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La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Magazine University Publications Winter 1965 La Salle Magazine Winter 1965 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle Magazine Winter 1965" (1965). La Salle Magazine. 175. https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine/175 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in La Salle Magazine by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Winter 1965 La Salle A QUARTERLY LA SALLE COLLEGE MAGAZINE 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.