RECORD
MARI
ST
COLLEGE
Vol. II No.6
Poughkeepsie,
New York
December
5, 1961
Theatre
Guild
to
Present:
'An
Evening
with
Eugene
O'Neill'
T~e
Loug
V1yage
He■e
11d
11
the
Zo1e,
Featured
by THOMAS McANDREW
Two one-act
plays written
by Eugene
O'Neill
will be presented
December
8th
and 9th at 8:15 P.M. jn the school
audi-
torium
by the Marist
College
Theatre
Guild.
The
plays,
The Long Voyage
Home
and
In
the Zone,
are
considered
~g
O'Neill's
better
efforts,
and_both
deal with a theme
concurrent
in most of
his plays,
the sea.
The Marist
College
Theatre
Guild,
the oldest-
organization
on campus,
was
formed
three
years
ago by a few mem-
bers of the present
junior-senior
classes.
Brother
Joseph
Belanger
served
as the
group's
moderator,
a position
he still
holds
today,
and
directed
the
club's
first
production,
Samuel
Beckett's
avant-garde
play
Waiting
for
Godot,
in
1960.
In
the
spring
of 1961,
the
Theatre
G-cild presented
Paul
Vincent
Carroll's
The Wise Have
Not Spoken,
which was locally
acclaimed
as one of
the area's
finer
productions.
Mr. James
Britt,
who
directed
The
Wise Have Not Spoken,
joined
the staff
of the group in December
of 1961.
Be-
fore
coming
to Marist
some
of Mr.
Britt's
experiences
include:
president
of the Nutley
Little
Theatre
in Nutley,
New Jersey;
resident
director
of the
Milford
Playhouse
in Milford,
Conn.;
and company
director
_for both the Carou-
sel Playhou11e in Branford
and the Net-
mug Theatre
in New Haven.
Mr.
Britt
will
direct
In The Zone,
and serve
as supei:vising
director
for
The Long Voyage
Home.
In
an inter-
view this
week Mr.
Britt
said,
"The
importance
of these
O'Neill
plays
is
that
we are
fulfilling
the
purpose
of
the Theatre
Guild
by presenting
to the
campus
and the
community
plays
of in-
terest
and excellence."
(cont.
on
p.
4)
Photo
- Martin
Mara
Student
Director
Richard
Kearney
(standing)
explains
a point to Thomas
McAndrew
,Ge~ald McKenna
and Jaime
Pugliese
in a scene
from The Long Voyage
Home.
Kearney
to
Direct "The Long
Voyage
Home"
Richard
J. Kearney,
21, son of Mr.
and Mrs.
James
B. ·Kearney
of Staats-
burg,
New Yor.k and a senior
here
has
~een selected
to direct
The Long Voyage
Home,
one of Eugene
O'Neill's
plays
~uledfor
presentation
December
8th
and 9th in the College
Auditorium.
Mr.
Kearney's
background
for the post in-
cluded a former
presidency
of the Na-
tional
Forensic
League.
He
studied
speech
and debate
under
Miss
Lucille
Stephens
at Poughkeepsie
High School
from
which he graauated
in 1958.
He
also studied
at the University
of Mexico
this past summer.
Since
his initiation
into the Marist
College
Theater
-Guild,
Mr.
Kearney
has held responsible
positions
as Busi-
ness Manager
and Vice
President
of
theGuildand
is currently
Student
Direc-
·
·tor.
He has participated
in Waitingfor
Godot,
by Samuel
Beckett
and The Wise
ffiwe
Not Spoken by P. V. Carroll,
two
other Guild productions.
The Student
Director
Program
was
·recently
instituted
at Marist
by
Mr.
James
B:r1tt,
Guild Director,
"to fos-
ter a finer understanding
of the Drama-
tic Arts,
as
well
as establishing
the
qualities
of leadership
and
articula-
tion
for
a
well-rounded
education."
Mr.
Kearney,
who is majoring
in
Spanish
at the College,
is planning
a
career
in the Dramatic
Arts
with
em-
phasis
on Spanish
Drama.





























Paae
.Two
THE RECORD
The
RECORD
Editor:
Jamee
Callahan
As ■ t,
Editor:
James
Moloney
Advisor:
Br, Corneliu•
Russell
The
Locus
of Reality
A common idle wi•h of a young boy (and often that of those
in loco parentis)
is that suddenly boom he
will be. a man, blitzed
with a full complement
of phy•ical
and mental power•;
a micro-
co•mic
Big Bang,
But he
b
bound, aa he well knows,
like a
snail to growth by imperceptible
accretions
of adipose and grey
matter,
His one last hope
b
given by Hobnea 'livben: he said that
a mind when stretched
by an idea can never return
to its origi-
nal size,
1£
he can po••ibly
encounter
a few of these ideas his
idle wish will perhaps
not be •o idle.
It seems that the ideas that have thia particular
.ability
to
expand the mind come in
two
varieties,
We could conceive
of
a cranium
being suddenly and steadily.expanded
equally in all
_directions
like perhaps
a balloon being inflated,
(Thia ~uld
perhaps
correspond
in a •ort of obscure
analogy to a compre -
hensio~ of a whole truth at one tune.)
It is commoner,
how-
ever,
for intellectual
expansion
to take on a more violent as-
pect,
as
perhaps
a leaC,. weight furiously
and haphazardly
striking
the extremities
of the hollow pate and creating
a-con-
glomeration
of lump• and bruise•
on what is now,. of course,
an
enlarged
surface. containing
a suddenly augmented
mental
volume,
This last experience
was probably
had by moat at-
tending the Mariat lecture
recently
given by Dr. Maurice
Baudin;
For hi• contribution,
as he himsel!·saw
it,
was
not
that what he was saying was to have eternal
validity but that
instead his thoughts and words were mainly a stimulus,
And
he
waa
amazing,
charging
his words with a mauive
but rec-
tangular
background!
one in which breadth
outweia}led depth
but only because
hie breadth
gave indicatioA11 of being limit-
leils.
The students
and faculty present,
.at
least those able to
comprehend
his lecture's
fundamental
m~aning1,
must have
_felt
a certain
violent expan•ion
110 contra11ttn1 with the 10
neceHary
day by day accretions
to knowledge ol!taineci in the
classroom.
ProfeHor
Baudin
in
speaking
of the theatre
had
alluded to RouHeau'•
consideration
of the theatre
a•·
being
socially
bad because
by its prese])tation
of a concentrated
reality
it makes man UJ,l&ble or unwilling to bear·_the drab
·
real reality.
Of
thi•
man and fo:i:-tunately
10
many other•
the same can be said.
THE
RECORD
is publi11hed every Tuesday of the scl&ool year,
ezclu•ive
o!
vacation
and examination
periou,
Dy the students
of Marist
Colleie.
Featurea:.
J.
Moloney,
.Ed,~.
G. Hallam, Ant.
J:d.,
J.
Bremaan,
J.
Bu11gemi
'W,
Gorman,
T.
McAlldrew,
J.
Mitchell,
Sport•:
'W.
ller1-at,
Ed.,
J.
~
T •. Machen,
J,
Pisunl.
~ak••up:
G, Smith, Ed.., A, Campilli,
P,
Hanley,
E, Heller,
K. Knapp, R,
~.,aliNtte.
Cirt:ulation:
J.
Pissani,
Mar,
D.
R.olleri,
Dec.
S, 1961
Edi
tor:
Dear Editor,
For the past few week• you have been
chiding
us for• our
.
complacency
and I
think that your remarks
are uncalled
for.
Because we have ,uch an outetand.ing
re-
cord
of praieeworthy
achievements
I
think that somebody
should co~gratulate
us.
We have done a fine Jo~ ao far this
year,
We are a great• group of guys; we
are, without a doubt, the finest men ever
gathered
in one group,
Marist
will
never again have four
classes
compar-
able to oµr1.
Mr. Editor,
I have to say it again,
we are really great •. Qur record
prove
1
that we, the students
oJ,
Marist
College,
act as a strong ·unit,
with an esprit
de
corps that has no comparison.
We must
·
really
shock
the faculty!
Our
intra-
mural program
ia
an
outstanding
example
of student
participation.
Brother
Wil-
liam calls it nothing leBB than
11
,,.
ama.s-
ing', •.
11
He thinks that it ia really
won-
derful
that we can play
•uch
exciting
intramural.
football
games
with
only
■ ix
or seven men on a •ide,
A reli-
able source has assured
me that
prob-
ably not more
than three-quarters
of
the bowling
matches
that
have
been
scheduled
have been
won by forfeit.
Indeed,
this record
is remarkable
I
As further
proof of our sincere
in-
terest
in Co,llege activitiea
I ~ould like
to cite
our attendance
at the· lecture
series
sponsored.by
the Literary
Club,
These
.lectures
have
obviously
won
our wholehearted
!Jupport:
·
Of course,
at ti.mes,
·
the
student
brothers
out-
_
nwnber
ua at these
afternoon
affairs,
but this
is
to be· expected
because
they
were here before
u•.
Our
attendance
at the evening
lecture
aeries
leaves
observers
spellbound.
Whenfifteenindividualsout
of appro-
ximately450
submitted
articles
for pub-
lication
in the Quarterly,
the Literary
Club
was
dumbfounded,
figuratively
•peaking
of course,
Members
of the
Club said tha_t they had never
realized
that such a large
number
of students
are int~re_ated in writing,
and that they
are really,
really
overwhelmed
by the
re•ponse
to date.
The Club ha•
asked
me to express
their
deepest
thanks
to
you for. your enthusiasm.
Concerning
intercollegiate
basket-
ball,
I
think that it
is safe to say that
our attendance
at home and away g&Jne1
will not disappoint
the team,
the Var-
•ity Club or Brother
William
because
they have seen examples
of our extra~
ordinary
spirit
in the intram~ral
pro-
gram.
Complacent
is hardly
a
just
word
to describe
our reaction
to the Christ•
mae.
<;•rd chive.
·
The
gentlemen
in
the bookstore
have aHured
me that
if
•ales
continue
at their
present
rate'
they will not know what to do,
1£
an-
othe~. ten boxes of card•
are
sold
the
Student Council will be able to offer a
·(cont.
on p. 3)























Dec,
s;
1961
BASKETBALL
The announcement
by Ba·rd College
last week that it was dropping
its bas-
ketball
program
left
a blank
in
the
Marist
schedule,
The
College
had
planned
a home
and
an
away
game
with Bard
this year,
It is very
diffi-
cult. to
'get
a replacement
game
for
the schedule
at this late
date,
but th~
athletic
department
has several
pros -
pects.
A new
game
has
been
added
to the
slate
since
it was
first
pub-
lished,
a home
game
on January
6,
with
Nyack
Missionary
College,
at
8:00
P._M •. The loss
of Bard
and the
addition
of Nyack brings
the
schedule
down ~o fifteen
ganies.
Journal Doubtful
The
Literary
Club
has
confiden-
tially
informed
this
reporter
that the
issue
of the Quarterly
scheduled
for
January
may
not be published.
The
reason
given was
lack
of interest
by
the student body,
The publication
date may have to be
pushed
back
into
February,
at
the
earliest.
The Quarterly
is
composed
of a minimum
of twenty-four
pages.
To
date,
only thirty-four
pieces
have been
submitted
for consideration,
Many of
these
are poems
consisting
of five
to
ten lines.'
At the present
time the Club
believes
that it will be impossible
to
gather
adequate
material
of quality
to
fill an entire
issue,
The purpose
of the Quarterl_y
is to
encourage
the
students
to
write
by
giving them an opportunity
to have their
material
published,
Only fifteen
men
have taken advantage
of this opportunity.
The Administration
of the College
and
the Student Council
has already
appro-
priated
sufficient
funds
to
cover
the
cost of the printing
of two issues·
of the
Quarterly.
The inhial
plans
have been
made
but tliey
cannot
be carried
out
without your help,
If the Quarterly
is to be published
this
semester
additional
articles
must
be submitted
no later
than December
11.
Short stories,
essays,
plays,
and poems
are urgently
needed.
Entries
for con-
sideration
may be given to any member
oftheClubor
to Mr, Sommer,
The men
in the Evening
Division
may leave
their
articles
·at the switchboard,
LETTER
(cont,
from p.
Z)
five dollar scholarship
to some
deser-
ving student.
Five
dollars
is a size-
able grant by any man's
standards.
Mr. Editor,
I hope that I have
con-
vinced you that your
remarks
have ab-
solutely
no bearing
on our present
stu-
dent body so that in the future
we will
not be forced
to read
any more
ridicu-
lous remarks
about this subject
in your
editorials
I
In conclusion,
let me
remind
you
THE RECORD
Convocation
Held
by JOSEPH
BRENNAN
Last
week Marist
College
had
its
first
convocation
of the year.
The pur-
pose of the convocation
was to announce
various
activities
that were
coming
up
during the school
semester.
Jim Coombs
began by telling
us about the blood bank
which was recently
set up for the stu-
dents and their parents.
Another
topic
of interest
was
th~ scholarship
fund
that is being
supported
by the sale of
Christmas
cards.·
Brother
William
Murphy
spoke
on
teacher
certification
and the need
in
the ·Mid-Hudson
.
area
for
qualified
teachers
in
the
fields
of
English,
mathematics,
and
foreign
languages.
Brother
Murphy
·who
is the
direc-
tor
of
athletics,
introduced
to
the
student
body
Mr, George
Strba,
the
new coach
of the basketball
team.
Mr,
Strba
informed
us
that
the
teani's
spirit
toward
the
game
and
their
great
cooperation
bad
done
much
to-
ward
helping
him
·
build
a
strong
team upon which he could rely.
Walter
Herbst
told
the
students
where and how they would be able to pur-
chase
tickets
to the basketball
games.
The tickets
can be purchas_ed
from Wal-
ter Herbst,
Jim Pizzani,
Terry
Macken,
Tom Rotolli,
Ed DiSanto and Tom Tro -
janowski.
The convocation
ended
with a short
lecturefrom
Brother
Paul Stokes on the
importance
of keeping
the. school
clean
and a reminder
that latenesses
add
up to
failures!_
!
I
Resident
To
Sing
Students
At Hi gb Mass
Page Three
8t_r,a B1,ef1I
al
Wi11i11
8eas11
Marist
Head Basketball
Coach George
Strba made known today that he is opti-
mistic
a·bout the coming basketball
sea-
son at the Poughkeepsie
College.
"For
a first
year
oi
organized
basketball,
Marist
will floor a representative
team
that has experience
and hustle."
The Red Foxes open their
season
at
Lenox,
Massachusetts
this
Saturday
night against
Berkshire
Christian
Col-
lege.
Since
Bard
College
announced
recently
that
they
were
dropping
the
sport,
the first
scheduled
home
game
will be against
Albany
School
of
Phar-
macy
on the Marist
gymnasium
floor
on Tuesday,
DecemberlZth,
at
8:15 P,M.
The
tentative
starting
lineup
for
the Red Foxes will see Bob VanAernum
of Hudson Fall,
N,
Y. and John Calla-
han of Poughkeepsie
at the guard
posts,
Tom
Trojanowski
of Pottstown,
Pa,;
and John Romeo
of Port
Jervis
at the
forward
positions
and Fred
Weiss,
ex-
Roosevelt
star
from
Clinton
Corners
at the center
spot.
Other
squad members
include
Ernie
Miscione
and Sam Maneri
of Pough-
keeps•ie,
WaltBarisonek
of Roselle,
N.J.,
Don Murphy and Dave Flynn
of Beaco~,
Ed Murray
and Bill Heller
of New York
City, Ron Franks
of Springfield,
Mass.
Terry
Macken
of Ossining,
Jim
Daley
of Peekskill
and Mike Ryan of Kingston.
The Managers
are
.
Dan Verrico
of
Spring Valley,
Charles
Reitter
of Chat-
ham and Stan Vfaryas
of Poughkeepsie,
Athletic
Director
Brother
William
Murphy
said attempts
are being made
to fill the two Bard College
ganies which
were recently
cancelled.
Brother
Murphy
also announced
that
Dr,
J. E, McCambridge
will be teani
On the feast of the Immaculate
Con-
physician
and Robert
Norman
will
be
ception,
December
the eighth,
the Re-
publicity_ director
for_ the team.
sident
Students
of the
College
will------'------_;..
_______
_
sing a High Mass
in
the College
Chap-
\I'
hat I
8
,
I
he
War
I
h
Of
J
el at ten o'clock
in
the morning.
The
-extracurricular
activities
congregational
choir
will
be under
in science
the
direction
of Brother
Richard
La
-a B.A. in Science
Pietra,
The High Mass
will be cele-
-extracurricular
activities
brated
by
the
College
Chaplain,
tQ
Graduate
school
and
Father
Driscoll,
0. P.
according
to
industry
the Dominican
rite.
"Daily
and Sunday
Dialogue
Mass
have been
in effect
since
the begin-
ning
of the
school
year.
This
will
be
an
opportunity
for
our
resident
students
to
take
another
step
for-
ward in the participation
of the Litur-
gy of the
Mass."
said Father
Dri ■-
coll.
once again Mr,
Editor
that
we are
a
great
group
of guys,
and that
if those
who come alter
us follow
in our foot-
steps,
Marist
College
will be the· most
talked about men's
college
in the Mid-
Hudson area,
Sincerely,
Will
Donutin
1-iost graduate
schools
and
industri.es
requ-r_re extracurric-
lar
activities
i.n tl-e ·r major
f{_eld.
How can rou Increase
this worth?
PARTICIPATE
1-eet people
who write
t~e books
Greet
people
in industry
See 1$Cience in act;.on
Join the
da.
V":l.1110:I.
t!!loc:1.e-cy





Page
Four
THE RECORD
Dec,
5, 1961
Running
Track
to
be Ready
for
use by
Spring of
1962
Intramural
Track
Program
Being
Planned
by JOHN DWORAK
Marist
College
took another
step to-
ward establishing
a full sports
program
by announcing
plans for track
and field
facilities
to be constructed
immediate-
ly.
It was also made known that this
is
the first
move
in an ambitious
plan
to
establish
a sports
area
on the south sec-
tion of the campus,
Brother
William
Murphy
said
that
there
was a need
and an interest
in a
second
spring
sport
and
track
and
field
was
the
logical
choice,
The
track
is to be built on the ground
known
as St.
Mary's
field.
Construction
has
already
begun
and
the
surveyor's
re-
port
on the
positioning
of
the
track
is expected
soon.
The track
is to be a quarter
mile
oval
of
cinder
composition.
Actual
laying
of the
track
bed
will
begin as
soon
as
grading
is
completed.
The
work
is to be done
by the brothers.
Brother
Murphy
made
a point
to note
that several
of the brothers
have much
experience
in this
type of work
and a
quality
job is insured.
The interior
of
the oval will
contain
the
jumping
pits
and
pole
vaulting
equipment.
Also
within the center
will be an area marked
off for soccer
play.
Participation
in track
and field will
begin this spring
and will be conducted
on an intramural
basis
till a schedule
can be set up.
However,
it is possible
that there
may be several
outside
meets
this
spring,
Grandstands
will also
be
built around
the track.
Brother
Murphy
said that this
was
only the first
step
in the
establishing
of a sports
area
in that
part
of the
campus,
Eventually
there
will be six
tennis
courts
and volley
ball
courts
in
service.
Not
in
the
immediate
future,
but
projected
plans,
call
for
the
construction
of an
outdoor
hoc-
key rink,
The
intramural
football
program
is also
considered
in these
plans
and
areas
have
been
designated
where
the
land
will
be graded
and marked
for
this purpose.
Returning
to the
topic
of soccer,
Brother
Murphy
said that
if
interest
is
shown.in
the sport,
there
is a possi-
bility for several
games
in the coming
fall semester,
This
will only be pos -
sible
if
the track
has
been
completed
and the interior
of the oval has
had a
see
what's new at the bookstore
chance
to bear
grass
that
can
take
the punishment
of a game.
"AN EVENING
WITH EUGENE
O'NEILL"
(cont,
from p. I)
In an interview
yesterday
on WKIP
by Helen McRedmond,
Gerald
McKenna,
Brother
Joseph
Belanger
and
Jatnes
Britt
discussed
the itnportance
of the
activity
in respect
to the College.
"The
primary
function,"
said Mr,
Britt,
"is
to produce
a more
articulate
Catholic
layman,
one of poise,
confidence
and
an extended
interest
in the humanities."
The members
of the cast
for both
productions
are:
Peter
Bruno,
Philip
Bruno,
Dennis
Feeney,
Eric
Olsen,
Carl Mazzo,
Dick
Kearney,
Gerald
McKenna,
Thomas
McAndrew,
Robert
Graziano,
James
Coombs,
Dan Fogarty,
Robert
Snyder,
Laurie
Shea,
Pat O'Con-
nell
and Jaime
Pugliese.
The
assis-
tant directors
are Kathie Smith and Ed-
ward Mikula,
The staff for the other
departments
are:
House
Manager,
Joseph
lanelli;
Sets,
David
Donaghue,
Joseph
Greco
and Louis
DuBourbon;
Design,
Kenneth
Heiman;
Special
Effects,
Gary
Smith;
Props,
Mary Ann Guglielmo.