St Francis College - Franciscan Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ACCLAIM building for September remained. Ed MacDonald, Bill Black and Mike O ' Donnell graduated and only John Donovan would be returning. So, over the summer we built a team. Gene Westhoff was the new captain and John Rollino and Walter Godzich filled the other starting positions. Steve Dimino was for both teams a valuable and dependable back-up man. In September, after a tough summer of work, we met Dickinson College and lost. Our team was good and no apologies or second thoughts are necessary. We played well against Dickinson, especially in the second half, but they beat us, went on to win five straight, and retired undefeated. As I write this, Princeton is preparing to go on the show and is using our practice questions to get ready. It’s impossible to sum up all of the meanings for me or the team members of the chain of events that began on that cold February Friday. All in all, it was fun! PAUL DOLAN ® 1 -----— CAP l ' MK | | j ■ I ami

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COLLEGE BOWL WINS It all began on a clear, cold day in February when Jim Flynn called and asked if I were sitting down. The news was that we were to be on the College Bowl on June 6th. My first impulse was to deny any responsibility for the impending tragedy and make a clean get¬ away. But Jim and Brother Henry asked me to help out and second thoughts indicated it might be fun. The immediate job was to get a team and an elimination test seemed a good idea. Roughly ninety students tried out on such profundities as name the two moons of Mars and the college for which Hank Luisetti played basketball (I don’t think anyone got that last one right). Many good students tried for the team and helped us in ways they will probably never realize. The entire student body joined in a wide open quiz session which helped to shape and sharpen the team which was to represent St. Francis. On D-Day plus twenty-one years we faced Rhode Island and Ed MacDonald nailed the opening ques¬ tion. This was a feat he was to repeat next week against West Texas State. We won the Rhode Island game in the first half where we ran up a hundred point lead largely on the amazing speed and range of Mike O’Donnell’s answers. He would win the M.V.P. award for that show. In the second half some key answers by John Donovan, always steady and dependable, helped us hold on to our dwindling lead as Rhode Island, a good team of very fine people, closed fast. On June 13th it was Texas State and in our team pool I picked us for 400 points. At half-time we were ahead 95 to 90 and when they took the first question in the second half for a five point lead my pool pick seemed a bit hollow. Then Bill Black, the captain of the team, swung into action. His most notable con¬ tribution as captain in the previous week had been to change a correct answer and cost us a few points. He more than made up for it by taking toss-up after toss-up as we won going away. And, appropriately enough, he won the pool. After some dignified celebration the task of re- 12

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International Relations The Lindsay’s with the pre-election gleam in their eyes. Bob Gaites introduces mayoralty can¬ didate Bill Buckley, Jr. to a wall to wall crowd. Exhibits New Acting as the political organization of the col¬ lege, the IRC attempted to follow in the finest traditions of the two previous years. Guided by the executive board, the club sought to arouse political interest and insight for students in all divisions of the college. This end was totally achieved by the select appearance of the Mayoral Candidates John Lindsay and William F. Buckley Jr. Representing Abraham Beame was Queens District Attorney Frank O’Con¬ nor. Overflowing and enthusiastic crowds were the order of the day for each of the above symposiums. To add to an already prosperous agenda of guests, was the arrival of Fr. Robert Graham, S.J., political expert on Vatican Diplomacy. It might be noted 14