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Winter 1965

La Sa lleA QUARTERLY LA SALLE COLLEGE MAGAZINE

Music on Campus

IN T H IS ISSUE The Editor’s Notebook

1MUSIC ON CAMPUSA photo report on La Salle’s part in the musical revolution taking place on the American campus.

7 GREATNESS. ANYONE?John J. Keenan, ’52, assistant professor of English, examines the state of American letters since the demise of literary giants Ernest Hem­ingway and William Faulkner.

SPORTS“A Day’s Work for Joe Kirk” explores in depth a swimming team’s need for depth in talent and why Kirk has La Salle’s best coaching record.

AROUND CAMPUSA 30th birthday tribute to The Masque, the College’s undergraduate thespians, and sundry other campus news items.

CAMPUS CALENDARComing attractions of significance to alumni, students, faculty, parents and friends of the College.

ALUM-NEWSA chronicle of the often-significant events in the lives of La Salle alumni.

LA SALLE VIGNETTESA glimpse at some interesting La Salle people.

CREDITS— Front cover design—Bernie M arkovitz; inside back cover (detail, M cShain H a ll)—-Charles F . Sibre; back cover illustra­tions—Jac Naugle; page 8—W alter Holt, PD A ; 11-12— Michael Maicher; 21—A rthur Pariente; 23— Robert Halvey (in se t); 24— Lawrence Kanevsky; all others by Charles F . Sibre.

L a S a l l eA QUARTERLY LA SALLE COLLEGE MAGAZINE

Volume 9 Winter, 1965 Number 2

Ralph W. Howard, Editor

Robert S. Lyons, Jr., Associate Editor

James J. McDonald, Alumni News

L a S a l l e M a g a z in e is published quarterly by La Salle College, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141, for the alum ni, students, faculty and friends of the college. Editorial and business offices located at the News Bureau, La Salle College, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141 Sec­ond class postage paid at Philadelphia, Penna. Changes of address should be sent a t least 30 days prior to publication of the issue w ith which it is to take effect, to the Alumni Office, La Salle Col­lege, Philadelphia, Penna. 19141. M ember of the American Alumni Council and American College Public Relations Association.

Dr. Rudnytsky: 'M an of the Year'

An o t h e r t i m e , another place, and the forces of history might not have brought together Ivan L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., associate professor of history (who is introduced

on the last page of this issue), and Mrs. Mary Gelinas.But their star-crossed, transistorized altercation not only

took place, it was reported to millions of people by thousands of newspapers, radio and TV outlets.

“Man of the Year,” banner headlines screamed in the Chicago Star and the Cleveland Sun-Messenger. “Happy New Year, Professor Rudnytsky,” the Sun editorialized. “We salute you as one whose courage and clearheadedness have removed one obstacle to decent living in the U.S.— at least in Philadelphia.”

“If Dr. Rudnytsky’s patience snapped, that’s understand­able,” the Ashland, Ky., Independent chimed in. “Still, arresting him doesn’t get at the noisy assault which started it all, and which occurs everywhere: the bombardment of peace of mind by those who expect everybody else to be considerate of their ‘right’ to be a nuisance!”

Even the staid N. Y. Times, in an editorial entitled “Zone of Quiet,” sympathized: “Transistor radios have given a somber extra dimension to John Donne’s observation that ‘no man is an island.’ By now, all places of public assembly are so infested with transistors and their pseudo-human extensions that most of the rest of us have meekly sur­rendered to having our eardrums under constant bombard­ment. Not so, Dr. Ivan L. Rudnytsky.”

Perhaps most extraordinary were the letters to news­papers and to Dr. Rudnytsky himself. Only two or three were in any way critical of the professor and even these agreed that the end result was desirable.

Shortly after the incident, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin ran two full columns of such letters, many pro­posing Dr. Rudnytsky for such distinctions as the Congres­sional Medal of Honor, the Nobel Peace Prize, a Freedoms Foundation Medal, a Man of the Year testimonial dinner at Convention Hall, and a Federal grant to research the problem.

Noteworthy among the 200 letters addressed to Dr. Rudnytsky, many of which included money to defray legal expenses, were kudos from:

A Madison Avenue advertising executive, who said that “it is difficult enough getting people to listen to com­mercials of their own free will, without shoving such messages down their ears.”

Another added: “Too bad that it wasn’t a TV set!”One of the nation’s leading newspapers offered the

resources of an employee “trouble fund” to help pay expenses.

An entire department at an Ivy League university also contributed a small financial offering.

Another admirer suggested a national campaign, with Dr. Rudnytsky as “coordinator,” to “rid buses of these idiotic pests who clutch squawk boxes.”

The most characteristic reaction: “Let me congratulate you on your courageous action, a thing I contemplated many times but, somehow, lacked the courage.”

All told, it was enough to keep Dr. Rudnytsky’s col­leagues in sociology busy for some time to come.

R .W .H.

W ho is the “educated man”? Is he the classical scholar, immersed in uncounted tomes of antiquity; the

nuclear physicist exploring the mysteries of matter; the English bookman at home with Chaucer or Kerouac, or the theologian, with his concern for the relationship of all knowledge to God?

There was a time, and the notion persists today, that these learned specialists were the sole product of educa­tional efforts—whether at Padua, Italy, or Paducah, Ken­tucky.

But in the last two decades a revolution of sorts has altered this view on campuses across America: the “cul­tural” education of students, not merely in classroom appreciation courses, but by direct experience of lively arts performances brought to the campus auditorium.

Foremost, has been the wide variety of musical pro­grams. Campus appearances have, in fact, become a major source of income for entertainers as diverse as opera stars and jazz quartets.

True, colleges remote from the cultural attractions avail­able in large cities have for some time provided this sort of cultural enrichment for their students.

It is only since World War Two, however, that such programs have become regarded as part and parcel of what a college should offer its student body—be they resident students in Iowa farm country or on a downtown Man­hattan campus.

Perhaps the most striking aspect of the burgeoning cul­tural revolution is the growing tendency for schools to invite not only their own students to such programs, but also members of the community in which the college exists. In effect, the campus has become a local “cultural center” where one need not matriculate to attend musical and dramatic programs (not to mention topical lectures, which have been a campus staple for a much longer period of time) to enrich their lives without attending a single classroom lecture.

La Salle, in the college-rich Philadelphia area, has been among the leaders in providing such programs for its student body—and a pioneer in opening the events to the general public. Like many schools, La Salle has built a convenient and physically beautiful student union, which has greatly enhanced the desirability of bringing the public to the campus. Most unique, perhaps, and certainly the college’s largest undertaking, is La Salle’s summer Music Theatre, founded and directed by associate pro­fessor of English Dan Rodden, which has attracted more than 40,000 visitors to the campus in three successful seasons.

La Salle’s student union, directed by John H. Veen, ’59, and the efforts of Brother M. Fidelian, F.S.C., vice presi­dent for academic affairs, have largely been responsible for the immense growth of the college’s cultural program since its initiation some ten years ago.

Brother Fidelian and Union Director Veen have co­ordinated their efforts to bring to the campus a score of locally and nationally prominent musical artists. They have had the assistance of Messrs. George Diehl and Charles White, who share the direction of the college’s music courses and have been instrumental in arranging many of the classical programs—most notably three operas, “La Boheme,” “The Saint of Bleecker Street,” and “The Mar­riage of Figaro.”

This semester, they have organized a two-week Festival of Music, which opened February 26 with a piano recital by Edward Kilenyi and concludes March 10 with a fourth opera, “Rigoletto,” presented by the Curtis Institute. This issue’s “Campus Calendar” gives the full schedule.

On the following pages, photographer Charles F. Sibre’s camera has recorded a small fraction of La Salle’s recent musical events, which have ranged from concert pianist Susan Starr, jazz legends Count Basie and Stan Kenton, folksinger Odetta, and dance bands too numerous to mention.

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Music on Campus

Predominant among the major musical events held on the campus have been the classic musical

forms— recitals, symphonies and operas. Featured have been Susan Starr and husband Kenneth

Amada (below); Henri Elkan conducting the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra (right); operas

"The Saint of Bleecker Street" (below right) and "La Boheme" (center, opposite page); Maurice Kaplow

and the Philadelphia Musical Academy's Chamber Orchestra, and a musical tribute to Eugene

Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Music on Campus

Jazz, which is alternately ignored and praised by devotees of "serious" music, has

a lofty place on campus music programs. Foremost among jazz messengers to La Salle

have been the big bands of Stan Kenton (below), Woody Herman (left) and

Count Basie (opposite), each a jazz legend in his own time.

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Popular music has been variously represented by The Smothers Brothers (top), folk singing comedians, the College's summer Music Theatre (left), in last season's "South Pacific," and The Four Freshmen (below), top-rated male vocal group.

Greatness,Anyone?American Letters sans Faulkner and Hemingway

By J o h n J. K e e n a n , ’52 Assistant Professor of English

Who among the gifted young writers o f our time will be the future giants o f Am erican prose? M any, the author contends, “raise great expectations, only to leave them unsatisfied.” Perhaps, he suggests, the difficulty lies in American society itself.

W h e n i t w a s s u g g e s t e d that I write an article on the state of American fiction since the passing of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, I confess I was

intrigued. Of the many novelists now writing, which bright young man would rise to the heights of greatness?

The temptation to prophesy diminished sharply the more I surveyed the contemporary scene. It’s no trouble at all to name twenty good writers in America, but it is impossi­ble to single out any one of them as a replacement for Hemingway or Faulkner.

Let’s examine for a moment what made these two writers the pre-eminent names in American fiction since the Twenties.

Both were extremely influential on other writers. Hem­ingway’s carefully chiseled style, terse dialogue, and care­fully controlled symbolism had a discernible effect on a generation of American writers. Faulkner’s handling of time sequences added a new dimension: through his un­conventional blending of past, present, and future, his work often achieved an epic quality. Their concern for basic truths of human nature is what is ultimately responsible for their greatest works. The “truths of the human heart in conflict with itself,” Faulkner called them in his Nobel acceptance speech at Stockholm.

If we’re going to look for the successors to the great, we must look for those who still remember that these truths are the only things worth writing about. Faulkner himself felt that many of today’s writers had forgotten this obligation. In the same speech, he spoke of today’s writer as laboring under a curse: “He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands.”

The description seems to fit a number of neo-naturalistic

writers like Norman Mailer, James Jones, and Nelson Al- gren. All three were greeted as the “great White Hopes” of American literature after impressive first novels— The Naked and the Dead, From Here to Eternity, and The Man With the Golden Arm. Their progress since has been disappointing, and, as “great White Hopes” go, they are getting old. Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dos Passos and Wilder were internationally famous before they were thirty, and Faulkner was thirty-two when he wrote The Sound and the Fury.

Of course, it seems to be generally true that today’s writers begin their careers a little later, often with a great deal more academic training behind them (in the Twen­ties, many never quite managed a B. A .). The current winner of the National Book Award, John Updike, is a case in point. At 32, Updike has a background which in­cludes Harvard, a Guggenheim fellowship in England, and work on the New Yorker Magazine.

To borrow a metaphor from baseball, Updike “has all the tools” to be a great one. In the tradition of New Yorker writers, he combines a magnificently polished style with an exquisite sensitivity. Yet there is a significant body of critical opinion which feels that he has yet to find themes worthy of his craftsmanship. He is still exploring, still searching for “the truths of the human heart.” Given his devotion to his art and his sensitivity, he has a good chance of finding them.

At the present time he has published two volumes of poems, two short story collections, and three novels {The Poorhouse Fair, Run, Rabbit, Run and The Centaur). The impressive thing about his work is its variety, while the standard of technical excellence continues high. You can­not read Updike without being startled at the things he can make the language do. But like Truman Capote a decade ago, he sometimes does not know when to stop. “The trouble is,” wrote Norman Mailer (a non-admirer

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of writers other than himself) “that . . . like many a young writer before him, he does not know exactly what to do when action lapses, and so he cultivates his private vice, he writes."

I have one other reservation about Uplike’s credentials for greatness. It seems to me that he sometimes lacks the taste necessary for great art. Consequently, one loses the aesthetic distance that permits the reader to be involved with the character without being overwhelmed on a per­sonal level. Some of Updike’s writing strikes me as too personal, too subjective, too revealing of the self; the reader feels as though he has inadvertently opened the wrong door and intruded upon someone’s privacy. In reading the story “Wife-Wooing,” for example, I had the uncomfortable feeling that a bartender must sometimes have when one of his customers insists on “telling all.”

Nevertheless, Updike has demonstrated so much talent and ambition thus far that it would take a braver man than I to predict that he will never reach greatness. The potential is certainly there.

With some writers, the potential may already have been expended. Though some of the great names of the thirties are still active, it seems doubtful whether such talents as those of John Steinbeck, John O’Hara, or John Dos Passos will show any new development. Nor do I see any hopeful progress in the work of Irwin Shaw, Jack Kerouac, or Truman Capote.

The greater question is whether it is also true that J. D. Salinger must now be written off as a promise unfulfilled.

More than any other single writer, Jerome David Salin­ger has overshadowed the American literary scene since World War II. His appeal to students and teachers, partic­ularly, has generated an endless procession of critical arti­cles, casebooks, and the like— “the Salinger industry” someone has called it. Yet this enormous impact is the result of a slim body of work that increases by only a new story every four or five years. The appeal to critics of these stories has been diminishing with each new one that appears, so that a recent article is entitled, “Salinger and His Critics: Autopsy of a Faded Romance.”

The critics’ disaffection has become most obvious since the publication in book form of two long stories, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Intro­duction. This book, like the earlier Franny and Zooey, continued the saga of the Glass family.

To assess Salinger’s strengths and weaknesses as a writer, you must first keep in mind that he is essentially a short story writer, not a novelist. The Catcher in the Rye em-

John Keenan, who joined La Salle’s faculty in 1960, is an assistant professor of English. He has written fiction and critical articles for literary journals and La Salle’s own four quarters. He and the late John F. McGlynn collabo­rated on Adventures in American Literature, a teacher’s manual. He earned his master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1957.

ploys the concentration on a crucial moment in the life of the central character which is typical of the short story. Salinger is a master of the form. Nothing is wasted. Every gesture, every sentence carries an insight into character. Salinger’s highly praised story, “For Esme—With Love and Squalor” is a triumph that illustrates his technical mastery. The story’s conflict is resolved in the moment when Sergeant “X” receives the watch from Esme; a single gesture, well-prepared for, illuminates our world as it does the protagonist’s.

Ir o n i c a l l y , this same technical skill has become a trade­mark that draws attention to itself, much as Heming­

way’s style does in Across the River and into the Trees, his worst book. Writing of Franny and Zooey, Arthur Mizener summed up the case against Salinger: “I am sorry to have to use the word ‘cute’ in respect to Salinger, but there is absolutely no other word that for me so accurately typifies the self-conscious charm and prankishness of his own writing and his extraordinary cherishing of his favorite Glass characters.”

The most aggravated case of “cuteness” is “Seymour: An Introduction,” in which the narrator, Buddy Glass, rambles along in a most carefully-planned voice that never quite convinces us of nonchalance.

But lest I seem to be joining the funeral, let me hasten to add that I for one am not ready to bury Salinger. I think it is some measure of the man to note that he always demands an involvement and a serious response from the reader, even if that response must in the end be unfavor­able. There is no question but that Salinger is deeply com­mitted to the “truths of the human heart in conflict with itself.” It is equally certain that he dominated the literary scene during the decade of the Fifties. The Catcher in the Rye has already achieved the stature of a modern classic, at least among the undergraduates of America.

If Salinger dominated the Fifties, James Baldwin bids fair to have the same importance in the Sixties. Baldwin’s scorching essays on race relations (Nobody Knows My Name, Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time) and three novels (Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, and Another Country) are marked by their honesty, their eloquence, and their sense of pain. Baldwin’s heroes are the misfits, the victims of a cruel, impersonal society. The pain of the Negro and the homosexual, particularly, is sympathetically presented.

With all of the praise that has been lavished on Baldwin, I hardly think it will matter if one small minority voice is raised in objection. While I agree with the general critical estimate of his power and brilliance as a stylist, I cannot see in him the greatness of a Hemingway or Faulkner. Like Tennessee Williams in the drama, Baldwin’s interests seem to me to lie in a very specialized area of human suffering, one which cannot be sufficiently universalized. Though the reader may sympathize with the alienated condition of the homosexual, he is more likely to view it in terms of a case history than as a reflection of the universal human condition.

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Like Salinger and Updike, Baldwin is just good enough to make you wish he were better. He raises great expecta­tions, only to leave them unsatisfied.

By and large, that comment is true of most of con­temporary American fiction. It is not lacking in vitality. There are as many competent artists writing as in any decade in our history. Yet no single writer has established a firm reputation that seems likely to survive, though Salinger has come the closest. Why not?

Since literature must grow out of the society, perhaps the answer lies in American society itself. That society has been characterized in the twentieth century by two seemingly contradictory trends. On a material level, our culture has become more and more homogeneous: we watch the same TV programs, read the same best-sellers, and submit to the same advertisements. Our young people talk more of “security” and “living comfortably” than of making a fortune; the gap between the extremes of riches and poverty continues to narrow. But on a deeper cultural level, diversity isolates us into an endless series of sub­cultures. Aside from a generalized faith in the mystique of democracy, we share few spiritual values or traditions. In American culture there is no single prevailing view of the nature of man, or of the existence of God, or of the destiny of man. American literature reflects this fragmen­tation, and therefore no single work is likely to strike a common chord of response in American readers; perhaps no such common chord exists any more.

What we now have are groups of novelists representing the various sub-cultures and saying only what is true for them. Just as Baldwin’s people represent the Negro’s search for identity and the homosexual’s unhappiness, so Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth reflect a certain ironic view of suffering that is part of being Jewish. Christianity is what integrates and gives meaning to the novels of J. F. Powers, Claude Koch, and Flannery O'Connor.

There are geographical sub-cultures too. Though writers like Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Shirley Ann Grau are not merely regional writers, there is no doubt that the South is both a setting and a shaping force in their work. John Cheever’s suburban Connecticut setting is every bit as important in his Wapshot novels as Welty’s Mississippi is in hers. And Jack Kerouac’s San Francisco world of the Beat is foreign to both.

What kind of communication could there be between one of Cheever’s golf widows and one of Kerouac’s hip­sters? Between Powers’ sophisticated Father Urban and Welty’s Mississippi postmistress in “Why I Live at the P. O.”?

The fact that the same reader (possibly) may enjoy writers as different as Welty and Cheever indicates the success of each writer in portraying the recognizable com­mon factor of humanity.

But what of those writers who question whether there is any common factor of humanity? In broad terms, this seems to be the position of some novelists usually labeled

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as “existentialist.”“The pattern of experience in contemporary fiction is

largely existential,” says critic Ihab Hassan. He suggests the names of Ralph Ellison (The Invisible M an), Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky) , and William Styron (Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire) as illustrative of the trend. It is easier to use the term as a label than to define it. No one writer or single work contains all the earmarks of existentialism, but since this view of life is an important one in American writing today, it seems worthwhile to attempt some sketchy outline of its charac­teristics.

In the first place, the existentialist emphasizes the indi­vidual and unique existence of each man, rather than the essence of mankind. This emphasis on the personal and subjective may include a denial or ironic treatment of accepted norms of feeling or behavior.

Second, the existentialist sees reason as too limited for understanding or portraying the whole of human life. Chance and absurdity and the ambiguity of human nature are realities of existence that cannot be comprehended by reason alone.

Third, the existentialist sees modern man as alienated from God, from nature, from other humans, even from himself. The existential hero lives on the edge of Nothing­ness, anxious and afraid, attempting to fill the void with actions—fighting, drinking, making love—anything to prove his existence to himself.

Ex i s t e n t i a l i s m is not something new to post-war Ameri­can fiction. In fact there are touches of it in Hemingway

and Faulkner and long before them in the Book of Job. It may be atheistic or Christian. In Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky, for example, God seems to be entirely absent and the characters are abandoned in their own search for sexual satisfaction. But in Styron’s Lie Down in Darkness, the heroine’s love affairs seem to be part of a search for perfect Love: “give me my God back,” she prays, “for somewhere I’ve lost my way.”

In itself, the existential view of life will neither bestow greatness on a writer nor deprive him of it. What is evident so far, however, is that existentialism in America has not yet produced anything comparable to Camus’ The Stranger, although it has produced many novels influenced by it.

In the course of dropping a great many names through­out this article, I have not yet answered the question pro­posed at the outset. Perhaps the only thing proved here is the difficulty the question involves. No single writer since World War II, with the possible exception of Salinger, has made his permanent mark on our literature to the degree that Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and O’Neill did in the Twenties. It would be foolish to conclude from this, however, that American literature is dying. On the con­trary, both the quantity and quality of the writing is im­pressive. The only thing lacking is original genius. Perhaps it’s time you began that novel you’ve been thinking about . . .

Sports

A Day's Work For Joe Kirk

Somehow, the Explorers win more meets than expected.

Th e p a t t e r n remains the same. Every year La Salle’s varsity swimmers start the season with all the vital ingredients

necessary for a consistent winner except depth—not of the underwater variety, but in potential second and third place finishes.

Somehow, however, they always man­age to win a few more meets than pre­dicted and finish a little higher than expected in the tough Middle Atlantic Conference. The 1965 Explorers, win­ning seven of their first eight meets, were no exception.

Most instrumental in La Salle’s peren­nial success in the water is its stocky, 50-year-old coach, Joe Kirk. He or­ganized the sport on campus in 1941, sur­vived a serious heart-attack in 1961, and enters his third decade on the job with the best won-lost record on the Ex­plorer’s coaching staff. His twenty-one La Salle teams (none in 1944-45) have compiled a fantastic 171-52 record.

But that’s only half the story. The first team Kirk entered in the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships won the title in 1957. Last year, the first team he en­tered in the NCAA (College Division) Championships finished an amazing third, behind Bucknell and East Carolina, after the Explorers had surprised with a second place finish in the Middle At­lantic Conference. His 1956 and 1957 teams were unbeaten in 24 meets against tough competition. From 1955 to mid­season 1958, the Explorers won 39 straight meets— a win streak unequaled by any sport in the history of the school. From 1955 to 1958, the Explorers had a 43-2 record; four La Salle teams finished unbeaten, five had only one loss, and only two teams wound up with losing years.

Kirk’s career also includes successful tenures at Lincoln Prep, Northeast Catho­lic High School, the North Branch YMCA in Philadelphia, and the Brighton Hotel, Atlantic City. He led North Catholic to seven League titles in nine years, and his 1944 North Branch team won the senior National AAU Champion­ship with a squad of but five men. “I’ll never forget that meet,” says Kirk, who has become widely known as an excellent “manipulator” of swimming talent. “The funny part about it, I did all my coach­ing by telephone.”

The year 1944 was a war year, of course, and travel was highly restricted. North Branch could send only five men to the meet at the Great Lakes Naval Base, although many of the other 90 squads entered larger teams. North Branch’s team included Joe Verdeur, then swimming at North Catholic; Jack Lums-

den, a future Explorer star who was then in the Coast Guard; Jim Shand, Prince­ton’s top backstroker, and Ed Heuber, Yale’s captain.

Early in the morning, two days before the meet, Lumsden telephoned Kirk: “We can win everything if we get one more man for the freestyle relay,” he

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Coach Kirk with Olympic champion Joe Verdeur.

said. Kirk immediately called Hank Stein- gass, who was living in Baltimore and told him to get on the next train for Great Lakes. “It’s 3 A.M.,” Steingass exclaimed. “I’ll never get accommoda­tions.” But Steingass was enroute to Michigan before sunrise and sparked North Branch’s relay to a second place finish. Verdeur was the only individual winner for the team, taking the butterfly and individual medley, but the Philadel­phians capitalized on second and third place finishes to win easily with 31 points. Highly-favored Ohio State and Indian­apolis A.C. finished far behind.

Verdeur, of course, became La Salle’s brightest All American and climaxed a brilliant, record-smashing career with a Gold Medal in the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Today, as Temple’s swim mentor, he is one of Kirk’s many pro­teges in the head coaching ranks. Other Kirk pupils with coaching experience in­clude Mike DeAngelis (’47), associate professor of accounting at La Salle and head coach at La Salle High until this year; Ed Geisz (’49) and Jack Lumsden (’49), head and assistant coaches, respec­tively, at Villanova; Ernie Gash (’57), Father Judge High; Bill Parkes ( ’58), Cardinal Dougherty; Ed Burns (’52), Neshaminy, and others.

How do today’s swimmers compare with the athletes of the Verdeur era in

the late 1940’s? “They are much more advanced today,” Kirk says. “Their tech­nique is much better now, because they have more experience. Most of the pres­ent swimmers start competing in the junior leagues before high school age. However, although the swimmer devotes more time and effort to practice today, he is not as mature, emotionally, as his counterpart of the 40’s. Then, he was usually a veteran with the war still on his mind. Today’s athletes have not ex­perienced anything like that.”

Typical of today’s ideal athlete is free- styler, Bruce Trainor, who graduated in June. An excellent student, who majored in pre-med and plans to be a doctor, Trainor went unbeaten in 19 races in the 50, 100, 200 and 500-yard freestyle events during the regular season as a junior, only to lose in the conference championships. Trainor perhaps spent more time studying than most athletes, but still worked in the practice neces­sary to excel in swimming. The ad­vances in swimming today are re­flected in the fact that Explorer swim­mers broke various school, pool and con­ference records 35 times last year. The total was 34 in 1963, as Trainor alone accounted for 16 new marks.

Despite La Salle’s surprising 12-2 rec­ord last season (including upsets over

Loyola [M d.], West Chester, and Penn), Kirk realizes that the Explorers still lack the depth to make a strong bid for the MAC Championships. They figure to be third, perhaps second, depending on the progress made by Kirk’s nucleus of five talented lettermen, who will be strong in freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke events. The Explorers figure to be somewhat weaker in the backstroke, relay, and div­ing. Heading the returnees is junior Jon Walheim, who won MAC 50 and 100- yard freestyle titles and set school and conference records in the former. Jon also finished second in the 100 in the NCAA (College Division) Champion­ships.

Other highly-regarded lettermen in­clude Jim Abel (200 and 500 freestyle), Bill Conroy (individual medley), Joe Dieterle (breaststroke) and Bob Moore (butterfly). Moore finished third and fourth, respectively, in the NCAA 100 and 200 yard butterfly events. Chief losses from last year, beside Trainor, in­clude freestyler Don Walheim (Jon’s brother, who is currently a member of the Army Modern Pentathlon team) and diver Mike Kennedy, presently complet­ing Officer Candidate School in the Navy. Bill Gallagher and Mike Milone are the only sophomores who made the club and they will help a little in the individual medley and diving events, but Kirk must wait another year for further help from a good freshman squad.

Any coach will tell you that a swim­ming team needs more than individual winners for success. La Salle once won six of 11 events from Bucknell, for example, but lost the meet to the 1964 MAC and NCAA (Small College) Champs, due to a lack of second and third place finishes. With such a lack of depth a constant problem, Kirk’s unique ability to manipulate his swimmers into key events at precisely the right time has resulted in countless upsets. Two years ago he used every one of his 13 swim­mers on the 400 yard freestyle relay team at one time or another. Eight of them competed for the 400 yard medley relay team that season and a total of 28 different combinations were used in the nine individual events.

Much of the same can be expected this year. So can a few patented La Salle swimming upsets. It’s all in a day’s work for Joe Kirk. ■

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Around Campus

Masque is 30: 'Sun Up' to 'West Side'

An exquisite production of "Romeo and Juliet".

Th e M a s q u e of La Salle College is marking its 30th anniversary as the College’s undergraduate theatre group,

but the celebration opened and concludes with “firsts” for the campus thespians.

The anniversary fete began with an exquisite production of “Romeo and Juliet,” which also marked the end of the campus celebration of the 400th anni­versary of Shakespeare’s birth, and was the first Bardian play directed by Dan Rodden, associate professor of English, in more than a decade as director of the Masque.

The Masque anniversary will conclude in May, when “West Side Story” will be offered as the spring musical presentation April 30 through May 9 in the College Union theatre. The whirling Bernstein- Laurents-Sondheim musical, which has its origin in the Romeo and Juliet theme, will be the first musical production staged by Sidney MacLeod, technical director of the Masque.

Rodden is also the founder and man­aging director of the College’s summer Music Theatre, which has enjoyed three successful seasons on the campus boards. Some 20,000 patrons set an attendance record last summer, and more than40,000 theatre-goers have enjoyed seven musicals over the past three seasons. This season, which will feature productions of “Camelot” and “Brigadoon,” should be equally praiseworthy.

Rodden has staged a score of musicals and dramas over the past 11 years—in addition to Equity acting and directing chores in summer stock. He joined the Masque as a college freshman in 1937, not long after it was founded by Dr. Joseph J. Sprissler (now LaSalle’s vice president for business affairs) in 1934.

“For its first presentation,” Rodden re­calls, “the Masque chose to do Lulu Vollmer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ‘Sun Up.’ The female roles that first year,

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and happily never thereafter, were played by La Salle undergraduates. Names will not be revealed in order to protect cer­tain fathers from the scorn of their children. The following year, the Masque presented its first musical comedy, Charles George’s ‘The Sweetest Girl in Town.'

“In 1937,” he adds, “the Masque selected a Gay Nineties melodrama, com­plete with music, called ‘Gold in the Hills or the Dead Sister’s Secret.’ It was a big hit—-so big that the following year the Masque decided on another melodrama, ‘Silas the Chore Boy.’ In the following three years, we did Kaufman and Hart’s ‘You Can’t Take It With You,’ Maxwell Anderson’s ‘Knickerbocker Holiday’ (the first performance by amateurs, two weeks after it closed on Broadway), and Rom­berg’s ‘Maytime.’

“Shortly thereafter,” Rodden con­tinued, “we Masquers marched off in all directions— in costumes we didn’t have to rent—-and the Masque’s activities were suspended. The 1942 class, which had scheduled a production of ‘The Man Who Came to Dinner,’ found that most of the dinner guests had been pressed into chow­lines and had to settle for a revival of ‘Sun Up.’ Apparently, they didn’t fret over the rather pessimistic implication that the Masque had gone full circle.

“After the war,” he adds, “La Salle was exciting, bigger, different, but Charles V. Kelly, then and now of our faculty, had a mind for tradition and reconsti­tuted the Masque, acquiring the emi­nently capable Carmelita Manning to direct ‘Our Town’ and ‘State of the Union.’ ” Williard Walsh was director from 1949 to 1953.

Since 1954, Rodden has directed a wide variety of plays, from “The Potting Shed,” “Cain Mutiny Court Martial” and “The Devil’s Disciple” to “South Pacific,” “Guys and Dolls” and his own original musical, “Lucky for Me.”

“Some of the shows,” Rodden concludes, “I believe we’ve done well; others quite badly. I have had the opportunity to work with some of the finest young men and women I have ever met. I have not en­joyed every minute of it, and I don’t suppose for one minute that they have. I can only hope that somehow, out of all the time we’ve shared, spent, even wasted together, that they have found a couple of hours to scoop together and find meaningful—as I have.”

Scholarship Needs RestatedTwo La Salle spokesmen restated the

College’s stand calling for state scholar­ships for individual students in testimony given at the January hearings of the State Council of Higher Education in Philadelphia.

Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., presi­dent, and Dr. Thomas N. McCarthy, as­sociate professor of psychology and di­rector of the Counseling Center, spoke for the College and its chapter of the American Association of University Pro­fessors, respectively.

Brother Daniel, a trustee of the Phila­delphia Community College, asked high priority for community colleges in addi­tion to a “massive program of state schol­arships” in the Master Plan for Higher Education now being studied.

“We believe (the Commonwealth) must now seek means to broaden the base of its support for higher education, because in the past it has been arbitrarily selective,” Brother Daniel said.

He added that La Salle would face difficulty meeting future demands with­out such support, which he said is needed to assure the student’s freedom to attend the college he prefers.

Dr. McCarthy’s statement added that “professors, too, may find their choice of college limited by the economic superi­ority of a state institution over a private

"one.The Philadelphia Inquirer backed La

Salle’s position in a February 1 editorial, which stated in part:

“It is true beyond doubt that colleges need State help, and should get it, but very often the need of the student for aid is even greater.

“President (Brother) Daniel Bernian of La Salle, in his testimony at the hear­ings, made a notable point when he called for the State to consider a program of ‘individual incentive grants and schol­arships’ which would provide the means of “reducing tuition costs in practice while preserving the individual’s freedom of choosing the kind of school he wants.”

“It seems to us that the Council of Higher Education and the Legislature should examine the State aid question from all angles, including a full explora­tion of the largely un-tapped possibilities in scholarships to worthy and qualified individuals.”

Honors Center Spring InnovationA new Honors Center and 11 new

courses highlighted the opening of the spring semester at La Salle.

Many of the innovations occur in the day school’s Honors Program, directed by Brother F. Patrick, F.S.C. The Honors Center will open this spring in McShain Hall on the campus and will consist of offices and a lounge for “open-end” dis­cussions between professors and honors students. More than 100 students are participating in the honors programs, which are available in all major areas of concentration.

New honors courses are “Analytical Philosophy,” given by Dr. Dennis O’Brien, assistant dean at Princeton Uni­versity, “Sacramental Theology,” by Dr. William Kelly, a post doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, and a freshman course in Psychology taught by Brother E. Austin, F.S.C., of the La Salle faculty.

Other new day courses are “Historic Origins of World Religions”; “The Soci­ology of Religion” ; “Art Techniques,” and “Terrestrial Ecology.”

Among honors program discussions scheduled for the program’s annual “Col- loquim Series,” are “The Catholic Pro­fessional Writer” (Mar. 2); “Revolution in Language” (Mar. 16); “Understand­ing Modern Poetry,” (Apr. 6) and “Re­search and the Liberal Education” (May 4 ). Panels of faculty and La Salle alumni conduct the informal discussions, to which all members of the faculty and student body are invited.

New evening courses are “Computers and Computer Programming”; “Modern Physics”; “Readings in Drama,” and “English Literature from 1780 to the Present.”

H.E.W. Program ApprovedL a S a l l e has received a $4,649 grant

from the Department of Health, Educa­tion and Welfare to establish a work- study program during the spring semester.

The Federal funds, alloted under the Economic Opportunity Act, provide cam­pus jobs for some 34 students, according to L. Thomas Reifsteck, ’51, director of placement, who heads the new program. The student job categories include de­partmental, laboratory, library, research and general clerical assistants.

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$1.3 Million Dorm Expansion AnnouncedLa Salle this spring will start a

$1,300,000 dormitory expansion pro­gram, which will complete a residence complex begun in 1953, it was an­nounced by Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., president of the College.

Three new dormitories, an infirm­ary, and four separate-unit student lounges will be added to the four existing residence halls in the complex, which adjoins the campus on the northwest corner of 20th st. and Olney ave. Carroll, Grisdale and Van Alen are the architects.

“This construction,” Brother Daniel

said, “will enable La Salle to increase both the total number of resident stu­dents and the ratio of resident to commuting students within the next two years.

“In addition,” he continued, “at the completion of this complex, the entire area—including parking areas—will be landscaped to better contribute to the attractiveness of the community.”

The new dormitories will accommo­date 225 additional resident students. Some 600 of the overall day enroll­ment of 2850 now reside on the campus.

Two of the residence halls will be erected on the west side of 20th st., above Olney. The third dormitory and the infirmary will be located on the north side of Olney ave., west of 20th st. The halls will contain 107 double and 12 single occupancy rooms. The new lounges will increase recreation areas from 600 to 8,310 square feet.

The entire complex will be inter­connected and enclosed by an attrac­tively appointed brick wall and wrought-iron gates, thus providing more complete privacy for campus living and complimenting the sur­rounding community.

The program, which will aid some18,000 college students across the U.S., seeks to “stimulate and promote the part- time employment of students from low- income families who are in need of in­come from such employment to pursue courses of study.”

In addition to demonstrating need of such aid, for which family income may not exceed $3,000 plus $600 for each dependent, the student is given an oppor­tunity to work a maximum of 15 hours per week during the academic year and 40 hours during vacation periods. He must be a full-time student at the institu­tion and not replace a previously em­ployed worker.

Collegian Honors Mrs. DickersonNancy Dickerson, NBC-TV Wash­

ington Correspondent, received the 17th annual Journalism Award of La Salle College’s weekly student newspaper, The Collegian, at the paper’s annual banquet in February.

Mrs. Dickerson was the first woman to receive the plaque, which has been given annually since 1949 for “outstand­ing public service in the field of journal-ism

Among the recipients of student awards were Joseph C. Gambone, ’66, editor-in- Mrs. Dickerson with Brother Daniel and Editor Gambone.

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chief, received the 1965 President’s Award for the “most significant contribu­tion to the newspaper” during the past academic year, and Joseph G. Spear, ’66, associate editor, received the Collegian Staff Award for “the most dedication and effort expended as a staff member.”

Previous recipients of the Collegian Award include Ed Sullivan (1949); Bob Considine (1951); Edward R. Murrow (1954); Jim Bishop (1956); Chet Hunt- ley (1958); Walter Cronkite (1960); David Brinkley (1961); James Reston (1962); Charles Collingwood (1963), and Art Buchwald, last year’s recipient.

Dr. Hayman Initial MedalistH . B l a k e H a y m a n , M. D., ’41, Bucks

County and South Jersey physician, re­ceived the first President’s Medal given by La Salle, at ceremonies on the campus in December.

The Medal, which will be given annual­ly to “the person who has done the most for La Salle College,” was presented by Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., presi­dent, at a reception honoring Century Club contributors to the college’s annual giving program. Brother Daniel and Ran­dolph E. Wise, Philadelphia Commis­sioner of Public Welfare and president of La Salle’s Endowment Foundation, ad­dressed the gathering.

Brother Daniel cited Dr. Hayman’s work as chairman of La Salle’s Medical Doctor’s Committee of the College’s Cen­tenary Fund, and his “generous personal contributions, which have made possible the purchase of additional property neces­sary for the proposed physical recreation building.”

Dr. Hayman, an obstetrician and gyne­cologist, is a 1941 graduate of the Col­lege. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1945 and has since built one of the largest obstetrics practices in the U.S. He is affiliated with Lower Bucks County Hos­pital, Mercer County Hospital in Trenton, and Rancocas Valley Hospital. He re­ceived an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from La Salle at the commence­ment last June, and is the Bucks County chairman of the 1965 Catholic Charities Drive.

Dr. Lukacs on New EuropeDecline and Rise of Europe, a new

book by Dr. John Lukacs, History pro­fessor at La Salle College, was published by Doubleday and Company in February.

Dr. Lukacs, who received the attention of political science scholars for his first book, A History of the Cold War, is teaching in France under a Fulbright grant during the current academic year.

The new work deals with the “growing consciousness of Europe as an entity that transcends ancient borders and traditional loyalties.”

Baroness Von Trapp: The sound of dough-re-mi.

A Special Calling“I am deeply convinced that every

person on earth has a special calling— it’s just a matter of finding it, through prayer and meditation.”

Thus, in an address to La Salle students and faculty, Baroness Maria von Trapp summarized the philosophy of her life, which has enthralled thousands who have enjoyed the stage productions of “The Sound of Music” and the millions who will see the screen version released this month.

The musical tells how the Baroness, then a young novitiate in Austria, was loaned by the Abbey to the Salzburg household of the widower Baron von Trapp, as a governess for his seven chil­dren—and how the Baron fell in love with her and made her his wife.

“I fell in love with the children,” the Baroness said, “married their father, and eventually got used to him too.”

For some 20 years later, the group toured the world as the Trapp Family Singers, receiving acclaim in more than2,000 concerts in the U.S., Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The Baroness continued the Baron’s work after his death in 1947, but today the von Trapp children are married and scattered around the world. There are 25 Trapp grand­children.

“Too many people,” she contends, “go after the get-rich-quick jobs and then are unhappy because that’s not what they were meant to do. The most im­portant thing in life is to find out what is the will of God— and then do it.”

'Where Love of God Will Lead'“Who would have thought, only five

years ago, that we would be meeting to­gether here today?” a Dominican priest said at a recent ecumenical conference held on the campus.

The Rev. James J. Davis, O.P., as­sistant professor of theology at La Salle, gave his remarks in a sermon during a Holy Mass for the Unity of the Church, which was celebrated by the Rt. Rev. John J. Noone, J.C.D., chancellor of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, in the stu­dent Chapel.

A conference on “Christian Sacra­ments in Theology Today,” it was the first such event to be sponsored by the archdiocese and the Society of Catholic College Teachers of Sacred Doctrine. Some 300 Catholic teachers and theolo­gians, and 100 Protestant students and clergy, attended the conclave.

The Rev. Matthew J. O’Connell, S.J., professor of Sacramental Theology at Woodstock (M d.) College, was the prin­cipal-speaker, and was joined as a panelist by the Rev. Dr. Martin J. Heinecken, of the Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary; Rev. Dr. C. Edward Hopkin, Philadelphia (Episcopal) Divinity School; Rev. Dr. Kenneth Cauthen, Crozer (Baptist) Sem­inary in Chester, and the Rev. Dr. E. David Willis, Princeton (Presbyterian) Seminary.

The Rev. Philip J. Dowling, executive secretary of the Archbishop’s Commis­sion for Human Relations, called the conference “a lesson in ecumenism” and added that he hoped it would “set a

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precedent for future meetings in the archdiocese.”

Father Davis’ remarks expressed the atmosphere at the conference, which for the most part dealt with that which the five faiths have in common. The sacra­ments of Baptism and Holy Eucharist (Lord’s Supper), which are accepted in varying degrees by the faiths represented, were the central points of discussion at the morning session— at which each the­ologian gave his church’s position on the sacraments—and at the afternoon panel discussion.

“We must be quick to acknowledge that historically there have been errors made,” Father Davis said. “We must realize that we can make mistakes, just as Peter did and had to be corrected. We must recognize that God can speak to others besides our particular group or

church. Our Protestant brothers have set us many good examples, such as in the use of the vernacular in the liturgy, study of Biblical language, and their spirit of ecumenism.”

Father O’Connell, in his opening ad­dress, cited theological studies over the past four decades, especially in France and Germany, that have placed em­phasis upon sacramental events as “en­counters between Christ and the be­liever . . . shifting the emphasis from the objective elements (the minister’s role, symbolic words and gestures), without denying or downgrading them, by putting them in the correct context.”

Dr. Cauthen said that “the differences among Christians in the sacraments lie in the difference in vision of what the church really is.” He cited Roman Catholic views of theology as “focusing upon the

objective, public view,” while Protestant theology, he asserted, is “personal and subjective.”

Dr. Hopkin called the liturgy “our binding document” and called the sacra­ments “no mere learning devices . . . they really affect what they signify.” Two events—the liturgical movement and the advent of Biblical theology — have prompted Anglicans to “reconsider what the sacraments really are,” he added. “I am sorry to say that, in my lifetime, we (Anglicans) have not moved to con­sider if there are two or seven sacra­ments.”

Dr. Heinecken perhaps best stated the spirit of the conference in a question: “If the purpose of this conference is mutual understanding, and we succeed in this, then who knows where our common love (of God) will lead us?”

Campus CalendarA conscientious compendium of events of

significance to alumni, students, parents, andfriends of La Salle.

Unless otherwise stated, events are held in the College Union Building. Exhibits open 9 AM . - 9 PM . Mon.-Thurs.; 9-5 Fri., 12-4 Sat. and Sun.

ALUMNID owntown Luncheon C lub—Interesting speakers are the rule when the downtown executives meet for luncheon and comradery at the Adelphia Hotel at 12:30; Mar. 17, Apr. 21, May 19.Alumni Spring Reception—The Associa­tion will honor new entries to the Hall of Athletes; 4-7 P.M., Apr. 25.

ARTRiverdale F ine Art Society—Works by 22 artists, courtesy of Pietrantonio Galleries; Mar. 1-31.Japan Society—Gyotaku, or “fish prints” exhibit; Mar. 1-31.N etherlands Information Service—“Cas­tles in the Netherlands,” a photo exhibit of Dutch castles; Mar. 1-31.Phila. Plastics Club—Works in plastic by 35 local artists; Apr. 1-28.Pietrantonio G alleries—Scuptured wood collages; Apr. 1-28.Anna Weltzer—Miss Weltzer’s oils, cour­tesy Pietrantonio Galleries; Apr. 1-22. Molly C anady—A collection of oils; May 1- 22.

Valdi Maris—Oils by Mr. Maris from Old Bergan Art Guild; May 1-23.

CONCERTSFestival of Music—A two-week music festival, featuring: Edward Kilenyi, piano recital, Feb. 26; Rudolph Lucente, organ recital, Mar. 3; Philadelphia Musical Acad­emy concert of contemporary music, di­rected by Maurice Caplow, 8 P.M.; First Friday Mass with liturgical music based upon Negro spirituals, Mar. 5; Odetta, folk­song concerts, 6 & 8 P.M., Mar. 6; Samuel Mayes, first cellist, Philadelphia Orchestra,

with Miss Edna Bockstein, offer Beethoven, Liszt and Prokofieff, 8 P.M., Mar. 7; Gilbert and Sullivan Players offer satire of G. & S. operettas, Mar. 10; Curtis Institute of Mu­sic’s opera department in a workshop pro­duction of “Rigoletto,” 8 P.M., Mar. 10; review of musical comedy highlights by Messrs. Sidney MacLeod, Pat Cronin and Nick DeMatteo, Mar. 12. Events free and at 12:30 P.M. except admission for evening programs Mar. 6 and 10.G lee C lub—La Salle’s choral group holds its annual spring concert series; 8 P.M., Mar. 31, Apr. 2-3-4. Admission.Chad M itchell Trio—Folksongs and humor at 8 and 9:30, Apr. 24. Admission.

GENERALOpen House—Old grads will marvel at what wonders decades hath wrought and newcomers can see first-hand what the “education explosion” is all about; campus tours, exhibits, entertainment; 1-5 P.M., May 2.F ounder’s D ay—Faculty and students will assemble in academic convocation for the annual homage to St. John Baptiste de La Salle, founder of the Brothers of the Chris­tian Schools; 4 P.M., May 14.

LECTURESG uenther L ewy—The author of The Church and Nazi Germany heads a panel chosen by the sociology department on the topic, “Catholic and Jew”; Mar. 26. R ichardson D ilworth — Philadelphia’s former mayor will discuss “Changing Poli­tics in Philadelphia”; Apr. 7.D orothy D ay—The founder and director of the Catholic Worker movement will dis­cuss the role of government and individuals in the War on Poverty; Apr. 9.Robert A bernethy—NBC’s Washington correspondent gives a progress report on legislative programs; Apr. 21.

PARENTSReception—The Guild (Mothers) and the Associates (Fathers) parents’ groups hold their annual tribute to their out-going presi­dents; 7-10 P.M., May 16.

SPORTSSw im m ing — Middle Atlantic Conference championships at Elizabethtown College; Mar. 5-6.Baseball—Coach McDonnell’s nine should improve on last season’s very respectable13- 6 log: Mar. 31 at PMC; APR. 6 at Lafayette; 10, Gettysburg; 12 at Ursinus; 14, St. Joseph’s; 15, Villanova; 19, Temple; 21, Haverford; 24 at Muhlenberg; 27 at Al­bright; 29 at West Chester; MAY 1, Drexel; 3, West Chester; 5, Delaware; 6, at Penn; 10 at Villanova; 11 at Temple; 13 at St. Joseph’s; 15, Swarthmore. Home games on campus; 3:30 P.M. weekdays, 2 P.M. Sat. T rack—Coach Wetzler’s cindermen are off and running in defense of their conference title: APR. 10, Penn; 13 at Rutgers; 20, Lafayette; 27, Temple; MAY 1 at Quantico Relays; 8, West Chester; 11, at St. Joseph’s;14- 15, conference championships at Lehigh University; 28-29, IC4A Championships at Rutgers University. Home meets in Mc­Carthy Stadium.C rew—La Salle’s oarsmen should better last year’s record: APR. 3 at Georgetown (D.C.); 10, Fordham; 13 at Tampa (Fla.); 15 at Florida Southern; 17 at Rollins (Fla.); 24, American U.; MAY 1, Bergan Regatta (St. Joseph’s and Drexel); 5, Marietta; 8, Dad Vail Regatta. Home races on the Schuylkill.

THEATREThe Masque—La Salle’s irrepressible un­dergraduate thespians mark their 30th anni­versary with “West Side Story” as their 1965 spring musical presentation; Apr. 30 and May 3-4-5-6-7 at 8:30 P.M.; May 1 and 8 at 6 and 9:30 P.M. (two shows), and May 2 and 9 at 7 P.M. Admission.

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ALUM-NEWS

John A. O’Brien, Ph.D., associate profes­sor of biology at Catholic University of America, received the Benemerenti Medal awarded by His Holiness, Pope Paul VI in recognition of more than 25 years of faith­ful service to the University. Presentation was made by the Rector, Bishop William J. McDonald.

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Col. John P. Leonard, Jr., USMC, will retire in March after 30 years service in the Marine Corps. His son, John, is a freshman at La Salle.

'40Eugene J. Quindlen is employed in the Executive Offices of the President in Wash­ington, where he is director of program evaluation in the Office of Emergency Plan­ning.

'45Rev. G abriel T. Maioriello is Dean of Studies at St. John Vianney Seminary in Richmond, Virginia.

'47J ames F. H ammill, M. D., is assistant pro­fessor of neurology at Columbia University.

'48James B. Hattman is assistant sales man­ager at the Davison Chemical Division of W. R. Grace & Co. in Baltimore, Md. He was recently elected president of our new Baltimore Area Alumni Club.

'49E lmer C orda, former vice principal of Camden (N.J.) High School, recently re­signed as vice president of Willingboro Township’s Board of Education and has been named administrative assistant to the township’s superintendent of schools.

Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, AFL- CIO, which in February won a teachers’ election to represent some 13,000 public school teachers and professional personnel as bargaining agents. He has earned his master’s degree at Temple University, where he is now seeking a doctorate. Birth: To H. F rancis Sweeney and wife, Eleanor, their seventh child and third daughter, Vir­ginia Ann.

'50Rev. Ellwood K ieser, C.S.P., is the host of “Insight,” the dramatic series being pre­sented on alternate Sundays at 1:30 P.M. by WFIL-TV (Channel 6). The local sta­tion will carry 13 programs in the series, which began five years ago. Robert S. Bachman was elected treasurer of the Holy­oke Tire and Cable Corp. of Holyoke, Mass. Joseph A. G allagher has been named Regional Vice-President of Industrial Val­ley Bank and Trust Company’s Montgomery County region, N orman L. H aider is the author of a recently published English grammar textbook for secondary schools, Haider’s Guide for Structural Linguistics. W illiam J. H enrich, Jr., has become a member of the Philadelphia law firm of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Kohn and Dilks. John B. W inkler is technical representa­tive for the Synthetic Rubber Division of the Enjay Chemical Company.

'52J ames V. Covello Associates, general agents for National Life Insurance, have opened a district office in Lansdale, Pa. F rederick A. Enck has been named execu­tive director of the United Cerebral Palsy Center in Camp Hill. Joseph H enderson and James Brooks were elected secretary and social chairman, respectively, of the new Baltimore Chapter of the Alumni As­sociation.

Robert J. Schaefer 5929 Bingham Street

Philadelphia, Pa. 19120

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Lawrence J. Bur has been appointed direc­tor of marketing at the Baltimore adver­tising agency of Van Sant, Dugdale and Co. He will supervise agency programs for the Nestle Co., Black and Decker, Bassett Furniture and other clients. J ohn P. C alla­han is district office manager of Steel Strap­ping Co., and president of the Borough Council in Blackwood, N.J. James H. Mc- G oldrick is on sabbatical leave from his administrative assistant’s position in the Bristol, Pa. school system to work on his Ph.D. in educational administration at Mich­igan State University under a Mott Fellow­ship. John A. Ryan is president of the

'54H oward H. Ireland has been appointed an assistant secretary by the Insurance Com­pany of North America. An evening divi­sion graduate, he joined INA as a trainee in 1940 and now works in liasson among the company’s territorial underwriters. Ber­nard A. C lark, a junior high school lan­guage teacher in Akron, Ohio studied last summer in Quito, Ecuador under a NDEA grant. W illiam Lockard has been named district merchandising manager for Pa. and N. J. for the Buzzo-Cardozo Greeting Card Co. of California. Marriages: Bernard L. Skwirut to Lauretta Stella Gonsowski.

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Joseph N. Malone 1578 M innesota Road

Cam den 4, N. J.

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N icholas P. D ienna, Jr. has been named manager of the Central Penn National Bank’s Office at 21 S. 12th St., Philadelphia. D avid P. Kane was elected vice president and secretary of the Washington Chapter of the Alumni Association.

George A. Butler, Jr.107 E. Gowen Ave.Philadelphia, Pa. 19119

'57G eorge P. A ltmeier has been promoted to project engineer by the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania. Patrick H. O’D onnell has joined Hess & Clark in Ashland, Ohio as a general ledger ac­countant.

Jam es J. M cDonald La Salle College

Philadelphia, Pa. 19141

'58James E. Sullivan, Jr., has been appointed associate eastern advertising manager for the Wall Street Journal. Formerly manager of the Philadelphia office, which included Washington and Pittsburgh, he has been with the Journal for ten years. Ira D avis, three time Olympian, was recently honored by the Men’s Club of the Germantown Jew­ish Center. Joseph F. D oyle recently passed the New Jersey State Bar Examination. Edward B. G ehring has been elected vice- president of the newly-formed La Salle Alumni Chapter in the Baltimore, Md. area. Edward J. Morris has received his LL.B. from Temple University, passed the Pa. Bar Examination and is now employed by the Socony Oil Co. John F. G allagher, as­sistant professor of political science at the college, and John P. Rossi, lecturer in his­tory, recently appeared on radio station WPEN’s “Red Benson Show” discussing “Conservatism and Liberalism in America Today.” Rodney R ivers is president of the Philadelphia Catholic Alumni Club. Edgar A. Snares is area manager of data process­ing center, Univac division of Sperry Rand Corp., in Birmingham, Mich. H. R ichard Yarp is systems and programming manager of Philco’s Communications and Electronics Division. He was also chairman of the com­mittee planning the alumni party after the St. Joseph’s game on Feb. 26. Births: To Joseph F. D oyle and wife, Jane Marie, a daughter, Jane Marie; to K enneth G. Hager and wife, Bonita, a daughter, Kris­tina Gayle.

Sen. McCarthy 1965 Alumni MedalistSen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.)

received the 23rd annual Signum Fidei Medal of the La Salle Alumni Association on the campus in February.

Sen. McCarthy is the first elected political figure to receive the medal, which is given each year for “distinguished achievement in the advancement of Christian principles.”

Daniel E. McGonigle, ’57, alumni presi­dent, presented the medal. Sen McCarthy and Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., presi­dent, addressed the audience of alumni and students.

Sen. McCarthy taught in high schools and colleges for ten years before his election to Congress in 1958. At that time he was act­ing head of the sociology department at the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn.

He was re-elected in 1950, 1952, 1954 and 1956, and in 1958 won election to the Senate. He was recently named to the influ­ential Democratic Steering Committee. He is the author of four books, most recently A Liberal Answer to the Conservative Chal­lenge (1964).

Established in 1941, the medal derives its name from “Signum Fidei”—Sign of Faith—the motto of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, the teaching order which conducts the College. Previous recipients include Bishop Fulton Sheen; Dr. Francis J. Braceland, psychiatrist; R. Sargent Shriv- er, director of the War on Poverty program, and Mother M. Benedict, M.D., provincial of the Medical Mission Sisters, who was the 1964 recipient.

Joseph L. Hanley5830 N orth 16th StreetPhiladelphia, Pa. 19141

John W. H edges received his master’s de­gree in Law from Temple University and is serving with the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Captain Edward J. Junier recently returned from an assignment as an artillery advisor in Viet Nam and is on the R.O.T.C. staff at Seton Hall University. F rancis J. Murphy is a district sales man­ager with the Reuben H. Donnelly Corp.

Ralph W. Howard La Salle College

Philadelphia, Pa. 19141

'60Captain Robert B. A dair has been ap­pointed assistant professor of military sci­ence in the Army R.O.T.C. unit at Niagara

University. G eorge K. D unye was recently elected acting general secretary of the Li­beria Chamber of Commerce in Monrovia, Liberia. G eorge M. L ogan is with the Ford Motor Co. in Brussels, Belgium. Joseph R. Walton has been named branch manager of the Abraham Lincoln Federal Savings and Loan Assn, in Dresher, Pa. F rancis T. McG rath has been transferred to the Department of Labor’s Washington head­quarters after three years with the Depart­ment’s wages and hours division in Phila­delphia. Joseph J. Zukowski is an account­ant for the Internal Revenue, also in Washington. Robert R. D avis, Jr ., is now an assistant products managers for Avon Products, Inc., in New York City. Mar­riages: J oseph F. Cassidy to Dorothy Helen Hansbury and F rancis A. D onohue to Joan A. Kantorek. Birth: To A lfred Bruhin and wife, Patricia, a son, Peter Damian.

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Robert S. Lyons, Jr.La Salle College Philadelphia, Pa. 19141

'61Vincent P. Anderson, who received his LL.B. from Catholic University last June, was recently admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar. He is now serving in the Judge Advo­cate General Corps. C harles A. Agnew , treasurer of the Alumni Association, re­cently transferred to the Defense Depart­ment Supply Center at Cameron Station, Va., has been elected president of the Wash­ington, D.C. alumni chapter. Adolph P. (“Stretch”) Birkenberger teaches history and science to the 8th to 11th grades in his hometown, Wolcott, Conn. He also directs the town’s recreation program and is exec­utive vice president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, which he helped organize. W illiam Cahill is teaching in the com­merce department of Roxborough High School in Philadelphia. James P. Meehan, sales representative of Johnson & Johnson in Providence, Rhode Island, was recently honored for outstanding salesmanship. Mar­tin N ey is teaching-principal of the New Gretna Elementary School. Kenneth J. Roberts, with the Airborne Artillery in Germany, was promoted to the rank of Captain. Marriages: Paul V. Adams to Ann Marie Faudy; Charles T. Bogle to Kather­ine Oschman; Thomas R. G illespie to Kathleen Di Canzio.

Thom as A. Cottone 943 East Chelten Avenue

Philadelphia, Pa. 19138

'62David W. Bruhin received his commission as Army 2nd Lt. in San Francisco, Cali­

fornia. T homas J. Lynch, who has done an outstanding job as chairman of the Alumni Downtown Luncheon Club, has been trans­ferred by Industrial Valley Bank to their Jenkintown office.

'63Philip B. Rogers is teaching at Pennington (N.J.) Preparatory School and pursuing his master’s degree at Trenton State Teacher’s College. M ilton O. D ickerson, Jr. is serv­ing with the Peace Corps in Turkey. Second Lt. W illiam J. Kunigonis, Jr. was awarded his silver wings upon graduation from U.S.A.F. Navigator Training at Connally AFB, Texas. Joseph P. McN ally has been named program director by the North Light Boys’ Club of Philadelphia. Eugene V annucci was elected treasurer of the Baltimore Alumni Chapter. Marriages: Walter S. F raser to Germania Hidalgo; W illiam F. Lafferty to Monica Marie Joka; Robert W. Sosna to Evelyn Teresa Sulock.

Jam es Cavanaugh 108 E. W alnut St. M erchantville, N. J.

'64Four members of the class are serving with the Peace Corps: R ichard J. Chiu is among 300 volunteers engaged in a program of construction and community action in Ec­uador; V incent A. G allgher, Jr . is serving in Venezuela; D aniel R. O’L eary is in Brazil, and Thomas P. Walsh is teaching in rural elementary schools in the Philippines.

C harles M. Brosenne is teaching English at Monsignor Bonner High School in Drexel Hill, Pa. Raymond D i L issio is teaching Spanish at Riverside High School, New Jersey. G erald A. H arley has been commissioned a second lieutenant at Lack- land AFB, Texas. Lt. James K irshcke is currently serving as an infantry officer in the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejune, North Carolina. 2nd Lieut. J ohn F. Mc- Keogh is Information Officer for U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas. Joseph G. N eelon and Raymond W. PoDmenik were commissioned second lieu­tenants in the Air Force at Lackland AFB, Texas. 2nd Lieut. A nthony J. Russo was graduated from the course for U.S. Air Force communications officers at Keesler AFB. Miss., and was re-assigned to Dow AFB in Maine. D onald J. Waiheim has won a berth on the U.S. modern pentathlon team, which once included his brother, P eter S., ’60. Marriage: James R. Mulhern to Anita M. Porreca.

Thomas P. WalshV incent A. G allagher

Conferring at the recent reception honoring alumni in the legal profession are (from left): Thomas B. Harper, III, '48; Brother Daniel Bernian, F.S.C., La Salle president; Daniel J. McCauley, Jr., '38, and Joseph B. Quinn, '24.

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Francis J. McCusker, '23 (center, standing), and Charles A. Agnew, '61 (second from left), officiated at a recent meeting of the Washington area meeting. Agnew is the new president of the chapter, McCusker the outgoing head.

SPRING RECEPTIONThe annual Alumni Spring Reception

will be held on Sunday afternoon, 4 to 7 P.M., April 25, 1965 in the College Union Ballroom.

The honored guests will be the men chosen to be the 1965 additions to the Alumni Hall of Athletes. The Selection Committee, under Chairman Frank Donohoe, ’55, is now considering candi­dates from our various athletic teams of the past.

SPRING STAGAlumni President Dan McGonigle,

’57, recently announced an innovation in the alumni Program. Plans are now being made for a Spring Stag Reunion. Details will be announced soon. It will be held off campus, and the soon-to-be alumni members of our senior class will be invited.

COMMENTATOR PROGRAMIn light of the liturgical renewal be­

ing experienced by the Church and the emergence of the layman as an important factor in this renewal, we are happy to announce a Commentator Training Pro­gram, to prepare alumni to lead the Dialogue Mass in their parishes.

The program will include lectures and practical training, and will be under the guidance of Rev. Mark Heath O.P.,

Chaplain of the College.Those interested write or call James J.

McDonald, Director of Alumni, at the College. (VI 8-8300)

CHAPTER NEWSS u b u r b a n -W e s t

The Suburban-West Chapter of the Alum­ni Association elected the following officers for 1965: T. F r a n c is L o u g h n e v , ’40, Presi­dent; D o n a l d P. H e e s o n , ’50, Vice-Presi­dent; T h o m a s P. B o n e s , ’45, Secretary; and A n t h o n y M. Z a r r il l i , ’45, Treasurer. They were installed at a “Valentine Dinner Dance” on February 20 at Springfield Coun­try Club.

BaltimoreThe recently inaugurated Baltimore Area

Chapter elected J a m e s B. H a t t m a n , ’48, President; E d w a r d B. G e h r in g , ’58, Vice- President; J o s e p h J . H e n d e r s o n , ’52, Sec­retary; E u g e n e D. V a n n u c c i , ’63, Treasurer and J a m e s V. B r o o k s , ’52, Social Chairman.

On February 20, they held a joint party with the Boston College Alumni of the Baltimore area at “The Pub”.

W a s h in g t o n

The reorganized Washington Area Chap­ter elected Charles A. A g n e w , ’61, Presi­dent and David P. Kane, ’56, Vice-Presi­dent and Secretary at a Stag Reunion in Falls Church, Virginia on January 15.

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L a S a l l eVignettes

Ed W arren /P hilly ’s less Crane

"It's an up-hill battle, but we're hanging in there," remarked Edward A. Warren, '50, producer of the American Broadcasting Company's Les Crane TV show. But shortly thereafter, ABC's late-night foe of NBC's firmly-entrenched Johnny Carson lost the nation's fourth-largest advertising market, when WFIL-TV, the network's Philadelphia affiliate, dropped the show in favor of feature films. Crane gained four cities in the process, among them Cleveland and Pittsburgh, but came out with a net audience loss. Warren, who was vice president of the Masque and won an intercollegiate award for acting as an undergraduate, is executive producer of the Crane program, which he organized a year ago as ABC-TV's director of program planning for five network-owned stations. After earning his bachelor's degree, he was film editor at Philadelphia's WCAU-TV until 1953, then taught speech and drama at St. Mary's of Notre Dame until 1957. He also served as the University of Notre Dame's TV film director, when the university opened its own TV station on the campus. He was program director of WGN-TV, the Chicago ABC affiliate, from 1957 to 1962, when he joined NBC-TV for one year as program director of WNBC-TV in New York. He returned to ABC in 1963. Warren remains hopeful that the Crane show will endure, pointing to the 97 stations that still carry the show and adding that the Jack Paar and Steve Allen shows took at least a year to become established and were then near extinction. Warren, his wife, and their four children (two boys, two girls) make their home in suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y.

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Father Berna/handouts aren’t enoughThe Rev. James J. Berna, S.J., '41, is founder and director of the Extension Service of the Indian Social Institute, which seeks to improve the lives of India's massive population by helping people to help themselves. Located in south India near Bangalore, the Ex­tension Service was founded on an experimental basis in 1961 with two objectives: (1) assist Misereor, a Ger­man bishop's campaign against hun­ger and disease, and (2) help individ­ual Indians to organize socio-economic projects aimed to alleviate poverty. The work is founded upon Father Berna's belief that "it is not enough to care for the orphan and the widow with handouts; it is better to help make the social and economic life of the country healthy, rather than give it a set of crutches with occasional aid." Father Berna, a native Phila­delphian, received his bachelor's de­gree in economics at La Salle, entered the Society of Jesus in 1941 and was ordained in 1942. He taught eco­nomics at Georgetown University for two years before pursuing a doctoral degree at Columbia University, which included his first trip to India in 1956 on a Fulbright grant to do research for his doctoral dissertation. He re­ceived his Ph.D. in 1958 and returned to India the following year when he joined the staff of ISI, which has its headquarters in New Delhi. He has served in India ever since. Last year, Father Berna founded an adjunct to the Extension Service, a training center located in Bangalore, to train priests and lay leaders (both Catholic and non-Catholic) in community develop­ment work (e.g., the center is now training personnel of the State Bank of India in consumer cooperation). Father Berna and his nine-man staff journey through south India by jeep, bus and on foot.

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Dr. Rudnytsky/hero of our time

It was a day like all days, only Ivan L. Rudnyt­sky, Ph.D., associate professor of history, was there. It was a mild afternoon in December when Dr. Rudnytsky boarded a Philadelphia Transportation Company bus for his weekly class at Bryn Mawr College, where he is a visiting professor this year. He had planned to use the valued time in the usual manner, reviewing his class reading assignments for the day. But another passenger, Mrs. Mary Gelinas, had other plans. She had her tran­sistor radio, which was her way of coping with dreaded minutes alone with oneself. Mrs. Gelinas' radio was blaring "loud boogie woogie" music, Dr. Rudnytsky said later, after his now-famous altercation had drawn na­tional attention to the soft-spoken, unassuming professor of modern European and Russian history. He did not, however, intend to strike Mrs. Gelinas after she not only refused his request to have the radio's volume lowered, but had instead moved closer to him and in­creased the din. The bus driver, too, denied his entreaties. So it was that Dr. Rudnytsky assumed the vigilante role and himself re­moved the radio from Mrs. Gelinas. In the struggle, he asserts, it accidentally struck the owner's head. Mrs. Gelinas was treated for a head cut, Dr. Rudnytsky was held under $300 bail for the grand jury, and both must have been astounded to learn that newspapers, radio and TV from Maine to Hawaii carried the wire service stories about the incident and waxed eloquently in editorial comment. In addition, Dr. Rudnytsky received some 200 letters from across the country. Amazingly, of the hundreds of letters and editorials, a scant two or three were in the least way unsym­pathetic with Dr. Rudnytsky's action. (See "Edi­tor's Notebook"). Almost anti-climactically, the grand jury refused to indict the professor for his intercession, and the PTC has placed signs in all its vehicles urging those using transistor radios to also use earphones. This time, the professor of history had made history.

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