Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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EDITORIAL 1961 A ROAD STRETCHES OUT... from the past, which becomes obscurer R EVI EV with each step forward... towards the future, broad in its scope. A SIGN-POST stands at the road-side, silently blaring forth its imperative message to all jour- neyers: “STOP”. LOYOLA COLLEGE is the road; the student, the (weary) walker. The road is an ever-broadening one, laid across a land of prospects. THE SENIOR STUDENT, accustomed to the stately, stable image of the old Loyola, will remem- ber 1961 for the agitated presence of that new science-building — transgressor! Freddy Fresh- man will be able to think how the new vitality of his college life seemed characterized by the building, a promise of things to come — transfuser! And in between, caught in the midst of old and new, the Sophomores and Juniors will remember 1961 for the very feeling of change itself — transition! AND ALL WILL REMEMBER 1961 for that blatant stop-sign, the delay of recognition of Loyola as a university. Years hence, when Loyola University is an accepted pair of words, the once- student’s memory will ring up faint echoes of past emotion at the terms “Bill 111”, “Premier Lesage’, “L’Université dit non aux Jésuites”. THIS WAS THE “STOP”, or rather the “arrétez”, of 1961. But it is an ever-present and ubiqui- tous command, in a thousand other forms in the same year and in every successive year. It is nothing but Challenge, the guardian angel of Progress, and it always lies between the present and the prospects. IN READING or re-reading the following record of Loyola-1961, you are asked not to dwell on it merely as past glory, for nothing is a surer opium to aistort things out ot all proportion. But reconsider what were the prospects and challenges at the time — and you will be trans- ported into that rich experience of reliving ... Reliving what? Why, the present, of course. Ad Ltt

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Ecdication “I must remember the things I have seen. I must keep them fresh in my memory, see them again in my mind’s eye, live through them again and again in my thoughts. And most of all, I must make good use of them for in tomorrow’s life.” (Canada Wide Photo Dr. Tom Dooley . . . more than mediocre. And what sights this man must have seen. Born in 1927 into a comfortably wealthy St. Louis family, Thomas Anthony Dooley III denied himself the prosperity which was easily within his reach as a promising society doctor. Volunteering instead as a U.S. Navy doctor, he first saw service in the midst of the 1954 mass evacuation of 610,000 anti-Communist refugees from North Viet Nam. After his Navy duty, he established MEDICO (Medical International Co-operation) to bring hospital aid to the underprivileged in remote areas. In several Laotian villages, just a few miles south of the Red China border, he made daily house-calls to his patients in the guerilla-infested jungle. This man was an American — but entirely removed from the complacency of that way of life, taken up with the challenge of placing himself under the double yoke of a foreign people, the burden of deadly disease and Chinese Communism: on the one hand, leprosy and malnutrition infected the bodies, and on the other, the deadly communes and persecution of peace-cherishing people just as surely eating away at the very core of humanity. And in the center of it all was the rambunc- tious Dr. Dooley, engrossed in one of the most daring vocations ever to present itself to an American. It is not difficult to imagine Tom Dooley as he lay dying of cancer in a Manhattan hospital last Janu- ary, when he perhaps was summing up the value of his life. Perhaps, too, after a few regrets that it was all over for him at so early an age, he might have made a hypothetical inquiry about his life: “What if I had never accepted the challenge to become more than just another society doctor—what would I be now?” What indeed would be the present state of the hundreds of afflicted Laotians whom he has helped, or of the thousands more who will now receive attention from the new men instilled with his spirit? In evaluation of the answers to these questions, the editors of this book respectfully dedicate their ef- forts to the one man who exemplifies the courage to meet the challenge and rise above the common measure of mediocrity.

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The College Offers 1. Honour Arts courses in English, History and Economics leading to the degree of Honour B.A. 2. General Arts courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, with special modi- fications to meet pre-Medical and pre-Dental requirements. 3. Honour Science courses in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics leading to the degree of Honour B.Sc. 4. General Science courses with continuation subjects in Physics, Chemistry, or Mathematics, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science. These courses can be so arranged as to fulfil all pre-Medical requirements. 5. Engineering courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science and eligibility to enter the Fourth Year of their chosen branch of Engineering at McGill University 6. Commerce courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce with majors in Accounting and Economics. RELIGION Religion is an essential part of life at Loyola as it is in life in general. Students are required to fulfil their religious obligations regularly, and to make annually a spiritual retreat of three days. The Sodality of Our Lady is an organization of students for their Spiritual and Apostolic development within the college sphere. Religion is also an integral part of the curriculum. Being definite and certain like any other truth, it can be taught, and is taught at Loyola. PHILOSOPHY Without sound philosophy there is neither intellectual security nor intellectual maturity. Scholastic Philosophy, the wisdom of the ages, is sound, mature and in- telligible. It does no violence to Faith, to Science, or to Common Sense. Every candi- date for any degree at Loyola must complete successtully a series of courses in Scholastic Philosophy. C.O.T.C. U.N.T.D. U.R.T.P. CAMPUS and STAGE