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Page 2 - CROSSROADS - October, 1977 Aerial prints get good exposure HOMECOMBVG Hazel Dennehy and Josh Birmingham displayj print of Abbey at Douglas Municipal Airport. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dennehy of Charlotte have donated three aerial-view prints of the Belmont Abbey College campus to the College. Ed Dennehy, a teacher and coach at Northwest Junior High School in Charlotte, arranged for a friend in the National Guard to take the picture from a National Guard helicopter. The picture was taken in late spring when the campus grounds and trees were at their peak. j Mr. and Mrs. Dennehy presented the three prints to Fr. John Bradley, president of the College. They gave one print to him to hang in his office. Another one has been framed and hung in the foyer of the Administration Building to be enjoyed by the College com munity. Mrs. Dennehy, 'who is a member of Belmont Abbey College’s Board of Advisors and the supervisor of passenger services for Eastern Airlines at the Douglas Municipal Airport in Charlotte, arranged with Josh Birmingham, airport manager of Douglas Municipal Airport, to hang the other print in the Airport at Eastern’s western concourse. Bir mingham is a 1948 graduate of the College. The College is most grateful ^ to Ed and Hazel Dennehy and Josh Birmingham for their interest and support. ’ By now you should! have received your flyer! with all the, details for' Homecoming ’77. You should have also made your reservations. If you haven’t, pick up the phone and call the Alumni Office today. We have to know how many to plan for. Reservations are coming in from all over; we are hoping for the largest turn out ever. An alumni soccer game has been added to the schedule following the Abbey varsity game on Saturday. Coach George Kennedy wants as many alumni to play as possible. Knowing the size of the field and the condition of most alumni, we will need a lot of players! Once again, the cost is $17 per person. This includes all events on the schedule. A great weekend is planned, so try to make it back, especially if you’re a ’57 or ’77 grad. See you on October 28. Abbey is in consortium Belmont Abbey College has been selected as one of forty- three schools eligible to par ticipate in the Consortium of Small Private Colleges. The Consortium was; established in 1975 by the United States Office of Education under the Basic Developing Institutions Program. The Consortium program, coor dinated through Tuscalum College, Greeneville, Ten nessee, supports activities on the campuses of forty-three colleges designated by thi Office of Education. : The purpose of the Con sortium is to assist its members in promoting greater prospective student Access through admissions andj Diiiner-dance; successful On Saturday, Sept. 24, the Mecklenburg County Alumm held a dinner-dance at the Rodeway Inn. A cocktail hour was followed by a delicious dinner. Fr.; James Solari, O.S.B. updated the group concerning the changes on campus. Warren Clark, vice president for development, told of the suc-| cessful fund-raising efforts being done by the College, anc' Jay Briody told the group ot upcoming alumni events. A good time was had by all; the facilities, food, and band were terrific. The event enabled the local alumni to get together, and most “cut the' mg’’ until 1 a.m. A tip of the hat for the officers of the Mecklenburg Chapter for, a job well done. Other events are being planned by the group. Don’t forget to return the questionnaires you received' Uiat night. financial aid program im-| provements, and in achieving- greater enrolled student sue-, cess through improved student, services programs. The Con-' sortium staff helps colleges in analyzing their needs, in designing effective plans to meet those needs, in im plementing the plans, and in evaluating the impact of Consortium programs on each / campus. DR. FRANCIS MURRAY Frank Muri*ay Maintaining his high standards As the 101st. acaoemic year at Belmont Abbey College gets un derway, Dr. Frank Murray has been appointed chairman of the department of history. He succeeds Fr. Anselm Biggs, O.S.B. who held this position for more than twenty years. Abbey students of the past decade will recognize the new department head as a very capable if demanding teacher. Frank Murray hails from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a city situated on the Susquehanna River, with the Poctmo Mountains rising not far to the east. He attended parochial school there and was graduated from the Hanover Township High School about the time the United States was becoming involv^ in the Korean conflict. He decided to venture to New York City to seek what fortune might bring him and was successful in finding a promising position as an assistant to the Secretary of General Motors Corporation. For the next year and a half Frank savored the exciting sights and sounds of the nation’s largest city. As the Korean action grew more intense, he left his job to enlist in the United States Air Force. He would serve from 1952 to 1956, as a flying medic with an air rescue squadron. His unit was stationed oh the island of Kwajalein, site of one of the * fierce battles of World War IL In unglamorous conditions of heat anc humidity, he was a crew member on amphibious aircraft which carried out rescue missions at sea. After some months there thc: j outflt was moved to a primitive air field on Eniwetok Atoll where they participated in the secret “Project Castle’’ - the series ot nuclear tests which culminated in the detonation of the first | hydrogen bomb! Thence the squadron was reassigned to the air base | on Okinawa and Frank moved into helicopter rescue work. While on | this tour of duty, he received a Sikorsky citation for a remarkable “save” of a pUot within nineteen minutes of his crash into the Pacifle. Returning to the States, he spent his Hnal months of military service at Westover A.F.B. in Massachusetts and took part in somej rescue efforts of flood victims. After receiving an honorable discharge from Oie Air Force, he; went back home to WUkes-Bane and, assisted by the G.I. | educational benefits, enrolled in the fall of 1956 at King’s College. He was, of course, a history major; was active in campus organizations and dramatics; and eventually was elected to be president of the college’s historical society. In 1960 he completed his bachelor’s degree and was offered a full fellowship to Niagara University. While in the process of writing his Master’s thesis, he obtained a teaching position in the public school system of Kingston, N. Y. In 1962 with the M.A. in his possession, he took the train south to Belmont and in September began his college tenehing career as an instructor at the Abbey. His special interests have been the areas of modem European history and Latin American history. Frank is an avid reader of mystery novels and has been tempted to try his hand at this literary genre under the pen name of Ellery King! Realizing the importance of having a terminal degree in the teaching profession, he requested a leave of absence in 1966 to return to graduate study for the doctorate at the Catholic University of America. He was awarded a Fullbright grant in 1968 for summer study in Chile. This afforded him firsthand experience of Latin American social and cultural realities and contributed much to his eventual selection of a topic for thesis research. While in the capital city, Santiago, he had the opportunity to meet President Frei, a carismatic and highly respected leader of his people. Frank returned to Belmont ;Abbey to resume his instruction in 1969 with his course work completed but the thesis yet to be written. During the past seven years he has served on a number of standing committees of the College. He is the moderator of the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity. In 1972 he shared in the Reynolds grant to the College for faculty enrichment and was able to travel to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico to study the famous Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza. He was a Lilly Foundation scholar at Duke University during the 1976-1977 year and was successful in defending his doctoral dissertation on “The General Fellowship Program of the Organization of American States: 1958-1968.” Recently he received a letter of commendation for the high quality of this work from the Secretary General of the O.A.S., Senor Alejandro Orfila. “CTMcraads” salutes Dr. Frank Murray for his accom;riishments and wishes him well in the task of maintaining the high standards which have characterized the history department of the college.
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