Saturday 6/4/2011 - Class of "61" Tours Seton Hall U./Prep Campus


Tour commences at Student Union Building
Sat001- Tour group assembles in front of Student Union Bldg. Sat002- Jim Boyle, Ed Nartowitz, Tom A. Kennedy, Frank & Monica Mitros, and Don Winters
Sat003- Tour Guide and classmates in front of original SHU Library Bldg

Sat004- Tour Guide and classmates in front of
SHU Chapel
Sat005- With trepidation and anticipation, The tour approaches the venerable Mooney Hall Sat006- To the relief of many, the purists preserved the integrity of the Prep lobby.

Mooney Hall - Our home for 4 wondrous years from 1957 to 1961.

Front: Ed Wharton, Jim Beebe, Gene Arico, Ron Dolan, and Joe Walsh
2nd: Kevin O'Connor, Ed Nartowitz, Phil Vasta, Joe Boyce, and Vince Lupo
3rd: Jim Vaughn, Tom A. Kennedy, Frank Mitros, Ron Wolff, Joe Hourihan, John Kline, and Pat Kelly
top: Don Winters, Jim Boyle, Joe Arway, Joe Knapp, Bill Grablauskas, Richie Dec, Jeff Gausepohl, and Jim Cregan
Sat007- Mooney in all its splendor Sat008- Bill Grablauskas (rear), Jim Boyle, Ron Wolff, Gene Arico, and Kevin O'Connor in front of Mooney Hall

Sat009- Remember the beat up green lockers in the basement? Not there any more...and this is progress? Looks like a bank vault! Sat010- Duffy Hall...surrounded by cars and parking garages...Where's the cinder path, tennis courts and our intramural football field?
Sat011- Duffy Hall with A/C units, brickwork and statue? I can still see "Hucko", hear McIntee, Ciccone and DiStanlo...Ron Eng where are you? "RESS"## Sat012- We had a superb lunch in the new Walsh Library Rotunda Room. This is your view upon entering this impressive facility. Notice the SHU coat of arms

Sat013- Walsh Gym....can still smell the locker room and feel the energy of an anxious crowd as the Prep closes in on a NJ state title in 1961..Dec, Gauespohl, Cummins, Arway and gang.

Sat014- The University owns the campus now...New construction everywhere...but the memories are indelible


Sat015-"The Usual Suspects" Joe Arway, Jim Beebe, Billy Grablauskas, Joe Hourihan, Tom A. Kennedy. Do these guys miss "walking jug"?

Sat016- "For Whom the Bells Toll"; it did for us in "61"
It's great to be back!
Photographs courtesy of the Lupos, Hourihans and the Gausepohls
 
## (RESS) Ron Eng Says So

Legend has it that in 1959, in the relative obscurity of an all boys prep school in South Orange New Jersey, a quantum, geometrical theorem was posited in Duffy Hall (in as of yet unnamed classroom) that could only rival Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Mathematical historians universally agree that the Theory of Relativity is the most important mathematical theorem in the history of mankind. Einstein theorized that parallel lines, equidistant in measurable terms, would eventually converge in infinity, a cosmic definition of space and time. This mathematical paradox would seem to defy logic yet it is considered to be a valid mathematical construct

Ralph Ciccone, a renowned and revered mathematics teacher at Seton Hall Prep, opened his class on that fateful morning in the spring of 1959 with only one question, "would somebody please explain to me what RESS means"? (This question was prompted after grading geometry tests from the previous day for this class). From the back of the room a hand shot in the air and a voice said "Sir, RESS means "RON ENG SAYS SO". You see, Ron, a member of the class of "61", enjoyed impeccable credentials and an aura of infallibility when it came to mathematical prowess. If Ron theorized in its most simplistic terms that if A = C, and B =C therefore A = B, then the class of 61 considered that to be a valid argument. Consequently if proving that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of its 2 sides required as part of its proof the absolute value of its triangular angles, then the class collectively agreed that whatever Ron theorized would be a valid component of geometrical proof. After all, would that not be true if Einstein posited that theory?

To this day there is no more important mathematical theorem then RESS. The uniqueness and creativity of this abstract, geometrical proof concept dazzled Mr. Ciccone so much, that he accepted RESS as valid proof for that particular test. It would certainly be safe to say that the conception and theory of RESS was and is as important to the class of "61" as E = mc² is to the world.

Editor


Seton Hall Prep Class of "61"