Stag - Vol. 03, No. 03 - October 25, 1951

              Vol. III-No.3 Published By Students Of Fairfield University October 25, 1951
The College Unit of the Fairfield Chapter, Ameri­can
Red Cross, announced yesterday that Fairfield Uni­versity
has been asked to play an active part in the
Blood Drive, which is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 6.
The Unit's president, Peter At that time the Board requested
LaChance, '53, Emmanuel Mac- one hundred donors from Fair­chia,
and the moderator, Mr. field. Members of the Red Cross
James Vail, attended a meeting Unit will circulate among the
of the Board of Directors of the student body and pass out. ap-
Fairfield Chapter on October 16. (Continued on Page 6)
NFCCS Meeting
At St. Joseph's
Welcome Dance
Tomorrow Night,
Smith Chairman
The Halloween Hop, the an­nual
Freshman-Sophomore Wel­come
Dance, and the second in­formal
dance of the season, will
be held in Berchmans Hall on
Friday night, October 26.
Gerald Smith, chairman of this
year's danc;e, announced that
Frank Zullo would supply the
music for the festivities and that
dancing will be from 8:30 p.m.
until 12 p.m.
In charge of the decorations for
the dance are John McDermott
a:ld Richard Sanislo, while Paul
Fraunhofer will head the refresh­ment
committee. Publicizing the
dance are Richard Sanislo, Frank
Romano and George Kelly. Tick­ets
are on sale at the cost of
$1.50 per couple.
Sophomores who are desirous
of obtaining tickets for the oc­casion
should contact anyone of
the following people: Joseph Mc­Nally,
David Lane, Earnest Go­lightly,
John Ronan, John Mc­Dermott
or Julius Franchi.
Freshmen who wish to secure
tickets for the dance may do so
by seeing one of the following:
Howard Travers, Anthony Incer­to,
Conway Husse or Kevin
Coiley.
Annual Magazine Drive
1'0 Commence Tomorrow
The Fourth Annual Magazine Drive, whkh will
again be carried on with the co-oper-ation of the Curtis
Circulation Company, will commence on Friday"
October 26 and will continue for a period of about two
weeks. The drive will be held on a class level, with
individual prizes being awarded in each class to the
four students who sell the most subscriptions.
The Curtis Company will give
2% of the amount taken in by F . f· ld A nd
each class as the first prize for aIr ,Ie tte s
that class. The individual classes
will match this donation out of
its profits, giving 1% for the
second prize and 1lh% each to
the third and fourth man. Thus
if a class makes a profit $1,000
the first prize will be $20.00.
Fairfield University was repre-
Selling Plan Simple sented at the fall meeting of
The plan for selling subscrip- the National Federation of Cath­tions
is a simple one. The Curtis olic College Students in New
Company provides us with the England by senior John Relihan
subscription blanks for popular and junior Tim Cronin, accom­magazines,
the student sells the panied by the chairman of Fair­SUbscriptions,
and a certain per- field's Family Life Commission,
centage is retained by his class, James Aspinwall, publicity di­the
rest returned to the com- rectors, Ronald Homza and Hen­pany.
An illustration of this is: ry Mountan.
a student sells a Saturday Eve- The council meeting was held
ning Post subscription for $6.00 at St. Joseph's College in West
and his class retains $3.00 of this Hartford, Connecticut on Octo­money.
If every student would ber 12, 13, and 14. The chief pur­sell
two Saturday Evening Post pose of the convention was to
subscriptions each class would plan for the coming Congress of
show a profit of at least $1,000. the N.F.C.C.S. Other routine
Though this is the fourth year business was carried on as well
of the Magazine Drives. it was as a holy hour, and a social eve­not
until last year that the stu- nt{lg. On Octobr 13, the Fairfield
dents began to realize that they delegates made formal applica­were
the ones who would profit tion for the Family Life Com­by
working hard'to sUPPQrt such mission for New England, which
a drive as all the money each was received. The meeting ter_
(Continued on Page 5) . minated on October 14.
On Thursday, October 18, 1951 an official. decree
was received from the Very Rev. John B. Janssens, S.J.,
General of the Society of Jesus, whose office is in Rome,
which appointed the Reverend Joseph D. FitzGerald,
S.J., to succeed the Very Reverend James H. Dolan, S.J.,
as the rector of Fairfield University.
Father FitzGerald was born --------------------------­in
Lawrence, Mass. He attended
Boston College for one year and
then entered the Society of Jesus
in 1918. After studies at st. An­drew-
on-Hudson, in Poughkeep­sie,
N.Y., Weston College, Wes­ton,
Mass., and Woodstock Col­lege,
Woodstock, Maryland, he
was ordained a priest on June 6,
1931.
He was assigned to a teaching
position at Boston College im­mediately
after his ordination
and continued in that capacity
until 1937; at which time he be­came
assistant dean there. In
1939 Father FitzGerald was
named as dean of the College
of the Holy Cross, in Worcester,
Mass. His last assignment began
in July 1948.. at which time Fath­er
FitzGerald became assistant
director of the New England re­gional
offices of the Jesuit Edu­cational
Association, and last
July became province Director
of Studies.
It was during the tenure of
this last assignment that Father
FitzGerald was observed by
many of the upperclassmen: He
was a visitor in many classes
while on an inspection tour of
the institutions under his juris­diction.
To the outgoing rector, the
Very Rev. James H. Dolan, Fair­field
Universitiy owes its very
existence. It was through his ef­forts
when in 1941 Father Do­lan,
Provincial of the Province
of New England, effected the
purchase of the estates of Oliver
Gould Jennings and Walter B.
Lasher as the site of our uni­versitiy.
After the Preparatory School
had matured, Father Dolan came
to Fairfield in 1944 as Rector
and began the development of
Fairfield University.
Rev. Joseph D. FitzGerald, S. J.
Appointed Rector of Fairfield
Sponsored By
Cross Unit
Have you ever seen blood gush from an open bullet
or shrapnel-inflicted wound, spill sickeningly over a brok­en,
punctured body of flesh, and slowly turn dry brown
earth into reddened mud?
Have you seen the pain-filled eyes of the wounded,
some passively awaiting their fate, others violently re­acting
against impending death; some merely displaying
the pain suffered by their bodies, others mirroring mem­ories
of the past or thoughts of days that might have been?
Most of us have not witnessed such pitiful and naus­eating
scenes, and I pray to God we will not in the fu­ture.
There are, however, many men, some being those
who liued and laughed with us, who today are being
subjected to the possibility of this very fate.
Thousands of youths of the free nations of the
world, fighting to keep their nations free and to uphold
those principles which they deem right, have already suf­fered
the experience of feeling their lives slowly ebbing
through open, gushing veins of their wounded bodies, and
future thousands more await this fate. Who can say, also.
but that one, two, or many of us now living in security
may help constitute the future thousands?
This is an appeal, well founded, and it must be con­sidered.
We have been asked to donate our blood for the
wounded of Korea. We have been asked to allow our
blood to seep slowly through a small needle puncture into
a sterile receptable; to lie quietly with complete lack of
pain while one "pint of life" flows from the veins of us,
the living, for the veins of those, the dying. Is this too
much to ask?
I think not! Our universiity Red Cross Unit has
asked for 100 blood donations. Why stop there ? We
have on campus 600 students who have the one thing
necessary to meet and accept this request ... blood is still
pulsating through their unsliced veins! Why ask for an
average of lout of 6, when 6 out of 6 are capable?
We now have the opportunity to perfect ourselves
by giving for others, without asking or expecting any­thing
in return. We have the chance to save the lives of
wounded men who might, because of our disinterest,
be giving theirs. Here we have the opportunity to apply
what we have been taught!
Again the question, "Is this too much to ask, too
much to expect?" If it is, then We should be the ones in
Korea; we should be the wounded; we should be the
dying!
They call us the Men in Red. Well, then, men
in red, .... what's the color of our blood?
Blood Drive
College Red
Page 2 THE STAG October 25, 1951
PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT
John Malakle, '53
Joseph Pander, '53
Walter Zakrison, '51
Council
One Day
MAKE-UP DEPARTMENT
Joseph Iacuone, '52 ., Editor
James Dinnan, '52
Dominick Lonardo, '52
Ralph Mastrangelo, '52
Richard McCormick, '52
Stanley Turski, '52
ART DEPARTMENT
Conrad Sternchak, '52 Editor
Richard Lindstrom, '52
Frederick Tartaro. '52
William Casey. '53
BUSINESS MANAGER
James Musante, '52
SPORTS DEPARTMENT
Bernard Beglane, '52 ,.,.. . .. Editor
James Doheney, '52
Fairfield Represented
At Holy Cross
Building Dedication
On Thursday, October 11, Rev­erend
Lawrence C. Langguth.
S.J., and Reverend Francis X.
Wilkie, S.J., attended the dedica­tion
of the new Biology Labora­tory
Building at Holy Cross Col­lege.
About 250 delegates from
various colleges attended the
ceremony at which the Reverend
John A. Frisch, S.J., of Canisius
College, Buffalo, N.Y. gave the
dedication address. The Most
Reverend John J. Wright, D.D.,
Bishop of Worcester, presided
over the dedication. Father
Frisch addressed the gathering
on the topic of academic freedom
on Catholic evolution.
The new building is a three
story edifice and contains six
laboratories, two lecture hall~,
three classrooms, the Malumphy
Museum, the library and offices
for each member of the staff.
This week the local politicians
have been busily engaged in
campaigning for the support of
the masses. However, for the re­mainder
of the pre-election per­iod,
Election Commissioner Kee­gan
cautions against the improp­er
use of signs and posters. "All
signs and posters shall be cleared
through the Office of the Dean of
Men, limiting them to the cafe­teria
and to the smoking rooms
on the second and third floors.
Under no circumstances may
post€~:s be placed on the school
bulletin boards. Finally, the so­liciting
of votes in the immediate
polling area is prohibited while
the elections are in progress."
Let us follow the excellent
precedent set by'the upperclass­men
and also go them one better
by making this election the big­gest
turnout ever experienced at
Fairfield.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Charles Black, '52
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
William Curnin, '53
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
William McGrath, '52
Thomas O'Neil, '53
FEATURE DEPARTMENT
John Welch, '53 Editor
Francis Philbin, '52
Robert McKeon, '53
Neil Topitzer, '53
NEWS DEPARTMENT
James Aspinwall, '52 ,., .. , .... Editor
James Dinnan. 52
Joseph Silva, '52
Paul Sullivan, '52
Robert Demshak, '54
Edward Kelley, '52
Edward Sperry, '52
Raymond Yuskauskas, '52
Richard Haux, '54
PRINCETON, N. J., October
17-The National Teacher Ex­aminations,
prepared and admin­istered
annually by Educational
Testing Service, will be given at
200 testing centers throughout
the United States on Saturday,
February 16, 1952.
At the one-day testing session
a candidate may take the Com­mon
Examinations, which in­clude
tests in Professional Infor­mation,
General Culture, English
Expression, and Non - verbal
Reasoning; and one or two of
nine Optional Examinations, de­signed
to demonstrate mastery
of subject matter to be taught.
The college which a candidate is
attending, or the school system
in which he is seeking employ­ment,
will advise him whether
he should take the National
Teacher Examinations and which
of the Optional Examinations to
select.
National Teacher
Exam Scheduled
For February 16
The response to the nomina­tion
period held last week was
quite satisfactory with 9 fresh­man
and 14 sophomores being
nominated by their respective
classmates.
Freshman candidates chosen to
run include: Norman LeBlanc,
Charles Umstaller, Fred Forster,
James Curiale, Paul Tremont,
John Buckley, Carl Squitiero,
John Whalen and John Leonard.
Sophomore aspirants to a coun­cil
seat are: Robert McKeon,
Paul Frauenhofer, Robert Dem­shak,
William Rice, Walter Zack­rison,
John Saracino, Henry Oss­ing,
Anthony Pagliaro, George
Kelly, Guy Panero, Douglas
Smith, Robert Westberg, Gerald
Smith and George Zeisner.
Fresnman, Sophomore
Elections Postponed
By BOB PETRECELLI
Our. Nation's
Habit
As of Monday, October 22,
the Office of the Dean of Men,
the Placement Bureau and
the Department of Education
have been moved into what
was formerly Room 106.
prepare their own briefs for the
formal speeches to come.
The new members of the So­ciety
have been active the past
three weeks giving five minute
speeches on various topics in
pre par a t ion for the longer
speeches they will give in formal
debates.
The topic which seems to be
getting the most coverage in the
entertainment columns of our
daily newspapers is television. It
has developed from its embry­onic
stage into infancy, but it
has yet to reach maturity. The
process is a slow and tedious one,
and it may be many years be­fore
th0 industry is perfected.
But in the interim there will be
many hours of enjoyment as well
as many hours of trash coming
our way on the coaxial cable.
This rising medium of enter­tainment
is voung, and its errors
are manv. But with time, effort
and th':l revenue which commer­cials
:>rovide, it may become our
nation's No. 1 habit. So far, it
has done pretty well for itself.
One of the most professional
shows on television is the Sid
Caesar (Uncle Milty claims that
he's Julius' cousin( and Imogene
Coca show, entitled "The Show
of Shows." In my estimation,
this is the best comedy -team on
television today They're hilar­ious,
especially when they're im­personating
actors in a foreign
film or the American husband
and wife trying to solve the
uroblems which arise in the
home. Imogene's elastic face and
her narodv of famous hallets will
keep you' in stitches during the
entire show. .... That's the rat­ing
I'd give "The Show of
Shows." Of course, there are
manv other good variety shows
on television, but this ninety
minute offerin~ is the best I've
seen. It has dancing, opera as
sung by the Met.'s Margueritta
Piazza), and loads of fun. It's
like having the theater brought
into your own living room, al­though
television can never cap­ture
the magic and the spirit of
the living stage. But it is the
happy medium.
For drama, there are such tele­vision
programs as "Studio One,"
"Pulitzer Prize Playhouse" and
a host of other equally good
dramatic shows. But it seems
that television is at its best when
it is recording the human drama
of the court-room (Kefauver
hearings) the baseball diamond
or the football field. Here the ca­mera
seems to capture all the ex­citement
and exuberance, more
so than in the televising of a
play. It is in relating and dis­closing
the documentary that
television excels. It's still a good
thing to have around the house,
except when there's studying to
be done. Then you wish the
thing hadn't been invented.
The elections for Freshman-Sophomore Student
Council originally scheduled for Monday, October 29,
will be held one day later on Tuesday, October 30, from
9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Successful candidates will be
·notified of victory late in the afternoon, thereby en­------------
abling them to take seats at the regular Tuesday eve­ning
session.
R. H. Beatty
Stages
Announced
formulated. They will include
inter-collegiate deb ate s with
Good Counsel college in White
Plains, Iona college in New Ro­chelle,
the College of New Ro­chelle,
and Bridgeport Univer­sity.
Other colleges are being
contacted also for inter-collegi­ate
debates.
Bellarmine Debating Society
Debate, Tentative Plans
The first inter-club debate of
the year will be held today,
Thursday, by the members of the
Bellarmine Debating Soc i e t y.
The topic is "Should the United
Nations use the Atom bomb in
Korea?" The affirmative side of
the issue will be handled by John
Fray and Joseph Franchi, the
negative by Glenn Hawman and
Richard Landy. ' Father Ryan Addresses Group
The officers of this year's Bell- Rev. Gabriel G. Ryan, S.J., on
armine Debating Society are Thursday, October 18, briefed
John Fray, president; Joseph the club on the National topic
Franchi, vic.e - president; and for the coming school year. The
Thomas Desy, secretary. topic is "Should the Federal Gov-
Tentative Plans For The Fall ernment Imp 0 s e Permanent
Season Announced Wage and Price Control?" The
Mr. Fray announced that ten- members of the club proposed
tative plans for the coming sea- questions to Father Ryan on the
son are in the process of being topic in order that they could
After a struggle, I finally managed to pry open the
old door. Its hinges had been rusted through the years
and a musty odor of decay stifled my breath as I passed
through the empty vestibule into the darkness of the
corridor. Each step I took echoed and re-echoed as I
slowly walked by each room which stood in thunders
of black silence. On both sides of me, locker doors hung
open hopefully in forgotten anxiety. As I passed the
old Bulletin Board, a half crumbled notice caught my
eye, "Morning Rosary at 9:00 o'clock during the ..."
and that was all. I wonder what happened to the rest
of it!
I paced slowly up the stairs and was greeted on the
fourth floor by a cold breeze of air that blew through a
broken window. The door of the Chemistry Lab was
open and I found a few scattered papers on the floor
dated 1953 - why, that must have been at least twenty­five
years ago. I looked around and discovered the wall
stained where rain had leaked in and saw spiders busily
spinning their webs on rusted equipment.
I returned downstairs to the Cafeteria, where I
found everything laying under a dull gray blanket. The
windows were partially boarded and only thin streaks
of light peeked into the desolate room. The once proud
Fairfield University was now a forgotten shables.
Well; there it is. That's how our wonderful school
could look if we fought and lost the war to Russia. It
could look many other ways, also.
A few years ago we ended and won a war. A war to
end all wars, they said. A war that they thought would
surely bring peace, provide world safety and protect
our American freedom. So now, do we have content­ment
and peace? No, we are threatened just as much
now as we were before.
I realize that this subject is "touchy" to all men,
for most of us detest the thought of going to war again,
in order to put an end to war. Especially, when there
is a way to prevent it.
I know, and I think you will agree, that this other
method is the best and possibly the only way to end all
armed conflicts.
Each morning at 9:00 o'clock during the month of
October, there is a group of students who meet and
recite the Holy Rosary. Our Lady of the Rosary had
predicted the last war in 1917 at F·atima. She also said
that Russia would be converted, hut not without the aid
of our prayers. The benefits promised are greater than
any man-made hope, and what other way which takes
so little time and effort gains such enormous results?
Stop for a moment, think of your freedom, your
Country, your school, yourself, then think out loud
to HER.
It Could Happen Here!
October 25. 1951 THE STAG Page 3
By GLENN HAHMAN
On Monday night. October 29~
the Rev. Francis Sarjeant. S.J"
former Rector of Bagdad Col­lege.
Iraq. and Professor of
Ethics at Fairfield University.
will be heard over station WICC
at 8:00 P.M. on the program.
"Fairfield University Interprets
the News." Father Sarjeant will
discuss the topic: "False 'Free­dom'
the Death of Liberty." He
will show the great threat to lib­erty
aris~ng from the s tea d y
campaign of leading women's
magazines for a so-called "free­dom"
from the moral law. Fur­thermore.
he will show that
there is. in reality. no truth out­side
this law and that a false
"freedom" leads to the slavery
of man.
Student panelists from the
University appearing on the pro­gram
with Father Sarjeant will
be: Senior. Robert Hayden. Port­land.
Me" a Biology major; and
Junior. Eugene Magner. Bridge­port.
an Education major.
The moderator will be John A.
Meaney, Assistant Professor of
English at Fairfield University.
On Monday, October 1, Fair­field
University held its first pro­gram
of this year's series entitled
"Fairfield University Interprets
the News." This was heard at
8:00 P.M. over the facilities of
WICC in Bridgeport.
"Our colleges have been nar­coticized
by the drug of moral
apathy," stated Chester J. Stu­art,
assistant professor of Educa­tion
and German.
"Our educators," continued
Mr. Stuart, "have merely pickled
and preserved pristine futilities.
Our college profs., of dull and
honest capacity, have mechanic­ally
dolled out to our students
the fruits of a moth-eaten secon­dary
education to the extent that
not only is the adult public in­censed,
but also the high school
graduate finds a factory job with
high wages more appealing than
higher education."
The students taking part on
the panel, on which Mr. Meaney
does such an excellent job as
moderator, were John Auger and
Eugene Muehleisen.
Father Ryan Speaks On Labor­Management
Problems
With America leading the free
world through a critical trial of
moral as well as p h y sic a I
strength, further progress to­wards
realizing labor - manage­ment
cooperation is the duty of
both partners in production to­day.
With this thought as a keynote,
the subject: "Labor and Man­agement:
Partners in Produc­tion"
was the subject of discus­sion
on the program of Monday,
Oct. 9th.
"Their mural interest in higher
productivity, in the daily con­cerns
of the shop community,
should unite business leaders and
labor representatives and make
them realize their grave respon-.
sibilities towards cooperation for
the common good today," Father
Ryan said.
Mr. Donnarumma Advocates
New Foreign Policy
"Of all the methods of imple­mentation
the most important
and necessary against the Com­munists
are those of ideological,
subversive, resistance war which:
are regarded as untraditional
measures," stated Mr. Donnar-
(Continued on Page 6)
Speaking to the dinner guests,
Romano said:
"It is not my intention this
evening to deliver a dissertation
on the relations that exist be­tween
those of the public who
are blessed with the use of sight
and those who for one reason
or another do not enjoy that
particular blessing.
"However, I do believe that I
am equipped to say something
about the subject in so far as
I am aware of the experiences
and feelings of both the blind
and the non-blind. For sixteen
years these two eyes of mine
helped me to recognize and love
my mother and father, my com­panions
in play, and the innum­erable
wonders of Gods visible
creation. While for the past six
years I have learned in darkness
the meaning of kindly guiding
hands, the sunshine given off by
a cheerful greeting and the mu­sic
of human voices.
"Strangely enough, blindness
has taught me to sympathize
with other men who see clearly
with their physical eyes; but who
are afflicted with something
worse, namely, intellectual and
moral blindness, and their condi­tion
is immeasurably more sad.
"For example: The blind com­munist
who sees in you cannon
fodder for war, and industriial
cogs in peace, and I pray that his
eyes may be opened to see in
you a true American living with
a heritage handed down to us
by our forefathers beginning
with Columbus: then they would
know that America will never be
crushed under the heels of Com­munism.
"Physical blindness is a bless­ing
if it sharpens intellectual and
moral vision. If only by physical
blindness can we realize our ob­ligations
to God and our coun­try,
then more of us should be
deprived of the gift of sight.
"The public has almost a un­animous
conception of blindness.
A lot of people sympathize with
our cause but so very few do
anything to promote equality,
and equality is the only thing a
blind person asks for, equality
(Continued on P,age 6)
FRANK ROMANO
(On Columbus Day. October
12. a blind student of Fairfield
University presented a speech to
an assemblage at the Knights of
Columbus dinner at Norwalk.
Connecticut. This speaker was
Frank Romano. a member of the
Class of '54.
The editors. recognizing the
significance of Romano's mes­sage.
and aware of its enthusias­tic
reception by the audience.
feel that his classmates should
know what he said also. There­fore.
the context of his speech
has been presented in its en­tirety.)
Blind Student
Delivers Speech
To Norwalk I( of C
G. I. Diplomacy
By BILL GILLEN. '54
In The Spotlight
President John Relihan and Fellow Officers
As we all know today, our
"G.!.'s" are in many nations of
the world. Some are performing
duties of an occupational soldier
in Germany and Japan while
others are fighting and dying in
Korea. Though their specific
duties may differ, each "G.!."
overseas has one thing in com­mon,
and that is, dealing with
the peoples of friendly and un­friendly
nations. I wish to em­phasize
that each individual
"G.!." is in fact a diplomat, (al­beit
a non-professio~al one) and
potentially is America's most ef­fective
diplomat.
These "G.I.'s" are our "travel­ing
salesmen" of democracy. and
a great manv of them are doing
a wonderful job in fostering bet­ter
international relations. The
ED. NOTE: This is the first in a projected series of feature people at home in America,
articles dealing with the various extra-curricular organizations through the media of movie,
in the school.' We will endeavor to present the aims and activ- newspapers and television, can
I.tl.es of these orgam•zat.lOns, vI..oth as a tn'b ute to the men w h see for themselves that our men . . . h d f' 0 are act"mg m truIydemocratl'c
devote theIr time a.nd effort to t em, an as a means 0 acqualnt- fashion. What they don't see in
ing the student body with them. this telescopic and/or panoramic
The Public Affairs Club was founded in 1947 by view is the loud. coarse, arrogant
members of the Class of 1951, and the Rev. Gabriel 3.1 a~d .abusive "?I." wI:o is u~der-
Cl b mmmg the dlplomahc achleve- Ryan, S.3., the present Moderator. The U! was I ments of the many good ones
formed so that Fairfield might be ably represented at that we have. This poor diplo-i
the Connecticut Interscholastic State Legislature which mat is the m~n I. am aiming at!
.. . I have seen hIm m Korea, abus-
IS held m Hartford every Sprmg. ing women, poking fun at their
At the annual meeting of the As of the first week of Octo- methods of worship, destroying
"mock" legislature, each school ber, the club numbered forty- property without reason, and
presents three original bills five members with room for causing many other insults that
which follow the regular course more. Weekly meetings are held shall not be forgotten.
of all legislative action. The on Wednesday mornings during To deny an existing truth is
Public Affairs Club presents bills the second period, and, accord- shame and cowardice. Improper
which reflect the teaching and ing to Mr. Relihan,. these ses- actions by some of our fighting
the thinking of Fairfield, often in SlOns are kept as· mformal as men are facts. Therefore, we
direct opposition to the other possi?le so that discussion will must face them and the people
schools in the state. Last year's be stimulated. at home in the United States
President of the Public Affairs This year, the club is particu- must be told of them. In this
Club, John McNamana, was also larly interested in Labor Rela- manner, proper methods of train­the
Speaker of the House at the tions and, in conjunction with ing and orientation might be
Legislative Meeting. the Radio Club, will present a brought forward and put into
To acquaint its members with series of broadcasts dealing with use.
topics of current interest, as well this national topic. Eugene Mag- I do not have to be reminded
as with parliamentary proced.ure, ner is the presen.t chairman of of the fact that our gallant "G.
the club holds weekly meetmgs the ~abor Relaho?-s Progr~m, !.'s" are giving their lives so
at which a speaker presents an and IS now workmg on bIlls that the South Koreans can have
issue which is then talked over which will be presented at the their land returned to them to­by
the Club members. The latest Spring session of the C.I.S.L. gether with peace and freedom.
topic was Communism, and the One of the largest groups in I have seen all of this for myself
main speaker was Mr. McCarthy the school, the Club is directed and I am wll acquainted with
of the History and Government by F.r. Ryan, :'lith Joh~ Relihan, the joys and sufferings of a "G.!."
Department. For those mterested PreSIdent; TIm ~ronm, VlCe- fighting and living in such a rug­in
parliamentary procedure, the PreSIdent; JIm Aspmwall, Secre- ged land as Korea. However is
the club is pl.anning a series of tary and Ronnie Homza, Treas- there any reason why a ~an
classes to tram men for the C. urer..In the course of the wee~ly cannot live as gallantly as he
!. S. L. meetmgs, however, a new ~halr- fights and dies? Just recently in
The Club also represents Fair- man IS elected for each dlSCUS- a letter published in the Danbury
field University at the New Eng- Slon penod, so that everyo.ne in News-Times a writer, referring
land Catholic Student Peace Fed- the Club gets an opportumty to to some previous comments I
eration. of which John Relihan "run a meeting" and keep order. had made recommended that I
President of the Public Affair~ Anyone interested in becoming a stop "picking on" our "G.I.'s"
Club, is secretary, and Father member of this organization and "pick on the diplomats of
Ryan is moderator. The Federa- should co~~aet one of the offic- the world." "It was they, not the
tion is an organization of all the ers. They WIll be glad to have 'G.I.'s', who were responsible for
Catholic colleges in New Eng- you." coarse, loud 'G.I.'s' being in Ko-land,
and was founded twenty rea." In strict logic I could grant
years ago by Father Higgins, S. -~ - - that poor diplomacy is responsi-
J., of Holy Cross. Its chief pur- ble for the fact that our men
pose is to promote peace. HEALTY BEECHMONT are in Korea, but is it really hon-
The third major group to est to blame diplomacy for the
which the Public Affairs Club is PRODUCTS loudness or coarseness? If so, we
attached is the National Federa- might hold diplomacy equally
tion of Catholic College Students Sewed In Your Cafeteria responsible for the fact that our
New England Region. At th~ "G.I.'s" are brave a.r:d heroic and
present time, Fair.field is form- grant all CongresslOnal Medals
ing a Family Life Commission Beechm,ont Dal'ry of Honor to the State Depart-which
will attempt to make bet- I ment.
ter known the principles of 2710 NORTH AVE. This evil in the ranks of our
Christian Family Life. This work "G.I." diplomats is a serious
can be aided by students who BRIDGEPORT problem affecting each and every
are willing to carry such infor- one of us. We should give it a
mation into their particular par- great deal of thought instead of
ishes and communities. The Club dismissing it as we have done in
is already in the process of sur- the past. When aiming a rifle or
veying the number and nature E h' I Ph a!1 artillery piece at a target a
of the courses dealing with fam- t lca armacy long distance away, the weapon
ily life in the Catholic Colleges 1260 MAIN ST. is sighted above the target to
of New England. Fairfield is the insure a direct hit. Only by aim-regional
seat of the Family Life Opp. StraUield Hotel ing high at perfection will we
Commission, -ana Jim. ASPinw.all, PRESCRIPTIONS F\ILLE!D avoid mediocrity and perhaps
is the chairman at Fairfield. complete failure.
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this obstacle before them, the
Council is fearful of any reper­cussion
in asking the students to
support a project which the stu­dents
themselves have set up. If
it has come to this then, to quote
a former Council member, class
51, "The Student Council may as
well close up shop." ... I'don't
think -that such a drastic meas­ure
as this will ever come about
but the fact remains that th~
Council must have financial as­sistance
if it is to be run effic-iently.
It cannot, logically speak-I r-------------~
ing, continue to back costly
affairs, such as the Mid-Winter
Carnival, and a host of other
social events, while letting Cath­olic
Action, as the N.F.C.C.S., be
tabled ... It it up to you, the
elected Student Council, to act
WIthout hesitation, and it is '----------- J
equally up to the students to
support his Council without de-viation.
I Intra-Mural Football Starts;
Mixup Mars Opening Game
Despite a confusion in ruling, due to the fact that
someone with a poor sense of humor defaced the posted
By RUDY GIRANDOLA, '53 rules, the first week of play in the Intra-Mural Football
IN A NUT SHELL: L
Only three nominations from eague saw the Schafters winning over the
the Freshman class for the Stu- .Frybghwocms, 24-0, while the Hatchetmen defeated the
dent Council ... there are four Staggers, 26-0, and the Bluenotes entertained the
vacancies ... you figure it out! Broken 'Dom Toms to the tune of 18-12.
... COUNCIL'S newest creation
was a Social Calendar painstak- On the bulletin board of the
ingly assembled by Junior Class AA To Stage main floor in Xavier Hall, there
Pres., John Welch ... The Cal- appeared a body of rules gov-endar
is a complete line-up of SpO ts N· ht erning and regulating intramur-dates
pertaining to school social r 19., al football. Some individual or
events (dances, class nights, etc.) Other Events group of individuals, with a "flair
This listing should be very help- for writing", defaced the posted
ful to those planning similar ven- rules and made them unintelligi-tures
during the school year. It On Wednesday, October 17, ble. As a result, the teams play­affords
excellent information as the Athletic Association met in ing during the first week of the
to when those other activities Xavier Hall. The meeting was season were ignorant of the fact
may be presented to the best ad- presided over by Bernie Beglane, that the use of cleats or spikes
vantage ... The bus service, to the president. Several important was outlawed. The Moderator,
and from Fairfield U., is getting events were discussed thorough- Rev. Joseph M. Manning, S.J.,
to be quite troublesome. If there ly, the chairmen were chosen, stated, however, that all games
is not any improvement within and the dates were set for these played thus far would stand, but
the next few weeks, be ready, events. any further violation of the
boys, for a showdown ... Feb- The first event discussed was rules would be inexcusable, and
ruary 1st . . . Mid-Winter Car- the annual Sports Night to be a forfeit would be called against
niva1 ... Ritz Ballroom (nat- held on the evening of Novem- the violators.
ura11y) '" Alumm., st and by for bel' 7 in Berchmans hall. Gus The Schafters took an early
m. VI·ta tI'On. Horvath was named ehal·rman. 6-0 lead on a pass by Joe Milew-
. The night will feature speakers ski, thus enabling them to dom-from
the sports world, enter- inate play throughout the re-tainment,
and sports films. mam. der of the game, waged on
The second event discussed October 15.
was the Pep Rally to be held in
the college cafeteria on the Two days later, the second
morning of November 21, three game was played with Jim
days previous to the opening Roche's Staggers going down to
basketball game. defeat at the hands of John Leon-
Finally, Beglane suggested, ard's Hatchetmen.
and. the entire club approved, of The third and final game of
an Idea to choose an "athlete of the week was played on Thurs­the
year" and award to him a day, October 18, and it showed
trophy symbolic of the distinc- Bronislaw Orlowski leading his
tion. Fred Roback was chosen Blue Notes to victory over the
chairman of this committee to Broken Tom Toms. Sparkling
draw u:p the details of the award. passes by Tom Doyle into the
arms of "Glue-fingers" Gene
Magner brought the team from a
6-0 deficit to a 12-6 lead at the
half. Wit~ Gus Horvath scoring
the decIsIve marker in the last
minutes of play, the Bluenotes
broke into a tie which had been
caused by Jim Linehan's pass to
Gerry Altieri in the third quar­ter.
At the end of the season the
Athletic Association will a~ard
prizes to the winning team.
ONE CENT FOR TRIBUTE?:
After a bit of lunch, the Coun­cil
was ready to forge into an
even greater problem, "What to
do with N. F. C. C. S.?" (which
doesn't mean, No Frankfurters in
Cafeteria Cut Short) . . . Last
year, the Student Government,
spent over a hundred dollars to
join this organization practically
without knowing what the let­ters
meant. This year, although
having the knowledge that N. F.
C. C. S. means, National Federa­tion
of Catholic College Students,
they find it impossible to sponsor
such a membership not because
they are lacking in interest, but
because the Council is faced with
a slight fin-ancial embarassment.
In other words, the Council treas­ury
is almost "kaploot" and, it
will be, if it hands over another
sum of money to join the Fed­eration.
I am not going to go into any
dissertation as to the merits or
non-merits of this organization,
but I will say, after having a
few informal discussions with
John Relihan, senior delegate to
the Federation, that it is really
something worthwhile for this
University to be a member of.
Relihan along with Jim Aspin­wall
and Tim Cronin, to mention
only a few, have done too much
work and used too much of their
time in fitting this school into
N.F.C.C.S. plans. To cast those
labors aside would be a blow
not only at good student govern­ment,
but also at common sense.
For three yea l' s, now, the
Council has always been trying
to make the financial ends meet,
and, for three years, it has been
powerless to act EFFECTIVELY
on measures, such as N.F.C.C.S.,
because it did not have that ne­cessary
monetary assistance . . .
The reason? . . . The Council l ..-------------..1
has not come up with one good '
plan for building its treasury. It
has not been able, and this is
my own, however worthless,
opinion, to impress upon the
Student Body that they are their
representatives. Naturally, with
Read's
members. They include Brother
R. B. Power of Iona College to
the District Playoffs Committee,
Rev. A. B. Begley, O.P., of Pro­vidence
College, to the Statistics
Committee, and Eoss Merrick of
New Britain State Teachers Col­lege
to the post of chairman of
the Publicity Committee, H. D.
Zelte, also of New Britain, was
named to the Presidents' Advis­ory
Committee.
Several scrimmages for the
basketball team are being sched­uled
so that the team will "get
into shape" by playing under
game conditions and against good
competition. The first of these
will be against Fordham Univer­sity
at the Bronx school's gym
on Thursday. November 1 at U
A.M.
A note of interest for the fol­lowers
of our baseball team is
the fact that Andy Robustelli,
hard-hitting third baseman of
Arnold College, is now playing
football with the Los Angeles
Rams of the National Football
League.
Still on the subject of baseball.
drop a get well note to Dick
Landy. center fielder of last
year's nine. He has just been dis­charged
from the hospital after
an appendectomy. He lives at
282 Church Hill Road. Fairfield.
EXCLUSIVELY
This column has had many in­quiries
as to what athletic con­ference
0 u l'
school has
membership in.
The answer is
jus t one, the
National Asso­dation
of Inter­collegiate
Bas­ketball.
We
have been un­able
all along to
join others be­cause
we used freshmen in com­petition,
but now that the frosh
rule has been done away with
this year, there is a possibility
that we will join others.
Speaking of the N.A.I.B., sev­eral
items of interest were con­tained
in their latest news re­lease.
The dates for the annual
meeting and national tournament
were set at March 10 to the 15,
with the site again at Kansas.
The group is also, for the first
time, going to sponsor national
competition in track, field, golf,
and tennis. No site has been de­termined,
but the dates are set
for June 6 and 7.
Also in the release was news
of the appointments of several
committees. Some of the athletic
directors of schools which we
oppose in basketball were named
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at least twenty (20) times, but
every time there was a dogfight,
there he was, the little rascal,
the same intent look on his face
raising cain with our squadrons.
Needless to say there was fin­ally
a reconciliation between
John and the officer who wanted
to clout him on the snoot. The
officer realized that John as a
flight leader had to be a rat, and
with that realization, he too be­came
a flight leader and a rat.
The dubbed in newsreels were
the best part of the picture since
during them the audience was
spared Mr. Wayne's laconic,
tough-guy smile.
There was another picture on
the same bill that night, a quiet
type of drama in which Ethel
Barrymore, who is supposed to
be a good actress, let a dashing
young artist tie her into a chair
for a few weeks while he reck­lessly
disposed of the rich furn­ishings
in her house. During all
that time Miss Barrymore en­dured
her suffering with a spar­tan
calm, and talked between
tightly closed teeth with her up­per
lip curled, apparently af­flicted
with a paralysis of the
mandibular muscles.
So, I can see why Hollywood
is worried, and is glutting Ameri­ca
with slogans. However, they
need never worry about losing
me as a customer. Movies, rot­ten
as they are, are still more
interesting than a Chemistry
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t II corner...
Campus Personalities
By FRANCIS G. PHILBIN, '52
SENIOR CLASS 'P~ESI DENT
-:1'04
McI.."ny,
A, NA'iY VET~RAN,
SfRVED ABOARO
THE ,
U.S.S. PORTS MouTH.
During the discussion period it
was evident t hat everyone
agreed that something should be
done to help Iran and keep Rus-
British Policy Consid1ered
At Public Affairs M,eeting
sia from expanding into that vi­tal
area. There was no agree­ment,
however, on means of
achieving this.
During this meeting Ronald
Homza was elected junior dele­gate
to the C.I.S.L.
Timothy Cronin presided over
the October 17 discussion which
considered whether or not the
Socialist government in England
has succeeded in its domestic af­fairs.
Thomas Martin defended
the Labor Government from the
attack of John Keagan.
During its last two meetings
the Public Affairs Club consid­ered
British policies, both do­mestic
and foreign.
On October 10 William Bucht­mann
was chairman of the dis­cussion
on the Iranian issue.
John Luckart attacked the pres­ent
British policy in Iran, while
Nicholas Rosa defend'ed it.
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deposited in its last year's Freshman class did,
chiefly because they were not
too well organized at the time
of the drive, the present Fresh­man
class will be assisted by
their Junior advisors, to enable
them to start building their
treasury. Letters will also be sent
to all the students' parents in
order to introduce the parents to
the drive and to indicate to them
the importance of it.
Robert Watkin, Treasurer of
the Senior Class, is determined
that his class will surpass the
total profit of last year's Senior
Class which was $740.24, and
thereby cut down some of the
great expense immediately fac­ing
the class of 1952.
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The movies this year, are out
to prove that the motion picture
industry is still alive. Well, all
I can say is, if the odor emanat­ing
from most of their products
in any norm, they have much
proving to do. I saw one of Hol­lywood's
masterful epics the oth­er
night. John Wayne, that in­tensely
emotional actor, was a
Marine flight officer, who, of
course, was fiercely hated by his
underlings. There was another
fellow in the picture 0100-1 can't
remember his name-who fol­lowed
John around with, I sup­pose,
some sort of gastro-intes­tinal
ailment since his face was
always in a sour grimace.
This other fellow, of course,
was supposed to get the leader­ship
of the flight squadron until
the sneaky Mr. Wayne entered
the picture. Anhow, his greatest
desire was to fracture Wayne's
nasal promontory, but duty kept
interfering. Wayne, as a leader,
was a thorough cad. He kept
drivmg the men and driving
them until they too, wanted to
----:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:. alter his physiognomy. There was r a young Texan (naturally) in the
picture - likeable, outdoor type
-with an ill-trained drawl, who
wandered through the drama ac­complishing
little until he got
killed to add a little pathos to
the epic.
At the time this movie took
plac!:: there was apparently only
one Japanese pilot in the whole
Pacific. I saw him get shot down
class makes is
treasury.
The present Freshmen, Sopho­mores,
and Juniors have an op­portunity
to save themselves a
great deal of Senior year finan­cial
problems; last year's seniors
as well as the present senior
class discovered, it costs a great
amount of money to put out a
class book and meet other grad­uation
costs. If they get a large
treasury now it will eliminate
future problems.
As a result of last year's drive
the present class profits were:
Senior, $454.92; Junior, $87.09;
Sophomore, $3.18. In order to
avoid any repition of what little
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has made many advances in the
military uses of atomic energy.
. . . Since true Christianity is
directly opposed to totalitari.an
materialism" the effect of relIg­ion
was also considered.
Dr. Barone stated that "cul­ture
does not in itself affect the
objectivity of science to any
great degree but it does affect
scientific progress." This was
supported by reference to lan­guage
difficulties in some coun­tries
and by the fact that ad­vances
in atomic energy in the
United States depended on the
"Education and inclination of
the leaders," The need for more
cultural and religious training
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The panel, besides Mr. Meaney
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James Eplett and Anthony Lo­mazzo.
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urnrna on his talk given over
WICC on Oct. 15th. This was the1:-------------,
third in the programs of "Fair-field
University interprets the
News." The subject of the talk
was, "The End of Traditional
ForeIgn Policy for America."
Mr. Donnarumma went on to
say, "Our present planning and
policy cannot stop the Commun­ists
more than temporarily, nor
can any other plan or policy
which is essentially defensive
and which fails to take into ac­count
the nature of contempor­ary
war. The Communists will
not stOry until either they are de-feated
-or they win; and what IL -'
they aim to do is win the world."
Glenn Hawman and John Fray
quizzed Mr. Donnarumma on
many of the questions being
asked by so many of the observ­ers
of world events today.
Totalitarism and Religion
vs. Science
This was the subject of a talk
offered the radio listening audi­ence
on Mon., Oct. 22 by Dr. John
A. Barone, Assistant Professor of
Chemistry. This topic was con­sidered
significant because "The
explosion of the second exper.i­mental
atomic bomb by RUSSIa
has been interpreted by many
scientists as meaning that Russia
RED CROSS
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plication forms, and the officers
of the unit urge that the full
cooperation of the student body
be extended to these men.
Mr. Macchia. the publicity di­rector
of the Unit, pointed out
that "all students are urged to
support this drive, for the sa~e
of their country and theIr
school."
At the meeting of the Board
of Directors, Mr. LaChance spoke
to the members on behalf of the
College Unit, and assured the
local chauter that it would have
the "whole hearted support of
the students during the coming
year." He was warmly applauded
for his remarks.
cribed what takes place at a I
public audience and I w~ll not
go into that, for to me It was
an experience, deep and mean­ingful,
which no words could
ever present.
Soon, each of us went his o~n
way. With a final toast, I saId
good bye and returned to Perl;l­gia.
A few weeks later, I was In
Palermo, then back to Capri and
Naples from whence, on the
eleventh of September, I sailed
for New York aboard the SS
Constitution.
Italian Communists
All in all, I found the people
of Italy vel' y friendly and
thoughtful of strangers and trav­ellers.
For one reason and an­other
they look up to Americans
and ~re deeply appreciative of
the Marshall Plan Aid which we
have sent. However, there is one
great economic problem which
has not yet been solved-unem­ployment.
The Italian Commun­ists
have made much of thIS one
fact. Although the Faith is strong
among the people of Italy, it is
not uncommon to find many
Catholics who are Communists.
When you have a family that is
hungry, the promises of jobs and
other benefits which the Com­munists
tender, sound better
than they really are. I think,
however, that eventually the
government will be strong
enough to obliterate this men~ce.
Among the people, there IS a
general horror at the thought of
another war. I talked with many
ex-soldiers who had been pris­oners
of war and they are filled
with fear that if another war
should come, it would mean the
end of the human race. They
will fight, I believe, but first will
do anvthing to avoid more death
and destruction.
In Naples, I met many sailors
attached to the American Fleet.
I was even conducted on a tour
of the U.S.S. Adirondack which
is the Flagship of the Mediter­ranean
Fleet. It was really a sur-prise
to see how many ships we
do have in these waters.
You never really learn to ap­preciate
America until you've
been away a while. Italy was
beautiful and I would like to
return b~t the United States is
beautiful in another way: it is
home to me. No wrong impres­sions!
I enjoyed the trip, but,
after all is said and done, home
is where the heart is.
St. Peter's in Rome
Perugia
The days passed swiftly while
I was attending class.. After the
initial strangeness, mainly be­cause
of the language and the
fact that we were allowed un­limited
cuts, I became accustom­ed
to going to school. in t~is an­cient
medieval-like CIty, sItuated
in the hills of Umbria. Week­ends
found me travelling to the
various cultural centers of Italy,
- Florence, Milan, Venice and BLIND STUDENT
many others. In the course of
time, I actually managed to ac- (Continued from Page 3)
complish my purpose-I learned and a chance to prove his worth
the Italian language well enough to society.
to be mistaken for a native, be- "Today in America we have
fore I returned home. people so blinded by delu.ded
Meets Friends dollar-signs that they lose SIght
The sixth of August found me of their devine destiny. And I
at the Ciampino airport outside. feel sad for them because I h<;tve
of Rome, anxiously scanning the come to realize with all blind
faces of the debarking passeng- people that man's real treasure
ers. Friends from home - Mr. is friendship the friendship both
John Meaney and Jim Farnum, of God and his fellowmen..
had flown in from Paris, and we "I can never forget the lInes,
welcomed each other with open 'I shall pass through this world
arms. As did Caesar, we set out but once, any good, therefore,
to conquer Rome, and though that I can do or any kindness
we didn't Quite succeed, we tried that I can show to any fellow .---------JOHN ALEXANDER OF NEW HAVEN;='---------, hard. The ;atacombs, magnificent creature, let me do it now. Let
St. Peter's, the Vatican library, me not defer it or. neglect it,. f~r
the monument to Victor Emmal}- I shall not pass thIS way agaIn.
uel, the many basillicas outsi?e "If I have give~ insight to one
the walls, the old city with ItS person here tomght to accept
Colosseum, and the Arch of Titus blind people on what they ca~
-all fell under our gaze. We do and not on what they can t til
even managed to attend an op- do; if I have given i~sight to but ~
era, "Il Trovatore," which was one person here tO~Ight to real- :z:
presented at the Baths of Cara- ize that ",,:,e the b~Ind can play X
calla one of the biggest open all' our part In fulfillIng the gr.eat
oper~ stages in the world. destiny promised to. Amenca,
The truly awe-inspiring event then I will feel that thIS !alk has
of the entire trio was the audi- been a huge success. LIke Co­ence
with the -Pope at Castel lumbus, all we ask is a chance
Grandolfo. Others have des- to prove our worth."
Lisbon
One week later, the Vulcania
pushed its blunt snout into Lis­bon
Harbor, and a few hours
and much red tape later, I was
ashore in continental Europe.
Four fellow oassengers and my­self
desiring to see the high
lights of this famous city, hired
an English speaking guide. Not
only did the guide speak Eng­lish
but he was the proud own­er
~f a 1925 Oldsmobile, and it
was from this vehicle that we
saw Lisbon.
Like many other large Euro­pean
cities, Lisbon presents a
panorama of contrasts; large
beautiful, flower and shrubbery
lined squares, against a back­ground
of dingy, sinister, squalid
alleys and streets. Most notable ,
of the many beautiful buildings,
is the Cathedral of Sao Vicente
de Fora, dating back to 1150,
which was, for me, a preview of
what was to come when I reach­ed
Italy.
The "Rock"
Next stop for our ship was
Gibraltar. Often, termed. the
"rock" this strategic port is just
that. 'A conglomeration of "gin
mills," Gibraltar offers nothing
to the sightseer other than a
magnificent view of the Medi­terranean.
There's a song that goes,
"There's a barber in the harbo;,
of Palermo, a very, etc....
Well, I wasn't a barber, but there
I was on the 18th of June, shak­ily
walking down the gang plank
to meet some relatives that I
never seen. They saw me first,
uncles, aunts, and c 0 u sin s
swarmed about me, giving me a
reception, the like of which I
had never experienced before.
For the next five or six days,
I toured Palermo - an ancient
city, dotted with such land­marks
as Monte Pellegnno, and
the Cathedral of Palermo which
was build, incidentally, by King
William II of England in 1165.
Howeyer, the highpoint of my
stay; in Palermo, was the trip to
Monveale, a small village out­sic:
4J .of the big city. There, agp!n
in a cathedral, I saw a display of
mosaic art, which rivals that of
the shrine of St.. Anne de
Beaupre in Quebec. Perhaps I
should not even make the com­parison.
The walls of the cathe­dral
are entirely mosaic, with
striking color tones and scenes.
To replace such a work of art
would be impossible.
Rome
The next morning, I boarded
a train, for a ride which was to
last seventeen hours. Palermo to
Sapienza Relates Summer Experiences
As the Motonava Vulcania slipped smoothly
down the Hudson, on the morning of June eighth, 1951,
I was filled with mixed emotions as I gazed at the re­ceding
sky line of New York City. Behind me :-rere
home, friends and family; ahead lay Italy, the umver­sity
of Perugia, and some relatives I ha? nev~r se.en.
I was to study the Italian language at Its umversIt?"
but for a few days at least, I was free to lounge m
luxury and comfort on the liner.
." , ~.' Rome is a long trip, made doubly f\;. . .., difficult . ~y the ferry cr?ssing
'\1 . . from SICIly to the mainland
\ proper.
The train ride up the boot of
Italy was long and tortuous, but
at the end of the trip, Rome
beckoned like a magnificent jew­el.
The rail traveller's first im­pression
of Rome is o~e of mod­ern
grandeur. The raIlway ter­minal
destroyed during the war,
has b~en rebuilt and is a fitt~ng
introduction to the Eternal CIty.
The ohrase "out of this world"
is used all too frequently in our
modern jargon, but it can be
quoted aptly with regard to the
capital of Italy and the center
of Catholicism. If I had had a
lifetime I could not have seen
the wo~ders of this ancient city
but, as it was, my first visit to
Rome was confined to four days.
I was due to start class at Peru­gia
on July second.