St Edwards University - Tower Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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| | | he (ower 1973 Michael Barrett Editor ze DOLFHing mek WOULD Tang, Staff: Eileen Fegan Jill Hahne Bruce Berger Debbie Saucerman Not pictured again is Dan Morrison 28 Education 44 Community 72 Sports 116 People 194 The Society My thanks to Chris Jackson, Rose Seals, Lolly Hatcher, and Donna Valenta for their concern, to Luis Vargas and Jim Sinsky for their skill and diligence if not their punctu- ality, and special thanks to John Sandidge and R. G, Milton of Henington. Thanks also to Brother Philip Odette with whom I spent three fascinating days in the archives, to the Hilltopper for their artwork on page 44, and to Sybil Ingram and Teresa Hall. For two people my very personal thanks. What Dr. Richard Hughes and Mr. Jerry Affron contributed to this Tower is evident on every page. Jim Sinsky Luis Vargas Not pictured is Mike Aanstoos; special thanks to Felix Martinez and Kevin Wright.

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uestioning the faithfulness of his genera- tion to its own great pretensions Mike Bar- rett, a math major from Miami, Florida, de- livered valedictory remarks to 217 graduates and their guests during 88th commencement ceremonies for St. Edward’s at Municipal Auditorium the morning of May 26. Suggest- ing that poet Jane Stembridge correctly per- ceived that “America is mean,” Barrett repudiated the “end of ideology” atmo- sphere of a modern consumer-oriented cul- ture that has servcu as the rationale for per- sonal complacency. “The end of ideology ...is a sort of mixture of resignation and unconscious self- pity that translates into a feeling that we have finally arrived at the perfect scheme of society and community, and so while there are certainly’ bugs left to be worked out, that is properly the work of government and great men, and ours is the well-earned privilege of enjoying all the rewards of consumerism which our previous hard work has won.” “I am not convinced,” Barrett told his classmates, “that we have not made the same mistake so many have made of assuming great things are done by influen- tial people with recognizable names in very uncommon places. We must not pass the buck that easily. Great things are born in the day-to-day, utterly common contacts that we have with real people.” “Ours is a more difficult job than any great figure’s, for we must do great things in very common surroundings.” Barrett’s remarks preceded the conferral of honorary degrees by university president Brother Stephen Walsh upon the Most Rev- erend Bishop Patrick F. Flores, Auxiliary to the Archbishop of San Antonio, and Dr. Joseph P. Witherspoon of the University of Texas School of Law and the Volunteer Executive Director of the Citywide Com- mittee for Human Rights. Bishop Flores had concelebrated the moving Bacculaureate service Friday evening, Shubert’s Mass in G, sung superbly by the Hilltopper Chorale under the direc- tion of James P. Morgan. Bishop Flores de- livered a poignant homily, putting before the graduates in very precise terms the challenge of a very personal responstbility. The Class of 1973

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Credits Color Photography: Drew Barrett; 12, 28, 32 Mike Barrett; Endsheet, 2-3, 16-17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 204 Rick Barrett; 1 Roger Lamer; 7, 201, 205 Larry Morello; 4, 5, 6, , 9, 10-11, 196, 199, 202, 203 NASA; 14-15, 194, 207, 208 Peter Rochon; 205 Portrait Photography: Mr. Allen Hoxie for Studio Six Photog- raphy of San Antonio