Father Abbot Seeks Monastic Site In Mexico
# Disentangling problems involved in the establishment of a
monastic foundation in Mexico is the purpose of Rt. Rev. Abbot Alcuin's car trip to Mexico. Accompanied by his secretary, Very Rev. John Eidenschink, O SB, Father Abbot left Tuesday, June 15, to consult with the Archbishop of Mexico City and the Benedictine Fathers concerning a rancho near Mexico City as a possible monastic site.
Father Abbot and Father Sub-prior plan to return to the States on or before the 4th of July.
Father Abbot recently returned from a similar trip to HumacaO, Puerto Rico, where he laid plans with Rev. Basil Stegman, OSB, for the establishment of an agricultural school in Humacao.
Former Prefect Goes To
VOLUME 61
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY AND ORGAN OF THE ALUMNI COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1948
NUMBER 11
Largest Class In History Is Graduated
Seven Receive Special Honors
Jap
an
#Moved by the appeals of Rev. Hildebrand Yaiser, OSB, Swiss missionary in Tokyo, Japan, the Benedictines of St. John's Abbey have decided to send some of the fathers to aid in the evangelization of that country.
Father Aloysius Michels, OSB, ex-chaplain who saw eighteen months of army service during 1945-46 in Tokyo and Sendai, left on June 21 for the University of California, where he will take a course in Japanese language before joining Father Hildebrand in September in his newly organized St. Anselm's parish in Tokyo. Father Aloysius was a prefect in St. Anselm's Hall at St. John's during the past school year.
Father Hildebrand is widely known in Japan for his work as founder and editor of Phos Chris-lou (Light of Christ), a liturgical review which was forced to suspend publication because of the war. During the war, as attache of the Swiss Embassy, he was neutral inspector of prisoner of
#0n Sunday, May 30, St. John's University held its largest graduation exercises when eighty college seniors were awarded degrees at the school's ninety-first commencement.
Ceremonies began with a Solemn High Baccalaureate Mass celebrated by the Dean of the College, Rev. Martin Schirber, OSB. The president of the University, Rt. Rev. Alcuin Deutsch, OSB, preached the Baccalaureate sermon.
In the afternoon the ceremony of induction of graduates into the Alumni Association, presided over by Fred Hughes, president of the Alumni Association, was held on the Auditorium lawn-After the ceremony, the faculty in cap and gown led the academic procession to the University Stadium. There the Most Rev. Joseph F. Busch, Bishop of St. Cloud, gave the invocation, and Rt. Rev. Alcuin Deutsch, OSB, president of the University introduced the commencement speaker, Dr. Patrick Crowley, prominent Chicago attorney.
In his speech, Dr. Crowley told of his working in the Catholic Action movement. Avoiding the traditional rhetorical language of Speakers at the ninety-first St. John's University commencement exercises, held in the football sta- tne commencement speaker he
showed how the Catholic graduate can lead a busy life as a wage-earner and yet be able to participate actively in Catholic Action.
Senior John E. Simonett of Le Center, delivered the college valedictory, after which the Rt. Rev. President conferred the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon sixty-nine,
dium are, left to right: Most Re7. Joseph F. Busch; Rt. Rev. Alcuin Deutsch, OSB; Dr. Patrick Crowley.
Round, tf-instt, Qulty Packed
ABBEY CARPENTER ROLLS HIS OWN
By Michael Tschida, as told Abbey grew a stand of tobacco Private Stock.
to Robert Gavin from Connecticut seed, which is That's gum tragacanth in the
No, cigar making can't be a mild variety. Eleven hundred jar you're looking at Here see
war camps under terms of the taught by mail. I found that out pounds were sold and the Abbey tnis ^ttle white piece? it looks and the Bachelor of Science uP°n
Geneva Convention, in which five years ago, when the Abbey kept two bales for natural cur- like tne little bits of finger nail eleven of tne graduating class.
you bite off if you're nervous.
capacity he made it a point to had some tobacco and Father ing—you let the summer heat
visit all interned missionaries Aldrich wrote me asking instruc- evaporate the coal tar.
monthly. Since the end of the war he has organized the new St. Anselm's parish in Tokyo.
Father Hildebrand made an extended tour of the United
tions. Well, I sent the equipment and tried my best to explain it on paper, but it didn't
Now that the tobacco is cured I'm fairly busy. Besides mending chairs I manage to make a hun-
Well, if I fill a cheese glass with water and drop a small piece of tragacanth in; the next morning the gum will have swelled until
work. It isn't surprising, though dred cigars a day, and there the jar is full of jelly. It's helpful Kanl»
States in 1947, to appeal for mis- apprenticeship before's he's ad-sionary help in Japan. After mitted to the cigar makers' spending several days at St. union. John's, he was honorary degree
awarded the of Doctor of
—a man has to serve a three year are about 1200 cigars in a bale.
First you take the tobacco leaf, and, by the way, a cigar is much better if sour wine is sprayed on mending the tobacco used for the filler
in cigar making because it holds the leaf together ' but doesn't cause any sticky pull. Pharma-
Receiving their degrees magna cum Iqude were John E. Simonett and Alban J. Alblinger, OSB, while Marian E. Balsavich, OSB, George F. Cashrnan, Donald J. William P. Petrek and Oamillus Talafous, OSB, graduated cum laude.
After the Preparatory School
Philosophy.
My regular job is chairs here in the carpenter shop, but four years ago -the
cists use the same gum in mak- valedictory was given.by Charles ing jackets for pills. ¦
(that is, the tobacco for the in- Over there is a small laand_
side of a cigar.) Anyway, you press for packing the cigars into¦ sch°o1 diplomas from the Rt.
L. Matsch, Hastings, thirty-eight .preps received their high-
Fathers Enrolled In Summer Schools For Graduate Study
take the leaves over to what we
a box. I get fifty in a box. Unless
call a booking block (a rounded it nas a cedar hottom, a box isn't wood block about 25 inches high, much .good for cigars But with
a cedar bottom you can seal the cigars for freshness and for the
#In preparation for fall teaching and in pursuit of degrees, many of the faculty are enrolled in summer schools throughout the country. At Notre Dame, Rev. Stanley Roche, OSB, is beginning work toward an M.A. in English; Rev. Eric Buermann, OSB, similarly begins work in Latin. Rev. Oolman Barry, OSB, is matriculating at the Catholic master's University of America.
Rev. Gunther Rolf son, OSB,
Rev.' James Kelly, OSB, will enroll in the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester to work toward his doctorate in music.
Rev. Aubrey Zellner, OSB, completes work at the University of that way. Iowa for a doctorate in education, trade in
fitting between the knees). Smooth the leaf out, rip the stem out, and moisten the tobacco with a sponge.
I'm used to visitors by now. Most of the monastery has been up here watching me; you don't see many hand-made cigars anymore. Except for a few good Florida brands, they're all made by machine. It wasn't always When I learned the 1908, a cigar maker
Rev. Evrard Stueber also com- worked in a small factory called pletes work this summer for a a "buckeye" and he carried home history at
degree in
Fordham University. Rev. Bernardo Martinez, OSB, continues
money that made him the envy of the neighborhood. After you get a few leaves
Rev. President. The scholarship given for the highest ranking Preparatory .School graduate went to John J. Schneider, Victoria. Of interest is the fact that more
improved aroma the cedar gives than half of the college graduates
them. were veterans.
Father Oliver Attends Library Conventions In New Jersey
©Rev. Oliver Kapsner, OSB, ca- can Benedictine Academy will taloger in the Abbey and Univer- meet for the first time at St.
sity Library, is attending three Mary's
continues his course in education the study of theology at Catholic ripped and moistened, roll them
Library, is attending three library convention in the East during the month of June. The Catholic Library Association is meeting jointly with the Ameri-
at the University of Minnesota. Rev. Harold Fuchs, OSB, will study homiletics at Catholic U.
Of the newly-ordained priests, Rev. Bartholomew Sayles will enter Pius X School of Music.
University.
Remaining at the monastery to complete work on theses are your hand is called a binder.
up and leave them overnight, can Library Association in At-That set of molds you have in lantic City, New Jersey, June
It 13-19, but has its own program
Monastery, Morristown, New Jersey, June 20-22. It is the first of the sections to function officially in the new Academy.
After the library meetings, Father Oliver intends' to spend
Rev. Vincent Tegeder, OSB; Rev. Cuthbert Soukup, OSB; and Rev. Mark Schneider, OSB. Father
helps give the cigar firmness and and sessions. Father Oliver is some time at the Library of Con-it makes sure the cigars are all chairman of the Cataloging and
the same size. They're good- Classification Round Table in
gress, putting the finishing touches to the research work on
Rev. Aelred Tegels will enter Mark will take the Master's ex- sized cigars and the monks seem the Catholic Library Association, his projected Handbook of Rcli-
The Library Science Section of gious Orders, to be ready for pub-the recently organized Ameri- lication next fall.
Fordham University to begin work aminations in the latter part of in history. the summer at Notre Dame.
to enjoy them. They've even got a name for them, SI. John's
