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pertaining to sports. Those who
have experienced the effect will
never forget the fact. For weeks
and months preparation was
made for “the day of the year,”
Thanksgiving Day. Everybody
was keyed up for the occasion.
The stadium became a mass of
frenzied people giving support to
their team. One of our sup
porters suffered a heart attack
during the game and died on the
same day. That was loyalty even
unto death!
Savannah has a charm all of
its own. The saying is that it is
one of the four cities in the U.S.A.
that has a character distinctive
from that of all other cities in the
nation. I have carried away fond
memories of the old city of
Savannah.
After having spent seventeen
years there, I was recalled to
Belmont Abbey to teach in the
College. Having lived away from
Belmont Abbey for a period of
thirty-six years, I felt like a
stranger in new surroundings.
Everything was changed, even
the name of the monastery, from
Mary Help Abbey to Belmont
Abbey. During the period of my
absence from the monastery,
new buildings had been erected,
such as the Haid Athletic
building. In the classrooms one
was dealing with college
students who were more mature
than the flippant high school
students. So discipline was no
“problem. I taught French and
German and I was impressed
with the gentlemanly behavior of
the students, which made
teaching a pleasure. My twelve-
year stay in Belmont was a
pleasant and easy one compared
with the stormy years of the
great depression.
From Belmont I moved back
to Bristow, Virginia, where I had
started my Odyssey in life. I was
made Chaplain to the
Benedictine Sisters and spiritual
director of the boys at nearby
Lincoln Hall School. Life there
was peaceful and quiet in a
beautiful part of the country. In
1967 I returned to the monastery
to live in retirement. I have now
plenty of time for reading,
something I yearned for in the
busy years of my active life. The
Prophet Joel has beautifully
described man’s life on earth.
He says, “The young men have
their visions; the old men dream
dreams.” It describes the active
life of the young and the
peaceful life of the old,
dreaming of the past.
Finally, I wish to give this
advice to the young. Form the
habit of reading good books
while you are young. In doing
this you will avoid lonliness in
old age when your dearest
friends will have passed on to the
great beyond. Books are a
treasure house of wisdom in
which the thoughts of the great
men in history are stored away.
Read only worthwhile books.
And now as the shadows of
life’s evening are lengthening, I
look forward with confidence to
the friendly visit of Good Old
Father Time.
WJ'-
Hi'
DR. NASSER JEHANBANI
Assistant To Fr. Bradley
The Reverend John P.
Bradley, President of Belmont
Abbey College, recently an
nounced that Dr. Nasser
Jehanbani, a native of Iran and
resident of North Carolina, has
generously offered his services
to the College. Father Bradley
said, “After a number of
discussions with Dr. Jehanbani,
we have agreed that he should
serve as an assistant to me in
special projects. I believe the
College is most fortunate in
obtaining his services and
doubly fortunate in that a man
endowed with a broad range of
competencies should decide to
serve without renumeration.”
Dr. Jehanbani earned his B.S.
in Chemical Engineering from
Tehran University, Iran, his
M.S. in Mining Engineering
(Petroleum) and the Degree of
Engineer (doctor of engineer) in
Civil Engineering (Sanitation
and Hydraulics) from Stanford
University. He has also done
work towards a Ph.D. in In
ternational Relations.
In 1950 Dr. Jehanbani entered
the service of British Petroleum
and the National Iranian Oil
Company, one of the largest and
most diversified business
organizations in the world.
Beginning as a production
engineer, he rose through the
ranks to the position of Assistant
Chairman of the Board and
General Managing - Director.
He retired, at his own request,
from this position in 1970.
Additionally, between the
years 1963 and 1967, he served, at
the command of his King, as
Deputy Comptroller, Imperial
Iranian Armed Forces, in which
he held the honorary rank of
Major General.
Dr. Jehanbani has also taught
at Stanford University, Mon-
teray Naval Academy, the
Abadan Institute of
Technology, and the Imperial
War College in Iran. He is
presently teaching at Gaston
College.
With the assistance of Stanford
University and Lafayette
College, Dr. Jehanbani was in
strumental in turning a
vocational school in Abadan,‘
South Iran, into a four-year
technical college. It is now in
ternationally recognized as the
best of its kind in all the near and
Middle East.
Among his many abilities. Dr.
Jehanbini speaks Persian,
English, French, German,
Arabic and Turkish. A
descendant of the former ruling
family of Iran, the Kajar
Dynasty, he is married, and the
father of one son, bom in the
United States.
HART
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and a granddaughter, Jenifer of
Miami, Florida.
At Mrs. Hart’s request
memorials should be sent to
Belmont Abbey College C-o The
Isabefle Hart Scholarship Fund,
Belmont Abbey College, Attn:
Fr. Jude.
In addition to receiving news
of our alumni, we wouid enjoy
receiving photographs of you
and your famiiy. These
photographs might inciude
famiiy activities or special
events.
Please advise us of any
special subjects you might like
to see covered in Crossroads, so
we can better serve you.
ALUMNI
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attorney in Charlottesville, Va.
Joe Eldridge owns the Eldridge
Sunoco Service Center in
Fayetteville, N.C. Enjoyed the
letter from Flynn Warren telling
us he has been loaned by the
University of Georgia to the
Medical College of Georgia in
Augusta as clinical coordinator
for the School of Pharmacy of a
joint clinical pharmacy program
to be conducted at the Medical
College.
’63 - Ronald Gardner is field
representative and auditor with
Reynolds Metals Co. in Rich
mond. Bob Siebert is an attorney
with the Internal Revenue
Service in New York. Brian
McKegney is a partner in the law
firm of Shanley, McKegney,
Dolan & Wallman in New York
and lives in Katowah.
’64 - Pat McGraw, his wife and
three daughters, visited the
Abbey the middle of April. He is
on the Staff of Bowman Gray
School of Medicine of Wake
Forest University, and they are
living in Winston-Salem. Car
men Rodriguez teaches in the
Palm Beach (Florida) county
schools. She received the
masters in French instruction
from FAU. Bob Montgomery
has accepted a position with
Johnston Mills as Vice President
and General Manager, and he
and Kay and the children have
moved to Spindale, N.C.
’65 - Thomas Condon is West
Point Project Officer and a
captain in the Army, stationed at
Fort Bliss, Texas. June Mullen
Hemdoq received the masters in
English’from UNC-Chapel Hill.
She and her husband and their
seven children live in Kings
Mountain, N.C. William Cor-
fitzen is regional economist with
the U.S. Department of Com
merce and lives in Arlington, Va.
Congratulations to Tom Dunn,
who is listed in Who’s Who in
Georgia. An attorney, he is
Assistant Professor of Ac
counting and Business Law at
the University of Georgia.
'Thank you, Tom, for sending us
the reprint of your article
published in the American
Business Law Journal. James
Massimino is an electrician with
I.B.E.W. and lives in Seldon,
N.Y. Joe Fitzsimmons teaches
in the Charlotte - Mecklenburg
School System. He received the
masters from Appalachian State
University and has credits
towards the Ph.D. John Hayden
is a law student at Southwestern
University in Los Angeles. Bob
Edwards has been named ad
ministrative assistant to the
director of the Wolf Trap
American University Program
for the Performing Arts. The
Wolf Trap AU Program is the
educational branch of Wolf Trap,
the first and only national park
for the performing arts, located
in Vienna, Virginia. Bob was
formerly the manager of the
Knoxville, Tenn. Symphony
Society. Bill Falck is executive
assistant to the Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Florida
and lives in Tallahassee. Navy
Lieutenant Frank Dowgwllla is
in the submarine service, FPO,
Seattle, Washington.
’66 - Warren Kllkomons
visited the Abbey on his way
home from Miami where he
spent the Easter holidays. He
teaches science to seventh and
eighth graders at St. Ambrose
School in Old Bridge, N.J. Joe
Grlgg is a staff accountant with
Butler & Stowe, CPA’s in
Gastonia. Henry Drake is an
attorney in Wadesboro, N.C.
Randy Dodd is recreation
supervisor with the City of Long
Beach, N.Y. Roger Fenlon is
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