RAM CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY Thirty-Year Span Marks Changes In Publication THE First Appeared in 1^18 Edited by O'Keefe,

! jr Men Overseas Vol.^7 NEW YORK, N. Y., FEBRUARY 6, 1948 No. 11 On e morning of Feb/7,1918, the 500 s dents of Ford/am College each eeived a copy of a brand new Sibrk Club Band to Woo Valentine Dtincers Tonight college! paper, The RJM. This morn- «. : . / ng 5,0pO sixteen-pa/e copies of the spaper wal be distributed, Caf Is Transformed ~~ Father Zema D/es carrying the story/of the growth of Fordharp and its/ournal during the To Marble Room In St. Vincent hirty-ytar span/ PrinteH beloy is a reproduction of For Frosh Hop Jesi the fron&pag/ of the initial issue, irs produced By Paul O'Keefe, '19, and Smith, Dance Chairman, twenty-two classmates to record the I of History Dept. doings on campus for the Fordham Expects 235 Couples nduaterSchool men overseas. Other pictures are on At Annual Affair the inside pages, and feature stories (Jotea Author cover the year-by-year changes in the Fordham scene, as well as a Fordham's last pre-Lenten social special account of the production of affair, the Freshman Valentine The Rev. Demetrius B. Zema, S.J., Dance, will be held tonight with Joe professor of history in the Graduate one issue of the 1948 RAM. Carroll's Stork Club Orchestra pro- School, died on Sunday evening, All this was made possible by the viding the music, generous contributions of advertisers Feb. 1, in St. Vincent's Hospital and the alumni, as well as the co- The dance, traditionally one of the after a short illness. He was 62 years most successful of the campus operation of the officials of the col- dances, will begin at nine o'clock old. lege. There is a discrepancy in the and will continue until one o'clock Father Zema came to the United volume number on the masthead, REV. STEPHEN L. J. O'BEIRNE, which is 27, and the number of years tomorrow morning. Bids are selling Assistant to the President. States with his parents at the age Photo by Anne Donahue at two dollars each. of twelve, in 1898, from his native FATHER ZEMA we celebrate, due to the suspension Reggio Calabria in Italy. Upon grad- of regular publication from 1943 to In shifting the affair from the 1946. barn-like interior of the Gym, where uation from St. Francis Xavier High it was held last year, to the com- Fr. O'Beirne Takes School and College in 1910, he The basement office of The RAM parative intimacy of Keating Hall's taught classics in Brooklyn College The RAM's Editors has a reputation for being the most Marble Room, the dance committee, Preparatory School for two years. difficult spot on campus to find. Staff headed by Phil Smith, Freshman Asst. President Post He entered the Jesuit Order in members usually take the passage class president, has satisfied many 1912, at Roehampton, England. Fol- Change Positions between St. John's and the Chapel, student critics who believe that lowing his Philosophical studies at turn left and enter at the center Past 'Messenger' Editor door, under the ramp. gymnasiums were built for athletic, Genert, Holland, he taught for four Stephens Becomes Chief, not social events. Assumes New Duties years at Holy Cross and Loyola Col- The door is never locked, and Joe Carroll's orchestra is a seven- leges and undertook his Theological Gibbs Writes Column everyone with an important item is studies at Woodstock College and welcome. The facilities of the office piece group which features a female The Reverend Stephen L. J. have long been used for finding in- vocalist. The band has achieved O'Beirne, S.J., has been appointed Valkenburg, Holland. It was here, some local fame from their work in 1923, that he was ordained a After the announcement that Rob- formation about activities, directing to the office of Executive Assistant Jesuit priest. publicity campaigns, and planning on Sunday afternoons in the fash- to the President of the University, ert Gibbs and Victor Stephens would rallies. ionable Stork Club. it was announced recently. After receiving his degree of Mas- be co-editors of this year's RAM, it ter of Arts from Woodstock College The adoption of the ram as the A red and white, color scheme in- Father O'Beirne, before taking was decided that for managerial terspersed with the appropriate and completing his studies at Man- mascot of Fordham grew out of the over his duties at the university last resa in Spain, Father Zema joinejr purposes, Gibbs would be Editor-in- song of the same name composed by hearts and flowers decorations will month, had been the National Direc- adorn the dance floor. the faculty of the Graduate School Chief for the first semester, and John Coveney, '06, which became tor of the Apostleship of Prayer and in 1925. He lectured in and later the official school song. It employed Smith revealed that ticket sales Editor of the Messenger of the Stephens Managing Editor. The po- the idea of a battering ram in the were proceeding quite favorably headed the Department of History Sacred Heart for 6 ye.ars. until 1936, during which time he also sitions are being reversed with this original football spirit. with sales being limited to a con- issue. servative 235-couple figure. The A native of the Greenwich Village served as Chaplain of Hart's Island It was a lucky name the first staff Freshman Class was given first pri- section of New York City, Father prison and had the prisoners' chapel The post of Assistant Sports Edi- members decided to use, because it ority on the tickets and on Monday O'Beirne attended Xavier High built. Research work in Medieval tor has also changed hands as Ed readily lends itself to variations and morning the sale was opened to the School and Fordham College from History at Cambridge University Wakin steps down in favor of John paraphrases. The title for the, Ram- rest of the student body when the which he graduated in 1916. He en- brought a leave of absence from Chezek. "Due to the pressure of blings column derives from it, and bids were sold in the Recreation tered the Society of Jesus shortly 1936 until 1939, when he returned studies," Wakin said, "I'm not able the pages of a lively issue are called Room and in the ticket booth in the after. He received his Master of Arts to Fordham as Head of the Depart- to devote as much time to The RAM rampages. It stood the test of time Keating Hall cafeteria, sometimes degree from Woodstock College in ment of Medieval History in the as I'd like." well, for although it is sometimes called the Marble Room. 1922 and his Doctorate of Philosophy Graduate School and General Editor Stephens is now completing his the Goat, hard work swings public from the Gregorian University of of the "Fordham University Stud- tenth year at Fordham, having start- opinion the other way. , The Freshman Class officers, under Rome in 1929. ies." ed in the Prep in Sept., 1938. The Smith, handled the work of arrang- He was ordained at Woodstock in Father Zema received a Doctorate new editor has had quite a few ing the dance, Dan Fitzgerald, the 1928 by Archbishop Michael J. Cur- of Philosophy from Cambridge in changes of plans since he started in frosh vice-president, was in charge ley of Baltimore, 1939 and was elected Fellow of the the college, having been successively Old Clothes, Money of ticket distribution and the pub- Father O'Beirne taught English Royal Historical Society in 1940. He arts, pre-medical, English and psy- licity was handled by Keith Sat- (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 9) (Continued on page 4) tler, the class secretary. Sought in NCWC The class representatives, working in close cohesion wtih the Freshman officers, handled the ticket sales to Relief Drive their respective classes. The fact that this will be the last dance be- Fordham is girding for an all-out fore Ash Wednesday spreads the effort to .contribute its share to the usual social blanket on Rose Hill Bishop's Committee, War Relief Ser- was believed to have boosted the vices, of the National Catholic Wel- ticket sales. fare Conference, which has appealed to all the Catholic Colleges of the United States to aid suffering and needy people of Europe. The drive Pharmacists Complete will concentrate on a campus cal- Accelerated Program lection of old clothes and money. Each student will be asked to bring in whatever old clothes he can One of the last vestiges of gather; overcoats, suit-coats, trou- Fordham's wartime accelerated sers and shoes are particularly de- program disappeared from the Vol. I. No. 1. NEW YORK, N. Y., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1918 Price Five Centi campus on Wednesday morning sired. Receiving centers will be lo- when seven Pharmacy students Savage Gym 5, on McKEE cated in each classroom building and received their BS in Pharmacy 'This War Will Purify Soul of the results will be posted each week. degrees in the office of the BPEAK8 ON WAR CONDITIONS IN All are asked to set aside five cents Home Court, Win FEMALE AND CHILD LABOR per day, aiming at a minimum of Dean of the College of Phar- TO COMMON CAUSE the Nation" — Says Fr. Mulry two dollars at the end of Lent, for macy. From freshies SOCIETY THOUSANDS LISTEN TO EMINENT PREACHER DISCOURSE ON the student victims of war in Eu- This group, one of the last to , Scorejjfto 15 Expediency a Shortsighted Method HIGHEST IDEALS OF rope. An envelope collection will be take the speed-up course was to and Fraught With Many D«nfl«r«, QOVERNMENT FORDHAM FULL OFI PIUHT BUT Ssyi Assemblyman. made before the Easter holidays. have graduated last August, but LACK OF PRACTICE MAKES Service Hag Unfurled QAME ONE-BIDED. War Relief Services maintains a it was decided that summer About a thousand friends and ad- classes would have been incon- mirers gathered last Saturday night Bishop McCort Pontificates at Sol. staff of workers in Europe at present Aided by superior passing and a flue In tlie Common Cause Sorts*if rooms emn Military Mais—Entertains 9o|. investigating the needs of college venient for the students and as inhibition or guarding the Bavago to hear Hon. Joseph V, McKee, A»- dlors after Ceremony. a result they returned in Sep- Gpnnaalum Fire defeated tbo Ford- urtnblymnn from tho Seventh An- and university students in France, ham Freshmen, on the Savage Court jiemMy Plitrlct, New York, lecture Iluforo tlio Right Rev. ttlBhop Mo- Germany, Italy and Austria. The re- tember to complete their course. lABt week, hy a icore of 39 to 15. It nn tho aubloct. "Wnr Condition* In Curt, ninny rovorc-nd clorfy of tho The graduates: was the first contest for the nBWly Fftinnio aid CNW Labor." iuL-lidlocpsa nnd tliousnmls that throng- ports coming back reveal conditions formed quintette from FordhBm and that are heart-rending in their ap- Charlotte R. Loeb Mr. MOKoo Insisted Htrons-J" th*t ed the Cnthodral of SS. Peter and (hey acquitted thomeelvea verr credit- PsneiHoncy his caused Brent nbussq l\iul, Rfir. Joseph A. Mulry, S. J., de- peal for help. Howard W. Martin ably. The eoore at tile end of the first to IHBO In factories with totnalo nnrt half stood It to 6,. with Fordtiam on ch'M inMr, llvnrotl, Inst wepk, ono or tho moat Details of the drive will be an- Arthur J. Schoenberg the "Hoorer" end. "Hxprrt'encr novor wns a Etif>a iiioa- powerful sermons ever henrd In tbo Sr. Jean Louise Thomas, S.C.N. Freshmen Play Ham ler," fin'd (ho HDPHW, "and nno Hpnclous Philadelphia Cathedral, nounced by class representatives be- For tbe first few minutes the Fresh- wlio follows Its nHnolploa 1s siim to Tho occasion was a Solemn Ponti- fore Ash Wednesday. Joseph R. Szymanskl men played > whirlwind same and L'D Into de&per aid dnener ouiirmlrus Anv notion, whether personal nr ra- fical Military Mass In hnnor of twn The following are excerpts from a Joseph H. Volpe held their own, but superior team Hnnai, thflt la based on tho short- hundred and forty members Dt thft Jack A, Yarmy work showed Itself and Savase rushed (•iKhted dootrlno • of ewertlmcy In FATHER MULHY letter received this week from a nluad. palish who havo answered the call (Continued on page 9) PAGK 2 FORDHAM RAM. February 6, 1848

Fire Sweeps Santilli Hall Roof; Hoopster Hop Cancelled; The First Editor of The RAM No Dances During Lent Damage Estimated at S20.000 Cancellation of the Hoopster Tells How It All Began in 18 Hop which was to have followed the Fordham-Columbia basket- Five Companies Extinguish Blaze in 45^ Minutes; ball game tomorrow night, was Planned to Be a Newsletter for Fordham's G.Ls, announced by Martin Devine, It Came Out a Paper, Says Mr. Paul T. O'Keefe No One Injured; Cause__Was Overhea/ed Flue Chairman of the Hoopster Hop Committee of the Student Coun- cil. Tlie follounng article was following dialogue is a reasonably By PATRICK MVGOWAN written for The RAM by Mr. accurate record of the proceedings: The Rev. Lawrence A, Walsh, A dangerous, shifting (ire broke out it prefabric/ted Santilli Hall on Paul T. O'Keeje, '19, who was Mr. Quigley: How about an edi- S.J., Dean of the College, said the first Editor-in-Chief of The tor? Tuesday, Jan. 20. Five fire companies responded am brought the smoky that the cancellation was neces- RAM. Mr. O'Keefe later was John C. MacCarthy: I nominate blaze under control in forty-five minutes. There were no injuries, but the sary in view of the policy of the the President of the College Paul O'Keefe. school which prohibits student- damage was estimated at $20,000 and the six\y-two/occupants had to move Alumni Association for five Mr. Quigley: All right, Paul sponsored dances on Saturday years, and is now a member of O'Keefe is the editor. How about a evenings. the Alumni Athletic Committee. managing editor? The Lenten Season will nec- At present he is the head of the Paul T. O'Keefe: I nominate Jack essarily invoke a further cur- Mortgage and Real Estate De- MacCarthy. tailment of student social activ- partment of the Sowings Banks Mr. Quigley: That's fine. Jack ities. No dances are, listed from Trust Company. MacCarthy is the managing editor. Feb. 11, when Lent begins, un- Now the business manager? til after the Easter vacation. The works of man are usually for- Unidentified Citizen: I nominate gotten quickly unless some historian Joe Mooney. thinks them of sufficient worth to Mr. Quigley: Joe Mooney will be record them on the printed page. business editor. Newspapers, however, need no Bos- O'Keefe, MacCarthy and Mooney INP Sales Manager wells. The publication is a chronicle met in caucus that same afternoon. of its own activities. The idea of a mimeographed sheet Tells Inside Story And so the files of The RAM are was tossed in the discard. We ap- a history of The RAM—excepting as pointed ourselves a three-man ways to its origin. Lest the Editor of the and means committee to find a Of News Pictures Centenary Edition (2018) be forced printer bold enough to extend a line to conjure up some fanciful story of of credit to three Fordham Juniors There is a world of organization what put Vol. I, No. 1 (5c) in the who wanted to go into the publish- behind the small credit lines we see students' hands, let me, who was ing business. We found him in Mr. there when it happened, tell how it Steuber of the North Side News, beneath the news photographs in happened. our daily papers. Take the word of then located at 149th Street and The RAM was not a product of Brook Avenue. Mr. Frank Gilloon, sales manager of careful planning. As a matter of fact The next Journalism class found International News Pictures and it was not planned at all. We were us ready with a plan of operation. President of the Catholic Institute sitting in Journalism Class (Dealy Joe Mooney had blackjacked sev- Pholo by Jong of the Press, who addressed a gath- Hall, second floor, facing, the Quad- eral local merchants into tentative The flames billow forth from the roof of Santilli Hall, as fire causes ering of the publication division stu- rangle) one cold morning in Janu- commitments for advertising and $20,000 damage. dents and their chairman, Rev. Al- ary, 1918, discussing with our in- Jack MacCarthy and myself had structor, Mr. Daniel Quigley, S.J., fred Barrett, S.J., on Friday after- worked on details of format, news The blaze was discovered by the the fire over Father McGann's room. the defects in craftsmanship, lit- gathering methods, etc. Clarence De Rev. Thomas F. McGann, S.J., pre The roofs of the north and west noon, Jan. 16. erary and mechanical, of the New La Chapelle had designed a mast- feet of the one-story fibre board wings were heavily damaged, and The basic unit in the business is York Times, the Manchester Guard- head. Additional staff members were three rooms were partially de- building by Keating Hall. Upon his the news photographer, a much ma- ian, The London Daily News, et al., appointed and on Feb. 7, 1918, The stroyed. ligned character as portrayed in the when he, with a gleam in his eye, RAM came into being. return from class about 10:00 a.m. Reporters from the daily news- movies. "If he drank only half as never duplicated by Pasteur, Mme. Father McGann found his rooir papers were on the scene, and pres.' much as they say he does, he'd lose Curie or Isaac Newton in their most We are proud of the fact that photographers took pictures of the during the first year we never filled with smoke and phoned the his job in less than half a week. ecstatic moments, shouted "Let's missed a deadline, yet were never switchboard operator to notify fire students standing beside their pos- The business is too competitive to send a news bulletin to the Ambu- sessions in the snow. By 11:30 the allow any such following," said Mr. lance Corps!" Mr. Q. was referring more than an hour ahead of it. We headquarters. owners were able to move some of never bothered with such a thing Gilloon. to the Fordham Ambulance Unit as a dummy. Make up was done in A minute later Special Officer the furniture back in, and during Pictures are transmitted in two which had gone overseas in Janu- the afternoon they carried the rest the composing room of the North Bernard MacMenamin, on duty by ways at the present time, either by ary, 1917, and was then at the Front Side News with RAM staff mem- of their effects to Reidy Hall, where special high-fidelity wires or by with the French Army. Keating Hall, noticed smoke pouring a large room was set up as a te r bers hanging over the forms telling out of a ventilator. McMenamin radio transmission. The wires are When Mr. Quigley subsided from the compositors how to practice porary dormitory. leased from the American Telephone warned the students in the rooms a rapid boil to a simmer, we found their trade. Headlines were never This was the first major fire on and Telegraph Co. at a cost com- out that his idea was to gather set until the final minute. It is still then ran to Reidy Hall to send in the campus since the fall of 1929, puted by the mileage entailed in campus news and alumni news, incomprehensible to me how the the alarm. when the Administration Building transmission. A one column cut now write, edit, publish via mimeograph, linotype operators, pressmen, com- The few students in the building was damaged to the extent of $25,- can be sent in little more than four and dispatch the finished product positors and foremen at the North tried to use hand extinguishers or 000. Some valuable records were lost minutes with new equipment while to France. There being no dissen- Side News tolerated us. the ceiling, but could make no prog- in the fire. the old methods took almost seven- ters, Mr. Quigley suggested that we teen. We were unsubsidized, yet sol- ress. Five of them raced across the It has not been determined as yet elect a staff: an editor, a managing vent. The cost of printing, cuts in- snow to the gym, got shovels, re- when Santilli Hall will again be As he brought the interview to a editor and a business manager. The cluded, was about $50 per week, turned and dug out the fire hydrant, available for the use of the boarders. close Mr. Gilloon offered one final Eight minutes after the alarm a However, plans are already being bit of advice to the journalism stu- hose truck pulled up on the drive formulated to complete repairs of dents. "Don't get snooty with a in front of Santilli. Two men jumped the damages, and it is hoped that photographer. He can report a story off the rear and held a nozzle, while they will be carried out in the near where you fall down . . . but you the engine continued up to the hy- future. can't make his picture for him," drant." so the hose unrolled in about four seconds. It was connected to the hydrant and ready for use in WHERE THERE'S COKE less than a minute. Flames were not visible, bui LADIES! THROW AWAY smoke was seeping out under the eaves, along the roof's entire length. THOSE BEAR TRAPS Teams of two firemen climbed tnc THERE'S HOSPITALITY center and the end of the north wing, carrying picks to tear oft the shingles. Smoke billowed throug the holes they made, followed ai 10:22 by flames nine feet high. The firemen were forced off, and flames swept rapidly along the ridge beam. A pump truck, a second hook and ladder, and another hose truck rushed up. More hoses were run in, and the hydrant by Spellman Haj. opened. Lasso your Lil* Abners come Valentine's Day witli Students from all over the cam- a couple of well-chosen Arrow ties. pus gathered on the far side of the drive. Lines were formed at eacfi of the windows to pass out inflam- We suggest a couple of Arrow knits in solid colors mable furnishings, resembling a se or stripes, SI.50 (made ries of conveyor belts. Under the direction of a few priests about cspecinlly lor college students managed to remove every- men) or some smart thing portable. Stiff winds whipped the flames Arrow stripes and Eng- up to twenty feet, and a tower of lish patLcined foulards black smoke arose. Fireman playe- hoses through the interior, but the from 81.O0. flames backed up under the roo. and cropped out in different places Drop iu at Water applied at the origin in the north wing finally took effect, and your Arrow after thirteen minutes the flame store and pick died out. The roof crews ascended again out u brace of with boathooks and long-handled beauties, axes, and ripped off chunks of smol- dering tar paper. Smoke stopped seeping under the eaves, becoming negligible. Tiny flames reappeared for an instant along a main beam, Arrow hand- disappared, and then it was all over kerchiefs with The wetting-down process began at 10:43, and continued for three hours. your man's ini- Cause of the conflagration was tials from 35c. given as "an overheated flue froir Ask for it either way... both the hot air furnace" which adjoins trade-marks mean the same thing. the base of the north wing. There ARROW SHIRTS and TIES are three flues from the furnace room, one for each of the wings, and THE COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF NEW YORK. INC. the pipe to the north wing started ^ -»- © "<». Th« Coco-Colo Company UNDERWEAR • HANDKERCHIEFS • SPORTS SHIRTS RAM, February 6, 1948 PAGE 3 Prof-file Fr. Butchery-He Wrote the Book Band Girds for '48 Concert; By WILLIAM THOi Sounds Call for Managers In a very direct way, flfe Rev, one day, Father taught Latin, Greek, the usual activities of a Jesuit, he John M. A. Butcher, S.J., is English, Heligion and Mathematics. performed mission, hospital and Paul Collette, senior manager of from Light Cavalry" and "Song of sible for the success and a< In those times such a program was parish w irk along with his teaching, the University Band, has issued an Love" will be presented. ment of many a Fordham ma not extraordinary, and each scholas- While at Xavier, however, his urgent call for additional managers Father Mulqueen went on to say cial life, as it is led and enjoyed tic handled his assignment as a'mat- primary interest, the teaching of re- to help make the that he hoped the coming concert today. This startling fact may be ter of course. Father completed his ligion, resulted in the blossoming necessary prep- would be as well-attended by the traced back some twenty years, to training at Poughkeepsie and then forth of a newspaper, "The Chroni- arations for the student body as were the pre-war Woodstock, where he was ordained p, Band's annual affairs. a time shortly after Father had been cle,l"" wh he h was concerned witith re- ordained, and had started teaching in 1926, after which he was sent to li , concert which He added that he expects to be Fordham. ligion and its works. The ppapep r was will be resumed able lo increase the size of the band at Rose Hill. This gracious act for publishei weekly and had an en- thusiastl kl d hd on May 7 after by that time, so that its membership Fordham humanity was designed Student Counsellor following, particularly a wartime lapse will approach that of the pre-war primarily for that segment of the among he sodality members, of In his initial undertaking as a whom hi of six years. outfits. With this in mind, he has student body, which always has priest, Father was appointed Stu- was moderator. Stressing that been attempting to remove some of supported the athletic teams (this FordliEm once again welcomed dent Counsellor of sophomore year, Father i:l 1939, and at this time he no musical knowl- the stumbling blocks which have should include at least 95 per cent and professor of English, Latin and edge is required, prevented several musicians from of all connected with the college), Religion. It was at this time that he began riting his religion notes, Collette said that joining. For example, the rehearsal and in the last two decades it has devised the idea for the reduced which are used by most of the the new managers hours were recently shifted from been responsible for the larger upperria s religion sections. This would be asked to Tuesday night to Monday afternoon crowds at games. subject, nd the instruction thereof, do general clerical at 3:30 p.m. has been the chief object of Father's work. He hopes Paul Collette life, and Also, Father Mulqueen has had a Father Butcher's innovation, as e considers this the funda- that the greater part of the new committee set up to try to make the common as it is today, was unheard mental and underlying purpose of managers wUl be from the junior student body band-conscious. There of in his time, and one wonders why every Cftholic institution, whether and senior classes. it be gnmmar or graduate school. are fifteen members of this commit- it had been neglected in the past. The concert will be held in the tee, which is headed by Asa Smith Father, however, felt that it should Iispiration for Texts gym and will be followed by an and John Aellen. They are working be neglected no longer, and re- Father's inspiration for the au- informal dance. The dance music on the problem from two aspects. solved to do something about same. thorship )f these notes came from a will be provided by a student group. An enlarged publicity campaign has Lest the reader be bursting with just graduate of the College, who told It is expected that tickets will sell already been begun, and it is hoped curiosity, we hasten to add that the him that his personal understanding at approximately two dollars and that the bandsmen will be able to great plan was the introduction of of the U ith and its problems had will go on sale after the Easter vaca- secure several additional advantages the student Athletic Association never be :n realized until he came tion. for themselves. book, with which an undergraduate in contact with the concrete prob- Traditionally one of the high- It is hoped that a few more volun- may now purchase tickets for him- lems of very-day existence. Since lights of the Spring semester in pre- teers will be found in the near fu- self at specially reduced rates. then, Father's purpose has been to war years, the concerts were dis- ture, so that the band will be able instill an understanding and love of continued in 1942, five years after to make an even better showing in Native of New York religion, ilus an idea of possible ob- their inception, because of an acute the St. Patrick's Day parade than Fordham's great benefactor first jections •hich might be raised, into musician shortage. The band itself it did last year. Besides the concert saw the light of day in New York the mind of undergraduates, when City in 1893, and began his elemen- was inactive during the war for the in May, a few trips are in the ofBng their mirds are most pliable. same reason but was reformed last for next year, which is an extra in- tary education under the LaSalle One of the by-products of Father's year under the guidance of the Rev. ducement to the underclassmen. Christian Brothers, for whom he thoughts on religion has been the Harold J. Mulqueen, S.J., its mod- still has the highest regard. Further FR. BUTCHER questioning on this topic elicited the daily qu z in religion which has erator. fact that Father Butcher was one spread tc other sympathetic mem- The band's 55 members will be SPECIAL. VALUE COUPON ticket. This, however, was only part bers of ti faculty. The purpose of attired in their uniforms at the con- "FORDHAM UNIV. KEYS" of the very few who escaped the of a large plan to build up school this "pap ;r" has been to make cer- cert. Father Mulqueen said that $1.50 Value With Coupon 75c physical wrath of the Brothers, who, spirit, which at that time was sadly at times, descended upon their er- tain that ihe students review the as- while the tunes they will play had Steeling Silver $1.23-10k Gold $5.00 lagging and the main point in the signed w>rk, and also to ascertain not been selected as yet, he believed rant scholars with a leather strap, drive was the organization of the U. 5. MEDAL & EMBUM CO. with which they accelerated other- that all iiffieulties raised in class that, because of their popularity in Fordham Loyalty Club (FLC), the the pre-war days, the "Overture 36 Maiden Lane Phone BO. 9*8736 wise tardy intellectual processes. secondary meaning of which was are real problems and not the Father modestly admitted that, in Friendship, Loyalty and Cooperation. means of forestalling an impending his days with the Brothers, he led At the time of the establishment of examination. his class, which undoubtedly ac- the club, the football team was not Father'i cheerful grin and pleas- counted for his escape from the very well known, but shortly there- ant personality have long been fa- leather treatment. miliar sights on the campus and all after came the advent of "Iron those win have ever had him in For Service Like The Fordham Ram— Father transferred his affections Major" Frank Cavanaugh, who pro- class hav! taken from him a deep When entering or leaving the Campus be sure to get to the Jesuits for his high school duced many great Fordham teams. and warm regard for all the pre- training, and attended Xavier, from The FLC was doomed to die, how- cepts of rjligion, which is his clear- yours which place he graduated in 1912. ever, as a result of a lack of facili- cut, yet omplex, problem. His time with the Jesuits convinced ties, but while it lasted many activi- ., Papers—Candy—Cigarettes and Magazines at^Charlie's him that he would like to join their ties, which it sponsored and as- f; ^NevYssta'ridfeN; Ei' Corner, Fordham Road & Park Ave., ranks, which he did shortly after sisted, received fresh life. PORTRAITS receiving his diploma. After several years at the College, K Kjext'to" the* Kl. YrCentral Station. Operated by During his course of training, he Father spent a number of years WTOSBYJONG" spent four years teaching at Boston teaching at Loyola University of FOR C CHARLIE MARESCIE College Prop, and in those days, the Baltimore, and at his alma mater idea of the pedagogical "iron man" Xavier, where he again served as PARTIES-DANCES Disabled Vet. was cherished and as a result, in Student Counsellor. In keeping with APPLY RAM OFFICE fasoftl Goes Hum-fem- It's JEAN SABLON'S...

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xfian ever J llllh ISII £• DO •Hh .STIC PAGE 4 FORDHAM RAM, February 6, 1948 earn of Debaters Flames in Mulcahy Glee Club Jubilee Celebrated arns Three Wins Quickly Checked At Town Hall on Match 5 Leonard, Kenlon Travel Boarders Put Fire Out On Friday, March 5, the Glee Club vrong directions given him as to To Compile Record By Bucket Brigade will celebrate its twenty-fifth anni- he route, tenor soloist Richard Lohr versary with its annual concert at ras unable to arrive in time to sing The team of James Leonard and For the second time within one Town Hall. Dr. n the concert. Three encores were ndrew Kenlon of the St. John's eek, the Fordham campus was the Frederic Joslyn, ffered, including "Musical Trust," ebating Society have defeated cene of a dormitory fire, as a blaze director, an- ,nd "Peter Piper." iree opponents and tied one in the iroke out in Mulcahy Hall on nounced that all After the concert, the choraleers ast month. The subject of all the iaturday morning, Jan. 24. Through arra ngements aired off with the young ladies and ebates was whether a world federal Photo by iona he work of a student bucket-bri- djourned to the ballroom in Pres- VIC STEPHENS and BOB GIBBS >ade, however, a disaster similar to have been com- overnment should be established. Change Position, pleted and that on Hall, where a dinner-dance was On Dec. 22, they defeated Cham- he one in Santilli Hall was averted special rehearsals ;eld. Immediately following the din- ilain before the Corrigan Council, About 11:50 a.m. the smell of are being held in ier, Lohr, having arrived, sang inights of Columbus; on Jan. 9, be- Editors Change imoke brought a group of the resi- the preparation of hree selections, the most popular ore the Bronx Council, K. of C, ients to the furnace room where a f which was "The Little Irish Girl." an entirely new jehigh; St. Peter's of Jersey City on (Continued from page 1) law in the heating system had program. 'he dance was concluded at nine an. 12; and on Jan. 10, they engaged gnited several beams. As the flames clock. it. Joseph's of Philadelphia, in a hology, economics, and journalism ilimbed dangerously close to the Rev. Theodore o-decision debate on their home najor. inflammable roof insulation, the T. Farley, S.J., [rounds. tudents swung into action. They club moderator, Stephens, starting college as an Richard Lohr In their negative stands, Leonard \B student, was a member of the assed buckets and checked the announced that nitiate On-Campus and Kenlon claimed that the federa- laze with fire extinguishers, while the concert committee consists of ion was impossible because of the Jimes and Mummers in his fresh- few worked on the roof with hand club President James O'Connell, nsurmountable barriers of culture man year, as well as the Glee Club. lumps. chairman; John Kostynuk, ticket Closed Retreats nd ideology. To omit Russia and The RAM caught his fancy in In spite of a high wind, the fire sales; Henry Maganzini, program; ter satellites, they contended, would iophomore, and he joined the staff 'hich was well under control by Patrick Higgins and Warren Ahne- e to omit a necessary part of the Business Manager. Stephens was he time the fire engines arrived, man, patrons, and Victor Stephens For College rorld, and would result in a new ilso campus correspondent for the :aused only slight damage. and Robert Gibbs, publicity. Dower block. ST. Y. Times at that time. Kostynuk announced that tickets An unusual opportunity of making Defending the idea of the federa- Junior year saw Stephens an Eng- enrolled again at Fordham as a may now be bought from any Glee closed retreat here on the cam- ion against St. Joseph's and St. ish and psychology major, but be- unior, and returned to The RAM Club "member. Next week tickets IUS is being offered to all students 'eter's they quoted St. Paul's epistle iore he could make, any headway taff as a member of the news board. will go on sale in the cafeteria, in f the college with the inauguration hat the natural law is engraved on vith it, he was drafted in March, At this time he became a member the Dealy Hall recreation room, and if a series of week-end retreats be- he hearts of men. They went on to 944. The army took 2% years of his f the Harvester Club, and rejoined in Father Farley's office. Prices of [inning Feb. 13-15. The obligation naintain that the threat to world ;ime, two of which were spent in the he Glee Club. This year he was tickets are as follows: theater boxes, if making the annual college re- survival would bring all member European Theatre. lected vice-president of the Chem seating six, $20; orchestra seats, reat will be fulfilled by attendance ations into harmonious accord. After his discharge, he began !lub. Along with the above shift, $2.40 and $1.80, and balcony seats, at one of these week-end retreats. iunior year again, in Sept., 1946. HeGibbs is now writing the "Ram- ejoined The RAM staff for its third ilings" column, which Stephens au- $1.80 and $1.20. All seats are re- The advantages of a closed re hored last year. served. Glee Club patrons contrib- reat are well-known to Fordham issue, and one week later was ap ute $10 and are sent two orchestra men who have spent any time at ORATORICAL CONTEST iointed to the news board. In the or four balcony seats upon request. :lie various retreat-houses for men ame year, he rejoined the Glee The auditorium of Good Counsel in and around New York. Having Club and was also named Publicity College in White Plains, N. Y., was limited number of retreatants $150 in Cash Awards Manager for the Junior Prom. plus the extra instructions, oppor- At the start of last term the new the scene of their most recent con- To Top Speakers at the cert. Traveling by bus and car on tunity for private consultation with editor changed to journalism as his Terrace torn Sunday, January 18, the songsters he retreat-director, round-table dis- major. He is also on the Board of began their afternoon concert with cussions, all provide excellent means The annual Oratorical Contest, Directors for the Glee Club and, to- the traditional curtain-raiser, "We of spiritual profit. iponsored by the Class of 1915, will jether with Gibbs, is co-chairman of Meet Again Tonight, Boys." Experienced retreat-masters have e conducted at the end of February, publicity for this year's Town Hall ORCHESTRA Most popular in their repertoire of been invited to direct the retreats 'Benjamin Franklin" is the topic concert. melodies were: "Begin the Beguine," which will begin Friday evenings elected for this year and cash prizes Also a graduate of Fordham Prep, and "Latvian Frolic," which was at 8 p.m. and will conclude with a ;otal $150. Gibbs entered the College as a chem also sung as an encore. Christopher Holy Hour on Sunday afternoons, The purpose of the contest is to major in July, 1943, when there were Kiernan, piano soloist, played "Toc- Day-students may take their meals determine the speakers who will only 350 students in the school. The Hotel New Yorier, cata" by Khachaturian and Chopin's during the retreat with the boarders •epresent Fordham College in the new Managing Editor joined The "Etude Opus 25—No. 1." Due to at a time reserved for them in the ournal-American Tournament of RAM staff in freshman. He was senior dining-hall in Dealy. Orators, which starts shortly after treasurer of the German Club and, Those who wish to take part in Easter. as did Stephens, became a member Mendel Club Terminates these retreats may select the week Each speech ntust be original and of the Glee Club. In each of his firs' they prefer and sign up in the of- f six minutes duration. Applicants two years at Fordham he had the BORDEWICK Charter Membership fices of the Student Counselors. 'or the contest may leave their second highest average in his class, Father Farley in Dealy Hall, and names at the office of the Dean of In sophomore, he became Manag- RESTAURANT On Monday, Feb. 2, the ex- Father Hurlev in Keating 117. AnStudies. The contest is open to al ing Kditor of The RAM, and at the ecutive council of the Mendel early application is advised in or seniors, juniors and sophomores. end of that year was drafted into tfo Excellent Cuisine Club met to discuss the pro- der to facilitate the attendance Navy. Gibbs spent 19 months in gramming of activities for the check at the general retreat. parking situation on the campus. service, teaching the theory of radar, MUSIC AND DANCING present semester. It was decided Father O'Beirne has promised somi sonar, and radio for six of them. In NIGHTLY to undertake as extensive a pro- mmediate action on "tickets" am Sept., 1946, the new Managing Edi- gram as possible, limited only by the other inconveniences of the the number of members. Fr. O'Beirne Takes Post ' 226 E. Fordham Rd. parking problem. Opp. R.K.O. Fordham Theatre Final decisions were post- poned until after the next busi- (Continued from page 1) ness meeting, at 4:30 p.m. Mon- and classics at Loyola School in day, Feb. 9, in Larkin Hall. At I New York and was an associate pro- FOLEY'S Newsstand that meeting the roll of charter fessor of philosophy at Woodstock FORDHAM ROAD members will be completed and College and at Fordham University. dues collected. This will close From his office in the service (At Bickford's) charter membership in the re- building, Father O'Beirne arranges activated society. campus repairs and upkeep an" It was stressed that those generally sees to it that everythini Sfce Cream Shop unable to attend the meeting in on the grounds is functioning prop Buy and Sell Textbooks at person must forward their name erly. ana [Restaurant and dues to the Secretary-Treas- At present his two most importan BAUCOM'S urer, Mr. V. A. Novelli, in order problems are the overcrowded tele Corner Fordham Road and 421 EAST FORDHAM RD. to be included in the roster of phone switchboard in the Adminis Under 3rd Ava. "I" Mendel Club membership. Southern Boulevard tration Building and the pressin, Phene Ferdham 5-7574

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Construction Boom •.%•. Student Population j.'- - • ' /.>,,', Marks 3 Decades Doubles; Notables Of Expansion Receive Degrees Pius XII, Marshall Foch, Rise of Keating Hall Roosevelt, Truman, Gives Face-lifting Dewey Honored To Quadrangle a record toll of 372 lives . . . An- thony E. Dupraz, '27, takes over the The following article was com- editor's chair as the University's piled by Joe Valeria, Leon.a?-d_ total enrollment reaches 6,367, with Baker, John Farley, and Kevin 1,152 in St. John's College Ford- McManus. The RAM wishes to ham University Club opens in the extend its thanks to the staff of Fraternity Building . . . construction work on the new Biology Building the Library, and to the Athletic begins . . . circulation department Association Office, for making opens in new library. . . . ROTC available to our reporters the courses commence at Fordham, 150 back volumes of The RAM which cadets enrolled . . . varsity play for were used as a source for the the Mimes is Beau Brummel. . . . RAM subscriptions increase as copies following article and for those sell for five cents. . . . Gene Tunney on the sports pages. speaks at the Boarders' ihtiation ceremonies. . . . Glee Club airs first The thirty year history of The concert of the year over WMCA. .. . RAM spans the era that has seen NYU rally ties up traffic on Ford- Fordham take its place as an insti- ham Road as students stage im- tution of national importance. promptu snake dance. . . . CCNY severs football relations with Rose Buildings sprouted all over the Hill. The historic date: Nov. 26 ... campus, producing the greatest con- squatters' shacks razed on site of struction drive that the University new bio building. . . . Mr, and Mrs. has ever undergone. Student enroll- Spain contribute three new seismo- graphic instruments to seismic sta- ment climbed steadily during this tion. . . . Mendel Club holds its ban- same period, reaching its peak when Midway in the construction of Keating Hall in 1935. The building, erected for the use of the Graduate quet at the Beaux Arts. . . . Junior the returning veterans swelled the School, cost $1,250,000 when completed. Prom at the Biltmore breaks up at Rose Hill classrooms to the bursting 4:30 after a long night of hilarity. point. And now from, its vantage . . . Zev Graham wins campus popu- "Marshal JToeh Visits Fordham" to ties or leave Fordham, read an ulti- y Lee Dodds was chosen as the larity contest, polling almost half of point of intimate association with receive an honorary degree. . . . matum. The RAM threw its weight Mimes' varsity play ... debating the total vote cast . . . spirit of the Fordham's history The RAM looks Ramblings makes its bow as the behind the movement to make Ford- was going big on campus, then rat- age in RAM humor: "Where's dad?" back over the era and recalls just campus gossip column. .. . "The Mis- ham just one happy family . . . the ing first page, right hand column "Down stairs taking his daily uncon- stories . . . the ungentlemanly con- a few of the highlights that have takes of a Night" was given a pat organization of the Glee Club was stitutional." . . . Faculty Biographies on the back by Rose Hill play- reeted with immediate success. duct of a basketball crowd that had give the low down on college profs, filled the intervening years with goers, racking up another success The year 1924-25 ... the hip flask, seen the Rams defeat CCNY was a forerunner of the present Prof- glory. for the Mimes in their fiftieth raccoon coat, and the stock market decried by the editorial column. The Files . . . varsity debating team year on campus . . . the college came into their own, jazz made its itudents, the article said, "streamed closes undefeated season with a The year 1918-19. . . . America's shared The RAM with the Gradu- way north from the deep south to pellmell out of the gym with little war effort begins to influence the unanimous decision over William ate School and the School of Law burst onto the New York scene, and regard for the women present." . . and Mary. action in the front line trenches in . . . the masthead stated that the Edward Lyman took over the edi- RAM humor circa 1925: my cousin France, the 18th Amendment passes purpose of the paper was "to tor's cudgel.. . . The RAM appeared s so short that when he takes aspirin RAM 10 YEARS OLD Congress, the hysteria of the Armis- cement relations between the va- for the first time in the size which his feet hurt . . . and in February, The year 1927-28 . . . marines land tice brings a close to the war to end rious departments of the University it has kept to the present . . . the 1926, Jack Coffey, the eternal "silver in Nicaragua, civil war in China, all wars ... and while history blazes, by increasing their knowledge of new gym was completed . . . plans thatched mentor of Rose Hill" be- Lindbergh flies non-stop to Paris, the the first issue of The BAM goes to each other" ... a campaign for a were revealed for a new library. . . . came graduate director of athletics, first talking pictures reach New press at a nickel a copy under the greater Fordham was launched to Father William J. Duane succeeded pledging that "I will put forth every York, and in the midst of booming editorship of Paul O'Keefe, '19 ... expand the facilities of the Univer- Father Tivnan as president . . . the effort to strengthen Fordham's ath- stocks and flappers, Charles Me- the first format was considerably sity. Fordham Marching Song was writ- letic prestige." . . . The first issue of Groddy, '28, slarted to crack the ten that year as the winning entry Thought magazine, the Jesuit quar- smaller than the present style . . RAM GROWS TO EIGHT PAGES editorial whip. . . . World War I the first issue announced that Doctor in a song writing contest, Authors terly, was in the formative stage for Memorial Gate completed along The year 1922-23 ... the era of were John Breslin who wrote the a June appearance . .. the Glee Club Fordham Road . . . RAM office re- Joseph Byrne was the new dean of the great post-war boom began to was "on edge" for an intercollegiate the Medical School. . . Father Mulry, music, and James McCabe who sup- ceives its last coat of paint . . . gather impetus as silk shirts became plied the lyrics. contest in which they finished among biology department moves to Larkin DUANE LIBRARY COMPLETED The year 1925-26 . . . the dirigible w , • Shenandoah was torn to pieces in a thunder squall, the case for and against evolution was debated in a trial that reached rhetorical heights under the oratorical spell of William J. Bryan; and in the first issue of The RAM, Oct. 2, the lead story was the construction of Duane Library which was. to be completed by the end of the year. . . . Admin- istration changes announced that the Rev. Charles Deane, S.J., was the new dean of St. John's College and that the Rev. Terrence Boyle, S.J., had taken over the post of Pre- fect of Discipline.... Editor Arthur J Taylor was presiding over a paper that sold for ten cents and featured a column of Ramblings on the back page ... a new brick tennis house replaced the old frame structure Some of the boarders listen in disbelief as Stan Lcwcyck tells about during the summer vacation ... a story warned the frosh that the Fair and warmer is the forecast for year of 1939, while the students the one that got away. hazing season was at hand ... an attend the Mass of the Holy Ghost. ad plugging Harold Lloyd in the President of Fordham at the time,' the rage, a revolt in Bavaria sent movie, The Freshman, called it the the top-rankers ... a controversy Hall . . . new page of University commenting on the war said "this one A. Hitler to jail for conspiracy, film "every college man should see. with NYU snared the front page News appears in The RAM .. . frosh war will purify the soul of the na- and Jack Devlin cracked the whip spotlight. Cancellation of a debate snake dance to the Concourse as part tion." ... Page 1 headline: "Fordham over his charges . . . the first eight- RAM CHANGES QUARTERS with the Violets misinterpreted by of Harvester Night . . . total univer- Defeats Holy Cross," in smaller type page issue of The RAM makes jour- The RAM office completed a the N. Y. World, was The RAM's sity enrollment—6,289; St. John's is the announcement that the deci- nalistic history, . . . the Apostleship change of atmosphere, shifting from claim, when the city paper at- College—1,343 . . . seismic station sion was awarded to our debating of Prayer started work on its new the Pill box to the basement of tributed the cancellation to the fact moved to present site . .. Alexander, team by a two to one vote . . . first building to flank Fordham Road . . St. John's Hall (when it probably that a girl was on the opposing Ram mascot, executed for his ten- national advertiser to buy space was clothing ads announced made-to- received its last coat of paint) . . . team. We are not anti-feminist, was dency to wander off the reserva- Rogers Peet Mimes and Mum- order suits for $23.50, and a five the Oct. 16 issue added a new fea- the reply of The RAM. . . . April 23 tion. . . . Alexander's head, suitably mers score a hit with "If I Were course dinner was going for 35£ at ture, an alumni page presided over issue heralds the success of the Har- mounted, graces RAM office . . • King." . . . Fordham Ambulance the local restaurants . . . the largest by Ed Lyman. ... A pharmacy vester Tea Dance held at the Ritz plans for Loyola Hall revealed . . • Unit achieves an heroic record at freshmen class stormed Dealy Hall column was holding down a weekly Carlton . . . Fordham steams up the Christmas party for the staff of The the front. . . . Students Army Train- 287 strong . . . radio station installed spot on page 3 ... the Rev. Francis Hudson on the S.S. Alexander Ham- RAM scales the heights of social ing Corps takes over Fordham lock, on campus enabled Fordham to con- Spellman, '11, was called to Rome to ilton for its annual visit to West success . . . reissue license to Ford- stock, and barrel . . . campus rally- verse with Boston college. fill a post in the office of the papal Point . . . kiosk between Dealy Hall ham radio station after four years ing cry "Fordham Fights for Free- secretary, the first American to fill and the Prep Building is moved to of silence ... remodeling of St. John's WAR ON FRATERNITIES such a position . . . RAM comment dom." The year 1923-24, . . . Lenin dies its present site . . . the Beaux Arts Chapel to increase church's seating a la New Yorker: "Library sign the scene of the senior banquet as capacity . . . debaters travel south "RAMBLINGS" STARTED the Prince of Wales tours the U.S. You don't have to pay to join the The RAM appeared on an entirely and the Windsor knot sweeps the Senior Week rolls into full swing. of the Mason-Dixon line on extended library. (It isn't the cost it's the tour . . . contest opens for a college erratic publication schedule from country, trend of the times: woman upkeep." . . . The man of the week ROTC COURSE BEGINS 1919 to 1921, when it again started succeeds her husband as governor of song that has "spirit" . . . The RAM showed up in the guise of a feature The year 1920-27 . . . Germany is celebrates its tenth anniversary and to appear with some sort of regular- the state of Wyoming . . . seismo- titled, originally, "Who's Who a' admitted to the League of Nations. logical station planned for Fordham treats itself to a banquet at the Bilt- ity. A brief fling as a tabloid was Fordham." The first subject was A tropical hurricane sweeps a large more . . . afternoon lawn dance the abandoned in favor of the old style . . . "Juniors Start War on Frats.' Joseph D. Ferrone, prexy of the part of Florida's boom building into Members must either quit fraterni- outstanding feature of Senior Week. when the headlines blared . . . Mimes. . . . The comedy "Pals First" the sea during a storm that claimed (Continued on page 7) FORDHAM RAM, February 6, 1948 PAGE 7 Era Reflects Fordham's Rise to Prominence (Continued from page 6) The year 1929-30 . . . CRASH— as Rector, coming from St. Peter's balers meet touring team from slock market hits the skids, Vatican I MASS OPENS ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR College, where he was Bean. . . . Hampden, Australia ... Dr. Hess State comes into existence, Judge $1000,000 BUILDING PROPOSED Sf PRESIDENT German troops enter the Rhineland, and Father Lynch record cosmic Joseph Crater disappears, Admiral and in the midst of the growing Red rays at the World's Fair . . . The Byrd flies over the south pole, and KIROOSEVELT TO SPEAK ON CAMPUS threat college retreat is dedicated RAM explores the wonders of the co-editors Calnan and Connolly, '30, •iWILLKIE WILL VIEW ST. MARYS GAME***'J»'« >• to the overthrow of Communism bio building . . . first wire-photo in keep a wary eye on each other ...... RAM polls both sides of the the annals of collegiate journalism Merchant of Venice varsity play se- Roosevelt vs Landon campaign with appears in The RAM . . . Emmet La- lected by the Mimes. . . .NYU rally results that foreshadowed the No- very discloses his views on the posi- winds up with two thousand parad- vember landslide . . . Cardinal Pa- tion of the Catholic theater . . . ing to Violet campus to the tune of celli, later to become Pope Pius XII, metropolitan colleges hold peace wailing fire engines (some one receives an honorary degree . . . rally on quadrangle . . . Foreign turned in a false alarm) ... a two Grover Whalen promises jobs for Political Congress convenes here . . . alarm fire on the campus (shades of grads at the World's Fair . . . Leslie outdoor baccalauerate services pre- Howard speaks to the Mimes . . . sided over by Archbishop Spellman Santilli Hall) caused $25,000 damage Hillaire Belloc joins faculty of the to the Administration Building. . . . ;! , Roosevelt Reviews hcdham Regiment and Bishop Donahue . . . Paul White- M/ s GISD Graduate School . . . Father Walter man plays for the Senior Ball. Fordhanj takes over Beantown for W^Er * FOR ~ ' J. Summers of the Physics Depart- the BC game and successfully bat- U«nmi hiting ' r ment invents the lie detector . . . RAM IN WHITE HOUSE tles police for the goal posts . . . Hal Kemp plays for the Senior Ball The year 1939-10 . . . war clouds work begins on new physics build- . .• . new rector, Father Robert I. darken over Europe and the storm ing along south side of the quad. Gannon, comments on true meaning finally breaks Sept. 1, as the Ger- . , . Captain Siano, of the football of college . . . Pope congratulates mans invade Poland. The Continent team, travels to Maine to christen class of '36 on "Morality Play" . . . plunges into the conflict, and on a trawler the "Fordham" . . . seven Fordham man goes down to bloody Rose Hill The RAM greets its new one act plays enter Mimes stage defeat in intercollegiate shaving editor Richard L. Breen, '40 ... the competition. . . . Fordham men cam- contest . . . RAM front pages edi- ROTC expands to regimental status paign against the 18th Amendment IEADERS OF 41 CHOSEN IN RAM POLL~ 4 torial comment on Spain . . . Student under Cadet Colonel Harry Felter . .. series of class nights score a hit Council constitution revealed in toto . . . . Fordham France celebrates its at the Fordham University Club. . . . first annual freshman day ex- tenth birthday . . . Delegates from . . . Latin Club celebrates Virgil's ercises draw large crowd of proud all over the world attend the con- 2,00Oth birthday . . . almost every "ALLY SETSSTAGElORN.Y.U.FRA parents to campus . . . band concert vention of the Pax Romana, at Ford- issue headlines a different smoker, blares away in a combination eve- ham . . . Mrs. Roosevelt stops off to get-together, or different social ning divided between Collins and visit the campus on one of her event, all of which are now unheard FORDH-MWINS Keating . . . Father Deane receives famed trips. The RAM crashes the of on campus. . . . Pete, a new car- medal for twenty years' work at White House as she promises to toon feature, pursues his zany ad- Fordham . . . college awards degrees show a copy to her husband . . . ventures weekly as the typical (?) to 358 ... Hal Kemp plays for the Senior passing mark announced as Fordham student of the era . . . Senior Ball. 60% ... Fordham Forever by Ken- yon Scott is introduced at the Polo group of students under the guid- TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY ance of Jack Coffey plan to make Grounds during the Alabama game the grand tour in Europe during the The year 1937-38 . . . fighting . . . Frosh win the annual tug-o-war breaks out anew in China as Japan ... 19 new leather lounging chairs summer.. .. Siano voted most popu- opens new offensive, Hindenburg make their debut in the college lar man on campus . . . first soph bursts into roaring flames as it pre- browsing room . . . the 1940 Maroon banquet closes out the year. The RAM covers the year of 1910-1911 with a headline montage of pares to moor at Lakehurst, N. J., Fordham's Centennary highlights. the Duke of Windsor marries Mrs. DEPRESSION IN FULL SWING Wallis Warfield, Amelia Earharl dis- The year 1930-31 . . . brother-cau- debate at Fordham. . . . It's Impos- published for the first time in The appears over the Pacific, and Leo you-spare-a-dime, and apple stands sible, a humor column makes its RAM . . . alumni hold 85th annual Loomie, '38, appears as editor on the on the corner, Knute Itockne dies bow . . . the Glee Club performs at dinner . . . Glee Club holds its masthead . . . Spanish civil war in Kansas plane crash, Britain goes its tenth annual concert at Town twelfth annual concert at Town Hall makes the editorial column . . . RAM off the gold standard, and The RAM Hall . . . varsity team meets Ten- . . . John Donovan is elected chair- catches up with summer news with goes on the John Lane, '31) standard. nessee on the debating platform. . .. man of Senior Week . . . 1,600 re-, a full page spread on the back page . . . Father Aloysius J. Hogan suc- Chesterfields proclaim radio "a mir- ceive degrees at university com- . . . "overthrow atheism" is the cry ceeds Father 'William Duane as rec- acle" (the better to hear our com- mencement exercises. of the student body as the college tor and president of Fordham Uni- mercials) ... the Hotel Penn plays The year 1935-36 . . . WPA arose goes on retreat . . . band marches in versity. . . . Fordham-France makes host to the annual Block "F" dinner as the savior of the down-trodden Pilsudski parade . . . Yellow Jack its-debut under Mr. Basil D'Ouakil . . . charms are awarded to The RAM A.B. Armed with his degree he was takes over the undivided attention ... the band receives new uniforms staff at its annual blow-out. . . . almost certain to qualify for a job. of the Mimes . . . Varsity Show spot- as the result of a campaign waged Bishop Spellman conducts eighty- But there were opportunities on The lights Fordham on a coast-to-coast by The RAM. . . . Trelawney of the eighth college commencement exer- RAM and James Donovan, '37, came hookup that originates in Collins cises. . . . Fordham begins to settle through on top to become the first Auditorium . . . Campus & Chapel down and to consolidate the gains junior in history to hold the position column keeps tabs on school's re- in buildings and students which it of editor in chief . . . the workings of ligious activity . . . RAM celebrates made during the boom days of the The RAM took a thorough over- its twentieth anniversary . . . inside late twenties. hauling at the beginning of the year, scoop on how to print a college the publication day was moved up paper revealed to an eager public RAMESES WANDERS from Thursday to Friday, half-col- . . . Clouded Crystal Ball, etc.—SUN The year 1933-34 .. . Hitler named umn cuts came into vogue, and the reporter, in an interview, predicted chancellor of Germany, FDR makes first Review column appeared as a a victory for the rebels in Spain . . . his first "fireside chat," John Dillin- weekly feature . . . campus buildings Glee Club donates Hammond organ ger captured by police, Italian to senior lecture hall in Keatin S.S. FORDHAM VICTORY underwent a mass name change, re- Hits the ways in 1915 troops clash with Ethiopians along ceiving titles they now bear . . . the Hall . . . Danubian Congress con- disputed frontiers, and in the midst Mimes show their true colors pro- venes on Rose Hill . . . Charles Hay- is dedicated to the then Archbishop of depression College offers a mass ducing Rolland's "The Wolves" . . . den Foundation donates $25,000 to of memorial on the death of Major Francis J. Spellman . . . College of Fordham defeated Cambridge in scholarship fund. Pharmacy forms a Sodality of the Cavanaugh, famous coach of the debating . . . Sodalities hold sym- The year 1938-39 . . . civil war Ram teams of the '20's . . . football Blessed Virgin . . . the band marches posium on the Mexican situation . . . rages in Spain, wrong-way Corrigan in a parade at the World's Fair . . . dominated the front page of The issue of communism made front makes headlines, Czechoslovakian RAM throughout the entire fall as the first Red Cross drive on Rose page news almost every week . . . frontiers feel the tread of German Hill scores a smashing success . . . banner headlines announce each Orville Knapp (?) was signed for boots, and in a year that may have game with the urgency of an inter- Agamemnon is the choice of the the Senior Ball... fifty RAMmen at- reached the heights of Fordham's Greek Academy for its initial pro- national crisis . . . Rameses wanders tended a bang-up dinner at the Bilt- pre-war spirit, with M. Keavy al far afield of the campus with Con- duction of the year . . . 15,000 attend more ... new uniforms for the band, The RAM's helm . . . Father Law- a monster rally for the NYU game necticut state police finally return- promised for next year, as a result of rence A. Walsh succeeds Father ing the wandering mascot to Rose ... the student council threatens the RAM campaign . . . Fordham stu- Deane as dean of the college . . . Mr. various state and county clubs with Hill . . . Bob Whalen interviews his dents publish volume commemorat- Ahearne assumes publicity post for father Grover on the inside work- dire words . . . the Glee Club ven- ing the bimillenium of Horace . . . the university . . . RAM dedicates tures into the never-never land of ings of the controversial National 394 college students receive degrees annual college retreat to the cause Recovery Act ... a new column Gilbert and Sullivan with the pro- at commencement exercises presided of world peace . . . Jimmy Powers duction of the "Pirates of Penzance" REV. WILLIAM T. DUANE, sneaks into print under the snappy over by Auxiliary Bishop Donahue. addresses the Press Club . . . first heading of Ramemories. . . . the Council of Debate inaugu- Fordham President in 1923 campus formal held in the gym as rates a series of programs over sta- FR. GANNON BECOMES RECTOR the junior prom dances to the music The year 1931-35 . . . Will Rogers tion WOV ... 600 students from Wells is the Mimes selection for the The year 1936-37. . . . Father Rob- of Larry Clinton's orchestra . . . stu- eastern colleges attend the Sodality and Wiley Post die in Alaskan plane dents vote on corsage ban . . . de- year. . . . The Interview, still an- crash, League of Nations invokes ert I. Gannon succeeds Father Hogan congress at Fordham . . . model sen- other version of Prof-Files, fills two economic sanctions to curb Italy's ate congress convenes at Fordham columns on page two. . . . Anthony aggressive warfare, Social Security . . . Ben Bernie signed to play at the Aloysius fills the cartoon niche. . . . Act goes into effect, and William Junior Prom . . . Latin, Greek and Fifi Dorsay breaks into print in McGurn starts to dole out his orders French plays scheduled for language Fordham-France. . . . Rameses III . greenhouse construction begins night . . . one-act play contest won dies, long live Rameses IV. ... Car- '. . . "band is the finest in its history" by Frank Ford, '41, with his "Equa- dinal Hayes inaugurates Father is the claim of Captain Hoff . . . tion Unsolved" . . . centennial formal Hogan as president. . . . Edward P. Alumni page has now shrunk to a hold in gym . . . 895 students gradu- Gilleran appointed executive secre- mere column in size . . . Harvesters ate . . . The RAM takes first place tary of the Alumni Association. . . . sponsor smoker for the College . . . in Intercollegiate Press Survey . . . Oklahoma comes east to debate at assassination of King Alexander of Eddie Duchin plays for the senior Rose Hill , . , senior poll lists Ruth Jugoslavia is no threat to world af- ball. Chatterton as favorite actress . . . fairs says Mr. S. F. Telfair of the news from a Camel ad, "they are Freshman Week ROOSEVELT AT FORDHAM now completely enwrapped, in a history department . . . "Criminal at The year 1940-41 . . . Norway and Large" play of the year for Mimes Starts off With a transparent wrapper, closed at every . . Student Counselor column opens Denmark invaded, France collapses Point." . . . Mulvihill wins frosh shop on page two . . . Father Cox Tug of War Be- as British stage mass evacuation at Piaywrlting contest . . . faculties of tween Frosh and Dunkirk, the first "greetings" enter 'he entire university convene at denounces sterilization in one of a the mails .is FDR signs the draft bill first convocation . . . 1,200 degrees series of lectures . .. Fordham Coun- Sophs In 1941. and in the basement of St. John's awarded at university commence- cil of Debate engages team from !!:ill Kenneth Campbell assumed the ment. Oxford on the usefulness of the editorial mantle . . . Archbishop ROTC and wins . . . NYU rally rocks Spullman dedicates St. Robert's and The year 1938-33 . . . Lindbergh campus . . . Bishop Collins, former Bishop's dormatories . . . Society of baby kidnapping arouses the nation, rector of Fordham, dies . . . Father Donnelly publishes two more books, Jesus celebrates fourth centennial Jimmy Walker resigns as Mayor of Grains of Incense and a new edi- in Keating Hall . . . President Roose- New York, Hitler named chancellor tion, Cicero's Milo ... College honors velt reviews the ROTC . . . 3,000 at- of Germany, President Roosevelt as- St Ignatius of Loyola at solemn tend college's centennial celebration sumes office, and Michael Sheehan, mass . . . RAM refuses ad copy from in the gym . . . class of '44 holds get- '32, takes the oath as editor. . . • Lucky Strike and starts controversy together at the Hotel Roosevelt . . . John McCormack, Irish tenor, sings which draws letter from G. W. Hill, NYU rally stars Fred Waring . . . "Christ the King," a hymn by president of the company . . . archi- Mimes produce "While the Moon Father Francis P. Donnelly . . . team tectural drawings of Keating Hnll (Continued on page 11) tram Oxford crosses the Atlantic to PAGE 8 FORDHAM RAM, February 6, 1948

RAMB LINGS By Bob abbs

Vol. 27 New York, February 6, 1948 No. 11 Editor-in-Chief The New Look . . . With this issue, the long-awaited Doyle and Dick Powers of the 1046 class have been Victor Stephens (by Vic Stephens) change of command for The RAM following the team all year long. . . . Don Mooney Sports Editor Business Manager unveiled his Irish colleen at the Fort Schuyler contest ft® Glbbs Joseph Fasquarelli John Hanlgan has talcen place. And now that Vic is our boss-man, Chief Editorial Writer An't Sports Editor Art Editor he is retiring from this corner, in . . . The Mariners' band entertained with several num- Richard Bangs, '49 John Chezek, '49 Kevin McNally order to conform with the tradition ^ bers before the game, but stopped a minute before Exchange Editor Moving Editor Circulation Manager that our Editor-in-Chief be the g Vice-Admiral Herbert Fairfax Leary, commandant of Frank Morea Cyril Jong, '49 William Stanner laziest man on campus. Therefore, «* the base, entered with his wife and his staff. Then News Board everyone stood up, including the few reconverted John McNulty, '49 Patrick McGowan, '49 Joseph Valerio, '49 for the time being, it will be up to I- Ralph Arsenault us to keep the wheels turning and Maroon G.I.s. ... A drill squad went through its News staff the record spinning. ... Of course, maneuvers at half-time. . . . For the first time this Thomas Canning • Edward McNulty, '50 Vincent Meehan John Farley, '60 Arthur Donnelly William Thorne, '49 there will be one or two small year, the Rams were the first team to return to the Leonard Baker. '49 Donald Zoeller. r61 Kevin McManiis, '60 Albert Piorella. 'SO Daniel McConnell, '51 Joseph Velardl, 'SI changes. ... We will no longer floor as the second half was about to begin . . . John Francis Lynn, '61 Vincent Fisher, '61 Jerome Tuite, '50 Intorcia has been sprouting the wisp of a mustache JoBeph Mortimer, '51 charge the customary quarter for Edward Loughman, '50 James Keegan mention herein (Bob Billmeyer lately . . . could it be he's trying to hide from some Sports staff Fordhamites who found out that he cheered against James Kent Denis Baron Vincent Scully, '49 please note), but we will try to pick Ernest Blanco. '49 William Breniile, '50 Edward Wakln the Maroon and for his alma mater, Fort Schuyler? Thomas Cannon, '60 Frank Clpolla, '50 Leo Connelly, '51 the usual Man of the Week Tony John N. Sullivan. '51 Charles Kraueliaar, 'El Henry Kennedy, '51 Spina has finally confessed that he * * * Robert Daly, '51 Jerry Santangelo, '51 Frank Sellers, '50 was responsible for the V-formation which buzzed WHAT WAS JUSTICE IN THIS CASE? . . . While Art & Photography Staff over the Polo Grounds during the NYU game. ... It our cagers were piling up their string of eleven Joseph HosBbacher,' William Wallace, '61 Philip Smith, '51 might not be safe to step on the feelings of J. Richard Stuart Jong, '49 Joseph Fagen, '61 Frank Jaokman, '50 straight, the Daily News gave the team little or no George Cook, '60 Lutz, unless you're an expert with the epee. Boopsie 'coverage. But, after the setback at Syracuse, we made Business Staff was recently seen holding his own against two other four inches of print, one of only three collegiate games Edward Jeger Anthony K. Izzo Kleran O'Sulllvan, '61 Harold Brauner, '51 fencers at practice . . . and with only one hand, too. mentioned in the Sunday editions . . . and station Circulation Staff * * « WNEW read off the score on its newscast Saturday Louis DI Palma, '49 Haphael Leonardo, '49 Joseph Panepento, '50 George Cernlgllaro, '60 Joseph Manglapane, '50 Savarlo Tedesco, '50 HELP WANTED DEPT. .. . Bob Henabery has been evening. , . , Our spies report that Jim Heaney was pigeonholing everyone in an attempt to find another the one who was pictured in the Journal after the 447 fifty or so for the cast of "Lazarus Laughed." , . • fire. Jim was sitting disconsolately on his mattress, PublUhed w»«kly, except vacation and examination periods, from October to May by Casting will, continue for a few more days. . . . Drop which he had placed in his car. . . . Joe Pasquarelli the Student! of Fordham College, Fordham University, Fordham Road and Third Ave.f into Collins, and Bob guarantees that you will be able is still trying to buy a copy of the Mirror for Jan. 21, New York. Dept, of Communication Arti, Publication Dlvlilon, Rev, Alfred Barntt, S.J., Chairman. $2.00 subscription price. to see "Lazarus" free. ... If you can pound the Ivories, after hearing that he managed to stick his face in front look up Chris Kiernan. Because of other obligations, of a camera. . . . For years Frank McGrath was as- H 1$ fhe policy of FWI paper fo present news and athtr feafuret of /ntereit fo Fordham min, and in so do/no to uphold trie besf traditions of Fordham and the presf, he has to drop out of the Glee Club, but can't until signed by the Police Department to guard the gym he finds someone to replace him as accompanist. , . . when tickets were being sold during the football sea- The Junior Prom Committee asks for advice and son, and now he has another soft job. He and his ser- guidance from someone who has the inside track on geant are riding herd on a squad car, in a quiet section THE EPHEMERAL AND THE IMMUTABLE bands, refreshments, and decorations. After last year's of New York. . . . Since service has been slowed by News, of its nature, is an ephemeral thing. But the newspaper red-letter affair, they are still keen on a tent to hide fifty per cent in the cafeteria, rumors have begun float- that records the news, as the years pass, becomes a permanent the rafters in the gym. . . . Bill Starmer is searching ing around that another cashier will be added to the document. In its pages are recorded, in the indelible character of for an eligible underclassman. Object: to break him assembly line at the pay exit. She will read off to the ;n for the job of Exchange Editor for next year. Ap- black print, the happenings, interests, and doings of the world money-counter the amount of damages which has plications received today in The RAM office. . . . We been rung up on the cash register . • • anyone want to from which it gleans its news. are looking for Fordham's walking man. The only be an efficiency expert? The RAM, as it looks back over three decades, has become in elues: he wears Argyle socks, and is the favorite beau • * * every sense a full-grown newspaper. From a humble beginning of the current Miss Subways (she knits the socks) , . . On the International Front. ... A group of students in a war-darkened world, it has grown and matured until, today, if you find him, we will give you as a reward a nickel in Tubingen (Germany) want to start up correspond- ride on your favorite subway. ence with some U. S. students, and hope to be able to it stands as an integral part of Fordham life. * * • The Silver Anniversary passed unheralded in the hush that pay their expenses for a trip to Europe and Germany Fire Sale. . . . When the fire engines first roared up this summer. If interested, write to Heir Haeberer, had settled over the campus during World War II. To compensate to Santilli, they found the place already crowded with Chairman, Auslandsgruppe USA, University of Tubin- for this the Thirtieth Anniversary Issue is distributed as a tribute our reporters. . . . Two of our photographers even beat gen, Tubingen, French Zone, Germany. . , . Before to the men who created The RAM and to those who in the inter- Fr. Purcell to the scene. One of them, Cyril Jong, some fifty membersi of the Catholic Accountants' Guild made the center spreads of the News and the Mirror vening years recorded the doings and the interests of Fordham of the Diocese of Brooklyn, Fr. Gerald Walsh, the with his shots of the action. . . . The only casualty Editor of "Thought," spoke out in praise of the Strat- men. was News Boarder Joe Valerio, who was scratched on ton Bill, which would allow several hundred thousand Today Fordham's chronicle celebrates its thirtieth birthday, the forehead when someone passed a chair out a win- D.P.s to enter the United States ... he also elaborated with the largest issue in its history. We have dedicated it to the dow. . . . Fr. Mulqueen sent out a few volunteers from on the "Walsh Plan," which, he says, would put Europe his -Jr. H. class, to help bail out Fr. Reilly's belong- back on its feet in no time. . . . The Swedish American men who comprised the staff of the paper in previous years, It is ngs. Fr. Reilly later moved to the top deck in Dealy to them, the editors, reporters, and columnists, that we owe our Line is offering six free trips to Scandinavia in an ... at least he'll be getting more exercise now, climb- essay contest on the influence of Swedish settlers in tradition.—J. McN. ng into the stratosphere. . . . Returning from the this country. . . . Taylor Hanavan, now at Harvard printers after our last issue, Vic Stephens' 1948 Ford froze up on the East River Drive. It was after four Law School, says he has not learned anything in the JUST A FEW THUGS (in the morning, no less) before we found a garage past six months, and wishes he were back at Fordham. Accompanying the fine display of spirit shown by the presence which would take the heap in. ... Reaching the Bronx • • • of so many students at the home basketball games, an undesired at long last, we all went into hibernation for the rest COME EARLY AND STAY LATE. . . .A record- element has been growing stronger at these contests during the of the day ... all except Lenny Baker, that is, who breaking crowd is expected for tomorrow night's didn't want to miss his thrilling epistemology class. contest with Columbia, and the gates should be closed past few weeks. Begun by just a few thugs who may think they Lenny slept in that class, and in religion, and then well before game-time. ... If you can't fight your way have "good spirit," the practice of cat-calling and booing has been made his way over to The RAM office, where he into the gym, you can still see the game by tuning in steadily getting worse. The most unsportsmanlike showings have dropped on the nearest couch. . . . When Kev McManus Station WNBT on your portable television 'set. . . . come in an obvious attempt to rattle visiting players while they tried to revive him, it was no go, and so, with an With Lent peeking over the horizon, the social set is ROTC car as an ambulance, Lenny was shipped to are shooting fouls in a tight game. Of course nothing is accom- making with one last burst of activity over the week- the morgue at Fordham Hospital . . . our hero was end. . . . Tonight's Frosh Valentine dance in the Keat- plished, since a competent player refuses to let the action of the back on campus next day, however, as eager as ever ing Cabaret will feature Joe Carroll, who is currently onlookers move him, but a very wrong impression is given. Un- for his epistemology. billed at the Stork Club.... At Good Counsel, the tea doubtedly there are only a few ringleaders, but the over-eager and tunes will be served promptly at four tomorrow • * * * fans are taking their cue from these thugs. This showing of poor afternoon, while Marymount, Manhattanville, and New AARON'S SLICK IN PUNKIN CRICK. . . . Before Rochelle will be vying for the honors Sunday. . . . sportsmanship can be brought to a stop by refusing to join in and Saturday's showing of the Mimes' latest epic, the audi- The boarders will be staging another of their beer looking around to spot the responsible parties. If a glance in their ence had to use flashlights to read the program. . . . parties next Tuesday evening . . . however, it's strictly direction isn't enough of a warning, take stronger action. But the Then, just before the curtain went up, the houselights stag, and no day-hops are invited.... During the recess were turned on full force. . . . The first two scenes of entire student body shouldn't have to take the rap for just a few the play were set in Oklahoma, and so, as mood music, rush in the rec hall one day this week, Herb Earnshaw thugs.—V. S. Dave Guthrie obligingly played "The Arkansas Trav- noted that Gus served 31 waiting customers within the eller." . . . Nancy Walsh was convincingly corny as short space of a minute. It just shows what can be Mrs. Rosy Berry, and Jonathan O'Connor had his accomplished when everyone has a little patience. THUS SPAKE MacMENAMIN moments as the villain of the piece. . . . The lyrical • • • The great fire was over, and looking at the ruined roof of San- end of the production was highlighted by intermission Men of the Week. . . . Our "saludos amigos" this tilli Hall was Special Officer Bernard MacMenamin. As a member singing by Grace Saiya and the ever-dependable Shav- time is directed toward a familiar foursome, the Shaving Muggs, who have stepped out of the Gay of the campus police force, he regularly directs the morning traffic ing Muggs. ... In the anniversary issue of Variety, Broadway producer Arthur Hopkins gives the Theater Nineties and into the musical heart of Fordham. The coming in through the Dixie Gate, on Southern Boulevard. He Division quite a build-up. ... If you can't get your quartet first took shape a year and a half ago, when likes to be called "Barney," always gives everyone a friendly phone call through right away on campus, please re- its members were in the Glee Club. The gleesters, smile or salute, even calling "Fine day!" on the coldest days of member that the hard-pressed operators at the switch- after finishing a concert, were treated to a dance. Then, during an intermission, Frank Mallon, Jim the year. board have twenty new extensions to worry over. . . . Vin Nava, scribe for the Beethoven Club, reports that O'Connell, Tim Walsh, and Bill Lyons stepped forward "Tell them in your idiotorials," said he, "the reason for the some twenty solid senders tried to reconvert the long- to give their now-famous rendition of "Jungle Town." parking ban on the campus roads was to keep the way clear for hairs into a swing club by crashing a recent meeting. This was the beginning of a quick rise to fame, which fire engines, as was just necessary." Officer MacMenamin, whose . . However, Mr. B. can rest comfortably in his grave, has led through several campus appearances and visits for the raiders were easily repelled. to nearby parish socials, and up to a guest spot on a Irish wit is admittedly deft, was referring to the surly attitude benefit performance which Frank Sinatra sponsored. of the students when they were blocked off the campus after the * • • Meanwhile, the Shaving Muggs picked up a silent Big Snow. Rebounds Off the Backboard.. . , Science Illustrated partner, when Chris Kiernan took over the arranging 'Way back on Tuesday, Jan. 6, Barney mentioned the very Magazine will run a spread of pictures early in April, duties for the outfit. And now their harmony is the hit of the Mimes' latest production, "Aaron Slick from same reason for the ban to a car owner on snowbound Bellarmine showing our basketeers losing to a group of para- plegics from the Bronx Veterans Hospital. . . . The Punkin Crick." Already enrolled in the Society for Road. It was only a possibility then, and small consolation for the Rams' fast break was slowed to a crawl, because the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop parking problem it raised. Then the emergency happened. wheel chair travel was a little foreign to the squad. Quartet Singing in America, they are planning to enter There was not a car on the road when the engines thundered . . It looked like alumni night at the Villanova game, this year's national songfest of the SPEBSQSA. We will be able to hear their newest tunes in Elliott in. The ban was a contributing factor to the speed with which with Jack Sweeney and Vin Starace of last year's RAM staff in the audience. . . . The Chem Depart- Murphy's Aquacade, where they will begin a stint in the engines arrived, and Barney's stubbornness has got to be com- ment was well represented by old grads Ed DeRenzo, mid-June. However, the Shaving Muggs will have to mended. Ed Munzer, and Serge Timasheff (our Editor from '44 hang out the "Help Wanted" signs next fall, because Stand back, Barney. This is one time we are going to salute to '46), who somehow managed to tear themselves Frank and Jim will be fitted to sheepskins this sum- mer. you.—P. McG. away from their test tubes for the evening. . . . Tom B'OHDHAM RAM, February 6, 1948 PACE 9 rlistory Programs, French Lectures THE REVIEW By 777artaa m essage Patrick McGowan Added to WFUV AARON SUCK FROM PUNK1N CRICK American history, the French There's bright, fresh corn in the Little Theatre of Keating Hall this MUSINGS AFTER THE MID-YEARS anguage, and current religious top- week, and it isn't all painted on the stage sets. "Aaron Slick From Punkin ONCE MORE, WITH RENEWED VIGOR AND HOPEFULNESS, cs in the news will form the subject Irick" is now showing, and if you like bumpkin comedy with some good matter of a new series of programs :haracter acting and a few old songs, this will be a tonic to help you over we return to our pleasant task of alerting the elect to items of Catholic on station WFUV—FM, the Rev. he exam doldrums. interest. . . although we do so with sundry words 'of caution in our ears Richard F. Grady, S.J., Head of the vhen made the object of a pun, is It would be a shame to give away I classic. in view of the reaction of some readers of The RAM who are inclined to Department of Communication Arts, ,he plot here, because there's so lit- and manager of the station disclosed tle of it. It will be sufficient if you An added attraction is Lola Fisher feel that the MARIAN MESSAGE has become the opening wedge of ecently. know that a gentleman boarder dis- is the torch singer in the red dress,' Starting this Saturday, and con- ihedding crocodile tears and making Secularism, advocating, as it seemed, the gay old practice of cheating in :overs traces of oil on the farm of jrandiose gestures while singing tinuing weekly at 6:00 p.m., the the widow Berry, and tries to exams. . . . Ah, well, next time we'll try not to be so subtle. . . . Knights of Columbus will sponsor a "The Curse of an Aching Heart." badger her into selling it. She does, Laura Scully pads around in pig- dramatic presentation entitled >ut her suitor Aaron Slick saves the THOSE ZEALOUS AND INVENTIVE MEN of the "Christophers" have "Foundations of American Ideals." tails and bare feet, getting off most day, and justice triumphs all around f her barbs towards Mary Novak, thought up another fine idea lately—that of instituting a training course Scenes in early American history before the final curtain. will be described and the formative a fine foil as the villain's niece. Fred for parish leaders. Would that more college men would carry over into stages in the growth of the nation's THE WALSHES STAB Daris, Robert MeMahon, and Helen parish life the excellent beginnings they made in Catholic Action while ideals will be noted. The casting is excellent, a care- ^erretti serve as extras, the last ul combination of talent with the named delivering her one-word sojourning behind its ivy-covered walls. French speaking listeners will benefit from a series of programs •ight roles. Dick Walsh in the title speech with fine emphasis. which will be under the direction of role is a natural, as convincing a The scenery is scaled down for DID YOU NOTICE that devastating review of that compilation of bald Dr. Basile D'Ouakil, professor of yokel as a New York boy can be. the small stage, but the color sets a light mood and the backdrop is statistics called "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" which appeared in French, and Head of the Department His bashfulness, clumsiness, and of Modern Languages. These shows shrewdness gave the supporting a masterpiece. For the first two acts last Sunday's Herald Tribune? The reviewer pointed out how inadequate will be presented on Monday and players plenty to aim at. Best of all, it is the side of a farmhouse, then and misleading were the author's statistics, not to mention his conclusions Friday afternoons at 4:15 p.m. and though, was the way he picked up it is turned around to be the bar the action at the end of the first of a cabaret. If you want a lesson derived from those statistics .. . which reminds us that subscribers to the will consist of fifteen minutes d voted to instructive lessons and a act. in stagecraft sketch a few designs "Book-of-the-Month" club would do well to check the book review section similar period allotted to current With one eye on a past review on paper yourself, then go .to see 1 of "AMERICA" or the "SIGN" magazine on the morality of some of those news of France. For the convenience in this cornei spot, we're proud to how Max Sisk handled the same of listeners, a transcription of the say Nancy Walsh (no relation to problem. volumes that find their way through the mail, show will be rebroadcast on Wednes- Dick) does a wonderful job as Mrs. This theatrical season had a fair day nightsat 8:00 p.m. Berry. Her application to the part itart with the heavy "Cardinal and the Crows," but "Ramblings of 1947" THE CATHOLIC NEWS—not to be confused with that sheet found, Former service chaplains will be is professional, resembling in effort the performances of Marjorie Main. was wobbly and this production alas, too often in the hands of our budding cognoscenti—carried a nice the speakers on the new Sunday marks the first hit. It does not rate afternoon religious program at 4:30 Nancy surprises when she heats a write-up last week of the work being done by 300 Catholic college men flat iron on a painted yellow stove, a full four stars, but does indicate p.m. Clergymen of the Catholic, that the Mimes and Mummers are and women in. the catechetical Held. . , • Fordham's brigade of catechism Protestant, and Jewish faiths will or nonchalantly pounds bread dough in a way that makes you wonder warming up and may make some- teachers received a well-deserved accolade... as did those sturdy hospital- discuss the news and its association thing out of "Lazarus Laughed." with religion. whether the little wooden table will visitors, who hasten out to Welfare Island every Saturday and Sunday. stand it. The play is full of trite little lines WITH THE APPROACH OF LENT, the usual chatter is overheard in Fr. Zema Dies like, "Is there oil in the spring on the south forty?", but some of the the Cat and elsewhere of what is the real low-down on fast and abstinence. (Continued from page 1) touches were added by the pro With so many apparently conflicting notions prevalent we can only repeat was also a member of many historical ducers, such as a cat which scam- academies and societies. After being pers off the stage into the audience. HOPING THE NEXT 30 the old advice, "See your confessor." appointed Head of the Department The third act shifts the locale to of History in 1942, he wrote "The Chicago, and to establish the at LESSONS FROM. "LIFE" . , . "Life" magazine has gone to Hell ... in Thoughtlessness of Modern Thought," mosphere of a nightclub drinks are YEARS ARE AS SUCCESSFUL search of copy, as we behold in their latest article on the DEVIL. Cleverly and contributed numerous articles served to several persons in the to magazines. Following a three year audience. done, as are all the write-ups, this one mixes up theology and Sunday- period as Rector of Our Lady of Between the first two acts the supplement sensationalism in the best style of the old Hearst papers. Martyrs Tertianship at Auriesville, Shaving Muggs present two num- Walter J. Smith, D.D.S, '29 N. Y., he returned in March of 1947 We are glad to see that publicity was given the writings of C. S. Lewis. bers, "Moonlight Lou" and "To- as Professor of History in the Grad- morrow." The Muggs sing softly but But as to the reality of the DEVIL and his tactics, LIFE'S article offers uate School. with captivating harmony, and give no new information to those who have listened to the Gospel for the Suriviving Father Zema are his Grace Saiya a smooth background brothers, the Rev. Gabriel A. Zema, for "She Is More To Be Pitied Than First Sunday of Lent over the years. Still, it is always a valuable reminder S.J,, of the faculty of Regis High Censured." Unfortunately the well to be told that the cleverest stratagem of the Evil Spirit is to make us School and Ernest A. Zema, Brook- known melody "The Band Played forget he is on the job, "going about like a roaring lion, seeking whom lyn attorney, and his sisters, Mrs. On" doesn't turn out as well. Ernest H. Salvi and Rose C. Zema, he majj devour.". both of Bayside, Queens. SHAVING MUGGS STOP SHOW For the cabaret scene the quarto The Office of the Dead was recited MORE POWER TO YOU ATTENTION, YOU HUSTLERSI Here's your chance to make some on Monday in the University Chapel returns, warms up on "Evaline," and a Requiem Mass was offered and brings the show to a stop with ready cash. Chance books for the two cars being raffled off with proceeds at 10 a.m. on Wednesday at the "Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby." to go to the Bishops' Fund for the Relief of European Victims of War may Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Bill Lyons, the bass, is primarily be Had from your class representative. Park Avenue. Burial took place at responsible, with his. low-pitched St. Andrew - on - the - Hudson, near "adee-ii." Andrew W. Tully '30 Poughkeepsie, N, Y. Best in the supporting roles are region, but our possibilities are very two men who have hidden thei_ Relief Drive few, ability too long, Jonathan O'Connor "We hope you may help us. Your arid James Heany, O'Connor as the (Continued from page 1) people are giving clear examples of suave, well-dressed crook is mag- typical group of students in Italy interest and practical helps to the HAPPY BIRTHDAY nificent, especially in his asides to who need the aid that will be fur- progress and well-being of mankind the audience. Heany Catches the besides we are tied by the same fancy as the detective in disguise, nished by this drive: Truth and Religion. Without pre- TO THE RAM and his "Stung! on the forehead/ "We are a group of students of the tending any thing we pray to you Hig Scientific Institute 'Bertoni' to send us some scientific instru- Joseph F.Apuzzo '41 directed by the Stigmatines Fathers. ments. We should be very grateful GOOD WISHES TO THE RAM "Our school. staffs and buildings if you would give the preference to were damaged during the war and the instruments concerning the our science and physics laboratory study of electrology. BEST WISHES ON YOUR was nearly destroyed, depriving our "If you would help us we shaV students of an essential element for note its provenience on every thing 30TH ANNIVERSARY our training. Teachers and students and you will not only have our John J. Kinney '42 are making a great effort that our gratitude, but that of the young who Catholic institute may stand wor- will come after us. May God bless thily in front of th,e State School, our two countries and your generous CONGRATULATIONS TO Alfred J. Re '37 especially in this western border hearts." THE RAM FROM.

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"pRt-JSDITION S\'MFOSlUM"™F*r. Barrett, Chairman ot "EDITORIAL CONFERENCE . . . Wheels begin to roll as SPORTS DEPARTMENT . . , Pasquarelli ana Chezek the Publication Division, talks over the forthcoming cdi- Frank Morea, special editorial consultant (right center), check assignments, as Cannon and Sellers look on from tion with editorial staff in his office. cracks the whip over the brain trust. behind.

NEWS DEPARTMENT . . . J. McNulty and Bangs MONEY, INC. . . . Business Man- HUNT AND PECK ARTIST . . . Sel- MURDER, INC. . . . Bangs sits back as Valerio send Tuite on a story as McGowan studies for test. ager Hanigan looks over contracts. lers pecks it out on his Underwood, hacks up McManus1 latest epic.

LOOKING THEM OVER . . . Sports PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER . . . George COPY RUNNER ... Tuite sets out for STOP THE PRESSES . . Girard takes a last look before mogul Pasquarelli grinds out his Cook nurses a print along in his dark- Western Newspaper Union on 45th passing the copy on to the linotype operators at Western weekly column. room. Look's pretty good, so far. Street, with plates and copy. Newspaper Union,

dummy columns pasted on to figure the layout for the issue. It's about this time that the argument as to ITS A FULL-TIME JOB—BUT WE LIKE ITwho gets what ads starts, with the sports dept. vehemently trying to By VIC STEPHENS ers cost 27(i. ("Always get reim- ing and business end. Manager Han- Cyril Jong also spends quite a bit of keep its pages clear. Wednesday The time is 3:00 P.M. Wednesday bursed" is one of the foremost mot- igan has his hands full keeping up his time behind a camera. And with afternoon is always a bad day. afternoon, three hours before dead- toes of the staff;) Stephens, Valerio with the publication orders from a darkroom set-up on the campus, Weary Wednesday line. As usual at this time during and McNulty listen to various sug- National and dispatching his staff to prints are rushed through to be Down at W.N.U. on Wednesday the week, the office of the campus gestions offered while ace reporter the local beaneries with the weekly ready within minutes after the shots night after a hearty supper, Gibbs newspaper is a beehive of activity Baker takes notes. Mainstays of the plea, "How about an ad for The are taken. and Stephens get down to work and inactivity, with editors cracking Monthly staff, Devine, McCadden RAM?" But the ads come through, Chief problem in any week is over the dummy pages once again whips over the news board, who in and Canning, plug their magazine and once he lines them up, Hanigan that of securing a copy runner for while waiting for more copy from turn are taking it out on the rest of and help to make the meeting look can return to his studies in eco- the daily trip to Western Newspaper the linotypists. McGowan has his the staff. impressive. nomics, very apropos for his posi- Union on 45th Street, where the hands full pasting and unpasting a Usual weekly problems are on The next step is a talk with other tion. printing is done. Having persuaded box on the checkers tournament for hand to confuse matters. The prof- members of the staff absent for the Having obtained all the facts and Tuite (by the simple expediency of the seventh time. file, having been rewritten only first meeting. Frank Morea, one of figures about the latest postal match threatening to remove his name Composition man George Ende- twice, is going through the mill for the most regular inhabitants of the by the RO rifle team, sports reporter from the masthead), tons of adver- velt listens to what the editors have the third time. One eager member office, looks over as stories and ideas Sellers returns to the office on Tues- tising plates and a few reams of to say regarding a page of dummy, of the news board is looking for a are plotted. Sports editors Pas- day afternoon to bang out his story. copy are loaded in his arms, and then goes out to make it up his way rookie to rewrite a seventy-word quarelli and Chezek set their plans Sometimes it gets a bit confusing, with a warning not to make any —which is always the best way. box on the freshman cribbage team, lor pages six and seven, while the when there isn't enough light to see stops before he delivers his burden From where we stand, it looks like unscored on in three carrier pigeon three musketeers, Bangs, McGowan the keys on the machine. Sometimes into the waiting hands of Dick Mad- George is doing most of the talking. matches. The chief editorial writer, and McNulty, get the score for the it's a little discouraging—nc matter igan he takes off from the office. Maybe it's better that way. Getting having succumbed to the throes of usual news assignments from edi- what goes down on the yellow copy Frank Morea looks on in sympathy together with Dick Madigan, night epistemology during the early part tors Gibbs and Stephens. paper, it's cut to the limit by the as he holds the door for the depart- foreman, they set about getting the eager copy men. of the week, is working feverishly "What's My Assignment?" ing copy-boy. lines of type into some semblance in three directions at once—rewrit- Pasquarelli goes to work mapping With stories coming in one after of order. ing an editorial turned in thirteen the other, Valerio takes time out to On the Lino out articles and talking over leads Once at the printers, the copy is At 1:30 a. m. everyone looKs a minutes ago, looking around for with Chezek while Cannon and Sel- tell McManus what's wrong with the someone to write a quick 216 words lead of his article. That sadistic methodically run through and as- little tired as the final check is lers figure out where they will head signed to various departments by made on the pages. A forgotten on a given subject, and almost more with their assignments. During bas- gleam enters his eye when he starts important than anything else, trying running his blue pencil through line Girard, night man at W.N.U. Marvin credit line or a misplaced comma ketball season, the big problem of Currie takes over at the linotype goes by the hoards as everybody to decide on a topic for the third this department is how to cut down alter lino of the carefully thought and final editorial. out piece. Bangs takes it all in with machine, a monstrous affair made makes a final rush in the direction the game write-ups to fit them all up of thousands of arms, levers and of home. There's time enough to These are just a few of the prob- a faraway look. OK, Mac. You'll get on two pages. Covering all away- a byline. buttons. So from the typewritten stop for breakfast and arrive home lems which confront the staff week games is sometimes a problem, but sheet, marked by numerous correc- before 3:00 a. m.—and nobody real- after week. But in the main, the job with very few exceptions reporters Character Story i tions, comes the metal reproductions ly needs more than 4l& hours sleep of publishing and printing the col- are on hand to keep a running ac- There are strong rumors making of the various stories. before a full day of class, it says lege paper comes oil smoothly count of the play. the rounds that the staff is made up here. enough. The accompanying picture of a group of characters. Loudly The job of the proofreaders is The news board gets together with sometimes a boring one, except, of Counting and Sending pages will give a ram's eye view of members of the staff on Friday and protesting this fact, we merely point course, when it comes to reading what goes on. Monday afternoons to send them on to head sports figure and columnist The last two steps are as im- Pasquarelli. His weekly 1000 words RAM copy. Having received proofs portant as any. Having driven down Editors Talk It Over their way with hot tips on various of the stories, this step follows after to pick up the 3300 copies Thursday Scene I is laid in the Publication subjects which may or may not lead us to think we mny have an- other Powers in the making. Joe has that of linotyping. W.N.U. proofmen evening, Cyril spends a few hours Division Building, where the editors mean a story. Chief complaint of Blumberg and Pierce look for mis- with his staff counting out the and news board convene on Friday these bigwigs is that in some in- other ideas, however, having his eye set on an M.D. in the four-year fu- takes in spelling and punctuation copies for the various classes and afternoon for a gab-session with stances they have to draw a dia- before the proofs are sent back to departments. On Friday morning RAM Moderator Father Barrett. gram before the reporter knows ture. Dividing his time among the Bio labs, RAM office, and the locker the campus. Gene Madigan (no re- class representatives pick up copies Arthur Mulligan, ex-RAM sports what is expected. Tuite seems a lation to Dick) takes a second look for their sections, and Friday after- editor and at present a reporter for little perplexed as he gets the nod room in the gym keeps him pretty busy. But he keeps his health. before continuing with the type- noons finds exchange editor Starrner the Daily News as well as lecturer from McNulty for his weekly stint. setting of the weekly Ramblings thumbing through his list of sub- in the Publication Division, takes Bangs is pre-occupied looking over For the fust time in its history, column. You'd be confused, too. scribers and exchanges. everything in with a look of know- the assignment sheet, but McGowan The RAM has a photography staff Back home nnce again Gibbs and All in 111 it's a big job requiring how and offers a few helpful sug- has more important things to do in to be proud of. Led by George Cook Stephens (looking their best from gestions. Miss KHz, Fr. B's secre- the field of philosophy. a lot of time—but no matter what and Stuart Jong, they've managed this view) map out what goes where you hear remember that the stuff tary, is busily engaged noting that One of the most important phases to have a cameraman on hand and why with the green galley the last special delivery to the print- is there of it's own choosing. It's a on any publication is the advertis- whenever needed. Circulation Mgr. proofs. An old copy ]g laid out and full-time job—but we like it. FORDHAM RAM, February 6, 1948 PAGE 11 As RAMstaffers Rewrite, Recheck, Repent

THE WORKING PRESS . . . Marvin BUTTON, BUTTON . . . Messrs. Blum- MOKE LINOTYPING . . . Gene Madi- FRONT-PAGE DUMMY . . . Big wheels Gibbs and Currie bangs out the type on the lino- berg and Pierce proofreading before gan acts a little confused over the Stephens get in a huddle to work out ihe make-up and type machine. sending out the galley proofs. weekly Ramblings column. layout for the issue over a dummy page.

WHITE COLLAR WORKERS . . . Down at the printers, HERE'S WHAT WE WANT . !. George Endevelt listens JIG-SAW PUZZLE .. . Dick Madigan, shop foreman, and Gibbs, Stephens and McGowan talk things over. while Gibbs and Stephens try to iron out a few details. George arrange lines of type into pages of print.

MAN AT WORK . . . Exchange editor Starmer addresses AND SO TO BED . . . Stephens and Gibbs make one last SIXTY-TWO, SIXTY-THREE, SIXTY-FOUR . . . Circula- the copies which he will ship off to our subscribers. check with Dick and Gus Mauser before going to press, tion staff, led by its boss, Cyril Jong, tally up the copies. PHOTOS BY GEORGE COOK, STUART JONG, CYRIL JONG AND FRANK JACKMAN lamuaign closes, as Italy is invaded 'or Brazilian lecture trip ... 65 ed with light in celebration of V-E THIRTY YEARS ON CAMPUS IN REVIEW as war takes over at Fordham with 'esuits return to Fordham to re- day . . . Fordham University com- Ralph A. Beck handling the editor's :uperate from imprisonment in Jap mencement exercises held in gym (Continued on page 16) (Continued from page 7) audience . . . Signs of the Times: blue pencil . . . Fordham's down- ;amps . . . Keating Hall tower flood- Watches" . . . drive opens for stu- RAM carries directions on what to town branch acquires a new dent contributions to centennial do in an air raid . . . Mimes presi- building at 302 Broadway . . . wvwvwwwvwwvwvw. building fund ... a cycle of three dent speaks on "We the People" . . . 600 ASTP men in training at plays was planned by the Theater Shep Fields ripples a few of his Fordham . . . third frosh class en- Department . . . Kenneth Campbell famous rhythms for the Senior Ball ters college Oct. 11 ... Father Gan- took first place in the annual ora- . ., Manuel Prado, president of Peru, non bestows honorary degree on torical contest... boxing show heads visits Fordham and receives an Polish president in exile Wladyslaw It's new! the bill at annual father and son honorary degree . . . Msgr. Edward Raeziewucz . . . Fordham takes the night . . . conference on Eastern R. Moore delivers sermon at Bacca- University of Lublin under its pat- It's the talk of Rites and Liturgies meets at Ford- laureate services . . . George So- ronage for the duration of Ger- the campus • ham , . . after nine months of re- kolsky and John B. Kennedy speak many's occupation of Poland ... 99 hearsal, Oedipus Hex took to the at the senior banquet. students receive diplomas at Dec. 26 stage in Collins Auditorium. Thou- exercises . . . senior EOTC students it's "comfort ASTP TAKES OVEK receive two week furloughs at grad- sands were turned away as the first The year 1942-43 . . . Philippines full length Greek production played uation . . . new class enters in Janu- contour" fall, U.S. troops land in Ireland, ary ... ASTP pulls out for the front to capacity houses ... 300 students marines land at Guadalcanal, allies were to receive their sheepskins at . Robert Parrott takes over as land in North Africa and the first editor . . . Pan-American contest commencement exercises . . . Bob RAM shock troops established a Chester played at the Senior Ball. takes the campus spotlight . . beachhead under editor Ralph Black Father Deane begins compiling an PEARL HARBOR AND WAR '43 in their new quarters on the sec- The year 1941-42 . . . Greece and honor roll of Fordham men in serv- ond floor of a building fronting ice ... Arthur McEvoy tops the Yugoslavia invaded, and Germany along 191 St. ... new class to enter turns on its red. ally, Russia. Then masthead during the summer tri- in February under accelerated pro- mester as The RAM goes to press Dec. 7, and Pearl Harbor. But the gram . . . largest ROTC contingent American entry into the war was on an irregular schedule . . . Dr, passes in review at St. Mary's game Basile* D'Ouakil publishes a hand- still two months off when Richard . . . Student Council formulates White, '42 started to pen his edi- book of "French for the Armed plans to aid the war effort. . . frosh Services." Tight columns of agate torials . . . Greek students plan to beat sophs in annual tug-o-war . . . 1 stage Aeschulus' tragedy "Eumeni- type, entitled "Fordham Fraternity ' Monthly runs queen of the campus fill almost a page with the where- des" . . . annual welcoming of the contest . . . Archbishop Spellman freshmen takes place in Keating abouts of Fordham men in service consecrates altar from St. Patrick's . . . Bill Lyons enters J-A oratorical Hall ... the first HAM after Pearl Cathedral . . . Glee Club gives its Harbor carried little about the war. contest . . . ROTC wins Hearst na- all in concert honoring the armed tional rifle title . . . July 28 issue Fr. Gannon announced there would services . . . ASTP comes to Rose be no change in policy and that the closes up shop for the scholastic Hill . . . new editor Vincent Gannon year. school would carry on as quietly as replaces Black who was called to Hns'i "Comfort Conlour" tho new marvel of collar possible . . . "Buy a Bomber" cam- the colors . . . Munn collection of IT'S ALL OVER! styling, now featured on all Van Heusen shirts. Low-setting, paign gained momentum during rare books and manuscripts donated The year 1944-45 . . . D-Day and neater, smarter, it's making the grade on every campus January . . . three year accelerated to library by anonymous benefactor the race across France stalls at the from coast to coast. You'll find it on Tine white shirts program starts . . . Fordhamen begin . . . Father Gannon invited to speak German border, President Roosevel to leave for the service .. . auditions at Westminster Cathedral.. . Father and exclusive Van Heusen patterns, ail Sanforized, all 1 dies and a Missouri haberdasher are held for campus talent to star Deane assumes position as presiden takes over, then V-E day and the laundry-tested, in your favorite collar models. $3.50, S3.95 on the Fred Allen show . . . three in Father Gannon's absence . . mass hysteria of V-J day . . . and and 84.95. PHU-UPS-JONES CORP., NEW YORK 1, NEW YonK. Mass murals were donated by the RAM reveals that the total enroll The RAM finds McEvoy still holding seniors to be put up in Collins ment on campus has dropped to a on as editor . . . Junior Prom re- Auditorium .. . ROTC summer camp low of 560 students . . . Father Gan- 1 sumes after two year lapse . . . Ger- is cancelled . . . Fordham receives non urges continuance of extra man Club holds successful picnic on You're the man most likely to succeed in 'he main altar of St. Patrick's curricular activities in face of emer Long Island ... 24 graduate in ex- Cathedral . . . 1,200 turned away gency conditions . . . activity on ercises held in senior lecture hall in 0 during four day run of "Eumenides' Rose Hill marks time as student Keating ... 102 vets enroll at Rose • • • Don Regan '44 chosen most tal- leave for service in ever increasing Hill under G.I. Bill, first of the thou ented undergraduate . . . Godoni's Van Heusen Shirts numbers. sands to follow . . . Timascheff and "Servant of Two Masters" opens in Gibbs take over the editorial reins TIES . SPORT SHIRTS . PAJAMAS Collins Penthouse. First play pre- HONOR ROLL BEGUN . . . victory ship slides down the sented on the east coast In which The year 1943-44 . . . Casahlanca ways bearing the name "Fordhair the stage was in the center of the conference sets forth edict of un Victory" . . . Father Gannon leaves conditional surrender, North African WlVVVVVVVVVVMAfVVWVVVVVVVvW/lVWVVV^ PAGE 12 FORDHAM RAM, February 6, 1948 SYRACUSE HALTS CAGERS VICTORY STREAK Basketeers Bounce GILT EDGE GUARD Gabor and Stickel Back by Blasting Spark Tall Hosts Rutgers, 6349 To Decisive Win FOROHAM'5 MILUAHT Abele Stars for Rams The law of averages finally caught Before 3000 in Gym GUARD 15 OHE OF THE up with Fordham's basketball team, With 15 Points FINEST ALL-AROUND as the uncanny shooting of a tall Syracuse five toppled the Rams from Ed Abele, Fordham's fastest p BALL PLAYERS Id THE the unbeaten class, by a 78-65 score. er, played his best game of the year The eleven game winning streak Wednesday night, to help the Rams COUNTRY down an aggressive Rutgers team, was the longest in Fordham's history 63-49. before three thousand ap- AND HIS since 1929 when "Bo" Adams, as a proving fans in the Rose Hill gym. HIS SPECIALTY IS SUPERLATIVE player, helped lead the Rams to six- According to the statistics, the teen straight victories. game was decided on the foul line, TYIHG UP" THE PLAYMAKING HAS as Fordham scored fifteen foul shots From the beginning, it was obvious to five for the Scarlet. The charg- HIGHLY RATEP BBEH THE BIG to the 5,000 spectators in the huge ing play of the visitors provoked a COURT STARS.. State Coliseum that the Orangemen total of twenty personals, with ORNIHG F6RCE were having one of those "can't Fordham converting regularly. BEHIHP THE miss" nights, while the Rams were The drama of the game centered having their troubles acquainting about goal shooting of the Rams, RAM CAGER5 themselves to the strange court. Bill whose scoring honors were divided Gabor and Ed Stickel were hitting between Abele with 15, Smith with THIS YEAR! with amazing accuracy from all 14, and Bach with 12. Smith's driv- angles for Syracuse, and giant 6'8" ing play carried in and under for Royce Newell was a menace to the several shots as Bach twisted and Rams under the boards. The Orange turned in the pivot for under and jumped ahead to a 19-9 lead with the overhand shots. But Abele stole the game only five minutes old, and con- limelight, as several of his shots tinued the terrific pace, driving to a were delayed and thrown from un- 35-18 advantage at the eleven minute believable positions. These even mark. Meanwhile John Bach, who overshadowed his deadly set shots has averaged only one personal foul which connected in the first three a game for the Rams, drew his attempts. fourth personal. Ed Abele, who had missed the train from New York, The* first half was a tight battle finally showed up to relieve Bach. with both squads employing a close man-to-man defense. G. MacKaronis opened the scoring on a set from the Bams Tire side. Bach evened things up with a The second half was one desperate hook, each team scored fouls, and attempt after another by Fordham Smith dropped in a driving layup. HIS ONLY FAULT 15 to overtake the Orangemen. The ex- Smith and Bach hit on fouls, but hausted Rams, whose late arrival two-pointers by Don Parsons and HIS FAILURE TO SHOOT left them no time to rest up and Steve Senko tied the score at 7-7 OFTEH ENOUGH HIS PASSING settle themselves, outscored the at the five minute mark. 15 SUPERB!! home team in this second 20 minutes The Maroon jumped ahead with a of play as Gerry Smith, John Bach seven point scoring spree by all and Dutch Graham took turns split- hands. Parsons dropped in six points but Abele and Bob Mulvihill singed the nets from outside on long shots. St. Peters Added Mermen Swamped NYMA 10th Victim A set by Andy Sitess narrowed the margin to four points but Abele dropped in another set and Smitty To Ram Victory By Violets, 56-18: As Rams Ramble hit on a three-on-one fast break. Bueky Hatchett connected on a set String, 67-52 Slaymaker Wins and tap, and Abele drove in for a To 58-50Win The Fordham quintet extended Continuing as one of the three un- their winning streak to eleven Winning six of eight events, the games, a week ago Saturday, by powerpacked New York University defeated quintets in the metropoli- routing St. Peters College of Jersey swimming team rolled to its fourth tan area, the Rams went on a City, 67-52. Bad weather kept the straight metropolitan league victory •ampage against the New York attendance down to 900 in the Jer- last Saturday, in the Rose Hill pool, Maritime Academy, and with Jerry sey City Armory. when it defeated the Fordham The first half was a seesaw battle, Rams by a 56-18 score. It was the Smith tallying 22 points, defeated with neither team being able to fourth defeat for the Maroon against the Sailors 58-50 on their home build up a sizable lead. The St. only one victory. :ourt, Wednesday, Jan. 21. Peters team threw a scare into the Fordham, in the absence of Cap- The Maroon took the lead in the handful of Ram rooters, when it tain John Sorman, could not match closing minutes of the first quarter held a half time lead of 23-22. The the balanced N.Y.U. outfit. Don sloppy ball handling and shooting Kiesel, who won the fifty yard free- and by the end of the third quarter of the Maroon aided the spirited style and Joe Slaymaker, who took had gained a 17 point margin. Jersey team. the backstroke race, were the only Fordham broke the scoring ice With the first half shakes over, Ram victors. Kiesel won by a half when Bob Mulvihill tallied with a the Rams shot ahead 34-27, and yard over Dick Gould of the visitors push shot. The Maritime Academy never relinquished the lead. The in 0:26.5. Slaymaker, who had been countered quickly with three sets team really began to click from this victorious in his last two outings, and led 6-2. Smith hit on a foul shot, point, and held a 59-38 advantage notched his third straight when he Mulvihill scored with another push with 8 min. remaining. This second beat out Bob Otto of the N.Y.U. over shot, and Smith again found the half drive was led by Johnny Bach the 150 yard distance in 1:57.1. basket, this time with a set. Ford- who dropped in 13 points, to give Heading the Violet squad was Ben ham regained the lead and the score him an evening's total of 17, and was 7-6. Ed Abele and Johnnie Bach high scoring honors. Reynolds, a husky medical student, who won the 100 and 220 yard free- each scored, the former with a set ED ABELE Bob Mulvihill and Ed Abele also and the latter with a hook shot. At warmed up during the second half, style tests, leading home teammate Marv Kleinman in both events. Rey- the quarter the Rams led 12-10. BILL GABOR hard driving floater as the half with 9 and 8 points respectively, to add to their first half effort of 3 nolds returned 0:57:7 in the century Smith opened the second quarter ting the net; but Gabor and Stickel ended, Fordham ahead, 28-23. sprint and 2:33:3 in the furlong. by scoring on a fast break, Abele helped Syracuse maintain the lead The second half saw an increase points apiece. Gerry Smith dropped in 15 for the Rams' cause. Kleinman anchored a victorious set, and Mulvihill also scored on a with several sallies of their own as in the tempo. Mulvihill started the freestyle relay in addition to his two fast break. Smith followed by hit- they totalled 42 points between them. scoring as he hit with a spinning, For St. Peters, the set shooting ting with three sets and a foul shot; of Wally Shiel, with 14 points, and second place efforts. With five minutes left in the game going-away from the basket shot on but the Sailors, scoring on hook and the score stood at 61-50 but then a pass from Smith. Howie Konrad Ed March with 13 points, kept the Lloyd Gottlieb, Violet distance pivot shots, were only 3 points be- partisan fans awake. Dennis Barry star, captured the 440 yard freestyle Fordham flubbed four free throws evened matters up with a set, hind. Score, 25-22. Sheils made a foul in a row and also the chance to Graham retaliated, and Mulvihili also played a fine game for the race in 5:52, fifteen yards ahead of shot, and Smith another set. Mulvi- lusing cause by netting 10 points. Fordham's Jim Ryan. Frank Einterz overtake the upstaters. From then dropped in another two-pointer, hill tallied with a push shot, Smith on it was a wild racehorse game this time from behind the basket. The Rams used all thirteen men of the Rams was third. Gottlieb also scored on a fast break, and the Ma- on the bench, with the first seven joined with Stan Hayden and Sol which merely resulted in an ex- Steady playing by the Ram team roon lengthened their lead. At the change of baskets. Though the widened the score to 40-29. Paul players playing 32 minutes. Ford- Variello to capture the medley relay half, Fordham led 32-24. ham continued its poor shooting in 3:46.5. Bob Schwartz of N.Y.U. Adamsmen scored 65 points, they Lynner then dropped in a one hand- The Maritime Academy scored missed 18 foul shots. Smith and er for the Scarlet. Smith drove in from the foul line, missing eleven took the 200 yard breaststroke race tries. in 2:59.7. first in the second half with a foul Bach, the old reliables, played for two more on a fast break pass shot, but Smith countered with a steady games counting for 22 and 18 from Mulvihill. Parsons made a tap set, Sheils scored a free throw and points respectively, while Capt. but another fast break pass from a set, Smith set again before the "Dutch" Graham, a spirited per- Mulvihill, this time to Bach, wid- Scoring Records for 12 Games sailors could tally with a foul shot. former all evening, scored 13. ened the lead to 45-33. Score 39-26. Smith broke for another —SULLIVAN Smith broke away for another Field Free two points, and Graham and Sheils layup, and Parsons matched him Confectionery Luncheonette Player goals throws Total each scored a basket. Bach tallied with a set. Shiels hooked one in Smith 74 53 201 with a free throw, then added three from the side and Parsons again For An Inexpensive Lunch, Bach 74 43 191 more points on a fast break and a ROBIN HOOD connected. The Mulvihill to Smith Soda and Some Sweets, Mulvihill 35 15 85 foul. Fordham led 49-32. With about LAUNDRY SERVICE combo accounted for two more Abele 31 19 81 ten minutes left Sheils scored, Menk Hatehett and Sivess tapped in re- Pay Us a Visit Graham 26 21 73 set, and he and Doherty each scored 2612 Decatur Ave. bounds, and with five minutes to go Shiels 27 17 71 from the foul line. But the Mari- Fordham 7-0361 Fordham led 53-43. Doherty 6 4 16 time Academy, with the Maroon Expert Work . . . At this point, Coach Adams sub- ARTLEB & Carbone 2 1 5 starters now out of the game, tallied Reasonable Prices stituted his entire team and the re- Shea 2 1 5 12 points, and the Ram margin was servos held heir own as Art Malone HAACK s r O'Rourke 0 3 3 cut to 55-44. O'Rourke then hit with Pick-up and Delivery In dropped in a foul and John Carbone 387 EAST FORDHAM ROAD Menk 2 15 two free throws and Shea followed Dealy Hall 6:30 P.M. Mondays hit with a set shot from midcourt with another while the Sailors FOrdham 4-8733 Gonzalez 10 2 For further details, see Walt As the game ended Hatchutt put one Malone 0 0 0 scored 8 points. The game ended in from the charity line to end the with Fordham on top, 58-50. Kolody or Mike Kovach In Mul- scoring at 63-49. cahy Hall. 280 179 739 —KRAUSHAAR FORDHAM RAM, February 6, 1948 PAGE 13 Rams Out to Singe Lions Tail Looking Them Over The eyes of the basketball world will be focused on the Rose Hill Ram Butts Wildcat Ram Swimmers Gymnasium tomorrow night, when with Joe Pasquarelli Columbia's Light Blue, still boast- ing an unblemished record, tackles In Court Thriller Defeated Twice, a Fordham quintet still smarting from the drubbing at the hands of IT'S ALL OVEH Before a crowd of more than 3500 41-34; 55-20 Syracuse, last Saturday night. The people, the Fordham hoopsters ex- game, undoubtedly the most impor- That first defeat, which has been hovering just around the cor- tant played by either team to date, tended their consecutive winning The Fordham University swim- ner, finally put in an appearance. We can't honestly say that it ming team suffered a heart-breaking is already a sell-out. was received with open arms, but it was a relief to have that strain streak to nine games, when they de- 41-34 defeat at the hands of the This contest between the Rams of being "unbeaten" taken off the backs of the feated Villanova 59-57, and thereby Manhattan College mermen, Friday and the men from Morningside Maroon quintet. The setback at the hands of enabled themselves to remain among afternoon, Jan. 23, at the Rose Hill Heights will be the twenty-third in Syracuse couldn't have come at a more oppor- the nations unbeaten quintets. pool. The score was tied 34-34 going the series. Fordham has won twelve tune time. The toughest part of the season, the into the last event of the afternoon, while dropping ten. Last year saw The Rams got off to 6-0 lead when the 400yd freestyle Relay; but a the Maroon win by a single point last half, is still ahead; but now without the John Bach, Bob Mulvihill and Al in the final seconds of play, and in worry of having to be careful about breaking a weakened Ram quartet couldn't Shiels hit for layups before the repel the furious charge of the Kelly view of the records of both clubs, winning skein, the cagers can loosen up and game was more than a few minutes Green foursome, which was sparked another thriller would seem to be play some good ball. to victory by Jack Fruin's splendid in the offing. If Fordham is vic- Sure the team wanted to take Syracuse, and old. The Wildcats finally managed to leg. torious the defeat by Syracuse will the boys believe that they could have won if break into the scoring column when After Manhattan jumped into an be written off the books as "one of the conditions were right. But if you think that Rica hit with one from the foul line. early lead by virtue of a victory in those things," and the Rams will be those guys are disheartened, take a look in the Then with Bach and Mulvihill lead- the 300yd medley relay and Fruin's back on top once again. Should the triumph in the 220yd freestyle, the Lions walk off with the marbles gym any afternoon. We have never seen a more highly spirited ing the parade the Rose Hillers they would not only extend their team—just waiting to get its hands on the next opponent. Rams came roaring back as Don opened their lead to 15-7. Suddenly, Kiesel, Jack Crilly and Joe Slay- string, but double their prestige. Fordham lost its spark. Villanova maker won the 50yd freestyle, the Columbia, idle since the mid- ALL RAM '11' tied it up at 16-16, and proceeded to 100yd freestyle and the 150yd back- winter exams began, is sparked by Keeping in the spirit of the 30th Anniversary of the Ram, we completely dominate the play for the stroke, respectively. Second place Sherry Marshall and Walter Budko. decided to make use of some information that came into our hands remainder of the first half. The score finishes were also garnered by the Marshall, the playmaker, was in- Maroon in each of these events, as jured on January 17, but Coach Gor- regarding the All-time Fordham grid teams. Most of the players at intermission was Villanova 29, mentioned were many years before our time, so the words of Ram Stan Nowicki, Kiesel and Jerry don Ridings expects to have him Fordham 25. Collins came through. Trailing 29-21 ready for full service in this all- observers of the past will have to be relied on for the choice made. the Kelly Green took fire and tied important tilt. Budko is a deadly set FIRST TEAM POS. SECOND TEAM The second half saw a completely the score as Ray Radzivilla and shot artist and uses his height to full Frank McCaffrey, '11 End Harry Jacunski, '39 rejuvenated Ram. The team began Fruin notched wins in the 200yd advantage under the boards. Tom Leary, '28 End Jim Lansing, '43 playing as a unit once again. They breaststroke and 440yd freestyle. Ram hopes will be pinned on Frank Foley, '31 Tackle Amerino Sarno, '36 set a blistering pace to regain a lead This set the stage for Manhattan's Gerry Smith and Johnny Bach, the Al Babartsky, '38 Tackle Alex Santilli, '42 which was never relinquished. First stirring victory in the relay. duo that has been the mainstay of Pete Wisniewski, '31 Guard Vin Lombardi, '37 Although Jack Fruin was the en- the squad all season. Coach Adams it was Shiels sinking a hook, layup tire show on the visitors' side of the will also be counting heavily on Ed Franco, '38 Guard Larry Sartori, '43 and free-throw; then Captain Dan Alex Wojciechowicz, tally card, several men were promi- Dan Graham, Allie Shiels and Bob '38 Center Lou DeFilippo, '41 Graham began dropping them in nent for the Rams. Don Kiesel was Mulvihill. Ed Abele, a sophomore Earl Graham, '28 Back Charley Pieculewicz, '31 from the outside. All the while, Bach particularly brilliant as he took the speedster, whom Adams rates as the Ed Danowski, '34 Back Jack Fisher, '32 was virtually matching them shot 50yd freestyle and finished second best young prospect in the metro- Len Eshmont, '41 Back Jim Murphy, '32 to teammate Crilly in the 100yd politan district, should also see a Steve. Filipowicz, '43 Back Jim Blumenstock, '42 for shot. The Rose Hillers gradually freestyle. Don's terrific anchor leg great deal of service. It is too bad that we cannot squeeze all of Rose Hill's great foot- increased their lead .to 54-40, and on the Relay almost saved the day ball players into those first two teams. Such men as Dom Principe, then began coasting ... a move that for the home team. Crilly also swam team tankmen. Don managed to cap- a good leg on the relay. Joe Slay^ Bill Krywicki, Joe Zapustas, Jim Noble, Andy Palau, Joe Dulkie, almost proved disastrous when the ture the 50yd freestyle and finished maker extended his victory string second in the 100yd freestyle. The Johnny Janis, Tony Siano, Johnny Dell Isola, Adam Elcewicz, Quaker City quintet caught fire, and by winning his specialty, the 150yd 400yd relay furnished the only other Mike Miskinis, et al., gave ground to no man. all but nipped the Ram in a thrilling backstroke. Ram triumph as the quartet of Nick stretch drive that left the fans limp The following day the Lyttlemen Broderick, Jack McLoughlin, Jack SLEEPY JIM with exhaustion. traveled upstate and were defeated Crilly and Kiesel downed the While talking about football, we can not help but mention the by a well balanced Syracuse squad Orange foursome. Johnny Bach led the Fordham coach that led the Rams to national prominence. Sleepy Jim Crow- 55-20. The Ram swimmers were Tomorrow afternoon the Maroon scoring, with sixteen points, while never in the contest as the Orange- mermen travel to West Point for a ley is the man, but again we have to admit he too was before our Bob Mulvihill held the runner up men jumped off to an early lead by meet with the Cadets. A tentative time, But in looking through our files, we ran across a letter from spot with eleven markers. Arizen winning the 300yd medley relay. meet has also been arranged with a Fordham alumnus, Nicolaus Bruns, who was kind enough to send was high man for Villanova with Don Kiesel was the only Ram to the Annapolis Middies for Febru- a report of Jim's speech at the Orange Bowl Luncheon, in Miami, sixteen points. CIPOLLA cope successfully with the home- ary 14. Florida. After reading the report, and then remembering what we had heard about Sleepy Jim, there would be no better way to talk about him than to let Bruns1 article talk for itself. "Jim Crowley's name need only be mentioned for every true Fordhamites' heart to swell with pride and fond recollection of Rough Road Slows Ram Thinclads Jim's coaching days at Rose Hill. By HENRY KENNEDY and "Sleepy Jim was guest speaker at the Orange Bowl Jamboree traction in 1924, when the inimitable in 1926, walked off with the 400- NED CURRAN Joie Ray, won the most thrilling meter low hurdles championship of 'Kick-Off' Luncheon in Miami—and after his brief and pointed Thirty years ago, when The RAM remarks seasoned with a delightful bit of illustrative humor, it was race of his career; but it was fol- America at the Penn Relays. At one first made its appearance on Rose Hill, lowed by a desultory season. time or another during his college evident that he had won the respect and affection of a vast number track, along with all other sports at George Hammer, Johnny Gibson, career, he held half a dozen or more of new friends who had not already known his appealing person- Fordham, was awaiting the end of George Balestier and Artie O'Con- metropolitan titles, but his greatest ality. Literally 'laying them in the aisles' with football anecdotes World War I. One might say that nor, present track coach, combined race was run at Franklin Field when spiced with Irish wit, he kept the hilarious Hellzapoppin-type The RAM and the reincarnated to form the best mile relay team in he beat Lord Burghley, famed Eng- luncheon program in character with the festivities staged by track squad grew up together, ex- the metropolitan district in 1925, and lish runner, in the 400-yard low cept that the weekly came on in Fordham was beginning to come hurdles. His graduation in 1927 Miami for the annual Orange Bowl classic. leaps-and-bounds while the process- "Though scarcely becoming serious for any appreciable length back into the place she had occupied dealt the team a crippling blow, and es involved in rebuilding the team before the war. In 1926, Johnny Gib- it was to be several years before of time, Jim directed the theme of his discourse to the character were slow ones, indeed. Strong be- son, rapidly approaching stardom, Rose Hill again had an equal to the and personality building values of football, while nostalgically re- fore the war, it was to flounder for "Fordham Flyer." calling his playing daj's at Notre Dame and as coach of the Rams. several years before regaining its former stature, and to see many a In 1928, Artie O'Connor, captain- "Descriptively, he pointed out the famed mutual love shared ing the team, began to take some of between Fordham and N.Y.U. Those in attendance laughed hearti- mediocre season before finding its place in the sun. the press notices, but the loss of Gib- ly as he told of one particular encounter in which Fordham was son, DiLucia, Beagan, et al., was too ahead, 13-0—by luck of course. The luncheoners howled as Sleepy To Coach Bernie Wefers fell the great to be taken in stride, and the Jim admitted the commission of a grave sin—that of signalling task of reclaiming the Maroon's lost team was able to do little. In '29, we from the bench to his quarterback, who 'happened to be looking, fortunc-s, but the record shows that find that the relay quartet of Sim- during his two-year tenure, from ons, Brennan, O'Shea and Hurley for the Rams to use their next to best play (the best was to punt). 1919 through 1921, Fordham's only was outstanding, and again in 1930, It resulted in a 10 yd. loss, with N.Y.U. recovering a fumble. Im- pretenders to honors were Ray we see the team of Simons, Denzer, mediately, the rivals began a fierce passing attack, and Coach Whearty and the mile relay team of Farley and O'Shea sweeping the Crowley sent in a sub with instructions to watch that receiver. Murray, Tackash, Dale and Gough mile relay in the Columbus Council Nevertheless, N.Y.U. made it 13-7 after the sub 'watched' and re- that took the Penn Relays oJ 1920. Games, along with the Brooklyn ported back to Crowley that the Violet player was one of the best Jake Weber Arrives College and American Legion meets. receivers he had ever seen. Then in 1922, there came to Rose The 1931 and 1932 seasons pro- "Jim certainly left no doubt in anyone's mind that his days Hill another coach in the person of duced little of note, but in 1933 with Fordham are among his most treasured. After a pleasant chat Jake Weber. Jake, who was later to another great runner appeared at reap his own share of personal glory Fordham, Joe McCluskey. An with him following the luncheon, I felt that here was a truly as an Olympics trainer, was the Olympics star, McCluskey rolled up friendly and likable person. And it was equally obvious that Jim guiding hand behind Fordham track an impressive strings of triumphs Crowley is today, one of the best boosters of Fordham that our teams for all of eighteen seasons; including a win in the 3,000-meter school has." but while they prospered under steeplechase of the National Indoor COLUMBIA, THE GEM OF THE GYM him, they were still not to reach the Championships, which he ran in a Johnny Field, 1931 sports columnist surely won't mind if we halcyon days of Fordham's track record 9:17. That same year the mile relay team of Borden, Gallico, Deu- borrow a paragraph from his column, with one addition, on the history during his turn in the sad- dle. The first season under the new JOE NOWICKI bel and Mulvihill was cruwned IC4A Columbia-Fordham pre-game write-up: coach, showed little marked im- champs, turning in the fastest dis- "As we were sitting with our feet on our ornate desk with its provement, as was to be expected. racked up win after win, and the tance ever run by a Fordham team, fine silver, gold and mahogany trappings, we received another Ray Whearty, now in his senior Maroon boasted its greatest mile 3:23.8. Sprinter Art Jannell, and letter. This letter contained a little verse, and it was about Colum- year and captain ox the team, was relay team of the '20's in Gibson, middle distance man Jerry Calijone, bia. It went like this: again its outstanding performer. O'Connor, Etzel and Mitchell. paced the 1934 and 1935 teams; and Oh, the lion.his tail is swishing, The following year saw the re- along with Jim Gallico and Charlie The 1927 team followed much the Deubel posed the only Rain thrtut. But his growls are sort of faint newal of the Annual Fordham same pattern as the preceding one, And Brother Budko's wishing Diamond Meet, which had been a with johnny Gibson continuing to Approaching the Top pre-war feature, but had been neces- shine, and the relay team of Di- That a Ram's foot like a Rabbit's foot aint. sarily cancelled when track was sus- Fordham, with Jim Rafferty cap- "That's not so good to say the least, you say to yourself, but just Lucia, Beagan, Mitchell and O'Con- penfled. It was in this meet that Bob nor copping the Metropolitan cham- turing the fancy of the crowd and remember that Tennyson was a beginner once, too. And whether McAllister equalled the world's in- pionship. the laurels in several major meets, you know it or not, you'll get more than a basketball game for door record for the 100-yard dash had one of its best seasons in 1936. your money Saturady night." ^ , . ,, in ten seconds flat. Always possessor The "Fordham Flyer" The Rose Hillers finished fifth in the Times doiiot change too much, particularly m the sports field. of a top-flight relay quartet, Ford- There can be little doubt but that IC4A, registering ten points, by vir- ham's mile relay team of Eddie Far- Johnny Gibson was Fordham's tue of Cnlijone's third in the 1,500- Seventeen years ago this month, Columbia was the next quintet meters, Rufferty's third in the 3,000- scheduled to visit the campus. The Blue and White of Morningside rell, George Nolan, George Hammer greatest runner of the 1920's. Sen- and George Balestier, took all but sational throughout his college ca- meters, and Jannell's second in the Heights were iust as worthy an opponent those days as they are three of fifteen meets. The Diamond reer, he was twice runner-up in the 50-meter dash. today. But need we go any further than to mention that the Rams Meet was once again the stellar at- National quarter-mile hurdles, and (Continued on page 16) won'that year, 29-24, and should vepeHt. this year. PAGE 14 FORDHAM RAM, February 6, 1948 WAR TO WAR CAGERS SET PACE IN EAST By JACK SULLIVAN But the Garden and City College nothing could be done with sucli When Dr. James A. Naismith in- still proved a jinx. After scoring stars as Fuzzy Levane, Andy Baxter vented basketball as a desperate five points in one minute through and the giant Harry Boykoff, as the move to popularize gymnasium the efforts of Fitz, Loeffler and Redmen easily won. Karpowich and classes back in the fall of '91, he George Babich to tie the score at Mullens were right near the top of could hardly have imagined that 40-40. referee Pat Kennedy's death the city's scorers with 298 and 280 this quaint sport would rise to a knoll blew with eight seconds re- points respectively. position where its attendance shat- maining in the game. Despite Kel- ters records of all other games Always the Underdog leher's boisterous objections, he The 18-5 record of last year's al- played on this earth. Basketball has awarded Holzman of City two foul come from a handicapped start to a most all vet-team is still fresh in shots, the second of which he made, everyone's memory, as it went into glorious pinnacle, and Fordham has deciding the game. The next year had a most definite part in its de- almost every game an underdog. velopment almost all the way since Tony Karpowich, Johnny Carroll Gerry Smith scoring 308 points and it played its first game against and Bob Mullens scored 500 points Tony Karpowich with 284 kept Brooklyn Poly in 1902. A number of between them as Fordham won Fordham in the running all the way, slightly successful seasons followed eleven and lost seven including but St. John's height and CCNY's and then Fordham was forced to overtime defeats to Rhode Island two teams of equal speed and ability give the sport a rest from 1914 to State and St. John's. Karp broke caught up with the Maroon as the 1919. the Ram season scoring record with season ended. Victories over George- 217 points. Even Split town, Columbia and NYU made the season more than a successful one, In the first four years at Rose Hill A Great Thrill following World War I, coaches Ed- though. The Hoyas were eleven die Butler and Bernie Culloton each Many can still picture Kelleher's point favorites but Mulvihill held managed to get along with one win- last team at Fordham in 1943. Not Kostecka and his 22 point average ning and one losing season. How- only did it break numerous records motionless and Herby Clann drove ever, in the spring of 1923, Fordham but it was a thrilling pleasure to in for 21 points as Fordham won made one of its wisest and most, watch it. There was the time it 58-42. The Columbia game was a memorable moves, that of signing scored 57 points in the second half wild and woolly affair at the Ed Kelleher as head basketball against Iona; the 46-45 overtime Morningside Heights court but Ford- coach. With Kelleher talent seemed victory over Princeton as Babich ham came out ahead 56-55 as Smith to spring forth. In his first season tossed in six consecutive points; the stole the show. Against NYU the Fordham boasted a ten and seven 62-44 Holy Cross triumph as blond- Rams were at their peak. Mulvihill record. He came up with one of Rose haired Bobby Mullens and freshman guarded AU-American Sid Tannen- Hill's all time greats in the person sensation Johnny Bach both hit for baum so close that his breath wasn't of Vinnie Cavanaugh who could do 17 points. Yes, almost every game his own, and held the Violet star everything with a basketball but that year had a story behind it. to a few desperate heaves. In the make it talk. He was elected cap- Fordham broke all existing records meantime Smitty was racking up tain for the 1924-25 season which in the Garden when it actually out- Fordham breezed through with but one loss in sixteen games, and that raced the famous firehouse style of a 20-17 thriller to a perennial jinx, Rhode Island State to win by an CCNY. On Jan. 16 of that year Cav- amazing 84-75 score, although be- anaugh and Co. celebrated The hind 46-45 at the half. Karpy broke RAM's new gymnasium by defeat- another Garden record with 29 ing Boston College, 46-16. The addi- Action during- 1938-39 season, as Manhattan visits Fordham. Unidenti- points as Mullens netted 20. Prob- tion was certainly a welcome one. fied players jumping for the ball, as Bill O'Brien (88), Dan McGilli- ably the smoothest contest played The Maroon had been forced to play cuddy (70) looks on. The teams played just as hard in those days. that year was the Manhattan game. most of its games away, for op- The Kelly Green had beaten St. ponents would picture the word "de- place at center and Dan Riordan enblums, the pro champs, and John's, who later ended up as the feat" in capital letters on every post filled in for White, as this all junior slaughtered them. Dougherty and National Champions, and their Dick and radiator in the Prep gymna- combination swept through a 16- Adams were both selected on the Murphy was hitting twenty points sium. game schedule in '28 with but one first string All-Eastern team, while every game. It was an absolute sell- blemish, a 26-25 heart-breaking de- Pop Sweetman and Nick Landers out. Sophomore Bob Mulvihill, who Only Lose Two feat to CCNY (who else)? were named on All-Met teams. had held NYU's Al Grenert and Rounding out the fabulous five, Dan Into the 1925-26 season, Kelleher Second-Stringers Start Kansas' Black almost nil, virtually brought with him all of his mar- Riordan was mentioned as one of threw a blanket around Murphy. In velous '25 team except Cavanaugh, The whole team of, Dougherty the finest defensive guards in the the meantime Mullens was hitting and they emerged with a 1C-4 rec- Adams, Sweetman, Landers and country. All these were fitting trib- from all angles for 17 points and Riordan dribbled, passed and shot utes to the greatest of Fordham's Bach took complete control of both its way into everyone's heart as it great. blazed through the 1928-29 season backboards as the Rams won out with one glorious victory, after an- With the advent of the thirties, 39-31. Although St. John's who had other. Kelleher would start his sec- George Mulligan, Butch Parker and three men on different All-Amer- ond five every game. Then, after Red Weiss came up with a good icas 'humbled the Rams, a 65-45 they held their own for a few min- team which won 24 and lost 10 the triumph over NYU in which Ford- utes, a deafening roar would shake first two years, including 27-26 vic- ham's nineteen fouls broke another TONY KARPOWICH the gym, and you could feel the tories over NYU and CCNY in '31. Garden record gained an invitation thrill go right through you as the But then the powers that be gave for the Rams to the Garden Na- 24 points and Karp was dropping fabulous Doc, Bo, Pop, Nick and the heave-ho to three of the best tional Tournament. They met West- in 20. The only thing which kept Dan took the floor. That year Ford- operatives for playing outside ball, ern Kentucky, whose height aver- NYU in range was big Adolph ham played the team that was soon and the thread was not picked up age was 6'4", in the first game and Schayes who garnered 22 points, but after known around the world as for a few more seasons. With the beat them 60-58 as Mullens con- that wasn't enough as Fordham the St. John's "Wonder Five." A great Tony DePhillips and Bob nected for a deuce to decide the won 65-61, a victory for which they crowd of 6,500 jammed its way into Reinacher, Kelleher had a 9-5 sea- game with thirty seconds left. The had waited four years. every square inch of the Rose Hill son in 1934. outstanding feat of the game was Yes, Fordham has carved quite a gym, and then some. They were that of Bob Mulvihill. The Hill- niche in basketball history, and as even sitting on the rafters across the A New Style topper's 6'6" Don Ray had scored long as there are men like Vin top of the court. The suspense was Vin Cavanaugh took over the 17 points in the first half against Cavanaugh, Frank Dougherty, Jim indescribable as the score contin- coaching chores the next year and the Maroon, so Kelleher desperately Zakzewski, Bo Adams, Nick Land- uously changed hands. Then, with a implanted a new style on the team put the badly limping Mulvihill, a ers, Dick Davis, Tony DePhillips, minute and a half to go and the stressing a slow deliberate attack half foot his junior, on him, and the Tony Karpowich, Bob Mullens, Bob Redmen ahead, 22-21, the depend- combined with fast ball handling. defensive whiz kid held him to two Mulvihill, Gerry Smith and Johnny able Dougherty layed one up to put After winning two-thirds of fifteen harmless field fioals. St. John's was Bach, Fordham can be as proud of Fordham ahead, and with a few games in '36, he lost a whole team Fordham's next opponent, but its teams in the future as it has JOHNNY WHITE seconds left, Bo iced the game with with the exception of Captain Crate in the past. his mid court set which hardly Drury. It was predicted to be the ord losing two by one point. Kelle- wrinkled the net. Almost as large a worst team in Fordham history. But her always had a soft spot in his crowd was around when the Ma- Cavanaugh, after losing three of the heart for this, his first crack team roon met its old nemesis, City Col- first six games, developed the Rams . . . Capt. Joe Manning, the phenom- lege. But Doc and the boys made up into a finished outfit that ended the Scribe Views Nimrods' Record enal Jim Zakzewski, deadeye Johnny for many a City defeat that memora- season with ten straight wins for a ble night as they unceremoniously White, Tom Rohan and Tom Leary. 13-3 record, claiming the metro- By LEO CONNELLY They drove him frantic at times hammered the Beavers, 50-19. In the politan title with LIU. In the '37-'38 more impressive record being put second to the last game of the year, season the center jump after each One of the youngest teams on into the books. The team had 13 wins with their mischievous and careless Rose Hill, is the rifle team. For ways. NYU shattered all dreams of an un- basket was taken from the rules, and only one defeat, and this was defeated season as it decisively beat but Fordham had a hard time get- years, it has lain in comparative se- inflicted by Essex troop; but this Freshmen Shine this great Fordham crew on their ting used to it winning only nine clusion in the basement of Collins setback was later to be avenged. Hall, but despite this, many of the That same year a freshman team only real off-night since they came games. Probably the toughest defeat The teams that fell beneath the to Rose Hill in 1925. Still, with an 18-1 occurred that year against Colgate. ROTC cadets have cut some fancy blazing barrels of the Maroon, were which was destined to be the great- capers with the rifle. est quintet in Fordham history was record, it stands as the finest cage With the score 40-all and five sec- CCNY, Georgetown, Rutgers, St. busying itself winning thirteen team in Fordham's history, and one onds to go in the game, Jack Welch The earliest record available, John's, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Edison, games while losing one. An All-City of the greatest in the nation's his- of Fordham accidentally knocked dates back to 1931, when the Ma- NYU; Brooklyn Poly twice, the Rip- from Clinton named Frank Adams tory. Dougherty, the first ambi- the referee over while scrambling roon riflemen, led by Flanagan and powan RC, and the 212th CAC scored 21 points in one game while dextrous shooter in the metropoli- for a loose ball with a Colgate man. Christopher, finished the season twice. In outside competition the Frank Dougherty of Glen Falls and tan area, will always be remem- Mr. Paltrowitz, the referee, called a with a 6 and 5 record. The Ramrods team took third in the National Nick Landers, another All-City from bered for his deer-like agility, and technical foul against Welch, and beat Mt. Vernon, 212th Coast Artil- Hearst, and first in the 1st Corps from Fordham Prep, also topped Doc's back - to - the - basket shots that meant the ball game. Kelleher lavy, twice, took Metropolitan Life, Area Intercollegiate match. the scoring. Only three times did helped him to lead the team in scor- returned to Fordham in the 1938-39 broke even with Orymca R. C and The '38-'39 team didn't do quite their opponents score over 15 points. ing for three years. season with his fast daring type of Columbia, and lost to CCNY, N. Y. as well, but did win the Hearst The lone defeat was surprisingly ball and the Maroon won ten games, Stock Exchange, and the 16th In- trophy; tallying 5 wins and 3 losses fantry. their most impressive game. It Something Quotable but lost seven including a 41-39 set- with Hofstra, NYU, Brooklyn Poly, Unfortunately the records for the seems that fouls eliminated all but The RAM in 1929 had this to say back to NYU at the jinxed Madi- Essex and Mt. Vernon being the four of the Ram frosh, but the re- son Square Garden in the last 20 next season were lost, and there is victims, and being victimized by about Bo Adams: "A short chunky a lapse till the '34-'35 season. This maining quartet carried the game figure whirled up the court, made a seconds. It was the eighteenth Garden Roslyn RC, Essex, and Mt. Vernon. into two overtimes before losing. loss in nineteen games for a Ford- team only lost to Brooklyn Poly and The following year, the nimrods sudden dodge, a quick stop, and the Mt. Vernon, and took 212th CAC, When this team joined the varsity inevitable swish that followed an- ham team. Captain Bobby Hassmil- compiled a .667 average, on 12 vic- the next year, their perfection was ler broke the season scoring record CCNY, Rippowan R.C., Madison tories and' 6 defeats. nounced another two pointer. With Square R.C., and Mt. Vernon; the a sight to behold. Doc Dougherty, his lightning quick reverses, Bo was with 181 points. In 1940 the Rams During the war, Fordham kept Bo Adams and Nick Landers com- again won ten games thanks to Dick last victory avenging an earlier de- the team going for almost two sea- able to shoot and pass with equal feat. The final record was 5 wins bined with the veterans, Zakzewsky facility even though guarded by two Fitzgerald, who accounted for,two sons. The teams of '41-'42 and '42- and White, to go througli the '27 successive victories against Rutgers and two losses; but in trophy com- '43, won seven and lost four. The men. Adams could twist in and out petition, tho Rams took first place season with 18 wins and 2 losses. and retrieve passes that seemingly and St. John's in the last twenty victims were Columbia, twice, Stev- Both setbacks, which were one- seconds with vital baskets. in both the Hearst and 2nd Corps ens, Brooklyn, CCNY and Mt. Ver- no man could catch." Beuting a Ram Area Matches. point affairs, were avenged later in team in those days was really a feat, non. Losses were registered against the season. Dougherty, one of the us can be seen by Kcllcher's record Take 2 in Garden The 1935-30 season records are al- NYU, St. John's, CCNY and Ml. most popular men ever to come to from 1923 to 1929 of (12 victories and so missing. The 1936-37 squad lost Vernon. Fordham, was elected captain after Led by Fitzgerald and Max Loef- only one match, this to Rippowan After the war, the team began 9 defeats. There was no doubt about Her in 1941, Fordham won eleven sophomore year, an unprecedented Fordlumi's greatness either. In 1927 RC, plus winning the Hearst and 1st the difficult task of reorganization, move. Pop Sweetman took Zack's the Rams played the Cleveland Ros- games including two in the Garden Corps Area intercollegiate trophies. and as of this year, is just about against Kansas and North Carolina. The following season snw an even hitting its stride. FORDHAM RAM, February 6, 1948 PAGE 15 Crowley Er^Sawfjghting Rams at the TopNatators Faced All; By FRANK CIPOLLA Lyttle and Kane In spite of the dire showing of the In 1930, the defensive greatness of post-war Fordham football teams, the Rose Hillers continued, as they Rated the Best the overall record of the Rose Hill prevented their first six opponents elevens for the past thirty years, from crossing their goal line. Then shows a won and lost percentage of Detroit and St. Mary's finally dented Swimmers First Meet better than .600. Since 1917, Ford- the Maroon defenses, as the Gallop- Was at Columbia ham has won 136 games, lost 70, and ing Gaels in their first Eastern ap- tied 18, a record that places the Ram pearance pushed across three tallies On Feb. 9, 1926 amongst the ten best teams in the to hand the Rams their only defeat country during-the past three dec- of the season. By BOB DALEY James Crowley, one of Knute Tuesday night, February 9, 1926, The 1925 squad with All-America Rockne's famed Four Horsemen, was a milestone in the history of "Zev" Graham at its helm, holds the came to Fordham in 1933, and with- Fordham athletics. For that night all-time Fordham record for the in four years he developed the marked the first time in its history most points scored in a season . . . greatest and most famous team in that the school had a swimming 294, but on the other hand, the 1947 the school's history. Led by the in- leam. It all started with the com- team had the dubious distinction of comparable Seven Blocks of Gran- pletion of the new gymnasium back ite, Fordham's unbeaten and once in the spring of 1925, A "natato- allowing the most points ever scored tied 1937 squad limited their op- against the Ram . . . 245. rium" had been installed beneath ponents to sixteen points In eight the basketball court, and of course AH America contests ... an all-time Ram rec- Forciham needed a team to go with Fordham All-Americans have oid. Iu that year, only Pittsburgh it. With this thought in mind, Mi- been numerous. 1918 saw Frank stood between Fordham and a per- chael McDonough, a swimming in- Frisch, who "later went on to become fect record. For the third consecu- structor at Roosevelt High, was im- one of baseball's immortals, gain tive season, the Panther and Ram ported to do the coaching. Practice recognition as a fleet-footed half- ADAM ELCEWICZ clawed and butted each other mer- BILL KKiWlCKl vas called for the first time in late back, "Zev" Graham won honors in cilessly, only to play to a scoreless eptember, 1925, and out of the 1925, and in 1929 it was Tony Siano. of Granite in 1936 and 1937, Alex tie. The choice of the three Rose Hill eleven went on to lose a tightly twenty some odd hopefuls, Mc- From that year until 1937 no All- Wojcieehowicz and Ed Franco Hill linemen as All-Americans at- contested battle by the margin of a Donough began to shape his team. America team was considered com- earned All-American ratings in both tested to their defensive greatness. single point, 13-12, but the real story Joe Farley, a sophomore freestyler, those years. Guard Nat Pierce was plete without the presence of at Bowl Bid of the game lay in the fact that an vas promtly elected captain, a posi- least one Ram gridster. In 1930, also nominated in '36, as was Tackle unheralded Fordham back, Jim tion he held for three years run- Henry Wisniewski, a guard, and Al Barbatsky in '37. In 1940 it was In 1940, Fordham accepted its first Blumenstock, completely stole the ning. Charlie La Forge, metropoli- Frank Foley at tackle won honors. Lou DeFilippo chosen at the pivot bowl bid, The school agreed to meet spotlight from the great Kimbrough. tan and junior national breaststroke The following year Jimmy Murphy position, and the 1941 All-America Texas A & M in the Cotton Bowl Blackie was voted the most valua- champion, was the team's mainstay, again had three Rose Hillers on its Classic at Dallas, Texas. The once ble player in the Cotton Bowl, and )oth in his specialty and in the was among the quartet of All-Amer- roster; End Jim Lansing and Backs beaten Rams went into the game a ican backs. Ed Danowski was among was awarded the Bronx Junior mckstroke. Ray Leo swam the 50 Jim Blumenstock and Steve Filipo- heavy underdog against the mighty Chamber of Commerce Trophy. wicz. md 100 yard freestyle events and A Sugar Bowl game against Mis- oe Plukas was the diver. N.Y.U. Cooperates souri in 1941 was the second con- In addition to being the Ram's secutive bowl bid tended the Ram, First Meet traditional rival, N.Y.U. has also but this time, in one of the most The first meet took place at the been somewhat of a "cousin" to the thrilling post season contests seen Columbia pool on the above-men- Maroon gridsters, who have won the in the Southlands, Fordham eked tioned February 9th, and the Blue most games (17) and scored the out a 2-0 victory. A blocked kick by md White, already a power in met- most points (412) against the Vio Al Santilli spelled the difference ropolitan competition, won an easy lets. In direct contrast, Georgetown between the two teams. At the end victory. Farley, who finished first in University has given Fordham the of the season the Rose Hillers were ioth the 440 and 100 yard freestyle most trouble. They have beaten the presented with the Lambert Trophy, ;ests, was off on an undefeated skein Rose Hillers more timns than any in recognition of their gridiron su- ;hat was to stretch over three other team (12) and have scored premacy, itraight seasons of dual meet compe- more points against them (317), During the 1942 season, Assistant ;ition, twenty-four straight victories than any other squad. Coach Earl Walsh succeeded Crow- in all. He was to be beaten but once Fordham's gridiron aggregations ley, who was commissioned a Lieu- in twenty-seven starts. La Forge first gained recognition during the tenant Commander in the Navy. captured the breaststroke, Plukas reign of the late Major Frank Cava- This marked the end of football pre- placed second in the dive, and Leo naugh, who served as Head Coach eminence for the Fordham Ram, as took third in both sprints. But that from 1927-1932, The '29 and '30 the war years saw the school aban- was all the Rams could do. Colum- Cavanaugh coached elevens were don all intercollegiate sports. bia won just about every other place. the most prominent in the Iron Ma- Upon entering the gridiron scene A venture had been launched; it was jor's six year reign. in 1946 after a three-year absence, up to the boys themselves to keep it The 1929 squad was undefeated in Ed Danowski, former Fordham All- afloat. nine games. The only blemishes on JOHNNY O'SHEA American, was appointed Head Second Try JIM MURPHY their record were a 6-6 tie with Coach and the Rose Hillers launched A month later the Rams entered Davis & Elkins, and a scoreless tie Texas Aggies who, in addition to an attempt to regain the prestige their second competition. The '26 the nation's best in 1932 and 1933, with West Virginia. Only three having proven themselves one of that was once theirs. After two high- Maroon speaks simply and eloquent- with Johnny Dell Isola also being teams were able to penetrate the the nations most powerful aggrega- ly unsuccessful seasons, there seems ly, "Came then New York Univer- chosen in the latter year. 1934 saw Ram defenses that year, and each tions, also boasted of having the to be some hope that the coming sity . . . who was defeated for the end Les Borden chosen, and in 1935 was limited to one touchdown, all of greatest fullback in the country on years will bring with them teams fourth time in one year in as many it was Amerino Sarno at tackle. which were scored via the aerial their squad in the person of Jarrin' that will more closely resemble the different branches of sport." It must With the advent of the Seven Blocks route. John Kimbrough. A spirited Rose pre-war greats. have been a tremendous satisfaction to all concerned, that the Maroon hould score their first intercollegi- ate victory over such a traditional foe. The meet was closely contested Diamond Dust at Rose Hill Manor in Review:hroughout, and was decided by only two points, as Farley and La Forge By BILL BRENDLE each won two events. The team lost Although America's national pas- behind the pitching of Ken Ames, to City College two weeks later, but time, baseball, has been heavily who won ten games and was un- no one seemed to mind. defeated. The team compiled a rec- overshadowed in collegiate ranks by Lost Four the spectacular action of football ord of 14 and 2, with such stars as and basketball, the lovers of this Tom Lynch, Frank McDermott, Joe In 1927, the Rams won only a sin- great sport have been provided with Zapustas, Jerry Radice and Johnny gle meet in five tries, revenging their Tobin. previous defeat by City. The follow- their share of thrills and suspense r on Rose Hill. The teams during '33, '34 and '3 (Continued on page 16) The record of baseball at Ford- were good, winning one Met title ham during the past thirty years in '34 and hanging up 34 victories as roon went down 7-2, and thus snows 379 victories, 158 losses, and against 12 defeats over this thre' snapped one of the greatest college year span. The era to follow com- skeins ever compiled. 3 ties. Most of the time they have pletely overshadowed these three been on top of the diamond pile, squads, which sent Zapustas to the Last Year • winning four Eastern Champion- Athletics as an outfielder. The years of '40 and '41 were the ships and no less than twelve Metro- 64 Wins lull before the storm, that saw the politan Championships. last great team at Rose Hill. Steve From '36 to '39, the Coffeymen ran The "Flash" Filipowicz, graduated in 1941, and up 64 wins against 14 defeats, win- caught for the Giants before enter- Rolling back the calendar to the ning the Met title all four years, first post-war era of baseball at ing the service; but 1942, 'the Rams and the Eastern title in 1939. The were on top again. For the twelfth Fordham, we see a rebuilding proc- 1936 team led by captain and first ess from 1918 to 1923, under the time in 18 years they won the Met baseman, Norman (Babe) Young, crown. The team won 17 games on utelage of William Keane, Art Dev- pitchers Johnny Banis, George Rob- lin and Tom Keady. During these their 20 game schedule, behind inson, and catcher Tony DePhilUns George Babich, big Ed Alex, Dick years, the Ram had mediocre teams, the Rams seemed invincible. This rhe Maroon's first diamond immor- Fitzgerald, Manuel Gomez, and Bob tal was produced in 1918, when Anderson. The Rams seemed to be heading for an undefeated season Frankie (Flash) Frisch left the cam- JACK COFFEY Pus to enter a major league career r when again they had ten straight that carried him to the top of the FRANK FRISCH victories. But the Wildcats of Vil- baseball world. great team sent Young to the Giants lanova, always a thorn in the Ford- and DePhillips to Cincinnati. The ham side, decisively ended the ,!n 1924, Jack Coffey reentered the The mound staff was one of Rose Maroon was really rolling along streak by a 10-4 count. In 1943, base- Picture, after an absence of 11 years, Hill's greatest, composed of John with ten straight, when LIU dropped ball, like all other sports, declined to bring baseball into its own on Dwyer, Bob Cooney, Jack Harring- them C-5, to end the talk of an un- due to the war. In 1944, the sport nose Hill. He stepped off on the ton and Johnny Murphy. Four mem- beaten season. They recovered from was dropped in favor of more press- 1'ight foot, winning six consecutive bers of this team eventually made this, and went on to win 8 more, ing work. It was resumed in 1945, Met championships and two Eastern the major leagues. Murphy with the while only losing one other contest. but with the few available students titles. These six teams won 95 games New York Yankees, and Boston In 1939, the battery of Hank Bor- the team only won 2 games. The while losing only 30. Red Sox, Johnny White and Carter owy and Bill Krywicki again gave next year saw the second post-war played with Cincinnati, and Bob the Maroon the Eastern title. Bor- rebuilding process, and the Rams Slow Start Cooney made his mark with the The 1926 team got oft to a slow owy wont to the Yankees and later split an 18 game schedule. Jim St. Louis Browns. In 1928. with most to the Cubs, after finishing his pitch- Arbucho was the mainstay of this start, dropping two of their first of the same personnel, the Rams ivc games to Georgetown and Bos- ing chores at Fordham. Mike Hearn, nine. Last year the Maroon just nailed the Eastern title with an II Dom Principe, and Krywicki led the missed a split, when the ball players on College. After that the team and 4 record. oegan to roll, behind the great In- hitting parade for this powerfu won 11, lost 12, and tied with Co- Held of Vin Clancy, Bill Woerner, In '30 and '31, the teams were only club. lumbia in eleven innings. Johnny White and Howie Carter, fair; but one great ball player This was Hank Borowy's senloi The prospects for the coming sea- {'icy won 8 of their remaining 9 emerged from this period, infleldcr year. Going into the Vlllanova game son are bright, with Arbucho, Jim sames to win the Met title and the Charley Sheerin, who later played he was undefeated in collegiate cir Wlederechte, Sil Burigo and Perry Eastern championship. This team with the Phillies. In 1932, the Ma- cle3, having won 22 games, with 17 Mee forming the nucleus of what is ''"a the best record of any team in roon again reached great heights of them in varsity competition. Tin hoped to be another great diamond ''ordham history up to that time. winning the Met and Eastern titles HANK BOROWY fates were against him as the Ma aggregation. PAGE 16 FOEDHAM RAM, February 6, 1948

Natators Take Track Roundup Fr. Gannon Main Speaker By Donald At 94th Alumni Dinner (Continued from page 15) (Continued from page 1) THE REVIEW Zoeller ing year, with the addition of Johnny Rafferty was again tops in '37, The annual Fordham Univer- when the two-mile relay team of sity Alumni Dinner will be held Lyttle, ace sprinter, Neal Weed, Bill Rafferty, Leary, D'Amore and Slater Monday night, Feb. 9. at 7:30 Kline and Art Crozier. the record HENRY V missed the IC4A title by a step, fin- P.M. in the main ballroom of rose to three and three. One of the "Henry V" may not be the picture that has everything, but it surely the Hotel Commodore. The Rev. defeats was incurred at the hands of ishing second to NYU in 7:56. In Robert I. Gannon, S.J., president Lafayette College, and it was to is a picture which has quite a bit. It has plot and dialogue by William 1638, Weber's last year at Fordham, of the university, will be the Frank Holt of this school, that Joe Shakespeare, a fine cast headed by Laurence Olivier, and deft direction main speaker and an appear- Frank Slater and a newcomer named Farley lost his only dual meet race, also by Mr. Olivier. It has drama, excitement, humor and even a little Wesley Wallace, who later proved ance by the "Shaving Muggs" quartet is still on the tentative this at 100 yards freestyle. Holt set e. to be one of the best runners ever list. Walter J. Black, '15, presi- a new pool record, covering the cen- King Henry (Laurence Olivier) desirous of gaining new territory for to wear the Maroon, sparked a dent of the Alumni Asociation, tury route in : 56.4 to nose out Ford- England, lays claim to certain,' better-than-fair squad, that listed will act as toastmaster. With ham Joe by inches. Upon his gradu- among its achievements the IC4A the bids at $7.00 per person, ation, the Athletic Association voted French dukedoms. 1,000 former students are ex- two-mile relay title. That same year Joe a major letter, despite the fact In the belief that Henry is but a pected to attend. weak willed fool, the Prince Dau- the mile relay team of Wallace, that swimming was, at the time, only phin, son of the French Monarch, Keen, Slater and Gallico set a new minor sport. In 1329, the Rams hit makes light of his claim and sends Fordham record in the NYAC meet, 30 Years in Review a new peak, winning four meets him as a gift of appeasement several 3:20.4. without a setback, to notch the Met- ;ennis balls. Infuriated, King Henry (Continued from page 11) tropolitan Championship. Lyttle, a 'ows to be ruler of all France and Came 1939, and came Bob Giegen- with Bene Merenti medals awarded unior, was captain of this team, and iromptly sets out with an invading gack as the new track coach, and jrmy across the English Channel. thus was opened the "Golden Age" to Father Azimuth, Dr. Conroy, and he, along with Gus Harms and Fred Scheel, were the stars. Lyttle and All does not go well, however, and of Fordham track. It was a year that Jack Coffey. we soon find our hero with a sick saw, Wes Wallace, now in his prime, RESUME PREWAR SCHEDULE Scheel were sprinters, while Harms, nd badly depleted army, com- set a new world's record for the 500- The year 1916-47 is still fresh in who was perhaps the greatest all- pletely outnumbered toy Prince meters, 1:04.4, Fordham take the our memories as we recall the first around competitor to come out of Dauphin's powerful forces. Then fol- Junior Metropolitan Championships Fordham, could swim anything. ows a tremendous and exciting bat- meetings of the United Natioqs, of in a shoo-in, and the mile relay team Later to captain the team, Gus was tle in which Henry leads his cour- of Ralph St. Pierre, George Leary, the Andrei pulling a Gromyko, the outstanding in every event. Truly a ageous little army on to a complete Wes Wallace and Frank Slater set Nueremburg war trials which con remarkable performer, he held met- rout of the French. a new world's record on the Dart- vict German leaders on charge of Mr. Olivier plays the fiery and mouth indoor track, 3:15.2. ropolitan A.A.U. titles in six differ- aggressive warfare, and finally The ent events. Twice he won the Inter- courageous king with the gusto of IC4A Champs RAM pulling out of its wartime a man who really enjoys his work. collegiate medley championship, on The role requires a great range, for, Wallace's duels with Jim Herbert lethargy to go once again on a full each occasion in record time. of NYU were the highlights of the n the majority of the scenes that time basis under the leadership of immediately precede the battle, ten- 1940 season. The two-mile relay Lyttle Graduates team was victorious in the IC4A Taylor Hanavan, '47 ... record derness and understanding are in breaking enrollment fills college This same group was around a order, and there is also a rather championships, while outdoors the year later. But matched out of their mile relay team of Dorland, Bennett classrooms . . . Monthly resumes amusing love scene that must be LAURENCE OLIVIER class, the boys lost three out of six, handled intelligently and deftly. Mr. and Wallace took the Penn Relays in publication . . . Communication Arts although this was perhaps an even a record-smashing 3:18.2. The fol- Olivier seems to be at home in all Department inaugurates courses . . . better team than its predecessor. ;hree moods. setting which often makes movies so lowing year, the Rams won their With the graduation of Lyttle in first IC4A championship. Campbell Letters to the Editor starts campus, The love interest in the picture is effective in handling certain types controversies . . . Mimes plan full 1930, Harms became captain and. his Princess Katherlne of France, took the 600; Cary the 1,000; the two- 31 team promptly notched another of stories. "Henry V" seems to be mile relay team won for the second schedule of plays, opening with played by a very attractive young one of those stories and one cannot metropolitan title. lady named Renee Asberson. There straight year; the mile relay placed "Wings Over Europe" . . . Walter help but think that if Mr. Olivier second; Milhan took fourth place in There followed a three-year lapse is no introduction to the love scene, the high jump; and Leary fourth Leege plays at Harvester Hop . . . during which the Maroon lost as but instead we suddenly find Henry, had perhaps collaborated with some- first campus musical "Ramblings" many as they won. Justin Cashman, who speaks but little French, at- one like Cecil B. DeMille in this scores a hit ... Soph Senate organ- captain of the '33 team, was the only tempting to express his sudden love production, a much finer picture noteworthy swimmer to appear dur- for Katherine, who speaks practi- izes . . . new college center opens at ing this period, although in 1934, a cally no English. The result is much would have resulted. Middletown . . . Senator Byrnes young sophomore named Bill Giesen more humorous than romantic, but a Though it is inferior to many of elected "man of the year" . . . work showed definite promise. Giesen, definite high point in the picture. our American films in photography begins on FM station for college . . . who was to lead the team through At the beginning of the picture we and scenery, "Henry V" is much su- the '35 and '36 campaigns, was the are brought into a seventeenth cen- perior to many of them in directing. Band reorganizes under old heads, third great swimmer to appear at Father Mulqueen and Captain Hoff tury English playhouse, on the stage In this department, too, Mr. Olivier Fordham. Tall and rangy, he was to of which our story is begun, This is showed himself to be a true artist, . . Father Joseph Murphy new rec- become the fastest of Ram sprinters a very interesting and effective in- and some of our American directors and almost as versatile as the great troduction although we are kept in tor of college . . . Fordham France Harms. could learn a great deal from him comes out of its air raid shelter . . . the playhouse a bit too long before about making scenes appear smooth Bob Chester signs for the Junior New Coach abandoning it for the fields of and natural and using good dialogue place in the 1,000. In the NYAC Prom . . . RAM and Monthly revive McDonough resigned the coaching France where the story actually to the best advantage. takes place. At the close of the story meet of that year, the two-mile old feud . . . Don Brennan elected position at the close of the 1935 sea- All in all, good story, dialogue, quartet of Callery, Shine, Cary and son and Johnny Lyttle was appoint- we are returned once more to the chairman of Senior Week . . . 25 BC playhouse stage. acting and directing combine to far Leary ran the year's fastest time, deluges campus . . . Vincent Lopez ed to succeed him. Lyttle held the outweigh the technical failings and 7:55.1. leaves his lunch long enough to sign reins for only one year, but during In spite of its many good qualities, "Henry V" shines out as one oi the In the first meet of the 1942 sea- his brief tenure the Rams enjoyed "Henry V" seems a bit disappointing for Senior Ball . . . Crown Colony amazing success. In 1936, Glesen's to one accustomed to American films best English films to have reached son, the team of Campbell, Schwarz, these shores in a long time. Fallon and Keane set a new world's rates a hand in Penthouse run . . . last year, the Maroon lost only to in which the technical work is al- record in the sprint medley relay, Glee Club concert switches to Plaza Rutgers, winning five other meets, most always of high quality. "Henry 3:54.1, while meet records of 3:22.1 Hotel . . . RAM publishes special and with them another Metropolitan V" was billed as an important pro- and 7:45.5 were established by the Jack Coffey edition to honor silver crown. This was truly a great team, duction and yet the photography is MEET YOU AT mile and two-mile relay teams, re- anniversary of graduate manager of perhaps the greatest ever to repre- extremely poor. The coloring is good spectively. The Maroon took the athletics . . . Bikini-Bikini closes out sent the school. Besides Giesen, who but the figures are hazy and off SCOTTl'S BILLIARD Millrose mile in 3:21.2, by virtue oi the year's theatrical program with a could swim 100 yards in fifty-three focus. In most English pictures the Campbell's sizzling 0:48.2 anchor final flourish of applause and sur- seconds flat, it included Joe Drury, background is out of focus but in ACADEMY leg, and later in the season swept national junior medley champ; Jim this one even the main character olus barracks and other military Hedley, star backstroker; Paul Dev- at times is not clear. This is espe- the Senior Metropolitan Champion- buildings mushroom on campus to JOE SCOTTI, Prop. ships with seventy-three points. lin, a fine all-around competitor who cially true in the beginning of the Winning all four relay titles in the provide extra facilities for crowded was to accede to the captaincy the picture. student body. NYAC meet, the Rams ran second following year; Warren King, a good One of the great advantages of 12 BRUNSWICK TABLES to Penn State in the IC4A on a dis- breaststroker and diver, and a soph motion pictures is lost in that there puted decision. freestyler named Bill Schirjner, who is no scenery other than stage props Open 11:00 A. M. to 1:00 A. M. quota and among these there was a was to be become one of the best and painted canvases. It is the fact O'Connor for Giegengack goodly share of capable talent. Joe quarter-milers in the east. that motion pictures can bring a 387 E. FORDHAM ROAD Artie O'Connor took over the reins Nowicki.'back and better than at any Joe Farley came back to coach the play right out into its proper scenic from Coach Giegengack as the '43 time before the war, captured all team through 1937 and 1938; Under season got under way and inherited major middle distance events, except Farley's leadership, the Rams opened two o£ the East's top runners, Jack the National title 1,000-yard run, the '37 season with an easy victory Campbell and Joe Nowicki. The and the two-mile relay team of over City College, whose stars were team finished second that year in the Leary, Connolly, Carney and No- Epstein and Ginsburg. The next day Metropolitan AAU championships, wicki won the National Indoor the sports page of a local daily ran with Al Hayden, Jack Campbell, Championship. Outdoors, Harold a banner headline stating, "Ram Frank Keane and Bob Stuart tak- McDonnell ran the fastest quarter- Mermen Baptize City." Schirmer ing the sprint medley in 1:54.1, a mile ever run by a Fordham man, was the star of this team and of the you won't bevK new world's record. Nowicki won 0:47.5. if next one, both of which were fairly : the Halpin half-mile of the NYAC As this is written the '47-'48 sea- successful, and succeeded Devlin as t t ; : 1 meet, and the mile relay team took son is already underway. On the team captain in 1938. .'- '• ••'•. "-^"/'"Mh the Senior Metropolitan Champion- eighteenth of last month Jerry Con- "• ••vSPSif ships. As the season drew to a close nolly pulled a startling upset by de- Some Good Teams .•seaurlty^^B it became more and more obvious feating Reggie Pearman, NYU, in Farley went into business at the that the sport would necessarily the 1,000-yard run at the Metropoli- close of the '38 season, and Bill :high:income'and tlio,finest retirement have to be abandoned until the war, tan AAU senior indoor champion- Giesen took over. With the aid of •;gooiTpi|y^^ now in full swing, was over; and so ships, which opened the indoor sea- such stars as Sy Blish, Joe Kane and jplanSsTJio|riemsArniySand;AlriForce the track team, along with all other son. Connolly's time was 2:14.2, Bill Prahl, he produced fairly good g»||g|3jgi5i}«if sSps:|;:?ii:;/-™ ":•-"/»"• sports, indefinitely suspended opera- "offer unprecedented oppartunltles for equaling the championship record. teams for two years, after which • advancement < ; si tions, as they had been forced to do In the same meet, McDonnell placed John Lyttle, the present mentor, 3gssa3fiBia f« '^«fe»--i'i''-- •••••, . • twenty-seven years before by an- fourth in the 600-yard run. took up the coaching reins again. young men with the capucity for lead' other war. John Sorman, who was graduated • retirement H&Wji|Yotir;.cpllege training will help The war over, Fordham immedi- a week ago, was the last of the plan ately announced that she would be standout mermen. Called by the fyojfjgetiswift advancement. Veterans Navy just as he reached his peak, represented in the coming 1945-1946 iwili get full credit for previous service season. Bob Giegengack was rein- John never did become the national • free health stated as coach; but, with only the great he should have been. When care; experionto in assignment, rank and rale John went off to war in 1942, swim- handful that were registered in the of pay. College level courses offered College at the time to draw from, he ming at Fordham went with him was able to do little, and Fordham Resumed last year, the sport is hav- • education 'throughthe Armed Force%Inst!lutewlll ing a hard time building up to pre- went through the season almost un- enable you to round out your education. noticed. war stature. Of course the reason for this is evident. There are no • travel Talk over the advantages of tliis depres- Back in the Spotlight Fordham students around today who Last year found Artie O'Connor could have matched the speed of sion-proof career with your faculty back in the driver's seat, once again Gieaen, the versatility oi Harms, the adviser or local recruiting officer today. replacing Giegengack, who had poise of Sorman, the drive of Schir- moved on to Yale. By now, due to mer, or the heart of Farley. Or may- U. S. ARMY AND AIR FORCE the tremendous influx of returning be there are, The team needs help RECRUITING SERVICE veterans, the College's enrollment badly. Coach Lyttle will be glad t GET TICKETS HEBE FOR 29 E. Fordhm Road ballooned far above the peacetime THE GLEE CLUB CONCERT look you over. Bronx, New York