Academy of Mount Saint Vincent - Chastellux Yearbook (Tuxedo Park, NY)

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CONTRIBUTORS

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DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER When Dr. Albert Schweitzer died in September 1965 he had acquired a world-wide reputation as a physician, musician, musicologist, philosopher, theologian and scripture scholar. His commitments were as deep as his involvements were far-reaching, and there was an intertwining of the two which made both characteristically his own. He had a moral as well as a medical mission, and he would wish to be remembered, not for his hospital, his leper villages, his services to men and animals, his music or his books, but rather for his philosophy . . . and the basis of his philosophy was reverence for life. Ehrfurcht is inadequately translated as reverence. It needs two English words: respect and awe. Respect for the other person and his will to live, and awe at his unknowable- ness and that of the universe. This unique man involved himself in the lives of others, trying to impress upon them the importance of developing ideals that life and its trials can never lower. No man is ever completely and permanently a stranger to his fellowman, for man belongs to man, has claims on him and is committed to him. Our first obligations are to ourselves, but Dr. Schweitzer would have us go one step farther and see others as alter egos. In doing this we find new significance in all the world about us, including our own being. Dr. Schweitzer felt that hope for mankind is renewed each time we see a person deeply involved in the struggle of life, helping and committing himself to another person. A string of medical clinics in the Cameroons, a Japanese orphanage, a South American hospital started by a young German, Tom Dooley's hospital in Laos, the work done by Larimer and Gwen Mellon in Haiti—all are the result of an inspiration given by Dr. Schweitzer, or have been given added impetus because of such an inspiration. In explaining his interpretation of reverence for life Dr. Schweitzer insisted that this demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own life for others. In iis copy of Homer's Odyssey, he underlined a passage that says that guests should work, for thereby they become part of the household. Work introduces the stranger to the commu- nity, and in participating he becomes a friend. It seemed to us appropriate to choose Dr. Schweitzer to introduce our contributors—these guests who have become members of the household of the Academy, these strangers who have become its friends. Joan Holmes '66

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OUR GREATEST CONTRIBUTORS Our greatest CONTRIBUTORS are certainly the men and women who have given us their four beautiful estates for our Academy CHASTELLUX our Main Build- ing was the gift of Mrs. E. John Heidsieck LINDLEY HALL, our School Building was the gift of Mrs. Clara Hill Lindley A Yearbook is an expensive project and without the support of our contributors we would have been forced to choose one of three alternatives . . . NO Yearbook at all ... or a very much smaller (and therefore incomplete) book, ... or an inferior type of book (which would not have been representative of the Mount and all it stands for). Those who have helped us financially include business patrons, parents and friends of our students and the students themselves. We ask those of you who can do so to patronize our business patrons and in this way repay them for the help they have given us. The Yearbook itself will repay the others—parents, friends and students. We have tried to make the 1966 Chastellux something of which they can be justly proud. SPONSOR Chisholm Realty Company SPECIAL PATRONS Sahler's Contracting and Building Corporation The Tribune Press The Tuxedo Park Association, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brienza and Cathy Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Kiernan, Sr. The Fathers' Club The Mothers' Guild PATRONS Abates' Florist Gardner Warehouse Company Eaton Park Nursing Home Lembo Machine Works, Inc. Federation Bank and Trust Co. Rockland National Bank Frank Gabriel for the Tuxedo Park Pharmacy, Inc. Oak View Nursing Home Young Sophisticates Mr. Rafael Martinez Dominguez Mr. and Mrs. Leon C. Kelmer Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel V. Gomez Mr. and Mrs. Michael McGillycuddy Mr. and Mrs. Melvin A. Holmes Dr. and Mrs. John Poczabut Dr. and Mrs. John A. lanacone Mr. and Mrs. Everett A. Smith Dr. Murray L. Jones and Family Dr. John D. Van Zandt Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Kammerick Dr. and Mrs. Chapman J. Walker FRIENDS Eggens Private Laundry Sexton Quality Foods Mr. and Mrs. Louis Alicona Mr. and Mrs. Robert Granwehr Rev. Henry J. Andersen, S.J. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Hyland Mrs. Francisco Arteaga Mr. Harry J. Kiernan Mr. and Mrs. Conrad H. Barber Rev. Ralph E. Lynch, S.J. Mr. John A. Bullock Mr. and Mrs. Clate Malleson Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Coffman Mr. and Mrs. Roy Newbold Sharon Mr. and Mrs. James M. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Zygmunt Pyka Mr. and Mrs. James W. Fenley Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Speranza Mr. and Mrs. William E. Gormley Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan BOOSTERS Mrs. Florence Damato Mr. Vincent McCabe Mr. and Mrs. Basil DeVito Dr. and Mrs. George B. McClellan Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Duvall Mr. and Mrs. Irving Nickerson Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Glespen Mrs. Linda Russotti Mrs. Edna Grimpas Mrs. Julia Sandak Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jurgensen Mrs. Beatrice Venezia Mr. and Mrs. Jon J. Kark Mrs. Jean Venezia Mrs. Elizabeth Lepesqueur Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. White Mr. and Mrs. John Mahady