enable ment, explains Environmental Science Workshop the university to obtain funding for a program to Philadelphia Northeast High School students Fourier Transform Nuclear Magnetic Reso- Jeremy Klein (left) and Uptal Patel (right), and Colleen nance Spectrometer (FT-NMR). This will be Fleming, of Guynedd-Mercy Academy High School. used for instruction in various organic, advanced inorganic, and physical chemistry courses and will also help upgrade labora- tories in five mathematics and science courses. Br"~ ^^^"^ m A $30,119 grant will be used to develop modular laser instrumentation for %%& use in upper division chemistry courses Hfc f and student research. This new equipment will advance knowledge of modern spec- -• troscopy and demonstrate the applications of lasers in chemistry.
In addition to adding new dimen- sions to existing student-faculty research, i the additional equipment will improve - preparation for graduate schools and H careers in industry.
Susan E. Mudrick < right), assistant dean of La Salle officials have announced a gg. business administration, chats with Tomea curricular and financial commitment to Knight fie ft) and MichaelJ. Palermo, a pair strengthen its mathematics and science ofNew, lei $ey high school students who programs as part of the university's current panic if ah d in the workshop sponsored by $100 million capital gifts campaign. the Schi >ol ofBusiness Administration.
WINTER 1993-94 page 21 und LLkl Neighborhood Leaders La Salle Again Honored By University Ranked Among Best Regional Universities in
U.S. News fir World Report Survey
Lia Salle University has again been ranked by U.S. News and World Report among the best colleges and universities in the northeast region La Salle senior Vincent Guy (secondfrom of the L'nited States. right) receives community service awardfrom Brother President Joseph F. Burke as Herman La Salle, the only Philadelphia college to make the list, was ranked 10th among regional univer- Grady (left), president of the Urban Center's Board of Directors, and Millie Carvalho, sities in the north in the seventh annual director of the Urban Cotter, watch. America's Best Colleges special report. Last year. La Salle was 12th on the list.
La Salle University marked two decades of honoring A total of 1,371 four-year schools were included community leaders at the 20th Annual Community Service in the study including 559 institutions in
Awards Dinner on October 1 5 in the Union Ballroom on La Salle's category. Only 15 schools were campus. ranked in each of four geographic regions. The colleges were ranked according to a system that Since 1973, La Salle has recognized area neighborhood combined statistical data with the results of an leaders for their commitment to improving the communities exclusive U.S. Newssurvey of academic reputa- in which they live. Particularly honored are persons who tions among 2,655 college presidents, deans, have given unselfishly of themselves to make their neigh- and admissions directors. borhood and city a more just and safe place to live. The overall rankings for the 559 institutions All of this year's recipients are from the Northwest were based upon five criteria (La Salle's ranking
Philadelphia 'area. They include: Jacqueline Demby, Bridget is in parenthesis): academic reputation (11), Jamison. John and Anna Shirley, and La Salle University student selectivity (29). faculty resources (16), student Vincent Guy. from Olney; Susan Simon. Hector financial resources (58), and graduation rate Rivera. Ph.D.. Gerry Sizemore, and Greg Wicks, representing (18). the Wadsworth Concerned Neighbors from Mount Airy, and
Thanh Pham from Logan. La Salle's Brother President Joseph F. Burke. F.S.C., Ph.D., said that the university's high
Gene Lothery. vice president and general manager ranking in U.S. News & World Report is another of WCAU TV 1<). was keynote speaker at the dinner spon- indication of an "increasing awareness" of sored by La Salle's Urban Studies and Community Services La Salle's status as a major regional institution. Center. All proceeds benefit the Urban Center's Adult Learning Project, which reaches over 250 adults annually. "This ranking again confirms what our alumni and students have known for some time," Founded in 1967, the overall purpose of La Salle's Urban Brother Burke added, "that La Salle is a very Studies Center is to assist in the physical, social, cultural and fine, solid institution where teaching and
economic improvement of nearby neighborhoods. The learning are the real priorities. It's nice to know- Center also aims to improve interracial understanding that other people are beginning to recognize and cooperation between La Salle and its neighbors. these qualities." £$ page J_! LA SALLE AZARIAS,
one of the most prominent
19th century classical scholars got his start at La Salle more than 100 years ago. Today Although it is fairly well-known that La Salle was chartered in 1863. it is still pretty much a secret that one of the college's first faculty members, who began teaching at the tender age of IS. eventually became recog- he is nearly nized among the most eminent Catholic intellectuals in late 19th century America. forgotten The bright young Christian Brother with the religious name Azarias of the Cross was believed to be among the first to work in one of the
three basement classrooms at St. Michael's School in North Philadelphia. He remained at La Salle for less than three years. By 1866 he was teaching at By MichaelJ. Kerlin, Manhattan College in New York and soon his academic horizons broadened Ph.D., '57 fr< »m mathematics to philosophy and literature. He spent time as a college president; his books and scholarly articles were acclaimed internationally, and he was in great demand as a speaker before his untimely death a little more than 100 years aso. on Au»um 2d. 1893-
WINTER 1993-94 page 23 »» Brother Azarias is entitled
Brother Azarias entered this life as Patrick Francis Mullany on June 29, L847, in Tipperary, Ireland, when to take rank with the best much of the country was caught in the midst of a potato famine which has been described as "one of the intellects of the age. He great natural disasters in history." Between 1847 and 1854. more than a million Irish fled to the United will not be shrouded in Mates to escape starvation and death. The Mullany parents made their journey in 1851, settling on a farm in Deerfield. New York. By oblivion; he will not 1858, they had the resources to have Patrick join them. Irish Catholics did t^ 99 not find the public schools of the wholly die. day hospitable, and after a brief stay he and his brother, Francis, were off to a school conducted by the Broth- of mathematics with responsibilities ship to language and architecture; he ers of the Christian Schools in Utica. for astronomy, analytical mechanics, traces the various influence produc- analytical geometry and calculus. ing the literature of the west; he The Brothers had a profound One imagines the college president enters debates about positivism, influence on precocious Patrick handing him the books and telling evolutionism. Hegelianism, pessi- Mullany, and on his 15th birthday he him to dive into a program of self- mism; he offers theories of literary took their habit as Brother Azarias. education. Again the details are period, of beauty, of criticism. All in
After a novitiate of less than a year, sparse. There is nothing about the about 200 pages and with citations in he was teaching the sixth class in a books he read or his reactions to the English, Greek, Latin, French, Span- New York school. By April 1863 he Civil War just over. That he re- ish, Italian and German. At the age was at St. Michael's assigned to the mained interested in astronomy we of 27 he had an encyclopedic lower classes." The dates are learn from an 1869 letter to his range—a fact noted sympathetically astounding from our vantage point. parents about observing an eclipse and unsympathetically by the critics. Obviously the superiors and the through the telescopes at the U. S. There were, however, consistent parents considered a 15- year-old Naval Observatory. What he did not themes governed by postulates about competent to teach an elementary have was a single day as a college God. revelation and destiny and by school class. Brother Azarias may or university student in the present- the reading of philosophers like even have been c< ivering the college day sense. Friedrich Schlegel. classes of the nascent La Salle
University. We have only the Eventually Brother Azarias aban- In 1877, illness caused Brother information that he spent much of doned the teaching of mathematics Azarias to leave Rock Hill for France his time on the roof studying the and science for philosophy and and England, where he made use of stars with a telescope. letters. His teaching in these areas the great libraries and visited schol- led to the publication of some ars like John Henry Newman. His The stay at Manhattan College lasted informal essays and to the sugges- research allowed him to produce The a little more than two months after tion from a colleague that he gather Development ofEnglish Literature which Brother Azarias received them together in one volume. The < 1879), a study which endured long another transfer, this time to Rock result was in 1874 a book with the as a basic text for anyone interested Hill College in Ellicott City, Mary- grand title An Essay Contributing to in the period before Chaucer. Then land, some eight miles from the a Philosophy of Literature. The in 1879, he was back again at Rock present city limits of Baltimore. Still scope is immense. He defines Hill College, this time as President. yet was not 20, he now a professor literature; he discusses its relation- The duties of administration did not page 24 LA SALLE studies keep him from the intellectual life. together a series of devotional essays My own make me wonder He made himself known at the new on Mary, the mother of Jesus. particularly how Brother Azarias Johns Hopkins University and at the would have fared in some of the Jesuit Woodstock College, and he 1893 promised to be a year of major controversies which were just became a regular at the cultural intellectual engagement for Brother around the corner at his early death. summer schools, religious and Azarias. He had speaking invitations Surely this classical scholar and secular, which were a notable phe- for the summer school at New exponent of classical education nomenon of the epoch. His themes London and for a national Catholic would have faced trouble in the were philosophical, literary, histori- lay congress in Chicago. While in controversy among the Christian cal, pedagogical with a certain Chicago, he was to address the Brothers over the teaching of Latin amount of pro-Catholic and pro- Parliament of Religions concurrent in their American colleges. It was a Celtic ax-grinding recurrent. Yet a with the Columbian Exposition. But controversy which led some of the book like Aristotle and the Christian first there was the summer school at most eminent Latinists among his Church (1888) presented first before Plattsburg on Lake Champlain, confreres to religiously enforced a secular audience is temperate as where he would lecture on the exile from the United States by 1900. of his well as clear and informative. It history education. During This Irish-born advocate of the merits attention even today. To final presentation, he fell ill and died American way would also have been some extent, this long essay repre- within two weeks of pneumonia. caught in the middle of the larger loss felt conflicts sented an attempt to fit within the The was throughout the church over what European new Thomistic movement in the country. One headline read ecclesiastics were condemning as
Catholic Church, but its author was "Brother Azarias, Philosopher, dies at Americanism around the same time. never consistently Thomist in his Plattsburg." At the funeral in St. Finally a leading intellectual figure inclinations. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, could not have stayed out of the City, the Reverend Joseph McMahon modernist crisis which came to a
After concluding his presidency in made the words of the angel in head in the church between 1902 1887, Brother Azarias journeyed Tobia, "I am Azarias, help of God," and 1907. We can only guess where again to Europe for rest and study, the text; and he spoke of the great he would have come down on coming back in 1889 to the La Salle personal, pedagogical and literary issues about religious philosophy Institute in New York. There he presence which had been taken and biblical criticism. In any event. found a special friend in the chaplain away. Father Tarro was mistaken in the Father John Talbot Smith, who was long run about the longevity of later to produce a rambling, eulogist On May 14, 1894, educational and literary fame. biography, Brother Azarias: The religious leaders from around the Story ofan American Monk (1897). country gathered at St. John's Col- Brother Azarias is now largely Aside from continuing on the sum- lege in Washington to memorialize forgotten except by a handful of mer lecture circuit, he compiled his him. Many others sent telegrams. people of a quirky education similar talks and essays as Books and Read- The nature of the comments may be to my own. It is a pity since the ing (1889) and Phases of nought captured by the words of P.B. breadth of his interests and the Tarro, the pastor of St. Paul's clarity of his writing reading and Criticism ( 1893>- Many of these make pieces had already appeared in Church, Ellicott City: "Brother him still valuable. Indeed some journals like The At/antic Monthly. Azarias is entitled to take rank with contemporary philosophers and The America)! Catholic Quarterly. the best intellects of the age. He literary critics might profitably use and The Catholic World. Most are will not be shrouded in oblivion; he him as a model in their work. commentaries on particular authors will not wholly die." Within the and books; and, although he tends to decade, much of his work appeared talk around texts rather than to in the volumes Essays Philosophical. Dr. Kerliu is professor and chairman display them, he shows himself a Essays Educational, and Essays of the university's Philosophy Depart- master of The Imitatio>i of Christ. The Miscellaneous, and the prediction ment. He was uirarded a prestigious Divine Comedy, and In Memoriam. seemed born out. l.indhack Awardfor distinguished In an altogether different vein, he put teaching in 1986. g*
WINTER 1993-94 page alumni notes '92 the field hockey team for two years at La Salle. Timothy L. Gimbel was named assistant operations manager at '81 Penn Jersey Paper Company, in Navy Lt. Cmdr. Robert A. Philadelphia.
Mesler recently participated in MARRIAGE: Timothy L. the 10-day combined military Gimbel to Nancy Harkins. exercise. "Team Spirit-93." conducted in the Republic of Korea. SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES '83 MARRIAGE: Mark Steven '48 Bader to Melissa Louise Henry G. Gruber has been Leatherman. elected to the Board of Directors BIRTH to James M. Boligitz, of Chesapeake Bank and Trust Jr., C.P.A., and his wife. Tina, a Co., Inc.. and its parent com- Timothy W. McNamara has been named assistant daughter, Katherine Anne. pany. Chesapeake Bancorp, in Maryland. alumni director succeeding Timothy R. Regan. '86. '84 who has joined Sadlier Publishing Co. as a sales Cecilia Beth Dolan earned an '49 representative. McNamara is a 1989 graduate of George executive master's degree in Frank Scully, after holding Washington University, where he majored in history, business administration from positions with The Hertz and is a former LTIG in the U.S. Navy. Columbia University Graduate Corporation. Funk & Wagnalls.
School. Dolan is marketing and the American Management manager for Money magazine, Associations in New York City, in New York. is back in the Philadelphia area. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS in New Jersey, received the BIRTH: to Alice Seiberlich He is operating a data process- ADMINISTRATION Partners in Change Award for Gaibler, and her husband. ing company. Scully Data. Inc.. outstanding efforts to support Richard C. Gaibler, D.O., '83, in Newtown (Bucks County), and 58 displaced homemakers and their first son. Richard Joseph. recently won an award for one of John J. Gaworski. a civilian mature women in the commu- his paintings at the Phillips Mill member of the U.S. Defense nity by the Women's Opportu- '85 Competition in New Hope. Pa. Department, is working in nity Center, at the YMCA in MARRIAGE: Daniel A. money resource management Mount Laurel. N.J. Guerriero, Jr. to Mary Griffin. in Frankfurt. Germany and BIRTHS: to Susan living in nearby Heidelberg. 73 Johannesen Costenbader and MARRIAGE: William R. Deiss, her husband. Jay James 67 Esq., to Bernadette M. Allen. Costenbader, '83, a son. Thomas J. Jennings, a Andrew James: to Daniel J. psychologist in private practice, 74 McCloskey and his wife. Linda, was named to the Board of MARRIAGE: Paul J. Foley to a son. Matthew Eugene. Directors of the Philadelphia Cheryl Shipman. Orton Dyslexia Society and to '86 Kelly the professional advisory board 78 '54 John Metz is a key account of the Upper Bux-Mont William A. Donnelly, Jr., has executive with ADP Dealer Geffrey B. Kelly, S.T.D., C.H.A.D.D. (Children with retired from the U.S. Postal Services Division, a Fortune professor of systematic theology Attention Deficient Disorder). Service after 40 years of 200 firm based in Chicago, at La Salle University, was service. He was the regional Illinois. He resides in Frederick. awarded a Poor Richard Club '68 director-human resources for Maryland. Pro Bono Award as an "Out- James M. Knepp was elected the Eastern Region of the U.S. BIRTH to John Metz and his standing American Who Has vice president of the North wife. Anne, a daughter. Brenna Made a Difference." at a dinner Atlantic area of the Financial 79 Nicole. in his honor on Sept. 30 at Executives Institute, a national Joseph P. Conroy has been Williamson's Restaurant, in organization representing named director of investment '87 Horsham. Pa. 14.000 financial executives, programs at Franciscan Health Allison Hudson Donohoe based in Morristown, N.J. System, in Aston, Pa. FHS '56 received the Player of the Year owns and operates acute care Dr. Anthony A. Di Primio is '69 Award in the prestigious hospitals, nursing homes, and Priscilla Abruzzo Memorial heard twice weekly on his radio Raymond J. Griffin has joined related health care facilities in a NCAA Women's Summer program "Pursuit of Personal Roy F. Weston. Inc.. a leading number of states. Basketball League, in Philadel- Excellence" on WNJC-AM 1360. international environmental phia. Donohoe led her team to a in Washington Township, N.J. services firm, as vice president '80 regular season-best 9-1 record. and manager of human Joyce Lindinger Kanaskie Bernard J. Freitag was elected resources. was named field hockey '88 to his fourth three-year term on assistant at Indiana University MARRIAGE: Robert M. the Board of Trustees of the 70 of Pennsylvania. She captained Slutsky to Jill Cohen. D.O.. Pennsylvania Public School John V Palm, Esq., of '88. Employes' Retirement System Garrigle .nd Palm, a law firm
p.iye 26 LA SALLE alumni notes
Freitag Mathews
and was named chairman for the brought him to Turkey, Sri fifth consecutive year. He was Lanka, and Costa Rica. also elected president of the German Society of Pennsylvania. Rev. Anthony A. Wojcinski has been appointed rector of '57 Sacred Heart Cathedral, in Col. Charles A. Beitz, Jr., Pueblo, Colorado. became chair of the Department of Business and Economics at '66 Mount Saint Mary's (Md.). Harry W. Richard Bukata, M.D., L. Froehlich has retired from the medical director of the San Department of the Army as a Gabriel (Calif.) Valley Medical (center) and Maria Tucker Cusick pharmacologist after 34 years. Center Emergency Department, (second from left), president of the He will continue as a consultant was chosen to receive the Alumni Association, congratulate the new for the Maryland Poison Control "Outstanding Contribution in inductees in the Alumni Hall of Athletes Center and Maryland Emergency Education Award" from the who were honored at a dinner on Oct. 8. Medical Systems, Inc. 16,000 member American College of Emergency Physi- They are Vincent Kelly (left), 78, soccer; '58 cians for 1993. He publishes Kathleen Smith Prindible, '82, diving, and Pascal J. LaRuffa, M.D., literature and also teaches William Duryee, '66, track. F.S.A.M., was appointed medical continuing education courses director of the Lawrenceville for emergency physicians.
School, in Lawrenceville, N.J. '68 '63 Edward W. O'Brien, head George H. Benz, M.D., is basketball coach at Bishop chairman of surgery for Forbes Verot High School, in Fort Health System, in Monroeville, Myers, Fla., was named the Who Do Pa. William A. Garrigle, Esq., of 1992-93 Fort Myers News- Garrigle and Palm, a law firm in Press '2-A Coach of the Year" New Jersey, received the for boys basketball. Partners in Change Award for You Know? outstanding efforts to support '69 displaced homemakers and John M. Daly, M.D., the chief of mature women in the community the University of Pennsylvania's by the Women's Opportunity Division of Surgical Oncology, W.ho do you know who should Center, at the YMCA in Mount has accepted the Lewis Laurel, N.J. Atterbury Stimson Chair and the receive information about attending chair of the Department of La Salle University? A son or daughter? '64 Surgery at Cornell University John Manear chaired the Medical College and surgeon- Nephew or niece? Neighbor? Friend? National Council Teachers of in-chief at New York Hospital. Colleague? English Convention. He teaches at Seton-La Salle High School in 70 Pittsburgh and is an adjunct Jeffrey S. Rosett, M.D., Give us a call at 1-800-328-1910 or professor at the University of completed his first term as Pittsburgh and the Community chairman of family practice at 215-951-1500 to let us they are. know who College of Allegheny County. Philadelphia's Nazareth Or ask them to call us directly. Hospital. Dr. Walter M. Mathews, univer- sity dean of academic affairs at 75 Long Island University, was Edward J. Mesunas is director recently awarded his fourth of advertising and public TAgATJF Fulbright Award to study the relations at Penn Fishing Tackle culture and higher education Manufacturing Co., in Philadel- ~ty UNIVERSITY systems in Japan and Korea. His phia. last three Fulbright Awards
WINTER 1993-94 page 2 alumni notes.
'83 Joseph V. Frangipane received BIRTHS: to Jay James a doctor of philosophy degree in Costenbader and his wife, microbiology and immunology Susan Johannesen from the Hahnemann University Costenbader, '85, a son, Graduate School. U.S. Army Andrew James; to Richard C. Capt. Mark Gaworski is Gaibler, D.O., and his wife, stationed in Somalia with Alice Seiberlich Gaibler, '84, Operation Restore Hope.
their first son, Richard Joseph. Thomas J. Gorman is an employee benefits paralegal at '85 the law firm of Montgomery, U.S. Army Captain Matthew McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, Gaworski, D.D.S., is a military in Philadelphia. G. Russell dentist at Camp Campbell, in Reiss, III, received a doctor of Kentucky. Joseph M. Mazurek medicine degree from the is director of dietary services at Hahnemann University School Hamilton Continuing Care of Medicine. He will complete a Center, in Hamilton, N.J., after surgery residency at Nicholas Lisi, Esq. (left), chairman of the Alumni J. serving for 6 years with ARA Hahnemann. Downtown Club, and Brother President Joseph F. Services, Inc. MARRIAGE: Thomas J. Burke (right) chat with Maj. F. Burns, Gen. William MARRIAGE: Maureen Gorman to Rhonda S. Bosela. S4 (USA-Ret), the former director of the U.S. Arms Elizabeth Ferguson to John P.
Control and Disarmament Agency, who was Goodwin, III. '88
featured speaker at the group's first luncheon of David Paiko completed a four '86 the year at Philadelphia's Barclay Hotel on Oct. 20. year, $10 million pesticide, Susan M. Boltz completed a solvent soil and ground water series of summer courses in investigation and cleanup while Europe on topics of comparative working for Environmental BIRTH: to Edward J. Mesunas MARRIAGE: Joseph Barron to law at the University of Florence Resources Management, Inc., in and his wife, Beverly, a son, Virginia Barishek,'80. School of Law, the University of Ewing, N.J. Paiko was also Thomas Edward. Strasbourg School of Law, and promoted to project manager, '80 the University of Vienna School the youngest in ERM's history. 77 MARRIAGE: Virginia Barishek of Law. The programs included Richard D. Quattrone, M.D., Barbara Swinand Beardsley to Joseph Barron, 79. visiting various institutions of the has graduated from a family received a master of science European Community in Italy, practice internship at the Naval degree in educational technol- '81 Germany, France, Luxembourg, Hospital, Camp Pendleton, in Belgium, Austria ogy from Philadelphia College James P. Craige is district and Hungary. San Diego, Calif. He plans to of Textiles and Science. Rev. manager for United Refrigera- She plans to pursue a career in relocate to Pensacola, Fla., to David J. Klein has been tion Inc., in Philadelphia. health law after graduation in work as a naval flight surgeon.
appointed the Catholic chaplain 1994 from Dickinson School of Sonya R. Wilmoth is head at Cooper Hospital, in Camden, '82 Law, in Carlisle, Pa. Marybeth softball coach at West Chester
N.J. Patrick H. Donohoe is teaching Senn Burton received a (Pa.) University. in the Bethlehem (Pa.) School master's degree in library MARRIAGES: Jill Cohen, D.O. District instructing ninth and science from Rutgers State to Robert M. Slutsky, '88; tenth grade English. University of New Jersey. She is Colleen O'Donnell to John a senior biological information Fritsch. scientist at Schering-Plough Research Institute, in '89
Kenilworth, N.J. John R. Kelly Greenberg is an assistant Ferraro is working in the basketball coach at the College
circulation department of The of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Daily Record newspaper, in Mass Claudia J. Petaccio Cicala Parsippany, N.J. received a doctor of medicine 79 MARRIAGE: Gregg R. degree from Hahnemann Joseph J. Cicala, M.S., who is Melinson to Pamela Sullivan. University School of Medicine. pursuing his Ph.D. in higher Garberman She will complete a residency in '87 education administration at New internal medicine at the Medical York University, is an assistant Scott F. Garberman, M.D., has Rebecca A. Efroymson Center of Delaware, in Newark. professor/counselor at Suffolk joined the medical staff of Our completed her Ph.D. in environ- (N.Y.) Community College. Lady of Lourdes Medical mental toxicology at Cornell '90 University. is Cicala is also listed in the 1993 Center, in Camden, N.J., as a She now working Gail P. Beatty is an assistant Who's Who in the East and member of the Department of in Washington as a "Diplomacy basketball coach at the United Who's Who in American Orthopaedic Surgery. Fellow" for the U.S. Agency for States Naval Academy, in Education. He is also chair-elect BIRTH: to Deborah A. Fluehr International Development, Annapolis, Md. Joseph J. Irwin of the American College and Anthony Tempesta, a sponsored by the American is attending the University of Personnel Association's Career daughter, Samantha Rose Association for the Advance- Pennsylvania Medical School. Development Commission. Tempesta. ment of Science.
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Lori K. McLaughlin graduated from Boston College Law School MASTER'S IN NURSING and will be working at the law firm of Drinker, Biddle and Reath, in Philadelphia. Kathleen '92
Markee Sasser is teaching Kellyn O'Donnell Bertolazzi is kindergarten to 5th grade center nurse manager at students at the Baker (Fla.) Maternal Fetal Diagnostic Elementary School. Services, in King of Prussia, Pa. MARRIAGE: Joseph J. Irwin to Lori K. McLaughlin, '90. BIRTH: to Kathleen Markee Sasser and her husband, Marc, MASTER OF BUSINESS a son, Kevin Darren. ADMINISTRATION
'91 Angelo Joseph Patane received the degree of Juris Doctor from Ohio Northern University.
Brother Colman Coogan, F.S.C. (right), '92 provincial of the Baltimore Province, con- Jennifer A. Ask is attending the gratulates three members of the district who University of Maine for a celebrated their 25th anniversary as members master's degree in interpersonal communication. of the Christian Brothers on Sept. 11. They Denise J. Graf Douglasa is working as a television 90 are (from left): Brothers Joseph L. production coordinator for June C. Douglas was named Grabenstein, 73, who is the assistant Producers Management, Inc., in manager of Philadelphia archivist at La Salle University; Richard W. King of Prussia, Pa. Electric Company's (PECO) Breese, 71, a social worker at the St. Cromby Generating Station, in
Gabriel's System West Catholic High School '93 Phoenixville, Pa. She is the first in Philadelphia, and Brother Robert I. MARRIAGE: Angelo Anthony woman in the company's history Schieler, 72, auxiliary provincial of the Solorio to Lori Elizabeth to direct the operations of a Baltimore District of the Christian Brothers. Armstrong. power plant. Cheryl Reeve ('88 B.A.) is an assistant basketball coach at George Washington SCHOOL OF NURSING University, in Washington, D.C. B.S.N.
'85 BIRTH: to Cathleen Collins Kager and her husband, Scott, their second daughter, Elizabeth.
Reunion Planned for "La Salle in Europe" Participants
Some 35 members of the alumni gather A,Jumni of the "La Salle in Europe" program are after participating in the fifth annual organizing a for the Friday of Reunion Alumni Fun Run over a 2.3 mile course reunion
throughout the campus on Oct. 9. Weekend, May 20, 1994. Winners were Bill Donovan, '90, male If you studied in Fribourg or Madrid, please mark division; Jeanne Bolger Cole, '8 t. your calendar now. If you would like to help the female division, and Frank Goldcamp, planning and promotion of the event, call the Alumni 71, over 40-years-of-age. Office at (215) 951-1535.
WINTER 1993-94 page 29 chapter!club notes
Lake Michigan & Central Indiana Clubs Schedule Activities
The Alumni Law Society elected these officers under newly- adopted by-laws at a campus reception on Sept. 30 (from
right to left): Steven J. Madonna Esq., '6-1. president; Thomas Feerick, Esq., 71, secretary; Lisa M. Bellmo. Esq.. '86, vice president, and Hon. Francis P. Congrove. '56, treasurer.
iHICAGO area alumni December 1 and to conference rival Brother Joseph Burke, F.S.C., met at the Stouffer Hotel in Oak Loyola on January 22. Ph.D., attended an alumni reception
Brook, 111., on September 13 and in NEW YORK CITY on November elected officers: Timothy M. The Steering Committee of the Id at the Swiss Bank Tower, 10 East O'Connor. '81, chairman; Frank V. CENTRAL INDIANA Club, under the 50th Street Peter C. McCormick, Possinger, '69, vice chairman; Chairmanship of Roger Marchetti, '67, senior vice president and chief
Sheila Roche Kligge, '83, secretary- '80, met on September 1-t at the operating officer ot the Swiss Bank treasurer, and Joseph A. Hillcrest Country Club, in Indianapo- Corporation, hosted the event.
Samulenas. '84, admissions coordi- lis, and made plans for activities in nator. conjunction with the La Salle-Butler Some of our alumni in TEXAS will game on February 12. and for the have an opportunity to meet Brother They also decided to expand their MCC Tournament there in March. President Burke at the University of
horizons and invite the participation St. Thomas, in Houston, on January 7
of La Salle alumni in nearby Wiscon- The HEALTH PROFESSIONS Alumni when Lee J. Williames Ph.D., 64, sin (e.g. Milwaukee and Madison) Association took their second Fall who is academic vice president there, and those in northwestern Indiana. bus trip to New York to see a will welcome La Salle grads, their With this in mind, they opted to matinee of the award winning spouses and friends to a dinner on change their name to the LAKE musical TOMMY at the St. James campus. MICHIGAN Alumni Club of La Salle Theatre on November 6. They then University. Plans are being made for had dinner at the Tavern on the visits by the Explorer basketball team Green before returning to campus —Jim Mc Donald to the Universitv of Illinois on that evening. page 30 LA SALLE alumni notes NECROLOGY
'53
Nicholas J. Aversa Louis J. Gagliardi, Jr., Esq.
Lit •> Dominic M. Pepe
'54 Maurice A. McCarthy
'55
Hugh F. Morris
'57
Brother Philip Nelan, F.S.C. John V. Coyle Member, Board of Trustees, Thomas W. Loschiavo JohnJ.MekoJr. Andrew H.Jaffee 1968-82 Chairman, 1970-82 '60 Robert M. Gear New Director of Annual Fund '36 '69 Howard J. McClellan and Assistant Director Named Michael J. Carman '38 to Development Office Staff Rev. William C. Faunce 72 Damien J.C. Everly
'42 James P. Geoghegan 79 appointments to X wo new have been made '50 Bernard B. Hughes the university's Development Department staff, it was Gerald C. Watson announced by Dr. Fred Foley, Jr., vice president for 76 development. Donald J. Pinder
John J. Meko, Jr.,' 90, has been named director of the
I I annual fund, thus becoming the first layman in MOVING? La Salle's history to hold that position. He succeeds If your mailing address will change in the next 2 - 3 Brother Frank Danielski, F.S.C., is 71, who now months, or if the issue is addressed to your son or assistant principal for student affairs at La Salle daughter who no longer maintains a permanent address College High School, in Wyndmoor, Pa. at your home, please help us keep our mailing addresses up-to-date by:
As director of the annual fund, Meko will plan and 1 PRINT your full name, class year and new address on direct the fund-raising program for the Alumni the form opposite, and Annual Fund and the senior gift programs. 2 Attach the label from the back cover of this issue and mail to the Alumni Office, La Salle University, Phila., Meko, a resident of Norristown, Pa., joined the PA 19141. university's development staff in 1990 as a staff research associate. In 1991, he was promoted to ATTACH LABEL HERE assistant director of the annual fund.
Andrew H. Jaffee, who has been associate director of operations at Philadelphia's Development Center since 1991, has been appointed assistant director of development. He will assist with the alumni and parents' fund-raising programs with an emphasis on personal solicitation. Name Jaffee, a native of New York City, is a 1988 econom- ics graduate of Reed College, in Portland, Ore. At the Class Year Philadelphia Development Center he was responsible Address for developing and managing annual fund, capital campaign, and membership acquisition programs. City State Zip Code
( ) He is married to Maribeth Clark, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. mm LPhone Number (include area code) J
WINTER 1993-94 , Announcing
THE 1994 CHARTER DINNER/LA SALLE UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP AWARD CEREMONY
HONORING
MR. JOSEPH F. PAQUETTE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC COMPANY
Friday, March 18, 1994
The Union League Of Philadelphia Black Tie
Proceeds To Benefit The University's Scholarship Fund
For additional information and an invitation, please contact La Salle University's Development Office, 1900 West Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, FA 19141. Phone: (215) 951-1540.
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