St Francis College - Motus Yearbook (Biddeford, ME)

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Dear Reader, You need not delve very far into this book to discover and appreciate the fact that it is difterent - different from past editions of MOTUS, and no doubt different from most other college yearbooks you may have read. More than anything else, it is the product of our dis- satisfaction with the past yearbooks. The Saint Francis College yearbook is a young publication ithis is only the fourth editionl, yet we hope that this years book will rank with the finest college annuals in the country. We felt that in previous years the product of the staff's efforts was more a collection of myriad photographs exhibing rows of smiling visages, whose functions in the College were unknown to almost everyone. Our intentions are hardly to convert MOTUS into a literary magazine, rather we are striving to eHect a more comprehensive image of Saint Francis College, that both the student and the less intimately acquainted visitor would recognize as representative. The five lengthy essays comprising the introductory section are designed to create an image of the College, its surroundings, history, students and general spirit, in the mind of the reader, that will influence his perusal of the remainder of the publication. We feel that this factor con- tributed to part of the ineffectiveness of past MOTUS editions: the lack of a clear and unmis- takable notion of what the College is and what it is doing. It would seem that without such preliminary definitions a yearbook would be merely a superficial account of certain extrinsically visible College activities and personalities, failing to permeate to the core of what might be termed 'college life. Besides departing from the photographic scrapbook conception of a yearbook, we have tried to improve our publication in other ways. Those of the readers who are familiar with post copies of MOTUS will notice that a new element of art has been introduced. Instead of slicing our pages up into a koleidoscopic complexity of photographs and captions, we have striven to maintain a neat page at all times, not only in our use of text, space and photography, but also in our choice of a fully legible modern typeface. The cover is symbolic of St. Francis College: the pine tree stands for the State of Maine, the Franciscan Father for the spirit of Saint Francis, and the whole is executed in the school colors, red for the background, with the gold outline of the ocean and the rocky coast of Maine representing our close geographical proximity to the sea. The potential monotony of the graduate section has been reduced through the use of in- formal photographs of each senior. The reader will also notice that the faculty section has been placed towards the rear of the publication; this, we thought, would maintain a consistently high level of interest throughout the book. In conclusion, I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to the members of the Editorial Board and the Staff, particularly to Francis Lebeau, without whose enthusiasm and work MOTUS could never have been composed. I would also like to thank our moderator, Father Frederick Belanger, O.F.M., who designed our cover, for his help and generous encouragement. And I would like to join with the two previous MOTUS editors, Marcel Bolduc and Robert Corcoron, in wishing the greatest success for all future editors and their staffs, for I realize that MOTUS '63 is only one in a series of innovations to come, in the attempt to achieve a fully representative yearbook for Saint Francis College; it is 'an ideal that will, I am sure, one day be realized. W Peter Grey Jordan Editor

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Volume IV of MOTUS begins with the various facets of Saint Francis life; in c: somewhat arbitrary order they are: Historical .................................................................................... 15 Religious .................................................................................... 20 Academic .................................................................................. 22 Cultural ...................................................................................... 24 Environmental ........................................................................... 26 The second section comprises the men who make up the College: Class of 1963 .......................................................................... 28 Undergraduates ........................................................................ 67 Campus Activities ...................................................................... 83 Social Events .............................................................................. 119 Faculty ...................................................................................... 144 Administration .......................................................................... 150 Index of Graduates .................................................................. 162 Index of Undergraduates ......................................................... 163 The history of the Class of 1963 is distributed throughout the Undergraduate section. Your attention is called to our contributors and patrons at the end of the volume.

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John F. Kennedy THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON January 12, i 963 Dear Graduates: It is with pleasure that I submit this letter to your annual. America has always depended on its institutions of higher education to produce the men who will take an active part in leading our Nation. Indeed, this need for well educated citizens is even greater today with the daily challenges of those who would abolish the basic human freedoms in which we believe so strongly. The citizens of tomorrow will face problems that were hardly conceived a century ago, and in dealing with them the graduates of America's Colleges and universities will be in great demand. So therefore, I would like to congratulate both yourselves on the successful completion of your college work, and your College on its tenth anniversary. I know that you all will strive to continue your education in the years to come, so that you may contribute your share to the growth of our Nation. With all good wishes, Sincerely, Mm John F. Kennedy 11 II M