1954-05-07

              Big Cast To Appear In 'Die Fledermaus'

COSTUME PIECE. A scene from Die Fledermaus (The Bat), gay comic opera by Johann Strauss scheduled here for May 16, 17, 18.

#A huge cast of singers, dancers and musicians will combine forces in the year's most ambitious musical event when Die Fledermaus {The Bat), celebrated light opera by Johann Strauss, is performed here.

Three performances are scheduled. After the opening matinee at 2:00 on Sunday, May 16, there will be two additional showings at 8:00 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, May 17 and 18.

Production by the Men's Chorus and the St. Benedict's Choral Club, with assistance from the St. John's University Orchestra,

will be under the general direction of Father James Kelly, OSB. He will be supported by Sister Fir-min, OSB, who has been training the singers, and by Father Dominic Keller, OSB, who is in charge of the staging.

The opera has its setting in Vienna and is full of gay Viennese waltzes and lyrical arias.

Principal singing roles will be taken by Wallace Tomchek, Joyce Hirsch, Marilyn Yunker, Richard Berg, John McGuire, Dolores Koh-ler, Mary Wyant, Ray Thull, and Clair Normann.

Robert McBride will have an important speaking role as a j ailer.

 Record

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

VOLUME 67

COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1954

NUMBER 9

Plan Marian Year Mass At Lakeside Chapel

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Father Philip Hughes Commencement Speaker

• Rev. Philip Hughes, an English authority on Church

history, is scheduled to be the commencement speaker at the

Eight Seats To Be Filled In Election

tMultigraphed literature is flooding the refectory these days

as student council elections roll around again. Barring any ties, eight seats will be filled on the student council by Tuesday evening, May 18.

Besides the elections for the three upper class representatives, the posts of senior representatives to NFCOS and NSA will be filled, along with the offices of three representatives-at-large. Nominations for the offices will close next Thursday noon.

Seven Priests OrdainedMayl

9Seven men from St. John's Seminary were ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of St. Oloud and the Diocese of Fargo on Saturday, May 1.

At 9:00 a.m. in St. Mary's Cathedral, the Most Rev. Peter W. Bartholome, Bishop of St. Oloud, conferred the sacrament of Holy Orders upon Rev. Lloyd G. Haupt of Avon, Rev. Alfred J. Heltemes and Rev. Leo Leisen of St. Oloud, and Rev. Alvin Quade of Buck-man.

In St. Mary's Cathedral, Fargo, the Most Rev. Leo F. Dworschak, auxiliary Bishop of Fargo, raised to the priesthood Rev. David Schmit of Fairmont, N. Dak., Rev. C. Richard Rudd of Jamestown, N. Dak., and Rev. Robert Benson of Grand Forks, N. Dak.

All priests offered their first Mass the following day, except Fr. Quade who celebrated his first solemn Mass on May 6.

graduation exercises here May-Si.

Father Hughes, a priest in the diocese of London, has written four volumes of church history. These four are used as standard textbooks in seminary courses here, while one of the volumes is used as a basis for a senior religion course. Recently Father Hughes completed a two-volume work on the Reformation in England.

"We're getting a first-rate speaker,'' said Father Colman Barry, OSB, professor of history here. "Father Hughes is the leading church historian in English-speaking countries."

A graduate of Louvain University in Belgium, Father Hughes does not teach at the present time. Formerly, he was a professor at St. Edmund's College in London, and previous to that at St. Thomas College in St. Paul, Minn. As an outside hobby, Father Hughes is interested in music and can whistle entire symphonies from memory.

Father Hughes will travel to St. John's for the commencement exercises after speaking to the Newman Club at the University of Minnesota.

CALENDAR

May 14—Spring: Formal May 16—Stella  Maria   Procession and Mass

May 16, 17, 18—Die Fledermaus May 18—Student Council Elections

May 22—Rt.   Rev.   President's Day. ROTC Inspection

Organize Pilgrimage To Stella Maris Island7

Scribes Meet For Annual Dinner Monday

#Scribes from four campus writing organizations will attend the

annual Publications Banquet to be held this year in the upper lounge of the Granite Bowl, St. Cloud, Monday, May 10, at 6:30 p.m.

Members of the staffs of the Record, Sagatagan, Sketchbook and News   Bureau  will  attend the affair at which new appointments for the next school year are usually announced. All present staffs were nearing the end of the year's work. This year's Sketchbook is expected to be in the hands of readers by May 15. Sagatagan men hope for delivery of their product by May 25. And the Record staff will write "30" for the   school-year   after   the   next issue is out.

By Pat Roche

• In honor of Mary in this Marian year, the first Mass

to be offered at Stella Maris Chapel in 39 years will be celebrated on Sunday, May 16, following' a pilgrimage-procession to "Chapel Island."

Seven Days To Formal; Preston Love To Play

#The crowded calendar of coming events shows only seven days left until the Spring Formal gets underway at the St. Oloud Coliseum. Tickets went on sale yesterday for those with the $2.75 required per couple.

Popular band leader Preston Love and his eight-man band, who work out of Omaha, will provide the music. Dancing will begin at 9 p.m. and the doors will close at 1 a.m.

In over-all charge of the dance is chairman Larry Oripe. Decorations are under the direction of Dick Gravelle,  assisted by Dick

Borzyskowski. Arousing interest in the formal is their promise of a unique aspect in this year's decorations.

Ticket sellers Jim and Ted Dullum opened sales yesterday, with seniors getting preferential treatment, both yesterday and today. Early next week, juniors and sophomores will get their chance at the tickets, while Wednesday sales are for the class of '57. Tickets, however, will be available next Thursday and Friday for everybody.

Students must order their booth reservations in person, Oripe said.

Stella Maris Chapel

The Mass, which is scheduled to begin at 10:15 a.m., will be preceded by a student procession, setting out from in front of the abbey church at 9:15 a.m. The procession will then make its way through the woods along the well-worn path that leads to Ohapel Island, reciting the rosary as it marches.

When the column has reached the Ohapel, Fr. Virgil will begin a High Mass which will be sung by the student congregation. After Mass the group, using the same trail as before, will hike back to school in time for dinner.

A large crowd of Johnnies is expected to honor Mary by participating in this procession because this is the Marian Year, and the Stella Maris is the second oldest Marian Shrine in this area.

The present shrine is sitting upon the foundation of the earlier

Stella Maris Chapel, which was built in 1872 and later destroyed by lightning in 1903. In 1914 the abbey decided to rebuild the destroyed Shrine, and the Novice class of that year began the project.

Included in the clericate of 1914 were Rev. Celestine Kapsner, OSB, Rev. Method Porwoll, OSB, Rev. Rembert Bularzik, O SB, Rev. Sylvester Harter, OSB, and Rev. Walter Reger, OSB, all of whom at present are members of the St. John's community.

The Chapel was finished in 1915 and at dedication ceremonies that year the first Mass was celebrated within the Shrine's walls. Since that time, however, the Ohapel has been primarily a place of private pilgrimage.

Campus Clubs Elect Fall Season Heads

By Dave Pfeffer

• Two campus clubs, Alphi Phi Omega and IRC,  began to look

ahead to their fall seasons as they recently elected new officers" to head their organizations.

Daryl Natz, sophomore from Sioux Falls, will be the top man in the APO from now until next November. Recently elected IRO president John Byrne, junior from Chicago, will take over first semester duties next fall.

Other men slated to fill APO offices are service projects vice-president, John McLaughlin; vice-president in charge of pledging, AJ Jirele; recording secretary, Larry Poston; corresponding secretary, Wayne Duma; historian, Pablo Blanco; treasurer, Tom Hance; and alumni secretary, Peter McOarron.

Vice-president Clarence Scher-ping, secretary-treasurer, John Rockwell, and corresponding secretary Alvin Houle complete the roster of the IRO leaders.

With spring in the offing, the APO is planning a new grill and an additional picnic table for the Lake Watab picnic grounds.