La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Magazine University Publications 7-1958 La Salle College Magazine July 1958 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle College Magazine July 1958" (1958). La Salle Magazine. 200. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine/200 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]. LA SALLE COLLEGE LiBRflaj' MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF LA SALLE COLLEGE IONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS JULY, 1958 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/lasalle171973unse "54 Robert J. Schaefer, B.S. Editor La Salle VOLUME 2 John L. McCloskey, M.B.A. '48 NUMBER 4 Director of Alumni Jht T/t/jJfjJue PAGI L. Thomas Reifsteck, M.B.A. '51 Commencement ?> Director of Placement Campus Events 4 Personal Patter 6 Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., Ph.D. Annual Giving Report 7 Alumni Advisor Century Club 10 -v\/ / / y Club Notes 12 Alumni Election 13 ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sports 14 President, Thomas B. Harper III, Esq. '48 Friends of La Salle 1? Vice President Gerald T. Corkery '54 Treasurer, John A. Clement '39 John J. Finley '24 Leo J. Dooley '52 Charles J. O'Keefe '41 John J. Hanratty '52 Joseph F. Frazer '43 Richard O'Donnell '52 CoOef £tcrij John J. Rooney '44 John W.Schmidt '52 '47 William J. Conran Frank R. Murdock '52 '48 Thomas W. Rogers Joseph E. McGrath '53 Harry J. Gibbons '48 Anthony J. Polcino '53 John B. Kelly, John F. Connelly, Brother E. Stanislaus, F.S.C., Rt. Rev. Msgr. '48 Thomas J. Hickey Joseph P. Morrison '53 John L McCloskey '48 Gerald W.Faiss '54 William J. McDonald, and Professor William Foxwell Albright posed for this John Biehl '49 Alexander Avallon '54 cover photograph after La Salle College's 95th Commencement, June 10, '49 George M. Boraske Robert J. Schaefer '54 '49 James W. Jones George Mason III '54 at Convention Hall. Mr. Kelly and Mr. Connelly received the honorary '49 Vincent J. Kelly William J. Wingel '54 '49 degree of Doctor of Laws, while Monsignor McDonald and Professor Albright William Breeze Earle J.Wood '54 John P. Ryan '49 John B. Simms '54 received the degree of Doctor of Pedagogy. William A. Felte '50 James I. Gillespie '55 Robert E. Lodes '50 James A. Browne '56 '50 Cletus J. McBride Francis Healy, Jr. '56 '50 Robert J. Valenti Robert M. Rogers '56 '50 Thomas M.Walker Frank S. Blatcher '56 Photographs by Mike Maicher Joseph T. Waugh '50 Adam R. Smith '56 Frank T.Hart '51 Joseph N. Malone '56 Salle is La Salle College for Joseph McAveety '51 The La Magazine published four times yearly by Joseph J. Tagg '56 Joseph Spellman '51 Alumni, faculty, students and friends of La Salle College. Editorial and Business offices Edward P. Larkin '56 Harry Watts '51 at Department of Public Information, La Salle College, Philadelphia 41, Pa. Member Daniel McGonigle '57 Charles J. Kelley '51 of American Alumni Council. Printed by Clark Printing House, Inc.. 12 28 Cherry William Albanese '52 Vincent Szymkowski '57 Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa. Engravings by Basil Smith System, 1016 Cherry Street, Andrew D. Bertucci '52 William P. Dierkes '57 Philadelphia 7, Pa. Second class mail privileges authorized at Philadelphia, Pa. 95th COMMENCEMENT embers of the class of 1958 attending Baccalaureate Mass. It is not merely an economic or social poration, both of whom received the Lawrence Colhocker, F.S.C., Brother schism which today divides the world, honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Daniel Bonaventure DeBarbieri, F.S.C., said the Rt. Rev. Msgr. William J. Two unique aspects of the ceremonies Frank A. Dunn, Pasquale J. LaRuffa, McDonald at the 95th annual La Salle were the simultaneous graduation of Edward C. Malarkey, Donald M. Peter- College commencement, but a split be- three brothers, John, Thomas, and Eu- son, Stephen G. Vasso, and James John tween "out-and-out materialism" and the gene Kelly, and the presentation for Walsh. God-fearing nations. honorary degree of Professor Albright Magna Cam Laude distinction was re- Msgr. McDonald, rector of Catholic by his son, Brother E. Alban, F.S.C., ceived by David M. Besselman, Robert University, delivered the principal ad- of the La Salle College mathematics F. Galante, John F. Gallagher, Jr., Ger- dress to the more than 600 graduates, department. ald T. Hoffman, Louis J. Kijewski, Nor- their families, and the faculty, at Con- Bernard J. McCormick delivered the bert C. Moser, Joseph A. Murphy, Alfred vention Hal! June 10. He also received the valedictory, which Msgr. McDonald T. Pepino, Angelo T. Randazzo, Leo D. honorary degree of Doctor of Pedagogy. honored by referring to it on three occa- Rudnytzky, Thomas C. Smith, Joseph M. The Monsignor cautioned against the sions in his address. Gindhart. William J. Nelson, John C. "secularization of the professions," and The commencement program opened Oberholzer, Richard P. Peregoy, Thomas stressed that the sciences and religion in the morning with the Baccalaureate F. Dudley, and William F. Johnson. are not incompatible. A priest of the Mass at the Church of the Holy Child, Graduating Cam Laude were Edward Archdiocese of San Francisco, Msgr. Broad St. and Duncannon Ave. The Rev. J. Bader, Paul Freemer, Paul J. Lind- McDonald was appointed Domestic Prel- James A. Driscoll, O.P., was the cele- inger, Thomas F. McCrea, John P. Pryor, ate with the title of Rt. Rev. Monsignor brant. The Rev. Mark Heath, O.P., Col- George C. Shammo. Samuel Smith, in 1948, and was named professor of lege chaplain, was the deacon, and the Gerald R. Bowers, Joseph R. Desiata. philosophy at Catholic University the Rev. John J. Lacey, O.P., was sub-deacon. John F. Magosin, Jr.. Donald R. Marran- following year. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. dino, Frederick W. Reed, Frank J. Other honorary degrees were pre- William E. Campbell, of St. Charles Schwartz, John J. Toner, Raymond T. sented to Professor William F. Albright, Seminary. Coughlan, Peter L. Feledick, Edward W Johns Hopkins Univorsity biblical Fifty-one of the men graduated with Hunt. Bro. David Anthony Manion, scholar, also Doctor of Pedagogy; and honors. Maxima Cum Laude honors went F.S.C., Bro. Gerardian Richard Moly- John B. Kelly, prominent area contractor to Anthony A. Ferrara, Ernest L. neaux, F.S.C., Michael M. Schlacter, Jr., and civic leader, and John F. Connelly, Whalon, Joseph J. Panchella, Richard V. Dominic J. Travagline, and Thomas C. president of Crown Cork and Seal Cor- Ritchie, Gerald M. Wilk, Bro. Dominic Addison. became the first layman ever to teach I CAMPUS Philosophy at St. Joseph's College. Dr. I Naughton, the author of many articles in I the field of Philosophy, is also a member I EVENTS of the summer school faculty at La Salle. I Mr. Daniel J. Rodden, associate pro- I fessor of English, is a member of the I summer faculty at Villanova Univer- 1 sity's graduate school of drama. Mr. I Rodden is also the director of the Masque of La Salle College, the College's dra- matic society. Mr. John J. Mulloy, lecturer in So- ciology, substituted for English historian Christopher Dawson in a series of lec- tures at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington. Mr. Mulloy is the author of Dynamics of World History, which con- tains the essential ideas propounded in the many historical works of Professor Dawson. Brother F. James, F.S.C., B.A., M.A., S.T.L., a member of the faculty of La Salle College, received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from the Catholic University of America, Wash- ington, D. C. at the June Commencement exercises. Brother James is a member of the Religion Department at La Salle. Brother is the second Christian Brother to receive the Doctor of Sacred Theology degree from the Catholic University of America since the School of Theology Edward J. Wall, '51, (center) beams approval as his wife accepts the "Ph.T. Degree" from was opened to lay religious brothers. Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., vice-president. Mrs. Wall was honored at the annual "Ph.T." ceremony held on the Campus. FOUNDER'S DAY The Very Rev. James A. Donnellon, PH.T. professional skill as a nurse to care for CEREMONY O.S.A., president of Villanova Univer- of the needy among her neighbors. Mrs. Edward J. Wall, 1953 Welsh sity, and Edward A. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., vice- Rd., Philadelphia, received the "Ph.T.— noted Catholic educator, received honor- president, was presiding officer of the Putting Him Through—Degree", With ary degrees and 29 student achievement exercises, and Brother Gregorian Paul, Distinction, at the annual pre-commence- awards were presented at La Salle Col- F.S.C., evening division dean, presented ment conferral by La Salle College June lege Founder's Day ceremonies, May 22. 1, in the college auditorium. the candidates for "degree." The Rev- Dr. Fitzpatrick delivered the principal erend Mark Heath, O.P., college chaplain, Dr. James P. Quindlan, associate in address and received the honorary degree delivered the Invocation and Benediction. obstetrics and gynecology at the Temple of Doctor of Pedagogy at the ceremonies University Medical Center, was the FACULTY NEWS honoring St. John Baptist de La Salle, principal speaker.