1976 Fall SJU Alumni Magazine Volume 16 Number 02

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NG now lives at 1906 N Woodley St,
Arlington, VA 22201.
'71 William Moeller, Chm.
Fairmont, MN 56031
WILLIAM CHAN recently moved to
1-2330 Broad St, Regina, Sask, S4P lY8,
Canada .... MICHAEL F. HAMMER is
an engineer for NSP. . .. STEPHEN
P A VELA, MD, is in his 2nd year in
internal medicine residency at St. Paul
Ramsey Hospital. ... RICHARD J.
SHANNON is a dentist for a branch
of the National Health Service in Cen­ter,
ND. . .. ROBERT P. SHANNON is
a resident in family practice at North
Memorial Hospital in Minneapolis. . ..
JOHN F. SIEBENAND is an applications
analyst in the speech communications
department of Sperry Univac Computer
Systems.
'72 Pat Evans, Chm.
Beaver Dam, WI 53916
JOE CADE has joined the Gislason,
Dos land, Hunter, Malecki, Gislason and
Halvorson law firm in New Ulm. . ..
P AT EVANS has been promoted to
personnel director of the Hoffman
House Restaurant chain. His mail will
reach him at Box 3361, Madison, WI
53704 .... PAUL GOTAY of 1539 NE
6th St, Minneapolis 55418, received the
degree of doctor of law June 11. . ..
VINH DINH NGUYEN now lives at
323 SE 7th St, Apt 305, Minneapolis
55414 .... MIKE ROBERTSON is in his
2nd year at William Mitchell College
of Law in St. Paul. He, wife Nancy, and
their 2 children live at 20ti5 E Hwy 36,
#208, No. St. Paul 55109. . .. RAMSAY
SHU has returned from the West Coast
to Notre Dame to finish his thesis. His
address: Dept. of Sociology and An­thropology,
U of Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, IN 46556.
'73 Tom A. Thibodeau, Chm.
LaCrosse, WI 54601
DAVID CHAN has taken the position
of production manager at Golden Har­vest
Studios in Hong Kong. He will be
coming back to this country in early
1977 to help produce 2 films .... JOHN
GRANER was awarded the M.D. degree
by Loyola University June 12. . .. MI­CHAEL
HENRY, a 3rd year medical
student, is now working with Dr.
Michael Thompson of the Alexandria
Clinic in the rural physician associate
program. '" JOHN HO-CHAN has
moved to 1704 Norfolk Ave, Apt 4,
St. Paul 55116 .... JAMES KORTZ of
1064 Forest Hills Dr, Rochester 55901 is
a graduate student in music history at
the U of Minnesota, presently writing
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his thesis and working as a teaching
assistant. ... THOMAS MILLER gradu­ated
in June from the U of Minnesota
Law School and has joined the law -firm
of Carroll and Firth in Minneapolis.
His address is Box 2282, Minneapolis
55402. . .. Dr. MIKE MISKOVICH is a
dentist in Grand Rapids. . .. BERNARD
REIMER is participating in the rural
physician associate program conducted
by the U of Minnesota. He is presently
studying in Watertown. . .. DENNIS
SMID is superintendent of A. Borchmen
Sons Co. . .. PHILLIP TSUI has begun
studying law at Rutgers U.
'74 Greg Melsen, Chm.
Hopkins, MN 55343
JOHN ERHART is in his third year
at Georgetown University Law School.
The last two years he worked as part­time
legislative intern for his congress­man
but this year he is working 15-20
hours per week at the Securities and
Exchange Commission. . . . CANNING
FOK is working for Arthur Andersen
& Co. and is attending the U of Sidney.
His address is 16/88 Albert Ave, Chats­wood,
NSW 2067, Australia. . .. ANDY
GINDER received his MA in Spanish
at the U of Wisconsin in Madison. His
address is 815 6th Ave, Austin 55912.
. . . MIKE McCARTHY was top man as
sales rep for Investors Diversified Serv­ices
in western MN. Mike and his wife,
Pat-who served as receptionist in the
SIU business office for several years­live
in Olivia (Box 96, zip 56277) ....
DANIEL MONTGOMERY is employed
by Ernst & Ernst in Mpls .... MICHAEL
MORIARITY is starting his 3rd year of
law school at Wm Mitchell College of
Law in St. Paul. Mike is employed on
a part-time basis as a producer for
Minnesota Public Radio (KSJN) in St.
Paul. ... GEORGE WANG finished his
masters degree at the U of Nebraska
and is now working on a doctorate in
biology at Rice. . .. ALTON WONG has
moved to 2114 W Michigan Ave, Apt 7,
Milwaukee 53233. . .. STEVE YEUNG is
now working for a chartered accountant
firm in Toronto.
'75 Sean Hanlon, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN
DENNIS BRACCO is involved in
amateur basketball leagues in Atlanta
as a player and has joined the Peach
State Basketball Officials Assoc. . ..
LOREN FORBES has enrolled at Amer­ican
Graduate School of Int'l Manage­ment
in Glendale, AZ. . .. NAUSHER
KHAN is living at 702 Vista Del Cerro,
Tempe, AZ 85281. ... PETER LO is
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continuing graduate studies at Iowa
State. . .. ROBERT LOCKE and wife,
Mary, are living in Winnipeg. , ...
MICHAEL MESSENSCHMIDT is a
foundations unit manager for the 1st
Trust Co. of St. Paul. ... ALLAN
MOSLOSKI is planning to return to
school for a master's degree .... DANA
SCHNOB RICH is an engineering student
at the U of Minnesota. . . . G REG
TSCHIDA and wife, Patricia, are em­ployed
in St. Paul. ... SENI TUFELE is
studying at the Western State U School
of UIW and lives at 4108 Morage Ave,
San Diego 92117 .... MATTHEW WIL­LIAMS
is a nuring assistant for the
Hennepin County Medical Center ....
JOHN WINDS CHILL is attending grad­uate
school at the U of Minnesota.
'76
Fr. FRANCIS AKWUE is continuing
graduate studies in Canada at St. Paul
U in Ottawa. . .. DION DARVEAUX is
beginning graduate work and lives at
49 Madison, Charleston, IL 61920. . ..
TIM GRAUPMAN is teaching and
coaching football at Two Harbors High·
School. ... TOSHIKI GOMI is studying
at the U of Missouri and lives at 254
Tiger Towers, 1205 University Ave,
Columbia, MO 65201. ... JAMES E .
KANYUSIK is attending the California
School of Law in San Diego. . .. KEN­NETH
KETOLA is employed by the
U S Gov't in Rock Island, IL. . . .
CARLOS MATSUMOTO has trans­ferred
to St. Cloud State. His address
is 1101 N 32nd Ave, St. Cloud 56301.
... MICHAEL SCHLEY is employed by
the Touche Ross & Co .... ALEX SHUM
is pursuing a degree in music at the
California Institute of the Arts. . ..
DAVID TELLINGHUISEN is employed
in agricultural services for the Braham
Coop Creamery .... RONALD TSANG
is beginning graduate work in chemistry
at Iowa State. . .. DUANE L. WITTEN­BURG,
a 2nd lieutenant in the Army,
achieved distinguished graduate honors
while attending the quartermaster of­ficer
basic course recently at Fort Lee,
VA. This singular award is bestowed
upon the officer in the class attaining
the highest academic average during
the 10-week training session, The Army
notification letter to St, John's ROTC
department noted, "Lt. Wittenburg'S
demonstrated performance, attitude and
bearing reflect highly on the ability of
your faculty to produce high quality
officers." ... EDDIE PONIEWAZ is em­ployed
at the LaGuardia Terminal, NY,
for Ozark Airlines.
SAINT JOHN'S
COLLEGEVILLE, MN. 56321
FALL, 1976
They did it .. SJain!
National cha:mps
A Christmas message
Once again we are in the midst of the annual conflict between
the Spirit of Christmas, which celebrates the goodness and mercy of God,
and the commercial promotion of Christmas~ which celebrates our
acquisitive spirit. Ironically, it is before Thanksgiving, and long before
we should allow the spirit of that day to fade, that yuletide
commercialism is unleashed. This is unfortunate, because gratitude
never seems to receive its proper emphasis.
The times are hard. Drought, unemployment and inflation appear
to be more· inexorable than swine flu and certainly more epidemic.
'And all the while we are cajoled to acquire new tastes or to try
something new or better. Keeping up with the Joneses nowadays
requires the acquisition of not only snowmobiles, but citizen band radios
and home video recording equipment to eliminate those difficult
decisions of choosing between two simultaneous television programs.
What we have and what we would like to have are forever far apart.
Add to these frustrations the ingredient of our other disordered
passions and we can sometimes bring ourselves to wonder what there
is to be thankful for. Disordered passions have always been with us,
even in a Christian University community like Saint John's.
Our community can be torn into factions, as recently occurred in an
emotional dispute about whether to accept NAIA or NCAA post-season
bowl bids. Our community continues to be concerned by the sometimes
offensive language and actions at athletic events of a few persons
who would call themselves fans. Occasionally, drunkenness continues
to be a factor causing SOme among us to fall short of the Christian
ideals we still believe guide our lives together at Saint John's.
And, although we continue to strive toward those ideals, we know
that sin is universat even among those who are called to be saints.
We find strength in knowing that where sin abounds, so does
God's mercy. Like dew or rain on parched land, like the sun thawing
winter's cold, God's mercy changes our lives. Christmas celebrates
His miraculous intervention. That miracle is the source of authentic
hope, unquenchable joy and consuming love. Given so great a gift
of God, thanksgiving is the Spirit of Christmas. We cannot allow the
frustrations of our failure to achieve perfection to diminish our
awareness of what we have to be thankful for, and there is much
for which we are grateful. This Christian community, of which
everyone of you is in some way a member, will celebrate joyfully and
thankfully the commemoration of the coming of the Lord.
May his peace be with you in this season!
~'h~:l~:: o~:::
ON THE COVER:
The victorious St. John's football squad received the Amos Alonzo Stagg
Bowl championship trophy following an exciting 31-28 victory over
Towson State Tigers of Towson, MD, December 4 in Phenix City, AL.
Pictured, left to right, are Tom Young (58), Dave Grovum, Jim Roeder
(22L Joe Wentzel (kneeling, 74), Mike Grant (83), Joe Swanson, Mark
Griffin (kneeling), Rick Van Lith, Coach John Gagliardi, Terry Sexton,
Chris Boyd and Tim Fristrom. (Photo by John McTigue)
Saint John's
Vol. 16, No.2
Fall, 1976
Editor: Lee A. Hanley '58
Associate Editor: Thom Woodward '70
Saint John's is published quarterly (Winter, Spring,
Summer and Fall) by the Office of Communica·
tions, St. John's University. Second Class p?~tage
paid at Collegeville, MN 56321 and additional
entry at St. Cloud, MN 56301, granted January
28, 1969.
ALUMNI OFFICERS
ELECTED
Roger Scherer '58, President
Jerome Terhaar '48, Vice President
John Rogers '63, Secretary
Gene Koch '51
William McGrann '59
Steve Muggli, Jr. '61
Robert Welle '48
EX OFFICIO
Abbot John A. Eidenschink, OSB '35, Hon. Pres.
Fr. Michael Blecker, OSB, University President
Fr. Roger Botz, OSB '56, Executive Director
Alumni Association
Paul Mulready '50, Executive Governing
Board Representative
Richard Pope '58, Past President.
Michael Ricci '62, Development Director
Fr. Alan Steichen, OSB, '68,
Preparatory School Headmaster
Lee A. Hanley '58, Communications Director
INDEX:
VIRGIL MICHEL:
THE ORIGINS
OF THE NEW CHURCH 1
by Dr. Ralph William
Franklin
GHANA EXPERIENCE:
TAKING LEARNING
BEYOND CLASSROOM 5
by Ron Berger '77
SJ U REGENT
JOHN MYERS
JOINS STAFF
by Oliver Towne
The Bookshelf:
IICharismatic Renewal
9
and the Churchesll ••••••• 11
Reviewed by
Fr. Ray Pedrizetti, OSB
ST. JOHN'S
NEWS REVIEW .......... 14
ST. JOHN'S
SPORTS REVIEW ......... 17
ALUMNI
NEWS NOTES ... . . . . . . .. 22
VIRGIL MICHEL: THE ORIGINS OF THE NEW CHURCH
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Liturgical Movement
Tomorrow there will be a
football game with St. Olaf. I am discussing a seminar
paper on Irish history with a senior. The conversa­tion
turns from Roger Casement and imperialist
atrocities in the Congo to St. Olaf and then to St.
John's. "What do people think of St. John's?" the
senior asks. We run through a variety of answers:
"St. John's is a place to which you go to receive
excellent professional training in science." Or, "There
is no better school for undergraduate preparation in
business administration."
"If you ask Professor David Kieft at the Uni­versity
of Minnesota he will say, 'St. John's is the
school of Virgil Michel!'" I note, II and if you had
asked me seven years ago-a Protestant graduate
student far removed from this place-I would have
said, 'St. John's imported the Liturgical Movement
to the United States.' II
Science - business - liturgy - Virgil Michel
- how do they fit together? And who was Virgil
Michel?
He was a monk of St. John's who died in 1938.
He accomplished the unique task of joining the world
of business-the world of work-to the world of
liturgy-the world of worship. Worship and Work
-not for monks alone, but for laymen as well. And
in the process he had a vision which transformed
both worship and work. After his death, that vision
was continued in the Liturgical Movement and during
the thirties and the forties St. John's was the Amer­ican
center of the Liturgical Movement. It was a
force which prepared the way for Vatican II. Virgil
Michel was not an originator of ideas. He was an
importer of ideas. The Liturgical Movement was
essentially a European development. The historic
mission of Virgil Michel and St. John's was to trans­plant
successfully a European revival to the United
States. And to make this point clear I can not resist
launching into an explanation which is my hobby­horse
and has been for a number of years. The first
part of the explanation concerns the European con­text
of the Liturgical Movement.
The casual visitor who might return to the early
nineteenth century would be struck by how individ­ualistic
Catholicism was then. The official corporate
worship of the Church-the liturgy-was unimpor­tant.
This created a certain imbalance of emphasis.
At the Church of St. Jacques in Paris in the 1840's
it cost more to attend the non-eucharistic service of
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament than to secure
seats for one of the minor masses. Hiking in Bavaria,
Dr. Dollinger came across a village church dedicated
to the Sacred Heart with a banner spread above the
altar, "Holy Trinity, pray for us." The brilliant
A native-Mississippian, Ralph W. Franklin is a member
of St. John's History Department. This article is drawn
from his Ph.D. thesis, "Nineteenth Century Churches:
The History of a New Catholicism," (Harvard, 1975),
and from four articles for ~Vorship: "Gueranger: A View
on the Centenary of His Death," (June, 1975); "Gue­ranger
and Pastoral Liturgy: A Nineteenth-Century Con­text,"
(March, 1976); "Gueranger and Variety in Unity/'
and "The Nineteenth-Century Liturgical Movement."
Saint 1
liberal humanist bishop of Orleans,
Mgr. Fayet, wrote in 1845: "There
is no necessary relationship be­tween
the liturgy and the virtue
of religion .... The power of re­ligion
is only related to interior
acts and has nothing to share with
the liturgy." To the German
Catholic nationalist Benedict Alois
Pflanz in 1838, enthusiasts for
worship were advocates of "the
religion of shepherd and herd ....
lifeless mechanism .... outer rules
.... forms .... praying monks oc­cupying
chancels-fairy tales and
legends."
In England it was even clearer
that the Church was not thought
of as a community and that lit­urgical
worship was unimportant.
In the Roman Catholic chapel at­tached
to the Spanish Embassy at
St. J ames's Place, glass partitions
had been installed between seats
for the poor and rich worshippers,
so that the latter would not have
to smell the former. The naves of
the Church of England were clut­tered
with comfortable high-back
pews equipped with footwarmers,
cushions, and book shelves, a mat­ter
of property to individual well­to-
do families, and precarious gal­leries
for the poor. The choir was
assaulted with pea shooters and
dogs were unleashed in the gal­leries
at St. George's-in-the-East
in London in 1859 when surplices
appeared over black gowns and
candles were lighted on the altar.
In 1865 the local press accused
J. S. L. Burn of Middlesbrough of
practicing "genuflexions and in­cest"
because he swung incense
during the celebration of the eu­charist.
In 1874 the British Parlia­ment
passed the Public Worship
Regulation Act which outlawed
practices liturgists used to enhance
the corporate and objective char­acter
of worship. Pelham Dale
was jailed at Manchester for
wearing vestments. S. F. Green
was imprisoned in Lancaster Castle
and Andrew Bell-Cox was incar­cerated
in Liverpool prison for
the use of incense.
The visitor to the
nineteenth century would also ob­serve
it to be an age of revolution.
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The most pervasive and revolu­tionary
revolution of all was
industrialization. In replacing ma­chine
labor for human labor, the
industrial revolution advanced the
destruction of age-old secular com­munities
in Europe-causing wide­spread
isolation and alienation. Be­fore
the 1760s work had often
been a communal experience.
There was an organic relationship
between labor and life. But with
the removal of populations from
the countryside to the new indus­trial
centers, with the removal of
the worker from his family for
eternal shifts, with the require­ment
that the worker stand six
days a week isolated before his
machine from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.,
the old secular communities were
destroyed.
The example of the family will
suffice. In Manchester in 1836 a
mother and a father are arraigned
for the death of their three chil­dren,
poisoned that they might col­lect
three shillings each on burial
insurance. In Manchester in 1834
a mother and father are arraigned
for drugging their infant son and
daughter and tying them to the
leg of a table, so that both parents
could work the shifts in the fac­tories.
In 1845 in Manchester, 210
deaths of youths between the ages
of 5 and 10 are reported in the
local press-10 killed when they
fell into the polluted waters of
the River Irk-7 done to death as
a result of having all their bones
broken when caught in the belt
of one of the cotton machines.
At three places in Europe in
1833 a revolt broke out against
the alienation and the fragmenta­tion
of this revolutionary age. At
the University of Tiibingen in
Germany, Johann Adam Mohler
taught-in opposition to what he
conceived to be a growing secular
alienation-that the Church is not
a clerical hierarchy but a commu­nity
of all the faithful who them­selves
form the mystical Body of
Christ. At the Abbey of Solesmes
in France, Dom Prosper Gueranger
preached that the liturgy was the
foundation of the community
Mohler described the Church to
be. Worship is the means by
which Christ composes men into
the body of his Church. But in
order to make the liturgy live
again, he said, it must be made
meaningful to all people. The
Church should undertake such ed­ucation.
Gueranger convinced his
monks that restoration of common
worship is the chief duty of mod­ern
Benedictines.
In the Anglican Church the Lit­urgical
Movement grew out of the
Oxford Movement. Dr. Pusey was
its leader after 1845. To Victor­ians,
Pusey and Puseyism were
terms of disapprobation and mock­ery,
suggesting crankiness and un­patriotic
oddity. Dr. Pusey's mys­terious
life behind the walls of
Pollution Revolution: The Krupp Works at Essen, 1912.
Christ Church in Oxford-he was
said to lay stripes, wear haircloth,
eat unpleasant food, and sacrifice
a lamb every Good Friday-did
nothing to dispel this impression.
Yet he was a fearless pioneer who
established a network of parishes
in slums and industrial districts
-not just new churches, but
new kinds of churches-liturgical
churches.
In 1837 Pusey auctioned off his
wife's jewels (she died two years
later) and their horse and carriage
to build a church in Leeds, a mill
town which had been pitifully
gashed by industrialization. The
liturgy at this new St. Saviour's
Church, according to a witness,
"satisfied the longings of those
whose life is passed in the con­tinual
din of revolving wheels, the
glare and blaze of furnaces, the
mistiness of smoke and flax-dust."
On all solemn occasions the eu­charist
was sung. On Christmas
Eve there was a procession and
a celebration of the eucharist at
midnight. On Easter day, Whitsun­day,
and Corpus Christi, the con­gregation
processed with banners.
The seats were all movable and
free. James Davies wrote his
mother in 1848: "I felt in a dif­ferent
atmosphere there-a dark
solemn mystery was the character
of the whole place. I hardly can
suppose a place better formed than
St. Saviour's for breaking up the
idol of self." Between 1846 and
1870, 2,135 children were brought
to St. Saviour's to be baptized in
a population of 6,000. At the typi­cally
Anglican original parish
church of Leeds, which served a
district of 11,000 or 12,000 people,
not twenty families went to
church. The Protestant methods of
such parishes were not attracting
the workers.
The creative leadership of the
Liturgical Movement passed from
center to center. By the 1860's it
had moved to the Abbey of Beuron
in Germany, which may be seen
as a combination of Gueranger
and Mohler. There the Mass Book
of the Holy Church was published
in 1884 with translations and ex­planations
of all the mass prayers.
In its preface we already find the
phrase Liturgical Movement in
Worship under glass: protecting the faithful from the faithful in a 19th century
British Church.
use. By 1906, 100,000 copies of
this so-called Schott Missal had
been sold. In 1939 1,650,000 im­pressions
were in use.
Political persecution directed at
monks in Germany forced the Lit­urgical
Movement into other ab­beys,
and by the first decades of
the twentieth century there were
two new liturgical headquarters­the
Abbey of Mont Cesar in Bel­gium
and the Abbey of Maria
Laach in the German Rhineland.
The central figure at Mont Cesar
was Lambert Beauduin, who work­ed
eight years as a priest with
factory workers as one of the
"chaplains of workmen" appointed
by the Diocese of Liege. During
this experience he came to appre­ciate
the alienation caused by work
and the extreme individualization
which were the common experi­ences
of industrial men.
In La Piete de l'Eglise in 1914
he announced to his contempor­aries
that active and comprehen­sive
participation in the Mass could
create a sense of brotherhood and
fellowship among such people:
"From the first centuries to our
own day, the Church has ever
given to all her prayer a spirit
which is profoundly and essen­tially
collective. . .. This is the
most powerful antidote against
individualism. It can, therefore,
be said in all truth that what­ever
the liturgy loses is gained
by individualism. By means of
living the liturgy wholehearted­ly,
Christians become more and
more conscious of their super­natural
fraternity."
Nor was the liturgical revival sepa­rated
from the agony of industrial
dislocation at Maria Laach. Abbot
Herwegen wrote that if worship
were restored to a corporate "act
of the whole Christian people it
would "be able not only to create
out of society but also free society
from its earthly bonds, to lift it
from the misery of the present,"
and Dom ado Casel demanded
that the Church not hide from the
contemporary world but meet it,
live in it, transform it:
"The world of the sacraments,
the world into which the liturgy
introduces us, is not a world in
its own right, standing aloof
from the world of ordinary
livingo It is rather the meeting
point of the world of the resur­rection
with this very world of
ours. A liturgical life, there­fore,
is a life of true human­ism,
for it is a life concerned
with fostering the true interests
Saint .3
of human beings as they actually
exist in the real order."
And this is where
Virgil Michel enters the scene, for
it was in the 1920s that he was
sent to Europe for further study
and there he came in contact with
Mont Cesar and Maria Laach.
In 1925 Michel was already
writing back to America of the
relation of corporate liturgy to
social problems: "I made a hurried
sketch yesterday of a possible dis­sertation:
Industrial labor-man's
nature, intellect, and will in rela­tion
to labor." And he said later,
"The liturgy does not offer a de­tailed
scheme of economic recon­struction.
But it does give us a
proper concept and understanding
of what society is like, through its
model, the mystical Body of Christ.
And it puts this concept [of com­munity
rather than individualism]
into action in its worship and
wants us to live it out in everyday
life. By ever sowing in men's
hearts the seeds of the unifying
bond that ties them all to God
and to each other in an intimate
social fellowship, the liturgy will
transmit the solid values of [com­munal]
civilization."
Michel's campaign for an Amer­ican
Liturgical Movement evolved
in two stages. In the 1920s he
organized the liturgical apostolate
per se. In the 1930s he worked out
the social implications of liturgy.
We argue that he is the Amer­ican
father of the movement be­cause
fifty years ago he united
the efforts of a number of litur­gists
into the first two institutional
projects which became permanent
forces for the advancement of the
revival-the journal Orate Fratresl
Worship and the Liturgical Press.
Orate Fratres made its initial ap­pearance
on November 28, 1926.
Its goal was the "wider spread of
the true understanding of and par­ticipation
in the Church's worship
by the general laity in order to
foster the corporate life of the
natural social units of the Church
-the parishes." By 1929 Orate
Fratres was appearing in 26 coun­tries,
and it soon was to become
the official voice for the Liturgical
4 Saint
Liturgy in the round: a format to encourage communal worship (Cathedral of
Christ the King, Liverpool).
Movement in the English-speaking
world. The Liturgical Press, also
founded in 1926, pursued similar
ideals through its Popular Litur­gical
Library. National liturgical
days and liturgical summer schools
were organized on the Saint John's
campus with the same intent: to
bring people back to active par­ticipation
in the official worship
of the Church and thereby make
parishes into model communities.
In 1935 the staff of Orate
Fratres was reorganized and its
policy reshaped to emphasize more
strongly the social implications of
communal worship. Michel under­stood
that the social problems of
contemporary civilization came ul­timately
from the fragmentation
unleashed by industrial capitalism.
Paul Marx in his remarkable Virgil
Michel and the Liturgical Move­ment
reprints this statement: "The
greatest of the evils is perhaps
the depersonalization of man, the
reduction of man to a mere cog
in a machine .... The greatest evil
of bourgeois capitalism is the harm
it has done to man himself ....
individualistic liberalism tended to
dehumanize and depersonalize man
most completely." What was need­ed
was community-community in
work-community in ownership-community
in worship. But com­munity
in worship was most im­portant,
for the mass was to
Michel the school in which man­kind
learned to live communally
in secular life. There were practical
results at Saint John's in this
sphere as well-the Institute for
Social Study designed to train lay
leaders in the implementation of
social principles, the fostering of
credit unions, cooperatives, and
rural life associations.
Here then is the meaning of
Virgil Michel: The central theme
of Western history in the last 200
years is the attempt to reintegrate
a culture fragmented by the in­dustrial
revolution. Virgil Michel
placed Saint John's in the middle
of this development. Saint John's
was attempting to provide a Chris­tian
response to the problem of
alienation. To put it in the crudest
possible way, Saint John's was
providing a commodity the public
wanted and needed-Christian
community. This, the secular his­torian
would say, is why the Lit­urgical
Movement emerged from
the woods of Minnesota to trans­form
the American churches. And
this is why community is the
dominant theme of the Catholicism
of Vatican II. D
A group of economics and business administra­tion
students from St. John's and other colleges spent
the summer in Africa through St. John's University's
International Administration Program (lAP). Next
summer will feature comparative international man­agement
in France and Africa. In this article Ron
Berger relates his broad learning experience in Ghana.
Photos by Randy Hayne
In July 8, 1976, Dr. Ali
Hakam, director of the St. John's University Inter­national
Administration Program (lAP), and 11 stu­dents
flew out of New York's Kennedy International
Airport for a two-month stay in Ghana and the sur­rounding
countries-for a summer that none of us
will ever forget. The trip was part of a new SJU
business curriculum in international business admin­istration
that is intended to give students the back­ground
needed to work with multinational corpora­tions.
The purpose of the summer program is to
take business students away from their home en­vironment
and give them a chance to study another
people and a different economic system.
The most valuable educational experience was
not in the classes that we attended at the University
of Ghana (Legon), but in the exposure to Ghanaian
culture and in the experience of living in a third­world
nation. For two months, each of us as in­dividuals
and, at times, all of us in a group, exper­ienced
the lively and colorful Ghanaian culture.
Through our Ghanaian friends, we experienced the
hopes and fears, the frustrations and some of the
triumphs occurring in Ghana today.
GHANA EXPERIENCE:
TAKING LEARNING
BEYOND CLASSROOM
by Ron Berger '77
The international administration students partic­ipating
in last summer's six-week class in Ghana
traveled extensively in the country by VW van.
Ron Berger, author of this article, is on the left.
Our education began with our refueling stop
in Dakar, Senegal. Dakar in July, even at 3 :30 a.m.,
is sweltering. Located ahnost on the Tropic of
Capicorn, it has the sun directly overhead the entire
day, heating everything to a terrific level. We walked
into the terminal and everyone there spoke French.
The feeling was totally foreign, totally "Dark Con­tinent."
We all wondered if this was what Ghana
was like, and whether we could ever adjust to the
heat. When we took off from Dakar two hours later
the excitement and anticipation really began to build.
When the sun rose at 6:30, we all strained to get
a look at the African continent, but the heavy cloud
cover denied us that glimpse.
At 8 :15 we got our first look at Africa-we
broke through the low clouds and the Accra Coastal
Plain stretched out below us. It is a gently rolling
grassland dotted with occasional trees. There is a
patchwork of small, hand-tilled fields and a network
of narrow red clay and tarred roads leading to small
villages and into the hills inland. We flew over
Legon and the Accra-Tema motorway (the only four­lane
highwaY-13 miles) and saw Tema's port and
industrial district (70 per cent of Ghana's heavy
industry is located here) and Accra, the capital city.
Ron Berger, a senior from Renville,
is a major in St. John's economics
and business administration depart­ment.
His future plans include the
Peace Corps and/or joining an ac­counting
firm in northern Minnesota
or Alaska.
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1. The fruits of souvenir hunting near Kumasi.
2. Bob Brown '78 and program director Ali Hakam stop for a
roadside sip of palm wine from calabashes.
3. Randy Hayne and Marcia Lewis enjoy the hospitality of a
family at the Ghana-Upper Volta border.
4. Students from other colleges, too, are welcome in the inter­national
administration program. Frances Hinson, a Macalester
student, is surrounded here by the future of Ghana.
5. A market scene in Accra, Ghana.
The plane landed at Accra's Kotoka International
Airport and we deplaned, an elated crew of travelers.
The weather was beautiful-70 0, with a light sea
breeze. What a relief after Dakar. And this was
what the weather was like for the entire stay-low
80s in the daytime, high 60s to low 70s at night
with intermittent sunshine; it was Ghana's cold
season.
It is difficult to describe
our initial feelings now, with the trip behind us,
but I remember the feeling of, "Wow, we're really
here~it' s not just a spot on the map!" Those first
few days we were amazed by everything we saw­everything
was so totally foreign. We had all tried
hard to eliminate any preconceived notions, to learn
from experience, and we were bombarded by new
experiences. The first surprise was being able to
drink the tap water safely. That first cautious drink,
followed by a two-hour wait with no ill effects,
was one of the most pleasant things we could have
experienced.
We lived in a dormitory with Ghanaian summer
students, and we talked to them a lot those first
days, finding out what we could about Ghana and
answering some of their questions about our country.
We were to discover that their hospitality is char­acteristic
of the Ghanaian people-it is culturally
unacceptable to refuse help to a stranger in need.
The very first time we went into Accra we
experienced this facet of Ghanaian life. Any time
we needed directions or wanted other information
we had only to ask the first person we saw and
each was more than happy to help. If we needed
directions, often the person we questioned would
offer not only to tell us where to go, but would
offer to take us there to make sure we arrived safely.
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There is nothing to fear from a stranger in the
city or in the smallest village. Violent crime is al­most
unheard of-many city streets are unlighted,
yet a lone woman or man may walk unafraid at
night in any section of town.
Music permeates every aspect of Ghanaian life:
it is present in festivals, in all religious events and
in the singing of everyday work. Everyone practices
his talent-small boys practice drumming on rocks
or logs or on whatever is available. In the larger
towns there is music at night spots every day of the
week and some clubs are open until dawn. The
Highlife is the traditional Ghanaian musical style­the
basic rhythm is complex, with the emphasis on
the upbeat rather than on the downbeat as in Amer­ican
and Western European music. Highlife enjoyed
a period of popularity in the u.s. with the rise of
Osibisa, a Ghanaian group.
Religion in Ghana is a com­plex
of indigenous and introduced religious beliefs
with three main groups represented-Christian, Is­lamic
and Animism (primarily, belief in "Juju").
"Juju" is a religion that relies on the common
belief in the spirit in accomplishing its psychological
"magic." I learned about Juju from a man who
works in one of the dining halls at Legon. He told
me that Juju is the spirit world and Juju gets things
done for him very quickly. The man is hungry;
Juju sends a chicken. He catches the chicken, cuts
off the head and gives the blood to Juju. Juju is
not greedy; he wants no meat, only blood. After
he has satisfied his hunger, Juju talks to him, telling
him what do. Voodooism is another form of Anim­ism,
a form that commercialism has brought to the
movies.
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In Africa, there are three kinds of "witch doc­tors."
The one depicted in Tarzan movies is not
really a legitimate doctor-he is a spiritualist who
practices Animism, curing and killing through psy­chology.
His is a wealth gathering business. On the
other hand, the herbalist and the priest are never
rich.
The herbalist is the legitimate doctor. He cures
using herbs mixed into healing potions and salves.
The first "pharmaceutical company" in Africa, he
still competes with the modern companies that have
established pharmaceutical plants in West· Africa.
The priest is the true link between the Ghanaian
people and the spirit world. Almost all Ghanaians
believe to a certain extent in Juju-even those who
are highly educated, although not many will admit
to it. However, in today's revival of traditional
worship forms, more and more educated people are
going back to Animism. Westerners who have never
experienced Africa are naturally quite skeptical about
Juju-he would never survive in our scientific envi­ronment.
In Africa, though, who can tell? We Amer­icans
all wore some sort of good luck charm before
our stay was finished.
Christianity in Africa is much as it is here in
physical form. In spirit, however, it is much more
intense. Music is much more a part of all services;
funerals are occasions for a day-long celebration,
complete with drumming and singing, along with a
lot of beer and akpeteshie, a homemade Ghanaian gin.
Islam is the fastest spreading religion in West
Africa. It appeals to the people in much the same
way as the traditional religions and fills similar
needs.
Cwasi Bruni"-in the Twi
language of southern Ghana, "White man, born on
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Sunday," 'is the universal name for a light-skinned
person. It is a tradition of the Akan people to take
as part of their name the day of the week on which
they were born. The first white men that most Akan
came in contact with (other than slavers) were mis­sionaries,
hence "Cwasi"-born on Sunday, "Bruni"
-white man. Those early missionaries did much
harm to the Ghanaians, breaking down their tradi­tions
and paving the way for the advance of coloni­alism.
They are to be commended for establishing
a good system of inexpensive private schools, but
many Ghanaians debate the value of the trade-off.
One Western influence that most Ghanaians
admire, however, is the Peace Corps; the volunteers
are readily accepted. They are stationed throughout
Ghana, earning the same wage as a similarly em-
. ployed Ghanaian would, serving in various capac­ities
as nurses, technical consultants, agricultural ex­tension
agents and teachers. Jim Schnepf, a 1975
St. John's graduate, has been working in Sefwi
Wiawso, Western Region for the past 14 months as
a secondary school math teacher. I visited him in
early August with Bob Brown, and we stayed for
four days, getting a small taste of rural life.
Jim told us that his adjustment to the food,
which is quite peppery, and to being on his own in
a foreign environment had taken him about two
months, but that the local people had accepted him
as he accepted them. At first they kept their dis­tance,
but now he is one of the townspeople-they
come to his window to chat, or come in to spend
some time.
The university students oc­cupy
an elite position in Ghana. Gaining entrance
to the university is a highly competitive process and
only the best students are admitted. Nine out of ten
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University students are men; in Ghana, where many
hands are needed to produce food in their sub­sistence-
based agricultural system, "If your sister
goes to school, you don't eat."
The government provides free tuition, books,
room and board, giving the students an advantage
over their less fortunate countrymen. Although their
accommodations are Spartan by our standards, they
do enjoy pure running water (cold only), their own
beds, double rooms and their own desks-luxuries
few others can afford.
Some students wish only to gain material goods
for themselves or want to use their degrees as a
ticket to Europe or the u.s. However, most students
realize that they are privileged and hope to use their
education to help Ghana. More and more students
are turning to agricultural education, hoping to start
an agricultural revolution to remedy Ghana's chronic
food shortages-no one starves, but because of un­even
food production and a total lack of storage
facilities, prices fluctuate greatly with the seasons.
Ghana's general business environment suffers
from the effects of underdevelopment on worker
productivity, transportation, communication and sup­ply
of materials.
Worker productivity is adversely affected by a
diet that is high in carbohydrates and low in protein
and vitamins. The low general educational level
makes it harder to train workers, although Ghana,
with its 60 per cent literacy rate, is far ahead of
her neighbors in that respect. Impure water and lack
of proper sanitation, especially in rural areas, pro­motes
diseases.
Transportation, or lack of it, is one of the most
serious problems that Ghana faces today. The roads
are poorly constructed and are full of potholes. Most
of the trucks in the country are more than ten years
old and are, as a rule, underpowered, overloaded
and poorly maintained because spare parts are scarce.
As a result transport is at best unreliable, leading
to aggravating delays in delivery and to high freight
charges by owners trying to cover their operating
costs. Even more serious is the 1055 that results from
the lack of sufficient hauling capacity. Twenty per
cent of all foodstuffs rots before it reaches market
-enough food to make Ghana a net exporter of
food products.
The lone bright spot in public transport is the
state-owned bus system. It uses big, 52-passenger
diesel buses with power to spare specially built for
West African roads. As an example, the state trans­port
makes the 167-mile trip from Accra to Kumasi
(capital of the Ashanti region) in four and one half
hours, with a IS-minute rest stop. The buses also
manage to run on schedule, an unusual phenomenon
in Ghana. In contrast, our VW bus took five and
one half hours to make the same trip, and a loaded
truck takes almost ten hours.
The third problem encountered by the business­man
in Ghana is the remoteness caused by a lack
of reliable news from the outside world coupled with
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poor internal communication-there are few tele­phones
and service is unreliable. Intercity mail de­livery
is also slow-it can take a letter from Kumasi
three days or more to be delivered in Accra.
The business world is also plagued by a shortage
of foreign exchange needed to buy finished goods
which are not domestically produced. Foreign ex­change
(FE) is hard currency, such as the dollar,
earned by exporting goods and services. FE is used
to purchase needed imports.
The available FE is rationed by the government,
which issues import licenses; there are never enough
licenses to meet the demand, nor does the govern­ment
always balance the country's needs (Le. spare
parts, new trucks, some building materials) with the
import licenses granted. As a result, the business
world runs on the philosophy, "If an item that you
will need in the foreseeable future becomes available,
buy it now." This tends to aggravate the shortage
for the unlucky businessman with more immediate
needs.
These are the problems
faced by Ghana-poverty,' poor transportation and
communication and shortages. She is striving to
overcome these problems and the next ten years are
crucial to her continued development. Ghanaians
are proud people, and they are trymg hard to develop
within their own culture. Progress is being made­the
Volta River dam, backing up a 200-mile long
lake, is the principal source of electrical power to
Ghana. The lake itself promises to be the inland
highway of the future that Ghana so desperately
needs. Farmers are using new agricultural methods
and Ghana has been able to greatly reduce her food
imports.
In addition, private businessmen, loyal to their
home villages, tryon their own initiative to bring
changes to the rural areas to help them to break
out of their poverty. These efforts, still in their
infancy, show signs of succeeding; perhaps in the
future all Ghanaians will have the opportunities that
these fortunate men enjoyed.
Ultimately, the success of
a program such as this must be measured in the
impact it has on participating students. The experi­ence
itself made each of us much more sensitive to
the problems faced by the entrepeneur in a small,
developing nation. But there are already other, more
dramatic indicators of the impact of this experience
on our group. One student, Randy Hayne, is now
on a Peace Corps assignment in Ougadoudou, Upper
Volta, and at least five other student participants
are making plans to go abroad again in some cap­acity,
whether as students or businessmen. All of
us became more grateful for the things we have in
our homeland, but we also became more aware of
the responsibility of an affluent nation in a world of
less affluent neighbors. D
- .L1 ...
John Myers, chairman of St. John's Board .of Rege~~:
and recently retired chief executive offIcer of ff
~~erner Waldorf Corporation, ioined :he SJU. s~:el
t IS fall as assistant to University PreSIdent MIC t
Ble7ker, OSB. Following is a newspaper ac[oui
w~lch explains Myers' decision to work more C ose Y
WIth St. John's.
Reprinted with the permission of the
St. Paul Dispatch, September 23, 1976.
A CTUALL y, I'm not at all
surpris e d you decided to resign as pres ident . of
~oerner Waldorf and go to St. Joh~'S V;;i~er:~~~
lecturer and assistant to the preSIdent,
John B. Myers
. d'd the 1 He leaned forward a little curiously. 50 hI d
te ephone installer who happened to be perc e on
~ stepladder in John's 21st floor office of the Amer-
Ican National Bank "I
"Whe n t h e an. nouncement came," I said' d
rem~mbered the day you sat in your John F. Kenl
nd
e Yf
rockIng. ch aI. r seven years ago m. the H oerne r Wa ord
executIve suite and talked about how a devout an
active member of the Anglican faith could have
been elected to the board of trustees of the very
Cath~1ic St. John's. . "
You almost gushed with pride and feehng.
"Wa s I. t that obvious?" said John, nod d'm g far. eh-well
to the telephone man who bowed out WIt
apologies.
"You're \velcome to stay and listen in," John
called after him.
~ ou Were way ahead of me in 1969. But, ~ '
~aybe not. Maybe I had begun thinking even th~d
t at St. John's is very nearly the center of wo~
ecumenicism . . . with its ecumenical communlty
study program its 1 500 years of teaching and pre­s.
e rVing the cul t' ure an'd gent1 e compassl.O n of. civiliza-hon
. . . I am a strong believer in ecumenlsm . . .
and I have always thought it would begin between
the Anglicans and Roman Catholics.
"5u re, I wanted to be part of it .. ' I t hI' nk even
ba~k then, when Father Colman Barry was pr~sidenr
an We had him speak here at St. John's Eplsco~a
Church, I may have had an urge to get more In­volved."
BUT ALL that time since 1969 John Myers was
up to his ears in the turmoils and te~sions of Hoerner
:lildorf, the anti-establishment movement, the whole
a game, within and without. Th
~e managed to become a spokesman for e
EstablIshment as one of the "good guys." He fought
SJU REGENT
JOHN MYERS
JOINS STAFF
by Oliver Towne
for racial equality in business and on the streets.
He promoted recycling of everything reusable.
And somehow John found time for other loves
-. the Minnesota Symphony, Minnesota Opera, The
MInnesota Fine Arts Council.
Nor did he neglect his hobby of taking old
cars apart and putting them back together in his
garage on Otis Avenue.
"When did I seriously think about retiring to
St. John's? Because you never retire from something.
You retire to something else. Well, I don't know.
It just grew," he said.
Maybe it was driving to those college trustee
meetings, becoming steeped in the peace and quiet
and calm, the open mindedness, the deep humility
John Myers
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that John found in the Benedictine atmosphere, or
the questioning eyes of the students in those troubled
and unusual early '70s.
"I always say you ought to leave any career or
job when you're ahead," said John. "Well, since I
became president of the old Waldorf firm and con­tinued
after the merger with Hoerner, our sales rose
.trom $71 million in 1965 to $500 million this year.
"A good time and a good age - I'm 66 - to
make the change I wanted. And, of course, you
guessed it would be to offer my services to St. John's.
"Father Michael Blecker was happy to accept.
After all, what has he got to lose? I'm a dollar-a-year
man. "
50, THIS WEEK the new lecturer in economics
and business arrived at Collegeville, with a new title:
lecturer in economics and business.
"What are you going to do there . . ?" I said.
"What will you say ... what will you teach?"
"You know my feelings about the value of the
free enterprise system," said the former corporation
president and St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce
president.
"You know how I feel about what business has
done and hasn't done . . . and how suspicious the
people and business have become, each of the other.
We've got to change that. There is a great story
to tell ...
"I'm going to tell the young people there about
my first career and the world in which I lived­the
business world and its values and its needs and
how it still is the hope of our way of life ... then
I expect to bring their messages back to the business
community and persuade it that one of the duties
is to support the education of young people."
John also is going to use a biblical phrase to
his corporate executive associates-
"Go ye, and do likewise ... give of yourself
and you will receive, not money and fame, but satis­faction
in life.
"And remember ... don't retire from anything
. . . always retire TO something." D
Alumni help is welcome in filling staff positions
St. John's University advertises in a variety of
appropriate professional journals and other publica­tions
to fill staff openings. In an ongoing way, the
University encourages the recommendations and ap­plications
of its alumni to fill positions here.
As this issue of Saint John's went to press, St.
John's had advertisements posted for the following
positions:
1. Internal Auditor with responsibility for bud­get
preparation analysis and reports; profit and loss
statements on enterprises; grant accounting and re­porting;
endowment fund analysis and reporting;
inventory of enterprises; year end auditing; fringe
benefit administration and reporting; and temporary
investments.
Want a '77 yearbook?
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2. A development psychologist with a perspec­tive
encompassing the individual life span and full
life cycle of the family.
3. A psychologist with a behavioral-learning
orientation and a particular interest in applied and/or
functional behavior analysis.
4. A clinical psychologist interested in contem­porary
approaches to conceptualization and delivery
of human services.
Recommendations or applications for the first
opening should be addressed to the Business office;
for the last three, they should be addressed to Dr.
Gordon H. Henley, Chairman of the Psychology
Department.
Alumni interested in ordering a 1977 yearbook
should mail a check for five dollars, payable to
"The 1977 Yearbook," to Box lOIS, St. John's Uni­versity,
Collegeville, MN 56321. Your cancelled
check will serve as your receipt. The books, which
will include a color section and report highlights of
the year including the Stagg Bowl championship,
will be mailed September 20, 1977.
"--+%'#-" ----
The Bookshelf
I used to like what Father
Kilian writes. Now I am not so sure. His latest
book on charismatic renewal is not at all the kind
of thing one has learned to expect from the pen of
such an illustrious theologian as Father Kilian has
repeatedly demonstrated himself to be. Some of the
things he says in this latest work are quite dis­concerting.
At times he seems to be evading the
theological aspect of the central issue under dis­cussion.
The question that kept recurring to me is
why he bothered to write the book at all.
The main topic is not really charismatic renewal
but the more narrow element of that renewal, speak­ing
in tongues or "glossolalia." It perhaps needs to
be pointed out that speaking in tongues is not the
kind of thing the Apostles did shortly after Pente­cost;
it does not have to do with preaching in one
language and being understood in a variety of other
languages. Rather it is a form of prayer in which
an individual praises God with sounds that are under­standable
neither to the person praying nor to any
bystanders. This phenomenon of praying in tongues
is not a primary or essential feature of the charis­matic
movement. But it is unquestionably a con­troversial
issue, and so is explicitly taken up for
consideration in this book. Father Kilian admits
that the nature of speaking in tongues is such that
the phenomenon holds a relatively inconsequential
position in the entire charismatic movement, and he
is at pains to assure us that he is not trying to make
it seem more important than it is by writing a book
about it.
After speaking quite briefly about its natuce
Father Kilian undertakes an historical analysis of
CHARISMATIC RENEWAL AND THE CHURCHES by
Kilian McDonnell, The Seabury Press (New
York, 1976) pages 202, cloth, $8.95.
by Fr. Ray Pedrizetti, OSB
the development of glossolalia, and reports the ex­tensive
research concerning the practice that has
been done over the past decade or two, both from a
sociological and from a psychological point of view.
The bulk of the book is this report of research.
Thus we are given a scientific analysis of speaking
in tongues insofar as that practice is an empirical
phenomenon, and only incidentally, at the end of
the book, does Father Kilian make some theological
observations about the results of the research and
the contribution that psychology might make to a
theological understanding of speaking in tongues.
The report of the research is quite comprehen­sive,
but the scientist who is looking for significant
results is going to be disappointed. The chapter on
social theories as possible explanations of the origin
and development of the charismatic movement con­cludes
with the comment that social theories do not
point to necessary conditions or causes of religious
movements, but to favorable conditions and facil­itating
factors. Sounds fair enough. That means that
sociology is in no position to explain how evangelical
religion gets on the historical scene, but in retrospect
can indicate what factors have been fostering growth
and development. Apparently room has still been
left for the opinion that the Holy Spirit is a possible
cause of the charismatic movement.
At this point a chapter is inserted containing
reports of the reactions of various church leaders to
the charismatic renewal. The general trend is from
an early rather guarded, cautious acknowledgement
of the fact of the movement to a more comfortable
acceptance of the possibility that the Spirit might
be in direct contact with some dedicated Christians
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praying in tongues is to prayer what ab @rt. The
analogy does not stand up .. , Abstract stract painting is to t1e essential
art contains some of t
features of language. Speaking in tongu A1 es Contains none of thel'·· ----------------------------------- ~---------- -------------------------~
without having advised the clergy about the matter
beforehand.
Then we get into the meat
of the book, the chapters on psychology. They are
even more disappointing in their outcome, because
of the unfortunate circumstance that some of the
first research undertaken was done by investigators
with a bias against speaking in tongues. They were
out to prove that people who do that sort of thing
are crazy. Science, on this view, can show that
what is claimed to be a gift of the Holy Spirit is
actually the result of one of those embarrassing un­resolved
conflicts many of us carry around. After
reviewing the early research done on the issue, Father
Kilian comes up with the rather amusing conclusion
that the early period closes with a question about
the objectivity of the researchers.
The report of more current research comes up
with better results. That is because the researchers
are less biased. But even in this period of the in­vestigation
the issue of bias is present, and one of
the investigators suggests that for the future a psy­chological
profile should be made of those researchers
who show a bias against the practice of speaking in
tongues. There seems to be internal fighting in the
psychological camp. And that is where the issue
rests today.
The major theological thesis that Father Kilian
seems to want to present is that glossolalia is not
such a supernatural phenomenon as one might sup­pose
on the basis of the unusual nature of the prac­tice
and its divergence from the normal manner of
speaking. In a short forward Cardinal Suenens points
to the complementarity that Father Kilian wants to
establish between psychology and theology. The
point of contact would seem to be the empirical
aspects of speaking in tongues related to the theo­logical
interpretation of the phenomenon as a gift
of the Holy Spirit.
Father Kilian emphasizes that though the prac­tice
is indeed unusual it is still founded on a natural
basis. And some of the psychological research bears
out this contention. For instance, speaking in tongues
seems to be a learned behavior. If is at least partially
acquired by listening to others do the same. If that
is the case, it is not so supernatural an event that it
requires the direct and exclusive intervention of the
Holy Spirit in the psyche of an individual before he
starts speaking in tongues. Also, glossolalia is a
derivative of a true language that has been learned,
and there is some evidence that it is possible to
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. practice. To em­Incre~
se one's competence in the olalia the comme~t
?haslze the natural basis of gloS' phonemes used m
IS also made that the system of of course, closely
the practice is quite obviouslY I J of the speaker.
related to the l~nguage backgroUrt point of view of
The considerations from the e the manner in
pSYchology then which indicat henomenon struc­Which
spe~king i~ tongues is a PrtY language, show
tured along the lines of speaking. a for the manifesta­t~
at there is indeed a natural ba51' ecial gift. In fact,
~on of the Holy Spirit in this 51v' \"e drop the tradi-
.ather Kilian would prefer that I and supernatural
hon aI distinction between natur a . ce 0 f speak 'm g m.
~d try to understand the pra&. appean.ng. m the
tongues as a gift of the Spir1t t clearly allows its
empirical world in a manner t~a ellsions to be legit­?
sychological and sociological dl~i5 and evaluation.
Imate objects of scientific anah' is the major con­T~
is POint, as far as I can seel of glossolalia.
tnb t· . 5Ue
u Ion of the book to the IS
then, are my mis-
. What, the central issue,
flVings? First of all, concernill!r ~ilian declines to
ha~e the impression that Fat~ cu5S10n ~s to wh~t
get Involved in a detailed ~15 All :ntlre book IS
~~ctly speaking in tongues 15· ter it IS all over we
rltten about the topic, and af lking about. Ad­re~
lly don't know what he is dta to deal with the
?llttedly, some attempt is rna epether speaking in
ISSue. The question is asked ~y that, under any
tongues is a true language. . meant a language
COmmonly accepted definition, 15 municates meaning
that is so structured that it corn 501alics do not un­~
rom person to person. NoW. gIo~n the way that a
erstand what they are saYIng is understood. So
?rammatically structured languag~e are not dealing
~ is Father Kilian's opinion that oes ?n to say. that
ere with a true language. Be gage IS theologIcally
:vhether or not it is a true langLl here with a prayer
Ir,relevant, because we are deali~ter such a gift is a
rIft, and it doesn't matter ~he 1 part com,rany with
anguage or not. At this pOInt fllote clanty to say
Father Kilian. It does not pro a language but a
that speaking in tongues is nO\peaking?/I Indeed
~raYer gift. Why is it called.a ivings himself about
ather Kilian seems to have m1sg on to suggest that
SUch a solution, and so he go~S of prayer in much
to ngues is a nonrational expreS SIanp a.m'tm g I.S a non-t~
e same way that an abstraC~ n of the interior
PIctorial, nonobjective expresSl:ral, Father Kilian's
f~elings of the artist. In gen is to prayer what
vbew is that praying in tongueS
a stract painting is to art.
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The analogy does not stand up. A finished work
of art is pictorial and objective and as such is capable
of interpretation. It has meaning and communicates,
and it can be translated, however inadequately, into
other modes of communication that also convey
understanding. Abstract art contains some of the
essential features of language. Speaking in tongues
contains none of them. The speaker does not know
what he is talking about, and neither does anyone
else. Ordinary prayer, on the other hand, is a phenom­enon
that customarily involves communication; the
person praying knows what he is talking about when
he says, for example, the Our Father. Prayer described
in such a fashion that only God is in any possible
position to make sense out of what is going on is
not the kind of thing we usually mean by prayer.
Thus to call speaking in tongues prayer and let it
go at that is misleading and unhelpful. It is not
like abstract art and it is not like ordinary prayer.
We still do not know what it is. My major concern,
then, is that the central topic of discussion remains
vague and unmanageable throughout the entire book.
A further misgiving I have is why Father Kilian
felt constrained to report so much scientific research.
The impression one has is that theology was put on
the defensive by those early investigators who de­cided
that speaking in tongues is abnormal, and that
ever since, some of the churches and theologians
would like to provide glossolalics with a clean bill
of health. Much of the research has been done from
the point of view of abnormal psychology, and
Father Kilian makes the comment that research in
the future might provide glossolalics with a com-plete
psychological vindication, once more significant
research is done. Here, apparently, is his reason for
delving so extensively into the field of psychology.
But this, in my view, is a mistake. The research has
already shown that glossolalia is not necessarily a
piece of abnormal behavior. Glossolalics have thus
already been vindicated on a psychological level. The
further vindication they deserve should come not
from the psychologist but from the theologian, whose
responsibility it is to provide us with an explanation
of what is going on in the charismatic movement.
If psychologists wish to do research in this area, that
is their business, but it is unfair to ask from them
the vindication of a phenomenon that is essentially
theological in character. That is the business of the
theologian; that is Father Kilian's business.
To be fair, I must point out that Father Kilian
does end his book on a positive theological note.
He emphasizes that a phenomenon that has psycho­logical
dimensions does not exclude it from being
a gift of the Holy Spirit, that the fact that it is a
learned behavior does not militate against its being
a gift of the Spirit, and that in general what can be
described in psychological terms can nevertheless be
a charism. It is a good idea to emphasize the point.
But such a point is merely the beginning of the task
for the theologian. What sort of gift of the Spirit
is speaking in tongues? Having established some­thing
of the scientific basis, let's get on with the
theological explanation. Some of this work has al­ready
been done, by Father Kilian and others. Much
more could be done. I eagerly await Father Kilian's
further thoughts on the matter. 0
Comprehensive SJU Alumni Directory planned
The first comprehensive biographical reference
volume of all St. John's University alumni will be
available soon. The Directory will list alumni alpha­betically,
geographically and by class year. It will
include full name, major, class year, occupation, busi­ness
and home addresses, business and home tele­phone
numbers.
In the coming months, all alumni will receive
questionnaires to be completed and returned to our
Alumni Directory publisher. Before going to press,
the publisher has agreed to contact by telephone all
alumni to confirm the accuracy of the information.
The Directory will be available in both a 50ft
cover and deluxe hard bound edition. Its concise,
yet complete, sketches will let you know where your
fellow alumni are and what they are doing. The
Directory will make it convenient for you to reach
your friends by mail or phone. The geographical
index will also tell you which St. John's alumni live
in your own town. When you move to or travel
through a new area you will be able to see which
classmates live there. Recalling the names of for­gotten
classmates will be made easy by simply thumb­ing
through the class year index.
Copies of the new Directory may be ordered
by St. John's alumni ONLY. Orders will be taken
by the University Press, 200 Park Avenue, Falls
Church, Virginia 22046, during the telephone veri­fication
process.
We urge all alumni to return the Alumni Ques­tionnaire
Form as soon as it arrives. This will elim­inate
the need to mail a second request.
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ST. JOHN'S
NEWS REVIEW
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Father Matthew Keiss receives the Fr. Walter Reger Distinguished Alumnus
Award from Dr. Robert P. Koenig '46, one of his former students and a
St. Cloud ophthalmologist.
Fr. Matthew Keiss receives
Distinguished Alumnus Award
A monk who was first brought to school in Collegeville by horse
and buggy in 1912 has been named sixth recipient of the St. John's
University "Fr. Walter Reger Distinguished Alumnus" award.
Fr. Matthew Kiess, OSB, pastor at St. James Parish in Jacob's
Prairie and former SJU chemistry professor, was presented the award
Oct. 2 as part of the annual Homecoming activities.
The award was established in 1971 in the memory of the late
Fr. Walter Reger, OSB. Fr. Walter was secretary of the University's
national alumni association for many years. During his career, he
established a reputation for unselfish dedication to the work of St.
John's and quiet, individual assistance to hundreds of former students.
St. John's alumni association selects one alumnus each year who
has exemplified in his life the dedication to the University and his
fellow man for which Fr. Walter was known.
Fr. Mathew taught science at SJU for 48 years and was chemistry
department chairman for 40 years; his long tenure earned him the
name "Mr. Science" here. He added to his priestly and teaching duties
such tasks as water analysis for St. John's Abbey creameries, power
plants and city water systems; experiments in soil rebuilding; and
chalice electro-plating and polishing for the Abbey and parishes in the
area.
St. John's students continue to earn
high scores in CPA examination
St. John's University students and alumni have scored the best
results in the state in the latest certified public accountant examination.
Results were announced this fall by the American Institute of Certified
Public Accounts.
A third of the SJU representatives-eight of 24-passed all sub­jects
in the May 1976 test. Average for each college in the state was
14 per cent.
Lloyd K. Benson, a 1976 St. John's graduate, received an honor­able
mention in the Elijah Watt Sells Awards program recognizing
candidates receiving the highest grades. Only 71 honorable mention
awards were made; 41,457 persons took the test this spring. Benson
is the fifth SJU graduate to win the award in the 1970s.
~,
Record 525 freshmen arrive
to give St. John's 'optimum enrollment'
With 525 new freshmen this fall, the undergraduate enrollment
at St. John's University is 1,725.
, "It's the .ra~gest ~reshman" class we've had," noted Roger Young
68, SJU admIssIOns dIrector. The undergrad total is near the record
student enrollment that we've had the past few years.
"We feel that 1,700 is the right size for St. John's," he said.
"Our facilities can't accommodate any more students. It's an optimum
number for us to provide the best overall education and programs for
student development."
He added that the fresh~an class could have been larger but the
University decided to hold to ItS plan of enrolling 1,700 undergraduates.
Total University enrollment is 1,894, including 36 students in St.
John's Graduate School of Theology, 60 priesthood candidates in the
School of Divinity and special and part-time students.
Government class uses more
than crystal ball to predict elections
American government students at St. John's University took a
close look at November's election-so close, in fact, that they predicted
EVERY Congressional race in the country. Grades were based on their
reasons for selecting a certain candidate.
The students examined all the facts they could find to make their
predictions: they subscribed to the Washington Post and Wall Street
Journal, checked the Minnesota Poll in the Minneapolis Tribune and
read local papers from Maine to Hawaii. On Election Day each student
turned in a term paper indicating who he believed would win the
election he monitored and explained why that candidate would serve
in Washington, D.C., next year. On Election Night they gathered
together in the Alumni Lounge to watch the returns.
Dr. Jim Murphy, class instructor, said, "The project was fun. It
gave the students a good idea how the election process works and
in many cases showed them the power of the incumbency."
He said the students learned that party identification and image
often count more than issues in winning elections. "The idea was to
teach the basic pattern of American politics," he added. "But they
also learned that in political elections there are exceptions to patterns."
First Glen E. Arth Scholarship
goes to senior Fred Mitzel
Fred Mitzel, a chemistry student at St. John's University, was
awarded a $400 scholarship this fall in memory of a prominent SJU
chemistry graduate.
Mitzel was presented the Glen E. Arth Memorial Scholarship by
Dr. Edward F. Rogers, senior investigator for Merck and Co. and a
colleague of Arth.
Dr. Arth, a member of St. John's class of 1934, was a senior
researcher for Merck and was credited with contributing to the first
total industrial synthesis of cortisone, a landmark achievement in its
field. Dr. Arth died early this year and a scholarship in his name was
begun by his colleagues and Merck.
Mitzel was selected by the SJU chemistry faculty as the out­standing
senior in the department. Selection, to. be made annually, is
based on scholarship, interest and motivation. Mitzel is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mitzel of Penn, N.D. He is an athletic trainer for
University varsity teams and plans to attend medical school.
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Northwest Foundation grant awarded
to help fund curriculum revision
The Northwest Area Foundation of St. Paul has granted St. John's
University $62,000 to support the college's curriculum revision which
was begun last year.
"St. John's faculty will continue discussion this year on reorgan­izing
our liberal arts curriculum," Fr. Gunther Rolfson, academic vice
president, explained. "We are very grateful to the Northwest Area
Foundation for its support as we undertake this important revision."
The University's general education curriculum will have three
general objectives, Fr. Gunther said. "We want to help the students
develop precision and style in communication; assist them in critically
analyzing moral issues and developing their personal system of values;
and provide them with an interdisciplinary framework to understand
the major social, historical and cultural forces which shape the con­temporary
world."
The new academic program will also seek to expand the students'
career orientation within the traditional liberal arts.
Adoption of "St. John's Plan of Liberal Education" in 1974 launched
the curriculum review and last November the faculty approved a new
curricular framework. Fr. Gunther said the reorganization project is
expected to last another two years.
The Northwest Area Foundation grant was made through its in­dependent
college program. St. John's was one of 10 institutions
selected for assistance by the foundation; 41 schools applied for aid.
SJU has received other grants for its curriculum revision: $58,244
from the National Science Foundation for review of the physics de­partment
and $45,613 from the National Endowment for the Human­ities
for further development of the "Freshman Colloquium," a key
part of the academic revision which stresses communication skills.
Yale theologian Raymond Morris
receives SJU President's Citation
Dr. Raymond Morris, retired librarian and professor of religious
literature at Yale Divinity School, was presented the St. John's Uni­versity
President's Citation Nov. 4.
Dr. Morris serves as a board member and former chairman of the
board of directors of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research
on St. John's campus. The institute is the only residential study center
of its kind in the United States; scholars, representing various faiths,
live with their families at the complex while pursuing research focused
on church and societal concerns.
The citation, presented by University President Michael Blecker,
OSB, read: "For your life-long dedication to scholarly research, for
your commitment to the advancement of the theological sciences, for
your endeavors on behalf of the ecumenical movement, for your truly
catholic and truly evangelical leadership of the Institute for Ecumenical
and Cultural Research, the St. John's University President's Citation
is conferred on Raymond Philip Morris."
Two Twin Citians elected regents
Two Twin Cities area men have been elected to the St. John's
University Board of Regents. Joining the board are Dr. Glen D. Nelson
and Carlos W. Luis.
Dr. Nelson is president and chairman of the board of trustees of
the St. Louis Park Medical Center. He is a general surgeon specializing
in surgery of trauma and peripheral vascular surgery.
He also serves on the boards of the Walker Art Center, Methodist
Hospital Foundation and Minnesota Natural History Society; is a
charter member of the American Academy of Medical Directors; and
is a member of the American Medical Association, Minnesota Surgical
Society and other professional organizations including the American
College of Surgeions.
Nelson
Luis is vice president for public affairs and personnel relations
for the 3M Company in St. Paul. He is a former teacher and school
administrator and corporate' attorney.
He is a member of the Minnesota Bar Association; a trustee of
the Baptist Hospital Fund; and director of the St. Paul Chamber of
Commerce, United Way of the St. Paul Area and Associated Colleges
of the Twin Cities. Luis
SJU SPORTS
REVIEW
by Tom McGlinch '79
Sports Information Director
With a national championship in football high­lighting
fall competition, St. John's athletes got off
to a successful start in defending the Minnesota
Intercollegeiate Athletic Conference all sports title.
Winning their first MIAC championship, the
Johnnie soccer team advanced to the NAIA District
13 playoffs, and with that title in hand, moved to
the area championship where they were downed by
perennial power Quincy College of Illinois.
The Johnnies earned the championship with
two hard-fought victories over St. Thomas, the
title favorite. With an 11-0-3 MIAC record they
were the first team ever to finish undefeated. Over­all,
the squad closed the season with a 13-2-3 mark.
Victories over Augsburg and UW-Parkside landed
the district title for the Jays, but Quincy eliminated
any hopes of a St. John's appearance at the national
tournament in Pasadena, California.
Success of the team was based on a consistently
strong defense that allowed less than one goal per
game and the ability of the offense to put the ball
in the net at the right times. Superb goal tending
keyed the staunch defense, with freshman Bob
Cherry and junior John Warren sharing the duties
and the praise. Coach Matt Sikich worried at the
season's outset about the team's ability to score, but
captain Mike Lilly ended those concerns in emerging
as the team's leading scorer.
All-conference selections have not yet been
made by the MIAC coaches.
Lilly, Warren, Mark Cote :md Steve Westlund
were named to the all-conference team.
"Potential" best describes the 1976 Johnnie
cross-country team. Led by captain Steve Gathje,
the lone senior on the squad, the harriers paced
themselves to a fourth-place MIAC finish.
"I'm looking forward to some good years,"
stated coach Dave Lyngaard. "We are a youthful
and balanced squad, with five potential all-confer­ence
members." Steve Gathje missed all-MIAC hon­ors
by a single point.
Capturing their third consecutive MIAC title
with a 7-0-1 record, the Johnnie footballers earned
an invitation to the NCAA Division III playoffs.
A favorite for the title, they traveled to Augustana
College in Rock Island, Ill., for their first playoff
win - 46-7 - and then soundly defeated Buena
Vista College of Iowa 61-0 in the bitter cold of a
Collegeville winter day. The stage was set for the
Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl in Phenix City, Ala.
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. to a 28-0 lead to open the fourth
J um~mg eared to be another Johnnie rout.
quarter, It apP of Maryland, however, found the
Towson State .th 30 seconds left, tied the score.
range, an.d ;;aker period almost a certainly, Jeff
With a tle- leted a 58-yard pass to weak-kneed
Norman comPthe Tiger one. Norman's 19-yard field
Jim Roeder to t second ticked off the clock gave SJU
goal as th~ las d the national championship trophy,
a 31-28 wm a~agliardi's third in his 24 years at
Coach John
St. John's. h genius of Gagliardi, the Johnnie of-
Under t e losive, averaging 43 points a game
fense w~s eXP mber one spots in the NCAA Divi­and
holdmg;.Ug total offense and scoring categories.
sion III' s rU!~ In Schmitz led the team in rushing,
Fullba~k TIm ards per carry and gaining 1011 yards
averagmg 7.1 Y He also had 12 touchdowns to his
in e.ight games. back Jeff Norman led the team in
credit. Q~a[:~ 39 PAT's and three fieldgoals in
scoring, klC h. eight touchdowns. He was superb
addition to I:ana game, scoring five touchdowns
in the AugUS rsions for 34 points; he tallied 61 in
and four col
nve ff games for an NCAA record.
the three p ayo
And the defense was as stingy as the offense
was explosive. A balanced squad, led by co-captains
Terry Sexton and Joe Wentzell, they allowed the
opponents only 13 points per game and forced 32
turnovers.
The Johnnies placed eight members on the
MIAC all-conference team. On offense runningbacks
Jim Roeder (senior) and Tim Schmitz (junior) were
selected along with quarterback Jeff Norman (junior)
and center Dave Grovum (senior). Defensively, line­men
Terry Sexton (senior), Joe Wentzell (senior) and
Ernie England (freshman) received honors as well as
defensive back Joe Luby (junior). Norman was
named the MIAC's most valuable player and gained
Little All America honorable mention.
Honors rolled in for Gag, too. He was selected
Washington, D.C., Touchdown Coach of the Year.
A similar honor from Chevrolet also provides the
University a $2,500 scholarship in his name. Schmitz
earned SJU another $1,000 Chevrolet scholarship as
top offensive player in the regionally-televised St.
Olaf contest while Norman netted a similar gift for
his performance in the titl~ game carried by ABC
in Minnesota and from Baltimore to Miami.
Editorial
Glory deserved
It may be unfortunate that a university
. recognition and glory widespread
wlnsllyonly from athletic teams, but the rec­uSU~
tion and glory is sweet nonetheless.
ognl
St. John's University is. in ~he process of
ing widespread admlratlOn from the
rear of its football team. The Johnnies have
fea sed entertaining ball-and played it
platt_and have been successful in the past
we ames. Over the last three years they
19 g won 24 lost only three and tied two.
have '
Now the St. John's team is headed for one
big game that could very well leave the
m~e nies at the top of their collegiate divi­J?
nin the nation. After slipping past their
slon·final opponent 61-0 in incredibly cold
H~~r~~woob~,iliek~~~are
weaded for Phenix City, Ala., where this 8at­he~
y they could win the National Collegiate
~hletic Association Division III champion-ship.
What is particularly gratifying about St.
John's football success is the attitude with
which it is approached at St. John's. All pros­pective
players are accepted. The football
team is not an elite corps open to a few spe­cial
individuals. Practices are handled in a
manner that aims to avoid injuries that
would plague a college player throughout his
life.
St. John's, of course, shines academically
too. It is a shame that academic excellence
does not win the widespread glory that sports
endeavors do. If it did, 8t. John's would be
constantly in the limelight.
We wish the 8t. John's team the best of
luck, though it probably will not need luck to
win its laurels. Whatever glory the football
team attains this weekend should be shaJ"ed
by the entire institution at St. John's.
Reprinted from the St. Cloud Daily Times, December 1, 1976.
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M b of the St John's football team relax on the
1 em ers . . . k h f
. c h ar t eedr No·rth Central fllgh,t whIch too t em rom
Mz· nneso ta's -20 to Al.abam.a s +60 temperature. d
Team doctor Louis W~ttrock IS zn the foregroun .
N ·ng behind him IS Bro. Mark Kelly, OSB.
S aPFI Captain Jim Roeder, receiver of the
2. e11l0r h' f· I d
JI des eration pass" in t e game s zna secon s ..
Th p unny warmth was a pleasant break for grzdders
3. T e s Young, Jim Roeder, Mike Carr, Scott Becker,
Dam Grovum and Tim Fristrom.
J ave uarterback Jeff Norman f·I e ld s questI.O ns f rom
4. s;~riswriter Chris Smith of the Columbus (GA)
Enquirer.
Photos by John McTigue, Lee Hanley and Rob Schobert
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1 2
3 4
5 6
1. Quarterback Jeff Norman takes time out from
a pre-game brunch to review a few play-cards
with Coach John Gagliardi.
2. Injuries plagued the Johnnies throughout the
playoffs. One questionable starter (and one of
the Stagg Bowl stars) was senior captain
Joe Wentzel. Here he is being taped for the
game by trainer Fred Mitzel.
3. Dr. Wittl'Ock examines the ailing knee of
halfback Jim Roeder. Roeder's knee forced him
to miss practice the enUre week of the bowl
game but, like several of his teammates, he
"forgot" he was disabled for the duration of
the game.
4. ABC color commentator Duffy Daugherty
joined Coach Gagliardi on the sidelines for
.a chat during the Jay's pre-game warmup.
5. A few of the approximately 200 St. John's fans
who found their way to Phenix City for the
game. The fourth row includes, from left,
Fr. Roger Botz, Fr. Aidan McCall, Fr. Abbot John
Eidenschink and President Michael Blecker.
Behind Fr. Abbot is Fr. Don Tolafous.
6. Terry Sexton, a senior captain, was forced by a
knee injury to watch the game from the sidelines.
Terry, son of Jim Sexton '55, was Coach
Gagliardi's first second generation player.
7. The scene is set for the winning field goal (ball
visible on ground), booted by Jeff Norman
with three seconds remaining in the game.
8. The team celebrated the 31-28 victory with
a uniformed dunk in the chilly motel pool.
9. Tim Schmitz who rolled up 150 yards rushing
and ran the Towson defense ragged.
10. The team returned to the motel following the
game as a Holiday Inn staffer was hanging the
final letters of a congratulatory message.
11. St. Paul Pioneer Press sportswriter Mike
Augustin '62 (left) met the returning Jays at the
Twin Cities airport and played a tape of the
final seconds of the game as broadcast by ABC.
Listening in are Coach Gagliardi, Dick Schmitz
'50 (Tim's father) and Jim Roeder, whose
spectacular run to the Towson one-yard line
made the final seconds worth listening to again.
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ALUMNI
NEWS NOTES
124
GERALD GRIFFIN retired at Cold
Spring in June with his wife, Ann, after
38 years of teaching and school work
in Montana and North Carolina.
129
HERBERT ADRIAN was honored in
August by West Publishing. The recog­nition
banquet booklet noted that the
word "gentleman" most precisely cap­tures
the essence of Herb Adrian.
"Considerate of others, courteous, kind­ly,
affable-all of these traits dwell
Herb Adrian
abundantly in Herb, and their sum is
gentleman ... Company. Family. Com­munity.
Church. Herb Adrian has suc­ceeded
with unique distinction in their
service. And from all of them to him
go respect, admiration and love."
132 Donald Kolb, Chm.
Holdingford, MN 56340
CLARENCE J. WELTER has retired
from high school teaching and is now
serving as mayor of New Prague.
Fr. Kilian McDonnell, OSB, is greeted by Pope Paul VI during a recent visit
to the Vatican. Fr. Kilian is President for the Institute for Ecumenical and
Cultural Research at St. John's.
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Sperry to match
The Sperry Rand Corporation
has announced a matching pro­gram
for its employees' contribu­tions
to institutions of higher
learning. Under the program,
Sperry will match employee gifts
in amounts ranging from $25 to
$2,500 annually. The program is
open to all full-time employees of
Sperry and its subsidiaries.
St. John's benefits greatly from
the matching gift policies of an
increasing number of employers.
Interested alumni may obtain more
information about the matching
programs from their employers or
from the St. John's Development
Office.
134 Francis X. McCarthy, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55409
The Hon EUGENE DUPUCH, com­poser
of the Johnnie fight song and
prominent lawyer in the Bahama Islands,
has been appointed acting justice on the
Supreme Court bench of Nassau.
136
JEFF HENNES, who served on the
Benton County Board of Commissioners
for 10 years, did not file for re-election
this fall.
138
Dr. ROGER PATRICK MICHELS is
presently with the Family Health Pro­gram
on a 2 year leave of absence from
his practice in Minnesota. He has been
married 28 years to wife, Mary Patricia,
and is father to 5 adopted children. He
likes scuba diving and the guitar which
he plays to patients once in a while to
brighten spirits.
143 Rev. Ray Schulzetenberg, Chm.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
Dr. JOHN E. BUSCH, a local veteri­narian
in the Chokio-Alberta commu­nity,
recently observed 25 years in busi­ness
with an open house .... Fr. VIRGIL
O'NEILL of the Benedictine Order re­cently
arrived in Bemidji to assume the
pastorate of the Bemidji State U New­man
Center and the Sacred Heart parish
at Wilton. . .. Dr. JULIAN WOLF,
brother of RICH '61, is engaged in
general medical practice in Delmar, CA.
He and his wife, Patricia, have 2 sons
and 2 daughters. Julian and Patricia
visited central Minnesota in July and
spent a day at St. John's.
148 Robert Welle, Chm.
Bemidji, MN 56601
ROBERT A. LEBENS is president of
the Apple Valley State Bank, a business
which he assisted in organizing 2 years
ago; he spent 25 years in production
management and corporate development
with Green Giant.
149
JAMES EDIE is prof of philosophy
at Northwestern U and chairman of the
department since 1970. Indiana U Press
published his book Speaking and
Meaning Aug. 30. . .. DONALD GRAY
was elected Minnesota's 7th District
judge. He and his family live in Long
Prairie. . .. EUGENE L. MINEA is a
regional administrator for NSP and lives
in St. Paul.
150 Arthur Schmitz, Chm.
Sauk Centre, MN 56378
RALPH F. BECKER is a chief ac­countant
for Federal Intermediate Credit
Bank. ... JIM McLAIN is parts and
service administration manager of the
agricultural equipment div. of Int'l Har­vester
in Hinsdale, IL. He lives at 210
Freeport Dr, Bloomington, IL 60108.
151 Dr. Everette Duthoy, Chm.
St. Paul, MN 55101
AL McGINNIS is now in his 22nd
year with Int'l Harvester and his 22nd
year of marriage. He says both associa­tions
have been productive. With IHC
he is parts marketing manager; at home,
he and his wife have 8 children-6 of
them teenagers. He still remembers with
gratitude the guidance and inspiration
he got from Joe Benda and George
Durenberger and adds that they got
more out of McGinnis than anyone
before or since. He and his family live
at 320 Braeside Dr, Arlington Heights,
IL 60004. . .. MARK MUND has been
employed by the Donaldson Co. of
Minneapolis for almost 25 years. Until
recently he was chief development en­gineer
of Conrad, a subsidiary of
Donaldson, and now is a vp for tech­nical
development.
152
FRANCIS J. DICHTEL is a national
catalog control buyer for Montgomery
Ward. His daughter, Ann, was married
on June 5 and he claims that the big
wedding went well. ... NORMAN J.
MEYER is a sales rep for Proctor and
Gamble.
153 Charles McCarthy, Chm.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
DON ALLMARAS is an engineer for
Boeing.
Thank you Alumni! St. John's University was awarded a check for $1,000
and a citation from the u.s. Steel Foundation recently for the sustained per­formance
of its alumni contributors. Presenting the award were James Hosey,
Executive Director of the u.s. Steel Foundation, left; and Kerry McClanahan,
Vice President of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education
(CASE). Accepting the award for St. John's were Lee A. Hanley '58, Director
of Communications and Grant Support, and Robert Shafer '54, Vice President
of Pfizer and a member of St. John's National Advisory Council.
154 Robert L. Forster, Chm.
Edina, MN 55436
Fr. LOUIS G. COOK, pastor of Holy
Trinity Church in Owatonna for the
past 6 years, has been transferred to
Crucifixion Church at La Crescent. A
farewell party in his honor was held
after his final Eucharistic liturgy and
he reflectively cited the growth and
success of the annual summer festival
at Holy Trinity every July as one of
the highlights of his 6-year stay. . .. Fr.
JAMES J. HAGMANN is a pastor at
St. Stanislaus Parish, Arcadia, WI 54612.
... CLINTON WYANT, an Aitkin law­yer
active in DFL politics, was named
to replace the retired Ben Grussendorf
as Ninth Judicial Court judge. Wyant
graduated from William Mitchell Col­lege
of Law and has served as an
assistant public defender for the past
7 years. He and wife, Trix, have 3
children.
155
F. L. SPANIER, St. Paul, was re­elected
to his 2nd 3-year term as presi­dent
and chief executive officer of the
Catholic Aid Assoc.
156 Jerald L. Howard, Chm.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
JIM BOTZ is vp of Adams, Scott &
Co., insurance agents and brokers in
Los Angeles. His office address is
3807 Wilshire Blvd, zip 90010 .... JIM
MUCHLINSKI coached the 1976 state
Class AA high school runner-up base­ball
team, the Marshall Tigers, this past
spring. Jim is a high school counselor,
head baseball coach and ass't basketball
coach there.
158 Wm. Sullivan, Chm.
Richfield, MN 55423
THOMAS W. FOLEY recently ex­hibited
paintings with other business­man
artists at the West Bank Union
Gallery of the U of Minnesota. Foley
is vp and general counsel of the IDS
Marketing Group, Minneapolis. . .. Fr.
THOMAS E. GEELAN has a new ad­dress:
115 6th Av SW, LeMars, IA
51031. His new position is superintend­ent
of Gehlin Catholic grade and .high
schools there .... BRUNO LaVERDIERE,
a professional ceramics artist, has ex­hibited
his works with the New York
City Ceramics at Pratt Institute in
Brooklyn and the Biennale Internationale
de Ceramizue d'Art in Vallauris, France,
as well as participating in 11 one-man
shows. . .. DONALD NEFF is a systems
consultant for Univac in Frankfurt,
Germany.
159 Dr. Thomas Hobday, Chm.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
DALE CRAFT began Sept. 13 as
director of the 1-year-old state univer­sity
Student Legal Assistance Center at
Bemidji. He will be available to students
who are concerned with laws and regu­lations
affecting their relationships with
the university and outlying areas. . ..
PAT DOLAN is St. Cloud American
Legion baseball coach. This summer he
took the state American Legion title
and a 4th place in the Central Plains
Regional.
Saint 23
Dr. Ed Henry
inaugurated
at St. Michael's
Dr. Edward L. Henry, installed
Nov. 16 as president of St. Mi­chael's
College in Winooski Park,
Vt. said, "Liberal arts education
is today on a collision course with
vocational pragmatism and rudder­less
technology. The former threat­ens
liberal arts education by sub­stituting
job skills for humanistic
skills. Technology poses the threat
of serving any master indiscrim­inately."
In his ~nstallation speech during
ceremonies at the Vermont college,
Henry
Dr. Henry, 55,
said that a liberal
arts education
"builds ideals or
models of 'what
ought to be,''' in-
'. cluding social ob­ligations,
human
justice and moral
excellence. He
said it was essen­tial
for a society
to "ask how the
best could be brought out" in
women and men, and that this
question was "particularly vital for
the leaders who become the models
for society."
Dr. Henry said, "in the logical
priority of the liberal arts educa­tion
we must develop excellent
human beings before we develop
excellent doctors, lawyers, busi­nessmen
or priests. If society fails
to develop these virtues of moral
and intellectual excellence in men
and women, society must pay the
price that barbarism entails."
He is St. Michael's 13th presi­dent,
and second layman, in the
73-year history of the 1,500-stu­dent
Catholic college.
'60 Austin Ditzler, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55402
JOHN GALLUS is the assistant vp of
Northwestern State Bank, Sauk Rapids,
and is responsible for the operation of
the real estate mortgage loan depart­ment.
" .On July 17, RAY GOVE and
his wife, Joan, led the Long Prairie
High School Marching Band to its 4th
consecutive grand championship at the
Minneapolis Aquatennial Parade. This
win stretches the number of 1st place
awards won by the band in 11 years of
Aquatennial competition to 8 in a row,
24 Saint
a record for the summer festival-4 of
the titles were in the high school classi­fication'
while the last 4 were grand
championships in competition with city,
military and high school bands; the
Long Prairie band won this year's title
with a total of 195.9 points out of a
possible 200. This win climaxed the
1976 summer season in which the band
won every parade it entered, bringing
its total number of wins since 1972
without a loss to 38. The high point of
1976, however, was to appear in the
Tournament of Roses Parade Jan. 1 in
Pasadena .... Dr. RICHARD JARVINEN
has been appointed chairman of St.
Mary's College math department. ..,
JOHN F. McCUE is a biology prof at
St. Cloud State.
'61 John McKendrick, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55402
JOE BENDA, son of the great St.
John's coach of the '30s and '40s, and
his wife visited SJU in August. Joe is
vp and sales manager of the Rayell Co.,
Tustin, CA. The Bendas have 2 children
and live at 25522 Charro Dr, San Juan
Capistrano, CA 92675. . .. West CAP
board members selected PATRICK HER­RIGES
of Glenwood City, WI, as their
new director; he has master's degrees
from both Purdue and Notre Dame in
English and theology.
'62 Bernard Kukar, Chm.
Bloomington, MN 55431
DICK KUFFEL is the new food areas
department head for General Mills in
Minneapolis. He has been with the firm
for nearly 10 years. Wife JoAnne is a
CSB graduate and they have 2 children,
Craig & Lisa. . .. THOMAS A. SEEGER
is a biology teacher in Robbinsdale
District #281. ... ARTHUR H. THYEN
is an import specialist for the US Cus­toms
Service. . .. THOMAS J. WITH­ROW
is a research biologist for the US
Public Health Service.
'63 AI Woodward, Chm.
St. Paul, MN 55111
ROBERT BOBZIN, conductor of the
Lakewood Orchestra and Lakewood Col­lege
Choir, received a 1st place award in
the 3rd national conducting competition
sponsored by the Symphony School of
America. He also serves as music di­rector
of the Civic Orchestra of Minne­apolis
.. ,. BOB HART and wife, Pauline,
have 3 sons: Jim. Mike and Bill. Bob
is practicing dentistry in Long Prairie.
... JEROME R. KLUKAS is an attorney
with Castor, Ditzler and Klukas. He
lives at 2134 Summit in St. Paul 55105.
... Major PATRICK J. RASSIER is now
serving in Bitburg, Germany, as an
avionics maintenance staff officer. . ..
Dr. RICHARD J. SAUER, an assoc. prof
of entomology at Michigan State and
acting assoc. director of the Michigan
Agricultural Experiment Station, has
been named head of the Kansas State U
department of entomology.
'64 Eugene Weber, Chm.
Bloomington, MN 55431
JOHN ISAACSON is an orthodontist.
... MARK SIEVE is the sometimes pan­cake
flipper - pie baker - hamburger
fryer at Travelers Inn in Alexandria,
which is operated by his brothers, Kurt
and Jon. This summer Mark was well
on his way to being a hit with audi­ences
at Theatre L'Homme Dieu: he
delighted theater goers with his 1st
performance in "Mary Mary" as a
masher, an aging but handsome movie
actor. Theater for Mark is a 2nd occupa­tion;
his 1st is teaching. He's taught
in Foley, Fulda and Melrose (where he
established the community theater,
"Town and Country Players") and is
presently teaching at Fowell Junior High
in Minneapolis .... DENNIS J. (MIKE)
SULLIVAN has been with Hughes,
Hughes, Thoreen & Sullivan since 1968.
He has 3 children: Molly, Mike and
Thomas .... DAVID VESSEL is a spare­time
sculptor and full-time clerk on the
Burlington Northern. He lives in Dakota
where he works on his hobby. David
has collaborated with Fr. Cloud Mein­berg,
OSB, and Br. David Manahan,
OSB, of St. John's Abbey on some of
his religious sculptures. David has also
worked with bronze and stained glass.
'65 Richard Banasik, Chm.
laCrosse, WI 54601
JAMES F. BRUM is employed by
Natomas, San Francisco. . .. PIERRE N.
REGNIER resigned as St. Paul city
attorney in March. He is now in private
practice with the St. Paul firm of J ar­dine,
Logan & O'Brien. He and wife,
Judith, have 4 children. . .. GEORGE
ROBERTS teaches English at North
High in Minneapolis. The Blessing of
Winter Rain, his first book of poetry,
is to be published soon.
'66 Thomas L Tucker, Chm.
Madison, WI 53704
TOM FIDER and his wife, Eileen,
and children, Erin and Neil, live at 513
2nd Ave NE, Waseca. . .. DANIEL C.
SHANNON is a dentist in North St.
Pau!' ... ANTHONY ZAHORIK of 105
Cobb St, Itasca, NY 14850 is a college
mathematics teacher at Itasca College.
His telephone number is 607-277-0704.
'67 Greg Bauleke, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Dr. RICHARD 1. BARON has opened
a general pediatric practice in the Blaine
Pediatric Clinic .... MARK McKEON of
Collegeville discussed the central Min­nesota
power line controversy in a
recent article in "Nation" magazine.
... JOSEPH M. SEITZ has been elected
assistant vp of Suburban National Bank,
Eden Prairie .... JOHN G. THOMAS is
a counselor for Minnesota Metro Train­ing
Center.
Deaths
t JOHN F. BLAST '13
t WILLIAM J. TOPKA '14
t Fr. OSWALD JOHANNES, OSB '15
t LEO C. COYNE '18
t Fr. FRANK KETTER '29
t Fr. HAROLD J. PAUL '44
t AMBROSE J. KILLORIN '47
t NICHOLAS HYDUKOVICK '69
Letters
To the editor:
"St. John's," vol. 16, no. 1 has
just reached me and I have studied
the lead article "Role examined:
women in the church."
As the senior alumnus in the
Portland, Oregon, area and after
consultation with some of our local
alumni I wish to indicate that we
think it an affront to our dear alma
mater to have an article promoting
the ordination of women given
such prominence.
First of all, our Holy Father has
spoken and his representative,
Bishop Bernardin, has stated that
there is no way to justify the
ordination of women. For Sr. An­thony
to argue that an injustice is
being done to women is tanta­mount
to calling our Holy Father
a liar.
I happen to be a personal friend
of AlIa Bozarth-Campbell, one of
the original eleven Episcopal wom­en
ordained to their priesthood a
year or so ago. She is intelligent,
cunning, scheming and does not
take "No" for an answer, right or
wrong. It wouldn't surprise me at
all to learn of a similar ordination
within our own fold. If it does
happen I'm afraid there will be
a violent reaction to this in dif­ferent
parts of the world.
The Holy Father has spoken.
Let us be faithful to him!
'68
Sincerely,
Mathias A. Ethen
Randy Johnson, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Dr. THOMAS DAVIS joined an
established practice with 3 other doctors
in Minneapolis after working the past
year as chief resident at Northwestern
Hospital there. A specialist in internal
medicine, Dr. Davis will continue to be
affiliated with Northwestern w hil e
working in private practice in the Med­ical
Arts Building in downtown Minne­apolis.
. .. PAUL RINGSMUTH is a
career rehabilitation counselor at the
Marriages
JAMES F. BRUM '65 to Barbara Ann
Schneck, July 24.
BERNIE KUNKEL '71 to Karin Huaan,
Sept. 18.
JAMES SPRINGER '72 to Nancy
Eickman, Aug. 7.
MICHAEL STAPLETON '72 to Lynn
Larson, May 1.
THOMAS A. COUDRON '73 to Carol
Ann Olson, October 23.
DANIEL MONTGOMERY '75 to Lynn
Campbell, June 12.
MICHAEL BLACK '75 to Mary
Bruenig, Aug. 21.
ROBERT LOCKE '75 to Mary Har­lander
(CSB), June 26.
ALLAN MOSLOSKI '75 to Kathleen
Spencer, June 11.
DANA SCHNOBRICH '75 to Ellen
Dwyer, Aug. 28.
GREG TSCHIDA '75 to Patricia
Meyer.
STEVEN 1. WARD '75 to Jean Marie
Kuelbs, October 23.
JOHN WINDS CHILL '75 to Donna
Hauge, Aug. 28.
KEVIN CARPENTER '76 to Juliana
Marshall, July 17.
KENNETH KETOLA '76 to Cathy
DelVecchio, Sept. 4.
ED REINA '76 to Pat Foley.
DA VID TELLINGHUISEN '76 to
Peggy Postma, Aug. 14.
JEFF BAL TRUSAITIS '76 to Sue
Slander, Sept. 4.
DUANE 1. WITTENBURG '76 to
Frances Mary Henley, November 6.
Births
Daughters, Margie and Katie, to Mr.
and Mrs. DON ALLMARAS '53.
Daughter, Maria Therese, to Mr. and
Mrs. ROGER SCHERER '58, Aug. 7,
1976.
Son, Christopher, to Mr. and Mrs.
MAURY RYERSON '63.
Son, Thomas, to Mr. and Mrs. DENNIS
J. (MIKE) SULLIVAN '64, May 10,
1976.
Son, Michael Franklin, to Mr. and Mrs.
JERRY LOOMER '69, Aug. 9, 1976.
Daughter, Patricia Ann d'Aguino, to
Dr. and Mrs. GUY BECK '70, Sept.
8, 1976.
St. Cloud Reformatory. He and wife,
Linda, live at 615 Aberdeen Dr, RR 7,
St. Cloud 56301. ... Dr. FRANCISCO
SELLES of Lauguna Gardens Shopping
Center, Suite 200B, Loiza Station, San­turce,
PR 00913 is working in his spare
time for the San Juan Head Start pro­gram.
'69 Chuck Achter, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55443
H. CHRIS CHAPMAN, clinical assis­tant
prof of general practice and family
Oops! Sorry
if you cindered
your roast
There are two errors and an
omission in the recipes following
"Profs Invade, Enjoy the Kitchen"
in the last issue of Saint John's.
Appropriately, and embarrassingly
enough, they are in the recipes
submitted by the author of the
article, who was also responsible
for its final proofreading.
For the souffle, the oven should
be preheated to 400 0 F. so that
it can be turned down to
375 0 F. when the concoction
is put to bake.
The pork roast should be
cooked about 35, rather than 15,
minutes to the pound, unless
you like your pork very rare.
And do not roast it to an internal
temperature of 3000 F., unless
you like it burnt to a cinder.
The thermometer should read
185 0 F.
Sincere apologies for any
disasters careless proofreading
may have occasioned.
Fr. Pat McDarby
medicine, is among new faculty who
began teaching responsibilities this fall
at the U of Minnesota-Duluth. '" Dr.
LAWRENCE ERICKSON joined the
staff of Westview Family Physicians,
located in the Mississippi Valley Clinic.
Larry and Jean have been married 5
years and have 2 boys. . .. WILLIAM
FARMER is special project administra­tor
and will be responsible for admin­istering
the planning and implementa­tion
of manufacturing projects at the
Sartell DeZurik plant .... GREG HEILLE,
a Dominican priest, spent the past year
as an assoc. pastor at Blessed Sacrament
Parish in Madison, WI. He is now be­ginning
his new ministry in Chicago as
vocation coordinator for the Midwest
Province of Dominicans. His new ad­dress
is 1909 5 Ashland Ave, Chicago
60608, telephone 312-666-4500.
TERRY NELSON is 1 of 2 administra­tive
intern assistant principals appointed
by Anoka-Hennepin School District 11
Board for the 1976-77 school year at
Coon Rapids High.
'70 Jay Simons, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55402
GREGORY J. VASTERLING has been
promoted to director of tax for Int'!
Multifoods. Greg is a member of the
American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants, the Minnesota Society of
Certified Public Accountants and the
Tax Executives Institute .... KIN WAH