REV JUOE T KOLL OSti 8CG36-tHH~40R 61 S T JOHNS AI:H~E Y COLLEGEVILLE MN 56321 If he's serious about college, we're just as serious about him. You may have gone through this before. You're an alumnus of St. John's and somehow or other you find yourself talking to a few high school students. They may be close friends, relatives or merely unfamiliar faces. It might be a banquet or your backyard. Just the same you're impressed with their enthusiasm and bearing. There might be some talk of a recent no-hitter, a novel or movie; maybe a relig ious or political question might pop up. Later on, there might be some talk about what they expect from a college education. Then you say goodbye. The point is, if you're impressed with a young person you probably want to see him get a sound college education. If a young man is interested in a private liberal arts college with Christian principles, the next step is obvious. He should know more about St. John's. We respect your iudgment. Jot down the name and address of a student (or students) you think might be interested in St. John's. We'll send him more information and try to explain the Benedictine tradition and our ideas about academic quality and spiritual enrichment in a college education. If he's serious about a college education, you know how we feel about him. --------------------ClipHere-------------------- I recommend you contact the following student or students. D You may use my name Name--------------------------------------­ Address ~--------------­ High School/Year------------- City, State, Zip Code------------ Name---------------------------------------­ Address~--.--------------­ High School / Year------------- City, State, Zip Code------------ D Send me information about Saint John's Name _______________________________________ Address ~---------------­ Years Attended ________________ City, State, Zip Code------------- THREE GRAD NOVELISTS TELL FRUSTRATIONS, REWARDS OF PUBLISHING Saint John's Calendar of events by Robert L. Spaeth St John's permanent Vol. 17, No.2 Jan. 4-26 Art show featuring selected pieces f rom . kd 9 a m _ collection, Engel Hall Art Gallery, wee ays, .. Fall/Winter, 1977 5 p.m. "Here is a pitch for warmth and openness . .. Jan. 12 Clergy Day Editor: lee A. Hanley '58 D' kmann OSB Associ ate Editor: Thorn Woodward '70 But author Hassler's warmth is mingled with wry­ Jan. 14 St. Louis Alumni Stand-up with Fr. Godfrey Ie I k ' OSB Saint John's is published quarterly (Winter, Spring, ness, his humor touched With a bleak realism that Summer and Fall) by the Office of Communica· Jan. 19 Twin Cities Alumni Luncheon with Fr. Michael B ec er, tio.ns, St. John's UniverSity. Second Class postage makes a bizarre climax the more jarring for its under­ pOid at Collegeville, MN 56321 and additional statement." (Christian Science Monitor, August 10, Jan. 31 Central Minnesota Stag d r~~¢. at St. Cloud, MN 56301, granted January 28, ry artists an co- 1977) Feb. 1-23 Art show featuring prints by contempora. A (st Gallery ordinated through the Associated Amerlcankd r 1 9 a m _ ALUMNI OFFICERS "Hinkemeyer weaves legends and practices of ElECTED in New York, Engel Hall Art Gallery, wee ays, .. John Rogers '63, President sunworshippers into his mystery, with hints of the Patrick Bresnahan '51, Vice President 5 p.m. Gregory Melsen '74, Secretary renewal of the life-giving soil mixed with remInIS­ Feb. 2 Charles Griffith '67 cences of the townspeople." (San Francisco Sunday Abbey Minstrels Concert, Great Hall, 8 p.~. ( " Alumni Randy Holstrom '66 lawrence luetmer '59 Examiner and Chronicle, April 25, 1976) Fr. John English speaking on "Spiritual Dlf~~c lO~i Ministry Jerome McCarter '71 Lounge, 8 p.m., sponsored by the 0 Ice William McGrann '59 Steven Muggli, Jr. '61 "John Goulet ... has written a book which Preparation Paul Umhoefer '57 should turn other writers green with envy . ... 'Oh's Feb. 3 Robert Welle, Sr. '48 Men's Chorus home concert, Main Auditorium, ~lI3m. EX OFFICIO Profit' blends realism and poetry, scientific fact and Abbot John A. Eidenschenk, OSB '35, Chancellor Chicago Stand-up with Fr. Godfrey Diekmann, OSB Fr. Michael Blecker, OSB, University President satiric fantasy, into a fictional tour de force that is Feb. 4 Fr. Alan Steichen, OSB '68, Preparatory School Milwaukee Stand-up with Fr. Godfrey Diekmann, Headmaster at once unique and timely." (Milwaukee Journal, Feb. 11 Skip Rasmussen, University Vice President for Parents Council, Alumni Lounge, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. h U' Institutional Advancement November 16, 1975) F b 13 H "d G ne from t e m- Fr. Roger Botz, ass '56, University Alumni e. -16 onors Program featunng Prof. DaVI re f S hocles Executive Di rector versity of Chicago discussing the plays 0 op , Mike Ricci '62, University Annual Fund Director lee A. Hanley '58, Editor, Saint John's nation's press has been Alumni Lounge, 8 p.m. Jerome Terhaar '48, Past President, National 1:.e Alumni Association paying attention-complimentary attention-to three Feb. 17-18 D h I M · Auditorium, 8 p.m. Tim Scanlan '68, President, Central Minnesota ance program wit Janet Mil er, am H J h Chapter new American novelists, as this sample of quotations March 31 The Forum debate on camp~ign finance with ~flia;~re~z~ Thorn Farnham '72, President, Twin Cities Chapter indicates. The novelists-Jon Hassler, Michael T. B. Anderson (Ill.-16th DISt.) and the Hon. Hinkemeyer, and John Goulet-are all graduates of (Minn.-3rd Dist.) St. John's, classes of 1955, '62, and '64, respectively. INDEX: April 22 Parents Day Hassler, Hinkemeyer, and Goulet have published Page Fifth annual Swayed Pines Folk Festival four novels altogether, and each is working on more. THREE GRAD NOVELISTS Ed't ' bt 'ned by writing to The newest is Hassler's Staggerford, a Book-of-the­ 1 or s note: Complete sports schedules may be 0 al '11 MN 56321 TELL FRUSTRATIONS, Month alternate selection this year. Hinkemeyer the Communications Office; St. John's University; Collegevi e, REWARDS OF PUBLISHING 1 Novelist Jon Hassler '55, left, visited St. John's recently published The Dark BeloUJ in 1974 and Summer by Robert L. Spaeth '59 to discuss his writing experiences with Robert Spaeth Solstice in '76. Goulet's Oh's Profit came out in '75. '59, right. WOMAN GUIDES DESTINY AT UNIVERSITY FOR MEN 6 The three writers do not by Gary Hiebert know one another. Their writing styles and concerns differ widely. They live in Minnesota, New York, and Wisconsin. Yet they share more than their SJU ST. JOHN'S NEWS REVIEW 8 education: all have been college professors; each ON THE COVER: wrote poetry before he turned to fiction; all have St J h' Al . William F. Buckley ST. JOHN'S . 0 n s umm Lounge was filled to capaCIty as . 'll't used small-town and rural settings in their novels; d M' hI' . The senes WI pI SPORTS REVIEW . ......... 11 teachers appear as significant figures in their writ­ an IC ae Harnngton maugurated The Forum. h ' 1St B e- The author: Robert L. Spaeth '59 is Director of the teams consisting of nationally prominent persons and St. Jho n ~d f' en ings; and all are fiercely devoted to their craft. th ALUMNI NEWS REVIEW 12 Freshman Colloquium. He is on leave of absence from d'IC t s t u d ents m. db"e ates on crUCIal Issues of t h e d ay. T e SIb et ort' e) St. John's College of Annapolis, Md., where he has been The published work of these three Johnnie alum­ ' . 'th 19 a s en IOns a ffIrmahve (Harrington) was voted victor (66-27 WI bl' t" a faculty member for 14 years. He has served there as ni shows, moreover, that they share a deep concern . th . h f the pu IC sec or. 1977 President's Report m e opemng debate: "We welcome the growt 0 tutor, Assistant Dean and Director of the Graduate In­ for human suffering, human predicaments, human (More photos on page 10.) to Investors . .. Insert' stitute in Liberal Education. relationships, human possibilities. Each of these men is striving, in his unique way, "to speak of incidents Four Quarters, North American Review, South Da­ ... which might come to be, i.e., what are possible kota Review, Sunday Clothes, and a second story in by virtue of either the likely or the necessary" Prairie Schooner. These small successes attracted some attention, so by the time Hassler was ready (Aristotle, Poetics). with bigger things, he had hired a New York agent. He "worked up to" Staggerford by writing a novel for young people, Four Miles to Pinecone JON HASSLER (Frederick Warne & Co., 1977). Ready then for the big one, he took a sabbatical leave from teaching Jon Hassler visited his alma to work full-time on the novel. The plot "had been mater on a crisp autumn day in September to tell on my mind for years," he explains. That plot, in his own story. "I started writing seriously seven the words of the Christian Science Monitor's re­ years ago," he said; but, °1 am one of those people viewer, "starts out like a lighter-vein story of a who imagines himself a writer all his life." small-town schooldom and continues into a mock­ At St. John's in the early '50's, Hassler majored heroic episode of school-Indian relations." It ends, in English but took no writing courses and wrote as Publishers Weekly said, with "people whose per­ little. "In my background, the desire to write was sonal conflicts climax in an act of mindless violence." treated as something to get over." He remembered Staggerford was bought and published by with fondness his SJU professors Steve Humphrey, Atheneum, a publishing house with good taste in Fr.