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The Association ••• DONALD W. McNAUGHTON '49
President
CHARLES A. PHELAN '48 1st Vice-President
RONALD J. HORE '61 2nd Vice-President
WILLIAM H. WILSON, Jr., '53 3rd Vice-President
WILLIAM J. BROWN '42 Honorary Secretary
W. JOHN SHERIDAN '28 Honorary Treasurer
JOHN J. PEPPER '49 Councillor
RONALD J. HEBERT '60 Councillor
ARTHUR E. LAPRES '42 Councillor
BRYAN H. RAWLINGS '64 Councillor
HARRY J. HEMENS, Q.C., '32 Past President
VERY REV. PATRICK G. MALONE, S.J.
The Cover •••
Father President
REV. JOHN E. O'BRIEN, S.J., '45 Father Moderator
J. STIRLING DORRANCE Development Officer
RICHARD AITKEN '67
S.A.C. Representative
MRS. DOROTHY McGEE Executive Secretory
Loyola Sports Hall of Fame Inaugural -
See Pages 8 and 9
In This Issue
Features •••
2. Homecoming
4. Alumni Fund
7. Class Agents
8. Hall of Fame
10. Communications
• Departments •••
14. The Lookout
14. Obituaries
16. Weddings, Births
• Editorial Board •••
Editor-in-chief
WALTER CHRISTOPHERSON
• Business Manager
Mrs. DOROTHY McGEE
• Advertising
FRED PHILIP '65
LOYOLA ALUMNUS - LOYOLA COLLEGE • MONTREAL 28, CANADA
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Big Day is Here!
Homecoming is Special
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
8p.m.-Torchlight parade Burning of the jinx Fireworks display
9p.m.-Alumni - Varsity open house Sherry Party in Foyer (other refreshments also)
lOp.m.-Student discotheque hop in Hingston Hall (Alumni invited)
* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15
10a.m. -Tours of Loyola's facilities -Student guides on campus
11 a.m.-Concelebrated Folk Mass in Loyola Chapel
12 noon-Light lunch available on campus
1:30p.m.-Preview opening of new Athletic Complex (south campus)
2p.m.-Loyola vs Waterloo Lutheran football game
3p.m.-Half-time parade and show
7:30p.m. -Individual anniversary class pre-dinner cocktail parties at locations as described in class letters
8:30p.m.-Formal (black tie) dinner-dance, Sheraton-Mt. Royal Hotel. Peter Barry's Orchestra with continuous music until 2" a.m.
Note: Loyola students will supply free baby-sitting service on campus from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. during Saturday program (for three year olds and over).
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. McCaffrey - Fred is General Chairman of Homecoming 1966 and his wife is Chairman of the Ladies Committee.
For Homecoming '66, Oct 14 and 15, the Student Advisory Council has planned a number of special events to prove that the Spirit of Loyola remains unchanged and that the current bearers of the Old Maroon and White are anxious to welcome grads back to an ever-expanding but ever-friendly campus.
To allow for an expanded program of events , Homecoming will start on Friday night with a torchlight procession and the traditional "Burning of the Jinx" at 8 p.m. to be followed with fireworks and a sherry party (other refreshments also available) at 9 p.m.
Saturday's program will -be highlighted by a preview opening of the new Athletic Complex
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on the south campus and will culminate in the annual alumni dance in the Sheraton Mount Royal Hotel.
In addition to the family mass , tours of the college and campus lunch, parade of floats, fo otball game, etc., of last year, this year's Homecoming will provide baby sitting service Saturday morning and afterno on, Crowning of Homecoming Queen and many other attractions.
Plan to get together with your old classmates, honor Loyola, renew acquaintances and generally have a grand week-end at Homecoming '66, October 14th and 15th.
Fred McCaffrey '41, Chairman.
Excellent Music Series The Loyola Wednesday Night
1966-67 series begins November 2, 1966, with additional dates December 7 and January 18 and March 15, 1967.
When the series was inaugurated last season the president, Very Reverend Patrick G. Malone, S.J., said his only stipulation was that "the Wednesday Nights must provide a high standard of excellence and they must be well attended".
An excellent program has been arranged. Attendance will depend upon the Alumni and friends of Loyola as well as the general public.
All four Wednesday Nights this season will be held in Loyola Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
The Princeton Chamber Orchestra, an aggregation of 24
musicians, under the direction of Nicholas Harsanyi, will make its Canadian debut on November 2. Eugene Ormandy has called it "one of the finest orchestras of its kind anywhere". In the spring of this year the President's Cabinet, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, sponsored its Washington debut with a recital in the State Department auditorium.
On December 7 Richard Gresko, a highly rated young Canadian pianist, will be heard in recital. He has appeared frequently as guest soloist with Canada's major symphony orchestras as well as in recitals throughout North America and Europe.
Charles Reiner, pianist, and Arthur Garami, hailed as Can-
Princeton Chamber orchestra to perform.
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ada's finest violinist and piano duo, will perform an all-Beethoven concert on January 18, 1967.
St. Patrick's Day will be celebrated with the appearance on March 15 of Grainne Yeats, distinguished Irish harpist and folk singer, and her husband, Senator Michael Yeats, son of William Butler Yeats, who will deliver a brief lecture. The Yeats will appear at Loyola following their debut on the March 12 nationally-televised Ed Sullivan TV show.
Cost for the series of four concerts is $8 per person. Individual seats are $2 .50 to $3 at each performance.
For information and reservations contact the Development Office at Loyola-482-0320, Extension 413.
GROWTH OF THE ALUMNI FUND APPEAL
$ Percentage Participation
30% Average Donation 30.00 z 0
z 25% 25.00 .: 0 /- < .: / z < 20% ................ / 20.00 0 A. , Q u ------ ,, , .: 15%
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0 0 1957 '60 '61 '62 '63 '64 '66
YEAR OF FUND APPEAL
Fund Has Best Year August saw the close of the
most successful fund appeal in the history of the Alumni Association. This year's appeal, which surpassed all previous in both amount donated and in overall percentage participation, was directed by Fund Chairman John Pepper, class of 1949.
The amount of $16,416.00 contributed by 732 alumni members, was particularly significant when contrasted with donations of previous years. This figure represents an increase of approximately 500/o over the last fund drive, and an increase of over 2000/o on that of earlier years.
One of the most important aspects of an appeal such as this , is the percentage participation of the alumni body as a whole.
Admittedly, Loyola has a long way to go when contrasted with
many other Canadian and American universities, but the 25.60/o participation attained this year is an increase of 7.4°/o over that of the previous drive. This is large when one realizes that it represents 250 additional contributors.
It is hoped that this figure can be raised to the 50 per cent level in several years, for Loyola needs the backing of her alumni. As the percentage participation increases, it will follow that there will be a corresponding increase in the total amount donated.
While large donations are greatly needed and are very beneficial to the fund drive, it is the numerous smaller donations from the more recent graduates, which will enable the association to achieve this goal in the years ahead.
This year, to show the alumni
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of Loyola the progress which is being made in this area, statistics have been prepared which graphically compare the results of the last seven fund appeals by the association.
There has been a certain amount of overlap between drives in the past, as indicated by the fact that there was no specific appeal in 1965, since the one started in 1964 extended into 1965. The one just completed, started late in 1965.
This situation will not exist in the future, for a completely new program is being developed and will be closely associated with the organization presently being set up by Gene Lewis, Class of '59.
In addition, a reorganization of the alumni membership records is underway and, following
Maurice Conway
this, the class lists will, in most cases , indicate a number in the class which is different from that which appears in the fo llowing breakdown.
The top class in the college with respect to amount contributed, is the class of 1938, which donated $1,345 , and was managed by Maurice Conway.
The leader in terms of percent-
Ron Hebert Tony Haberl
age participation, is the class of 1960, which attained 580/o and was also the highest in the previous fund appeal with 490/o. The class of 1960 is jointly managed by Julio Cassiani - arts, Ton y Haber! - commerce, and Ron Hebert - science.
Many classes showed large increases in participation and in contributions and it can be seen
----- Contributions to Fund
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YEAR OF FUND APPEAL
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Julio Cassiani
that, in general, a participation increase generates a greater total contribution.
Of the 44 classes indicated on the breakdown, only five failed to equal their previous number of donors. It is interesting to note that all of these same classes failed to equal their previous donations .
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PERCENTAGE PARTICIPATION AMOUNT DONATED Class No. in Change Change Avge. Year Class 1966 FUND 1964 FUND Since Since Gift
1964 To To 1964 1966 No. of % No. of % 1966 1964 Donors Part. Donors Part. Fund Fund
1965 196 41 20.9 . . . . . . ..... . ..... $338 $ . . . $338 $ 8.24 1964 192 38 19.8 27 14.1 5.7 353 243 110 9.28 1963 232 31 13.3 12 5.1 8.2 388 241 147 12.12 1962 129 22 17.0 14 10.8 6.2 175 120 55 7.95 1961 134 30 22.4 14 10.4 12.0 313 152 I 161 10.43 1960 100 58 58.0 49 49.0 9.0 758 744 14 13.06 1959 92 16 17.4 17 18.5 (1.1) 155 195 (40) 9.68 1958 66 17 25.8 12 18.1 7.7 235 170 65 13.82 1957 77 18 23.4 13 16.9 6.5 239 155 84 13.27 1956 73 11 15.0 15 20.5 (5.5) 175 235 (60) 15.91 1955 67 14 20.8 12 17.9 2.9 295 280 15 21.07 1954 73 24 32.9 15 20.5 12.4 565 265 300 23.54 1953 132 35 26.5 20 15.1 11.4 884 422 462 25.25 1952 47 20 42.6 10 21.2 21.4 462 158 304 23.10 1951 77 14 18.2 13 16.8 1.4 285 185 100 20.35 1950 89 39 43.8 25 28.1 15.7 865 705 160 21.37 1949 76 26 34.2 21 27.6 6.6 630 380 250 24.23 1948 45 18 40.0 9 20.0 20.0 400 196 204 23.53 1947 38 11 28.9 10 25.6 3.3 230 220 10 20.90 1946 38 4 10.5 3 7.9 2.6 78 86 (8) 19.50 1945 42 17 40.5 9 21.4 19.1 320 345 (25) 18.82 1944 41 7 17.0 11 26.8 (9.8) 335 375 (40) 41.07 1943 45 8 17.7 9 20.4 (2.7) 205 470 (265) 25.62 1942 37 11 29.7 10 27.0 2.7 338 290 48 30.73 1941 46 8 17.4 7 15.2 2.2 180 200 (20) 22.50 1940 33 11 33.3 6 18.2 15.1 215 105 110 19.54 1939 32 8 25.0 6 18.7 6.3 210 195 15 23.33 1938 39 12 30.8 8 20.5 10.3 1,345 180 1,165 112.08 1937 34 5 14.7 9 26.4 (11.7) 110 200 (90) 22.00 1936 64 18 28.1 7 10.9 17.2 585 235 350 30.78 1935 42 13 30.9 13 30.9 0.0 298 303 (5) 23.92 1934 38 12 31.6 6 15.8 15.8 448 140 308 37.33 1933 34 10 29.4 2 5.9 23.5 420 150 270 42.00 1932 36 18 50.0 11 28.1 21.9 760 506 254 42.22 1931 27 14 51.9 7 25.9 26.0 805 284 521 50.57 1930 25 11 44.0 6 24.0 20.0 225 120 105 20.45 1929 46 10 21.7 10 21.7 0.0 255 345 (90) 25.50 1928 33 9 27.6 3 9.1 18.5 205 55 150 22.78 1927 18 6 33.3 1 5.5 27.8 89 100 ( 11 ) 14.83 1926 21 5 23.8 5 23.8 0.0 200 185 15 40.00 1925 19 4 21.1 4 21.1 0.0 155 155 ... ... 38.75 1924 18 5 27.8 4 22.2 5.6 110 210 (100) 22.00 1923 15 4 26.7 4 26.7 0.0 245 95 150 61 .25
1922-1898 97 19 19.6 13 13.5 6.1 535 666 (131) 28.15
TOTALS •• 2,855 732 25.6 482 18.2 7.4 16,416 11 ,061 5,355 22.27
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Organizational Committee
Class Agent System Set Up
A new organizational committee, conceived to bring renewed life and purpose to the Loyola Alumni Association, was unanimously adopted by the Board of Directors meeting of September 19.
It was also unanimously agreed that Gene Lewis '59, be appointed to head the committee as chairman.
The Committee of Class Agents will be comprised of appointed representatives of graduating years and faculties . Mr. Lewis intends to conduct an extensive campaign to select individuals with the qualifications to fill the position.
"Emphasis", he explains , "will be placed on the appointed nature of the post to avoid tthe selection of a former popular figure whose effectiveness has been greatly reduced by the change of environment following gradu!iHQI_l. A thorc;mgh evaluation will" be made before anyone is chosen to serve on the committee."
For the selection of agents to represent future graduating classes, Lewis will commence his evaluation process while prospects are attending college. By graduation year, he will make his selection· based on the leadership and commu'iiic·aticin:f ·qualities played by the students. -
According to Lewis ' system, one agent will be appointed for every class year up to and including 1958. From 1959 onward , classes will be represented by year and faculty.
In addition to "Year" chairmen, "Decade" chairmen will cover every ten-year period in Loyola's history up to and including 1949
GENE LEWIS
and from 1950 onward every five year period . Decade chairman will report directly to Lewis and will co-ordinate the efforts of the respective class agents.
Every man will be appointed for a three-year renewable term.
The class agent's basic duties will - _include establishing ·_ and inairttairtirrg contact with former classmates -and college associates
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and keeping them informed on alumni activities. As chairman, Gene Lewis will also set up a series of programs to attract the interest of college students -from freshman through to senior years.
The man selected by the Association to organize class agents has achieved a reputation for "getting the job done" .
Gene Lewis graduated from Loyola College in 1959 with a B.Sc. and continued studies at the University of Western Ontario , where he attained a masters degree in business administration.
Currently with Canadian International Paper as lead systems analyst, Gene has worked with computers in the fields of insurance, research, inventory management and scheduling. He intends to utilize computers extensively in his new position.
During_ his_ stu4ies at ~.9yola, he served as secretary to the Council of Student Representatives and _was rewarded for his extensive extracurricular activities with an activity letter.
Today, Gene's sidelines include organizing the Montreal end of the Russian-Olympic Volleyball Tour ) md serving as a~sistant
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Loyola Sports
Hall of Fame
Board
Chairman
Bernie Mccallum
College Representative
Fr. E. Sherry, S.J.
Alumni Representative
Bill Brown
Alumni President
Don McNaughton
Secretary
Ed Enos
DIRECTORATE Chairman, selection committee
Andy O'Brien
Chairman, nominating committee
Fr. John Brayley, M.C.
Research director
Gil Drolet
Publicity director
Ron Hore
CHAIRMAN ANDY O'BRIEN
- On Our Cover -Photos taken at a press conference inaugurating the Loyola Sports Hall of Fame, August 29.
TOP LEFT: This gathering on the Loyola College Chapel steps includes : Standing : Dr. Bob Brodrick, former President of the Loyola Alumni Association and outstanding athlete ; Very Rev. P. G. Malone, S.J., President of Loyola College ; Bernie Mccallum, Chairman of the Board, Loyola Sports Hall of Fame; and Bob Beauregard, chairman of the 1966 Alumni Golf Tournament. Seated: Floyd Curry, coach of the Loyola Warriors hockey team, and Harry Hyland, a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and a special guest at the gathering.
TOP RIGHT: Bernie McCallum, chairman of the Board, outlines the purpose and 'modus operandi ' of the Sports Hall of Fame.
LOWER LEFT: The Montreal Star's Elmer Ferguson, Dean of Montreal sportswriters, and one of the seven selected to serve on the selection committee, chats with Harry Hyland.
LOWER RIGHT: Ed Enos, director of athletics at Loyola College, takes his stance opposite Tex Coulter, form er Montreal Alouette and New York Giant star. Looking on (left to right) are: Bob Lincoln, coach of the Loyola Warriors Football team; Dave Peebles and Ed Meagher, outstanding Loyola coaches of the past ; and Brian Hayes, Coach of Loyola High School Senior Football team. Coulter has been commissioned to paint oil portraits of each athlete admitted into the Hall of Fame.
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Loyola Sports Hall of Fame
First Members To Be Honored Early '67
Honored members of the Loyola Sports Hall of Fame will have qualified under one (or more) of these categories:
who has brought fame to Loyola by his or her achievement in athletic competition after leaving Loyola. Candiiates will have completed their Loyola careers ten years prior to election.
A-A Loyola student (college or high school), past or present, who has won gold, silver or bronze medals in Olympic, World, British Empire, Pan American or Student Olympic Competition. Automatic entry.
D--A Loyola High School student who has brought fame to Loyola by his achievement in athletic competition during student days. Candidates will have completed their Loyola careers prior to 1950.
B- A Loyola College student who has been distinguished in extramural varsity intercollegiate competition. Candidates will have completed their active Loyola College participating careers five years prior to election.
E-A person who has been distinguished in sports at Loyola in an administrative, coaching or auxiliary capacity. Candidates shall be nominated only by Hall of Fam8 Board. C- A Loyola student (college or high school)
SELECTION COMMITTEE
Dink Carroll
* Pat Curran
* Marcil Desjardin
* Elmer Ferguson
* Dick Irvin
* Bas O'Meara
* Andy O'Brien
CHAIRMAN
Lost Medal Comes Home Gerald M. Johnson, an old Loyola man, has a unique story
to tell these days and a letter to prove it.
"Dear Mr. Johnson," the letter reads, "Recently we had a new forced air system installed in our home at 35 Glenborough Park Cresc., which necessitated the removal of the old hot air gravity piping. In one of these pipes your fourth year silver medal was found.
"Assuming that it is of sentimental value to you, we are pleased to enclose it herewith."
The letter came to Gerry at Alcan here Sept. 28 from Toronto and the medal was the one he won for standing highest in his class in fourth year high at Loyola in 1934. He discovered he had lost it when he left his Toronto home in January, 1954, to go to Brazil.
That medal certainly does have a sentimental value!
Incidentally, Gerry maintained his high standing all through college and was one of the top men when he received his BA at Loyola, graduating sum cum laude.
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Fund Aids Communications Recognizing that mass media have come to play
an increasingly important role in modern society, Loyola established a Department of Communication Arts in March, 1965. Loyola was the first Canadian university or college to do so , although more than 105 American universities have been offering undergraduate programs in various areas of mass communications for some years.
The department offers a "major" within the B.A. program, i.e ., seven courses of the 22 required for a Bachelor's degree will be taken within the Department.
The curriculum is intend ed to develop in students a scholarly and creative approach to mass media. It is designed -
a. for students who in tend to continue graduate studies in communication ;
b. for students who intend to make a career in the public arts as writers , critics, directors, and performers ;
c. for students who wish to enter the teaching profession as specialists in television and film education ;
d. for students who in tend to enter the media industries, the media professions, and the public arts in the areas of publicity, promotion, advertising, and public relations.
Throughout, the stress is on creativity. It is Loyola 's belief that our expanding film industry, our broadcast services, our new centennial theatres and our educational institutions will be in ever greater need of talented graduates who have studied the popular arts in depth. This year eight courses are being offered and this number will be doubled in September of 1967.
WHERE YOUR MONEYGOESpart of the Alumni Annual Fund contribution has made possible further equipment development in Loyola's new Communication Arts department. Testing in the recording studio are faculty members Father Daniel Fogarty and John Buell with Donald Clark in the control room.
In the second year of a three-year development program, the department has ninety-five students majoring in communication arts . Library holdings have been increased considerably and will be expanded as money becomes available. A new sound broadcasting studio is in operation and it will be followed in time by film and television studios. A film lending library has been established which will service campus and community groups.
In addition to the academic program, the department will sponsor during the coming year the Third Annual Best of the N.F.B. and a seminar on the Social Languages of the Screen. Plans are also underway for a weekly FM radio program in the second semester. These programs and others which the newly-established Communication Arts Society plans, will develop a creative climate on campus in the years ahead.
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JOHN E. O'BRIEN, S.J., '45 Father O'Brien returned to Loyola in the spring of 1964 after obtaining his Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Southern California, where he was a Clune Fellow. He was named chairman of the newly-established Department of Communication Arts in March, 1965. He has lectured at a number of Canadian and American universities and has attended international meetings at Barcelona, Mexico City and Rome as a Communications consultant.
DONALD R. CLARK Mr. Clark holds a master's degree in philosophy from Fordham University. He has created, produced, and directed more than 120 programs for radio station WNIB-FM in Chicago and has directed a number of panel discussion programs on WTTW-TV in the same city. During the past summer he attended Stanford University's eight week Institute in Radio-TelevisionFilm, where he was awarded a schol· arship for "academic and creative excellence." In addition to lecturing in the department, Mr. Clark .is dean of residence at Hingston Hall. ·
DANIEL FOGARTY, S.J. Fr. Fogarty comes to the department from St. Mary's University where he has been dean of education since 1957. He completed his graduate studies at Columbia University and obtained his Ph.D. in 1958. Author of Roots for a New Rhetoric, published in 1959, he has since written articles on A Tentative Psychology of Communication, A Philosophy of Communication, and The Theory of I. A. Richards. For several years he was an associate editor of America magazine.
DONALD F. YOUNG
Mr. Young completed his undergraduate studies in English-speech at the California State College at Los Angeles and then took his M.A. at the same institution. He is dean of men at Loyola, president of the Canadian Student Affairs Association, an executive committee member ·of the Canadian Association of University Student Personnel Services and former editor of its Student Affairs Journal. As sessional lecturer in the department, he will teach one course in speech.
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JOHN BUELL '50 Editor of Unity and author of The Pyx and Four Days, novels which have been translated into several languages, John Buell obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Montreal after graduating from Loyola. He is collaborating at present with a director of the National Film Board on a new scenario and has just finished writing a musical comedy for Canada's Centennial Year. He is much in demand as a guest lecturer.
MARC GERVAIS, S.J. '50
Father Gervais obtained his master of fine arts degree in drama from the Catholic University of America in 1960. While studying theology at Regis College in Toronto he wrote and coproduced two documentaries on Ingmar Bergman which were televised nationally. Currently on leave from the department, he is doing doctoral research on French New Wave Cinema at the Sorbonne in Paris. During the past year he served as a jury member at the Venice, Cannes and Berlin film festivals .
Civilization on the March
Change Needs Leadership
The process of change in the modern world has become so fast that it is obvious that dynamic change, and not stability, is mankind's lot in the future, George V. Ferguson, editor in chief of The Montreal Star, declared in his convocation address to Loyola College.
Today's technological revolution is changing the lives of young and old at break-neck speed, he said.
"It has, in the last 20 years, gathered force and momentum so that the world in which I grew up 60 years ago is nvw utterly gone: The world, indeed, which 20 years ago gasped at the development of atomic power, is now as old hat as the horse and buggy of my youth," Mr. Ferguson said.
"The revolution, which began its invasion of the home two centuries ago, has now, to all intents and purposes, destroyed it. The ethics and morals of the day before yesterday are now all under critical review. The foundations upon which society rested since the Golden Age of Greece have been shaken and in part destroyed.
"Man, with his ancient, leisurely peasant heritage, is now drenched day by day, hour by hour, even minute by minute with immediate and disturbing facts which somehow or other he must assimilate and sensibly react to.
"Compare, for instance, the time it took to acquaint the people of France and the rest of the civilized world with the execution of Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette in 1793 with our own instantaneous knowledge of the murder of President
Kennedy in 1963. Is it any wonder that we, the descendants of hundreds of generations of peasants, become a little neurotic?"
"New facts pile in upon us much faster than we adjust ourselves to them. We become unstable, not perhaps stupider, but numbed," Mr. Ferguson said.
"I am, to be frank about it, no great believer in the therapeutic qualities of technology. It is revolutionary, fissiparous and anarchic in the short run, and I believe that there is now no longer any foreseeable long run in which stable qualities will assert themselves.
"We are, as it were, on the run, on the short run, and each short run will be succeeded by another short run, each one different and more revolutionary than the last.
"How do we stop to catch our breath? How do we pause to assess values, to cast off what is unworthy and to seize and to strengthen that which is good and has lasting quality?
"To these questions I find no satisfying answer," he stated.
"The strains of modern living reveal themselves in a hundred different ways, in the increase of alcoholism and of crime, in the collapse of marriage and the home, in the general restless instability of urban life.
"Our town planners remark, with both pride and-I hopeforeboding that the metropolitan area on the Canadian side of the St. Lawrence Valley will stretch unbroken from Quebec City to Sarnia in Ontario.
"I look forward to these developments with almost unadulterated horror. If we cannot manage Megalopolis today, how will we
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manage her tomorrow?" Mr. Ferguson asked.
"We live far too much in the past. As the years go on we become far less capable of appreciating the new perspectives and the new values of the generation now coming up.
"I have come to believe that history, fascinating and indeed important as it is, is less important today than it has ever been as a guide to the future," he said. "Years ago it was reasonably important to know history in order to interpret the current scene.
"History still has its values. Some guidelines are still there. But the tempo of change, the revolutionary techniques of the modern day now demand modifications.
"The age is new. Problems require new approaches, shorn as far as possible of the shackles of the past. All that old men like myself can do is to organize some framework of change within which you and your successors can more successfully shake off the past.
"Some of you may have noticed that my newspaper has asked, not once but often, that our major political parties replace their leadership with younger men," said Mr. Ferguson. "We may well get leadership worse immediately than what we now have. I doubt if that matters much.
"What we do know is that my generation has run itself out, and that the next generation must have its run at things, - and as quickly as possible, before the next political generation has become so stratified and rigid that it will be no better than what went before.
"If age has been overtaken by progress and events in politics, it has also been overtaken elsewhere, in science, in teaching, in business management, indeed, in everything.
"In religion, too. I have from the beginning found it significant that the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, for instance, coincided in time so closely with the brief but revolutionary papacy of John XXIII. That great and wise old man, for all his years, understood the temper of his age and set about the adjustment of the Church to meet its needs.
"In this profoundly Catholic province the secular and clerical leadership joined hands as it were, to bring Quebec swiftly into the torments and the infinite beauties of the mid-20th century," Mr. Ferguson said.
" If we have found some of the manifestations of this pace of change just a bit too much for us , that is only because we have not yet adjusted ourselves to it. Of one thing, let us rest assured: The pace of change will not slacken in foreseeable time.
" Civilization, in General Smuts's memorable phrase, has struck its tents and is once again on the march."
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LOOKOUT 1929
REV. LIONEL STANFORD, S.J., is now rector at Regis College, Toronto .
1932 J. BRENDAN O'CONNOR has been appointed a Justice of
the Supreme Court of the Province of Quebec. He was formerly a senior partner of the Montreal firm, McDougall, Hemens, Campbell, Harris, Thomas & Mason.
REV. KEVIN SCOTT, S.J., after 12 years in Toronto, has moved to Ottawa to take up the duties of Superior of the Jesuit residence for students attending the University.
1938 MAURICE CONWAY has been appointed chief purchasing
agent for Canada Steamship Lines.
1943 JAMES McLAUGHLIN has moved back to Montreal from
Toronto. Welcome home, Jim. J. KEITH RUSSELL has been appointed vice-president of
LePage's Limited. 1945
LLOYD O'TOOLE has been transferred to Vancouver by his firm, Elliott-Marion Company Ltd.
MAGISTRATE LIVIUS A. SHERW OOD rescued three people when their small boat sank on the Ottawa River during an evening storm last July 28.
1953 REV. JOHN PELADEAU, S.J. , will begin graduate studies
in psychology at the University of Ottawa this fa ll. Last year he stud ied in Belgium but also managed a twomonth's s tay in Ireland and the summer in Heidelburg, Germany.
JOHN H. POUPART was appointed personnel officer at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Formerly he was associate director of the Association of Hospitals of the Province of Quebec.
1955 ROBERT H. MOFFATT was appointed secretary-manager
of Maritime Transport Association and managing ed itor of their official publication. Bob, who is a fourth degree K. of C., Archbishop McCarthy Assembly, Halifax, and a past chairman of the Commissioners of the Village of Greenwood, is also taking further studies towards his degree at the University of Moncton.
1956 JOHN A. MAHONEY was promoted to
Electronic Switching software manager of the Northern Electric Co. Ltd. This department deals with the development of computer programs and systems associated with the engineering of Electronic Switching Systems.
YVES F. ZOLTVANY has been appointed to the Department of History at McGill University. Yves, who has h is M.A. and Ph .D., h as been teaching at the University of Waterloo for the past three years.
1957 BRIAN GALLERY is part owner of the cruise ship "Le
Madellon II" which takes the public for trips along a stretch of the St. Lawrence River.
GORDON McCARTHY is now living in Kingston where he is an accountant with DuPont of Canada, Ltd.
1958 EDWARD ROPELESKI received his masters in education
from St. Michael's Univers ity in Winooski.
1959 MICHEL MOREAULT and his bride will live in London,
Eng land, while Mike does post-graduate work in indus,· tria l re lations at the London School of Economics.
1960 CARL PIGEON is a pilot with Air Canada and when on
'terra firma' resides in Toronto. ROBERT SHEITO has returned to Montreal from Gagnon,
Saguenay County, Quebec.
1961 GEORGE B. BEDARD was appointed product manager of
the Toni Co., a div ision of Gillette of Canada Ltd., in March.
RICHARD CATHCART h as done quite a bit of travelling in the Near and Middle East since h is posting to Lebanon. Among some of the p laces he has visited are Damascus, Amoman, Baghdad, Jeddah and Ruvait.
DR. GARRY FITZPATRICK is w ith CARE/Medico Mission in Algeria.
Obituaries We extend our sincere sympathy to the fo llowing alumni and families of alumni in their recent bereavement;
BLAN AR
DALY
GANLEY
MAG EAU
SCHLITZER
To Dr. Michael '54, on the death of h is mother.
To Robert E. '32, and Robert S. '65 and th eir family on tne accidental death of Brian, H.S. '63 .
To John '60 on the death of his yo ung daugh ter Mary Anne.
To the family of Fernard '35.
To Victor, H.S . '66 and h is family on the death of his father.
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The Lookout (Concluded)
ROBERT FORTIN is the father of three girls, the last born in January of this year. He recently wrote , "I am now in . . .. .. . . . .. .. . in Temis caming County, five hundred miles from Montreal (pop. 250, counting all dogs, and about thirty Indians . . . Real ones) , working as resident engineer of Concrete Quality Control for Racey MacCallum Blutea u Ltd. on Hydro Quebec's Rapids des Oles pow er development program. I have been here since November 1964 and will be leaving when thoroughly fed up . We are housed in H.Q. mobile homes, have a fairly satisfactory social life. There is a lot of fishing and hunting .. . and two golf courses within forty miles , which we manage to ge t to a couple of times a week. All in all conditions could be a lot worse ." P.S.- We couldn't resist using Bob 's own words for we are sure his friends would enjoy the news most this way.
DR. JOSEPH E. GERVAY now lives in New Jersey where lie is working as a research chemist with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc. Joe has his Ph.D. in organic chemistry.
RICHARD MATHIEU was transferred to Toronto by The T. Eaton Co. Ltd.
DR. GILBERT PINARD is a resident doctor in psychiatry, not a dentist as reported in the last edition. Our apologies, doctor.
ROBERT SIMMONS has left Elliott-Marion Company Ltd. to enter University of Western Ontario where he is studying for his masters in business administration.
1962 MARVIN LAMOUREUX was appointed assistant professor
at San Francisco State College in the Division of Business in Marketing Department.
JOHN PECKNOLD received his M.D. from McGill University this spring and is interning at Montreal General Hospital.
EDWARD J. PREVOST left the J. Walter Thompson firm and is now senior account executive at Cockfield Brown & Co. Ltd., on Maison's Export and Laurentide Ales.
JACK VINEY is now a representative for Avis Transport of Canada Ltd. He was formerly with Chrysler of Canada Ltd.
1963 ELMER CAIN is an industrial engineer with Canadian
Celanese Co. Ltd. JEAN-PIERRE GABOURY, who has been living in France
for the last couple of .years, is now living in .St. Hilairesur-Richelieu, Quebec. Welcome home, Jean-Pierre.
NEIL LALIBERTE, now living in St. Laurent, is teaching at Mount Royal Catholic High.
1964 HIRSH J. COHEN is studying for a masters degree in
hospital administration at the University of Montreal. ROGER H. LEGAULT is attending the University of Sher
brooke for his masters in comparative literature. HYMIE LONDON completed his M.A. in mathematics at
Pennsylvania State University and is continuing for a Ph.D. in mathematics .
ERIC MacLEAN, S.J., is now at Fusz Memorial, Bellarine House of Studies, St. Louis, Missouri, to study philosophy for one year.
WALLY ROWCLIFFE is teaching at Verdun Catholic High.
1965 J. ERVIN BRIGGS is with McDonald Currie & Co. and is
pursuing studies towards his C.A. degree. MARK DOMANSKI is "Europe-hopping". When last heard
from, he was in Paris . SEAN HARRINGTON was awarded the Greenshields
Scholarship for his second year of law studies at McGill University.
ANTHONY PEARSON has returned to Carleton University to complete an M.A. in Canadian studies . He is also active in politics. He has been elected lo a second term as president of the Canadian University Liberal Federation (the first re-election in CULF's history, we are told) . Tony is also working on policy preparation for the Liberal Party conference in October.
1966 JAMES CULLEN is studying for his M.A. in theology at
Divinity School, Chicago University. EAMONN MURPHY has gone to West Africa with CUSO. PAUL SKAHAN has gone to East Africa with CUSO.
SENTINEL AGENCIES CHARTERED INSURANCE BROKERS
Announces the appointment of
NEVILLE SALMON (formerly with Standard Life)
TO THE POSITION OF LIFE MANAGER
Mr. Salmon wishes to advise his many Loyola clients and friends that he is still their representative and now services all their Insurance needs.
OFFICE : 861-9641 HOME: 671-7794
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Engagements and
Weddings Our congrotulotions to the fallowing alumni, their brides and brides-to-be :
Don Bedard '64 is engaged to Betty Howson.
Mike Brady '64 is engaged to Anne Bauman. The wedding is planned for October 29th.
Bruce Lawson '61 engaged to Colleen Blair. The wedding is planned for December.
Bob Lewis '64, is engaged to Sally O'Neill, R.N. They plan to marry next May.
Dr. Robert Manion '60, stationed at Norway House, Manitoba, is engaged to Marlene Kropp . They plan to be married in October in Calgary.
Wally Rowcliffe '64, is engaged to Wanda Bryant. The wedding is planned for next July .
Robert E. Schibli '63, is engaged to Dana Kack. The wedding is planned to take place sometime in December.
George B. Bedard '61, married Jane Ellen McGillivray, of London, Ontario, on June 25th.
J. Ervin Briggs '65, married Judith Bradley of Survey, England, on June 7th. They are residing in Cote St. Luc.
Hirsh J. Goben '64, married Lois May Pollack on August 7th, in Haverhill , Mass.
Ron DePol '66, married Dianne Russell, August 20th, 1966.
Neil Laliberte '63, married Suzanne Prud 'Homme in July.
Marvin Lamoureux '62, married Helen Ann Prosser at Ventura, California.
D. Lawrence Langill '59 and Elizabeth Ann Callaghan were married July 30th.
Michael Moreault '59, married Chantel Tittley in Ottawa on June 18th.
Ron Nelson '65, and Anne MacDonald plan to marry in September.
John Pecknold '62, married Margaret Lynn Wheeler on August 27th.
Bernard J. Murray '61, married Francine Fafard of Jolliette, Quebec, on July 2nd.
Ken Rowcliffe '66, married Joan Harding in August.
Kevin J. Young '66, married Donna Lynn Dundass on August 20th.
Births Our congratulations to the following alumni, their wives and new members of th e family:
John Brennan '62, a daughter born August 2nd.
Elmer J. Cain '63, a daughter born July 10th.
Paul Caron '66, a daughter born July 11th.
Al Grazys '63, a daughter born August 17th.
Peter Holland '56, a daughter born July 31st.
Nick Hornyak '60, a baby daughter last December.
Gerald Madigan '60, a daughter born September 15th.
Neil O'Gallagher '60, a daughter born June 12th.
Robert Petrie '66, a son born August 6th.
Alan Potter '64, a son born June 27th.
Yvon Valois '63, a son born August 24.
Richard 'Rick' S. White, Jr. '59, a daughter born September 8th.
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