Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Because we appreciate his achievements and his aspirations, we dedicate this yearbook to the Reverend Edward A. Conway, S.J., the former director of the Center for Peace Research who died May 24, 1965. In his Hfetime he garnered an abundant harvest of knowledge, becoming especially learned in theology, political science, and atomic science. The unity of these gave him an unusual perspective on inter- national affairs. He was not content to accumulate this knowledge for himself, not content to share it with a few. He promulgated his views of the interrelation of government, morality, and disarmament to world lead- ers. A series of sermons given in 1943 at Regis College became the foundation of Patterns for Peace. This document, produced by Church leaders of many denominations, stressed the importance of international unity in economics and justice and the need for moral law governing world order. During 1945, these same points were formulated into Goals for San Francisco, which influenced the com- position of the U.N. Charter. In 1946 he became the first official Roman Catholic observer at the United Nations. As associate editor of America from 1948 to 1954, he gradually unfolded practical applications of his plea for co-operation and dis- armament. After Russia followed our example by testing its first atomic bomb in 1952, he became more insistent. He pleaded with scientists to teach laymen the inherent dangers of atomic build-up and demanded that politicians and militarists admit the fallacy that nuclear power is a safeguard of peace. He personally badgered major defense industries to plan reconversion to the peacetime economy and to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. He resigned his associate editorship to become Research Pro- fessor of Political Science at Creighton. Here he founded and directed the Center for Peace Research and held forums for those wishing to learn the intricate patterns of international relations from a man most certainly qualified to teach them. He was chosen Vice President of the Catholic Association for International Peace in 1955. In 1956 he helped to organize the Strategy for Peace Confer- ences, of which six have already been held. Believing that the Church should show interest in political activities affecting mankind as a whole, rather than restrict her concern to defense of her own freedoms, he represented Catholics at a special Foreign Relations Committee meeting on disarmament held in 1961. President Kennedy in 1962 chose him as one of fifteen citizens constituting the General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. During 1963 he became a consultant for the major Aircraft Companies in the Aerospace Industry and in 1964 received a citation from the Air Forc e for his work for peace. Just before Reverend Conway ' s death. President Johnson chose him to be a member of the National Citizens ' Commission to support International Cooperation Year. He had also been invited to attend the Ecumenical Council to brief the Cardinals on Nuclear Weaponry. Though few of us at Creighton personally felt the power of his influence, we nevertheless can look to this Jesuit as a symbol of hope in a desperate world.

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THE CREI6HT0N UNIVERSITY PRESENTS THE 1966 BLUEJAY

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