MONTREAL, WINTER 1962 VOL. VI, NO. 4 This folder could open the doors of higher education to thousands of high-school students Er the average family, the cost of put­ plan to pay for a university education ting a boy or girl through college poses by monthly instalments they can afford quite a financial problem. Even with the to make without hardship. help of scholarships or bursaries, most If you would like to receive a copy of parents find the financial burden a heavy our folder on the subject, you are in­ one. That is why the Bank of Montreal vited to fi ll in and mail the has introduced its University Education coupon below. If you would "MY BANHU Programme, which is covered in detail like to have additional co­ TO 3 Mill/ON CANADIANS in the folder illustrated here. 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CHARTIER, '45 5 Campus Profile 3rd Vice-President TIMOTHY P. SLATTERY, Q.C., M.B.E., '31 7 Homecoming Honorary Secretary ERIC W.KIERANS, '35 8 Loyola and Montreal Honorary Treasurer 10 The Challenge of Renewal KENNETH F. CASSIDY, '56 Councillor l l College Jottings ROSS W. HUTCHINGS, '45 Councillor 13 The Lookout RONALD J. HORE, '61 Councillor EDWARD G. O'BRIEN, M.D., '48 Councillor VERY REV. PATRICK G. MALONE, S.J. EDITORIAL BOARD Rector Leo MacGillivroy Editor Mrs. Dorothy McGee Managing Editor REV. THOMAS M. MOYLAN, S.J. G e rard " Bud " Patton '53 Advertising Manager Moderator Maj. Norman Donn '40 Chairman JAMES C. WILSON, '29 Don al d W . McNaughton '49 Past President Dr . Robert J . Brodrick '43 JAMES HAYES , '63 Address: 7141 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal 28, P.Q. SAC Representative MRS. DOROTHY McGEE PRINTED BY SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD, SHERBROOKE, P.Q . Executive Secretary LOYOLA ALUMNUS • LOYOLA COLLEGE • MONTREAL 28, CANADA Authi:rized as second c•ass mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and PHOTO ON COVER: Author of " Loyola and Montreal," for payment of postage in cash . - POSTAGE PAID AT MONTREAL Mr. T. P. Slattery, Q .C. and mother, Mrs. T. F. Slattery. 1- .Editorial LOYOLA, in company with other disting- very true sense the property of the alumni uished seats of higher learning, has her themselves. It was written by one of them­ share of graduates who have played - and in selves. In a large sense it tells their own story. increasing numbers are playing - roles of And all proceeds from its sale are going into vital importance on the world stage. It might the Loyola College Scholarship Fund. be said that she has more than her share. A quick glance at the record shows, for in­ It must be a matter of pride to every stance, that in 1951 , when Canada had 14 Loyola alumnus that this splendid history ambassadors, five of them were graduates should have been written at all. An immense of Loyola. amount of research went into the gathering of its content and the scholarship that was She has graduated statesmen at the na­ required to sift the facts and present them in tional ns w ell as the international level. She such readable form is a tribute both to the has graduated leaders in the advances of author and the college from which he was m edical science. Her alumni include eminent graduated with a summa. churchmen and jurists and writers and teach­ ers together with the multitude of others who These comments are not intended as a carry their influence into somewhat more re­ review. The book has received widespread stricted but none the less important roles of attention in other periodicals and has its Loy­ their own families and business circles. ola Alumnus review elsewhere in this issue. Rather, the intention here is to encourage And now the Loyola alumni can number every alumnus, whether he likes the reviews among them selves their ow n historian. It is or not, to get a copy of the book and read it in recognition of this proud distinction that as a refresher course in the history of his The Loyola Alumnus focusses special atten­ a:ma mater. It's full of stories that have be­ tion in this issue on Tim Slattery's "Loyola come classical now. and Montreal." It's a book that every alumnus should be This wonderfully readable history is in a proud to own. - 2 - CAPTAIN OF ,_fHE MEN By DR. NEIL FEENEY, '22 MANY years ago William Osler, writing on pneu- NEIL FEENEY , 8.A., M.D .C.M., obtained monia in hi s textbook of medicine, called it the his 8.A. from Loyola in 1922 and his Captain of the Men of Death. Jf he were writing today M.D. from McGill University in 1927. this dubious honour would belong to a disease of the He is a member of the Fellowship of arteries called arteriosclerosis and commonly know;1 The American College of Physicians, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mc­ as hardening of the arteries. Gill, Ch ief of Dept. of Cardiology at During the past few years pilot studies of so-ca ll ed Montreal General Hospital, Senior we ll men have been carried out in the United S:ates Physician at Montreal General Hospi­ tal and Consultant Cardiologist at St. with particular reference to the occurrence of arterio­ Mary's Hospital. sclerosis of the coronary arteri es. There are two fallac­ ies associated with such a study. First of all, there are too few people included and secondly, there is great difficulty in defining a well man. However, with these wa s a poison. However, it is a normal constituent of the obj ections in mind it has been shown that one in 30 body. For in stance, in the liver it is conver:ted i_nto bile of the average male population between the ages of 35 salts which are most important for our digestive pro­ and 65 will develop coronary artery disease. cesses. The important hormones of the adrenal and re­ If a man has high blood pressure the chances of hi s productive glands are manufactured from cholesterol. developing coronary artery diseases are increased 5 There are two sources of cholesterol. That which is times and the same is true if the cholesterol level in his ingested in the form of food since all animal cells blood is elevated, and if he is obese the incidence of contain cholesterol, and this which is manufactured by the di sease will be twice the normal fi gure. Other factors the body itself out of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. play a part such as hered ity, di abetes mellitus, possibly This synthesis occurs mainly in the liver, but cholesterol smoking, and under-active th yroid function , and prob­ may al so be formed in the arteries themselves. It has ab ly many others. been thought for some time that there is a direct rela­ T he coronary arteries are probably the most im­ tionship between cholesterol level in the blood and the po rtant arteri es in the body. These two arteries supply deveolpment of arteriosclerosis. Indeed in people who th e heart mu scle with bl ood which is essential fo r its have a high blood level of cholesterol the tendency to proper functi oning. This function is to act as a pump. develop the disease is definitely higher, but this finding When they arc attacked by arteriosclerosis and their in­ does not necessarily mean that a high blood cholesterol tegrit y impaired, th e blood supply to the heart muscle is the cause of arteriosclerosis and recent studies point is cut down with resulting impairment of heart function . to the possibility of other causes. It is now no longer T hi s commonl y results in angina pectoris which, there­ fa shionable for doctors to place people on a low chol­ fore , is a reflecti on of in adequate blood supply to the esterol diet. lt is a difficult diet to follow and it has heart. not been proven that it reduces the incidence of arter­ Sometimes bl ock age in a di seased artery by one iosclerosis and lowers the blood level of cholesterol. of its branches results in coronary artery thrombosis. As we stated before, it is important to remember that How this takes place is not quite clear. One thing is the animal body can manufacture cholesterol out of certain , namely, arteriosclerosis is the cause but nobody carbohydrates, fats and proteins. knows how arteri osclerosis develops. Formerl y it was More and more it is being realized that the fat considered part of th e aging process and indeed it is we eat may have something to do with the increase in fou nd more commonl y as one ge ts older but it may be incidence of arteriosclerosis.