1974 Fall SJU Alumni Magazine Volume 14 Number 02

              partment of creative and dramatic arts
at the College of St. Scholastir.:a. . ..
DERYCK RICHARDSON is continuing
his graduate studies in psychology at
Ohio State. His address: 372 E Oakland
Ave, Columbus, OH 43202; phone: 614-
263-4565.
1973 Tom A. Thibodeau, Chm.
Prince George, British Columbia
DON CARLINI is a fireman in Mel­rose
Park, IL. ... JOSEPH CHENG and
his wife, Mary, live at 328 W 15 St,
New York 10011. Phone: 212-929-2119.
They both have been admitted as per­manent
residents of the US and Joe
has been accepted into the graduate
department of business administration
at St. John's U, Brooklyn. . .. GARY
EUSTICE is working at the Minnesota
Sheriff's Boys Ranch in Izati. ... TOM
FRANKMAN is a second year law stu­dent
at the U of South Dakota. . ..
ADRIAN FUNG is continuing his grad­uate
education at the U of Minnesota.
Address: 425 SE 13th Ave, Apt 1101,
Minneapolis 55414. Phone: 612-376-6724.
... MIKE HUBER is practicing account­ing
at Fischer Sand and Aggregate Co.
in Apple Valley. . .. DALE JACKSON
has enrolled at American Graduate
School of International Management,
Glendale, AZ. . .. WILLIAM KEMP and
his wife, Sharon, live at 1485 12th Ave
N, Apt 24, St. Cloud 56301. Bill is a
graduate student at st. Cloud State in
urban planning and is working part­time
at St. Cloud Housing & Redevelop­ment
Authority as the relocation coun­selor.
. .. IL HYON KIM's address is
100 Leeward Glenway, Donmills, Onto
M3C 2Z1, Canada. He is the manager
of a franchised superette in Toronto,
Onto ... SAMUEL LUM is continuing
his graduate education at the University
of Toronto. His address: Tartu College,
Apt 1226, 310 Bloor St W, Toronto,
Ont., M5S 1W4, Canada.
TIM TOUHY is in his second year
at Boston College Law School; he lives
at 48 Hardwick St, Brighton, MA 02135.
... PHILIP TSUI of 150 Emerson Rd,
Somerset, NJ 08873; (phone: 201-545-
7515) is continuing his graduate studies
in sociology at Rutgers. . .. JEFFREY
VIRANT is now attending medical
school and is living at Apt 319, 1901
Minnehaha Ave S, Minneapolis 55404.
... JOSEPH WONG is beginning dental
studies at the Georgetown Medical
Center. His address is 1417 N Quinn St,
Apt 4, Arlington, VA 22209 .... JAMES
YU is continuing his graduate education
at the U of Minnesota and has been
awarded an assistantship to do research
work for the Dept. of Finance and In­surance.
Address: Middlebrook Hall
1236, U of Minnesota, Minneapolis
55455. Phone: 612-376-6724.
1974
MANUEL BORJA is teaching social
studies and counseling at Marianas
High School. Address: PO Box 721,
Saipan, Mariana Islands 96950. . .. BILL
CAHOY is presently living at 354 Can­ner
St, Apt 623, New Haven, CT 06511.
He is attending school at Yale and
reports that he has been working for
the Development Office there. . . .
ANTON CHRISTIANSEN was given the
Elijah Watt Sells Award recently for
his outstanding achievement on the
national Certified Public Accountant
examinations taken this spring. Tony
finished in the top 53 of the 33,320
persons who took the test. . .. RENE
DARVEAUX 'presently lives at Alumni
Hall, Room 213, Meharry Medical Col­lege,
Nashville, TN 37208. . .. BILL
FOLEY as well as JOHN HENKE and
his wife, Hilda, are presently living at
1015 Jackman Ave, Apt 1, Avalon, PA
15202. Phone number: 412-761-4090.
John and Bill are both beginning grad­uate
studies in philosophy at Duquesne
U, Pittsburgh. . .. JAMES HOOD is
presently employed as a teacher of
biology and chemistry at St. Joseph's
High School in the Virgin Islands. Ad­dress:
Box 517, St. Joseph's High School,
Frederiksted, St. Croix, US Virgin Is­lands
00840. . .. YASUO KOIKE is fin­ishing
his studies for a Japanese degree
at Sophia U in Tokyo. His address is
clo Sugiyama, Akasaka 5-2-46, Minato­ku,
Tokyo 107, Japan .... ROGER LIND­MARK
is now attending graduate school
in psychology at the U of New Orleans.
He can be reached there at PO Box 1398,
New Orleans 70122. . .. MICHINORI
56321
MATSUOKA is finishing his studies at
Sophia U in Tokyo. His address: clo
Mrs. Matsumuro, 4-6-7· Hongo, Burkyo­ku,
Tokyo, Japan. . .. Backpack trips
over the Chilkoot Pass and through the
Coast Range of Alaska from Skagway
to Bennett, British Columbia, kept
DANIEL J. MILLER busy this summer.
He also guided month-long float trips
700 miles down the Yukon River. He
is now in the Peace Corps in Nepal.
... CRESWELL STURRUP returned for
Homecoming this year. He currently
works in the section of naturalization
and citizenship of the ministry of home
affairs in the Bahamas. Address: PO
Box N7669, Nassau, Bahamas.
GEORGE WANG is doing graduate
study in biology at the U of Nebraska.
His address is Room 4204, International
House, 540 N 16 St, Lincoln, NE 68508.
... ALBERT WONG has begun his
studies at George Washington Medical
School. His new address is 1002 22nd
St NW, Washington 20037. Phone: 202-
785-0967. . .. ALTON WONG is en­rolled
in the U of Wisconsin Medical
School. Address: 936 N 15th St, Apt 16,
Milwaukee 53233. . .. DAVID YEH is
with the executive development program
at the First National City Bank in Hong
Kong. His address is 138 Argyle, 8/b,
Kowloon, Hong Kong. . .. STEPHEN
YEUNG is beginning graduate work in
accounting at the U of Toronto. He
lives at Tartu College, Apt 1226, 310
Bloor St W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5S 1W4 .... HOWELL ZEE has begun
his graduate studies in the College of
Business Administration at the U of
Nevada. He is a research assistant for
the Bureau of Business and Economic
Research there. Address: PO Box 8991,
University Station, Reno, NV 89507.
Phone: 702-784-4570.
1975
Coast Guard Quartermaster Third
Class CRAIG TROUT was promoted
to his present rank aboard the cutter
Sundew home-ported at Charlevoix, MI.
He assists the ship's. navigator by
plotting courses, maintaining naviga­tional
equipment, steering and sending
and receiving messages.
President's message
If I say °1 mean it," will you believe me? I haven't cried wolf
lately nor strained your credulity. Believe me! There is a wolf at the
door. Hunger stalks a billion men and women and half a billion
of them are expected to die this year of starvation. The enormity
of this human disaster is beyond compare or comprehension.
We· cannot put this tragedy out of mind nor be unresponsive
to the desperate need that we respond. But that response must be
both short- and long-term. The short-term response is obvious.
Our students, for instance, have fasted to send food to Africa.
The long-term responses will be much more difficult to determine.
More technology alone will not do. One of the fundamental facts
is that we Americans, 6 per cent of the world's population, consume
over 30 per cent of its resources. Clearly we must moderate our
expectations if we are to be believable as Christians.
For too long we considered that the world's resources were
inexhaustable and the genius of our technology unlimited. We thought
we could afford "all this and heaven too" because somehow modern
science and technology would find a way to feed the hungry. We
would not need to give up anything. Now it is clear that Americans
need to learn again to share, and rediscover the discipline and
sacrifice a Christian life requires.
In short, we must be a good Samaritan in a world so complex
that long-term and complex solutions alone will not work. These
solutions must respect life and the priority of humane and spiritual
values over comfort and convenience. I want Saint John's to lead
in this world-wide reordering of priorities. I believe Saint John's
can lead but this will not be a popular cause. If you believe in it,
give us your help.
Sin rely,
,u '~~<.AJ.I ~~
Mic ael Blecker, OSB
Pres dent
Editor's note: See related article, page 19.
ON THE COVER:
Rich Banasik '65 pauses before boarding Burlington Northern's Chicago­Seattle
mail train which he regularly pilots between LaCrosse and the
Twin Cities. When not riding the rails, Rich may be found in his
LaCrosse art shop, The Hand of Man. See article, page 5.
Saint John's
Vol. 14, No.2
Fall, 1974
Editor: Lee A. Hanley '58
Saint John's is published quarterly (Winter, Spring,
Summer, and Fall) by the Office of Public Informa­tion,
St. John's University. Second Class postage
paid at Collegeville, MN 56321 and additional
entry at St. Cloud, MN 56301, granted January
28, 1969.
ALUMNI OFFICERS
ELECTED
Richprd Pope '58, President
Roger Scherer '58, Vice President
Clement Commers '57, Secretary
Robert Bray '40
Gerald Donlin '55
Gene Koch '51
Dr. Martin Rathmanner '57
EX OFFICIO
Abbot John A. Eidenschink, OSB '35, Han. Pres.
Fr. Michael Blecker, OSB, University President
Fr. Alan Steichen, OSB, '68,
Preparatory School Headmaster
Paul Mulready '50, Executive Governing
Board Representative
Kevin Hughes '58, Past President
Michael Ricci '62, Development Director
David Thorman '69, Alumni SecretarY
Fr. Dunstan Tucker:
Monk, Scholar, Coach 1
By Senator
Eugene]. McCarthy' 33
"I Think I Can,
I Think I Can,
I Thought I Could" . . . . . . .. 5
By Denny Hanley '65
The Diggers,
The Ranters, and
The Early Quakers ........ 9
By. Fr. Chrysostom Kim, OSB
St. John's News Review 15
St. John's Sports Review 21
Alumni News Notes ....... 22
FR. DUNSTAN TUCKER:
MONK,SCHOLAR,COACH
by Senator Eugene J. McCarthy
Senator Eugene McCarthy
F.ther Dunstan Tucker was
my professor of English and also my baseball coach.
He had no doubts about my ability to play first base,
but occasionally showed less than full faith in my
hitting ability. He usually had me batting about
sixth or seventh in the lineup despite a slugging
average that was considerably above my batting
average. In comparable manner, he thought that I
was better as a reader, or as a student of English
literature, than as a writer. I disagreed with him
less on the second count than on the first. These
differences were minor. In both the fields of English
and baseball, we were long associated in common
effort, appreciation and understanding.
I first met Father Dunstan at St. John's. But
after graduation my first job was teaching in the
high school at Tintah, the town in which Father
Dunstan was born, where his parents, his one brother
and, as I recall, at least one of his sisters then lived.
Spending a year in Tintah helped me, in retrospect,
to understand Father Dunstan better. First and most
importantly, I came to know his family. I saw the
quiet strength of his father, Oliver, of whom Father
Dunstan has written and spoken with much respect
and affection. Oliver Tucker ran the elevator, a
position of trust in a grain area exceeding that of
the creamery operator in a dairy area. I experienced
Father Dunstan Tucker, aSB
the gentleness of his mother and of his sister, and
the modest irreverence of his brother, Charles, who
was postmaster.
Here in this very small town in Western Minne­sota
was a family of culture, of refinement, of
strength. They were English and Catholic among
the Irish - the Keaveneys and the Denerys - ap.d
among Germans. The Tucker family names were
English; his father, Oliver; his brother, Charles; and
Father Dunstan's given name was William. When
he joined the Benedictine Order at St. John's, he
took the name of Saint Dunstan, abbot of the English
Benedictine abbey of Glastonbury in the 10th century.
Tintah is situated on the edge of the Red River
Valley. The land stretches away from the town in
flat expanses in every direction. The horizons are
absolute, like those of the sea. There are no distant
mountains, no close hills. The line of the horizon
is broken only by modest trees like boxelders and
by cottonwood growing along the drainage ditches.
It is a land with few distractions, a landscape well
described in these lines from a poem by Philip Booth:
In this far flat land, far from any home
you might come home to, you stand where distance
has no end. Give or take a blank white farm
in all these square-mapped miles, perspective
is no more than one long narrowing down linear roads
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or rows of corn. You know that no directive
could, if given, see you further than a county line,
but only deeper inland then, you'd violate
a kind of boundary for which there is no sign.
Tintah was a good place for reading, for reflec­tion,
for imagination - and for baseball. Time in
Tintah was unimportant as it is unimportant for
baseball and for scholars. Other than the rise and
setting of the sun, the principal marker of time in
Tintah was the twice daily passage of the Empire
Builder, then the super train of the Great Northern
Railroad, as it sped westwaJ,d for Seattle in the
morning and again as the night train passed through
on its way to Minneapolis. Watches were adjusted
to the passing of the flyer. The seasons were marked
by the spring flight of wild geese heading north in
early April and by their fall flight as they migrated
south in early October. Tintah, like baseball, had a
singular relationship to Time. Football and basket­ball
may be more popular, but no one thinks of
calling either of them the national pastime. Baseball
ignored time rather than be dominated by it. If for
some reason - dust in the eye, rain or the like­the
game must be halted, time out is not taken, but
time is "called." Football, basketball and hockey
games are artibrarily divided into halves, quarters
and periods. In baseball, an inning could go on
forever (except for acts of God such as darkness
If Father Dunstan was intolerant, it
was of two things-stupidity and
bad form - especially if they occurred
together, either on the diamond
or in the field of scholarship or
literature.
and rain or cultural or quasi-natural occurrences like
curfew or midnight in games played under lights.)
In Tintah, time was not "taken out" but simply
"called." Father Dunstan, with this background, was
never hurried. His most common advice to a pitcher
in trouble was "Take your time."
Space in Tintah, too, was significant in forming
the spirit of the town and of its people - and also
for baseball. The land around the town is divided by
surveyors into absolute squares or diamonds, de­pending
on your point of view. Each section of land
had the potential for a baseball diamond in every
right angled corner. Projections from that corner
point could be extended along the lines of that angle
to infinity with no intervention of fences, buildings
or natural obstacles. A baseball, theoretically, never
goes out of bounds. On the Tintah diamond where
I played a few games with the town team there was
no out-of-bounds either theoretically or in fact.
In Tintah, as in baseball, there were no places
to hide, no secrets. Memories were long of life and
sports and every person was held answerable not
only for himself but for his ancestors, for his con­temporaries
and for his relatives, living and prospec­tive.
With this background, it is
not surprising that Father Dunstan turned out to be
the full and self contained and controlled person that
he is, and that his principal interests should have
been religion, scholarship, literature and baseball ..
and that every relationship with other persons­whether
student, fellow monk, scholar or baseball
player - would be marked by a deep and continuing
respect for the person.
If Father Dunstan was intolerant, it was of two
things - stupidity and bad form - especially if they
occurred together, either on the diamond or in the
field of scholarship or literature.
Father Dunstan came to St. John's in 1920,
received his bachelor's degree in 1925 and was then
sent by Abbot Alcuin Deutsch to study theology at
Sant' Anselmo, the International Benedictine College
in Rome. He never qualified as a "gyro vagus," the
wandering monk described and strongly disapproved
of by St. Benedict in his Rule, but, with encourage­ment
and support, he was willing to travel for a
purpose. While in Rome for the study of theology
he took up the study of Italian and became deeply
interested in the writings of Dante, particularly the
Divine Comedy. Some 52 years later, after he retired
as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at St.
John's in 1967, Father Dunstan returned to Italy and
in Florence continued his study of the life and works
of the 13th century poet.
Showing through all of
Father Dunstan's studies and travels is his concern
and respect for the "word" - in the English lan­guage
first, but he supplemented that original inter­est
by seeking out meaning and understanding in
other languages. While a student in Europe in the
205, he spent his first summer at the Benedictine
monastery at Aix les Bains in southern France im­proving
his French. The following summer he stayed
at the Benedictine monastery at Beuron, Germany,
studying German and, in part, correcting his German
because the German of Beuron was somewhat dif­ferent
from that with which he had become familiar
in Stearns County. When Father Dunstan became
interested in Cervante's Don Ouixote he was not
satisfied to have read it in tra~slation. To under­stand
and appreciate it more fully he undertook the
study of Spanish, visited Mexico and mastered the
language so well that when he returned to St. John's
in 1953 he included the teaching of Spanish in his
schedule.
Although his interest in the Romance languages
was significant, his abiding interest was in English
literature and in the English department.
Both still swi ng i ng
Senator McCarthy takes a batting practice swing at an
annual Congressional baseball game. McCarthy was a
regular in the series which pits Republican members of
Congress against the Democrats.
Among the courses I took at St. John's, I remem­ber
three with particular satisfaction. "English Gram­mar
and Composition" as taught by Father Theodore
Krebsbach was one of them. His standards were such
that, long after having had his course, I used them
in criticism of examples of good writing included in
the late edition of Elements of Style by E. B. White.
I thought it not bad to be able to quote Theodore
Krebsbach against Strunk and White.
The second was a course taught by Father
Conrad Diekmann entitled "Middle English." The
readings included Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and
The Vision of Piers Plowman by William Langland,
a 14th Century cleric of some kind and degree. I
quote regularly and readily from the latter book and,
while still in the Senate, when asked by publishing
associations what two or three books I had found
most profitable or satisfying during the year, I al­ways
listed The Vision of Piers Plowman among
them.
Among the quotations I've found most useful
are these:
Then high in the air an angel from heaven
Spoke loudly in Latin, that laymen might never
Either judge or justify or object to opinions,
But suffer and serve.
Father Dunstan coached baseball over a period of 40
years at St. John's. The 1969 Jay team won the last of
his four MIAC championships. His final year of coaching
was 1971.
After this message, Langland continues:
Then a glutton of language, a scandalous jester
Answered the angel, who hovered above them.
and:
Then the crowd of the commons cried out in
Latin.
And in another sequence in which the issue of
belling a cat is discussed by rats and mice and what
Langland calls a "rat of renown, a ready speaker"
has proposed the belling of the cat, he continues:
"The rabble of rats thought his reasons clever;
But when the bell was brought and bound to
the collar there was not a rat in all the rout,
for the realm of Louis who dared bind the bell
about the eat's shoulders nor hang it on the
cat's head to win all England."
The other memorable course was Father Dun­stan's
"The Novel." For some unknown reason I
missed his course in Dante, but to miss the course
was not to miss knowing what was being taught
in it. There were two English courses taught at St.
John's in my day which you didn't have to take in
order to know what was in them. One was Father
Dunstan's "Dante" and the other was Father Rem­bert's
"Cardinal Newman." Both courses prevailed
and pervaded the English department.
The course in the novel was another matter and
a delight. It ranged from Hemingway (of whom
Father Dunstan would say: "For lack of experience
I cannot say that he has written well of all that he
has written about, but he surely can describe the
effect of a good drink of whiskey.") through Dreiser
and Faulkner, among the American writers, Tolstoy
and Dostoevesky, of the Russians, Sigrid Undset­I
remember one of Father Dunstan's baseball players,
a pitcher, who had little interest in literature but was
so moved by his coach's interest that he resolved to
read Kristin Lavransdatter, 30 pages a day. He was
a very orderly and disciplined young man who would
put the book down after he had finished the daily
30 pages even though he was only a page or two
from the end of the chapter or, for that matter, the
end of the book. His pitches lacked variety.
At last the course got down to what it was
really about, the Don Quixote of Cervantes. All that
had gone before was not undone, but overshadowed.
Father Dunstan was so pleased with that book that
he found it difficult to talk about it as he did about
other novels or to subject it to any kind of scholarly
analysis. It was as though he feared that analysis
or too much discussion would somehow leave it dis­honored,
that its perfection and wholeness would
suffer. He would chuckle in delight over the book
and leave it with respect that bordered on reverence.
I need not recount the
record of his achievements as a baseball coach. I
played for him and was his assistant. In both rela­tionships
I found little for which to criticize him.
I do think that he should have batted me a little
higher in the lineup - say third. (He did pay me
the high compliment of saying that my batting style
was like Rogers Hornsby's, even though the average
was somewhat less.) And I think he should have
moved Phil (Gabby) Gravelle from second base to
third base a year before he did. This reflects a quite
selfish concern - almost a matter of self preserva­tion
- since Gravelle threw so hard from his second
base fielding position that the first baseman (which
I was) stood in danger of serious harm every time
the play was made. In vanity, I suspect Gravelle
was moved to the far corner of the diamond the
next year because whoever succeeded me at first
base couldn't handle the Gravelle throw.
My other point of criticism was that he was a
little too respectful of umpires and of the feelings
of the other coaches. This restraint was somewhat
difficult for those of us who were experienced in
the ways of the Great 500 League.
The St. John's team of the 30s and 40s was a
kind of halfway house between the Great 500 League
and the Northern League or others of the lower
orders of organized baseball. It was a league in
which little respect was shown for opposing teams
or their managers or, for that matter, for umpires.
Father Dunstan's greatest distress over the issue of
how opposing coaches should be treated came in the
1942 season and involved the St. Thomas team and
their coach, "Wee" Walsh - not a man wholly be­loved
at St. John's. In any case, in the first of the
two-game series of that year, a game played at St.
John's, Walsh refused to' put his team on the field
after one of his men had been picked off first base
by St. John's pitcher "Lefty" Clauson. Walsh charged
that the pitcher had balked. (He was wrong. Clauson
didn't balk when he threw to first base with a man
on that base. He would have balked if he had thrown
the ball to home plate with a man on first.) The
umpire forfeited the game to St. John's.
Some weeks later the second game was played
at St. Thomas. It was a runaway and when the game
got to a point where St. John's was leading by a
score of something like 9 to 2, the cry went up from
the bench urging Walsh to "take your ball and bat
and go home." Father Dunstan asked for quiet.
Through all of his varied career (travels, teach­ing,
scholarship, coaching) Father Dunstan retained
his underlying and compelling interest in the Church,
in its liturgy and in his monastic vocation - from
the day in 1923 or 1924 when, before he entered
the Benedictine order, he was asked by a scout from
the Minneapolis baseball club whether he would like
to play professional baseball and he replied that he
was flattered by the offer but that he was going to
study for the priesthood, to the day in April of 1972
when he wrote from Florence, Italy:
"Spring is still spring in Italy, as in Minnesota­slow
in coming. I am surviving, however, though
it will be a pleasure to be enjoying the comforts
of St. John's again. Apparently I am a B~ne­dictine!"
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To the Editor:
It is a rare occurrence that the
printed tribute to a great man
finds so adequate an expression as
in Eugene McCarthy's article on
Father Dunstan in the program of
the recent Homecoming game. The
literary skill of the writer perfectly
matched the greatness of his sub­ject.
It is my sincere hope that you
will find the opportunity to make
this tribute to Father Dunstan ac­cessible
to a wider audience than
the one the Homecoming program
could reach - for the greater glory
of Abbey and University and in
gratitude for Father Dunstan's life­long
contribution to the true spirit
of St. John's.
Sincerely,
Julian G. Plante
Editor's note: Done!
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One day he's the envy of
every five-year-old as he guides the winding freight
along the banks of the Mississippi as an engineer
on the Burlington Northern. The next day, as owner,
manager and resident artist of The Hand of Man
art gallery-picture framing shop, he's the envy of
many a five-year-old's dad who would like to call
his own shots, find a new challenge, or just "stop
and smell the roses."
At a time when human resource experts discuss
the value of sabbatical leaves allowing individuals
in all occupations an opportunity to get away from
their work long enough to think, accomplish some­thing
different or develop new perspectives, railroad
engineer-artist Rich Banasik '65 has found an un­likely
combination which seems to provide similar
benefits without taking leave. Unlike the profes­sional
or successful top executive we read about,
who have dropped-out disillusioned with their suc­cess,
Banasik has never really dropped-in.
He acknowledges his current job combination
is not part of a long-range career plan and that,
in fact, he spent better than four years unsuccess­fully
trying to drop-in. "After a lot of frustration
trying to be someone I probably was never intended
to be, this whole thing just fell into place. I enjoy
both jobs. They complement each other and provide
me with an interesting, challenging change of pace
from one day to the next."
"I THINK I CAN,
I THINK I CAN,
I THOUGHT I COULD"
by Denny Hanley '65
That he relishes his current situation is obvious
as he discusses his work and future plans in the
handsome bachelor pad above his art shop. But it
has not always gone so well. The years after grad­uation
from St. John's in 1965 were filled with set­backs
until things began to click four years ago.
At St. John's, Banasik participated in more than
his share of student activities. When not directly
involved, he could often be found behind the scenes
providing the support of his artistic skills in what­ever
the current project might have been.
As a member of the Men's Chorus, he toured
Europe in 1965 and took part in the Chorus' triumphs
that year at the International Musical Eisteddfod
in Llangollen, Wales. "The tour helped to bring into
The Author: Denny Hanley
'65 roomed with Banasik
during their Junior and
Senior years at St. John's.
A division manager with
Prudential's North Central
Home Office in Minneapolis,
he received his MBA from
the University of Minnesota
in 1972. Denny and his wife,
Pat, live in Maple Grove
with their two sons: Tim, 3,
and Mike, 6 months.
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focus the depth of my art studies at St. John's by
providing an opportunity to view important originals
in Europe's famous art museums."
Banasik returned to his hometown, La Crosse,
WI, after graduation and spent the 1965-66 academic
year at Holy Cross Seminary exploring his interest
in the priesthood. Soon determining that he didn't
have a religious vocation, he enrolled in the Univer­sity
of Wisconsin at Milwaukee to study for a
master's degree in art.
But he became disillusioned with the art pro­gram
and began pursuit of yet another profession
-his third in less than two years-by transferring
to the University's pre-dentistry program in January,
1967. Scheduling problems led to yet another move
to Marquette in September, 1967, to continue pre­dental
studies.
He completed course work requirements and
applied for admission to dental school during the
() Saint
summer of 1968. His application was not accepted.
"At the time it was a big disappointment. I felt I
had spread myself too thin by carrying a heavy
academic load and working a busy part-time job
schedule. To make matters worse, the Vietnam con­flict
appeared to have contributed to a larger than
normal number of applicants and dental school
openings were that much more difficult to land.
However, since some schools advised me to reapply
the following year, I still had hope."
While waiting to reapply for dental school,
Banasik spent one semester as a substitute teacher
in Milwaukee's public schools. In January, 1969, he
began an eight-month stint as the only male faculty
member of a private school for emotionally disturbed
and delinquent girls. He humorously recalls, "I may
not have been making much progress toward dental
school, but I was certainly developing some inter­esting
contents for my employment resume."
Admission to dental school again failed to mate­rialize
with his second round of applications, though
he was accepted as an alternate at Marquette and
NYU. It was a bitter pill to take after four years
of hard work and waiting to find a career.
With jobs tough to find in
the fall of 1969, he returned to the Milwaukee School
System for the 1969-70 term as a substitute teacher.
This period was probably an important turning ]!'oint.
With the academic pressure behind him, Banasik had
more time to paint and seriously consider the notion
to open an art gallery which had been in the back
of his mind for some time. Limited financial re­sources
proved to be a major obstacle, however, to
implementing his plan.
When the school term ended in June, 1970, he
returned to La Crosse with no clear plan for the
future. "I had worked for the old Chicago-Burling ton­Quincy
Railroad as a fireman during the summer
of '66. It had since merged into the new Burlington
Northern line and provided one of the few fairly
decent paying jobs around. A job was available and
I was soon making runs north to Minneapolis and
south to Savanna, IL, on the stretch of track handled
by Burlington Northern crews working out of La
Crosse."
The railroad freight business was booming,
Burlington Northern was hiring rapidly and Banasik
found himself gaining seniority at an above average
pace. He was to be promoted to engineer in about
three years, an unbelieveably short period only a
few years earlier. A busy work schedule filled with
extra runs soon provided the required financial sta­bility
and the normal two- or three-day layovers
between runs allowed time to develop plans for a
future art shop.
7
Late in 1970, he began renovating a former
grocery store in an older section of La Crosse which
he had selected for its unique atmosphere, adequate
space and moderate price. Without benefit of pub­licity
or a grand opening, Banasik's art shop called
"There is a private, peaceful thrill
handling the controls of three pow­erful
engines propelling a mile long
freight along the winding river banks."
The Hand of Man began operations February 1,
1971. The name and trademark of his new shop
was an inspiration from the previous year in Mil­waukee.
"While on a substitute assignment teaching
a high school art class, I began doodling and pro­ceeded
to sketch my own hand as it was sketching.
As the drawing was completed it occurred to me
that all art was the product of the hand of man
and here was a perfect name for the business I might
someday run.
"The shop had an awkward beginning. I started
with a hammer, some nails, very few bucks and
only a faint idea of what it took to run a business.
I couldn't afford an assistant so the shop ran on
an irregular schedule, open only when I was not on
the railroad unless my mother or younger sister were
available to help. In a few months I was able to
hire help and maintain a regular schedule."
Banasik's original concept in opening The Hand
of Man was to specialize in showing and selling
original works of regional artists. Picture framing
was to be a sideline. It soon became apparent that
economic survival was dependent upon picture fram­ing
and he was forced to extend his personal artistic
horizons. "I began learning that proper framing is
an art in itself. As my framing experience increased
during that first year, a totally new area of crea­tivity
opened up for me. I began to specialize in
unique and innovative framing with an emphasis
on color and frame design complementing the art
work and preparing it for the environment in which
it would hang. I now have clients who may spend
several hundred dollars for an original on the East
Coast and bring the painting in to be reframed here."
At first the railroad job was a necessary source
of funds to keep the shop out of hock, hopefully
only a temporary burden. As the early hectic months
of maintaining two diverse jobs went by, Banasik
became aware of their almost magical combination.
There was something refreshing about the pace and
change of pace they offered.
"The section of track we work along the Mis­sissippi
between Minneapolis and Savanna is sur­rounded
by some of the most beautiful scenery any-
Saint
where. It's an artist's paradise which constantly
changes from morning to night and season to season.
Each run provided an opportunity to get away from
some of the early frustrations in the shop-I had
time to think and plan. When the run was finished
I returned with renewed enthusiasm and determina­tion
to make The Hand of Man a success. As the
shop began to prosper, the two jobs seemed to be­come
an even more enjoyable blend. The shop be­came
a valuable outlet filling the potentially boring
days between runs. It is now a place where I can
relax surrounded by hopes and dreams that have
become reality.
"I . t may be difficult for some-one
else to understand, .but what I'm doing isn't
'work' to me. It's like having two hobbies with each
an outlet from the other. This combination has what
I'm sure a lot of people look for in their work.
There is a private, peaceful thrill handling the con­trols
of three powerful engines propelling a mile
long freight along the winding river banks. I enjoy
that get-away-from-it-all feeling-like being alone on
a mountain top-the railroad gives me. Yet, I enjoy
people very much and my shop brings me into con­tact
with interesting people nearly every day."
Banasik has no plans to slow down. He hopes
eventually to expand his business into a complete
interior decorating center; to offer a consulting pack­age
of interior design and custom furniture as well
as the final artistic touch of a well-framed painting
or drawing. He feels his earlier artistic endeavors
were too narrow, limiting the opportunity to employ
his inherent skills and interests. Future business
plans are aimed at establishing new avenues of crea­tivity.
As he describes his interest in giving interiors
excitement through proper use of color and design,
Banasik's own shop and apartment are impressive
illustrations of his skill.
The flat, a near-disaster area when he took
possession, has been transformd into fitting subject
matter for House Beautiful. He has combined bold,
painted patterns of numbers, arrows or, in one in­stance,
a ';reflected" image of the bare light bulb
that hangs in the center of the room, with a dif­ferent
monochromatic color theme in each room.
And, believe me, his purple living room looks much
better than it sounds.
"Sure I'm very busy," agrees Banasik, "but it's
fun and the railroad provides me the escape I need
to get away from my art shop ventures. It forces
me to retain what I believe to be a healthy perspec­tive
of what I'm doing, and helps me to remember
a personal promise that when what I'm doing be­comes
either boring or laborious, I will be looking
for something else. I never want to become too busy
or too successful to enjoy what I am doing." 0
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THE DIGGERS,
THE RANTERS AND
THE EARLY QUAKERS
The counter-culture that failed
by Fr. Chrysostom Kim, OSB
Editor's note: This is a condensation of an article which
will appear soon in The American Benedictine Review.
We include it in Saint John's with the permission of the
Review editor.
On April 1, 1649, Sunday,
a band of sectaries in England known as the True
Levellers (or the Diggers) seized the commons on
St. George's Hill, W alton-on-Thames, just outside
of London, and began digging and planting the waste
land there in "a symbolic assumption of ownership
of the common lands." Quite possibly on the same
Sunday, a group of soldiers invaded the parish church
of Walton-on-Thames during the service, informing
the startled congregation that the Sabbath, tithes,
ministers, magistrates and the Bible were all abol­ished.
Before long such "sit-ins" and "People's Parks"
sprang up everywhere in England on dozens of sites.
But as Professor Christopher Hill shows in The
World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during
the English Revolution (The Viking Press, 1972, pp.
351),1 the Diggers were only one of many low-class
radical sects carried away by millenarian enthusiasm
during the revolutionary decades of the 1640s and
1650s. There oozed a host of strange new sects­aided
vastly by the breakdown of censorship and
clerical control in the "teeming freedom" of the
1640s. And heaven knows, they were an odd lot.
They dreamed of restoring prelapsarian liberty and
of creating an egalitarian utopia while resolved at
the same time to hang onto the fundamental protes­tant
doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. What
linked these sects was the political opposition to the
tithes, to the state church and its ministers, to the
law, to the existing franchise. Predictably, the ruling
classes and the theological topsiders called them
"the rabble," "the churls," "the plebeian rout," "the
basest and the vilest of men," etc. But, despite a
bewildering variety of individual responses given in
those years of incredible luxuriance in political spec­ulation,
the quintessence of these sects was not so
much political as theological. True, they variously
HELL BROKE LooSE
or, The NotoriollS Design oj the Wicked Ranterl • ••• (London, ID II)
sought to escape the burden of theology in search
of "human-all-too-human" moralities. Yet, "However
radical their conclusions, however heretical their the­ology,
their escape-route from theology was theo­logical"
(p. 147). The latest book by the Master of
Balliol, Oxford, gives a masterful analysis of the
three elements common to these sects: class hostility,
theological innovation and sexual freedom. In addi­tion,
the author deftly draws parallels between those
17th-century sectaries and today's counter-culture
radicals. Tamen usque recurret, said the philosophic
poet: if you may recall, the name "Diggers" briefly
surfaced in the Hippie communes of the 1960s.
The Diggers' name alone, the True Levellers,
betrays the sect's true intent and purpose: to dis­tinguish
itself from those Interregnum constitutional
Levellers with their much-vaunted manhood suffrage
(Overton, Walwyn, Clark, Rainborough, Lilburne
and others) and to press on where the Levellers had
lost their nerve. The Levellers thought themselves
levelling but the notion flies in the face of fact.
Anyone who has read C. B. McPherson's excellent
analysis of the Levellers will recall that, although
their franchise demands were considerably wider in
scope than allowed by Cromwell and Ireton, the
Levellers persistently excluded from their franchise
proposals two very substantial categories of men:
servants or wage-earners and those in receipt of alms
or beggars.2 So ingrained in their minds was the
idea of sanctity of property that the Levellers "saw
no inconsistency between this exclusion and their
assertion of the natural right of every man to vote."s
The Author: Fr. Chrysostom Kim is Associate Professor
of Social Thought· and Director of the Honors Program
at St. John's.
Saint
The Diggers, on the other hand,
claimed that "all the earth is the
saints'" and went from "the reign of
the saints" directly to a community
of estates (p. 92). Since press ac­counts
invariably failed to distinguish
the Diggers from the Levellers, dis­owning
in public of the Diggers'
anarcho-communist tenet was one of
the Levellers' preoccupations.
Noting the levelling tenet among
the Fifth Monarchists, Cromwell
made this remark in 1654:
Notions will hurt no one but those
that have them. But when they
come to such practices as telling
us, for instance, that liberty and
property are not the badges of the
kingdom of Christ . . . this is
worthy of every magistrate's con­sideration.
4
The Earl of Leicester, the powerful
Puritan peer in Elizabeth's court, was
infruriated by a press item which
said that property was "the original
cause of any sin between party and
party" and of "most sins against the
heavenly deity."
In contrast, the Digger Gerrard
Winstanley said with his unwavering
lucidity, "All your particular churches
(Presbyterian or Independent) are like
the enclosures of land, which hedges
in some to be heirs of life and hedges
out others" (p. 81). For him, if sola
Scriptura was the password of the
Puritan Revolution, the idea that "the
first might be last and the last first"
was in the scriptures, too.
Winstanley's lofty pronunciamento
to lords of manors was that "the
power of enclosing land and owning
property was brought into the crea­tion
by the sword" (p. 106)-contrary
to the mind of Christ, the Head
Leveller-while the likes of the Earl
of Leicester made no bones about
the time-honored triple entente of the
crown, the mitre and the landed
gentry. Unlike the Levellers who
never pretended to represent "the
poor," the Diggers argued with pas­sion
that "the poorest man hath as
true a title and just right to the land
as the richest man" (p. 106). The
Diggers remained republicans precise­ly
because "monarchy for them was
merely the chief captain of the army
of landlordism" (p. 98).
But there is no question about it,
the Diggers were tampering with
something nigh "mystical" in the
English souls, i.e., their innate rever­ence
for property. It was surely this
English sense of property which
prompted Lord Acton to make the
following comments apropos of the
Whig Revolution of 1688:
10 Saint
Lilburne was among the first to
understand the real conditions of
democracy, and the obstacle to its
success in England. Equality of
power could not be preserved, ex­cept
by violence, together with an
extreme inequality of possessions.
There would always be danger,
if power was not made to wait on
property, that property would go
to those who had the power. This
idea of the necessary balance of
property, developed by Harrington,
and adopted by Milton in his later
pamphlets, appeared to Toland,
upsurge of utopian spirit. But some­how
the steam had run out on them.
Feckless and disorganized, these sects
were all effectively silenced, leaving
behind hardly a trace. One exception
was Quakerism.
In 1656, a feisfy Quaker named
James Nayler made his symbolic
entry into Bristol, riding on a donkey,
acclaimed by the hysterical hosannas
of his followers, with women strewing
palms before him. Arrested and tried,
he was flogged through the streets
of London, his tongue bored with hot
iron and his forehead branded, fol-
But somehow the steam had run out on them.
Feckless and disorganized, these sects were all
effectively silenced, leaving behind hardly a trace.
and even to John Adams, as im­portant
as the invention of print­ing,
or the discovery of the circu­lation
of the blood. At least it in­dicates
the true explanation of the
strange completeness with which
the Republican party had vanished,
a dozen years after the solemn
trial and execution of the King.
No extremity of misgovernment
was able to revive it. .. The Rev­olution
of 1688 confined power to
the aristocracy of freeholders. The
conservatism of the age was un­conquerable.
5
Moreover, and quite unwittingly,
Lord Acton pinpoints for us the
period covered in Professor Hill's
book, i.e., "a dozen years after the
solemn trial and execution of the
King." In short, Hill's book deals
with the Puritan sectaries' last fling
as God's poor and radical democrats
before the Republican party vanished
"with the strange completeness."
Charles I was executed in 1649 and
an anonymous pamphlet said in the
same year, "God made men and the
devil made the kings" (p. 99). But
the monarchy was restored in 1660
and in vain did Milton cry on the
eve of the Restoration, "Where is
this goodly tower of a common­wealth,
which the English boasted
they would build to overshadow
kings, and be another Rome?"6 But
as the workaday world closed in on
these sects after the Restoration,
what appeared imminent in the mid-
1650s (Le., the fall of Antichrist, the
second coming and the millennium)
seemed no longer so imminent. As
long as the steam lasted, these sects
rode high on the back of chiliastic
militancy accompanied by a hectic
lowed by exposure in the pillory. The
second Protectorate Parliament which
took up the case was in a thoroughly
ugly mood. To spare Nayler's life was
all Cromwell could do. Yeats has said
that "the swordsman throughout re­pudiates
the saint, but not without
vacillation." But this particular
swordsman in his particular God­obsessedness
was no ordinary swords­man:
Cromwell treated the saints
with great lenience.
George Fox, with his invincible
power to calm as well as stir the soul,
would eventually commence to tame
the frenzy of the Early Quakers, but
Fox was operating in the world of
the second Charles so fundamentally
different from that of the first.
There was no denying that a new
spirit was abroad after the Restora­tion:
Charles II aptly caught the
mood of his time when he remarked
that the only "visible church" he
knew was the hilltop church at
Harrow.
But let us note again the date of
the Nayler episode - 1656 - which
was several years prior to the
Quakers' first public declaration of
absolute pacifism which occurred in
January of 1661. Professor Horton
Davies remarks how it seems as if
the Beatitude "Blessed are the peace­makers"
was reserved especially for
the advent of the Quakers.7 How
beautifully put! But before the
Quakers could become proverbial in
their sincerity, Fox's problem was
precisely that "their eccentricity
rather than their sincerity impressed
his contemporaries." Professor Hill
rather thinks that the Quaker move­ment
by 1694 was clearly Fox's move­ment
but not so clearly in the 1650s
(p. 186) when many still looked upon
Nayler as the "chief leader," the
"Head Quaker."
Yet, as the mille­narian
enthusiasm cooled and the
messianic hopes faded-with all the
exhuberances that went with those
hopes and enthusiasms-the inner
light which formerly spoke of the
perfectibility of the saints now came
to re-emphasize sin. "The treachery
lurked in the inner light," says Hill.
"In time of defeat, when the wave
of revolution was ebbing, the inner
voice became quietist, pacifist" (p.
299). Above all, the Quakers had to
dissociate themselves from that drink­ing,
swearing and womanizing sect
called the Ranters. The Blasphemy
Act of August 9, 1650, was specifi­cally
aimed against the Ranters, and
contemporaries did not always dis­tinguish
the Ranters from the early
Quakers. Realizing that God was no
longer served by going naked for
signs and miracles, Fox's Journal had
to play down James Nayler. Never­theless,
Fox's -Journal was not sup­pressing
the past nor rewriting his­tory,
says Hill; it was merely that
Fox's inner voice was telling different
things in the 1680s from what it had
told him and James Nayler 30 years
earlier. And what was Fox's voice
saying in the 1680s7 That "what had
looked in the Ranter heyday as
though it might become a counter­culture
became a corner of the bour­geois
culture whose occupants asked
only to be left alone" (p. 300).
Fox's achievement was indeed im­mense,
but Hill wonders whether the
Quakers ever really wanted to over­turn
the world any more than the
constitutional Levellers wanted to
overthrow the sanctity of private
property (p. 302). What comes
through here and elsewhere in the
book is Hill's poignant feeling of
regret for what might have become
a counter-culture which differed both
from the traditional aristocratic cul­ture
and from the bourgeois culture
of the protestant ethics which re­placed
it.
"It hath been ... mine endeavour,"
said the Digger Henry Denne in 1645,
"to give unto every limb and part
not only his due proportion but also
due place" (p. 11). Men must hasten
to "spiritual Canaan," wrote Ranter
Abiezer Coppe in 1649, "which is a
land of large liberty, the house of
happiness, where, like the Lord's lily,
they toil not but grow in the land
flowing with sweet wine, milk and
Oliver Cromwell
honey ... without money" (p. 274).
Thus, an alternative solution to 1688
was indeed envisioned by the "lunatic
fringe" in the 1640s and 1650s but
it, alas, fizzled! Professor Hill is al­most
wistful as he writes:
The idea that the bottom might
come to the top, that the first
might be last and the last first,
that "community ... called Christ
or universal love" might cast our
"property, called the devil or cov­etousness,"
and that "inward
bondages of the mind" (covetous­ness,
pride, hypocrisy, fears, des­pair
and mental breakdown) might
be "all occasioned by the outward
bond ages that one sort of people
lay upon another" -such ideas are
not necessarily opposed to order;
they merely envisage a different
order (p. 312).
Yet, as Hill knows all too well, the
"different order" was glimpsed into
only by a freak accident, as it were.
Triumphing over the King, the gentry
and merchants who sided with Parlia­ment
had fully expected to impose
their values on the reconstructed in­stitutions
of society: if they had not
been impeded in this, England might
have passed straight to something
like the political solution of 1688.
But instead, says Hill,
There was a period of glorious
flux and intellectual excitement,
when, as Gerrard Winstanley put
it, "the old world ... is running
up like parchment in the fire."
Literally anything seemed possible;
not only were the values of the
old hierarchical society called in
question but also the new values,
the protestant ethic itself (p. 12).
As I said before, the early Quakers
were indistinguishable from the
Ranters and the Blasphemy Act of
August 9, 1650, was passed specif­ically
with the Ranters in mind. We
must also bear in mind the extent
and strength of millenarian expecta­tions
in the 1640s and early '50s.
The execution of the King, a hor­rendous
deed, made sense to many
only as clearing the way for King
Jesus. But to go on, the Ranters were
known in 1650 also as Coppinites,
so named after their leader, Abiezer
Coppe, who told the rich to "have
all things common, or else the plague
of God will rot and consume all that
you have" (p. 170). Coppe delivered
his pantheistic message, in a language
almost bewitching at times, from "my
most excellent majesty and eternal
glory (in me) ... who am universal
love, and whose service is perfect
freedom and pure libertinism" (p.
168). He taught that "adultery ... is
no sin" and that "community of
wives was lawful"; he exhorted his
followers to "give over thy stinking
family duties and thy Gospel ordin­ances
... under (which are) all lies
snapping, snarling, biting, besides
covetousness horrid hypocrisy" (p.
268). Coppe was ecstatic in pro­claiming
his harmony with God ("My
spirit dwells with God, sups with
him, in him, feeds on him, with him,
in him") and with man ("My hu­manity
shall dwell with, sup with,
eat with humanity"). But he was also
quick to add, "And why not (for a
need) with publicans and harlots?"
(p. 161). Rude and coarsely jocular,
the Ranters were known to wench
openly, blaspheme, curse, drink,
smoke, dance round maypole, sing
bawdy songs to the well-known tunes
of metrical psalms, crowing that "it
was better for Christians to be drink­ing
in an ale-house, or to be in a
whore-house, than to be keeping
fasts legally."
Coppe's cry of "overturn, over­turn,
overturn" was the seventeenth­century
equivalent of "burn, baby,
burn," addressed to the down-and­outs
of this world, bidding them to
rise and establish "parity, equality
and community" in "universal love,
universal peace and perfect freedom"
(p. 169). This, of course, no Calvinist
Establishment could countenance, for
"no Calvinist could logically have any
confidence in democracy: his religion
was for the elect, by definition, a
minority" (p. 128). But as long as
Coppe's Ranter-phase lasted, he was
unabashedly a True Leveller.
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But there is a pathetic aside to all
this. Coppe had resisted an obsessive
urge to swear for 27 years and then
one day he swore for an hour on
end in the pulpit, "A pox of God
take all your prayers" (p. 162). It
shows, if nothing else, what the legal
calculations of covenant theologians
and the gruesome despair of pre­destinarian
doctrine can do to an
unbalanced mind.
The desperate oaths were his writ
of severance with all moral restraints,
a thumbing of his nose at sin and
transgression altogether. "Sin and
transgression is finished and ended,"
said Coppe. The point is, however,
that Coppe and his followers were
by no means alone in this. Faced
with the deadlock inherent in Cal­vinism,
"many active spirits, whose
minds were above their means" (the
quaint phrase is Thomas Fuller's)
found a bold solution in simply de­claring
that they could not sin-or if
they did, Christ sinned with them­"
sin and righteousness (being) all
one to God." But what deadlock?
The deadlock between an official
theology flaunting a minority as the
elect and its stern moral precept de­signed
to coerce all. Yet, social pres­sure
ensured that sin survived. The
preachers did "roar up for sin in
their pulpit" and conservatives rallied
to defend sin and property together
even while prebeian materialist scep­ticism
and anticlericalism surfaced
freely, fusing with theological anti­nomianism.
The Ranters were also known as
Claxtonians in the 1650s - after
Lawrence Clarkson who preached that
"there is no such act as drunkenness,
adultery and theft in God." The
Claxtonians favored divorce and tol­eration
for the Jews. They justified
the rights of sons against fathers
and the rights of women to preach.
They attacked monogamy in praise
of polygamy. "They say that for one
man to be tied to one woman, or
one woman to one man, is a fruit of
the curse; but, they say, we are freed
from the curse, therefore it is our
liberty to make use of whom we
please" (p. 256). Another Ranter,
Thomas Webbe, too, had something
like a philosophy of free love. He
claimed to "live above ordinances,
and that it was lawful for him to
lie with any woman," allegedly as­serting
that "there's no heaven but
women, nor no hell save marriage"
(p. 182). The Ranters' penchant for
the love-in, says Hill, was "a cry for
human brotherhood, freedom and uni­ty"
against the harsh divisive forces
of market ethics and discipline.
I n sum, it is to un­derstate
the case to say that the
Ranters ethics, as preached by Coppe
and Clarkson, was a subversion of
the existing society and its values.
As for Hill's own judgment on the
Ranters, he let it be known through
Gerrard Winstanley, the leader of the
Diggers, who apparently had some
THE RANTERS as imagined by their &Ont8mporarus. This &nlde but curious woodcut seems to show
fhal smoking ranked aJongside 'lree JOlie' as an expression of anlinomianism.
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trouble with Ranters who joined his
community and "caused scandal" :
(a) The Ranters attached too much
importance to "meat, drink, pleasure
and women"; (b) lack of work "in­flames
their hearts to quarrelling,
killing, burning houses or corn" ;
(c) sexual promiscuity broke the peace
in families and led to idleness, to
a Hippie-like existence, for which
others had to pay by labor; (d) it
also led to venereal disease, the in­cidence
of which in England had
presumably increased in the wake of
armies and camp followers; (e) the
high-flown Ran t e r generalizations
confused the simpler members of the
community; (f) finally there emerged
the need to have laws and rules­and
punishments to deal with the
idle and the ignorant, the unruly and
the "self-ended spirits" (p. 185). All
in all, Hill's true hero in the book
is this Digger visionary, theoretician
and organizer, Gerrard Winstanley,
who said, among other things: "im­moderate
ranting practice of the
senses is not the true life of peace"
(p. 228).
Many regard Christopher Hill as
the spiritual heir to R. H. Tawney,
the doyen of English economic his­torians,
to whom is parcelled out as
"Tawney's century" the entire period
between the Dissolution of the Mon­asteries
and the Great Rebellion.
Tawney did for history what Marx
had done for sociology, and what
Tawney had done for Tudor society,
Hill has been doing for Stuart society.
And if it is impossible to conceive
of Tawney without Marx, it is im­possible
to conceive of Hill without
Marx and Tawney. Thus, following
squareley in the Marx-Tawney tradi­tion
of social analysis, The World
Turned Upside Down is quintessential
Christopher Hill on Stuart society.
Discontent was rife below the sur­face
of Stuart society, Hill reminds
us again, especially among those rural
equivalents of the London poor­cottagers
and squatters on commons,
wastes and in forest lands. Suscep­tible
to the radical sectaries' agita­tion,
they would easily become the
rural equivalents of the notorious
"London mob." In addition, there
was a tradition of plebeian anti­clericalism
and irreligion among
rogues, vagabonds and beggars in
their Robin Hood atmosphere of
sylvan liberty. And given the fact
that the economic policy of disaffor­estation
and enclosure was at the
same time a socio-religious policy of
clearing out "nurseries and receptacles
of thieves, rogue.s and beggars," we
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can well appreciate the political im­plications
of the Diggers' stance that
no statute deprived the common
people of their rights in the common
lands "but only an ancient custom
bred in the strength of kingly pre­rogative"
(p. 44). The propertied
classes hissed that "the poor increase
like fleas and lice, and these vermin
will eat us up unless we enclose" (p.
42), but Winstanley coolly argued
itinerant craftsmen became itinerant
preachers, itinerant preachers itiner­ant
messiahs.
And, during the revolutionary dec­ades
of the 1640s and 1650s, the
hallowed tradition of the presumptive
wickedness of the rich was given a
new theological twist by the sectaries.
They asserted that "God hath now
opened their eyes and discovered
unto them their Christian liberty"
Bishops returned to a state church, the universities
and tithes survived. Women were put back into
their place. The Island of Great Bedlam became
the island of Great Britain.
that "all copyhold lands are parcels
hedged in or taken out of the com­mon
waste land since the (Norman)
Conquest" (p. 44), the prevailing law
being "but the declarative will of
conquerors" (p. 216).
Consider, too, how ships' crews
and armies (including the famous
New Model Army) were recruited
from those footloose elements tramp­ing
the roads of England: vagabonds,
tramps, beggars, itinerant trading
population (from pedlars, carters,
badgers, tinkers to merchant middle­men),
the unemployed seeking work,
strolling players, jugglers and quack
doctors-in short, every shade of
riffraff, congregating at country inns
and taverns as centers of news and
discussion. One of those famous
marginal notes in the Geneva Bible
has this entry for Acts 17 :6,
Vagabonds ... which do nothing
but walk the streets, wicked men,
to be hired for every man's money
to do any mischief, such as we
commonly call the rascals and very
sink and dunghill knaves of all
towns and cities.... Into what
country and place soever they
come, they cause sedition and
tumults (p. 32).
Hill points out that the "lewed fel­lows
of the baser sorts" in the
Authorized Version become the "vag­abonds"
in the Geneva Bible-to
direct the charge of sedition to lower­class
itinerants, and away from reli­gious
radicals. But this, says Hill, is
rather pointless because religious rad­icals
were all too often itinerants as
well. Hill's point is well taken: Fox
was an itinerant, Bunyan a tinker,
Winstanley a hired laborer, Clarkson
an itinerant preacher, Coppin also a
clergy-turned itinerant, to mention
only a few. And at a drop of the hat,
(p. 31), insisting that the master­servant
relation had· no sanction in
the New Testament. They also as­serted
that "the interest of the people
in Christ's kingdom is not only an
interest of . . . submission, but of
consultation, of debating, counselling,
prophesying, voting" (p. 47). Some
assertion! Some insistence! We are
speaking of England where Lord
Herbert of Cherbury, shipwrecked at
Dover in 1606 while still a mere
gentleman, leaped into the only rescue
boat, used his drawn sword to pre­vent
anyone from coming aboard
except a Sir Thomas Lucy and rowed
away in their gentlemanly twosome­ness-
an action admittedly motivated
by the upperclass disdain towards
the lower.s But autre temps, autre
moeurs: a 1641 sermon given before
the House of Commons seemed to
capture a new drift of wind. The
sermon said in part: "The vox populi
is that many of the nobles, magis­trates,
knights and gentlemen, and
persons of great quality, are arrant
traitors and rebels against God" (p.
28). And the vox populi shrilled it­self
into a tipsy topsy-turvydom of
the mid-century as the radicals talked
incessantly of "turning the world up­side
down."
UE very thing That
Rises Must Converge" and "The
Violent Bear It Away": this article
comes to an end because the story
of those sectaries comes to an end
after "a fantastic outburst of energy,"
after their trudging backwards and
forwards across Great Britain for 20
years. In the words of Professor Hill,
After the restoration officers of
the New Model returned to their
crafts, preaching tinkers returned
to their villages, or like Bunyan
went to gaol. Levellers, Diggers,
Ranters and Fifth Monarchists
disappeared, leaving hardly a trace.
Coppe changed his name and be­came
a physician. Salmon, Perrot
and many others emigrated. Nayler
and Burrough died, Fox disciplined
the Quakers: they succumbed to
the protestant ethic. Property tri­umphed.
Bishops returned to a
state church, the universities and
tithes survived. Women were put
back into their place. The Island
of Great Bedlam became the island
of Great Britain, God's confusion
yielding place to man's order.
Great Britain was the largest free­trade
area in Europe, but one in
which the commerce of ideas was
again restricted. Milton's nation of
prophets became a nation of shop­keepers
(p. 306).
But what was then the point of it
all? Why, for that matter, did the
Master of Balliol make such a stren­uous
effort to understand those "ob­scure
men and women, together with
some not so obscure," who stood for
"rogues, vagabonds and beggars,"
the sort of people seemingly so re­mote
from the ivory-tower of Oxford?
I for one feel immensely grateful to
Professor Hill for having given us
this book. First of all, for his funda­mental
decency in treating the acts
and convictions of other men with
fairness and respect, those of the
"lunatic fringe" not excluded.
As for my second point, we must
go back first to Hill's earlier work,
Intellectual Origins of the English
Revolution (Oxford, 1965). There, he
told us how those of the gilded circle
of Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville,
Giordano Bruno, Peter Ramus and
the like were thoroughly disgusted
with Oxford men "qui dum verba
sectantur, res ipsas negligunt" and
how Francis Bacon and others assidu­ously
advanced natural sciences as a
remedy for the consequences of ori­ginal
sin. To cite only one short pas­sage
from Bacon,
Man by the Fall fell at the same
time from his state of innocency
and even from his dominion over
created things. Both these losses
can even in this life be partially
repaired; the former by religion
and faith, the latter by arts and
sciences.9
From Bacon on, through Kant, down
to our own era, men spoke incessant­ly
of "torturing" nature to make her
"own up" the secrets she possessed
that would advance man's science and
technology. Scientia propter poten-
RANTERS
tiam. And we of the revealed religion
were incessantly reminded of the In­quisition
of Galileo-as though it
were a new original sin. But today's
ecology and counter-culture rhetoric
wish that this same religion had neg­lected
the res ipsas even more, blam­ing
it for having believed with too
great a rigor the Biblical injunction
of "dominion over created things."
Which makes Professor Hill's latest
book rather timely, especially in an
observation such as this one:
History has to be rewritten in
every generation, because although
the past does not change, the
present does; each generation asks
new questions of the past, and
finds new areas of sympathy as
it re-lives different aspects of the
experiences of its predecessors (p.
13).
My final point is more apropos of
the American scene. Some years ago,
R. W. B. Lewis wrote a book the
title of which is a giveaway of what
I intend to say, The American Adam:
Innocence, Tragedy and Tradition of
the Nineteenth Century (Chicago,
1955). The period covered by the
author runs from about 1820 to 1860
-with the main theme that "the
image contrived to embody the most
fruitful contemporary ideas was that
of the authentic American as a figure
of heroic innocence and vast poten­tialities,
poised at the start of a new
history."lo And in a Bible-reading
generation, that myth of a radically
new personality was most easily iden-
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tified with Adam before the Fall,
especially by that self-styled fI chanter
of Adamic songs," Walt Whitman.
I will cite one more passage from
The American Adam insofar as it is
germain to this article. According to
Lewis, if the helplessness of mere
innocence has been a primary theme
of novelists in almost every decade,
and if the vision of innocence stimu­lated
a positive and original sense of
tragedy, America, since the age of
Emerson, has been persistently a one­generation
culture. Then, he goes on
to say,
The unluckiest consequence, how­ever;
has not been incoherence,
but the sheer dullness of uncon­scious
repetition. We regularly re­turn,
decade after decade and with
the same pain and amazement, to
all the old conflicts, programs and
discoveries. We consume our
powers in hoisting ourselves back
to the plane of understanding
reached a century ago and at in­tervals
since.ll
In one of those "intervals since,"
having barely come out of "the same
pain and amazement" vis-a-vis the
Flower Children of the last decade
and their "innocence, tragedy and
tradition" seriatim, we may perchance
need to contort ourselves a bit less
with pain in the next round in the
future if we grasp better the nature
and genesis of "the old conflicts,
programs, and discoveries" by hoist­ing
ourselves back to the plane of
understanding reached, not one cen­tury
ago, but three. Towards this end,
Professor Christopher Hill of Oxford
has provided us with a valuable
guide. 0
1 Professor Hill's new book again manifests his phe­nomenal
knowledge of 17th-century pamphlets, broadsides,
sermons, tracts, newspapers, ballads, etc. For reason of space,
however, I will simply indicate Hill's quotations from these
sources in the book-and his own observations as well-by
page-numbers in the body of the article after I quote from
his book. Sources other than Hill's book will be footnoted.
tory 1509-1660 (Oxford, 1971), p. 361.
2 C. B. McPherson, The Political Theory of Possessive
Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (Oxford, 1962), ch. 3, The
Levellers: Franchise and Freedom.
3 Ibid., p. 111.
4 Conrad Russell, The Crisis of Parliaments: English His-
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5 Lord Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1948), p. 149.
6 John Milton, Prose Works (London, 1848-53), II, p. 114.
7 Horton Davies, The English Free Churches (Oxford,
1963), p. 110.
8 Lawrence Stone, The Crisis of Aristocracy: 1588-1641
(Oxford, 1956), p. 30.
9 Bacon, Works, VI, 21, cited by Hill in Intellectual
Origins, p. 89.
10 Lewis, p. 1.
11 Ibid., p. 9.
New Regen~ and Dean announced
University President Michael Blecker, OsB, announced in October
that Dan J. Brutger '52 has been elected to the St. John's Board of
Regents.
Fr. Michael also said Dr. Edward L. Henry was re-elected to the
board, Fr. John Kulas, OSB, was elected as a monastery representative
and Mrs. Richard Schall of Minneapolis joined the board this summer.
Brutger, a St. Cloud-area businessman and father of a current
Johnnie, has been active in many civic and community affairs as presi­dent
of the Board of Education, director of the Chamber of Commerce,
United Fund associate chairman and director of a local bank, among
other roles.
In 1971 Brutger was appointed to the Minnesota Higher Education
Facilities Authority by Gov. Wendell Anderson and in 1964 was named
one of the state's Ten Outstanding Young Men.
Dr. Henry rejoined the St. John's faculty this fall after serving
as president of st. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. Mrs. Schall,
whose husband is a senior vice president of the Dayton Hudson Corp.,
is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and has had a long-time
interest in st. John's and higher education; she is currently studying
ways to interpret and translate for lay people today's rapid technol­ogical
developments.
At their meeting Oct. 18, the Regents approved appointment of
Sister Mary Anthony Wagner as dean of the Graduate School of
Theology. Acting dean the past year, Sister Mary Anthony succeeds
Fr. Aelred Tegels, OsB. She has been affiliated with the graduate school
since its founding in 1963 and on the faculty of st. John's University
since 1964.
MIAC names newall-sports traveling
trophy after George Durenberger
George Durenberger '28 may not be affiliated directly any longer
with the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Association but the league
won't forget him.
Through the efforts of the Board of Directors of the J-Club, the
MIAC has adopted a traveling trophy for the conference's most suc­cessful
overall college. The prize is the George Durenberger All-Sports
Award.
The trophy, which has a plate engraved with the name(s) of
the winning school, was designed by the St. John's art and wood­working
departments, Fr. Martin schirber, OsB, J-Club secretary!
treasurer says.
The organization's directors "wanted to make an award which
would give recognition to George's specific and distinctive contribution
to sports-especially his life-long devotion to promoting all sports and
particularly those which would carryover into adult life," Fr. Martin
reports.
He regretfully adds the first school to hold the trophy is the
College of st. Thomas.
ST. JOHN'S
NEWS REVIEW
Brutger
S. Mary
Anthony
Mrs. Schall
George, trophy
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Frank Herring
1920-1974
Frank Herring, SJU music professor, dies
Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Herring, 54, music professor at St.
John's, died September 20 at the University of Minnesota Hospital
of an apparent heart attack. He was in the hospital and underwent
what was considered successful surgery the previous day.
A faculty member at St. John's since 1955, Mr. Herring served
as chairman of the music department and band director while at St.
John's. In 1965 he was appointed director of the St. Cloud Municipal
Band by the Mayor of St. Cloud, and he served in that post until the
time of his death.
He was active in numerous professional organizations including
the Music Educators National Conference and was president of the
National Catholic Bandmasters Association from 1963 to 1967. He
continued to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the NCBA.
Mr. Herring taught in public elementary and secondary schools
in Texas and Colorado before joining the St. John's staff. He had
a master's degree in music and education from Texas Technological
University.
Approved by the State High School League for adjudicating music
contests, Mr. Herring had judged many contests throughout Minnesota
during the last several years.
Mr. Herring is survived by his wife, Mary Rose, and eight chil­dren:
James, 26; John, 24; Judy, 22; Jane, 21; Joseph, 18; Jeffry, 15;
Kathleen, 13; and Peggy, 6.
St. John's receives $84,000 from state
private college fund; $846,700 since '51
St. John's received $84,427 from the Minnesota Private College
Fund last year, MPCF officials have announced. The University has
received $846,787 since the organization was founded in 1951.
Through the Private College Fund, St. John's joins the state's 14
other private, liberal arts colleges to present a single, coordinated re­quest
to business and industry for financial support of their current
operating budgets.
MPCF officials point out one request (and one gift) for the 15
institutions has proven good for them and popular with business; they
feel alumni who are in a position to influence their own company's
policy can do both St. John's and the Fund a good turn by encouraging
support of the coordinated annual drive.
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I I National Alumni Board meets,
elects officers, discusses 'plan'
The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the Alumni
Association was held October 11-12 in conjunction with Homecoming.
The Board elected Richard Pope '58 President, Roger Scherer '58
Vice President and Clem Commers '57 Secretary. In addition to Scherer,
Gene Koch '51 and Marty Rathmanner '57 were elected to the Board
in September. Gerry Donlin '55 and Bob Bray '40 are continuing two­year
terms.
At the Friday and Saturday sessions the Board reviewed the
Saint John's Plan of Liberal Education which was submitted for dis­cussion
by St. John's President Michael Blecker. In addition, the
Board reviewed policies related to the use of the St. John's alumni
mailing list and reaffirmed its confidentiality and exclusive use by
University personnel. Additional discussion centered on the Annual
Alumni Fund and communications with alumni living outside the State
of Minnesota. Other agenda items included current and future academ­ic,
administrative and student life programs and policies.
Several of these topics were explored in a series of meetings with
the University's three vice presidents.
Hill Foundation grants St. John's
$23,000 for peer-counseling program
The Hill Family Foundation of St. Paul has awarded St. John's
University $23,152 for establishment of a freshman year peer-coun­seling
program.
Announcement of the grant, part of the Foundation's compre­hensive
independent college program, was made Nov. 27 by SJU
President Michael Blecker, OSB.
The new program involves upperclassmen who are trained to
serve as counselors/advisers to freshmen living in their residence halls.
"Informal peer counseling is not new to St. John's," Fr. Michael
explained. "The Hill Foundation grant, however, will enable us to
formalize it and assure proper training of dorm floor leaders in helping
new students get acclimated to college life here."
The program is directed toward achievement of student education
objectives and improvement of retention.
Fr. Jerome Theisen joins
Ecumenical Institute staff
Fr. Jerome Theisen, OSB, has been appointed associate director
of the St. John's Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research by
its board of directors. In his new position, Fr. Jerome will be respon­sible
for the development and direction of programming at the In­stitute
and will act as a "liaison between the Institute's resident-scholars
and the University community," he said.
In addition to the duties of associate director, Fr. Jerome is cur­rently
teaching two courses at St. John's University and serving in
his last year as chairman of the theology department, a post he has
held since 1969.
For the future of the Institute, Fr. Jerome is optimistic about the
possibility for group scholarship on a single topic. "We are con­sidering
proposals to invite teams of scholars to address themselves
to a particular topic of concern in the area of religion and society,
research it and then publish their results," he said.
Pope
Fr. Jerome
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Elmer Kohorst leaves St. John's
for Albany bank position
Elmer Kohorst, head baseball coach and intramural director at
St. John's University, resigned his position in the athletic department
here to join the Albany State Bank, athletic director Jim Smith said
September 5.
Kohorst, a former All-American catcher at the University of Notre
Dame, had been affiliated with St. John's at the University and Prep
School for 15 years.
"Losing Elmer puts a big hole in our program," Smith said. "He
was very valuable as a coach and director of the University intramural
program but was also a strong asset as a physical education teacher.
"Because he was so dedicated and loyal to St. John's and because
of his tremendous popularity with our students, Elmer will be espe­cially
tough to replace," he said.
Kohorst, who also served as Smith's assistant basketball coach,
led the baseball team to the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Con­ference
championship last spring.
Classes 1964 to 1900
READ THIS
The Bush Foundation of St.
Paul will match your in­creased
contributions to the
Annual Alumni Fund from $5
to $5,000 on a one-for-one
basis, up to a maximum of
$20,000. The Foundation will
also pay $7,500 per percent­age
point increase in alumni
participation in annual giv­ing,
up to a maximum in­crease
of six percentage
points (371 new donors) or
$30,000.
• If you contributed $50 in fiscal 1974 and now
contribute $100 to the 1975 Annual Alumni Fund,
the Foundation will contribute $50 - matching the
amount of increase one-for-one.
• If you did not contribute to St. John's in fisca!
1974, but now give $25 to the 1975 Annual Alumm
Fund, the Foundation will contribute $105 - $25
matching your gift one-for-one and - $80 as a bonus
because you represent a new donor over last year.
• If you work for a firm which matches contribu­tions
to higher education, and you contribute $50
to the 1975 Annual Alumni Fund; your firm will
match your gift (making you eligible for membership
in the Associates), the Bush Foundation will match
your gift or the increased portion of it on a one­for-
one basis and, in addition, contribute a bonus
of $80 if you're a new donor over last year.
• If you contributed $25 in fiscal 1974 and now
contribute $25 to the 1975 Annual Alumni Fund,
the Foundation will not match your gift; but your
gift will aid the participation and dollar increase by
maintaining the base on which new gifts and donors
can be built.
Classes 1974 to 1965
READ THIS
The Bush Foundation of St.
Paul will match your in­creased
contributions to the
Annual Alumni Fund from $5
to $5,000 on a two-for-one
basis, up to a maximum of
$10,000. The Foundation will
also pay $1,500 per percent­age
point increase in alumni
participation in annual giv­ing,
up to a maximum in­crease
of seven percentage
points (277 new donors) or
$10,500.
• If you contributed $50 in fiscal 1974 and now
contribute $100 to the 1975 Annual Alumni Fund,
the Foundation will contribute $100 - matching the
amount of increase two-for-one.
• If you did not contribute to St. John's in fiscal
1974, but now give $25 to the 1975 Annual Alumni
Fund, the Foundation will contribute $88 - $50
matching your gift two-for-one and - $38 as a bonus
because you represent a new donor over last year.
• If you work for a firm which matches contribu­tions
to higher education, and you contribute $50
to the 1975 Annual Alumni Fund; your firm will
match your gift (making you eligible for membership
in the Associates), the Bush Foundation will match
your gift or the increased portion of it on a two­for
one basis and, in addition, contribute a bonus
of $38 if you're a new donor over last year.
• If you contributed $25 in fiscal 1974 and now
contribute $25 to the 1975 Annual Alumni Fund,
the Foundation will not match your gift; but your
gift will aid the participation and dollar increase by
maintaining the base on which new gifts and donors
can be built.
Fr. Roger Botz named director
of church and civic service
St. John's University has named Fr. Roger Botz, OSB, its first
director of church and civic service. Announcement was made in mid­November
by President Michael Blecker, OSB.
Succeeding him as financial aid director is Br. Paul Fitt, OSB.
Fr. Roger will now work with church organizations on the diocesan,
state and national levels and with area civic groups so they may make
best use of St. John's resources and programs; he will also represent
their interests to the University.
Fr. Michael said Fr. Roger will coordinate all programs which
can serve educational associations, welfare organizations and other
church groups as well as the civic communities in Stearns County with
particular emphasis on Collegeville Township, St. Joseph, Avon, Al­bany,
Freeport, Melrose and Alexandria in Douglas County.
Freshman plans radio stint for hungry
A St. John's University freshman is going to lose some sleep so
others may eat.
Connie Graff will host a 50-hour radio marathon show Dec. 15-17
on KSJU, the campus station, to promote efforts to ease the world
hunger situation.
He will go on the air Sunday at 3 p.m., play some rock and roll
and easy listening music, talk to guests about the food problem and
broadcast old time radio shows. By 5 p.m. Tuesday, he hopes to have
solicited pledges for food for the needy.
Before he goes on the air, he hopes to have contacted St. Cloud­area
residents, businesses and students; alerted them to the food crisis;
and seek support from them. The money will be collected by the SJU
Campus Ministry.
Coming events
December January
Fr. Roger
Graff
3 Basketball at Marquette 8 Basketball at Gustavus
4 Willem Ibes piano recital; 8 p.m.; Main Auditorium 10 Swimming vs. River Falls; 7 p.m.; Palaestra
4 Hockey vs. Hamline; 8 p.m.; Ice Arena
4 Wrestling at St. Thomas Triangular
6 Basketball at St. Cloud
7 Swimming at Hamline for Minn. Relays; 8 a.m.
7 Hockey vs. St. Mary's; 2 p.m.; Ice Arena
7 Wrestling at St. Cloud Invitational
8 Hockey vs. St. Mary's; 2 p.m.; Ice Arena
10 Swimming vs. St. Cloud; 4:30 p.m.; Palaestra
12 Christmas tree blessing and lighting; Great Hall
13-14 St. John's basketball invitation with Bemidji,
Luther and Southwest Minnesota; 6 :30 p.m.,
8:30 p.m.; Palaestra
13 Hockey vs. Macalester; 6 p.m.; Ice Arena
13 Swimming vs. St. Thomas; 4 p.m.; Palaestra
14 Hockey vs. Gustavus; 4 p.m.; Ice Arena
14 Swimming vs. Southwest Minnesota; 1:30 p.m.;
Palaestra
16 Beethoven Birthday Party; 8 p.m.; Main Aud.
17 Hockey vs. St. Cloud; 8 p.m.; Ice Arena
19 - Jan. 6 Christmas vacation
26-28 Basketball at St. Cloud for Granite City Classic
11 Hockey at St. Thomas; 7:30 p.m.
11 St. John's Wrestling Takedown Tournament;
Palaestra
11 Basketball vs. Concordia; 7:30 p.m.; Palaestra
14 Hockey vs. St. Cloud; 8 p.m.; Ice Arena
15 Basketball vs. St. Olaf; 7:30 p.m.; Palaestra
16 Wrestling at Augsburg
17, 18 Swimming at Stout for Bluedevil Invitational
17 Hockey at Air Force; 7:30 p.m.
18 Basketball at Augsburg
18 Hockey at Air Force; 2 p.m.
22 Basketball vs. Hamline; 7:30 p.m.; Palaestra
24 Wrestling quadrangular at Whitewater
24 Swimming vs. Duluth; 4 p.m.; Palaestra
25 Basketball at Duluth
25 Hockey at Augsburg; 7 :30 p.m.
25 Swimming at North Dakota State; 1 p.m.
25 Wrestling quadrangular; Palaestra
28 Hockey at Gustavus; 7:30 p.m.
29 Basketball vs. St. Thomas; 7:30 p.m.; Palaestra
29 Swimming at Gustavus; 4 p.m.
31 Hockey at St. Olaf
31, Feb. 1 National Catholic Wrestling Invitational
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SJU SPORTS
REVIEW
by Matt Wilch, SJU Sports Information Director
There was success this fall in St. John's athletics.
Two Cindarella teams, football and soccer, placed
first and second in conference, respectively, and after
a slow season the Johnnie cross country team rallied
for an 11th place finish in the NCAA Division III
Meet.
Marty Cella carries against Augsburg. Other lays: Mark
Muederking (52), Mike Messerschmidt (83), Tim Schmitz
(44) and lim McClellan (63).
Fullback loe Speltz pursues the ball as the lay soccer
squad tangles with Lakeland.
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FOOTBALL
In his 26th year of coaching, John Gagliardi led
his football squad to a 7-2 overall record, a 5-2 MIAC
tally and a tie with Concordia for the conference
crown. The Johnnie offense rolled up more than
340 yards per game, nearly half of them via the arm
of senior quarterback Mike Kozlak. Kozlak's 1322
yards, 51.3 per cent completion rate and 16 touch­down
strikes were the marks of a man rated thir­teenth
in national NAIA passing statistics. Kozlak
had able targets in junior split end Todd Watson
and senior tight end Mike Messerschmidt. The pair
combined for more than 850 yards and earned all­conference
honors. Other All-MIAC choices included
junior offensive guard John Herkenhoff, senior de­fensive
tackle and captain Greg Miller and senior
linebacker Nick Lynch. The Johnnies will be losing
nine starting seniors from this year's championship
team.
SOCCER
The miracle of miracles this year has been the
St. John's succer team. They posted a 3-8-3 mark
last year and were expected to finish about the same
this year. Instead they posted an 11-2-3 regular
season mark and placed second to Augsburg in MIAC
play. In post season competition, the Johnnies have
upended the Auggies to capture the District 13 title
and have earned a berth in the Area III playoffs.
As of this writing the kickers are still alive in the
NAIA national soccer playoffs.
Coach Matt Sikich attributes the success this
year to a solid defense led by captain and goalie
Tom Rocheford and fullbacks Jim Sawyer, Jim Mc­Gough
and Joe Speltz. Rocheford, a senior, has reg­istered
eight shutouts thus far this year and is one
of five Johnnies named to the All-MIAC team. Also
honored were fullback McGough, the team's number
one and two scorers, Mike Lilly and Geoff Murphy,
and roving back Brian Murphy. Sikich was selected
as MIAC Soccer Coach of the Year. All the Johnnie
starters will be returning next year save the goalie,
Rocheford.
CROSS COUNTRY
The Johnnie thinclads ran eight times this season
and finished fourth in the conference race, placing
three runners in the top ten. The trio of junior Tim
Heisl and seniors Mike Fahey and co-captain Greg
Carlson thereby earned all-conference laurels. In his
first year as coach, former Johnnie All American
Dave Lyndgaard led his runners to an 11th place
finish in the NCAA Division III meet.
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Homecoming, 1974
There were a variety of Homecoming activities Oct. 12. Old
friends returned to campus (1); current students participated in
the annual AKS raft race (2) and other refreshing pastimes (3).
Fr. Dunstan Tucker, OSB, dean, professor and coach, was pre­sented
the Fr. Walter Reger Distinguished Alumnus Award (4)
by out-going Alumni President Kevin Hughes '58. There were
dinners, dances, reunions. And, oh yes, football against UM­Duluth;
the scoreboard (5) says enough about that.
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ALUMNI
NEWS NOTES
1930 AI Siebenand, Chm.
Avon, MN 56310
MELVIN FORD retired as an officer
of the Wells Fargo bank in San Fran­cisco
in 1973. He and his wife now
live at 11316 NE 28 St, SP-12, Van­couver,
WA.
1932 Donald Kolb, Chm.
Holdingford, MN 56340
Msgr. STEPHEN ANDERL is the
pastor of St. Mary's Parish, Durand,
WI, and dean of the Durand Deanery.
He is also on the Diocesan Board of
Education; Executive Board, West Cen­tral
Wisconsin Community Action
Agency, Inc., and Executive Board,
Chippewa Valley BSA Council.
1933
Fr. LAWRENCE EDWARDS has de­voted
his entire priesthood to the Sioux
Indians of western South Dakota. A
Jesuit, he resides at Mother Butler
Center, Box 788, Rapid City, SD 57701.
1937 Clarence A. laSelle, Chm.
Burnsville, MN
CLARENCE LASELLE of 2700 Selkirk
Drive, Burnsville 55378, has just pub­lished
his third book: Who's Kicking
the "P" Out of the PTA (Vantage Press,
New York. $4.95). Clarence, who teaches
math at Prior Lake Senior High, draws
on his long experience as a teacher anq
administrator to paint a lively picture
of the way things really are in "Any­town"
USA.
1942 John O'Connell, Chm.
St. Paul, MN 55116
KONALD PREM of 4806 Sunnyside
Rd, Minneapolis 55424, continues as a
professor for the department of ob­stetrics
and gynecology at the U of
Minnesota School of Medicine. The first
gynecologist in the state, he is president
of the Minnesota Obstetrical and Gyne­cological
Society. He also has been
promoted to brigadier general in the
medical corps of the Army Reserve.
22 Saint
1943 Rev. Ray Schulzetenberg, Chm.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
Dr. EDWARD HENRY has rejoined
the St. John's faculty after serving the
past two years as
president of St.
Mary's College,
Notre Dame, IN. He
will spend full-time
in the classroom af­ter
18 years of com­bining
teaching with
administrative work
both on the college
level and publicly;
he will continue to
serve on the SJU
Henry Board of Regents
and as the only
non-college president on the 12-member
board of the National Catholic Educa­tional
Association. . .. BOB STEVEN­SON
is a wholesale executive in St.
Cloud. He lives at 1106 Riverside Dr SE.
1944
Fr. DONALD BERG, pastor of St.
Wenceslaus Parish, Milladore, WI 54454,
is also the president of the Priests'
Senate of the Diocese of La Crosse.
1949
GEORGE REISDORF of Dan Marsh
Drugs has been elected to the St. Cloud
Chamber of Commerce Board of Direc­tors.
1950 Arthur Schmitz, Chm.
Sauk Centre, MN 56378
MAURY BRITTS, a resident of Brook­lyn
Center for 15 years, has been re­elected
to the city council. He is an
instructor at St. Thomas and a member
of the Minnesota Education Council.
... Judge DOMINIC KOO of Dade
County, FL, has been featured in the
New York Times and The Stars and
Stripes for his cooking abilities. He
reports that when he moved to the U.s.,
so many people asked him to make
Oriental dishes that he became a skilled
Chinese cook by reading the labels on
cans of Chinese food. Mr. Koo started
cooking in the 1950's as a student. Mr.
Koo's proudest moment came when he
earned $250 for a public television
channel that auctioned him off as a
cook-for-a-night during a fund raising
telethon .... ARTHUR KREMER, 4406
N Drew Ave, Robbinsdale 55422, is an
aviation teacher at School Dist #281.
He notes that his wife, Margaret, re­cently
earned her pilot license.
1951 Dr. Everetle Duthoy, Chm.
St. Paul, MN 55101
G. M. LANDHERR is presently a
pharmacist at Landherr Drugs; he and
his wife, Rita, live at 1909 6th Ave NE,
Austin 55912. . .. WILL DOMBROVSKE
has been teaching in the U of Minnesota
Graduate School of Business in addi­tion
to working as an accountant with
an electronics firm .... JAMES SCHU­MACHER
lives at 1112 Magnolia St,
Colorado Springs, CO 80907 (home
phone: 303-598-5477). In addition to his
work for the state Dept. of Social
Services, Jim is training to earn a clin­ical
membership in transactional analy­sis
which would permit him to do T A
therapy .... JAMES VAN HERCKE of
the Minneapolis Star and Tribune was
elected executive vice-president of the
Sales and Marketing Executives of Min­neapolis.
1952
PETE HERGES, athletic director of
Albany High School, coached the Hus­kies
to the state championship football
tourney this year. As grid coach there,
he has won 130 games and lost fewer
than 40.
1954 Robert L. Forster, Chm.
Edina, MN 55436
CHARLIE CAMMACK works in At­lanta
for IBM. He lives at 4549 Kings­gate
Dr, Chamblee, GA. ... DICK
CHRISTOPHERSON is presently the
vice president of administration and
finance of Burger King in Miami.
Address: N Kendall Dr, PO Box 783,
Biscayne Annex, Miami 33152; home
phone: 305-274-7305. . .. MICHAEL
DONAHUE has been promoted to as­sistant
vice president of the Burlington
Northern. Most of his work is concerned
with personnel administration.
ARDELL (CASEY) VILANDRE of 11 E
Conklin, Grand Forks, ND, owns Vil­andre
Fuel and Heating. His home phone
number is 701-772-2915 and his office
number is 701-775-4675.
1956 Jerald L. Howard, Chm.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
Dr. LESLIE CHEN has been working
as a psychiatrist in Hong Kong at the
Castle Park Hospital for the past few
years. Last year he was given the op­portunity
to complete his specialization
in psychiatry in London and passed his
specialty exam this summer. He lives at
6 Ede Rd, Flat loA, Kowloon, Hong
Kong; is married and has one child,
a daughter .... JAMES MASTERJOHN
is the agency manager for State Farm
Auto-Life-Home and Business. He lives
at Rte 3, Box A37, Woodland Heights,
Fergus Falls 56537; his phone number
is 218-736-3991. ., .Fr. PAUL (ALCUlN)
SIEBENAND, OSB, St. Gregory's Col­lege,
Shawnee, OK 74801, is currently
director of public information there and
teaches journalism and cinema. His
phone number is 405-273-7492.
Myron Hall, long time ST. CLOUD DAlLY TIMES photographer, is presented
Sf. John's President's Citation as a tribute to his dedicated efforts in picturing
life and events in the St. Cloud area. President Michael Blecker, OSB, con­gratulates
him and thanks him for the many services he has done for St. John's.
1957 James Gephart, Chm.
White Bear Lake, MN 55110
Fr. JOSEPH KEATING is chaplain at
VA Hospital (#124), Canandaigua, NY
14424. His home phone number is 315-
394-3226.
1958 Wm. Sullivan, Chm.
Richfield, MN 55423
Fr. JOHN BORGERDING, OSB, has
been teaching pastoral psychology at
St. John's Seminary and College, Cama­rillo,
CA, since 1972, at the request of
Cardinal Manning, archbishop of Los
Angeles.
1959 Dr. Thomas Hobday, Chm.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
WILLIAM O'BRIEN, 16559 Citadel PI,
Cincinnati 45230, has been promoted to
assistant general manager for the Hart­ford
Insurance Group's regional office.
... GARY SAUER is a lieutenant com­mander
in the Navy as supply officer.
He and his wife, Judith, and family live
at 564 Mariposa St, Chula Vista, CA
92011.
1960 felix Mannella, Chm.
Coon Rapids, MN 55433
JAMES CUNNINGHAM is presently
living at 2010 Jefferson, St. Paul 55105.
An associate professor of history at
St. Catherine's College, he earned his
doctorate at the U of Minnesota, writ­ing
a dissertation on reform in the
Russian Orthodox Church, 1900-1906.
1961 John MCKendrick, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55402
New address for THOMAS JOYCE:
37 Lenox Road, Summit, NJ 07901. ...
KEVIN MADDEN has been appointed
assistant professor of English at George­town
U, Washington. He earned his
PhD at Trinity College, National U of
Ireland and wrote his dissertation on
William Butler Yeats.
1962
Br. LEWIS BRAZIL, CSC, 13500 De­troit
Ave, Lakewood, OH 44107, is
teaching instrumental music full time
and is an associate director at St.
Edward High School in Cleveland.
1963 Daniel Lynch, Chm.
Santa Clara, CA 95050
JACK DAUGHERTY is presently
living at 3213 Dana Dr, Burnsville. He
is a dentist at the Village Medical Cen­ter
in Southtown Target Center. Jack
and his wife, Judy, have two children:
Shawn, 7; Patrick, 4 .... MAURICE
REYERSON has been appointed to the
College of Saint Benedict faculty in
the sociology department. . .. THOMAS
ROST of 1312 Clara Lane, Davis, CA
95616, is assistant professor of botany
at the U of California, Davis. He is
also chairman of his parish Liturgical
Commission.
1964 John Chromy, Chm.
Oak Park, Il 60301
BERNIE BECKMAN, Golden Valley,
has been elected vice-president of the
J-Club. . .. ROBERT KLEIN is now
living at 1109 State Aid Rd 4, St. Cloud
56301. A science teacher at John XXIII
School, he has three sons: Jason, Daniel
and Philip. His home phone is 612-252-
6131. ... DIO ROCKERS is now living
at 10662 Utica Rd, Bloomington. He is
a sales manager at National Starch &
Chemical. His home number is 612-
831-0082 .... The WAGNER brothers­ROGER,
J. F. ('48) and Daniel (Prep
grad) - of Wagner Brother Ranch,
Nashua, MT, sold half interest in their
grand national champion bull, Golden
Treasure, to actor John Wayne's 26 Bar
Ranch for $30,000.
1965
Capt. JOHN BIERDEN is presently
stationed in Germany where he has just
completed his first year in systems man­agement.
His address is Headquarter,
SUPACT, APO, New York 09189 ....
Fr. JOHN DAVIS, a priest of the
Diocese of Fargo, received the Mission
Cross from Bishop Justin Driscoll at a
ceremony in Fargo, ND, on Oct. 13.
Fr. John
Reception of the
Mission Cross will
commission him to
serve in the South
American Missions
for the next five
years. Father left for
Lima at the end of
October and is en­rolled
in a language
school. Since ordi­nation
Fr. Davis has
served as associate
pastor of Nativity
Parish in Fargo.
1966 Thomas L. Tucker, Chm.
Madison, WI 53704
Dr. JOHN NEI, a dentist, lives on
Rte 2, Long Prairie 56347. . .. MIKE
SPITTLER is presently living at 2125 E
River Terr, Minneapolis 55414 (phone
612-332-2078). He is working as an
instructional aide at Edgewood Junior
High School; playground instructor for
the city Park Board; and self-employed
fishing tackle dealer. He is the vice­president
of Minnesota Trout Unlimited
and coordinator for Minnesota and Wis­consin
chapters.
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SJU Alumni
at St. Gregory's
Twenty four Benedictine monks of
St. Gregory's Abbey, Shawnee, OK
74801, are alumni of St. John's. They
are Abbot Robert Dodson' 42, Fr. Augus­tine
Horn '42, Fr. Brendan Helbing '61,
Fr. Claude Sons '27, Fr. Denis Statham
'41, Fr. Joseph Murphy '58, Fr. Louis
Vander Ley '62, Fr. Paul (Alcuin)
Siebenand '56, Fr. Theodore Seneschal
'65, Fr. Victor Roberts '65 and Fr.
Vincent Traynor '39 living at St.
Gregory's; Fr. Edmund DeCabooter '64
and Fr. Francis Simon '42 at St. Bene­dict's
Rectory, 1022 W. Cleveland Ave.,
Montebello, CA 90640; Fr. (Chaplain
and Lt. Col.) Anthony Bumpus '49 at
Goose Bay Airport, Goose Bay, Labra­dor,
Canada; Bro. Bernard O'Rourke '43
at St. Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, PA
15650; Fr. Blase Schumacher '30 at Our
Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Sterling,
OK 73567; Fr. Gerard Nathe '35 at
St. Teresa's Church, Harrah, OK 73045;
Fr. James Murphy '43 at St. Benedict's
Church, 632 N. Kickapoo, Shawnee,
OK 74801; Fr. John Bloms '44 at St.
Stephen's Church, Holdenville, OK
74848; Brother Manuel Magallanes '66
at St. Mark School of Theology, South
Union, KY 42283; Fr. Mathias Faue '48
at St. Wenceslaus' Church, Prague, OK
74864; Fr. Philip Berning '42 at St.
Joseph's Church, 1300 E. Beverly, Ada,
OK 74820; Fr. Thomas Rabideau '40
at Immaculate Conception Church,
Seminole, OK 74868; and Fr. Stephen
Kelley '53 at Mother of Sorrows Church,
Apache, OK 73006.
1967 Greg Bouleke, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
HAROLD V. PEARSON, MD, joined
the Greeley St Clinic in Stillwater this
summer .... NORBERT WIELENBERG,
Upsala, received his PhD from the U
of Minnesota at commencement exer­cises
in August.
1968 James Shiely, Chm.
Roseville, MN 55113
Fr. BEN BACHMEIER has just moved
to a new assignment at St. Francis
Church, Marion, ND 58466. . .. DON
BRAGER became Fairmont's new city
finance director and treasurer in Septem­ber.
He and his wife, Kathryn, an
elementary school teacher at Welcome,
live at 220 S Prairie Ave, Fairmont. His
new duties involve all city financial
accounting, payroll work and investment
of excess funds to maximize interest
return. .... EDWARD CHAMPA is in
the Air Force stationed at Misawa Air
Base, Japan. His new address is 6920
SCTY Gp, Box 3;94, APO San Francisco
96210 .... JAMES FLICK of 5920 14th
24 Saint
The four Stovik brothers, St. John's University alumni, represent 104 years in
the priesthood. From left they are Fr. Jordan Stovik, OSB, '39, of St. John's
Abbey, pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in Moorhead; Fr. Louis C. Stovik, '40,
associate pastor of Christ the King Church in Pueblo, Colo., and director of
the diocese Development Fund Office there; Fr. Bartholomew Stovik, OSB, '40,
monk of Assumption Abbey in North Dakota, chaplain at St. Francis Nursing
Home, Breckenridge, N.D.; and Fr. Raphael Stovik, OSB, '51 of Assumption
Abbey, chaplain at St. Vincent's Hospital in Billings, Mont. Their six brothers
did not attent St. John's but sister Mary Ann is a 1949 graduate of the College
of St. Benedict.
Ave S, Minneapolis 55417 is presently
a Seasons of Leisure sales representa­tive.
He and his wife, Linda, have two
children, a girl and a boy. After grad­uating
from St. John's, Jim spent six
years of active duty as a US Air Force
pilot. . .. WILLIAM FOGARTY started
teaching biology and physical science
this year at Thief River Falls. He and
his wife, Katherine, live at 1236 Edge­wood
Dr, Apt #18, Thief River Falls
56701. ... JOSEPH GAIDA was elected
a fellow in the Gerontological Society
section on social research, planning and
practice. At 28, he is believed to be one
of the youngest ever selected for this
honor. Fellowship requirements include
an advanced degree, more than five
years of responsible work in the field
of gerontology and unique contributions
in the areas of gerontological academics
and practice .... PETER NOLAN, MD,
and his wife, Mary, are now living at
11116 Avenida Del Gato, San Diego
92126. He is working for the Navy at
Balboa Hospital. Their home phone is
714-566-6404 .... MICHAEL PAQUETTE,
St. Cloud, has been named chairman of
St. John's Prep School's 1974 fund drive.
... STEPHEN SCHAEFER is now living
at 1710 Alameda St, Austin, TX 78704.
1969 Chuck AchIer, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55443
ROGER AMIOT of 1426 Elmwood,
Grafton, ND 68237, teaches senior high
accounting and typing and is moderating
the yearbook .... JAMES (PETE) AT­WOOD
of 902 13 Ave, NE #27, Brainerd
56401, has accepted the position of
registered representative for IDS. He
and his wife, Pat, have one child,
Melissa. His home phone is 612-829-
0756. '" THOMAS ENGELS of 41 S
Ruth St, St. Paul, is presently the pilot
plant supervisor of a 3M synthetic
leather project. He and his wife, Sharon,
have a son and a daughter .... THOMAS
FREUND, 5902 3rd St NE, Fridley 55432,
is a salesman for Real Estate 10. He
and his wife" Claudia, have two daugh­ters:
Rebecca and Christine. . .. DANIEL
GALLES is living at 8434 S Oakland
Ave, Bloomington. He is employed by
Robert G. Engelhart & Co as a CPA.
Dan is a member of the Hospital finan­cial
Management Association and he
and his wife, Kathryn, are moderators
for the CYC premarriage class at Fiat
House. _ He is also a member of the
St. Paul Jaycees. His home phone is
881-5456 .... Dr. PAT HERMANSON
lives with his family at 104 Lakeview
Dr, Pierre 57501. . .. MICHAEL HUP­PERT,
PO Box 2, Brookfield, MA 01506,
is presently the executive director of
the Great Brook Valley Health Center,
Inc. He and his wife, Louise, have three
children. Phone number is 617-867-6772.
. . . ROBERT JOHNSON of 11701 67th
Place N,Maple-Grove 55360 is a phy­sician
at Hennepin County General
Hospital. His wife's name is Bonnie;
their phone number is 612-425-7029 ....
Fr. GLEN LEWANDOWSKI, OSC, was
ordained at the Crosier House of
Studies, Fort Wayne, on Sept. 7. He
Fr. Glen
is currently com­pleting
in in-serv­ice
training at St.
Cyprian's Parish in
Detroi t. ... JAMES
MAHAN received
the MA degree from
St. Thomas College
in St. Paul. ... Br.
CLETUS RAUSCH,
FSC, received a M
Ed degree from St.
Thomas College in
St. Paul. ... RICH­ARD
WEIER is liv­ing
at 14441 Range Park Rd, Poway, CA
92064. He is a pharmacist at University
Hospital of San Diego. He and his wife,
Bonnie, have been married three years.
Their phone number is 714-748-5592.
... BERNARD WIXON's address is 4125
Village Court, Annandale, VA 22003.
1970 Jay Simons, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55402
STEVE FORRESTELL has joined St.
John's Center for the Study of Local
Government as a law clerk for the new
ready-reference hotline on judicial prob­lems
offered Minnesota county judges.
This is the first reference system of its
kind for the county court .... JOSEPH
Marriages
JAMES SCHUMACHER '51, to Nancy
Degnan, July 6, 1974.
RICHARD HECOMOVICH '66, to
£lain Mohrmann, September 22, 1974.
WILLIAM FOGARTY '68, to Kath­erine
Miller, July 13, 1974.
STEPHEN SCHAEFER '68, to Diana
Duke, November 11, 1972.
GARY SCHIRMERS '69, to Nancy
Marvin, May 25, 1974.
STEVE LEPINSKI '70, to Ellen Baker,
September 14, 1,974.
ANTHONY FIKE '72, to Jazelle Doose,
August 3, 1974.
PAUL GOTAY '72, to Theresa Turner,
August 10, 1974.
KIMCULP '73, to Carol Rothestein,
August 3, 1974.
JOSEPH DIRKSEN '73, to Mary Ryan,
July 27, 1974.
TOM FRANKMAN '73, to Beth
Green, Summer, 1974.
MIKE HUBER '73, July 27, 1974.
DONALD LONGPRE '73, to Lisa
MacKay, October 19, 1974.
JOHN POSSIN '73, to Marilyn Le­doux.
WAI KEUNG YEUNG '73, to Cecilia
Mak (CSB '73), August 24, 1974 .
MICHAEL BONACCI '74, to Judy
Smith, July 20, 1974.
JAMES WACHLAROWICZ '74, to
Lynn Vassar, August 10, 1974.
JEFF WACHLAROWICZ '74, to Rox­anne
Meschke, January 5, 1974.
Deaths
t HUBERT SCHINDLER '14
t HERBERT HOFFMAN '22
tALBERT A. STEIN '22
t MYRON WIEST '31
t PAUL MORIN '41
t RICHARD W. SLADEK '47
t NEIL BOTZ '48
t MICHAEL J. ETTEL '57
t MIKE LOUDEN '71
KROETSCH is presently living at 2520
9th St NW, Canton, OH 44708 and is
a chemist for Ashland Petroleum Co.
Forrestell McShane
The Kroetschs have one daughter, Beth
Ann. Phone: 216-454-8815 .. ,. MICHAEL
McSHANE has been appOinted person­nel
officer at First Bank System in
Minneapolis. His duties will include
recruiting and employment related liason
with First Bank System affiliate banks.
He has been active in the Billings, MT,
Chamber of Commerce, Billings Jaycees,
United Way, Billings Kiwanis Club (as
board member), YMCA and the Rocky
Booster. New address: 3035 Glenden
Terrace, Golden Valley 55427 .... FRED
THIELMAN has been involved in U
of Southern California's International
Public Administration Program which
took him to France for two months and
to Tunisia for seven months on an
internship. He is now leaning toward
international banking.
1971 William Moeller, Chm.
Fairmont, MN 56031
Dr. MICHAEL BENNETT is asso­ciated
with Dr. Boyd Langseth, DDS,
in Sandstone. A graduate of the U of
M's School of Dentistry, Mike and his
wife, Nancy, live in Sandstone. .,.
WILLIAM CHAN has moved to 10
Sunny Glenway, #1902, Donmills On­tario,
Canada M3C 2Z3. . .. Although
JON KALLMAN was called to active
duty in the Army in May, 1974, he was
able to return recently to his job as
maintenance man at Maple Manor
Nursing Home in Anoka. . .. JOHN
KNAPP received his JD from the U of
Iowa at the close of the summer ses­sion.
.,. STEPHEN P A VELA is present­ly
living at 408 22nd Ave NE, Minne­apolis
55418. He is in his fourth year
at the U of Minnesota Medical School.
... TOM STEIDL, 13609 Avebury Dr,
Apt 22, Laurel, MD 20811, is with the
Judge Advocate's Corps at Fort Meade.
1972 Pal Evans, Chm.
Beaver Dam, WI 53916
WILLIAM BISHOP and his wife,
Cathy, live at 5615-7 Old Dover Blvd,
Fort Wayne, IN. He is the assistant
manager of customer relations at North
American Van Lines. Phone number:
485-3389 .... PAT FOLEY's present ad­dress
is Box 119, St. Paul Seminary,
2260 Summit, St. Paul 55105 .... PAUL
GOT A Y currently lives at 3031 Ewing
Ave S, Apt 154, Minneapolis 55416.
Paul is continuing his studies in law
at the U of Minnesota. . .. ROGER
HUMBERT is living at 1417 16th St S,
St. Cloud. He is presently marketing
representative for R. K. Humbert &
Associates. He and his wife, Tricia,
have two sons: Shannon and Nathan.
... ROBERT LIETZKE of 328 Edmund
Ave, St. Paul 55103, attended graduate
school for one year and is now with
International Travel Arrangers in the
sales department .. ,. BARRY MALCOM
visited St. John's while on a vacation
trip through the USA and Canada. He
is personnel and immigrant supervisor
for the Bahamas Oil Refining Co. His
address is PO Box F-2604, Freeport,
Grand Bahamas Island, Bahamas. He
can be reached at 809-352-5821 or 809-
352-9811. . .. THOMAS MARTIN in
presently living at 3884 Dakota Ave,
Cincinnati 45229. He is a second-year
graduate student at Xavier U, majoring
in clinical psychology. .,. MIKE MUR­PHY
is the youth minister at St.
Michael's Catholic Church in Duluth.
Mike is also an instructor in the de-
Births
Daughter, Jennifer Helene, to Mr. and
Mrs. ARDELL (CASEY) VILANDRE
'54, April 16, 1974.
Son, Andrew William, to Mr. and Mrs.
JAMES CUNNINGHAM '60, Novem­ber
24, 1973.
Son, Joseph Peter, to Mr. and Mrs.
JOSEPH SCOBLEC '62, July 2,9, 1974.
Daughter, Catherine Mary, to Mr. and
Mrs. RICH CHALMERS '63, August
31, 1974.
Son, Daniel Ronald, to Mr. and Mrs.
ROBERT KLEIN '64, July 25, 1974.
Son, Joseph, to Mr. and Mrs. JAMES
TEGEDER '66, July 7, 1974.
Son, Peter Mark, to Mr. and Mrs. JOHN
VAN DE NORTH '67, July 14, 1974.
Son, Ryan Owen, to Mr. and Mrs.
DANIEL GALLES '69, April 2, 1974.
Son, Evan Nord, to Dr. and Mrs. PAT­RICK
HERMANSON '69, August 29,
1974.
Son, Michael David, to Dr. and Mrs.
JOHN RHOADES '69, September 25,
1974.