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...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: "In the past, if a monk went to a university, it was thought he would come back less a monk. Now we believe that...
...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...
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