University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Multiple personalities of youth unite

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4 events mark -D 1964 The life of U-D students settles into a routine easily: classes Monday through Friday, Saturday mixer, study, Union fun, weekend football or basketball game, club meeting, outside jobs, tests, going to and from school. Many activities, but still they become routine. Several events break up this routine, get many students involved in them, and provide students with a change of pace. 1964 saw four of these: two in the fall and two in the spring semester. Three involved the Student Council: Carnival, Homecoming, and the Council elections. The fourth broke up the campus routine the most and certainly did more to distinguish the 1963-64 year at U-D and in the United States: the November 22 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The routine just stopped. Campus life was stilled in mourning. Classes were cancelled. The football team didn't play. Knees were bent in disbelieving prayers. The chapel was filled during midday. A Memorial Mass was celebrated. Then, life returned to normalcy: students were thinking only three more weeks remained before Christmas vacation.

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in ,Jesuit environment The story of U-D is seen to be the story of its people and their activities. The stu- dents are primarily Catholic, and primarily from the De- troit area. They're above average in intelligence. They do not want to be machines on an assembly line and teachers don't treat them as such. Some are here to make themselves ueducated men in the liberal arts tradition. Others look at their courses pragmatically - to see the jobs they can get from them. Others - admittedly a small group-are here for the sake of a degree and what society gives for it. One thing they all share is admiration 'for the Jesuit educational sys- tem. This cannot be over- looked although Jesuits num- ber only ten per cent of the faculty. The Very Rev. Lau- rence V. Britt, S.J., com- pared this to the influence of a missionary, who in a pagan area, sets up missions, makes converts and then moves on. The parishioners might see him rarely.But can hisinflu- ence be denied? The The The book: Tower 1964 University of Detroit Volume 33 Detroit, Michigan contents: Table of Impressions 1 Introduction 12 The University and the City 72 Arts and Professions 114 Professions and Arts 116 Personal 146 Business 162 Technological 182 Campus Personality 184 In service 195 In government 236 In social life 258 Athletics 292 Seniors 324 Appendices producers: Kenneth Jacques, editor-in-chiefg Pat- rick Cadaret, managing editor, Dan Minock, copy editor, Joseph Ziembo, photography editorg Dominic Missimi, Robert Thomas, layout editorsg Richard Kattula, organizations editorg Joyce Wolny, secretaryg Karen Davis, Norm Perron, Rochelle LaPrise, Paul Gainor, Paul Healy, Catherine Basich, Sally De- Ronne, stajfg Joel Simmer, Thomas Wil- liams, John Grates, sports stajji' William Gilmore, Lawrence Delargy, David Ga- briels, James Stewart, phot0graphy,' Rev. James Magmer, S.J., moderator. 11