1957-06-14

              Record

 Official Newspaper of St. John's University and Organ of the Alumni

Volume 70

Collegeville, Minnesota, Friday, June 14, 1957

Number 9

 lOOtk Commencement

, Above: Father Walter Reger, OSB, alumni secretary, welcomes the il967 graduates into the Alumni Association on the auditorium lawn.

Middle: Abbot Baldwin Dworschak, OSB, gives Jim Galvin of Mankato his degree after the graduation Mass which was offered in the gym.

Bottom: Col. William Lorimer, III, PMS&T at St. John's, swears in the thirty seniors who received commissions in the Army. Bishop Leo Dworschak of Fargo, who gave the graduation address, sits in the foreground.

Twelve New Associates Named

Father Walter Reger, OSB, director of the St. John's Development Fund, announced the addition of twelve more members to the list of St. John's Associates. The dozen new Associates brings to 256 the number of persons and organizations who contribute $100 a year or more to the Development Fund.

New Associates are Mr. & Mrs. Francis Bernick, St. Cloud; Dr. & Mrs. Henry Broker, St. Cloud; Mr. & Mrs. D. B. Coborn, Sauk Rapids; Mr. Richard Coyan, St. Paul; Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Schmit, Cold Spring; Mr. & Mrs. Marcel Siez, St. Paul; Mr. & Mrs. Joe Gans, St. Cloud; Rev. Claude Schwinghammer, Waite Park; Mr. & Mrs. Norbert Kemper, Silver Bay; Dr. & Mrs. Robert Koenig, Minneapolis; Mr. & Mrs. Alphonse Wegleitner, Hopkins; and Dr. & Mrs. Wittrock, Watkins.

WITH THIS RECORD . . .

... a supplement in which are printed the citations and biographies of the eighteen persons who received Centennial Citations from St. John's during our Centennial Year.

70 Students Registered For Music School

• Seventy students are expected to register next week for the five-week Summer School of Liturgical Music, which will open classes Wednesday, June 19. The 1957 registration represents a one hundred percent increase over last year's enrollment.

Among the students are priests, brothers, sisters, seminarians and laity from 26 different religious communities, 13 religious orders and 19 states.

Father Gunther Rolfson, OSB, registrar, said that registration for the school, which offers introductory and advanced courses in Gregorian Chant together with background lectures on the liturgy and the sacramental life of the Church, will be held on Tuesday, June 18.

The six-man faculty for the school includes four new members this year, Father Clement J. Mc-Nasy, SJ, professor of music at St. Charles College, Grand Co-teau, La., will teach Chant and conducting; Father Paul Marx, OSB, St. John's, will teach a class in the liturgy; Mr. Bernard Piche, organist at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Lewiston, Me., will conduct classes in accompaniment and the organ; and Father Brice Howard, OSB, St. John's, who was a student of Dom DesKoc-quettes, international Chant authority, will teach Chant and conducting.

Holdovers from the 1956 faculty are Father Gerard Farrell, OSB, who teaches organ, modal composition and accompaniment, and Father James Kelly, OSB, who conducts classes in voice and choral technique. Both are members of the St. John's music department faculty.

Father Paul will offer the students' daily Mass and will give homilies during the Mass on the liturgy.

Bishop Leo Dworschak Addresses 1957 Grads

•The one hundred and forty-nine members of St. John's Centennial graduation class heard Bishop Leo Dworschak

of Fargo, N.D. urge them to cling to the educational traditions of St. Benedict when they leave St. John's and enter the business and professional world.

Bishop Dworschak, who is the only prelate to receive his entire minor and major seminary education at St. John's, spoke to the graduates, their families and friends, and the St. John's faculty in the gymnasium after Abbot Baldwin Dworschak, OSB, had offered a pontifical high Mass.

Abbot Baldwin presented Bishop Dworschak with a Centennial Citation from the university in recognition of his apostolic efforts as auxiliary bishop to Archbishop-bishop Aloysius J. Muench, bishop of Fargo and Papal Nuncio to Germany. -A 1933 graduate of St. John's Seminary, Bishop Dworschak was consecrated in 1946.

The Centennial Commencement activities began with a lawn concert by' the university band in front of the auditorium at 1:15 p.m. At 2:15 p.m., the St. John's monastic community sang the solemn vespers of the Ascension in the abbey church.

Father Walter Reger, OSB, alumni secretary, inducted the new alumni in the St. John's Alumni Association in a ceremony in front of the auditorium.

After the alumni induction an academic procession led the grad-

uates into the gym. The ROTO honor guard preceded the seniors and the faculty who entered the gym as the band played Sullivan's Entrance and March of Peers,

After Bishop Dworschak's address, Father Arno Gustin, OSB, dean of the college, presented the graduates, who received their degrees from Abbot Baldwin. Thirty seniors also received commissions in the U.S. Army Reserve and were sworn into the Army by Col. William Lorimer, III, PMS&T.

The graduates and the faculty marched out of the gym as the band played Mendelssohn's March from Alhalia.

A luncheon was served the graduates, their families and friends, and the faculty in the Alumni Lounge after graduation. More than 700 persons attended the reception.

Fathers Hubert And Alexander Observe Silver Jubilees In June

#Two priests of St. John's Abbey observed   the   silver   j ubilees   of

their ordination to the Holy Priesthood at parishes near the abbey during June.

Father Hubert Dahlheimer, OSB, pastor of St. Joseph's Church in St. Joseph, commemorated the 25th anniversary of his ordination with a solemn high Mass of thanksgiving offered in the parish church there, Sunday, June 2. He was assisted by his brother, Father Oosmas Dahlheimer, OSB, as assistant priest, Father Arno Gustin, OSB, as deacon, and Father Michael Marx, OSB, as subdeacon. Father Dominic Keller, OSB, preached the sermon.

Father Hubert, who has been pastor at St. Joseph's for two years, is a native of St. Martin and completed his seminary studies at St. John's, St. Vincent's College, Latrobe, Pa., and at St. Anselm's in Rome.

Following his ordination in Rome in 1932, he studied church history at Maria Laach Abbey and at Munich University in Germany. From 1934 until 1943 Father Hubert taught in the college and seminary at St. John's. Since 1943 he has served in the Bahama Islands  and  in  several parishes

in the Upper Midwest.

Father Alexander Korte, OSB, prior   of    St.    Maur's    Priory, South Union, Ky., will offer a solemn   high   Mass   in   commemoration of the 25th anniversary   of   his   ordination   on Sunday, June 16, in St. Martin's Church, St. Martin. After receiving his college preparatory and college training at St.    John's,    Father    Alexander studied at the University of Salzburg, Austria, where he received his doctorate in sacred theology in 1933. He was ordained at Salzburg on July 10, 1932.

After returning to St. John's in 1933, Father Alexander taught dogmatic theology and Latin for ten years in the college and seminary. In 1943 he was appointed chaplain at the College of St. Benedict and remained there until July, 1948.

In 1948 Abbot Alcuin Deutsch, OSB, sent Father Alexander to Fancy Farms, Ky., where St. John's established an interracial monastery. Father Alexander was appointed superior of the community, and when St. Maur's Priory was opened at South Union in April, 1950, he was appointed prior. He has taught college and seminary courses since that time.

Color and History Featured . . .

IN  CENTENNIAL  SACATAGAN

#A four-color air view of the campus. A 36-page centennial history of the abbey and university. A

four-color cover. These features and many more were the reason for words of praise heard on campus during the final week of school when the 1957 edition of the St. John's yearbook, The Sagatagan, appeared.

The Centennial yearbook, which had a surprise preview at the Sagalagan's staff banquet, May 20, was greeted with as much enthusiasm by the students and faculty as any Sag previously published.

Besides the above-mentioned features, the Sag stafE employed several other innovations in the book. For the first time color was used on the pages which divided the different sections. Each division page also displayed a picture of a building which was part of the St. John's campus at some time during the school's first one hundred years.

The Sag's gold cover has the school seal in red, blue and black on the front with a red and blue band running across the front of the whole cover. The book also contains the names of all the members of the St. John's community, religious and lay, who have died since the school was founded. Besides the

Centennial history which is told in pictures throughout the book, two pages are devoted to pictures of the recipients of Centennial Citations.

There were 1,400 copies of the 260-page book printed. Father Henry Anderl, OSB, who has been advisor to the Sag in the past nine years of its rapid growth, says that this is the largest number of copies in history as well as the largest book.

Editor Gary Brophy, a sophomore from Mason City, was assisted by Paul Pirkl, business editor for three years; George Steiner, class editor; Jerry Sweiger, organizations editor; Tom Hart, sports editor; Jac Taylor, feature editor; Tom Hance, faculty editor; and Dick Peterson, art editor.

Dick Grass and Ed Vessel dug into the files and wrote the history for the Centennial yearbook. Lee Hanley did all the photography for the college section and Norm Virnig took the Prep pictures. Father Germain Loeber, OSB, was the Prep section's advisor and Bob Kraft, editor.

The book was printed by the Denison Yearbook Co. in Minneapolis, and for the fourth year was done in offset printing process.