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...years he had been what he calls "a cross between a businessman and a nightclub entertainer." But next Feb. 2, Fordham University's president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon S.J., will exchange his budget juggling, administrative conferences, luncheon dates, and after-dinner speeches for a more peaceful program of prayer, study, sermonizing and spiritual direction of laymen. He will become Superior of the Jesuit Retreat House at Manresa, Staten Island...
...Last week when his transfer was announced, pink-cheeked Father Gannon stretched back from his littered desk with feelings of relief and regret. At 55, he still had plenty to say about education; he acknowledged that he had not accomplished all that he wanted in his 13 years at Fordham. Thinking back on it, Father Gannon remarked that his assignment had been "interesting" and "constantly varied" but there had been drawbacks. He had felt "illiteracy climbing up my legs like gangrene," seen his own writing turn to "thin gruel." Moreover, there had been little time for reading, scarcely moments enough...
...time, though, to speak his mind, and some of his dicta on U.S. education had made him a controversial figure. He had called academic freedom "mumbo jumbo," said that "a piece of rubber hose is at times worth ten years of the new [educational] psychology." He had come to Fordham in the days of its great mid '30s football teams, had taken a wartime opportunity to halt football altogether, allowed it to return (in 1946) on only a very chastened scale. Said Gannon: "We want to get [it] off the vaudeville stage and . . . back to the campus...
Students at New York City's Roman Catholic Fordham University last fortnight had the opportunity to study a little-known painting of the Assumption, Botticini's Vision of St. Thomas*, lent to the University by Princess
...Gelotte it has been something of a business bonanza too. Last Saturday, for instance, he sent two cameramen and $1,000 worth of cinema machinery to Ithaca for the Dartmouth-Cornell fray, to two Boston area high school games, and to Worcester for the Holy Cross-Fordham game; and he sent four cameramen and $2,000 worth of equipment to Soldiers Field for two shootings of the Brown-Harvard encounter and to Newton for two filmings of the Boston College-William & Mary game...