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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/lasalle3919941995unse (^^: '^m ri^ f ONTENTS The 1954NCAA BasketballChamps. Page5 The "lO O'clock .\'ews. "Page 14 STATE-OF-THE-ART La Salle's nev^ $4.5 million high-tech Communication Center -was dedicatecd on October 8. CAN SEE TOM GOLA NOW" "I JRaombeerstJ.S.MLcyDoonnsa,lJdr.,, ''S681,, AEdliutmonriDirector NIt'CsAbAeebnas4k0etybeaalrlstistilen.ceItLwaaSsalalleso'waonditfhfeerent .All'MNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS '^'orld then, as Bernard McCormick reports. Maria Tucker Cusick, '83, President Joseph H. Cloran, '61, Executive VicePresident MEETEVG A COMMUNITY NEED NicholasJ. Lisi, Esq., '62, VicePresident James M. Boligilz, '83, Treasurer Health Care Reform is alive and 'well at Elizabeth R. Lochner. '87, Secretary' La Salle's Neighborhood Nursing Center. L\ SALLE (USPS 299-940) is pulMislied quarterlyby La Salle Universit>-, 1900 W. Olney Avenue, Philadelphia. PA 19141-1199. forthe alumni, students, facul- FAMILY PRACTICE WITH A ty, and friends ofthe University. Editorial and business offices are located at the News Bureau, La Salle Liniversitv. PERSONALITY Philadelphia. PA 19141-1199. Changes ofaddress should be sent at least 30 days prior to publication ofissue with which it is to take effect to the Alumni Office. La Salle University, As a physician and a journalist, Brian 1900 W. Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19141-1199. McDonough has the best bedside manner in POSTMASTER: send change ofaddress to office listed above. broadcasting. A profile by Frank Bilovsky. Memberofthe Council forthe Advancement and Suppon ofEducation (CASE). AROUND CAMPUS DESIGN AND ILLUSTRA'HON: Blake+Barancik Design PHOTOGRAPITi': Kelly *t Massa La Salle recently established a unique Center FRONTCOVER: La Salle's new Communication for ComniLinity Learning, honored an a'ward- Center was dedicated on Oct. 6 and blessed by Philadelphia's Auxilian,' Bishop Edward P. Cullen 'uinning TV docLimentary host at its Fall (second from right). Also participating were Thomas Convocation, and is participating in the Curiev. (second from left), president and publisher of USA TODAY; La Salle's Brother PresidentJaseph F, NCAA's Certification Program. Burke (right), and Brother Gerard Molyneaux. chair- man of the university's Communication Department. ALUMNI NOTES BACKCOVER: The Explorers' 1980 Division II national championship field hockey team became only the third La Salle team inducted into the Alumni Hall Jim McDonald has announced that he will of Athletes on Oct. 7. Those attending the ceremonies retire after 34 years as Alumni Director. wEelirzea:beBtahckCraRwofwor(df.roHmelleefnt tNoearr>ig-h,t)K:elBlayri'iWaarlakeMrc,GJuogaann, Also, the quarterly chronicle of some signifi- Ferrari, Cindy Ambruoso, and Laura Frieze. Middle cant events in the lives of La Salle's alumni. Row: .\lar\- Kai.ser. Liz McCabe, Mar\- Traurwein, Sheila Smith. Vicki Smith and Kath>' McGahey. Front Row: Carol 'Weber, Brother PresidentJoseph Burke,Joanne Weber. Alumni Association president Maria Cusick. and Nancy Richards. The only other teams in the Hall are the 1954 men's NCAA basketball champions and the 1957 Dad Vail crew titlists. Volume 39/ Number 1 LA SALLE WINTER 1994-95 ^ JUn "A Milestone in tlie Dawning of tlie Age" Information New La Salle's High- Tech Communication Q Center Opens La Salle dedicated its new state-of-the-art Communica- tion Center on its South Campus in ceremonies on October 8. Philadelphia Auxiliary Bishop Edward P. Cullen, D.D., 71 M.A., blessed the facility that was renovated at the cost of $4.5 million and is housed in the former classroom building of the property purchased from the Sisters of St. Basil the Great in 1989. A student lounge was also dedicated in memory of the late Gregg Argenziano, a senior Bishop Cullen blesses the new communication major from Wells, Comiviinicatioii Center. Maine, who died suddenly last year. WINTER 1994-95 page 1 Sliicleiils at work in theAudio and T\'Studios: The Communi- catio)i Center is thefirst hiiild- i)i}i at La Salle to house only one (icadenu'c discipline. It consoli- dates equipment, offices, and studio space origincdly housed i)i Olnev Hall cnidSt. Cassian ResidenceHall into one com- plete. stand-alo)iefacilitv- Thomas Cuiiey, 70, president and women have graduated since the publisher of USA TODAY was the program was introduced in 1974. featured speaker at the event. The uni\'ersity also began offering a master of arts degree program in La Salle's Communication Center professional communication last C includes the latest high-tech TV and September. audio studios and control rooms \\ith sophisticated "non-linear" In his keynote address, Cudey editing facilities, as well as three described his tenure as editor of the traditional classrooms, two small Collegian during his undergraduate seminar rooms, two larger confer- days at La Salle in the late 1960s as ence/presentation rooms containing an "extraordinary time" to enter the multi-media and computer equip- communications field. ment, editing and screening rooms for audio, video, and film, 14 "What an era," he recalled. "Civil faculty and administrative offices, rights, women's rights, faculty and the Argenziano Student rights, student protests, an unde- Lounge. clared war tore apart a nation and undermined its economy. A bitter Some 300 undergraduates are cold war consumed other resources majoring in communication at and altered our values. La Salle and another ^9S men and page 2 LASALLE