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RECORD
MARI
ST
COLLEGE
Vol.
II No, 4
Poughkeepsie,
New York
_ Nov.
7, 1961
Dr. David
Barry Discusses:
'The
Role
of Science
in
World
Affairs'
E,
en
i
DI Divis
i •
n
Stndent Council
Plans Elections
Science
Most
Receive
Greater
Emphasis
in Gover11ent
and Education
to Meet·
Ckallenge
On the evening
of November
Z 0th at
6:30p,m,
in the Student
Lounge
of Don-
nelly
Hall,
the Evening
Division
Student
Council
will
hold
its monthly
meeting
for the specific
purpose
of electing
new
officers
to serve
on the Student
Council.
The new Student
Council
will hold office
until
November
of 196Z,
serving
one
full year as specified
in the constitution,
Each
class
of the
Evening
School
is
urged
to appoint
one or two students
to
represent
it on the
Student
Council,
·This
will
assure,
to some
degree,
a
democratic
form
of government
for the
school,
"America
allots
less
than three
per cent of its gross
national
product
to basic
re-
search
and development
in the sciences",
said
Dr,
David G, Barry,
in the second of
this year's
Marist
College
Lecture
Series,
He pointed
out that
one of the greatest
problems
facing
America
today is its deeply-rooted
and unrealistic
attitudes
towards
The Evening
Division
Student Council
is ·the official
representative
of the in-
terests
and opinions
of its
student
body
to the college
administration
on matters
directly
affecting
campus
and
campus
connected
affairs.
In
addition,
it pre-
sents
the views
of the
administration
to
the student
body
and strives
to foster
mutual
understanding
and cooperation
a.D1ong the students
and between
its stu-
dent body and the college
administration.
The
evening
division
Student
Coun-
cil serves
as a regulatory
agency
for
any
evening
division
extra-curricular
activities
and directs
and
coordinates
the extra-campus
a<:tivities
of the stu-
dent body.
Furthermore,
it encourages
and
promotes
the academic
and social
environment
of the college.
The
present
Student
Council
has
made
arrangements
for
a Thanksgiving
dinner
and
dance
to be
held
at
the
Knights
of Columbus
Hall
on
Church
Street.
Saturday,
November
18th from
7
P,M,
to l
A,M,
Tickets
can now be
procured
in the office
of Dr,
Schroeder
or
from
any
member
of the
Student
Council.
Those
serving
on the Thanks-
Literary Journal
Plans
Two
Issues
for This
Year
One of the
ilnportant
extra-curri-
cular
activities
of Marist
College
is the
Literary
Quarterly,
This
journal
pro-
vides the student
with an opportunity
to
express
hilnself
through
the
creative
forms:
short
stories,
essays,
plays,
and poetry.
Last year
one issue
of the
Quarterly
was published.
but two
are
planned
for
this
year,
The
fir st
should
appear
shortly
after
Christmas
and the second
shortly
before
the final
examinations
in May.
The Literary
Quarterly
is a
com-
bined endeavor
of the Day and Evening
Divisions,
All contributions
from
the
student
body will be appreciated,
This
is not a project
for English
majors
only,
those in every
field
are
urged
to con-
tribute,
All
material
for
the
first
issue
must
be
submitted
before
the
December
1st
deadline.
Members
of
the day school
may
submit
their
arti-
cles
to any
member
of the
Literary
Club,
contributions
from
night
school
students
may
be left
at
the
switch-
board,
giving Dance
committe_e
are as
follows:
Mr, Vleming,
Mr,
O'Neil,
Mr.
Fis-
her,
Mr,
Rinaldi
and Mr.
0
1
Gorman.
Future
extra-curricular
activities
which
are
in the
planning
stage
are:
another
Dinner
and
Dance
to be held
sometime
next
spring,
and
a family
picnic
day
next
summer
which
will
climax
the
activities
of
the
school
year,
science,
both
in research
and
in
education,
_
Professor
Barry
pointed
out that
in
a certain
sense
American
thought
has
not yet broken
from the traditions
of the
Puritan
ethic,
in which
all evil visited
upon the world was the wrath
of an angry
God, and all efforts
to ilnprove
the human
situation
were notonlyfutile,
but sacri-
ligious.
This concept was to a large
ex-
tent destroyed
by such men as Boyle and
Newton,
in
England,
whose
ideas
reached
the Continent
and the New World.
to
win
over men like Cotton Mather,
who
in
innoculating
inhabitants
of Boston
to
counter
the
spread
of epidemic,
made
a major
break
with the Puritan
ideal,
But there
were,
and ·still are,
hind-
rances
to this country's
development
in
science
that more
than offset
any pro-
gress
individuals
may have made,
Euro-
peans,
with their
sense
of aristocracy
as ilnportanttothem
as those
of equality
and individuality
are to Americans,
hold
in
esteem
~e
wealth,
leisure,
and in-
·tellectual
curiosity
so necessary
to an
efficient
scientific
community;
for us,
these
characteristics
have
always
been
viewed
with antipathy,
And,
as deTo-
queville
pointed
out in his
analysis
of
the American
character,
this
barrier
to the
advancement
of
science,
and
scholarly
pursuit
in
general,
would
only
be lowered
for
some
practical
gain to be made
from
knowledge--the
exalted
technological
advances,
Amer-
ica• s · tuture
significance
in
science
greatly
depends
on how
successfully
it can destroy
these
barriers,
A
second
great
area
retarding
scientific
advancement,
and one which
Dr. Barry
is acutely
aware
of,
is the
(cont,
on p, Z)
Page Two
The
RECORD
THE RECORD
Editor:
James
Caliahan
Asst.
Editor:
James
Moloney
Advisor:.
Br,
Cornelius
Russell
Is Self -reliance
Getting
Popular
Again
?
Among the "dim-viewers"
there's
been a lot of talk about the
disappearance
of the virtues
that have
always made Americans
want
to be independent,
to "stand
on their
own feet,
11
to shape their
own
destinies.
Sometimes
the "dim-viewers"
seem to be right.
Then,
suddenly,
something
like this happens,
On Sunday,
March
Z6, 1961,
Nature
delivered
a Sunday punch
at Italy,
Texas,
home town to 1200 people.
Tornadic
winds in-
flicted
severe
damage
on the town,
At that moment
no one really
knew what a tough and sturdy
place Italy,
Texas,
is.
In
less time than it takes to pass a money bill in Washington,
Italy's
Congressman
wired an offer of federal
aid,
Italy said,
"No, thanks ! "
.
.
•
··
Here,
in part,
is Italy's
reply;
"City ~ouncil authorizes
me
to thank you •••
Feel Federal
treasu_re
in worse
shape than Italy
and suggest
any allocation
•••
be applied
to national
debt.
II
...
The w6rd got around,
Thousands_ of citizens
everywhe_re
in
the country
applauded
the little
community
for its action.
Italy
was 95% covered
by individually
purchased
insurance
on its storm
damage.
Italy has reduced
taxes
and eliminated
municipal
debt.
Looking
at Italy,
Texas,
and the many Americans
who praised
. its action,
we feel sure the founding
fathers,
though they would
certainly
be shocked
at the state of our Federal
government,
.could
not help but be proud of our people.
(A message
from the Kohler
Co,)
Mais Ou Sont Les Bomshelte~s
d' Antan?
"Almost
nobody talks
seriously
of protecting
civilians
in
a nuc-
lear h6locoust
from heat and blast;
it is widely recognized
that the
best we can do is give them some protection
against
fallout
a good
many miles
upwind."
These
remarks
were ma.de by J. David Sin-
ger recently,
in the Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists,
as background
to support
his thesis
that plans to use shelters
for an all-out
war
would not serve
as a deterrent
of war,
but would,
in fact,
be an-
other
factor
tending
to precipitate
Russian
aggression
with a first
strike.
But the words have an ominous
ring even removed
from
their
author's
context.
The days of the simple
raw fury of the Blitz are gone,
days
when a bombshelter
was a useful
and sane item of defense.
But
now, we no longer
think of defending
ourselves
against
bombs in
a war,
but only·against
a danger
in the sky less noticeable
than a
Los Angeles
smog,
But this fact that a bombshelter
is today a
fallout
shelter,
merely
an attempt
to preserve
some semblance
of
health,
and not an attempt
to shield from blast,
places
much of
the present
debate on shelters
in a new perspective,
It is assumed
that at the instant
the red alert
is sounded,
those without,
in a
state of near panic,
wiU come charging
over to thosewith
an..i de -
mand entrance;
and at this point,
the moralizers
step in to deter-
mine how Christian
or un-Christian
the sheltered
and un-shelter-
ed are in resisting
and insisting,
Actually,
though,
these people
are already
dead.
It is only those hundreds
of miles
from target
areas,
and hours
away from drifting
mushroom
clouds that need
worry
that they will see another
violet dawn,
This fact
is over-
looked.
THE RECORD
is published
every
Tuesday
of the school year,
exclusive
of
vacation
and examination
periods,
by the students
of Marist
College.
Features:
J. Moloney,
Ed.,
G. Hallam,
Asst.
Ed.,
J.
Brennan,
J. Buscemi,
W. Gorman,
T. McAndrew,
J. Mitchell.
Sports:
W. Her[!st,
Ed.,
J. Dworak,
T. Machen,
J. Pizzani.
Make-up:
G. Smith,
Ed.,
A; Campilli,
P.
Hanley,
E. Heller,
K. Knapp,
R. Laliberte.
Circulation:
J. Pizzani,
Mgr.
D. Rolleri.
Nov.
7, 1961
What's what
?
by JOSEPH MITCHELL,
In
time of war, when the ships are
down and ybu are forced
to go into your
fallout
shelter,
are
you going to keep
it to yourself,
or are
you going to let
your next door neighbor
in?
Some
say
yes,
some say no.
Suppose
you know that your
profi-
sions
won't
last
long
enough
to sus-
tain more people than
you have in your
shelter
at the time
of your
retreat
to
it?
Now what
will
your
decision
be?
Suppose
you do not know who is franti-
cally beating
at yourTen
door!
Would
you, just for the sake of humanity,
open
the door?
There
are more angles
to this
than
I have
the ·space
to mention,
but just
the same,
think about the problem
and
formulate
an answer
before
you
read
any
further • • ·• • .- • • • · •. : • • • • . • .
Now that
you have · decided
what
you
would do if thrust
into a situation
simi-
lar
to
that
which
I just
mentioned,
here
is
what
some
of
your
fellow
collegians
said
a.bout it:
No,
if
I built
it,
stocked
it,
and there
are enough provisions
for me alone,
I
could not affort
to let anyone
else in,
Richard
Simon
Yes,
I would feel
sorry
for
them
and
I wouldn
1
t want them to die.
Mort Laffin
No, · because
I built
it
for
myself
and my family,
not the public,
and I
would defend it as such.
Bernie
Lopez
Yes,
because
letting
someone
in my
shelter
does
not mean
certain
death
for any of us despite
the over-crowded
conditions,
And even though
there
is
a
crisis,
you
have
the
immediate
power
to save a life
by letting
these
people into your shelter.
W,
J. Lenahan
No,
due to the law of supply
and
de-
mand.
E, J. Shanahan
(cont,
on p. 3)
BARRY
(cont. from p, l)
education
program,
"The
science
teacher
doesn't
cbnsider
himself
a
scientist-teacher,
but merely
a teac-
her of science".
The.
instructor
must
be urged
to create,
and to expose
his
~cientific
personality
to his
students.
Dr,
Barry
is a consultant
for
the
Research
Foundation
of the State
Uni-
versity
of New York and spoke last Fri-
day
under
the auspices
of the Visiting
Biologists
Program
of the American
In-
stitute
of Biological
Sciences.
He is a
member
of several
scientific
societies
including
the American
Society of Zoolo _•
gists,
the History
of Science
Society,
and the American
Association
of Uni-
versity
Professors.
Serving
as host for Marist
College,
Dr. George
Hooper,
of the Biology
De-
partment,
said: "We are extremely
for-
tunate
in having
Dr,
Barry
speak
at
Marist,
especially
during
recent
scien-
tific advances."
Nov. 7, 1961
THE RECORD
Edward
O'Keefe
Joins
Psychology
Faculty
Dr. Balch Discusses
"L-incoln
Myth
in_
Poetry"
Among the new additions
to the ever
growingfacultyof
Marist
College
is Mr.
Edward
John
0
1
Keefe.
Mr.
0
'Keefe was born and raised
in
NewYorkCity.
There he was taught by
th_e Marist
Brothers
at Bishop
DuBois
High School.
He did his undergraduate
work at Iona College
in New Rochelle,
N. Y •,
where· he received
a Bachelor
of Arts
degree
with a major
in Philo-
~ophy· and a minor
in Psychology.
He
1s presently
doing his graduate
work
in
the field of clinical
psychology
at Ford-
ham University,
N. Y.
c.
Mr. O'Keefe
was married
last
June
and moved to the Poughkeepsie
area
in
August of this year.
Before coming to Marist
our new in-
structor
taught experimental
psychology
at Fairfield
University
in Connecticut.
Besides
teaching
psychology
here at
Marist,
Professor
O'Keefe
and Brother
Daniel Kirk,
also of the Marist
Psycho-
logy Department,
work together
at the
Cardinal
Hayes
Convalescent
Home,
Millbrook,
N. Y.
On campus,
besides
teaching
Psycho-
logy, he is engaged
in the guidance
and
testing
service
available
to all Marist
students.
This program
deals with tes-
ting;
placement,
vocational
co\lllseling,
·
and individual
problems.
Mr. O'Keefe
states
that he is very
pleased
to be here and feels that the col-
lege
has
a
tremendous
potential
for
growth,
He has always' been in favor
of
small schools and feels that.students
h~re
have a tremendous
opportunity
to mature
intellectually
and socially.
He also stres-
sed that there
are all indications
for a
major
in psychology
starting
next year.
Students Participate
in Disaster Drill
On Wednesday,
November
1st, Vas-
sar Hospital
sponsored
a simulated
dis-
aster
in which students
from local
col-
leges
including
Marist,
served
as vic-
tims.
It could
have
resulted
from
a
train
wreck,
bus accident,
or any large
scale
accident
which
would
involve
many
people.
The drill
was set up in·
such a way that the hospital
would ha,;e
to handle
70 patients
at one time,
so
that every conceivable
injury
would
re -
_ ceive all the possible
attention
a hospi-
tal could give.
The "disaster"
took place
at Cent-
ral Hudson
Gas and Electric
Corpora-
tion's
South Road Office where
the stu-
dents involved
were "victims"
of simu-
lated
wounds,
ranging
from
abrasions
to D.O.A.
cases,
with
"blood"
flowing
from the more
seriously
injured.
The alarm
went in at 1 :45 and the
aid arrived
shortly
thereafter.
The in-
jured
were immediately
given first
aid,
by
JAMES MOLONEY
On Monday,
October
30, Dr.
Balch
delivered
the third
lecture
of a series
sponsored
by the Literary
Club,·
Hi's
topic
Wll;B
"The Lincoln
Myth
,in
Ameri-
can Poetry."
Dr_.
·Balch
developed
his
subject matter
by dividing
the poets into
the group which glorified
Lincoln
and the
smaller
group which were· skeptical,
'Walt
Whitman
led the list
of glori-
fiers.
Abraham
Lincoln
had guided
the
CO\llltry through
the Civil
War and then
was suddenly·
assassinated.
With
this
thought in mind Whitman
began the· myth
in his poetry by making
the crucial
iden-
tification
of Lincoln with the nation.
The
identification
was also
made
with
the
crises
of soul which arises
when a half
million
men in a nation
of 20 or 25 ntil-
lion die within
the short
time
span
of
four years.
Edwin
Markham
continued
the myth
by describing
Lincoln
as a
superhuman
man of destiny,
a Christ-
figure
who dies for the people.
Vachel
Lindsay
and Carl Sandburg·
are also
on
the list
of glorifiers.
Lincoln
is built
upto represent
the country-earth
tradi-
tion,
the people,
and
after
the· First
World War,
he is identified
with demo-
cracy,
Previously,
the
emph.-.sis
had
been on internal
ideals;
the war,
how-
ever,
made
people
realize
that
demo-
cracy was something
exportable.
Turning
to the other
side of the pic-
ture,
Edwin
Robinson
was
the. notable
slceptic.
Robinson
was a doubting
and
suspicious
New Englander.
He pointed
out that Lincoi.n
was a minority
presi-
dent
and that
there
was
considerable
opposition
to him.
Robinson
shows that
discrepancies
exist
between
the
fact
and the myth
and
_he
proves
that Whit,-
man's identification
is not entirely
true.
Edgar
Lee Master,
who debunked
the
small town
in
his Spoon River
Anthology,
was another-
of the skeptics
concerning
Lincoln.
The real
Lincoln,
however,
·
tends
to be lost
in the
glorified
myth
which
poets
have
built
up around
Lincoln
in
their
search
for
someone
or something
to represent
a national
cause
of signi-
ficance.
The
yo\lllger
poe~s
writing
after the 1920
1
s have ceased
this
tradi-
tional
practice.
Dr.
Balch
ended
the
lecture
by
inquiring:
"Has
America
lo
st its
sense
of national
purpose?"
and the stretcher
cases
were
taken
to
the hoi:pital
by ambulance.
An emer-
.
gency center
had already
been
set
up
in the cafeteria
and the patients
were
hurl:'ied through ts their respective
treat-
ments.
By 3:30 all of the participants
were thr,ough and the drill. was complet-
ed.
Mr.
Clemens,
the
Assistant
Ad-
ministrator
of the hospital,
was pleased
with the results,
but declined
to make
any formal
statement
before
a
staff
"skull session".
Page Three
I
NTRAMURA
LS
SENIORS 12---PARK
0
by Jimmy Pizzani
Bouncingbackfrom
its opening loss,
a strong
senior
team whipped the unde-
feated
Park
House 12 to O.
The senior
attack was led by Jim Callahan
arid Tom
McAndrew.
Minutes
after the second quarter
got
underway,
the seniors
scored
their first·
touch
down of the
contest
when
Tom
McAndrew
snared
a Jim
Callahan
toss
in the end zone.
The rest of the quarter
saw a hard
fought
defensive
battle
be-
tween the two clubs.
Opening
the third
quarter
Park
House
quarterback
Levi
Carrier
hit end Greg
Tucci
for a fifty
yard gain.
The next play saw the Park
Hou_se bid for a score
shattered
when
alert
senior
safetyman
Tom McAndrew
.
made the defensive
play of the afternoon
with a timely
interception
in the
end
zone.
Driving
down
the field
from
their
own twenty,
the seniors
climaxed
a per -
feet day when for the second time in the
afternoon
quarterback
Jim
Callahan
once
again
calmly
stepped
back
and
threw a perfect
strike
to Tom Connolly
for the final six points.
Patronage
Mass
for Science
Students
On Wednesday,
November
15th,
the
Da Vinci Society
will sponsor
a Dialogue
Mass in ho"nor of St. Albert
the Great,
the Patron
of Scientists.
St.
Albert;
Bishop,
Confessor
and
Doctor
of the Church,
was a thirteenth
century
Dominican
who taught
Thomas
Aquinas
at the
Universities
of Paris
and Cologne.
In 1941,
Pius
XII de-
clared
him the Patron,
before
God,
of
students
of the natural
sciences.
"In this age of nuclear
develop-
ment the responsibilities
and decisions
that face the men of science
emphasises
more
than ever the need of a heavenly
patron,"
Fr.
Driscoll
added.
All science
students
as well as mem-
bers
of the Da Vinci Society
are invited
to attend
the~ Mass
at 12:30 Wednes-
day in the College
Chapel.
WHAT'S WHAT
(cont.
from P• 2)
Nov;-. what do you say?
Has your
opin-
iou changed a little,
have you mellowed?
What would yo~ do?
Some of you would
probably
say that it is something
that
you cannot
just make
cut and dry like
that,
but regardless,
the problem
could
arise,
·and
you could be faced
with it.
Just off the cuff now,
if you do not
like thinking
about the facts of life from
this
hypothetical
viewpoint,
; perhaps
!ou could picture
this happening
to you
instead:
~
are on the outside
bang-
ing to get in.
Would you think any less
of the people
inside
if
they barred
~
from
safety?
,-
November
7, 1961
Page Four
_
THE RECORD
Basketball
Schedule Increased
This Year To 16 Games
Schedule
For 1962
- 63
Presently
Being
Planned
by JOHN DWORAK
Following
a
meeting
last
week
of
the administrative
heads
of
the College.
Athletic
Director.
Brother
William
Murphy.
made
it known that an inten-
sified and concentrated
program
will be
pursued
involving
basketball,
At
the
meeting
the diecuesion
took
in topics
concerning
scheduling
for this
eeaeon
and next.
the immediate
airiuf of the
teams
involving
intercollegiate
compe•
tition and the expansion
of the sport
in
coordination
with the expansion
of the
college.
Thie season's
schedule
is
to include
the old standbys,
such ae Bard and Al-
bany Bueineu
College.
Schools
added
tothisyear's
program
include.
Danbury
State
College.
Ber11hire
Christian
College and the freshman
teams
of Siena
and Springfield
Colleges,
It was
also
made
known that for the
1
62 season
a
nineteen
game
slate ie planned,
Among
the schools
included
in the
tentative
plan
are,
Kings
College,
Hartwick,
Stone
Hill
College,
Bates
College
of
Maine
and New Paltz.
The goal is to
add two or three
new teams
each year
till the proper
calibre
of competition
is reached
and where
it is felt
that
the team
is
playing
to its
lull
potential
against formidable
competition,_
Other team•
mentioned
ae high pro•
specte for future play
are. Adelphi•
Al•
fred.
Hamilton
College,
Siena,
St,
Michael'•
of
Winooski,
Vermont,
Clark
University.
Union
College,
American
lnteraational
College.
Brandeis
and
Lemoyne,
_
In further diecuseingthe
capabilities
of the basketball pro gram Brother Murphy
said that he believed that the school would
reach its
full
athletic
potential
when the
school
reaches
seven
hundred
enroll•
ment,
As -for the talent which this new
plan require_a.
the director
said that he
thought the·
main
portion
would be drawn
from the local area and the New YorJ,;-
New
Jersey
section.
He was anxious
to
note that Mariet
would
not become
a
"pressure
school" and carry the program
to the point
where
it
·may
harm
the
school
and the
students.
By sensibly
undertaking
this plan
he believes
that
through wise management
the college
will
maintain
an interesting
and growing
bas-
ketball
program,
A motion
was made at the meeting
to apply for admission
to the E, C, A, C,
(Eastern
College
Athletic
Conference)
which ie the organ
of the
N.
C, A.
A,
in
Eastern
small
college
affairs.
Till
such time the college
plans
to play as
an independent
and not enter
into
any
league
or conference
competition.
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MARI
ST
COLLEGE
Vol.
II No, 4
Poughkeepsie,
New York
_ Nov.
7, 1961
Dr. David
Barry Discusses:
'The
Role
of Science
in
World
Affairs'
E,
en
i
DI Divis
i •
n
Stndent Council
Plans Elections
Science
Most
Receive
Greater
Emphasis
in Gover11ent
and Education
to Meet·
Ckallenge
On the evening
of November
Z 0th at
6:30p,m,
in the Student
Lounge
of Don-
nelly
Hall,
the Evening
Division
Student
Council
will
hold
its monthly
meeting
for the specific
purpose
of electing
new
officers
to serve
on the Student
Council.
The new Student
Council
will hold office
until
November
of 196Z,
serving
one
full year as specified
in the constitution,
Each
class
of the
Evening
School
is
urged
to appoint
one or two students
to
represent
it on the
Student
Council,
·This
will
assure,
to some
degree,
a
democratic
form
of government
for the
school,
"America
allots
less
than three
per cent of its gross
national
product
to basic
re-
search
and development
in the sciences",
said
Dr,
David G, Barry,
in the second of
this year's
Marist
College
Lecture
Series,
He pointed
out that
one of the greatest
problems
facing
America
today is its deeply-rooted
and unrealistic
attitudes
towards
The Evening
Division
Student Council
is ·the official
representative
of the in-
terests
and opinions
of its
student
body
to the college
administration
on matters
directly
affecting
campus
and
campus
connected
affairs.
In
addition,
it pre-
sents
the views
of the
administration
to
the student
body
and strives
to foster
mutual
understanding
and cooperation
a.D1ong the students
and between
its stu-
dent body and the college
administration.
The
evening
division
Student
Coun-
cil serves
as a regulatory
agency
for
any
evening
division
extra-curricular
activities
and directs
and
coordinates
the extra-campus
a<:tivities
of the stu-
dent body.
Furthermore,
it encourages
and
promotes
the academic
and social
environment
of the college.
The
present
Student
Council
has
made
arrangements
for
a Thanksgiving
dinner
and
dance
to be
held
at
the
Knights
of Columbus
Hall
on
Church
Street.
Saturday,
November
18th from
7
P,M,
to l
A,M,
Tickets
can now be
procured
in the office
of Dr,
Schroeder
or
from
any
member
of the
Student
Council.
Those
serving
on the Thanks-
Literary Journal
Plans
Two
Issues
for This
Year
One of the
ilnportant
extra-curri-
cular
activities
of Marist
College
is the
Literary
Quarterly,
This
journal
pro-
vides the student
with an opportunity
to
express
hilnself
through
the
creative
forms:
short
stories,
essays,
plays,
and poetry.
Last year
one issue
of the
Quarterly
was published.
but two
are
planned
for
this
year,
The
fir st
should
appear
shortly
after
Christmas
and the second
shortly
before
the final
examinations
in May.
The Literary
Quarterly
is a
com-
bined endeavor
of the Day and Evening
Divisions,
All contributions
from
the
student
body will be appreciated,
This
is not a project
for English
majors
only,
those in every
field
are
urged
to con-
tribute,
All
material
for
the
first
issue
must
be
submitted
before
the
December
1st
deadline.
Members
of
the day school
may
submit
their
arti-
cles
to any
member
of the
Literary
Club,
contributions
from
night
school
students
may
be left
at
the
switch-
board,
giving Dance
committe_e
are as
follows:
Mr, Vleming,
Mr,
O'Neil,
Mr.
Fis-
her,
Mr,
Rinaldi
and Mr.
0
1
Gorman.
Future
extra-curricular
activities
which
are
in the
planning
stage
are:
another
Dinner
and
Dance
to be held
sometime
next
spring,
and
a family
picnic
day
next
summer
which
will
climax
the
activities
of
the
school
year,
science,
both
in research
and
in
education,
_
Professor
Barry
pointed
out that
in
a certain
sense
American
thought
has
not yet broken
from the traditions
of the
Puritan
ethic,
in which
all evil visited
upon the world was the wrath
of an angry
God, and all efforts
to ilnprove
the human
situation
were notonlyfutile,
but sacri-
ligious.
This concept was to a large
ex-
tent destroyed
by such men as Boyle and
Newton,
in
England,
whose
ideas
reached
the Continent
and the New World.
to
win
over men like Cotton Mather,
who
in
innoculating
inhabitants
of Boston
to
counter
the
spread
of epidemic,
made
a major
break
with the Puritan
ideal,
But there
were,
and ·still are,
hind-
rances
to this country's
development
in
science
that more
than offset
any pro-
gress
individuals
may have made,
Euro-
peans,
with their
sense
of aristocracy
as ilnportanttothem
as those
of equality
and individuality
are to Americans,
hold
in
esteem
~e
wealth,
leisure,
and in-
·tellectual
curiosity
so necessary
to an
efficient
scientific
community;
for us,
these
characteristics
have
always
been
viewed
with antipathy,
And,
as deTo-
queville
pointed
out in his
analysis
of
the American
character,
this
barrier
to the
advancement
of
science,
and
scholarly
pursuit
in
general,
would
only
be lowered
for
some
practical
gain to be made
from
knowledge--the
exalted
technological
advances,
Amer-
ica• s · tuture
significance
in
science
greatly
depends
on how
successfully
it can destroy
these
barriers,
A
second
great
area
retarding
scientific
advancement,
and one which
Dr. Barry
is acutely
aware
of,
is the
(cont,
on p, Z)
Page Two
The
RECORD
THE RECORD
Editor:
James
Caliahan
Asst.
Editor:
James
Moloney
Advisor:.
Br,
Cornelius
Russell
Is Self -reliance
Getting
Popular
Again
?
Among the "dim-viewers"
there's
been a lot of talk about the
disappearance
of the virtues
that have
always made Americans
want
to be independent,
to "stand
on their
own feet,
11
to shape their
own
destinies.
Sometimes
the "dim-viewers"
seem to be right.
Then,
suddenly,
something
like this happens,
On Sunday,
March
Z6, 1961,
Nature
delivered
a Sunday punch
at Italy,
Texas,
home town to 1200 people.
Tornadic
winds in-
flicted
severe
damage
on the town,
At that moment
no one really
knew what a tough and sturdy
place Italy,
Texas,
is.
In
less time than it takes to pass a money bill in Washington,
Italy's
Congressman
wired an offer of federal
aid,
Italy said,
"No, thanks ! "
.
.
•
··
Here,
in part,
is Italy's
reply;
"City ~ouncil authorizes
me
to thank you •••
Feel Federal
treasu_re
in worse
shape than Italy
and suggest
any allocation
•••
be applied
to national
debt.
II
...
The w6rd got around,
Thousands_ of citizens
everywhe_re
in
the country
applauded
the little
community
for its action.
Italy
was 95% covered
by individually
purchased
insurance
on its storm
damage.
Italy has reduced
taxes
and eliminated
municipal
debt.
Looking
at Italy,
Texas,
and the many Americans
who praised
. its action,
we feel sure the founding
fathers,
though they would
certainly
be shocked
at the state of our Federal
government,
.could
not help but be proud of our people.
(A message
from the Kohler
Co,)
Mais Ou Sont Les Bomshelte~s
d' Antan?
"Almost
nobody talks
seriously
of protecting
civilians
in
a nuc-
lear h6locoust
from heat and blast;
it is widely recognized
that the
best we can do is give them some protection
against
fallout
a good
many miles
upwind."
These
remarks
were ma.de by J. David Sin-
ger recently,
in the Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists,
as background
to support
his thesis
that plans to use shelters
for an all-out
war
would not serve
as a deterrent
of war,
but would,
in fact,
be an-
other
factor
tending
to precipitate
Russian
aggression
with a first
strike.
But the words have an ominous
ring even removed
from
their
author's
context.
The days of the simple
raw fury of the Blitz are gone,
days
when a bombshelter
was a useful
and sane item of defense.
But
now, we no longer
think of defending
ourselves
against
bombs in
a war,
but only·against
a danger
in the sky less noticeable
than a
Los Angeles
smog,
But this fact that a bombshelter
is today a
fallout
shelter,
merely
an attempt
to preserve
some semblance
of
health,
and not an attempt
to shield from blast,
places
much of
the present
debate on shelters
in a new perspective,
It is assumed
that at the instant
the red alert
is sounded,
those without,
in a
state of near panic,
wiU come charging
over to thosewith
an..i de -
mand entrance;
and at this point,
the moralizers
step in to deter-
mine how Christian
or un-Christian
the sheltered
and un-shelter-
ed are in resisting
and insisting,
Actually,
though,
these people
are already
dead.
It is only those hundreds
of miles
from target
areas,
and hours
away from drifting
mushroom
clouds that need
worry
that they will see another
violet dawn,
This fact
is over-
looked.
THE RECORD
is published
every
Tuesday
of the school year,
exclusive
of
vacation
and examination
periods,
by the students
of Marist
College.
Features:
J. Moloney,
Ed.,
G. Hallam,
Asst.
Ed.,
J.
Brennan,
J. Buscemi,
W. Gorman,
T. McAndrew,
J. Mitchell.
Sports:
W. Her[!st,
Ed.,
J. Dworak,
T. Machen,
J. Pizzani.
Make-up:
G. Smith,
Ed.,
A; Campilli,
P.
Hanley,
E. Heller,
K. Knapp,
R. Laliberte.
Circulation:
J. Pizzani,
Mgr.
D. Rolleri.
Nov.
7, 1961
What's what
?
by JOSEPH MITCHELL,
In
time of war, when the ships are
down and ybu are forced
to go into your
fallout
shelter,
are
you going to keep
it to yourself,
or are
you going to let
your next door neighbor
in?
Some
say
yes,
some say no.
Suppose
you know that your
profi-
sions
won't
last
long
enough
to sus-
tain more people than
you have in your
shelter
at the time
of your
retreat
to
it?
Now what
will
your
decision
be?
Suppose
you do not know who is franti-
cally beating
at yourTen
door!
Would
you, just for the sake of humanity,
open
the door?
There
are more angles
to this
than
I have
the ·space
to mention,
but just
the same,
think about the problem
and
formulate
an answer
before
you
read
any
further • • ·• • .- • • • · •. : • • • • . • .
Now that
you have · decided
what
you
would do if thrust
into a situation
simi-
lar
to
that
which
I just
mentioned,
here
is
what
some
of
your
fellow
collegians
said
a.bout it:
No,
if
I built
it,
stocked
it,
and there
are enough provisions
for me alone,
I
could not affort
to let anyone
else in,
Richard
Simon
Yes,
I would feel
sorry
for
them
and
I wouldn
1
t want them to die.
Mort Laffin
No, · because
I built
it
for
myself
and my family,
not the public,
and I
would defend it as such.
Bernie
Lopez
Yes,
because
letting
someone
in my
shelter
does
not mean
certain
death
for any of us despite
the over-crowded
conditions,
And even though
there
is
a
crisis,
you
have
the
immediate
power
to save a life
by letting
these
people into your shelter.
W,
J. Lenahan
No,
due to the law of supply
and
de-
mand.
E, J. Shanahan
(cont,
on p. 3)
BARRY
(cont. from p, l)
education
program,
"The
science
teacher
doesn't
cbnsider
himself
a
scientist-teacher,
but merely
a teac-
her of science".
The.
instructor
must
be urged
to create,
and to expose
his
~cientific
personality
to his
students.
Dr,
Barry
is a consultant
for
the
Research
Foundation
of the State
Uni-
versity
of New York and spoke last Fri-
day
under
the auspices
of the Visiting
Biologists
Program
of the American
In-
stitute
of Biological
Sciences.
He is a
member
of several
scientific
societies
including
the American
Society of Zoolo _•
gists,
the History
of Science
Society,
and the American
Association
of Uni-
versity
Professors.
Serving
as host for Marist
College,
Dr. George
Hooper,
of the Biology
De-
partment,
said: "We are extremely
for-
tunate
in having
Dr,
Barry
speak
at
Marist,
especially
during
recent
scien-
tific advances."
Nov. 7, 1961
THE RECORD
Edward
O'Keefe
Joins
Psychology
Faculty
Dr. Balch Discusses
"L-incoln
Myth
in_
Poetry"
Among the new additions
to the ever
growingfacultyof
Marist
College
is Mr.
Edward
John
0
1
Keefe.
Mr.
0
'Keefe was born and raised
in
NewYorkCity.
There he was taught by
th_e Marist
Brothers
at Bishop
DuBois
High School.
He did his undergraduate
work at Iona College
in New Rochelle,
N. Y •,
where· he received
a Bachelor
of Arts
degree
with a major
in Philo-
~ophy· and a minor
in Psychology.
He
1s presently
doing his graduate
work
in
the field of clinical
psychology
at Ford-
ham University,
N. Y.
c.
Mr. O'Keefe
was married
last
June
and moved to the Poughkeepsie
area
in
August of this year.
Before coming to Marist
our new in-
structor
taught experimental
psychology
at Fairfield
University
in Connecticut.
Besides
teaching
psychology
here at
Marist,
Professor
O'Keefe
and Brother
Daniel Kirk,
also of the Marist
Psycho-
logy Department,
work together
at the
Cardinal
Hayes
Convalescent
Home,
Millbrook,
N. Y.
On campus,
besides
teaching
Psycho-
logy, he is engaged
in the guidance
and
testing
service
available
to all Marist
students.
This program
deals with tes-
ting;
placement,
vocational
co\lllseling,
·
and individual
problems.
Mr. O'Keefe
states
that he is very
pleased
to be here and feels that the col-
lege
has
a
tremendous
potential
for
growth,
He has always' been in favor
of
small schools and feels that.students
h~re
have a tremendous
opportunity
to mature
intellectually
and socially.
He also stres-
sed that there
are all indications
for a
major
in psychology
starting
next year.
Students Participate
in Disaster Drill
On Wednesday,
November
1st, Vas-
sar Hospital
sponsored
a simulated
dis-
aster
in which students
from local
col-
leges
including
Marist,
served
as vic-
tims.
It could
have
resulted
from
a
train
wreck,
bus accident,
or any large
scale
accident
which
would
involve
many
people.
The drill
was set up in·
such a way that the hospital
would ha,;e
to handle
70 patients
at one time,
so
that every conceivable
injury
would
re -
_ ceive all the possible
attention
a hospi-
tal could give.
The "disaster"
took place
at Cent-
ral Hudson
Gas and Electric
Corpora-
tion's
South Road Office where
the stu-
dents involved
were "victims"
of simu-
lated
wounds,
ranging
from
abrasions
to D.O.A.
cases,
with
"blood"
flowing
from the more
seriously
injured.
The alarm
went in at 1 :45 and the
aid arrived
shortly
thereafter.
The in-
jured
were immediately
given first
aid,
by
JAMES MOLONEY
On Monday,
October
30, Dr.
Balch
delivered
the third
lecture
of a series
sponsored
by the Literary
Club,·
Hi's
topic
Wll;B
"The Lincoln
Myth
,in
Ameri-
can Poetry."
Dr_.
·Balch
developed
his
subject matter
by dividing
the poets into
the group which glorified
Lincoln
and the
smaller
group which were· skeptical,
'Walt
Whitman
led the list
of glori-
fiers.
Abraham
Lincoln
had guided
the
CO\llltry through
the Civil
War and then
was suddenly·
assassinated.
With
this
thought in mind Whitman
began the· myth
in his poetry by making
the crucial
iden-
tification
of Lincoln with the nation.
The
identification
was also
made
with
the
crises
of soul which arises
when a half
million
men in a nation
of 20 or 25 ntil-
lion die within
the short
time
span
of
four years.
Edwin
Markham
continued
the myth
by describing
Lincoln
as a
superhuman
man of destiny,
a Christ-
figure
who dies for the people.
Vachel
Lindsay
and Carl Sandburg·
are also
on
the list
of glorifiers.
Lincoln
is built
upto represent
the country-earth
tradi-
tion,
the people,
and
after
the· First
World War,
he is identified
with demo-
cracy,
Previously,
the
emph.-.sis
had
been on internal
ideals;
the war,
how-
ever,
made
people
realize
that
demo-
cracy was something
exportable.
Turning
to the other
side of the pic-
ture,
Edwin
Robinson
was
the. notable
slceptic.
Robinson
was a doubting
and
suspicious
New Englander.
He pointed
out that Lincoi.n
was a minority
presi-
dent
and that
there
was
considerable
opposition
to him.
Robinson
shows that
discrepancies
exist
between
the
fact
and the myth
and
_he
proves
that Whit,-
man's identification
is not entirely
true.
Edgar
Lee Master,
who debunked
the
small town
in
his Spoon River
Anthology,
was another-
of the skeptics
concerning
Lincoln.
The real
Lincoln,
however,
·
tends
to be lost
in the
glorified
myth
which
poets
have
built
up around
Lincoln
in
their
search
for
someone
or something
to represent
a national
cause
of signi-
ficance.
The
yo\lllger
poe~s
writing
after the 1920
1
s have ceased
this
tradi-
tional
practice.
Dr.
Balch
ended
the
lecture
by
inquiring:
"Has
America
lo
st its
sense
of national
purpose?"
and the stretcher
cases
were
taken
to
the hoi:pital
by ambulance.
An emer-
.
gency center
had already
been
set
up
in the cafeteria
and the patients
were
hurl:'ied through ts their respective
treat-
ments.
By 3:30 all of the participants
were thr,ough and the drill. was complet-
ed.
Mr.
Clemens,
the
Assistant
Ad-
ministrator
of the hospital,
was pleased
with the results,
but declined
to make
any formal
statement
before
a
staff
"skull session".
Page Three
I
NTRAMURA
LS
SENIORS 12---PARK
0
by Jimmy Pizzani
Bouncingbackfrom
its opening loss,
a strong
senior
team whipped the unde-
feated
Park
House 12 to O.
The senior
attack was led by Jim Callahan
arid Tom
McAndrew.
Minutes
after the second quarter
got
underway,
the seniors
scored
their first·
touch
down of the
contest
when
Tom
McAndrew
snared
a Jim
Callahan
toss
in the end zone.
The rest of the quarter
saw a hard
fought
defensive
battle
be-
tween the two clubs.
Opening
the third
quarter
Park
House
quarterback
Levi
Carrier
hit end Greg
Tucci
for a fifty
yard gain.
The next play saw the Park
Hou_se bid for a score
shattered
when
alert
senior
safetyman
Tom McAndrew
.
made the defensive
play of the afternoon
with a timely
interception
in the
end
zone.
Driving
down
the field
from
their
own twenty,
the seniors
climaxed
a per -
feet day when for the second time in the
afternoon
quarterback
Jim
Callahan
once
again
calmly
stepped
back
and
threw a perfect
strike
to Tom Connolly
for the final six points.
Patronage
Mass
for Science
Students
On Wednesday,
November
15th,
the
Da Vinci Society
will sponsor
a Dialogue
Mass in ho"nor of St. Albert
the Great,
the Patron
of Scientists.
St.
Albert;
Bishop,
Confessor
and
Doctor
of the Church,
was a thirteenth
century
Dominican
who taught
Thomas
Aquinas
at the
Universities
of Paris
and Cologne.
In 1941,
Pius
XII de-
clared
him the Patron,
before
God,
of
students
of the natural
sciences.
"In this age of nuclear
develop-
ment the responsibilities
and decisions
that face the men of science
emphasises
more
than ever the need of a heavenly
patron,"
Fr.
Driscoll
added.
All science
students
as well as mem-
bers
of the Da Vinci Society
are invited
to attend
the~ Mass
at 12:30 Wednes-
day in the College
Chapel.
WHAT'S WHAT
(cont.
from P• 2)
Nov;-. what do you say?
Has your
opin-
iou changed a little,
have you mellowed?
What would yo~ do?
Some of you would
probably
say that it is something
that
you cannot
just make
cut and dry like
that,
but regardless,
the problem
could
arise,
·and
you could be faced
with it.
Just off the cuff now,
if you do not
like thinking
about the facts of life from
this
hypothetical
viewpoint,
; perhaps
!ou could picture
this happening
to you
instead:
~
are on the outside
bang-
ing to get in.
Would you think any less
of the people
inside
if
they barred
~
from
safety?
,-
November
7, 1961
Page Four
_
THE RECORD
Basketball
Schedule Increased
This Year To 16 Games
Schedule
For 1962
- 63
Presently
Being
Planned
by JOHN DWORAK
Following
a
meeting
last
week
of
the administrative
heads
of
the College.
Athletic
Director.
Brother
William
Murphy.
made
it known that an inten-
sified and concentrated
program
will be
pursued
involving
basketball,
At
the
meeting
the diecuesion
took
in topics
concerning
scheduling
for this
eeaeon
and next.
the immediate
airiuf of the
teams
involving
intercollegiate
compe•
tition and the expansion
of the sport
in
coordination
with the expansion
of the
college.
Thie season's
schedule
is
to include
the old standbys,
such ae Bard and Al-
bany Bueineu
College.
Schools
added
tothisyear's
program
include.
Danbury
State
College.
Ber11hire
Christian
College and the freshman
teams
of Siena
and Springfield
Colleges,
It was
also
made
known that for the
1
62 season
a
nineteen
game
slate ie planned,
Among
the schools
included
in the
tentative
plan
are,
Kings
College,
Hartwick,
Stone
Hill
College,
Bates
College
of
Maine
and New Paltz.
The goal is to
add two or three
new teams
each year
till the proper
calibre
of competition
is reached
and where
it is felt
that
the team
is
playing
to its
lull
potential
against formidable
competition,_
Other team•
mentioned
ae high pro•
specte for future play
are. Adelphi•
Al•
fred.
Hamilton
College,
Siena,
St,
Michael'•
of
Winooski,
Vermont,
Clark
University.
Union
College,
American
lnteraational
College.
Brandeis
and
Lemoyne,
_
In further diecuseingthe
capabilities
of the basketball pro gram Brother Murphy
said that he believed that the school would
reach its
full
athletic
potential
when the
school
reaches
seven
hundred
enroll•
ment,
As -for the talent which this new
plan require_a.
the director
said that he
thought the·
main
portion
would be drawn
from the local area and the New YorJ,;-
New
Jersey
section.
He was anxious
to
note that Mariet
would
not become
a
"pressure
school" and carry the program
to the point
where
it
·may
harm
the
school
and the
students.
By sensibly
undertaking
this plan
he believes
that
through wise management
the college
will
maintain
an interesting
and growing
bas-
ketball
program,
A motion
was made at the meeting
to apply for admission
to the E, C, A, C,
(Eastern
College
Athletic
Conference)
which ie the organ
of the
N.
C, A.
A,
in
Eastern
small
college
affairs.
Till
such time the college
plans
to play as
an independent
and not enter
into
any
league
or conference
competition.
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