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Bostonia
1971
Bostonia: v. 45, no. 1-4
Jacobs, Ruth Harriet
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Comment. ‥ On one ofthose catch-uP
Summer days’While filing some of the
S∞reS Of publications harvested last
C ontents
SEPTEMBER 1971
year from campus corridors and ∞r-
ners’it hit home hard: BU students pro-
duce a terrific quantlty Of printed material remark_able for its diverslty言ts
imagmation・ and often for its per-
1 Comment
CePtlOn and q髄lity.
Did you know, for instance, that
3 UniversityNews
SchooI of Law students言n a 」Oint venture with their peers at Harvard言ssue a
Publication called 7協e Outlaw which aト
tests to the broad social conscience of
9 ThePo州債onofTime byJohn R. Silber
77!e pre寂ねn葎provocative,佃γ-mnging MウノComencement /′naαg
ration cz‘劾・eSS.
tomorrow’s attomeys? That students in
the Black Writer,s Club sponsored by
the Afro-American Center last sprlng
Published a 48-Page literary magazine
‘ 16 Architectural Vignettes
C宏mra-Selected c“riosities as Jeen On a Wlking /0“r〆‘the Char短River Canp弧
titled Wite On! which言hough its con-
tent is uneven, is consistently lively and
interesting? That graduate students
Publish an amual Graduate S飯den子s
19 Campus: West Europe by Robert Minton
A visit /0 /he
nive扇少部ittle-加own,助t booming mg‘lti-Center Overseas Progra耽
Gc‘r‘ねwhich includes・ aS Part Of its
helpfu11y far-ran′gmg COntent, One Of the
most reliable listlngS aVailable anyWhere of good restaurants in the Boston
23 AIumniNews
A bameryear/Z)r 7he A lumi凡nみmre ovcrseaf /Oe‘巧and wha待叩coming Jhis/わI1
area? That an entirely student-PrOduced
newspaper, 7-he Daily H・ee Press, nOW is
24 AcrosstheDesk byRobertE. Cummgs
in its second year of daily publication
and has been a helpful and responsible
VOice of student news and oplnion?
27 ClassNotes
Some of the most impressive of these
many publications are those leasト
known off-CamPuS・ For example, the
1971 Cou持e Evalま/ation Boo々, an aWe-
29 Notab量es
Prdガles〆‘three grαれone a 29year-0肋womn r orter /0αring Red China.
SOme team e鱒brt by some 200 students.
It tells’Often with shocking candor, how
Students themselves rated hundreds of
COurSeS O節ered in eight of the univer-
30 Spo巾S
Alumni vo寂ntee名s csca庇e season Jicたet sales. ‥ and b帝ht f,Otballprc呼ec孤
Slty’s schooIs and colleges.
Most impressive is the statistical
foundation of the 192-Page book. It
Summarizes the op皿ions of thousands
33 Homecomlng 1971
Deiails on /he m初i-ha群)ening October 22-23 with壇n-型J吟rmtion.
Of students about courses they had
taken. The section on CLA oiferings,
easi看y the largest and best prepared, WaS
compiled from some 12・000 computer-
tallied forms distributed to larger
Classes・ Plus another questiomaire pre-
Pared by the American Association of
Universlty Professors distributed to a11
Other classes. What a stupendous task of
research and assimilation!
Another publication which invoIved
VaSt reSearCh but for a di節erent purpose
BOSTONIA
/
SEPTEMBER
1971 volume
45
Number
3
Published quarterly for alumi of Boston University by the O鯖ce of Public A無料s, 145 Bay
is 77!e O移anize帝Manual a paperback
State Road, Boston, Mass. 02215, in association with the General Alumni Association. Second_
Published last spmg by Bantam Books.
Class postage has been paid at Boston, Mass., and at additional mailing o鯖ces.
宣
It orlgmated in the “Strike Dorm’’that
covered in the latest Hub. But it also has
OPerated a summer ago on campus fol-
such diverse additional content as an in-
1owmg the Kent State/Cambodia un-
terview with President Silber, POetry
Designe′嶋: Jerome SchuergeきつDoug
rest. Final preparation of the material
and photography (including a full-COIor
Parker
WaS by an anonymous group of ll per輸
Picture.section)・ eS5ayS both humorous
Ph otqgr坪helS: Anthony J. Moscatel・
SOnS Ca11ing themselves the寝O.M. Col-
and serlOuS, a SeCtlOn titled “Marches,
John C. MacFarlane
lective.’’(The one known member is
Demos and Parades,” a chronoIogy of
協ce Pre5i`ねnt fyr Develdyme融and
CLA English Prof Elizabeth Barker,
important happemngS On and off-Cam-
Pαblic A解i鳩; Clare M. Cotton
Whom the June BosTONIA incorrectly
PuS OVer tne last four years・ eVen the
Director qf P“b柾Reねtio榔:
Called “advisor’’on the prQjeCt. She as-
text of the Ohio special grand jury’s re-
Robert W. Minton
SureS uS She was simply one member of
port on the shootmgS at Kent State Uni-
Address all correspondence to Bostonia
the group, With no special privilege or
VerSlty last year. This editorial su切ec-
authority.)
tivlty does make possible a better
The Manual, a COmPrehensive guide
to the pmCiples and constituencies in-
representation of the splrlt and ambiva-
Editorial Staff
Edtor: Richard C. Underwood
Assおtant: Jean Tramba
Magazine, O能ce of Publications,
207 Bay State Road’Boston’Mass. 02215.
Alumni Association O簡cers
VOIved in grass-rOOtS Organizing言s
President: Cha血es A. Mehos ’42
PaCked with information言ncluding a
National yice PγeSjtねnts:
James A. Argeros ’51;
59-Page bibliography-directory of
R. Parrott ’64
Regional Vわe P′鞠i虎n細:
Eugene S. Ca11ender ’47; Robert E.
Clarke ’57; E11iot H. Cole ’54/’60;
John C. Dean ’48; Robert E. Evensen
’45; Myer H. Friedman ,38: Wallace M.
marks by Charles Radin・ founding editor of 77!e Daily H,ee Press.・
“We entered our four-year CyCle at
SOurCeS and contacts. First pmtmg WaS
the height of the Movement Trium-
lOO,000, and Prof Barker tells us sales
Phant’and things would probably have
are golng Very We11 indeed’and that the
been diiferent at the end ifthe triumphs
Mrs. Janet Jeghelian ’57;
Leo R. M皿in ’54; Charles
lence of the times. Witness these re-
Manual has been adopted as a textbook
hadn,t become fewer and less
by the socioIogy departments at severa1
frequ ent‥
“we found ourselves charged with
1arge universities.
Another i11ustration of student pub-
maintaimng and boIstenng a begin皿ng
1ishing accomplishment is 7協e Boston
that those preceding us had made, and
Housmg Primer, Subtitled By the Hand
after some preliminary investlgative
77’rO移h Slumlord Land Issued by the
work, many Of us found the task beyond
Student Union言ts 84 pages are創1ed
Our CaPabilities… ・ Those younger
With straight talk on how and where to
than we were suddenly understood
Pacios ’49; Jack Rosenfeld ’5 1 ; Palmer
hunt for an apartment・ What to Iook and
things more thoroughly than we
D. Scammell ’35; M. George Snyder ’49.
look out for, Plusses and minuses of
did. . . .
A d融ory Committee:
Various Boston area neighborhoods, a
Prescott C. Crafts ’42; Rob Roy MacLeod
’23; Daniel J. Fim ’49/’51; Ja皿eS B.
tenant,s legal rights’Where to go for
Juechter ’55; the Hon. Beatrice H.
Mullaney, ’27/,28; Leon G・ Nagler
’53/,54; Carl G. Ome ’48; Robert K.
help with problems・
McIntosh ’50; Dr. Emil M. Hartl
’28/’31 ; Nicholas Apalakis ’31/’32;
Virginia Tiemey ’36; Demetrius C.
Pilalas ’39; Ralph B. Pendery ’39;
Rbbert E. Cu皿ings ’59; Cha血es A・ Mehos,
42.
AIumni O億ce
Director ofA寂mni 4解irs:
Robert E. Cumings ’59
Associate Directo購;
“When you get right down to it・ We
became cymCal. Not in our pmCiples・
not in what we deeply believed, but in
Hbusing Primer editors cu11ed infor-
Our realistic appraisal of how much of
mation from some 2,000 retumed ques-
what we wanted to accomplish would
tionnaires in listmg a number of real-
fa11 away into nothing. The wimer-
estate firms and operators to be wary of,
take-a11 battles were fought when we
based on unhappy experiences by stu-
were freshmen or high-SChooI seniors’
dent tenants. No firms were listed as
and what was left for us tumed out to
recommended」irst, Said the editors,
be the long, tenaCious struggles that
because none won a strongly favorable
ended in negotiations and five-year
∞nSenSuS, and se∞nd because “three
plans
years ago, Boston Housing and you rec-
Change… ・’’
and
sIow’
SIow’
Slow
負We leamed and we leamed and we
Richard C. Fannon, Jr, ’64/’67, Jeah C.
Ommended certain real-eState agenCies.
Hillsen, Karl Virtue ’60
The advice backfired; the wors=and-
leamed,’’ he concludes言`but seldom
A dninistmtive A ss料tant:
lords began to list apartments with deal-
through the chamels we expected. In
Noreen A. Oleksak
ers who had been judged favorably by
many
BU students.”
SCreWed up than we had been when we
What better testimony to the eifectiveness of this publication?
A final example: this year’s yearbook,
ways’We
left
school
more
entered. But perhaps that only bears
Witness to the degree to which we became educated.’’
nual a predictable documentation of
Who said television has produced a
student generation of listless verba=11it-
CamPuS PeOPle’Organizations’and hap-
erates?
捌e Hub・ No Ionger is the school an-
Penings-though these elements are
2
-Your Editors'
As Jhe campus suddenbノbu持t
into /昨略ain Labor Day Weekend
Pre5i`カnt Silber (14?) greeted
new’Students and Jheir parents
during /WO `昨ernoon reccptions
in Jhe Sherman Z力高on Balル00m
UnⅣe暇的
News
Med Center Saves
Famed Heart Study
The Framingham Heart Study, On the
tional Institute of NeurologlCal Diseases
and Stroke. The grant will allow the BU
SchooI of Medicine’s NeuroIogy De-
VerSlty Of Texas, nOtmg that he had
OVer the past 20 years.
Of the Universlty Of Texas to national
ical Center.
Dr. Thomas R. Dawber, aSSOCiate
PrOfessor of medicine at the BU SchooI
“brought the Department of Philosophy
emmenCe.●●
in federal funding、 has been saved at
fusion from the Boston University Med-
The citation went on to praise Dr. Silber for his accomplishments at the Uni-
Partment tO add to the fountainhead of
medical data compiled on heart disease
Verge Of extinction because of cutbacks
least for a while by a financia=rans-
them new strength.’’
The citation also noted that “In you,
Yale Grad SchooI
Honors Dr. Silber
Boston Universlty has chosen a president possessing the patience and
Strength necessary to let his vision be輸
COme a reality・’’
President John R. Silber, Who re-
Of Medicine, SPearheaded a nation-
Ceived his Ph.D言n philosophy at Yale
Wide fund drive to raise the $256,000
in 1956, WaS honored by his alma mater
needed to continue the intemationa11y
known proJeCt for one more year under
in June when he received the Wilbur
Lucius Cross Medal from the Yale
BUMC auspICeS.
Graduate SchooI Association.
Lee Leaves for
Maryland Post
The study has kept detailed histories
The medaL eStablished in memory of
Of some 4.000 Framingham residents
the Yale dean who went on to become
executive vice president who was actmg
for the past 20 years in an attempt to
find causes and prevention of cardio-
Govemor of Connecticut after his retirement from the Yale faculty, is
leavmg BU this fal=o become chan-
vascular diseases.
awarded for outstanding achievement
Ce11or of the Universlty Of Maryland’s
by a Yale Graduate School alumnus.
Baltimore County campus.
Dr. Dawber said the study wi= be
back in full operation in September,
With resumpt重On Of patient partlCIPation
and examination.
The citation accompanymg the award
Dr. Calvin B.T. Lee, the universlty’s
PreSident for six months last year, is
Dr. Lee, 37, Came tO BUin 1968 as
dean of the College of Liberal Arts,
said:
“At a time when the universlty言ib-
Which under his leadership began such
academic innovations as the Freshmen-
Dr. Dawber also announced that the
eral education, and, at their center, Ph主
Study wi= operate on an expanded plan
1osophy have come under attack. you
Sophomore Seminar Program・ Pre-
resulting from a $69,1 13 grant to Boston
have demonstrated their continued rele-
Viously he had served with the U.S・ O手
Universlty from the Department of
VanCe, and through your work as
fice of Education’s Bureau of Higher
Health, Education and Welfare’s Na-
SCholar and educator. you have glVen
Education and had been assistant dean
and professor of higher govemment at
Columbia Universlty.
“Boston Universlty loses an extraor-
dinary administrator as Calvin Lee asSumeS his new position.” commented
President Silber.
“He has been invaluable in his capac-
1ty aS eXeCutive vice president. I fear it
Will be impossible to replace him, for
men with his ability and experience are
exceedingly rare.’’
Another upper-1evel administrative
Change
was
CBA’Dean
John
S;
Fielden,s acceptance of the deanship at
the Universlty Of Alabama’s Graduate
SchooI of Business Administration and
the College of Commerce and Business
Administration.
Dean Fielden eamed M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from BU in English and読nt
Again Jhis year, neW Black JtC‘Cねnts-SOme 2の4’them-Ca確/0 /he canPt‘S
a week carZy力r a平,eCial orientation program平onsored少/he Martin Lc‘ther King,
九, A〆oA彬rican Center. A ctivities inclぴあd instr“ctional sessio均g
iddnce
on to become associate editor of the
H宏rvard Bぴine5S Review and a faculty
member of Harvard’s Graduate SchooI
確etings, area Jou櫛and佃hown her子) pointe持on how to “se Jhe /ibmウノ.
of Business Administration before re-
A Jotal Q/お25 /.eshmen were J.egistered in Jhe Cl狐r〆1975・
turmng to the campus in 1964 as dean.
3
Be均やmin / Se履, CBA ’21,
Senior partner Jn /he Boston
acco
nting and /a二℃ COnSZ‘ltingかm
bearing his name, P硲entS a
Check /O Pre5ident S脇er cstablishing
a $10,OのJCholars履, at CBA J/1
確mory 。f hl5 W帰Ag,1eS.
Under Fielden’s administration, Said
President Silber言`remarkable improve-
friends in their appeal for items.
AIso lending a hand to the auction
fo11ow the same distribution requlrements as other m牛iOrS by taking four
ment was made in the program of the
WaS a WOmen’s committee, COnSisting of
Co11ege of Business Administration.
members of the universlty’s Women’s
natural sciences, and social sciences.
Dean Fielden was suc∞SSful in ralSmg
Guild and various friends of SFAA.
They also must ful創I language and
the quality of the faculty and the stu-
freshman English requlrementS.
dent body・ and in gammg fu11 a∞redita-
tion for the College. He also established
Several other universities, including
Selected Juhiors
e節ective rapport with the business com-
munity served by血e university”
AIso leavlng the campus in August
WaS JameS H. Baker, Vice president for
development and public a紐irs since
1967. On September l he began duties
SteP OutSide traditional ecademic
Co11ege Entrance Examination Board in
bounds and design their own m鋤ors.
In the 負Individual Concentration
PrOgram, aPPrOVed by the CLA faculty
ber commended his “. ‥ Herculean ef
last winter, a Student who wishes to con-
forts in establishing a development and
Centrate On a SPeCial area can cut across
Public a能Iirs program at Boston Uni-
traditional departmental and school
VerSlty. ”
most other programs, W血ch are solely
for honors students, BU’s is open to ev-
Nearly lOO Co11ege of Liberal Arts
as vice president for public a捌irs of the
In wishing Baker we11, President Sil-
Duke, Comell, Berkeley, and Brown,
have tried the individual maJOr・ Unlike
Deslgn Own M勾OrS
Juniors have embarked this fall on an
experimental program a11owmg them to
New York City.
∞urSeS eaCh in the areas of humanities,
eryOne.
SocioIogy Prof to
Probe Women,s Lib
Two Boston women’s liberation
groups of di節ering perspective will be
boundaries and言f necessary, eVen take
the focus for “New Feminist Organiza-
One of Bak6r,s ac血evements was or_
∞urSeS OutSide the universlty. Each stu-
tions,’’a research prqieCt directed by
gamzmg a broad-based alunni amual
dent’s proposal must be endorsed by a
glVmg Program W址ch each suceessive
faculty advisor and by a three-man fac-
year has produced more support.
ulty advisor and by a t血ee-man faculty
COmmittee administemg the program.
Pa正cipatmg Students are required to
Maren Lockwood Carden, aSSOCiate
PrOfessor of socioIogy at CLA.
Concentrating on “the neglected area
Of why people particIPate in social refom movements,’’the prQ]eCt is funded
by a $24,944 grant from the Russell
SFAA Students
Raise Funds For
New Coneert Ha11
Sage Foundation. It will provide one of
the few systematic accounts of a social
reform movement from its initial stages.
Under study wi11 be the National Or-
ganization for Women (NOW) and Boston Women’s Liberation. Although
Throughout the sunmer, Students at
their basic goals are the same, Professor
the SchooI of Fine and Applied Arts
Carden says, NOW tends to be more
COllected items for a g重gantic auction to
conservative. -
raise funds needed for reconstruction of
Believmg that individual motives are
the school’s concert ha11, destroyed dy a
not necessarily the same as movement
fire last spmg.
goals, Professor Carden hopes, through
During the three-day auction, Sep-
interviews with movement members, tO
tember 23-25, in the SFAA Ga11ery,
un∞Ver ``the processes whereby each
PamtmgS, muSical instruments, fumi-
woman became aware of the move-
ture, and o瓜er valuable items were put
ment, her reasons for participation, and
On the block to help raise part of the
her activities in the movement.
$400,Oco needed to rebuild.
AIso to be interviewed will be mem-
A student committee, headed by Se-
bers of the two movements in other
nior George Faxon, and Cheryl Batts, a
Cities, WOmen Who have left the movement, and women who have considered
SeCretary in SFAA’s student activities
O鯖ce, had the use of a university truck
JOlmng but have not done so.
for tnps t血oughout Greater Boston to
Pick up the donated items.
In addition to direct-mail appeals, the
SFAA students, aSSisted by faculty
She also wi]1 examine the two Boston
basketball Coach Ron Mitchell /above),
groups to see how each interprets the
feminine role and the ways in which
BU七coaching sta# jnc寂がng
hosted over jOO Jmer-City kids
they ]end social support to women who
members and sta錆; also organized a
勿i少;n Jz‘l所y a平,Ort読amp at
are redefining their roles.
telethon to readl SFAA alumni and
Salgent qym and Nicke′嶋On He履
4
Professor Carden feels the public at-
勅cke応on FJeld fycilitね’gOt
a going-OVer With paint late Jn /he
Summe′〕 Part〆a can叩a暗n /O
みow la′官er CrO"’dトe岬eCial砂
more al“mni-back /0 /he camp“s
布r va応i少athletic contests
佃ee JtOウノ, PqgeS 30-32)・
tention which new feminist groups have
The unit, described as a self-1eammg
attracted is `亀r out of proportion to
device by its inventor, Dr. Stewart Wil-
their total membership of several thou-
SOn Of the Polaroid Corporation言s on
Sand.” Part of her study will be in-
loan to the universlty’s BioIogy Depart-
VeStigation of the role of mass media in
ment.
the shaping of the new movement.
BU Participa血ng
In Cyprus Dig
ENG, CBA O熊井
Double Master
Degree Program
The “1ecturer’’has been insta11ed in a
room at the BioIoglCal Science Center
The Colleges of Engineemg and of
but is available for use by students
Business Administration are JOmmg
throughout the universlty. It will not,
forces this fa11 to oifer qua皿ed students
however, be a direct part of any regular
a new two-year PrOgram leading to si-
Curriculum program.
The Interactive Lecturer presents
taped talks by men andwomen noted in
multaneous master’s degrees in business
adm音inistration and in manufacturmg
engmeermg.
Boston Universlty lS One Of four in-
their fields. AIong with the lectures are
The new program cuts a year off the
Stitutions partlCIPatmg m an arChaeo-
Visual aids and a prmted guide which
time noma11y required to eam the two
loglCal expedition to Cyprus early this
makes it convenient for the listener to
degrees separately by allowmg Credit
fall to lay the groundwork for extensive
COntrOl the lectures. He can zero in on a
toward the MBA degree for related
Particular section or even skip the lecture and pick questions he would like
COurSeS taken as part of the engmeermg
excavations at the site ofthe ancient clty
Of Idalion.
PrOgram.
The expedition is a pilot pro」eCt for a
answered. A special feature of the sys-
The manufactumg engmeemg PrO-
fu11-SCale excavation that will begin in
tem is an electro-Writer coded to the
gram, nOrmally a year of graduate
Study, PrOVides a balance of courses in
1972 under sponsorship of the Ame正
tape that acts much like a miniature
Can SchooIs of Oriental Research. BeSides BU, the charter members of the
expedition are Harvard, the State Uni-
blackboard as a movmg Pen rePrOduces
four main areas of study: PrOduct de-
Sketches to illustrate the lecture.
Velopment, manufacturing process.
Included with each cassette lecture
digital control・ and manufacturmg man-
VerSlty Of New York・ and Pittsburgh
are taped answers to questions raised by
agement. The MBA program, nOmally
Theo看oglCal Seminary.
Students who previously had heard the
requmng tWO yearS Of study, requlreS
The site of Idalion (modem Dhali)
1ies about 15 miles southeast of Nicosia.
CaPital of Cyprus. An objective of the
American expedition to the largely
unexcavated Iron Age site is to find an-
Same lecture. This a11ows the lecturer to
no previous business traimng and pro-
PrePare a COmPrehensive answer to ex-
Vides a broad understanding of man-
PeCted questions.
agement skills and techniques.
About lO students are enrolled in the
PrOJeCt, Which will require full-time attendance during the academic year and
SWerS tO SOme Of the puzzling questions
COnCerning Phoenician coIonies on
Cyp「us, Hellenic-Semitic inter-
hmes Schaαれme俄a平ecial短
SOme Summer Study.
shows a student /he wond・OuS maChine.
COnneCtions, and other matters which
Will “bring to life” the residents of this
eastem Mediterranean island of some
WBUR De宜cit
3'000 years ago・ aCCOrding to H. Neil
Richardson, PrOfessor of Old Testament
Forces Cutbacks
at BU’s SchooI of TheoIogy and a field
director of the expedition.
The universlty’s FM radio station,
WBUR, is operatmg under new man-
BioIogy Tes血ng
Teac血ng Mac血ne
Which Talks Back
agement with fewer persomel and a reduced broadcastmg SChedule this fall
followmg Cutbacks required after it
ended the 1970-71 fiscal year some
$200,000 in debt.
In amouncmg the changes, President
Silber declared:
One of the more intrlgulng “Visiting
PrOfessors’’at Boston Universlty this
“I regret to report that WBUR has
been badly mismanaged and that infor-
academic year is the Interactive Lecture
mation now known but concealed by
System, a multi-media machine con-
the station,s previous managers reveals
Sistmg Of a cassette deck, SPeaker, elec-
that expenditures were completely un-
tro-Writer. and book prop, all set in a
COntrOlled. Therefore, tO SaVe the sta-
handsome console.
tion and continue its communlty Ser-
The ”ine-StO′y Housmn Center,
princ*?al research fycil砂at /he
BU Medcal Center, WaS dedcated
in August少
om xp) Dr. Lewis
Rohrbaugh, BUMC director, Pres履nt
Silber, and Mr and M応David Ho
Sman,
Whose /bur sons ma`カa g雄〆
$750,Oの/O honor ,heir parents,
go履n we`劾ng annivcrsary・ Two〆
the JOnS, Edward and Herbe巧
are 1942 CBA grcz‘九ates・ Mr.
Ho
Smn /Z)“nded A utomatic Rac#0.
Vice, We have been forced temporarily
to reduce broadcast hours and staffto a
mlnlmum.
“At a time when the fiscal resources
Of the universlty are being stretched at
every pomt・ and tuition is being raised,
I feel that in faimess to faculty, Students・ and alumni we must requlre
maximum e鯖ciency ln all our enterprlSeS・’’
Widely acclaimed for such programs
as 77ze Drum・ PrOduced for the Black
COmmumty‘ the station has been partly
SuPPOrted by the universlty but raised
additional operatmg funds from listener
COntributions and special grants. Last
year the station seriously overestimated
its expected income while failing to
COntrOl expenditures.
In the reorganization to come after a
S
mmer a高t was aわng /he Char短・・鋤n煩わ砺, green,岬aCious, Caリノ・
thorough investlgation of the station,s
PrOblems・ Dr. Silber said, PrOgramS
SPeCifically directed toward minorlty
groups will be continued・ and obliga-
tions of existmg COntraCtS, SuCh as a job-
trainmg PrOgram under the U.S. De-
CLA Committee
BegmS Seareh
For A New Dean
Partment Of Labor, will be honored.
A search is underway for a new dean
for the College of Liberal Arts, and
CLA alumni have been urged by the
SearCh committee to submit nomi-
SFAA Grad `Best
Actress, at Cames
nations. Physics Department Chaiman
Changmg demands of higher education
in the years ahead.”
Recommendations and curricula
Vitae should be sent to Professor Lowe11
V. Coulter, 685 Commonwealth Ave.,
Boston, Mass. 02215.
Prisoners’Legal
RIghts Reviewed
Robert S. Cohen now is actmg dean.
A 1966 graduate of SFAA’s theatre
arts division was named best actress at
the Cannes Film Festival for her role in
Dominick Dume’s semi-documentary
創m, Panic in Nee(〃e Parん, One Of two
O鯖cial U.S. entries in the prestigious in-
temational competition.
Kitty Winn, Who made her創m debut
in 7堀ey Might Be Giants・ Played the
role of Helen in Needle Park, a film
dealing with the life of a young New
The committee includes seven profesSOrS, three students, and one alumna-
By山sti∞ Center
EIsbeth Melvi11e, COnSultant on CLA
The Center for Criminal Justice at
alumni a餓Iirs. Professor Lowell V.
Boston Universlty is undertaking a
Coulter is chairman; Other faculty
members are Adelaide Hill, Ruth Levine, Carl Nelson, Ishwer Ojha, Robert
Study of the legal rights of prlSOn in-
Sproat, and Marx Wartotsky.
Corrections.
The study, financed by a $100,000
Coulter said the ∞mmittee is Iooking
mates in Massachusetts・ at the request
Of the Massachusetts Department of
for someone who will provide f年igorous
grant from the federal Law Enforce-
and imagmative educational and ad-
ment Assistance Administration and the
York City couple who be∞me hooked
ministrative leadership,, for the couege,
Massachusetts govemor’s Committee
On dmgs・
Which he describes as the academic
On Law Enforcement and Administra-
foundation of the university. It oifers
tion・ Wi11 focus on suggested changes in
PrOgramS in 36 fields of concentration
as well as courses in many schooIs and
rectiona=nstitutions as they apply to
The film was released in July for general distribution.
Prior to her創m appearances, Miss
Winn was a member of the American
Conservatory Theatre, One Of America,s
leading repertory groups.
While at BU, She played the female
lead in many plays言ncluding P匂′bqy
Of /he Wをstem Wわr肋and The Rose
乃too.
COlleges on campus.
The committee, he said’hopes to find
“an individual of broad educational vi_
administrative practices of state cor-
PrlSOnerS’rights, along with other
needed reforms. In addition言t wi‖ reView state laws a鯖ecting the treatment
Sion, a SCholar in a particular discipline
Who is committed to the development
Of undergraduate education so the ∞1-
lege may set the pace in meeting the
Of prisoners.
Says Massachusetts Commissioner of
Corrections John Fitzpatrick:
負The study is of vital importance to
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Dr・ Ulla Olin, Jenior pr。/ect
director〆U融ed Nations population
5tudieJ, WaS gαeSt /ecturer /his
5ummer at /he am〃al P勿ノIli5 K了rk
Case In∫titute. Here Jhe receives
a cor平ge /予om Dean E応beth Melvi/′e,
Women Gra易ates’Clわpresident, While
Prqf Ruth Jacobs, Institule
Chairman, and Phyllis Kirk Case
(1〆坊w昨of/brmふBU Presi`ねnt
Harold C・ Case, Jn諦e `碑,rOVal・
the state correctional system. We want
mg mPatient care are treated at the
nurse as a clinical specialist, teaCher, ad-
to review a11 our practices as soon as we
Washingtonian Hospital in Jamaica
ministrator, SuPervisor’ Or in-Service
Can, rather than leave it to the courts, SO
Plain.
educator.
that we can realign the department in
terms of the 1970’s.’’
The/ PrOgram O鯖ers, in addition to
Specialization is o節ered in the areas
medical screemng and medical care
Of matemal and child health, medicaト
The study-the first concentrated ex-
during detoxification, grOuP and indi-
SurglCal, PSyChiatric mental health, Pub-
amination of state correction deparト
Vidual psychiatric therapy, job trainmg
1ic health, and rehabilitation.
ment’s administrative practices made by
and placement, 1egal aid・ reCreation
an independent universlty reSearCh oト
PrOgramS for teenage addicts, and social
ganization-Wi11 include review of administrative policies of ∞rreCtional de-
PartmentS in other states. as well as of
the federal correctional system.
Dr. Sheldon Krantz, director of the
Center and a faculty member at the BU
For it,s first year of operation・ the
Drug Center received $339’000 from the
Five Added to
Board of Fellows
/ National Instltute Of Mental Health and
$270,000 from the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.
Five new members have been added
to Boston Universlty’s Board of Fe1lows
bringmg the total membership of the
Law School, Wi⊥l head the study. About
Future plans call for initiation of an
lO students from the SchooI of Law w川
education program designed to prevent
ParticIPate in the proJeCt.
drug addiction・ It also is expected that
Composed of alumni, ParentS Of stu-
the drug program will be moved from
dents, and friends of the universlty, the
the Talbot Building to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts-Boston
Universlty Communlty Mental Health
vises the trustees on matters of curricu-
Center in Roxbury when that facility lS
mty relations, and public relations.
Drug Center Opens,
Serves Commumty
group to 30.
Board of Fellows consults with and ad-
1um, Plammg, development, COmmuThe new members are:
COmPleted.
Mrs. LIoyd D. Tarlin, a member of
Boston Universlty’s Medical Center
JOined Boston commumty Self-help
drug agencies in May m efrorts to halt
SON Revises Its
Hospital Women,s Auxiliary, and the
Combined Jewish PhilanthropleS,
the area’s mountmg drug problems with
O鯖cial openmg Of its Drug Addiction
the board of directors of the Greater
Boston Historical Society, Beth Israel
Masters’Progran
Women’s Division. From 1966 to 1969,
Center.
The Center is the only federally and
A revised curriculum for the Master
State funded program in Massachusetts
Of Science in Nursmg PrOgram begins
development at Boston Universlty and
O鯖ering comprehensive outpatient ser-
this fa11 at BU’s SchooI of Nursmg・
WaS instrumental in ralSmg funds for
Mrs. Tarlin also served as special assistant to the vice president for universlty
Vices. It serves the Roxbury, North Dor-
The degree program, Which can be
the building now housmg the School of
Chester・ South Boston. and Back Bay
COmPleted in three semesters. requlreS a
area of Boston from its Iocation in the
maximum of 12 courses to prepare a
Nursmg.
Harry N. Snook, Vice president man-
Talbot Outpatient Building at the Med-
ufactumg, Westem Electric Co. Active
ical Center.
in commumty a純血s, Snook is past
Allied with area selトhelp drug pro-
PreSident and current member of the
board of govemors of the Massachusetts
grams, the Center pulls together a coalition of lay and medical expertise, aC-
Safety Council and former director of
COrding to Dr. Lewis H・ Rohrbaugh,
the Lawrence (Mass・) Chapter of the
Medical Center director.
Drug Addiction Center’s physicians and
American Red Cross. He also is a
trustee of the Lawrence General Hospltal and a director of the Merrimack Val-
PerSOmel with grass-rOOtS knowledge
ley National Bank of Haverhill・
寝The sel手help program provides the
about the commumty and its per-
Mrs. Mason N. Hartman, SFAA ’52,
SPeCtive on drug problems, aS Well as re-
PreSident of the Boston Universlty
ferrals,” Dr. Rohrbaugh says.
“These programs o鯖er a variety of
Women’s Council. A profdssional con-
Services to addicts, SuPPlemented by in-
BU as co-Chairman of the Founders
Day Ba11, Chairman of the Universlty
Hospital Aid Benefit, and a member of
Cert Smger, Mrs. Hartman has served
depth medical care and programs
available at the Center.”
Since its “uno鯖cial,, opemng in Feb-
SPCk A Ic‘mni Association /かed
Rho(わざScholar Richie 7bylor, ’71,
ruary of this year, the Center has
here receiving a g雄cert房cate
treated over 500 addicts. Those requlr-
方om President Paul Pollack.
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the BU Alun皿ni Council.
Bemard Striar, PreSident of Eastland
Woolen Corp. ofNew York Crty and a
Fbr少-One Jc#’aneSe and Korean
secon(却y-SChool /eachers of English
pe碕cted Jheir skills during A ugust
at BU, Which has a groMng reputation
in this庫lcZ me PrOgram当aS
coordinated by /he Internat10nal
Edz/Cational Exchange・
News Brie恵
1934 graduate ofCBA. He is a partner
in the Striar Textile Mill in Orono, Me.,
Partner in Ski-Woolen of Clinton・ Me.
and an o鯖cer and trustee in the James
Striar Foundation. Striar also is a fellow
器量露盤嵩叢罵
盈認諾詩想需藍宝器笥
曲調burgh・
SPC Dean Gerhart D. Wiebe, an alumnus of
JunCtion with a satellite circling the
earth ¥to leam more about the physioIoglCal changes and mlgratOry habits
of the albatross.
Dr. R. Stuart Mackay, Who holds pro-
ofBrandeis Universlty and a member of
the board of directors of Hebrew Uni-
fessorships in the BioIogy Department
VerSlty.
Ceived a one-year grant Of $70,000 from
Harold Wald, CBA ’18, a Partner in
the ac∞untmg fim of Harold Wald &
and the SchooI of Medicine, has rethe National Aeronautics and Space
Administration for his unusual study.
Co・ Of Boston and president of Adams
Several dozen of the huge’free一組ying
欝欝護輩整
Realty, Inc. He is treasurer of Temple
birds will be induced to swa11ow tmy
Israel in Boston, a member of the Presi-
transmitters, Which will relay informa-
dent’s Counci上at Brandeis Universlty,
tion to larger transmitters carried on the
cate, arChitect of ideas, and counselor.’’
and a trustee of University Hospltal, the
birds’backs and weighing barely one
ENG Dean Arthur T. Thompson, WaS elected
Jewish Memorial Hospital, and the
pound-the weight of an average albatross egg.
to the board of directors of the Society for
Combined Jewish Appeal・
Manufacturlng Engineers a=he society’s an一
The larger transmitters then will relay
語蒜龍霊諜署he recelVed the
Slgnals to a NASA satellite 500 miles
SGD Researchers
overhead in polar orbit for final trans-
霊蕊盤幕器a薄ま器罰露語品
Pave Way for
Mackay expects the prQJeCt tO get underway next winter when NASA
盤霊。言霊誌盤謹m謹霊vごIa‡蒋
Plastic Teeth
launches the satellite now being devel-
The Schoo! of Law awarded law degrees to
260 students and master’s of taxation degrees
ceived an honorary degree at the ceremonies.
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霊諜豊l離…豊蕊謹書詰三
豊呈盈鐸葦葦謹群書韓
Texas.
Dean Walter G. Muelder of the SchooI of
TheoIogy was awarded an honorary Doctor
of Science of TheoIogy at Boston College
commencement exercises in June.
蕊盟l豊豊栄忠霊悪童書
A professor and a research fellow at
the SchooI of Graduate Dentistry have
developed a technique for飢ting mon-
may pave the way for development of
Plastic teeth for humans and the rePlacement of dentures.
Dr, Ramesh Narang, reSearCh fellow
in oral surgery and oral phamacoIogy,
and Dr. Herbert We11s, PrOfessor of
Pharmaco置ogy, discovered that previous
聖端整盤藍藍蕊謀誤差
露盤霊謹書豊富。盤謀議
Arts and Sciences at the Universlty OfTexas.
PleCe Of specia11y treated decalcified
$7,500 grant from the George A. Ramlose
Foundation, Inc.’tO叩PPOrt reSearCh on the
selection and educatlOn Of students who do¥
not meet conventional academic requlrements for college admission・
棚e Pe櫛on God Js, by Peter A. Bertoccl. PrO一
誌詩聖言霊S鴇常盤書誌
憩島部盈盤豊露語盤盤盈
by Humanities PTess.
Oped・
/MBA Students Rate
keys with plastic teeth in research which
r句ection of plastic teeth due to the lack
The Co11ege of Basic Studies has received a
mission to a data-CO漢lectmg Station・ Dr.
of supportmg bone in the jaw could be
COrreCted by the transplantation of a
bone. This stimulates rapid fomation
of new bone material and gives the
teeth a fim supportmg base.
Because decalcified bone is not rejected by the recIPlent, unre喜ated indi-
vidua]s can serve as donors, thus insur-
mg a Plentiful supply.
Job Challenge Over
Wages, Security
The typICal MBA student at Boston
Universlty thinks待challengmg WOrk・’’
not high wages or job securlty言s the
most important thing to Iook for in a
job・
This is one ofthe findings of Stephen
Chow. a second-year MBA student who
surveyed lO2 spmg SemeSter Classmates
to discover their motivations and their
Career gOals.
Chow also found that MBA cand主
dates would prefer to work for a medium-Sized company m the Northeast「
fee=hat corporations should bear more
responsibility for conditions within the
community, and believe tha=he four-
BioIo琉t To Track
day work week wi11 become a reality ln
the near future.
George F. Schweitzer’SPC student who is
認諾欝認諾
Birds by Sate皿e
寵謹轟豊禁書
OPed by a Boston University professor
For most students∴`opportmlty for
advancement,, ranked second to “chal-
Miniature radio transmitters, develand his students, Will be used in con8
lengmg WOrk’’as a job criterion, With
寝high eammg OPPOrtumty,, and =good
working conditions,, also ranking high.
The取皿n (虹丁血記
by John R. Silber
W塁
Were the time for a Second Commg, it would be the
RE LIⅥNG in a period that is not merely
in the ife ofthis nation亘is unlque to the
∞mmg, nOt Ofa sweet babe in a manger, but ofsome-
history ofmankind. We have reached the cultural wa-
thing monstrous.
tershed our artists anticipated. Fifty years ago Yeats
The gyre has widened!
Twenty-five years ago my generation spent Saturday
乃rning and飯mng in /he widening gyre
aftemoon at the movies watching Henry Fonda play
7he /沈on camot hear the fylcone万
Frank James in Jesse hmes・ Later they watched him
物ingr fzll `申art; the center camot ho奴:
Play Frank James in Ha庇James,・ and still later, Frank
Mere anarc砂おloosed弓pon /he wor楊
James in 77!e Return qr丹ank James・ And it was always
77!e blood-d海med tide isわose`ちand cverywhere
the Robin Hood legend-a POOr Citizen oppressed by
The CeremOり,〆‘ imocence is d.owned・
the rich, SaVed by a man who would preserve right and
The best lack all convjction, Whiねthe woJ嶋t
JuStice even though he chose the way ofan outlaw. This
Are布〃 Q/passわnate intensi少
assault on the “Establishment,, was not regarded as sub-
Our times render these now familiar lines terrifyingly
apposite. Yeats, yOu Will remember, in his vision that
VerSive, for it was part ofthe Robin Hood legend, a SOCially a∞ePted fom ofprotest leamed at our mother,s
“Things fall apart,’’per∞ived a revelation, POSSibly an
knee. The Robin Hood legend, 800 or 900 years old,
O∞aSion no less momentous than the Second Commg
WaS Still believable and exciting only 25 years ago.
itself He asked:
Not long ago today’s graduating class saw Henry
A.nd what rough beas4 its hour come ro“nd at lcr巧
Fonda,s son, Peter’in E型y Rider. It is about outlaws,
Sloa/Ch“ towards Bethlehem /O be born?
but not about Robin Hood. There are no Merry Men; a
Possessed of poetic prescience, Yeats feared that if it
few gay ones, Perhaps, but none that are merry No fair
ladies. There is none ofthat simple, OPtimistic poetry of
the Frank James-Robin Hood era. Rather, E型y Ri`かis
a restatement of the Faust legend’a neW VerSion ofPeer
Dr・ Silber, Boston Unive7嶋妙高seventh presid訪t,
WaS /brma砂inみcted into /he o炉ce May 23 during
Gynt or of Jurgen-all dramatic attempts to express
COmbined Commencement/haug研ation ceremonies・
man’s insatiable quest for meamng and the di鯖culty of
7協s is his JnaαgC‘ml “勃興Which has received
finding lt, Whenever and wherever one lives. At the cli-
WiくねattcJ!tion and accldim across !he
max of EaリノRider, in the midst of an ecstasy brought
ation.
9
“Be血nd血e demands of you血
On by drugs, We find Fonda, Who plays Captain
America, WeePlng in the arms ofa large, StOne, female
for relevance and血e demands
figure・ The figure might be seated before the Supreme
Court buildingin Washington: Clearly, She is Columbia,
Of the eldedy for law and
with her weepmg SOn On her lap. But in the background
we hear the children at the nearby church school, reCit-
order is the human concem for
mg their Hai4 Ma′函and singmg the孝y,rie Eleison・
●
And we re∞gnlZe that this woman must also be Mary’
meanmg, for a hfe that makes
Mother of God-a Pieta after Michelangelo. The associations ∞nVerge. Fonda is saymg, “Mother, I hate you;
SenSe. In血e search for mearmg,
Mother, I Iove you,” expressmg the profound ambiva1ence of today’s youth toward society and its religious
man is essentially ∞nCemed
and political heritage.
Consider the changes. I have time this aftemoon only
Wi血time, for time is血e very
to cite a few of them, hoping that the mere citation will
matrix of human existence. Our
evoke elaboration of your own imagination・
We have witnessed the triumph of science and tech-
OVerarching prq eCt becomes
noIogy that has carried us from an uncertain world in
which we looked at nature, COnfused, impotent, and
血at of building a structure
afraid, tO the point at w血ch we see nature as essentially
under our controLWere it not for our own presence in
Or Pattem Of signi丘cance
nature and our inab亜ty to ∞ntrOI ourselves.
We have seen the triumph ofscience, bringmg with it
into our止ves.”
a quasi-religious scientism・ Its creed runs: We Can get at
the facts and thereby control anything. This inflated ra-
in World War I. Insurance underwriters anticipate the
tionalism has put an inordinate value on e鯖cieney and
CraSh ofthree 747’s in the first 18 months oftheir oper-
an in∞nSequential value on admirability. Science,
ation, With the loss of from l,000 to l,500 1ives.
The development ofpharmacology has led to our in-
which focuses on the rational ordering of events, has
Creased reliance on drugs, With the promise of instant
disregarded the process or passage between them・ By
“mental health.” The Food and Drug Administration
∞nCentratmg On the pattem and ignomg the transi-
tion, SCience has in part caused and in part abetted a
did not requlre PerSOnS On M批own to hang a slgn
about their necks saymg, “My personaIty is chemically
∞rruPtlOn Of time.
For a while the development ofscience seemed al-
derived.” And Miltown was but a pastel daydream pre-
Ceding the nightmare adventure with drugs. Casualties
in Vietnam and at home indude the growmg mass of
together emobling, uP雌ing to mankind: Galileo,
Kepler, and Newton made marvelous predictions conCemmg the heavens. The Newtonian era opened up a
users of marlJuana, LSD, and heroin.
We have seen, in short, the development ofan instant
Whole technoIogy, reSulting in the invention of the
Steam engme and ofthousands of devices that made life
religion promlSmg instant ecstasy. Where Plo血us
healthier and more productive。 The limiting point was
WOuld persist in spiritual discipline for a long lifetime to
reached in this century as science became the dominant
achieve three experiences of religious ecstasy, 1n Which
cultural force contro11ing nature and minimlZmg the
by transcending his own individuality he achieved
∞ntingent, Or a∞idental, elements of human ife.
union with God or Being, a yOung PerSOn tOday
But with the outbreak ofWorld War II the Janus face
achieves instant ecstasy at a needlepoint: an instant es-
ofscience was exposed. The benign face of science had
smiled on mankind in the creation of instant health
CaPe, nOt into Being, but into nothingness.
through wonder drugs. Suddenly there was the other
formed by the instant culture: We nOW have instant
face: instant death through the development of atomic
foods leading to instant indigestion’for which there is
and hydrogen bombs. Still there was more-the amihi置
an instant cure-the noISy bubbling of which brings to
Even our traditional eatmg habits have been trans-
1ation of cultural time through the development of an
mind the witches, brew in Macbeth. The American
instant culture: neW Credit policies and credit cards glV-
reaches an uneasy truce with his ugly digestion through
mg rlSe to instant money’eVen ifit means instant bank-
the intercession of Alka Seltzer.
More seriously, We See the development of instant
ruptcy; fertilizers and insecticides producing instant
abundance, eVen if it means flavorless plenitude and in-
POlitics-POlitics by assassination and creedless revolu-
travel, eVen ifit means instant death. Instant death, Of
tion. The instant culture moves towards the last moment ofits short existence by throwmg aWay its heritage, its institutions, and the pattems marking a
meaningful ordering of time in the passage of the indi-
∞urSe, is rendered tolerable by the scientific’business’
Vidual from infancy through childhood to adulthood
and advertising interests which educate a society on
and old age.
discriminate poISOn皿g; television and radio oifering mstant ∞mmunication, eVen if it means instant boredom
and vulgarlty; rOckets and airplanes facilitating instant
For this perhaps unavoidable destruction of the
wheels and on wmgS tO aCCePt CaSually a frightful car回
nage as a part ofinstant living-OVer 50’000 deaths each
meaningful order of time in the instant culture, We are
year on the highways, an amual to11 that in each ofsev-
neither individuaⅡy nor collectively to blame. Nev-
eral recent years has exceeded our total battle casualties
ertheless, We are mOVmg raPidly toward our own de10
StruCtion. All over the nation we hear cries of alarm
about the pollution of air and the pollution of water,
OPment Of a variety of human relationships at substan-
but we hear little or nothing about a pollution far more
Cluding the most profound and the most intimate, are
tially di節erent levels of intensity: a皿associations, in-
Serious-that oftime itself We can, after all, reCyCle air
Placed on an instant footing. We indiscriminately use
and water through餌ers. But we camot recycle time.
first names in addressmg total strangers; We have be-
We can live meaning餌1y-though painfully, un-
∞me eXPertS in instant friendship, mStant SeX, and even
Pleasantly’and brie且y-in dirty air’drinking dirty wa-
instant mamage-mamage that can be dissoIved im-
ter. But when the structure of time is destroyed, the
mediately after instant consummation.
basis for significance in our own hves is likewise de-
The philosopher of instant culture is Diogenes. He
StrOyed. All meanmg is Iost in the instantaneous.
needed a lantem only for rhetorical purposes, tO remark
The po皿tion oftime is most obvious in our loss ofa
On the scarclty Ofhonest men・ He never dined; he only
SenSe Ofhistory, m a loss ofthe recognition ofthe past
ate. He wouldn,t make love; he would only rut. He was
also an inte11ectual ascetic. Diogenes was said to have
remarked to Plato, `Tables and chairs I see, but the
as our own, in the loss ofthe awareness of any past, in
the loss of the past in general・
We see the po皿tion oftime in the loss ofthe myths
form of table and the form of chair I do not see.,, To
Ofchildhood. As rationalistic devotees of scientism, We
Which Plato replied‥ “Of course, Diogenes, for tables
CannOt a餓)rd to rear our children on Grimm or Ander_
and chairs you have eyes, but for the fom of table and
Sen, On the myths of Santa Claus and Bethlehem o丁of
for the fom of chair’a mind is required.,,
Easter and Passover. We do not believe that there lS a
time and a place for everything-a time to be bom, a
Having nothing to sell, Diogenes prided himself that
he could not be bought. And the modem Diogenes is
Old, and a time to die. We cannot take time to observe
Of hypocrlSy. However, if the absence of hypocrlSy
the rites of passage. Only 30 years ago, 1ong pants for
means only that one has espoused no ideals, there may
-time to be a child, a time to be an adult, a time to be ¥
exquisitely honest, if honesty means simply the absence
boys was one such rite. Now Iong pants are issued to
be some value in reca11ing Rochefoucauld’s aphorism:
toddlers. So how does a boy know when he is a man?
HypocrlSy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. One must at
least espouse an ideal to achieve the level of hypocrlSy;
In this instant culture’hitle attention is paid to the
rites of baptlSm, ∞nfimation, engagement’mamage,
hence’a hypocrite may excel a mere cynic. In our餌Iy
Or eVen Of death・ What then is left of the meaningful
developed instant culture sincerity has be∞me the only
StruCture Of time? T血e, that great river oflife’is pol-
Virtue-for sincerlty alone among the virtues can be as-
1uted and fouled to a degree threatening all possib皿y
SeSSed at a glVen mOment. Sincerlty is no substitute for
Of meanmg in human existence.
integnty. Integrlty, Or mOral character, Can be assessed
Behind the demands of youth for relevance and the
Only through time.
demands ofthe elderly for law and order is the human
Commitment has be∞me a dirty word in the mouths
∞nCem for meanmg, for a life that makes sense. In the
Of those most sensitively reflecting the instant culture.
Search for meanmg, man is essentially ∞nCemed with
For how can one whose prlmary Virtue is sincerlty be
time, for time is the very matrix of human existence.
COmmitted to a lifelong bond hke mamage? How can
And this initially unstructured matrix must be glVen
One Who prlZeS Only smcerlty PrOmise to Iove and honor
∞ntent ifa man,s life is to have meanmg. Unlike us, the
indefinitely when he may not feel like doing this years,
animals are timeless. As Nietzsche says, αthey graze,
months, Or eVen minutes from the time he makes that
they fight, they procreate and die in an etemal present.,・
avowal? No one stays in love for long except through
But we, because of memory, foresight’and thought, 1ive
∞mmitment. Hence, the anomaly of mamage m an in-
in a past, in a present, and in a餌ure. We endure. Our
Stant Culture.
OVerarChing prQJeCt becomes that of bu皿ing a structure
Our society’s pattem of two-generation fam址es-and
Or Pattem Of significance into our lives.
this for only a few years-is typical of the instant cul-
ture. Children are denied the important discoveries that
This unavoidable quest for ・meanmg is best pursued
by ordering our lives in a mamer faith珊to our tempo-
are to be made about human existence by observmg Old
ral natures. Since we止ve in time, We have di餓汀ent re-
SPOnSib曲ies, Obligations’and functions, depending on
age and death. The very old are denied the sense ofrenewal implicit in birth and childhood. Children are
Our Changmg age. A child should be a child and not an
deprived of wisdom and grandparents of hope. Persons
adult; an adult should be an adult, OCCaSionally child-
are bereft of the sense of enduring famtry ties: they
1ike perhaps, but never childish. Our lives are blighted
SPend most of their lives in isolation from those who
Or eVen destroyed when the temporal order is not re-
Care mOSt about them.
SPeCted・ A child can be ruined or his adult life made un-
The process oflife’the process of maturing and dy-
bearable if he is prope11ed into an adult world for which
mg, 1S nO less splrltual and inte11ectual than physical.
he is not ready. A child,s sexual immaturity must be
Just as the bioIogical development of the individual
acknowledged in the organization of society and in his
may be said to recapitulate the development ofthe spe-
education・ In youth sexual problems are dominant and
Cies, SO the individual may be said to recapitulate as-
must receive attention in our institutions. Special prob-
PeCtS Of human history in his intellectual and spmtual
lems hkewise attend the aged, and the ∞nCemS Ofthe
development. If the individual is to develop to a slgnifi-
Old have as much relevance to the search for meanmg m
Cant degree, he must dis∞Ver, 1ive with, and血en dis-
ife as the ∞nCemS Of the very young, for the very
Card some of the fundamental responses of the race to
young wi11 surely be old if they live long enough.
But the instant culture allows no time for the devel_
human existence. Otherwise, he may simply repeat
those responses in their least significant and least satis-
聞
fying forms.
αIs it not reasonable that our
The program of our universities must therefore be to
instruct students in the importance of time and in the
ch距en complain of血e squalor
way m Which sdentism-a SeCular religion developed by
over-eXtraPOlation from science’a religion of which our
of their lives in a spiritual
ablest sdentists have never been votaries-has corrupted t血e by treatmg it as a mere %independent vari-
able.,, This denudement of time, in concert with many
other cultural and technoIogical forces, has produced
the ultimate reductionism of instant culture. StrategleS
of inqulry dominated by inappropriate models of the
scientific enterprise have produced specializations in the
w蘭emess, Saymg that血eir
elders have neither vision nor
hope of a pron止sed land? Our
humanities, the social sciences, and even in the sciences
you血artioulate with remak-
themselves that are so narrow as to resist ∞mbination
able clarity the b血dness of
into a coherent body of knowledge.
Specialization which atomizes leammg and thereby
renders it non-meaningful has been encouraged by programs of quite dehoerate incoherence. The cultural pur-
suit of non-meaningful phenomena, tO Which Marsha11
McLuhan inadvertently bears witness’is only another
expression of the instant culture,s disdain for temporal
our leadership. ‥ If fault is
to be found, Surely greater
fa皿belongs to the mature
who lack vision than to
PrOCeSS. McLuhan, aS the prophet of the instantaneous,
has helped to undercut meanmg by stressmg instant
perceptlOn and thought in the post-electronic age. As if
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you血請l
viSIOnaneS.
men thought any fdster today than in pre-electronic
nized and meaningful data; that instantaneous, nOn-
times! As if they could transcend the brackish salt water
meaning餌education is not merely ac∞Ptable, but
oftheir nervous systems in which ourrents move, nOt at
ideal. The assault on time through muddying its con-
the speed oflight, but at the same modest pace ofpre-
tents was made an essential feature of the educational
electronic years !
PrOgram.
This experience is not isolated; it is symptomatic of a
Fai血g to recognlZe McLuhanism as an intellectual
current trend in teaching that defeats its purpose by
miasma, many educators have embraced it, Plungmg
masking out temporal organization・ The multi-media
headlong into meanmglessness with light shows and
approach is increasmgly adopted without any qualms
multi-media extravaganzas on almost any su巧ect from
about the mind,s power to absorb ∞nfusing and con-
psychedelic chemistry to WO Wfreshman Engnsh. The
flicting data. Adherents of the movement are not em-
formula is s血ple: tum On three speakers, 1ight up three
screens; Set a COuPle of strobe lights flashing; then, and
barrassed by saymg and showmg What camot possibly
only then, begin lectumg in the midst of confusion and
make sense.
I an not suggestmg that temporal structures need be
diversionary activity !
spare. Leonard Bemstein pointed out some years ago
All we know about the psychoIogy of perceptlOn and
that one ofthe marvels ofopera is its power to present
ofconcentration has been set aside in the name ofsi-
several conflicting points of view simultaneously, yet
multaneous absorptlOn. Recently’I had occasion to
coherently. In the quartet from Rigo短to’for example’
evaluate a lecture on the language of fish. It included a
two people smg mSide a hut and two people smg Out-
stunnmg mOVie with fish swimmmg by’making a babel
side; yet all voices fit together. This concentrated
of fishy noises. Some sang from their swimbladders,
1ittle bubbling, gurg血g sounds like a co飾ee pot; Others
melding of diverse viewpoints is the work ofthe music
swam by with snaps and clicks, tiny aggressive sounds,
which provides a coherent temporal and tonal organiza-
1ittle tap, taP, taPS; Stin others made amorous noises too
tion. Full analysis of the quartet is possible only for
subtle for descriptlOn. Fighth- and ninth-grade students
those who have read the score and the libretto; yet
watched the film. But on its sound track was also the
through the power of opera a listener can, Without
analysis, eXPerience the simultaneous presentation of
noise of a rock band! (The imposition of Schubert’s
four viewpoints with a sense of intense meamng・
Serenaくねwould have been equally distracting.) When I
In sharp ∞ntraSt tO SuCh orchestration’the multi-
asked why rock had been added and why students were
media faddists throw raw, unOrdered data at our stu-
expected to distinguish fish sounds from a11 the血plau-
dents. This unhappy consequence ofthe instant culture,
sible noises of the band, I was told that rock music
this pursuit of simultaneous chaos’is only an extreme
would increase the children,s interest!
form of reductionism.
The assumptlOnS Were Clear・ So was the con-
descension toward children. Without distractmg glm-
In educating our students we must convey, through
micks, nO eighth- Or ninth-grade child could be inter-
the character and content of the curriculum, the impor-
tance of respecting the natural order of time. We must
ested in the possibility that fish use sounds in order to
heighten their sense of temporal structure as it bears on
∞mmunicate. No normal children would want to watch
the ordering of血e皿ves, and on the genesis and fur-
the fascinatmg movements of the fish or hear their en-
ther development of political and social institutions.
trancmg SOunds・ It was assumed, in short, that the
Whatever our values may be, We aS human beings are
young have no intellectual curiosity, nO interest in orga-
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a11 committed to the pursuit of meamng. Therefore, We
as such, but with the development ofthose ideas that le-
must a11 be ∞nCemed to restore a temporal matrix in
gltlmate gOVemment, and with the growth of Parlia-
Which meamng Can thrive. For scientific purposes it is
ment and Congress and ofthe ∞mmOn law, W血ch to-
Certainly possible to treat time as an independent vari-
gether glVe Substance to govemment. In short, the
able, ignormg the processes of duration and transforma-
COurSe WOuld provide a ∞mPrehensive study of the do-
tion in the mathematical descriptions ofregular pat-
mestication of political power, the process whereby po-
tems. But time as it happens to a man-human time二
1itical power can be transferred from one generation to
CamOt be treated so abstractly. We aⅡeviate the pollu-
the next without bloodshed-a Study of the transfoma-
tion of time by quickening our awareness of time in its
tion of power into right. For the educated person will
lived concreteness.
have leamed t血s fundamental distinction. He re∞g-
nizes that great and good things are fragile and often
The importan∞ Of time re∞gnized, We may then pro-
Ceed to a systematic recapitulation of specific stages in
Perish, While oorrupt persons and illegitimate move置
the splrltual development of man. In ethics, for ex-
ments sometimes triumph; COnSequently, he does not
ample, We may introduce students, first, tO the claims
argue from the way things are to a JuStification of the
and attractions of hedonism-the only maJOr ethical sys-
Way they ought to be. For our time and our society such
tem ∞ngruent With instant culture. After the attractions
knowledge is essential・
Of hedonism have been dampened by ancient and mod-
Education must change in profound ways to meet
em refutations, the student may be ready for a deeper
Cultufal changes. We must regain the same respect for
response to the problem ofhuman existence. We camot
time that the American Indian had for nature, for time
teach an ethics class by glVmg Students the latest word
is a part of nature. The Indian said that the earth was
On ethics. Ifwe did, they might mouth the right ∞n-
his mother, the sun his father, that nature was his law,
Clusions, but they would likely regress to earlier posi-
and that all but man obeyed. Ih our instant culture, in
tions merely because they had not grown through the
Which we have poⅡuted not merely air and water but
PreVious stages. Students must live through intellectual
and splrltual positions and grow out ofthemjust as they
recovery of respect for time requlreS the re∞Very Of our
also the very temporal fabric of our lives, We know that
OnCe greW nOtOChords and gill slits before discarding
PaSt, the seemg Ofour present in tems ofthat past, and
them for spmeS and lungs.
a strenuous e紐)rt tO anticipate the餌ure in the light of
Personal development requlreS Our reCaPitulation of
both.
inte11ectual and spmtual history. We have a substantial
And it also requlreS the courage that we in this gener-
Choice in determinmg the direction and ∞ntent Of in-
ation have lacked-the ∞urage alluded to by Yeats.
te11ectual recapitulation・ But unless important stages of
Survival is not possible if the best ofus ``1aCk all con-
thought and experience are lived through and r9jected,
Viction, While the worst are fu1l ofpassionate intenslty・”
growth may be superficial or crlPPled. And there is a
We sorely need conviction, a COnViction that will
rough correlation between the number and quality of
PrOmPt uS-Selfconsciously and no doubt with embar-
StageS reCaPitulated and the extent and profundity of
rassment-tO talk straight to our children about our
the individual’s development. Only after living through
heritage, about our past, and about aspects oflife they
a carefu11y selected series of developmental stages do
may not fully understand. We ne己d the courage to deny
human beings acquire depth, range, Strength, and f16xi-
at some times and to grve at others, SO that structure, Or-
bility as persons. Only then is there a chance for mean-
der, and meanmg Can be incorporated into the lives of
ingful existence in a sustammg temPOral order.
Our Children, While restoring some structure in our own
Recapitulative prmCiples have an important and un-
止ves.
We live in a painful time. Pascal described his era in
recognized part to play in the design of ∞urSeS. A
terms that fit ours:
∞urSe in law, history, English, and political science, for
instance, might be worked out ac∞rding to these pm- r
脇en J see /he b励みess and wretchcd礁SS qfman,
Ciples. A full year’s course could be meaningfully de-
When f regard the whole siknt “niver呼, and man
VOted to the study of English and American history
Withoc/t履hらl堆/O himse雄an`ちcIf it were,
from Henry II through the American Civil War. In it
わst in巌u corner〆the “nive櫛e, Witho
the student would study the emergence of that English
knomng Who has put him there, What he has come
∞mmOn law which still provides the legal framework of
to do, What will become q/him at `ねath, and
Our lives・ As he retraced the growth ofthe ∞mmOn law,
inc`pablG〆all knowle4ge, f become terr昨ecZ
he would also study the historical ∞nteXt in which it
t
hke a man who sho初d be cawied in his sleep to
matured. The historical narrative would, at the same
time, reVeal how the parliamentary system developed
a dJ.ea物I d料ert isんzn(Z and should awake without
knowing where he祖, and withoαt meanS Q/esc`pe・
and the way m which political philosophies o節ered ra-
And there pOn ∫ wonder how peqple Jn a condition
tional justifications and summaries of the unfolding
SO WretChed de notfzll into虎やair. ‥
StageS. Combined with these studies there might be lec-
Pascal,-Wrltmg in the cIosing days of an age offaith,
tures and discussions in po址ical p血losophy, reViewmg
gave effective voi∞ tO the sense of alienation. If even
the contributions, for example, Of Hobbes, Milton,
Pascal ∞uld be beset by doubts, blindness, COnfusion,
Locke, and Mi11; the English, Massachusetts, and Vir-
and misery, how much greater and more intense must
gmia Bills of Rights; the Federalist Papers, the Declara-
be the dread ofthose who come to consciousness in our
tion of Independence, the Constitution, and other docu-
OWn time. Are we not outrageously hostile to our youth
ments crucial to the shaping of our political society.
if we fail to acknowledge their plight and ours with
Students would not be pnmarily concemed with history
SymPathy? For their plight is ours. Is it strange that in
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“The old, With血eir wisdom and
their blindness and confusion, denied explanations and
honest answers, they should experiment? Are not the
more sensitive forced by their very terror to Faustian
extremes?
Our youth can acknowledge the justice ofthe charge
that they are at times lgnOrant, misdirected, COnfused,
ear血bound experieme, are
necessary ∞rreCtives to血e
SOamg fantasy, mteSted
and foolish・ But are they asking too much when they
seek an amicc/S Curiae, a helping hand? Is there not
something amiss in our denunciation of those who ef二
fectively decry our false steps-When we have falled to
take the right steps? Is it not reasonable th牢Our f中一
dren ∞mPlain ofthe squalor of their lives m a SPmtual
w皿emess, Saymg that their elders have neither vision
nor hope of a promised land? Our youth articulate with
remarkable clarity the blindness of our leadership. And
their charge is not answered by our pointmg Out that
their blindness is congenital, that it comes from us. If
fault is to be found, Surely greater fault belongs to the
mature who lack vision血an to youthful visionaries.
ide虹sm, and despalr Of youth・
But the intensrty, idealism,
and despar of youth are
equatry needed correctives to
血e pragmatism, eymCISm, and
PanOr Of age. It is important’
desperatcdy lmPOrtant,血at we
Our chndren, eStranged from us’Suifer alone・ We would
accept our youth for血eir
have them back and share their suifering, in the hope
that we may heal each other.
Ofcourse there is a generation gap, but it is not unbridgeable. Under careful examination it is the ancient
ideahsm and that they a∞ePt
us for our experience.’’
problem of generations・ The generations have rarely
understood each other. Why else should Moses have
film was so pecuharly theirs that it should not be dese-
said,質Honor thy father and thy mother
crated by older eyes was partioularly touching’for
? Not because
mothers and fathers were being consistently honored at
clearly the play is about the tensions between the older
the time of Moses! The young and old win always be
and the younger generations and was written as much
forced to carry the burden oftransferring the vita止ty of
from the standpoint ofthe Montagues and the Capulets
civilization from one generation to the next. Physical vi-
as that ofRomeo and Juliet. So this創m reflects the vi-
tality is transferred through the act of procreation, but
tality of the problem and the loss that attends misun-
the vitality ofcivnization is not so easily passed on. The
derstanding. The film’s su∞eSS COnfirms the truth of this
heir must be readied for his patrimony, and the parent
Shakespearean statement.
must be prepared to relinquish his estate.
Ze航relh’s presentation was particularly effective in
Aristotle observed that `tyouth has a long time before
glVmg uS a feeling for the diiference between the old
it and a short past behind: On the first day ofone,s ife
and the young. They are so radically di鯖erent, SO PrOP-
one has nothing at a11 to remember and can only look
erly and wonderf哩y diiferent, and it is important that
forward.,, By ∞ntraSt, the elderly α1ive by memory
we cherish those diiferences. When a 15-year-Old girl
rather than by hope; for what is left to血em of life is
and a 17-year-01d boy awake from the night of their
httle as compared with the long past; and hope is ofthe
nuptials to argue about whether it is the lark or the
future, memOry Of血e past.,, The old must be taught to
nightingale that is rousmg them from their sleep, it
hope and hve for a future even while little is left them;
makes Iovely, POlgnant SenSe. Before Ze飴relli, the argu-
血e young must be taught to Iook to the past ofwhich
ment was more likely to be between a 35-year-Old
they know a血ost nothing・ The old must look forward
woman and a 45-year-Old man. At those advanced
in imagination to what youth can see; yOuth must look
years, they would have either known the answer or been
back to discover what the old have already seen. In this
less passionate about a question of this sort・ Ze範relli
way a slgnificant present comes into being for both
PrOVed that older people cannot play those youth餌
young and old as the specious now is extended before
and after to become a temporal matrix in which mean-
roles ∞nVincingly.
ing餌existen∞ Can組ourish.
etry lS Virtua11y impossible for the old, just as it is natu-
Zeffire11i respected time・ He understood that lyric po-
The problem of generations is hard, but not in-
ral for the young・ How can an old man say血at he will
soluble. We have seen a dramatic resolution in the way
die of unrequited love, When he knows that he didn’t?
in which young and old each possess Ze紐e11i’s創m ver-
To suppose that one ∞uld requlreS the ignorance of
sion ofRomeo and J諦iet・ After 375 years, this tragedy
youth・ But this is the ignorance that, for a t血e’Sur-
of the generations sti11 stirs young and old. I doubt that
passes knowledge. The capacity to Iove with the in-
it has ever been presented more ∞mPellingly than in
tensity ofthe young, the capacity to cherish ideals with
Ze触eni,s movie, With marvelously beauti餌and vivid
that absolute and intranslgent COmmitment of youth, is
young men and women. And I was amused to observe
one of the marvelous human traits. It is a quality that
my own children’s resentment at the presence in the au-
diminishes with age. And this is why longevity lS nOt in
dience of older men and women, for they thought it
all respects a blessmg: nOt Only the precious, delicate
their film-a celebration of youth at which the middle-
moments of youth’but the future ofideaHsm might be
aged or older were not welcome. Their fee血g that the
eclipsed if the old ever substantially outnumbered the
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PeOPle was a casualty of the Great Rebe11ion,
young. Youthful enthusiasm and idealism ∞uld then be
OVerWhelmed by the multitude of persons who had
Can we tell the youth ofAmerica that on the sacred
止ved long enough to know better.
PrmCiple of the right of self二detemination South Viet-
Of course it would be no less an evil for the young
nam may demand or expect our support in separatmg
Substantially to outnumber the old. Both are needed.
from North Vietnam? The same claim was made by Jef
The old, With theirwisdom and earthbound experience’
ferson Davis to elicit British intervention in our Civil
are necessary correctives to the soarmg fantasy, un-
War-anOther move stoutly resisted by Lincoln. By
tested idealism, and despalr Of youth. But the intenslty,
What i11ogic and what ignorance of our past is this right
idealism, and despair ofyouth are equally needed cor-
now proclaimed?
rectives to the prngmatisnI CynlCISm, and pallor of age.
In Con∞rd’Massachusetts’is a grave ofBritish sol-
言へら÷-一冬 葛 .
It is important, desperately important, that we a∞ePt
diers. Over that grave are written the followmg lines‥
Our yOuth for their idealism and that they accept us for
Thり, Came three /housand m訪es and ded
Our experience. Together, We are effective partners. Sep-
Tb kc‘誉, /he past∴pon its /hrone
arate, We are murderous gangs-One intent on触cide,
Unheard beyOnd /he ocean ti虎1
the other on parricide. To avoid the murder ofour chil-
7heir English mother madG her moan.
dren, We muSt reCOgnlZe them as our own. To avoid kill-
The poetry lS embarrassmg’but the thought is traglC.
mg their fathers and mothers, the young must re∞gmZe
After more lives are lost, after more of our youth are ab-
the identlty Of their intended victims・ Initially, their
SOrbed into the drug culture of Saigon’Our engagement
in Vietnam will cease. And somewhere in Vietnam an
ironic survivor may adapt that poem for the graves of
American soldiers left behind:
ParentS; eVentually, themse宣ves.
No failure in po止tical leadership in recent years can
∞mPare in importance with the failure of all politicians
and all parties to denounce those who exacerbate the
ThウノCame elevm thousand milとs and (加d
di鯖culties between the generations and encourage a
7b keq所he pas自pon its throne.
Civil war between young and old that can only be the
Unheard bウノOnd /he ocean tiくね
tragedy of Romeo and Juliet writ large.
The initial skimishes of that war have been fought in
Vietnam, Where, for nine long years, the old have
Their American mother maたes her moan.
Young and old, eaCh guilty ofrhetorical overk叫are
Participants in a culture on which none ofus has had an
Squandered the lives of45’000 young men and bled the
efitctive in且uence-an instant, time-POlluting culture
bodies and the spmts Of m皿ions of others to assert a
that, after a 400-year geStation, Caught us by surprlSe.
right for the people of South Vietnam analogous to that
Ifwe reorder time to celebrate youth and age and the
r句ected by Abraham Lincoln. When Robert E. Lee and
gradual metamorphosis from one to the other, ifwe re-
Jeiferson Davis claimed for the Confederaey the right of
ga皿our sense oftime and value our present di凪orences
Selfdetemination, they were told by President Lincoln
in the recognition that each ofus plays a11 the parts in
and by force of Union arms that “a house divided
SequenCe, We Shall see that there is no salvation for the
agamSt itself camot stand・’’The house stood, and the
young or the old at the expense ofeither. We shall find
Union prevailed, but American support of the right of
loving and fulfilling collaboration in a time that is well
Ordered.留
Selfdetermination for a part of an initia11y ∞hesive
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by Ro細唯rt W. Mnton
SUNDAY, JUNE 6 ofthis year, U.S. Amy Cap-
SOrS from the Charles River campus who, for 1 8-mOnth
ON tain Stephen Antonelli slipped a scarlet Boston
Periods, are the Overseas Program’s faculty.
The story of Captain Antone皿’s education is not typ-
Universlty rObe over his khaki unifom, a句usted a mor-
tarboard on his head, and got in line with 161 other
ical, but it suggests the powerful p皿a university degree
men and women formng up for an academic proces-
Can have on the imagination of an energetic career
Sion. The scene was not Nickerson Field or even Boston,
Army o鯖cer・ A native of Medford, Massachusetts’he
but the lovely Rokoko Theatre of Schwetzingen Castle
joined the service before getting his high-SChool di-
near Heidelberg in West Gemany. Here, Where Mozart
PIoma. He then began taking Amry courses to ∞mPlete
On∞ Played for the Elector of the Pala血ate and be-
his high-School requlrementS. And it took commitment
Wigged nobihty, Captain Antonelli and the others were
and determination : OnCe, When his unappreciative ser-
the pmcipals in the sort oftraditional graduation cere-
geant ordered him not to catch a bus from field exercises back into camp for class, he hiked several miles
mony that began in Europe in the 13th century.
and strode into class-On time-Weamg a full field
The o∞aSion was the sixth ∞mmenCement aWarding
masters’degrees to graduates of Boston University’s
PaCk! In su∞eeding years he took courses in the Univer-
Overseas Program, Which has its administrative head-
Sity ofMaryland’s overseas division, gOt his commisSion, and eamed his bachelor’s degree. In 1969, at the
quarters in血e old university town of Heidelberg but
OPerateS in eight other cities as we11. The program is
age of 40, he began studying intemational relations in
Carried out by the university under contract to the De-
the Boston University program at Heidelberg.
Partment Of Defense, and Captain Antonelli is one of
more than a thousand servicemen and civilian DOD
mate aim is to get a doctorate. Though currently no
Like many BUOP students, Captain Antoneui,s ulti-
empIoyees who have sacrificed two years of spare time
doctoral programs are being o鯖ered overseas by U・S.
to fulfill the highly demanding requlrementS Of profes-
universities, Who can doubt that some day he win real1少
、-一一一一一-へ一音-一--一一一一- “一へし一一一二一二一°二手二二二二臆二・￣〔二臆二二三二二二二二二二二二二二二二二二二二三二二二二÷二二」二二二二’∴_二二二二二二二二三二二￣一二二一二二二二二二二二二∵÷-三二二三二ニ二二二二二
ize this highest of educational asplrations?
muted to Newport to teach courses in intemational rela-
None of the others in the procession that Sunday
tions leading to the master’s degree. Dr. Gibbs, a Navy
∞uld top Captain Antone皿,s Iog cabin to castle story,
O鯖cer during World War II, hadjust been made chair-
but bthers came cIose-and showed the same intense
man of the govemment department, and he ran this
Pride in their academic achievement. One o鯖cer ar-
PrOgram-Which was a stiff one, eSPeCia11y for some of
ranged a specia1 1eave from duty in VietnamJuSt tO at-
the older o鯖cers. A certain Army coIonel (Other amed
tend the ceremony and pick up the degree he had
forces officers also participated in the Navy program)
WOrked for pnor to his Far East asslgnment; anOther
Who had developed social habits that ∞nflicted with
Veteran OfVietnam, an ambulance helicopter pilot, also
evemngS Of hard study almost flunked out, but was
WaS amOng the graduates and now is back in Vietnam
SPurred on by the challenge of junior o飴cers’higher
On his se∞nd tour of duty.
grades. He did eam his degree, aCknowledging later
These examples only begin to suggest the varied
that this experience had restored his sense of purpose
backgrounds of adult students in the program・ Daniel
and had helped him eliminate bad habits acquired in
Churchill, a yOung Civilian engmeer for the Air Force
O鯖cers, clubs.
Who eamed a master of science in business administra-
When he was asslgned to West Germany, the same
tion, is retummg to Boston Universlty this fall to work
individual, nOW a general, PrOPOSed that Boston Uni-
On anOther degree, the master of business administra-
VerSlty Carry its Newport-Style program across the wa-
tion. Many women in the program are teachers in the
ters. So, in March, 1964, the program began in Heidel-
Defense Department’s schooIs for c皿dren of Ameri-
berg, and in June, 1965, the first 16 graduates received
CanS in Europe, a SyStem that enrolled lO3,000 1ast year
their masters’degrees in intemational relations. That
in 230 schooIs. A number ofthese teachers.are wives of
fall the SchooI ofEducation」Oined the program, fol-
military men.
lowed in 1968 by the School ofBusiness Administra-
What is the Boston Universlty Overseas Program,
tion.
Unlike some overseas programs, faculty are not hired
and how did it ∞me about? The program oifers masters’degrees in education, business administration, and
abroad. A11 are proven teachers from the main campus.
intemational relations to qualified candidates working
While an asslgnment tO West Europe has its obvious at-
for the United States govemment in Westem Europe,
tractions, it demands a great deal of a teacher. Professor
both members of the armed services and civilians. The
Jane O’Hem ofthe School of Education provides an in-
PrOfessors are Boston Universlty faculty, au Of whom
StanCe・ Last fall she taught courses in the Certificate of
hold doctoral degrees and are asslgned to work abroad
Advanced Graduate Study program from Frankfurt to
for 18 months. Classes are held at night in dependent
Garmisch. When the term ended, She found that she had
School fa′Cilities in nine cities: Berlin, Frankfurt, Stutt-
logged a total of 1 2,000kilometers in her Volkswagen.
What makes the asslgnment eSPeCially worthwhile for
gart, Heidelberg, Mamheim, Munich, Karlsruhe, BrusSels, and Naples. A total ofeight ∞urSeS muSt be com-
SOme faculty is a chance for ongmal research・ Professor
Pleted satisfactorily for master’s degree candidacy. Last
Edmond T. Parker of the SchooI ofEducation is cur-
year’s enrollment was 466-Amy 271; Air Force 30;
rently engaged in a cultural study ofworld-mindedness
Navy 15; Civi止an govemment empIoyees 150.
among high-SChooI students. While abroad, he is sam-
Dr. Hubert S. Gibbs, dean of Metropolitan College,
Pling the opmions of young Italians, Gemans, and
has been director ofthe program since its inceptlOn in
Americans (in the dependent schooIs), and working
1965. A laconic man, nOt glVen tO idle boastmg, he
With European scholars. One ofhis o切ectives is to de-
StateS flatly that Boston Universlty’s Overseas Program
termine whether American chfldren in dependent
is without a peer. Among those ∞nVinced ofthe pro-
SChooIs abroad have been made less ethnocentric by
gram’s value is President John R. Silber, Who delivered
their experience. Existmg reSearCh indicates that au-
his “Po11ution ofTime” address (See Page 7) at the Hei-
thoritarianism and the quality of contacts with forelgn-
delberg commencement as he had in May at com-
ers are strong factors in deteminmg a generOSlty Of out-
mencement/inauguration exercises at Nickerson Field.
look toward other peoples. He has been struck by the
At a luncheon in Heidelberg pnor to commencement,
reluctance ofEuropean academics he has worked with
he said:
to use the word αrace,, in their studies.
“Here the students’appreciation for their degree is
Why should anyone overseas glVe uP Valuable time to
eam a master’s degree? The motivations vary. One of
quite di鯖orent from that of students at home・ The per-
SOnal fulfillment this program brings IS Obvious. It is a
this year’s graduates has obtained a long-SOught asslgn-
great satisfaction to the faculty and staff to see this en-
ment to teach ROTC back home, an aSSlgnment he
thusiasm for leammg.,, Dr. Silber’s strong support of
∞uld not have qua止fied for without a masters in educa輸
tion. Others expect their degrees will speed promotion
the program is expected to help foster its expansion・
in the service. Many older men are getting degrees in
The ongmS Ofthe program can be found in mainland
America in the New England city of Newport, Rhode
PreParation for retirement and se∞nd careers. Some of
Island, Where the Naval War Co11ege is Iocated. For lO
the civilian students are in the dipIomatic service and
Seek to deepen their knowledge ofintemational rela-
years (1956-65), Boston University professors ∞m-
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三三二二二∵二￣ 二￣ ∵￣￣二￣三雲二三二二二三二二二二二二二二二二二三
7%e Rohoko刀わater〆’SChwetzingc7C Cas砿
renowned jbr its baroq“e architect
re, WaS /he
Setting ♪r BU OveI彫aS Program commencemeni
exercises last June・ 7協e 162 graみates, all
q/ whom received master奪虎grees', heard
Presiくねnt SilberくねIiver his The Pollution
Of Time a勃ess (料epage 9)・ At /he recqtion
Which /bllowe`ちhe chatted with
om /堆)
Unive扇少q/ Maリノland Chancellor Rリノ
Ehrensbe移er, Dr・ Edward Herbert 4‘ /he
SchooI Qf励rcation, /he progra7扉s Eurqz)ean
窃rectoI? and Dean Hubert S. Gibbs 4‘
MetrqF,Olitan College・ Who has hea`カd Jhe
program siねce its inc申tion in 1965・
traveling abroad on a Fulbright Fe11owship.
As Dr. Silber puts it, αThe universlty Should not be
Boston Unive「sity Year Abroad
The Co=ege of Liberai Arts’Department of Modem
ashamed or e血barrassed to work in the national inter-
est. This program is natural and proper. We should take
」anguages has established a small but impo「tant
pride in this ∞mmitment’and we are highly privileged
PreSenCe in two Eu「opean cities・ Last yea「 arrangements
to do so. After a11, Our taX eXemPtion must have been
we「e made with an organization calIed Acade面c Year
glVen for something.”
Ab「oad under which qua冊ed juntors can take a fu= year
of academic work in eithe「 Paris or Madrid, Mostw用be
majOrS in French or Spanish, but students in other
discipi-neS, SuCh as European history, aiso may apply.
丁his year enro=ment is ten for Pa「is and six for Madrid"
丁he th「ust of Boston University Year Abroad is
ilnguistic and cuitu「a上Students =ve with native fam帥es,
not in dormito「ies, SO they a「e fo「ced to speak the
ianguage and to adapt tothe habits and customs of these
For its part, the military en∞urageS Participation in
Boston University,s program・ Until this year, a federal
tuition-aSSistance program provided funds to the Department ofDefense to pay for the program. Now the
individual who is eligible for the GI bill will draw on
this a∞Ount for his BUOP work, aS he would ifhe were
back home.
The Amy has allocated o鯖ce space to Boston Uni-
fam川es,
Academic work is done atthe University of Paris orat
verslty in Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg, and univer-
the University of Mad「id" There aiso is a busy program of
slty PerSOmel are extended the privileges of govem-
CuItural activity言ncluding attendance at the theatre,
ment empIoyees’Which include a much-reduced prlCe
OPe「a, and art shows, and many opportunities for short
trips in F「ance and SpaIn. The p「ogram is under the
SuPerVision of P「ofesso「 Raymond F・ Comea=・
for gasoline as we11 as the use of military clubs and a
card that gets them into the PX and Amy movie
houses.
tions for professional use. It is not unusual to find stu-
Dr. Edward Herbert ofthe SchooI of Education is the
European director and is responsible for administemg
dents in the program who already have one graduate
the complicated ∞Ordination of faoulty and students in
degree; ourrently two dentists and one physician are
nine di餓升ent locations. For instance, teaChers must be
working toward master,s degrees in education. Several
shifted to a new Iocation each semester so students can
students have received degrees in one program and
take a variety of ∞urSeS from di節erent faculty mem-
then enrolled in another.
bers. Then there is the problem of seemg that books are
available. Library limitations make it essential that
Applications ex∞ed available places, SO the quahty of
the student body overseas is high and indudes gradu-
textbooks from the United States are in students’hands
ates of Stanford, Harvard, Michigan, NYU,
in time.
One of the most impressive aspects of the program is
Northwestem, and other superior institutions. Admis-
the spirit of the students. Flunking is a血ost unheard of;
sion lS granted by an admissions ∞mmittee from each
and selfcon丘dence are high, ac∞rding to the faculty,
and wam relationships develop between students and
their teachers. Many students drive long distances to at-
who on the whole enJOy teaChing their mature’mid-Ca-
tend their classes. A few years ago a coIonel estimated
reer students. Dr. David Ashton of the College ofBusi-
that in his two years in the program he had driven
∞11ege on the Boston campus. The levels of maturity
ness Administration, teaching in the Frankfurt pro-
50,000 miles. Amy M砧or Lawrence NomS, a 1971
gram, has two students plammg further graduate work
graduate, Said, “The BU workload after a fu11 day lS
at Harvard and M.I.T., and another gomg On tO the
tough・ There are the classes to attend and all that read-
London SchooI of E∞nOmics. Some civilians outside
mg. I haven,t had much spare time in the past 24
the military but working for companies engaged in de-
months-but the degree is we11 worth it!
Teachers recIPrOCate this sense of dedication and are
fense-related activity (and hence carrying a m址tary ID
Card) also are eligible students.
anxious for the program to expand・ Professor Wi11iam
Norton in Brussels is certain that the program can be
Boston University’s association with the Department
of Defchse caught the attention of radical students dur-
enlarged if more efrort is put into publicizing it・
mg the height of campus activism in the late 1960’s, and
With a campus extending from Brussels to Berlin to
the program was denounced aLIong with ROTC・ The ra-
Naples and graduates in the program representmg most
tionale for such criticism was never clear. Indeed, Dean
ofthe 50 states, it would not appear very feasible to es-
Gibbs poiT‘tS Out that the mhitary grves the universlty a
tablish any kind of overseas alurmi-relations program.
free hand to teach without any interference whatsoever,
As a matter of fact, however, there is ∞nSiderable inter-
est injust such a prcuect. Professor Herbert lS Plammg
to organize a nucleus ofBUOP alumi this fall in hai-
and that o組cers in charge have said they welcome the
intellectual challenge provided by course work and disoussions with professors. At least one fa′Culty member
son with Robert Cummgs, director of alumni afねirs. It
who served in the program ∞uld be classified as quite a
is not inconceivable that graduation weekend in Heidel-
radica」but his presence evoked no comment from the
berg next June also w皿be the occasion for a reunion of
military. Clearance procedures for teachers are the
proud alumni who got their degrees at Boston Univer-
same as those required of any other American who is
sity’s West Europe campus! g
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BuリノSCheduねs are ahead ♪r
recen砂elected alc‘mni lead〆s
James A7gerOS, CLA ’51 (le初named
1971-72 National Alumni Fund chairman,
and Earle C. Par短, LAW?与named
to another Jem as chairman qf
the National A寂mni Co!/nCiL
A山m血
News
一一一一一一一、 〇
Alumni Fund Hits
New Record Total
Boston Universlty’s Alumni Fund hit
a new record high of over $192,000 in
undesignated givmg during the fiscal
year ending June 30, a 36 percent inCreaSe OVer last year’s annual undesig-
nated givmg tOtal of $140,604・ Over
7,000 alumni contributed to the camPalgn, Which surpassed the announced
goal of a 20 percent increase.
The professional graduate SchooIs of
Law, Medicine, and TheoIogy, nOt inCluded in the general Alumni Fund program, also ran successful alumnl glVmg
CamPalgnS and raised over $186,000 in
undesignated gifts for a grand total of
$379,073 in alumhi undesignated sup"
POrt tO the universlty.
Jerry Eilberg, CBA ’54, Alumni Fund
national chairman for the past two
years, believes the Alumni Fund inCreaSe largely can be attributed to two
ねctors :
Dean qf Student A侮れStaton Curtis (CenteりChats with Mrs・ Mariorie Huc加bee,
SON 59/’65, and Stephen B・ C砂tilo, CBA #3/SPC現at an砂brmal receptionjbr
alumni parents 4‘ new /‘CShmen hehl fn The P”b d研ing Orientation W宏k・
Argeros to Head
Alumni Fund Drive
(1) Expansion of the phonathon proJames A. Argeros, CLA ’5l, aSSistant
gram, COnducted among graduates of
the l l schooIs and colleges represented
to the executive vice president of the
in the Fund, Which raised over $35,000
Jordan Marsh Company, Boston, has
in “new money” from l,350 donors, and
been named National Alumni Fund
Chairman for 1971-72 by Charles
(2) A 33 percent increase in Century
Club members (those who contribute
$100 or more) from lastyear’s l,055 to a
The Alumni Fund totals by school
CLA $45,350; CBA $75,130; SAR
$8,397; ENG $2,496; SED $24,166;
Alumni Parents
Are Feted Dumg
Orientation Week
Mehos, CLA ’42, PreSident of the Bos-
ton Universlty General Alumni Asso-
Alumni parents of new freshmen
were welcomed back to Boston Univer-
Argeros’Who was national vice-Chair-
Slty皿s fa11 at two informal receptlOnS
1970-71 membership of l,400.
and college are:
PrOgram, an invaluable part of this
year’s Alumni Fund campalgn.
man for phonathons in the 1970-71
held during Freshmen Orientation
Alumni Fund campalgn, Su∞eeds Ger-
Week, Sunday and Monday’September
ald S. Eilberg, CBA ’54.
5 and 6, at The Castle.
SSW $2,784; SFAA $3,815; SON
Commentmg On the goals for the new
Parents socialized in The Pub with
$9,581; SPC $7,927; GRAD $6,005, and
PAL $6,538.
Alumni Fund campalgn, Argeros
members of the Alumni Afiairs staff fol-
stated :
1owmg a general parents receptlOn ear-
Totals for the professional graduate
“It is hoped the 1971-72 program wi11
1ier that aftemoon at which President
SChooIs annual alumnl glVing cam-
SurPaSS $500,000・ It is important that the
Silber, Dean of Student A餓Iirs Staton
PalgnS are: MED $4l,317; LAW
entire Boston University family’ in-
Curtis, and school and college represen-
$124,814, and THEO $20,753.
Cluding faculty, Students, deans, and
tatives greeted parents of new students.
SchooIs and colleges represented in
StafI言upport the efforts being made to
the Alumni Fund partlCIPate in the
PrOVide financial support to our univer-
60: 40 fomula plan, by which 60 per-
The President’s Hosts also were on
hand to glVe neW Students and their par-
Slty through the Alumri Fund.”
“Alumni must come to appreciate
ents tours of the Charles River campus.
alumnus’school for direct support of its
their responsibility as good citizens to
SOme 300 of this year’s freshmen are
PrOgramS, and the remaimng 40 percent
SuPPOrt their universlty t血ough a com-
children of BU alumni.
goes to support the universlty at large.
mitment of both their time and their
Cent Of a Fund contribution goes to the
Alumni contributions to the LAW,
MED or THEO campalgnS gO entirely
for programs at those schooIs.
The Alumni O鯖ce estimated that
The receptlOn, first of its kind during
Orientation Week, WaS COnCeived as a
money.’’
Other plans for the 1971-72 campalgn
Way tO Welcome alumni back to the
Call for expansion of the phonathon
CamPuS aS Well as a way of showmg aP-
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Robert E C“mm’ngr,
αA ’59,おd移ctor〆
alumni activities
aCⅢOSS
仇e desk
IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT “A perfect autumn day lS One When the lawn no
longer needs mowmg, and the leaves haven,t yet started to fall・・,
It is that season here as another school year begins・ and all of us are sharing m
PreCiation for their support of secondgeneration education at the universlty.
Another reception for alumm parents
the excitement and confusion that a new freshmen class brings to the Charles River
is plamed for Parents Weekend, No-
CamPuS. We reJOICe to See the increasmg number of alumni children who are con-
Vember 12-13.
tinumg a family tradition in attending Boston Universlty. During Freshmen Orientation over lOO a喜umni and their chi喜dren were guests at a reception sponsored by
the Alumni Association in The Castle’Which has helped greatly in fostermg enthuSiastic alumni response at the many events it hosts・
One very busy group often seen at The Castle this summer was the Ad Hoc
Alumni Committee on Athletics. Chaired by gregarious Nick Apalakis, CBA ’31,
this group has recruited an amy ofvolunteers to assist in the promotion of season
Parks Agam Heads
Alumni Council
ticket sales for football・ hockey, and basketball (See Page 30). Many ofthese same
VOlunteers helped bring unprecedented success to the Alumni Fund drive this year`
and Jim Argeros’CLA ’5l’is already hard at work directmg the 1971-72 Alumni
Earle C. Parks, LAW ’25, Partner in
the Boston law firm of Parks and HesSion, has accepted reappomtment aS na-
Fund campalgn"
Speaking of money, SeVeral alums have been elected to bank boards in recent
Weeks. Ra獲ph Pendery・ CBA ’39’tO the Charlestown Savings; A量Sidd? CBA ’46, tO
the Bay State Federal Savings and Loan Association; MoFTis “Duke,, Go萱dberg.
CBA ’49, tO Home Owners Federal Savings and Loan, and Hockey Coach Jack
Ke獲ley’SED ’52・ tO the Volunteer Cooperative Bank.
Contributing to 7協e magazine’s story on the Pentagon Papers was Deborah
Mu巾y’CLA ’65, Who has worked on nine cover stories since JOmmg T7me in 1967.
A history mayor, Deborah was described as being 6blo融s'ante in fu旧情ng her role
as reporter-reSearCher for the magazine. ‥ Char葛ie Mehos’CLA ’42` Should get
Plenty ofhelp from his family as he ful皿s his duties as president of the Alumni
Association. His brother` John・ CLA ’37/LAW ’39・ is an executive with the Liberty
Corporation in Galveston, Texas, and his sister, Alice, PAL 38, is with the Prudential in Boston. ‥ The 62-year葛Old New York Amstercねm Ncws', One Of the oldest
b置ack weeklies in the United States, has been sold to an all-black group headed by
aarence B. Jones’LAW ,59, Who is vice president with CBWL-Hayden Stone,
Inc…. Worcester’s $100 mi11ion rebuilt business district will include a new Fi_
lene’s store managed by Robert J. Hogan’CBA ’51 ‥ ・ and special kudos to the
many students’alumni, and friends who are working diligently on the SFAA Auc-
tion Sept. 22-24 to raise money for musical instruments and equlPment at SFAA,
tional chairman of the Boston UniverSity National Alumni Council (NAC).
Made up of prominent alumni who
are appomted for three-year termS by
the president of the General Alumni
Association, NAC members serve as
reglOnal ∞ntaCtS for deans and faculty,
as liason persons between the AdmisSions O鯖ce and prospective students, aS
Placement advisors for recent graduates,
and as leaders in Amual Giving and
CaPital funds campalgnS.
Parks will be assisted this year by 12
reglOnal chairmen, including Charles
Parrott, CBA ’53/LAW ’64, and Robert
Leary, CBA ’49, Who will ∞-Chair the
Boston reglOnal district. Other district
Chairmen are yet to be announced.
Goals for this year’s NAC include ex-
Panding National Alumni Council
hard-hit by a fire last sprmg.
As previously reported in this column’Alumni Directories are being published
for the Greater Boston and Greater New York areas. Ifyou reside in these areas
and have not received a questiomaire, Or WOuld like to buy a Directory, Write to
Boston University Alumni Directory’C/o Bemard C. Harris Publishing Co., Inc., 60
membership to l,000 and placmg mCreaSed emphasis on helping recent
graduates with job placement in their
respective reglOnS.
This year’s amual fall NAC meetmg
East 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10017.
Remember・ make plans now for Home∞mmg’October 22-24 as well as for the
Alumni Awards Dimer, Which will be held November 13 at the Sheraton Plaza
here in Boston. Meantime・ 1et,s hope all our Saturday,s皿s fall are “perfect au-
Wi11 be an 8:30 a.m. breakfast, Oct. 22,
at the Top of the Hub Restaurant. Boston.
tumn days” so we,1l see you and your friends at Nickerson Field cheerlng On the
Terriers.
Homecommg to Be
Odober 22-24
Alumni retuming to the Charles
River campus for Home∞mmg Week-
end, October 22-24, Will have many
events, SOme traditional and some not.
to enlOy during their weekend back at
BU.
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A June go笹ournament岬OnSOred砂
the General Alumni Association at the
Milton Hoosic GoV Club drew 76 d娩持,
including
om le砂Thomas Sturtevant,
CBA ’59, Of Manchester,・ Robert Cummings,
CBA ’59, director qf alumni a新涼,
and Prqf David K W Kim, PrO/おsor
O/religion at CLA・
Iここ」i
1971-72 academic year are:
Activities begin Friday night, October
BU boathouse. with the finish 3沈miles
22, With a 5-8 p.m・ OPen-house at the
upstream in front of the WBZ broad-
CLA-Vincent Asaro∴61/SED’62, Of
new Case Athletic Center. Tours of the
CaStmg Studios. Universities along the
Medford: SPC-Bill Cuccinello言52, Of
facility will be glVen and there also wi11
Charles言ncluding BU, Harvard・ and
Lexington; LAW-Earle C. Cooley∴57`
be free swimming and skating for
MIT, Will be among the competlng
of Hingham; MED-Dr. Noman S.
alumni and their children.
teams from colleges and universities
Steams言47, Of West Newton; SON-
across the nation.
Mrs. Mildred Makin. ,48/SED’55. of
The weekend will focus on the an-
nual Homecommg football game` this
Walthem; SED-Dr. WiⅢam M. Maho-
year a contest between BU and Rhode
ney∴46/`57, Of Hingham, and CBA-
Island. Traditional pre-game tai十gating
Robert F. Goldhammer言52, Of Win-
activities start around noon on Saturday
New SchooI College
l:30 p.m. at newly refurbished Nicker-
chester.
AIso MBA-Nicholas J. Amdur, ’68,
PreCeeding the game, Which begins at
O範cers Elected
son Field.
of Lexington; PAL-Mrs. Irene Lynch・
’39. of Winchester; ENG-Mrs. Ruth
A寝Castle Fest’’ at The Castle, 225
New school and co11ege alumni asso-
Hunter, ’64, Of Allston; THEO-Dr.
Bay State Road follows the game. A
Ciation o飴cers are assummg their duties
Wilbur C. Ziegler∴46, Of Springfield;
band wi教l be on hand to provide enter-
this fall followmg elections he置d during
SSW-Mr. Herbert Rosenfield, ’70. of
tainment" The cost is $3 per person・
the spmg and summer.
Norwood; DENT-Dr. Richard L. Aト
SchooIs and colleges also are plan-
According to Jean Hi11sen・ Alumni
1ard, ’66. of Malden; SAR-Dr. Evelyn
nmg清ecial events for their fifth and
Association associate director and cooト
M. Kirrane言47, Of Chestnut Hi11, and
tenth anniversary classes of 196l and
dinator of school and college alumni
GRAD-John J. Grahamこ’49, Of Bos-
1966.
events, PrOgramS this year wi11 empha-
ton.
The “something new” of this year’s
size inter-SChool activities and school
Homecoming activities is the Head of
and couege co-SPOnSOrShip of events
the
and
SuCh・ aS the professional ∞nference
COm-
lOintly sponsored last April by SON and
Charles
WOmen’s
Races.
sku11ing
a
and
men’s
rowmg
Petition w山ch last year drew over 200
SSW.
SChool and college entries. It is spon-
Another goal is continuation of stu-
SOred by the Cambridge Boat Club and
dent-alumni activities at the various
Law SchooI Gears
For Centemial Year
held on the second to last Sunday every
SChooIs to include phonathons and spe-
SchooI ofLaw alumni will be leading
October.
Heats begin at 12 noon on Sunday`
cial events such as SPC’s負How to Get a
the celebration this year as their school
Job Dav.” held last spnng.
marks its centemial year, the lOOth an-
Oct・ 24. Startmg line is in front of the
The new presidents elected for the
niversary of the school’s fomding m
1872.
Special centemial programs are
being planned at the schooI on the
Charles River campus as well as in
larger cities around the ∞untry Where
there are larger numbers of LAW
alumni.
A capital fund campalgn also wi11 be
launched to allow further strengthehing
and broadening of the school’s pro-
grams and facilities.
Committees already have been apPOmted to oversee both kinds of activities, and have begun their work.
The executive committee with overall
responsibility for the centemial inCludes Atty. Charles M. Goldman言24,
Chaiman; Earle C. Cooley言57; J. Newton Esdaile, ’27; Earle C. Parks∴25, and
Judge David A. Rose言27.
Other members include Law SchooI
was launched at a kick砺meeting A ugust 16 at Nickerson Held (See StOJy, page 3の
Dean Paul M. Siskind, and Paul H. LeComte, director of the centemial year
77ze q#ir includ訪a zoαr 4’the Case Center (rearらnOW nearing conpletion・
CaPital fund campalgn.
Prtyect ’71, the al”mni-led drive to sell season tickets. to BU平,OrtS eVentS・
25
Members df the SFAA Auction
脇men:s Committee, Mrs. Esther Rome
(le砂, and M′S. Josph Kaplan,
CBA?1, CXdmine some ofthe obiects
ゐnated to hc4, raise /諭d弓匂r
reconstruction of佃cilities
domaged少/re at SFAA last平ring
Students collected maリノitems /br
the ac/Ction, held Sept 23-25・
Alumni Awards
of Worcester, a freshman at SON. Featured speaker at the Worcester dimer
Class air fare, eight days and seven
Dinner is Nov. 13
was Associate Dean Vincent Lanzoni of
two meals per day.
the SchooI of Medicine.
The Alumni Club of Westem Mas-
On a “Holiday in Honolulu.” Cost ofthe
The Sheraton Plaza Hote=n Copley
nights in deluxe or first-Class hotels, and
An Apri1 15-22 tour will take alumni
SaChusetts presented three scholarships
Hawaii vacation is $499 per person,
Square・ Boston` Will be the settlng for
of $600 each to David Berti of Chesire,
based on double occupancy, and in-
the annual Alumni Awards Dinner to
entering SFAA; Janice Cote of
Cludes round-trip first-Class air fare.
be held Saturday, November 13・
Holyoke, entemg CLA, and David
Donoughe of Holyoke, entemg CBA.
eight days and seven nights in first-Class
Sponsored by the General Alumni
Association, the dinner will honor several alumni with Distinguished Public
Service and Outstanding Service to
Alma Mater Awards, tO be presented
this year by Charles Mehos・ CLA ’42・
new president of the General Alumni
Association.
The evenmg begins with a 6:30 p.m・
plan・
Scheduled for July 14-28 is a tour of
Four Bargam-Rate
Greece and Turkey. featumg a 7-day
Tours Slated for
double occupancy・ the prlCe is $899 per
Alumni in 1972
Greek Is置and cruise. Again based on
PerSOn and includes round-trip firstClass air fare and hotel and cruise ac-
COmmOdations. Breakfasts and dinners
are included; lunches also are included
receptlOn for awards recIPlentS and
Other attending guests, fouowed by din-
accommodations, and an optlOnal meal
Alumni with a yen for “those faraway
while on the cruise.
ner at 7:30, PreSentation of awards・ and
Places” w紺have an opportunity this
The last tour, “Capitals of Europe,” is
dancmg.
COmmg year tO JOin four alumni tours to
SCheduled for August 12-26 and in-
SuCh places as Innsbruck, the Greek
Cludes visits to Copenhagen, Amsteト
chairwoman of the dinner committee
Isles, Hawaii, and Copenhagen・
dam. London, and Paris. Price for this
and Charles Parrott, CBA ’53/LAW’64.
Sponsored by the Downtown Alumni
Club of Boston and the BU Varslty
OCCuPanCy, and includes round-trip
Club in conlunCtion with the General
tourist-Class air fare. first-Class hotel ac-
Alumni Association、 the first tour is a
COmmOdations for 15 days and 14
mation, COntaCt Mrs. Ann Kierce. c/o
Skiing vacation in Imsbruck, Austria.
nights. and half-day tours in each city.
Alumni Afroirs Office, 225 Bay State
Plamed for Februarv 19-26. The cost is
Road, Boston O2215 (telephone: 353-
$299 per person、 based on double occu-
Mrs. Ann Kierce, CBA ’54. is
heads the awards committee.
Price ofthe Awards Dimer is $10 per
PerSOn・ For reservations or more infor-
PanCy, and includes round-trip first一
trlP is $649 per person、 based on double
Final and complete tour information
Wi11 be available from Richard Fannon,
225 Bay State Rd., Boston, 02215.
Three Clubs Award
Six Scholarships
Three reglOnal alumni clubs pre-
Sented amual scholarship awards this
Summer tO high-SChooI seniors attend-
1ng Boston Universlty this fa=.
The North Shore Club awarded
$1,000 to Robert M. Drobneck, a CLA
freshman from Lym・ at a May 26 din-
ner held at the Boston Yacht Club,
Marblehead. Dean Emest Blaustein of
the Division of General Education was
featured speaker at the event.
Two awards were presented by the
Worcester Women,s Club at their din_
ner May 27 at Franklin Manor. West
Present at a June 24 retirement rec申tion /br Ma′garet Pon叩hretちPAL ’26,
Boylston・ Joanne O’Malley of Worces-
佃econd /わm 14坊fer 22 years adninistrative assistant /O Zhe drecto握りr
ter, a Pre-med freshman received a
alumni q#irs, Were paSt General Al“mni As50Ciation presidents
$1,000 scholarship, While another $1,000
Danie!弔nn・ CBA ’49/LA W ’51,・ De′ne[rlus C. Pilal姉CBA ’39,・ Vi′glnia 7Ternev,
SCholarship went to Joan Ellen Grattan
PAL ’36/SED ’68, and Prescott C. Cra声s, CBA ’42.
26
om le/り
1947
1923
James C. Nesbitt, CBA, WaS elected trea-
Judge Carl E. Wah量strom’LAW’PrObate
Surer Of the New En虫and Electric System,
監詩語謹言霊認諾託霊薬
Westboro, Mass.
The Rev. Albert M. Brockway, THEO, has
The Rev. Asa W. Mellinger, THEO, Ob-
詫t a酷豊t薯監霊等。悪罵
蒜d葦等a諾晋説話a諾意曇
N.Y.
Mass.
謙講読雷露欝
1927
manufacturers of ice cream and distributors
of五〇zen重bods.
JosePh J. Conti, LAW, has been promoted
Leslie B. Rivers, CBA, has been named
from instructor to professor of law and loglC
at Johnson and Wales Co11ege, Providence,
藍,薗親書an∞舟血ow￣ HartJnc.,
R.I. He also is author of a new college text
James C. Newbitt, CBA, WaS elected treaSurer Of the New England Electric System,
and teacher’s manual entitled AbstれaCtions /n
韓譲葉㌶豊富芳露盤"be￣
1929
CLAS S
同s
Dr. David M. Shor, MED, WaS elected to
the board of trustees of East Orange (N.J.)
General Hospital.
1931
CBA Coilege of Business Adm面StratiOn/CBS CoIiege
Of Basic Studies/CしA Co=ege of しiberal Arts/DGと
Nicholas E. Apalakis, CBA `31/`32, CuS一
琵諒欝叢誌豊富三
Christians and Jews.
Frederic L. Callahan, CBA, Was PrOmOted
諾諾㌔露語謹謹話謹書
Division of General Education/【NG Co=ege of Engl-
neering/GRAD Graduate Schooi/しAW SchooI of Law/
M帥SchooI of Medicine/MET Metropoljtan Co=ege/
S【O SchooI of Education/SFAA Schoo1 0f Fine and
App=ed Arts/SGl) Schoo1 0f Graduate Dentistry/SON
John Cla血Fitzgerald, LAW, a Veteran
議書盤u託霊蕊富農窪三
Co un.
Joseph R Corish, LAW, held a one-man
諾薫謀議欝t輩霊
轟灘薄龍議諾
h temational Biog7q砂
1933
護憲護詳講話監
for the Lansingburgh (N.Y.) schooI system・
1941
Walter A. Korona, CBA, has been named
treasurer of血e American Shoe Corp.
識語霊認請,塁認n.Methodist
善護認諾露語蒜
Willia血C. MacDonald, CLA, has been
naned superintendent of schooIs in Winchester, Mass.
U.S. Senator Edwa血W. Brooke, LAW
諾霊岩盤謹譜舘霊器霊葦
雑器‡霊霊薬語等志操諾
蒜嵩義認澄護
Sity.
gent・
Charles Y. GIock, CBA, Chairman of the
競競綴
Mrs. Marguerite Armstrong, SSW, has
詫認諾霊監謹豊蕊蒜
vice at the Southeastem reglOnal office of the
Copnecticut State Department of Health.
Leonard J. Gallagher, CGE and SPC `50,
誌難語器S豊Of the Lowell (Mass.)
Row.
1949
1942
Dr. Eugene DawsonタGRAD, has been
C鵬s W. CarrinoIo, CBA, PreSident of the
許諾雷管慧重器‡t霊詫d誓霊
認諾轄欝霊
board of visitors, has been named chairman
3盤,謹㌶露語諾董霊S諾
p壷gn・
1945
Frederick H. Bird, LAW, WaS PrOmOted to
認諾灘藷議
龍詳語t of the Peerless Insurance Co.’
紫葦義認欝豊護
霊盤韮欄豊富霊e器
unselfish serviCe.
The Rev. Lawrence S. Staples, THEO, WaS
Willard C. Lombard, LAW, Was installed as
Nevart Najarian, SED, authored a new
叢畿雛畿華蕊
Coap., and the McCa11 Corp.
been named chairman of the subcommittee
Robert Boyer, CBA, a member of CBA’s
Eleanor Rehberg, SAR, has announced her
葺謹C嵩嵩器0葦等碧a工嵩
TheoIogy
Julius Surmer Mi11er, CLA and GRAD
誹詩誌豊磐謹告嘉鴇昔
named to the board of directors of Norton
Simon, Inc., a New York based consumer
Dr. S. Noman Feingold, SED, national director, B`nai B`rith Vocational Service, has
dinator at the Rutland Heights (Mass.) Men-
1932
器量繁盛al of the Clarkson (N.Y.)
Joseph H. Gamache, CBA, has been
tion/SSW SchooI of SociaI Work/THEO Schoo1 0f
SchooI of Nursing/SPC Schooi of Pubiic Communica-
tal Health Rehabilitation Center, has been
SchooI District committee.
1少48
Dr. Luther A. Howard, SED `48/`54/`59,
SAR Sargent CoIIege of A用ed HeaIth Professions/
City University of New York.
Hany Halliday, CBA, mental health coor-
elected to the Wachusett (Mass.) Regional
Westboro, Mass.
。f鑑よ謹雑器普請藍撞悪
tum of the century.
護持語豊6謹e University of Red￣
David T. Sandstrom, CBA, WaS named di-
蒜音譜絡器量富盤i豊r器
Group, Hartford, Com.
Edward F. Hennessey, LAW, an aSSOCiate
justice of the Massachusetts State Superior
Court, has been named to the Mass. Supreme
Judicial Court by Gov. Francis Sargent.
轟籍籍籍欝
Vivian H. Brown, CBA, head of the busi-
誌‡監蕊謹諾豊能蕊薄
New Hampshire board of trustees.
m籍等嵩葦怒‡慰霊嵩3i
the虫ass contamer grOuP Of Indian Head
Co., Comecticut.
27
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〇・・〇へ「喜一 小¥ ← /臆メイ∴臆○○-i 」 〇 〇二〇一一年/-￣・」一一一 」)〇六・一一￣」へ一 、へ一岬へ一へへへ-一・〇〇〇〇〇〇一一言∴一一書-臆¥i“-￣へ、一-
) _一へへへ、士二〇へ
1950
。f嵩韮講説岩館霊持審嵩
認諾離?薫き. aPPOlnted president
Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, THEO, a
至培盤器記譜蕊言語罪業
mencement address at Albany (N.Y.) State
CoⅡege・
1955
HaFTis P. Jameson, CLA, a teaCher-∞ach
has been appomted headmaster of Tilton
School, Tilton, N.H.
DeWitt H. Scott, SPC, is executive editor
Of the Eastem Expresちa 53,000-Circulation
daily paper published in Easton, Pa.
請謁豊豊等誌謹
tional Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Califomia Division of Kaufinan and Broad,
岩盤常磐㌫媒i親若輩謹葦
工nc.
Carlton Press.
headmaster of UIster Academy, a Private
sis‡豊宝器乍謹蒜穂詐盤
SChool in Kingston, N・Y・
and’Trust Co. and manager of its Braintree
Of血e village of Lake George, N.Y.
Five Corners o組ce.
Wi量liam
G.
Ganter,
CLA,
Was
named
Robert M. Blais, SPC, WaS elected mayor
George D. Roberts IⅡ, LAW, Was elected
Mrs. L. Marion Heath, SON ’55/’60, aSSO-
John F. MacMorran, GRAD, former
headmaster of Leavitt Institute, Tumer, Me.,
Richard H. MacLeod, CBA, has been
named marketing director of the Southem
Ciate profpssor at Boston College SchooI of
an assistant vice president, PerSOnal trust de-
Partment, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.
Wi11iam J. Beardsley, CBA, Circulation
莞議霊謹嵩驚蒜‡
諾記譜藍盤l謹諾器
year degree program in nursmg.
the Sales Promotion Executives Association-
Richard B. Hender?On, ENG, has been ap-
International.
POinted manager-engmeer Of D. G. O’Brien,
Ronald J・ I)山POntタCBA, aSSistant portfolio
Inc., manufacturers of electrical cable con-
器器;罵豊富嵩霊豊霊蒜
nectors for underwater and nuclear power
藍盤悪霊一昔聖霊葦岩盤三三
Officer status by that company.
血ies.
Roberi J. 0,Domell, SED ’55/’59, WaS
1951
John R. White, CBA, has been named
藍葦露盤岩盤智諾意憲
Com., a division of Uniroyal, Inc.
蕊謹霊諾r藍諾器諸悪
量誌盛l課盤‡嵩智1p Re担
Frank A. Kehrma, CLA and LAW ’56, has
Corp・, Holbrook’Mass., a Subsidiary of Gen〇、
eral Time Corp.
Philip J. 0’Neil, CBA, has been named
§親al ofthe Hanover (Mass.) Junior High
Judge George N・ Bequregard, LAW, dis-
trict court associate JuStlCe, Holyoke, Mass.,
has been elected to the executive c9mヰttee
Of血e Hampden County Bar AssoclatlOn.
The Rev. Ralph L. Minker Jr., THEO言s
the new senior minister at Mount Vemon
Place United Me血odist Church, Baltimore,
Md.
ticals, aS aSSistant director of ∞rPOrate Public
erty department’The Travelers Insurance
relations.
Companies, Hartford, Com・
Wi11iam C. LamParter, SPC, is the vice
麗兜a置輯諸島荒巻豊藍
Harlem newspaper.
1956
been named head basketball coach at the
認諾盤轟諾寵工言霊薯。窪
Co nn.
ま悪霊哲藷農認諾と拝辞韮‡
ton, N.J.
豊謹選襲韓諾
Ida Lewis, SPC, is editor-in-Chief of Es-
SenCe magaZine, Boulder, CoIo.
Dr. David Z. Kushner, SFAA, is currently
American MusicoIo毎Cal Society’s southem
諾諸藩競窮農務霊
Charles R. Carson, CBA, WaS named gen-
1957
eral manager of血e General Electric Com-
Coshocton, Ohio.
Antoinette Ragucci, SON, joined the fac-
ulty of Case Westem Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio,.aS aSSOCiate professor, medical-Surgical nursmg.
1953
The Rev. Robert F. Sinks, THEO, is minis-
ter of the Broad Street United Methodist
a完。罵言葦謹告諸富露盤
Church in Columbus, Ohio.
College, is co-director of that school’s mar-
vice president of marketing for Sonesta Ho-
譜雑器a認諾詩誌i露盤詳記
COurSe ∞OPerative trainmg program.
Dr. Henry O. White, MED, Was named to
the board of trustees of the Penobscot Bay
(Me.) Medical Center.
Atty・ Joseph V. Ferrino? LAW, WaS named
Robert D. McGrail, CBA, has been named
tels.
Gertrude J. Homung, SED, amOunCed her
諾謹s言霊s霊宝諾t諾露悪謙
語薯謹書,詑議書ustries, Dlvi￣
LIoyd Earl Belford, LAW, is public administrator of BristoI County, Mass.
U・S・ Coast Guard Academy’New London,
Pa山L. Segal, SPC is executive director of
the Jewi血Family and Children,s ServlCe’
Providence, R.I.
1961
He血ert F・ Gold? CBA, general agent for
貌霊豊嵩霊能認諾三悪註
Life Underwriters Association.
Dr. John D. Spangler, GRAD, has been
謀議謀議許諾議
蒸器護憲慧露叢
dary SchooI PrincIPals.
t。賞詰霊謹琵豊a豊島葦:
蒜欝r豊能?n Of the Ford Motor
Dr. Charles E. Wilson, Jr., THEO, has
諾謙語#霊薯SUnited Meth￣
Robert Minihine, SED, WaS named na一
豊窪Ⅱ置謹課業干藍音量‡
Mass.
The Rev. Ralph J. Barron, Jr., THEO, eXecutive director of血e Troy, N・Y., Methodist
1963
Conference Geriartric Foundation, has been
named chairman of the area’s United Com-
munity Fund campaign.
The Rev. Jo富m DeBrine, SPC, COnducted a
SPeCial justice of East Boston Dis正ct Court
by Gov. Francis Sargent・
Peter Broaca, SED, Universlty Of Massachusetts assistant basketball ∞ach, has
仕蕊誓書よ講書缶詰欝i謹
for long-range development programs.
Pany’s lammated products department in
Clarence B. Jones, LAW, is publisher of
the New York Amsterあm Newちa leading
語謹書請託磐露盤盈謹言
1952
‡量霊豊能豊慧豊童謡霊等
been appomted assistant secretary in the contract and law division of the casualty-PrOP-
health claims, the Hartford Insurance Group,
Hartford, Conn.
Richard W. Pozzo, CBA, WaS named president of Miniature Electronic Components
1959
Raymond P. AIvarez’ SPC, has JOined
youth and family conference this summer at
the Levant Village (Me.) Baptist Church・
George W. W. Brewster IⅡ? CLA’is an as-
sistant vice president of the First National
Bank of Boston.
n豊豊霊‡謹龍r碧落言誤‡
eamed during her last asslgnment in Viet-
1958
Michael I. San皿er, CLA, WaS aPPOinted
vice pre*dent言ndustrial relations, Damon
Corpora血On, Needham Heights・ Mass.
28
Philip J. Webster, CLA, has been apPPmted vice president, COrPOrate COmmu-
nlCations, Damon Corp., Needham Heights,
Mass.
器謹呈霊葦盤台業績謹呈
and Trust Co.
U.S.A.F. Col. Sheldon I. Gedkin, SPC, has
been named director of information,
U.S.A.F. Aerospace Defense Command,
command headquarters, CoIorado Springs,
Colo.
蒜護憲寵譜謹
。誤認言霊監t認霊ぶ慧relations
Edwin H. Shaul, SPC, WaS PrOmOted to
認諾講読蕊怒号忠霊黒岩
instruments and systems for process and
energy control.
励初er Gall`Zg履: Behind Jhe p佃it or at the ngan・ an CCumnical switch-hitteJI
1965
Charles C. Freihofer IⅡ, CBA, is chairman
of the Troy, N.Y., National Multiple Scle-
Not ab萱es
rosis Society’s fund drive.
圏圏圏圏
Massachusetts Heart Association.
Douglas P. Edwards? CBS and CBA ’68,
誌嵩egi嵩器藍嘉詳薯B・ Rob￣
Dr. Robe加S. OIpin, GRAD ’65/’71, aSSis一
議謹葦竃謹
actmg Chaiman of that department.
漢What does a priest do afier celebrating
看The list of American 」Oumalists permitted
mass on Sunday moming? If he,s Father
in Red China is short indeed, but one more
was added late in August-Arlene Lum, SPC
David Ga1量agher, SFAA ’61/’70, an
accomplished organist and choral director’he
and begins his duties there as associate music
dire ctor.
New York 7Ymes in that select group-W皿
Catholic prleSt tO fill the position,’’says Dr・
woman, but as the first Chinese-American
Frederick Meek, minister of Old South. “But
reporter allowed on the mainland since 1948.
`We certainly did not go out looking for a
Father Gallagher’s name came up and, after
hearing him perfom, We血ou如t it would be
a.wonderful idea if he joined us.”
A strong believer in the eoumenical
1966
Dr. Oscar E. Remick, GRAD, has been se1ected as the 13th president of Chautauqua
Institute, Chautauqua, N.Y.
嵩程遠誌認諾霊
M.
W組Iiam
Benner,
CLA,
WaS
elected
Robert T. Proveneher, SED, WaS named
諾諾欝紫豊治
Donald S. Heaton, CBA, is a staff a∞Oun-
tant in the C.P.A. firm, Peat, Marwick,
Mitchell and Co., Boston.
James S. Ryan IⅡ, SED, WaS named head
泣葦I韓謹。fepartment, Needham
Dr. Glem R. Bucher, GRAD, aSSistant
Arlene, an education and legislative
specialist with the St仇Bulletin, WaS One Of
several sta鯖ers for whom the paper had
requested visas late last spmg血rough the
Red Chinese embassy in Ottawa. Last
OPPOrtunity to JOin Old South. “Since I’m
here every Sunday in the capaclty Of
summer, While in Hong Kong for several
weeks for a Chinese studies program, She
musician rather than relidous leader,” he
reapplied・ Her request was granted August
SayS,買the spirit of ecumenism is more
20. Two days later Arlene was off to Canton’
constant than when it is practised only on
first stop on her month-1ong tour. Her reports
on chinese education, Culture, and daily life
SPeCial occasions.”
A member of the Stigmantine Order,
began at age 8. By血e time hewas 16’hewas
choir director and organist at the
1968
the special distinction not only of being a
movement, Father Ga11agher welcomed血e
Father Ga11agher’s career as an organist
軽薄.Of the Citizens Bank of BIooms_
64, a rePOrter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin・
Shejoins such men as John Roderick of the
Associated Press and James Reston of the
hurries to the Old South Church in Boston
Massachusetts Refomatory in Concord, the
youngest civil servant in the state’s history
began appearmg in the Star-Bc‘lletin the
following week.
After graduation from BU’Arlene was a
reporter for Seventeen magazine in New
York before retummg tO her native Honolulu
four years ago to 」Oin the newspaper.
He enrolled at SFAA as a music student,
but left after his junior year to enter血e
Stigmantine Fathers Seminary The Order
sent him to study litu専Cal music at the Pius
営A simple sneeze or a wheeze has been
X SchooI of Liturgical Music, Manhattanville
known to put Dr. Saul Malkeil? MED ’44,
College of the Sacred Heart in Purchase,
hot on the trail of a new investlgation into the
N.Y.
CauSe Of allergleS.
After ordination in Rome in 1959, he
President of the American Academy of Al-
retumed to BU to complete his bachelor’s
1ergy and a researcher on a11ergleS at Boston
and master’s degrees.
Children,s Hospital, Dr. Malikel gathers information on a11ergleS,血eir causes and cures,
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in addition to conducting research on the
basic mechanics of a11ergic reactions・
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The academy also is active in studying air
POⅡution and its effects on as血ma sufferers,
adequacies of Social Gospel Christianity.”
and is researching the general areas of drug
sensitivity and insect sensitivity exhibited by
SOme PerSOnS・
Dr. Malkiel,s dedication to research is
1969
PromPted not alone by professional concems.
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Like millions of o血er Americans, yOu See, he
suffers from what he calls “a mild ragweed
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hay fever.’’
Co urt.
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Presid訪t John R・ Silber got ‘he
Prtyect ’71 /botball season -tic庇t
Sales ca型,療“n q# to a fyst Jtart dy
p
rChasing ll /br佃mily use・
Head Coach Lar,y NaviaαX (l擁) was
On hand as /he /ickets were presented
少Nick Apalakis, CBA ’31/?2,
Chaiman〆the Ad-Hoc Alumni
Committee on A thletics.
Spo巾S
PrQ]eCt ’71:
Getting You Out
To the Ba11 Game
Despite Boston University’s consid-
erable athletic successes in recent
years「including last year,s NCAA
ChampIOnShip hockey team, the 1969
football team which topped a 9-1 season
record with an appearance in the Pasa-
dena Bowl, Dave Hemelys 1968 Olyin-
Pic Gold Medal in the 400-meter hurdles’Bruce Taylor taking 1970 Rookie
Of the Year honors in the National
Footba11 Conference-attendance at
most home contests in the m糾or sports
has been disappomtmg. Alumni atten-
J;m Pila履CBA労力eld o′ganization headjbr /he /icket salcu #′rち訪れ・eS掘SOme
dance has been especially weak, Partic-
」OO volαnteer WOr鳥e応Aug“st 16 at a kick砺meeting which indc/deda Case Ccnter to硯
ularly when over 40,000 alumni live in
Massachusetts, SOme 25,000 of them in
the Greater Boston area.
During the football season, there is a
Standing joke at Nickerson Field, Which
SeatS 15,000, that many fans come disguised as empty seats.
What helped spark PROJECT ’71
and 19, Which brought together some 40
WaS a talk President John R. Silber had
SPOrtS-minded alumni and staff person-
With alumi leaders early this sprmg.
nel.
He noted that the cost of BU,s inter_
From this conference emerged a
∞11egiate athletic programs, While mod-
number of innovative suggestions, a
est in comparison to other m糾or uni-
Many reasons have been advanced
COmmitment to action, and an organiza-
VerSities, might have to be reduced
for the attendance sag, rangmg from the
Slgnificantly m the next two or three
tion called the Ad-Hoc Alumni Com_
mittee on Athletics. Heading the com-
years due to financial problems facing
m王ttee as general chaiman is Nicholas
the university.
E. Apalakis, investor relations manager
Of New England Telephone Co. and a
BU trustee.
COmPetition of professional sports to the
Current Student generation’s lack of interest in varsity a皿etics. Of course,
Similar problems at other co11eges
there always has been a zealous band of
and universities across the nation have
alumni sports enthusiasts’ including
CauSed many of them to cut back their
those active in the召Friends,, organiza-
athletic programs recently, eVen tO dis-
tions for several of the varsity sports.
COntinuing certain varsity sports.
But many have insisted a11 along that
more alumni interest in BU sports ex-
For BU to avoid having to take similar action, Dr. Silber made clear, WayS
isted than showed in attendance. To
must be found to appreciably oflもet the
Other members include Pa山Ryan,
SyStemS analyst for New England Life
Insurance Co., eXeCutive vice chairman;
Demetrius Pilalas, Vice president of
translate皿s interest into active sup-
COSt Of its athletic programs. This, aS
New England Life and a fomer BU
trustee, Vice chaiman for field organiZation; Eugene Delfino, a manufac-
POrt, they insisted, athletic events
those ′mOSt familiar with the situation
turer’s representative, and Pat Bibbo,
needed only to be merchandised, Publi-
agree, Can be accomplished only by dra-
Cized, and sold more e鯖ectively and
matica11y mCreaSmg SPeCtatOr interest
more consistently.
Sales manager for New England TelePhone’Vice chaimen for special prq〕-
and alumni support’Particularly for the
ects; Sheman寝Budd,, Daniels, a Part-
Just such an efrort now is underway.
maJOr SPeCtatOr SPOrtS Of footba11, bas-
ner in the advertlSmg COmPany Of
Entitled PROJECT ’71, it is the most
ketba11’and hockey. This will lead to in-
COmPrehensive and concerted campalgn
CreaSed ticket sales and more revenue to
Goldman and Daniels, Vice chairman
for sales and marketing; and Robert
ever conducted in support of inter一
SuPPOrt athletic programs.
Leary, Vice president of the advertising
∞lleglate at山etics at Boston Universlty.
Dean of Student Aflbirs Staton Curtis
And it is a campalgn being run by
firm of Kenyon and Eckhardt, Vice
first brought this challenge to the atten-
Chairman for promotion’Publicity, and
tion of the alumni at the Varsrty Club,s
amual Hall of Fame Banquet on Apri1
Public relations.
30.
mittee of university administrative per-
alumni.
In its first phase, PROJECT ’71 has
∞nCentrated on se11ing 5,000 season
An administrative coordinatmg COm-
tickets to BU,s home football games
As a next step, he and Robert Cum-
SOmel, headed by Athletic Director
and filling the stands for each of the five
mgS’director of alumni aflbirs’Orga-
home contests.
Warren Schmakel and including
nized a two-day ∞nference, June 18
Alumni Director Bob CummgS, also
30
A new $i500 scoreboarみdonated
少凡iends Q/BU Athletics, is part
ゲa new look /his /Zzll at Nic巌rson
用e肋In ac#ition /O general
r4訪bishing and rcpainting, /he
fe肋has a new soundリノStem・
was formed to handle the intemal ad-
Comecticut home footba11 ga捌C tO the
" Facilities at Nickerson Field have
ministrative support PROJECT ,71 will
night of Friday, October 29, in response
been substantially lmPrOVed wi血the
requlre.
to the committee,s suggestion that night
insta11ation of a new scoreboard (Paid
for by alumni contributions), a neW
unanimously that the first priorrty of
games will draw better attendance. In
addition, a Pre-SeaSOn full-game SCrim-
PROJECT ’71 would be to increase the
mage with the Universlty Of Maine was
furbishing and repainting.
sale of football tickets, Particularly sea-
arranged for the night of September lO
SOn tickets, Which t血s year are $20 for
at Nickerson Field.
The Ad-Hoc Committee agreed
Public-address system, and a general re-
i Arrangements have been made
with the Boston Crusaders, nationally
renowned drum and bugle corps, tO
adults and $10 for children up to age 15.
鵜Parents Weekend, Originally sched-
In previous years students and’in
uled for a weekend when there was no
most instances, faculty and staff were
home football game, WaS SWitched to
0 Under investigation for the future
admitted free to home football games.
November 13, the weekend of the BUDelaware contest.
is the possibility of a televised football
T血s season, however, Students will be
PrOVide lively half二time shows.
game with an Ivy League opponent,
Charged $1 per game and $5 for a seaSOn ticket. Faculty and staff will pay between $2 and $2.50 per game, dependmg On血e contest, Or $10 for a season
ticket.
To reach the goal of 5,000 season
tickets as quickly as possible’Subcom-
mittees were set up to sell tickets in every city and town throughout Eastem
Massachusetts, aS Well as in Cape Cod,
Fa11 River, New Bedford, Worcester,
and Springfield. Regional and area subcommittees also were fomed t血ough-
Out the rest of New England and in the
Greater New York area.
The season ticket sales campalgn WaS
O鯖cially kicked-Off Monday, August 16,
at Nickerson Field. More than lOO committee members were on hand for the
meetmg Which followed a tour of the
Case Physical Education and Athletic
Center, raPidly neanng ∞mPletion.
AIso present were such sports luminaries as Aldo “Buff’Done11i, former
BU football coach; Doug Raymond,
7協e Case P砂Sical Eみcatio均andAthletic Center bordかing Nick調On Held is均idly
n earing con叩letion・ A ll qfits華Cilitie扉nc Ic‘dingswimmingpooL 2, 500-Seat g),mnaSium,
and 4000-Seat hockウノarena (below) are expecねd zo be in ,誰use少yea諦en`Z
former BU track star and coach and a
member of the Varsity Club Hall of
Fame; Bob Woolf, famed sports attorney and a graduate of BU’s Law
School; AI Silverman, editor of fyort
magazine
and
an
alunnus
of
BU’s
SchooI of Public Communication, and a
number of others.
The sale of tickets to students, faculty, and staff has been pushed through
a special mailing and ticket booths set
up during freshmen orientation. The
Ad_Hoc Committee’s e鱒brts have re-
ceived the enthusiastic support of the
universlty’ from President Silber on
down. Among actions taken, SOme aS a
direct result of committee recommendations, have been the fo11owmg:
獲Rescheduling the BU-University of
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Strong-armed senior Bill Poole,
here “ncorking a long bomb・ looked
vey strong ’n平,ring d朝s and
mり, be thisjあ桃No・ 1 q
arterback
in /he先Jγie否s souped-均#nse・
Right behind him will be Sam Hollo,
another prol,en Veteran Who is
a pass-run double /hreat・
and scheduling one or more of the service academies.
tackle and Adian Moore at center.
With seven defensive starters retum-
Soccer Sked Tough
But Hopes High
With such cooperation and such a
mg from last year’the Terriers should
Wide-rangmg and ∞Ordinated cam-
uphold their reputation as a team that
Palgn, the Ad-Hoc Committee has ev-
yields yardage grudgingly. Anchoring
Like footba11, SOCCer has been build-
ery hope that the goal of 5,000 season
the defensive line will be senior tackle
tickets sales will be met.
Rick Versocki and junior end Bill Pukalo, both A11-New England selections
last season. At the other tackle wi11 be
SOPhomore George Assad or Junior Neil
Kierz, With seniors Ed Denison or Don
mg a SOlid winmng tradition at BU in
the past three years. This fa11 Coach
Roy Sigler expects to have 9 of the ll
Even as Phase I of PROJECT ’71
ends, however, Phase II wi11 begin, PrOmotmg hockey and basketball tickets.
expected to see lots of action.
Speaks at end.
F○○tb血1 :
Tough Defense,
Vide-Open O餓孤se
Terrier footba11 fans have good rea-
starters from last season’s squad, Which
POSted a fine 9-5 won-1ost mark, along
With an excellent group of sophomores
The “mad dog” 1inebacking corps
They a11 wi11 be needed as the Ter-
Will consist of senior co-CaPtain Ken
riers wi11 be playmg One Of the toughest
Sinclair as middle linebacker or “split
sched山es in New England. Heading the
dog’” senior Wendell Webster as left
OPPOSition are Brown, Which was
linebacker or “hot dog,’’ and soph-
ranked in the top lO nationally last year,
OmOre Jim Bemett as right linebacker
and peremially strong Bridgeport.
Or “red dog・’’
Coach Sigler says the team’s goal this
season is to be selected for the NCAA
SOn tO be optlmistic this fall for the 1971
The veteran defensive backfield will
eleven promises to be tough defensively
feature the senior brother duo of Mel
and more wide-OPen On O節ense.
Priester at free safety and FIoyd Phester
Like the football team, the soccer
at comerback, along with senior Amie
team proves that braius and athletic
Baker at the other comer. In addition to
ability do mix: Of the 20 returmng
Leading the runnmg attaCk will be
two seniors, CO-CaPtain Pat Diamond,
booters, nine have academic averages of
an expIosive halfback who gained ex-
actly 800 yards last season, and Mike
Fields, a hard-driving fullback who
rushed for more than 500.
The quarterbacking wi11 be handled
by two proven veterans-Seniors Sam
Hollo, an eXCellent runmng threat, and
Billy Poole, Who has a great passmg
arm. Poole was ranked number one afL
ter his strong showmg m SPrmg PraCtice
and at the sprmg intersquad scrimmage,
When he completed 13 of 18 passes for
322 yards and two touchdowns.
tournament.
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Hall of Famer Joins
BasketbaⅡ Staff
Kevin Thomas, SED ’56, former BU
basketba11 great and a member of the
Varslty Club Hall of Fame, has been
appointed freshman basketball coach at
BU under new Head Coach Ron Mitch-
His targets will be an outstanding
his defensive talents, Baker retumed 21
eu.
at且anker, and senior AI Durkovic, a
PuntS last year for 229 yards. The safety
Will be either Senior Tom Lawnsby or
rier history, WaS freshman and assistant
tight end who was the team’s leading re-
SOPhomore Joe Gill.
VarSity ∞aCh during the 1958-59 season・
group of receivers’including 」uniors
Daryl Smith at tight end and Joe Herbst
Ceiver last year with 25 receptlOnS and
three touchdowns.
Additional backfield strength comes
Thomas, third leading scorer in Ter-
W血1e coach Larry Naviaux seems to
That was the year the Terrier quintet
have the persomel to extend his win-
reached the Eastem finals ofthe NCAA
nmg reCOrd of 19 wins’7 losses and l
tournam ent.
from Juniors Paul Ebert, a halfback,
tie,血s 1971 Terriers face the most di臆-
In subsequent years’Thomas coached
and Tony Leone, a fullback, and soph-
Cult schedule in his three years as head
at Ayer’ RandoIph, Wakefield’ and
omore fullback John Rosinski, brother
COaCh. Villanova, The Citadel, and New
Hampshire are three tough opponents.
Catholic Memorial High SchooIs. His
Of fomer BU star Roger Rosinski・
teams never have had a losing season.
The only question mark on o節ense
The Terriers also have the unenviable
He still holds Terrier records for the
will be the relative inexperien∞ Of the
task of opemng the season with three
most field goals in a game, 21 against
interior line, Which figures to have sen-
Straight road ∞nteStS against Colgate’
Rutgers in 1954-55’and most rebounds
ior Tom Lamb at center, Senior John
The Citadel, and Temple, the last two
in a game’34 against Boston College in
Webb and juni9r Bill Daviero at guard,
night games.
that same season.
and juniors Jim Dowling ind Bill Gath-
Worth nothing: Of the 70 players on
Thomas scored l,138 points during
right at tackle. Two sophomores who
the varslty Squad, 22 are on the Dean’s
his varslty Career With the Terriers, in-
Should see game time are Bill Wixon at
List for academic achievement.
Cluding 535 in his senior year.
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