Vets T
he men on these pages – Ron Scott at left, and No Van No, Paul Luty, Carvel Cook, and Tom Clayton — served their nations during the Vietnam War, with honor, and have lent their considerable talents and gifts to the University for many years. We cannot thank them enough for their courage and grace under duress. Carvel Cook was a sergeant in the Army. Paul Luty was a sergeant in the Air Force. Tom Clayton was an Army private. Ron Scott was a Marine sergeant. No Van No was a sergeant in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and had to flee his native land after the war, having lost his eye and his foot in the war. It takes enormous courage to fight in wars, to wear the uniform of the armed forces of your nation, to defend freedom, to insist on it, to bet your life on it. The University bows in gratitude to these men, and to the alumni and students and friends who have for more than a century fought for freedom, insisted on it, bet their lives for it. Wars are also evil and foolish, “failures of the imagination,” as the Oregon poet William Stafford said, and the University is ever seeking creative ways to drive wars out of business, to make them extinct, to make them mere memories. To honor those who serve, and to find ways to make such service unnecessary someday, we welcome assistance with: n The Peace Studies Program, one of the lively threads in the University’s burgeoning Catholic Studies Program. n The Dorothy Day Social Work Program, celebrating the blunt and salty American Catholic visionary who believed that living Christ’s sermon on the mount will defeat violence and war and greed. n The student Schools for Schools group, which helps rebuild schools in war-torn areas (notably Uganda). n The Colonel George Anthony ’51 Scholarship, honoring an alumnus who devoted his career to the Army, to journalism, and to the power of stories. n The Military Order of the Purple Heart Endowed Scholarship, presented annually to a student who wishes to be a teacher and is especially interested in educating disabled children. n The Moreau Center’s Witness for Peace program, sending 20 students to Nicaragua every summer to study nonviolence, faith, peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas.
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