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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY AND ORGAN OF THE ALUMNI
VOLUME 62
COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1949
NUMBER 11
St. John's Approves Building Gymnasium Extension
Construction Schedule Promises Completion For School Opening
By Paul Mulready
• Extensive plans for enlarging the present gymnasium facilities at St. John's are being laid this week, it was announced by Rt. Rev. Abbot Alcuin Deutsch, OSB, President.
St. John's voted last week in favor of a 32-foot extension of the present gymnasium, with the addition to be built on the north end. Plans for the new construction are being drawn up by Raymond T. Hermanson, 1938 St. John's graduate and a member of the L. C. Pin-ault architectural firm in St. Cloud".
Work on the project will begin as soon as the plans are ready, probably around July 1. Completion of the new addition is expected by the opening of school in September.
BISHOP FRANCIS J. SCHENK of Crookston addresses graduates at Commencement Exercises in University stadium. Bishop Joseph Busch of St. Cloud, who gave the Invocation, is seated to the speaker's left.
Bishop Francis Schenk Addresses 128 Graduates At Ninety-Second Annual Commencement Exercises
#Degrees were conferred upon 128 men, the largest class in the
history of St. John's, at the ninety-second annual commencement exercises in the college bowl on Sunday, June 5.
Commencement speaker, Most Rev, Francis J. Schenk, DD, Bishop of Crookston, pointed out
osophy majors.
John E. Corrigan of Albert Lea, George W. Hinger of Eau Claire, Wis., and Fraters Callistus Edie and Bernard Horzen, OSB, of St. John's Abbey received the degree of bachelor of arts cum laude.
The degree of bachelor of science, cum Iav4e, was conferred
to the graduates what they should upon Francis J. Petracek of Bel-have gained in their years of col- view and John P. Geiselman of
Most Rev. Joseph F. Busch,DD, Bishop of St. Cloud, gave the Invocation at the beginning of commencement exercises and awarded the degrees. Rev. Martin-E. Schirber, OSB, dean of the college, presided over the exercises. Following the singing of the Alma Mater hymn by the audience, Bishop Busch gave the Benediction.
Extensive new facilities will be provided by the addition, so that the entire student body at St. John's will be able to take a greater part in the intramural free-play program. Reorganization of the gymnasium's present seating system will provide approximately nine hundred additional seats for basketball games.
The addition will also make room for a third cross-court- for intramural basketball; eight additional practice backboards around the walls; practice space for wrestling and other minor sports; and at least one more volleyball court.
Present cramped property room facilities will be removed to the basement, with coaches' offices to be set up in the old property room. The present office will be used as a dressing room for officials, coaches, and faculty members, as well as a general meeting room.
Separate entrances will be
lege life, and demonstrated how they might carry their ideals into real Christian living.
Frater Claude John Peifer, OSB, received the degree of bachelor of arts in philosophy, summa cum laude, the only graduate to receive this highest distinction.
The degree of bachelor of arts, Tnagna cum laude, was conferred upon class valedictorian Will T. Gimenez of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and upon Franklin W. Burch of Wadena. Both are phil-
Hibbing.
Commencement exercises began Sunday morning with a Pontifical High Mass, celebrated by Bishop Schenk. Very Rev. Baldwin Dworschak, OSB, Prior, delivered the baccalaureate sermon.
An afternoon lawn concert by the University Concert Band, under the direction of John A. Faith, was followed by Alumni Association Induction ceremonies, conducted by Rev. Walter Reger, OSB, Alumni Secretary.
Graduate Don LeMay Named Assistant College Registrar
#Donald J. LeMay, 1949 Johnny graduate, has been appointed
Assistant Registrar for the University. He moved in to his new post last week. He has been a
Gregorian Institute Of America To Hold Summer Session Here
#The Summer School of Liturgical Music conducted by the
Gregorian Institute of America will open its sessions at St. John's on July 1. The school will be operated under the personal direction of Dr. Clifford A. Bennett, national director of the Institute.
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The Most Reverend Matthew Quatember, Abbot Procurator and Vicar General of the Cistercian Order, visited at St. John's on June 13 and 14.
Miss Doris Zwilling, employed in.the local hospital for the past three years, was married to Al Pinault of St. Joe on June 15. •
Hubert Klein, athletic field custodian, was married to Olau-dette Pfannenstein on June 14.
This summer school at St. John's has been established to bring into practical focus sacred music and the Liturgy according to the mind of the Church from early centuries; to demonstrate how music, the handmaid of the Liturgy, can be integrated with parish life and worship; to stimulate devotion and foster piety; to afford the student practical experience with monastic life and liturgical art, thereby helping him to assist in the celebration of the Liturgy with deeper awareness and keener appreciation; to give the student the technique, tools and inspiration that will effect these objectives.
Among the eminent church musicians and liturgists on the faculty are the following: Rev. Dominic Keller, O.S.B., and Rev. Dunstan Tucker, O.S.B., both of St. John's Abbey; Mr. Theodore Marier of Boston; and Mr. John Lee of Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
About 100 choir directors and teachers have already sent in their applications.
staff assistant in the office of the registrar during all four of his years here.
LeMay entered St. John's in 1944, and after two years of Army duty in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands he returned in 1947. He holds the degree of bachelor of arts in business administration.
Active in extr a-c urricular affairs, LeMay was a member of the college Choral Club, the Saga-lagan staff, the Record, and the University Symphony Orchestra.
provided for games, alumni meetings, and other events with the renovation of the front of the building and the addition of a north entrance.
The property room will occupy the space near the outside entrance to the hockey rink. This larger area will permit better handling: of equipment and more efficient supervision of locker and shower rooms. A second handball court will be put into service on the lower floor of the gymnasium, and tentative plans call for the addition of another bowling alley to supplement the three now in service.
The four alleys will run in a north-south direction, with the present alley space being converted into a gymnasium classroom, which will take care of chalk talks and movies. When not in service, the classroom will house ping-pong tables.
Both the additional handball court and the classroom will be used for auxiliary dressing rooms. The east locker room will be converted in to a drying room for varsity squads, thus providing additional locker space for students.
Father Oliver Attends Librarians1 Convention
#Rev. Oliver Kapsner, OSB, cataloger in the University Library, attended the annual convention of the Minnesota Library Association, held in May at Gus-tavus Adolphus College in St. Peter.
En route to St. Peter, Father Oliver inspected libraries at St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges, both located in Northfield.
IBES TOURS NATION
MR. DONALD LEMAY, new Assistant Registrar.
Revised regulations regarding health records are contained in the new Bulletin: "Every student must submit a health record giving evidence of a physical examination when he enters St. John's for the first timef and again at the beginning of his third year."
All of next year's Freshmen and Juniors are asked, therefore, to procure a health record before coming to school in September. Blanks will be mailed to them by the Deans.
• Skill at the piano was shown to go hand in hand with luck on the
trail when William Ibes, talented pianist at St. John's University, exchange student from Holland, explored the last frontier of the American continent by hitchhiking some 7000 miles in thirty days.
His journey began from St. Cloud across the northern route to the west, where, at Seattle, he followed the coastline down to California. From there he traveled back across the mountains and plains to St. Louis and up along the Mississippi to St. Cloud. Due to foreign monetary regulations, Mr. Ibes could afford to spend no more than $70.00.
While in San Francisco, Mr. Ibes visited Dimitri Mitropulos, retiring conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, who was giving a concert in the Golden Gate City.
The great maestro had auditioned Ibes in December, 1948, and urged him to continue his studies in music at a European conservatory.
Ibes was well-known to music lovers in central Minnesota, since he regularly accompanied the St. John's Variety Show to neighboring towns and played two concerts with the St. John's Symphony Orchestra. He left for Holland on June 9, traveling to the New York port of debarkation by thumb through Chicago, Washington, D.O., and finally New York. While in Washington Mr. Ibes visited Rep. Eugene McCarthy, a graduate of St. John's University, and Rep. Fred Marshall of the 6th congressional district in Minnesota.
Mr. Ibes .will enter the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music next fall.
