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M usic onCampus IN THIS ISSUE The Editor’s Notebook

MUSIC ON CAMPUS 1 A photo report on La Salle’s part in the musical Dr. Rudnytsky: 'Man of the Year' revolution taking place on the American campus.

GREATNESS. ANYONE? 7 John J. Keenan, ’52, assistant professor of n o t h e r t i m e , another place, and the forces of history English, examines the state of American letters might not have brought together Ivan L. Rudnytsky, since the demise of literary giants Ernest Hem­ APh.D., associate professor of history (who is introduced ingway and William Faulkner. on the last page of this issue), and Mrs. Mary Gelinas. But their star-crossed, transistorized altercation not only SPORTS took place, it was reported to millions of people by thousands of newspapers, radio and TV outlets. “A Day’s Work for Joe Kirk” explores in depth “Man of the Year,” banner headlines screamed in the a swimming team’s need for depth in talent and why Kirk has La Salle’s best coaching Chicago Star and the Cleveland Sun-Messenger. “Happy record. New Year, Professor Rudnytsky,” the Sun editorialized. “We salute you as one whose courage and clearheadedness have removed one obstacle to decent living in the U.S.— AROUND CAMPUS at least in Philadelphia.” A 30th birthday tribute to The Masque, the “If Dr. Rudnytsky’s patience snapped, that’s understand­ College’s undergraduate thespians, and sundry able,” the Ashland, Ky., Independent chimed in. “Still, other campus news items. arresting him doesn’t get at the noisy assault which started it all, and which occurs everywhere: the bombardment of CAMPUS CALENDAR peace of mind by those who expect everybody else to be Coming attractions of significance to alumni, considerate of their ‘right’ to be a nuisance!” students, faculty, parents and friends of the Even the staid N. Y. Times, in an editorial entitled “Zone College. of Quiet,” sympathized: “Transistor radios have given a somber extra dimension to John Donne’s observation that ALUM-NEWS ‘no man is an island.’ By now, all places of public assembly A chronicle of the often-significant events in are so infested with transistors and their pseudo-human the lives of La Salle alumni. extensions that most of the rest of us have meekly sur­ rendered to having our eardrums under constant bombard­ LA SALLE VIGNETTES ment. Not so, Dr. Ivan L. Rudnytsky.” Perhaps most extraordinary were the letters to news­ A glimpse at some interesting La Salle people. papers and to Dr. Rudnytsky himself. Only two or three were in any way critical of the professor and even these agreed that the end result was desirable. CREDITS—Front cover design—Bernie Markovitz; inside back cover (detail, McShain Hall)—-Charles F. Sibre; back cover illustra­ Shortly after the incident, the Philadelphia Evening tions—Jac Naugle; page 8—W alter Holt, PD A ; 11-12— Michael Bulletin ran two full columns of such letters, many pro­ Maicher; 21—Arthur Pariente; 23—Robert Halvey (inset); 24— Lawrence Kanevsky; all others by Charles F. Sibre. posing Dr. Rudnytsky for such distinctions as the Congres­ sional Medal of Honor, the Nobel Peace Prize, a Freedoms Foundation Medal, a Man of the Year testimonial dinner at Convention Hall, and a Federal grant to research the problem. Noteworthy among the 200 letters addressed to Dr. Rudnytsky, many of which included money to defray legal L a S a l l e expenses, were kudos from: A Madison Avenue advertising executive, who said A QUARTERLY LA SALLE COLLEGE MAGAZINE that “it is difficult enough getting people to listen to com­ mercials of their own free will, without shoving such Volume 9 Winter, 1965 Number 2 messages down their ears.” Another added: “Too bad that it wasn’t a TV set!” Ralph W. Howard, Editor One of the nation’s leading newspapers offered the resources of an employee “trouble fund” to help pay Robert S. Lyons, Jr., Associate Editor expenses. An entire department at an Ivy League university also James J. McDonald, Alumni News contributed a small financial offering. Another admirer suggested a national campaign, with

L a S a l l e M a g a z in e is published quarterly by La Salle College, Dr. Rudnytsky as “coordinator,” to “rid buses of these Philadelphia, Penna. 19141, for the alumni, students, faculty and idiotic pests who clutch squawk boxes.” friends of the college. Editorial and business offices located at the The most characteristic reaction: “Let me congratulate News Bureau, La Salle College, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141 Sec­ you on your courageous action, a thing I contemplated ond class postage paid at Philadelphia, Penna. Changes of address many times but, somehow, lacked the courage.” should be sent at least 30 days prior to publication of the issue with which it is to take effect, to the Alumni Office, La Salle Col­ All told, it was enough to keep Dr. Rudnytsky’s col­ lege, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141. Member of the American Alumni leagues in sociology busy for some time to come. Council and American College Public Relations Association. R .W .H. ho is the “educated man”? Is he the classical scholar, La Salle, in the college-rich Philadelphia area, has been immersed in uncounted tomes of antiquity; the among the leaders in providing such programs for its nuclearW physicist exploring the mysteries of matter; the student body—and a pioneer in opening the events to the English bookman at home with Chaucer or Kerouac, or general public. Like many schools, La Salle has built a the theologian, with his concern for the relationship of all convenient and physically beautiful student union, which knowledge to God? has greatly enhanced the desirability of bringing the There was a time, and the notion persists today, that public to the campus. Most unique, perhaps, and certainly these learned specialists were the sole product of educa­ the college’s largest undertaking, is La Salle’s summer tional efforts—whether at Padua, Italy, or Paducah, Ken­ Music Theatre, founded and directed by associate pro­ tucky. fessor of English Dan Rodden, which has attracted more But in the last two decades a revolution of sorts has than 40,000 visitors to the campus in three successful altered this view on campuses across America: the “cul­ seasons. tural” education of students, not merely in classroom La Salle’s student union, directed by John H. Veen, ’59, appreciation courses, but by direct experience of lively and the efforts of Brother M. Fidelian, F.S.C., vice presi­ arts performances brought to the campus auditorium. dent for academic affairs, have largely been responsible Foremost, has been the wide variety of musical pro­ for the immense growth of the college’s cultural program grams. Campus appearances have, in fact, become a major since its initiation some ten years ago. source of income for entertainers as diverse as opera stars Brother Fidelian and Union Director Veen have co­ and jazz quartets. ordinated their efforts to bring to the campus a score of True, colleges remote from the cultural attractions avail­ locally and nationally prominent musical artists. They have able in large cities have for some time provided this sort had the assistance of Messrs. George Diehl and Charles of cultural enrichment for their students. White, who share the direction of the college’s music It is only since World War Two, however, that such courses and have been instrumental in arranging many of programs have become regarded as part and parcel of what the classical programs—most notably three operas, “La a college should offer its student body—be they resident Boheme,” “The Saint of Bleecker Street,” and “The Mar­ students in Iowa farm country or on a downtown Man­ riage of Figaro.” hattan campus. This semester, they have organized a two-week Festival Perhaps the most striking aspect of the burgeoning cul­ of Music, which opened February 26 with a piano recital tural revolution is the growing tendency for schools to by Edward Kilenyi and concludes March 10 with a fourth invite not only their own students to such programs, but opera, “Rigoletto,” presented by the Curtis Institute. This also members of the community in which the college exists. issue’s “Campus Calendar” gives the full schedule. In effect, the campus has become a local “cultural center” On the following pages, photographer Charles F. Sibre’s where one need not matriculate to attend musical and camera has recorded a small fraction of La Salle’s recent dramatic programs (not to mention topical lectures, which musical events, which have ranged from concert pianist have been a campus staple for a much longer period of Susan Starr, jazz legends Count Basie and Stan Kenton, time) to enrich their lives without attending a single folksinger Odetta, and dance bands too numerous to classroom lecture. mention. 1 Music on Campus

Predominant among the major musical events held on the campus have been the classic musical forms— recitals, symphonies and operas. Featured have been Susan Starr and husband Kenneth Amada (below); Henri Elkan conducting the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra (right); operas "The Saint of Bleecker Street" (below right) and "La Boheme" (center, opposite page); Maurice Kaplow and the Philadelphia Musical Academy's Chamber Orchestra, and a musical tribute to Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Jazz, which is alternately ignored and praised by devotees of "serious" music, has a lofty place on campus music programs. Foremost among jazz messengers to La Salle have been the big bands of Stan Kenton (below), Woody Herman (left) and Count Basie (opposite), each a jazz legend in his own time.

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Popular music has been variously represented by The Smothers Brothers (top), folk singing comedians, the College's summer Music Theatre (left), in last season's "South Pacific," and The Four Freshmen (below), top-rated male vocal group. Greatness, Anyone?

American Letters sans Faulkner and Hemingway

By J o h n J. K e e n a n , ’52 Assistant Professor of English

Who among the gifted young writers of our time will be the future giants of American prose? Many, the author contends, “raise great expectations, only to leave them unsatisfied.” Perhaps, he suggests, the difficulty lies in American society itself.

h e n i t w a s s u g g e s t e d that I write an article on writers like Norman Mailer, James Jones, and Nelson Al- the state of American fiction since the passing of gren. All three were greeted as the “great White Hopes” W Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, I confess I was of American literature after impressive first novels— The intrigued. Of the many novelists now writing, which Naked and the Dead, From Here to Eternity, and The bright young man would rise to the heights of greatness? Man With the Golden Arm. Their progress since has been The temptation to prophesy diminished sharply the more disappointing, and, as “great White Hopes” go, they are I surveyed the contemporary scene. It’s no trouble at all getting old. Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dos Passos and to name twenty good writers in America, but it is impossi­ Wilder were internationally famous before they were ble to single out any one of them as a replacement for thirty, and Faulkner was thirty-two when he wrote The Hemingway or Faulkner. Sound and the Fury. Let’s examine for a moment what made these two Of course, it seems to be generally true that today’s writers the pre-eminent names in American fiction since writers begin their careers a little later, often with a great the Twenties. deal more academic training behind them (in the Twen­ Both were extremely influential on other writers. Hem­ ties, many never quite managed a B. A.). The current ingway’s carefully chiseled style, terse dialogue, and care­ winner of the National Book Award, John Updike, is a fully controlled symbolism had a discernible effect on a case in point. At 32, Updike has a background which in­ generation of American writers. Faulkner’s handling of cludes Harvard, a Guggenheim fellowship in England, and time sequences added a new dimension: through his un­ work on the New Yorker Magazine. conventional blending of past, present, and future, his work To borrow a metaphor from baseball, Updike “has all often achieved an epic quality. Their concern for basic the tools” to be a great one. In the tradition of New Yorker truths of human nature is what is ultimately responsible writers, he combines a magnificently polished style with an for their greatest works. The “truths of the human heart exquisite sensitivity. Yet there is a significant body of in conflict with itself,” Faulkner called them in his Nobel critical opinion which feels that he has yet to find themes acceptance speech at Stockholm. worthy of his craftsmanship. He is still exploring, still If we’re going to look for the successors to the great, searching for “the truths of the human heart.” Given his we must look for those who still remember that these devotion to his art and his sensitivity, he has a good truths are the only things worth writing about. Faulkner chance of finding them. himself felt that many of today’s writers had forgotten At the present time he has published two volumes of this obligation. In the same speech, he spoke of today’s poems, two short story collections, and three novels {The writer as laboring under a curse: “He writes not of love Poorhouse Fair, Run, Rabbit, Run and The Centaur). The but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of impressive thing about his work is its variety, while the value, of victories without hope and worst of all, without standard of technical excellence continues high. You can­ pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, not read Updike without being startled at the things he leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the can make the language do. But like Truman Capote a glands.” decade ago, he sometimes does not know when to stop. The description seems to fit a number of neo-naturalistic “The trouble is,” wrote Norman Mailer (a non-admirer —continued 7

Greatness, Anyone?

of writers other than himself) “that . . . like many a young ploys the concentration on a crucial moment in the life writer before him, he does not know exactly what to do of the central character which is typical of the short story. when action lapses, and so he cultivates his private vice, Salinger is a master of the form. Nothing is wasted. Every he writes." gesture, every sentence carries an insight into character. I have one other reservation about Uplike’s credentials Salinger’s highly praised story, “For Esme—With Love for greatness. It seems to me that he sometimes lacks the and Squalor” is a triumph that illustrates his technical taste necessary for great art. Consequently, one loses the mastery. The story’s conflict is resolved in the moment aesthetic distance that permits the reader to be involved when Sergeant “X” receives the watch from Esme; a with the character without being overwhelmed on a per­ single gesture, well-prepared for, illuminates our world as sonal level. Some of Updike’s writing strikes me as too it does the protagonist’s. personal, too subjective, too revealing of the self; the r o n i c a l l y , this same technical skill has become a trade­ reader feels as though he has inadvertently opened the mark that draws attention to itself, much as Heming­ wrong door and intruded upon someone’s privacy. In Iway’s style does in Across the River and into the Trees, his reading the story “Wife-Wooing,” for example, I had the worst book. Writing of Franny and Zooey, Arthur Mizener uncomfortable feeling that a bartender must sometimes summed up the case against Salinger: “I am sorry to have have when one of his customers insists on “telling all.” to use the word ‘cute’ in respect to Salinger, but there is Nevertheless, Updike has demonstrated so much talent absolutely no other word that for me so accurately typifies and ambition thus far that it would take a braver man the self-conscious charm and prankishness of his own than I to predict that he will never reach greatness. The writing and his extraordinary cherishing of his favorite potential is certainly there. Glass characters.” With some writers, the potential may already have been The most aggravated case of “cuteness” is “Seymour: expended. Though some of the great names of the thirties An Introduction,” in which the narrator, Buddy Glass, are still active, it seems doubtful whether such talents as rambles along in a most carefully-planned voice that never those of John Steinbeck, John O’Hara, or John Dos Passos quite convinces us of nonchalance. will show any new development. Nor do I see any hopeful But lest I seem to be joining the funeral, let me hasten progress in the work of Irwin Shaw, Jack Kerouac, or to add that I for one am not ready to bury Salinger. I Truman Capote. think it is some measure of the man to note that he always The greater question is whether it is also true that J. D. demands an involvement and a serious response from the Salinger must now be written off as a promise unfulfilled. reader, even if that response must in the end be unfavor­ More than any other single writer, Jerome David Salin­ able. There is no question but that Salinger is deeply com­ ger has overshadowed the American literary scene since mitted to the “truths of the human heart in conflict with World War II. His appeal to students and teachers, partic­ itself.” It is equally certain that he dominated the literary ularly, has generated an endless procession of critical arti­ scene during the decade of the Fifties. The Catcher in cles, casebooks, and the like— “the Salinger industry” the Rye has already achieved the stature of a modern someone has called it. Yet this enormous impact is the classic, at least among the undergraduates of America. result of a slim body of work that increases by only a new If Salinger dominated the Fifties, James Baldwin bids story every four or five years. The appeal to critics of fair to have the same importance in the Sixties. Baldwin’s these stories has been diminishing with each new one that scorching essays on race relations (Nobody Knows My appears, so that a recent article is entitled, “Salinger and Name, Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time) and His Critics: Autopsy of a Faded Romance.” three novels (Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni’s The critics’ disaffection has become most obvious since Room, and Another Country) are marked by their honesty, the publication in book form of two long stories, Raise their eloquence, and their sense of pain. Baldwin’s heroes High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Intro­ are the misfits, the victims of a cruel, impersonal society. duction. This book, like the earlier Franny and Zooey, The pain of the Negro and the homosexual, particularly, continued the saga of the Glass family. is sympathetically presented. To assess Salinger’s strengths and weaknesses as a writer, With all of the praise that has been lavished on Baldwin, you must first keep in mind that he is essentially a short I hardly think it will matter if one small minority voice is story writer, not a novelist. The Catcher in the Rye em- raised in objection. While I agree with the general critical estimate of his power and brilliance as a stylist, I cannot see in him the greatness of a Hemingway or Faulkner. John Keenan, who joined La Salle’s faculty in 1960, is an Like Tennessee Williams in the drama, Baldwin’s interests assistant professor of English. He has written fiction and seem to me to lie in a very specialized area of human critical articles for literary journals and La Salle’s own suffering, one which cannot be sufficiently universalized. four quarters. He and the late John F. McGlynn collabo­ Though the reader may sympathize with the alienated rated on Adventures in American Literature, a teacher’s condition of the homosexual, he is more likely to view manual. He earned his master’s degree from the University it in terms of a case history than as a reflection of the of Pennsylvania in 1957. universal human condition. —continued 9 Greatness, Anyone?

Like Salinger and Updike, Baldwin is just good enough as “existentialist.” to make you wish he were better. He raises great expecta­ “The pattern of experience in contemporary fiction is tions, only to leave them unsatisfied. largely existential,” says critic Ihab Hassan. He suggests By and large, that comment is true of most of con­ the names of Ralph Ellison (The Invisible Man), Paul temporary American fiction. It is not lacking in vitality. Bowles (The Sheltering Sky), and William Styron (Lie There are as many competent artists writing as in any Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire) as illustrative decade in our history. Yet no single writer has established of the trend. It is easier to use the term as a label than to a firm reputation that seems likely to survive, though define it. No one writer or single work contains all the Salinger has come the closest. Why not? earmarks of existentialism, but since this view of life is Since literature must grow out of the society, perhaps an important one in American writing today, it seems the answer lies in American society itself. That society worthwhile to attempt some sketchy outline of its charac­ has been characterized in the twentieth century by two teristics. seemingly contradictory trends. On a material level, our In the first place, the existentialist emphasizes the indi­ culture has become more and more homogeneous: we vidual and unique existence of each man, rather than the watch the same TV programs, read the same best-sellers, essence of mankind. This emphasis on the personal and and submit to the same advertisements. Our young people subjective may include a denial or ironic treatment of talk more of “security” and “living comfortably” than of accepted norms of feeling or behavior. making a fortune; the gap between the extremes of riches Second, the existentialist sees reason as too limited for and poverty continues to narrow. But on a deeper cultural understanding or portraying the whole of human life. level, diversity isolates us into an endless series of sub­ Chance and absurdity and the ambiguity of human nature cultures. Aside from a generalized faith in the mystique are realities of existence that cannot be comprehended by of democracy, we share few spiritual values or traditions. reason alone. In American culture there is no single prevailing view of Third, the existentialist sees modern man as alienated the nature of man, or of the existence of God, or of the from God, from nature, from other humans, even from destiny of man. American literature reflects this fragmen­ himself. The existential hero lives on the edge of Nothing­ tation, and therefore no single work is likely to strike a ness, anxious and afraid, attempting to fill the void with common chord of response in American readers; perhaps actions—fighting, drinking, making love—anything to no such common chord exists any more. prove his existence to himself. What we now have are groups of novelists representing xistentialism is not something new to post-war Ameri­ the various sub-cultures and saying only what is true for can fiction. In fact there are touches of it in Hemingway them. Just as Baldwin’s people represent the Negro’s search Eand Faulkner and long before them in the Book of Job. for identity and the homosexual’s unhappiness, so Bernard It may be atheistic or Christian. In Bowles’ The Sheltering Malamud, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth reflect a certain Sky, for example, God seems to be entirely absent and the ironic view of suffering that is part of being Jewish. characters are abandoned in their own search for sexual Christianity is what integrates and gives meaning to the satisfaction. But in Styron’s Lie Down in Darkness, the novels of J. F. Powers, Claude Koch, and Flannery heroine’s love affairs seem to be part of a search for perfect O'Connor. Love: “give me my God back,” she prays, “for somewhere There are geographical sub-cultures too. Though writers I’ve lost my way.” like Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Shirley Ann In itself, the existential view of life will neither bestow Grau are not merely regional writers, there is no doubt greatness on a writer nor deprive him of it. What is evident that the South is both a setting and a shaping force in so far, however, is that existentialism in America has not their work. John Cheever’s suburban Connecticut setting yet produced anything comparable to Camus’ The Stranger, is every bit as important in his Wapshot novels as Welty’s although it has produced many novels influenced by it. Mississippi is in hers. And Jack Kerouac’s San Francisco world of the Beat is foreign to both. In the course of dropping a great many names through­ What kind of communication could there be between out this article, I have not yet answered the question pro­ one of Cheever’s golf widows and one of Kerouac’s hip­ posed at the outset. Perhaps the only thing proved here is sters? Between Powers’ sophisticated Father Urban and the difficulty the question involves. No single writer since Welty’s Mississippi postmistress in “Why I Live at the World War II, with the possible exception of Salinger, has P. O.”? made his permanent mark on our literature to the degree The fact that the same reader (possibly) may enjoy that Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and O’Neill did in writers as different as Welty and Cheever indicates the the Twenties. It would be foolish to conclude from this, success of each writer in portraying the recognizable com­ however, that American literature is dying. On the con­ mon factor of humanity. trary, both the quantity and quality of the writing is im­ But what of those writers who question whether there pressive. The only thing lacking is original genius. Perhaps is any common factor of humanity? In broad terms, this it’s time you began that novel you’ve been thinking seems to be the position of some novelists usually labeled about . . . 10 Sports

A Day's Work For Joe Kirk

h e p a t t e r n remains the same. Every year La Salle’s varsity swimmers start Tthe season with all the vital ingredients necessary for a consistent winner except depth—not of the underwater variety, but in potential second and third place finishes. Somehow, however, they always man­ age to win a few more meets than pre­ dicted and finish a little higher than expected in the tough Middle Atlantic Conference. The 1965 Explorers, win­ ning seven of their first eight meets, were no exception. Most instrumental in La Salle’s peren­ nial success in the water is its stocky, 50-year-old coach, Joe Kirk. He or­ ganized the sport on campus in 1941, sur­ vived a serious heart-attack in 1961, and enters his third decade on the job with the best won-lost record on the Ex­ plorer’s coaching staff. His twenty-one La Salle teams (none in 1944-45) have compiled a fantastic 171-52 record. But that’s only half the story. The first team Kirk entered in the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships won the title in 1957. Last year, the first team he en­ tered in the NCAA (College Division) Championships finished an amazing third, behind Bucknell and East Carolina, after the Explorers had surprised with a second place finish in the Middle At­ lantic Conference. His 1956 and 1957 teams were unbeaten in 24 meets against tough competition. From 1955 to mid­ season 1958, the Explorers won 39 straight meets—a win streak unequaled by any sport in the history of the school. From 1955 to 1958, the Explorers had a 43-2 record; four La Salle teams finished unbeaten, five had only one loss, and only two teams wound up with losing years. Kirk’s career also includes successful tenures at Lincoln Prep, Northeast Catho­ lic High School, the North Branch YMCA in Philadelphia, and the Brighton Hotel, Atlantic City. He led North Somehow, the Explorers win more meets than expected. Catholic to seven League titles in nine years, and his 1944 North Branch team The year 1944 was a war year, of den, a future Explorer star who was then won the senior National AAU Champion­ course, and travel was highly restricted. in the Coast Guard; Jim Shand, Prince­ ship with a squad of but five men. “I’ll North Branch could send only five men ton’s top backstroker, and Ed Heuber, never forget that meet,” says Kirk, who to the meet at the Great Lakes Naval Yale’s captain. has become widely known as an excellent Base, although many of the other 90 Early in the morning, two days before “manipulator” of swimming talent. “The squads entered larger teams. North the meet, Lumsden telephoned Kirk: funny part about it, I did all my coach­ Branch’s team included Joe Verdeur, then “We can win everything if we get one ing by telephone.” swimming at North Catholic; Jack Lums- more man for the freestyle relay,” he 11 Loyola [Md.], West Chester, and Penn), Kirk realizes that the Explorers still lack the depth to make a strong bid for the MAC Championships. They figure to be third, perhaps second, depending on the progress made by Kirk’s nucleus of five talented lettermen, who will be strong in freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke events. The Explorers figure to be somewhat weaker in the backstroke, relay, and div­ ing. Heading the returnees is junior Jon Walheim, who won MAC 50 and 100- yard freestyle titles and set school and conference records in the former. Jon also finished second in the 100 in the NCAA (College Division) Champion­ ships. Other highly-regarded lettermen in­ clude Jim Abel (200 and 500 freestyle), Bill Conroy (individual medley), Joe Dieterle (breaststroke) and Bob Moore (butterfly). Moore finished third and fourth, respectively, in the NCAA 100 Coach Kirk with Olympic champion Joe Verdeur. and 200 yard butterfly events. Chief losses from last year, beside Trainor, in­ said. Kirk immediately called Hank Stein- the late 1940’s? “They are much more clude freestyler Don Walheim (Jon’s gass, who was living in Baltimore and advanced today,” Kirk says. “Their tech­ brother, who is currently a member of told him to get on the next train for nique is much better now, because they the Army Modern Pentathlon team) and Great Lakes. “It’s 3 A.M.,” Steingass have more experience. Most of the pres­ diver Mike Kennedy, presently complet­ exclaimed. “I’ll never get accommoda­ ent swimmers start competing in the ing Officer Candidate School in the Navy. tions.” But Steingass was enroute to junior leagues before high school age. Bill Gallagher and Mike Milone are the Michigan before sunrise and sparked However, although the swimmer devotes only sophomores who made the club and North Branch’s relay to a second place more time and effort to practice today, they will help a little in the individual finish. Verdeur was the only individual he is not as mature, emotionally, as his medley and diving events, but Kirk must winner for the team, taking the butterfly counterpart of the 40’s. Then, he was wait another year for further help from and individual medley, but the Philadel­ usually a veteran with the war still on a good freshman squad. phians capitalized on second and third his mind. Today’s athletes have not ex­ Any coach will tell you that a swim­ place finishes to win easily with 31 points. perienced anything like that.” ming team needs more than individual Highly-favored Ohio State and Indian­ winners for success. La Salle once won apolis A.C. finished far behind. Typical of today’s ideal athlete is free- six of 11 events from Bucknell, for Verdeur, of course, became La Salle’s styler, Bruce Trainor, who graduated in example, but lost the meet to the 1964 brightest All American and climaxed a June. An excellent student, who majored MAC and NCAA (Small College) brilliant, record-smashing career with a in pre-med and plans to be a doctor, Champs, due to a lack of second and Gold Medal in the 1948 Olympic Games Trainor went unbeaten in 19 races in the third place finishes. With such a lack of in London. Today, as Temple’s swim 50, 100, 200 and 500-yard freestyle depth a constant problem, Kirk’s unique mentor, he is one of Kirk’s many pro­ events during the regular season as a ability to manipulate his swimmers into teges in the head coaching ranks. Other junior, only to lose in the conference key events at precisely the right time has Kirk pupils with coaching experience in­ championships. Trainor perhaps spent resulted in countless upsets. Two years clude Mike DeAngelis (’47), associate more time studying than most athletes, ago he used every one of his 13 swim­ professor of accounting at La Salle and but still worked in the practice neces­ mers on the 400 yard freestyle relay head coach at La Salle High until this sary to excel in swimming. The ad­ year; Ed Geisz (’49) and Jack Lumsden vances in swimming today are re­ team at one time or another. Eight of (’49), head and assistant coaches, respec­ flected in the fact that Explorer swim­ them competed for the 400 yard medley tively, at Villanova; Ernie Gash (’57), mers broke various school, pool and con­ relay team that season and a total of 28 Father Judge High; Bill Parkes (’58), ference records 35 times last year. The different combinations were used in the Cardinal Dougherty; Ed Burns (’52), total was 34 in 1963, as Trainor alone nine individual events. Neshaminy, and others. accounted for 16 new marks. Much of the same can be expected this year. So can a few patented La Salle How do today’s swimmers compare Despite La Salle’s surprising 12-2 rec­ swimming upsets. It’s all in a day’s work with the athletes of the Verdeur era in ord last season (including upsets over for Joe Kirk. ■ 12 Around Campus

Masque is 30: 'Sun Up' to 'West Side'

h e M a s q u e of La Salle College is marking its 30th anniversary as the TCollege’s undergraduate theatre group, but the celebration opened and concludes with “firsts” for the campus thespians. The anniversary fete began with an exquisite production of “Romeo and Juliet,” which also marked the end of the campus celebration of the 400th anni­ versary of Shakespeare’s birth, and was the first Bardian play directed by Dan Rodden, associate professor of English, in more than a decade as director of the Masque. The Masque anniversary will conclude in May, when “West Side Story” will be offered as the spring musical presentation April 30 through May 9 in the College Union theatre. The whirling Bernstein- Laurents-Sondheim musical, which has its origin in the Romeo and Juliet theme, will be the first musical production staged by Sidney MacLeod, technical director of the Masque. Rodden is also the founder and man­ aging director of the College’s summer Music Theatre, which has enjoyed three successful seasons on the campus boards. Some 20,000 patrons set an attendance record last summer, and more than 40,000 theatre-goers have enjoyed seven musicals over the past three seasons. This season, which will feature productions of “Camelot” and “Brigadoon,” should be equally praiseworthy. Rodden has staged a score of musicals and dramas over the past 11 years—in addition to Equity acting and directing chores in summer stock. He joined the Masque as a college freshman in 1937, not long after it was founded by Dr. Joseph J. Sprissler (now LaSalle’s vice president for business affairs) in 1934. “For its first presentation,” Rodden re­ calls, “the Masque chose to do Lulu Vollmer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, An exquisite production of "Romeo and Juliet". ‘Sun Up.’ The female roles that first year, 13 and happily never thereafter, were played Scholarship Needs Restated Honors Center Spring Innovation by La Salle undergraduates. Names will Two La Salle spokesmen restated the A new Honors Center and 11 new not be revealed in order to protect cer­ College’s stand calling for state scholar­ courses highlighted the opening of the tain fathers from the scorn of their ships for individual students in testimony spring semester at La Salle. children. The following year, the Masque given at the January hearings of the Many of the innovations occur in the presented its first musical comedy, State Council of Higher Education in day school’s Honors Program, directed Charles George’s ‘The Sweetest Girl in Philadelphia. by Brother F. Patrick, F.S.C. The Honors Town.' Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., presi­ Center will open this spring in McShain “In 1937,” he adds, “the Masque dent, and Dr. Thomas N. McCarthy, as­ Hall on the campus and will consist of selected a Gay Nineties melodrama, com­ sociate professor of psychology and di­ offices and a lounge for “open-end” dis­ plete with music, called ‘Gold in the Hills rector of the Counseling Center, spoke cussions between professors and honors or the Dead Sister’s Secret.’ It was a big for the College and its chapter of the students. More than 100 students are hit—-so big that the following year the American Association of University Pro­ participating in the honors programs, Masque decided on another melodrama, fessors, respectively. which are available in all major areas of concentration. ‘Silas the Chore Boy.’ In the following Brother Daniel, a trustee of the Phila­ New honors courses are “Analytical three years, we did Kaufman and Hart’s delphia Community College, asked high Philosophy,” given by Dr. Dennis ‘You Can’t Take It With You,’ Maxwell priority for community colleges in addi­ O’Brien, assistant dean at Princeton Uni­ Anderson’s ‘Knickerbocker Holiday’ (the tion to a “massive program of state schol­ versity, “Sacramental Theology,” by Dr. first performance by amateurs, two weeks arships” in the Master Plan for Higher William Kelly, a post doctoral fellow at after it closed on Broadway), and Rom­ Education now being studied. berg’s ‘Maytime.’ the University of Pennsylvania, and a “Shortly thereafter,” Rodden con­ “We believe (the Commonwealth) freshman course in Psychology taught tinued, “we Masquers marched off in all must now seek means to broaden the by Brother E. Austin, F.S.C., of the La directions— in costumes we didn’t have base of its support for higher education, Salle faculty. to rent—-and the Masque’s activities were because in the past it has been arbitrarily Other new day courses are “Historic suspended. The 1942 class, which had selective,” Brother Daniel said. Origins of World Religions”; “The Soci­ scheduled a production of ‘The Man Who He added that La Salle would face ology of Religion”; “Art Techniques,” Came to Dinner,’ found that most of the difficulty meeting future demands with­ and “Terrestrial Ecology.” dinner guests had been pressed into chow­ out such support, which he said is needed Among honors program discussions lines and had to settle for a revival of to assure the student’s freedom to attend scheduled for the program’s annual “Col- ‘Sun Up.’ Apparently, they didn’t fret the college he prefers. loquim Series,” are “The Catholic Pro­ over the rather pessimistic implication Dr. McCarthy’s statement added that fessional Writer” (Mar. 2); “Revolution that the Masque had gone full circle. “professors, too, may find their choice of in Language” (Mar. 16); “Understand­ “After the war,” he adds, “La Salle college limited by the economic superi­ ing Modern Poetry,” (Apr. 6) and “Re­ was exciting, bigger, different, but Charles ority of a state institution over a private search and the Liberal Education” (May V. Kelly, then and now of our faculty, one. " 4). Panels of faculty and La Salle alumni had a mind for tradition and reconsti­ The Philadelphia Inquirer backed La conduct the informal discussions, to tuted the Masque, acquiring the emi­ Salle’s position in a February 1 editorial, which all members of the faculty and nently capable Carmelita Manning to which stated in part: student body are invited. direct ‘Our Town’ and ‘State of the “It is true beyond doubt that colleges New evening courses are “Computers Union.’ ” Williard Walsh was director need State help, and should get it, but and Computer Programming”; “Modern from 1949 to 1953. very often the need of the student for aid Physics”; “Readings in Drama,” and Since 1954, Rodden has directed a is even greater. “English Literature from 1780 to the wide variety of plays, from “The Potting Present.” Shed,” “Cain Mutiny Court Martial” and “President (Brother) Daniel Bernian “The Devil’s Disciple” to “South Pacific,” of La Salle, in his testimony at the hear­ “Guys and Dolls” and his own original ings, made a notable point when he musical, “Lucky for Me.” called for the State to consider a program H.E.W. Program Approved of ‘individual incentive grants and schol­ “Some of the shows,” Rodden concludes, L a S a l l e has received a $4,649 grant “I believe we’ve done well; others quite arships’ which would provide the means from the Department of Health, Educa­ badly. I have had the opportunity to work of “reducing tuition costs in practice tion and Welfare to establish a work- with some of the finest young men and while preserving the individual’s freedom study program during the spring semester. women I have ever met. I have not en­ of choosing the kind of school he wants.” The Federal funds, alloted under the joyed every minute of it, and I don’t “It seems to us that the Council of Economic Opportunity Act, provide cam­ suppose for one minute that they have. Higher Education and the Legislature pus jobs for some 34 students, according I can only hope that somehow, out of should examine the State aid question to L. Thomas Reifsteck, ’51, director of all the time we’ve shared, spent, even from all angles, including a full explora­ placement, who heads the new program. wasted together, that they have found a tion of the largely un-tapped possibilities The student job categories include de­ couple of hours to scoop together and in scholarships to worthy and qualified partmental, laboratory, library, research find meaningful—as I have.” individuals.” and general clerical assistants. 14 $1.3 Million Dorm Expansion Announced

La Salle this spring will start a said, “will enable La Salle to increase Two of the residence halls will be $1,300,000 dormitory expansion pro­ both the total number of resident stu­ erected on the west side of 20th st., gram, which will complete a residence dents and the ratio of resident to above Olney. The third dormitory and complex begun in 1953, it was an­ commuting students within the next the infirmary will be located on the nounced by Brother Daniel Bernian, two years. north side of Olney ave., west of 20th F.S.C., president of the College. st. The halls will contain 107 double “In addition,” he continued, “at the and 12 single occupancy rooms. The Three new dormitories, an infirm­ completion of this complex, the entire new lounges will increase recreation ary, and four separate-unit student area—including parking areas—will be areas from 600 to 8,310 square feet. lounges will be added to the four landscaped to better contribute to the existing residence halls in the complex, attractiveness of the community.” The entire complex will be inter­ which adjoins the campus on the connected and enclosed by an attrac­ northwest corner of 20th st. and Olney The new dormitories will accommo­ tively appointed brick wall and ave. Carroll, Grisdale and Van Alen date 225 additional resident students. wrought-iron gates, thus providing are the architects. Some 600 of the overall day enroll­ more complete privacy for campus ment of 2850 now reside on the living and complimenting the sur­ “This construction,” Brother Daniel campus. rounding community.

The program, which will aid some 18,000 college students across the U.S., seeks to “stimulate and promote the part- time employment of students from low- income families who are in need of in­ come from such employment to pursue courses of study.” In addition to demonstrating need of such aid, for which family income may not exceed $3,000 plus $600 for each dependent, the student is given an oppor­ tunity to work a maximum of 15 hours per week during the academic year and 40 hours during vacation periods. He must be a full-time student at the institu­ tion and not replace a previously em­ ployed worker.

Collegian Honors Mrs. Dickerson Nancy Dickerson, NBC-TV Wash­ ington Correspondent, received the 17th annual Journalism Award of La Salle College’s weekly student newspaper, The Collegian, at the paper’s annual banquet in February. Mrs. Dickerson was the first woman to receive the plaque, which has been given annually since 1949 for “outstand­ ing public service in the field of journal- ism Among the recipients of student awards were Joseph C. Gambone, ’66, editor-in- Mrs. Dickerson with Brother Daniel and Editor Gambone. 15 chief, received the 1965 President’s Award for the “most significant contribu­ tion to the newspaper” during the past academic year, and Joseph G. Spear, ’66, associate editor, received the Collegian Staff Award for “the most dedication and effort expended as a staff member.” Previous recipients of the Collegian Award include Ed Sullivan (1949); Bob Considine (1951); Edward R. Murrow (1954); Jim Bishop (1956); Chet Hunt- ley (1958); Walter Cronkite (1960); David Brinkley (1961); James Reston (1962); Charles Collingwood (1963), and Art Buchwald, last year’s recipient. Dr. Hayman Initial Medalist

H . B l a k e H a y m a n , M. D., ’41, Bucks County and South Jersey physician, re­ ceived the first President’s Medal given by La Salle, at ceremonies on the campus in December. The Medal, which will be given annual­ ly to “the person who has done the most for La Salle College,” was presented by Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., presi­ dent, at a reception honoring Century Club contributors to the college’s annual giving program. Brother Daniel and Ran­ dolph E. Wise, Philadelphia Commis­ Baroness Von Trapp: The sound of dough-re-mi. sioner of Public Welfare and president of La Salle’s Endowment Foundation, ad­ A Special Calling 'Where Love of God Will Lead' dressed the gathering. “I am deeply convinced that every “Who would have thought, only five Brother Daniel cited Dr. Hayman’s person on earth has a special calling— years ago, that we would be meeting to­ work as chairman of La Salle’s Medical it’s just a matter of finding it, through gether here today?” a Dominican priest Doctor’s Committee of the College’s Cen­ prayer and meditation.” said at a recent ecumenical conference tenary Fund, and his “generous personal Thus, in an address to La Salle students held on the campus. contributions, which have made possible and faculty, Baroness Maria von Trapp The Rev. James J. Davis, O.P., as­ the purchase of additional property neces­ summarized the philosophy of her life, sistant professor of theology at La Salle, sary for the proposed physical recreation which has enthralled thousands who have gave his remarks in a sermon during a building.” enjoyed the stage productions of “The Holy Mass for the Unity of the Church, Dr. Hayman, an obstetrician and gyne­ Sound of Music” and the millions who which was celebrated by the Rt. Rev. cologist, is a 1941 graduate of the Col­ will see the screen version released this John J. Noone, J.C.D., chancellor of the lege. He earned his Doctor of Medicine month. Archdiocese of Philadelphia, in the stu­ degree from Jefferson Medical College in The musical tells how the Baroness, dent Chapel. 1945 and has since built one of the largest then a young novitiate in Austria, was A conference on “Christian Sacra­ obstetrics practices in the U.S. He is loaned by the Abbey to the Salzburg ments in Theology Today,” it was the affiliated with Lower Bucks County Hos­ household of the widower Baron von first such event to be sponsored by the pital, Mercer County Hospital in Trenton, Trapp, as a governess for his seven chil­ archdiocese and the Society of Catholic and Rancocas Valley Hospital. He re­ dren—and how the Baron fell in love College Teachers of Sacred Doctrine. ceived an honorary Doctor of Laws with her and made her his wife. Some 300 Catholic teachers and theolo­ degree from La Salle at the commence­ “I fell in love with the children,” the gians, and 100 Protestant students and ment last June, and is the Bucks County Baroness said, “married their father, and clergy, attended the conclave. chairman of the 1965 Catholic Charities eventually got used to him too.” The Rev. Matthew J. O’Connell, S.J., Drive. For some 20 years later, the group professor of Sacramental Theology at toured the world as the Trapp Family Woodstock (Md.) College, was the prin­ Dr. Lukacs on New Europe Singers, receiving acclaim in more than cipal-speaker, and was joined as a panelist Decline and Rise of Europe, a new 2,000 concerts in the U.S., Europe, by the Rev. Dr. Martin J. Heinecken, of book by Dr. John Lukacs, History pro­ Australia and New Zealand. The Baroness the Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary; Rev. fessor at La Salle College, was published continued the Baron’s work after his Dr. C. Edward Hopkin, Philadelphia by Doubleday and Company in February. death in 1947, but today the von Trapp (Episcopal) Divinity School; Rev. Dr. Dr. Lukacs, who received the attention children are married and scattered around Kenneth Cauthen, Crozer (Baptist) Sem­ of political science scholars for his first the world. There are 25 Trapp grand­ inary in Chester, and the Rev. Dr. E. book, A History of the Cold War, is children. David Willis, Princeton (Presbyterian) teaching in France under a Fulbright “Too many people,” she contends, “go Seminary. grant during the current academic year. after the get-rich-quick jobs and then The Rev. Philip J. Dowling, executive The new work deals with the “growing are unhappy because that’s not what secretary of the Archbishop’s Commis­ consciousness of Europe as an entity that they were meant to do. The most im­ sion for Human Relations, called the transcends ancient borders and traditional portant thing in life is to find out what conference “a lesson in ecumenism” and loyalties.” is the will of God— and then do it.” added that he hoped it would “set a 16 precedent for future meetings in the church. Our Protestant brothers have set objective, public view,” while Protestant archdiocese.” us many good examples, such as in the theology, he asserted, is “personal and Father Davis’ remarks expressed the use of the vernacular in the liturgy, study subjective.” atmosphere at the conference, which for of Biblical language, and their spirit of Dr. Hopkin called the liturgy “our the most part dealt with that which the ecumenism.” binding document” and called the sacra­ five faiths have in common. The sacra­ Father O’Connell, in his opening ad­ ments “no mere learning devices . . . they ments of Baptism and Holy Eucharist dress, cited theological studies over the really affect what they signify.” Two (Lord’s Supper), which are accepted in past four decades, especially in France events—the liturgical movement and the varying degrees by the faiths represented, and Germany, that have placed em­ advent of Biblical theology — have were the central points of discussion at phasis upon sacramental events as “en­ prompted Anglicans to “reconsider what the morning session— at which each the­ counters between Christ and the be­ the sacraments really are,” he added. “I ologian gave his church’s position on the liever . . . shifting the emphasis from the am sorry to say that, in my lifetime, we sacraments—and at the afternoon panel objective elements (the minister’s role, (Anglicans) have not moved to con­ discussion. symbolic words and gestures), without sider if there are two or seven sacra­ “We must be quick to acknowledge denying or downgrading them, by putting ments.” that historically there have been errors them in the correct context.” Dr. Heinecken perhaps best stated the made,” Father Davis said. “We must Dr. Cauthen said that “the differences spirit of the conference in a question: “If realize that we can make mistakes, just as among Christians in the sacraments lie in the purpose of this conference is mutual Peter did and had to be corrected. We the difference in vision of what the church understanding, and we succeed in this, must recognize that God can speak to really is.” He cited Roman Catholic then who knows where our common love others besides our particular group or views of theology as “focusing upon the (of God) will lead us?”

A conscientious compendium of events of significance to alumni, students, parents, and Campus Calendar friends of La Salle.

Unless otherwise stated, events are held in the with Miss Edna Bockstein, offer Beethoven, PARENTS College Union Building. Exhibits open 9 Liszt and Prokofieff, 8 P.M., Mar. 7; Gilbert Reception—The Guild (Mothers) and the AM . - 9 PM. Mon.-Thurs.; 9-5 Fri., 12-4 and Sullivan Players offer satire of G. & S. Associates (Fathers) parents’ groups hold Sat. and Sun. operettas, Mar. 10; Curtis Institute of Mu­ their annual tribute to their out-going presi­ sic’s opera department in a workshop pro­ dents; 7-10 P.M., May 16. duction of “Rigoletto,” 8 P.M., Mar. 10; ALUMNI review of musical comedy highlights by D owntown Luncheon C lub—Interesting Messrs. Sidney MacLeod, Pat Cronin and SPORTS speakers are the rule when the downtown Nick DeMatteo, Mar. 12. Events free and Sw imming — Middle Atlantic Conference executives meet for luncheon and comradery at 12:30 P.M. except admission for evening championships at Elizabethtown College; at the Adelphia Hotel at 12:30; Mar. 17, programs Mar. 6 and 10. Mar. 5-6. Apr. 21, May 19. G lee C lub—La Salle’s choral group holds Baseball—Coach McDonnell’s nine should Alumni Spring Reception—The Associa­ its annual spring concert series; 8 P.M., Mar. improve on last season’s very respectable tion will honor new entries to the Hall of 31, Apr. 2-3-4. Admission. 13- 6 log: Mar. 31 at PMC; APR. 6 at Athletes; 4-7 P.M., Apr. 25. Chad M itchell T rio—Folksongs and Lafayette; 10, Gettysburg; 12 at Ursinus; 14, humor at 8 and 9:30, Apr. 24. Admission. St. Joseph’s; 15, Villanova; 19, Temple; 21, Haverford; 24 at Muhlenberg; 27 at Al­ ART bright; 29 at West Chester; MAY 1, Drexel; Riverdale F ine Art Society—Works by 3, West Chester; 5, Delaware; 6, at Penn; 22 artists, courtesy of Pietrantonio Galleries; GENERAL 10 at Villanova; 11 at Temple; 13 at St. Mar. 1-31. Open House—Old grads will marvel at Joseph’s; 15, Swarthmore. Home games on Japan Society—Gyotaku, or “fish prints” what wonders decades hath wrought and campus; 3:30 P.M. weekdays, 2 P.M. Sat. exhibit; Mar. 1-31. newcomers can see first-hand what the T rack—Coach Wetzler’s cindermen are off N etherlands Information Service—“Cas­ “education explosion” is all about; campus and running in defense of their conference tles in the Netherlands,” a photo exhibit of tours, exhibits, entertainment; 1-5 P.M., title: APR. 10, Penn; 13 at Rutgers; 20, Dutch castles; Mar. 1-31. May 2. Lafayette; 27, Temple; MAY 1 at Quantico Phila. Plastics Club—Works in plastic by F ounder’s D ay—Faculty and students will Relays; 8, West Chester; 11, at St. Joseph’s; 35 local artists; Apr. 1-28. assemble in academic convocation for the 14- 15, conference championships at Lehigh Pietrantonio G alleries—Scuptured wood annual homage to St. John Baptiste de La University; 28-29, IC4A Championships at collages; Apr. 1-28. Salle, founder of the Brothers of the Chris­ Rutgers University. Home meets in Mc­ Anna W eltzer—Miss Weltzer’s oils, cour­ tian Schools; 4 P.M., May 14. Carthy Stadium. tesy Pietrantonio Galleries; Apr. 1-22. C rew—La Salle’s oarsmen should better Molly C anady—A collection of oils; May last year’s record: APR. 3 at Georgetown 1- 22. (D.C.); 10, Fordham; 13 at Tampa (Fla.); Valdi Maris—Oils by Mr. Maris from Old LECTURES 15 at Florida Southern; 17 at Rollins (Fla.); Bergan Art Guild; May 1-23. G uenther L ewy—The author of The 24, American U.; MAY 1, Bergan Regatta Church and Nazi Germany heads a panel (St. Joseph’s and Drexel); 5, Marietta; 8, chosen by the sociology department on the Dad Vail Regatta. Home races on the CONCERTS topic, “Catholic and Jew”; Mar. 26. Schuylkill. F estival of Music—A two-week music Richardson D ilworth — Philadelphia’s festival, featuring: Edward Kilenyi, piano former mayor will discuss “Changing Poli­ recital, Feb. 26; Rudolph Lucente, organ tics in Philadelphia”; Apr. 7. THEATRE recital, Mar. 3; Philadelphia Musical Acad­ D orothy D ay—The founder and director T he Masque—La Salle’s irrepressible un­ emy concert of contemporary music, di­ of the Catholic Worker movement will dis­ dergraduate thespians mark their 30th anni­ rected by Maurice Caplow, 8 P.M.; First cuss the role of government and individuals versary with “West Side Story” as their Friday Mass with liturgical music based in the War on Poverty; Apr. 9. 1965 spring musical presentation; Apr. 30 upon Negro spirituals, Mar. 5; Odetta, folk­ Robert A bernethy—NBC’s Washington and May 3-4-5-6-7 at 8:30 P.M.; May 1 song concerts, 6 & 8 P.M., Mar. 6; Samuel correspondent gives a progress report on and 8 at 6 and 9:30 P.M. (two shows), and Mayes, first cellist, Philadelphia Orchestra, legislative programs; Apr. 21. May 2 and 9 at 7 P.M. Admission. 17 ALUM-NEWS

Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, AFL- '49 CIO, which in February won a teachers’ election to represent some 13,000 public E lmer C orda, former vice principal of school teachers and professional personnel Camden (N.J.) High School, recently re­ as bargaining agents. He has earned his signed as vice president of Willingboro master’s degree at Temple University, where Township’s Board of Education and has he is now seeking a doctorate. Birth: To been named administrative assistant to the H. F rancis Sweeney and wife, Eleanor, township’s superintendent of schools. their seventh child and third daughter, Vir­ ginia Ann.

'50 John A. O’Brien, Ph.D., associate profes­ sor of biology at Catholic University of Rev. E llwood Kieser, C.S.P., is the host America, received the Benemerenti Medal of “Insight,” the dramatic series being pre­ awarded by His Holiness, Pope Paul VI in sented on alternate Sundays at 1:30 P.M. recognition of more than 25 years of faith­ by WFIL-TV (Channel 6). The local sta­ ful service to the University. Presentation tion will carry 13 programs in the series, was made by the Rector, Bishop William J. which began five years ago. Robert S. McDonald. Bachman was elected treasurer of the Holy­ oke Tire and Cable Corp. of Holyoke, Mass. Joseph A. G allagher has been named Regional Vice-President of Industrial Val­ ley Bank and Trust Company’s Montgomery County region, N orman L. H aider is the '39 author of a recently published English grammar textbook for secondary schools, Col. John P. Leonard, Jr., USMC, will Haider’s Guide for Structural Linguistics. retire in March after 30 years service in the W illiam J. H enrich, Jr., has become a Marine Corps. His son, John, is a freshman member of the Philadelphia law firm of '52 at La Salle. Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Kohn and Dilks. John B. W inkler is technical representa­ J ames V. C ovello Associates, general tive for the Synthetic Rubber Division of agents for National Life Insurance, have the Enjay Chemical Company. opened a district office in Lansdale, Pa. F rederick A. E nck has been named execu­ tive director of the United Cerebral Palsy '40 Center in Camp Hill. Joseph H enderson and James Brooks were elected secretary Eugene J. Quindlen is employed in the and social chairman, respectively, of the Executive Offices of the President in Wash­ new Baltimore Chapter of the Alumni As­ ington, where he is director of program sociation. evaluation in the Office of Emergency Plan­ ning.

'45 Robert J. Schaefer Rev. G abriel T. Maioriello is Dean of 5929 Bingham Street Studies at St. John Vianney Seminary in Philadelphia, Pa. 19120 Richmond, Virginia. '51 '54 '47 Lawrence J. Bur has been appointed direc­ tor of marketing at the Baltimore adver­ H oward H. Ireland has been appointed an J ames F. H ammill, M. D., is assistant pro­ tising agency of Van Sant, Dugdale and Co. assistant secretary by the Insurance Com­ fessor of neurology at Columbia University. He will supervise agency programs for the pany of North America. An evening divi­ Nestle Co., Black and Decker, Bassett sion graduate, he joined INA as a trainee Furniture and other clients. J ohn P. C alla­ in 1940 and now works in liasson among han is district office manager of Steel Strap­ the company’s territorial underwriters. Ber­ ping Co., and president of the Borough nard A. C lark, a junior high school lan­ '48 Council in Blackwood, N.J. James H. Mc- guage teacher in Akron, Ohio studied last G oldrick is on sabbatical leave from his summer in Quito, Ecuador under a NDEA James B. Hattman is assistant sales man­ administrative assistant’s position in the grant. W illiam Lockard has been named ager at the Davison Chemical Division of Bristol, Pa. school system to work on his district merchandising manager for Pa. and W. R. Grace & Co. in Baltimore, Md. He Ph.D. in educational administration at Mich­ N. J. for the Buzzo-Cardozo Greeting Card was recently elected president of our new igan State University under a Mott Fellow­ Co. of California. Marriages: Bernard L. Baltimore Area Alumni Club. ship. John A. Ryan is president of the Skwirut to Lauretta Stella Gonsowski. 18 Sen. McCarthy 1965 Alumni Medalist

Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) He was re-elected in 1950, 1952, 1954 and received the 23rd annual Signum Fidei 1956, and in 1958 won election to the Medal of the La Salle Alumni Association Senate. He was recently named to the influ­ on the campus in February. ential Democratic Steering Committee. He is Sen. McCarthy is the first elected political the author of four books, most recently figure to receive the medal, which is given A Liberal Answer to the Conservative Chal­ each year for “distinguished achievement lenge (1964). in the advancement of Christian principles.” Established in 1941, the medal derives Daniel E. McGonigle, ’57, alumni presi­ its name from “Signum Fidei”—Sign of dent, presented the medal. Sen McCarthy Faith—the motto of the Brothers of the and Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., presi­ Christian Schools, the teaching order which dent, addressed the audience of alumni and conducts the College. Previous recipients students. include Bishop Fulton Sheen; Dr. Francis Joseph N. Malone Sen. McCarthy taught in high schools and 1578 M innesota Road J. Braceland, psychiatrist; R. Sargent Shriv- Cam den 4, N. J. colleges for ten years before his election to er, director of the War on Poverty program, Congress in 1958. At that time he was act­ and Mother M. Benedict, M.D., provincial '56 ing head of the sociology department at the of the Medical Mission Sisters, who was the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. 1964 recipient. N icholas P. D ienna, Jr. has been named manager of the Central Penn National Bank’s Office at 21 S. 12th St., Philadelphia. D avid P. Kane was elected vice president and secretary of the Washington Chapter of the Alumni Association.

George A. Butler, Jr. 107 E. Gowen Ave. Philadelphia, Pa. 19119

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G eorge P. A ltmeier has been promoted to project engineer by the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania. Patrick H. O’D onnell has joined Hess & Clark in Ashland, Ohio as a general ledger ac­ countant.

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James E. Sullivan, Jr., has been appointed associate eastern advertising manager for the Wall Street Journal. Formerly manager of the Philadelphia office, which included Washington and Pittsburgh, he has been with the Journal for ten years. Ira D avis, three time Olympian, was recently honored by the Men’s Club of the Germantown Jew­ ish Center. Joseph F. D oyle recently passed the New Jersey State Bar Examination. Edward B. G ehring has been elected vice- Joseph L. Hanley president of the newly-formed La Salle 5830 North 16th Street Alumni Chapter in the Baltimore, Md. area. Philadelphia, Pa. 19141 Edward J. Morris has received his LL.B. from Temple University, passed the Pa. Bar Examination and is now employed by the John W. H edges received his master’s de­ University. G eorge K. D unye was recently Socony Oil Co. John F. G allagher, as­ gree in Law from Temple University and elected acting general secretary of the Li­ sistant professor of political science at the is serving with the Army Judge Advocate beria Chamber of Commerce in Monrovia, college, and John P. Rossi, lecturer in his­ General’s Corps. Captain Edward J. Junier Liberia. G eorge M. L ogan is with the Ford tory, recently appeared on radio station recently returned from an assignment as an Motor Co. in Brussels, Belgium. Joseph R. WPEN’s “Red Benson Show” discussing artillery advisor in Viet Nam and is on the W alton has been named branch manager “Conservatism and Liberalism in America R.O.T.C. staff at Seton Hall University. of the Abraham Lincoln Federal Savings Today.” Rodney Rivers is president of the F rancis J. M urphy is a district sales man­ and Loan Assn, in Dresher, Pa. F rancis T. Philadelphia Catholic Alumni Club. Edgar ager with the Reuben H. Donnelly Corp. McG rath has been transferred to the A. Snares is area manager of data process­ Department of Labor’s Washington head­ ing center, Univac division of Sperry Rand quarters after three years with the Depart­ Corp., in Birmingham, Mich. H. Richard Ralph W. Howard ment’s wages and hours division in Phila­ Yarp is systems and programming manager La Salle College delphia. Joseph J. Zukowski is an account­ of Philco’s Communications and Electronics Philadelphia, Pa. 19141 ant for the Internal Revenue, also in Division. He was also chairman of the com­ Washington. Robert R. D avis, Jr., is now mittee planning the alumni party after the an assistant products managers for Avon St. Joseph’s game on Feb. 26. Births: To '60 Products, Inc., in New York City. Mar­ Joseph F. D oyle and wife, Jane Marie, a riages: J oseph F. C assidy to Dorothy Helen daughter, Jane Marie; to K enneth G. Captain Robert B. A dair has been ap­ Hansbury and F rancis A. D onohue to Joan Hager and wife, Bonita, a daughter, Kris­ pointed assistant professor of military sci­ A. Kantorek. Birth: To A lfred Bruhin tina Gayle. ence in the Army R.O.T.C. unit at Niagara and wife, Patricia, a son, Peter Damian. 19 Robert S. Lyons, Jr. fornia. T homas J. L ynch, who has done an C harles M. Brosenne is teaching English La Salle College outstanding job as chairman of the Alumni at Monsignor Bonner High School in Philadelphia, Pa. 19141 Downtown Luncheon Club, has been trans­ Drexel Hill, Pa. Raymond D i Lissio is ferred by Industrial Valley Bank to their teaching Spanish at Riverside High School, Jenkintown office. New Jersey. G erald A. H arley has been '61 commissioned a second lieutenant at Lack- land AFB, Texas. Lt. James Kirshcke is Vincent P. Anderson, who received his currently serving as an infantry officer in LL.B. from Catholic University last June, the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejune, was recently admitted to the Pennsylvania '63 North Carolina. 2nd Lieut. J ohn F. Mc- Bar. He is now serving in the Judge Advo­ Keogh is Information Officer for U.S. Army cate General Corps. C harles A. Agnew, Philip B. Rogers is teaching at Pennington Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas. treasurer of the Alumni Association, re­ (N.J.) Preparatory School and pursuing his Joseph G. N eelon and Raymond W. cently transferred to the Defense Depart­ master’s degree at Trenton State Teacher’s PoDmenik were commissioned second lieu­ ment Supply Center at Cameron Station, College. Milton O. D ickerson, Jr. is serv­ tenants in the Air Force at Lackland AFB, Va., has been elected president of the Wash­ ing with the Peace Corps in Turkey. Second Texas. 2nd Lieut. A nthony J. Russo was Adolph ington, D.C. alumni chapter. P. Lt. W illiam J. Kunigonis, Jr. was awarded graduated from the course for U.S. Air (“Stretch”) Birkenberger teaches history his silver wings upon graduation from Force communications officers at Keesler and science to the 8th to 11th grades in his AFB. Miss., and was re-assigned to Dow hometown, Wolcott, Conn. He also directs U.S.A.F. Navigator Training at Connally AFB, Texas. Joseph P. McN ally has been AFB in Maine. D onald J. Waiheim has the town’s recreation program and is exec­ named program director by the North won a berth on the U.S. modern pentathlon utive vice president of the Junior Chamber Light Boys’ Club of Philadelphia. Eugene team, which once included his brother, of Commerce, which he helped organize. V annucci was elected treasurer of the P eter S., ’60. Marriage: James R. M ulhern William Cahill is teaching in the com­ Baltimore Alumni Chapter. Marriages: to Anita M. Porreca. merce department of Roxborough High Walter S. F raser to Germania Hidalgo; James Meehan, School in Philadelphia. P. W illiam F. L afferty to Monica Marie sales representative of Johnson & Johnson Joka; Robert W. Sosna to Evelyn Teresa in Providence, Rhode Island, was recently Sulock. honored for outstanding salesmanship. Mar­ tin N ey is teaching-principal of the New Gretna Elementary School. Kenneth J. Roberts, with the Airborne Artillery in Germany, was promoted to the rank of James Cavanaugh Captain. Marriages: Paul V. Adams to Ann 108 E. W alnut St. Marie Faudy; Charles T. Bogle to Kather­ Merchantville, N. J. ine Oschman; T homas R. G illespie to Kathleen Di Canzio. '64 Thomas A. Cottone 943 East Chelten Avenue Four members of the class are serving with the Peace Corps: R ichard J. Chiu is among Philadelphia, Pa. 19138 300 volunteers engaged in a program of V incent A. construction and community action in Ec­ T homas P. W alsh '62 uador; Vincent A. G allgher, Jr. is serving G allagher in Venezuela; D aniel R. O’L eary is in Brazil, David W. Bruhin received his commission and T homas P. Walsh is teaching in rural as Army 2nd Lt. in San Francisco, Cali­ elementary schools in the Philippines.

Conferring at the recent reception honoring alumni in the legal profession are (from left): Thomas B. Harper, III, '48; Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., La Salle president; Daniel J. McCauley, Jr., '38, and Joseph B. Quinn, '24. 20 Francis J. McCusker, '23 (center, standing), and Charles A. Agnew, '61 (second from left), officiated at a recent meeting of the Washington area meeting. Agnew is the new president of the chapter, McCusker the outgoing head.

SPRING RECEPTION Chaplain of the College. Baltimore The annual Alumni Spring Reception Those interested write or call James J. The recently inaugurated Baltimore Area will be held on Sunday afternoon, 4 to 7 McDonald, Director of Alumni, at the Chapter elected J a m e s B. H a t t m a n , ’48, P.M., April 25, 1965 in the College College. (VI 8-8300) President; E d w a r d B. G e h r in g , ’58, Vice- Union Ballroom. President; J o s e p h J. H e n d e r s o n , ’52, Sec­ CHAPTER NEWS retary; E u g e n e D. V a n n u c c i, ’63, Treasurer The honored guests will be the men J a m e s B r o o k s , S u b u r b a n -W e s t and V. ’52, Social Chairman. chosen to be the 1965 additions to the On February 20, they held a joint party Alumni Hall of Athletes. The Selection The Suburban-West Chapter of the Alum­ with the Boston College Alumni of the Committee, under Chairman Frank ni Association elected the following officers Baltimore area at “The Pub”. Donohoe, ’55, is now considering candi­ for 1965: T. F r a n c is L o u g h n e v , ’40, Presi­ dates from our various athletic teams of dent; D o n a l d P. H e e s o n , ’50, Vice-Presi­ W a s h in g t o n the past. dent; T h o m a s P. B o n e s , ’45, Secretary; and The reorganized Washington Area Chap­ A n t h o n y M. Z a r r il l i, ’45, Treasurer. They ter elected Charles A. A g n e w , ’61, Presi­ SPRING STAG were installed at a “Valentine Dinner dent and David P. Kane, ’56, Vice-Presi­ Alumni President Dan McGonigle, Dance” on February 20 at Springfield Coun­ dent and Secretary at a Stag Reunion in ’57, recently announced an innovation try Club. Falls Church, Virginia on January 15. in the alumni Program. Plans are now being made for a Spring Stag Reunion. Details will be announced soon. It will be held off campus, and the soon-to-be MOVING? Class Yr. If your mailing address will alumni members of our senior class will change in the next 2-3 months, ____ be invited. or if this issue is addressed to Address your son and he no longer COMMENTATOR PROGRAM maintains his permanent a d ­ dress at your home, please help In light of the liturgical renewal be­ us keep our mailing addresses State Zip Code ing experienced by the Church and the up-to-date by: emergence of the layman as an important PRINT your full name, factor in this renewal, we are happy to class year and new a d ­ 1 dress on the opposite announce a Commentator Training Pro­ form, and ATTACH LABEL HERE gram, to prepare alumni to lead the Attach the label from Dialogue Mass in their parishes. the back cover of this issue and mail to the The program will include lectures and 2 Alum ni Office, La Salle College, Phila., Penna. practical training, and will be under the 19141. guidance of Rev. Mark Heath O.P., 21 L a S a l l e Vignettes

Ed Warren/P hilly ’s less Crane

"It's an up-hill battle, but we're hanging in there," remarked Edward A. Warren, '50, producer of the American Broadcasting Company's Les Crane TV show. But shortly thereafter, ABC's late-night foe of NBC's firmly-entrenched Johnny Carson lost the nation's fourth-largest advertising market, when WFIL-TV, the network's Philadelphia affiliate, dropped the show in favor of feature films. Crane gained four cities in the process, among them Cleveland and Pittsburgh, but came out with a net audience loss. Warren, who was vice president of the Masque and won an intercollegiate award for acting as an undergraduate, is executive producer of the Crane program, which he organized a year ago as ABC-TV's director of program planning for five network-owned stations. After earning his bachelor's degree, he was film editor at Philadelphia's WCAU-TV until 1953, then taught speech and drama at St. Mary's of Notre Dame until 1957. He also served as the University of Notre Dame's TV film director, when the university opened its own TV station on the campus. He was program director of WGN-TV, the Chicago ABC affiliate, from 1957 to 1962, when he joined NBC-TV for one year as program director of WNBC-TV in New York. He returned to ABC in 1963. Warren remains hopeful that the Crane show will endure, pointing to the 97 stations that still carry the show and adding that the Jack Paar and Steve Allen shows took at least a year to become established and were then near extinction. Warren, his wife, and their four children (two boys, two girls) make their home in suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y. 22 Father Berna/handouts aren’t enough

The Rev. James J. Berna, S.J., '41, is founder and director of the Extension Service of the Indian Social Institute, which seeks to improve the lives of India's massive population by helping people to help themselves. Located in south India near Bangalore, the Ex­ tension Service was founded on an experimental basis in 1961 with two objectives: (1) assist Misereor, a Ger­ man bishop's campaign against hun­ ger and disease, and (2) help individ­ ual Indians to organize socio-economic projects aimed to alleviate poverty. The work is founded upon Father Berna's belief that "it is not enough to care for the orphan and the widow with handouts; it is better to help make the social and economic life of the country healthy, rather than give it a set of crutches with occasional aid." Father Berna, a native Phila­ delphian, received his bachelor's de­ gree in economics at La Salle, entered the Society of Jesus in 1941 and was ordained in 1942. He taught eco­ nomics at Georgetown University for two years before pursuing a doctoral degree at Columbia University, which included his first trip to India in 1956 on a Fulbright grant to do research for his doctoral dissertation. He re­ ceived his Ph.D. in 1958 and returned to India the following year when he joined the staff of ISI, which has its headquarters in New Delhi. He has served in India ever since. Last year, Father Berna founded an adjunct to the Extension Service, a training center located in Bangalore, to train priests and lay leaders (both Catholic and non-Catholic) in community develop­ ment work (e.g., the center is now training personnel of the State Bank of India in consumer cooperation). Father Berna and his nine-man staff journey through south India by jeep, bus and on foot. 23 Dr. Rudnytsky/hero of our time

It was a day like all days, only Ivan L. Rudnyt­ sky, Ph.D., associate professor of history, was there. It was a mild afternoon in December when Dr. Rudnytsky boarded a Philadelphia Transportation Company bus for his weekly class at Bryn Mawr College, where he is a visiting professor this year. He had planned to use the valued time in the usual manner, reviewing his class reading assignments for the day. But another passenger, Mrs. Mary Gelinas, had other plans. She had her tran­ sistor radio, which was her w ay of coping with dreaded minutes alone with oneself. Mrs. Gelinas' radio was blaring "loud boogie woogie" music, Dr. Rudnytsky said later, after his now-famous altercation had drawn na­ tional attention to the soft-spoken, unassuming professor of modern European and Russian history. He did not, however, intend to strike Mrs. Gelinas after she not only refused his request to have the radio's volume lowered, but had instead moved closer to him and in­ creased the din. The bus driver, too, denied his entreaties. So it was that Dr. Rudnytsky assumed the vigilante role and himself re­ moved the radio from Mrs. Gelinas. In the struggle, he asserts, it accidentally struck the owner's head. Mrs. Gelinas was treated for a head cut, Dr. Rudnytsky was held under $300 bail for the grand jury, and both must have been astounded to learn that newspapers, radio and TV from Maine to Hawaii carried the wire service stories about the incident and waxed eloquently in editorial comment. In addition, Dr. Rudnytsky received some 200 letters from across the country. Amazingly, of the hundreds of letters and editorials, a scant two or three were in the least w ay unsym­ pathetic with Dr. Rudnytsky's action. (See "Edi­ tor's Notebook"). Almost anti-climactically, the grand jury refused to indict the professor for his intercession, and the PTC has placed signs in all its vehicles urging those using transistor radios to also use earphones. This time, the professor of history had made history. 24

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