Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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w Mariano Arconada, 0.S.A. '. 5'r-'YYY Frank P. Belcastro ,Ds Ingeborg Blimberg ll 5 ffm Gerald M. Barry Q 51 -an . Alfred A. Blimberg Rita Blumstein 7 Mariano Arconada, 0.S.A. Professor Emeritus University of the Escorialg Royal College of Alfonso XII, the Eseorial. Gerald M. Barry Professor, Education A.B., College of the Holy Cross, M.S. Boston Collegeg M.Ed., Harvard University. Frank P. Belcastro Associate Professor, Education A.B., M.Ed., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Alfred A. Blimberg Chairman, Department of Modern Languages, M.A., Brown Universityg Ph.D. Middlebury College. Ingeborg Blimberg Instructor, Languages Diploma, Goethe University, West Germany, M.A., Middlebury College. Rita Blumstein Assistant Professor, Chemistry B.S., University of Parisg Advanced Degree, University of Strasbourgg Ph.D., University of Delaware

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l ' :- Y 45 I!! -' A I-475' Dr. Charles O. Ahonen Reverend Stephen F. Lauen, 0.S.A. r Q Dr. John T. Lawlor With the passing of our senior year has come the deaths of three men long associated with Merrimack College. On the past November 7 Rev. Stephen Lanen, O.S.A. of the Theology department succumbed to cancer at Merrimack. On Au- gust 19, Dr. Charles O. Ahonen former pro- fessor of Physics while swimming at his sum- mer home. On December 7, Dr. John Lawlor, chairman of the Department of Biology was stricken while recovering at home from a ser- ious fall. Each of the men left a distinctive mark upon the development of this college and to- taled 33 years of educational service to the students of Merrimack College. Out of long associations and friendships, and a series of debts that cannot be repaid we mourn these men. Yet, strangely, we do not mourn them because they died. These three, coming from diiferent back- grounds, approached their students with three different orientations to the realities with which they dealt. Dr. Lawlor educated his students in the science of things that live and grow. Dr. Ahonen dealt with the abstractions of the motions of the universe so that they could be known as a related whole. Fr. Lan- .nen added the ethical motivations and reli- gious responsibilities derived from his priestly role to combine with the secular concerns of science. These three converged in the classroom and prospered in the educated men and women for whom they bore the responsibility of in- struction. We do not mourn them because they have died. We honor them because they have lived. 6

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! y- '15. , fgw l V Richard A. Boulanger Albert W. Burns Edward J. Burns, 0.S.A :I ' F' YW nl i hi 1 N Arland Charlton Samuel Chesler Benjamin Cogen V Wm? .NM F l L abs-qv W ,H J. David Davis John De Velis Robert J. Dirkman L 1 4 N Thomas G. Elliot Huoo-Long Fann Jerome L. Felix, M.S. 8