1957-09-27

              NEW DORMITORY TO BE BUILT NEXT SPRING

By Marsh Fightlin

• Construction of a new dormitory building for St. John's university is scheduled to begin next

spring. Preliminary approval for a federal government loan of $1,636,000 has been given by the Housing and Home Finance Agency and the funds have been reserved. Bids on construction contracts will not be let until final approval is received from the HHFA. The four-story building will be located on the north 2nd of the campus at the present site of the grain mill and the hockey rink. It will be L-shaped, facing :he gymnasium and the science building and will house iOO students in double rooms. This is considerably arger than St. Mary's Hall, which is three stories

high and was built to house 225 students.

The room dimensions will be 11' x 18\ Furniture for student rooms will be made in the abbey workshop and will cost approximately $100,000. There will be no built-in furniture except for wardrobe closets.

On each floor, in addition to living quarters, there will be two study lounges for groups of 50 students each, office and bedroom accommodations for the prefects, and a room equipped with a hot plate.

The floors will be tile and the interior walls will be painted or natural colored concrete block. Ceramic tile will be used in the lavatories and shower rooms. The ceilings in the recreation area and corridors will be tile; the remainder of the ceilings will be painted

concrete. The exterior stairs and platforms will be granite and the interior stairs1 and platforms will be terrazzo.

The new dormitory will alleviate crowded conditions existing in the other dormitories and will provide room for more off-campus students who wish to live at St. John's. A section of one floor will be used to - house the lay faculty living on campus.

The new building, which has been designed by Marcel Breuer as part of St. John's abbey and university's "one hundred year plan," will be similar in exterior appearance to the monastery wing. The dormitory is scheduled for completion by the fall of 1959. No name for the building has been selected as yet.

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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY AND ORGAN OF THE ALUMNI

VOLUME 70

COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1957

NUMBER 12

Convos, Variety Show Keep Freshmen Busy

^Members of the faculty presented a series of addresses entitled ' 'Extra-curricular Activities on Campus" during the convocation hour, Sept. 25, in the college auditorium.

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The architect's sketch of the new dormitory which will be built at St. John's in 1968-69 illustrates its similarity to the present monastery wing which was also deigned by Marcel Breuer. The new residence hall will house 400 students and is scheduled for completion x September,  1959.

Henry Kapsner Dies Suddenly in St. Cloud

>Mr. Henry Kapsner, an em-loyee  of St.  John's  abbey and

niversity for almost thirty years, led suddenly Monday morning, he cause of death was a cerebral amorrhage which was compli-Lted by Mr. Kapsner's chronic 3art condition.

A native of Pierz, where he was )rn in 1902, Henry became an nployee of the abbey in 1928. During his first years at St. >hn's he was an associate of the te Father Virgil Michel, OSB, xring the establishment of the .turgical Press and later became .anager of the Press. He also served as assistant reg-trar until eight years ago when he jcame an assistant to the proc-rator. His duties in the procu-tor's office included the im->rtant function of overseeing the vestment of St. John's endow-ent funds.

After a requiem Mass Wednes-,y morning, Henry was laid to s final resting place in the par-i cemetery at St. John's. He survived by five brothers and nr sisters and preceded in death one brother and four sisters, le sister died only last week. Mr. Kapsner was also related to e members  of the  St.  John's

monastic community. The late Fathers Xavier and Leonard were his uncles and Fathers Oliver, Celestine and the late Roland were cousins.

CALENDAR

Sept. 28—Hamline football

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Oct. 2—Frosh Variety Show Oct. 6—Science Roundtable Oct.      6—Duluth football,

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Mass Scheduled At Noon for All Students

? Students now have an opportunity   to   attend   a   later   daily

Mass if they wish. On an experimental basis, a Mass is being offered in the upper chapel at 11:50 a.m. each weekday.

College chaplain Father Camil-lus Talafous, OSB, feels that this additional Mass will give many students, especially day students, an opportunity to attend daily Mass more often. The Mass ends at about 12:15 p.m., thereby allowing the students ample time for lunch and rest before afternoon classes begin.

Due to the hew rules for the liturgical fast, students may receive Holy Communion at this Mass and still enjoy an early breakfast. A three-hour fast from solid foods and one hour from liquids other than water is all that is required.

Father Camillus hopes that this new experiment will merit enough support from the day students so that the Mass can be continued on a permanent basis.

Purpose of the convocation, part of the 1957 student council orientation program, was to inform the freshmen of the campus activities and to hear faculty representatives explain the function of campus organizations. Father Dominic Keller, OSB, was master of ceremonies, and Jim Donohue was chairman.

Club Night

Approximately   25   campus   or-

¦ ganizations gave an exhibition of

their activities at "Club Night,"

on Sept. 25, at 7:00 p.m. in the

college gymnasium.

The three-fold purpose of the exhibition was to encourage freshmen participation, to re-acquaint upperclassmen with their campus, and to give the clubs and organizations a chance to publicize their works and purposes.

The student council signed up volunteer workers at its booth for many of the campus activities in the coming school year. A few of them were the 1957 Homecoming festivities, the Mardi Gras, and the spring formal. Russ Banner was general chairman for this new student council-sponsored program.

Frosh Variety Show

The Freshmen Variety Show will be held Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., in the college auditorium. Chairman Roger Scherer and assistant chairman Bob Bechtold have been working with the freshmen talent for the Oct. 11 show. Freshman Harry Gallagher will be the emcee.

Enrollment Exceeds 1000 For New Year

? St. John's university, the largest of the U.S. Benedictine colleges, has an enrollment of 1011 students for the new school year.

Included in this number are 330 freshmen, 262 sophomores, 195 juniors, 186 seniors, and 38 part-time and special students. The enrollment is approximately the same as last year's, the junior and senior classes showing the only notable increase.

An international atmosphere exists at St. John's with students calling 25 states and 19 territories and foreign countries their homes. There is a total of 43 foreign students enrolled and two locales, Jordan and the island of Rota in the Mariana Islands are represented for the first time.

 Comers Four new students from opposite corners of the globe are among the 43 foreign ** students attending St. John's this year. Visiting with the college chaplain, Father Camillus Talafous, OSB, are Louis Monsour, Bethlehem, Jordan; Oscar Mendiola, Guam; Tom Foster, County Cork, Ireland; and Alonso Robles, Arequipa, Peru.