• ..... ALUMNUS June 1976 Loyola needs help It's hoped Loyola grads will respond generously to the university's Campaign '76 . Campaign '76 has been launched to raise $450,000 for scholarships, research pro­ jects, improved failities, library acquisi­ tions and building projects. Unlike most universities with these Sun Shines Brightly needs, Concordia does not have an • endowment fund to draw on to finance these projects. The first two convocation ceremonies on and Dr. Gerald Emmett Carter, Bishop ot The university receives the lowest dollar Loyola's Junior Field were carried out with London (Ont.), received honorary degrees. per student grant in the province of a majesty and grandeur that befitted the Also resplendent in his scarlet gown was Quebec. magniticence ot the weekend's blazing sun. Dr. R.P. Duder, assistant to the vice-rector, The campaign committee chairman is Resplendent in gowns, more than 1,000 who had recently returned from St. John's, Dudley Dawson, recently retired vice students filed past the dignitaries to receive Newfoundland, were he had received an chairman of Greenshields, the brokerage their degrees and diplomas and the honorary degree from Memorial Univer­ firm. Co-chairman of the campaign is John customary tap on the shoulder by the sity. Pepper, a partner in the Montreal law firm rector, Dr. John O 'Brien. Bishop Carter, founder of St. Joseph's of Campbell, Pepper and Laffoley. Before Dean Russell Breen read the Teacher's College and the man who Hartland MacDougall, executive vice graduands' names, liberally salted with developed English-language Catholic teach­ president of the Bank of Montreal, is cum laudes and magna cum laudes, Dr. ing in Quebec, gave the homily, the text of chairman of the Ontario campaign Larkin Kerwin, Rector of Laval University which can be found on page 2. committee, based in Toronto. The campaign committee membership reflects a cross-section of Canada's Restoration underway investment, legal, banking, transport and manufacturing community. Builders have started restoration work Building. Last year's campaign raised $400,000 on campus as part of a $60,000 project to It remains uncertain as to when the job which was used to establish a graduate repair the Chapel and the Central Building. will commence because funds are not fellowship program at the university, "Nothing like this has been done since immediately available. expand the number of scholarship awards they were built," said Charles McPherson, The project will not be eye pleasing. It available to undergraduate students and director of Loyola's Physical Plant. will involve digging a long trench across the augment funding for various research The Central Building was built in 1944 grounds to get at the pipes below, much projects undertaken in the university. and the Chapel in 1928. like the trench dug across the quadrangle The university's art collection and film McPherson said that such construction last fall. bank, which attract wide public attention, was rare these days. "So $60,000 is nothing were expanded and improved with money to pay when you consider that these However, unsightly, the job is a collected in last year's campaign. buildings are irreplaceable," he said. necessary one. There were leaks in the pipes Another project on the cards is a earlier this year which had to be repaired • The Association thanks contributors to $150,000 job repairing steam heating pipes under adverse winter conditions. the John E. Williams Memorial Fund, running west and north from the Central Said McPherson: "These quick and dirty would greatly appreciate further donations. Building to Hingston HaJI, the Bryan jobs never work. The only time to get the Building and the Drummond Science job properly done is in the summer." The worst is not the surest By Bishop Emmett Carter You are all, no doubt, familiar with the saying, "God loves the Irish". You may be less familiar with the rejoinder, no doubt • framed by an Englishman, "Only God could". Whatever God's attitude to the Hibern­ ians, I have long suspected that He initiated their sense of humor. I find a remarkable resemblance between it and the wry procedures of Divine Providence. Let me illustra te what I mean in this particular context. A friend of mine was driving in Ireland. Those of you who have had this experience know about the narrow, winding Irish roads which frequently seem to traverse 1railway crossings. These are generally decorated by hand-controlled gates that b lock both sides of the road when in use. i:-1y friend came to such a crossing and J:ound that the gate was down on his side. IHe stopped his car in dutiful North .American fa shion and waited for some- 1: hing to happen. Nothing happened. Cars came from the other direction and crossed witho ut mishap. Finally he became intrigued, left his car and went up to the [rishman who was the crossing guard and who was seated in his little booth, smoking his pipe. He said, "Pardon me, sir, but would you explain how it is that you are blocking only one half of the roadt" The guard removed his pipe from his mouth, contemplated him with that benign and benevolent expression which is so characteristic of the Irish and replied, "Well Bishop Emmett Carter receives an honorary degree. From right to you see, sor, it's like this. We're half left are Registrar K. Adams, Bishop Carter, Convocation Marshall expecting a train from Dublin." Graeme Decarie and Chancellor H. Hemens. This is where I find a certain similarity to the divine sense of humor. You see, I may achievement. Not my achievement, yours. to say nice things about people. After I will state honestly and openly that I was have been half expecting an honorary almost fifteen years of absence, I am in no degree from my Montreal Alma Mater or not entirely at peace with the idea of the position to say what I would write at this loss of the identity of Loyola. I was one of from the University at which I labored as juncture. It is always difficult to judge from Chaplain for over fifteen years, I really did those who, along with Father Pat Malone a distance. But I can assure you that I and his Jesuit cohorts surrounded by the not expect one from Concordia. It makes would have to think about it. Slatterys and the Waylands and the Caseys the honor all the more pleasant and the and the Ballantynes, fought the well-fought And yet my thoughts at this moment are pleasure all the more honorable. fight for a university charter for Loyola. anything but negative or dark. Once again, Not, heaven knows, that my relation­ I turn my thoughts to Divine Providence ships have been anything but excellent with There is no sweeping these historical events under the rug as if they had not happened. and the strange way that God works out both of the institutions which are the our destiny. We have it all planned, the founding organizations of Concordia. I And in all honesty I do not, even at this juncture, consider that the ultimate refusal course is set, the stars are there to guide us, recall with particular fondness my to Loyola was the greatest hour of the and we are sure of the way. Then the clouds memories of Dr. Hall and other members of arise, we no longer see the stars and we find the faculty of Sir George Williams. With Government of Quebec. A number of years ago I wrote a book Loyola it was almost a family affair, which set forth the development of the ourselves suddenly on unchartered seas. although I was denied the distinction of educational system of the English-speaking And frequently this i the only way in which being a graduate of that institution until the Catholics of this province. In it I said and we can learn our lessons. Paul Claude! present moment. To come now to meant very many laudatory things about wrote as a sub-title to his glorious Satin Concordia as a recipient of your Honorary Slipper the following words, "The worst is Degree of Doctor of Laws is not exactly the the attitude of the majority in Quebec to their minorities, and in particular about not the surest" . Nor is it. evolution which I could have anticipated, but it is one which I accept not only with many who were influential in government. I am glad I wrote it then. It is nice to be able humility but with a very positive sense of continued on back page • Medalist looks at merger Ken Torrens, 21 , a member of- more than a half dozen administrative faculty and student bodies, graduates from Concordia this year with an honors B.A. cum laude in history - and the Malone Medal. Winning the Malone Medal for out­ standing achievement in academic and extra cirrucular activities, meant among other things that Torrens had a unique per­ spective on the Loyola-Sir George merger. He served on the Senate committee on priorities and resource al location as the sole student representative for all Concordia. He also served on the Loyola Faculty Council and was the internal vice-president of the Loyola Students Association. "In the three years I've been here, I've noticed a changing attitude towards the merger," he said. "l think people are begin­ ning to recognise that there are two tradi­ tions that are worth maintaining." B.A. to add to an engineer's ticket. Floorwasher rises Ken to admissions officer Torrens Horatio Alger would certainly approve "I came here because it had a campus.