2006 fall magazine - Seton Hall University

the very popular Uncle Wiggly stories
about a rheumatic gentleman rabbit.
PLAYERS FOR ALL TIME
Throughout the ’50s, ‘60s and ‘70s,
Orange Lawn Tennis Club (located on
North Ridgewood Road) hosted Tennis
Week. The event drew the world’s topranked
players, who considered the
tournament a warm-up for the U.S. Open.
Local families provided room and board
for the participants — creating a thrill
for the town and a bargain for the
players. Orange Lawn’s fame rated a
mention in the 1951 Alfred Hitchcock
thriller Strangers on a Train. As part of
the film’s back story, fictional tennis star
Guy Haines (played by Farley Granger)
“made the semifinals at South Orange”
the previous season.
I NAOMA WELK
FROM LEFT: Dick Stockton at Orange Lawn;
First Communicants at Marylawn of the
Oranges Academy (1942); new building for
Marylawn (1950s); summer fun at municipal
pool; author Howard R. Garis’ children’s book.
S E T O N H A L L M A G A Z I N E | F A L L 2 0 0 6
AIMS OF THE UNIVERSITY, 1967
Seton Hall University, although open to all qualified applicants who have the
capacity for college work, considers it her first duty to meet the needs in higher
learning of those who reside in the northern metropolitan area of New Jersey.
The University recognizes that a majority of her students are from families of
moderate incomes and that they must commute from their homes while attending
the University. The program of studies and the schedule of fees are planned for
such students.
The University prescribes an education which is designed to make higher learning,
informed by Catholic principles, available to all her students. She prepares them
for purposeful, responsible living, and citizenship in a free society. She provides
the opportunity, on the graduate and undergraduate levels, for competence in a
selected number of professions — business, education, law, medicine, dentistry,
nursing and the priesthood.
The primary mission of the University is to transmit her cultural and scientific
heritage to the students and, within the limits of her resources, to provide the
indispensable means for broadening and deepening that heritage. Seton Hall
takes a positive attitude toward the traditional American concern for liberty under
law. Thus it is that this defends an academic freedom which respects the common
good, the inviolable dignity of each person, and equality of opportunity for all.
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