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'40 -- Enjoyed talking with Earl Marshall on the phon-a
thon. He is athletic director and track coach at John
W. North High School in Riverside, California, where
he and his wife Barbara and two children live.
'47 -- Congratulations and best wishes to Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Etheridge, who celebrated their 25th wedding
anniversary on November 12. Their daughter Carolyn
was a student at the Abbey last year.
’54 - Congratulations to Herman Parnell, who was
promoted to assistant vice president of the Charlotte
office of Branch Banking & Trust Company. He is the
new mortgage loan officer. He and Mary are the
parents of four children. Marty and Joe Sheenan were
here for Homecoming and it was their first visit in nine
years. Marty ended up in Mercy Hospital for three
days but is better now, and it was so good to see them.
Our deepest sympathy to you Joe, on the death of your
mother.
'55 -- Jim Pat Ros has been named manager of the new
Saturating Kraft Sales Department of Union Camp
Corporation in the Unbleached Division in Atlanta,
where he, wife Bootsie and their two children, Karen,
18, and Rick, 16, will live.
’57 -- Jane Shannon (’76), who recruits for the Abbey,
saw Ed Chavarria at a College Fair in Atlanta. How
about a letter, Ed, giving me news of you and Theresa
and the family? Congratulations to Joe Coyle, who has
been promoted to division administrative manager for
Burlington Sportswear Fabrics. He and Frances and
their two sons have moved to Greensboro, the home
office of Burlington Industries.
’58 -- Enjoyed a visit with Dick Holt when he came by to
get his transcript. He plans to study for the ministry
and preached November 27 at Parkwood Baptist
Church in Gastonia, where he, Catherine and their
three children live. Dick is now district manager of
Combined Insurance Co. of America.
’59 - Congratulations to Mariana and Charlie Wade on
the arrival of Sean Martin on October 6. As Charlie
says, “after 15 years, what a surprise - and we
couldn’t be happier!’’
’62 - Preston McLaurin has been promoted to mid-
western regional manager of sales by American Olean
Tile Company, a division of National Gypsum Com
pany, and will have his office at the Company’s
Chicago-North sales service center, where he will
direct thirteen sales representatives and eleven sales
service centers in his region. Congratulations,
Preston, and be sure to let us have your new address.
’65 - Harvey Gregory is a major in the Service and he
and his wife Pat are living in Bettendorf, Iowa.
’67 -- Richard Magovern is marketing manager of yarn
sales for Millikin and Co. in FairHaven, New Jersey.
Jim Monahan is director of finance at South Amboy
(N.J.) Memorial Hospital.
'68 - Congratulations and best wishes to Edward Vec-
chio and Carol Reed, who were married September 24
in Sag Harbor, New York. Ed is merchandise
manager of the New York branch of Summerfield
Industries of North Carolina and New York. Carol is a
flight attendant with American Airlines in New York.
Luis Rodriquez is with Pan Florida Realty, Inc. in
Coral Gables, Florida. Congratulations to Paul Zingg
on his new position as executive dean of academic
affairs at Daniel Hale Williams University in Chicago.
Also to Anne Stirling and Mike O’Connell, who were
married October 22 in Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in
Charleston, S. C., with Father Donald participating in
the wedding. Mike is a public defender in Charleston
and they live on Sullivans Island, S. C.
’69 - George E. Sullivan is vice president for sales with
Atlantic Steel Castings Co. in Chester, Pa. He is
married and has two children. It was good to see
Kathy and Bob Marshall (they were married July 31)
when they came by for a short visit October 7. Both
are working in the Family Life Bureau of the Diocese
of Arlington, where Bob is the assistant director. He
flies all over the country making speeches and they
live in Fall? Church, Virginia. Thank you, Kevin
Hislop for your telephone call telling me of your new
job as director of radio and assistant professor of
communications at Seton Hall. Kevin and Marie, who
is a registered nurse and attended the College of
Dublin in Ireland, are expecting a new addition in the
spring and live in South Orange, New Jersey.
Congratulations to Alice (Ford, SHC) and Lee Whalen
on the arrival of Kimberly Anne on August 17. They
have a son, Patrick, who is three years old, and live in
Darien, Conn. Lee commutes to New York City where
he is with Owens-Illinois. Thanks for your letter,
Thomas Cheek, telling us of your new job as of October
1 as assistant director of training with the Life Un
derwriter Training Council in Washington, D. C.,
where he is writing, editing and revising textbook
materials produced for the training of life insurance
agents nationally. After graduation from the Abbey
he spent four years in the Navy as an officer and
aviator: in 1973 he joined Lincoln National Life In
surance Co., where he became district agency
manager responsible for recruiting, hiring and
training agents in the Piedmont and western North
Carolina area. He and Donna have three sons, Scotty,
age seven, Travis, six, and Matthew, three, and they
live in Annandale, Virginia. Congratulations and best
wishes to Rick Salem and Eileen Monley who were
married November 25 in Tampa, Florida. Rick is an
attorney at the firm of Salem & Salem, Musiah, Morse,
and MacKenzie in Tampa.
’70 - Pat and Steve Butrym announce the addition of a
daughter, Ellen, who arrived via the Lamaze method
on October 23. Steve has recently been promoted to
administrative operations manager at the General
Systems Division of IBM in Roanoke. Tom McGrorry
is with Curtis 1000, Inc. and lives in Neptune, New
Jersey.
’71 - Congratulations to Diane (Klinker, SHC’71) and
Richard Hoefling on the arrival of Stephanie Suzanne,
who was baptized by Father James on October 2.
They also have a son, Matthew, who is three years old.
Richard is corporate attorney for Tacoma Investment
Co. in Winston-Salem, of which Joe Merles is president
and George Taylor (’72) and Bob Daniel (’75) are top
executives.
’72 - Ernie Kelly is with the Employment Security
Commission in Gastonia, and he and Cynthia live in
Mt. Holly. Enjoyed talking to Charles Farrell on the
phon-a-thon. He is pursuing graduate studies at the
University of Pennsylvania and teaching marketing
there. He and Maria live in Havertown.
’73 - Dan lx>ftus stopped by for a visit on October 25. He
is living in Springfield, Virginia, and working at
Paxton’s Moving Co. in Washington, D. C. in their
Public Relations Department and is consult to special
products and national accounts. He was in this area to
facilitate the move of Continental Telephone from
Hickory, N. C. to Atlanta. Edward De Torres is an
attorney in Newton, N. C., associated with Samuel P.
Moose. He was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar
in May and passed the N. C. State Bar in July. Good
luck in your career, Ed.
’74 - John Keaton is with the • National Consumer
Finance Association in Washington, D. C. He is also
working on his Masters in Economics at George
Mason University in Virginia.
’75 - Paul Keany is with Chester, Blackburn and Roder
Shipping Lines in New York City. He and his wife
Wendy live in Sea Bright, New Jersey.
’76 - Congratulations and best wishes to Virginia Marie
Willis and Brian Richard O’Fallon, who were married
in Charlotte on October 8.
Jack Hanahan visited in Washington the end of Sep
tember and brought back news of the alumni in that
area. Elite and Brent Jaquet (’71) are completing
their new home in Edgewater, Maryland. Brent is
administrative assistant to one of the California
congressmen. He and Elite have three children;
Bootie and Alan Jones (’56) are very pleased at the
progress of Alan Junior at the Abbey; Chris Franke
(’72) is very interested in rejuvenating the Abbey
Alumni Chapter in D. C. and worked with Greg
Hollingshead (’76), who is an assistant to a Florida
congressman, in putting on the recent meeting in the
Rayburn Building.
It was great talking to so many of the alumni during the
phon-a-thon. Please keep the news coming. All of us
here at the College like to hear from you, and I’m sure
all your classmates enjoy knowing what is happening
to you.
Anthony A. Burke
Col. A. F. Briggs
James M. Fagan
Marlin Joseph Wright
Class of 19.39
Class of 1940
Class of 1957
Class of 1969
Insight
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Yet, Belmont Abbey College has managed to survive,
but only through the faith in God and the enormous
struggles of many dedicated people over the years and.
since God’s ways are wonderful, also through the great
generosity, encouragement and interest of many fine
non-Catholic friends in our local area. Keeping in mind
the meager support the College has received (contrary
to what many people think, the College has never at any
. time received any financial support from the (!atholic
Church), the decision of the U.S. Supreme (’ourt af
firming the eligibility for some Stale funds of North
Carolina residents who choose to attend Belmont Abbey
College can be seen to be helpful to us in our long
struggle.
Another important development that augurs well, I
believe, for the future of the College is the continual
build-up of the Catholic population in our entire region,
as more and more people move from the North and other
parts of the coutry into the so-called Sunbelt. Significant
numbers of these people are Catholics. Belmont, with
Sacred Heart College and Belmont Abbey College, is the
only center of Catholic higher education on the east coast
of our country between northern Virginia and F'lorida.
and as the Catholic population grows in our region, we
ought to be prompted to make sure that these Catholics
are provided with the option of an education at a Catholic
college, the kind of college whose role is, as Pope Paul
reminds us, “irreplaceable and urgent.’’
These developments ought also to prompt the growing
Catholic population in this region to give Belmont Abbey
College the kind of support 1 believe it has earned by its
pioneering efforts in higher education here over so many
years. Belmont Abbey College is a good small college
that gives its students an excellent undergraduate
education in the programs it is able to offer; it also
strives to lead, in suitable ways, its Catholic students to
a mature understanding of their faith. But with the
support I believe it ought to receive from its growing
Catholic constituency in the years ahead, we could have
here the kind of institution that would reflect the scope
and excellence commensurate with Catholicism’s great
tradition in higher education throughout the centuries.
'As I write this, I recall a quotation that may be apposite
to our present situation; “Some men see things as they
are and say why. I dream things' that never were and
say why not.”
CROSSROADS
Volume VT, Number 2
December 1977
This paper Is published bi
monthly by Belmont Abbey
College through Its OfRce of
Public Relations and Alumni
Affairs.
Editor-la-chlef
Anthony D. DeCristofaro
Contributions
Fr. John Bradley
Jay Briody
Tina Coleman
Mary Cook
Cindy, Heavner
Fr. James Solari, O.S.B.
Registered as second class
postage, paid in Belmont, N.C.
28012.
IN MEMORIAM
Denton Vlaservich
Class of 1928 (Dent’s Place)
Travel Abroad
Once again the Abbey alumni
will be able to travel abroad.
Plans are tn-ihg made for a trip
sometime in the spring or early
fall. More details will h>e
coming your way.
Parents Weekend
Parents Weekend is
.scheduled for March to, 1I and
12. A fine weekend is being
planned and a large turnout is
expected. All parents will be
notified soon about the schtHlule
of events.