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'42 -- Bill Rice is in the mortgage insurance business in
Charlotte.
'49 - John Fitzpatrick is an attorney in Bronxville,
.NY.
56 -- Patricia and William Hatchett and their son
William visited the Abbey July 29 on their way home
Irom vacationing in the mountains. William is a teacher
in Huntsville, Ala. ^
'57 - Dick Bain is county' admiHfstfmor 6!f‘York
County, Va., and lives near Williamsburg. He and Helen
have three children.
'59 - Marie and Warren Brookins and five of their
eight children visited the Abbey the weekend of June 29.
Their oldest son is 18 and in the Marines. Warren works
for the Orange County (Florida) Public Works in the soil
testing laboratory and they live in Orlando. He told us
that Bob Phandski teaches chemistry at Bishop More
School and Jack Schrinker (’69) is a CPA. Jack and
Virginia have five children. It was good to talk to you on
the phone, Warren, and sorry I was on vacation when
you visited the Abbey. It was good to see Joe Mullally
when he stopped by the latter part of July to tell me his
daughter, Carolyn, will be a student at the Abbey next
year. How time flies!
’60 ~ It was good to see Father Daniel Bain when he
came for the Theology Seminar at the Abbey during
June.
’64 -- George Lund is a reserve school technician in the
U.S. Army Reserve.
’66 - Frank Becht is a physical education instructor at
Hudson Catholic High School in Jersey City, N.J., where
he also coaches soccer and track.
’67 -- Bill Drinkwater has a private law practice in
Virginia Beach. Thanks, Bill, for all your work in
organizing alumni events in the Tidewater area.
Congratulations to Mike Del Priore who has been
promoted to vice president of The Bank of New York.
’68 -- Pat and Cathy (SHC ’66) Blevins came by to see
Fr. Oscar on July 3. Pat is a personnel management
specialist at Fort McPherson, Ga., and Cathy is a
medical technologist (RIA Dept.) in Pathologists Ser
vices in Tucker, Ga.
’69 - Enjoyed the article in the N.C. Catholic on
Richaid Salem, who is running for election to the U.S.
House of Representatives from Florida. He is married
to the former Eileen Monley of Tampa, where they now
live. Good luck, Rick! Craig Whitt has graduated from
Medical College of Virginia School of Dentistry and is
now in a general practice residency in dentistry at Naval
Hospital, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton.
by Mrs. Mary Cook
Congratulations to Bryant Deaton who recently paksed
the C.P.A. examination.
’70 - Enjoyed visiting with Jimmy Woo when he
stopped by the Abbey on June 27, the first time since
graduation. He is in the Production Control Department
of Reynolds Metals in Richmond and was amazed at the
changes on campus since 1970. Don’t wait so long to visit
again, Jimmy. It was good to see you.
’71" Bob Bielat is a CPA with Waller & Woodhouse in
Norfolk and lives in Virginia Beach. Mike Gallagher
works for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of
Commerce in Philadelphia. Dennis McEvoy has moved
to Atlantic Highlands, N. J. He and his wife Chris have a
beautiful view of Sandy Hook from high above the
Atlantic Ocean. Dennis is with Johnson & Johnson.
’72 - Pat Duffy is now with the Atlanta Hilton. Mike
Patterson teaches fifth grade and coaches basketball at
Our Mother of Sorrows School in Philadelphia. He and
wife Susan live in Philadelphia. Mike Power is with IBM
and he and Mary live in New York City. John Czel is
sales manager for Prudential Insurance Co. in StanJord,
Conn, and lives in South Norwalk. Jim Frazer is with
New York Life in New York. Joe Ford is assistant vice
president of National Bank in Chesapeake, Va.
’73 - Tom Nolan is in his second year of residency at
Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va., in the
department of obstetrics and gynecology. He and his
wife Susan have one daughter, Jennifer, 16 months old.
Bill Hatfield recently became an associate of the law
firm of Hyman, Morgan, Brown, Saleeby, Jeffords and
Rushton in Florence, S.C. He graduated from the
University of South Carolina School of Law in Columbia
in 1977. It was good to see Mike Connors and his wife
Grace when they visited the Abbey in July. Mike is the
senior management officer for First & Merchants Corp.
in Richmond. He and Grace have a 19-month-old son
Sean. Frank Kurtz is the assistant personnel director of
Hunterdon County, N.J., and he and his wife Joannie
SHC ’73) live in Bloomsbury. Congratulations and best
wishes to Barbara Johnson and Ted Eskildsen, who were
married in Raleigh, N.C. in March. Ted has completed
his Master’s degree at UNC-Charlotte and he and
Barbara live in Marcella, N.J., where Ted is guidance
counselor at Morris Catholic High School and coaches
baseball and basketball. Chic Hamm is teaching and
coaching at Oregon Junior High School in Medford, N. Y.
Bob Demuro is a U.S. Postal Inspector in New York City.
He is completing his Master’s at Rutgers University and
he and Chris live in North Brunswick, N.J.
’74 - Best wishes to Mike Corcoran and Mary Kenn,
who were married in New York in June. Mike is a
communications specialist working in New York. Greg
Schultz is a distribution analyst with MAPP Products in
Springfield, N.J. Wendy and Paul Keany^ve moved
into their new home in Rumson, N.J. Paul is wlQi
Chester, Blackburn and Roder in New York City. It was
good tQ see Ray Schambach when he stopped by the
College on June 12. He is a Brotherof Divine Providence
in Bogota, Colombia, S.A., who operates an orphanage
for boys and two retirement homes there. Ray told me
that his brother Bob (’71) has two boys and Randy (’76)
a little girl, and both live in Guatamala. Dick Harlow,
who has been an account executive at WGLD-FM in High
Point, has been named sales manager of WYYD-FM in
Raleigh. Dick and hiSwife live in Apex, N.C.
’75 - Russ Beecker is a manpower specialist for the
Middletown County, N.J.C.E.T.A. program. He and his
wife Robin live in Spotswood. Congratulations and best
wishes to Elaine Capuano and Ed Steiner, who were
married August 6. Ed is a graphic artist with Impact
Exhibits in South Plainfield and they live in Edison, N.J.
Congratulations and best wishes also to Kenny Heretick
and Maureen Reilly (’76), who were married August 5 in
St. Petersburg, Fla., where they are living. Bemie
Scibienski is with (jeneral Motors in Linden, N.J.j and he
and wife Pat live in Bound Brook.' Congratulations to
Jerry Mumpower who recently passed the CPA
examination.
’76 - AfRaimo is a counselor at the Commonwealth of
Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. Jay Mar-
chwinski has been accepted into graduate school at the
University of South Carolina in the field of Public Health
Admiitistration. Congratulations to Mark Beam who
recently passed the CPA examination.
’77 - Mary Cheaney is with the Internal Revenue
Service in Jacksonville, Fla. Elizabeth Tracy is a
social worker in Alexandria, Va. Congratulations and
^est wishes to Joseph Peter Vollkommer, who entered
the noviate at Belmont Abbey on July 10 as Brother
Andrew. Congratulations to Anne Michele (Bogan)
Monaco, who has been promoted to personnel officer at
Mercy Hospital. She and John (’75) have just built a
home in southeast Oiarlotte. John is a tax specialist
with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. and also teaches
accounting in the evening at the Abbey. Bart Turner is
with J.C. Penney Co. in New York City and lives in
Mattituck. Barbara Sweeney is a statutory accountant
for Chubb & Sons in Short Hills, N.J., and lives in
Bridgewater.
’78 - Tony Stouffs is with Dun & Bradstreet in Rich
mond.
The Art Of Thinking
Editor’s Note; Ove* Mi • next
few months f'i.thcr John
Bradipv. provost at Belmont
. obey College, will be writing a
series of articles as a guest
columnist for THE
CHARLOTTE NEWS.
Throughout the series Father
Bradley will attempt to
highlight certain ideas that
Belmont Abbey College en
dorses as important goals in its
philosophy of education.
Following is a reprint of the
first of this series, in which he
emphasizes the importance of
thinking as contrasted with
mere information gathering.
Some time ago the
curriculumn committee of
Harvard University complained
that Harvard was not teaching
its students to think. I believe
that many educators associated
with variou.; colleges and
universities throughout the
length and breadth of the
country would nowadays agree
that this is their experience
also.
No doubt there is a great
range of reasons why little time
and opportunity is devoted
nowadays to challenging the
student to think, as contrasted
with information gathering and
merely regurgitating that in
formation in tests. The enor
mous growth of information
about almost everything in
recent times is in itself a con
stant temptation to the educator
or textbook writer to cover as
much information as possible,
thus leaving less and less time
to exercise our most important
faculty, the faculty that works
on that information, criticizing
it, analyzing it, synthesizing it.
In other words, leaving less and
less time for thinking.
Concerned about this and
about the consequent danger of
students confusing real thinking
with mere information
gathering, I used to tell the
freshmen honor students at
Belmont Abbey College a story I
heard years ago at Oxford
University.
At Oxford, various
examinations are held
throughout the year that have
no direct bearing on the
examinations for degrees. For
example, there is the Latin
Poetry Prize examination. The
student who wins this does
indeed receive a small prize,
but it is the prestige of winning
such an examination that is
most valued. Many years ago
the famous English poet A.E.
Housman took his place with a
few other students in the
examination room and the
professor supervising that
year’s Latin Poetry Prize
examination entered and an
nounced that the topic they
should write a Latin poem about
was: “The Marriage Feast at
Cana.” Three hours were
allowed for the students to
complete their Latin poems.
Almost at once all the
examinees, except Housman,
began to write, recounting the
facts of the New Testament
story of Jesus changing the
water into wine, observing
meticulously the rules of Latin
poetry as they did so.
Housman, however, seemed
to be gazing out the window
observing the lawn in the
quadrangle outside. Two hoims
went past and the other students
had some twenty lines on paper
and Housman had none. Then
he took up his pen, wrote two
lines of Latin poetry, handed in
his paper and left the room. He
won that year’s Latin Poetry
Prize. Here is the English
translation of what he wrote:
“The water looked at its
Creator and blushed.”
CROSSROADS
VOLUME VI
NUMBER SIX
AUGUST, 1978
Contributions:
Fr. John P. Bradley
John P. Briody
Mary Cook
Jean Moore
Fr. Neil Tobin
Registered as second class
postage paid in Belmont, N.C.
28012. TTiis paper is published
bimonthly by Belmont Abbey
College through the Office of
Institutional Relations.
Editor
Cindy H. Heavner
Attention
1978 Alumni
Please keep in touch
and let us know your
address AS SOON AS
YOU HAVE IT. You
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would like to add you
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