Subscriber's Address THE COWL PROVIDENCE I COLLEGE VOL. XXIX, No. 8 PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, R. I., DECEMBER 7, 1966 TEN PAGES Mr. Robert M. Purich Appointed Seniors Named To Director of Admissions Post To Who's Who Mr. Robert M. Purich has better than anyone will be able to all concerned this past year Thirty-three Providence Col• large enough to give a well- been appointed Director of Ad• to." attempting to hold two offices, lege seniors were nominated last rounded representation of the missions at Providence College. Religious Superior and Director A great deal of Mr. Purich's week to be listed in the public• student body, small enough to He will replace Father Royal of Admissions. With a large time will be spent on the road ation "Who's Who Among Stu• confine nominations to an excep• J. Gardner, O.P., who will de• community of eighty-seven Do• speaking to various high school dents in American Universities tional group of students, and vote more of his time to his minicans, there are many du• groups. Father Halton, the and Colleges." based upon current enrollment. position as Prior of the Domini• Dean of Freshmen, will help ties which are definitely full can religious community. time responsibilities." Father "Who's Who Among Students" A "Who's Who" student will him to do this. is an annual directory of dis• Mr. Purich, who graduated Gardner explained. have his name and a sketch of Mr. Purich said that he hoped tinguished students selected from Providence College in his personal and college record to carry on the same procedures from colleges throughout Amer• listed in the annual publication as his two predecessors, Fa• ica. The directory has been for the year in which he was ther Gardner and Father Galli- published every school year selected. As a fringe benefit of her. "I don't expect any new since 1934 in Tuscaloosa, Ala• their selection, students can use problems at the present," Mr. bama. There is no connection "Who's Who" as a reference in Purich said, "but something between "Who's Who Among job and graduate school applica• may come up which is un• Students" and the publication tions. "Who's Who" maintains foreseeable." known as "Who's Who in a special "Student Placement America." For the past year Mr. Purich Service" for this purpose. has been doing a great deal of A student recognized in In the school year 1965-66, the basic admissions work due "Who's Who Among Students" 13,977 students were named in to Father Gardner's duties as must first be officially recom• "Who's Who." Three Rhode Is• head of the religious com• mended by the institution which land schools, including Provi• munity. "I know Mr. Purich he attends and then accepted dence College, were represented will do a fine job," said Fa• by the "Who's Who" organiza• last year. Fifty-two were Rhode ther Gardner. "With his experi• tion. Nominations are submit• Island residents. By way of ence he knows the many facets ted annually by four-year de• contrast, California had 27 of the position." gree-granting institutions. Col• schools and 601 residents repre• lege juniors, seniors, and grad• Father Gardner became Prior sented.) of the St. Thomas Aquinas uate students are eligible for The nominating committee in• Priory on October 1. 1965. A nomination. cluded Raymond Lagueux, Paul native of Brooklyn, New York, "Who's Who" requests nomin• Gianelli, Kenneth Shea, John Father Gardner graduated from ating committees to consider the Miniccucci, Dennis Wentraub, Providence College in 1945 and student's scholarship, leader• and Rev. John P. Gerhard, O.P. entered the Dominican Order ship and cooperation in educa• FR. GARDNER, O.P. The student members of the that same year. In 1950, he re• tional and extra-curricular activ• MR. PURICH committee were chosen as pres• ceived the degree of Bachelor Father Gardner is just fin• ities, his general citizenship, and idents of the more important of Sacred Theology and wasishin g a term as president of his promise of future usefulness. 1959, served as Assistant Direc• campus organizations; Father ordained to the priesthood the the New England Association Each participating institution tor of Admissions for four (Continued on Page 4) years. Previous to this, Mr. following year in Washington, (Continued on Page 7) is assigned a separate quota Purich taught for three and a D. C. He was assigned to the half years in Bellingham, Massa• Providence College faculty in chusetts, where he has lived all 1955. He had been previously his life. He has been married assigned to St. Vincent Ferrer's for two years. Church, New York City. James Farmer, Racial Leader Speaks "Father Gardner will be a "I've seen so many changes The Providence College Fo• very difficult man to replace," in the college, in admissions in rum presented its third speaker, said Mr. Purich. "He projected particular, that I feel that the James Farmer, the nationally the image of the college, both college is a great part of my known author and former direc• on the road and on the campus, life. But I felt a great injustice tor of CORE, at 8 p.m., Dec. 15, in Alumni Hall. Mr. Farmer presently is a College Economics Lecturer teacher at Lincoln University, as well as an active member of the civil rights movement. He founded CORE, the Congress Appointed Council Executiveo n Racial Equality, in 1942, at the University of Chicago. This Mr. Edwin P. Palumbo, spe- non-violent group strives for ial lecturer on economics at equality between whites and 'rovidence College, has been non-whites and draws its basic tamed acting executive director ideas from a movement in In• >f the recently formed State dia many years ago. Mr. Farmer Consumer's Council. suggested that CORE was Mr. Palumbo was selected looked upon at its outset, as a rom a field of twenty-nine ap• group of idealists who partici• plicants for the position. His pated in sit-ins and the like, appointment for five years, an• with the emphasis on non-vio• nounced by Thomas Policastro, lence. He stated, "if it were chairman of the council, will be• not for this emphasis on non• come permanent when con• violence, the entire civil rights firmed by the state Senate. movement would have evolved Mr. Palumbo has been in gov• into a blood bath." ernment service in Rhode Island Mr. Farmer stated a couple since 1952. From that time un- of reasons lying behind the be• il 1959 he served on the Rhode ginnings of the civil rights Island Development Council. movement in this country. He In 1959 he joined the redevel• felt that the negro soldiers, who opment agency as the chief in• had fought for the U. S. in dustrial representative for the World War II, emerged with the city of Providence. In that ca• determination which would af• pacity, he handled the promo- ford their sons a position of MR. PALUMBO lion of the West River and equality in American society. Huntington Expressway indus• passed over Governor Chafee's Mr. Farmer said that "the new trial parks. veto. and emerging nations of Africa cast off the old images of the longer look upon their color as Mr. Farmer suggested that this The State Consumer Council Mr. Palumbo, when comment• native, cannibal tribes, and led a 'skin deformity,' but rather to was the beginning of the so- vas set up by the R. I. General ing on the $12,500 per year post, the negroes in America to no begin to assert their blackness." continued on Page 3) Assembly last May. The bill (Continued on Page 6) 2 THE COWL, DECEMBER 7, 1966 Right Direction? The Cowl is receiving "peace literal moral judgment upon the leaders of tare" from a gToup calling themselves government. Any action which moves in MEMO- "the Chicago Peace Council." The Coun• this direction can only be destructive: cil is trying to enlist this college's sup• and those who believe that such a stu• port for a late December meeting pre• dent protest would accomplish positive FROM THE EDITOR paratory to the calling of a national, results are only indulging themselves in anti-war student strike in the spring. one grand delusion. Father John P. Gerhard, O.P., Senior Class Moderator, There are many serious objections It is very easy indeed to make our• is leafing Providence College for reassignment in the African to such a proposal. First, there simply selves believe that wearing strange missions. It's sufficiently easy to permit rhetoric to flow on is no need for such a move. All the in• clothes signifies something; and that such an occasion in expounding upon Father Gerhard's vir• telligent criticism of the present war ef• attacking the war in Viet Nam neces• tues. It can be said he was a patient teacher, a kind man, fort has already been efficiently voiced sarily means — "I care!" But this is an understanding advisor, and most of all a close friend. Bui by more rational, responsible men — easily the most tragic of self-delusions. there is always the danger in bidding adieus that we lost many in high office. Ostensibly, the It is after all a great deal simpler to sight of the real man and bury him under an excess verbiage strike would "prove" to the world that protest the world situation than it is to that hides John Gerhard the priest. do something about it — and promoting all American academic society is de• He is not an angel nor a super-human, both qualities he a national strike is certainly not doing cidedly opposed to the present conflict.