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Thursday, Dec. 11, 1969
THE BRBa* D®l
Something
strange
happened
during the '6os—
the world
stopped
getting older.
NEA's youthful
youth
specialist
gives a
first-person
report on how
it happened.
news
POCUS
Game Priest Puts Play to Good Work
By AILEEN SNODDY
NEW Y 0 R K— (NEA) —
Father Robert Fyanes (say
I'm
Much
Younger
Now
(Second of a series.)
By ROGER DOUGHTY
NEA Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK—(NEA)—Are
you old enough to remember
1959? It must have been a
pretty depressing time to be
living . . . The Beatles were
laying low in Liverpool; Joe
Namath hadn’t emerged
from the wilderness of
Beaver Falls, Pa., hair was
something the barber
chopped off every week, and
space had just gotten over
being the gap between your
Aunt Shirley’s teeth.
What a drag.
Back in ’59, people over 30
were trusted, provided they
were trustworthy, and grass
was something you mowed
Saturday morning. Man, it
must have been terrible.
Were you there when the
world turned the corner on
the ’6os? Most of us were, I
suppose, but something right
out of “2001” happened that
night 10 years ago . . . sud
denly, right there with Guy
Lombardo doing his thing on
the tube and the big ball
coming down, down, down at
Times Square, whammo . . .
we all started getting
younger.
Where were you that magic
moment when the world
stopped getting old?
I was in a saloon on Rail
road Avenue in Elmira, N. Y.,
21 days out of the Marines,
beardless, crewcutted, very
fi’ans) is the first to confess
that being hit by a train
helps a chap get on the right
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high, plenty confused. Only
things I knew for sure were
that I didn’t much like my
date and I hated rock ’n’ roll.
Man, I was ancient. A mess.
I’m much younger now.
I’ve been thinking young
for 10 years. What choice
have I had?
Sure, I resisted at first.
Two, three years, maybe.
Then on Dec. 26, 1963, Jack
Spector, a disc jockey on
WMCA in New York, dropped
a record called “I Want to
Hold Your Hand” on the
turntable and introduced The
Beatles to America. I’ve
never admitted this to any
one before, but I liked them
right away.
Os course, I wasn’t the only
one who noticed everybody
was getting younger. So
many people really were
young (up until two years
ago I found it impossible to
believe that there were peo
ple walking around who
hadn’t been born yet in 1945
—now I make believe I can’t
remember Pearl Harbor,
which I can) that Madison
Avenue noticed almost right
away.
Then Time magazine no
ticed . . . made everybody
under 25, the entire “Now
Generation,” their Man of
the Year . . . even the girls.
With Madison Avenue and
Time endorsing youth, what
chance did you have if you
weren’t young? So, we all got
young.
“Television did it,” claims
Jean Claude Koven. He runs
Father Fyanes and a loco
motive tangled near Chicago
in 1966 after what he called
“250,000 miles of absolutely
no fender-benders.” Looking
down from his six-foot-four -
ish advantage, he smiles
sheepishly about the accident
caused, he feels, by “too
much on my mind.”
A priest for 24 years with
the early decade spent in one
of the toughest neighbor
hoods in the Windy City,
Father Fyanes thanks his
early interest and condition
ing as an athlete for partial
help in surviving the crash.
He used to work out with the
Chicago Bears and spent de
lightful hours scrimmaging
with University of Notre
Dame elevens.
’66 could well be consid
ered the turning point for
this priest who says he is
happy with the priesthood
but is sympathetic with
others who are not.
“I’m a hard-nosed inde
pendent,” he admitted one
day while weaving his ex
periences into a story he
wanted to get across. “But
we must operate within rea
son or have anarchy.”
While recuperating after
his accident Father Fyanes
again was bugged by a pro
ject he considered often in
the years away from St.
Jarlath’s in the Cook County
Hospital area. “They used to
say you could get anything
you wanted for a few dollars
at Van Buren and Polenta,
and it was true.”
“I learned to defend my
self well. I’ve a lot of scars
from that assignment. More
importantly, I began to real
ize how important money
was and what you can do
with it.”
Again he paused for a self
conscious smile realizing a
need to explain.
“My family was financial
ly comfortable,” he said,
“and St. Jarlath’s was a
hardship parish for me as a
young priest.”
His current parish he re
fers to as well-to-do with a
country club atmosphere.
Through the years he coun
seled teens from all eco
nomic levels and prior to his
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out with the under-30 set.
“The first totally TV
teethed generation took over
in the sixties,” Koven has it
figured. “They’d been look
ing at newscasts since they
were six or seven and they
were tuned in to what the
world was all about; they
were aware. They had the
information, developed opin
ions, took responsibility and
took possession of the dec
ade.
“There was a complete,
180-degree reversal during
the sixties. It became posi
tive to be young or to think
young. People like Mary
Quant took over the fashion
world and young people be
came a powerful force in the
consumer market. To get
their money you had to give
them what they wanted, so#
that’s what Madison Avenue
gave them.”
Well, that’s part of it. But,
like everything else these
days, there are a lot of psy
chological implications in
there, just boiling away.
“The way I see it,” says
Allen Calvin, a psychologist
friend of ours who heads the
Behavioral Research Labora
tory in Palo Alto, Calif., “the
sixties was the decade the
puritan ethic died in
America. Until the dawn of
the decade it was still pretty
much considered that the
proper thing to do was to
work hard and put in long
hours.
jarring accident spent a min
imum of seven hours a day
as a marriage couselor with
a minimum of five cases, no
lunch and “I’d reached the
saturation po i n t.” He is
proud that he “lost only five
marriages in hundreds of
cases.”
During these experiences
which helped etch character
lines in his face and turn his
thinning hair a third-day city
snow color, Father Fyanes
continued to think of how to
make money to help the
innocent and unsuspecting
poor.
“There are so many chari
ties and foundations and
even more red tape. I
wanted to make foundation
work my life goal within the
priesthood but I wanted to
meet the special need I saw
in neighborhoods.”
For example, he pointed
out that many couples, par
ticularly black, who may be
buying homes can be wiped
out if they can’t meet a pay
ment or two.
“We would provide the
money. I don’t want to work
on a high level. Just day-in
and day-out help.”
He now feels he has away
of doing this . . . one he in
vented. This is putting
money from a game he cre
ated, called Avante, into a
foundation for his work.
Other games are to come,
such as one called Ircle-
Circle being sold in food
marts.
Avante is a pet, though,
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“Up until the sixties our
society was dominated by
people who could remember
the Depression of the thirties.
It was a frightening time .. .
people were put out of work,
their security was wiped out
... a lot of those people
never really recovered. The
next generation to come
along only saw the Depres
sion as children. They didn’t
have the same fears their
parents had, but they were
raised by people who pounded
it into them that the thing to
do was get a job, work as
hard as you could and hang
onto that job. The fear was
still there, but to a lesser ex
tent.”
Which brings us to World
War 11, which was about as
grim as a war can get, but
turned out to be good for the
economy, as wars have a
habit of being.
“Since 1945 we’ve had noth
ing but good times,” our psy
chologist continues, “which
means we’ve had 25 years of
fun and games. Anybody who
was born during that period
has never seen bad times . . .
they’ve had a set of experi
ences unlike any generation
before . . . they’re leisure
oriented, not work oriented.
“It was good to be older in
a work-oriented society that
proved you were experi
enced, that you had paid
your dues. But in a leisure
oriented society, it’s better
to be younger, because young
people are better at the kind
of slam-bang leisure our cul
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since it is an educational
game based on a cross be
tween gin rummy and check
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and racing sports cars and
skiing and zooming around
in dune buggies and all the
other strenuous things our
society looks on as good to
do. So those of us who aren’t
young have come to emulate
those who are . . . both psy
chologically and physically
. . . during the last 10 years.
That’s how we all got to be
so young so old.”
But that doesn’t mean old
folks can’t find happiness in
our young society. They can,
as long as they act young.
Which is why we love Frank
Sinatra (got to be 50, man,
but he swings, baby, he
swings) and Pancho Gon
zales (41, but still playing
great tennis). But if Frank
ever starts acting his age or
Pancho can’t hold his own
with all those 19-year-old
kids from Australia, well,
we’ll just have to take away
their Pepsi and write ’em off.
Lombardo’s still around,
you know. Doesn’t sell rec
ords the way The Stones do,
but he’s in big demand . . .
at least once a year.
I think I hear him warm
ing up now. Sounds just like
he did back in ’59 ... a
blurred image in a tuxedo,
smiling down at me from the
14-inch screen of a worn-out
TV set in that saloon on
Railroad Avenue in Elmira.
But he won’t recognize me
. . . I’m so much younger
now.
cal events. The game offers
challenge and stresses plan
ping ahead.
Bright’s disease is named after
Richard Bright, an English
physician.