Official Newspaper of St. John's University and Organ of the Alumni
Volume 69
Collegeville, Minnesota, Friday, July 27, 1956
Number 11
Pastors Gather For Third Psychology Workshop Series
• The third annual workshop series of the St. John's Institute for Mental Health opened this week when Bishop
Peter W. Bartholome of St. Cloud welcomed forty clergymen of all faiths and faculty members on Monday, July 23.
Supported by the Hamm Foundation of St. Paul, the five-day session is the first of three workshops at St. John's this summer. Dates for the final two weeks are July 29-Aug. 3 and Aug. 5-10.
Registration is open to clergymen of aU faiths and among the 120 applications accepted are 20 from Protestant ministers and one from a Jewish rabbi.
Lecturers for the first week's program are two veterans of the previous summers. Howard P. Rome, MD, head of the Section of Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic, and Gregory Zilboorg, MD, an internationally famous author and lecturer, are both well-known to participants in the 1954 and '55 workshops.
One of the discussion leaders this week is Father Noel Mail-loux, OP, PhD, who is chairman of the department of psychology at the University of Montreal. A particularly valuable resource person and an international authority on criminology and delinquency, Father Mailloux was the Canadian representative to the International Conference on Criminology at London in 1965.
Among the sixteen faculty members are several other psychiatrists who are coming to the workshops for the third time. Dr. Waldo Bird, a member of the Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota staffs, Dr. Francis Gerty, a prominent psychiatrist for more than thirty years, and Dr. Louis Flynn, a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Mental Health, wiU be seminar leaders in the second and third weeks.
In addition to two lecturers each week, four faculty members who are professionals in the treatment of emotional disturbances and personality conflicts, will guide the participants when they divide into groups of ten each to discuss their experiences and problems in mental health work. In answer to requests from former participants that the proceedings be prepared for publication in the form of a handbook on pastoral psychology, the Institute has invited Miss Marjorie Van der Water, a staff writer for Science Service, to survey and evaluate the lecture and seminar material for publication.
During the third workshop Rabbi Henry E. Kagan of Mount Vernon, N.Y., will act as consultant in group dynamics and ad-
New Statue Overlooks Sag
• An over-lif esize statue of Katrin Techawitha, well-known early American convert martyr, was installed by the St. Paul Statuary Co. on the rustic eastern shore of Lake Sagatagan, June 21. Under the title, "Lily of the Mohawks," the statue of the Indian convert replaced the large crucifix that overlooked the lake from that location.
A gift from St. Olaf parish, Minneapolis, and its pastor, Father Leonard P. Cowley, the sculptured stone piece of art was formerly seen outside the old St. Olaf Church (before it was destroyed by fire several years ago). The new and enlarged church was built over the spot where the
TECHAWITHA—Continued on page 4
visor to the faculty.
Rabbi Kagan is author of the recent book, "Changing the Attitude of the Christian Toward Jew: A Psychological Approach to Religion," which was the subject of wide interest throughout the country.
CALENDAR
July 27-29—Married Couples'
Retreat (under 46) July 29-Aug 3—Second Mental
Health Workshop Aug. 3-6—Married Couples'
Retreat (under 45) Aug. 6-10—Third Mental
Health Workshop Aug. 10-12—Married Couples'
Retreat (under 45) Aug. 17-19—Men's Retreat Aug. 22—CENTENNIAL DAY Aug. 22-25—General Chapter
Meeting
Aug. 24-26—Men's Retreat Aug. 26-28—ABA Meetings Sept. 2—Catholic Aid Society
Day
Apostolic Delegate, Archbishop Amleto G. Cicognani
Centennial Invitation
August 22nd has been selected as the day on which the alumni and friends of St. John's will join the members of the community in a public demonstration of gratitude for the blessings of one hundred years. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Amleto G. Cicognani, J.U.D., Apostolic Delegate to the United States, will offer the Solemn Pontifical Mass of thanksgiving.
Each and every alumnus of St. John's.would be most welcome on this important day in the history of our abbey and university. The presence of a large number of the alumni would be a tribute to onr Holy Father's representative, to the many members of the community who have dedicated their lives to the glory of the Church and the welfare of others, and to the many members of the hierarchy who will be present. The presence of a large number would give much significance to our prayer of thanks, since you, the alumni, in so many ways represent what St. John's has accomplished in a century.
If you are unable to be with us on that memorable day, it would make us very happy if you entered into the spirit of the occasion by letting us know what you have done to express your gratitude that your school, St. John's, is a reliable trustee of the culture and the learning that will always be a blessing to mankind.
Very sincerely yours, Baldwin Dworschak, O.S.B. Abbot
Alumnus Named Auxiliary Bishop
#The appointment by Pope Pius XII of Msgr. Laurence A. Glenn, '21, as titular bishop of Tuscamia and auxiliary to Bishop Thomas W. Welch of Duluth, was announced last week.
Bishop-elect Glenn came to St. John's from BeUingham, Wash., as a high school student in 1917, and after studying phUosophy in college, left four years later for the St. Paul Seminary, where he completed his philosophy and theology studies.
He was ordained in 1927 and
received his master's degree in sociology from the Catholic University the following: year. Msgr. Glenn was assistant pastor of the Ohurch of St. John the Evangelist, Duluth, from 1928 to 1947. He has been pastor of St. James Ohurch, Duluth, since 1947.
He also served as director of Catholic Charities for the diocese of Duluth from 1928 to 1948, diocesan director of hospitals and Serra clubs. He has held several assignments in the diocesan chancery office.
Apostolic Delegate To Offer Centennial Mass
• A solemn pontifical high Mass of thanksgiving in honor of the Holy Spirit will be offered by His Excellency, Most
Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, when St. John's observes its Centennial Day on Wednesday, Aug. 22.
The local ordinary, Most Rev. Peter W. Bartholome, Bishop of St. Cloud, will preach the sermon at the outdoor Mass, which will begin at 10:30 a.m.
In announcing the final plans for the Centennial Day, Abbot Baldwin Dworschak, OSB, also revealed that he had recently received an autographed letter from the Holy Father, Pius XII, commending the St. John's community on the occasion of its centennial observance.
A reception is planned for the the community, the abbots, bish-evening before the Centennial Day and at that time Archbishop Oicognani will meet the approximately 20 bishops and archbishops and 25 abbots who will join the St. John's community in observing the one-hundreth anniversary of the founding of the
abbey.
In the morning a procession of the visiting clergy, members of
Chapter And ABA Meetings Set For Aug.
#Two important Benedictine meetings will follow immediately
upon the St. John's Centennial Day Celebration. Starting the evening of Aug. 22, the triennial meeting of the General Chapter of the American-Cassinese Congregation will be held. During the following week, Aug. 27-30, three sections of the American Benedictine Academy will meet on the campuses of St. John's and St. Benedict's.
The Abbots of all the American-Cassinese monasteries with the delegates of each of the home monasteries will meet under the direction of the Rt. Rev. Arch-abbot Denis Strittmatter, OSB, of St. Vincent's Abbey, Latrobe, Pa., president of the congregation. The sessions are held every three years to work out the government of the congregation and to discuss any plans which might affect the individual monasteries of the congregation. At the present time there are sixteen abbeys and one conventual priory which make up the separate units of the Ameri-can-Oassinese Congregation.
A solemn Mass in honor of the Holy Spirit will start off the first full day of meetings. The second day a Requiem Mass is to be sung for all the deceased of the Congregation.
The following Monday the social science, education-psychology, and phUosophy sections of the American Benedictine Academy will open their three-day meetings at St. John's Abbey and St. Benedict's MEETINGS—Continued on page 3
ops and Archbishop Cicognani, will be made to the site of the field Mass.
During the Mass there will be congregational singing, which will include the voices of worshippers who are expected to include hundreds of the clergy and laity of the Upper Midwest.
After the Mass, Archbishop Cicognani will address the entire congregation from the altar.
Archbishop Cicognani, who will be making his second visit to the St. Cloud diocese since his appointment as Apostolic Delegate in 1933, is the sixth representative of the Holy See to this country since 1893.
A native of Brisighella, Italy, he served in a number of capacities in Sacred Congregations after his ordination in 1905 until his present appointment by Pope Pius XI in 1933.
A dinner will be served the Delegate, visiting prelates, members of the community and the visiting clergy in the student dining rooms after the Mass. A plate dinner will be served all visitors in the cafeteria of St. Mary's Hall.
In the afternoon clerics from the community will guide visitors on tours of the campus.
i Lounge Reaby
Visitors to St. John's on Centennial Day and the following months will see a pictorial history of the abbey and university on display in the new Alumni Lounge (remodeled St. Gregory's Hall).
Bulletin boards have been placed in the lounge and in the corridor between the quadrangle and Benet Hall, and Ft. Alcuin Siebenand, OSB, and Brother Gerald Ihrig, OSB, are busy posting pictures from the abbey archives on the boards.
The lounge itself is awaiting the arrival of 46 pieces of furniture which have been ordered. Already the 100-year building plan exhibits and conference-type tables and chairs have been moved into the lounge, which will soon be a busy meeting place.
Father Martin Schirber, OSB, vice-president of the American Benedictine Academy and editor of the ABA Newsletter, puts the finishing touches on his latest newsletter. St. John's and St. Benedict's will be host to three sections of the ABA next month.
