St Louis University - Archive Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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ARY aaaaaaaaaa The name of Father James B. Macelwane, SJ., means differ- ent things to different men. The world at large remembers him principally as a scholar in the earth sciences. His students and professional associates remember him principally as a teacher. His brothers in religion remember him principally as a fellow man. Yet Father lVIacelwane's life was not divided into mutually exclusive areas. It was rather an integrated whole. The man who daily offered the Holy Sacrifice was the same man who received scientific awards and honorary degrees. The busy Jesuit who yet always managed to spend his recreation periods with his confreres was no less a religious when he tramped through the western states in search of geological data. The potential language scholar whose pride was a sermon delivered in Greek did not surrender his liberal interests when he wrote on the earth sciences for learned journals. Father Macelwane lived in contact with the ultimate, un- changing realitiesg but he fulfilled his personality and concen- trated his activity in the changing environment in which he found himself. In an age of technology, he was a pioneer technologist. But his skill as a technologist grew out of his liberal educational background. In an age of secularist compartmentalism, he integrated religion and science in his own life to the extent that he became a scientist only at the request of his religious superiors. ln an age of irresponsibility, all his activity showed forth his aware- ness of responsibility, both in himself and as a teacher and scholar, to Cod, to truth, and to society. - To Father James M. Macelwane, scholar, teacher, and man, we reverently dedicate the 1957 Archive. The Scholar The Teacher The Mon