The University of Dayton Alumnus, September 1955

University of Dayton eCommons The nivU ersity of Dayton Magazine Marketing and Communications Fall 9-1-1955 The niU versity of Dayton Alumnus, September 1955 University of Dayton Magazine Follow this and additional works at: http://ecommons.udayton.edu/dayton_mag Recommended Citation University of Dayton Magazine, "The nivU ersity of Dayton Alumnus, September 1955" (1955). The University of Dayton Magazine. 28. http://ecommons.udayton.edu/dayton_mag/28 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Marketing and Communications at eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The University of Dayton Magazine by an authorized administrator of eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. ERSITY OF DAYT N SEPT. 1955 THE U. D. TABLE OF CONTENTS UD is Big Business .... 3-5 Established 1929 Sports . 6-8 Vol. XVI September 1955 No. 3 Coming Home 9 Homecoming 1955 . 1 0-11 Les Conner . .............. ....... Editor Report on Golden An niversary Class . 12-13 James F. "Pepper" Wilson ..... Sports Editor Changes of Address . 14 "Entered as second class matter April 15, 1940, at the P ost Office, at D ayton, Ohio, under the Act of March Engagements ... 14 3, 1879." Marriages, Births 15 For wills and bequests, the legal title of the corpora tion is "The U niversity of D ayton, D ayton, Ohio." In Memoriam 16 Subscription price $2 per year. Class Notes . 16 Published Quarterly for the U niversity of D ayton Alumni Association by the Public Relations O ffi ce, U ni Among Our Alum ni . 17 versity of Dayton, 300 College Park Avenue, Dayton 9, Ohio. Class Notes, Cont'd . ... ....... ... 18-19 Alumni and Campus News . 19 July 22, 1955 Dear Alumni and Alumnae: It is always a pleasure to write to you. In fact, it is the only way of reaching all of you, now so numerous and so widespread. It is the best way of bringing the University to those who cannot come back to Alma Mater. The University of Dayton is today the largest and fastest growing private undergraduate school in the Stare of Ohio. The enrollment this past year was 4500 students. This is an astounding figure to the older graduates and they must wonder how the " old school" is taking care of such an increase in enrollment. Recent years have seen the addition of several new buildings to those that were the UD in your days. New buildings are being planned and a Fund Raising Campaign to be inaugurated in the fall of 1955 and to be completed in the spring of 1956 is our hope of financing our material expansion for the immediate future. We will campaign for $2,500,000.00. The campus is crowded with students and with buildings. The University was fortunate enough to purchase from the State of Ohio some nineteen acres of land. This property which extends to the southeast of the present campus will allow for further expansion. Our athletic teams have not only won national honors but they have carried the name of the University into the headlines all over the country. However, a surer and more lasting advertisement of the University is yourselves, the alumni and alumnae. By your success in life and especially by your personal example you are a living and lasting product of the philosophy and of the educational endeavor of the University of Dayton. We are grateful to you for this; we are grateful, too, for your generous donations to the University funds. The progress of the University is linked naturally with the progress of the community which it has served over the past 105 years. It is no more the " little college on the hill" than the City of D ayton is the "small industrial town" of the Miami Valley. Why not see for yourselves what has happened in the past years? Drop in for the next Homecoming Day; you will see more than a whole volume of letters could describe. Again thanks for your splendid cooperation and God bless you! Sincerely, """"~~~- . fo J...A.--t . /J;,. Rev. Andrew L. Seebold, S.M., Ph.D . P resident 2 IS BIG BUSINESS tons) of coal a year - yet, more than tendent of Buildings and Grounds." By George Weldon half of the buildings are heated by oil. Brotl!er Holian will discuss his work UD is big business-over three million The student who gripes about the cost with anyone who is willing to walk dollars a year. of a hot dog or a meal in the cafeteria from one end of the campus to the other Although the University's main objec ·might be mildly surprised to learn that with him. He is enthusiastic about his tive is education, its most fundamental the university invests a quarter of a work, but after visiting the far corners problem is survival. To free the aca million dollars a year in food alone of the campus for the dozenth time in a demic branches of the school for their with a great and imminent risk of loss single day he is apt to confide that "I proper work and to tackle the many in perishable products. sometimes get confused." problems of survival the University of Even locks and keys are a fantastic To aid Brother Holian in his periods Dayton has set up a far-reaching busi item. There are more than 1400 separate of confusion is a man who does not run ness organization whose function is to locks on the campus; 200 keys are lost all over the campus. He can be found al see that income minus outgo plus up each year and must be replaced. most any time powing over one or more keep does not equal downfall. Five harried men and about a dozen of the ledgers that line his office. He is The University's paint bill alone for hand-picked assistants oversee the busi Brother Jerome A. McAvoy, Comp the past year was $30,000. It takes a crew ness affairs of the university. They in troller and self-styled watchdog of the of 35 full-time janitors just to keep the habit the ever-growing line of cubicles budget. school's 550,000 square feet of floor that line "Ulcer Alley" in St. Mary's His office keeps a running account of space clean. Hall - where everything is entered in all university business and runs up the Every time someone flicks on a light the books except the headaches. red flag when any departmental budget switch it helps run up a $19,000 electric Brother Austin J. Holian, a surpris nears the saturation point. Hallowed bill. The hundred-odd phones scattered ingly gentle and cheerful man, directs above all else in the comptroller's office around the campus cost about $10,000 a UD's business office. "I haven't been at is a latter-day golden calf that is melted year. The power plant's four boilers con the job long enough to have become down and cast anew each year. Its name sume 30 to 35 carloads (about 1600 crotchety," he explains half apologeti is Budget- with a capital B. Its word cally, " but I'm working on it." He was is sacred antl its decree inviolable. It is, Mr . Weldon is Assistant Professor of Philoso appointed Business Manager last year, in short, the university's primary instru phy and of Journalism on the UD faculty. after having "served an apprenticeship ment of survival. on the treadmill in the office of Superin- Each year the needs of every depart- 3 Bro. Austin J. Holian, S.M. Business Manager Bro. Jerome A. McAvoy, S.M. Bro. James H. Kline, S.M. Bro. Thomas A. Brunner, S.M. Comptroller Buyer Buildings and Grounds Bro. William D. Busch, S.M. Paul C. Michel Jack LoRing Treasurer Assistant to the Business Manager Ticket Manager Mary Carey Director of Clerical Personnel 4 ment are submitted to the budget com and lunchroom, handle bookstore pur of course, is the operation and mainte mittee. They are totaled up to form a chases, and keep track of the 1600 keys nance of the physical plant of the uni tentative budget. This is then compared previously mentioned. versity. His annual budget, which ex with a projection of the university's es "I also have to look out for swin cludes major repair and development timated income for the year. Invariably dlers," Brother Kline confides. He re projects, runs over $300,000 a year. the estimated budget is larger than the calls, for example, the time a group of Brother Brunner is fond of reeling off expected income. It is trimmed until the men with what appeared to be good cre statistics such as these: There are about two are in balance, and then the final dentials offered to replace the candle 80 miles of electric wire in Founders budget is drawn up. As long as it is ad sticks in the chapel for $1500 but finally Hall alone. It cost $40,000 to re-do the hered to the university is safe from ca succumbed to Brother Kline's "final of plumbing recently in St. Joseph's Hall. tastrophe - at least for the current year. fer of $630." However, a check-up re If all the vinyl tile in Founders were The University of Dayton uses the ac vealed that the men were gypsies and the laid in a strip six feet wide, it would counting system set up by 'the National company they represented did not exist. stretch from the campus to Third and Committee on Standard Reports for In Alertness in the business office had saved Main.

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