The University of Dayton Alumnus, September 1959

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E1tabll1hecl 1929

Septe mber 1959

Vol. XXV

No. 3

the new president FATHER ROES

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The Alumni Association of The University of Dayton Officers and Directors ______ ___Fresident R. William Patterson, '29.._.

Arthur Scarpelli, •34 __________ ___________________ Vice President Mary M . Shay, •44_···- - - · -·- - ·- ···---·--- ·------------····Secretary Warren Kappeler, '41._·······-·-······--··-···-··········-···-··········-···- Treasurer Members of the board: Robert Connelly, '37; William Sherman, '39; Lloyd Rensel, '4 3; Paul Wagner, '39; Peter Kuntz, '50; Thomas Maher, '39; Charles Whalen, Jr., '42; Marilyn Catron Nolan, '53; Al Suttman, '48.

Ex-officio members: Very Rev. Andrew L. Seebold, SM, University president; Brother Austin J . Holian, SM, assistant business manager; Brother Elmer C. Lackner, SM, alumni director.

Alumni Representatives University Athletic Board Leland Norris, '52; George J . Rau, '30; James Finke, '48; Paul Heckman, '38; Jack Zimmerman, '50; Joseph Poelkiog, '32; J . Ellis May!, '08; R. William Patterson, '29.

Advisory Board (Representing out-of-Dayton alumni) Thomas Hildebrand, '51 Hamilton, 0 .

Louis G . Pohl, '44 Cincinnati, 0.

James V. Cosimati, '53 Columbus, 0.

F rank H. Marshall, '31 Sidney, 0.

Robert F . Seiter, '44 Xenia, 0.

R. E. Kavanaugh, '42 Springfield, 0.

Richard Rudnicki, '47 Toledo, 0 .

Linus B. Boeke, '28 Chillicothe, 0.

Joseph Quatman, '38 Lima, Ohio John Westerheide, '44 Minster, 0.

Albert L. Diringer, '48 Tiffin, 0.

John A. Fisher, '35 Detroit, Mich.

Charles Schiavo, '43 Cynwyd, Pa. R. C. Brown, '34 Jackson Heights, N. Y. Edward Bishop, '40 Louisville, Ky. I . Ray Austin, '44 Pittsburgh, Pa. Joseph E. Keller, '29 Washington, D . C. Matthew Marzluft, '28 Oakland, Calif.

The University of Dayton ALUMNUS i1 publish•d quartffly for the Alumni Auociation of the University of Dayton by the Public blatlons Departm•nl, University of Dayton, 300 Coll. .• Porte Avenue, Dayton 9, Ohio. Ent•r•d as se<ond class matter Aprll 1 5, 1950, at the post office at Dayton, Ohio, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Price: two dollars p•r year.

EDITOlt: ltlCHARD F. BEACH, '52 SPORTS EDITOlt: JOSEPH J . McLAUGHLIN (for wills and bequHls, th• legal till• of the corporation ls "Th• Univ•,.ity of Dayt on, Dayton 9, Ohio.")

" F A~HER Roesch?" inquired the voice on the telephone.

It was F ather James Darby, one-time vice president of the University, now superior of the Society of Mary's Cincinnati province.

He was calling from his office at nearby Mount St. John, requesting Father Raymond Roesch, UD's psychology department chairman, to meet him later in the afternoon at the edge of the campus.

F ather Darby would drive by and they would go to dinner.

During the drive and during dinner at Lebanon's famed Golden Lamb Inn, the two talked about Father Roesch's work as chairman of the important Selfl mprovement committee at the University; about other UD and SM topics of mutual interest; and about the approaching opening of Sherman Hall of Science, with its up-to-the-minute facilities for psychology- facili ties which had been carefully planned and directed by F ather Roesch; facilities which he was fairly itching to put into use. ''You're going to be called on to make some sacrifices," Father Darby told him as they climbed into the car for the return to Dayton . " You aren't going to get to work in your new building." " How would you like to be the new president of the University?"

F AT H E R Raymond August Roesch (pronounced RESH), seventeenth president of Ohio's largest private undergraduate institution- the University of Dayton -was born 45 years ago in little Jenkintown, Pa., a suburb to the north of Philadelphia. He was the first of nine children who would be born to Aloysius and Anna Fleck Roesch. (fhe second son, Walter, in later years followed his older brother into the Society of Mary and today is head librarian at UD.) The fa mily moved several times and was living in Brooklyn when young Raymond was graduated from St. Martin of Tours grammar school.

About this time, his father located his automobile garage around the corner from St. Michael's, a commercial school in East

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New York. Soon he grew to know and admire his new neighbors, a religious group which conducted the school-the Brothers of Mary. His son's liking for mathematics, as demonstrated during grammar school days, seemed a good basis for the boy's entering the Brothers' school for an accounting course.

Thus, in September, 1928, young Raymond Roesch signed in at St. Michael's and began studies which supposedly would lead him into the accounting field within a few years. But his teacher, Brother William Haebe, soon got different ideas. He began to see in the young student the type of mind and character the Brothers would be interested in. He started talking to him about the priests and Brothers. He encouraged him to read about the Marianists and vocations. He contacted a young man from Brooklyn who at the time was studying to be a Brother at the Society's preparatory school in upstate New York, at Beacon. This young postulant, Thomas Schick (now chairman of UD's physics department), began a correspondence, describing life at Marianist Prep for a candidate for memb.ership in the Society of Mary.

The next September, when classes resumed at St. Michael's after summer vacation, Raymond Roesch was not among the new sophomores. He was in Beacon, embarking on studies to become a Marianist.

A T Beacon, young Raymond and his classmates began to get initiated into the way Of life of the Marianist. While completing his high school work and receiving his introduction to the religious life, he spent many an hour thinking of the future.

The young postulant began to consider the priesthood as his place in the Society of Mary at the suggestion of Brother Louis Saletel, one of bis teachers and confidant.

These ideas were still with him three years later when, his work at Beacon completed, he entered the novitiate at Mount St. John in Dayton.

Here, during a year prescribed by the Church for all members of religious societies, Raymond, now 19 years old, decided definitely that if his superiors would agree,

OATH OF OFFICE

by Father Roesch is received

by Father William Ferree, second assistant of th e Society of Mary, and Father Darby.

he would go on to the priesthood. T hey did ag ree. Then, on August 15, 1933, the young Brother made his first temporary vows as a Marianist, promising poverty, chastity and obedience, and consecrating his life to the Blessed Mother.

(Just two days before, on August 13, Brother Raymond's close friend from St. Michael's days, the man who had encouraged him to enter the religious life, Brother William Haebe, died.)

IenterT would be eight years before he could the seminary. In the meantime, there was plenty of work to be done. Already while in the novitiate at Mount St. John, he had begun work at the University of Dayton. During the next three years, he continued his studies there, receiving in J une of ! 936 his bachelor of arts degree with a major in philosophy. He may have preferred to do his studies in the field of mathematics, but with all the studies needed by a future priest, there was little t:me left for his old-time favorite subject.

His basic schooling finished, Brother Roesch was assigned to the Marianists' Cathedral Latin School in Cleveland.

Here, he waded into the teaching of Eng1'.sh, Latin and religion, and began to dabble with the Latineer, Cl 's school paper.

Beginning in the summer of 1939 and during succeeding summers, the young Brother began studies in the field of psychology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, O.C. Then, in

194 i. three years after making his final, perpetual vows as a Marianist, he was sent to the Catholic University on a full-time basis, to begin the long-awaited seminary training.

(Most Marianists up to that time and today do their seminary work at the Marianist International Seminary in Fribourg, Switzerland. The condition of the world at the time Father Roesch was ready to begin his studies (1941) made the overseas trip out of the question. Once, speaking of the seminary, a friend mentioned "So you missed that trip to Europe?" "Missed?" questioned the priest, "l miss that trip!")

Jn 1942, the Society's seminarians were transferred from the Catholic University for lack of adequate housing, to the Benedictine Abbey at St. Meinrad, Ind. Here, he completed his theological studies, and on May 30, 1944, at Mount St. John, Brother Raymond Roesch was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop George Rehring of Cincinnati. This was the only class in the history of the Society of Mary to be ordained at the Mount.

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JS first assignment following ordination was as a teacher and guidance director at Chaminade high school in Mineola, N .Y., one of the top schools in the east operated by the Marianists. Here again, journalism in the form of the school yearbook, The Crimson and Gold, caught his eye. Before he left Mineola, he woul<l have the reputation of an expert in the

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yearbook production field. It was this ability that enabled him to produce the beautiful "Making Leaders" brochure for the Marianist Triple Centenary of 1950.

When the J 948-49 school year was completed at Mineola, Father Roesch entered Fordham University to begin working toward his doctorate in psychology.

He moved to St. Mary's parish in Mount Vernon, N.Y., where he assumed the duties of assistant pastor while attending Fordham's uptown and downtown schools and some classes at Columbia University.

By 1951, he had completed his course work and passed his comprehensive examinations magna cum laude. T he New York Board of Education gave him a free hand in his research and he began work on his dissertation-" Effects of the transfer from Catholic high schools to public high schools." He would not complete his thesis and be awarded his degree, however, until 1954.

During the summer of 1951, he was assigned to the scholasticate at Mount St. John, and in September, began teaching at the Mount and at UD. One year later, he came to the UD campus and was promoted to assistant professor and chairman of the psychology department in November.

FROM 1952 on, Father Roesch's ability both as an educator and an administrator began to show. He took hold of the psychology department and turned it into one of the strongest departments on the campus. His ability as a department head was most impressive. "This man is terrific," one of his faculty members will say. "He's a scholar. H e's decisive. H e's conscien-

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tious. And while he's deeply interested in psychology, he has other interests. He's a workhorse; but his students, even though he's tough and works them hard, are crazy about him. He's a go-getter. A hustler."

H is growing reputation as a "good man" resulted during his earlier years at UD in his being appointed to head one of the study areas in the University's important Self-Survey of 1956. Then, when the survey was completed, it was Father Roesch that Father Andrew Seebold selected to head the key Self-Improvement committee which was to map plans to carry out the recommendations of the survey. Later, he was named co-chairman of another highly important committee, on graduate study. In the meantime, he continued as chairman of the committee on student aid.

HEN the University made the deW cision to build a new science building and to include the department of psychology in it, Father Roesch went to work with delight. H e helped the architect design psychology's third-floor quarters - complete with labs, observation rooms and other refinements to help him and his department give the student the best in psychology education and training. As the building began to take shape, Father Roesch missed very few days visiting the new quarters, practically watching the structure go up brick-by-brick. Small wonder, then, that the priest had mjxed feelings when he learned he was to become the president of the University, and in the same instant realized he would not get to work after all in "his" new building.

But he found a way to cheat fate. He took his summer school students out of

Chaminade H all for their last class meeting and conducted that session-possibly his final classroom appearance for several years -in the new building.

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H E next six years will see many develments at the University of Dayton, it is certain. They have already begun. In order to give the president more time to carry out Father Darby's charge to continue raising the University's academic standards, some responsibilities traditionally his have been given to others. T o F ather Edwin Leimkuhler, for instance, has been delegated certain duties in connection with the religious direction of the Marianist community at the University, relieving the president of a heavy burden which in the past has been most time-consuming. T o help him carry out the other work in the administration and direction of a rapidly growing university, Father Roesch has appointed new councils to study problems and make policies. (One of these is a toplevel Student Welfare Council which will make possible better guidance and counselling of UD's vast student body.)

Indications from all sides are that a quickening of academic life on the campus is imminent.

Father RoHch himself may have foretold how the campus will be during the next six years when a staff member observed how quickly the new president had taken care of some business downtown.

"You surely didn' t waste much time on that trip, Father," he remarked. " Why waste time?" Father Roesch grinned. " When I start moving, I like to move."

IFfY YEARS AGO! In some respects it seems as though it were yesterday when a small group of young men with the Hush of the expected bright future upon their faces awaited the call to the stage of the old gymnasium where President B. P. O' Reilly and the scrolls awaited. I am sure most of us considered the diplomas as passports to success and happiness.

Some of us have fallen short of the goals then hazily established; others are content with the fruits of lives competently spent. For others still, the bells have tolled.

How well I remember my first days at S.M.I. I was a public school graduate and had no friends or acquaintances there as others from Catholic schools had. The Third Division Day Scholars' play ground was next to the old Woodland Cemetery, where Stewart Street now runs.

It was also up a steep incline from the playing field of the senior bo~rd足 ers. One day I got in the game and hit a home run over the t.rees into the seniors' baseball diamond. Thus was made my favorable introduction and soon the loneliness and shyness disappeared. There were a number of play grounds, three for resident students and two for day students. We used to watch workmen dig up bones from an old cemetery to make room for Stewart Street.

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FRANCIS CANNY RECALLS

The ALUMNUS caught Mr. Canny in what he says was "an unguarded moment" and talked him Into writing the story about this year's golden anniversary class-the old boys of 1909. He was editor of The Exponent during his senior year at old S.M.I., and subsequently was a newspaperman in Dayton and Washington before entering the field of law In which he's been practicing for 46 yean. He's a former member of the Ohio Legislature and from 1933 to 1940 served as United States Distrid Attorney under appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. At one time, Mr. Canny taught law at UD.

I had been accustomed to women teachers and now, for the first time, men were schooling me. The late Dr. Ullrich Rappel was my first mentor.

He was not only a splendid teacher, but understood the teenage boy.

Over the five years of my attendance there were many splendid teachers: the Reverend Fathers B. P. O'Reilly, August Frische, William O'Maley and Aloys Schratz; the revered Brothers Frank O'Reilly, George Hart, Adam Hoffman, John (Gitney) Nickol, Thomas Mooney, Thomas Carr, Lawrence Druffner, Lawrence Yeske, Joseph Tetzlaff, Dr. William Wohlleben and Peter Schlitz.

As I remember, all classes above the grades were housed in St. Mary Hall. There was a walk beside the cloister wall that Jed to the chapel and to the south was St. Joseph Hall, where the student brothers (we called them monks) were housed and schooled. A few, probably the brightest or those who were destined for priesthood, came to the Letters School.

There were some little kids whose school rooms were somewhere east of the main buildings near the power house. We would often see them from our classroom windows going out into the woods with their shepherd, Brother Rush.

Also will be remembered "Brother George by the parlor" who was the porter there. He had a joke for me for five years. It was always, "Canny, huh? Not Uncanny." I also remember the late Joe Cook as a member of our class in 190i. His hair grew long and it was parted down the middle. He was moody and easiJy disturbed. Years later, by now a famed comedian, he was appearing at Keith Theatre at UD graduation time. Dr. Leon Deger and I invited him to the alumni banquet. He did not attend.

T here was also the gymnasium where basketball games were played.

There were seats, circus style, along the sides, with a capacity of perhaps four hundred souls. The gym also had a stage so that it doubled as an auditorium. In the center of all the buildings of the day stood "that thing."

It was still there the last time I looked but its utility of that far day has given away to greater dignity.

I forgot to say that the boarders enjoyed billiards and bowling somewhere in that gym, but a lowly day scholar never got to see them, let alone use them!

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Before our class graduated some changes were made.

The lower grades were discontinued, a high school was established and a two-year Business College was inaugurated.

The relations between "day dogs" and boarders were not good. The Athletic Association was the sole property of the resident students. I was the only day scholar member in my senior year and the good Brothers had some plant nominate me for every office in an effort to break the ice.

I got one vote for each office. It was not my sponsor's.

In 1904, Chaminade Hall, then referred to as "Alumni H all ," was being erected. When it was finished, it housed some classrooms, the Brothers' study hall, dining rooms and a dormitory. There was a "weather walk" from St. Mary Hall to the new building a nd the last thing you saw as you left the former was the "store" presided over by Brother Henry ("Porky") Hemmert. Many who read this can feel the places on their ribs where Brother H enry jabbed with his thumb. He also doled out " lines" by the thousand for rule violators on the day scholar playing fields. r remember his gold tooth-filling which seemed to light up his features when he smiled.

In the fa ll each year, we went into a retreat. It was a new experience for me in 1904 and for a few months I was so religious my parents thought they had a budding priest on their hands. The retreat lasted three days and when some of us got to be seniors we really got shook up by it.

On December 11, 1904, the statue of the Virgin Ma ry was unveiled in the park. All of us had our names, in our own handwriting, encased in the cornerstone earlier that year. This. however, was a big day. The faculty and student body ma rched up Brothers Lane, now called College Pa rk, preceded by the Knights of St. George and St. John with their bands. Archbishop Henry Moeller, F ather Louis Tragesser, president of S.M.I., Father George Meyer, provincial of the Society of Mary, and local clergy were in attendance. The campus park in those days extended to Brown Street. Too bad it docs not do so today.

The Exponent of those days contained considerable poetry and rhymes some of which, to my amateur eye, still seem quite good. The first appearance by a classmate in the pages of The Exponent was by George B. Smith, a

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polio v1ct1m, with a fiction piece entitled, " Rover a nd Tommie." T he time: October, 190~. Your reminiscer was next in 1905 with a "A Thrilling Experience." Some other contributors who will be recognized today were the following: Msgr. H arry J . Ansbury, Msgr. Ma rtin Varley, Msgr.

Charles Ertel, Attorney Charles W. Whalen a nd Attorney C larence J . Stoecklein. l note that in 1905 in baseball we were defeated by the Shilohs, 6-4. Our team made six errors. In basketball, however, we defeated Hamilton H igh, Cedarville College a nd Tippecanoe.

The S.M.I. band was organized in 1905 under the direction of Brother Louis Vogt. Hundreds of students a ncient and recent will recall the a nimated picture of bowlegged Brother Louis running down the sidewalks of Dayt~n at parade time, keeping a n car strained for a straying piccolo. I am proud to relate that Frank Wilberding '09 played the piccolo.

In 1905, Father T ragesser gave the O.K. to Rugby football. Sad to rela te, our fi rst game was a defeat. The Exponent said, " Jn one of the most exciting and stubbornly fought gridiron contests ever witnessed in Dayton, our valiant warriors were defeated by the Riverdale Athletic Club. The score was 6-5."

Those were the days of the "flyi ng wedge," the shin and nose guards -no helmets (long hair substituted), and five yard~ to go in three downs. There was no forward pass a nd 1t was O .K. to make a flying tackle and clipping was

not a foul. The latter was "foul" as far as I was concerned.

I couldn't walk for three days after one deftly placed by the quarterback of the junior boarders team.

The fact that the resident students had to be kept busy made it rugged for the day scholars. The hours were 7:30 to noon, l :30 to 4:00 every day, excepting Thursday, when classes ended at I 0:00 a.m. Of course, Sunday was free.

The three hours work assigned each evening was the difficulty. It meant adjusting home life to a routine fitted to a boarding school schedule.

Overshadowing The EXPONENT in our class's interest

was the "Freshman Mirror" of 1904-5. Of the first four issues The Exponent said: An interesting account of the ground covered by the Freshman Letters class since the foundation of the "Freshman Mirror" was given by Francis Canny in his editorial "Our Paper and Its Work." The Freshies are justly proud of the "Mirror" but they realize that 'well begun is but half done' and are determined to make the last numbers surpass the four. That they will succeed we have not the slightest doubt for every member of the class is a burning example of the class motto "Volens et Potens." Contributors were Joseph Kohler, Lawrence Scheidler, Jeremiah Costello and F. Wilberding. Herbert Whalen headed the joke department.

Early in October, 1906, the "Sophmore Oracle," successor to the "Freshman Mirror," was established. The officers were Francis Canny, editor-in-chief; Herbert Whalen, assistant editor; Albert Zangerle, literary editor; Jeremiah Costello, joke department, and Michael Daugherty, athletic department.

Some contributors for The Exponent in 1908 were Charles Wagner '09 with "Friendship," Francis Canny with " Anarchism" and Albert Zangerle '09 with "Socialism, Its Evils and Impracticabilities."

The Dramatic Association in April, 1908, presented "Edward the Confessor." Actors were Eugene Gerlach, Fred Grunditsch, Clarence Stoecklein, Frank Morris, Harry Ansbury, William P. O'Connor, Frank Biendl, Clem Jauch, John A. Costello, Wagner Mayer, Jerry Costello, Clarence B. Braun, Marcellus Wagner, George Mahoney and others.

Election eve, 1908, was a gala time. An old time celebration was held on the campus. An immense bonfire plus speeches for Bryan and McKinley enlivened the proceedings.

When I contemplate the hours of study and work and the

subjects carried it appears to me that the students of today are pampered. T here were no optional courses. I can recall these subjects in mathematics: algebra, plain and solid geometry, descriptive geometry, trigonometry and calculus; in science: physics, chemistry, biology, physiology; in letters: Latin, Greek, English, history, Christian Doctrine and philosophy.

On Saturday afternoon, confessions were heard in the chapel and for that purpose students were excused. It took a long time to examine the conscience in those days!

In 1909, I noted in an editorial in The Exponent that it was likely the U.S. Treasury would have a deficit of one hundred-twenty millions of dollars! I showed concern. My! My! I also wrote an editorial on the future of the air machine. I thought it had a military possibility by using it to squirt acid on observation balloons!

And so finally the big day came on June 16, 1909. Gold medals were interspersed with bachelor degrees and diplomas. John Georges, Joseph Seidensticker, Edward Janszen received medals for good conduct (residents only); Charles Wagner, Michael Daugherty, for general excellence; Michael Daugherty, excellence in English studies, Francis C. Canny for oratory and Christian Doctrine.

Michael H. Daugherty welcomed the guests, Jeremiah Costello gave the Farewell and Father B. P. O'Reilly, president, presided. That evening we all attended the Alumni banquet in the Chaminade Hall dining room.

Finally, with a salute to our living professors, we hail the survivors of the class of 1909 and say farewell to our dead. Requiescant in pace!

SURVIVING MEM&aS Fronds C. Canny, Dayton Chariâ&#x20AC;˘ M. Conway, Dayton Edward S. Cowan, Jr., Miami, Fla. J. I. Crimmins, Chattanooga, Tenn.

C. A. Eberly, Columbus

Elmer J. Focke, Dayton Urban G. Focke, Dayton

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Wiiiiam F. l'oller, Hollywood, Calff.

Henry Golclcamp, Ironton Frank Herron, Loobut ............. y...._ Edward J. Janaen, Cincinnati Eugene PauUn, SM, Honolulu Henry C. Plato, VennlUon Eclwanl W. Schroeder, Da,ton

Oliver I. Smith, DaybNI hrdlnancl H. Staehler, DaylM Walter A. Steuer, Dayton J, S. Weis, Dayton A. J. w.a..........,, Mlclway, Ky.

Herbert E. WhaMn, Dayton John C. Wickham, Sprl...........

WE'VE LOST TOUCH WITH: Wlllletn H. MacDonald, 5pmlfflelcl Leonard Poos, Eaton Louis E. Schne, Clndnnatl Chari... Wagner,

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J. Emmet White, Dayton

Iota.rt E. Gnay, Dayton Francis Hoffman, ShcHpwllle, Incl.

Thomas KearM, Sprhwflelcl

r.nlnancl Koch. Crowft Point, Incl.

Raymond .............

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Pranch c. .,,..., LaSalle, Ill. Jeremlahea.tello,Anden-.11111.

John A. lhrler, Clevelallcl

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Montgomery County Chapter Gives Its Annual Awards

Brother Lawrence Boll is a fam iliar figure around the UD compus--both a s a disting uished scholar (at right) and on eminent hort iculturist (above).

Art Scarpelli and George Humm (above) and John Westerheide (left).

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A distinguished professor and three outstanding alumni were honored by the association's Montgomery County chapter in June. Chapter awards went to George Humm '40 for civic achievement; to Art Scarpelli '34 for outstanding chapter service; and to John Westerheide '47 for professional achievement. To Dr. Lawrence Boll, SM, long-time professor of English at UD, went the chapter's past president's award for meritorious service.

Bro. Boll was cited as a man "who for many years has influenced the lives of hundreds of students by his outstanding personality, and by his warm attachment to the arts and what they stand for . . . He has been an exemplary religious, an inspiration to his students, and particularly in recent years, (he has been) a horticulturist with a special knack for drawing forth from the earth one of the most beautiful and varied displays of roses in this area ... " Scarpelli, according to the chapter, "for many years has demonstrated a lively interest in both local and national alumni affairs. He has served on the planning and promotion of many events and has always been a steadying inftuence in the deliberation of these groups."

He is currently vice president of the association.

John Westerheide, director of UD's Research Institute, was cited by the alumni for his part in the "reorganization and development of the institute (into a) major factor in the overall expansion of the University." He's been heading the constantly-growing research effort at UD since 1956.

"Many personal activities" which "reflect upon the University" brought Humm the civic achievement award.

Specifically, he was cited for giving of his time and ability to chairmanship of the city's Cancer Crusade, membership on the taxation committee of the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Board of Catholic Charities. He is treasurer of the Wilberforce Foundation, and is associated with the Dayton Hearing and Speech Center. "He has permitted himself to become involved in the promotion of practically every program of major importance," his citation read.

Class Notes

NEW OFFICERS of the Montgomery County chapter ore Jomes Whalen '47 (right), president; Dick Durbin '55, vice presid ent, and He len Stroukamp '58, secretary-treasurer. Members of the chapter board include Jock Foose '34, Jack Ku ssman ' 43, George Zimmerman '48, Ted Lienesch '49, Pauline Spring '51 , Gene Joblinski ' 51 , Sheorl Robe rts '53 , Roger Keith ' 54, Don Donoher '54, Bill Thesing '56, Harry Koerner '58 and Sue Hochwolt ' 59.

MORE ON DETROIT'S NEW GROUP

'20-'29 On your way to Florida? If you're stopping at St. Petersburg, call on A. K. Weckesser '21, who for the past seven years has operated the Delacado motel and apartments there. Owner of Weckesser Electric Co. in Dayton for 37 years, be has one son, Barry, now a high school student.

A recent campus visitor, Dr. Herbert Abel '22 has completed 30 years on the staff of Loyola University in Chicago where he's professor of classical languages.

Michael H. Hannegan '23 is a superintendent of glass furnaces with Pittsburgh Plate Glass in Creighton, Pa. He's living in Natrona Heights.

Joe Averdick '24, assistant professor in UD's technical institute, spent eight weeks during the summer at the University of Houston at a National Science Foundation institute. He was one of 40 across the US selected for the course.

DONOVAN

In the last issue of The ALUMNUS we presented Detroit chapter' s new president and vice preside nt, Dic k Hollenkomp '37 and Joe Simon ' 42. Here is the new secretary, Bill Locke ' 51 , and the new treasurer, Jack Donovan â&#x20AC;˘53.

BOB LIPP GETS THIRD CHAPTER SCHOLARSHIP Winner of the Montgomery County chapte r 's third annual scholarship is Robert Lipp, son of Robert '37. He's a four-year honor stu d e nt at Chaminode where he was gradua ted in the top ten per cent of his class. He has embarked o n a pre-m ed course.

fifth annual harvest hop sport dance 9:30- 12 :30 Suturdoy Oct. 3 Wampl er ¡ ~ Old Born Horry Stout Orche ~ tro

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Francis S. Gabel '30, a retired colonel, is now field representative for United Services Life Insurance Co., Washington, D. C. Son Michael was graduated from West Point in June and son David is an honor student at St. John's Junior College Prep.

Bill Green '30 is living in Hollywood, Fla. Tony Engelhart '33 bas been named street superintendent for the city of Kettering.

In order to continue work for his doctor's degree at the University of California, Mel Ruden '33 bas resigned as director of the Anchorage Community College in Alaska.

He's living in Lakewood, Calif.

Carl Rub '40 is now sheriff of Kentucky's Kenton County.

George Humm '40 has been named to the board of the Dayton office of Catholic Charities.

Bill Rosencrans '41 is new transportation supervisor for Goodwill Industries in Dayton.

Dale Dickson '42 is Chrysler Airtemp's new manager of marketing of room a.ir condit.ioners. He joined Airtemp as a stockroom employe in 1940.

Beno Kelter ' 42, Montgomery County Sheriff, is new president of the Dayton Agonis Club.

After 17 years active and reserve service as a captain in the Marine Corps, Wilbur J .

Smolka '42 has retired. An attorney, he is in the office of the staff judge advocate of Air Materiel command.

Brother Joseph Concannon '42 received his PhD at SI. John's University in June.

Sam Fond.iler '43 has been elected treasurer of Seaboard and Western Airlines. With the firm since 1950, he bad served several years as controller. He and family are Jiving at Elmont, L. I., N. Y. BIRTHS: Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Finke ' 42, Jul. 10 . . . Third child, second daughter, Margaret, to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. McSbane ' 42, Jun. 4.

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Col. Walter Haberer '35 has completed a 10-month course at the famed Army War College, and has been assigned as chief of the technical division in the office of the chief of staff, intelligence, at the Pentagon.

Jim Strosnider '36 is in Nigeria, Africa, with Catholic Relief Services of the National Catholic Welfare Conference.

A. L. Scbriml '37 is now product sales manager for a new line being produced by Dayton Rubber Co. In May, Dr. Harry A. Bremen '37 was installed as president of the Montgomery County Medical society in Dayton. A specialist in internal medicine, he is a senior attending physician at Miami Valley and Good Samaritan hospitals and is on the staff at St. Elizabeth's. He has been practicing in Dayton since 1950.

Kiyoakl Nakao '39 is teaching English at Waseda University in Yokohama where he

William A. Knisley '47 is a recreation director at Bayshore Gardens, Bradenton, Fla. Don Butler '47 is vice president of a new Dayton firm, Creative Service Associates, Inc. Dennis Griffin ' 48 is a chemical engineer for Dow Chemical in Midland, Mich.

Bernardine Zalrutny '49 received her MS degree in nursing at St. John's University in June.

With the aviation products division of B. F. Goodrich in Los Angeles, Dick Gardner '49 is western manager of wheel and brake products. He has five children, Anne, Maureen, Richard, Colleen and Margaret. They're living in LaHabra.

Capt. Herbert Marker '49, now in Redondo Beach, Calif., has been assigned to the financial office of the AMC Ballistic Missiles Center in Inglewood.

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LOCKE

acts as a translator of modem Japanese essays, and abridges English classics for reading in Japanese high schools.

BIRTH: Third child, second son, Kevin Christopher, to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Martin '37, Jun. 25.

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Dr. Joseph Wach '49 is senior instructor in the department of pathology at St. Louis University school of medicine, and Ray Kehn '49 is a chemical engineer with Allied Chemicals in Toledo.

BlRTHS: Second child, second son, Mark Alan, to Mr. and Mrs. William A. Meiring '47, Jun. 14 ... Son to Mr. and Mrs. James F inke '48, Jun. 19 . . . Adoption of son, John Raymond, by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Duane, (Rita McGal'J')' ' 48), in June . . .

Fourth child, second daughter, Amy Lou, to Mr. and Mrs. William M. Palmer (Rose· ano Houser '48), Jul. 17 ... Son to Dr. and Mrs. Paul Hickey (Theresa Kelble '49), Jul. 26 .. . Fifth child, fourth daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Butler '49, May 19 ... Son to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Farren '49, in Jul. . . . Son to Mr. and Mrs. Willi.am Fletcher '49, Jul. 17.

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Capt. Ed Maj was a campus v1s1tor.

Leroy Williams and Fred Spahr received master of education degrees at Miami University in June.

W. F. Lutzweit, Rochester, N. Y., is a senior project engineer with Haloid Xerox, Inc.; John Larish is plant manager for Cleveland Color Film Processing, and Bill Hulsop· pie is teaching in the English and Speech Department at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Mich.

Don Ross is new district manager of the Dayton-Cincinnati sales area of Carpenter

Steel Co. He's been a Carpenter employe for six years.

Bob Tormey is now sales manager for the industrial division of the Joyce-Cridland Co. in Dayton. He was formerly sales manager of the jack division.

Dr. Dao Romer is practicing pediatrics in Dayton.

Bill Lange is coaching the D ayton Triangles, local semi-pro football team.

Bill Hoben is new assistant dean of business administration at UD. He's been on the accounting staff since 1957.

MARRIAGE: Robert Wallace to Carol I. Lauterbach, Jun. 27.

BIRTHS: Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Keck, May 26 ... Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John Ernst, Jun. 10 ... Fourth child, third daughter, Mary Constance, to Mr. and Mrs. James Hall, May 26 .. . Second child, first daughter, Margaret Marie, to Mr. and Mrs. John Stueve (Pat Wilson '51).

Jun. 19 . . . Third child, third daughter, Molly Beth, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard O'Brien (Judy Stelzer '52), Jun. 25.

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Dr. Robert Conoair is interning at D ayton's Grandview H ospital after being awarded his DO degree.

Now living in Mendota Heights, Minn., Jerry Vanderhorst has been promoted to St. Paul branch manager of Fuller Brush.

Walt McMahon writes that he and Bill Herlihy, both in the Army, met in Rome on

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LYNCH ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT AT FORD GERALD J. LYNCH ('27) h as been elected a vice president of the Ford Motor Company.

General manager of Ford's Aeronutronic division, he had been president of Aeronutronic Systems, Inc., since 1956, the year of its founding. That firm merged with Ford and became one o f its divisions last July. Earlier, he had been for two years director of F ord's offic.e of defense products and governm ental relations.

He had joined Ford in 1946 as directo r of the war contract administration department. Subsequently, he was appointed executive assistant to the controller; assistant director of the office of defense products; director of the W ashington office, and executive assistant to the group executive of the tractor and international group.

Prior to becoming associated with Ford, be was with General Motors where during 1942-46, be was director of the war contract administration de-

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partment of F isher Body division.

A na tive of D etroit, he practiced Jaw there from 1933 to 1942, having won h is L LB degree from University of Detroit in 1933. He also h as an MA from W ayne University.

Aeronut ronic activities, Ford explains, involve developing a nd m anufacturing advanced military and commercial products in the fields of weapon a nd space systems, missile range systems and orientation, electronics, data processing systems and computers. The operations are located on the W est Coast.

leave. Walt is stationed in Bad Tolz, Germany, Bill has been assigned to the UD ROTC. (See "Among Our Alumni," this issue.)

Hubert Miller, living in Springfield, Mo., will be in Guatemala for one year on a government study program as part of his doctoral research at Loyola, Chicago. He has a one-year-old son, John Francis.

James A. Gibbons is a technical representative with the Union Carbide Plastics in Dallas, Tex. He's living in Richardson.

BIRTHS: Second daughter, Lisa Anne, to Dr. a nd Mrs. Gregory Young, May 4 . . .

Second child, first dau ghter, Mary Olivia, to Rev. and Mrs. Kurt Fish, May 14 ... F irst child, son, to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Duckro, in June .. . Son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert DeRoziere, Jul. I 5 ... Fifth child, third daughter, Diane Lynn to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Vanderhorst, Jun. 22 . . . Son to Dr. and Mrs. Norman Rose, Jul. 25.

'52 Joe Stoeckleio won a National Science Foundation scholarship for study in physics and chemistry at Miami University during the summer. A former UD prof, he's now general science teacher at Barnes Junior H igh School, Kettering.

John Mehary is with Liberty Mutual in New York.

In June, seven members of the class were awarded doctorates, master's or bachelor's degrees: Vernon Thomas and John Riley, master of education, Miami; Doris Shields Charles, doctor of medicine, Cincinnati; Father Elmer Luthman, S.J., master of science in electrical engineering, St. Louis; Felix Andrews, master of civil engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; and James S. Sasala, doctor of veterinary medicine and Charles Brant, bachelor of laws, Ohio State.

Brant was one of six to receive Ford fellowships for graduate study in criminal law at Northwestern University.

MARRIAGE: Edward Jauch to Dorothy Foley '55, Jul. 25.

BIRTHS: Daughter, Rebecca Lynn, to Mr. and Mrs. Keo Busch, Jun. 18 ... D aughter to Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pfieffer, Jun. 13 ...

Third child, first daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. John RUey, J ul. 1 .. • Third and fourth children, twins, David William and Lisa Ellen, to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cutcher (Shirley Schroll '53), Jun. 23 ... Third child, second son, to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hallerman, J ul. 20 . . .

First child, son, Robert Blaise to Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Conner (Peg Kunka), May 20 . .. Thi rd child, first son, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bernard (Barbara Yox '51), Jul. 27 . .. Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Turner (Eugenia Wilson), J ul. 24.

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Joseph Browne received his MD at Ohio State in June, and Tom Maurer received his LLB from Ohio N orthern and is practicing law in the National Bank Bldg. in Lima.

Maj. Lauritz Larsen is with Headquarters, U.S. Air Force in E urope, Wiesbaden, Germany, with his wife and six children. In November, he was awarded the German graduate degree of "Diplom-Jngenieur" by the Institute of Technology in Darmstadt, (similar to an MS in mechanical engineering with an aero-mechanical option) and is now

working on his doctorate in fluid mechanics.

John Chaney has been named Dayton branch manager of Ditto, Inc. Discharged from the Army, Richard Hecker, DDS, is practicing in Miamisburg.

MARRIAGE: Walter Cassidy to Phyllis J. Ingle, Aug. 15.

BIRTHS: Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. George Aiple, Jul. 31 ... Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. James Tieman, Jul. 27 ... Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Horvath, May 24 ... Third child, third son, Timothy Sean, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nolan (Marilyn Catron), May 24 ... Son to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Mueller (Rita Wittmann), in May ...

Second child, first son, John Patrick Ill, to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Donovan, May 28 ...

Daughter, Catherine Louise, to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hoffm ann, Jun. 22 ... Son to Mr. and Mrs. John Kolb, Jul. 22.

'54 Don Rice received his MD c.legree from Ohio State in June.

George O'Malley received his DDS at Georgetown University School of Dentistry in June and is now on active duty with the Navy at Camp Lejeune, N. C. He has two children, Kathleen Ann and Timothy Patrick. Mrs. O'Malley is the former Janice Boeke '56.

Joseph Schroeder has opened an accounting office in Ottawa, 0.

After passing the bar exam in March, Jack Koverman is practicing law in Dayton. He is married and has two daughters.

Jim Fillenwartb has moved to Detroit where he is assistant treasurer and controller of the S.M.S. Corporation, a subsidiary of P. R. Mallory and Co. The new Air Force Guided Missi.le Badge, rocket equivalent of Air Force wings, has been awarded to CWO BiJI Hambleton, administrative supervisor in the Directorate of Logistics for AMC Ballistic Missile Center at Inglewood, Calif. He, his wife and two children, Suzann and Charles, are living in Torrance.

MARRIAGES: Joseph Boggan to SalJy Bookhardt, Jul. 25 . . . John Delaney to Marianne FitzGerald, Jun. 13 . .. Larry Hussman to Anne M. Michaelson, Jun. 13 ... Fred Hussong to Mary Ann Fi.on '57, Jun. 6.

BIRTHS: Fourth child, third son, Thomas, to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Daniel Dwyer, in July ... First child, son, to Mr. and Mrs. Dick Weidner, Jun. 16 ... Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moore (Corda Sacksteder), Jul. 10 ... Daughter, Colleen Ann, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Caulfield (Sandra Mac路 Callum), Jul. 2 . . . Third child, second daughter, Maryellen, to Mr. and Mrs. John Ziehler (Grace Harris), May 22 ... Daughter Maria Theresa to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Shroyer (Renate Altwicker), Jun. 2 ... Second child, first daughter, Mary Carolyn, to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Fillenwarth, Sept. 2, 1958.

'55 Five from the class were awarded degrees from three universities in June: Charles Nahn and Thomas Volk, MD from Marquette; Lowell Ford and John Janning, MD from Ohio State, and Herbert Campbell, DDS from Howard University. Dr. Janning is interning at Dayton's Miami Valley Hospital.

Dr. Richard Dobbins, MD, is interning at a receiving hospital in Detroit and Dr. Robert Albers is interning at Miami Valley in Dayton.

Paul McWilliams is with the University of California's Los Alamos scientific laboratory as a mathematician in the theoretical division. He lives in Redondo Beach, Calif., with his wife and three children.

MARRIAGES: Patricia Gaughan to John L. DeNinno, Jun. 6 ... Marilyn Koester to John Cogan, Jun. 13 ... Anne Flynn to Dr. Wa!Jace Johnson, Jun. 27 ... Patricia Rus路 sell to John Kelly, Jun. 27 ... Bernard Canty

to Margaret Hemmert, Jun. 20 . . . Jerry Strange to Hylda Mosier, Aug. 22.

BIRTHS: Second child, first son, Charles E. HI, to Dr. and Mrs. Charles Nahn, May 2 1 ... First child, daughter, Margaret Mary, to Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Miller (Patricia Falke), May 27 ... Daughter, Kathleen Anoe, to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Piekutowski (Theresa Cichanowicz), Jul. 15 ... Daughter, Julie Lyon, to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Schmidlin, Apr. 24 .. . Son to Mr. and Mrs. Armand Martino (Sally Payne), Jul. 20 ... First child, Susan Marie, to Mr. and Mrs. James Tunney (Paula Stelzer), Jul. 13 ... First child, Mark

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DAYTON COMPOSER HEARS FIRST SYMPHONY PLAYED

By BETTY A. DIETZ Daily News Music Editor

The simple economic facts of musical life can make all the difference in the world to a young composer, admits D ayton's Werner James Losh who recently flew to Brussels to hear his first symphony performed.

The symphony, he learned, was the first new work of the season to be played under the baton of D aniel Sternefeld by the state orchestra, officially L'Orchestre Symphonique de l'Institut National Beige de Radiodiffusion.

The orchestra spent "about two and a half days" or some fifteen hours of rehearsal on the new symphony. This is more than the D ayton Philharmonic orchestra can afford to spend rehearsing au entire concert, pointed out Conductor Paul Katz at an informal h earing of a tape recording of Losh's symphony.

Katz called the symphony "strong and sincere." He has agreed to play a portion of it-possibly the first movement-at one of the Philharmonic orchestra concerts during the com ing season.

Hearing his score played by a top flight ensemble was an unforgettable experience, Losh declares.

"But I was pretty discouraged at the reading rehearsal," he admits. "T he men slumped down and chewed gum during the first run-through. They straightened up for the recording session, though," he adds. Perhaps, he says, if you sit and play for six hours at a stretch, slumping is a natural reaction.

He was particularly gratified that the conductor and his men seemed impressed by his work. Sternefeld urged Losh to do another symphony but sug-

~I gested-again with his eye on the clock and the budget- that it be shorter .

The first one takes thirty-eight m inutes.

T he D aytonian's symphony was brought to Sternefeld's attention through the efforts of Guido de Stutter, Belgian organist now working in Dayton and a former pupil of Sternefeld, and Flor Peters, noted E uropean organist.

While this is the composer's first major work, he started an earlier sym phony and later abandoned it. In addition, a tone poem written while he was a student at the U niversity of D ayton was performed by the Dayton Philharmonic orchestra and the UD chorus.

Judging from the tape Losh brought back, the four-movement symphony reveals a bold harmonic structure and an imaginative use of orchestral colors.

Sections of it are full of frenetic energy and even moments of humor.

The performance given it by the Belgian orchestra is a particularly fine one.-Reprinted by permission from the D ayton D aily News.

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Lothar, to Mr. and Mrs. Lothar Hoeft (Mary Knese), Apr. 29.

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The University Placement Office receives from time to time inquiries for graduates who have had experience in various fields. An open file is maintained and your inquiries are welcome. Address Lewis A. Jones, Director of Placement.

Robert Westerheide received his MD degree from St. Louis University in J une. He's interning at St. Louis City Hospital.

Fred Brown was graduated from Miami in February, with an MS in bacteriology and bio-chemistry. At present he is working in open heart surgery at the Research Division of the Cleveland Clinic and with the department of artificial internal organs. He plans to enroll at Western Reserve for a PhD in micro-biology.

Charles Schneider will enter St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore's Roland Park in September to complete his last four years of study for the priesthood.

Ohio State University awarded degrees to Tom Polley (MA), and Alma Pa rrish (MEd). in J une. And in May, Bob Tischer received an MS from Iowa State College.

Pete Ankney is in his first season as head football coach at Fairmont High School, Kettering.

MARRIAGES: Roger Ku tscher to MonaJee McFarland, Jun. 27 ... Bob R osensweet to Sheila Dick, Jun. 21 ... Dorothy Agnew to Robert McTrusty, Jul. 4 ... Or. D onald Barnes to Eileen Sorensen, Jun. 25 ... Don Ferd elman to Barbara Wessendorf, Jul. 11 â&#x20AC;˘ . . Dao Keehn to Suzanne Wollet, Jul. 25 ... Bob Klickn er to Peggy Smales, Jun. 13 ... Sara King to John E. McNamara, Aug. I. BIRTHS: Son to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sprauer (Nancy Wyrick '54), Jun. I â&#x20AC;˘.. Son to Mr. and Mrs. Ben O'Oiam, in July.

to Barbara G arner, Jun. 27 . . . Catherine Carmack to Jerome Spiegel, Jun. 20 . . .

Joyce F ausell to Wesley Nowicki, Jun. 13.

BIRTHS: Son to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Naugle, Jun. 9 . . . Third child, third son, James Robert H, to Mr. and Mrs. James Stafford (Carmen Ventura '50), Jun. I . . .

First child, Christopher Michael, to Mr. and Mrs. William Buhrman (Carol Ann Kreusch), May 30 ... Second child, second daughter, Laurie Ano, to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Kress, May 31 ... Second child, first son, Patrick Raymond, to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Berus (Martha Sheetz '55), May 7 ... First child, Paul Francis llf, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thesing, Jul. 5 ... Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John Drerup, in J uly . . . Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kronauge (Margaret Powers), Jul. 22.

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Sister Mary Cecilia Janesch, M.S.C., received an MS in nursing at St. John's University in J une.

Bill Almashy is with Interstate Truck Service in Cincinnati.

Living in Kirkwood, Mo., J ohn Loucks is a sales engineer for G. H . Leland; Adam Thomas, Columbus, is a graduate research assistant, department of electrical engineering, at Ohio State, and 1st Lt. Linus Fiely is stationed in Budgenham, Germany.

After completing a two-year program of advanced study at New York University's graduate center at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J ., Alfred Stockert was awarded a master's degree in engineering in June.

MARRIAGES: Sharon Amend to Stephan Partlow, Jun. 13 ... Don Turner to Judith Moylan, Jun. 20 ... Carmen Riaui to Aon Fitzgerald '59, Aug. I ... Mary Ano Kra mpe to William Thompson, Aug. 22 ... Don Kies to Janet Crucius, Jul. 11 ... Lacy Calhoun

Faucet Co. in her hometown, Greensburg, Ind. Joseph Ulliman has completed the 17-week field artillery officer basic course June 10 at the artillery and missile school, Fort Sill, Okla., and J im Weber recently completed the eight-week officer leadership course at the

IN MEMORIAM FRANK JANKIE ('34)

R etired operator of a tool a nd die firm in D etroit. Aug. 21.

HENRY J. FILLENWARTH

Charles Werling is working toward his master's degree in history at Loyola University, Chicago.

John Schauer received his master's in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology in June; Ray MulJins received his master of arts degree from Ohio State Jun. 12, and Father Paul Cullinan, ordained in May, is studying for his MS at Catholic University, Washington.

Rusty Saunders, with Chase National Bank in New York City, has been promoted to pension trust administrator.

Oa ,'e Huffman is with the rocket and guided missile agency at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Ted Poore, now married and the father of a son, Tedd Thomas, is in public relations as a field representative with the Kentucky Division of the American Cancer Society. He's living in Richmond.

Diane Hem1ano is a receptionist at Delta

Father of Jim '54. In Indianapolis Aug. 13.

ROBERT M . MISLAN ('47)

M anager of the Hertz R ent A Car System at Cox Municipal Airport. In D ayton, Aug. 18. He was the first student to enroll at UD under the provisions of World War ll's G I Bill of Rights.

OSCAR M ILLER ' 92

A retired attorney. In South Laguna, Calif., Jun. 29. OriginaJJy from Chicago, Mr. Miller was one of UD's oldest alumni .

Throughout his life he maintained a close contact with his alma mater, and was one of her most generous benefactors, rememberin g the University in his will. He is su rvived by his widow, Hortense. H is brother Edward ' 94, died in 1955.

CATHERINE M . SCHMITZ ' 44

An anesthetist in D ayton. Aug. I. BENJAMIN J. McPOLIN ' 33

P artner in the Cleveland investment banking firm of McDonald and Co. which he had joined shortly after his graduation from UO. He had been a partner for two years. ln Cleveland, Aug. 2.

MARY BOEKE

Mother of Linus '28. In Coldwater, 0., May 26.

CHARLES H. KRONKE SR.

Father of Charles '58. In Stewart Manor, N. Y., May 12.

CHARLES C. KOONTZ SR.

Father of Charles '53. In Union City, Ind., Ju n. 30.

JULIA ANN BOCKRATH

Mother of Robert '49. In D ayton, J u l.

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LAURA KIRK

ALUMNI YOU CAN NOW ORDER THROUGH UD'S TICKET OFFICE Tickets to two UD basketba ll games 1. St. Mary's of San Anton io. ................... Tuesday, Dec. 22 2 . De Paul, Chicago............................Wednesday, Fe b. 17 Reserved Seats, $2 and $2.25. Make checks payable to University of Dayton.

Mother of Vinton '32. In D ayton , Jul. 14.

ANNA DRERUP

Mother of Brother John '35. In Day-

ton, Jun. 3.

EDWARD P. SHEERAN

Father of Lillian Sheeran R eiling '39, Dona ld '39, and Edward '43. In Dayton, Jul. 10.

CHARLES HILBERT

Father of William '52. In Springfield ,

0., in M ay.

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infantry school, Fort Benning.

MARRIAGF.S: James Kindler to Patricia Siemers, Aug. 1 ... Jim Moran to Barbara Krapp, Jul. 11 .•. Jerald Callahan to Adel· aide Difino, Aug. I ... Janet Houldsworth to Lewis Krueger, Aug. 8 . , . Joseph Conway to Marilyn Jennings, Jun. 27 ... Ber· nard Burke to Anne Fowler, Aug. 22 . . .

William Brinkman to Joan Lehmann, Jul. 25 . . . Joseph Balogh to Delores Holder, Jun. 27 ... William Igel to Jean Bendele '57, May 30 . . . John Renaux to Sue Walker, May 30 . . . Frederick Heydinger to Julie Barlow, Jun. 13 . . . Francis Oelerich to Anita Midlam, Jun. 13 ... William Drury to Marilyn Morris, Jun. 13 . . . Thomas J. Ferdelman to Marilyn A. Gross, Aug. 22 . . .

Theresa Magdziarczyk to John Cotter, Aug. 29.

BIRTHS: Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Deitering, Jul. 17 ... First child, Christo· pher Dean, to Mr. and Mrs. Don Eifert, Jul. 6 ... First child, son, to Mr. and Mrs. Arlen Bockhorn, in June.

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the Navy Nurse Corps, and is stationed at the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia.

At Monsanto Chemical, Harold Honious and RaJpb Smith have joined the research department of the research and engineering division in Dayton. Honious, after serving as a research laboratory technician, is now an engineer, and Smith is a research physicist, after serving as a laboratory assistant. Also, Robert Andres is now with the engineering division at the Mound Laboratory in Miamisburg.

Tom Cardile is in the personnel section of Stromberg-Carlson in Rochester, N.Y. On June 20 he married Ann DeVincentis.

Ray Atherton is a chemist with U.S. Rubber in Mishawaka, Ind., and Sigmund Brzezicki is a mechanical technologist with General Electric's aircraft nuclear propulsion department in Cincinnati.

Anthony Sarris is with Southwestern Port· land Cement in Victorville, Calif.

MARRIAGF.S: Joyce Morton to Suzanne Becker, Mar. 21 ... Edward James to Rose Marie Foerch, Jan. 24 ... Dennis Zander to Sandra Shellabarger, Jun. 27 ... Leo Grentz to Sarah Blincoe, Jun. 20 ... John Tarlano to Nancy Spires, Jun. 20 ... DonaJd Roman to Mary L. Beverley, Aug. 29 ... Anthony Sarris to Eleanor Ottino, Jul. 23 ... Tom Cardile to Ann DeVincentis, Jun. 20 .. .

Robert Aufuldish to Dolores Gombert, Jul. 11 ... Dave Kohnen to Helen Edwards, Aug. 8 ... Joanne Taylor to James Caffrey, Aug. 8 ... Robert Brennan to Darlene Jacobson, in August ... Dick Holgate to Margaret Hayes, Aug. 22 ... Edward McCallum to Ellen Fitz· geraJd '58, Aug. 29.

BIRTHS: Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Vir· gU Bowling, in July ... First child, daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gauby (Kathleen Girard '54), Jul. 20.

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John Stabler is an engineering aid for the city of Ketiering.

Joe Decker is coaching baseball, basketball and track at Botkins high school.

Jerry Goldschmidt is one of eight to re· ceive the first National Defense Act fellowships to Michigan State University.

Barbara Denegre took the position of Mary . - - - - - - - - - - --among our Ruth Hofferbert McFarland '52, at the clinic, St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Carolyn Scherer is a registered nurse in

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FIRST ROTC GRAD ON STAFF

CAPTAIN Bill Herlihy '51 has become the first g raduate of UO's ROTC program to be assigned to the military science staff. Bill reported in during the summer for his local duty from several months in Saigon w ith the military advisory grou p the re.

A veteran of the 4Sth division in Korea, he entered the service sho rtly after graduation. Mrs. Herlihy is Amy Niedecken, also of the Class of 1951.

Sept. 19 * Richmond Sept. 26 *At Cincinnati Oct. 3 At Bowling Green Oct. 10 At Holy Cross Oct. 17 *At Louisville Oct. 24 *Xavier Oct. 31 At Villanova Nov. 7 Detroit (Homecoming) Nov. 14 Miami Nov. 21 Wichita (Dads' Day) (Asterisk denotes night oame.)

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OLDEST LIVING ALUM OPERATES THRIVING BUSINESS

SHOULD any alumnus be interested in obtaining in a hurry a 1915 Pan Pac Oct. vf, v-rare, A. J. Fink has one he'll let you have for $1200. Or maybe you'd prefer an 1846 Tall Date, unc, also v-rare. This you can get from A. J. for a low, low price of $100.

To those alumni who may have missed Numismatics 304 while at UD, let it be here explained that the coded descriptions above refer to certain rare coins. And rare coins-that's the business of UD's oldest living alumnus, A. J. Fink '9 1.

H e operates his thriving business in one of the largest offices any alum can claim. The fact that it's the lobby of Dayton's YMCA is beside the point.

But it is from here that Mr. Fink, now 84, conducts a successful mail-order coin business.

His interest in coins dates back to the time he attended Georgetown University and he's been in the business end of coin-collecting for 60 years. A bachelor all these 84 years, he says "the women took all my coin when I was young. Now I'm just trying to get some of it back."

It's not only hard cash, but soft food

as well that claims Mr. Fink's interest.

"My diet," he says, "is vegetables, fruits , and other such foods. Strictly a vegetarian."

"People who work under pressurelike the President," he once told an observer, "they ought to get on my diet ... they'd never have any trouble."

A pitcher of some prominence when he was attending Georgetown, be still maintains his athletic prowess. He swims almost every day at the "Y" and is believed to be the oldest "Y" member in Ohio still swimming.

In addition to his "oldest" records, he also boasts a "youngest"-wben he was graduated from old St. Mary's Institute (now UD) in 1891, he was the youngest ever to do so. He was 15 at the time.

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HOMECOMING - IT ALSO MEANS ELECTIONS With this year's homecom ing, the terms of three members of the alumni association board -Robert Connelly '37, William Sherman '41 , and Thomas Maher '39-and two members of the athletic board-Leland Norris '52, and Dr. George Rau '30-come to an end. Alumni will be asked, in a ballot soon to be mailed from

the University, to elect new men to these boards. Study the candidates now; there are two for each office to be filled. And when the ballot comes through the mail, make known your preferences. Those elected will be installed at ceremonies of the homecoming week end.

Here are the candidates:

ROBERT LIPP '37ChE Alumni Board Technical Director of Labs, Moran Paint Co., Xenia

DON SHARKEY ' 34A, '44MA Alumni Board Dayton Author, Lecturer

ANTHONY SPRAUER '39B A lumni Board Supervisor, Material Costs, Inland Mfg. Div., GMC, Dayton

CAESAR JARDINE ' JOL Alumni Board Department Supervisor, Uniset Order Writing, Reynolds & Reynolds, Dayton

DR . ARTHUR BOK

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Athletic Board Dayton Osteopath

JACK BROWN '26S Athletic Board President, Joe Spatz Bakery, Dayton

WILLIAM A . FITZPATRICK '39EE Alumni Board General Manager, M. J. Gibbons Supply, Dayton General Chairman, Sixth Annual Alumni Fund

THOMAS MAHER '39B Athletic Board President, Manpower of Dayton, Inc. (Current member alumni board)

DR . GEORGE RAU ' 30S DR . ARTHUR MILLONIG '40S Alumni Board Dayton Physician

Athletic Board (Current member) Dayton Physician

MAKE KNOWN YOUR WISHES-VOTE! D