Bresnahan Elected Council President For Fall Semester
#Eleven recently elected student council representatives cast their ballots last Wednesday in an in-tra-council election to vote Patrick Bresnahan, junior from St. Joseph, into the council presidency for the first semester next year. Patrick McGinnis was chosen vice-president, and John Herzog was elected secretary-treasurer.
Bresnahan, a social science major from Hibbing, is the second day-student to be elected to the council presidency. He succeeds Bob Hutton, St. Cloud senior, who headed the council during the past seaxiester. Besides his achievements on the student council, Bresnahan is
THE NEW Student Council swung into operation as soon as last week's election results were in. Past also a star on the varsity hockey President Bob Hutton, left, is shown here congratulating Pat Bresnahan, the new Council president, squad, having won three letters. Council members seated around the table are (foreground, left to right): DePaul Willette, Ed Mason, Pat The eleven new members of the McGinnis, Paul Doherty, and Tom O'Meara. Background, left to right: William Weiler, Edward O'Brien, student council were voted into Jack Herzog, John Spalding and James Leinen. office by the student body on
Thursday, May 11. Five hundred of the school's 680 potential voters heeded the exhortations of vigorous and sometimes ingenious preelection campaigning.
Elected to the Student Council as a result of the school-wide election were: William Weiler, senior representative; John Herzog, junior representative; Thomas O'Meara, sophomore representative; James Leinen, Benet-barracks representative: Patrick Bresnahan and Edward O'Brien, day student representatives; Edward Mason, Anselm hall representative; and Patrick McGinnis and John Spalding, ,representatives-at-large.
Also elected were Paul Willette and Michael Nilles as senior and junior NSA delegates respectively, and Paul Doherty and Glenn Happe, senior and junior delegates to NFCCS.
, Nine Candidates To Be Ordained
OEleven men—eight from various dioceses and three members of
the Benedictine order—compose
the 1950 graduating class of St.
John's Seminary. Two members
. of the class have already been or-
- dained.
Of the three Benedictine clerics, only one will be ordained for St. John's Abbey. He is Rev. Jeremy Murphy, OSB, who will be ordained by Auxiliary Bishop Dwor-schak of Fargo in St. Mary's Cathedral there on June 10. The other clerics, Rev. Leander Dosch, OSB, and Rev. Leo Hinz, OSB, are members of St. Peter's Abbey, Muen-ster, Saskatchewan, Canada. They will be ordained on June 3, by Bishop Philip Tocock of Saskatoon at St. Peter's Cathedral in Muenster.
Three men will be ordained for the St. Cloud diocese on June 3. "^ The Sacrament will be conferred by Coadjutor Bishop Peter Barth-olome of St. Cloud. The ordin-ands are Rev. Severin Schwieters of New Munich, Rev. Sylvester Kleinschmidt of Sauk Centre, and Rev. Richard Kujawa of St. Cloud.
Auxiliary Bishop Dworschak will , also ordain two St. John's seminarians for the diocese of Fargo. Rev. John Wanzek of Windsor, N.D., will be ordained at Jamestown, N.D., on May 30; and Rev. Edward Hasey will be ordained May 27, at Langdon, N.D., his hometown.
The Bismarck diocese clergy will be augmented by the ordination c^rlJev. Aloysius Simon on May 29, at the Cathedral in his home town of Bismarck. Bishop Ryan will perform the ceremony.
The two men already ordained are Rev. John Mauel of Cashton, Wis., and Rev. Carroll Walljasper of LaCrosse, Wis. They were 'Elevated to the priesthood "last month by Bishop John P. Treacy of LaCrosse.
Prof. Farley To Receive Doctorate
0James Arthur Farley, professor of education, will receive his doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota at the Commencement exercises in Minneapolis, Saturday, June 10, at 8 p.m.
Taking "Catholic Secondary 3 School Education in Minnesota" ftfr his thesis subject, Mr. Farley recently completed the last of the requirements for his Ph.D. in education when his doctoral dissertation was approved.
Mr. Farley, the senior member of the lay faculty group in point of service to the University, has taught courses in education and political science here for 19 years. He first came to St. John's in 1931.
Volume 63
Official Newspaper of St. John's University and Organ of the Alumni CollegeYille, Minnesota, Thursday, May 25, 1950 ______
Number 10
Scherer Named As Valedictorian
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Culhane, Feeney To Edit Publications
Record Again Wins Ail-American Honors
• Richard Culhane and Robert Feeney will be at the
helm of the Record and Sagata-gan, respectively, for the 1950-51 school year. Announcement of the appointments was made at the annual publications banquet held in Waite Park, May 16.
Rev. Henry Anderl, OSB, and Mr. Stephen Humphrey, moderators of the two publications, made the appointments. At the same time announcement was made of the All-American rating awarded this year's Record staff by Associated Collegiate Press, national college press rating group.
In winning the All-American rating for the fifth consecutive year, the Record accumulated a score of 900 points and placed among the top five of the 48 college papers of its class. Both South and North Dakota were represented in the editorial
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appointments. Culhane, a sophomore from Mitchell, S. Dak., succeeds Ray Shirley, retiring editor. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of an older brother, Francis Culhane, who was Record chief in 1943. The new editor attended high school in Mitchell and was active there in dramatics, music and basketball.
Robert Feeney, sophomore from Bismarck, No. Dak., succeeds Maurice LaFond of Marble, Minn., as editor of the Sagalagan. Feeney has been active in the News Bureau and on the Record staff this year. He attended high school in Bismarck and worked on the school paper and yearbook there.
Both Feeney and Oulhane were busy this week shaping up their staffs for next year. Announcement of their choices will be made in the fall.
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This is the final issue of the Record in the current school term. Two issues will appear this summer—one in late June, covering news of the Building Fund Drive, and another in mid-August. Regular publication will be resumed in September.
Students Begin Registering; New Courses Added
a convocation held last Monday, students returning to St.
John's next fall received information regarding pre-registration for the 1950-51 school year. New bulletins were issued, and Rev. Arno Gustin, OSB, Registrar, drew attention to the fact that several changes have been made in the programs of study.
The natural and social science courses have been altered considerably. A new major, Bachelor of Arts in Natural Science, will be introduced at the beginning of the coming year. Pre-medical, pre-dental, and pre-law students will in the future be required to complete a more strict program of study if they intend to get a degree from St. John's.
Father Arno also mentioned that the additions to the lower and the upper division requirements in the four-year programs will take effect at the start of the new year, but that returning students must meet requirements only as they were listed when they began their studies here.
The faculty will also offer more upper division work in the modern languages, German, French and Spanish. Students wishing to acquire a minor in modern language will be able to do so provided a sufficient number apply for such a minor.
Philosophy Major Tops 1950 Seniors
• Gerald Scherer, seminary student from Timber Lake,
S. Dak., has been named valedictorian of the Class of 1950 by Rev. Martin Schirber, OSB, Dean of the College.
Scherer will graduate with high honors as a philosophy major. He has acquired minors in education, and English.
Besides distinguishing himself scholastically, Scherer has gained
Seminarians Fete Retiring Rector
•Very Rev. Gregory Roettger, OSB, retiring rector of St. John's
seminary, was honored at a testimonial banquet given May 10 by seminarians and priests who once were his students.
During the banquet, which was held in the monastery refectory, the seminarians presented Father Gregory with a donation for a new chalice. The donation represents gifts from seminarians who attended St. John's during Father Gregory's 11-year term as rector.
Presentation of the1 chalice was made by Rev. John Mauel, toast-master, one of the two most re-cents ordinands of the seminary. He and Rev. Carroll Walljasper were ordained April 16, 1950.
Nearly 100 diocesan priests and 60 Benedictine monks have been ordained to the priesthood during. Father Gregory's rectorship.
Musicians Present Spring Recital
#The Department of Music presented its annual student recital
last night with thirteen intermediate and advanced music students singing and playing for an enthusiastic audience.
The performers included Edward Weiland, Richard Carey, Robert Harris, Matthew Crawford, Donald Love, and Donald Welsh, vocal soloists; Robert Spethmann, Warren Potter, Richard Leburn, and William Moeller, pianists; Earl Franz, violinist; James Coyne, saxophonist; and Roger Boos, bass viol.
Gerald Scherer
recognition as a creative writer, contributing much to the Sketchbook and winning the Murphy memorial creative writing con-¦test last year, with the short story, "Beads From a Rosary."
The 1950 Johnny valedictorian entered St. John's in 1940, but left school a year later because of the death of his father. He returned for one year in 1944 and then enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1945.
After his discharge, Scherer came back to St. John's in the fall of 1947 and entered the seminary two years ago. He will remain here after graduation to complete his studies for the priesthood.
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Picnics seem to be the vogue as warm weather blesses the Upper Midwest. Besides the many club outings held on campus, forty Johnnies got together with girls from St. Ben's and the Nurses* Home for an open-air dinner in Sauk Rapids last Saturday.
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The cocker spaniel seen on the campus lately is a part-time boarder from St. Joe. One of the inhabitants of Barracks Four brought the black-and-white dog back from the nearby hamlet on a rainy night, and the canine visitor has made himself at home on campus.
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Ever think of fishing at the powerhouse? Monday, someone threw bullheads into the water intake pipe on the Watab. Result: a six hour tie-up at the powerhouse while workmen cleaned out the bullheads.
