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North American College reluctantly shut its doors in 1940 when Italy entered World War II, reopened in 1948 under its current (No. 10) rector, Archbishop Martin J. O'Connor of Scranton, Pa. A North American graduate ('24), Archbishop O'Connor helped raise $4,000,000 for construction of the seminary's present (dedicated in 1953) six-story, brick and travertine building atop Janiculum Hill. A far cry from the old "House on Humility Street," the new college has 307 students' rooms, a 455-seat theater, infirmary, recreation and music rooms...
...many coal-mining towns are pure-aired health resorts, but Carbondale, Pa., 15 miles northeast of Scranton, has a special problem. Deep under the streets of a good-sized part of the town (pop. 14,000), a stubborn fire has burned for 13 years, defying half measures to put it out. Fumes seep out of the ground, creep into homes and stores. The soil underfoot is always warm; grass stays green in the dead of winter; and roses bloom in December. Carbondale people do not enjoy these distinctions, and last week they were looking forward to getting rid of them...
...Musher '59, of Kirkland House and New York City, Franz G. Nauen '59, of Eliot House and Cambridge, David M. Perlmutter '59, of Lowell House and Glencoe, III., J. Rion Phillipson Jr. '59, of Kirkland House and Idaho Falls, Ida., David W. Preven '59, of Leverett House and Scranton, Pa., Robert C. Repetto '59, of Leverett House and Winchester, Mass., Michael W. Richter '59, of Kirkland House and Great Neck, N.Y., David D. Robbins '59, of Eliot House and Huntington Park, Cal., M. Richard Robinson Jr. '58, of Leverett House and Denver, Col., Richard Sandler '59, of Eliot House...
Guterman's students at Scranton's Hebrew Orthodox Center-from retired Shoe Salesman Morris Greenes, 92, to Accountant Irving Sicherman, 35-look upon their nightly hour of learning as a lot more than mental painting and papering. Every one signed up for his new class, which this week was beginning to study the Talmud all over again...