Brief: Newman director celebrates 50 years

The 50th year of Monsignor Edward J. Duncan's service as chaplain to Roman
Catholic students and as director of the Newman Foundation at the UI will
be celebrated Saturday through Monday.

A commemorative Mass will be celebrated by Cardinal Pio Laghi, the former
papal nuncio, at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. An anniversary luncheon will follow at
the UI Assembly Hall. A concert will be presented at 6 p.m. in St.  John's
Chapel by the chapel choir and the UI Chorale, with string, brass and
wind ensembles.

A full-day symposium, "Building the Church of Tomorrow: Educating the
Youth of Today," will be presented Monday in the Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts. Participants will include Laghi; Father Theodore Hesburgh,
president emeritus of Notre Dame University; theologian Martin Marty; and
Denise Carmody, director of the Warren Center for Catholic Studies.

Duncan became chaplain at St. John's and director of the Newman Foundation
in October 1943, only a few years after his ordination into the priesthood.
He is credited with stabilizing the student center's shaky finances during
his early years at St. John's and with strengthening and greatly expanding
its programs and accredited college courses. A sports enthusiast, he has
long served as chaplain to the university's athletes, for which he has
been honored with an honorary "I."