iday, July 25,1958
THE RECORD
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VOWS
were professed by seven clerics who com-
pleted their n0Vitiate July 11. Seated left i right: Fraters Nathaniel Grundmayer, Fidelia Collentine, Hippo-tus Dority. Standing: Fraters Thomas Gillespie, Philip Silvers, athan Brix, and Aaron Kraft. —Photo by Fr. Neal Lawrence, OSB
fri-College Hill Grant Warded Local Schools
St. John's and her two sister colleges in Central Minne-)ta, the College of St. Benedict and St. Cloud State, were
te joint recipients of a $25,250 grant from the Louis W. and
[aud Hill Foundation of St. Paul in June.
The award was made for the 1958-59 academic year, during which
le three schools will cooperate in the establishment of a "Tri-Oollege
reat Issues Course." Superior students from each college will study
le issue "Problems of Free Men" during the coming year under the
rection of faculty members for all three schools.
The program brings together and faculty panels at six joint
r the first time in this part of le country state and private ihools for a cooperative acadera-
endeavor. The grant from the ill foundation was made with ie stipulation that it could be newed and expanded for two ,ore years if the initial program as successful.
Ten students from each college 01 be chosen by the administra-ons of the schools to participate , the course. Four semester and x quarter hours of credit will be :anted the students, who will be losen for their superior aca-jmic achievement.
The entire program will be -upervised by a project chair-nan, and Dr. Edward L. Henry, xead of the political science de-jartment at St. John's, has >een appointed to this post by ,he steering committee. Under the general subject of Problems of Free Men," six top-s will be discussed by student
meetings on the colleges' campuses.
Besides the six general meetings of the participants from all colleges, there will also be meetings of students from the individual schools on each campus under the direction of a campus coordinator. Father Vincent Tege-
slew Road Cuts behind Tower
iWork began this week on the aew road" into the St. John's anpus from U.S. highway 52. ctually the "new" road is less tan a mile long and is merely a it-off of the road which brings affic from the east into the cam-is.
The cut-oft was made just be-re the water tower hill and the ad will run along the ridge bend the present intramural field, otball and baseball fields. The »w church and front of the ,mpus will be visible from the ad which will join the western cess road Just above the Watab un.
The final 1,000 feet of the road rill follow a path approximately he same as the road which rought spectators up to the ight field bank of the baseball eld.
The road will be finished in ten ;ys or two weeks, but a hard rface will not be applied to the ad bed until it settles next ring.
The Fruth Construction Oo. of . Oloud was the low bidder for e contract which yas let by the earns County Board of Oom-issioners.
Fhe same firm will complete the ing and leveling of the field rth of the concrete tennis arts. The field will be used as
intramural baseball field and irking area. -
Dr. Edward L Henry
der, OSB, head of, the history department and a member of the organizational committee with Dr. Henry, will be the campus coordinator at St. John's.
Six professors from each school will assist the students in preparing their panel presentations and will take part in the panel discussions themselves. The grant will also finance the visits of nationally distinguished authorities on the topics under discussion to the college campuses. These authorities will be available to the faculty and students of the schools as consultants.
If the grant is renewed for the two following years, a program of faculty improvement wiU also be sponsored by the foundation, and professors from the three schools will have an opportunity for summer study on the topics discussed in the "Great Issues" series.
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New' St. John's Bread: A Market Place Success
#"The commercial St. John's Bread is selling better than any of us had anticipated." That's the word from Father Walter's development office this weekend as reports from the four bakers distributing the bread tell a story of enthusiastic consumer acceptance of the product.
The bread first appeared on the market on Monday, July 14, after several weeks of publicity and promotion designed to give it a good send-off. The bakers who are covering most of Minnesota and parts of western Wisconsin say they have sold more than 160,000 loaves of the white and dark bread in two weeks. A rough estimate is that the "dark bread" which is made from the traditional "Johnny Bread" recipe, is outselling the white two to one.
The bread was launched amid a flurry of publicity in Upper Midwest newspapers, radio and TV. The Associated Press and United Press International picked up the unusual story of the marketing of this century-old bread, and Herm Sittard, education editor of the Minneapolis Star, WTote a story which was featured in the July 12 Star with a picture layout. Four bakeries are handling the bread under franchise contracts which specify exact quality control for the product which bears St. John's name. Lakeland Bakeries, Inc., St. Cloud, Tender Krust Bakery, Eau Claire, Wis., Rochester Bread Co., Rochester, and Zinsmaster Baking Co., Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth, are presently baking the bread. During the first week it was on sale they were not able to keep up with the demand in the grocery stores and supermarkets and even exhausted their supplies of the specially prepared flour mix and wrappers for the bread. An official at Zinsmaster, one of the Upper Midwest largest bakers, said that it had the best reception of any product they had marketed in ten years.
Plans now call for a widening of the market area by adding other bakers who will distribute the bread. Immediate expansion will bring the
bread to grocery shelves in western Minnesota, and North and South Dakota.
The present bakers have been supplying thousands of local and neighborhood groceries with the bread and arrangements were made this week for all the large supermarket chains in the Upper Midwest to place it on their shelves. Among the supermarket chains are National Food, Red Owl, Piggly Wiggly and Super Valu stores.
The advertising for the bread has been handled by the Stockinger Oo. of St. Cloud. Ed Stockinger and his associates have prepared the display material which appears on the grocers' shelves and a leaflet which tells the story of the bread's development.
The commercial recipe was blended by Dr. Betty Sullivan, a well-known cereal chemist with the Russell Miller Milling Co. of Minneapolis, the firm which is making the flour mix. . Dr. Sullivan, a fellow student of Father Matthew at the University of Minnesota, says the mix which the bakers use is made of flour with the highest protein content on the market.
The commercial formula has also been developed to give the bread a high preservative quality and make it especially tasty when toasted.
Father Walter has worked for several months with the bakers, chemists and Graham McGuire, Lakeland Bakery president, who has been the abbey's primary liaison with the commercial baking world.
"When we expand our market," he mused, "the royalty from the bread could mean a significant income for the abbey and university.
"Needless to say," he concluded, "everyone here is extremely pleased with the public reception of the bread, and we know that we owe our friends and alumni many thanks for their enthusiastic response.
"We are especially happy that the bread itself is of such high quality, since in the long run it will be the good bread itself which will make the venture a success."
Foundry Converted To Chem Lab In Science Hall Renovation
? Carpenters and plumbers under the direction of Father Matthew Kiess, OSB, are busy renovating the science hall to expand laboratory facilities for, the three physical science departments. A large freshman chemistry laboratory is being built in the old foundry section of the science hall.
Father Matthew said that the new lab will accommodate 288 freshmen chemists, an increase of 160 over previous facilities. By rearranging tables and lab schedules, 48 frosh will be able to fire their Bunson burners at the same time.
The two labs formerly used by the frosh will accommodate upperclassmen studying quantitative and physical chemistry. The physics department will
take over the old quantitative lab and will now occupy the entire third floor of the science building.
The chemistry department will use the second floor and the new frosh lab, while the biology department occupies the first floor. Offices of the mathematics department have been moved from the science hall, first floor, to room 151 in the main corridor of the quadrangle.
The biology profs will now use the math department's offices and convert their former offices into a laboratory. This move will double their lab space. All three departments will add office and storage space with rooms which have been created by sealing up the elevator shaft of the science building.
MENTAL HEALTH
Continued from page 1
Norman Margolis, M.D.
Aug. 18-22—Leo J. Bartemeier, M.D., Herbert Gaskill, M.D., H. Waldo Bird, M.D., Father Mail-loux, Winfred Overholser, M.D., and Clarence J. Rowe, M.D.
Ft. Mailloux
Dr. Bartemeier
Major Jurden Promoted in June; Father Arno Visits At Fort Riley
#Major Delbert A. Jurden, assistant professor of military science and tactics at St. John's for the past year, received a promotion from captain to major early in July while on duty at the Fort Riley ROTO summer camp.
Major Jurden's promotion is significant because he is among ten percent of his contemporaries
Father Arnold at Vocation Parley
in the Army who were advanced in pro-motion this year because of superior performance of duty. A regular army officer since 1949, Major Jurden received a direct
Maj. Jurden
commission as a second lieutenant in 1949.
#Father Arnold Weber, OSB, director of vocations, attended a
three-day vocation institute at Notre Dame university, July 18-20. The institute for religious vocation directors featured several outstanding speakers. Dr. John J. Kane, department of sociology, Notre Dame, addressed the group on the "Sociology of Vocations," and Father Joseph H. Fichter,
SJ, department of sociology, Loyola university, New Orleans, La., spoke on "Sources of Vocations to the Priesthood."
Father Arnold, who was appointed to his present post a year ago, spoke on religious to* cations to more than 15 adult Catholic organizations and at 40 Catholic schools during the past year.
A veteran of 15 years service, Major Jurden served with the 83rd Infantry Division in World War II and was an intelligence officer of the 555th Field Artillery Battalion in Korea. In 1951, while on this assignment, he was wounded and captured by the Communists but was retrieved along with five other prisoners
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The special session for religious superiors will be held the week of Aug. 10-16. The 40 participants who will represent three different religious faiths will include approximately 26 church executives and major superiors, 12 seminary personnel and six novice masters. Father Alexius said that the lectures and discussions will treat the mental health problems involved in typical relationships found in religious institutions.
The group will study such subjects as the psychological ingredients of a true vocation to the ministry, the role of anxiety in life, and such overt personality problems in seminarians and clergymen as over-dependence, indecision, scrupulosity, etc.
Lecturers at the special session will be Howard Rome, M.D., and Oregory Zilboorg, M.D. The seminars will be conducted by Waldo Bird, M.D., Louis Flynn, M.D., and Earl Loomis, M.D., and Father Noel Mailloux, Ph.D.
The workshop sessions for all four weeks will be held in St. Mary's hall and the participants wiU live in St. Mary's.
As in the four previous series, the Hamm foundation has underwritten the cost of tape recording the sessions which are then available for future publication.
