La Salle Magazine Summer 1977 La Salle University

La Salle Magazine Summer 1977 La Salle University

La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Magazine University Publications Summer 1977 La Salle Magazine Summer 1977 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle Magazine Summer 1977" (1977). La Salle Magazine. 126. https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine/126 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in La Salle Magazine by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A QUARTERLY LA SALLE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Robert S. Lyons, Jr., '61, Editor W. Lawrence Eldridge, Jr., Assistant Editor Volume 21 Summer, 1977 Number 3 James J. McDonald, '58, Alumni News ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Richard H. Becker, ’50, President Terence Heaney, Esq., ’63, Executive Vice President Catherine Callahan, 71, Vice President A QUARTERLY LA SALLE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Francis Viggiano, 76, Secretary John Gallagher, ’62, Treasurer Contents 1 REMINISCENCES: LA SALLE RE-VISITED Brother William Quinn has been coming and going to La Salle for four decades. Here he reflects on some of the changes he has seen on campus. 5 THE MUSIC THEATRE STORY La Salle’s summer theatre has provided 16 years of exuberance, crisp professionalism, and some in­ credibly beautiful music. 9 THE CITY AND THE SAINT John Neumann’s Philadelphia was no longer the Music Theatre, Page 5 “green country town” when he became its fourth bishop. 13 ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW (Part II) Karen Horowitz adds some new dimensions of time and movement to La Salle’s campus with her camera. 16 AROUND CAMPUS The college is beginning an off-campus program in Northeast Philadelphia. Also: a report on Com­ mencement, a progress report on the CEW Pro­ gram, and a look at some interesting students. 20 ATHLETIC ROUNDUP Neumann’s Philadelphia, Page 9 Both the men and women came up with winning records this year but the greatest glory went to the Explorer Crew. 24 ALUMNI NEWS A chronicle of some significant events in the lives of the college’s alumni and alumnae plus the results of the election of the new officers of the Alumni Association. CREDITS—Front Cover, Omnigraphic Design; back cover, Mike Maicher, Philadelphia Bulletin; inside back cover, Walter Holt; page 1, Lewis Tanner; 5, (left) Karl B. Wrightman; 6 (top) and 7 (left and upper right), Charles F. Sibre; 7 (lower right), Mark B. Jacobson, 8, Archdiocese of Philadelphia; 13-15, Karen Horowitz; Athletic Roundup, Page 20 26, The White House; all others by Tanner. Front Cover: Brother William Quinn, F.S.C., Ph.D., was known as Didy- La Salle Magazine is published quarterly by La Salle College, Philadelphia, Penna. mus John when he originally ap­ 19141, for the alumni, students, faculty and friends of the college. Editorial and business offices located at the New Bureau, La Salle College, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141. peared on a LA SALLE Magazine Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, Penna. Changes of address should be sent cover in 1960 after being named at least 30 days prior to publication of the issue with which it is to take effect, to the Provincial of the Baltimore Province Alumni Office, La Salle College, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141. Member of the Council of the Brothers of the Christian for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Schools. The Dean Returns La Salle, Spring 1977 1 La Salle’s first academic vice president reflects on the four decades that he has spent coming and going to the college By Brother William Quinn, F.S.C., Ph.D. using a peculiar word to describe the situation; a word as told to which I would have to explain. Some of the students that Robert S. Lyons, Jr. I had this past year lacked a certain degree of toughness. What do I mean by that? Unfortunately, I found that Brother William Quinn was known as Didymus John among the students I ran across, a certain number of when he arrived at La Salle in 1946 to teach math, them took the easy way out. Instead of digging in deeper, physics, and religion after earning his doctorate in physics instead of working a little bit harder, instead of rising to the from The Catholic University. During his early summers challenge, I found too frequently that they would quit on here, he joined three other Brothers from La Salle in me. I’m quite disappointed in this, although there may be studying for a master’s degree in theology at Notre Dame. explanations. Maybe it was just a coincidence that at the The man who signed them into the university was a young time the difficult test was coming, the boy’s or girl’s car priest named Theodore Hesburgh, who was then chair­ broke down, as they told me later. Maybe it was a coin­ man of the religion department. Brother D. John eventual­ cidence that he or she got sick the night before an ly became La Salle's first Academic Vice President and important examination. I would have been more pleased later served as Dean. He left in 1960 to become Provincial if, when the going got tough, they themselves showed a of the Baltimore Province of the Brothers of the Christian little more resourcefulness in handling the situation. As Schools. He returned to teach for a year at La Salle in the to their background, I’m impressed favorably by the middle 60s, then assumed other duties before returning excellent background of a good number of my students. to campus for the third time last September as associate I was quite pleased at the amount of material that had professor of mathematics. La Salle has changed con­ been covered in mathematics and the understanding that siderably in the past 30 years and Brother Quinn’s three the students exhibited from their high school. I was quite separate tours on campus have provided him with some pleased with that, in general. interesting insights. Here are some of them: “The fact that we have women students here on campus is a major change since I was here last. It seems to me that the coeds are fitting in very nicely to the total atmosphere at La Salle. They seem to add a great deal to T he thing that impressed me a good bit when I every situation in which they find themselves. They add to returned last September was a noticeable sense of pro­ the social life, they add a different viewpoint, a different fessionalism on the part of the faculty and administration reaction in class encounters, class situations. My own and the students. I came back to a college that had experience with the young women in my mathematics developed greatly during the time that I was away. The class was that a certain amount of them were quite good. college seems to have gotten along quite well without The stereotyped idea is that the boys are better in the my presence; I was impressed by this sense of serious­ mathematics and the girls are better in the verbal skills. ness of purpose —the sense of good organization, a sense That might be true, I don’t know. But my own experience that everyone around the college seemed to know what has been that the girls were quite capable in mathematics, they were doing and what they were about. at least the few that I had in my classes. “The second thing that impressed me, particularly on the part of the students, is that I got the impression that La Salle was the place where people liked to be. I got the r here is certainly more student involvement at impression that the faculty liked the fact that they were La Salle, more faculty-student input in decision making teachers at La Salle College. I got the impression that the than there was when I was here before. On the question of students were pleased with being here. After I’ve been faculty committee work, I don’t have real hard, solid in­ here for a full year now, I begin to see that there are iso­ formation, so I speak with hesitation and reservation. But lated points, isolated places where there is some dis­ my impression is that the committee situation, the com­ content. And there is, possibly, justifiable criticism here or mittee system has gone beyond what is good and useful. there. But the overwhelming impression that I had when I I think that committees are taking time and energy in areas first came back was the sense of contentment that the where administrators should make decisions. My own people enjoy being at La Salle. thought is that a faculty committee should contribute “As far as the students in general are concerned, I have ideas. The administration, being at the service of the one criticism. I’d like to summarize my impression by college, should formulate these ideas and build a con- 2 census from faculty input. However, I see the faculty taking enormous amounts of time and energy in working out full details of reports and positions which should be left to the administration. I think that the faculty input should be largely in the realm of contributions of ideas, opinions, and positions. I think formulation and state­ ments of consensus should be the responsibility of ad­ ministrators. A s far as the physical side of the college is concerned, one of the new buildings on campus since I was here last, of course, is Olney Hall.

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