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by Mrs. Mary Cook
’40 - Rita and Hobart
Joost stopped by for a
visit with two of their
seven children in August.
’42 - Joe Bender, with
his five children, visited
Father Cuthbert the last
of August. Joe is the
director of public parks
in Florida. Thank you,
‘Hugh Noell, for your
letter telling us that you
and your wife now have
the Noell-Deems Travel
Agency in Shelby, N.C.
Hope we can work up an
alumni tour some time.
’45 — Father John
Oetgen had a most en
joyable and profitable
summer at Oxford
University in England.
Thanks for the card.
Father.
’47 — Thank you,
Emmett DeAvles, for
your letter and
congratulations on your
promotion to a full
Colonel in the Air Force.
Emmett is Base Com
mander at King Salmon
Airport in Alaska, which
is one of the two forward
operating bases in the
Alaskan Air Command
providing F-4 flights for
air defense and radar for
aircraft control land
warning. He expects to
be reassigned to the
Pentagon next July. Our
congratulations and
prayers also for your
oldest son who is in his
third year at St. Mary’s
Seminary in Baltimore.
’49 - Jack Sherry
visited the Abbey the
weekend of September
28. Harold Hooper also
visited the Abbey
recently. He is a
management analyst in
the Library of Congress
in Washington.
’53 “ Congratulations to
Skip McDonnell, who has
been promoted to
Lieutenant Colonel. Skip
is on active duty with the
Air Force Reserve
stationed at Maxwell
AFB, Alabama.
Congratulations also to
Frank Creery on his
becoming a qualifying
member of the 1974
Million Dollar Round
Table of the National
Association of Life Un
derwriters.
’54 - Joe Bumgardner,
principal of O.L. Kiser
School in Stanley, N.C.,
has accepted an in
ternship for a month’s
service at the state level,
offered by the Babcock
and Reynolds Foun
dations.
’55 - It was good to see
Dick McCluny and his
wife when Abbot Walter
baptized Scott in August.
They have three other
children - Rick, Court
ney, and Kelly.
’56 - It was also a
pleasure to visit with
Fran and Chuck Muller,
and three-year-old
daughter Mary Frances,
when they visited the
Abbey from their home in
Louisville on September
23.
’57 - A hearty welcome
to Theresa and Ed
Chavarria’s son Mike,
who has enrolled as a
freshman at the Abbey.
’59 - Congratulations to
Jim Babb, newly-elected
President of the N.C.
Association -of Broad
casters. Jim is general
manager and vice
president of Charlotte’s
WBTV.
’60 - Jerry Pasour
stopped by to say hello in
July. He and Shelby and
their two boys still live in
Dallas.
’61 — Father Leo
Daniels is in the Oratory
at McAllen, Texas.
Congratulations to Bill
Ouchark, who will be
moving in September to
take up his new position
as chief geo-physicist for
Phillips Oil Co. in
Nigeria, Africa.
Needless to say, Mr.
Hanahan is extremely
proud of his Geology
major!
’62 — Major Frank
Brake graduated from
the Armed Forces Staff
College at Norfolk in
July. The five-month
Department of Defense
school is operated under
the direct supervision of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and prepares students for
positions in joint and
combined commands
that involve more than
one country or military
service. Congratulations
to Susan and John Caven,
on the birth of their
daughter in August. John
is an attorney in
Jacksonville, Florida.
’64 - Congratulations to
Bob Montgomery, who
has been promoted to
Vice President and Sales
Manager of the Johnston
Mills group of companies
headquartered in
Charlotte. Bob and Kay
and their six children
presently live in Spin-
dale, N.C.
’65 - Congratulations to
Mary Ann and Don
Cresswell on the arrival
of their first child, Robert
Howard Stanley, on
August 10, and to Linda
and Lenny Brown on the
arrival of their first child,
Ryan Leonard, August
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Citizens National Bank Is opened with dollar-cutting ceremony.
Citizens National On Campus
Bank Opens
Abbey Branch
Citizens National Bank,
with its home office in
nearby Gastonia, N.C.,
opened a branch on the
Belmont Abbey campus
on August 27. The Abbey
branch is only the second
campus branch bank in
the state, the other being
at Duke University in
Durham.
The CNB branch is
located on the ground
floor of the Abbot Vincent
Taylor Library, and was
officially ready for
business after student
government president,
Chris McDonald, cut a
ribbon made of twenty
one-dollar bills.
Present at the
dedication were Father
John Bradley, Knox
Winget, senior vice
president of the Citizens
National Bank, and
Abbot Edmund Mc
Caffrey, O.S.B.
The bank is open on
Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday from 9 a.m.
until 1 p.m., with full
banking services
available. A night
deposit service is in
cluded in the facility.
...Enrollment Brings Smiles
students has
mushroomed by 46.9 per
cent in the past two
years. Also significant is
the sizeable increase in
resident students during
this same period - 12.7
percent more than in
1972.
Many students have
also been drawn to
Belmont Abbey through a
variety of new programs
designed to broaden the
impact of the college in
the community. High
school seniors, who are
eligible for an ac
celerated schedule
because of high academic
ranking, may take as
many as six credit hours
per semester, or 12 credit
hours a year, at the
Abbey. Under this
program, which started
last fall, a senior may
take nearly a full
semester’s load of
courses while still in high
school.
A new program has
been instituted this year
for business and
professional people who
wish to update their job
experience with special
night courses. These
courses cover such areas
as textile chemistry,
accounting, and
materials handling.
Abbey officials are
optimistic that this
current growth can be
continued. Fr. John P.
Bradley, president of
Belmont Abbey,
estimates that less than
800 students could be
accommodated using
present facilities.
Growth beyond this level
would have to result in
more faculty and the
possibility of more ad
ministrators, as well as
additional space.
“We would have to be
careful not to overstretch
our facilities or our
faculty,’’ Fr. Bradley
stressed. “Teaching
time includes not only the
time in class, but the
faculty’s availability to
the students outside of
class.”
Fr. Bradley indicated
that he wants Belmont
Abbey to remain a small
college, with a maximum
enrollment of 1,000 to
1,200 students. “We
should be always a small
college,’’ Fr. Bradley
said. “It is in the
tradition of the
Benedictines to have
small schools, since the
Benedictine Order is
primarily a family idea.”
He also emphasize^d the
importance of a small
college to individual
identity and the
establishment of values.
“These islands of identity
are so important,
•especially in our present
culture, which is
bedeviled by de
personalization,” Fr.
I Bradley concluded.