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...Re-Entry
(From P. 5)
pening their study skills,
the students worked at
literature, political
science, and en
vironmental science, and
earned for themselves six
credits to be applied
toward requirements for
degree.
The Re-Entry class will
be repeated this fall.
Mary Wilson, Re-Entry
Director, along with
members of the Belmont
Abbey faculty, is seeking
ways to augment and
improve the program.
Present plans call for
teaching the Re-Entry
seminars on Tuesday and
Thursday mornings, and
because many were
interested last year in
Re-Entry evening
classes, it is hoped that
good response this
summer will make it
possible to have evening
sessions as well as
morning sessions.
Mrs. Wilson is
available now and
through the month of
August to counsel
prospective students.
She would like to hear
from anyone who has
thought about returning
to college and explore
with him or her the
various opportunities
that Belmont Abbey now
offers through the Re-
Entry approach. The
number to call is 825-3711,
or write to Re-Entry,
Belmont Abbey College,
Belmont, N.C. 28012.
Father Cuthbert
Richmond Alumni Chapter
Honors Father Cuthbert
Spearheaded by Ed
Seay (’66) and Frank
Creery (’53) of the Rich
mond, Va. alumni
chapter, more than 200
alumni and friends
gathered to honor Father
Cuthbert Allen at “A
Night To Remember”
dinner in the Columbian
Center in Richmond on
April 18.
Life-size photos were
displayed around the
center and a bulletin
board filled with pictures
depicting his life from the
time he came to Belmont
Abbey to the present
occupied a prominent
spot. Thinking he was
attending a meeting with
Abbot Edmund, a sur
prised Father Cuthbert
was speechless as his
family from New
Hampshire, former
students from the Rich
mond, Washington, and
Tidewater areas, and
friends greeted him as he
entered the center.
Ed and Frank acted as
Masters of Ceremony and
tributes were given by
Abbot Edmund, Father
Bradley, Gilbert Farley,
Jack Hanahan, and Mary
Cook from the Abbey;
author Harry Golden;
Father Edmund Joyce,
the Executive Vice
President of the
University of Notre
Dame; Dr. Claude
Broach, Director of the
Ecumenical Institute of
Wake Forest University
and Belmont Abbey
College; and Jim Quinn
(’55), Director of Nuclear
Medicine at Nor
thwestern Memorial
Hospital in Chicago.
Tributes were read
from President Gerald
Ford, former Speaker of
the House John Mc
Cormick, Congressman
James Broyhill,
evangelist Billy Graham,
Bishop Fulton Sheen,
General Mark Clark,
Coach Frank McGuire,
steamship magnate J.
Peter Grace, and Dr.
George Herndl, all
special friends but who
were unable to attend.
The occasion, with
excerpts from the
tributes, was noted in the
Congressional Record of
June 3 by Congressman
Broyhill, who expressed
the sentiments of
Belmont Abbey College
alumni and friends when
he stated; “It is a real
privilege to share with
you and all Members the
tremendous respect and
admiration that I and
hundreds of others have
for this very wise man.
Father Cuthbert is a
unique individual whose
multifaceted talents and
immeasurable con
tributions have affected
the hearts and minds of
so many people.’’
Billboards featuring the Abbey’s new recruiting slogan have been decorating
the landscape In Gaston and Mecklenburg counties for the past two months.
Objective of the poster campaign is to supplement the efforts of the Admissions
Department and encourage more local area students to attend the College.
...Alumni News
(From P. 4)
’71 - It was good to talk to Charlie Guide’s wife,
Doris, when she called from Charlotte while on
vacation there. Charlie is with General Electric in Las
Vegas and they hope to win a trip to Puerto Rico.
Arthur Schiller is an engineer for the Square-D
Company and he and his wife and daughter live in
Hagerstown, Maryland. Bruce Martin will be going to
graduate school at the University of South Carolina in
August.
’72 - Congratulations to Ed Hagman, who was
named salesman of the month for General Medical
Corporation’s Charleston, S.C. division. He and Mary
are living in Charleston. James Kraus is working for
Grove Manufacturing Co. as cost accounting super
visor in Conway, S.C. He has been accepted in the
MBA-ETV program at the University of South Carolina
beginning this fall.
’73 - Congratulations and best wishes to Ronald Zich
and Jacqueline Anne Hanbury, who were married May
25 in St. Peter’s College Chapel in Jersey City, N.J.
Mark Schulte has completed his second year in dental
school at the University of Louisville. Mark’s brother,
Kurt, is a freshman at the Abbey. Congratulations also
to Kenneth Schwab, who received his masters in
history from Niagara University on May 25. Mike
Donovan is a salesman with AEA (Automotive Electric
Associates) in Charlotte, where he and Brenda live.
They are expecting their first child on Christmas Day.
David Bowers has been accepted for the Fall 1975 class
at Loyola University New Orleans) School of Law.
’74 - Enjoyed'the letter from Bob Donoghue which
Jack Hanahan let me read. Bob has been accepted at
Montclair State in student personnel counseling, but
may enter the psychology program at Fairleigh
Dickinson University. Bob told us that Tom McKenna
is going to insurance school; Frank Duggan is at John
Jay for crimonology; and Brian Murphy was to be
married on July 4. Who’s the lucky girl? Michael
Corcoran visited the Abbey the last weekend in April.
He is working for ' ITT in New York City. Guy Thomas
is a captain in the army and is headquarters detach
ment commander. He arrived in Turkey last January
for a year’s duty. His wife, Elaine (Moretz, SHC), and
their three children live in Belmont. Congratulations
to Allen Morris, who has been chosen to appear in the
1975 - 76 Bicentennial Memorial Edition of Per
sonalities of the South. Allen is headmaster at St.
Stephen’s Academy near Charleston, S.C.
Congratulations to the Barry Douglas Miles, on the
arrival of John Douglas on April 7. They also have a
daughter. Billy Schiller is attending law school at
Seton Hall University and he and his wife and
daughter, Lucy, live in Hillside, New Jersey. Jim Todd
dropped by the last of June. He has been teaching in
Oxen Hill, Maryland, but is now attending graduate
school at Appalachian State University working on his
masters in history.
’75 - Robert Curtin received his Emergency Medi
cal Technicians certificate and may join the Alexian
Brothers in September. Congratulations to Carol Ann
Wedel and Robert Wilson Hackney, who were married
May 3 at St. John’s Baptist Church in Charlotte. They
will live in Charlotte. Congratulations also to Albert
Prud’Homme, who received the B.A. degree in
psychology and English from Mercer University.
After serving two years in the Army, he is currently
employed with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in
Charlotte, where he and Beverly live. Bemie
Scibienski is in a training program with Royal - Globe
Insurance Co. for claims representatives.
Congratulations to Dominic Terranova, who is the
recipient of an assistantship from the University of
North Carolina, Greensboro, to study for the Master of
Arts degree in history. Scott Jenkins has been ap
pointed as special representative of Pilot Life In
surance Company in Gastonia.
IN MEMORIAM
Paul R. Rilatt - Class of 1925
Father Patrick J. Tierney - Class of 1925