La Salle University - Explorer Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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The class of 1960 deems it both a duty and a privilege to dedicate these pages to Brother Gerardian Joseph, F.S.C., who this year cele- brates his Golden Jubilee as a Christian Brother. The last thirty-two of those golden years he has generously given to La Salle Col- lege, as a devoted teacher and hard-working administrator. He is Head of the Physics Department, but relatively few of us know him as their teacher; for most of us, he emerges only occasionally from the shadows of the office designated by the terse legend: Registrar. It is an office that ordinarily arouses our interest only twice a year — when the semester grades are due; or on such portentous occasions as when some of us might go there bearing that rarest and most comforting of all documents: a form stating that a mark has been changed and an index improved. There, t oo, alas, go those of us who wish to investigate a disguieting report from the Office of the Deans that we are a credit or two short for graduation. Invariably, there is no argument. Those on the verge of academic probation have come to respect the dispassion- ate accuracy of Brother Joseph ' s calculations, and — sHde-rule or no slide-rule — there are few of us who have the hardihood to question a cumulative index. It is reported that his long years of painstaking toil with an infinity of such calculations have led him to regard with suspicion the indecent speed of the recently adopted IBM procedures. Brother Joseph approaches his work with the no-nonsense air of a man undeterred by senti- ment, and his imposing physique and sten- torian voice, neither, apparently, the least impaired by time, lend undoubted authority to his direct, unadorned, laconic pronouncements. In the name of La Salle students, past and present, we cordially salute this devoted man for his long years of dedicated service. May God prosper him long among us and see to it that the Angelic Registrar put a 4.00 after his name in the Golden Book of Heaven! u

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Our Blueprint for Living was designed by the President and by the administration and faculty. The product which resulted was we, the seniors of La Salle. During the past four years under the tutelage of the Chris- tian Brothers, we have advanced from immature high school graduates in search of higher education to responsible men in possession of the highest ideals. The knowledge that we, the Class of 1960, have acquired here will form the very cornerstone of our lives. Our debt to the Christian Brothers and to La Salle College can not be repaid, but, God willing, we shall remember them both. We have been exposed to the arts; we have come to terms with the sciences. Some of us have been trained in skills, some in crafts. In aggregate, they constitute knowledge, and knowl- edge with ideals begets wisdom. At La Salle, we have learned both, knowledge and ideals. We have been trained in faithful compliance with the Pauline dictum: See to it, therefore, breth- ren, that you walk with care; not as unwise, but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. We should have — we hope we do have — wisdom for our days. Charles Zerr