RE C ORD MARIST COLLEGE Vol. II, No. 15 Poughkeepsie, New York April 3, 1962 Dr. Grafton Chase Discusses: "Fact and Fancy of Radiation Hazards" by DENNIS ST. JEAN Fr.Tos Lecture on Bible; The Titan Received & JAMES PENNELJL To Write for Encyclopedia By Enthusiatic Audience Are the effects of fallout as bad as On Wednesday and Thursday even­ people think? Does radiation mean cer­ by GEORGE HALLAM ings, March 28th and 29th the Night tain death? These are some of the ques­ School Student Council presented seve­ tions which were asked last Friday Father Aldo J. Tos, instructor in ral films in the college auditorium. night by Dr. Grafton D. Chase in his Sacred Scripture here at Marist seems These films initiated a community cul­ lecture, "Fact and Fantasy of Radia­ to have his work cut out for him. Be­ tural program which is to be continued tion Hazards. " The lecture was main­ tween teaching at Marist and Our Lady next year. Short subjects added variety ly concerned with clearing up many mis­ of Lourdes High School, Father leads a to the program. conceptions which people have regard­ varied and pressinglife. Recently being The first two, Marching the Colors ing the atom. Dr. Chase pointed out asked to give a series of three lectures and Serenal were of an abstract quality thatpeople were once afraid of the auto­ to an adult study group he travelled where color and symmetry were used mobile, but that they have learned to down to Irvington, New York. There to express the mood of the musical ac­ live with it. This, he said, we must at the Church of the Immaculate Con­ companiment. The third film gave a do with regard to the atom as well. ception the lecture series was started view of Venice not only as it stands to­ Dr. Chase received his B.A. in ohMarch 11th with a lecture on "Chris­ day but also as it stood in the Middle chemistry from the Philadelphia Col­ tian Approaches to the Old Testament", Ages when it was a magnificant city of lege of Pharmacy in 1943. Upon gra­ the subsequent lectures being "Chris­ pomp and glory. duation, he entered the armed forces tian Approaches to the New Testament" The main feature of the program was and served until the close of the war. and "The Bible and The Christian Life". The Titan which showed the life of He went back to school, and in 1951 he The group which was addressed by Michelangelo through his sculpture and received his M.A. in chemistry from Father was formed by the pastor of his art. The film leads us from the Temple University. From the same the Church, Monsignor Robert Brown, early learnings of the great artist under institution, four years later, he recei- whose purpose was to acquaint the the patronage of the Medicis up to his /edhis doctorate in physical chemistry. parishioners with the Bible in modern work on the dome of St. Peter's, which In his lecture, Dr. Chase stressed Catholic views and have this group act was one of the last works which he under­ one predominant thought, that what as a core to spread it through the rest took. Throughout the film the flavor of everyone usually thinks of in terms of of his parish. the time of the Renaissance was aptly radiation danger is more often than not An honor has come to Father Tos brought out in the art of not only Michel­ fantasy, and that it isn't so bad after all. in that he has been asked by the Catho­ angelo but also the other great artists He quoted numerous facts, and by means lic Youth Encyclopedia to write eleven of this period. of slides he explained that of all the articles with a total content of 3, 000 The views of the works of Michel­ radiation we receive, only 3% comes words in his field of Sacred Scripture. angelo were given new meaning in their from radioactive fallout. The Encyclopedia, which is being spon­ handling which is -unhurried. The nar - There are, he said, many natural sored by Cardinal Spellman and being ration of Frederic March also gave to causes of radiation, the earth, houses, published by McGraw Hill Book Co., the film a certain insight into the char - and to most everyone's surprise, the Inc. has asked Father to write on the acter and temperament of Michelangelo. human body itself. According to the following subjects: Rachel; Rebecca; The large audience who came from diagrams which he presented, 20% of Sara, Bar Cochba Simon; Berossus; far and wide around the Poughkeepsie all the radiation to which we are nor - Holiness; Issac; Jacob; Jehu; Joseph, area were full of acclaim for the film mally subjected comes from sources Patriarch; Pontius Pilate. and many expressed an interest in see­ within our bodies, in the form of potas­ ing future films of this cultural content. The encyclopedia will be a ten volume sium 40, carbon 14, and radium 226. Other films will be shown in April and work mostly for the use of high school By quoting these figures, Dr. Chase May, Mr. Ruggeri, Chairman of the students. dispelled many false notions which program, announced, as a result of the Another part of Father's life is be­ people have concerning radiation which favorable response to this initial offer- ing on the Executive Co/nmittee of the we receive from fallout as a result of Religious Teachers Conference, which nuclear testing-. is an organization of all the high school There are three kinds of radiation- Religion teachers in the New York Arch­ CREW MEETS alpha, beta, and gamma. If the source diocese and whose purpose is to help in of the radiation is outside the body, our the teaching of catechistics, by the use at St. John's greatest danger lies in being struck by of study days and by articles in the or­ gamma rays. These are electro-mag- ganizations' newspaper Promise. Sunday April 8 (Cont. on P. 4) Page Two THE RECORD April 3, 1962 THE RECORD Page Three INTRAMURALS Tanks "Invade" Campus by JAMES PIZZANI On Wednesday, March 29th, at ap­ With the closing of the basketball proximately 11 A.M., two tanks came season, the intramural program now rumbling down Route 9, turned left at The plans a six team intramural Softball Lighthouse the Water Works Road, and proceeded Editor: James Callahan league. Today the Don House has cap­ by THOMAS HEFFERNAN it to enter the northern end of Marist's Asst. Editor: James Moloney tured the football crown while the Manor by PETER HANLEY campus. This was not an attack; it was RECORD Advisor: Br. Cornelius Russell House the basketball crown. The tremendous gap, socially, eco­ Brazil, continuing to steam Ameri­ merely the result of Poughkeepsie's nomically and politically, between the National Guard unit desiring extra prac­ The league standings were as follows: can assets within her borders is sche­ underdeveloped nations and the West is duled to receive a fat share of the funds, tice in preparation for their fall maneu­ House Won Lost both an affront to the concept of inter­ of Alliance For Progress. The United vers. They received permission from Feathers, Crabs, And All That... national social justice and a serious States is not expected to made any ob­ the College to practice the stationary Manor 5 0 threat to world peace. And, it is upon operations of the equipment, such as the ". Can you row? " the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knit­ Park 4 1 jections. this gap the Communist world places Ciudad Trujillo, capital city of loading and unloading of the guns with ting needles as she spoke. Senior 3 2 "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles " Alice emphasis in its attempt at world con­ Dominican Republic, was recently over­ dummy shells. This will continue un­ Guard 1 4 version. Therefore, the United States til the unit goes on maneuvers in Septem­ was beginning to say, when suddenly the needles turned into oars in Hudson 1 4 run with riots. Very little was harmed, developed a policy of foreign aid which save a few U.S. diplomatic buildings. ber* her hands, and she found they were in a little boat, gliding along Don 1 4 between banks: so there was nothing for it but to do her best. has as its purpose to raise the people Dominican Republic owes her past and The Softball loop will commence socially, to give support to the recipi­ Fleur De Lis Plans Panel "Feather! " cried the Sheep, as she took up another pair of Monday afternoon, April 2nd with Don present wealth to American dollars The Fleur de Lis has announced needles. ents" economy, and to stabilize the gov­ given cum gratis by Uncle Sam. House meetingGuardHouse at Shamrock ernment. plans for a panel discussion on "Travel This didn't sound like a remark that needed any answer: So Alice Field. All games will be played on Mon­ Yugoslavia, ruled by pro-Red (to and Study Abroad". Plans are to have said nothing, but pulled away. There was something very queer Under the Marshall Plan the recipi­ say the least) Tito, has received a day, Wednesday and Friday at 3:30 at ent nations achieved these three goals. the panel made up of the faculty from about the water, she thought, as every now and then the oars got Shamrock Field. healthy supply of American jets and is the language department and the stu­ They secured them because there was having his pilots trained in this country.