l@¥,@la--·-........ alumnus Montreal Winter 1968 vol. 12.-no 3 , J ... ...... COMING ALUMNI ACTIVITIES WINTER SEASON in ATHLETIC COMPLEX Hockey Every Sunday at 10:00 a. m .. This activity will commence on Sunday, December 8, 1968, and will continue through January, February, March 1969. Basketball Every Sunday between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m .. Begins on Sunday, December 8, 1968, and continues throughJ an uary, February, March 1969. Hockey-Basketball Social This will take place in late March or early April. Carnival Time in Place des Arts Alumni and students w ill cooperate on this venture. Information w ill be made available during January 1969. Loyola alumnus Member of the American Alumni Council. Features ... Statutes THE ASSOCIATION JOHN J. PEPPER , '49 President Ct)ristmas Message. W.H . WILSON JR '53 1st Vice-President Golf Tournament. ROBERT G . BEAUREGARD, '60 2nd Vice-President Homecoming '68. BRIAN O 'N. GALLERY, '57 3rd Vice-President RONALD J . HORE, '61 Fall Convocation. Honorary Secretary ROSS N. BRADY, '64 Honorary Treasurer Departments DR . JOHN F. McMULLAN, '53 Councillor J. LAWRENCE DOHERTY, '48 Alum news Councillor Bursary Awards EUGENE LEWIS, '59 Councillor LINDA MaclNTYRE '68 Councillor Editorial Board ... CHARLES A. PHELAN , '48 Past President Managing Editor TERENCE E. O'NEILL, '54 BERNARD H. McCALLUM '43 Toronto Chapter Presiaent VERY REV . PATRICK G. MALONE, S.J . Art Director Father President TERRY TOMALTY REV . J . GERALD MATHIEU, S.J ., '52 Father Moderator Circulation Director J. STIRLING DORRANCE Director of Development DUNCAN COWAN, '65 BERNARD H. McCALLUM, '43 Director of Alumni Affairs Advertising THE FORMAN AGENCY THE COVER Loyola Alumnus - Loyola College - Montreal 262, Canada. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Depart­ WINTER OUTSIDE THE JUNIOR BUILDING ment, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. POSTAGE PAID AT MONTREAL. I think of these people now. wheel chair; he was crippled and There was the elderly lady I found spastic, his whole body writhing in living utterly alone. She was bright, repulsive contortions. A woman stubborn, somewhat defeated by came out of a nearby building, walk­ life. Yet even with two husbands ed graciously and smilingly to the dead, childless, and rejected by boy, embraced him and held him her only sister, she managed an warmly in her arms. God became a engaging smile. She was too proud man, ambracing not human nature, to enter a home for senior citizens; but human people, even the most too stubborn to take welfare help; repulsive of us. Christ was and is too attached to quit her little home, because man is here. the only thing she could call her When Christ walked the earth own. I wonder now if she is as skept­ there were the shepherds, Herod, ical about Christmas as she was the woman taken in adultery, Mary about talking to a priest. Yet it was Magdalen, the confused questioning for the heart of this woman, where Nicodemus, the outcast leper, the she is today, that Christ was born. possessed, the vacillating apostles ... And He was born that day in Beth­ all were there and He came because lehem for that woman too, who they were there. sat surrounded by professionals He comes today because there waiting for her to sign away her child are people here ... the old lady, the to an adoption agency. Our mental mental patient, the Czechs, the con­ health team had gathered in an fused youth, his vacillating and office awaiting the next patient. perplexed followers, the Biafrans, The woman was brought in. She the poor, the prodigal sons and A was sick, but not sick enough to be people like Joseph and Mary. I am hospitalized. And she was well not sure what the attraction is for enough to feel love and affection. Him. But I believe that as I know Christmas Now she was being told that she the human heart more, I shall know wasn't capable enough to raise more about why He took a human her own child. She signed and heart. Reflection stared accusingly at us. There I believe, then, that the meaning has to be a link between her family of Christmas is people. It is Christ experience and the experience of and people; people turn to him on by John S. O'Neill, S.J. '46 that family in the cave, or Christmas December 25th. It is people and means nothing at all. people; the Bethlehem event sends It meant something to the young us visiting our friends; and of all shepherds. So too must 1t mean times of the year it is then that Usually at this time of year a something to the young fellow who we open our hearts to those who man begins to wonder what this stands in front of me and tells me have no friends. Christmas event is all about...if he that life is not worth living. To make In Bethlehem 'God embraced takes time off to do any wondering life worth living love is needed, he flesh and blood, a human heart. at all. At this time each year I find says, and he finds none in his home Christmas must then be the conti­ myself confronted with the task of nor in society nor in the world. But nued embracing of the human heart preparing a talk for midnight mass. Christ was born for this man just by Him and us, wherever it is found, And each year I come to the con­ as He was born for that other young in whatever condition it is four,d. clusion that Christmas is a most dif­ fellow who sees the Church as an ficult subject to speak about, per­ archaic remnant of the past... and haps because it is a vast subject, the liturgy as a meaningless and as vast as the Mystery of God repetitious mumbo-jumbo. Becoming a Man. I could once again The reason for Christmas has run around and look up the books, to be found in the Czechs who fought search out what Karl Rahner, Tho­ for freedom ; in the Biafrans who mas Merton and Bonhoffer have to starved to death for reasons no say about it; I could ponder the in­ man can accept; in the citizens terpretation of the Bethlehem event of Resurrection City, Harlem and by the Scripture scholars. In their Watts. It has to involve the millions own way, these sources are impor­ who wept at the death of Martin tant. But I sense something is mis­ Luther King and the Kennedys. It sing and I am not sure what it is. has to touch the sincere mothers So as I begin to think about the and fathers profoundly disturbed by meaning of Christmas again, I find the Encyclical on Birth Control ; it I am turning with some satisfaction has to embrace the many Catholics, to other sources. I think now of priests, nuns and laymen who have people, people I have met during the questioned their commitment or quit past six months. To know the pro­ it. found meaning of Christmas, I be­ A couple of Christmas eves ago I lieve, is to know these people. If thought I had gasped finally what Christ became a man, the meaning Christmas was all about. I was in of Christmas is to be found in the New Jersey, walking through a heart of man, the man you and I project area, wondering whc>t I meet each day. During the summer I would say that night at midn1s 'it met a number of people while I was mass. Then I saw something happen; engaged in mental health work in it was simple, but for me, at that Washington, D.C.; since September moment, most profound. On the side­ students have come to me in my walk in that cement jungle was a capacity as Chaplain and Counselor. boy about fifteen years old in a 3 by the Act 62, Viet. c. 78; tated so that a portion of each (d) Board: The Board of Gover­ group shall retire each year. nors hereinafter created; (c) All shall be eligible for re­ Statutes of The (e) President: the President ot appointment. Loyola College (d) The Board, as it is now con­ Board of Governors stituted, shall be included among Aims and Objectives those mentioned in section 8, 3. The aims and objectives of Loyo­ and special provisions shall be of Loyola College: la College shall be to remain a required for the initial years. Catholic academic community functioning as an university ad­ Vacancies vancing learning, disseminating 10.(a) The office of a member of the Enacted by knowledge, developing its mem­ Board shall become vacant at bers intellectually, socially, moral­ the expiration of the term of of­ The Corporation ly and physically, and bettering fice of a member, and in the case society. of death, resignation or other 4. Loyola College will continue to circumstances fixed by the by­ under Sections be an academic community alive laws. and vibrant with religious faith, (b) The Board may fill any vacan­ and make further progress towards cy occurring in groups 8 (b) , 8 7 & 8 of The Act being, in the words of John XX- (c) , 8 (e) , and 8 (f), for the unex­ 11 l's encyclical Pacem in Terris, pired portion of the term of the Viet. c. 78. a community " whose foundation member whose seat has become 62 is truth, whose measure and ob­ vacant. Before exercising this jective is justice, whose driving power with respect to groups 8 force is love, and whose method (b) and 8 (c), the Board shall of attainment is freedom." allow the Alumni Association or Preamble the Senate as the case may be 1.