Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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To keep the body and mind operating as a co- hesive unit is the very tedious task of the College Infirmary. In its location at Middleton Hall, a separate building secluded among trees in the most quiet corner of the campus, it has more of the home than hospital-like appearance. The infirmary contains up-to-date medical equip- ment. operates throughout the first floor, and up- stairs there are three wards that contain 21 beds for ailing students. Father Francis Boyle supervises services of the infirmary and attends confined students during the night. Nurse Francis Hanna is in attendance during the day; Dr. Loefflad. school physician, calls daily. NURSE HANNA has just completed the sterilization of several hypodermic syringes after a busy day. This steri- lizer is just one of the many new pieces of equipment in Villanova’s infirmary. AN ESSENTIAL PART of the progress chart of a patient is his blood pressure. Here the nurse employs the sphyg- momanometer to check the pulse beat of a seemingly able student. FATHER FRANCIS BOYLE, Infirma- rian, checks with Nurse Francis Hanna at the beginning and end of each day to observe the progress of the patients. Father Boyle attends to the sick at night.

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For over One Hundred Years Today Villanova would probably be unrecogniz- able to Father John O’Dwyer, or any other of the founding fathers, for. in appearance, the campus is radically changed from the Belle Air Estate of 1841. Yet the guiding spirit behind Villanova has always been the same, and it shall continue to be. Through the prayers and work of the Augustinian Fathers, with the aid of God, Villanova shall con- tinue on her path of progress, preparing men who will show the world, by their example, the benefits of a true Catholic education. THE LONG-AWAITED and greatly needed central heating plant, above, was completed and placed in operation this year. The new structure, with its 214- foot stack, heats every building on the entire campus, including Mendel Hall which previously heated most of the buildings. Villanova’s own hospital, Middleton Hall, is shown below in its quiet surroundings in the Doms” corner of the campus. The building is complete with a large quarantine ward and latest medical equipment.

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The office of Provincial of the Augustinian Province of St. Thomas is held by the Very Reverend Joseph M. Dougherty, O.S.A. Elected by a vote of all qualified members of the Prov- ince. the Provincial controls all the administrative affairs of the Eastern Province, for which he is responsible directly to Rome. Under his care are the many Augustinians teaching, conducting parishes, and preaching missions, as well as the growing number of seminarians within the province. Since Villancva is the mother house of the Eastern American Province of the Augustinian Order. Father Dougherty carries out the many duties required of his office from his headquar- ters in the Monastery of Saint Thomas. Further, as ex-officio chairman of the Board of Trustees, Father Dougherty is also an important figure in the general control of almost every aspect of college life at Vilianova. Prior to his election as Provincial, Father Dougherty was Prior of the Monastery and Professor of Biology. Provincial MOST REVEREND JOSEPH M. DOUGHERTY O.S.A. ■ Uo