Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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P. Edward Kaltenbach Dean of Freshmen Professor of Ancient Cfassics Dedication 7

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A True Christian Gentleman Human growth is marked by succes- sive transitions full of challenge and op- portunity, full of risk and hope. As chil- dren we say goodbye to Santa Claus and hello to first grade. We enter our teens and encounter first love, first job, first car. Later some enter religion or military service. Most marry. And each such change brings new prospects and new problems. One threshold we the class of 1985 will never forget fearing and facing and passing was the transi- tion from high school to college. It all came as a severe shock; the dif- ference in methods of study, in budget- ing of time, in relations with people, in new friendships, new demands, new choices — in a whole new environ- ment. This was a time we needed a friend besides our parents one wise and experienced, sensitive and imagina- tive, sympathetic and supportive. And we found him in Dr. P. Edward Kalten- bach. Professor of Ancient Classics and our Freshman Dean. Some of our problems looked insolv- able to us as we wrestled with our course schedules, core requirements, major options, teacher preferences, which at times seemed incompatible and irreconcilable. And so we lined up by the dozens at the door marked Dean of Freshmen.” Luckily for us, the door was wide open — and so was Dean Kaltenbach ' s big heart. Our first encounter was with the Dean ' s secretary, motherly Anne Spam- pinato, who clarified our options and our needs. Then the Dean would deftly dig out our records from under a four- foot pyramid atop his desk, would ana- lyze our situation and listen to our tales of woe. Soon we were happily on our way. Once, they say, the Dean phoned in sick, and Anne cleaned his office. neatly filed all the papers and shelved books piled on the desk and chairs and fishbowl. Dean Kaltenbach afterward complained he couldn ' t find a thing for weeks till the usual comfortable confu- sion was restored. However troubled or timid we might be, we always found Dean Kaltenbach patient, long-suffering, and self-sacrific- ing, and totally at the service of Loyola College and its students. Each student was special and no question was too trivial or too complex: they and we were always worthy of careful treatment. We do, however, confess to a suspicion that he preferred the hard questions and liked to come out strong under difficul- ties. Here then is a man of infinite re- source. Difficult problems he solved at once; the impossible took a little longer. Not for nothing had he spent three years in the Air Force in World War II making and breaking ciphers, crypto- grams, and codes. Even the astute Dean McGuire, on the rare occasions when he was stumped, called on the kindly expertise of his colleague, friend, and former teacher — and so did many oth- ers. And however much some people, like ourselves as freshmen, may be con- fused or even frightened by rapid tran- sition, and may adapt to change painful- ly and tentatively, here is a man who finds in the challenge of the new a way of life. Graduated from Loyola in 1942, Ed Kaltenbach took his Ph.D. in classi- cal languages at the Johns Hopkins, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. In the ensuing forty years at Loyola he has survived a revolution or two almost every year. In his undergraduate days a student needed four years of high school Latin to enter Loyola ' s A.B. program, and then had to struggle through further courses with Horace and Cicero and their friends, to say nothing of the Greeks and other foreigners, in order to complete requirements for the degree. But temper d. mutantur, and eventually Dean Kaltenbach saw the day when he was the whole classics department, ex- cept for an occasional student who turned up with an odd taste for antiqui- ties. His ingenuity still managed to spread the good news of classical learning un- der the guise of his courses in history, composition, logic, and comparative lit- erature. His students much admire his education, his pedagogical skills, and the humaneness that mark him as a memorable teacher. And as dean he still managed to inculcate the treasures of knowledge and art bequeathed us by ancient Greece and Rome and Israel. Far beyond his other multifarious achievements. Dean Kaltenbach is uni- versally esteemed as a true Christian gentleman. His ever-present good hu- mor, his unfailing courtesy and consid- eration, his scrupulous sense of fairness, have endeared him to students and col- leagues alike. Whether conversing learnedly on stamp-collecting, base- ball, or exotic fish, or winning artfully at contract bridge, creating a gourmet dinner, and just getting his job well and fully done, Ed Kaltenbach is a treasure, a shining example to the world of the kind of graduate Loyola ' s liberal Chris- tian education aims to develop. The received legend is doubtless true, that on Dean Kaltenbach ' s heart the initials L.C. are deeply imprinted forever. 6 Dedication

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