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Willialll G 19-95 ns of England 16%" Wi aston Junior Ch . de, 22V " h. aJr. 1 2-95 72 Jgh Enclosed is my check drawn to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION in the amount of (All merchandise ordered will $_ ___________________________ in payment for be sent express collect) A ____ Hitchcock Mirror with view of Georgetown College in 1830, $14.95 B ____ William Gaston Chair, $24.95 NAME c_ ___ William Gaston Junior Chair, $12.95 D ____ The Georgetown Ladies Chair, $19.95 STREET E ____ The Georgetown Deacon's Bench, $39.95 F_ ___ Set of Six 10 inch Dinner Plates by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons of England, $19.95 CITY ZONE NO. STATE eOR'lETOWD UUIPERSIT~ LUmDI mA(jBZIDE Member of the American Alumni Council e EDITORIAL BOARD MARCH 1957 • VOLUME 9, NUMBER 6 OF ALUMNI MAGAZINE WILLIAM s. ABELL, '36 CONTENTS R oBERT J. A n:n v, '32 Georgetown in the Foreign Service -------------------- 2 LEO A. Cooo, '22 Georgetown Beginnings _________ _________ _:_________ 4 REv. DANIEL E. PowEn, SJ. Lieut. Dennis P. Dowd Memorial Concert ------------- 5 Dn. JAMES S. Runv, '27, Editor Review of Recent Faculty Book ---------------------- 6 Twenty-five Years Ago ------------------------------ 6 EuGENE L. STEWART, '48 Letters to the Editor 7 Dn. JonN WALDRON, '30 The Second Sherman 8 Alumni Clubs Directory ----------------..,------------- 10 R u TH K. SMITH, Managing Editor Hungarian Haven ---------------------------------- ll RUTH KETTERMAN, Advertising Manager Class Notes --------------------------------------- 12 A Tribute to Father Heyden ------------------------- 13 Contributors to tbis issue: EI>WIN w. BEITZELL Recording Secretary, Alumni Association, Washington, D. C. REv. JosEI'II T. DunKIN, S.J. Professor of History, Georgetown College, The Alumni Magazine this month Graduate School and School of Foreign Service, honors all Georgetown graduates Washington, D. C. who have distinguished themselves On. J. W. BRAilNErt- MITH Former Professor of Law in th e fi eld of international relations. and contributor to the Georgetown Law Journal. See picture story on pages 2 and 3. Copyright 19.57 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine Return Postage Guaranteed GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE: published each two months by the Georgetown University Alumni Association Inc., Washington 7, D. C. • Sustaining Membership $25.00 per year,' R egular Membership $5.00 per year, of which $8.00 is for subscription to the Alumni Magazine. • Entered at the Post Office at Was~ington, D. C., as Second Class matter February 24, 1948 under the act of March 8, 1879. • Editorial and Executive offices: GEORGE­ TOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, Alumni House, 3604 0 Street, N .W., W ashington 7, D.C. U. Alexis Johnson, '32, James Riddleberger, '26, U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslat;i.a Georgetown in the Waldemar J. Gallman, '25, Edward B. Lawson, '24, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq U.S. Ambassador to Israel Ricardo M. Arias, '.35, John D. Jernegan, '34, Panamanian Ambassador to the United States Counselor; Minister, U.S. Embassy, Rome Jack K. McFall, '29, Dr. Benjamin Cohen, '27, U.S. Ambassador to Finland Under Secretary of the United Nations. Foreign Service Walter!. Donnelly, '2 1, Harold M. Randall, '27, . Aaron Brown, '39, . Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria U.S. Representative to the Inter-American Deputy Director, Office of Personnel, Economic and Social Council U.S. Department of State Avery Peterson, '29, Counselor, U.S. Embassy, Elmer Bourgerie, '29, Richard P. Butrick, '21, Canberra, Australia Economic Counselor, Mexico, D. F. Consul General, Sao Paulo, Brazil COLONIAL MARYLAND \ Georgetown Beginnings By Edwin W. Beitzell '28 In 1638, four years after the settlement of Maryland, pounds of Tobacco for some that could not discharge Father Ferdinand Poulton, S. J., the Superior at St. for their schooling." Crouch, in th e same letter, gave his Inigoes, in St. Mary's County, conceived the idea of estab­ co nsent to the continued use of the estate for the school. lishing a college in the colony and his plan was sub­ After Crouch's removal to Newtown, in the center of mitted to the General of the Society of Jesus, who wrote St. Mary's County, it is un certain for some years what in 1640 as follows: "The hope held out of a college I happened to the school in the southern part of the am happy to entertain, and when it shall have matured County. However, on March 27, 1697, Governor Francis I will not be backward in extending my approval." Prob­ Nicholson of Maryland wrote to the English Boara of ably due to the heavy demands on the few Jesuit mis­ Trade as follows: " ... few schools, and those but very sionaries and the invasion of Maryland by Richard Ingle mean ones ei ther for Master or House, but the Jesuits in 1645, the project was delayed for some years. and Priests had some, especially one brick one at St. A beginning was made on January 27, 1649, when Mary's." Henry Hooper, Surgeon, of St. Inigoes left an estate to There is sufficient evidence to conclude that a school Ralph Crouch, a layman closely associated with the was an integral part of each Jesuit Residence in the Jesuits, "to be imployed in such pious uses, as the said Colony; that a system of parochial schools was in exist­ Ralphe Crouch shall best thinke fitte." Crouch estab­ ence, probably by 1660, if not earlier. Governor Nichol­ lished a school with this fund but it is uncertain whether son speaks of "some" schools. It is known definitely that the school was located at St. Inigoes or at St. Mary's schools were in operation at the Jes uit Residences at St. City. Confirmation that this school was actually in exist­ Mary's City and Newtown at early dates and in later ence is contained in a letter dated August 20, 1650 to years mention is made of schools at St. Inigoes, St. Father Thomas Copley, S. J., from Father Piccolomini Thomas and Bohemia Manors. It would have been strange in which among other things he wrote: "I do not doubt if the Jesuits had not founded schools, for .the ed ucation of that the school opened by the Father, your companion, youth has always been one of their important functions. (Father Lawrence Starkey, S.J.) will be worth the pains." Although Ralph Crouch returned to England in 1659, In 1653, Edward Cotton of Newtown also left Crouch his letter of 1662 indicates that the school at Newtown an estate "wch was left eyther for the settling of a was still in operation at that time. In June 1667, Luke schoole or to bee employed uppon other pious uses." Gardiner filed an accounting of the estate of Robert Cole, Concerning this school, Crouch wrote from England in a carpenter, of Newtown containing an item, "To the 1662 to the Provincial Court as follows: "I aflirme boldly childrens schooling 2150 lbs. Tobacco." In the Annual allsoe that on my part I did (as appeared to all the Letter of the Jesuits for 1681, there is mention of a school neighbours) as much as lay in mee, fulfill the will of the for humanities at Newtown in 1677, co nducted by two of Deceased, in remoueing my teaching of schoole to the the Jesuit Fathers and "the youths born there, unusually New Towne : & there was ready some yeares to teach devoted to letters, are making good progress . the eyther Protestants or Catholikes, yet never had more out school has sent to St. Orner two students, who are sur­ of that Estate than to the value of six or seaven hundd passed in intelligence by few Europeans and strive for 4 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE the palm with the foremost of their class. Hence we infer Father Spalding has compiled a list from the registers that these lands, undeservedly called Barbarous, are most of the Jesuit Procurators in London, which reveals the prolific, not alone of gold and silver and other products names of many old Maryland families and includes of the earth, but also of men made for virtue and the Adams, Brent, Blake, Boarman, Boone, Brooke, Carroll, higher education. Two have been sent thither this year Cole, Darnall, Diggs, Doyne, Edelen, Falkner, Fenwick, to aid those who are laboring in that most ample vine­ Hogan, Hill, Hoskins, Howe, Gardiner, Jenkins, Lan­ yard of the Lord." caster, Matthews, Mattingly, Milbourn, Millard, Neal, According to Father Edward I. Devitt, S. J., the two Parkham, Pike, Pye, Queen, Semmes, Sewall, Spalding, Fathers who directed the school were Michael Foster and Thompson and Wharton. Francis Pennington and the "two of the Society sent out A few years after the Revolutionary War, with the this year" were Brother Gregory Turberville and Brother ratification of the Constitution of the United States, John Berboel. The two boys sent to St. Orner's were guaranteeing religious liberty, Archbishop John Carroll, Robert Brooke, who was the first native-born Marylander who had received his early education at Bohemia Manor, to become a Jesuit priest, and a son of Mr. Luke Gardi­ established Georgetown University in 1789. Various ner, probably Thomas Gardiner, who is mentioned in writers have held that Georgetown University was founded 1694 as being a Maryland-born Scholastic.