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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY AND ORGAN OF THE ALUMNI
VOLUME 60
COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1947
NUMBER 11
300 Grads Come Home For First Post-War Reunion
-Alumni
Carleton Head Addresses Grads
#nWe are one of the most competent societies technically, and
at the same time one of the most incompetent societies socially,'' President Lawrence Gould of Carleton College told the graduating seniors at St. John's on Friday, June 6.
Addressing^sixty college graduates and forty-one graduates of the college preparatory school at the 90th annual Commencement, Dr. Gould discussed the role of science in the education of free men.
Science is part of a greater whole, he stated, and scientists must be more concerned with the effects of their inventions and discoveries.
"Knowledge of facts alone is not enough. A sense of ultimate Rtt Rev* Alcuin Deutsch, O.S.B. Most Rev. Leo Dworschak
values, of personal integirity, high THREE HUNDRED St. John's alumni came home on June 8 to ideals, knowledge of good and pay tribute to their two most distinguished members. Both were evil—these must furnish the spi- speakers at the banquet which climaxed the day's activities.
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necessary to use the great benefits of science. Science, the principal source of revealed truth about our material world must be interrelated and coordinated in the unity of truth."
The Most Rev. Joseph Busch,
New Power System In Use; Benet Hall Converted First
Alumni Honor Abbot And Bishop; Elect Hughes National President
• More than 300 St. John's alumni, representing classes from 1888 to 1947, at their first post-war reunion on
June 8 paid signal honor to the Most Rev. Leo Dworschak, J26, auxiliary Bishop of Fargo, and the Rt. Rev. Alcuin Deutsch, O.S.B., Abbot and President of St. John's for 25 years. Presentations were made at the closing banquet in the refectory: a set of breviaries to the Bishop, and a luggage set to the Abbot. The St. Paul Chapter also presented a gift to the Abbot from his "home Branch" of the Alumni Association.
At a business meeting during the afternoon, Fred J. Hughes, '31, St. Cloud, was elected National President. Other national officers chosen were: Rev. Lucian ArreU, Fargo, and Herbert Adrian, St. Paul, vice-presidents; Rev. Lawrence Bergs, Milwaukee, Chaplain; Rev. Walter Reger, OSB, CollegeviUe, secretary-treasurer, and George Durenberger, Collegeville, executive secretary.
At the same meeting in the Devitt Gives Washington Report auditorium, the assembled a-
lumni heard addresses by Law- Mr" Devitt took Washington rence Hall of the class of '29, five- ReP°rt" as the title of his ad-times Speaker of the Minnesota dress- The Congress has been House of Representatives, and occuPied w«h domestic issues Edward Devitt, '31, United States.?16 last five months," ^ said,
representative from Minnesota. but !over aU hangs a far more
important problem: prevention
Hall Lists Duties of Citizens of war and promotion of peace." Mr. Hall spoke on "The Chris- Warning that the policies adopted tian in Politics." "Democracy within these next few months wiU fail," he said, "if the Chris- will determine whether we have tian influence fades; and too often war or peace a decade from it has been my experience that Christians do not fulfill their civic obligations." Hall listed
for rejection of isolationism.
The day, which opened with a solemn High Mass for deceased • St. Benet Hall and the Science eliminated from radios, giving Tlt^^ffl^J^t^: alumni closed officially with a
, 9St. Benet Hall and the Science eliminated from radios, giving ^
Bishop of St. Cloud, pronounced Buildi are now converted to better reception in all instances. zenshlP: exercising the voting dinner, served in the college din-
the invocation and benediction. UQ A0 _ and rewlrlng work is A compiete new floor lighting franchise, keeping informed on lng hall, at which the Most Rev.
The Rt. Rev. Alcuin Deutsch, progressIng rapldly in the audi- system is being .installed in the . legislative and state affairs, and, Leo F. Dworschak was the prin-
OSB, Abbot and President of St. torium and gymnasium. Many gymnasium at this time, and will for those qualified, seeking public cipal speaker. His Excellency
John's, gave the introductory other airs and lmprovements be in operation for the fall ath- office in order to be of service to took as his subject the Benedic-address and conferred the de
address and conferred the de- r . , . ... .
are ctiKiuy pis.ee
&rees# jrj campus during the
Heinz B. Arnold, Minneapolis, montjls
delivered the college valedictory, and Robert Theisen, La Cross, Wis., gave the college preparatory valedictory.
Commencement activities began with a Solemn High Mass in honor of the Holy Ghost, cele-
letic season.
society.
summer
The new power was fed into B enet Hall for the first time last Monday afternoon. New 120 volt light bulbs were placed in all rooms and corridors. The 400 used 220 volt bulbs taken from Benet Hall wiU be used to
Seven Benedictines Ordained To Priesthood Here In Abbey Church
tinej motto, Ora et Labora (Work and Pray), and spoke of the effects which this motto and the ideals which it embodies have had in the past and should have in the future on the lives of St. John's alumni.
His Excellency also insisted that the honored guest of the
The Abbey Church was the Father Paul will celebrate his occasion was Abbot Alcuin, in
brated by Rev. Martin Schirber, iruiu "^^ xx'a-lx wxxt"v useu Ju scene of the ordination of thir- First Mass at the Church of St. spite of the latter's effort to
OSB, Dean of the 'College, and replenish the dwindling supply teen Benedictines, Sunday, June Michael, St. Michael, on June 29. minimize the significance of his
the Bacaclaureate Sermon given in the mam building and mon- ^ at g:30 a_m_ The sacrament The First Mass of Father Roman silver anniversary. Father Abbot,
by Abbot Alcuin. The graduat- astery until the new system is in ~was aciminiStered by the Most will be offered on July 2 at St. in turn, paid tribute to the Bishop
ing classes were inducted into the °Peratlon in those buildings. Rev_ Peter w_ Bartholome, co- Benedict's parish, St. Benedict, as one of St. John's most dis-
St. John's Alumni Association Resistance units are no longer adjutor Bishop of St. Cloud. Saskatchewan, Canada. tinguished alumni,
at 2:10 p.m. on the auditorium needed for the radios, electric Fr Bernard Hwang OSB of
lawn. shavers, and other miscellaneous the monastery of st> 'Peter 'and
The academic procession from electrical appliances used by stu- Andrew> china, was made a sub-trie main quadrangle to the au- dents. deacon at the ceremony, ditorium began at 2:20 p.m., fol- Students in Benet Hall noticed Elevated to the deaconship lowed by the graduation exer- that the new system gives a were the Rev. Aelxed Tegels, OSB, cisesat2:30p.m. brighter light. The oscillating Rev< Alex-us portZj QSB) Rey>
This was the ninetieth consecu- effect from the old generators is Eonald Uoloff) OSB, Rev. Vernon
tive graduating class of St. no longer present in the lights, Miller OSB and Rev Stephen
IN BENET HALL
flamed
BOOTS AND SADDLE
Miller OSB and Rev Stephen Robert D. Brown activity would sound through
static has been Wagman, OSB-all of this Abbey. #Many students who are home the doors of student's rooms.
Receiving the Sacrament of on summer vacation may wonder . AU oi the *** students are rid-the Holy priesthood were: the what has happened to Benet ^g ^ a car pool Ben has stowed Rev. Roman Schneider, OSB.St. Hall and the surrounding com- away the tw0 fre^ht cars Wlth Peter's Abbey, Muenster, Sask.; munity now that the area has motors; and *as taken the P0S1 and the following from St. John's been put in the mothballs for Abbey- the Rev. 'Paul Marx, OSB, the summer months. Your ex-Rev. Stanley Roche, OSB, Rev. inquiring-reporter has once a-
tion of star first baseman with the workmen's Softball team. Rupe still pushes his little
By Carsten Rabehl dition to his pastoral duties, he Augustine Strub, OSB, Rev. Sil- gain sauntered through the halls °art around eacn Friday witii
#"Give me my boots and sad- may have to teach catechism in van Bromenshenkel, OSB, Rev. trying to pick up those tidbits *nose clean sneets; As usual ne
die," said Father James Kelly, a summer school. Much of his Prosper Meyer, OSB, and Rev. of information so that he might £as one iarge c^gar Dm°wmg
OSB, music instructor at St. time will be spent in piano prac- Colman Barry, OSB. make some report to the regular f^f^ J? ??\?J*^
John's, after he had got infor- tice. He will also take part in an On the following Sunday, June crowd.
mation oh his prospective sum- amateur symphony orchestra if 22, five of the newly ordained A monastic silence prevails in
mer stay in Black Eagle, Mon- it hasn't disbanded for the sum- monks celebrated Mass in their Benet Hall. No preps are around,
ley Steamer as he moves his vehicle down the corridor. With only 125 boarding stu-
tana, where he is substituting mer, in which case he will at- home parishes: Father Prosper and the fourth floor is devoid of ae^ts' tne refectory is empuea
for Father Peters in the Church tempt to organize one.
at Holy Epiphany Church, Lea- freshmen. Paul DeVries .no
of the Blessed Sacrament, which Black Eagle with a population venworth, Kas., with Rev. Paschal longer jumps frog-style down the
has a membership of 700.
of Balkan descendants numbering Botz, OSB, preaching the First hall whistling the number ten
Fr. James took over the pas- 1010 is located across the Mis- Mass sermon; Father Augustine song on the Hit Parade, torate of the Church of the souri River from Great Falls, at St. Joseph Church, Moorhead, There are 164 students in sum-Blessed Sacrament on Sunday, an oil refinery and smeltering with Rev. Fabian Wegleitner, mer school. The big mystery June 16. He will return to St. center with a population of 45,000. OSB, preaching; Father Colman around here is that no one shows John's in the first week of Sep- Other faculty members who at St. Mary's Church, Lake City, his face in the halls after the tember to resume his position as are "roughing it" in Montana' with Rev. Walter Reger, OSB, noon time meal. The tennis music director. this summer are Rev. Polycarp preaching; Father Stanley at St. courts are moderately occupied,
However, in Black Eagle Fr. Hansen, OSB, at Ft. Benton, Alphonsus Church, Mt. Pleasant, and the library has a sprinkling
James will find little time to and Rev. Philibert Harrer, OSB, Iowa; and Father Silvan at St. of scholastics, but one would
use "boots and saddles." In ad- at Lewiston. Paul's Church, Sauk Centre. think that just a little bit of
out in a matter of seconds, and the silence that prevails through the meals makes for better digestion, or what have you?
1890-1947
We regret to announce the sudden death on Thursday, June 26, of Brother Placid Tlusty, O.S.B., keeper of the monastic greenhouse.
Requiescat in Pace
