GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIA TION MAGAZINE VOLUME 18 NUMBER 5 FALL1967 Comment We present excerpts from some of New York, New Yorl( Haddonfield, New Jersey the many enthusiastic letters from Mrs. Dailey and I want to thank you I couldn't begin to express our appre­ Alumni who attended the 1967 and the College administration for a ciation for such a wonderful weekend Reunions and Golden Jubilee Cele­ most delightful Reunion weekend. at G.U. I felt as excited as any fresh­ bration. Georgetown welcomes your While I graduated thirty years ago, man entering the ga tes for the first comments on this and future issues. my feel ing for Georgetown has time. And maybe we didn't cover grown with the years, and it is always those grounds! Bud and I were in the San Francisco, California pleasurable to return to the campus F.S. headquarters, Alumni H ouse, on I am pleased with my decision to and see all of you. top of the Reiss Building roof, on the leave all my responsibilities here and WtLL!AM DAILEY, C'57 minibus tour, the art tour, both chap­ travel cross-co untry, si mply to turn els, and the gyms, didn't miss a meal the clock back ten yea rs exactly .... South Orange, New Jersey or a ]Yarty! We found hospitality plus I will never forget the 100% effort in at every turn. making this a truly remarkable event I shall always remember with pleas­ ure the great honor that Georgetown LoRRAINE C. GATEs in my life. No question, in the under­ (Mns. CHALMER C., F.S.'37) current of all the chatter, were the bestowed on me by inviting me to tones of hurrah for .. such a welcome attend the 1967 Commencement . The memories of that weekend Weekend and to celebrate the Golden Indian Head, Maryland will linger for years to co me. Jubilee of the grad uation of our Class . .. it was delightful seei ng old class­ of 1917. It was truly a most memor­ FHANK A. RAV ETTI, B'57 mates and professors under the enter­ able event. taining at mosphere you so kindly Kansas City, Missouri LowELL BENNETT, L'l7 provided. The planning and effort of Coming back to the campus was like such a reunion project must have Washington, D. C. returning home agai n. This was my been enormous. I ass ure yo u it was first class reu nion in twe nty yea rs, so Every member of the cla ss thoroughly marvelously successful. My wife and you can imagine my feelings of reluc­ :~pprec i ated the Golden Jubilee Cele­ I are already looki ng forward to the tance to leave the campus. bration and the excellent arrange­ next one! By 1972 our six children I was impressed with the new me nts of the staff of the University. should he old enough to permit us to buildings, which did not detract from FRANK T. FULLER, L'l7 pa rti cipate more fully in more of the the ancient structures and landmarks. Reu nion activities than we were able They are not onfy ageless but price­ Washington, D. C. to :mend this time. less in preserving the ea rly days :~t From my experience and observa­ RuDOL F C. PALTAUF, C'52 Georgetown. After twenty years, it tion at this, my fifteenth Reunion at Major, USAF was quite obvious that Georgetown Georgetown, I ca n ass ure you that all had made considerabl e progress in were well pleased and impressed by many areas without the loss of its old the generous effort the University put Washington, D . C. spirit and charm. One co uld sense forth on that occasion. For this yo u I have great love and affection for that progress was a guidepost and :~ have my sincere ad miratio n and Georgetown, and it is always a pleas­ contin uing thing in moving ahead. appreciation. ure to participate in its activities. SAM UEL E. RtCHARD, L'32 RicHARD J. McCooEY, C'52 RT. REv. MscR. CARL F. H Ess, C' l7 Georgetown GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMN I ASSOCIATION MA GAZINE VOLUME 18 NUMBER 5 FALL 1967 IN THIS ISSUE 3 The Crisis of a Generation The 1967 Commencement Address, delivered by the Honorable Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, LL.D. '67, Monday, June 5. 6 Baccalaureate Homily-Georgetown University, 1967 The Homily given at the Baccalaureate Mass by the Reverend Charles L. Currie, S.J., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. 9 Commencement: An Overview An Essay in Photography, accompanied by excerpts from the Tropaia Address of Peter Love, C'67. 11 The Class of 1917 After half a century, the Jubilarians return to the campus. 14 At her 168th Commencement Georgetown honored . .. Recipients of the Commencement Honors, the John Carroll Medal of Merit and the Honorary Degrees, pictured at the moment of accolade, with excerpts from the Citations. 16 Class Reunions The Quinquennial Classes live, laugh, a nd learn on campus, June 9-11. 26 Groundbreakings Groundbreaking scenes, wirh excerpts from the remarks of Reverend Gerard ]. Campbell, S.J., President of Georgetown University, for the Medical Center additions and for the new Library. 28 The State of the College The Class Reunions Address of Reverend Royden B. Davis, S.J., C'47, Dean of the College of Arcs and Sciences. 30 There Goes Old Georgetown Pierce O'Donnell '69, recalls Georgetown's glorious days in football and predicts a great future. 32 Alumnus in the News OFFICERS OF THE GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT Louis B. Fine, L'25 VICE PRESIDENTS College, James C. Shannon '50 Gradttate School, Captain Rita Lenihan, USN,'45 School of Medicin e, Dr. Francis E. Barse '50 School of Law, Jacob E. Bindeman '37 School of Dentistry, Dr. Adrian J. Levesque '33 School of Nursing, Mrs. Patricia F. Brown '48 School of Foreign Service, Edward M. Casde '40 School of Languages and Linguistics, Larry H. McReed '61 School of Business Administration, George R. Houston '61 RECORDING SECRETARY TREASURER Mrs. Mary Korfanta Fleming, N'43 William B. Robertson, L'51 Vice President of the University for Altemni Affairs and Exectetive Secretary of the Alumni Association Bernard A. Carter, C'49 MAGAZINE STAFF Dr. Riley Hughes, Editor James B. Ethier, B'65, Managing Edit or Robin Friedheim, Mary Jane Dunlap, Assistant Editors James Lawrence, Photography Beveridge & Associates, Design Georgetown is published quarterly by the Georgetown University Alum ni Association. Changes of address should be sent to Alumni House, 3604 0 Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. 20007 TheCrisisofaGeneration by Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Under Secretary of Stat~ ET l'vlE deal here not with any specific international of freedom . In Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 800 mil­ crisis, but with a generation. And the crisis of your li on newly free or soon-to-be free people are constructing ~ llerati o n, the great work of your generation, the their own social orders. bject that will underlie the history of your generation, And they are doing so under pressures that were the crisis of development-of the less developed nations unknown to newly independent America. For us, non­ road and, no less, of the underdeveloped country that alignment was an easy task. For decades, we fou nd a ists within our ow n borders. wa tchword in Washington's Farewell Address: "It is our l'his year brings a notable anniversary of an earlier true pol icy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any tisis of development-one that was met and mastered by po rtion of the foreign world. " he most creative contribution the United States has ever Our young nation had time to explore itself, time to ade to the field of foreign relations. It was at Harvard educate itself, time to learn new technologies and new n June 5, 1947, that Secretary Marshall gave the brief voca bularies as they were devised. By contrast, the new lit resounding commencement address in which he nations of Africa have been called to the main stage 1St described the plan that was to bear his name, a immediately-to go from the spear to the slide rule, from rogram Churchill was to describe as "the most unsordid disunited tribes to the United Nations, virtually in t in history." months. I cannot offer anything so portentous. Nor is the kind Their effort is described in the phrase, the revolution development of which Marshall then spoke closely of ri sing expectations, but their expectations arc no more levant to the present cri sis of development. revolutionary than our older phrase, "Life, liberty, and Our concern, then, in Marshall's words, was "the the pursuit of happiness." ~Viva [ of a working economy in the world so as to A decent place to live, the dignity and rewards of ttnit the emergence of political and social conditions in wo rk, the c:~pacity to transfer one's unfulfilled ambitions hich free institutions can exist." to one's ch ildren: these are hardly revolutionary prospects . 'We so ught to help rebuild a center of western civili za- to us, who fulfill each of them in this most developed 10ll, to rebuild nations which were lacerated by war, of all nations. l!~ which were able nonetheless to fall back on popu- And yet, as one who was deeply involved in the 110ns with developed technological ski lls and talents. nation's civi l rights effort, these are ironic observations, Our co ncern today is not making it possible for men to fo r what do they say about the underdeveloped country se their ski lls but rather for other men to develop them; that exists within our own country-a country of the Ot restoring societies but creating them.