Stag - Vol. 09, No. 01 - September 26, 1957

              Vol. IX - No.9 Published by Students of Fairfield University, Fairfield, Conn. Sept. 26, 1957
Freshmen Attend Mass
Record Number Takes Part In
Frosh Registration Exercises
As Freshman Registration took place on Monday
of last week, the 325 men who were to comprise this
year's freshmen dass were quite unaware of the steps
which they had helped Fairfield to take.
They were the largest class ~------------­that
Fairfield has ever enrolled. is no longer thought to be a
They exceeded the class enroll- . ..
ed I' n 1947, where number was Dc art of Bn•dgepforht UPmversSlthy orI
303. ThI'S wn'ter I.S fa'IrIy sure, an extenslOn 0 ht e rep cd 00
th h th t th'll Our graduates ave move to
l
oug t'h ta 1 eY:Vl thnevher re
t
- positions in top management in
p ace a c ass m e ear s . d t
of those faculty members who busmess, some are now oc ors,
., . and many are lawyers. Our
r.emember the mden' m It. ThhIS ':irads h ave gotetn 'Int d 0, an
IS not meant to Iscourage t e m. ai'nta'lned h'Igh st and'Ing I.n,
new Fr' eshmen, because that some 0 f the b est graduat e
first FaIrfield clas. s was a grhoup sch00Is 'm the count ry. 0 ur
of. truly outstandmg men, w ose F reshmen c1ass WI'II graduate
hIgh enrollm~nt of veterans from Fairfield at a time when
fwas IttheIr mam appeal to the the name f F . fi ld '11 b 0 aIr e WI e
acOuury.new F reshmen gai.n more fast becoming, in New England
responsl'b'l't 'th th' and the East, well known and 1 1 Y WI elr en- f' hI'
II t th th th' k Th respected or ItS sc 0 ashc
ro men . an ey m. ey achievements.
enter Fairfield at a hme when
the school is at a peak of build- It is here that this writer
ing activity. Theirs is the kind would inject his advice to the
of campus that no other class Freshmen. Work to be worthy
to date has been able to enjoy. of the education you are be­Many
classes to follow them ing afforded here. Yours will be
will enjoy it, but none before an education to be proud of,
them have. for you will graduate from
A GROWING CAMPUS Fairfield as a well-rounded
Besides the growing campus, man, and not as a specialised
these men enter Fairfield at robot who will proceed through
a time when the school is en- life seeking its pleasures with
joy i n g increased popularity an utter disdain for his soul
around the state as well as in and the achievement of a
other areas. Fairfield University, greater end.
NEW INSTRUCTORS
The Rev. Peter Lanza, a cur­ate
at Our Lady of Mount Car­mel
Parish, Hamden, will be a
part time instructor of sociology.
The two laymen are Mr.
Frank H. Ash, part time busi­ness
instructor and Walter J.
Petry, professor of history.
Father Leeber replaces Fa­ther
Walsh, who has been ill the
past year, as head of the Mod­ern
Language Department. Fa­ther
Walsh, however, will re­main
on the faculty as a profes­sor
of languages. Father Leeber
has done graduate work at Bos­ton
College and the University
of Madrid. He has also studied
Italian in Florence, Italy and
French literature at the Sor­bonne
in Paris. He is a former
teacher at Fairfield, having
been on the faculty here from
1947 to 1950.
Father McGrath replaces Fa­ther
McCall who has been as­signed
to study ascetical theolo­gy
in Austria. Father McGrath
holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psy­chology
and is a member of the
American Catholic Psychologi­cal
Association. He will also be
associated with the Kennedy
Center in Bridgeport.
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Fairfield University's Sodal­ity
of Our Lady had a record
number of sodalists attending
the Summer School of Catholic
Action held September 3-7', at
the Sheraton-McAlpin Hotel in
New York City.
The S.S.C.A. was held under
the theme, "Peace, Unity and
the Hope of Mankind." Fair­(
Continued on Page 4)
It has been announced that seven new members
have been added to the faculty for the coming yeaT.
Of this number, four are members of the Society of
Jesus, one is a secular priest, and the remaining two
are laymen. The Jesuit members include the Rev. Vic­tor
F. Leeber, S.J., who will be the chairman of the
Modern Language Department; the Rev. Thomas A.
McGrath, S.J., the new Director of Guidance; the Rev.
Oliver E. Nickerson, S.J., English professor; and the
Rev. Mr. George V. Babcock, S.J., instructor of
economics.
SEVEN NEW MEMBERS
ADDED TO FACULTY
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Communion Breakfast
Held By Sodality, Fr.
Rooney, S.l. Speaks
On Sunday, May 5th, the So­dality
of Our Lady of Fairfield
University held its annual Com­munion
breakfast. The day's ac­tivities
began at 9:00 A.M. with
the celebration of Mass by Rev.
Joseph W. Murphy, S.J.
Immediately following Mass,
the thirty-five candidates who
successfully completed the
probation period, made their
act of consecration. These men
promised Mary, the Mother of
God, that for the rest of their
lives, they would live the So­dality
way of life.
The new Sodalists then went
to Loyola Hall, where breakfast
was being served. After break­fast,
Rev. Richard Rooney, S.J.,
told the new Sodalists that they
were fortunate to have made
their Act of Consecration at this
time, when the Sodality, was en­joying
a rebirth. He explained
the meaning of this by giving
a brief history of the Sodality.
Next on the list of activities
(Continued on Page 4)
New Students
Hungarian Students Awarded
Scholarships At Fairfield
Fairfield University has a\yarded full scholarships
to two Hungarian students who came to this country
following the re.~volt in their homeland last year.
The grants by Fairfield were~>-------------­made
through the college and
university department of the University Sodalists
National Catholic Education As- Attend Meetings On
sociation in a program super-vised
by the National Catholic Catholic Action
Welfare Conference. Catholic
colleges throughout the nation
are cooperation with NCWC,
the Institute of International
Education, and the World Uni­versity
Service in an effort to
provide displaced Hungarians
with the oportunity for a col­lege
education.
TWO AMONG 142
The students enrolling at
(Continued on Page 5)
Need For Religious
Studies Stressed
UNION CITY, N.J. - "A good
stiff course in religion is the
best break any' Catholic child
can have," the priest-director of
a parish Confraternity of Chris­tian
Doctrine program with an
enrollment of 2,600 students is
quoted as saying in an article
in the September issue of The
Sign, national Catholic maga­zine
published here.
The article, written by Mil­ton
Lomask, describes the pro­gram
of Rev. Lawrence Ball­(
Continued on Page 6)
Unniversity Graduate
Awarded Scholarship
A Fairfield University gradu­ate
has been awarded a two­year
scholarship to the Ford­ham
University school of social
service through a grant spon­sored
by the Catholic Charities
of the Diocese of Bridgeport.
He is Eugene Michael, son of
Mrs. Linda Michael of 29 Stone
St., Danbury. Following his
graduation from Fordham, he
will join the staff of the dio­cesan
Catholic Charities organ­ization.
(Continued on Page 4)
New Freshnlen View
Activities Display
In Xavier Hall
On Wednesday of last week
the incoming freshmen were
introduced to the various extra­curricular
clubs and activities
by means of the Activities
Display program sponsored by
the Freshman Orientation Com­mittee.
Taking place in Xavier
Hall, the display was planned
to give the freshmen a look at
the clubs and activities open to
them as extra-curriculars, and
to provide a close look at the
functions of each group. There
are social, political, religious,
and dramatic clubs, as well as
the area clubs and the special­ized
clubs such as the Business
Club, Mendel Club and Physics
Club.
When confronted with this
display, many Freshmen get
enthused and anxious to take
part in the work done by the
various clubs. This is exactly
the purpose of the display, to
afford the freshman an oppor­tunity
of seeing where he can
use some of his talents, and to
afford the members of the clubs
the opportunity of seeking out
new blood to carryon the work
of the organization. We are
most gratified to see the fresh­men
take an active interest in
the school's clubs, it was to this
end that the display was plan­ned,
but as in other areas of
planning a schedule for your
college years, there are a few
apt tenets which apply here.
When choosing the clubs
which you wish to join, BE
SELECTIVE. Choose the activi­ties
which are related to your
interests and which you can feel
sure you will give ample time
to, so that both the organiza­tion
and you will benefit from
your membership. Also, in se­lecting
the clubs you wish to
join, be selective to the extent
that you do not go "hog wild"
and wind up with more things
on your hands than you can
handle.
When choosing the clubs you
wish to join, BE REALLY IN­TEREsTED.
Be prepared to
give enough time to your ac­tivities
to do a good job. When
you join a group, be prepared
to work with the administra­tive
body of the grotip toward
the desired result. Do your job
in the club with this thought in
mind: the men who now run
the club are not always going
to be there to do so, and some
day the responsibility of the
club will fall into your hands
and the hands of your class­mates;
so learn the functions of
the group and of its administra­tion.
Yours will be the job of
training other men to run the
club after you yourself have
gone.
When choosing the clubs you
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Page Two
Editorials . . .
WELCOME FRESHMAN
Welcome, Class of 19611 You are about to embark
on a four-year voyage which wilL at times, provide you
with moments of joy, anguish and finally - satisfaction.
Sometimes the sea will be choppy while at other mo­ments
you will find it smooth sailing. It is necessary
to have both, because otherwise the,trip would be fruit­less...
The two moments supplement each other. If the
trip proceeded along a smooth course, without stormy
interruptions when you seem to be helplessly adrift,
you would be at a loss. It is at these moments, when
the bottom seems to have dropped out of the boat, that
an individual is called upon to use his persona!
resources.
You should approach this voyage not with the idea
that it is an end, but with the thought that it is a meam
to an end. It is a period in which you mix academic
study with shaping social habits. It is the admixture
of the two which go far in molding your personality.
Above alL you should strive to become a well matured
man.
At first. caution should be observed. Don't rush
into organizations just for the sake of being a joiner.
Be selective, pick the group which will be most bene­ficial
to you. That is, not in a selfish attitude, but pick
a group in which you would best be able to expresS'
yourself. That way both you .and the organization will
benefit from your presence.
It is the aim of the educators at Fairfield to send
forth into the world a well-rounded man, that is, a mar.
concerned not only with the material aspects of lif€
but thoroughly interested in the spiritual motives 07
man. Education is not designed to train a man for ,
high paying job, but to break the surface of man's ap­preciativeness
of life. But this end cannot be accom­plished
mainly by the teachers: it takes the initiative
of the individual to realize this goal. Without your
cooperation the whole program is a barren path. You
are the individual who will benefit most, so thereforE:
it is only natural that you should supply the mosl
initiative.
Learn to face the problems of life, although at thif
time they are minor ones, as a man. Call upon your
own ability to solve any complexities. Develop your
personality and don't let it idle while others face your
problems. It is all a matter of being an indviidual.
THE CHALLENGE
"0 God, give me Wisdom: send her out of Thy
Holy Heaven, and from Thy throne of Majesty, bid her
come that she may be with me, and may labor with me,
that I may now what is acceptable to Thee ..."
This simple prayer should be on the tongue and
in the heart' of every member of the Freshman class as
they take their place in the student body of Fairfield:
that he shall earnestly seek after Wisdom: that in his
Wisdom, he shall foster a d~p and sincere humility.
The truly educated man comes to a realization of how
little he knows, and not how much.
Here at Fairfield you will create an intimate friend­ship
with Christ through your studies. Nurture and
cherish this friendship, and resolve that it shall be the
beginning of a lifelong friendship. Fervently seek
strong faith, true knowledge, that it may lead to a pure
life. When the classrooms of Fairfield are far behind,
pray that your humility and Christlike imitations may
manifest themselves in a secular world which writhes
in torment for need of them.
Yours is the challenge, not for the laggard, not for
the spiritual fadist, but for the Jesuit trained Catholic
who has learned the lesson of Ignatius, to take his place
in the Church Militant. ACCEPT IT.
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By PETE BALDETTI
It was Freshman Orientation night at Sullivan's Bar
a.nd Grille
And a bunch of the boys were whooping it up and
drinking down their fill.
Songs of high hilarity and jokes were all you'd hear,
But somewhere in the shadows a Junior was crying in
his beer.
The gang grouped around the piano and sang "Hernan­do's
Hideaway",
But still there in his lonely booth' the poor boy sat and
cried away.
For hours on end the merry band yelled and stomped
and sang.
"To Sullivan!" cried someone. Then how the rafters
rang!
"Why' thank you, boys!" cried Sullivan. "A great bunch
you all are!"
And a hearty cheer resounded as he jumped up on the
bar.
"The drinks are on me, boys," he cried, as a smile lit
up his face.
He held his beer glass higher and beamed around the
place.
He saw the fellow sitting there: the smile turned to a
frown.
"Mother Machree! What's this I see?" And quickly
he jumped down.
He rushed up to the lad and roared, for he was a hearty
whooper -
"Come on my boy and join the fun. Don't be a party
pooper!
Nothin,g can be quite that bad," the hearty fellow said.
But the other one just sipped his beer and shook his
gloomy head.
"Well then, my lad," said Sullivan, "just tell me all
your woes."
So now the boy blinked back a tear and now he blew
his nose.
Sullivan wrinkled up his face and slapped his back with
zest.
"Come on, come on, speak up my boy, and get it off
your chest."
"Ah, Suny, you're a grand old man, and you give the
heart a lift,
But not even you can cheer me up," the other fellow
sniffed.
In the background now the noisy group was singing
out some ditty,
And over the Illusic the poor boy cried, 'Tm on the
Freshman Committee."
'Tve heard this before, like radio, same story and
station -
I guess you mean," said Sullivan, "Freshman Orien:te.­tion."
"Yes, that's it," the other sighed, as teardrops filled
his eyes,
"And what a day it's been for me you couldn't realize.
It started just this morning, when I went to my post.
I was to greet the Freshmen - you know, act as host.
As they came in, I'd welcome them. That's all I had to
do. ,
I thought for sure it'd be a cinch, though it was some­thing
new.
That's what I thought, but suddenly I heard an awful
roar
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Sept. 26, 1957 THE STAG Pa.ge Three
BOOK REVIEWS
the state universities in Con­necticut
and lectured at many
education and business conven­tions
thru the years. He retired
from the faculty of the Univer­sity
of Connecticut in 1953 and
has taught on a part time basis
since then. He is also connected
with a real estate firm where
he resides in Hartford. He is
married and has two daugh­ters.
Mr. Petry, who will teach his­tory,
is a graduate of Manhat­tan
College. He holds a M.A.
degree in history from Colum­bia
University. He is a member
of the Pax Romano, an inter­national
Catholic Movement
and the American Historical As­sociation.
Mr. Petry is single.
Say, fellows .. I've just registered. Now where are the Squash Courts located?
SEVEN MEN
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t
United States for the past two
years. He received a B.A. degree
in social science from the Gre-
Father Nickerson will be a gorian University in Rome in
professor of freshmen English. 1955. He then received his M.A.
His teaching expenence Ill- at Fordham in 1957 and is now
cludes one year at Fairfield· studying for his Ph.D. He
Prep and two years at Sophia taught in Rome for two years
University in Tokyo, Japan. before coming to the United
Father Nickerson has been en- States. In addition to his stu­gaged
in graduate studies in dies, he is a curate at Our Lady
English for the past three years. of Mount Carmel pansh, Ham-
The Rev. Mr. Babcock, 8.J. den, and he is the American
has been assigned to the facul- correspondent for several Ita­ty
as an instructor of econom- lian Catholic newspapers.
ics. Mr. Babcock entered the so- Mr. Ash, who will teach bus­ciety
in Sepetmber, 1950. He iness, is a graduate of Salem
holds an A.B. philosophy de- State Teachers' College, Salem,
gree from Weston College. Mass. He also holds graduate de-
Father Lanza, who will teach grees from New York Univer­sociology,
has only been in the sity. He has taught in many of
of converts, such as Brownson,
showed promise of establishing
an intellectual tradition in the
1830's, but these early efforts
were destroyed by flood of im­migrants
from an unsettled
Europe.
The problems connected with
fulfilling the religious needs of
immigrants were legion, yet the
size and wealth of the Church
today attest to the success with
which these problems were
solved. Each age has its own
obstacles to overcome. The
major need of Church today, as
Bishop Wright says in the in­troduction,
is for an "apostolate
of distinction.
One of the main faults of the
leaders, lay and clerical, has
been the failure to recognize
the intellectual life as a voca­tion
of its own, "quite apart
from that of a functionary or
representative of Church or of
state." It would be a shame for
the Church, which has most
stubbornly defended the value
and power of the human intel­lect,
to fail to aid now when
the problems facing her are
mainly intellectual.
The ability for just self-criti­cism
is a healthy sign, and the
appearance of Fr. Ellis's book
proves two things: that the
Church is healthy, and that it
has at least one good sr.holar,
Fr. Ellis.
American Catholics and the
Intellectual Life, by John
Tracy Ellis. The Heritage
Foundation. Inc. Chicago.
1956. 59 Pgs.
KEVIN J. DONNELLY
The Catholic Church in the
United States is superior in ma­terial
resources to the Church
in any other country. Only Italy
and Brazil exceed it in num­bers.
Yet the Church has failed
to give national leadership, or
influence intellectual circles in
proportion to its strength. Fath­er
John Tracy Ellis, in his
American Catholics and the In­tellectual
Life. looks into the
causes for this unnecessary
weakness in American Catho­lics.
The problem of the intellec­tual
and America is historic in
its roots. The bias in favor of
the practical and the concrete,
coupled wIth the anti-Catholic
prejudice brought over from
Europe by the first settlers, in­duced
Catholics to withdraw
from the national scene, and
made their intellectuals act
more like '~jefenders of a be­sieged
fortress" than scholars.
The withdrawal was bad
enough, but Catholics being
also Americans, picked up the
anti-intellectual atmosphere of
its surroundings.
The few old Catholic fami­lies
of Baltimore and the type
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Teachers' Mass Held
In St. Augustine's
The fourth annual Teachers'
Mass of the Holy Ghost took
place Saturday, Sept. 21, in St.
Augustine's Cathedral with the
Most Rev. Lawrence J. Shehan,
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University - Sodalists
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field's delegation of sixteen
joined with over five hundred
sodalists from Catholic colleges
and nursing schools in attend­ing
elective courses, and par­ticipating
in workshops and
discussion groups concerning
the Sodality way of life, with
emphasis on, the social apos­tolate.
At a meeting of the New
England sodalists with the
Rev. Edward Stanton, S.J., Re­gional
Director of New Eng­land
Sodalites, the possibility
of establishing a collegiate so­dalists'
union for the New Eng­land
area was discussed.
Of special interest to sodal­ists
from other schools was the
work of Fairfield's Confratern­ity
of Christian Doctrine Com-mittee,
which gives religious in­struction
to C.Y.O. members,
and other public school students
in the Bridgeport area.
Those who attended the
"summer school," with the Rev.
Joseph W. Murphy, S.J., Sodal­ity
Director, were: Robert Dor­in,
Santine Capria, Anthony
Bosco, Richard Lappert, James
O'Connell, Raymond Martin,
John Croake, Philip Calcina,
Hugh Burns, Lawrence Wash­burn,
Peter Negri, Frederick
Miller, John Seery, Paul Cer­voni,
Desmond Sullivan, and
Daniel Comcowich.
Following the S.S.C.A., a
number of Fairfield's sodalists,
together with sodalists from
Holy Cross, made a closed re­treat
at Holy Cross College,
which proved to be a most val­uable
spiritual experience.
THE STAG
COMMUNION also has been a member of the
(Continued from Page 1) Sodality for three years. He has
worked with the Catholic Truth
was an outdoor Rosary, which
was said in front of the statue Committee of the Sodality as
of Our Blessed Mother. Treasurer and then as Chair-
Following the Rosary, all man.
went to Loyola Chapel, where Next year's Treasurer, An-
Father Rector installed Robert
Dorin, '58, as Prefect; Santine thony Basco, has been an active
Capria, '58, Vice-Prefect; Rich- member of the C.C.D. commit­ard
Lappert, '58, Secretary; and· tee. This year Tony acted as re­Anthony
Basco, '59, Treasurer. cording secretary and Chairman
Robert Dorin has been an ac- of the Liturgy Committee.
tive member of the Sodality
since his freshman year. He has
worked with the C.C.D. and
wrote many articles for Flos
Campi. the Sodality Newspaper.
Over the past year he has tak­en
part in a number of panel
discussions. Bob is also active
in the Glee Club, the German
Club and the Veterans Club.
Santine Capria, Vice-Prefect,
Sept. 26, 1957
Bishop of Bridgeport, as cele­brant.
The ceremonies, under the
auspices of the Teachers' So­dality
of the Diocese of Bridge­port,
featured a sermon by
Bishop Shehan.
FIRST PUBLIC MASS
The Teachers' Mass was cele­brated
to beg Divine blessings
on the work of those connected
with education. It is believed to
have been the first public series
of Masses for teachers.
Music was provided by mem­bers
of the Fairfield University
Alumni Choir and the under­graduate
Glee Club under the
direction of Simon Harak.
Dr. Matthew J. McCarthy, a
member of the Fairfield Uni­versity
faculty, was chairman
of arrangements.
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Ignatian Council
Holds First Annual
Picnic In Shelto
The Ignatian Council #4203,
Knights of Columbus, held
their first annual picnic during
July at Indian Wells State
Park, Shelton. Although it was
one of the few rainy days all
summer, the brother Knights
and their guests had an enjoy­able
time. Brother Bill Doyle
and his committee worked hard
to make it a good day for those
who attended.
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by LARRY LESSING
What to look for in '57-'58: Cross country team to have most
successful season in Stag harrier history due to the addition
to the squad of the members of last year's Freshmen ECAC
champs. Frank Connors, holder of the Freshmen course record
which he set last year as he completed the three and· a quarte~
mile course in just over 17 minutes, has a good chance to break
the varsity record this fall ... Intramural program under the
leadership of Jim Scanlon, Buddy Waters and Dick Keating will
be a tremendous success. It is expected that for the second con­secutive
year more than one-half the students will participate
in this program. . . . . . .Basketball squad, which will have more
height, experience and depth this year, will surprise many
people by finishing their toughest schedule with a better than
.500 record. They will battle right down to the wire and could
take the Tri-State Championship depending on how quickly the
team jells into the typical smooth-functioning Hanrahan unit ..
For the first time the Stags will be members of a diamond lea­gue
that will include such clubs as Seton Hall, St. Peters and
Bridgeport. . . . . . The tennis team will at long last be recog­nized
and will take on a full schedule for the first time. Last
year's auspicious debut to active competition should make this
acceptance automatic. The team led by former New York Public
High School champion Dennis Dowd compiled a 2-0 record by
defeating Bridgepore and a good Wesleyan J. V. squad. Joel
Cherrytree, Paul Maguire and Dick Keating along with Dowd
formed the nucleus of this squad Golf will also return to a
varsity level either this year or next. The formation of a golf
squad for intercolligiate competition will depend on the mem­bers
of the University who are interested in this sport and
can prove this interest to the administration. .
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wish to join, BROADEN YOUR
INTERESTS. The lament of
most professors and almost all
of the job interviewers who
come to the campus is that the
men in college today have not
enough scope to their learning,
but rather have learned one
thing well to the exception of
all other interests. You have
come to a school which will im­part
to you not only a course in
a particular field, but also will
prepare you to speak and write
constructively; will give you a
thorough grounding in the
truths of your Roman Catholic
Church, and will give you an
insight into philosophy and his­tory
as well. Choose your ac­tivities
with an eye to gaining
more than knowledge in your
own field. Join at least one of
the religious clubs. For those
who think they may have the
talent, when the Dramatic Club
calls for try-outs, go and try
out. The political clubs offer a
chance to partake in the world
of politics to a degree. There is
the Connecticut Intercollegiate
Student Legislature, and the
National Federation of Catholic
College Students. The language
clubs offer to the student who
is interested a chance to explore
the beauty of famous writings
in his chosen language and to
learn about the cultures and
traditions of the country. Choose
then, not only the clubs which
relate to your field, but also
those which can serve to enrich
your life and increase your en­joyment
of college, as well as
helping to mould you into the
well-rounded man.
Think, then, of what your in­terests
are and also what clubs
you can help the most and can
help you the most during your
stay at Fairfield University.
THEN CHOOSE, WORK, and
CONTRIBUTE TO THE AC­TIVITIES
YOU JOIN, because
you are their next leaders.
HUNGARIAN
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Fairfield D, Jonas Bognar and
Gustav Vojacsek, are among
142 Hungarians who will regis­ter
at Catholic colleges this
month. In addition 95 began
their studies in February.
Bognar, a 21-year-old native
of Veszprem, Hungary plans to
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program, while Vojacsek, 23, is
also expected to enroll in a
science course. He is a native of
Gyor, but was in Budapest at
the time of the uprising in the
Hungarian capital.
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And all at once a motorcycle sped. right down the cor­ridor!
Right along the marble floor it roared and choked and
popped
Until at last with a shriek of brakes in front of me it
stopped.
I rubbed my eyes and looked again - a figure leaped
off the seat.
He wore a black leather jacket and black boots on his
feet.
A black motorcycle cap was pushed back on his head
As he came walking toward me. 'Hi. Daddy-o, , he said.
'Uh, hello, ' I gulped and gasped .He smiled a cheerful
grin.
'Real crazy, man! ' he said to me. 'Come on, give me
some skin.!
So we shook hands and said hello: he seem.ed a friendly
chap.
He had two long black sideburns and 'Elvis' wriUen on
his cap.
'WelL Elvis: I said finally, 'how do you like our school?'
Elvis looked around with awe. 'Man: he said, 'ii's cool! '
Now I could see that for Elvis college life was really
new.
'And besides school work,' I told him, 'there's lots of
things to do.
The Glee Club builds up talent, the Manor and Stag,
careers:
'How about a motorcycle club? Doesn't anyone drag
for beers?'
'Uh, no, ' I said. 'We don't do that. But there are other
things for you. '
'How about a jazz quartet? I play bongos, too. '
'We don't have that, either, Elvis', I said and tried to
smile.
'00 you have a Dave Beck fan club? A rumble once in
a while?
Why man, if you don't have those things you're really
off the beam! '
'WelL maybe so, ' I said and laughed. 'But we've got a
baseball team. '
'A baseball team!' cried Elvis. 'Why, that's not any­where!
'
'And a drama club,' I added. Said Elvis, 'What a
square! '
'Yes, Fairfield is a grand old schooL' I said, and glowed
with pride.
Elvis looked bewildered. 'You mean this ain't U. B. ?'
he cried.
'Why man, I've flipped, I've really goofed!' And he
scratched his side-burned head.
'Well, keep cool cat! ' he cried and waved, and away
again he sped.
WelL thai's the story, Sully:' Again the boy blew his
nose.
Sullivan smiled sympathetically. "WelL that's the way
it goes. .
But smile, my boy, and cheer up, just wipe those tears,
my lad.
Why, losing just one student is really not so bad. "
The boy sniffed and wiped away a tear. "That's not why
I'm crying, Bub!
. By George, first thing tomorrow I'M gonna join a
motorcycle club! "
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weg, assistant pastor of St. Ig­natius
Loyola Church, Hicks­ville,
N.Y. Lomask points out
that while the total parish
population was increasing 140
per cent since 1940, the popu­lation
of its CCD school was
growing 1800 per cent. "The
2,600 enrolled today," he adds,
"represent 90 per cent of all
Catholic boys and girls attend­ing
12 public schools within the
parish boundaries."
"In the beginning," the arti­cle
continues, "CCD classes
were held in any corner of the
parochial school which for the
moment was not being used for
something else. Today, they
meet in a separate ten-room
structure known as the Con­fraternity
Building and devot­ed
exclusively to CCD affairs."
"Today," says the article,
"Father Ballweg has the serv­ices
of 80 regular teachers and
half again as many substitutes.
Today, too, he has the assistance
of two parish organizations.
One of these is the Legion of
Mary, whose members act as
'truant officers' checking on
students who skip class. The
other is the St. Pius X Society,
an organization composed of
parents of CCD pupils, (whose)
members do much of the be­hind-
the-scenes work."
Speaking of. the children,
Father Ballweg says: "Our job
is to find ways and means of
sparking what little remains of
their, shall we say, passion for
education." According to the
article, Father Ballweg succeeds
very well in doing just that,
thanks to his well-cultivated
talent for do-it-yourself visual
aid production. Father makes
his own film strips and tapes
his own lectures that make up
an important part of each CCD
class.
St. Ignatius' CCD even has
its own monthly newspaper
that serves as a running re­minder
to parents of their bind­ing
moral obligation to see that
their youngsters receive religi­ous
instruction.
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TOX, and THIS HALLOW·
ED GROUND are among the
best. All revolutions have a
note of sadness about them,
for they are family arguments
that last for generations. Mr.
Catton has the talent for
catching this feeling in his
books on the Civil War.
There is one revolution whose
effect has been the most far
reaching and this is what is
commonly called the Reforma­tion.
Philip Hughes has writed
about the best book on this sub­ject.
To find its place in the
history of the West you should
also read his Popular History
of The Catholic Church. Chris­topher
Dawson's The Making
of Europe and Etienne Gilson's
essays on Medieval philosophy
will aid you in discovering
what an undivided Europe was
like.
"Had we but world enough"
and space we would have men­tioned
all the books that we had
planned to, but even such an
important thing as a book list
has been known to have suffer­ed
the editor's scissors. We
have included enough ideas to
start two revolutions, but we
have saved the most important
revolution 'til last.
That is the one summed up
in a little prayer: "Lord, re­form
the world, beginning
with me." You might read
THE LIFE OF MAN WITH
GOD by Thomas Verner
Moore, but you should read
THE INTRODUCTION TO
THE DEVOUT LIFE, by
Francis de Sales and the
IMITATION OF CHRIST, by
Thomas a Kempis.
Two other books should be
used to aid you in the transi­tion
from a practicing Catholic
to an accomplished Catholic:
one, a life of the saints which
should be read every day, and
the other, a daily missal which
should also be read daily.
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of his own Sussex County (The
Four Men), both being Belloc at
his best. History was his main
field, however, and you might
let him explain to you How The
Reformation Happened, and
about the French Revolution,
which along with his biogra­phies
of famous people of his­tory,
are his best works in this
area.
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ATTENTION MEN!!!
By KEVIN DONNELLY
Education is not only con­cerned
with earning a living. It
is a common fault of all of us
to pay more attention to the
earning than to the living we
are earning. One of the best
ways to overcome this fault is
by reading.
All education is primarily
self - education. The teacher
can only do so much. He can
give you the facts and the tools
to work with. He can do his
utmost to help you to under­stand,
but it remains for you,
the student, to understand, and
to do that, you must read and
think on your own.
SELECTION OF BOOKS
To aid this great process of
learning, the editors of the
STAG have compiled a list of
books, selected not only to
make you think catholic, but
to be Catholic.
Half the enjoyment of read­ing
comes from making
friends with those who write.
One of the friendliest is Gil­bert
K. Chesterton. You can
introduce yourself to him in
many ways: through his au­tobiography
or Maise Ward's
biography of him. You could
if you choose, eavesdrop on
his conversations: his innum­erable
essays, or listen to his
Father Brown detective stor­ies.
You might try his novels:
for sheer delight, I would re­comend
THE MAN WHO
WAS THURSDAY. His short
sketches of Saint Francis and
of Saint Thomas are also
worth while reading. To real­ly
know Chesterton you
should read the collection of
essays, THE COMMON MAN,
and his book about the most
important historical fact, THE
EVERLASTING MAN.
If you stay with Chesterton
long enough, his friend, Hilaire
Belloc, may come barging in de­manding
his bread, bacon and
beer. If he is in an exuberant
mood, he may tell you of his
walk from Toul, France to
Rome, (The Path To Rome), or
from metaphysics to the worlds
of politics and art. His books
are obviously not light reading,
but it is well worth the effort
to struggle through them. True
Humanism is one which at­temps
to explain how spiritual
principals might be applied to
the temporal order. In Man
and the State he tells why "the
state is for man, not man for
the state." Science ~nd Wisdom
shows the relationship of the
sciences in the order of know­ledge;
in Art and Scholasticism
In Robert Speight's biogra- and in Creative Intuition in Art
phy of Belloc, he tells of how and Poetry he deals with a sub­the
pupils of the Edgebaston ject little mentioned by the
Oratory used to call the head Schoolmen of Medieval times:
of the school "Jack"; "Jack" the relation of life to Art.
being none other than John
Henry Cardinal Newman. STORY OF CONVERSION
While you can laugh and Maritain's wife, Raissa, is al~o
shout about Belloc, you must a writer. It is she who gives us
be quiet about Newman. It is the story of their conversion,
not that he is devoid of a (We Have Been Friends Togeth­sense
of humor, but that you er) and its subsequent effect of
are dealing with a different their new home on their life
man. Newman is probably the and friends, (Adventures in
finest writer of English prose Grace).
and one of the clearest think- It is in WE HAVE BEEN
ers in the English speaking FRIENDS TOGETHER that
world. You can find this to be she tells of the meeting with
so in any of his books: in the man who had the most to
THE PRESENT POSITION do with their conversion,
OF CATHOLICS which was Leon Bloy. There appears to
writed in the hope of remov- be an "unconscious conspiracy
ing many of the prejudices of silence" against this modern
and plain untruths held by prophet, for only one book,
non-Catholics about the Ca- THE WOMAN WHO WAS
tholic Faith. If you are the POOR, appears on library
ambitious type and addicted shelves. This gem is worth
to biting off more than you reading for in it you will dis-can
chew, you might try to cover what Bloy means when
digest Newman's GRAMMER he says that there is only one
OF ASSENT which examines sadness, and that is not to be
the process by which the mind of the saints.
accepts truth, or if you are
the lucky type you might find Bloy is not the only French
French novelist worth reading,
a copy of his novel of fifth there are also Bernanos and
century Christians: CALLIS-TA.
The best of Newman is Mauriac. Nobel Prize winner,
the story of his conversion, Mauriac, is for those who like
APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA, him and his dark novels. I pre-a
ve 1 I t
ry persona reve a I·on f fer Bernanos and his Diary of 0
the steps which took him from a Country Priest.
the Anglican to the Catholic While we are on novels and
Church. novelist, we might speak of
Evelyn Waugh. There are two
Converts have been promin- of his that we would like to .
ent in attesting to the truth of recommend: Brideshead Revis­the
Catholic faith. Along with ited and that pointed satire on
Chesterton and Newman, there California: The Loved One,
is Jacques Maritain, the lead- which incidentally will be the
ing philosopher of this age. His next movie of Alec Guinness.
writings are varied, ranging Edwin O'Conner's The Last
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change that has taken place in
the nature of American politics
and of the last race of an old­time
boss.
CHANGE IN THINKING
There has been a change also
in the climate of American
thinking. The word, Conserva­tive,
has come to mean more
than the Liberal picture of the
man with a big stomach and
wallet. Russell Kirk has been in
the forefront in giving hope to
those who would save what
should be saved while correct­ing
injustices. The Conservative
Mind traces the progress and
voices of the Conservatives
since the French Revolution. A
Program For Conservatives sug­gests
the application of Con­servative
principals to current
problems.
Mr. Kirk is not the first to
speak out against Liberal ex­cesses.
Irving Babbitt in Rous­seau
and Romanticism and in
Literature and the American
College attacked them in the
schools, while his friend, Paul
Elmer More, became the lead­ing
Episcopalian thinker in de­fending
that church from their
onslaughts.
The field of American his­tory
has not been ignored.
The books of Bruce Catton, A
STILLNESS AT APPOMAT-