Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Bernard A. Schriever, Air Force missile chief . . .Sc.D...
...this appears like little more than a listing of support for George Bernard Shaw's famous dictum, "Nothing is ever done unless people will be killed if it is not done." Unfortunately this is to a large extent true. The current reevaluation of the American school system, such as it is, is attributable mainly to the fear of Russian military power...
Light & Air. Redheaded young Father Egan had graduated from St. Benedict's College in Atchison, Kans. and earned an M.A. in sociology at the University of Notre Dame; he was determined to let some fresh air and light into the academic stronghold of St. Bernard. First, he banded together with a group of younger priests, some of whom he had known in prep school. One of these, Irish-born Father Malachy Shanaghan, who is now head of St. Bernard's English department and finishing a Ph.D. thesis on Novelist William Faulkner, describes the change they put into effect...
...first, the Protestants of Cullman viewed this new friendliness with suspicion. But the fact that St. Bernard was the only college near by and, as Father Shanaghan says, "the country boys don't want to get far from mother's home cooking," brought more and more of them around. Enrollment jumped by 60 in 1956 (the year after Egan arrived), and three months ago Benedictine Egan was made president...
Greatest achievement of the new regime at St. Bernard has been in winning over the hard-shell Protestant businessmen of Cullman. To do this, the priests became civic boosters, joined the Chamber of Commerce leaders in lassoing new industry, notably a recently arrived cigar manufacturer, whose emissaries were entertained at the college (which knows how to throw a good cocktail party in a dry county). Says Cullman's Mayor Bill Arnold: "St. Bernard is the greatest institution we've got. For the first time we're beginning to feel a cultural upswing. Certainly St. Bernard...