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Contents:
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HISTORIANS'
TIME
ON THE CROSS
By Dr. David Bennetts
A SABBATICAL
FROM DAN
TO BEERSHEBA
By Fr. Daniel Durken, aSB
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MUSIC MAN
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By Fr. Martin Schirber, aSB
HENRY BORGERDING
RECEIVES FR. WALTER
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By Fred 1. Hughes '31
SJU SPORTS
REVIEW ................ 15
By Matt Wilch '76
SJU NEWS REVIEW ....... 16
ALUMNI NEWS REVIEW ... 19
Historians have always been
cautious about labeling any scholarly study the "de­finitive
work in the field." Their caution is under­standable.
New evidence is constantly being un­earthed,
interpretations revised and methodology
altered or refined. The professor who does not revise
his lectures each year invites (and probably deserves)
criticism and is soon recognized as being out-of-touch
with contemporary scholarship.
Still, there is generally room for some guarded
complacency in the discipline. Everything does not
change at once; the foundations might crack, but
they do not crumble. There is comfort in the knowl­edge
that by reading the journals, checking book
reviews and attending professional conferences it
is at least possible to give the impression that you
are in the vanguard.
Today's historian is faced with far more serious
challenges in this regard than his predecessors. Not
only is he forced to deal with new evidence and
interpretations, but he must also deal with sociolog­ists,
anthropologists, psychologists and political sci­entists
who insist on invading the historians' domain.
At first historians felt threatened by these upstarts,
but we learned to patronize them and even encour­aged
them in their efforts to become good amateur
historians. After all, they did not really speak a
different language; they simply had strange accents.
HISTORIANS'
TIME
ON THE CROSS
By Dr. David Bennetts
Dr. David Bennetts joined the history depart­ment
in 1973. He is currently acting department
chairman. His graduate focus was on the Civil
War.
But today's most serious challenge comes from
scholars who obviously do not understand the rules
of the game of complacency. Either that or they
have some unnatural urge to embarrass and frustrate
historians. Time on the Cross is the latest example
of this harassment. The authors call themselves
cliometricians (traditional historians call them a lot
of other things). Those who read the book can
expect to be bombarded with statistics, tables, graphs
and a plentiful supply of cliometric jargon not fami­liar
to the average reader. For those intrigued enough
by the first volume to venture into the second (a
supplement on evidence and methods), I issue a
warning: be prepared for 247 pages of sophisticated
equations, computer models and complex economic
formulas.
What exactly do Fogel and Engerman suggest
(they would say "prove") about the economics of
American Negro slavery? Here is a partial list of
their conclusions.
1. Slavery was not a system irrationally kept
in existence by planters indifferent to or ignorant
of its economic weaknesses. In fact, the investment
in a slave yielded rates of return that compared
favorably with investments in northern manufac­turing.
2. Economically, the slave system was stronger
on the eve of the Civil War than it had ever been.
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3. Slave agriculture was not in­efficient
compared with free agricul­ture,
but was 35 per cent more
efficient than the northern system of
family farming and 33 per cent more
efficient than non-slave agriculture in
the South.
4. On the average, the slave was
harder working and more efficient
than his free-white counterpart.
5. There was a tremendous de­mand
for slaves for urban and in­dustrial
employment in the decades
immediately preceding the Civil War.
6. Slave breeding, sexual exploita­tion
of female slaves by owners and
overseers and promiscuity within the
slave community have all been gross­ly
exaggerated by traditional his­torians.
So too has the extent of
whipping.
7. Stable nuclear families were the
rule in slave communities and slave
families were only very infrequently
split-up through sale at the auction.
8. The material conditions of the
lives of slaves compared favorably
with those of free industrial workers
in the north.
9. Over the course of a lifetime,
the typical slave hand received about
90 per cent of the income he pro­duced.
10. Between 1840 and 1860, per
capita income increased more rapidly
in the South than in the rest of the
nation.
For those unfamiliar
with the historiography of Southern
slavery, it is worth noting that the
above conclusions reverse almost
every traditional characterization of
the slave economy and, by implica­tion,
several non-economic charac­terizations.
The list of potential
victims reads like a Who's Who
in Slave Historiography. Obviously,
so drastic a reinterpretation of slav­ery,
if accurate, would have its im­pact
on interpreters of later periods
of American history, to say nothing
of the implications for our time. Just
as important is the fact that these
conclusions are based on research
gathered and processed by cliometric­ians.
The study has a clear message for
those involved in scholarship and
teaching, historians and others. The
message is this: the need for inter­disciplinary
skills is a fact of aca­demic
life and demands more than
mere lip service. This is not to sug­gest
that the distinct disciplines will
soon be extinct. Nor should it sug-
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Fogel and Engerman are not infallible just because
they use equations and computers. Neither, however,
can they be dismissed out of hand for those reasons.
gest that everyone must jump on the
latest faddist bandwagon or risk
being labeled obsolete. But even con­structive
criticism and effective de­fense
demand some knowledge of
the enemy and his arsenal. Even
non-historians should remember the
lesson of the Maginot line of defense.
For at least a decade and a half,
the history profession has been a
battleground for a war between tra­ditional
historians and the so-called
quantifiers or cliometricians. As the
word "war" implies, the debate has
not always been friendly nor con­structive.
Struggles such as this had
taken place before in the discipline,
and historians are certainly not uni­que
in this regard; but the challenge
of the cliometricians was somehow
different. Their jargon was even
more confusing than that of the
sociologists and psychologists. They
had reams of "proof" spewed-out of
their computers, budgets that could
support entire history departments
and armies of assistants. They cast
aside traditional interpretations and
to support their own they offered
as evidence (6.23)Pc = A-1w & Lr &
2m & 3. Little wonder historians who
barely made it through high school
algebra were concerned. In spite of
themselves, and while not many ad­mitted
it, they were also impressed.
They shared the computer genera­tion's
awe of numbers, formulas and
print-outs.
This historian numbered among
those who either ridiculed or ignored
the work being done by the cliomet­ricians.
Then, perhaps because of
some desire to appear "modern," I
began reading and trying to under­stand
some of the cliometric studies.
As I struggled through them at the
rate of about one page per hour, my
anxieties began to disappear. Every
now and then a cliometrician con­firmed
something I had long sus­pected.
On occasion, much to my
delight, they took issue with an
interpretation that I had never been
able to accept. My greatest moment,
however, was when I first discovered
an error. Cliometricians made mis­takes!
Having gotten over my statis­tical
complex, I then began to recog-nize
that even when the data seemed
accurate, the authors did not always
interpret that data effectively. Often
their problem was that they were
better mathematicians than histor­ians.
Finally, with some of my un­realistic
fears buried, I was even able
to admit that cliometric studies had
a contribution to make to the study
of history.
I remain a traditional historian and
a proud one. I do not understand,
let alone appreciate, all that Fogel,
Engerman and company have done.
Much of it is beyond understanding
and does not merit appreciation. But
what is important is that I can at
least deal with books like Time on
the Cross and accept what appears
accurate and worthwhile and criticize
and discard what does not. Fogel and
Engerman are not infallible just be­cause
they use equations and com­puters.
Neither, however, can they
be dismissed out of hand for those
reasons. The historian who does so
is wearing intellectual blinders.
It is within the context of the
broader issues outlined above that
I would like to comment on the
particular book in question. Time on
the Cross has received attention un­usual
for a history monograph. It
has been reviewed not only in schol­arly
journals (not surprisingly, in
journals from a great variety of dis­ciplines),
but in popular news maga­zines
such as Time and Newsweek.
Newsweek even published a follow­up
review. The authors have ap­peared
on television talk shows such
as NBC's Today Show. People who
have obviously never read the book
are talking about it. In fact, they are
getting angry about it. One is im­mediately
reminded of the contro­versy
surrounding the publications
on intelligence heritability a couple
of years ago. What is all the com­motion
about? There is obViously
more involved here than the invasion
of the cliometricians. I doubt that
Barbara Walters gives a damn about
the historian's ego.
Fogel and Engerman
anticipated the reaction to their study.
In the introduction they warned,
"This will be a disturbing book to
read." They were also apparently
aware that both their intentions and
their conclusions might be questioned.
Thus, they asked for "forbearance
on the part of the reader and a
recognition that what is set forth
represents the honest efforts of schol­ars
whose central aim has been the
discovery of what really happened."
For some, the accuracy of the study
ends with these two statements.
Like most books, Time on the
Cross has its strengths, weaknesses
and ambiguities. The book's real
strength is the contribution it makes
to our understanding of the econom­ics
of slavery. Fogel and Engerman
argue very convincingly that slavery
was a highly profitable and efficient
labor system and was not econom­ically
moribund on the eve of the
Civil War. The data they have col­lected
on the material conditions of
the lives of slaves, though often in­complete
and occasionally suspect, is
well worthwhile. In fact, all of their
data merits attention. This is not to
suggest that it is always complete
nor that it supports all of the authors'
conclusions, but rather that it is
worth knowing.
What, then, is so disturbing about
the book? For one thing, the book
has been accused of being a defense
of slavery. It appears to resurrect the
plantation owner of Gone With The
Wind who placed the comfort and
happiness of his slaves above all
other considerations. He fed, housed
and clothed them not only adequate­ly,
but in such a way that their
material conditions were better than
most American workers. For exam­ple,
Fogel and Engerman argue that
not only was the slave diet adequate,
but it exceeded the 1964 government
recommended daily levels of chief
nutrients. Furthermore, the master
seldom whipped his slaves; proVided
good (by 19th Century standards)
medicar care; encouraged· stable, nu­clear
slave families; and provided
rewards for slave accomplishments.
What happened to Simon Legree?
Has he been replaced by Simon
Peter? According to Fogel and Enger­man,
neither Simon applies. Instead,
what emerges is an amoral capitalist.
Their typical planter was a business­man,
skilled in farm management;
knowledgeable about his crops, soil
and workers; adept at marketing;
and moved largely by the profit mo­tive.
If he paid careful attention to
the material lives of his slaves, it
The flogging
was simply because he saw no ad­vantage
in a labor force that was
ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, mis­treated,
sickly and overworked to
the point of exhaustion. Slaves, after
all, were expensive to replace. Time
on the Cross, thus, is neither a
defense of the economic strength of
the plantation and an expression of
admiration for the business-manage­rial
talents of the planters. In this
regard, the authors have been un­justly
attacked by those who either
do not understand the book or insist
on interpreting the data in a way
the authors would not.
What role, according to this study,
did the slave play in all of this?
Here the authors have been accused
of trying to resurrect a stereotype
long-ago buried by historians. What­ever
the talents of the planter, it is
difficult to imagine a plantation being
35 per cent more efficient than a
free labor farm unless the slaves
cooperated. It is inconceivable if we
accept the argument of historians
like Kenneth Stampp (The Peculiar
Institution) that the slaves daily at­tempted
to sabotage the system and
deny the planter full return from
their labor. Fogel and Engerman in­sist
that it was not the whip that
made the slaves work at such a rate
of efficiency. Is it not a logical step
from the plantation productivity ar-gument
to the stereotyped image of
the content, hardworking and loving
slave who willingly toiled for the
benefit of the superior race?
However logical the step, it is not
one the authors choose to take. Their
slaves are black Horatio Algers;
slaves who were diligent workers and
who took pride in individual accom­plishment
and the efficiency of the
plantation. They were "imbued like
their masters with a Protestant ethic."
This efficient labor force was not
the result of cruelty nor docility but
was the result of positive incentives
or rewards offered by the planter
and the striving of the slaves to
develop and improve themselves in
the only way open to them. The
rewards included such things as
prizes (tobacco, whiskey, cash) for
the most productive slaves during
a given week or month. Masters also
rewarded slaves with patches of land
for their own use. A few planters
even developed elaborate schemes for
profit sharing with their slaves.
Equally important to the creation of
black Horatio Algers was the oppor­tunity
to rise within the social and
economic hierarchy of the slave com­munity.
This might involve promo­tion
to the position of overseer,
admittance to the artisan class, in­volvement
in plantation management
or acceptance as a house slave rather
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than a field hand. Each of these
"steps up the ladder" involved in­creased
financial rewards, social sta­tus
and more freedom. Fogel and
Engerman are convinced the reward
system worked (we have always
known it existed to some extent).
They are also convinced that their
case for the slave as a black Horatio
Alger is the most positive statement
yet made about the capabilities and
competencies of the slave population.
The reader might take issue with
this interpretation (I do), but it is
not racist in the traditional sense.
If everything said
to this point implies that I am an
uncritical admirer of Time on the
Cross, let me set the record straight.
Without attempting to deal here with
all of the weaknesses, statistical and
interpretive, of the book, I feel obli­gated
to offer some general criticisms
and at least a few specific examples
of error. The authors are able eco­nomic
historians and their study is
an important contribution to our
understanding of the economic his­tory
of slavery. The book is not,
however, especially good social his­tory.
When Fogel and Engerman
venture beyond the sphere of eco­nomic
analysis, they venture onto
thin ice. Their attempts to translate
their data, even when the data ap­pears
sound, into plausible explana­tions
and analysis of behavior and
beliefs fail as often as they succeed.
This is evident even when they are
dealing with the planters and over­seers.
The planter emerges as a mere
profit machine. His every thought
and action is dictated by the profit
motive. He did not, for example,
separate slave families via the auction
block because families produced bet­ter
as a unit. He did not whip his
slaves because what he "sought was
not 'perfect' submission but 'optimal'
submission." He did not sexually
exploit female slaves nor permit his
overseer to do so because this de­stroyed
slave morale and thus ef­ficiency.
It would be foolish to deny the
existence of the profit motive. But
was that the only, or even the dom­inant,
motivation? Is it possible that
some planters whipped their slaves
because the sadistic pleasure they
got from this justified the sacrifice
of some profit? Similarly, is it not
conceivable that some slaveowners
did not whip slaves because they
found it distasteful? What role might
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simple fear have played in this? We
know that slaves did occasionally
retaliate and that planters and over­seers
were constantly aware of that
possibility. It might well be, as Fogel
and Engerman claim but do not
prove, that the frequency and severity
(how, by the way, does one statis­tically
demonstrate severity?) of slave
whippings have been exaggerated. It
is logical to see a relationship be­tween
whippings and profit, but is
this the only explanation? This is
merely one example of how the
authors' insistence on explaining
most everything with the profit
motive obscures as much as it reveals.
Another general weakness of Fogel
and Engerman's view of social his­tory
is that, unlike their economic
history, it is static. We are expected
to believe that economic and demo­graphic
statistics change but beliefs
and behavior do not. This is a seri­ous
shortcoming in a study that
attempts to draw broad conclusions
from "averages." We have to know
if the averages change significantly
from decade to decade. If cotton
prices changed, we might also expect
other averages to fluctuate. Is it not
reasonable to assume that economic
shifts had an impact on such socially
significant matters as slave rewards
and punishment, slave sale, owner
attitudes, slave occupational distribu­tions,
sexual behavior and material
velop and improve themselves in the
only way that was open to them."
Under their master's direction, slaves
maintained nuclear families, cared for
their young and worked diligently.
The authors would argue that this
is a far more positive picture of the
slaves than that presented by Ken­neth
Stampp and Herbert Aptheker
(American Negro Slave Revolts).
Their slaves rebelled and protested,
but they failed miserably according
to Fogel and Engerman. The slave
pictured in Time on the Cross is
neither an unsuccessful rebel nor a
"Sambo."
It is an interesting argument and
no doubt the slaves learned very
early in life the survival rules pro­vided
by their masters. The problem
with this is that it assumes slaves
learned only from their owners. If
you want to understand the slave,
the authors tell us, find out what
owners did to slaves and thus what
enslavement did to Africans and
Afro-Americans. The slaves in Time
on the Cross merely react; ·they are
totally the creation of white masters
and the American environment in
which they found themselves. Fogel
and Engerman do not ask, let alone
answer, questions about what slaves
learned from each other. We have
to know what they did as slaves as
well as what slavery did to them.
Certainly slaves had their own sets
... the book deserves attention for other reasons.
It demonstrates the growing importance of acquiring
interdisciplinary skills . ..
conditions? In their static view of
social history, the authors ignore one
of their own rules, i.e., economic
determinism.
Perhaps the most serious weak­ness
of Time on the Cross as social
history can be found in its analysis
of slave attitudes and behavior. Fogel
and Engerman consider their study
a record of black achievement under
adversity. Their slaves fully inter­nalized
the Protestant work ethic
and accepted the values of Victorian
family life. They not only functioned
within a market oriented society,
they became good at it. " ... Imbued
like their masters with a Protestant
ethic ... even though they longed for
freedom, slaves could strive to de-of
beliefs and practices that were
not simply reflections of the planter's
beliefs and practices. This reviewer
is not able to accept the argument
that the slaves adapted to enslave­ment
through mere imitation any
more than the argument that planters
were moved only by the profit mo­tive.
The historical and cultural proc­esses
were undoubtedly more com­plex
than this.
Finally, something must be said
about the book's use of statistics.
Statistics, however impressive, can
be misleading. Some, not all, of the
conclusions advanced by the authors
are simply not supported by the
evidence they present. In a few
cases, the statistics are simply in-
Cotton plantation
adequate and the conclusions are
forced. The authors seem compelled
to use every statistic fed into their
computer. A few examples of the
pitfalls will serve to alert the reader.
A major thesis of the study is
that planters used positive incentives
(rewards) much more extensively
than negative incentives· (punish­ment).
Among other things, the
authors contend that the extent of
whipping has been greatly exagger­ated
as a means employed by planters
to manage their labor force. What
sort of evidence do they provide?
Their statistical evidence is drawn
entirely from the records of a single
plantation. This evidence results in
the following conclusion: "The record
shows that over the course of two
years a total of 160 whippings were
administered, an average of 0.7
whippings per hand per year. About
half the hands were not whipped at
all during the year." Can their con­clusion
be supported by evidence
drawn from one plantation over a
two-year period?
Even if we could label this data
"representative," we should question
whether the authors have used it
properly. What does an average such
as "0.7 whippings per hand per year"
tell us? Does it tell us that planters
did not consider whipping an effec­tive
instrument for maintaining order
and motivating workers? Or does it
suggest that indeed it was very ef­fective;
so effective, in fact, that 160
whippings over the course of two
years was example enough to keep
the slaves in line? If one uses the
same figures but presents them in
a different way, they show that three
s I a v e s were whipped every two
weeks. Were "rewards" given out
that frequently? Presented in this
fashion, the Fogel-Engerman conclu­sion
that the Protestant work ethic
could not be beaten into slaves is
subject to doubt.
An example of the difficulty
faced by cliometricians in quantifying
history can be seen in the attempt
to determine how many slave mar­riages
were destroyed by slave sales.
This is impossible to do with any
accuracy. It is impossible simply be­cause
we have no idea how many
slaves were married and we have no
idea how many were sold. Fogel and
Engerman act as though they have
this vital information or at least have
a representative sample. What they
use are slave trade records drawn
only from the New Orleans market.
Still, they plunge ahead. Accepting
the estimate of a colleague who con­cluded
that 1.92 per cent of slaves
were sold each year in Maryland
and offering their own estimate that
13 per cent of these sales involved
the destruction of marriage, they
conclude that 0.25 per cent of slave
marriages were broken through trade
each year. This is given, of course,
as an insignificant percentage (even
if correct, it would be 0.25 per cent
not found in the free population).
Applying this to the New Orleans
data and adding probability estimates
and estimates on marriages broken
through estate divisions and gift
transfers, Fogel and Engerman sug­gest
that roughly 8.6 per cent of all
slave marriages were broken through
economic transactions in slaves.
If we accept all the estimates, what
does this percentage mean? As an
example, if there were three million
slave marriages between 1820 and
1860, it means that 258,000 were
destroyed through economic transac­tions.
Since every destroyed marriage
had a direct effect on at least two
slaves, the percentage means that
more than half a million slaves were
touched in some way by the breakup
of these marriages. Suddenly we are
talking about millions and the 8.6
per cent becomes far more de­pressing.
The statistic tells us little,
and it certainly does not support the
contention that the threat to breakup
a marriage was not an important
negative labor incentive.
If Time on the Cross
were simply another history mono­graph,
I would not have felt the urge
to write so lengthy a review. The
book should be read by anyone
claiming to be an historian interested
in slavery. I hope that is obvious.
But the book deserves attention for
other reasons. It demonstrates the
growing importance of acquiring in­terdisciplinary
skills, or at least inter­disciplinary
awareness. It is illustra­tive
of the computer invasion and
the growing communications gap be­tween
traditional scholars and the
cliometricians. Few of us can safely
ignore the challenge.
Time on the Cross illustrates an­other
point. Cliometricians are not
infallible. Much of the negative re­action
to the book is, I suspect, the
result of fear. It is unwarranted fear,
but it is not going to disappear
simply because that is what we
would like to happen. The cliomet­ricians
have something to offer, but
they do not have all of the answers.
I might even suggest that they could
use some help from those of us who
have difficulty balancing our check­books.
But we can not help them if
we do not attempt to read and under­stand
what they are doing. Neither
can we be helped by their efforts.
Finally, Time on the Cross merits
special attention because it has been
labeled a racist book. As a result,
it will be ignored by many who
could profit from it. While I can
understand the emotions involved, it
is disturbing that emotional reactions,
of whatever nature, might influence
potential readers of this book or any
other. If what we want are book­burnings,
let us be honest about
what motivates us. We are in serious
trouble if we accept without ques­tion
the opinions of a few reviewers
simply because their insecurities coin­cide
with our own. 0
5
For a land that at first sight
seems to be full of stones and bones and little else,
Israel is a prolific place.
The pilgrim has a choice of praying at two
tombs (both empty) of Jesus and visiting four pos­sible
sites for the Easter encounter between the risen
Lord and his two sad disciples on their way to
Emmaus (Luke 24:13f.).
The historian can select eras and areas that
range from the pre-historic caves of Carmel to 12th
Century Crusaders' castles and the rusty remains of
war machines of more recent conflicts.
The student of the Bible is able to check out texts
that mention Abraham's oaks at Mamre (Genesis
18:1) and the sycamore tree that Zacchaeus climbed
in Jericho (Luke 19:4).
The buyer can haggle over the price of a simple
olive wood rosary, a piece of delicate Yemenite jew­elry
or an authentic antique oil lamp that used to
light a dim corner 1800 years ago.
The people-watcher can observe veiled women
balancing full water pails and overstuffed bundles
on their heads; pale-faced Orthodox Jewish boys
with curled earlocks flapping; youthful men and
women soldiers in khaki with guns at their sides;
and the ubiquitous Franciscans.
The traveler can pick as his mode of transporta­tion
a 1948 vintage Arab bus that lurches around
hairpin turns marked by roadsigns that simply have
an exclamation point, .or a shiny seven-passenger
6 Saint
A SABBATICAL
FROM DAN
TO BEERSHEBA
By Fr. Daniel Durken, OSB
Fr. Daniel participates in the Palm Sunday
procession approaching J erusalein.
Mercedes Benz taxi called a sherut, or a camel, or
a donkey or mostly his own legs.
The teacher on a semester sabbatical in Israel
can play all these parts and return enriched and
wondering just where to begin to summarize and
share this experience. For it is as varied as the
geography of that country which is topped off by
snow-capped Mount Hermon and bottomed out by
the Dead Sea lying in salty stagnation almost 1300
feet below sea level.
I will begin at the Ecumen­ical
Institute for Advanced Theological Studies at
Tantur where I spent the major part of my four
months in Israel. Built with the generous assistance
of St. John's late and elusive alumnus I. A. O'Shaugh­nessy
'03 and formally inaugurated in September,
1972, this institute grew out of a suggestion for an
Fr. Daniel Durken is a member
of the theology department at St.
John's. In addition, he is editor of
Sisters Today, a monthly national
publication, and Confrere, the St.
John's Abbey newsletter.
ecumenical study of salvation history made to Pope
Paul VI by Protestant observers at Vatican II.
Once upon a time from this very hill of Tantur
just off the old Roman road to Bethlehem, it is said
that an angel of the Lord plucked the prophet
Habakkuk by the hair and took him on an ecumen­ical
journey into faraway Babylon to feed the prophet
Daniel who was keeping seven lions company in a
den. More recent owners of the site were the Knights
of Malta who had a hospital here in the last century
that tended to the healing needs of pilgrims and
citizens. To heal the deeper, more stubborn wounds
that continue to divide Jewish, Christian and Moslem
pilgrims and citizens, this 20th Century institute is
dedicated.
The roster of scholars for the February through
May, 1975, semester numbered 19, hardly a full
house for this spacious, modern and expensive com­plex
built to accommodate 50. My colleagues in­cluded
3 Lutheran ministers, 2 Anglican priests, 2
With 2,500 species of flowers to
choose from in this rock-strewn
land, a few busy bees must have
had no problem to get this land
flowing with milk and honey.
clergymen of the Mar Thoma rite, a Syrian Orthodox
priest, a Presbyterian layman, a Baptist and a Metho­dist
minister, 2 Catholic sisters and 5 other Catholic
priests. We had come to Tantur from India, Zaire,
Ghana, England, Poland, Italy and the United States.
Primarily a research center where Christian
scholars can pursue their individual studies and where
it is hoped that eventually a truly ecumenical con­centration
by a team of international scholars on a
common theological theme will be realized, the in­stitute
provides adequate and improving library
facilities, an unsurpassed setting and a stimulating
forum for study and dialogue.
Topics presented and discussed at the weekly
colloquium ranged from reflections on the Jewish­Christi~
n dialogue, the theological aspects of child
psychology and the concept of harmony in the Neo­Platonic
tradition to considerations of the mutability
of God, the pastoral concerns of St. Ambrose of
Milan and ecumenical aspects of the ordination of
women.
Other facets of the institute's academic program
included two weekly seminars-one on the miracles
of Jesus, the other on the anti-Semitism of the Fathers
of the Church as reflected in a homily of St. Augus­tine
and a sermon of St. John Chrysostom. Guest
speakers from the Jewish and Arab communities
gave lectures that provided valuable insights to this
country's contrasts and conflicts. The Hon. Teddy
Kolleck, mayor of Jerusalem, spoke to us on the
problems of plurality in a united Jerusalem. Dr.
Shaul Ben Chaim, former ambassador of Israel to
Malawi, detailed some of the efforts that Israel is
making to help the Third World. Dr. Gaby Baramki,
dean of the Arab's Bir Zeit College, examined the
complex problems, opportunities and challenges of
higher education for West Bank students. The in­formation
and insights of these speakers and other
administrative and staff personnel added light, elim­inated
heat but offered no facile solutions to the
political issues that this country continually faces.
For me one of the most memorable of these
special lectures was an illustrated talk on the flowers
of Israel. With the help of 10 dozen exceptionally
fine colored slides presented by John and Monty
Rose, we were able to "consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow" (Mt. 6:28). A few closeups of the
brilliant red anemone and the subtly shaded cyclamen
convinced us that as usual Jesus was not exaggerating
when he said, "Even Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these" (Mt. 6:29). With
2,500 species of flowers to choose from in this rock­strewn
land, a few busy bees must have had no
problem at all to get this land "flowing with [milk
and] honey" (Exodus 3:8).
All work and no pray makes dull people every­where,
but an ecumenical center without a signif­icant
prayer life would be a dead center indeed.
This community of scholars therefore became a com­munity
of worshippers each evening when we as­sembled
in chapel to "let the word of Christ dwell
in us richly" (Col. 3:16). Just how rich that word
is I realized at the very first service I attended. A
passage from St. Matthew's second chapter was read
in which there is talk of Jesus' birth "in Bethlehem
of Judea in the days of Herod the king" and of "wise
men from the East who came to Jerusalem" (Mt. 2:1).
Only an hour earlier I had been taxied through
Jerusalem, and the initial scene I had seen from the
picture window of my room at the institute was of
that same little town of Bethlehem a mile or so away.
Herod's presence is still brooding over the area, for
beyond the town and as prominent as the IDS build­ing
on the Minneapolis skyline is the Herodium, that
paranoid ruler's mountain fortress where he is sup­posedly
buried.
In addition to providing a
center for common worship the institute also offered
opportunities to share in the Lord's service at other
nearby liturgical centers. I was in Israel long enough
to celebrate the almost full circle of liturgical feasts
-from womb to tomb. In this connection I had my
first example of how proliferous Israel really is. For
even though I had missed the Roman Catholic and
the Greek Orthodox celebrations of Christmas and
Epiphany in Bethlehem's Manger Square, I was not
too late to miss the January 18th arrival of the
Saint 7
r---
I
Cases of fresh "St. Peter's fish" from the Sea of Galilee await delivery to markets and restaurants along the shore.
Armenian Patriarch as his white limousine deposited
him in front of the Basilica of the Nativity for his
congregation's Christmas Eve celebration. The pro­cession
of priests, local potentates and Israeli police,
Boy Scouts, a drum corps and camera-snapping tour­ists
walked right past the sign in front of a nearby
establishment that said, "Welcome to our bar and
tea room. Merry Xmas." (Yes, that abbreviation was
right there in Bethlehem!)
Holy Week in Jerusalem was unforgettable. I
marched with thousands of local and visiting Chris­tians
in the traditional Palm Sunday procession from
Bethany's Church of Martha, Mary and Lazarus, past
the accepted site of the latter's tomb, up and over
the Mount of Olives and into the Old City through
St. Stephen's Gate, one of the eight city gates of
Jerusalem. The institute organized a devotional walk
on a cold, windy, moonlit Holy Thursday night from
the scene of the Last Supper on Mount Zion to a
place overlooking Akeldama (Judas' field) and across
the Kidron Valley to the Church of All Nations in
Gethsemane where readings in Greek and Arabic
were concluded with the roof-rattling chant of the
Pater Noster.
On Good Friday morning I followed the Way
of the Cross with a pushing but prayerful crowd
and experienced the impact of popular piety. Over
the centuries that same piety had pre-determined
these 14 Stations of the Cross in western Europe,
particularly at Louvain in Belgium, in the 16th Cen­tury
and had then transplanted these same medita­tive
stops to the narrow, crowded, business-as-usual
8 Saint
shops and streets of old Jerusalem. In a city that
has been besieged more than 50 times, conquered 36
times and destroyed 10 times it is next to impossible
to say with certainty exactly where anything hap­pened.
But the Via Dolorosa is a perfect example of
the pilgrim's prime concern to pray and praise rather
than to prove or disprove the places of Jesus' last
hours.
Holy Week was climaxed by a simple but
moving celebration of the Easter Vigil at the in­stitute,
a splendid Easter morning sunrise over the
hills of Moab across the eastern shore of the Jordan
River and a visit to the crusty and dusty Church
of the Holy Sepulchre on Easter Sunday afternoon
to see for myself that, sure enough, Jesus had risen!
His tomb is empty! He is not there!
My Easter Alleluias were sustained and multi­plied
when I witnessed in early May the Greek
Orthodox celebration of their Easter Vigil. This feast
and festival centered on an intensely spirited, com­petitive
and boisterous build-up for the striking and
spreading of the New Fire that signals and symbol­izes
that Jesus has risen indeed, just as surely as
warm, living flame leaps from cold, dead rock. As
I watched from the balcony above the rotunda that
enshrines the sepulchre of Jesus and observed the
chanting, whistling, swaying, singing, shouting crowd
of young men milling around for more than an hour
before the bishop and his priests and deacons arrived,
I could think of no more apt comparison of the
action than a pre-game warmup by the Collegeville
Rat Section at a basketball game. No participant
-
or observer could have mistaken this celebration for
the mournful, hopeless wake of a dead man. Nor
could anyone have remained asleep or dead in that
kind of a holy racket. This was the vigorous, full
voiced, no-holds-barred, almost rowdy salute to new
life and to the Lord who gives it abundantly.
The same vigor and intensity of prayer were
evident the Friday evening that a Jesuit colleague
and I toured several synagogues in Jerusalem's ortho­dox
quarter of Mea She' arimo Heads bobbed rhyth­mically
to accent the texts being chanted, sometimes
in unison, sometimes independently. At one syna­gogue
the black-suited group gathered in a circle,
joined hands and danced to continue a tradition that
says, "David danced before the Lord with all his
might" (2 Samuel 6:14). It is obvious from the total
lack of women at these services that the ordination
of women is not even an ecumenical consideration
for the Orthodox Jew. At the same time he has not
heard that religion, prayer and liturgy are supposed
to be organized dullness.
Among the highest of the
highlights during my days at Tantur was the series
of almost weekly tours and excursions in which I
was privileged to participate. I was doubly fortunate
to supplement the excursion schedule which the in­stitute
offered with a number of trips arranged by
my confreres, Fathers Thomas Wahl, OSB, and Luke
Steiner, OSB, who were teaching a group of St.
John's students living in Ein Karem (the Jerusalem
suburb made famous by the birth of St. John the
Baptist) and taking a semester course of biblical
studies and field trips. These trips to and through
history-laden sites gave me what I really had come
to Israel to get-the experience of seeing first hand
this land of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus.
And see it I did: from the northern headwaters
of the Jordan River; down the shore of the Sea of
Galilee; through Nazareth with its modern Church
of the Annunciation and its ancient city well where
women like Mary gathered daily to draw water;
past Cana where a souvenir bottle of Cana wine
proved to be so sour that it surely came from the
batch Jesus did not make out of water that certain
wedding day; to Capernaum and a synagogue built
on a synagogue where Jesus began his preaching
and teaching; along the Mediterranean coast with
its line of massive Crusaders' forts; up, up, up the
winding road to Jerusalem and down, down, down
to Jericho, city of palms and orange trees that take
your breath away when they are in bloom; into the
stark Negev Desert where it rains one and one half
inches a year and even camels have to hustle to stay
alive; along the Dead Sea to that lasting symbol of
Jewish resistance and freedom, Masada; to Qumran
with its remains of a monastic community and its
caves that harbored ancient biblical scrolls until a
Bedouin shepherd stumbled on them in 1947; to
Hebron where the patriarchs and most of their wives
are supposedly buried; to Tekoa where sheep still
forage for grass as they did when the prophet Amos
shepherded them until he heard the Lord say to him,
"Go, prophecy to my people Israel"; to sprawling
Jerusalem with its shrines, shops and museums that
never fail to fascinate; and finally into the Sinai
Desert where a five-day camping trip taught our
troop of 37 pilgrims on a 10-ton truck that the
Exodus was every bit as brutal, savage and frighten­ing
as this summer's television presentation of
"Moses the Lawgiver" made it to be-and even
more so when a gastric infection strikes and the vic­tim
could not have cared less if every bush started
to burn as that one bush burned for Moses and if
manna had fallen from the heavens in cellophane
wrapped packages. Five days were long enough.
Forty days (cf. Mt. 4:2) must have been a real bind.
I cannot even begin to comprehend 40 years (cf.
Numbers 14 :34) !
Travelling the traditional Dan to Beersheba ex­tent
of Israel made me realize what eminently good
taste and good sense Jesus had when he chose the
It is obvious from the total lack of
women at these services that the
ordination of women is not even
an ecumenical consideration for
the Orthodox Jew.
area of Galilee in the north to be the scene of his
early ministry and the place to which he returned
after his ill treatment in Judah and Jerusalem in the
south. Galilee lives up to its guide book description
of "gentle contours and pleasant climate ... valleys
and hillsides covered with silvery green olive groves
and deciduous fruit orchards." In this green setting
lies the large blue jewel of the Sea of Galilee where
Peter, James and John fished and Jesus invited them
to follow him.
One morning during our
stay in Galilee we got up before the sun to watch
the return of the fishing boats and their crews that
had "toiled all night" (Luke 5 :5). The fishermen
cleaned their nets and separated their catch of "St.
Peter's fish" into small, medium and large containers.
The men who docked their fleet were young and
strong and obviously knew what they were doing.
One of the fishermen was a little more talkative and
playful than his shipmates, probably for the benefit
of his American onlookers so they would not think
fishermen a surly lot. I would not have been sur­prised
if his name were Simon. But what kind of
a stranger on the shore must that carpenter's Son
have been who had the nerve and the charm to call
Saint 9
one away from the security and familiarity of his
boat and nets and catch in order to walk all over
this land.
It was not easy for Jesus to leave lake and shore
and hills and head south. Mention is made that "he
must go to Jerusalem" (Mt. 16:21) not that he
wanted to go. And go he did, to "walk about Zion,
go 'round about her, number her towers, consider
well her ramparts, go through her citadels" (Psalm
48:12-13). The visitor who does the same in Jeru­salem
will need much more than a two-day stopover
to see and appreciate such places as the Dome of
the Rock, that landmark Moslem shrine with its
splendid golden roof covering the rock of Mount
Moriah where tradition says Abraham prepared to
sacrifice Isaac, Solomon built the Temple and Mo­hammed
was taken up to heaven on a flying horse;
the Wailing Wall where today's Jews come to touch
their past in prayer and to hope for a better future;
the grim, depressing and haunting Yad Vashem, the
memorial built in remembrance of the six million
Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II.
lt was a rainy, dreary January afternoon, the
30th anniversary of the liberation of the concentra­tion
camp at Auschwitz when I visited this hall of
horrors that features a pictorial replay of Hitler's
rise to power and offers an overload of evidence
that anti-Semitism was as real as the 'T' for Jew
stamped on identification cards and as deadly and
callous as Rudolf Hess' boast that ne could exter­minate
2,000 Jews at a time in his camp over against
the paltry 200 victims of another camp. The tour
culminates in a stark room of markers with the name
of a European country and the number of Jews
killed there. In the middle of the room stands a
glass case containing a little child's shoe and the
caption: "Children: 1,500,000." Outside the hall is
a powerful statue by Nathan Rappoport of Job in
the impatient agony of his loss of sons and daughters.
He cannot forget them no matter how many theo­logical
reasons, political excuses and happy endings
are offered him.
Native with Mona Lisa smile.
These are only some of the memories that make
the statement of the psalmist no exercise in nostalgia:
"If I forget you, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand
wither" (Psalm 137:5). Upon my return I was happy
to read that a Collegeville speaker last March had
also remembered Jerusalem. Cardinal Suenens con­cluded
his address by answering the question, "What
do you expect for the future, a Vatican III?" He
replied:
My dream ... would be Jerusalem II - coming
back together in the place where we started.
We started in Jerusalem. We started in the up­per
room in Jerusalem, gathered around the
eucharist before the death of Christ, and we
started in the same supper room on the day of
Pentecost. There we have to return. This is the
place where the Church was born. There we
have to find our original unity again. And as
the poet [T. S. Eliot] said: "We shall not cease
from exploration / And the end of all our ex­ploring
/ Will be to arrive where we started /
And know the place for the first time." So
this must be our dream (WORSHIP, Vol. 49,
No.5, May, 1975). 0
Bible Workshop
in Holy Land
Open to Alumni
St. John's University Lifelong
Learning Program is offering a
Holy· Land Bible Workshop
from June IS-July 7, 1976, for
alumni, faculty and friends who
want to do more than read
about Israel. Father Thomas
Wahl, OSB, will direct this
three-week workshop that fo­cuses
on daily reading assign­ments
from the Old Testament,
a daily discussion of the ma­terial
read and a daily field trip
to selected and significant bib­lical
sites. If you are interested
in this summer session in Israel,
you have until February 1, 1976,
to write for a free brochure
and to make a $20 returnable
deposit to Fr. Thomas Wahl,
OSB, St. John's University, Col­legeville,
Minnesota 56321.
10 Saint
Ray Gove '60 and his Long
Prairie High School band are marching into national
attention.
After a string of eight Minneapolis Aquatennial
championships in the last nine years, Minnesota's
Marching M'Bassadors - Ray and the Long Prairie
band - have been invited to march in the January,
1976, Tournament of Roses parade 'in Pasadena.
They were one of 19 bands chosen from a field of
258.
The M'Bassadors' qualifications for such recog­nition
are impressive. They have won the Minne­apolis
Aquatennial Grand Champion award, the com­petition
for which embraces not only high school
bands but also city and military bands, for the last
three years, a record unequalled by any band. In
addition, the M'Bassadors were winners of the Aqua­tennial
High School Band Championship in several
preceding years. They have participated in various
other state and regional competitions and have won
29 consecutive first-place awards in Minnesota since
1972. Overall, the band has won more than 60
first place awards since 1969 and has participated
in events ranging from the Festival of States in St.
Petersburg, Fla., to the Cherry Blossom Parade in
Washington, D.C.
St. John's alumni have had the opportunity to
see the M'Bassadors in action, marching and playing
between halves of SJU football games four times,
most recently at Homecoming this fall when the
group performed a bicentennial "Salute to America."
Like all great musical en­deavors,
the achievements of the band and its direc­tor
are the results of persistent hard work. Training
starts in the Elementary Band-more than 100 fifth
and sixth graders-also trained and directed by Ray.
M'BASSADORS'
MUSIC MAN
HONORED
By Fr. Martin Schirber, OSB
Those who are qualified may graduate into the Junior
High Band-lOS students in the seventh to ninth
grades-and are directed by Ray's assistant, Orvis
Dahlen. The M'Bassadors, consisting of 127 senior
high school students, are under Ray's direction. Both
Ray and his assistant also do a great deal of music
instruction, both with groups and individuals.
Ray gives much of the credit of his success to
his wife, Joan. (This "trait of humility" is not un­common
among Johnnie band directors-Bob Harris
'51 of Cold Spring Rocori High School cited his
wife's crucial assistance when he was featured in
SAINT JOHN'S in November, 1963.) Joan takes
charge of the band "front"-37 members with flags,
rifles and batons. With these routines supervised,
Ray is free to concentrate on the music and marching.
Getting invited to march in the Tournament of
Roses parade is one thing; financing it is another.
The budget covering all expenses directly and in­directly
associated with the trip is $58,000. However,
the figure includes new uniforms with a bicentennial
theme and instruments for the fife and drum unit
which steps out of formation to play authentic Rev­olutionary
tunes as played by the field musicians of
the Fifth United States Infantry at Fort Snelling
1819-28. The uniform and instrument costs were
The Author: Fr. Martin Schirber
'30 has taught generations of
Johnnie economists - and he re­members
most of them by name.
He remains active in academic and
alumni affairs.
11
underwritten by the local school district, but that still
left $40,000 for air fare, lodging, meals, transporta­tion
in California and other incidentals. Here is where
the organization behind the band - the Band-Aiders
- comes into play.
The Band-Aiders organize a variety of money­raising
projects, ranging from pancake suppers to
Hoagie sandwich dinners (the latter are particularly
delectable sandwiches which sell as if they are going
out of style). The Aiders put on several of these a
year. They also provide other services such as acting
as chaperones on trips.
Other groups and individuals think up their
own money-raising schemes to help finance the band.
One of these was a "Rollerskate-a-thon" around Lake
Harriet in Minneapolis during the 1975 Aquatennial.
The skaters got individual businessmen to sponsor
them at so much per lap. One of the skaters, Pat
King '67, caged several fellow Mutual Life Insurance
agents in the area into financing his effort and was
backed up by Frank Rajkowski '44, distirct manager
of agencies for Mutual Service, who agreed to make
up any deficiency below $40 per lap. King survived
three laps and turned over $120 to the cause.
The M'Bassadors are optimistic that the com­munity
and supporting organizations will be able
to provide half of the necessary $40,000. The other
half will have to be raised by band members them­selves
($140 to $150 each). To help raise money,
the music department of the high school has or­ganized
a year around Rent-a-Kid program. People
needing temporary help can call Ray's office and a
Rent-a-Kid will be on his or her bike to the scene
of action within minutes.
The M'Bassadors are not only a marching band.
They also serve as a concert band during much of
the year and travel widely to put on musical concerts.
In addition, they have cooperated in staging such
popular musicals as My Fair Lady and South Pacific
and provide, when occasion requires, a 20-piece stage
band which performs songs from the current jazz­rock
charts as well as the standards from the big
band era.
While at St. John's Ray
played trumpet in the St. John's marching concert
band under the late Frank Herring. After graduation
in 1960, he taught at high schools in Williams and
Freeborn before moving to Long Prairie in 1963. He
attended Mankato State College during the summers
and received his M.A. in music in 1967.
At Homecoming half-time this fall, Ray re­ceived
his alma mater's highest recognition, a Presi­dent's
Citation awarded by Fr. Michael Blecker, OSB.
It read:
PRESIDENT'S CITATION
For distinguished professional achievement
in music education,
For effectively proving the potential, the
vitality and the strength of rural America,
For successfully aspiring to the quality of
excellence in himself and his students,
For bringing honor upon the community of
Long Prairie, central Minnesota and
Saint John's University,
The Saint John's University President'~ Citation
is conferred on
Raymond G. Gove
Long Prairie marching band director
On this fourth day of October,
Nineteen hundred and seventy-five.
Michael Blecker
President
Saint John's University D
Ray Gave and the M'Bassadors.
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Henry Borgerding Receives Fr. Walter Alumnus Award
By Fred J. Hughes
Henry Borgerding made his
first trip to St. John's as a very young man in 1904.
He lived then, as he does now, in the Village of
Belgrade in western Stearns County, some 50 miles
from Collegeville. That first trip was a two-day
adventure by train: the first leg took him from
Belgrade to Paynesville where he changed trains be­fore
the long part of the ride to St. Cloud. A longer
stop over was required at St. Cloud before he traveled
a third road, the Great Northern, for his journey
to the old Collegeville station. The horse-drawn
carriage concluded the one-half mile trip from the
station to the monastery. Little wonder the typical
Johnnie only got home for Christmas and Easter 70
years ago.
Henry has made literally hundreds of trips to
St. John's in the intervening years. The sun is not
too warm, nor the wind too raw, nor the rain too
chilling to keep Henry from a football game in the
fall, and he regularly braves the January and Feb­ruary
snows and biting cold to lend his moral sup­port,
in person, at the basketball games. Throw in
a few of the other yearly activities which this loyal
Johnnie attends and you get some sense of the at­tachment
and support which Henry 60rgerding feels
for the Benedictines and St. John's.
Henry graduated from St. John's College on
June 17, 1907. He was awarded a certificate in short­hand
and typewriting and a degree and diploma of
master of accounts. He received the gold medal for
the highest academic average in the fields of com-
Fred J. Hughes '31 presents the Fr. Walter Distinguished
Alumnus Award to Henry Borgerding '07.
mercial typewriting and shorthand. He was a stu­dent
leader in, and a promoter of, the League of
the Sacred Heart.
Upon graduation he returned to Belgrade and
entered the family banking business with his father
who had attended St. John's in the late 1800's. Henry
was joined by his late brother, Alphonse, when he
finished St. John's in 1914. AI's son, George, a 1950
graduate of St. John's, joined the bank and invest­ment
company after a five-year hitch as a pilot in
the Air Force. George's son, Brian, a current junior
at St. John's, is the fourth generation to be educated
by the Benedictines.
In the summer of 1917 Henry Borgerding and
Clara Medinnus were married in St. Paul. Two
children, a daughter, Elaine, and a son, William,
were born to this marriage. One of Elaine's children,
Mike Casey, a 1968 graduate of St. John's, works
with his grandfather in the Belgrade bank. William
attended St. John's prior to his enlistment in the
Air Force; he was a pilot with the rank of second
lieutenant when he gave his life in the service of
his country in August, 1942.
Henry is the long-time president of the North
American State Bank of Belgrade, the Elrosa State
Bank and the Borgerding Investment Company with
extensive land and other holdings in Minnesota and
California. While his business and social interests
have been diverse and widespread, he has ~lways
lived in Belgrade.
One of the constant char­acteristics
of Benedictinism over the long space of
the centuries is its indigenous nature. Benedictines
tend to plant their roots deeply, to develop a virile
strength and stability and to exert an influence for
the good on the society in which they live and grow
and have their being. Henry Borgerding has been
a shining example of that life style in the lay state.
Central Minnesota, and particularly the western part
of Stearns County, has been a better place to live
because Henry Borgerding was central to its activities
during a long and distinguished life among its people.
He has been a source not alone of substantial
economic support but of great over all strength to
the Church, and a wise counselor to the area pastors
who frequently sought his advice. He was a bridge
between Catholics and other faiths at times and
under circumstances where tact, discretion and pru­dence
were essential. In a sense, he lived the spirit
of ecumenism before many of us knew the word.
Henry has been involved in all of the significant
social, economic and educational movements in his
community for a full half century. Not many com­munities
the size of Belgrade (713 population) are
as desirable places to live, largely due to Henry
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Borgerding's leadership. During the eight years he
was mayor, important and necessary water, sewer
and street improvements were made. In 1966 the
North American State Bank moved into a beautiful
new building which has few equals in communities
of comparable size. Some years ago, he spearheaded
the movement to build a modern and efficient home
for the aged and the infirm of the area. More recent­ly
his was the impetus which produced 18 units of
housing for moderate and low income families. All
of these activities and countless others were true to
the traditions of St. Benedict - the effort to in­fluence,
for good, the lives of those with whom we
are in the most direct contact. Henry Borgerding
has not wasted much time tilting at windmills.
Rather he has done a great many things in his own
quiet, work-a-day way, to improve and advance the
conditions of life for his friends and neighbors of
central Minnesota. In this respect, his life has much
in common with the life of our beloved Fr. Walter
Reger in whose memory Henry is recognized and
honored today. Like Fr. Walter, he has a marvelous
sense of humor. He is also an eternal optimist. As
an evidence of his optimism, this 86-year-old Johnnie
has just renewed his passport. Why not, he would
ask, for he hasn't been on a round-the-world tour
since 1973 and then he only covered 19 countries.
He reasons that the bicentennial year is a good year
for world travel.
Fr. Walter must be smiling today to see his
old and valued friend, with whom he had so many
warm and cordial visits, receive the honor which
the Alumni Association is happy to bestow on a
truly worthy recipient. Congratulations, and our
respect and affection go to Henry G. Borgerding,
Christian man of faith, honor and humility, as he
receives the Fr. Walter Reger Distinguished Alumnus
Award for 1975. D
4.
1. Alumni, guests and faculty relax and lunch in the bright sunshine
3.
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of the 1975 Homecoming.
2. John Conlin '50.
3. Homecoming reminiscence with Fr. Emeric Lawrence, 05B, '31.
4. Football fans make the most of it with noise makers and cheers as
the Johnnies defeat Gustavus 26-7.
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SJU SPORTS
REVIEW
By Matt Wilch '76, Sports Information Director,
assisted by Joe Perske '78 and Tom McGlinch '79
Nine St. John's athletes were honored this fall
with all-MIAC distinctions in the sports of football,
cross country and soccer. The individual honors re­flect
successful seasons for the three teams. The
gridders defended their conference title and the cross
country and soccer teams each placed a respectable
third in the MIAC.
FOOTBALL
Winning the MIAC championship has almost
become a habit for John Gagliardi-coached St. John's
teams. During his 23-years here, the Johnnies have
finished in first place or a tie for first eight times.
This season was a repeat as the Johnnies compiled
an 8-1-1 overall record and a 6-0-1 MIAC mark.
The two keys to that string of victories were a strong
running attack and a stingy defense.
Leading the ground game were junior halfback
Jim Roeder with 984 yards and sophomore fullback
Tim Schmitz with 936. Their grand totals placed
the Johnnies in the top fifteen of NAIA schools in
total rushing yardage and earned the pair berths in
the all-MIAC backfield. Other Johnnie offensive
players to earn all-conference spots were the co­captains
- guard John Herkenhoff and split end
Todd Watson. Junior center Dave Grovum and
photo by John McTigue
Fullback Tim Schmitz charges through the Gustavus
Adolphus defense on his way to a I85-yard rushing
performance. His yardage led all rushers as the Johnnies
clinched a Homecoming victory 26-7.
sophomore quarterback Jeff Norman won honorable
mention.
The Johnnie defense, which held opponents to
11.9 points per game and forced 35 turnovers, was
also well represented on the MIAC's top team. Senior
back Jerry Haugen and junior tackle Joe Wentzell
earned first team spots, while senior linebacker Gordy
Wrobel and junior ends Terry Sexton and Tom Kost
gained honorable mention.
CROSS COUNTRY
Hampered by injuries to top veteran runners
Tim Heisel, Roger Schanus and Joe Perske, second
year coach Dave Lyndgaard relied on a wealth of
young runners to field a team that had success on
both the conference and district levels.
The young squad finished third in the MIAC
behind St. Thomas and front runner Hamline. Senior
co-captain Tim Miles led the Johnnies with a seventh
place finish to earn all-conference distinction. Five
other Johnnies finished in the top 25: junior Steve
Gathje, nth; freshman Dale Gross, 14th; sophomore
Andy Cragg, 18th; freshman Tim McKenna 22nd;
and junior Kevin Riley, 25th.
The season highlight was a third place finish
in the NAIA District 13 meet which qualified seven
Johnnies for national competition in Salina, KS, Nov.
15. The squad includes Miles, Gathje, Gross, Cragg,
senior Bill Martell and freshman Pete Gathje.
SOCCER
"Close but not quite" describes the Johnnies'
1975 soccer season. The Johnnies posted a 9-4-1
record for a third place MIAC finish, one half point
out of second.
Last year's district championship pointed to a
possible conference title this year, but injuries to
starters-seniors Geoff Murphy, Jim Sawyer and
Carl Neuburger and junior Ken Potts-coupled with
the inexperience of their freshman replacements pre­vented
the team from playing title winning soccer.
The injuries did allow coach Matt Sikich to
appreciate the depth of his young team. Six of his
eleven starters were freshmen and according to
Sikich, "I could have played anyone of the 17
players on the squad."
Murphy and junior Mike Lilly represented the
Johnnies on the all-MIAC squad, the second consecu­tive
all-conference honor for each.
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ST. JOHN'S
NEWS REVIEW
Dr. Ed Henry named president
of St. Michael's College
Dr. Edward L. Henry' 43, vice president for institutional develop­ment
at St. John's University, was elected president of St. Michael's
College in Burlington, Vt., by the college board of trustees Oct. 3.
He will become the 13th president of the Catholic liberal arts and
sciences college early next year.
Dr. Henry has been a professor in the SJU government depart­ment
since 1954 and served as University vice president since last April.
The former mayor of St. Cloud, he was president of St. Mary's College
in Notre Dame, Ind., 1972-74 while on leave from St. John's. Under
his leadership, St. Mary's regained the fiscal stability and enrollment
it had prior to the school's dismerger with Notre Dame University.
St. John's President Michael Blecker, OSB, said, "I regret Dr.
Henry's leaving St. John's because of his record of excellence as a
member of the faculty and administration over the last 20 years. I
know I speak for all of the St. John's community when I express
congratulations and wish him well."
Dr. Henry said, "lowe an incalculable debt of gratitute to St.
John's for what it has done for me over a very long period of associa­tion
with it both as a student and as a faculty member. In my judg­ment
it is one of the truly fine undergraduate Catholic liberal arts
colleges in the nation.
"But new horizons beckon and I have always subscribed to chal­lenge
as a means of self-development. I do intend to return to Minne­sota
when my tour of duty is completed at St. Michael's."
St. John's withdraws from NCAA
In response to a rule change reducing home team athletic rosters,
St. John's withdrew this fall as a member of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association (NCAA). St. John's retains its membership in
the National Intercollegiate Athletic Association (NAIA).
President Michael Blecker, OSB, said his decision was made on
the recommendation of the student affairs advisory council, athletic
director Jim Smith and the coaching staff.
"The NCAA rule reducing home team rosters is contrary to our
philosophy of maximum student participation at home games and thus
prompts our withdrawal," he said. "While the rule change appears
to have been directed at the big and growing athletic budgets of large
universities, it would have little affect financially on St. John's."
By NAIA rules St. John's is able to get maximum participation
at home contests in cross country, swimming, track and other sports;
practically all team members can participate even though only the
top finishers are counted toward official team scores. .The .NC~A
allows only 11 home team participants in cross country, 23 In SWImmIng
and 28 in indoor track and 34 outdoor.
Using football as another example, Fr. Michael pointed out St.
John's traditionally dresses approximately 100 players at ho~e con­tests.
Early in the season, to meet the new NCAA regulatIon, the
home squad was reduced to 60. .
While the NAIA has no restrictions on the size of football travelIng
squads and the NCAA limits them to 48, St. John's and ~ther Minne­sota
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference teams dress a maXImum of 44.
The University finds little additional expense in dressing 100 players
at home but can save with smaller traveling squads, he said.
Fr. Michael indicated membership will be reconsidered next year
if the NCAA restores its Division III smalI college home rosters.
Academia takes St. John's
professors around the world
St. John's faculty members don't limit their academic world to
Collegeville; University professors are teaching, studying and lecturing
across the world this school year.
Dr. Sylvester Theisen '47 of the sociology department is on sab­batical
at Cambridge, England, with his family.
Dr. Khalil Nakhleh '67, anthropology professor, is teaching at
Haifa University in Jerusalem; he and his family are living on Mount
Carmel.
Dr. Honore (Marc) Catudal is applying his expertise in European
government on writing a book and articles on German politics; the
Catudals are living in West Germany.
Fr. Paul Marx '43, OSB, took his pro-life crusade to Australia
and New Zealand in October and November; prior to departure, the
director of St. John's Human Life Center was honored by a Pittsburgh­based
pro-life group for his efforts.
Jim Peters, director of St. John's Data Center, presented an in­vited
paper on "Time-Share Computer Services at SJU" at a meeting
of the Association for Computing Machinery at Rutgers (N.J.) in
November.
Closer to home this fall, SJU art department chairman Bela Petheo
was featured at the Tweed Museum in Duluth; Fr. Hilary Thimmesh
'49, OSB, of the English department, and Dr. Edward Henry '43, SJU
vice president and government professor, were elected to the board
of directors of Minnesota Public Radio; Jim Peters was named to the
board of the Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium; Jim Hender­shot
of the art department exhibited prints and drawings at St. Cloud
State University; and Jim Pitzer, chairman of the speech department,
discussed communications problems between children and their parents
at a meeting of the Mille Lacs County Foster Parents Association.
Manuscript library new name
reflects Hill foundation assistance
The new name of the Monastic Manuscript Microfilm Library
(MMML) at St. John's University reflects the many contributions made
to it by the Hill Family Foundation of St. Paul.
University President Michael Blecker, OSB, announced Oct. 22
that the internationally acclaimed research institute will now be known
as the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library (HMML). "The change in
name recognizes the profound role which the Hill Family Foundation,
now the Northwest Area Foundation, has played in the success of the
library since its inception," he said.
The HMML, founded in 1964, microfilms and preserves all pre-
1600' manuscripts (books copied by hand before the invention of print­ing)
to make them available to scholars. from its initial grant to fund
a pilot project through its most recent grant of $385,575, the North­west
Area Foundation has provided more than $1.2 million to carry
on microfilming operations in Austria and Spain.
Fr. Urban Steiner, OSB, director of field operations for HMML,
is currently overseeing the microfilming of manuscripts in Toledo,
Spain. Fr. Urban succeeded Fr. Oliver Kapsner, OSB, who began micro­filming
operations in 1965 in Austria where he continued to work
until his retirement in 1972.
"The microfilming in Austria, now completed, was an unqualified
success. And good progress is being made in Spain," Fr. Michael said.
"None of this would have been possible without the generous help
of the Hill Family Foundation."
Theisen
Nakhleh
Dr. Eila Perlmutter acknowledges scholar­ship
in memory of her husband.
Fr. Matthew
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At the same time as the announcement of the name-change of
the institute, Fr. Michael also announced the name chosen for the
new building which will house HMML. The structure, now nearing
completion, will be called "The Bush Center" in honor of the Bush
Foundation of St. Paul which provided a grant of $540,000 to construct
the facility.
"Anyone at all familiar with the manuscript library knows that
shortage of space has long been a serious problem. We are most grate­ful
to the Bush Foundation for this wonderful new building which
will meet HMML's needs for the foreseeable future," Fr. Michael said.
Students initiate scholarship
to honor Dr. O. Wm. Perlmutter
The students of St. John's University have instituted a scholarship
in memory of Dr. O. William Perlmutter, the school's academic vice
president from 1972 until his death last March.
Conrad Graff, chairman of the Student Executive Council, said
$10,000 will be used to aid foreign students studying at St. John's.
"Dr. Perlmutter's academic passion was internationally-focused
education," Graff said. "With this scholarship we hope to perpetuate
his memory and provide a learning opportunity for a foreign student
here as well as for his American schoolmates."
Last year the students raised $3,000 and then challenged the
University's Board of Regents and friends to match the total two-to­one.
In October Graff presented University President Michael Blecker,
OSB, with a $10,000 check for the Perlmutter Scholarship.
Roger Birk named SJU regent
Roger Birk '52 has been elected to St. John's Board of Regents
and Fr. Wilfred Theisen '53, OSB, and Fr. Hilary Thimmesh '49, OSB,
have been named to the University's Executive Governing Board.
Birk is president of Wall Street's Merrill Lynch brokerage firm
and chairman of St. John's National Advisory Council. On hand for
the Regents' fall meeting, he served as a guest lecturer in an economics
class (see photo).
Fr. Wilfred replaces Fr. Baldwin Dworschak, '29, OSB, whose term
on the board ended; Fr. Hilary replaces Fr. Gordon Tavis, OSB, who,
as a member of the Order of St. Benedict corporate board of directors,
had to resign from the governing board according to statute.
"Mr. Science," Fr. Matthew honored
Fr. Matthew Kiess, OSB, long-time chairman of St. John's chem­istry
department, was honored by his former students last summer
on the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.
The students presented him a book of anecdotes, letters and pic­tures
to share memories of the classroom and laboratory and to give
Fr. Matthew a status report on his former students.
Fr. Matthew taught chemistry here for 48 years and was depart­ment
chairman for 40 years. His long tenure in the chem department
earned him the name "Mr. Science" at St. John's. In addition to his
teaching and service at area parishes over the years, Fr. Matthew also
took on such tasks as water analysis for the abbey, creameries, power
plants and city water systems; experiments in soil re-building; and
chalice electro-plating and polishing for the abbey and local parishes.
ALUMNI
NEWS NOTES
122
LEO TEKIPPE, 711 Cedar Ave,
Decorah, lA, has sold his business after
45 years as Coast to Coast store owner.
135
Msgr. ROMAN G. NEVA is now
vicar general in the Fargo Diocese.
136
The Most Rev. PAUL LEONARD
HAGARTY, OSB, bishop of the Bahama
Islands, gave the baccalaureate homily
for the 1975 graduating class from St.
Leon College, FL, in April. At present,
seven priests and one brother from St.
John's are working in the Diocese of
Nassau with him.
137
JOHN J. MARRINAN, 20485 Hol­yoke
Ave W, Lakeville, is the deputy
sheriff there.
141
Fr. MAGNUS J. WENNINGER of St.
Augustine's College and Monastery re­turned
recently from a lecture tour in
the US including an address at the
Boston Museum of Science on "The
Story of Polyhedrons." Th~ presentation
featured color slides, visual transpar­encies
and actual models he made him­self
and then contributed to the mu­seum.
He has received world-wide
acclaim in math research and is the
author of a 200-page book entitled
Polyhedron Models. which has been
translated into RussIan.
142
RALPH ROBECK owns and operates
bowling lanes in Rapid City, 50.
143 Rev. Ray Schulzetenberg, Chm.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
Fr. ADRIAN FOX, who has been
teaching in Mexico for 12 years, is now
pastor of Sacred Heart and St. Mary's
parishes in the Roseau area. . .. Dr.
BERNARD STROUTH recently visited
SJU with his daughter, Susan.
147 Thomas Paul, Chm.
Faribault, MN 55021
Dr. SYLVESTER THEISEN is now liv­ing
in a 250-year old house in England
where he is spending his sabbatical year
from St. John's as a visiting scholar at
Cambridge. His new address: The
Grove, 2 Bury Rd, Stapleford, Cam­bridge.
He recently visited friends in
Rome including officials at the head­quarters
of the Food and Agriculture
Organization with whom he worked
from 1966 to 1968 while on a previous
leave of absence from St. John's.
148 Robert Welle, Chm.
Bemidji, MN 56601
HOWARD KULLEN, 16745 West­moreland,
Detroit, is now head of the
Adult Education Program, helping adults
who haven't finished grade or high
school to complete their education. . ..
JULIUS SMITH of Chaska has been
elected vp of the St. John's Prep Board
of Advisors for 1 year.
149
LARRY SCHWIETZ, 12512 Harney,
Omaha, is president of L & M Const.
Inc .... JAMES WEBER has been elected
president of the St. John's Prep Board
of Advisors; he serves for 1 year.
151 Dr. Everette Duthoy, Chm.
St. Paul, MN 55101
ROBERT J. BREEN, 10868 Mora
Drive, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022, has
taken a I-year assignment at the Elec­tric
Power Research Inst. in Palo Alto;
he's on leave from Westinghouse. . ..
Bro. KONRAD DIEBOLD has a new
address: Provincial Residence, 200 De
La Salle Dr, Lockport, IL 60441. He is
the new assistant provincial of the cen­tral
states district of the Brothers of
the Christian Schools. . .. RALPH KEL­ZER
is a vice president of Mead John­son
Laboratories in Evanston, IN. . ..
PAUL MARCOTTE is director of com­munications
and training for IGA In­ternational
in Mt. Prospect, IL.
153 Charles McCarthy, Chm.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
JERRY BONNETTE is now living at
12487 40th Street 5, Afton 55001.
154 Robert L. Forster, Chm.
Edina, MN 55436
PAUL SOKUP and his wife visited
SJU in August to pick up their 2 sons
who were attending the Prep Leadership
Camp. The Sokups run the Sokup
Superette in Chippewa Falls, WI.
St. John's and St. Benedict Alumni of the Twin Cities area held a joint reunion
November 29 at the Thunderbird Motel. Here, Alumni join hands for the
Lord's Prayer at a Eucharistic Service offered by Fr. John Howard, OSB, center.
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Jerald l. Howard, Chm.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
RICHARD BAXTER has been ap­pointed
manager of purchasing at the
Rochester (NY) Graphic Products Di­vision
of Itek Corporation. The Roches­ter
graphic products division manufac­tures
and markets a full line of graphic
reproduction systems, equipment and
supplies for offset platemaking and
duplicating micro filming and photo
copying for US and international mar­kets
.... Dr. MICHAEL O'FALLON has
been appointed to the staff of the
Mayo Clinic as a consultant in the
Dept. of Medical Statistics and Epi­demiology
and head of medical research
statistics. . .. JAMES LILLY· has pur­chased
Chas Olson & Sons Inc Truck
Parts in Minneapolis.
Dr. Thomas Hobday, Chm.
St. Cloud, MN 56301
PETER D'HEILL Y has recently been
awarded a PhD in educational admin­istration
from the U of Minnesota; he
is currently vice president for general
education at St. Mary's Junior College
in Minneapolis. . .. Fr. DENNIS D.
EVENSON is the new pastor of St.
Patrick's in Hinckley .... Fr. VAL G.
GROSS is now rector of Cardinal
Muench Seminary in Fargo. . .. WIL­LIAM
K. O'BRIEN was 1 of the 718
persons awarded
the professional in­surance
designation,
Chartered Property
Casulty Underwriter
on Oct. 15 at the
national conferment
ceremonies in Dal­las.
The conferment
coincided with the
32nd annual meet­ing
and seminars
of the Society of
CPCU. O'Brien is
O'Brien the assistant general
manager of the Hartford Insurance
Group's Cincinnati Regional Office. He
resides with his wife, Betty, and 4
children: Teresa, Jane, Chris and Kevin,
at 1659 Citadel Place, Cincinnati in
Anderson Township.
Austin Ditzler, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Serving as team doctor for St. John's
as the football squad faced Whitworth
College in Spokane in October was Dr.
JOHN GIESEN, a former Jay gridder
and now an orthopedic surgeon.
John McKendrick, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Dr. PETER ALFRED AHMANN is
an assistant professor of pediatrics
neurology. He held a fellowship in
pediatric neurology from the Nat'! In­stitute
for Neurological Diseases and
Strokes at Emery U of Atlanta. . ..
DAN CARLE has begun his own mar-
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riage and family counseling firm, Fami­ly
Counseling Associates, in St. Cloud
with '66 alumnus DOUG ADAMEK.
Bernard Kukar, Chm.
Bloomington, MN 55431
St. Paul Fighting Saints President
WAYNE BELISLE revealed in early
November that he now solely controls
the WHA team.
AI Woodward, Chm.
St. Paul, MN
CHARLES DAHL is known in the
Twin Cities as Columbo the Head­hunter.
His firm seeks out and inter­views
qualified candidates for positions
requiring expertise, experience or leader­ship
qualities. A philosophy major, he
cites his favorite maxim: "Business is
cruel but fair." .,. DRAKE DIERK­HISING's
new address is 147 E Sunrise
Dr, Lexington, MD. Drake is once again
managing the Cedar Point Officer's
Club at the Naval Air Test Center in
Patuxent River, MD. . .. RICHARD M.
HALL is account operations manager
for Turbodyne Corp in St. Cloud. . ..
LOUIS J. RUSSO is the designated
education chairman for the United Way
of Northeast Minnesota.
Eugene Weber, Chm.
Bloomington, MN 55431
JIM CASSIDY is now supervisor of
social service for Todd Co. He and his
family live in Long Prairie. . .. RICH­ARD
DUFAULT is now the band di­rector
at Waseca High. . .. JOHN
GOULET's OH'S PROFIT (" ... Biting,
swiftean satire that is at the same time
curiously moving. Goulet's gorilla, with
his better-than-human feelings, may be
the new hero we have been looking
for" - Louis Simpson.) will be released
by Morrow Publishing in November.
. . . JOHN M. HICKS was admitted as
a stockholder for the firm of Hammel
Kohlmetz & Englehardt, SC, CPAs,
10425 W North Ave, Milwaukee 53226.
" . ROBERT SPINNER has been named
administrator of the Northwestern Di­vision
of the Abbot-Northwestern Hos­pital
Corp in Minneapolis. Northwestern
Spinner
is the largest of
four divisions that
comprise the 849-
bed medical center.
Bob, his wife,
Kathy, and their
three children live
in Richfield, a ,Min­neapolis
suburb. . ..
JOHN VANDER­HOOF
is executive
vp of Golden Rule
& Congressional
Group Operations
Inc. He lives at 5446
N Kenwood Ave, Indianapolis. . ..
JAMES WEISS received his master's
degree in public administration from
the U of Alaska in May 1974.
Richard Banasik, Chm.
laCrosse, WI
MICHAEL JOYCE, DDS, is currently
living at 919 Park Dr, Fargo. . .. This
past summer Dr. JAMES KROOK joined
the medical staff of the Duluth Clinic
Ltd .... JEROME J. SAUBER graduated
from the U of Minnesota Veterinary
College in June. Jerome and his wife,
Janet, live in Wheaton where he prac­tices
at the Wheaton Veterinary Clinic.
Thomas l. Tucker, Chm.
Madison, WI 53704
JIM BRUGGEMAN has been working
as a park ranger in Grand Teton Na­tional
Park for the past 3 years. He
is also part of the "GTNP Mountain
Search & Rescue Team" and has made
numerous ascents of the park's major
peaks. In the off-season he is an
elementary teacher for Teton Public
Schools where he heads a committee
developing science and social studies
curriculum for the district. . .. DAVID
CARTWRIGHT is IBM's Bahamian gen­eral
manager. He lives in Nassau. . ..
WILLIAM J. HASSING is a partner
with the Maun Hazel law firm in St.
Paul. ... DAN HOOLIHAN is a senior
electrical engineer at Control Data. . ..
J. MARTIN IGO is now living in Boise,
ID, where he is with the Wright­Leasure
Co; the firm specializes in
commercial, investment and industrial
real estate in Boise and the Northwest.
... ROBERT KREN, 2122 Austin Dr,
Springfield, IL 62704, is a legislative
staff member for the Speaker of the
Illinois House of Representatives. . ..
JIM and Marlene TEGEDER and family
are living in Houston where Jim is
director of business development for
ISC Corp. They invite fellow alumni to
give them a call (713-353-4962) when
down Texas way.
Greg Bauleke, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
PAUL E. CORMIER recently gradu­ated
from Emory U Law School. Paul
is now with a law firm in the Atlanta
area. . .. WILLIAM F. DAGNON is
library and audio-visual director for the
Mineral Point (WI) School District.
... JAMES JOHN GERDING has moved
to Spokane where he will continue his
practice of anesthesiology. . .. JOHN
GLADY is employed by the Federal
Land Bank Ass'n of Willmar .... RICH­ARD
KENT HEIMERMAN of Sioux
Falls has recently received his MBA
in business administration at the U of
South Dakota .... ROBERT P. RUSSELL
of Willmette, IL, is now enrolled at
the American Graduate School of Inter­national
Management in Glendale, AZ.
... PHIL TINTES is president of Westgo
Inc of West Fargo, ND. He will con­tinue
as president of Truck Equip Inc,
an allied firm .... THOMAS E. TRISKO,
Apt. 208, 2485 Canabury Dr, Little
Canada 55117, is a corporate economist
at Medtronics, Inc.
Fr. Murray,
Sky Ranch
Priest, Killed
Fr. Don Murray's last day on
earth was a very happy one, recall
his friends at the Sky Ranch for
Boys, a youth rehabilitation center
he founded in Camp Crook, S.D.
Early on Oct. 11 he baptized Kevin
Blakey and to celebrate the "Flying
Padre" took him to dinner in
Baker, Mont. But on the take-off
to return to the ranch, the plane
Fr. Murray was piloting got about
100 feet off the ground and
plummeted downward with the
left wing hitting the ground and
the craft disintegrating. The priest
and his young friend were killed;
cause of the accident is unknown.
A member of St. John's Class
of '43, Fr. Murray dedicated his
life to caring for the boys at Sky
Ranch. Only two weeks before
his death his request for a badly­needed
dormitory for the smaller
boys at the ranch was approved.
The dorm will be named the Fr.
Murray Memorial Dormitory.
Randy johnson, Chm.
Minneapolis. MN 55402
MICHAEL MITCHELL BILLION of
Sioux Falls has recently received his
MBA in business administration from
the U of South Dakota. . .. THOMAS
ERSFELD is working at the Duluth AFB
for Chapman College of Orange, CA,
administering undergraduate and grad­uate
programs to Air Force personnel.
He lives at 20 N 40th Ave E, Duluth
55804 .... ROBERT SCHENK is an as­sistant
professor of economics at St.
Joseph's College in Rensselaer, IN. Bob
and wife, Germaine, recently welcomed
the second addition to their family, a
son, Peter Michael.
Chuck AchIer, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55443
JOHN HOVANEC is currently over­seeing
far-eastern advertising for Camp­bell,
Mithum, Inc in Tokyo .... THOMAS
MAUS, SJ, is studying theology and
ministry at the Jesuit School of The­ology
at the U of Chicago. After study­ing
at LeMoyne College in Syracuse and
Fordham in New York, Tom taught and
coached hockey at St. Peter's Prep in
Jersey City for the last three years .. ,.
THOMAS M. MEIERHOFER is now in
the social services department at Will­mar
State Hospital. ... JOHN SALL
Marriages
WILLIAM RANDALL BACHAND '75
to Debra Lou Johnson, August 9, 1975.
MICHAEL BUTLER '74 to Barbara
Baker, August 23, 1975.
PHILIP GALANIS '75 to Mary Mc­Gee
(CSB), August 23, 1975.
ROY A. GLOVER '70 to Nancy Goede
(CSB), July 12, 1975.
GERARD HOOD '74 to Karen Jean
Matsko, August 2, 1975.
TOM HUTCHISON '74 to Becky
Buckley, August 31, 1975.
LENNIE JOHNSON '74 to Joan
Hurley (CSB), May 23, 1975.
PAUL ELLIOTT KELLY '74 to Marilyn
Nistler, August 13, 1975.
FERNANDO COLON NAVARRO '74
to Carol Jean Johnson, August 9, 1975.
STEVE PURTELL '73 to Debbie
Walsh, July 12, 1975.
TOM REICHERT '72 to Pamela Kittle­son,
May 31, 1975.
KURT WACHTLER '74 to Cynthia
Ann Benson, August 9, 1975.
JOHN WEBER '75 to Kathryn Hep­burn
(CSB), June, 1975.
MARK WOLLMERING '75 to Pat­ricia
Lynch, August 16, 1975.
JAMES WRATKOWSKI '75 to Kath­erine
Quale, September 6, 1975.
Births
Son, Brian Jeffery, to Mr. and Mrs.
DOUG DIEDERICH '66, July 4, 1975.
Daughter, Rebecca Ann, to Mr. and Mrs.
JERRY FALETTI '75, June 15, 1975.
Daughter, Kathleen Anne, to Mr. and
Mrs. MIKE PARIPOVICH '63, July
1, 1975.
Daughter, Jeannette Anastasia, to Mr.
and Mrs. BILL SAWYER '72, August
16, 1975 .
Son, Peter Michael, to Mr. and Mrs.
ROBERT SCHENK '68, August 29,
1975.
Son, Ryan Jeffrey, to Mr. and Mrs.
JEFF MOSCHETZ '71, August 4, 1975.
Daughter, Jocelyn, to Mr. and Mrs.
JOHN HOVANEC '69, August 24,
1975.
Daughter, Maria Elena, to Mr. and Mrs.
FRANK ZIEGLER '62, November 1974.
Daughter, Alyssa Ellen, to Mr. and Mrs.
STEVE HAWKINS '73, August 5,
1975.
Son, Martin William, to Mr. and Mrs.
ROBERT KREN '66, August 14, 1975.
has received his BS in medicine from
the U of South Dakota. John is cur­rently
living in Sioux Falls. . .. JOHN
D. STUBE, 5706 Crater Lake San An­tonio,
is a captain in the Army. . ..
Capt. LEON J. TAUSCHER has received
his MSD in psychology at Georgia Tech.
Deaths
t WILLIAM W. BOUSKA '02
t EDWARD BRADY '13
t Fr. VICTOR SIEGLER '13
t JOHN J. LUCKEMEYER '17
t JOSEPH E. CLARKIN '22
t WILFRED T. GIESS '26
t Dr. JAMES A. BLAKE '30
t ROBERT M. DEVITT '36
t Fr. CARL PRILEY '36
t Fr. DONALD MURRAY '43
t ROBERT NORDSTROM '54
t LAURENS WORKMAN '55
t RICHARD LINDGREN '75
Jay Simons, Chm.
Minneapolis, MN 55402
JOHN AGEE, #923 Summit Ave, St.
Paul 55105, is now an accountant for
West/Central Warehousing in St. Paul.
... CHUCK CERONSKY, a chaplain at
St Mary's Hospital in Minneapolis, has
been appointed director of the Respect
Life Program in the St. Paul/Minne­apolis
Archdiocese. . .. RAY ROSSINI
has become associated with the pro­fessional
firm of Thompson Hessian,
Fletcher, McKasy & Soderberg.
William Moeller, Chm.
Fairmont, MN 56031
Former "Record" editor JIM DAVIES
has another new address: 1865 Oak St
Apt 6, San Francisco 94117 .... JEROME
L. McCARTER is secretary of the Cen­tral
Minnesota Association of Life Un­derwriters
and recently elected presi­dent
of the Central Minnesota Chapter
of the St. John's Alumni Association.
Jerry was also recently awarded the
Chartered Life Underwriter designation
at the National conferment exercises
of the American College of Life Under­writers
in Boston. . .. Address for Bro.
DIETRICH REINHART, OSB, is 223-B,
Thayer Street, #4, Providence, RI 02906.
He is now beginning a doctoral program
in history at Brown U .... Dr. RICHARD
J. SHANNON has become Oliver
County's first dentist. He practices in
the new Oliver County (ND) Dental
Clinic. ... CONRAD STROEBE, PO 194,
Billings, MT 59103, and JAMES M.
BROWN, 1303 Steffanich Dr, have set
up their own CPA firm-CONRAD &
BROWN-at Suite 225, Chamber of
Commerce Bldg., Billings; tel: (406) 245-
5227.
Pat Evans, Chm.
Beaver Dam, WI 53916
GENE BURESH, Rte 1, Box 156,
Dickenson, ND, is 1 of 250 Peace Corps
volunteers working in Zaire in a variety
of agriculture-health and education pro­jects.
. .. PETER LEE is accepting a
position at the Bank of East Asia and
lives at 21 Homantin St, Flat 206, Kow­loon
Hong Kong. . .. RAMSAY SHU is
spending the year doing research at
the Asian American Health Research
Center, 3rd College-015, U of California-