VICAR-GENERAL JOHN L. SWAIN, SJ. Former Dean of Studies and pro­

fessor of classics at Loyola Col­lege, the Very Rev. John L. Swain, S.J., has been named Vicar-General of the Society of Jesus with pleni­potentiary powers over 34,687 Jesuits, it was announced in Rome at the end of March.

Father Swain, who taught at Loyola from 193 9 to 194 3 and served as Dean for three years, has been Vicar-General in the Society's administration in Rome since April, 1960. He is now delegated full powers over the Catholic Church's largest religious order while i.ts General, the Very Rev. Jan B. Janssens, S.J., is in convalescence following an operation.

With this appointment as Vicar­General - in effect Acting General

of the Society of Jesus - Father Swain has achieved the highest post in the Order held by a Can­adian Jesuit to date.

The new Vicar-General was born on December 13, 1907, at Kempt­ville, Ontario, in the Archdiocese of Kingston. After attending the elementary and high schools in his home town, he entered, on August 14, 1925, the Society of Jesus at Ignatius College in Guelph, Ontario, (then St. Stanislaus Novitiate).

Father Swain remained in Guelph for his classical studies until 1929, when he was transferred to the Jesuit Seminary in Toronto for three years of philosophy, and, during the academic year 1932-1933, he taught at Regiopolis College in Kingston.

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LOYOLA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION JAMES C. WILSON, '29

President ROBERT J. BRODRICK, M.D., '43

1s t Vice-President ERIC W. KIERANS, '35

2nd Vice-President . DONALD W. McNAUGHTON, '49

3rd Vice-Pres ident VAL J. CHARTIER, '45

Honorary Secretary HARRY J. HEMENS, Q.C., '32

Director LONNY W. HOLLAND, '54

Director PAUL F. LIMOGES, '41

Director A. PATRICK WICKHAM, '46

Director VERY REV. PATRICK G. MALONE, S.J.

Rector REV. LIONEL STANFORD, S.J., '29

Mode rator FRED D. McCAFFREY, '41

Immediate Past President GEORGE BEDARD, '61 · S. A.(:. Repres entative

JULIUS J. MIHALIK Executive Secretary

MRS. DORCTHY McGEE Secretary

LOYOLA COLLEGE VERY REV. PA TRICK G. MALONE, S.J.

Rector

STUDENT ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL BRIEN NOBLE, '62

President

SPRING 1961 VOL. V, NO. 1

CONTENTS

Vicar-General J oho L. Swain Inside Front Cover

Spiritual Corner ..... .............. ....... ........ 2

Annual LAA Communion Breakfast a Success .... .. ...... ..... ......... ..... ...... . 4

Artsman Brien Noble ....... .. _...... .... .... . 6

Students vs. Alumni ... .. .... ..... .. .. ... .... . 7

Jesuits Non-Existent ..... ... .. .... ... ....... 9

College Soars to Record High ...... .... 10

Marian U. Degrees Issued to Loyolans ................. .... .. ..... .. ..... ... 11

A Report from the Alumni Committee .. ........ ....... ... .... ........ .... 14

Alumni Act as Debate Judges .. ... ..... 15

The Lookout ... ... ........ .. .. ....... .... .. ........ 22

Cover: A view of the construction work on Loyola's new science block (Photo by Dr. Kurt Ekler, Loyola College)

An Easter Thought By Rev. Lionel Stanford, S.J., '29

Moderator, Loyola Alumni Association

It was the first Easter afternoon. Two of Our Lord's disciples, dis­couraged with the events of Good Friday, with the suffering and death that Christ had undergone, left Jerusalem and were on their way to Emmaus, about eight miles away. They had given up! They had ex­pected great things of the Master, but instead of reigning from a throne He had been nailed to a cross. The evangelist St. Luke tells us that "they talked together of all these

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things which had happened. And it came to pass that while they talked and reasoned with themselves, Jesus himself also drawing near, went with them." We can just hear them saying "Too bad He had to die like that after such a promising start; too bad He had to suffer so much and finally fail. If only He could have come down from the cross ... " They didn't know that this stranger was the one who had 'failed', and He said to them "What are these discourses that you hold with one another as you walk and are sad?" And one of them whose name was Cleophas, answering said to him "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem and have not known the things that have been done there in these days?" And Jesus said "What things?" And they said "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in work and word before God and men; and how our chief priests and princes

delivered him to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we were hoping that it was he that should have redeemed Israel. •. "

Notice the line of their thought: "We hoped that he should have re­deemed Israel, but instead he suf­fered and was nailed to a cross." It's just as though someone were to say of a surgeon "I thought he would have cured me of my cancer, but instead he operated on me." Is it any wonder that Christ scolded them and said "O foolish and slow of heart to believe in all the things which the prophets have spoken. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and thus entered into his glory?" Just as the operation was the cure, so the suffering and 'defeat' of the cross was the might­iest work that Our Lord performed; and after He had explained the scriptures to the two disciples, they had a completely new understanding of the ways of God. It was this new understanding that made them re­trace their steps immediately and go back to Jerusalem where trials

The following alumni were speakers at this year's edition of 'Vocation Week' at Loyola High School. Dr. Des Polan '43, speaking on medicine as a career. Dr. A.!. (Whitey) Schutz '49, speak­ing on dentistry.

and persecution awaited them. Maybe if we realized the value of

the cross in our lives we would fret less when it comes, and enjoy greater peace. Why do we worry when a cross comes? Mainly be­cause we do not see that it is Christ coming to us. When Our Lord came walking on the waters the apostles were terrified. Why? Be­cause they did not know it was He and thought it was a phantom. But as soon as they realized it was the Master they were at peace. He said "It is I; be not afraid.'' When trial or misfortune comes, let us pierce through Christ's disguise. He ap­peared to the Shepherds and the Magi as a helpless babe; on Good Friday as a criminal nailed to a cross; at Mass He appears to us as a wafer of bread. Another favorite disguise of His is the cross; but trial and suffering were so much a part of His life that we should not fail to recognize Him. When the cross comes to us, if we listen hard enough, we, too, can bear Him say "It is I; be not afraid."

Tom McKenna '42, speaking on law. Bill Shore '41, speaking on teach­ing. Rev. John Brayley 141, speaking on the priesthood . Joseph O'Connor '32, speaking to the students on social work.

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Annual LAA Communion -

Breakfast a success-This year's communion breakfast

of the Loyola Alumni Association was held on Sunday, March 19, with Pat Wickham '46 serving as chair­man. The Mass was said by the Rector, the Very Rev. Patrick G. Malone, S.J., in the College library.

After the breakfast in the refec­tory, the assembled alumni heard their guest speaker, a prominent writer and leader in Protestant lay work throughout Canada, Dr. Douglas J. Wilson of The Montreal Star, endorse the College's bid for a university charter.

"I hope," Dr. Wilson told his cheering audience, "that I may soon hear of a university for En-

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Douglas J. Wilson, M.A., Ph.D.

" ... A University for English Catholics in Quebec . "

glish Catholics in Quebec where the highest in scholarship would be wedded to the stability of faith."

Speaking on the subject of"Semi­Parasites in Religion," he pointed out that if a church member goes through the motions of religious practice in a mechanical way and allows symbols to become objects of idolatry rather than vehicles of grace, he takes on the role of a semi-parasite - enjoying the secu­rity and promises of the Church, but making no positive contribution to its growth.

"Unfortunately," Dr. Wilson em­phasized, "this kind of Christian clutters up the true Church in the sight of other religions and the secular world."

The speaker went on to say that the temptations to lapse into such an apathetic state are peculiarly powerful in an affluent, self-satis­fied state. In contrast, adherents of a communist ideology, especially the young, ,are ceaselessly active, reading, learning and dedicating themselves to little jobs that help to infiltrate the minds of men.

Two practical steps were offered by Dr. Wilson to make Christians more vital.

The first was an increase of knowledge both in Church teach-

ings and in international develop­ments. It was said to be most im­portant that all of us insist that God is the Judge of history and not vice-versa. This, The Montreal Star columnist stressed, applies to our democracies as well as to total­itarian states.

The second step :was a better study of our religious sources. The modern use of the Bible, based on sound scholarship which, Dr. Wilson said, was one of the most fruitful ecumenical influences extant today, can now be used profitably within the framework of our Church's dogma, and can enrich the process of personal growth to which all of u s are enjoined by New T estament writers.

In conclusion Dr. Wilson pointed out th at perhaps the easiest mis­take to make is to believe that we are "just little people." But within our environment of home, coll ege, or business we can spread the "aroma of the Gospel" adding

fragrance to morality and helpii'ig to purify the 'prevailing climate of materialism and ineligion.

* * * * * While Loyola in Montreal was the

scene of our communion breakfast, Loyola University" of Los Angeles was holding the same type of event, and several of QIQY alumni and their friends living in th.at are~ attended in order to join their prayers with ours on our Alma Mater's behalf. fo the words of Rev. John E. O'Brien, S.J. , '45, who sent us a report on the event, "They all showed a great deal of interest in a pile of clippin gs from Montreal newspapers , concerning Loyola' s application fo r university status."

Next year, we trust, they will be joining with us in prayers of th anks­giving wh en we, God willin g, cel e­brate our much-des erved and long­overdue univers ity charter.

Alumni wishing to advertise in LOYOL A A LUM US, kindly wri te

for information and rates to:-

Mrs . Dorothy McGee, Secretory, Loyola Alumn i Association, 714 1 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal 28, Que.

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Brien Noble, third-year arts stu­dent, was elected president of the Student Administrative Council of Loyola College for the coming year.

In a four-way, closely-fought elec­tion, Brien won by a four-vote majority, polling 213 votes to 209 for his nearest opponent, Jeffrey Ford. The other two candidates, Dick Kugelman and John Brennan, received 135 and 93 votes respect­ively.

The new SAC president hopes to "lead Loyola to a more national level." His platform, based on a policy of strong leadership and greater publicity, contained such points as better summer employment set-ups, European exchange sys­tems, and - what is significant for all Loyola alumni - a homecoming day in the traditional collegiate sense of the term.

After a quietest campaigning in years, 652 students, representing 69 per cent of the full-time student body, cast their ballots in the an­nual two - day election. Egbert Archibald, third-year science stu­dent from the West Indies, won the

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Artsman Brien Noble

New Student President

Elected by four votes

in closest contest ever

vice-presidency by a wide majority. Don McDougall was elected pres­

ident of the Loyola College Athle­tic Association and Ken DesRoches won the Intramural Athletic Council presidency by acclamation.

The election results were an­nounced at the SAC-sponsored an­nual Award Night, held at the Col­lege auditorium. All -Activity Awards, based on overall perfor­mance for a student's undergraduate course, went to George Bedard, the retiring SAC president, and to Harry Renaud and Ron Hore.

The SAC Trophy, given to the student making the greatest contri­bution to extracurricular activities in the current year, was won by Michael G. Kelly. The Sportsman­ship Trophy, awarded for ability, administration and sportsmanship during the undergraduate course, was also won by Harry Renaud.

Scrolls of Recognition were pre­sented to George Bedard, James Hayes, William Mackness and Ross Rochford. John Bush and William Sutton were voted :ntramural ath­letes of the year.

STUDENTS vs. ALU·MNI

We are reprinting, without comment, an editorial which appeared in the

Loyola News on February 24, 1961, and a letter to the Editor of the News,

dated March 9, 1961, from the Alumni President /. C. Wilson.

THE EDITORIAL

"ALMA MATTER . We are beginn_ing to wonder just

what the purpose of the Loyola Alumni Association is. It would seem, by the very fact that this association bears the name of - . Loyola, that it would have some-thing to do with this institution.

And this not merely in the sense that a group of ex-Loyola students get together for the occasional social gathering, The Loyola Alumni Association should have a definite function with regard to student events, intellectual or cultural ad­vancem;:;nt or something else direct­ly connected with the activity of this college.

The only link, as far as we are aware, that has existed in recent ye_ars between the Alumni and the student activities was the annual Recognition Dinner which was sponsored by the Alumni for the purpose of honoring certain students who had contributed something to Loyola, in the athletic or non -athletic realms.

Last year this Dinner was re-

stricted to Seniors since it was becoming too large and thus losing its meaning. It was also felt that if it were just for the Seniors, it would take on an additional value and be an important event in the last year of each graduate.

Now it has been announced that there will be no Recognition Dinner

. this year. It might just as well have been announced that there will be no more Loyola alumni association.

If the Alumni Association does not feel capable of organizing a Recognition Dinner in two months, then obviously it is incapable of functioning in any capacity which might be beneficial to the under­graduates of this institution, and they might just as well disband their organization altogether.

The excuses the Alumni Associa­tion has given for discontinuing the traditional dinner, sounded very much like the garbled doubletalk which so many Loyola organizations are wont to give forth when they find that they lack the necessary energy to carry out their plans. .

If the Alumni are unable to pre-

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sent a dinner, it is not because the problems of organizing it are insur­mountable, it is because the per­sonal lethargy which is character­istic of the Loyola graduate renders them incompetent to organize one. We are not impressed, we are disgusted."

THE LETTER

" Editor, Loyola News, Loyola College.

Dear Sir:

Your energetic comment on the Alumni Association calls for a word of explanation on our part.

Undoubtedly the Recognition Din­ner is a good thing (otherwise the Alumni Association would never have started it), but we do not con­sider it the only, or even the most important item on our program. Fo r example, we consider it more si gni­ficant that 500 members of our a s­sociation have pledged more than $100,000.00 to the Loyola Develop­ment Fund. In addition, out of our modest assets, we have set aside $13,000.00 as a Loan Fund for the students of Loyola, and eleven members of the student body are a t present making use of it. Each year the Association gives a bursary o f $100.00 to a Loyola student, an d one of $200.00 to a graduate; and it contributes $5,000.00 to the Coll e ge

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to help defray current expenses. At last year's Recognition Dinner,

mem bers of the Alumni Associ ation paid $7. 50 for a $4 .50 meal , i n order to cover the expenses in­volved by having 58 s tudents as guests. It was hoped that each of the students would show the same enthusiasm for his own ' recogni­tion' , and cooperate by having his father buy a ticket. Unfortunately, only 14 did so, and this was a con­tributing factor in the deficit. In 1959 our loss was $217. 76. In 1960 it was $822.51. Obviously, if the Alumni Association was to fulfill its other financial commitments to the students and the college, it could not afford losses of that kind. The whole format of the event re­qui red re-thinking, and a top-flight speaker capable of drawing a large num ber of guests would have to be obtained. A committee of three, appointed to s tudy the matter, were of the opinion that two month s time was not enough fo r that purpose. That decision may o r may not have been the best possibl e one, but it was a rrived at by men who had al ­ready had experi ence in arranging Recognition Dinners, and with a view to havin g mo re mo ney to help Loyola and its stu dents in o ther and mo re im portant ways.

Sin cerely yo urs,

James C. Wilson, President."

IN LIGHTER VEIN (The following articles have been reprinted from the December 9, 1960

issue of Loyola News. Loyola Alumnus refuses to assume any respon­

sibility for them.)

Jesuits Non-Existent Archive Search Sends

Society to Siberia

Shocking news has reached the teaching staff and students of Loyola today. The Jesuits, as an order, do not exist.

As the result of an implication made by the Archbishop of Canter­bury in his recent conference with his Holiness, Pope John, eccle­siastical historian Alfred E. · Car­dinal Newman has done extensive research in the archives of the Vatic.--1n Library, and discovered that the Jesuits have not existed officially - except in Russia -since their suppression by Pope Clement XIV in 1773.

At that time, the Empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, for- · bade the publication of the edict disbanding the Order, and founded a noviciate within her realm for the persecuted Society. As a result of this, Russia is, today, the only country in which the Jesuits legal­ly exist.

Premier Khrushchev, when con­tacted by the NEWS, insisted that the present government was not to be held responsible for the mis­takes of the former regime; but he added that he might consider allow­ing the order to settle in Siberia for the time being.

Locally, an all out effort is being made to secure petitions, in an attempt to induce the provincial government to re-instate the order.

United States President John F. Kennedy, who heard the news first, via his direct line to the Vatican, has wired his condolences to the College, with the promise that, had the order survived, his son would have attended classes here ...

American intellectual Nonnan Vincent Peale is quoted as saying: "I don't mean to offend any groups or individuals, but I must say, I never could think POSITIVEl.Y about the Jesuits". Dr. Peale has offered to serve as theology pro­fessor at Loyola, provided his

friend Bishop Pike is added to the Political Science staff.

The petitions, issued on a world­wide scale, seem to be doing rather badly. The Bishops of Puerto Rico have forbidden their flocks to sign, under pain of mortal sin. "The Jesuits", said an official Pastoral letter, "are essentially Commu­nistic ... "

In the Congo, Kasabubu has pro­mised to shoot anyone signing the petition. Lumumba has sworn to shoot anyone failing to sign it, and Mabuto says he will shoot every­one, either way ...

Premier Castro of Cuba, in an eight hour television speech, charged that he was not deceived by the petition, and that obviously

the Jesuits were going underground in an effort to sabotage his agrar­ian reforms.

Chiang Kai Chek has offered the exiled prelates the islands of Quemoy and Matsu, for purposes of colonization ...

Meanwhile back at Loyola, local authorities are busy converting building funds into travellers cheques; and the government has passed legislation to prevent the Fitzpatrick people from striking.

As we go to press, things look bad. It appears that the Jesuits will be embarking for Soviet Russia on Christmas Eve - on the same ship coincidentally, with a party of Doukabors.

College Soars To Record High

Canada's first space satellite, Loyola I, has successfully attain­ed orbit around the earth. The College was fired into space at 9:10 a.m. EST last Saturday, thus avoiding the danger of any students being trapped in the satellite.

In a speech to the Progressive Conservative Student Federation and House of Commons yesterday noon, Prime Minister Diefenbaker said: "It was entirely necessary that a thriving nation such as ours should positively demonstrate that its capability and national inte-

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grity are as great and at least equal to those of any other Space Age nation, such as our great friends below the border." After this reference to Mexico, Mr. Dief­enbaker announced that Parliament would adjourn. There will be a celebration at his Ottawa apart­ment this evening. Orange juice and cookies will be served.

n unofficial statement from the College Administration reads as follows: "By putting ourselves into orbit, we have shown that we are capable of raising ourselves

physically. It is hoped that this will encourage the Quebec Legis­lature to grant us University Status, and, thereby, give us the means to raise ourselves mentally to a posi­tion concomitant with our physical one."

egotiations are at present under way to provide students with a commuter service to and from the

College. · The next pha e of Loyola's

space programme will be to send a manned satellite. Loyola II, into orbit some time this morning. Loyola II was formerly known as the NEWSroom. o attempt will be made at recovering this second satellite.

Marian U. Degrees Issued To Loyolans?

Generally reliable sources at Marianopolis report the Congrega­tion of Notre Dame is willing to take over the Administration of Loyola - once the Jesuits are ex­pelled - "provided that we become a college of Marianopolis Univer­sity."

Our source, who wishes to re­main anonymous, stated that a bill i currently being drawn up for the next legislative assembly of the Provincial Government.

Said she, "I don't understand how this could have happened to

such a lovely order! Especially after they presented Everyman last year! Ah, well, God's ways are not our ways!"

She went on to say, "We should be able to use some of the lay staff now teaching at Loyola, when we take over; of course, they're all teaching the wrong courses in the wrong manner right now, but we can fix th at."

"I guess that thi s turn of events", said the Reverend Mother, "will teach those SP AM people a thing or two."

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OBITUARY

We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the following alumni and families of alumni on their bereavement -Edward Kirk Jr. '54 and family , on the death of their father, Edward Kirk '13, March 10th. John'47, James'48, Frank S.J. '48, Gerry '51 and Robert '52 McGee, on the death of their father, J. John McGee, December 25th. Gib Haldane '49, on the death of his father in February. Nicholas deTakacsy '59, whose father died January 1st. David '43, Robert '49 and Ronald '49 Sutherland, on the death of their mother. The family of Col. William Ed. Morgan '16 who died in March. The family of Joseph A. Murphy '48 who died in March.

Eugene Hankey '37 on the death of his mother. Dr. Richard Ryan '42 on the death of his mother. Dr. Roger E. McMahon '24 and J. Connell McMahon '30 on the death of their mother. Edward Costanzo '51 on the death of his father. Maurice Janin '30 on the death of his mother. John Poupart '53 whose father died last November 25th. Roderick '59 and Robert Lacroix (Arts 1) on the death of their father. The family of Lt. Col. Gustave Rainville '13, father of Messmore A. '43 and Jacques deLigny Rainville '44. The family of A.F. (Frank) McGillis '17, who died April 10th.

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A Report from the Alumni

Committee for Loyola University Among recent developments in

the continuing fight for a charter has been the formation of an Alumni Committee for Loyola University, under co-chairmen Tony Parr '59, and Tony Patterson '60. Their ef­forts to date, in an attempt to bring the question of the charter more forcibly to public attention, have met with considerable success.

Soon after the committee was formed in January, it sponsored a mailing to all alumni, urging that letters be written the Premier of Quebec in support of Loyola's bid. The hundreds of letters which have flowed in since that date attest to the significance of this move.

On January 31, Tony Parr ad­dressed the Board of Student Acti­vities of the College and impressed upon the student leaders the three basic reasons justifying Loyola's claim: that we are already doing the work of a university; that the English Catholic community, as a distinct ethno-religious group, is entitled to its own institution of higher learning; and that the in­creasing enrolment and lack of space in Montreal's present univer­s ities make the granting of another charter imperative.

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Though the students had been relatiNely unconcerned with the is­sue to that date, they immediately rallied in support of the cause. Newspaper reports have since chronicled their trip to Quebec City, their interview with Premier Lesage, and their subsequent pick­eting during his visit to Montreal . They presented their own petition, talked on television, and challenged dissenters to debate.

Not all of the committee's actions have brought such dramatic and instant response. Other efforts, however, deserve to be mentioned.

In late February, Tony Patterson, accompanied by Jim Moriarity '59

Tony Parr, '59 University Char ter .

and Peter Beemans '59, attended the annual meeting of the Diocesan

. Union of Holy Name Societies and urged the members present to invite representatives of Loyola to speak at their monthly meetiogs and put the case of the College before them.

On March 19, the Holy Name Societies of St. Clair Parish on the south shore and St. Willibrord's in Verdun did just that. Messrs. Parr and Patterson took on these as­signments and spoke frankly on the history of Loyola's request, the justice of it, and the problems that have been encountered. Almost 100 persons were addressed and both meetings signified intentions to play a more active part in support­ing the College's stand.

The Alumni Committee is pre­sently attempting to gain more vigorous s upport from e thnic groups in Montreal.

Tony Patterson, '60 ... NOW!

ALUMNI ACT AS

DEBATE JUDGES On Saturday, March 11, nine mem­

bers of the Loyola Alumni Associa­tion returned, however briefly, to the high school intellectual arena.

They were invited to participate as judges and chairmen in the final round of a series of debates spon­sored by the Montreal Catholic Youth Forum. President of the Forum is Patsy Slattery, daughter of Tim Slattery, Q. ~., M. B. ~., Loyola's legal advisor.

The debates were conducted in two sessions, during the morning and afternoon, and were followed by an impromptu debate between four of the Alumni: 'tony Parr '59, Tony Patterson '60, Peter Beemans '59 and Geoff Charleboi s '59. The latter event, i t is reliably reported, re­vealed an unsuspected strain of levity in the participants.

The resolution was" that pacifism is a self-destructive philosophy," and the contest took place at Sacred Heart Convent.

Other Alumni present: Bernie Sarrazin '59, Dave Waters '56, Steve Kierans '57, Basil Holland '59 and Jim Moriarity '59.

We wish to apologize for the type­setter's error in the spelling of Bill Tigh' s name in our December 1960 issue.

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Vicar-General John L. Swain, S.J. (cont'd. from in ide front cover )

In 1933, the young scholastic left Canada - for his first of many so­journs abroad - to study theology at the Gregorian University in Rome, where he was ordained on July 25, 1936.

For a year after his return to Canada in 1937, Father Swain was engaged in parish work at St. Andrew's Parish, Port Arthur, Ont­ario, and before arriving at Loyola College as professor of classics in 1939, he was a tertian at Manresa Hall, Port Townsend, Washington.

A year after his arrival at Loyola, Father Swain was named the Dean of Studies of the College and settled down to what he hoped would be a prolonged stay in an academic atmosphere. However, that was not the case as , in 1943, he was appointed by the then Father Provincial as his Socius, or Exe­cutive Assistant.

Shortly after the end of World War II the future Vicar-General wa s named the Provincial of the Upper Canadian Province of the Society of Jesus, in which post he remained until August 1, 1951. As Provincial , Father Swain made an official visit to the English Canadian Mission in

Darjeeling,India ; and while engaged in retreat work at 1anresa in Pick­ering, Ontario, in 1951-1952, was sent on an official visit to the French Canadian Jesuit schools in

Ethiopia. After r·eturning from Africa, Father

Swain was appointed Master of Novices at Ignatius College, and three years later, in addition to his above duties, was named the Rector of the College.

Five years ago Loyola's former Dean of Studies, unaware of the fact that he would not be returning to his homeland for some time, left for Japan where he became the Fi rst Master of Tertians in the Japanese Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus at Hiroshima.

In 1957, at the age of 50, Father Swain was elected by the Thirtieth General Congregation as head of the English Assistancy and As­sistant to the Very Reverend Father General at the Curia, Rome. Three years later, in April 1960, he was named Vicar-General for adminis­tration.

Then, at the end of March of this year, it was announced in Rome that F ather Swain has assumed the office of Vicar-General with full powers in the Jesuit Order, while the Order's General is convalescing from illness.

In selecting him for this signal ho nour, the Society of Jesus has honoured not only all the Catholics in Canada and the country as a whole, but especially Loyola, which is very proud to have given the world her fonner Dean of Studies -Vicar-General John L. Swain, S.J.

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ANNUAL MEETING

LOYOLA FOYER

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1961, 8:30 P.M.

Refreshments after the Meeting

AGEHDA

Meeting Opens - Greetings by Chairman

Annual Report by retiring President

Financial Report by Secretary

Question period on Annua I Report and Financial Statement

Announcement re new Executive by Chairman of the Nominating Committee

New Executive takes over and new President addresses the alumni

Meeting open to questions and proposals from the floor

Very Rev. Patrick G. Malone, S.J., and Mr. T. P . Slattery, Q.C., M.B.E., - re University Status

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THE LOOKOUT

19 26 ]. Beaudoin Handfield, this year's president of the Canadian Progress Club of Montreal, has been ap­pointed a Queen ' s Council by the Quebec Government.

19 29 Pat Nolan was elected president of the Canadian Soccer Football As­sociation at the annual Dominion meeting in Vancouver. Pat is also president of the Quebec Soccer Association. Ed Scully has been appointed Freight Traffic Manager - System, Rates & Divisions, with Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

1933 Charles Wayland has been elected president of the Association of Notaries for the District of Montreal.

19 3 6 Lucien G. Rolland, president of Rolland Paper .C:o., has been elected chairman, executive board, Can­adian Pulp & Paper Association. He is also serving as this year' s chairman of Les Scouts Catholiques of Montreal diocese campaign. Don Tobin has been appointed Vice­President of Sales for Catelli -Habitant Ltd.

19 38 Lt. Col. Stanley D. Clarke has been elected to the Board of Directors of St. Mary's Hospital, Montreal.

19 39 Dr. Vic Griffiths has returned to Montreal and opened his Orthodon­tic practice here. He earned D.D.~. at McGill in 'SO and Orthodontics at U. of M. in '58. For the past 10 years he, his wife and their 7 children have lived as neighbours of Albert Fregeau, Q.C. '26, and Raymond Fregeau '28 in Rock Island, Que.

1941 Fred D. McCaffrey was recently ap­pointed director and general man- . ager of Watts Watts Shipping Agen­cies Ltd., a new steamship agency formed through an agreement bet- · ween Federal Commerce & N avi­gation Co. Ltd., Montreal, and Watts, Watts & Co. Ltd. of London, England. Major Patrick Desgroseillier who is Staff Officer, HQ Quebec Command, has been appointed Warden of the new medium security penitentiary, "Leclerc" Institution, St. Vincent de Paul.

19 44 ]. Jacques Beauchemin served as chairman of the Special Names Di­vision for the Federation of French _ Charities annual campaign.

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19.46 Cmdr. Thomas E. Connors has been chosen to Command HMCS St. Croix of the Fifth Canadi an Escort Squad­ron based at Halifax. Eddie Asselin iS' a director of the Canadian Rugby Union and chair­man of the junior committee re­presenting the Q.R.F.U. on the nation-wide body.

19.49 Robert Boyle is president of Ship­ping Limited,_ Montreal, succeeding his father, the l ate James P. Boyle. David ]. Dohan., after a number of years with the firm of Duquet, Mackay & Weldon, has joined Plan­ned Investment Corp. as Assistant to the President. Dr. Thomas J. Sullivan has been made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Don Mc Naughton has been appoint­ed Carling Brand Manager for the Province of Quebec. He will head Planning&Supervision of Marketing operations for Carling products in the province. We are also very pleased to report that Don is moving back to Montreal.

19 50 Rev. Richard Macdonald, S.J., was ordained by the Archbishop of Calcutta, Right Reverend Monsignor Vivian Dyer, at St. Joseph's Col­lege, Darjeeling, India.

Dr. Bob Marchessault is Research Associate at Am~rican Viscose Corp.,. Media, Pa.

19 51 Paul G. Levasseur is now Assis­tant General Manager of Siporex Co. Claude Mondor has joined the Dewey & Almy Chemical Division, W. R. Grace & Co. of Canada Ltd., Montreal, as a sales representative for their construction industry chemical ad-mixtures. Capt. A. Sosnkows ki is now posted as a Staff Officer, General Staff Branch, Headquarters Quebec Com­mand. Jean-Louis Daunais, former Member of the Bar Association of Montreal, is now a deacon in fourth year theology in the Grand Seminary of Montreal. He will be ordained to the priesthood on May 27th.

1952 L eonard Delicaet npw lives in Toronto and is with Woods, Gordon & Co., Management Consultants. Dr. Lome E. Cass idy is at the Montreal General Hospital as a Residency in Medicine. He, his wife and their 2 young children live in St. Lambert. Jame s Larocque is in Samia, Ont. working for Polymer Corp. Bob McGee has been transferred to Ottawa by Shell Oil Co.

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1953 Lorne O'Brien was recently pro­moted to major accounts manager with- Pacific Telephone in Cali­fornia. John Poupart is Personnel Director at St. Mary's Hospital, Montreal. John Mollitt has been transferred to St. John, N.B. as Assistant Man­ager of Montreal Trust Company in St. John.

1954 Harold Mattson who has opened his own law firm of Mattson & Nowak in Kitchener, was elected to Kit­chener City Council for 1961. Hugh McQueen has returned to Montreal as Assistant Professor at Ecole Polytechnique in Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering. Hugh will receive his Ph.D. in metallur­gical engineering in June from University of Notre Dame, Indiana. His thesis on the sintering of .zinc sulfide has just been approved.

19 55 Donn Kevin Wilson has been named a Baker Scholar as a member of the top five percent of the second year class at the Harvard School of Business Administration. V. Neil Patton is studying for his B. Ed. degree at St. Joseph Teach­ers College and is serving as pres­ident of the student body there. Norman Henchey is assistant prin­cipal at St. Stephen School, Dorval,

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1956 Dave Pemberton-Smith, partnered with Lome Main, won the Canadian Squash Doubles Championship in Toronto. Andre Dupuis has left Frobisher Bay and is now living in Ottawa where he is employed by Public Works of Canada. Roger Poitras is Building Mainte­nance Engineer at The Montreal­Star. While studying for his B.Eng. at Nova Scotia Technical College, ·he met Al Tinmouth '55, Chuck Mcilroy '51, Ray Bertrand '55 and John Mclellan '53, all of whom graduated in engineering also. Pierre Bataille is in last year of studies for his M.Sc. in chemistry at U. of M. Ray Losito is doing allergy re­search at Gonzaga U.

1957 John Rogers has moved to Don Mills, Ont., for his work as an engineer with B/ A Oil in Toronto. Brian Gallery was elected one of the vice- presidents for Montreal District of the Junior Progressive Conservative (Quebec) Association at the recent National Convention in Ottawa. Walter Trumpa was transferred to Seven Islands by Imperial Oil Limi­ted to serve as their Sales Repre­sentative in that area, Charles Mizgala has been appointed Medical Services Representative in

western Montreal for Wm. S. Merretl Company. D' Arey Coulson has entered the Grand Seminary of Ottawa.

1958 James D. Sullivan is planning to do an externship in New Orleans this summer. Norman Nagy graduated in Civil Engineering from McGill in '60 and

is now employed as Industrial En­gineer for Proctor & Gamble Co. Ltd., Hamilton, Ont.

1959 Michel Moreault is taking Notarial studies at University of Montreal, Law School.

19 60 Pierre Moreault entered the Grand Seminary of Ottawa last September.

FROM OUR OUT-OF-TOWN MAIL

Beyrouth, Lebanon: A letter from Mr. Frank A. Rams­

perger, S.!. '53, tells us that he is teaching a small class of English at a college of 700 Christian Arabs, just outside of Beirut and is also prefecting a 'division' of 98 stu­dents, together with a scholastic from France. Father Frank's main task at the moment is to learn· Arabic so he is taking 6 classes a week with a Spanish Scholastic. These he expects will continue through the summer to prepare him for the regular Arabic course at Bikfaya next year. Father Frank writes that he is also praying for Loyola's charter.

London, England: Bob Schroeder '53 writes that he

recently met Bob Keyserlingk '53 who is working with the Canadian Immigration in Cologne, Mulheim and finds he has become quite Con­tinental. He was also quite fasci­nated by Bob K's book collection which he feels will soon make him

a specialist in modern Gennan history.

Bob S. by the way has the task of getting a business going as Branch Manager of the first overseas office opened by Dan River International Corp.

Toronto, Ontario: Harold Quinn '29 dropped us a

few lines recently to say that Dennis Cermak '54 has given up his business career and is now enrolled in medicine at Queen's University. Can we have a new mailing address for Dennis please? We were also pleased to learn from .him that Terry O'Neill '54 is a member of the law finn of O'Neill and O'Neill.

We all hope the Toronto Chapter of Loyola Alumni Association will soon become the active group it was for many years.

Gentlemen, we look forward to hearing from you very soon with more out-of-town news.

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WEDDINGS AND ENGAGEMENTS To the following alumni, their brides and their future brides, we send our very best wishes for hap­piness and we -sincerely hope they will keep in touch with us as they

·.settle into their new homes through~ out the land. David Pemberton-Smith '56, married to Louise Suzanne Daoust in Feb. Capt. A, Sosnkowski '51, married last October in Germany to Marg­aret McCormack of P.E.I. Pierre Bat~lle '56, married Hen­riet~e Bourassa last June. John Anthony Evans -'60, recently married to Maureen Patricia Finnegan.

Joseph Poirier '57, plans to marry Gail Fournier in June. · John Ganley '60 and Rosemary A. Burns plan to marry in August. April 8th is set for the wedding date for -Robert O'Reilly '59 andJane Legros, Andre Dupuis '56 and Louise Toupin, and Theodore (Ted) Lasslo '54 and Deanne Morrill. Desmond Hudson '57, plans to marry Shirley Lise Rochon on May 20th. Ed Foley '57, and Pauline Anne Boire, plan to marry on May 13th.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Our congratulations to the following alumni, their wives and new mem­bers of the family -During January sons were born into the families of Dr. GeraU Olney '55. Peter Brown '55, Joseph Stan{ ord '53 and Dr. John Gutelius '50. Vaughn McVey '54 became a father during January also. February brought sons into the homes of Dr. Frank Flood '32, Alec McAllister '59, and Bill Humes '46. While March was the month during which Leo Bossy '57 received twins, a boy and a girl, and Jules Levesque '50, twin daughters. Sons were born to Phil Lovell '44, Gilbert Curran '48, George Cook

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'57, Jim Clermont '59 and Bill Haberl '53, during March also , while daughters were born to ]. David Belcourt ·'57, Peter Dennis '54 and Dr. Stan Knox '40. Frank Wickham 'SO had a baby daughter recently and Tony Prillo '47, a son. Dr. Bob Marchessault 'SO wrote to teU· us their fifth child, Kim Eugene, was born last November, while Walter Trumpa '57 advised us that he has a son, born last May. Fred Van der Kelen '54 recently sent an announcement of his son's birth in Holland during February 1960. Vincent O'Donnell '52 has a baby daughter born this April 10th.

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