ALUMNI REUNIONS
Nov. 9: Milwaukee Schlehlein's, Stag
THE RECORD
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY
Nov. 12: Minnesota Valley Holiday House, St. Peter
VOLUME 75
COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1962
NUMBER 13
Abbot To Dedicate New Prep School Sunday
Father Corwin Collins, OSB, conducts a social class in one of the brightly lit prep school classrooms. Each of the well ventilated classrooms, with
distinctive barrel vaulted roofs, overlooks woodland and Lake Sagatagan. The abbot will dedicate the new school Sunday.
Johnny Players and Ardeleons Rehearse 'Oedipus the King7
By Don Ghvatal
The Johnny-Benny Players will unravel Greek tragedy in their first dramatic production of the year, Oedipus the King, by Sophocles.
Under the direction of Father Dominic Keller, OSB, the play will be staged in the university auditorium at 8 p.m. on Nov. 18-19.
Oedipus the King is perhaps the best known drama of Sophocles' Jiasterpieces. From a technical point of view it is practically unsurpassed in dramatic literature. It tells the story of Oedipus, who unknowingly slew Laius, his own father. He came to Thebes, solved the riddle of the Sphinx and was made king. He then married the recently widowed queen, Jocasta, who actually was his own mother. The action of the play reveals how Oedipus gradually fulfills the oracle's prophecy and comes to learn the horrible truth that he had killed his father and married his mother.
Dave O'Fallon, sophomore from Litchfield, is cast as the fated Oedipus and Diane Reisdorfer as his equally ill-fated mother and
wife, Jocasta. Tom Lauerman plays Oreon and Mike Obler the part of Teiresias, an old blind prophet who echoes the oracle's warning of the inevitable tragedy. Also featured is the Ohorus of Theban Elders played by 12 other members of the Johnny Players. Utilizing the space vacated by the bookstore, the Players have been holding rehearsals in the basement of the auditorium, thus easing the. strain on auditorium facilities. The room has been converted into a "Little Theatre" with a temporary stage installed for play rehearsals and use by speech students. Eventually a permanent stage will be constructed for the production of one-act plays and interpretative readings.
Calendar
Oct.
26—Night Fighters
Oct.
27—Football vs.
St. Thomas
Night Fighters
Oct.
29—Ballet Espanol
Oct.
31—ROTC Fall Review
Nov.
1—Feast of All Saints,
Holiday
Nov.
2—Feast of All Souls,
Holiday
Frosh Elect Council Reps
"Freshmen, don't read this top line. Vote for the man interested in you. We need 'Bear'." An outburst of signs displaying slogans similar to the above alerted the campus to the coming freshman student council elections. A final deluge of printed sheets extolling the merits of the various candidates paved the way for the election held on Oct. 16 with the assistance of AKS.
From a field of 11 candidates the freshmen picked three men, Ryan Mulcahy, Larry Roscioli and Tom Super, to represent their class for the remainder of the school year. The three will take their seats on the student
Council Which Mulcahy
is presided over by Dick Stein-bronn, with Tom Stockflsch as vice-president
Super
Roscioll
and Gar Mulrooney secretary and treasurer respectively.
"The freshman class showed a great deal of interest in the elections,' ' said George Hennig, sophomore representative who coordinated the freshman elections. "Eighty-two per cent of the class voted," he continued, "making it a successful election in the council's estimation."
Father Polycarp Is Dead at 78
Father Polycarp J. Hansen, OSB, of St. John's abbey, died
Saturday morning, Oct. 13, in the St. Oloud hospital after a long illness. Funeral services were con- , ducted Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, in the abbey church.
Father Polycarp was born July 24, 1884, at Jacobs Prairie, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Hansen.
He was professed a monk in the Order of St. Benedict July 11, 1905, and was ordained June 15, 1910. In 1906 Father Polycarp ne received his B.A. degree and his M.A. degree (1908) from St. John's university. Later he studied at Columbia university, New York.
Father Polycarp taught mathematics, German and typing in St. John's Prep school from 1905 until 1910. From that time until 1923 he taught mathematics and physics in the college. In ,1923 he was assigned to the assistant pastorate of St. Anselm's parish in New York City. Two years later he returned to the classroom and continued teaching. He was appointed assistant pastor of St. Joseph's parish in Minneapolis in 1937.
From 1943 until his retirement in 1958, Father again taught mathematics. In addition to this, he served as pastor in Freeport for a time. For three years, beginning in 1950, he also taught astronomy at St. John's.
Two Buildings Completed
In Projected $3 Million Complex
By Tom Super
One September afternoon in 1961, Abbot Baldwin Dwor-schak, OSB, overturned a spadeful of dirt atop Observatory hill, marking the initial step toward the building of a new $3,000,000 Prep school complex. Abbot Baldwin will dedicate the completed halls this Sunday, Oct. 28.
Dedication ceremonies for the new Prep school dormitory and academic building will begin at 1:30 p.m. with an address in the abbey
church by Abbot Baldwin.
Following a procession to the school, ./the abbot will bless the two buildings. An open house, with tours and refreshments, and a 3 p.m. football game with St. Cloud Cathedral will highlight the day's activities.
Classes Overlook Sag Because high school has been in session since Sept. 16, the prep students have already had a good taste of their new life. The new academic unit, a four-level, concrete structure, faces south over Lake Sagatagan. A 120-desk study hall and three 30-desk classrooms make up each of the bottom three levels, while the top level is comprised of administration offices, recreation rooms and the library. A partly-exposed heated tunnel connects the academic unit with the split level dormitory to the east. The two levels, a north-south elevated walkway and the student lockers divide the 31,000 sq. ft. dormitory into eight separate bays. Six of the eight bays now house 60 beds each, leaving the last two for a temporary recreation area.
Plans for the prep school complex were drawn by Val Michelson, a St. Paul architect. No stranger to St.. John's building, program, Russian-born Mr. Michelson served as supervisor for Marcel Breuer when Breuer designed the abbey church.
"Austere, Playful," Architect "We felt that this was a monastic school, and therefore had to be sufficiently austere to be in the Benedictine tradition," Michelson said. "Yet it had to be
playful enough for a boys' school." Michelson also designed a dormitory roof consisting of 20 saucer-shaped hyperbolic paraboloids, each resting on a concrete pillar. Work on the two structures began immediately after groundbreaking last year, and during the winter the preps themselves gave financial aid to their own cause. In response to a foreseen need for additional intramural field space, they carried on a magazine drive during November and a candy bar sale in spring.
Parents Conduct Fund Drive
The parents of prep students are also working to finance the new school. A committee of parents, the first lay group in St. John's history to undertake a campaign for a campus building project, has organized a fund-raising drive.
The first two units are half of the eventual four-unit prep school complex. Still to be built are a gymnasium and a two-story administration-library building. The administration unit will rest atop the fourth level of the academic building, forming one unit, while the gym will lie closer to the lake between the academic unit and the dormitory.
Upon completion of these last two structures, the fourth level will be converted into another study hall and three more classrooms, making room for a top enrollment of 480. Until that time Preps will continue to make use of the college cafeteria, gymnasium , science hall and some other facilities.
Three idolizing youngsters reflect the concern of resting regulars Craig Muyres, Ken Roering and Dave Hartle over a key play in the homecoming game against Augsburg. Tho Johnnies went on to win the contest, 36-20.
