TRADITION

. . . the newsletter of the Fordham College Alumni Association

Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y. 10023

January 1997

RAMology. Before converting to Roman Catholicism and assuming the presidency of St. JohnÕs College at Fordham, Rev. James Roosevelt Bayley, a native of Rye, New York, had had a career as editor of the FreemanÕs Journal, a New York newspaper, and as pastor of St. PeterÕs Protestant Episcopal Church in Harlem. While pastor of St. PeterÕs, the Rev. Mr. Bayley, who was a nephew of Elizabeth Bayley Seton and a cousin of Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt, often visited Rev. John McCloskey, the first president of The College and later the first bishop of Albany and the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, at Fordham Òin order to argue doctrinal questions, especially the validity of his Orders.Ó Apparently Fr. McCloskey influenced Mr. Bayley, for in 1841 Bayley resigned his living at St. PeterÕs, travelled to Rome, was baptized into the Catholic faith and entered the Seminary of St. Sulpice in Paris. On his return to New York in 1844, Bishop John Hughes, the founder of The College, ordained Bayley into the Catholic priesthood and appointed him vice-president of The College. Later that same year, at a place on the campus then known as Strawberry Hill, Fr. Bayley, who later became the first Bishop of Newark and third Archbishop of Baltimore, built St. JohnÕs Hall, which the University named for the Evangelist, as the seminary of the Archdiocese of New York. Later, in 1860, the building was joined with other early campus buildings as part of The College. In 1940, Rev. Robert I. Gannon, S.J. built St. RobertÕs Hall, named for St. Robert Bellarmine, the Jesuit Cardinal and theologian, and BishopsÕ Hall, which was named for the many Fordham alumni who went on to serve as American bishops. The walls of Bishops and Roberts are built of marble taken from the old Lenox Library which was the best match for the stone of St. JohnÕs Hall. BishopsÕ houses the residence hallsÕ lounge in which the coats-of-arms of the bishopsÕ families are depicted in the stained glass windows of the lounge and which is among the most elegant rooms on Rose Hill. Together, St. JohnÕs Hall, St. RobertÕs Hall and BishopsÕ Hall form QueenÕs Court, next to the University Church, in the center of which a statue of the Queen, Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces, presides.

The Residential College at QueenÕs Court. In 1987, Rev. John Piderit, S.J., then an economics professor at The College, established a residential college program at QueenÕs Court on Rose Hill. Fr. Piderit, who had a special interest in high culture, Òwanted a place that was a real community based on Jesuit ideals and (that) encouraged intellectual values.Ó Under the leadership of Sr. Anne Walsh, R.S.H.M., the master of Queens Court, the residential college features a more intellectual slant than a student might find in other freshman dormitories. Rev. John J. Conley, S.J., associate professor of philosophy, who has devoted a substantial portion of his recent research to a study of Jansenist ethics, administers the college in residence, and Rev. Joseph Koterski, S.J., assistant professor of philosophy, who is to TRADITIONÕs knowledge the only Jesuit on the Rose Hill campus who paid for his own education, is the chaplain and tutor.

Quiet during the day, QueenÕs Court Residential College starts buzzing at about 4 p.m., as students return from class and other activities. The residence has Òa rhythm,Ó says Fr. Koterski. Evenings find students meeting on different floors, imprinting footprints on walls, studying with roommates, creating discussion groups or joining a debate on the latest issue. ÒItÕs a friendly place,Ó Koterski says. Residents take turns presenting speeches. Some of the talks are serious, some are light, but all force students to think on their feet, while strengthening a sense of community within the college. The talks are followed by questions from the audience and cookies and milk, a welcome break in the eveningÕs studies. The talks, along with other community-building programs, such as common dinner and Sunday bagel brunch, are a big part of the residential college. The residential college also encourages students to interact with faculty members outside the classroom through events like the biannual Disputatio, a lively, well-attended debate, and residential college dinners with faculty. Social activities also abound, and students are encouraged to take full advantage of the University and New York City communities. By combining the academic and social elements of college life, the residential college links day-to-day student life more closely to intellectual experience. The residential college occupies St. JohnÕs Hall, St. RobertÕs Hall, and BishopsÕ Hall.

In memoriam. TRADITION mourns the passing of Bill Tierney Ô97, a young man with a ready smile who was a defensive back for the Fordham football team and who died tragically on October 12, 1996 while completing warm-ups prior to the RamsÕ Homecoming game against Lafayette.

The Minister of Religious Matters, Nick OÕNeill Ô55, advises that the annual retreat will be celebrated on two separate weekends this year. On the weekend of March 7, 8 and 9, 1997, the retreat will be celebrated at St. Ignatius Retreat House in Manhasset and on March 14, 15 and 16, 1997, the retreat will be celebrated at Mount Manresa Retreat House in Staten Island. Contact Nick OÕNeill (516-678-5970) or Alumni House (212-636-6522) for details.

The University community invites alumni and friends to join in the observance of Holy Week. Contact Campus Ministries (718-817-4503) for information.

The Fordham University Concert Choir, under the direction of Robert Minnotti, with the Bronx Arts Ensemble will present its Spring Concert, featuring HaydenÕs ÒTe DeumÓ and Vaughan WilliamsÕ ÒFive Mystical SongsÓ at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 13, 1997. Contact Robert Minnotti (718-817-4504) for details.

Rev. Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J., the University President, advises that alumni can look forward to a September dedication of the new library. Fr. OÕHare further advises that the UniversityÕs endowment assets were approximately $161 million in fiscal 1996.

Rev. Joseph P. McShane, S.J., the Dean of The College, presented the annual Fordham College Outstanding Teaching Awards to: Rev. Martin Hegyi, S.J., associate professor of Biological Sciences, a native of Hungary, who received both his bachelorÕs and masterÕs degrees in zoology from Oxford and who completed his doctoral studies in biology at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1973. Fr. McShane praised Fr. Hegyi as Ò(a) consummate educator and a gifted mentor, he has introduced countless Fordham pre-meds to the mysteries of general biology and . . . has tirelessly labored to help them prepare their applications to medical school. A gentleman, a scholar and a model priest, he has been a grace for all who have had the honor to know him and to work with himÓ; Dr. Gwenyth Jackaway, assistant professor of communications and media studies, who holds a B.A. in history from Barnard College of Columbia University and who decided to pursue communications at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. Fr. McShane complemented Dr. Jackaway as Ò(t)horough in her preparation, riveting in her classroom performance and generous in the care she lavishes on her students, she seems to be a born teacher,Ó and Dr. Kathryn Moore Heleniak, associate professor of art history, who graduated from the University of Michigan, received a Certificate in Art History from the University of LondonÕs Courtland Institute of Art and her masterÕs degree in art history from the University of Minnesota. She completed her doctorate at New York UniversityÕs Institute of the Fine Arts. Fr. McShane noted that Ò(s)ince that time, she has proved to be the very nearly perfect citizen of the University. A woman of saintly generosity and signal graciousness, she lent her considerable talents to a variety of committees that are as disparate as they are important.Ó

RAMiniscences. James W. Johnson Ô49 reports that Ò(on) cleaning out the dusty old drawers of lifeÓ he found Òa careful accounting of my college expenses as kept by my mother: . . . 1944 - first trimester Registration ($)5.00, Board and room ($)125.00, Books ($)20.00, First trip home (to Kingston, New York) ($)1.00, Laundry ($)1.13, Shoes ($)6.50, Tuition ($)60.00.Ó

The American Psychiatric Association awarded Lloyd H. Rogler, FordhamÕs Albert Schweitzer University Professor, its Simon Bolivar Award at its 1996 Annual Meeting for outstanding contributions to research and education, for his pioneering contributions to research on the interplay between culture and mental health and for overall achievements in psychiatry.

Mark this date in Maroon! Fr. McShane advises that the seventeenth annual DeanÕs Day will be held on Saturday, September 27, 1997.

The Gourman Report, which measures the academic quality of colleges and universities throughout the world, rated the Classics Department among the top twenty-five in the country and rated Fordham, Notre Dame and Georgetown the best Catholic institutions of higher education in the nation.

Among national universities, U.S. News & World Report ranks Fordham a top fifty best buy, offering Òexceptional education for the money.Ó Money Magazine also singles out Fordham among Òelite values,Ó nationally, and among the top twenty-five best values in the Northeast.

The Faculty. Avery Dulles, S.J., Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society, gave a lecture: ÒNewmanÕs Pneumatology: Ecumenical ConsiderationsÓ and participated in an informal colloquium, ÒThe Response to the Dubium,Ó at the Catholic Theological Society of AmericaÕs annual meeting in San Diego. Fr. DullesÕ recent publications include: ÒOn Lifting the Condemnations,Ó in Dialog, Summer 1996. . . . Catharine Randall, associate professor of modern languages, presented a paper, entitled ÒSketches for Tableaux vivants: Luther, Marguerite, Marot and the Evangelical Mise-en scene,Ó in a session on ÒSensibilite catholique, sensibilite protestanteÓ at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. . . . Peter Yom, professor of mathematics, published ÒA characterization of a class of Richman-Butler groupsÓ in Abelian Groups at the Institute for Mathematics at Oberwolfache, Germany. . . . Robert J. Penella, professor of classics, participated in a symposium on late Ancient Panegyrics and Biography in August at the University of Bergen, Norway. Dr. PenellaÕs paper was titled ÒThe Rhetoric of Praise in the Private Orations of Themistius.Ó . . . G. Richard Dimler, S. J., professor of modern languages, lectured at the University of Louvain at the Fourth International Emblem Conference on ÒThe Imago Primi Saeculi and the Jesuit Emblem TheoryÓ and was nominated to the organizing committee for the International Symposium under the auspices of the Southern German Province of the Society of Jesus and the Berchmannskolleg, Hochshule fur Philosophie, to be held in Munich in July 1998, titled ÒJesuit Emblematics in Bavaria: Impact and Influence.Ó . . . William T. Hogan, S.J., director of the Industrial Economics Research Institute, traveled to Hong Kong where he gave a speech entitled ÒAsiaÕs Iron Ore and Steel Growth: A Force Within the Global IndustryÓ at the Second Annual Asian Steel Summit. . . . David R. Chabot, associate professor of psychology, has published an article, ÒPolitical Correctness: Contributing to Social Distress?Ó in the Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless. . . . Ruth Ben-Ghiat, assistant professor of history, published ÒEnvisioning Modernity: Desire and Discipline in the Italian Fascist Film,Ó in Critical Inquiry. . . . Jay D. Mancini, chair of the physics department, presented a paper, ÒCoupled-Cluster Approximation: A Simple Approach to the T-J ModelÓ (emphasis added), at the International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron systems in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Index of Social Health. Dr. Marc L. Miringoff, director of the Institute for Innovation in Social Policy at the Tarrytown campus, advises that the nationÕs social health, as gauged by the annual Index of Social Health, declined in 1994 to its lowest level in twenty-five years, with children and adolescents among the hardest hit. The index measures the nationÕs performance in addressing sixteen key social problems. Dr. Miringoff states, ÒThese findings suggest that despite a range of stated differences in philosophy and policy, neither political party has been able to achieve significant progress in social health over the past twenty-five years.Ó

In the last academic year, Fordham College students received four Fulbright Fellowships, four National Security Foundation Fellowships, three National Science Foundation Fellowships, one Clark Scholarship, one Goldwater Scholarship, one George S. Counts Law Scholarship, one Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellowship and one New York City Urban Fellowship. Fr. McShane advises that forty-seven Fordham students have applied for prestigious fellowships this year.

Create opportunity for a Maroon! Fordham students can help you as business interns during the school year and summer vacation or as they begin their careers upon graduation from Rose Hill. Contact Greg Pappas of the Career Planning and Placement Center (718-817-4360) to learn how you can hire one of FordhamÕs best.

ÒThe workers of this society should have only one foot touching earth, the other always being raised to begin a journey.Ó - Constitutions of the Society of Jesus.

Global Outreach is a community service program organized by the UniversityÕs Campus Ministries Program under the supervision of Rev. James Hentges, O.S.C. The program offers students the opportunity to engage in community service projects in India with the Missionaries of Charity, on Native American reservations and in Latin America.

A Global Outreach volunteer, Eric Montroy Ô97, offers the following account of a recent India Project: ÒMud-caked women lined the garbage strewn streets begging for milk to feed their naked babies. Dogs howled and famished people wailed throughout each night, and the air was so thick with diesel and dirt that it hurt to breathe. I once heard someone say of Calcutta, ÔThis has to be the closest thing to Hell on earth.Õ (But, to my mind,) Calcutta is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. Although our Global Outreach team was forced to deal with the death and destruction that constantly surrounded us, amid all of the chaos we also discovered a beauty, joy and love that is truly astounding. Finding joy and love in a place like Calcutta is an extremely difficult paradox to comprehend, and it is even more difficult to try and explain it to someone who has not experienced it for themselves. Mother Teresa often suggests that, if people come and work in places like Kalighat (the Missionaries of CharityÕs first home for the destitute and dying), they will leave with a definite sense of the beauty and power of GodÕs love.

ÒFor two and half weeks our Global Outreach team found itself in Kalighat, taking Mother Teresa up on her suggestion. Drew Sffougatakis (Ô96) and I were fortunate enough to be given the chance to see the beauty within the chaos. Our team had spent the entire morning working with the patients of Kalighat when Drew and I were asked to take a patient to a place called Titagarh, the missionaryÕs Leper Colony, to be operated on. The patientÕs name was Babu Mukhergee, and we were taking him to Tetegarh (for treatment on) his gangrene-ravaged leg. While I was extremely anxious and nervous at the prospect of taking this man to a leper colony, I was completely unaware that our adventure would be one of the most amazing experiences of my life.

ÒAs our cab rolled away from Kalighat, Babu wrapped his arm around my shoulders and with his distinguished . . . narrow face, he inspected Drew and me with a grin. Then, as if some spirit had arisen within him, he began to serenade us with a beautifully deep and melodious voice. As the Bengali hymns floated through the cab, the noises of bustling Calcutta streets faded into nonexistence. Drew and I smiled at one another. Drew decided at one point to light up a cigarette for himself. I think he probably wanted to smoke in order to let go of some of the anxiety that he was receiving from our cab driver, who was so reckless that we (repeatedly, narrowly) missed life-threatening crashes. . . . Babu began clutching at DrewÕs shirt and ecstatically motioning for the cigarette. Drew shook his head in puzzlement and then handed him the cigarette.

ÒAs soon as Babu put the cigarette to his lips, his whole demeanor changed. With the cigarette between his fingers, Babu sat back, tilted his head up and puffed out smoke like he was the most suave and distinguished man alive. Then without provocation, Babu began yelling, ÔGod is goodÕ and ÔHappy New YearÕ out the window at people in the streets. Everyone was staring at us like we were a car full of psychopaths. . . . As the cab drove along on the wrong side of the median into oncoming trucks, buses, rickshas and cows, we all roared hysterically and had the time of our lives.

ÒWhen our cab finally pulled into Titagarh safely, Drew and I found ourselves in total amazement once again. Titagarh, the Leper colony, is honestly one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. All I could say was, ÔThis must be the Paradise of India.Õ Titagarh is a completely self-sufficient community that thrives because it is founded on compassion. The lepers, who had once spent their days lying alone in the gutters of Calcutta, now beamed with joy as they worked for one another. Drew and I were stunned. . . . When you work in places like Kalighat, you are overcome by GodÕs almighty love.Ó

Another Global Outreach volunteer, Sandra Kiskis Ô96, remarks ÒI came here to help these people and all I am doing is receiving. . . . I have seen more love, goodness, laughter and happiness then I have ever seen in my life.Ó

The Winter Homecoming. Director of Athletics Frank McLaughlin invites all members of the Fordham family to the annual winter homecoming on Sunday, February 16, 1997. Festivities will include the annual Hall of Fame brunch. Following the brunch, the menÕs basketball Rams will play the Hawks of St. JosephÕs University at 1:00 p.m. Contact Julio Diaz of the Department of Athletics (718-817-4306) for information.

ÒItÕs not in the winning and the losing, itÕs in the play!Ó - Marty Glickman at the Second Annual Arthur J. Daley Memorial Award Dinner.

The Sports Page. Congratulations to Coach Frank SchnurÕs menÕs varsity soccer team which won the Atlantic-10 Championship and qualified for the NCAA Soccer Tournament. . . . Congratulations also to Joe McCluskey Ô33, the two-time Olympian, who has been elected to the National Track and Field Hall of Fame. . . . Finally, congratulations to the Ram rugby team which with an undefeated record in the regular season qualified for the national rugby tournament. Will Mansour Ô98, Finbar Carrig Ô97, Steve Bello Ô98, Tom Fallon Ô98 and A.N. Other Ô00 were selected to the All-America team.

While historians disagree on the circumstances of the founding of the Fordham Rugby Club, Dave Kappes '64, Tom Lawrence Ô65 and Wally Smith Ô63 are certainly among those to be held accountable. As Kappes recalls, although the University had discontinued its varsity football program in 1954, excellent athletes still chose to attend Fordham and were anxious for an activity to which they could apply their athletic talents. After a difficult first year, beset by a lack of funds and organizational problems, the team received an impetus with the arrival of the Class of 1966. Among the members of that class were Danny Somma Ô66 and Andy Cordaro Ô66, the quick, strong wing-forwards whose aggressiveness on the field of play terrorized opposing scrum halfs. On those occasions when opponents did manage to push the ball into FordhamÕs end of the field, the RamÕs Australian fullback Mark Pirola Ô66, who, according to Lawrence, never missed a tackle in four years of play, met it there. The Ram ruggers became dominant on the East Coast and, in their second year of play, humbled mighty Army by a score of 19-0. However, as they achieved success on the pitch, the Ram ruggers developed social skills which sometimes led to allegations of inappropriate behavior. For a time suspension followed suspension until in 1989 the administration and the club agreed that the club should enjoy the status of permanent suspension, and no University administrator would agree to serve as moderator to the club. Despite, or perhaps because of, their travails, the rugby players still enjoy the game and have begun to show a more civilized, even a more feminine side. The menÕs ÒAÓ side, which was undefeated in regular season play last semester, boasts a B+ index, and women on Rose Hill have recently formed a womenÕs side which boasts thirty-seven members. Captain Jackie Gray Ô98 of the womenÕs side says, ÒWhen I heard about the possibility of a (womenÕs) rugby team, I just knew it was for me.Ó Former Fordham ruggers and those who merely admire the breed may contact Rich Duprey Ô84, in care of TRADITION to brag, commiserate or discuss ways to assist the current Ram ruggers.

RAMembrances. Ed Gilleran Ô47 remembers ÒStuttering JakeÓ Weber as the best athletic trainer in America for the better part of his 80 years of life. Recognized as the worldÕs worst public speaker but hilariously funny in words and delivery, Jake served as FordhamÕs athletic trainer for three decades and was the trainer of the American Olympic track and field teams in 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936. In between Olympics, Jake repeatedly spurned attractive offers to leave Rose Hill. Hollywood stars and political celebrities repeatedly urged Jake to set up his own salon so that he could minister to their vanities, and John McGraw of the baseball Giants was always after Jake to move permanently to the Polo Grounds. Although his formal education was limited, Jake had a keen native intelligence and devised dozens of gadgets, baking machines and the like, that helped aching muscles. His trademark during football season was the Òflit gun.Ó At every time out, he liberally sprayed the tired Fordham football heros with an elixir from the flit gun, the contents of which he never revealed. Throughout the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, every Fordham gathering brought forth the chant, ÒWe want Jake,Ó and, at every gathering, Jake made the audience laugh until it cried.

An Afternoon of Bach. Bill Burke Ô65 advises that the Fordham Club of Northern New Jersey and the basketball Rebounders Club will host former Ram coach and current Detroit Pistons assistant coach Johnny Bach Ô48 when Grant Hill and the Pistons play the New Jersey Nets at the Meadowlands on Saturday afternoon, February 1, 1997. Contact Bill Burke (212) 713-8345 for details.

Rev. George McMahon, S.J. will lead alumni, students and friends of Fordham up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Monday, March 17, 1997 in the annual St. PatrickÕs Day parade. Contact the Office of Alumni Relations (212-636-6520) for details.

Reader Arthur R. Carmody, Jr. Ô49 remarks, ÒBefore I read (a recent) issue of TRADITION, I sometimes felt that the great State of California was a world within itself. Now I am glad to have this confirmed by the fact that Fordham students who journey there to study, and doubtless be exposed to strange and esoteric customs and traditions, are considered to have gone ÔabroadÕ. For historical reference please tell me what year California seceded from the union.Ó. . . William J. Barry Ô59 looks forward to reading TRADITION. . . . In connection with an article that appeared in a recent issue of TRADITION, Rev. Francis J. Culkin Ô37 notes that the football Rams did not play Boston College in 1936 and questions the historical accuracy of TRADITION . . . . To encourage those who suffer from H.I.V., Brian Schuman Ô82 advises, ÒAs Fordham has taught me, donÕt let the future get you down. ThereÕs always something great waiting just down the road, as God always promises. God bless you greatly this year!Ó . . . Thomas R. Nolan, M.D. exÔ45 remembers that he became involved in college activities including serving Masses for Jesuits. He was even asked to participate in the ceremonies for the dedication of the new main altar in the University Church which was a gift from then Archbishop Spellman. Tom remained at Fordham until May 1943 when ÒWWII got in the way. . . . I never got back to Fordham but I cherish my time there.Ó . . . Thomas F. X. Casey Ô57 notes that Rev. Robert I. Gannon, S.JÕs written recollection of his meeting with Sara Delano Roosevelt, the mother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, reads ÒWe were all thoroughly drenched and after the ceremony I asked if she wouldnÕt like to step into my office to warm up - with a glass of sherry. She replied: ÔFor one awful moment I thought you were going to suggest a cup of tea.ÕÓ . . . Timothy C. Brock, Ph. D. Ô55 chides TRADITION for its misuse of the English language, notes that a ÒforebearÓ is an ancestor and that a ÒforbearerÓ is a person who is patient or self controlled, and states that James Roosevelt Bayley was a forebear of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and that ÒTo call (James Roosevelt Bayley) a ÔforbearerÕ is to assign to an ancestor of F.D.R. a degree of prescience that an early president of Fordham, though certainly wise and far seeing, may have not possessed.Ó . . . John G. Carolin Ô38 reports a statement by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: ÒThe FBI is filled with Fordham graduates keeping tabs on Harvard men in the State Department.Ó. . . Bill McGuth Ô56 properly asserts that TRADITION is Òcleverly written.Ó

Barrett McGurn Ô35 advises that the Fordham University Club of Washington, D.C. presented Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington Ô77 with the 1996 Distinguished Alumnus Award which is given annually to a graduate or graduates who have made an impact within their chosen field.

Channel surfing. Actor Michael J. Fox plays Mike Flaherty, the savvy deputy mayor and Fordham graduate, who proudly displays a Fordham banner on his office wall and who is the central character on ABCÕs Spin City, and actor Rocky Carroll plays Dr. Keith Wilkes, the chief of trauma, who Òcame up the hard way, (and) worked (his) way through FordhamÓ on CBSÕs Chicago Hope, but who is that pretender who impersonates our Vince Lombardi Ô37 in the television advertisements?

Congratulations to the Classes of 1992, 1987, 1982, 1977, 1972, 1967, 1962, 1957, 1952 and 1947 who celebrate at the Jubilee Weekend from Friday, June 6 to Sunday, June 8, 1997. Contact the Office of Special Events (212-636 6574) for details.

TRADITION wishes all a happy and a healthy New Year.

TRADITION: Minister of Propaganda: George P. McKeegan Ô69; Contributing Editors: William J. Healy Ô30, William H. Power, Jr.Õ33, Barrett McGurn Ô35, Francis X. Holbrook, Ph.D. Ô49, Edward J. Buckley Ô81, Elizabeth B. Kane Ô90 and Brendan Snodgrass Ô99.