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The name Clementian, etymologically considered, connotes gentleness, compassion, sympathy, magnanimity. It is an unusual name, borne by very few, never more appropriately than by the man to whom we affectionately dedicate this book. Brother Clementian ' s long and fruitful apostolate of more than forty years has been a blessing to countless thousands — the benign and gentle blessing which mysteriously sacramentalizes the modest and unobtrusive labors of the truly dedicated. Providence has smiled upon his selfless work here; one evidence of this is the very impressive number of his former pupils who are today priests and religious. For more than four decades. Brother Clementian has devoted himself tirelessly and cheerfully as a teacher in parochial elementary schools, di- ocesan high schools, and our own College; he has been the Religious Superior of several communities of his Congregation, and has held the very responsible position of Novice Master at the Brothers ' Provincial Motherhouse; and in sev- eral schools, including our own, his kindly guidance has directed the work of very successful student publications and the activities of many student groups. At the present time, in addition to his teaching duties in the fields of Religion and English, he is moderator of our Benilde Club and of our year- book, and he directs the fine work of our local student catechists. To all these tasks, great and small, he has brought the unruffled equanimity and quiet enthusiasm that is characteristic of him. All who have known him recognize him as a man of solid Faith and enlightened Zeal, qualities which the illustrious Founder of the Christian Brothers stipulated should be the out- standing marks of his disciples. As an educator. Brother Clementian takes a serious, no-nonsense view of his obligations; the fatuous and passi ng fads that have come and gone on the American educational scene have not impressed him; the learning-can-be- fun advocates have never beguiled him into the easy paths of ephemeral popularity with unthinking students who mistake a performance for a lesson. No student has ever become merely a name on his class records; and his accurate and affectionate recollection of former students is amazing. He seems never to regard any student as a problem, but simply as a young man with problems, problems that deserve and receive his sympathetic attention and wise counsel. Among his wide circle of acquaintances, no success goes with- out his gracious congratulations, no difficulty without his gentle word of encouragement, no loss or disappointment without his sincere expression of sympathy. As a teacher, he believes in discipline, of course, but he makes it clear that what he expects is the self-discipline of the rational man, not the cowed submission of those who react only to the periodic tirades of an irate pro- fessor. He is respected by his students, not because he demands it of them, but because he merits their respect. He is esteemed as a man of refinement and gentility, as one who lives to the letter Cardinal Newman ' s famous defini- tion of a gentleman: one who strives never to offend. Dedicating this book to Brother Clementian is our simple way of expres- sing our heartfelt gratitude to him as our teacher, moderator, advisor, and friend. Our association with him prompts us to make our own a cogent remark of Thomas Merton: For a man to be absolutely sincere with generation after generation of students requires either supernatural simphcity or, in the natural order, a kind of heroic humility. Brother Clementian, F.S.C.
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1959 Explorer Co-Editors-in-Chief Basil R. Battaglia Joseph L Hanley Photography Editor Joseph P. Braig Organizations Editor Frank J. Obara, Jr. Sports Editor Carl H. Brown, Jr. Copy Editor Robert Rinehart Art Editor Stanley Pirzchaiski Business Manager Leo A. Donohue Evening Division Editor Donald M. Herrington Assistants Bernard J. Vaughan William J. Kennedy Business Staff Copy Staff Jerry L. Annunziato Bill Zehringer Benjamin S. Vassalio Bob Lyons Thomas J. Nolan Frank Brady Brother Clementian, Moderator La Salle College Philadelphia, Pa.
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