Stag - Vol. 02, No. 09 - February 15, 1951

              STAG Vol. II-No. 9 Published By Students Of Fairfield University February 15, 1951
REVEREND THOMAS LYONS, S.J.
A Good Man To Know!
Father Robert MacDonnell,
S.J., moderator for the Bellar­mine
Lectures, has announced
that the third in the current
series of lectures will take place
in Berchmans Hall, Tuesday,
February 20, during the sixth
hour. The guest' lecturer will be
Mr. William M. Walton, Assist­ant
Professor of Philosophy at
Yale University.
A native of Winnipeg, Mani­toba,
Canada, Mr. Walton re­ceived
his education at the Uni­versity
of Toronto from which he
was awarded his B.A., M.A. and
Ph.D. He then taught philos~phy
at the University of Toronto for
three years before World War II
and for one year after the war.
Mr. Walton is a Major in the
Canadian Army Reserve. During
the war, for a period of four
years, he was with the Direc­torate
of Personnel Selection of
the Canadian Army.
Mr. Walton came to New Ha­ven
and became a member of
the Yale faculty in 1947. For the
(Continued on P,age Five)
Last week Fairfield University
welcomed to its faculty the Rev­erend
T. Everett McPeake, S.J.
Father McPeake succeeds Dr.
Maurice E. Rogalin as chairman
of the Department of Education.
Having received his Bachelor's
Degree from Boston College, and
his Master in Education from
Boston University, Father is
completing his Doctorial studies
at New York University. The
v-ariety of his education is sec­ond
only to his experience in
teaching in the public school
system as a layman, and now
teaching in a Catholic university
as a Jesuit, his educational po­tentialities
are at their broadest.
Having the advantage of a two­fold
viewpoint, Father will be
able to convey to aspirant teach­ers
precisely what will be re­quired
of them in the public
school system .
Normandin Junior High School
was the starting point of Father
McPeake's teaching experience.
(Continued on Page Eilght)
New Head Of
Education Dept.
Professor Walton
Of Yale Starts
1951 Lectures
Jack Malakie
REV. EVERETT McPEAKE. S.J.
He's from New York
Departing from the establish­ed
custom of the entire student
body attending the annual Col­lege
retreat together, the Senior
Class was given the privilege of
having a separate retreat. The
retreat master for the first grad­uating
class was the Reverend
George Flattery, S.J. To prepare
the members of the senior class
for their entrance into today's
world, the main thought of
Father Flattery's sermons cen­tered
on one idea. In the final
analysis, the primary mark of
success in every man's life is
whether or not he has conformed
his will to the Divine Will, there­by
meriting the supernatural
reward promised by Christ.
The examples used by Father
Flattery were numerous, demon­strating
how the modern world,
with its materialistic ideas of
fame, holds in contempt the
Christian concept of what con­stitutes
the most important goal
of all men's lives. The most out­standing
illustration used by
Father Flattery was the life of
St. Thomas More, to show that
man's supernatural end is the
all important factor governing
his early conduct.
Here was a man who, as
Chancellor of England during
the 16th century, had wealth,
(Continued. on P,age Five)
Seniors Retreat Alone
The dance itself provided the
best in decoration and music in
addition to a very pretty Snow
Queen. As usual flowers were
presented to the young ladies in
lieu of corsages.
Two great nine foot Stags,
carved from ice by Mr. George
Weising, towered before the
main main entrance to the Ritz,
giving the event the Fairfield
touch and at the same time
keeping with the winter theme.
Inside the decorations, arranged
by Bob Conroy and his crew, did
not fail by comparison. Crepe
paper, greens, and Lux Flakes
transformed the hall into a ter­race
as attractive as the $275 ice
sculpturing job.
Exceptionally fine music was
presented by Gene Williams and
his Orchestra, who confined their
selections to the slow, soft num­bers
that are favored by most.
As usual, the highlight of the
evening was the selection of a
Snow Queen from ·among the
many young lovelies present.
About ten contestants, picked by
Mr. Barry and Mrs. McCormick,
owners of the Ballroom, vied for
the honor. The winner was Miss
Barbara King, a Senior at The
Academy of the Sacred Heart in
Greenwich. The pretty new
Queen was crowned by her es­cort,
Mr. Robert Welch, and pre­sented
with an orchid and a com­pact
engraved, "Miss S now
(Continued on Page Four)
The Fourth Annual Mid-Winter Carnival, presented
by the s.tudents of Fairfield University last February 2
at the Ritz Balh"'oom in Bridgeport, was not only an
outstanding social success, but in contrast to its proto­types,
a financial one as welL Jim Alexander, chairman
of the Carnival committee, revealed tihart; the affair
netted about one hundred dollars from the enteI1tain­ment
of the 306 couples in attendance.
She Reigns Supreme!
Arthur Perry
Bandmaster Williams, Miss King. and escort Welch.
A Queen to be proud of!
A campaign is being initi­ated
by the Sodality to enroll
the students here -in the
Knights of the Blessed Sacra­ment.
The duties of a knight
are relatively simple and will
not take up much time of the
candidate. He must receive
Holy Communion once a
week (if he should miss one
week, he may receive twice
the following week, or as
soon as possible); make an
effort to enlist new members,
and finally visit the Blessed
Sacrament, whenever pos­sible.
Those interested in
joining the "K.B.S." may do
so by submitting their names
and addresses to John McNa­mara,
Edward McPadden,
Bernard 0' Mea l' a , John
O'Connor, Thomas Vitelli,
William Kennally or any
other member of the Sodality.
that there is a possibility that a
scholarship to the Law School
might be established in the fu­ture
to become effective in Sep­tember
1951. Mr. Wilkinson fur­ther
noted that applications for
financial assistance may be
(Continued on P.age Eight)·
Reverend Laurence C. Langguth, S.J., Dean od' the
College of Arts and Sciiences of Fairfield University, has
announced that a representative of Fordham University
School ad' Law will visit the campus on February 27.
I'gnatius M. Wilkinson, Dean of the Fordham University
School of Law, has informed Father Langguth that
Professor Keefe will be on hand on that date to confer
with tlhe Seniors who are interested in fioll'Owing a
career in Law.
In corresponding with Father
Langguth on the subject of pos­sible
financial aid to the student
on the part of the University
Mr. Wilkinson stated that there
are no scholarship funds specific­ally
allotted to the Law School.
However, Mr. Wiikinson did note
New Dean Of Men ..
Latecomers Beware!
Representative Of Fordham Law
School To Confer With Seniors
In the short time since his ini­tial
appearance on our campus,
Father Thomas Lyons, S.J., has
become a familiar figure to the
students of Fairfield and in par­ticular
to those who inhabit the
choice tables at the exclusive
"Sportsmans Club" located in
the cafeteria.
Father Lyons is another mem­ber
of the faculty who is a native
of the state of Massachusetts. He
attended Boston College High
School and immediately upon
graduation entered the Society
of Jesus. His studies began at
the Jesuit Novitiate at Shadow­brook.
Father Lyons then held
a teaching assignment at Boston
College for two years and then
returned to his studies at Weston
College, where he completed his
philosophy. Father Lyons holds
both B.A. and M.A. degrees.
Upon completion of his philoso-
(Continued on Page F,our)
By JAMES DINNAN. '52
Fairfield University has had, a vacancy in the ad­ministrative
offices since Father Edmund Walsh, S.J.,
was made Dean of Freshmen. Father Daniel J. Saunders,
S.J., had been acting Dean of Men until his recent ap­pointment
to the faculty at the College of The Holy
Cross, as an instructor of Greek.
Page 2 THE STAG February 15. 1951
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Charles Black, '52
ASSOCIATE EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER
William Curnin, '53 Robert Steele, '52
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George Birge. '51
Harley Black, '51
James Doheney, '52
Harry Marmion, '53
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PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT
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Joseph Pander, '53 .
Walter Zackrison, '54
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT
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John Byrne, '54
MAKE-UP DEPARTMENT
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Dominick Lonardo, '52
Ralph Mastrangelo, '52
Richard McCormick, '52
Stanley Turski, '52
Thomas O'Neil, '53
ART DEPARTMENT
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Richard Lindstrom, '52
Frederick Tartaro, '52
William Casey, '53
John Saracino, '54
FEATURE DEPARTMENT
John Welch, '53 Editor
Martin Nigro, '51
Francis Philbin, '52
Ronald Fattibene, '53
Neil Topitzer, '53
Robert McKeon, '53
William Brown, '54
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Francis Woods, '52} .
James Aspinwall, '52 Co-Editors
George Baeher, '51
George Garofalo, '51
James Dinnan. '52
Edward Kelley, '52
Joseph Silva, '52
Edward Sperry, '52
Paul Sullivan, '52
Raymond Yuskauskas, '52
David Phelan, '53
Robert Demshak. '54
Richard Haux, '54
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
William McGrath, '52
James Musante, '52
Thomas O'Neil, '53
"THE ACTS OF ASCENDING AND DESCENDING THE SAME
FLIGHT OF STAIRS ARE NOT INHERENTLY EVIL, NOR
ARE THEY CONDUCIVE TO EXCESSIVE CONFUSION
. OR LOSS OF TIME"
'PROOF OF FIRST PART OF THESIS: If the stairs were built
not only for ascending but descending, then they have a potency
for both acts, which may not be considered evil. The stairs were
built for ascent and descent.
Therefore-
MAJ.: Any potency for an act or the fulfil!mept thereof, is a
perfection, not an evil. While it is true that the stairs
themselves do not possess the ability to climb up and
down themselves, the potency in this case, it must be
conceded, is more of the nature of an invitation. Even
the most abandoned skeptic will concede that a flight
of stairs yearns, almost begs, to be climbed and con­versely
they do likewise to be descended. It depends
of course whether a person is at the top or bottom.
MIN.: Upon consultation with recognized experts in the field
of building stairs, it is found that they are in uanimous
agreement that stairs are built both for going up and
coming down. In fact, upon raising the question to a
carpenter, the interrogator may receive the answer
"What are ye, a wise guy?" and receive a hammer in
the cranial structure for his trouble.
PROOF OF SECOND PART OF THESIS: Descending and ascend­ing
the same flight of stairs are not conducive to excessive con­fusion
nor loss of time if these acts expedite passage from class­room
to classroom. But they do expedite passage.
Therefore-
MAJ.: Evident.-
MIN.: This is evident from experience. Many a time and oft,
has a student, pushed by the milling throng and lost
in meditation, descended beyond his destined floor. In
such a case said student was forced to go all the way
to the basement, fight his way through a solid mass of
masticating humanity and, besplattered with food, make
his way up a flight of stairs at least two leagues distant
from his place of descent. On the other hand if he were
allowed to retrace his steps, much time and energy
would be saved and possibly, he might reach class on
time.
COR.: Moreover, when a student is not left the choice of ascent
or descent on a given flight of stairs, it tends to destroy his
initi'ative; his ability to make decisions. He becomes one of the
herd and follows the crowd.
SCHOL.: Descending the stairs against an ascending crowd is
a wonderful form of athletic expression. It can be safely held that
a person who has managed to reach the corroded atmosphere of
the basement after a descent from the top floor is blessed with
the talents of a professional fullback.
DIFFICULTY:
"Ascending and descending the same flight of stairs" is a
contradiction."
Therefore-
ANSWER: (Tch, Tch, Father, such sophistry!) Descending
and ascending at the same time is a contradiction, we admit­although
it has been this author's experience to seem to do both.
We distinguish the statement and admit it only if the time is
considered. CF. VOLTAIRE, DESCARTES, KANT and HUME.
Avoid CUNNINGHAM and that nasty universal skepticism.
Francis G. Philbin
My Very Own
By MARTIN NIGRO
Reverend Charles M, Crow­ley,
S.J., joined the Mathe­matics
Department of Fair­field
University just as we
were going to press. We hope
to feature Father Crowley in
our next issue. He has just
come from graduate work at
Detroit University.
"A masterpiece of printing
and book-binding."
"A text-book to be kept and
cherished."
"A joy to read; printing at its
best."
Thus have Senior Philoso­phers
expressed their admira­tion
and pleasure for the text­books
in Psychology. They were
not speaking of the matter itself,
which is pure scholastic and
therefore, of course, true, noble,
perfect, brilliant and glorious.
They referred, rather, to the :line
workmanship and the superb
standards of printing and bind­ing
which have made these texts
fully worth the exorbitant price
asked for them.
What is there about these two
texts which so distinguishes
them from all the stodgy, dull,
run-of-the-mill books to which
we students are accustomed?
One finds it hard to avoid super­latives,
1.0 be calm and objective.
These .triumphs of the printing
art have so many fine qualities,
I shall be able to mention only
a few.
There are first the exquisitely
delicate covers--so soft, so frag­ile,
so rippable. Not many texts
can be so bent, rolled, torn or
wrinkled. The choice of color is
another happy demonstration of
care and talent - abominable
green and deplorable grey. The
odd size and shape which, ,::!ven
if they are so troublesome -Co
handle, certainly make the books
unusual and eye-catching.
Perhaps the most outstanding
point, the touch which distin­guishes
the truely fine from the
mediocre, is the print itself and
the arrangement of the print­the
typography. The type was
invented by Herman Schwartz,
a 15th century Spaniard who
died penniless. He called the
type Minutia fadedus. It is easily
distinguishable - microscopic,
dull, with the holeS" in the letters
a, 0, e, p, and q blackened in.
The lines of this type are in­geniously
quarter-spaced (not
the common double or single
space) and arranged in two col­umns
on each page. Think of it,
4,322 words to a page; such mas­terful
economy in this profligate
age! A marvelous effect is pro­duced
by this peculiar arrange­ment
of.type-if the book is held
a foot or so from the eye, the
page appears as one solid black
glob, yet every word is almost
discernable if the book is held
the normal three inches from the
organ of sight.
One could write all day ex­tolling
the virtues of these texts
and still not exhaust their excel­lence,
I shall say this however ...
it will be many years ... many
years before anyone in the print­ing
trade will claim to have pro­duced
books like these. I heartily
recommend to underclassmen
that they withdraw their sav­ings,
rush to the bookstore and
purchase these priceless tomes.
Can Y Oil 211eel It?
He was a gray haired, seasoned officer, who had
served in World War 1. We were young high-schoolers
recently gradua,ted, a crop of very green army rookies
ready to leave for basic training. What he was doing
was a mere formality; all groups leaving the reception
center had to get a pep-talk and this was ours.
This was about the fourth or fifth I had received.
Dad of course gave me the first and really the most
important, for he knew me as no other man did. One of
the parish curates also extended a few words before I
departed for Army service. Then that wonderful per­son,
my Mother, who like other mothers through the
centuries had to bear the sorrows of war, gave this
simple message-"take care of yourself."
It would be rather difficult to follow the accidentals
of these messages received, but there was a common
element in all of ,them. Those of us who were at Father
Haggerty's retreat last week got that common element
in the words of Saint Paul ... "play the man."
That phrase certainly took a beating which it· didn't
deserve. It was heard in the cafeteria, ai the Ritz, and
almost anywhere when someone thought he could get
a laugh with it.
To those who will leave in the future for duty in
the armed forc~s I heartily recommend that they follow
that simple phr'ase. It will not be easy to do. For many
this may be the first time away from home, this may be
the firsot t.ime when they will be free from parental or
marital control and observation. There will be many
temptations to take advantage of this freedom. It would
be well to remember that freedom is not license.
If we wouLd apply this phrase to our every thought,
word, and action, our lives would be fully Catholic.
This would be of course contradictory to our day and
age. To play the man is a challenge. Can you meet it?
-Ed Kelley. '52
We Need Your l-lelp!
Do .you like the eight page STAG? So do we, but
before we can make eight pages a general policy, one
major difficulty must be eliminated.
Printing a newspapeT is an expensive undertaking,
and we could not meet the demands w~thout regular
assistance from the Administration. THE STAG is not
sold, but is given away, thus preventing one possible
source of income. There remains, therefore, only the
sale of advertising and assistance of the Administration
to enable us to print your informer.
The editors have no complaint to make. On the
'Contrary, they are grateful for all administmtive
financial assiSitance received in the past and offered in
the future. New, sometimes expensive ideas have been
supported enthusiastically and THE STAG has growr
steadily,
But we' of THE STAG cannot expect the Administra­tion
to finance our paper completely, with but little ad­\'
eYitising to off-set the expense. Therefore, we turn to
,vOl;. the students, to ask your assistance in procuring
additional advertising. Should you be willing to sol,icit
ads, we urge y.ou to coilitact our Business Manager. Or,
should you know of a possible advertiser, we urge you
to contact him and try to secure his ad for your paper.
In this way alone can we expect to build up our paper
to the size and quality worthy of representing Fairfield
University.
With a newspaper of our type, about one-quarter of
its overall size is advertising, Thus, if we have eight
pages, (or 560 column inches) 140 inches of that, or more,
should be advertising.
Yes, we need your help. By the end of the year,
the Administration will have paid about $2,000 from
our Student Activity Fee for printing THE STAG.
Though we are grateful for this generosity, we feel
THE STAG could be more selrf-supporting through your
assistance in this advertising campaign. Will you help?
The Editor
February 15, 1951· THE STAG Page 3
31 December 1950
Sunday-
Taejon
Dear Father.
The last leiter f wrote to you was written in great haste. Right now
[ have a little more time!
After I left Japan and lvas aboard a troop ship in the Yellow Sea,
[ linally realized that I lvas on my way. Honest, things happened so fast onc
hardly had time to think.
A.t Inchon. where lve landed, f had my first taste of the cold weather
and snow of Korea. I ll'as very fortunate at Inchon. Seventeen men were
pulled out of Infantry replacement companies and ordered to the 114th
Graves Registration Co. The 114th needed men with clerical experience
and we were lucky enough to be in "calling distance" when the need arose.
At present my job is working with a team preparing U.N. Cemeteries
for disinterrment of American dead. After we have completed our worh.
G.Is move in with Korean laborers to do the actual work. Our preparations
for disinterrment consist in checking "dog tags" on the crosses. numbering
graves, gathering and checking _all the necessary forms for each man, and
a few more details. Actually the hardest part of the job is working and
trying to sleep in the cold weather. I must say that I find the job very
saddening. I'ue seen death before, but never in such large numbers.
We just came back from Seoul and Inchon where we completed two
jobs in a HURRY! The action up North made things "hot" for us, so we
were forced to pull back to Taejon.
Well organized bands of North Korean guerrillas have been making
my stay in Korea rather uncomfortable at times. Late Christmas Eve we
were headed North to Seoul in a truck convoy and some tanks when we
we~e met with small arms fire from the hills. We came out of it in good
shape and continued on our way. The next day (Christmas Day) we
turned back to Inchon and stalled there for three days. From Inchon we
went South to Suwan and then further down to quarters in Taejon.,
I think we'll be in Taejon for a few days. It's wonderful to be able to
have hot chow and a cot to sleep on. Oh yes, I can't forget the fact that we
get a chance to get clean clothing. (My hands are getting sort of cold ar:d
holding this pen is a job and a half.)
I've tried to give you an account of my travels since I landed in Korea.
As far as any hardships go, I refuse to complain. Most of my friends went
right up to the front line Lvith the Infantry Divisions and I know they're
leading a miserable life up there.
Father, please give my regards to all my friends. I really don't have
the time to write all the letters I'd like to.
I'll try to write again as soon as f get the opportunity. I spend what
free time I have writing to my wife and trying to convince her that I'm
safe and sound. Please remember me in your prayers--
D
Dear Father-
I do hope you remember me! Before I left P.O.E. my wife sent me a
copy of THE STAG. In it I read that my whereabouts was unknown. f
should have written sooner as I promised but things have been happening
too fast to the reservists. •
f rea.'ize that this letter and penmanship belies the fal'l that I spent
'a year at F.U. Please excuse me this time. There's so little time left. In
a few hours I'll be leaving Camp Drake, Asaha, Japan for Korea as an
Infantry replacement. I won't be alone!!
I find the Infantry a lot different than any days in the Air Corps dur­ing
\Vorld 'War II. The situation is grave. Therefore, we don't have a
choice as to what outfit we'd lihe to be in.
f haven't any time left, Father. I'll write again as soon as I can. Please
remember me in your prayers. - Say hello to Mr. Pitt for me and m~1
regards to everyone--
Sincerely
Bill Gillen
I'.S. f hope I'm not an old "gray-haired soph" bft the time I get back
to F.U.
"Harry, Harry, HARRY!"
Editor's Note:
The editors are pleased that THE STAG has reached several
of our former classmates in the remote regions of the world. They
wish to send former and additional copies to any other service­man
who might appreciate them. Toward this end. they will make
the files of surDlus issues accessible to any student who is will­ing
to send the~ to his friends in service. They would appreciate
the cooperation of fhe students in attaining the addresses of their
friends that they might contact them. All mailing expenses will
be paid by THE STAG.
The address of Bill Gillen is:
Pvt. William J. Gillen, 32983799
Co. 7 2nd Inf. Trg. Bn.
A.P.O.613
c/o P.M.. San Francisco, California
Sincerely.'
Bill Gillan
18 December 1950
A GOO {> f:Jdb TO MANAGE
THE BUS/N£")S EIVO!P
Medical Schools
Admission Tests
By Neil Topitzer
dent in his sophomore year.
Mike too held the office of Presi­dent
during his second year,of
the Public Affairs Club. In spite
of their scholastic honors and
unending work for the MANOR,
both manage to remain loyal
family men; Mike is the proud
father of one daughter, but Ed
beats him on that score by both
a girl and a boy.
Following his graduation in
June, Flannery will enter the
field of education, probably to
teach high school mathematics.
Levinsky, an accounting major,
plans to attend Graduate School
with an ultimate career in the
business world.
Princeton, N.J., January 12.
Candidates for admission to
medical school in the fall of 1952
are advised to take the Medical
College Admission Test in May,
it was announced today by Edu­cational
Testing Service, which
prepares and administers the
test for the Association of Amer­ican
Medical Colleges. These
tests required of applicants by a
number of leading medical col­leges
throughout the country
will be given twice during the
current calendar year. Candi­dates
taking the May test, how­ever,
will be able to furnish
scores to institutions in early
fall, when many medical col­leges
begin the selection of their
next entering class.
Candidates may take the
MCAT on Saturday, May 12,
1951, or on Monday, November
5, 1951, at administrations to be
held at more than 300 local cen­ters
in all parts of the country.
The Association of American
Medical Colleges recommends
that candidates for admission to
classes starting in the fall of
1952 take the May test.
Application forms and a Bul­letin
of Information, which gives
details of registration, as well as
sample questions, are available
from pre-medical advisers or
directly from Educational Test-l
ing Service, Box 592, Princeton,
N.J. Completed applications
must reach the ETS office by
April 28 and October 22, respec­tively,
for the May 12 and No­vember
5 administrations.
ings, designing a cover, consid­ering
one idea and rejecting an­other,
conferring with the print­er,
asking the faculty advisor's
opinion, seeking patrons.
The co-workers are both vet­erans
of the Air Force, with
three years service to their
credits; Ed was stationed in the
Pacific zone and Mike, a 2nd
Lieutenant, remained in this
country as an armament officer.
Each is amember of the newly
formed Honor Society, and they
have seen their names consecu­tively
on the Dean's List. They
have both taken an active part
in the Student Council, of which
Flannery has served as Presi-
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A cold stare, a warm reception
One of two sentinels carved by Mr, George Weising in keep­ing
with the Carnival theme. Both surveyed the arrival of
the merry-makers at the Ritz for the Mid-Winter Carnival
festivities.
Some time in May the long­awaited
MANOR will leave the
printer's office and Fairfield will
be presented with its first year­book.
Inaugurating the old acad­emic
tradition here are Edward
Flannery, Editor-in-Chief, and
Michael Levinsky, Business
Manager. Producing a yearbook,
with no preceeding one with
which they might compare OJ;
refer to, and relying only upon
their own initiative for its suc­cess,
means more than just an
extra-curricular activity. It
means forming a model after
which all following ones will be
copied. They are presently chin
deep in the new project - ar­ranging
pictures, ads, and draw-
Campus Personalities
Our RostHad An Icy Stare!
Page 4 THE ST4.G February 15, 1951
The Office of the Director of
Nurses has released the follow­ing
list of seniors who have
reached the point of graduation.
They are: Barbara Knight,
Wanda Poborca, Anne Sant An­gelo,
Jean Melligon, Anna Marie
Hayes, Barbara Riccitelli, Ann
Yopchick, Marie Yoia and Gene­vieve
Misiak.
Father James A. Walsh, S.J.,
of the Fairfield University Fac­ulty
officiated at the 9:30 Mass in
the Hospital Chapel, on last
Sunday, February 11. The Mass
was followed by a Communion
Breakfast.
on the part of Father Murray,
Mr. Simon Harak, the director,
and the members of the Glee
Club. This is especially true of
the latter who very rarely have
had a chance to hear the Glee
Club in the way that an audi­ence
does.
The album will enable these
men and other members of the
student body to retain tangible
evidence of a very happy and
important part of their college
careers in years to come.
John H. Welch, '53
"Girls In White"
To Be Graduated
on t.ime for a date. There is one
incident which we think is
rather typical. It goes something
like this:
Jim had a date for 7:30. At
eight, he went into the phone
booth, and tried to call his girl,
whom he assumed was upstairs.
Fifteen minutes later, he is still
getting busy signals, when a
pretty little lass taps on the
door, and he decides she was
worth waiting for after all. Sil­ence
is the order of the evening.
It is broken, as soon as they are
outside, by a half-muttered re­quest,
indicating that for some
unknown reason she didn't eat
her supper and starvation is set­ting
in. By the time that the
repast was finished, it was 10:00
and the deadline for the night
was 10:00.
Jim joined the Marines.
.Seriously, though, the Student
Nurses at St. Vincent's lead a
very busy life, and we can't
blame them if they're late, once
in a while. Somewhere, some­how,
sometime, they have man­aged
to organize and to field a
basketball team which defeated
the Graduate Nurses, 2B~.8 ,'in its
last game. Some of tl:,1ese am­bitious
young ladies, 'cinder the
direction of Eleanor Tomanio
and Joan Fisher are planning a
minstrel night during April, and
Fairfield is invited! -
Not to be outdone by Fairfield,
the nurses have also completed
a retreat which was given under
the direction of the Rev. W. J.
McCliment, C.M., while at the
same time they welcome a new
Chaplain, Father Richard Grady,
of Norwich. Father assumed his
new duties in January.
This then, is our introduction
to St. Vincent's. We hope that it
will suffice to acquaint you with
a very fine group of young wo­men,
from whom we hope to
hear more in the future.
J.H.W.
Fred Waring and his Pennsyl­vanians
had better start looking
to their laurels! The Fairfield
University Glee Club is entering
the recording field.
The Reverend John P. Mur­ray,
S.J., moderator of the Glee
Club, has announced plans for a
forthcoming recording session in
New York City. On Friday, Feb­ruary
23, the members of the
Glee Club will travel to the
studios of the Colmubia Record­ing
Company to cut three rec­ords,
six sides in all.
These records will be present­ed
in an album which will be
made available to the student
'body through the Bookstore.
At this time the final choice of
songs to be recorded has not
been announced. The six songs
will be selected from among the
following eight favorites: Men
In Red, When Day Is Done, Steal
Away, Agnus Dei, Dry Bones,
The Winter Song, Jesu, Joy of
Man's Desiring and This Is My
Country. The final selection will
present a nicely balanced offer­ing
of popular songs, religious
melodies, and spirituals.
The completion of plans for
this event represents the realiza­tion
of a long-cherished dream
SHE REIGNS
NEW DEAN OF MEN
(Continued from Pa,ge One)
Queen, 1951." The orchid was
donated by No g a Florists,
Bridgeport.
The dance committee headed
by the capable Alexander should
be congratulated for the success
which its hard work accom­plished.
According to the opin­ions
of the men in the school, the
1951 Carnival was the most en­joyable
yet presented by Fair­field.
Thanks are also due to
Father MacDonnell, the Faculty
advisor.
Many thanks to the Hosts and
Hostesses, Mr. and Mrs. W. Ray­mond
Flicker and Mr. and Mrs.
J. Gerald Phelan.
(Continued from Pa,ge One)
phy at Weston, Father Lyons
was assigned to and has been
at Boston College for the past six
years in an administrative po­sition.
Father Lyons does not confine
himself to the difficult task of The Nurses of· St. Vincent's
trying to keep a watchful eye on need no introduction to the men
the students. to prevent us from of Fairfield, but the purpose of
absenting ourselves from tris or this column will be to acquaint
that class at the most opport]..me you with some of their activi­times.
He is very much .'inter- ties, their work, and the various
ested in photography and is' go- incidents with which they meet
ing to re-establish a camera club during the course of a day.
at Fairfield, which has been in- When this column was first
active since Father !!,ranc~s BU~k, suggested, we of the staff got to
S.J., left us. to do hIS tertIan.shIpd, talk"Ing and wonder'Ing J.Ust wh at
and who sInc.e has ?e~n asslgne "those girls" do all day. From
to the JamaIca MISSIOn. In ad-, t lk' 'th' b
. . h' t . t t·· a Ing WI vanous mem ers
ditIOn to IS s rong In eres· m of our "active" student body, we
photography, Father Lyons has h d' d th t "th
two other interests which ab- ~ve" Iscovere a. ose
sorb much of his leisure; archi- gIrls lead .not on~y a difficu.lt,
tecture and gardening. bu:t a v.ery Interestm~ and satIs-fyIng
lIfe as well. It IS not easy
to be unceremoniously awakened
by an alarm clock at an early
hour of the morning, as any
commuter will tell you. To hear
the nurses tell it, you'd think
that we of Fairfield slept all day!
Since St. Vincent's is a board­ing
school, "those girls" must
eat all their meals in a cafeteria.
Can you imagine any of us eat­ing
three "meals" per day in
our cafeteria? We'd all be dead
just waiting in line. All we can
say in the line of encouragement
is that "we hope your coffee is
better than ours!"
One complaint, howe vel' .
Can't something be done about
keeping the men of Fairfield
waiting into the sad hours of the
evening? Never have we heard
of a St. Vincent"s girl who was
Russia ... a stronghold of
military power ... rockets, ·15
ton tanks, jets, countless thou­sands
of men. Yet the greatest
threat to the world is not this
immense physical force, but a
more terrifying thing
paganism.
Paganism cannot be stopped
by jelly-bomb, nor mortal fire,
nor the U.N. Strange as it may
seem, you and I have the wea­pons
. . . prayers and penance.
There is no need to extol on the
power of the Rosary. It was the
Rosary that broke the back of
the Mohammedan invasion in
the 16th century. All Europe
seemed' lost to Christendom,
then the battle of Lepanto was
won. The Blessed Virgin once
told Saint Dominic, "The Rosary
will be an inexhaustible foun­tain
of every kind of blessing."
Back in 1917 Our Lady of the
Rosary talked with three cbil­dren
at Fatima, telling them
that only prayer and penance
will convert Russia. "If men
return to God and do penance,
Russia will be converted and
there will be peace. If my re­quests
are not heard, then pre­cisely
in the next Pontificate a
new, a more terrible war will
begin (World War II); whole
nations will be destroyed, the
faithful will become martyrs,
the Holy Father will suffer
much, and atheistic Russia will
spread its terror throughout the
world, promoting wars and per­secutions
of the Church. But in
the end my Immaculate Heart
will triumph, the Holy Father
will consecrate Russia to me; (Editor's Note: Henceforth, it
the country will be converted '11bit bI" h
and sometime of peace will be WI e our p easure 0 pu IS
conceded to the world." Ia column wriUen by the Student
INurses at St. Vincent's Hospital.
The column will be a combined
effort of the Misses Peggy Nolan,
Joan O'Connell under the direc­tion
of Mary O'Brien. We hope
that the following piece will
serve to acquaint the "men in
red" with the "girls in white.")
Sodality News Red Stags Vie --------1With Famous
Pennsylvanians?
"You'd think he could learn to bark when he wanUi something."
Looking 'Em Over by Robert McKeon
After a brief interim from Non-communist Nations Should
exams and retreat too, various Form A New International 01'­clubs'of
Fairfield University are ganization. Then on February
formulating their activies for the 14th and February 21st teams of
spring season. Highlighting the the Bellarmine Debating Soci­season
for most of the clubs will ety will debate teams from
be a concert presented by the Bridgeport University in Bridge­Fairfield
University Glee Club. port on the same national topic.
The Vailey Club, which was On the 14th, Fairfield will up­the
first to present a concert of hold the affirmative, whereas on
the Glee Club, announces that the 21st, our team will take the
it will present another concert negative. Again on March 1st a
by the Fairfield U. Glee Club, Fairfield University team de­this
year at the Ansonia High bates the same topic when they
School auditorium on February travel to New Haven State
28. Mr. Simon Harak, who so Teacher's College.
masterfully directs the musical Three more appearances are
array, is a resident of the Valley. scheduled by the Glee Club for
From early reports of the Com- this month. On Wednesday, Feb­mittee,
another successful con- ruary 14th, the Glee Club will
cert is assured, and the students present a concert at Norwalk
interested in attending are urged High School to be sponsored by
to secure their tickets as soon the Triangle Club of Fairfield
as possible from any member of University. Then on February
the Valley Club or from the 22nd they will be sponsored by
Bookstore. the Bellarmine Guild and. the
Mr. Thomas J. Fitzpatrick of Fathers' Club of Fairfield Uni­the
Department of Economics versity in an appearance at the
has asked me to announce that Klein Memorial auditorium. Mr.
a Business Club will be formed Frank Rice and Mrs. J. Gerald
in the near future. A notice for Phelan are co-chairmen; tickets
for this concert may be pur­a
meeting to organize will be chased at the Catholic Supply
posted on the bulletin board. Store on Main Street and at the
Membership will be restricted to D'Andrea Religious Article Store
those whnare enrolled in the
various business courses at Fair- on Middle Street, both in Bridge-
. . port. On Wednesday, February
field Umverslty. ' 28th the Glee Club will travel
Plans have been m.ade by th,e Ito Ansonia High School Audi­Hartford
Club of Fairfield Um- I torium under the auspices of the
versity for a da~ce under the IValley Club of Fairfield Univer­mutual
sponsorship of the Hart-I sity for the benefit of its schol­ford
Clubs of Holy Cross Col- arship fund.
lege'fi PldrovUid~nce 'tCol~hge, C~n~ The members of the Public
Fall' e mversl y. e u Affairs Club who will represent
has also complet~d plans for the Fairfield University at the Con­annual
scholarship Benefit Con- necticut Intercollegiate Student
cert to, be hel~ a~ the Bushnell Legislature in the State House
Memonal AudltorlUn: on May 1.6 at Hartford during March were
at 8:30 pm. The FaI~field Um- named last week. A list of the
verSIty Glee Club wIll be pre- delegates and their alternates
sented by the Hartford Club and will be posted on the student
by ,the Hartford Chapter of the bulletin board this week. James
Umco Club. Conklin and John MacNamara
Among' the student activity are among the delegates to the
clubs, . the Fre~hman-?ophomor:e Student Legislature from Fair­DebatIng
SOCIety WIll hold a field University. The next meet­public
~ebate in Berchmans ing of the Executive Council of
Hall dunng the month of Feb- the Connecticut Intercollegiate
ruary. The subject :-vill be: Re- Student Legislature will take
solved: The Amencan People place on Sunday, February 18th,
Should .Reject The ~elfare Sta~e. at St. Joseph's College, Hartford.
UpholdIng the affIrmatIve wIll At their last meeting the Public
be Mr. Roy Ervin of Fairfield Affairs Club elected Mr. Vin­and
Mr. James Farnam of cent Nemergut president by
Bridgeport while Mr. Emanuel unanimous vote. Mr. Nemergut
Maccia of Stamford and Mr. Ro?- previously served as President
ert McKeon of New Haven wIll pro-tern in the absence of Mr.
defend the negative. John Renaud, who entered
On February 7th the Bellar- Georgetown University. Dele­mine
Debating Society, repre-, gates of the Public Affairs Club
sented by Mr. Thomas Flaherty will attend a convention of the
and Mr. George Birge, will de- International. Relations clubs of
bate the Hofstra College Debat- the Nati'onal' Federation of Cath­ing
Society at Hofstra College, olic College Students to be held
Hempstead, Long Island on the at Regis College, Weston, Massa­national
topic: Resolved: The chusetts, on February 25th.
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Father Deevy were Martin
Nigro and Edward Capasse.
Father Deevy stressed the
fact that the Puerto Ricans are
Americans. Immigration, he not­ed,
has always demanded brav­ery
and strength of will on the
part of the immigrant, both to
break the shackles which bind
him to his homeland and give
him the courage to persevere in
seeking a new and better life.
Father Deevy added that 'ehe
teaching of Spanish in our
schools should play the role of
not only of permitting us to com­municate
with our Spanish and
Puerto Rican neighbors, but also
to help us to know and under­stand
their way of thinking
without allowing our prejudice
to influence our attitude toward
them.
Mr. Thomas J. Fitzpatrick of
the Economics Department was
heard on the program of Janu­ary
15, which had as its topic,
"The Federal Tax System."
Heard with Mr. Fitzpatrick were
the following: Michael Levin­sky,
John Collins, Jr., and Rob­ert
Kelly.
The program recommended a
number of proposals to change
the current tax system. Among
them were (1) Elimination of the
excess profits tax, as it actually
brings about higher costs of pro­duction
and selling, thereby
higher costs to the Government
our largest purchaser. (2) Estab­lishment
of a progressive rate
schedule applicable to all cor­porations
with due consideration
being given to original capital,
present capital, stock dividends,
etc., to produce additional reve­nue
and to cut down speculative
profits. (3) Complete revision of
the capital gains provision to the
extent that all gains realized
from the sale or exchange of
capital assets other than person­al
property would be considered
as ordinary income. (4) Elimina­tion
of the Joint Return for pur­poses
of equity. (5) Increase in
personal Income Tax rates wjth
a low effective rate of 30% in
place of the existing 20% and
a progressive increase on the
present rate srtucture particu­larly
in the $5,000 to $15,000
group. (6) Raising personal ex­emption
to $800 for reasons of
equity and the protection of the
national welfare. (7) A stand
against any proposal for a Fed­eral
Sales Tax or any tax of a
similar nature because of the
regressive features inherent in
such a levy.
These proposals were sought
in order to bring more revenue
to the Government to place it
on a "pay as you go basis," to
bring lower costs to th~ Govern­ment
in the form of lower pur­chase
prices, and to place an
equitable burden on business
and wage earners according to
their ability to pay.
Club So
Winds
SULLIVAN'S
Radio
Mr. Meaney said, "We have
today begun a new year, a new
halt-century, but more than that
a new era when we will have to
face the manly job of measuring
our real worth. The 1900's open­ed
with great optimism: science
was to bring us untold happi­ness;
our standard of material
living did rise but with it came
moral degeneracy. Two wars did
not make us realize that national
progress alone could not make
us happy. As Dr. Robert Mc­Cracken
said recently, 'the
greatest danger that faces this
country is the danger of moral
lassitude-liberty turned to li­cense,
rights demanded and
duties shirked, the moral sense
deteriorating, the traditions and
standards of the nation weaken­ed,
the spiritual forces within it
losing ground.' "
"But the war in Korea and the
sure knowledge now, gleaned
from painful experience, of the
true nature of Communism has
made us realize that we are as
George Sokolsky said, 'reaping
the whirlwind of the jazz age as
it used to be called.'''
"Consequently we will ask
ourselves the question, 'How
Democratic are we?' We must
try to reach answers which may
help us to become sane mentally
and strong spiritually."
Reverend Francis J. Deevy,
S.J., of the Preparatory School
was heard on the broadcast of
January 8, which had as its topic
"The Spanish and the Puerto
Rican Questions." Heard with
The Radio Club, through the
cooperation of radio station
WICC, has been continuing its
broadcasts of FAIRFIELD UNI­VERSITY
INTERPRETS THE
NEW Sand BELLARMINE
QUOTES. The news interpreta­tion
is heard every Monday eve­ning
at 8:00 p.m., and BELLAR­MINE
QUOTES is heard on the
first Monday of each month at
8:15 p.m.
Father John Do' Crowley, S.J.
concluded the 1950 broadcasting
season with a program which
had as its topic, "The Existence
of God." This was well respond­ed
to by the radio audience and
received more than the usual
number of letters of appreciation
and congratulation.
In his program, Father stated
that he wished to establish solid­ly
that God exists, and to prove
this by reason. He further stated
that no man in his right mind
could deny what he was going
to prove and thus any philoso­phy
that denies God exists is
false. Therefore, he said, Com­munism
is false and blasphem­ous.
And, if man wants peace,
he must seek the peace that God
wants to give to him.
Father Crowley concluded his
program with this statement by
Bacon, "Sips of Philosophy may
indeed lead up to atheism, but
fuller draughts lead the soul on
to God."
Mr. John Meaney, Moderator
of the Radio Club, substituted
for Mr. Arthur Riel on the club's
first program of 1951. Mr.
Meaney considered the question
of "How Democratic Are We?"
Yale University News Bureau
PROFESSOR WALTON
(Continued from Page One)
Professor William M. Walton
Should be interesting
SENIORS RETREAT
ALONE
(Con.tinued from Page One)
fame, prestige and all the honors
the world could offer; yet when
forced to make a choice between
serving his earthly King and his
God, he simply stated: "The
King's good servant I have ever
been, but God's first;" and chose
death rather than deny Christ's
Church.
It is generally felt by the
seniors that the theme of the
retreat given by Father Flattery
will ever remain in the minds
of the first graduates of Fairfield
University. There can be no
doubt, they feel, that the ideas
expressed by the retreat master,
together with the graces gained
by those making the retreat, will Choice Wines & Liquors
aid the members of the Class of 1599 POST ROAD
"51" to live Catholic Christian FAIRFIELD
lives in a highly secularized I.!.. ,
past two years he was an In­structor
in Philosophy and in
July of· 1950 he was appointed
to his present position. He has
maintained active participation
in his profession, having contrib­uted
to Colliers' Encyclopedia,
and to the Review of Meta­physics.
The topic of Mr. Walton's lec­ture
will be The Layman's Role
in the Resurgence of Scholastic
Philosophy. Mr. Walton has
been called upon by many church
groups to express his views con­cerning
this rising of Scholastic
Philosophy.
The importance of this move­ment
can be seen in the fact that
non-sectarian educational insti­tutions
such as Yale and many
other institutions which hereto­fore
have been at least secular
in their phiosophy have now or­ganized
courses such as the one
Mr. Walton teaches on St. Thom­as
Aquinas. Since this resurgence
in Scholastic Philosophy, which
for many years in our modern
times has been practiced by the
Catholic Church alone, is now
being assumed by so many per­sons
who have been awakened
by the present world conditions
to the realization that material
things cannot provide the an­swers
to our problems; it is a
very timely subject explaining
just what is the Layman's Role
in the Resurgence of Scholastic
Philosophy.
As I Saw It
Glee Club:
Nothing is too good for the
man who gave our GLEE CLUB
years of hard work, time, pa­tience,
understanding . . . We
owe something to this leader
who took mere boys and molded
them into boys ... As a token
of gratitude, on behalf of the
STUDENT COUNCIL, the rep­resentatives
of all four classes,
we are awarding this man a
twenty-five dollar oil painting
... why not a War Bond, it's
interest bearing . . . don't fret
students the money is coming
from last year's gift which was
never given ... I wonder what
(Continued on Page Eight)
As Caldonia and I whipped
my roommate's Nash into high
gear, the thought of being late
for my date with COUNCIL
somewhat disturbed me. After
hastily gulping the remains of
a delicious tootsie roll, I pushed
open the doors to the spacious
assembly room and was com­pletely
overwhelmed with the
silence and seriousness which
had captured our student repre­sentatives
busily at work with
the matter at hand . . . four
paddles and a ping pong ball ...
The issue lay before them but
was quickly tabled twenty-one
times to be exact I won-dered
if they realized how simi­lar
a table tennis game was to
a COUNCIL meeting ... At last
that one man arrived to make
up a something or other and the
session comminced ...
Small Stuff:
We have a new chairman for
OPERATION JUKE BOX ...
Frank "DIG ME" Discala . . .
the Dean was approached and
it might be that a new course
in the two step will be offered
at F.U.... I'm still from Mis­souri
. . . By the way do you
want a cigarette machine? ...
it will save you arm trouble
from reaching over the counter
... Speaking of "LENT KILL­ERS,"
the COUNCIL decided
that there are a'sufficient num­ber
of ash trays in the cafeteria
so no new ones will be" pur­chased
... good, now I can keep
the borrowed ones . . . $10.00
for a delegate to N.F.C.C.S .
I still can't figure it out The
man with the camera is back
again ., "picture, picture, who's
going to take our picture" re­mains
the COUNCIL theme song
CRY THE WILD GOOSE:
There is a bit of hoop-de-doo
in our progressive Freshmen at
least Demshak, has brought up
an old cookie . . . "How about
a Juke Box in the cafeteria?"
. . . Rather an intriguing idea if
you don't think about it too
much ... A committee has been
appointed, comprising two
FROSH and a SOPH, to investi­gate
the impossibilities ... Well
flip my lid and a yea Bo look
who's chairman ... it's "BIG
HORN" HEAGNEY ... Hot
Zingo, I can just see Father
Shanahan trying to teach the
DILEMMA to the strains of
"I'LL BE GLAD WHEN YOU'RE
EITHER DAID OR YOU AIN'T
DAID YOU RASCAL YOU" ...
Cats, the session is adjourned
... next jamboree February 6,
1951 . . . Take it away CAL­DONIA....
The Council
ARMY RESPIRANTS:
"How about R.O.T.C." Mc­Keon
asks ... Father MacDon­nell
answers, "Positive steps are
being taken in that direction"
... (Pause for cliche) ... stick
around fellows you still have a
chance ...
THE MAN IN THE RED:
"Harry" Costello requests a
leave of absence from the Coun­cil
until he has finished work on
a juicy MEDULA OBLONGATA
or Elongated hangnail ... O.K.
"Harry" you're excused but it's
a good thing you are no longer
Treasurer ...
SHALL WE PRANCE:
By the time this is printed,
three & V2 guys will have told
us what a lovely time was had
at the S.J.C. "ROLIDY-DA"
Dance at Hartford ... John, old
boy, I hope you did not have a
rough time "procuring" fellows
... You know what they say
at Yale ... PAWl PAW!
HOLD IT:
Flash! Important session will
be held to have the council mem­bers'
picture taken for Senior
YEAR BOOK . . . by a profes­sional
yet ... smile pretty boys!
JUST TALK:
Club activities may be carried
on in the KNIGHTS of COLUM­BUS
hall in Fairfield if so de­sired.
What's desired is a fee.
H you have cash and a club
you'll have a meeting place ...
Sounds like a good deal but a
fast shuffle ... All in all might
be worth investigating ... What
do YOU think??
COULD BE IMPORTANT:
Letter to NATIONAL FEDER­ATION
OF CATHOLIC COL­LEGE
STUDENTS (in 0 n e
breath) . . . $45.00 for Regional
dues (some bodkins) ...
ATTENTION: BRIDGEPORT
AND VICINITY (or OUR
VERY OWN):
(A bit late ... ) Mid Win-ter
Come-u-all mit Gene
Williams plus $500 he should
go back to New York? ... but
wait we get ice from "Weis" ...
MISSED ENTIRELY:
Treasury Report ... (So vot!)
BORING:
Constitution submitted to the
Council from the "AMATEUR
RADIO SOCIETY" . . . slight
revision made and business effi­ciently
completed ... Constitu­tion
of GERMAN CLUB sub­mitted
. . . handled with usual
care.
by Rudy Girandola, '53
When I was asked to cover THE GREEN YEARS:
the STUDENT COUNCIL meet- Freshmen want signs to know
ing, they sent me off after firm- what floor thev're on ... it takes
ly shaking my hand and wishing months of practice plus patience,
me a hardy, "good luck." When boys, and as you go on you'll
the assembly concluded, I sud- find the day is filled with sur­denly
realized why the "back prises . . .
slap" and "hip hip old boy, carry
on" for, as sure as wise men
never lie, my trusty WEAR­EVER
took quite a beating ...
I thought my days as a Council
member were rough but they
seem so much child's playas
compared with the problems
facing our present student rep­resentatives
and, incidentally,
they've got more representa­tives
now than we had students
... Oh well, "Save La hair,"
as Bob Allard used to say, let's
get on with the "noose" (note:
This is not hot off the Dress ...)
(note again: To save "skimming
time," the items are evaluated
or vice versa ...
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Intramural
Basketball
After a layoff of three week
due to Mid Year exams and Re­treat,
the Intramural basketball
league is ready to swing back
into action, weather permitting.
Last week's entire slate wa
postponed due to the poor con­dition
of the courts, but in the
future every effort will be made
to play all scheduled games. Th
scores of the six games played
as of this date are as follows:
Philosophical Five 58, Cracker
Jacks 38; Accountants 22,
Shrimps 14; Philosophical Five
66, Reef Road Reefers 28. The
Philosophical Five lost to the
Accountants, and the F.G.A.C.
has lost to the Accountants and
defeated the Cracker Jacks, all
by scores of 2-0, due to forfeit.
The standings:
Accountants
Philosophical Five
F.G.A.C.
Reef Road Reefers
Shrimps
Cracker Jacks
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Coach Ken Kunsch will have
his men at top form in an effort
to return to winning ways after
losing to St. Peter's and Arnold
in the last two outings.
Next Friday, Arnold will pro­vide
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Arnold 57, Fairfield 46
A bad first 10 minutes were
enough to spell defeat for Fair­field
in this encounter. Arnold
enjoyed a 20-4 spread at the end
of the first part of the opening
half.
Ed Brown garnered scoring
honors for the Terriers, pour­ing
19 points through the cords,
mostly on sets. Gene Savard was
next in line with 15, followed
closely by Red Verderame's 13.
Stan Suchenski was the only
"Stag" performer to connect for
double figures, meshing 18 on
seven field goals and four throws
from the 15-foot stripe.
Fairfield 83, Willimantic 77
A team scoring record was tied
and an individual scoring mark
was established in this fray. The
latter was set by Stan Suchen­ski
who gained 26 points on a
dozen baskets and a pair of free
throws. It broke Joe Kehoe's
previous standard of 25. set
against Mt. St. Mary's of Mary­land
and st. Anslem's during the
first year of basketball at Fair­field.
The team mark of 83 ties the
record set against Danbury State
Teachers College last season.
Along with Suchenski in the
scoring parade were Kehoe with
24 points and Bob Markovic with
14.
Lou Lamb was high for the
Teachers combine with 23
points. Willimantic was on the
short end of a 46-38 count at the
end of the first twenty minutes.
Four important games face the
Fairfield University val's i t y
cagers during the next two
weeks, beginning with the home
game tomorrow night against st.
Anselm's of New Hampshire.
Wednesday finds the "Stags"
traveling to Hempstead, Long
Island, to vie with Hofstra Col­lege,
while next Friday will see
Arnold College invading the Ar­mory.
The remaining tilt is
against New Haven State Teach­ers
College on February 28 at
the Elm City.
Fairfield will be seeking re­hands
of the Jersey Jesuit school. venge against the St. Anselm's
The "Stags" converted on only crew, as they dropped an excit­17
of 34 attempts. They out- ing 73-72 tussle to them earlier
scored the victors from the floor, in the season at New Hampshire. Jack Malakie
22-21. Charlie Duffley and Gus There's a story to this picture! 1--------------
Tom Smith packed the scoring D'Orazio will lead the charges Though Photography Editor determination was recorded for
attack for St. Peter's, registering of Al Grenert, mentor of st. A's IJack Malakie traveled with the The ball did not fall in, and
25 markers on eight two-pointers Hawks. The former scored 17 team to New Hampshire for the Fairfield lost by one point, but
and nine charity tosses. Jerry while D'Orazio added 13 in the St. Anselm's game, neither he if the basketball score showed
Degnan follow~d wi~h I? and earlier fray. nor the editors expected the defeat, the score from the
Pete Cleavy Chlpp~d m .wlth 13. The Hofstra engagement will "gem of a picture" resulting photographic standpoint was
. Stan. Suche~skl wIth 15, Icertainly be a "natural." as from the tnp. victory. Instead of concentrating
Junmy ~om~ wIth 14 and .Bobby Frank Reilly's crew will be out Most basketball pictures have on the usual subjects of a basket­MarkovIc
wIth 10 were hIgh. for to make amends for the upset one element in common . . . ball picture, Malakie took a
FaIrfield who led at halfhme, I suffered earlier at Bridgeport. they are usually taken of basket- chance on his hunch, and pro-
33-25. The "Stags" virtually "ran" the ball players who are playing duced the above results.
Flying Dutchmen off the floor in with a basketball on a basket- It certainly proves one thing
winning 65-48. ball court. This is reasonable . . . that one picture is worth
Reilly will probably rely on and logical, but fortunately ten thousand words.
Percy Johnson, Matty Ernau and photographer Mal a k i e was
Irv Burton to spell defeat for neither reasonable nor logical,
the Jesuits. but acted "on a hunch," for one
Arnold will start the same team second of his trip.
that defeated the "Stags" at Mil- In the picture above, you do
ford two weeks ago, with Ed not see a basketball, nor do you
Brown and Gene Savard setting see the players on the court, nor
t.he pace. even the court itself. Instead you
Always tough at home, New see the clock 011 the wall some
Haven State Teachers will rely spectators in the stand~, and
on Ted Vartelas to lead the at- some players on the bench. Any
tack against Fairfield. Lou Car- other time this would be an
dillo will also be a tough as- editor's nightmare a waste of
signment for Coach Jim Hanra- film and the cause' of a "severe"
han's charges. tongue-lashing on the poor
photographer. This time, though,
it was different.
By close scrutiny you will no­tice
that the clock on the wall
has been "stopped" by the cam­era
at the last second of the
game, and further observation
will disclose the final score:
Guests-n, St. Anselms-73. At
this second a Fairfield man had
tried a shot at the basket and
the ball was rolling undecidedly
around the hoop. Players were
excited, spectators were tense
... everyone present was tense,
for they all knew that if it drop­ped
in, Fairfield would win. At
this second, Malakie clicked his
shutter, and a moment of anx­iety,
suspense, anticipation, and
By HARLEY BLACK and BERNIE BEGLANE
The other games:
NYAC 70, Fairfield 67
After a hotly contested battle,
the "Men in Red" just couldn't
make the grade and lost another
heart-breaker to the big N.Y.A.C.
team at New York.
In the game which provided
those present with many thrills,
Stan Suchenski walked off the
court in top scoring position
with a total of 20 points on iO
field goals. Bobby Markovic oc­cupied
the number two spot with
16 tallies.
For New York, set-shot artist
John Derderian was ace for the
evening with a total of 18.
Bobby Jensen was second with
a dozen. Both players are former
N.Y.U. hoopsters.
As has happened previously,
Fairfield won the game from the
floor with a total of twenty-eight
field goals, while the New York­ers
scored twenty-seven. How­ever,
we were tripped on the
foul line making only 11 shots
for 19 attempts.
Nine games have been played since our last issue,
and since it would be fruitless to recap all of them, we
will only give an account of the last five. The other
games saw the Stags continue vjctorous at the Bridge­pont
Armory, beating our arch-rival, Bridgeport, 64-57;
Pratt, 60-50, and Hillyer, 43-37. The lone defeat in­flicted
at home was by Providence, 82-67.
Fairfield 70, Kings Point 53
The Fairfield "Stags" returned
home victoriously after playing
their tenth away game of the
current season.
Kings Point was first to score
and for the first thirteen min­utes
managed to hold possession
of the lead. With only minutes
remaining in the first half, Jim
Homa's hook and Joe Kehoe's
lay-up enabled F.U. to leave the
floor at the half time mark with
a one point advantage, 24-23.
The first ten minutes of the
second half saw a lot of action
as Jim Homa completed four
successive hook shots. Fairfield,
at this point, was able to put a
24 point gap between themselves
and the Mariners. This lead per­mitted
Coach Hanrahan, for the
second time this season, to use
all of his charges.
Jim Homa and Joe Kehoe
shared top honors with 13 points
each. Jack Sullivan followed
with a total of 12.
St. Peter's 67, Fairfield 61
Inability to connect from the
free-throw line proved to be the
factor in the Jesuit defeat at the
Stags Lose On Road;
Sucbenski Sets Mark With 26
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The Senior Bowling League
finds the Mudhooks in first place.
A three game victory over the Francis Woods, Editor-in­Sandbaggers
has firmly en-trenched
them in the top spot. Chief of the 1952 Manor, has
Director John Miko has an-. announced the names of those
nounced that an all star team Iappointed to positions as editors
from the senior league is will- of the yearbook staff. Working
ing to meet any six or eight man.. .
team, students or members of wIth EdItor Woods are assIstant
the faculty, in a series of match editor James Doheney and busi­games.
Interested persons are ness manager John Walsh.
a.sked to see Miko as soon as pos- The following staff appoint-
SIbTleh.e Junior Bowling League ments 'were a1so announced: Ed-has
been reorganized under the ward Kelley, lIterary edItor, Ed­guidance
of Stan Turski. They ward Sperry, layout editor, and
will now bowl on Mondays at Raymond Yuskauskas, photog­the
Fairfield Alleys, and new raphy editor.
members are still invited to roll.
The Sophomore Bow 1 i n g Edward R. Flannery, the 1951
League, with Tim Cronin at the editor-in-chief of the Manor, has
helm, has made little headway offered his services in every de­towards
a successful schedule. partment until his graduation.
Teams and individual bowlers Plans are now being formulat-are
stIll needed. Contact Cromn I d f th bI' t' f .
as soon as possible. e or. e pu Ica lOn 0 an In-
John Miko has undertaken the formatlOn handbook. The next
task or organizing a round robin ~~w weeks will be used in select­tournament
for all the classes. mg the yearbook staff, and any­It
is expected to start in March. one interested in helping is
Further- details will be a~- requested to contact any of the
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The Fairfield University Jun­ior
Varsity Basketball Club has
played five games to this date.
These unnoticed hoopsters have
By BERNIE BEGLANE a record of three wins and two
loses,
As most of you probably know dents. Well, it is not that the au- The J.V's were victorious in
by now, Fairfield University will thorities are dissatisfied, but this their first three outings, edging
definitely field a varsity baseball is an extra appeal for attend-
I 'd I' the Orcutt Seniors 48-46, out-team
come spring time. This ance. I know mentlOne ear ler
fact was made known to the pub- in the year that I was not going scoring the Junior College of
lic by Father Kinsella, our ath- to talk about it during the sea- Commerce of New Hampshire
letic director, at the Connecticut son, but when I explain the rea- 44-24, and pinning a 47-33 set­Sportswriters
Luncheon at New son, you will not mind it. back on the University of Bridge­Haven
on January 15. At this A "feeler" has been sent out port Freshmen.
affair, both Father Kinsella and by the New England Conference The U.B. contest started slow­Jim
Hanrahan, varsity basket- of the National Association of ly, with the men from Bridge­ball
coach, were, roundly re- Intercollegiate Basketball to find port matching the young "Stags"
ceived, and the name of Fairfield out if the "Stags" are interested basket for basket during the first
was well received by the writers in participating in the associa- quarter. The Jesuits doubled
in attendance. This fact was well tion's New England Tourney. their point production during the
established from the comments The answer is yes, and in order second quarter, and held a 28­that
were made following the to make sure the bid is received, 19 lead at the intermission.
meeting and also from the write- the team knows that they must Stapleton and Incerto shared top
ups given the school in the defeat all of the remaining oppo-t
f 11
. scoring honors with 12 points
newspapers he 0 owmg day. nents. This is no small task, and
With the way sports are going at with as many students behind each as the Red-men built their
our school, it won't be long be- the team as possible, it will give nine point half-time advantage
fore the name of Fairfield will them an added incentive. into a 14 point difference and a
be the talk of peop1e m· p1aces Since two of the remaining 47-33 win before the final whis-other
than the Nutmeg state. games are with Arnold and tle sounded. "Willy" Smith
The members of the basket- Bridgeport, it would also give played a fine floor game.
ball team have asked me to the "Stags" the area title. The Jim Hanrahan's young men
thank the Senior Class for their three teams are deadlocked with strayed from their winning ways
thoughtfulness in sending them a win and a loss each. So, two when they traveled to Milford
the "good luck" telegram on the very important titles are in the to meet the freshmen from Ar­night
of the University of making - the team wants them nold College. The men from Mil­Bridgeport
game. It may not -how about the students? Your ford jumped to a quick lead be­have
been the reason for the answer will be made known by fore the Fairfielders could find
victory. but it certainly didn't your attendance at the remain- the range. In the second quar­hurt
any. ing home games. ter the visitors kept pace with
Speaking of school spirit. it Official statistics released by their hosts and trailed at half- 'Mudhooks W10n
certainly has been an inspira· the N.A.I.B. on January 27 show time by the score of 38-31. The ,
tion to the hoopsters to see the the Fairfield cagers in 28th place' '1 A I I R ° L d
students travel to. the away on team defense. as they have pomts COm!?1 ed b~ rno dear y etaln ea m the opemng perIod proved the
games - even as far as St. An- held opponents to 54.2 points per difference as the "Men in Red"
selm's in New Hampshire. game for the first 12 tilts. The matched Arnold's scoring capers
Congratulations are in order conference numbers 350 mem- throughout the second half. Fair-to
a couple of new fathers. bers. so 28th place is pretty good field could not cut the Arnold
Whitey Mullen earned the title for a comparatively new com-late
in January when his wife petitor. lead to less than the six points
presented h1·m WI'th a b aby g.lr1, Two opponents on our sched- that separated the two as time
while Jack Kibbe's spouse re- ule _ the University of Bridge- ran out, and the scoreboard read
ceived a boy when the stork paid port and New Haven State 61-55.
his visit in New Haven during Teachers College-are the latest Jim Stapleton .and George
the final week of exams. Mul- schools to join the N.A.I.B. If Boser were the "big guns" for
len is a trainer of the basketball the membership in Connecticut Fairfield with 16 and 15 points
team, while Kibbe was a mem- increases as rapidly next year as respectively, while Bill Smith
ber of the Intramural Football it did this, a real battle might chipped in 11, along with a fine
League last year. result for the Nutmeg crown of performance on the floor.
While still talking of congrat- the conference. On the road again, the Fair-ulations.
the members of the St. Francis of Loretto. Penn- field youngsters met stiff oppo­Athletic
Association. guided by sylvania is in first place in the sition in the form of St. Peters
President Jimmy Burns. are to Eastern Catholic Intercollegiate of Jersey City, New Jersey. The
be commended for the fine job Athletic Conference with three Peacocks gave the "Little Stags"
they are doing at the Bridgeport wins in as many outings. while trouble in registering a crush­Armory
every Friday night. It. Seton Hall of New Jersey fol- ing 83-45 defeat against their
is only through the good work lows with five triumphs in six fellow Jesuit students. st. Pe­that
they accomplish that Fair- tussles. The winner of this con- ter's took command from the
field is able to stage the home ference receives an automatic opening minutes, pouring 18
games in as successful a manner bid to the National Ctltho1ic In- points through the nets before
as has been witnessed by all who vitation Tournament to be held Fairfield "broke the ice" with a
attend. from March 12 to 17 at Albany. two-pointer. The Jay-Vees tried
Previously in the column I New York. A bid for Fairfield every conceivable defense, from
mentioned the fine school spirit is not too much to expect. Keep a zone to a full court press with
that has been shown by the stu- your fingers crossed. Twelve such little success that the Jer­teams
will participate. sey-men held a 30 point lead at ;::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;;;;;:;Ithe half, as the scoreboard read
49-19.
When the Fairfielders scored
four quick hoops in the opening
minutes of the second stanza and
cut St. Peters' lead to a mere 22
points they were as close as they
ever would be for the rest of the
night.
Page 8 THE STAG February 15. 1951
Underclassmen
Retreat Together
The annual retreat exercises
for undergraduate students of
Fairfield University took place
on January 30 through February
I under the auspices of the Rev­erend
Edmund J. Hogan, S.J.
and the Reverend Richard
Hegarty, S.J. in the auditorium
of Berchmans Hall. Father Heg­arty,
who served as guest retreat
master, is a member of the New
England Mission Band, Pomfret
Center.
The retreat exercises· started
each morning with Mass and
were concluded each afternoon
with Benediction. During th
interim Father Hegarty gave a
series of conferences in which he
urged the students to "act the
man;' by employing more ra­tionel
thinking, to rededicate
themselves to their religion, and
to know the obligations of their
religion so as to be able to real­ize
where innocence ends and
sin begins. The most widely dis­cussed
of the conferences was
that in which Father Hegarty
outlined the proper relationship
a Catholic student should have
with his parents, his fellow stu­dents,
and with other hetero­geneous
persons.
The Masses were offered b~T
the Reverend Francis X. Wilkie,
S J. and the recitation of th
Rosary was led by members of
the Sodality. The retreat was
compulsory for all Catholic stu­dents
and non-Catholics were
invited to attend. The retreat
exercises were climaxed by the
extension of the Papal Blessing
to all students, and were closed
with a one day retreat holiday.
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was not run specifically because
of the presentation of its subject
matter. but rather because of the
subject itself. There is a variety
of opinion on this topic. and
THE STAG likes nothing better
than to incite comment. discus­sion.
argumentation. or construc­tive
and sensible criticism on
pertinent matters. If you have an
opinion on this or other sub­jects.
"Our Readers Say" awaits
your words of wisdom.)
THE COUNCIL AS
I SAW IT
The Council Dog House:
They can't get along without
you, Mr. Costello, so you had
better end your leave of absence
· .. too much fuss over a man
who is gone only in body . . .
three years of service is too long
a time to question ... I hope the
spirit moves you Mr. McNamara
The Line Forms To The Right:
Sophomores are trying to fig­woe
who is next for a position on
the COUNCIL since a vacancy
has occurred . . . the toss up is
between Mr. Bateson and Mr.
Marmion Sophs have a week
to find out my advice to both
is stick to pinochle, there's only
two opponents against you ...
that is if you're not playing cut
throat ...
(Continued from Page Five)
Durante would say in this situa­tion
... The boys are in a dither
about ushering with or without
formal attire at the Klein con­cert
... let's have the obvious
conclusion fellows . . . A com­mittee
is really going to work
to put this thing over, complete
with posters, to exhort students
to purchase tickets ... It appears
to be a deliberating issue as to
whether council members should
be thanked publicly for their
work in making a success of the
Glee Club's initial solo at the
Klein ... thus far they have
wisely decided to stay in humble
confines behind the scenes . . .
hooray for the men behind the
men ...
LADIES' HOME JOURNAL
"Why doesn't somebody do
something about drafting wom­en?"
The social forces which
made women hesitate to volun­teer
for military duty would
vanish if they were drafted, Mil­dred
McAfee Horton, wartime
head of WAVES, says in her ar­ticle,
"Why Not Draft Women?"
in the February issue of "Ladies
Home Journal."
"Selective Service officials are
having a hard time finding
men," Mrs. Horton says. "Veter­ans,
fathers and boys in the mid­dle
of their educational training
are being drafted. How much
better for the nation it would
seem, to draw from th~ 16,000,000
young men and women of draft
age, rather than try to fill our
military needs from the 8,000,000
boys.
"Nobody who knows anything
about military life seriously con­templates
making the Army or
Proceeds With Caution: Navy - and certainly not the
Ed Flannery, Senior YEAR Marine Corps - into fifty-fifty
BOOK chairman, put forth in coeducational organizations! The
council a matter which bears main business of military serv­much
consideration on the part ices is combat, and women
of all four classes ... All stu- should be noncombantants. Nev­dents
should investigate the e~theless, th~ organizational dif- wildfire. Most of the rumor
angles involved for these new· fleuIty of USIng women for non- were wild.
ideas could mean greater success combatant duties is not insur-in
putting out your respective mountable. "It seems safe to assert that
YEAR BOOKS ... Here are "There is pseudo gallantry the experience of most servic
the two resolutions: which discourages using women wonien was a positive, healthy,
1. All seniors shall be assessed for war duty. They must be morally wholesome experience,
a said amount at the be- saved from the burdens of war maturing rather than degrading,
ginning of the school year. -though how they are saved by enriching rather than cheapen-
2. All proceeds of the JUN- draftin~ their husb~nds, leaving ing. As a matter of fact, the
lOR PROM shall go to- them WIth young chIldren who~e armed services are probably les
wards the financing of their father has been sent to war, IS dangerous places for young
YEAR BOOK " hard to see. Worst of all, so- women than are new jobs in·
'. called chivalry led too many war industry where -less ade-
Both of these ~esoluhons are people to believe that girls in quate provision can be made for
methods of obtaInIng funds In uniform were somehow lesser in twenty-four-hour-a-day welfare
ord~r that the.ir own respective quality than the nice girls who of personnel. American girls
senIor clas~ WIll h~ve a starting stayed at home to work in a proved to be a fine lot of human
account WIth WhICh they can factory. Rumors about their beings whether or not they wore
work to produce a YEAR BOOK manners and morals spread like military uniforms."
· .. Mr. Flannery stated that ------------ -=-- _
this year's senior class has had
rough going all the way because
they lacked an initial fund .to
payoff mounting debts ... $8000
to be exact ... A job well done,
"ED"! Brothers I'm going home!
· .. Boy is it going to be tough
wearing a bullet proof vest
NEW HEAD
EDUCATION
(Continued from Page One)
He taught Latin and general
foreign languages. Then· he
taught English in the Norman­din
Senior High School until he
entered the Society of Jesus.
In the summer of 1947, Father
McPeake went back to Boston
College as a Jesuit to teach Edu­cational
Psychology.
Father came to Fairfield Uni­versity
after leaving Manhattan­ville
College, New York, where
he was Chaplain.
The precursor of Father Mc­Peake,
Dr. Maurice E. Rogalin,
was acting chairman of the De­partment
of Education, and it
was he who organized this de­partment
of the University.
They Made It!
Congratulations
On February 5, Reverend Lau­rence
C. Languth, S.J., Dean of
the College, announced the
names of those students who had
met the requirements necessary
for enrollment on the Dean's List
for the First Semester of the
current school year.
Those listed were students
who had attained a scholastic
rating of A in three subjects and
a rating of B in their remaining
subjects. The honor students
were publicly recognized by a
bulletin board notice which list­ed
the following seniors: Ralph
A. Aconfora, Frank J. Bepko,
Robert S. Bugbee, Edward J.
Caldwell, Daniel A. D'Angelo,
Anthony J. De Francisco, "Joseph
W. Dempsey, Harold E. Doherty,
Edward R. Flannery, Thomas J.
Fraher, John J. Gleason, Jr.,
Robert M. Kelly, John M. Ken­nedy,
James J. Kenny, Michael
T. Levinsky, Francis A. Malys­zka,
Frederic J. Marston, Ed­ward
J. Montoni, Edward J.
Murphy, Thomas E. Murray,
Martin L. Nigro, Richard P.
Riccio, Rudy J. Ross, John J.
Sacco, James H. Skiffington,
John W. Slais, Bronislaus E.
Szkudlarek, Thomas E. Tierney,
Anthony'T. Varone, Ciro Ven­eruso,
Edward F. Wall, Jr., Rob­ert
J. Zeoli.
The Junior Honor Students
are as follows: James H. Aspin­wall,
Dominic A. Autuori,
Charles E. Black, Joseph D.
Cuomo, James J. Doheny, Jr.,
James D. Eplett, John P. Fray,
Jr., Edward J. Galla, Glenn G.
Hawman, Ronald M. Hunts,
WaIter S. Iwanicki, Willis C.
Kelly, Anthony J. Lomazzo,
Gerard Mohyde, Daniel R. Mul­lins,
Eugene F. Navetski, Elliot
L. Pierson, John P. Rogowski,
Casper A. Scalzi, Robert H.
Steele, William B. Sullivan, Fred
W. Tartaro, Martin J. Tracy,
Thomas J. Vitelli, and John J.
Walsh.
The Sophomores named to the
Dean's List were: Thomas J.
Bepko, William L. Curnin, Leon­ard
De Rosa, Jr., Joseph P. La
Chance, Thomas J. Liptak, John
J. Luckhart, Eugene W. Magner,
Jerome J. Mayer, Emanuel F.
Ondeck, Jr., Robert M. Slabey,
and John H. Welch, Jr.
The lone Freshman who met
the Dean's List requirements
was Joseph M. Bochniak.
only about one-third of those
who graduate from a law school
actually practice law. He also
emphasized the keen scholastic
competition which exists among
law students, and briefly outlin­ed
the possibilities of success for
the young lawyer.
During the period after his
talk in which he answered ques­tions
asked him by the students,
Mr. Williams mentioned the con­struction
by New York Univer­sity
of the Arthur T. Vanderbilt
Hall at a cost of more than five
million dollars. This new build­ing,
he stated, is most up-to­date,
containing all the facilities,
including model court rooms for
mock court sessions, necessary
for the successful completion of
a curriculum in Law. Mr. Wil­liams
also informed the students
that New York University will
soon announce the establish­ment
of the Elihu Root and
Samuel J. Tilden Scholarship
Fund which will provide twen­ty-
one hundred dollars a year
to each of two students from
each of the ten Circuit Court
of Appeals districts.
Under the sponsorship of the
Bellarmine Guild and the Bell­armine
Father's Club, the Fair­field
University Glee Club will
conduct a concert in Bridge­port's
Klein Memorial, on Febru­ary
22, at 8:00 p.m. This will be
the first time that the Glee Club
has ever held a big concert for
a local audience. On other occa­sions
it has either combined with
other glee clubs in a joint con­cert
or has appeared as guest
soloist of the Connecticut Sym­phony
Orchestra. On February
22 it will take over the stage in
the Klein and the applause at
the end of the concert will be
all its own.
Besides their favorite rendi­tions,
the Glee Club will present
a number of new selections
which it feels should please the
audience no end. Such selections
as "Star Dust," "Talk About
Jerusalem Morning,". "Toreador
Song," "Jesus, Joy of Man's De­siring,"
"The Ranger's Song,"
are all only a part of a great
program.
The Bellarmine Clubs are
most anxious to make this con­cert
the biggest and best of all
the affairs held at the Klein
this season. To help make it so
they are depending upon the stu­dents
of Fairfield University to
show their interest by coming
to this concert" themselves and
by selling tickets to others. All
the proceeds from this concert
are to go to the University.
Under the direction of Mr.
William Welch, chairman of
ushers, a group of the University
students will act as ushers. A
section of the auditorium will
be reserved for patrons and all
other seats will sell for $1.25.
John McNamara, President of
the Student Council, has agreed
to help with the sale of tickets
here at the University.
Mrs. J. Gerald Phelan is the
chairwoman of the Bellarmine
Guild and Mr. Frank Rice is the
chairman of the Bellarmine
Fathers' Club.
By RAYMOND YUSKAUSKAS
Bellarmine Guild
Sponsors Glee Club
At Klein, Feb. 22
FORDHAM LAW
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made by the student to Rever­end
Lawrence A. Walsh, S.J.,
Provost at Fordham University.
Father Langguth, in pursuing
his policy of rendering all pos­sible
aid to the prospective grad­uate
student, recently brought
Mr. George H. Williams, Assist­ant
to Dean Russel D. Niles of
the School of Law of New York
University, to Fairfield Univer­sity
to speak to and confer with
this same group of men wl-.o
hope to continue their education
in the field of law.
In introducing Mr. Williams,
Father reminded the group that
the Examining Board of the
Connecticut Bar Association had
granted accreditation to Fair­field
University as meeting their
requirements in presenting
courses of study suitable for en­trance
to Law School. Mr. Wil­liams
spoke on the influences
which should determine a stu­dent's
decision for or against en­tering
a Law School, mentioned
the difficulties such a course of
study entails, and noted that