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VOL. Ill MO. I
MARIST .COLLEGE
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POUGHKEEPSIE
1
NEW YORK 12601
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APRIL 20, 1967
Gene Doerflinger:
Student Recovering
From Auto Accident
Eugene Doerflinger is aJunior
math major at Marist College.
This Saturday will mark the sixth
week of his stay in the Intensive
Care unit of St. Francis Hospital.
At 1:00 A.M.onMarch4,Doer-
flinger and two of his friends,
Joseph Tighe and Walter Kuhn,
left Kuhn's home to pick up some
cigarettes. Tighe drove the 1966
Ford Fairlane, Kuhn sat in the
front seat,
and
Doerflinger took
the back seat behind Kuhn.
Bro. Linus
Foy
Man
of Year
Last Sunday, Bro. Linus Foy,
President of Marist College, was
honored
by
the Poughkeepsie
Chapter of the B'nai B'rith for his
interest in the community, and,
in particular, for his part in the
Jewish-Catholic Dialogues held
on the Marist campus.
The "Man of the Year" award
was presented to Bro. Foy
by
Mr •.
Sidney Rosen, outgoing pres-
ident of the B'nai B'rith, at a
ceremony witnessed by over 200
people.
This distinction is an
indication that the interests of
Marist's president
do
not stop
,
at the campus gates.
BROTHERS FOY, CASHIN
ELECTED DELEGATES
BRO. LINUS FOY
Will Represent U.S. Marists
At Rome This Fall
Brothers Linus
:(l.
Foy and Ed-
•
ward L. Cashin, respectively
Marist College's President and
Academic Vice-President, have
been elected as delegates to the
General Chapter of the Marist
Brothers being held in Rome this
fall.
The Marist Brothers hold a
General
Chapter
every nine
years.
It
is a convocation of ma-
jor superiors and Brothers elect-
ed to represent the members of
the congregation throughout the
world.
Each of the over fifty
provinces of Marists elects two
delegates to the Chapter. Bro.
Linus and Bro. Edward are two
of the four American delegates.
as President during the 1961-62
school year while Bro. Linus was
writing his Ph.D. thesis. A fac-
ulty member at that time, now a
member of the administration,
_
recollected that Bro. Daniel was
"very nice, very gracious, very
-calm ••• I can•t remember a single
unpleasant
thing
that happened."
However, Bro. John is next in
line for the job since the post of
Academic Dean ranks directly
under that of Academic Vice-
President.
The car, travelling at an es-
timated speed of thirty-five miles
per hour, hit an ice patch on Route
9G, about ten miles north of
Poughkeepsie. The nose of the
vehicle skidded towards the right.
Tighe pulled out of the skid only
to have the car shoot to the left
side of the road. The front of the
car slammed into the guard wire
at an angle, and "whipped" the
left side of the vehicle into the
adjacent guard rail. The impact
threw Doerflinger across the
back seat, gashed the left side of
his head with the coat hook above
the door
I
and
fractured both the
base of his skull and his scapular
bone.
New Student Government
Ma-kes Initial Moves
Bro. Edward stated that the
main function of the Chapter
would be to re-examine the goals
of the Marist Brothers
and adapt
them to conditions in the present-
day world. The ChaptentJJ. make
every effort to "implement the
No one knows exactly how long decisions of Vatican II"
and
come
the Chapter will last, but the two to grips with problems affecting
men will probably beabsentfrom the Church
today.
Poughkeepsie from August until
mid-October. Duringthis.period,
A third faculty member, Bro.
it is expected that the college Gerard Weiss,
will
attend the
Tighe and Kuhn were both in a
state of semi-shock, but sustain-
_
ed no serious injuries. Tighe
managed to drive the car the half
mile to Kuhn's home and an am-
bulance was summoned.
·
At St.Francis,Doerflingerwas
given no hope. His parents, who
reside in Massapequa, Long Is-
land, were notified
and
reached
the hospitalat7:30A.M. Atll:30,
Gene's
breathing
rate
was
dangerously
high
and his tem-
perature was 107 degrees.
A
tracheotomy (the incision of the
trachea in order to make an ar-
tificial breathing hole) was per-
formed,
and
his temperature
and
breathing rate started to return
to normal.
By Monday, those caring for
Contfnued on Page 7
Honor Society
Founded
The 1967-68 Student Govern-
ment met for the first time on
March 13th. At this meeting, the
Grievance Committee was re-
named the Student Opinion Board,
and will be headed by Joseph
O'Connell.
Other appointments
were: Bill Henn, Secretary Gen-
eral· Bob Scott and TomHagger-
ty, Student Curriculum Commit-
tee;
and Richard Guglielmo,
Chairman of the Social Commit-
tee. Also, Ed Hammond was re-
appointed to serve as Attorney
General until completion of the
school year.
At the March 20th meeting, the
Council discussed the Faculty
Recognition Dinner and plans for
the new Disciplinary Board. The
Junior Class was given the auth-
ority to take over publication of
the Arrow, and this project will
be subsidized by the Council.
The Social Committee discussed
plans for the upcoming Spring
Weekend to be held the last week-
end in April.
The first meeting after the
Easter recess was held on April
5th. The Council was informed
that the Judiciary amendment
will '"run itself'• through its es-
Chapter in the capacity of trans-
would appear on the ballot of the
tablished governing apparatus __
lator. His task
will
be to trans-
April 19th Student Government the Policy committees, faculty late, from Spanish to English, the
election. Danny Kuffner reported
organizations and the Student highlights of discussions and con-
on his project of having students
Government.
rerences given in Spanish which
use the Blood Bank o{St. Francis
the English-speaking delegates
Hospital. The Council allocated
Bro. John O'Shea should be act may be interested in. Bro. Ger-
$250 to the track team for needed
ing President during the interim ard will leave for Spain imme-
equipment. At this meeting, the
period despite rumors that Bro. diately after the Spring semester
Dean of Students informed the
Daniel Kirk had been earmarked ends and will proceed from there
Council that he
had
received nu-
1
for the job. Bro. Daniel served to Rome in the fall.
merous complaints concerning _:,:__...:_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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conditions by the river, and asked
the Council to take whatever ac-
tion it deemed necessary to cor-
rect the situation. The Council
decided to put out an open letter
to the Student
Body
asking for
their cooperation in encouraging
moderation. Also,
Mr.
Hammond
suggested that the city place re-
ceptacles for litter on the river
front.
It
is sincerely hoped that
the Student
Body
will cooperate
in correcting the situation before
the administration intervenes.
At thesuggestionofSteveNohe,
the Council adopted the plan for
the often-discussed topic -of the
Student Union. Appointments
to
the Union include Ray Stewart,
Gordy Walton and Steve Nohe.
Girls Glee Club Gives Concert
On Saturday, April 8, the Mar-
ist College Glee Club together
with the College Cultural Com-
mittee hosted the St. Peter's
Women's Glee Club. Under the
direction of
Dr. George Hansler,
the program ranged from Men-
delsohn's "Lift Thine Eyes" to
the calypso strains of "Man,
Man" and included, among other
selections,
"The
Impossible
Dream" from '"Man of La Man-
' cha"
During the social which follow-
ed the concert, plans were dis-
cussed for a "home
and
home"
to take place in April of next
year. According to the tentative
plan, the Marist Glee Club would
present a joint concert with the
St. Peter's Glee Club at St.
Peter's (N.J.), and within the
space of two weeks, the same
joint concert would be given here
Continued on page 2
Marist College recently saw
the formation of the formation of
a chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the
National Honor Society in His-
tory. Mu Zeta, Marist's chap-
ter, was organized by
Mr.
George
Skau, who will act as the Faculty
Advisor.
Membership in
Mu
Zeta is limited to History ma-
jors
who
have maintained a 3.1
Ring Company Indicted
By Federal Government
index in History, a 3.0 index in
.
at least two thirds of their other
(CPS) A federal grand
JurY
has
courses
and
are ranked in the indicted four companies and three
top
thir'd of their class. The
!
b'!lsinessm~n on a charge_ of rig-
purposes of the Society are to
l
gmg the_ pr1c_es _of ~lass rings
and
bring students and instructors in graduation ~v1tation~
and
an-
history into closer
and
more nouncements m Georgia.
casual contact,
and
to foster a
more intense study of the subject
by the members. The officers of
the newly-formed chapter are:
William Theysohn, President;
William Urkiel, Vice President;
Harol1 Malone, Secretary;
and
Robert Scott, Toeas\11'81",
According to the indictment,
returned in the United States Dis-
trict Court in Atlanta, prices
have been maintained at
high
ar-
tificial levels
and
students in
Georgia have been deprived of
the benefits of free competition.
Charged with. violating the
Sherman Antitrust Act are Herff
.
.
Jones Company of Indianapolis;
•
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Josten•s Inc.,ofOwatonna, Minn.;
L G Balfour Company of Attle-
~r~
Mass. (from whom Marist
has 'ordered its senior rings);
H.R.T. Inc., of Decatur, Ga.; Her-
bert R. Thompson of Decatur,
Thad Wilkins of Atlanta;
and
Ray
Isenbarger of Attleboro.
Continued on page 2
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St. Peter's Girls Glee Club entertains Marist students
with a fine
concert, after which
they provided a sweet background for Midnight
Mass in the chapel.
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Big Bad Baron
The one-sidedness of the Administration has long been a topic of
student discussion.
Many
MOTHmen believe that
if
our voice is heard
at all, it is little more than a faint
buzz
in the far distance. This is
not fair!
We should have a say in what concerns us! Well ....
The present Student Government has promised us that voice; and
that-s great! The Student Union might be the best thing
to happen to
the college in
a
long time; and that9s
good.
Of
course, it will take a
while
to jell;
and
that-s all right. However,
if
the council meeting we
witnessed a few weeks
ago
is any indication of the technique that
Mr.
Brosnan intends
to use during Student-Faculty-Administration dis-
cussions, that-s bad!
A few weeks
ago, Mr.
Wade,
Dean of Students, came before the
Student Government to ask their aid in a problem that
he
thought
concerned the whole college community. The problem centered
around recent incidents of student drunkenness. He used the river
as a case in point. That's all; just a case in point. What resulted
was, to our
mind,
a perfect example of how to gain the respect of
none but the slow-minded.
Mr.
Wade was not informed that he would be called upon to defend
his "closing of the river", nor was he prepared for the brow-beating
that he suffered at the hands of a few of the more fanatical members
of the Council
.
He was not closing the river. He did, however, be-
lieve that there was a problem on campus, and was simply referring
it, or so he thought, to the Student Government. There it was, exact-
ly what
Mr.
Brosnan was asking for: an attitude of cooperation on the
part of
_
the Administration, and the opportunity for the student to as-
sume the cloak of self government and responsibility.
Mr.
Wade
should have been thanked and allowed to leave.
But the Student Governmen
t
saw a snag. They looked beneath the
apparently sincere facade, and promptly exposed him for the wild-
eyed, scaly-skinned, long-fanged ogre he really was. The leader of
this little task force was
Soon
To Be Ex Attorney General Edwin
Hammond, who deftly skirted the central issue, and verbally violated
the Big Bad Baron, destroying any of the remaining respect due a
Dean of Students. His intentions may have been honorable, but to
ask an impertinant question and then totalkthrough the answer given
is not the
kind
of action expected of a man like
Mr.
Hammond.
We need go no further.
It
is enough to say that a precedent was
set that evening: a rather uncomfortable precedent. What could have
been an indication of the long-desired Student-Administration co-
operation was turned into a fiasco.
Mr.
Wade, dean of students, went
before
Mr.
Brosnan's Kangaroo Council, and left a beaten man.
It
is
hoped that a proposal as worthwhile as the Student Union
will
not be
jeopardized by a
.
repetition of this
type
of action in the future.
Letters To
The
Editor
Dear Sir:
"Marist College"!
Sort of
sounds nice, doesn't it?
How
long will it keep its rJce ring?
How long will those who have
graduated from here be able to
look back with pride? IF present
circumstances are any indica-
tion, not very long.
When I first came here I was
quite proud of it. I would wear
Marist jackets home on the train
so people could see I was proud
of it. Then one day I received a
bit of a shock
.
In
the New York
subways I overheard a fellow
from one of the Long Island col-
leges telling an older man, prob-
ably his father, that Marist was a
small schoor in Poughkeepsie
where everyone drank too much.
Another closely related incident
occurred a short time later when
a young man, obviously
drunk,
came up
to
me and said, "Marist
that-s MY place,'' or words
to
that effect.
I felt roughly six
inches tall.
At
a recent class meeting
I
was
reminded of the cold fact that we
can no longer get buses for nor-
mal school activities. I was like-
wise reminded of various inci:-
dents that make "Marist" a word
of equal disrepute to Vassar stu-
dents as some Marist "men"
persist on using. Unfortunately
these incidents, which I have the
grace not
to
describe, form a
black page in our history that
was written a long time before
many of our present students
appeared
,
on the scene. Yet it is
these who
suffer the con-
sequences.
It
is more or less a
permanent
stain,
that will, I
think,
have a detrimental effect for a
long time t.o come.
I hope there are enough men
of Marist to profit from history,
and not cause it t be repeated.
I hope, but have
my
doubts
.
I
would like to see
my
doubts dis-
proven, not by words, but by
deeds.
--Kenneth Quinn '70
THE CIRCLE
THE CIRCLE, the official newspaper of Marist Col-
lege,
.
Poughkeepsie campus, is edited and published bi-
monuy by and
in the interest of the students of Marist
College, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601. THE CIRCLE
is a member of Collegiate
_
Press Serv
ic
e.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Edltor-in.Chi
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~ .. •••• .. • •••••••••••George Meae•dez
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Managing Editor.
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.;." •• • Bro. Raymo;d Hes~in
Mews Editor • •••••
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•••••••••• , Bro. David Healy
F-4tet•r• Editor •• , ,
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. • ••• , ••••••
'•Tim
Slattery
Sports Editor • ••••• , •• • , .
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••• Charley
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Dunn
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Buih1e11 Manager ••••••••••••• Marty Haggerty
Circulatlo11 Ma11ager
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•••••• : ••••• Mike Esposito
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Advisor •• •••••••• • •• Dr. George
So■■ •r
Contributors: Bro. Michael Flynn, William Dailey, Robert Meiden-
bauer, Robert.Jakob, Edward Flaherty, Vincen,tBegley,Bro. Joseph
Kubat, Bro. TlDlothy Brady.
THE CIRCLE
RIHG COMPAMY •••
Continued
fr~~
page
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Herff, Josten's, and Balfour,
which make and sell about 75
What's Happening
per cent of the college and high
Ever since man first discovered his own capacity to
think.
he bas
school class rings in the nation, been placing himself on progressively higher pedestals in his re-
b~ve about 90percent?fthe class lationship with the rest of the animal kingdom. The
high
point
of
this
~mg
business
in
Geor~a, accord-
t
egotistical evolutionary process was when
Sabu
Corpufannius de-
ing to the U.S. Justice Depart- clared man to be the highest form of animal, or something like that.
ment.
As a
result, philosophers
(Dr.
D.A.D., stay out
of
this) have con-
.
tinually based their systems of morality on the assumption that since
They also have a su~stantial · man is the highest form of animal, that
part
of him which is higher
sha:e of the state sales
m gr_ad-
I
should take precedence over whatever he has in common with the
u_ation anno';lllcements and invita-
rest of the kingdom. Thus, the term" animalistic," or any reference
tlons. Wilkins
and
Isenbarger are
to
(any) man as an animal is considered degrading
both associated with Balfour.
•
If
the logic seems muddled,
pay
no attention to it, because the con-
The indictment asserts that the clusion is terrific.
defendants "combined and con-
spired
to
ill~gally re~train
I
It
is our opinion that since man is just as much an animal as any
trade'' _by agree~to submit rig• other animal, he should take pride in his animalistic tendencies
and
ged prices
and
bids for.the pro- enjoy the fruits of animalism
to
the fullest. One of the privileges
ducts.
In
_
or~er to avoid detec-
our "lower" brothers enjoy is that of complete sexual freedom.
tion, the indictment stated, the
defendants agreed that they would
not submit identical bids, but
would maintain small -- but im-
material -- price differences.
Now, do you really mind a little muddled logic that much?
Mari st is
·
a relatively new institution. And new institutions are al-
ways looking for some distinguishing characteristic t.o make them
famous as progressive, liberal, groovey, institutions. Well ... ?
Is
this not a golden opportunity? Yes, this is a golden opportunity. A
I
simple matter of changing MOTH from "Marist On The Hudson" to
"Mattress On The Hudson."
I
The implied proposal fits in with the recently put-off Co-educa-
tional idea, the animalism inherent in last semester's football post-
'
ers, the sexual overtones
in .
..
.. - ••
•
s campaign posters, the phallic
symbols plastered all over the walls of the Freshman psychedelic
mixer,
and
the general atmosphere of animalism on campus--not to
mention the desires of the students
as
manifested in any number of
dormitory-room bulletin boards.
A word to the LMOC's:
Midnight Mass, man, could be a groovey happening
if
we could dig
it all year round,
man. It9s what's happenin'. Even the men in the
'
tie-and-jacket bag dig it, man. But
if
it-s
gonna
come off as your
I
bag, swingers, you'll
haf
ta
don
the
glad rags, too. Don't go like a
. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ rag bag,
inan,
•cause Mass is like holy
.
Groovey, keen,
.
marvey,
Dear Edit.or,
The evils of democracy
(ma-
jority vote) are heard echoing
throughout the halls of Sheahan
over the
din of the ST
4
and
the
Pidgeons. A thickheaded, poor-
sport is "holding
up''
in there,
issuing his gripes over a Spring
Weekend that he has not yet
bought a ticket to. This being
a pseudo-democracy, we did not
take offense at his reactionary
ways.
in
fact on the weekend of
April 28-29-30, he can borrow
our Beatie and Stone records --
we want everyone to have a
good
time.
In
his letter appearing in the
March 9th issue of The Circle,
he proposed many facts d
e
roga-
tory to Spring Weekend. He said
that the results
of
the first poll
unquestionably demonstrated the
popular opinion t.o be in favor of a
Rock
&
Roll group, but a second
poll wa
.
s circulated giving the stu-
dents the choice between Your
Father's Mustache and two Rock
&
Roll bands
.
It seems the ma -
jority thought that Spring Week-
end should be
s
omethingdifferent
-- not a dance marathon.
He questioned having two soph-
omores in charge of the Weekend
.
The reason for this is that we
were asked to do it, maybe be-
cause of p
a
st experience or that
we were just gullible enough to
take on the responsibility. One
thing
for sure, nobody else had
asked for the
job.
With the "coming storm" just
two
weeks
away,
something
seems to be happeningt.o the pre-
diction of
Mr.
Clancy. First, tic-
ket sales are over the three-
quarter mark. The second and
third clauses remain to be
proven.
Will the people leave
the concert after a half hour?
Well,
if
the Student Brothers
and
YFM can't hold them, we have
made a mistake.
In
closing we would like to re-
.
mind everyone that
,
tickets are on
sale until April 20.
•••"'So
come
on Brian, buy a ticket -- it's
wha~s happening, baby!
Tony Bastian - '69
John Doherty - '69
outasight, somethin' else ... cool ••• swell ••• belch.
Spring Weekend
uming Soon!!
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at Marist.
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expansion of their concert scope,
a significant
increaseinthenum-
ber of members will serve t.o
make the Glee Clubs a vital
force in projecting the images
of their respective college.
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APRIL 20. 1967
THE CJRCLE
•
THE TOTEM POLE
Marist is more than a job
touo
Kudos On Campus
Mrs. O'Brien
FR. JOHN MAGAN
In this ~eason of Oscars and Emmy awards, it is appropriate that
I
eral more than mediocre lee-
someone give f!ie accolade to certain groups and individuals at Marist tures, poetry readings and best
who, at le~t m th~ fo~eseeable future, are not likely to receive the
I
of all, the appearance of St.
kudos their contributions deserve from the college community
Peter's College Girls Glee Club.
• While their efforts have not been
With n~ effort to list them in any order, neither alphabetically
rewarded with the need to hang
cf?ronologically nor otherwise, and with no assurance that the listing out S.R.O. signs at the theatre,
will be even remotely complete, we would give our nominations to• the standing ovation given by
FATHER MAGAN
-
.
Charlie DiSogra, who for the· thos~ who co_mprised the Saturday
sheer love of the sport and with
evemng ~ud~en~e
at
the concert
little hope
.
if other rewards, has
and .~e invitation proffered for
undertaken to inaugurate a track two J01!1-t Glee Club concerts, one
team, conceived and engineered
at_ M~ist and the other atJersey
the recent marathon to initiate
City m ~967-1968, as.sure them
it and who, within a month of this
that their p~ogramnung efforts
,.i,
<'
publicity stunt, has fielded a team
are worthwhile and ~sur~ those
on intercollegiate cinders at
w~o spe:°t Saturday night m some
~·
Queens College.
,
dmi_Iy ht tavern that at least oc-
casionally the college offers an
Sharing Charlie's tapping are
those others who ran thehundred
hours in unspeakably bad weather
as well as those who backed them
up, kept the times and cheered
them on at hours not normally
recommended
for
collegiate
sports.
To the Cultural Committee of
,
the Student .Council, who after a
rather slow beginning, has come
sufficiently alive to sponsor sev-
alternative recreation which is
capable of producing a refresh-
ment at least as high as the amber
fluid.
To the Marist College Glee
Club who, with a single number
at the concert made us regret
that at least their part of the
proposed joint
.
concerts could
not be held before the next aca-
demic year.
On The Other Hand
In 1963, the decision was made
to establish an independentoffice
of Recorder here at Marist. Up
until that time, the joint position
of Registrar-Ret!order had been
held by Bro. John Malacby. It
was then that Mrs. Elizabeth
O'Brien began her work here at
Marist.
Born in Troy, New York, Mrs.
O'Brien received her grammar
and high school education in
Poughkeepsie.
-
She has also at-
tended courses at Poughkeepsie
Business Institute. Before com-
ing to Marist, Mrs. O'Brien
worked for seven years as a Real
Estate
saleswoman here in
Poughkeepsie. Just prior to her
arrival at Marist, she had worked
as a staff assistant at Fitchett
Brothers Dairy. At present she
is a member of the Poughkeepsie
Business and Professional Wom-
an• s Association. She is married
and the mother of two children;
her daughter's wedding last year
was one of the two that has ever
taken place in the campus chapel
here at Marist.
When asked why she chose to
come to Marist, Mrs. O'Brien
replied in a manner that is typi-
cal of the work that she has done
here at Marist: "I would rather
Quo Vadis
work with people,.. she said,
"than products". The whole atti-
tude which pervades the Re-
corder's office, one of friendly
and willing helpfulness, is a tri-
bute in itself to fine enthusiasm
and dedication which she brings
to her work.
When Mrs. O'Brien came to
Marist in i963, there were 63
June graduates; this year the
number will be about 260. With
this growth in student population
has come acorrespondinggrowth
in the volume of work the Re-
corder's Office has to handle.
Next year, in order to facilitate
her work, an IBM computer will
be installed. Mrs. O'Brien re-
marked that she was presently
learning how to operate it, but
finds the going, "very difficult."
However, her usual enthusiasm
has not been dulled and, although
learning how to operate the com-
puter will be difficult, she is cer-
tain that in the long run it will be
"grear•.
Last Thursday night, TheRey-
nard for 1967 was formally dedi-
cated to Mrs. O'Brien. She is
thrilled about it, and considers
•
it as one
of
the highest honors
that could be paid her.
The More You Throw
BY CASEY
To Mike McDonald and the
Theatre Guild who fantasticall,t
broke the post election doldrums
with their recent musical, played
before a packed house here at
each of its stagings and put the
show on the road for at least one
production down in Rockland
County. Memory has it that in
the past, the Theatre Guild reg-
ularly played before audiences
totalling fifty. It is noteworthy
that during their most recent
production, even the President
of the College had to stand.
Whose Zoo?
One of the most intriguing as-
pects of life at Marist is the total
devotion of its students to games.
At virtually any hour of any day
one is able to find legions of his
comrades engrossed in the in-
tricacies of pool, cards, Scrab-
ble, Monopoly, and
ahostofother
exercises in the laws of chance
So, it comes as no surprise
~
hear that an entirely new game
incorporating many elements of
the old ones, is now making the
rounds on campus.
It
is called
Procrastination: A Game
of
Mar-
i
st.
-
Originally
.
conceived a few
years ago by some
of
our present
seniors, this challenging waste of
time utilizes manyofthevaluable
experiences that we have all had
at one time or another since first
~nrolling at Marist.
It
is played
m a number of variations; some-
times on a special board, some-
times on the floor and often ver-
bally.
The basic premise of the game
is to move through the frustra-
tions and pitfalls of four years at
Marist before your opponent (s)
do likewise. The road to aca-
demic success is fraught with
speed. The player's move is de-
pendent, as in mostgames,onhis
throw of the dice; the more he
throws, the faster he moves
through his four years.
The beginning of the game is
marked by the type
of
problems
experienced by the incoming
Freshmen; ie. - dating, drinking,
etc.. As one nears the end, the
spaces are marked with the prob-
lems of an Upperclassman; ie. -
dating, drinking, etc.. For in-
stance, early in the game a player
is liable to land on a square
that informs
him
"YOU GIVE
YOUR HIGH SCHOOL RING TO
A MOUNTIE: ST AND STILL FOR
FOUR YEARS", and he is auto-
matically disqualified from fur-
ther play. Or. he might be so
unfortunate as to land on "GET
SHOT BY A GUARD WHILE
CRASHING A VASSAR MIXER:
J. G. O'CONNELL
LOSE ONE TURN".
There are also a number of
beneficial squares on which to
land, such as "1,EARN HOW TO
FOOL
THE
VENDING
MA-
CHINES:
TAKE
ANOTHER
TURN" and "LEARN HOW TO
.
FOOL THE TELEPHONE CO.:
ADVANCE
TWO
SPACES."
These are followed, however, by
traps
such
as
"YOU
GET
CAUGHT FOOLING A MACHINE:
GET EXPELLED... Other cases
of malfeasence are dealt with on
the spot, such as "GET DRUNK
AT THE RIVER ON FRIDAY AND
WAKE
UP TUESDAY: LOSE
VALUABLE CLASS TIME".
As the game progresses the
penalties become more rigid. A
player in the upper class range
is likely to land on "YOUR TWO
PHILOSOPHY
CLASSES
ARE
TAKEN OVER BY DR. DREN-
NEN: TAKE GAS" or"ACELIQ-
UORS RUNS OUT OF GYPSY
ROSE: YOU HAVE A SIEZURE".
Farther along in the game a
·
player encounters such traps as
"YOU DISCOVER THAT THERE
IS NO MAJOR IN RU~IAN: BE-
GIN AGAIN" or "DR. LE WINTER
Continued
011
-page 6
?
And cheers
too,
to the crew
and sailing teams, who have,
despite the chill and ungodly
hours of their practice sessions,
.
kept their boats in the water and
who have proven
by
their victor-
ies that the designation "Vik-
ings.. has not been idly appro-
priated
by
the college, even if
in
fact, it is used chiefly in refer-
ence to the football club.
To the Student Council who
seem to have resolved thetrays-
left-on-the-table problem in the
cafeteria and to the studen~ who
have cooperated with the council
to eliminate the problem with the
minimum of the threatened police
activity.
To Freshman Joe Francese,
who at the expenditure of more
time and energy than meets the
eye, has been supplying us with
In the last issue of the paper,
Father Magan's regularly fea-
tured, syndicated column in this
most
illustrious
newspaper
.
(plug),
11
The Totem Pole", raised
the problem of proprietorship
with regard to this most illus-
trious of colleges (plug?).
Of
course, Father Magan
.
is right.
The
eight million or so that has
been poured into the campus cof-
fers over the past foµr years is
insufficient to constitute owner-
ship per se, though the figure is
more considerable than the
good
padre's
calculation of $840,
000.00 permits. The fiscal in-
terest of the Board of Trustees
of this corporation, of the Marist
Brothers, of New York State, and
even of Brady Foods is not to be
contested -- mostly because the
anonymous candidate's reasons
for claims of student ownership
and the consequent student rights
were somewhat more altruistic
than the materialistics of Father
Magan
&
Co.
movies of a calibre
to
which this
. .
college has not always been ac-
.
. As a s~dent who is mte_res~
customed
m lessening the authoritarian
•
structure of Marist, and as one
who campaigned on a similar
Conceivably, this listing could
'
premise, I think I can more ac-
go on and on. But there is little curately portray the rationale
need to draw it out. Incomplete be~ _th~ insidious invective,
though it is, it is
·
sufficient to "smce it is our college, we have
indicate that Marist men make the right to run it." To me and,
Marist College and in the making incidently, to the original col-
of the college to their own image legians, the term "college'' is
and likeness, theyarethemselves inseparable from the term "stu-
growing in stature and even we denP':
if
a society is going to
might hope in the Scripblral have an educational system (im-
"wisdom, age and grace before plying students), eventually a
God
and men...
higher level "college''; con-
;r:
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'O (
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versely, there can be n'l "col-
lege" if there areno"students".
In short, college implicates the
students
and vis-a-vis.
My
friend, Noah Webster, draws an
astounding conclusion from
this
logic -- that student and college
are damn near synonymous!
Of course, I deem it not a little
unfair
to consider that college or
colleges, exist simply as afinan-
cial proposition, or as a neces -
sity of society, or as a result of
pressure from the business and
technological worlds, or as a
wayside
chapel
for
draft-
doclgers.
Pardon me, but the
main reason for the persistant
phenomena of a young man sit-
ting at a desk studying centur-
ies-old philosophy on a warm
spring day (instead of helping
populate the shrubbery on the
majestic banks of the Hudson)
is that he wants to study, there-
by being deserving of the title
"studenP'. I would
maintain
that
these "students•• constitute the
"raison d'etre" of a college.
Thus, while I do not deny
Father Magan's fiscal perusings
and preoccupations, I insist the
coin
be
turned
to
disclose the
idea
·
of the corporation: .. col-
lege'' is, and is because of, a
plurality of this .. student"
thing.
This is our college, and we have
the right to run it, provided we
assume the responsibility of run-
ning it. This is essentially what
was being said by
many
of the
candidates in the last campaign
Continued on
page
7
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THE CIRCLE
APRIL 20, 1967
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Golf Team: (back row left
to
right} Frank Russo-Alessi, Brian Corcoran, Dick Dickinson, Mike
Hrenyo, Bob Palumbo, Tim Brier. (front row left
to right) Larry
Gibbons, Ed Grier, Tom Mullany. Missing - Bro. Michael Shirkus.
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Leaning into the final turn, a Marist boat makes headway in its
opening Spring regatta.
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Joe Dell lets
fly
the javelin after his tremendous throw at the 1-Q-M
Triangular Meet. (see story pg. 8)
Watch The President
Cup Regatta
At
Home - Satur
-
day
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Larry Boland,
in
preparation for the Iona-Queens-Marist Meet, clears
bar
in
the temporary practice pit on campus.
,
The Marist Crew, determined
not
to repeat its Philadelphia experi-
ence, prepares itself for the President Cup Regatta this
weekend.
Page 6
THE CIRCLE
APRIL 20. 1967
"APPLE CART" PREMIERS TONIGHT
Brother Raymond Armstrong,
and
Bill Fullam, two of the "Apple
Cart's" star performers, put their heads together at a tense moment.
Beatles Aid
Modern Poetry
On Thursday, April 6, the
Caredon Players presented are-
freshing program of poetry read-
ings.
The speakers were Mr.
John Carey, a graduate student
from Fordham University, Mr.
David Kappas, an instructor at
Fordham. Mr. Daniel Rearden,
also scheduled to speak, was not
in attendance.
Mr. Carey began the evening
speaking ·of poetry in general,
·
and
explained that it is an
art
form that is constantly declining
in popularity. To remedy this,
Mr. Carey stated, we must find
• 'modern parallels for ancient
metaphors." He suggeBted that
we look for new innovations to
make poetry entertaining for the
literate masses of our present
society.
Students Work
To Evaluate
Curriculum
Many of us here at Marist are
unaware of the Academic Policy
Committee -
and
what can be ac-
complished for us through iL
Made up of five faculty members
(Bros. Weiss, Belanger,
and
De-
silets, Dr. Hooper,
and
Mr.
O'Keefe), the committee is a
pol-
icy-making group which deals in
academic matters. At the mo-
ment they are discussing topics
such as the advisory system, the
possibility of more electives, the
pass-fail method of grading, the
Honors Program,
and
the re-
Suddenly the lights went dim vamping of core requirements.
and over the loud speakers came What they would like from the
lhe song
-
"Tomorrow Never student
body
is a methodofcom-
Knows"
by
the Beatles. Follow-
munication so that they might be
ing this, Mr. Carey went into a aware
of
student opinion,
and
so
discussion on Zen Buddhism
and
that they might receive from the
called it a "mysticalpantheism" student
body
the ideas that will
or an "existentialist cult". Zen help them change, in a radical
Masters, he continued, uses
I
way, some of the academic pol-
"koans", or illogical riddles, to icies here at Marist.
teach the cult to others. Through
these, they strive to lift them-
This communication will come
selves
up spiritually and to non-
to them through two students ap-
rationally achieve enlightenment.
1
pointed
by
the Student Govern-
He then read a selection of ment. Their primary source of
"koans" to the audience.
information will come through
Next, Mr. David Kappas came
on stage and entered into a dis-
cussion on Metaphysical poetry.
He argued that poets like John
Donne are not appreciated today
simply because they areoftentoo
difficult to read
and
interpret.
Following this, he asked the aud-
ience to try to visualize the poems
the Curriculum Evaluation Com-
mittee, which will
be revived
and
revamped so that it will be abe
to
present constructive criti-
cisms and potential ideas con-
cerning the curriculum. A thor-
ough, mature analysis
will be
made of each department, with
the results taken to the APC.
"Song"
and
"The Message"
by
THE MORE YOU THROW
John Donne as he recited them~
• • •
After the onlookers realized that
,
Conth1ued from page
3
this was quite difficult, he sug-
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day Sunshine", another Beatie
tune, played while a slide of a
sunrise over a tenement building
flashed on the screen, after which
.
Mr.
Kappas recited "Sun Rising"
by John Donne.
The most harrowing space of
all is reserved for last. Theun-
lucky player who lands theredis.;.
covers "GO BAC~ TO ST ART:
NOBODY GRADUATES FROM
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Continued
fro11
Page
l ......... .
Gene were permitted themselves
I
spond!
so~e!fu1es in paragraphs
a glimmer of hope. Gene was ;
of
uruntel11g1bl~ sounds. When
still completely unconscious, was
he s~s that he 1snotunderstood,
fed intravenously, and was kept he tightens up -- see~ to get
cool with ice blankets. His con-
very angry. Hebr~aksmto_a~old
dition remained static. A tube
sweat, and by the time he fm1&h-
was eventually inserted through
es, the sheets are drenched.
his right side and into his stom-
ach for direct line feeding.
Yet by the end of the week,
one couldn't say that Gene's pro-
gress was good.
It
was more a
case of holding onto life with
unusual tenacity. Once his tem-
perature was brought down, the
ice blankets could be removed for
a number of days at a time. Then
his temperature would rise, and
he'd be back on the blankets again.
On Saturday, March
25,
there
was a turn for the worse. His
breathing became a series of
spasmodic gasps. His tempera-
ture hit
195.
For the second
time, his parents were warned
of the very real possibility of
Gene's not surviving the night.
Miraculously, he pulled through
a three-day period in this state
and started fighting back to his
"normal" pre-March
25
condi-
tion. By Tuesday the crisis was
over.
His progress since then is de-
scribed by one of the registered
nurses in his unit as a series of
plateaus. He will improve for a
bit, level off for a few days,
and
then display some new ability.
Right now he is cognizant of what
is going on around
him.
He ap-
pears to understand questions
and commands. He will, for ex-
ample, move his right arm when
asked to do so.
Tom Reichert, Gene's room-
mate in Champagnat
813,
has
been
a daily visitor to the
·
hospital
since the accident. In discuss-
ing his progress, Tom mentioned:
11
Gene seems frustrated
by
not
being able to communicate.
If
a
question is asked, he will
re-
Commuter News
The Marist Commuter Union
.
recently elected a slate of offi-
cers including President: Lester
Lombardi •
69;
Vice President:
Morton Laffin
1
68;
Secretary:
Norman Middleton
1
69;
Treasur-
er: Anthony
Rigothi
1
69.
The purpose of the club is to
foster a
good
relationship be-
tween the resident and commuter
students and also the college ad-
ministration. Although the club
is not a new idea, a new group of
commuters, numbering over one
hundred, have dedicated them-
selves to make the
'
commuter a
more intrinsic part of campus
life.
On the agenda of upcoming
events will be a membership
drive, a proposed spring picnic
and other social gatherings. In
order to achieve their goals, the
commuters are looking forward
to wholesome cooperation on
be-
"Gene is also fascinated by
rings.
He was very near re-
ceiving his Senior ring at. the
time of the accident, and if
he
sees a ring in the room, he will
follow it until the person wearing
it is out of sight.
"I think he has some concept
of the time he's been here,
too.
The day after the accident was
his twentieth birthday."
Mrs. Doerflinger has been
home for only one day in the past
six weeks. She mentioned that
the doctor
taking
care of Gene,
Dr. Coram, would like to see him
moved to a hospital on Long Is-
land when he improves enough
for the trip. This woule enable
a specialist to see him frequent-
ly, and also let
him
get closer to
home. Mrs. Doerflinger is not
wholeheartedly behind the move:
"I don't think any place can match
the care he's receiving here,"
she said.. She is a remarkably
calm and self-possessed woman,
acutely aware of all the possibil-
ities for Gene, yet patient in her
vigil,
Since Easter week, Gene has
been sitting in a wheelchair for
a few minutes a day. The change
in posture is important. At this
time, he has just about worked
up to one half hour in the chair.
·
A recent "brain scanning'' test
revealed no• 'massive brain dam-
age". This lowers the possibility
of an operation on the brain.
As it stands right now, there is
no way topredicthowGene'spro-
gress will continue. The over-
all picture is good, but no one
dares guess how long recupera-
tion will take.
half of the commuters, residents
and
administration.
WHOSE ZOO? ...
Continued
1
rom page 3
and
what is being attempted now!
Now before we go skipping mer-
rily into glorious anarchy
and
oblivion with glacial speed, I
want to add that since we are all
involved in this education pro-
cess, the Faculty and the Ad-
ministration are hypothetically
students and that all we are
seeking is our share in the de-
termination of campus policy --
a share which our basic involve-
ment in the "what and why" of
college, supported by the
2
mil-
lion-plus annual donation (for
the business majors), entitles
us
.
Oh yes, though Marist has a
propensity for comparing its
~
lf
with
·
innumerable institutions, I
don't think ole
_
almama really
cottons up to the comparison with
theA&P.
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Aut~ority
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'There are blind hawks and blind doves"
·
To most of us
today
authority serious answers is a refreshing
is a commonplace which is al-
change for most Catholic educa-
most a necessary evil. Man has ted students who seem to lmow
dealt with this commonplace on all of the answers to none of the
many an historical occasion: he questions. This limitation, how-
has run from it, rejected it, eva -
ever, should not s,top us from
ded it, supres sed
it, and
even ,
taking
a closer look at the nature
overthrown it. Sometimes here-
I
of authority.
man should be free of socjo-
political pressures in deciding
his individual participation in
government actions which have
personally
moral
overtones.
Each man, theoretically,
has
the
right to agree or disagree, and
therefore each citizen must de-
cide the issue for himself.
places
it
with tyrannical rule,
'
but in any event he usually en-
counters it.
i
There are, of course, two ma-
jor spheres of authority to which
Turning
to the sphere of reli-
gious authority, we must deal
with each man• s reaction to those
pronouncements
·
made
by
the
Pope, Bishops, and clerics. Many
questions can be asked here; for
instance, .. What are religious
pronouncements'?'' and "How is
Present-day Americans, es-
man owes
!ti~
allegian~e: politi-
pecially college students
are cal and rel1g1ous. He 1s expect-
still dealing with it, but
~ot
in ed to pay at least lip_ ser~ice to
any
truly
revolutionary manner.
·
the laws, rules, and directives of
.
Their approach to authority and each.
the concept
of
authority
·
is far
more fundamental, but probably
almost as shattering as the
American or Communist Revo-
lutions in consequence. Their
approach usually begins with one
of two types of questions--" What
is authority and ~at is
my
re-
lationship to it'?";
and
mundane
questions--.. What right has he
to tell
ME
what to do'?"
The mundane question is usu-
ally asked rhetorically and so
there is no answer, while the
profound question (and variants
of
it)
really get the proverbial
ball rolling. Though the latter
question might not actually have
one best answer, the fact that it
was seriously considered should
provide the basis for a greater
encounter with authority, and
should at least help the student
to avoid resorting to the typical
responses, which include his ig-
noring and evading authority in
hopes that .. maybe it will go
away!'
This quiet revolution of asking
serious questions
_
and expec_~
For contemporary man,politi-
each man bound to them'?'' Are
cal authority reaches its ultimate religious authorities overextend-
form in his national government.
ing themselves when they legis-
Carried to extremes, national late
and
compel men to act, as
authority requires a man to ac-
was certainly the case during
the
cept blindly all of its principles, Spanish Inquisition
and
its Pro-
even to the point of killing. Nazi
J
testant offshoots? Are we to ac-
Germany is a case in point. The cept
all
religious prounounce-
Nuremburg trials illustrated that ments (past and present) without
there is a higher order than the really deciding what our degree
state to which man owes his al-
of commitment should be'? Or
legiance. In not considering the should we take the imm!3-ture ap-
consequences of his actions, a
I
proach
of
not even looking to
subordinate who carries out an
,
authority for its directive~ so as
immoral directive is just as
'I
to
truly
evaluate them?
guilty as his superiors.
It
is,
then, necessary for each man to
,
Hitler had the support
of
the
decide for himself just how he Church. German Bishops issued
will react to directives issued by a statement which exhorted
all
the state.
Germans to defend
the
Father-
\
land. Those laymen whoremain-
Americans who react blindly to
'
ed loyal to the Church but re-
the Viet Nam war are another fused to accept their Bishop's
case in point. There are blind statement because it was, for
hawks and blind doves.
More them, immoral seem to have
serious questioning by heroes answered the question, "Can man
(some military
and
some con-
,
still claim authority as
an
excuse
scientious objectors) who are
I
for his immoral actions'?''
,
willing to suffer for their own
Just as the Nuremburg trials
I
,
commitments is needed to re-
emphasized individual freedom
mind those in authority that each
and the supremacy of conscience
in the political sphere, sol.'oes the
Vatican Council emphasize it in
areas of religious commitment:
This
(religious)
freedom
means that
all
men are
to
be
immune from coercion on tl1e
part of individuals or of social
groups and of any human pow-
er, in such wise that
in
mat-
ters religious no one is to be
forced to act in a matter con-
trary to his own beliefs.
The big question for each ofus
to decide is when that "higher
order'' to which we owe our al-
!egiance is violated by authori-
tative pronouncements.
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European adventure
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been placi
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studen
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throughout Europe for the past
five years:
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to anyone who can identify
this
faculty member.
For a
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omplete prospectus list-
ing job opportunities ( with a
job application) and also low
cost tours send$ 1 (for overseas
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A.tRIL
1
Track Team Excels l"n Queens-Iona Meet
Dell,
.
Walzer Outstanding
In Outdoor Team's Debut
"The
Mick-'
was hoping that
·
only a month (three days on the
his legs would hold out for a-
.. track" at Lourdes), and con-
nother season so that he could sidering
·
the competition of Iona
help the Bombers climb out of and Queens, Charlie called the
the cellar. Emile Francis was
effort of the squad "outstanding"'.
itching to get back to the Garden
where his Blues know the ice--
Thoughts that run through an
and the fans. Bill Russell was idle mind ••••
wonder.tng
if
the Celtic Dynasty
was being usurped by Philly.
Seems likeCharlieDiSogradidn't
have
to
hope or itch or wonder,
even though two Saturdays
ago
his track team made its official
debut--competition-w
i
se. Pers-
onally, this writer thought that
the U. had a long way to
go
before
it
established itself as a track
power.
Fortunately, the team
proved me wrong. Not that track
and
field records were shatter-
ed at the Queens-Iona-Marist
Triangular
·
Meet; but the boys
shocked many of the competi-
tions• coaches with distances
and
times such as these:
Competing against freshmen
only, Joe Dell
wound
up and hurl-
ed the javelin for an unbelievable
first place 171'4". -CJay Garcia
of the Queens' Varsity fell short
of Dell by 27'10" .) Then Dell
came back and
took
first place in
the discus with a throw of 139'
5 1/2", topping Iona• s scholar-
ship thrower, Rocco Laurie, by
12 feet.
Frosh Pete Gasper, after tak-
ing first place in the 16 lb. shot
put event with a 35' 5" heave,took
third in the javelin with a toss of
94'6 3/4".
Gerry Gary, a guy who never
picked up a discus in his life,
decided to give it a try and wound
up taking fifth place. This was
after Gerry
had
taken second
in
the shot put with a throw just
a
foot shy of Gasper's. And the
pole vault event was wrapped up
very nicely by Danny Gates
who
boosted himself to a 9'6" first
place.
In
the freshman track events,
Ed Walzer was the big gun as he
took second place in the 440 in
52.3 seconds against five scho-
l~ship runners.
Iona placed
fir st in the mile relay by squeak-
ing by Marist with .6 seconds to
spare. This four man event was
headed by Bill Dourdis, Joe
Koeth, Art Quckenton and Wal-
zer--who posted a fantastic 53.1
secood lap. A- potential cross-
c01mtry prospect comes in the
· form of Tom Mahoney who placed
third
in the mile
run.
"Tiger''
Quinn was right behind Mahoney
in
this event and, should he stick
with it, he could easily become
an outstanding two-miler.
In
Varsity competition, Larry
Boland and Jim Young both clear-
ed 10' in the pole vault event (as
did the Queens entrant), but had
to
·
settle for second and third
places
respectively because of
previous misses.
In
the javelin,
Boland took second place, behind
Jay Garcia of Queens, with a 122'
3" toss. Rich Danowski, working
with a pulled leg muscle, placed
a respectable fourth in the same
event.
Co-captain John Goegel ran a
disappointing 4:51 in the mile
run. Disappointing because John
has been able to leg
this
distance
·
in 4:30. The winner from Queens
broke the
tape
in 4:31:9. Tom
"R.G." Annunziata placed fourth
in
the 120yardhighhurdles.
(You
know
him,
Phil.
He's "Gar-
bage''!)
DiSogra was
Vf!rY
proud
of
the
team and the team should be proud
of itself. conside:ring that the
team
bad
been
working
,
out
·
for
.
Congrats to Coach Ron Petro
and his tennis team. This is the
first for tennis at Marist and the
club did a fin,. job of defeating
Dutchess C.C. in its opening
match.
The big question this year,
fans, is what's so new about Wes
Westrum's "new'' Mets?
Special thanks to Mr. Len Ol-
sen, 1956 Decathelon Olympian,
from the track team.
He has
I
coached the boys twice in the
field events and
it
shows in the
final standings.
The over-all
disappointing factor is that of
personnel.
If more people join-
ed the team there would be
no
reason for Marist to have empty
I
slots in any of the events.
Coach Paul Arold's crew fin-
ished what it started out to do
by trouncing the U. of Mass. in the
Varsity, J.V. and Frosh races in
the fir st home regatta on April 8.
Spanking new
5C
post cards (for
7
C)
with pictures of the basketball
and
football teams on them can
be procured in the book store.
That's Ed Hogg inthefrontline--
#51.
Did anyone call him over
the Christmas vacation?
The Herchenroder-Dunn team
looks like the overall favorite in
the Senior Golf Tournament!
(keep it up, Skipper--you might
1
make the green
in
nine!)
Crew
Braves
Dixie
'
Crew at Marist took a giant
step three years ago
and
became
the number one squad in the New
York area when it crushed Iona,
Fordham and
St.
John's in the
Autumn Gold Regatta. Theteam,
determined
not
to relinquish its
hold of this honor, decided to
move on to greater heights in
opening the Spring season.
A
trip to Florida was planned--a
trip meant to bring Marist into
competition with some ofth,ebest
crews in the East.
As
a sport, crew in the South
is vastly different from its north-
ern counterpart. Schools such
as
Rollins College, the University of
Tampa, Florida Southern and
Jacksonville University are able
to practice between September
and
June because they are not
hampered by snow and ice. Their
confidence is an overwhelming
factor--they take each race as
part of their daily routine.
But theuclass" whichtheMar-
ist crew possesses did notletthe
experience or the confidence of
the other teams dampen its spirit.
In
fourteen days of rowing, both
the Varsity and J.V. grew stead-
ly
stronger and deeply im-
pressed the southern power-
houses, even though they fell just
seconds short of upending the
Florida State Champs. The cli-
max of the trip came when the
high-stroking J.V. scored two
decisive victories ~ver Jackson-
ville University and East Caro-
.lina C~llege.
BOOSTER CLUB AIDS TRACK TEAM
Char_les DiSogra, student coach of the Marist College Track Team.
receives a gift
from
Bob
Bennett, the President of the Booster
Club.
.
GEORG£
EfRNARD
SHAW
MARIST C.0LL£G£
THE.ATR£
THURS. FRI. SAT.
APRIL
20·21·22
....
SUNDAY MATIN££
APR.23.,230
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Marist
Day
Students free
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VOL. Ill MO. I
MARIST .COLLEGE
1
POUGHKEEPSIE
1
NEW YORK 12601
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APRIL 20, 1967
Gene Doerflinger:
Student Recovering
From Auto Accident
Eugene Doerflinger is aJunior
math major at Marist College.
This Saturday will mark the sixth
week of his stay in the Intensive
Care unit of St. Francis Hospital.
At 1:00 A.M.onMarch4,Doer-
flinger and two of his friends,
Joseph Tighe and Walter Kuhn,
left Kuhn's home to pick up some
cigarettes. Tighe drove the 1966
Ford Fairlane, Kuhn sat in the
front seat,
and
Doerflinger took
the back seat behind Kuhn.
Bro. Linus
Foy
Man
of Year
Last Sunday, Bro. Linus Foy,
President of Marist College, was
honored
by
the Poughkeepsie
Chapter of the B'nai B'rith for his
interest in the community, and,
in particular, for his part in the
Jewish-Catholic Dialogues held
on the Marist campus.
The "Man of the Year" award
was presented to Bro. Foy
by
Mr •.
Sidney Rosen, outgoing pres-
ident of the B'nai B'rith, at a
ceremony witnessed by over 200
people.
This distinction is an
indication that the interests of
Marist's president
do
not stop
,
at the campus gates.
BROTHERS FOY, CASHIN
ELECTED DELEGATES
BRO. LINUS FOY
Will Represent U.S. Marists
At Rome This Fall
Brothers Linus
:(l.
Foy and Ed-
•
ward L. Cashin, respectively
Marist College's President and
Academic Vice-President, have
been elected as delegates to the
General Chapter of the Marist
Brothers being held in Rome this
fall.
The Marist Brothers hold a
General
Chapter
every nine
years.
It
is a convocation of ma-
jor superiors and Brothers elect-
ed to represent the members of
the congregation throughout the
world.
Each of the over fifty
provinces of Marists elects two
delegates to the Chapter. Bro.
Linus and Bro. Edward are two
of the four American delegates.
as President during the 1961-62
school year while Bro. Linus was
writing his Ph.D. thesis. A fac-
ulty member at that time, now a
member of the administration,
_
recollected that Bro. Daniel was
"very nice, very gracious, very
-calm ••• I can•t remember a single
unpleasant
thing
that happened."
However, Bro. John is next in
line for the job since the post of
Academic Dean ranks directly
under that of Academic Vice-
President.
The car, travelling at an es-
timated speed of thirty-five miles
per hour, hit an ice patch on Route
9G, about ten miles north of
Poughkeepsie. The nose of the
vehicle skidded towards the right.
Tighe pulled out of the skid only
to have the car shoot to the left
side of the road. The front of the
car slammed into the guard wire
at an angle, and "whipped" the
left side of the vehicle into the
adjacent guard rail. The impact
threw Doerflinger across the
back seat, gashed the left side of
his head with the coat hook above
the door
I
and
fractured both the
base of his skull and his scapular
bone.
New Student Government
Ma-kes Initial Moves
Bro. Edward stated that the
main function of the Chapter
would be to re-examine the goals
of the Marist Brothers
and adapt
them to conditions in the present-
day world. The ChaptentJJ. make
every effort to "implement the
No one knows exactly how long decisions of Vatican II"
and
come
the Chapter will last, but the two to grips with problems affecting
men will probably beabsentfrom the Church
today.
Poughkeepsie from August until
mid-October. Duringthis.period,
A third faculty member, Bro.
it is expected that the college Gerard Weiss,
will
attend the
Tighe and Kuhn were both in a
state of semi-shock, but sustain-
_
ed no serious injuries. Tighe
managed to drive the car the half
mile to Kuhn's home and an am-
bulance was summoned.
·
At St.Francis,Doerflingerwas
given no hope. His parents, who
reside in Massapequa, Long Is-
land, were notified
and
reached
the hospitalat7:30A.M. Atll:30,
Gene's
breathing
rate
was
dangerously
high
and his tem-
perature was 107 degrees.
A
tracheotomy (the incision of the
trachea in order to make an ar-
tificial breathing hole) was per-
formed,
and
his temperature
and
breathing rate started to return
to normal.
By Monday, those caring for
Contfnued on Page 7
Honor Society
Founded
The 1967-68 Student Govern-
ment met for the first time on
March 13th. At this meeting, the
Grievance Committee was re-
named the Student Opinion Board,
and will be headed by Joseph
O'Connell.
Other appointments
were: Bill Henn, Secretary Gen-
eral· Bob Scott and TomHagger-
ty, Student Curriculum Commit-
tee;
and Richard Guglielmo,
Chairman of the Social Commit-
tee. Also, Ed Hammond was re-
appointed to serve as Attorney
General until completion of the
school year.
At the March 20th meeting, the
Council discussed the Faculty
Recognition Dinner and plans for
the new Disciplinary Board. The
Junior Class was given the auth-
ority to take over publication of
the Arrow, and this project will
be subsidized by the Council.
The Social Committee discussed
plans for the upcoming Spring
Weekend to be held the last week-
end in April.
The first meeting after the
Easter recess was held on April
5th. The Council was informed
that the Judiciary amendment
will '"run itself'• through its es-
Chapter in the capacity of trans-
would appear on the ballot of the
tablished governing apparatus __
lator. His task
will
be to trans-
April 19th Student Government the Policy committees, faculty late, from Spanish to English, the
election. Danny Kuffner reported
organizations and the Student highlights of discussions and con-
on his project of having students
Government.
rerences given in Spanish which
use the Blood Bank o{St. Francis
the English-speaking delegates
Hospital. The Council allocated
Bro. John O'Shea should be act may be interested in. Bro. Ger-
$250 to the track team for needed
ing President during the interim ard will leave for Spain imme-
equipment. At this meeting, the
period despite rumors that Bro. diately after the Spring semester
Dean of Students informed the
Daniel Kirk had been earmarked ends and will proceed from there
Council that he
had
received nu-
1
for the job. Bro. Daniel served to Rome in the fall.
merous complaints concerning _:,:__...:_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_
conditions by the river, and asked
the Council to take whatever ac-
tion it deemed necessary to cor-
rect the situation. The Council
decided to put out an open letter
to the Student
Body
asking for
their cooperation in encouraging
moderation. Also,
Mr.
Hammond
suggested that the city place re-
ceptacles for litter on the river
front.
It
is sincerely hoped that
the Student
Body
will cooperate
in correcting the situation before
the administration intervenes.
At thesuggestionofSteveNohe,
the Council adopted the plan for
the often-discussed topic -of the
Student Union. Appointments
to
the Union include Ray Stewart,
Gordy Walton and Steve Nohe.
Girls Glee Club Gives Concert
On Saturday, April 8, the Mar-
ist College Glee Club together
with the College Cultural Com-
mittee hosted the St. Peter's
Women's Glee Club. Under the
direction of
Dr. George Hansler,
the program ranged from Men-
delsohn's "Lift Thine Eyes" to
the calypso strains of "Man,
Man" and included, among other
selections,
"The
Impossible
Dream" from '"Man of La Man-
' cha"
During the social which follow-
ed the concert, plans were dis-
cussed for a "home
and
home"
to take place in April of next
year. According to the tentative
plan, the Marist Glee Club would
present a joint concert with the
St. Peter's Glee Club at St.
Peter's (N.J.), and within the
space of two weeks, the same
joint concert would be given here
Continued on page 2
Marist College recently saw
the formation of the formation of
a chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the
National Honor Society in His-
tory. Mu Zeta, Marist's chap-
ter, was organized by
Mr.
George
Skau, who will act as the Faculty
Advisor.
Membership in
Mu
Zeta is limited to History ma-
jors
who
have maintained a 3.1
Ring Company Indicted
By Federal Government
index in History, a 3.0 index in
.
at least two thirds of their other
(CPS) A federal grand
JurY
has
courses
and
are ranked in the indicted four companies and three
top
thir'd of their class. The
!
b'!lsinessm~n on a charge_ of rig-
purposes of the Society are to
l
gmg the_ pr1c_es _of ~lass rings
and
bring students and instructors in graduation ~v1tation~
and
an-
history into closer
and
more nouncements m Georgia.
casual contact,
and
to foster a
more intense study of the subject
by the members. The officers of
the newly-formed chapter are:
William Theysohn, President;
William Urkiel, Vice President;
Harol1 Malone, Secretary;
and
Robert Scott, Toeas\11'81",
According to the indictment,
returned in the United States Dis-
trict Court in Atlanta, prices
have been maintained at
high
ar-
tificial levels
and
students in
Georgia have been deprived of
the benefits of free competition.
Charged with. violating the
Sherman Antitrust Act are Herff
.
.
Jones Company of Indianapolis;
•
·
Josten•s Inc.,ofOwatonna, Minn.;
L G Balfour Company of Attle-
~r~
Mass. (from whom Marist
has 'ordered its senior rings);
H.R.T. Inc., of Decatur, Ga.; Her-
bert R. Thompson of Decatur,
Thad Wilkins of Atlanta;
and
Ray
Isenbarger of Attleboro.
Continued on page 2
1
St. Peter's Girls Glee Club entertains Marist students
with a fine
concert, after which
they provided a sweet background for Midnight
Mass in the chapel.
·
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Page
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Big Bad Baron
The one-sidedness of the Administration has long been a topic of
student discussion.
Many
MOTHmen believe that
if
our voice is heard
at all, it is little more than a faint
buzz
in the far distance. This is
not fair!
We should have a say in what concerns us! Well ....
The present Student Government has promised us that voice; and
that-s great! The Student Union might be the best thing
to happen to
the college in
a
long time; and that9s
good.
Of
course, it will take a
while
to jell;
and
that-s all right. However,
if
the council meeting we
witnessed a few weeks
ago
is any indication of the technique that
Mr.
Brosnan intends
to use during Student-Faculty-Administration dis-
cussions, that-s bad!
A few weeks
ago, Mr.
Wade,
Dean of Students, came before the
Student Government to ask their aid in a problem that
he
thought
concerned the whole college community. The problem centered
around recent incidents of student drunkenness. He used the river
as a case in point. That's all; just a case in point. What resulted
was, to our
mind,
a perfect example of how to gain the respect of
none but the slow-minded.
Mr.
Wade was not informed that he would be called upon to defend
his "closing of the river", nor was he prepared for the brow-beating
that he suffered at the hands of a few of the more fanatical members
of the Council
.
He was not closing the river. He did, however, be-
lieve that there was a problem on campus, and was simply referring
it, or so he thought, to the Student Government. There it was, exact-
ly what
Mr.
Brosnan was asking for: an attitude of cooperation on the
part of
_
the Administration, and the opportunity for the student to as-
sume the cloak of self government and responsibility.
Mr.
Wade
should have been thanked and allowed to leave.
But the Student Governmen
t
saw a snag. They looked beneath the
apparently sincere facade, and promptly exposed him for the wild-
eyed, scaly-skinned, long-fanged ogre he really was. The leader of
this little task force was
Soon
To Be Ex Attorney General Edwin
Hammond, who deftly skirted the central issue, and verbally violated
the Big Bad Baron, destroying any of the remaining respect due a
Dean of Students. His intentions may have been honorable, but to
ask an impertinant question and then totalkthrough the answer given
is not the
kind
of action expected of a man like
Mr.
Hammond.
We need go no further.
It
is enough to say that a precedent was
set that evening: a rather uncomfortable precedent. What could have
been an indication of the long-desired Student-Administration co-
operation was turned into a fiasco.
Mr.
Wade, dean of students, went
before
Mr.
Brosnan's Kangaroo Council, and left a beaten man.
It
is
hoped that a proposal as worthwhile as the Student Union
will
not be
jeopardized by a
.
repetition of this
type
of action in the future.
Letters To
The
Editor
Dear Sir:
"Marist College"!
Sort of
sounds nice, doesn't it?
How
long will it keep its rJce ring?
How long will those who have
graduated from here be able to
look back with pride? IF present
circumstances are any indica-
tion, not very long.
When I first came here I was
quite proud of it. I would wear
Marist jackets home on the train
so people could see I was proud
of it. Then one day I received a
bit of a shock
.
In
the New York
subways I overheard a fellow
from one of the Long Island col-
leges telling an older man, prob-
ably his father, that Marist was a
small schoor in Poughkeepsie
where everyone drank too much.
Another closely related incident
occurred a short time later when
a young man, obviously
drunk,
came up
to
me and said, "Marist
that-s MY place,'' or words
to
that effect.
I felt roughly six
inches tall.
At
a recent class meeting
I
was
reminded of the cold fact that we
can no longer get buses for nor-
mal school activities. I was like-
wise reminded of various inci:-
dents that make "Marist" a word
of equal disrepute to Vassar stu-
dents as some Marist "men"
persist on using. Unfortunately
these incidents, which I have the
grace not
to
describe, form a
black page in our history that
was written a long time before
many of our present students
appeared
,
on the scene. Yet it is
these who
suffer the con-
sequences.
It
is more or less a
permanent
stain,
that will, I
think,
have a detrimental effect for a
long time t.o come.
I hope there are enough men
of Marist to profit from history,
and not cause it t be repeated.
I hope, but have
my
doubts
.
I
would like to see
my
doubts dis-
proven, not by words, but by
deeds.
--Kenneth Quinn '70
THE CIRCLE
THE CIRCLE, the official newspaper of Marist Col-
lege,
.
Poughkeepsie campus, is edited and published bi-
monuy by and
in the interest of the students of Marist
College, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601. THE CIRCLE
is a member of Collegiate
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Herff, Josten's, and Balfour,
which make and sell about 75
What's Happening
per cent of the college and high
Ever since man first discovered his own capacity to
think.
he bas
school class rings in the nation, been placing himself on progressively higher pedestals in his re-
b~ve about 90percent?fthe class lationship with the rest of the animal kingdom. The
high
point
of
this
~mg
business
in
Geor~a, accord-
t
egotistical evolutionary process was when
Sabu
Corpufannius de-
ing to the U.S. Justice Depart- clared man to be the highest form of animal, or something like that.
ment.
As a
result, philosophers
(Dr.
D.A.D., stay out
of
this) have con-
.
tinually based their systems of morality on the assumption that since
They also have a su~stantial · man is the highest form of animal, that
part
of him which is higher
sha:e of the state sales
m gr_ad-
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should take precedence over whatever he has in common with the
u_ation anno';lllcements and invita-
rest of the kingdom. Thus, the term" animalistic," or any reference
tlons. Wilkins
and
Isenbarger are
to
(any) man as an animal is considered degrading
both associated with Balfour.
•
If
the logic seems muddled,
pay
no attention to it, because the con-
The indictment asserts that the clusion is terrific.
defendants "combined and con-
spired
to
ill~gally re~train
I
It
is our opinion that since man is just as much an animal as any
trade'' _by agree~to submit rig• other animal, he should take pride in his animalistic tendencies
and
ged prices
and
bids for.the pro- enjoy the fruits of animalism
to
the fullest. One of the privileges
ducts.
In
_
or~er to avoid detec-
our "lower" brothers enjoy is that of complete sexual freedom.
tion, the indictment stated, the
defendants agreed that they would
not submit identical bids, but
would maintain small -- but im-
material -- price differences.
Now, do you really mind a little muddled logic that much?
Mari st is
·
a relatively new institution. And new institutions are al-
ways looking for some distinguishing characteristic t.o make them
famous as progressive, liberal, groovey, institutions. Well ... ?
Is
this not a golden opportunity? Yes, this is a golden opportunity. A
I
simple matter of changing MOTH from "Marist On The Hudson" to
"Mattress On The Hudson."
I
The implied proposal fits in with the recently put-off Co-educa-
tional idea, the animalism inherent in last semester's football post-
'
ers, the sexual overtones
in .
..
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s campaign posters, the phallic
symbols plastered all over the walls of the Freshman psychedelic
mixer,
and
the general atmosphere of animalism on campus--not to
mention the desires of the students
as
manifested in any number of
dormitory-room bulletin boards.
A word to the LMOC's:
Midnight Mass, man, could be a groovey happening
if
we could dig
it all year round,
man. It9s what's happenin'. Even the men in the
'
tie-and-jacket bag dig it, man. But
if
it-s
gonna
come off as your
I
bag, swingers, you'll
haf
ta
don
the
glad rags, too. Don't go like a
. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ rag bag,
inan,
•cause Mass is like holy
.
Groovey, keen,
.
marvey,
Dear Edit.or,
The evils of democracy
(ma-
jority vote) are heard echoing
throughout the halls of Sheahan
over the
din of the ST
4
and
the
Pidgeons. A thickheaded, poor-
sport is "holding
up''
in there,
issuing his gripes over a Spring
Weekend that he has not yet
bought a ticket to. This being
a pseudo-democracy, we did not
take offense at his reactionary
ways.
in
fact on the weekend of
April 28-29-30, he can borrow
our Beatie and Stone records --
we want everyone to have a
good
time.
In
his letter appearing in the
March 9th issue of The Circle,
he proposed many facts d
e
roga-
tory to Spring Weekend. He said
that the results
of
the first poll
unquestionably demonstrated the
popular opinion t.o be in favor of a
Rock
&
Roll group, but a second
poll wa
.
s circulated giving the stu-
dents the choice between Your
Father's Mustache and two Rock
&
Roll bands
.
It seems the ma -
jority thought that Spring Week-
end should be
s
omethingdifferent
-- not a dance marathon.
He questioned having two soph-
omores in charge of the Weekend
.
The reason for this is that we
were asked to do it, maybe be-
cause of p
a
st experience or that
we were just gullible enough to
take on the responsibility. One
thing
for sure, nobody else had
asked for the
job.
With the "coming storm" just
two
weeks
away,
something
seems to be happeningt.o the pre-
diction of
Mr.
Clancy. First, tic-
ket sales are over the three-
quarter mark. The second and
third clauses remain to be
proven.
Will the people leave
the concert after a half hour?
Well,
if
the Student Brothers
and
YFM can't hold them, we have
made a mistake.
In
closing we would like to re-
.
mind everyone that
,
tickets are on
sale until April 20.
•••"'So
come
on Brian, buy a ticket -- it's
wha~s happening, baby!
Tony Bastian - '69
John Doherty - '69
outasight, somethin' else ... cool ••• swell ••• belch.
Spring Weekend
uming Soon!!
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at Marist.
Both Clubs hope that by the
expansion of their concert scope,
a significant
increaseinthenum-
ber of members will serve t.o
make the Glee Clubs a vital
force in projecting the images
of their respective college.
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APRIL 20. 1967
THE CJRCLE
•
THE TOTEM POLE
Marist is more than a job
touo
Kudos On Campus
Mrs. O'Brien
FR. JOHN MAGAN
In this ~eason of Oscars and Emmy awards, it is appropriate that
I
eral more than mediocre lee-
someone give f!ie accolade to certain groups and individuals at Marist tures, poetry readings and best
who, at le~t m th~ fo~eseeable future, are not likely to receive the
I
of all, the appearance of St.
kudos their contributions deserve from the college community
Peter's College Girls Glee Club.
• While their efforts have not been
With n~ effort to list them in any order, neither alphabetically
rewarded with the need to hang
cf?ronologically nor otherwise, and with no assurance that the listing out S.R.O. signs at the theatre,
will be even remotely complete, we would give our nominations to• the standing ovation given by
FATHER MAGAN
-
.
Charlie DiSogra, who for the· thos~ who co_mprised the Saturday
sheer love of the sport and with
evemng ~ud~en~e
at
the concert
little hope
.
if other rewards, has
and .~e invitation proffered for
undertaken to inaugurate a track two J01!1-t Glee Club concerts, one
team, conceived and engineered
at_ M~ist and the other atJersey
the recent marathon to initiate
City m ~967-1968, as.sure them
it and who, within a month of this
that their p~ogramnung efforts
,.i,
<'
publicity stunt, has fielded a team
are worthwhile and ~sur~ those
on intercollegiate cinders at
w~o spe:°t Saturday night m some
~·
Queens College.
,
dmi_Iy ht tavern that at least oc-
casionally the college offers an
Sharing Charlie's tapping are
those others who ran thehundred
hours in unspeakably bad weather
as well as those who backed them
up, kept the times and cheered
them on at hours not normally
recommended
for
collegiate
sports.
To the Cultural Committee of
,
the Student .Council, who after a
rather slow beginning, has come
sufficiently alive to sponsor sev-
alternative recreation which is
capable of producing a refresh-
ment at least as high as the amber
fluid.
To the Marist College Glee
Club who, with a single number
at the concert made us regret
that at least their part of the
proposed joint
.
concerts could
not be held before the next aca-
demic year.
On The Other Hand
In 1963, the decision was made
to establish an independentoffice
of Recorder here at Marist. Up
until that time, the joint position
of Registrar-Ret!order had been
held by Bro. John Malacby. It
was then that Mrs. Elizabeth
O'Brien began her work here at
Marist.
Born in Troy, New York, Mrs.
O'Brien received her grammar
and high school education in
Poughkeepsie.
-
She has also at-
tended courses at Poughkeepsie
Business Institute. Before com-
ing to Marist, Mrs. O'Brien
worked for seven years as a Real
Estate
saleswoman here in
Poughkeepsie. Just prior to her
arrival at Marist, she had worked
as a staff assistant at Fitchett
Brothers Dairy. At present she
is a member of the Poughkeepsie
Business and Professional Wom-
an• s Association. She is married
and the mother of two children;
her daughter's wedding last year
was one of the two that has ever
taken place in the campus chapel
here at Marist.
When asked why she chose to
come to Marist, Mrs. O'Brien
replied in a manner that is typi-
cal of the work that she has done
here at Marist: "I would rather
Quo Vadis
work with people,.. she said,
"than products". The whole atti-
tude which pervades the Re-
corder's office, one of friendly
and willing helpfulness, is a tri-
bute in itself to fine enthusiasm
and dedication which she brings
to her work.
When Mrs. O'Brien came to
Marist in i963, there were 63
June graduates; this year the
number will be about 260. With
this growth in student population
has come acorrespondinggrowth
in the volume of work the Re-
corder's Office has to handle.
Next year, in order to facilitate
her work, an IBM computer will
be installed. Mrs. O'Brien re-
marked that she was presently
learning how to operate it, but
finds the going, "very difficult."
However, her usual enthusiasm
has not been dulled and, although
learning how to operate the com-
puter will be difficult, she is cer-
tain that in the long run it will be
"grear•.
Last Thursday night, TheRey-
nard for 1967 was formally dedi-
cated to Mrs. O'Brien. She is
thrilled about it, and considers
•
it as one
of
the highest honors
that could be paid her.
The More You Throw
BY CASEY
To Mike McDonald and the
Theatre Guild who fantasticall,t
broke the post election doldrums
with their recent musical, played
before a packed house here at
each of its stagings and put the
show on the road for at least one
production down in Rockland
County. Memory has it that in
the past, the Theatre Guild reg-
ularly played before audiences
totalling fifty. It is noteworthy
that during their most recent
production, even the President
of the College had to stand.
Whose Zoo?
One of the most intriguing as-
pects of life at Marist is the total
devotion of its students to games.
At virtually any hour of any day
one is able to find legions of his
comrades engrossed in the in-
tricacies of pool, cards, Scrab-
ble, Monopoly, and
ahostofother
exercises in the laws of chance
So, it comes as no surprise
~
hear that an entirely new game
incorporating many elements of
the old ones, is now making the
rounds on campus.
It
is called
Procrastination: A Game
of
Mar-
i
st.
-
Originally
.
conceived a few
years ago by some
of
our present
seniors, this challenging waste of
time utilizes manyofthevaluable
experiences that we have all had
at one time or another since first
~nrolling at Marist.
It
is played
m a number of variations; some-
times on a special board, some-
times on the floor and often ver-
bally.
The basic premise of the game
is to move through the frustra-
tions and pitfalls of four years at
Marist before your opponent (s)
do likewise. The road to aca-
demic success is fraught with
speed. The player's move is de-
pendent, as in mostgames,onhis
throw of the dice; the more he
throws, the faster he moves
through his four years.
The beginning of the game is
marked by the type
of
problems
experienced by the incoming
Freshmen; ie. - dating, drinking,
etc.. As one nears the end, the
spaces are marked with the prob-
lems of an Upperclassman; ie. -
dating, drinking, etc.. For in-
stance, early in the game a player
is liable to land on a square
that informs
him
"YOU GIVE
YOUR HIGH SCHOOL RING TO
A MOUNTIE: ST AND STILL FOR
FOUR YEARS", and he is auto-
matically disqualified from fur-
ther play. Or. he might be so
unfortunate as to land on "GET
SHOT BY A GUARD WHILE
CRASHING A VASSAR MIXER:
J. G. O'CONNELL
LOSE ONE TURN".
There are also a number of
beneficial squares on which to
land, such as "1,EARN HOW TO
FOOL
THE
VENDING
MA-
CHINES:
TAKE
ANOTHER
TURN" and "LEARN HOW TO
.
FOOL THE TELEPHONE CO.:
ADVANCE
TWO
SPACES."
These are followed, however, by
traps
such
as
"YOU
GET
CAUGHT FOOLING A MACHINE:
GET EXPELLED... Other cases
of malfeasence are dealt with on
the spot, such as "GET DRUNK
AT THE RIVER ON FRIDAY AND
WAKE
UP TUESDAY: LOSE
VALUABLE CLASS TIME".
As the game progresses the
penalties become more rigid. A
player in the upper class range
is likely to land on "YOUR TWO
PHILOSOPHY
CLASSES
ARE
TAKEN OVER BY DR. DREN-
NEN: TAKE GAS" or"ACELIQ-
UORS RUNS OUT OF GYPSY
ROSE: YOU HAVE A SIEZURE".
Farther along in the game a
·
player encounters such traps as
"YOU DISCOVER THAT THERE
IS NO MAJOR IN RU~IAN: BE-
GIN AGAIN" or "DR. LE WINTER
Continued
011
-page 6
?
And cheers
too,
to the crew
and sailing teams, who have,
despite the chill and ungodly
hours of their practice sessions,
.
kept their boats in the water and
who have proven
by
their victor-
ies that the designation "Vik-
ings.. has not been idly appro-
priated
by
the college, even if
in
fact, it is used chiefly in refer-
ence to the football club.
To the Student Council who
seem to have resolved thetrays-
left-on-the-table problem in the
cafeteria and to the studen~ who
have cooperated with the council
to eliminate the problem with the
minimum of the threatened police
activity.
To Freshman Joe Francese,
who at the expenditure of more
time and energy than meets the
eye, has been supplying us with
In the last issue of the paper,
Father Magan's regularly fea-
tured, syndicated column in this
most
illustrious
newspaper
.
(plug),
11
The Totem Pole", raised
the problem of proprietorship
with regard to this most illus-
trious of colleges (plug?).
Of
course, Father Magan
.
is right.
The
eight million or so that has
been poured into the campus cof-
fers over the past foµr years is
insufficient to constitute owner-
ship per se, though the figure is
more considerable than the
good
padre's
calculation of $840,
000.00 permits. The fiscal in-
terest of the Board of Trustees
of this corporation, of the Marist
Brothers, of New York State, and
even of Brady Foods is not to be
contested -- mostly because the
anonymous candidate's reasons
for claims of student ownership
and the consequent student rights
were somewhat more altruistic
than the materialistics of Father
Magan
&
Co.
movies of a calibre
to
which this
. .
college has not always been ac-
.
. As a s~dent who is mte_res~
customed
m lessening the authoritarian
•
structure of Marist, and as one
who campaigned on a similar
Conceivably, this listing could
'
premise, I think I can more ac-
go on and on. But there is little curately portray the rationale
need to draw it out. Incomplete be~ _th~ insidious invective,
though it is, it is
·
sufficient to "smce it is our college, we have
indicate that Marist men make the right to run it." To me and,
Marist College and in the making incidently, to the original col-
of the college to their own image legians, the term "college'' is
and likeness, theyarethemselves inseparable from the term "stu-
growing in stature and even we denP':
if
a society is going to
might hope in the Scripblral have an educational system (im-
"wisdom, age and grace before plying students), eventually a
God
and men...
higher level "college''; con-
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versely, there can be n'l "col-
lege" if there areno"students".
In short, college implicates the
students
and vis-a-vis.
My
friend, Noah Webster, draws an
astounding conclusion from
this
logic -- that student and college
are damn near synonymous!
Of course, I deem it not a little
unfair
to consider that college or
colleges, exist simply as afinan-
cial proposition, or as a neces -
sity of society, or as a result of
pressure from the business and
technological worlds, or as a
wayside
chapel
for
draft-
doclgers.
Pardon me, but the
main reason for the persistant
phenomena of a young man sit-
ting at a desk studying centur-
ies-old philosophy on a warm
spring day (instead of helping
populate the shrubbery on the
majestic banks of the Hudson)
is that he wants to study, there-
by being deserving of the title
"studenP'. I would
maintain
that
these "students•• constitute the
"raison d'etre" of a college.
Thus, while I do not deny
Father Magan's fiscal perusings
and preoccupations, I insist the
coin
be
turned
to
disclose the
idea
·
of the corporation: .. col-
lege'' is, and is because of, a
plurality of this .. student"
thing.
This is our college, and we have
the right to run it, provided we
assume the responsibility of run-
ning it. This is essentially what
was being said by
many
of the
candidates in the last campaign
Continued on
page
7
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THE CIRCLE
APRIL 20, 1967
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The members of the Marist College
Golf Team: (back row left
to
right} Frank Russo-Alessi, Brian Corcoran, Dick Dickinson, Mike
Hrenyo, Bob Palumbo, Tim Brier. (front row left
to right) Larry
Gibbons, Ed Grier, Tom Mullany. Missing - Bro. Michael Shirkus.
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opening Spring regatta.
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Joe Dell lets
fly
the javelin after his tremendous throw at the 1-Q-M
Triangular Meet. (see story pg. 8)
Watch The President
Cup Regatta
At
Home - Satur
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Larry Boland,
in
preparation for the Iona-Queens-Marist Meet, clears
bar
in
the temporary practice pit on campus.
,
The Marist Crew, determined
not
to repeat its Philadelphia experi-
ence, prepares itself for the President Cup Regatta this
weekend.
Page 6
THE CIRCLE
APRIL 20. 1967
"APPLE CART" PREMIERS TONIGHT
Brother Raymond Armstrong,
and
Bill Fullam, two of the "Apple
Cart's" star performers, put their heads together at a tense moment.
Beatles Aid
Modern Poetry
On Thursday, April 6, the
Caredon Players presented are-
freshing program of poetry read-
ings.
The speakers were Mr.
John Carey, a graduate student
from Fordham University, Mr.
David Kappas, an instructor at
Fordham. Mr. Daniel Rearden,
also scheduled to speak, was not
in attendance.
Mr. Carey began the evening
speaking ·of poetry in general,
·
and
explained that it is an
art
form that is constantly declining
in popularity. To remedy this,
Mr. Carey stated, we must find
• 'modern parallels for ancient
metaphors." He suggeBted that
we look for new innovations to
make poetry entertaining for the
literate masses of our present
society.
Students Work
To Evaluate
Curriculum
Many of us here at Marist are
unaware of the Academic Policy
Committee -
and
what can be ac-
complished for us through iL
Made up of five faculty members
(Bros. Weiss, Belanger,
and
De-
silets, Dr. Hooper,
and
Mr.
O'Keefe), the committee is a
pol-
icy-making group which deals in
academic matters. At the mo-
ment they are discussing topics
such as the advisory system, the
possibility of more electives, the
pass-fail method of grading, the
Honors Program,
and
the re-
Suddenly the lights went dim vamping of core requirements.
and over the loud speakers came What they would like from the
lhe song
-
"Tomorrow Never student
body
is a methodofcom-
Knows"
by
the Beatles. Follow-
munication so that they might be
ing this, Mr. Carey went into a aware
of
student opinion,
and
so
discussion on Zen Buddhism
and
that they might receive from the
called it a "mysticalpantheism" student
body
the ideas that will
or an "existentialist cult". Zen help them change, in a radical
Masters, he continued, uses
I
way, some of the academic pol-
"koans", or illogical riddles, to icies here at Marist.
teach the cult to others. Through
these, they strive to lift them-
This communication will come
selves
up spiritually and to non-
to them through two students ap-
rationally achieve enlightenment.
1
pointed
by
the Student Govern-
He then read a selection of ment. Their primary source of
"koans" to the audience.
information will come through
Next, Mr. David Kappas came
on stage and entered into a dis-
cussion on Metaphysical poetry.
He argued that poets like John
Donne are not appreciated today
simply because they areoftentoo
difficult to read
and
interpret.
Following this, he asked the aud-
ience to try to visualize the poems
the Curriculum Evaluation Com-
mittee, which will
be revived
and
revamped so that it will be abe
to
present constructive criti-
cisms and potential ideas con-
cerning the curriculum. A thor-
ough, mature analysis
will be
made of each department, with
the results taken to the APC.
"Song"
and
"The Message"
by
THE MORE YOU THROW
John Donne as he recited them~
• • •
After the onlookers realized that
,
Conth1ued from page
3
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flashed on the screen, after which
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by John Donne.
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STUDENT RECOVERING
Continued
fro11
Page
l ......... .
Gene were permitted themselves
I
spond!
so~e!fu1es in paragraphs
a glimmer of hope. Gene was ;
of
uruntel11g1bl~ sounds. When
still completely unconscious, was
he s~s that he 1snotunderstood,
fed intravenously, and was kept he tightens up -- see~ to get
cool with ice blankets. His con-
very angry. Hebr~aksmto_a~old
dition remained static. A tube
sweat, and by the time he fm1&h-
was eventually inserted through
es, the sheets are drenched.
his right side and into his stom-
ach for direct line feeding.
Yet by the end of the week,
one couldn't say that Gene's pro-
gress was good.
It
was more a
case of holding onto life with
unusual tenacity. Once his tem-
perature was brought down, the
ice blankets could be removed for
a number of days at a time. Then
his temperature would rise, and
he'd be back on the blankets again.
On Saturday, March
25,
there
was a turn for the worse. His
breathing became a series of
spasmodic gasps. His tempera-
ture hit
195.
For the second
time, his parents were warned
of the very real possibility of
Gene's not surviving the night.
Miraculously, he pulled through
a three-day period in this state
and started fighting back to his
"normal" pre-March
25
condi-
tion. By Tuesday the crisis was
over.
His progress since then is de-
scribed by one of the registered
nurses in his unit as a series of
plateaus. He will improve for a
bit, level off for a few days,
and
then display some new ability.
Right now he is cognizant of what
is going on around
him.
He ap-
pears to understand questions
and commands. He will, for ex-
ample, move his right arm when
asked to do so.
Tom Reichert, Gene's room-
mate in Champagnat
813,
has
been
a daily visitor to the
·
hospital
since the accident. In discuss-
ing his progress, Tom mentioned:
11
Gene seems frustrated
by
not
being able to communicate.
If
a
question is asked, he will
re-
Commuter News
The Marist Commuter Union
.
recently elected a slate of offi-
cers including President: Lester
Lombardi •
69;
Vice President:
Morton Laffin
1
68;
Secretary:
Norman Middleton
1
69;
Treasur-
er: Anthony
Rigothi
1
69.
The purpose of the club is to
foster a
good
relationship be-
tween the resident and commuter
students and also the college ad-
ministration. Although the club
is not a new idea, a new group of
commuters, numbering over one
hundred, have dedicated them-
selves to make the
'
commuter a
more intrinsic part of campus
life.
On the agenda of upcoming
events will be a membership
drive, a proposed spring picnic
and other social gatherings. In
order to achieve their goals, the
commuters are looking forward
to wholesome cooperation on
be-
"Gene is also fascinated by
rings.
He was very near re-
ceiving his Senior ring at. the
time of the accident, and if
he
sees a ring in the room, he will
follow it until the person wearing
it is out of sight.
"I think he has some concept
of the time he's been here,
too.
The day after the accident was
his twentieth birthday."
Mrs. Doerflinger has been
home for only one day in the past
six weeks. She mentioned that
the doctor
taking
care of Gene,
Dr. Coram, would like to see him
moved to a hospital on Long Is-
land when he improves enough
for the trip. This woule enable
a specialist to see him frequent-
ly, and also let
him
get closer to
home. Mrs. Doerflinger is not
wholeheartedly behind the move:
"I don't think any place can match
the care he's receiving here,"
she said.. She is a remarkably
calm and self-possessed woman,
acutely aware of all the possibil-
ities for Gene, yet patient in her
vigil,
Since Easter week, Gene has
been sitting in a wheelchair for
a few minutes a day. The change
in posture is important. At this
time, he has just about worked
up to one half hour in the chair.
·
A recent "brain scanning'' test
revealed no• 'massive brain dam-
age". This lowers the possibility
of an operation on the brain.
As it stands right now, there is
no way topredicthowGene'spro-
gress will continue. The over-
all picture is good, but no one
dares guess how long recupera-
tion will take.
half of the commuters, residents
and
administration.
WHOSE ZOO? ...
Continued
1
rom page 3
and
what is being attempted now!
Now before we go skipping mer-
rily into glorious anarchy
and
oblivion with glacial speed, I
want to add that since we are all
involved in this education pro-
cess, the Faculty and the Ad-
ministration are hypothetically
students and that all we are
seeking is our share in the de-
termination of campus policy --
a share which our basic involve-
ment in the "what and why" of
college, supported by the
2
mil-
lion-plus annual donation (for
the business majors), entitles
us
.
Oh yes, though Marist has a
propensity for comparing its
~
lf
with
·
innumerable institutions, I
don't think ole
_
almama really
cottons up to the comparison with
theA&P.
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Aut~ority
On The Camp~s
'There are blind hawks and blind doves"
·
To most of us
today
authority serious answers is a refreshing
is a commonplace which is al-
change for most Catholic educa-
most a necessary evil. Man has ted students who seem to lmow
dealt with this commonplace on all of the answers to none of the
many an historical occasion: he questions. This limitation, how-
has run from it, rejected it, eva -
ever, should not s,top us from
ded it, supres sed
it, and
even ,
taking
a closer look at the nature
overthrown it. Sometimes here-
I
of authority.
man should be free of socjo-
political pressures in deciding
his individual participation in
government actions which have
personally
moral
overtones.
Each man, theoretically,
has
the
right to agree or disagree, and
therefore each citizen must de-
cide the issue for himself.
places
it
with tyrannical rule,
'
but in any event he usually en-
counters it.
i
There are, of course, two ma-
jor spheres of authority to which
Turning
to the sphere of reli-
gious authority, we must deal
with each man• s reaction to those
pronouncements
·
made
by
the
Pope, Bishops, and clerics. Many
questions can be asked here; for
instance, .. What are religious
pronouncements'?'' and "How is
Present-day Americans, es-
man owes
!ti~
allegian~e: politi-
pecially college students
are cal and rel1g1ous. He 1s expect-
still dealing with it, but
~ot
in ed to pay at least lip_ ser~ice to
any
truly
revolutionary manner.
·
the laws, rules, and directives of
.
Their approach to authority and each.
the concept
of
authority
·
is far
more fundamental, but probably
almost as shattering as the
American or Communist Revo-
lutions in consequence. Their
approach usually begins with one
of two types of questions--" What
is authority and ~at is
my
re-
lationship to it'?";
and
mundane
questions--.. What right has he
to tell
ME
what to do'?"
The mundane question is usu-
ally asked rhetorically and so
there is no answer, while the
profound question (and variants
of
it)
really get the proverbial
ball rolling. Though the latter
question might not actually have
one best answer, the fact that it
was seriously considered should
provide the basis for a greater
encounter with authority, and
should at least help the student
to avoid resorting to the typical
responses, which include his ig-
noring and evading authority in
hopes that .. maybe it will go
away!'
This quiet revolution of asking
serious questions
_
and expec_~
For contemporary man,politi-
each man bound to them'?'' Are
cal authority reaches its ultimate religious authorities overextend-
form in his national government.
ing themselves when they legis-
Carried to extremes, national late
and
compel men to act, as
authority requires a man to ac-
was certainly the case during
the
cept blindly all of its principles, Spanish Inquisition
and
its Pro-
even to the point of killing. Nazi
J
testant offshoots? Are we to ac-
Germany is a case in point. The cept
all
religious prounounce-
Nuremburg trials illustrated that ments (past and present) without
there is a higher order than the really deciding what our degree
state to which man owes his al-
of commitment should be'? Or
legiance. In not considering the should we take the imm!3-ture ap-
consequences of his actions, a
I
proach
of
not even looking to
subordinate who carries out an
,
authority for its directive~ so as
immoral directive is just as
'I
to
truly
evaluate them?
guilty as his superiors.
It
is,
then, necessary for each man to
,
Hitler had the support
of
the
decide for himself just how he Church. German Bishops issued
will react to directives issued by a statement which exhorted
all
the state.
Germans to defend
the
Father-
\
land. Those laymen whoremain-
Americans who react blindly to
'
ed loyal to the Church but re-
the Viet Nam war are another fused to accept their Bishop's
case in point. There are blind statement because it was, for
hawks and blind doves.
More them, immoral seem to have
serious questioning by heroes answered the question, "Can man
(some military
and
some con-
,
still claim authority as
an
excuse
scientious objectors) who are
I
for his immoral actions'?''
,
willing to suffer for their own
Just as the Nuremburg trials
I
,
commitments is needed to re-
emphasized individual freedom
mind those in authority that each
and the supremacy of conscience
in the political sphere, sol.'oes the
Vatican Council emphasize it in
areas of religious commitment:
This
(religious)
freedom
means that
all
men are
to
be
immune from coercion on tl1e
part of individuals or of social
groups and of any human pow-
er, in such wise that
in
mat-
ters religious no one is to be
forced to act in a matter con-
trary to his own beliefs.
The big question for each ofus
to decide is when that "higher
order'' to which we owe our al-
!egiance is violated by authori-
tative pronouncements.
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1
Track Team Excels l"n Queens-Iona Meet
Dell,
.
Walzer Outstanding
In Outdoor Team's Debut
"The
Mick-'
was hoping that
·
only a month (three days on the
his legs would hold out for a-
.. track" at Lourdes), and con-
nother season so that he could sidering
·
the competition of Iona
help the Bombers climb out of and Queens, Charlie called the
the cellar. Emile Francis was
effort of the squad "outstanding"'.
itching to get back to the Garden
where his Blues know the ice--
Thoughts that run through an
and the fans. Bill Russell was idle mind ••••
wonder.tng
if
the Celtic Dynasty
was being usurped by Philly.
Seems likeCharlieDiSogradidn't
have
to
hope or itch or wonder,
even though two Saturdays
ago
his track team made its official
debut--competition-w
i
se. Pers-
onally, this writer thought that
the U. had a long way to
go
before
it
established itself as a track
power.
Fortunately, the team
proved me wrong. Not that track
and
field records were shatter-
ed at the Queens-Iona-Marist
Triangular
·
Meet; but the boys
shocked many of the competi-
tions• coaches with distances
and
times such as these:
Competing against freshmen
only, Joe Dell
wound
up and hurl-
ed the javelin for an unbelievable
first place 171'4". -CJay Garcia
of the Queens' Varsity fell short
of Dell by 27'10" .) Then Dell
came back and
took
first place in
the discus with a throw of 139'
5 1/2", topping Iona• s scholar-
ship thrower, Rocco Laurie, by
12 feet.
Frosh Pete Gasper, after tak-
ing first place in the 16 lb. shot
put event with a 35' 5" heave,took
third in the javelin with a toss of
94'6 3/4".
Gerry Gary, a guy who never
picked up a discus in his life,
decided to give it a try and wound
up taking fifth place. This was
after Gerry
had
taken second
in
the shot put with a throw just
a
foot shy of Gasper's. And the
pole vault event was wrapped up
very nicely by Danny Gates
who
boosted himself to a 9'6" first
place.
In
the freshman track events,
Ed Walzer was the big gun as he
took second place in the 440 in
52.3 seconds against five scho-
l~ship runners.
Iona placed
fir st in the mile relay by squeak-
ing by Marist with .6 seconds to
spare. This four man event was
headed by Bill Dourdis, Joe
Koeth, Art Quckenton and Wal-
zer--who posted a fantastic 53.1
secood lap. A- potential cross-
c01mtry prospect comes in the
· form of Tom Mahoney who placed
third
in the mile
run.
"Tiger''
Quinn was right behind Mahoney
in
this event and, should he stick
with it, he could easily become
an outstanding two-miler.
In
Varsity competition, Larry
Boland and Jim Young both clear-
ed 10' in the pole vault event (as
did the Queens entrant), but had
to
·
settle for second and third
places
respectively because of
previous misses.
In
the javelin,
Boland took second place, behind
Jay Garcia of Queens, with a 122'
3" toss. Rich Danowski, working
with a pulled leg muscle, placed
a respectable fourth in the same
event.
Co-captain John Goegel ran a
disappointing 4:51 in the mile
run. Disappointing because John
has been able to leg
this
distance
·
in 4:30. The winner from Queens
broke the
tape
in 4:31:9. Tom
"R.G." Annunziata placed fourth
in
the 120yardhighhurdles.
(You
know
him,
Phil.
He's "Gar-
bage''!)
DiSogra was
Vf!rY
proud
of
the
team and the team should be proud
of itself. conside:ring that the
team
bad
been
working
,
out
·
for
.
Congrats to Coach Ron Petro
and his tennis team. This is the
first for tennis at Marist and the
club did a fin,. job of defeating
Dutchess C.C. in its opening
match.
The big question this year,
fans, is what's so new about Wes
Westrum's "new'' Mets?
Special thanks to Mr. Len Ol-
sen, 1956 Decathelon Olympian,
from the track team.
He has
I
coached the boys twice in the
field events and
it
shows in the
final standings.
The over-all
disappointing factor is that of
personnel.
If more people join-
ed the team there would be
no
reason for Marist to have empty
I
slots in any of the events.
Coach Paul Arold's crew fin-
ished what it started out to do
by trouncing the U. of Mass. in the
Varsity, J.V. and Frosh races in
the fir st home regatta on April 8.
Spanking new
5C
post cards (for
7
C)
with pictures of the basketball
and
football teams on them can
be procured in the book store.
That's Ed Hogg inthefrontline--
#51.
Did anyone call him over
the Christmas vacation?
The Herchenroder-Dunn team
looks like the overall favorite in
the Senior Golf Tournament!
(keep it up, Skipper--you might
1
make the green
in
nine!)
Crew
Braves
Dixie
'
Crew at Marist took a giant
step three years ago
and
became
the number one squad in the New
York area when it crushed Iona,
Fordham and
St.
John's in the
Autumn Gold Regatta. Theteam,
determined
not
to relinquish its
hold of this honor, decided to
move on to greater heights in
opening the Spring season.
A
trip to Florida was planned--a
trip meant to bring Marist into
competition with some ofth,ebest
crews in the East.
As
a sport, crew in the South
is vastly different from its north-
ern counterpart. Schools such
as
Rollins College, the University of
Tampa, Florida Southern and
Jacksonville University are able
to practice between September
and
June because they are not
hampered by snow and ice. Their
confidence is an overwhelming
factor--they take each race as
part of their daily routine.
But theuclass" whichtheMar-
ist crew possesses did notletthe
experience or the confidence of
the other teams dampen its spirit.
In
fourteen days of rowing, both
the Varsity and J.V. grew stead-
ly
stronger and deeply im-
pressed the southern power-
houses, even though they fell just
seconds short of upending the
Florida State Champs. The cli-
max of the trip came when the
high-stroking J.V. scored two
decisive victories ~ver Jackson-
ville University and East Caro-
.lina C~llege.
BOOSTER CLUB AIDS TRACK TEAM
Char_les DiSogra, student coach of the Marist College Track Team.
receives a gift
from
Bob
Bennett, the President of the Booster
Club.
.
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SHAW
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