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Austin, Texas, Saturday, February 10, 1962
Number 8
Volume 46
A Man With a Golden Heart
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Brother Dunstan Celebrates
Silver Jubilee
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Literary Magazine Proposed
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JUNE IN FEBRUARY?—With temperatures in the mid-eighties.
Andre Hall roommates, Klaus Adam (top man on the ladder) and
Bill Ferris (bottom), brave the chilly waters of Barton Springs.
Brother Dunstan relaxing in his room on the second floor of
Holy Cross Hall, where he is prefect. The mural in the back-
ground was painted by Brother Dunstan, and is another illustra-
tion of his many talents.
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Brother Charles Andersen, CSC,
director of Student Activities, re-
cently gave his stamp of approval
to the newest St. Edward’s campus
endeavor—a literary publication
of student writing. Brother Simon
Scribner, CSC, will moderate the
magazine, assisted by Michael
Tracy as editor.
The magazine is scheduled for
publication in late April or early
May. The major job of the staff
at present will be to tap student
writers for contributions. The pur-
pose of the magazine will be to
stimulate the spirit of writing
among Catholic students and to
encourage them to write by pre-
senting an obtainable publishing
outlet.
In presenting to all St. Edward’s
students the vast opportunities
found in publishing a magazine
of this type, it is certain that in
time it will carry with it the hall-
mark of Catholic intellectualism
as well as an opportunity for all
contributors and readers to be-
come aware of what a fellow stu-
dent is thinking and writing.
At this time the staff of the
yet untitled literary magazine
would like to invite any student
of the University, either boarder,
day or scholastic, who might have
an original manuscript and con-
tial to submit it to the staff im-
mediately.
Perhaps there are many who
do not have completed works
available, have only semi-com-
pleted ones or rough drafts. The
deadline for contributing material
is March 1. For information or to
contribute, see Mike Tracy, Doyle
Hall 104.
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Spring Semester
Enrollment
Highest Ever
Nineteen transfer students were
added to the student body and two
new teachers to the faculty for
the spring semester. The new
students raised the second semes-
ter enrollment to 514, the highest
ever recorded at the Hilltop for
this period.
The transfer students include
John Sims, Alphonso Garza, Roger
Barry, Paul Andries, John Galla-
gher, Robert Thompson, Humberto
Garza, Milbert Groneck, Floren-
tino Hernandez, Edward Weber,
and Joseph Landry.
Also transferring to St. Ed’s are
Steve Verhalen, David Beach, Roy
Brown, Earl Wilcox, Bernard
Johnson, William Stevens, Ken-
neth Kooch, and Francisco Tre-
vino.
Col. John W. Hansborough and
Mrs. Lillian Warren have joined
the faculty this semester. Col.
Hansborough will teach Introduc-
tion to the Physical Sciences, and
Mrs. Warren will have Observa-
tion and Student Teaching.
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Nine New Courses
Now Being Offered
St. Edward’s University is of-
fering nine new courses during
the spring semester. All but one
of these courses have been added
to the Liberal Arts field.
New courses are: School and
Church Publications, Psychology
of Human Growth and Develop-
ment, the French Short Story,
Functions of a Complex Variable,
Intermediate Portuguese, and the
Spanish Short Story.
Also listed are Directed Read-
ings in Economic Development,
Observation and Student Teach-
ing. The last addition is the in-
troduction of instructing Politics
31 and 32 during the same semes-
ter.
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the vows. I left the novitiate with
no small regret, much like the
man who leaves an enormous
treasure, fearing that he may
never find it again."
Then came the preparation for
the work ahead—teaching. Life at
Dujarie Hall, Notre Dame, Ind.,
was full of surprises.
“A half-baked, mediocre high
school student,” Brother says, “I
went to college classes with fear
and trembling. But each day
found me more at home in classes,
thrilled with each new awakening
brought on by some new idea.”
After two years of college he
started teaching: a year at Cen-
tral Catholic, South Bend, Ind.;
a summer at Gibault School for
Boys.
“In this instance,” he says, “the
boys taught me!”
He taught the next two years
at Indianapolis’ Cathedral High
School; then back to Notre Dame,
where he picked up his bachelor’s
degree, and started to work on his
master’s degree. World War II
days brought many changes, and
he had to take classes at Immacu-
late Heart College in Hollywood,
Calif.
In 1946 he received his master’s
degree from the University of
Notre Dame. Nine years of teach-
ing history, Latin, English, speech,
putting out yearbooks, and direct-
ing plays, were spent in Long
Beach, Calif., at Saint Anthony’s
High School. Then followed five
years of teaching at Notre Dame
High School, Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Spare moments found Brother
writing. His first experience was
a musical production in Long
Beach, in 1942. It was called “Stars
Over Hollycrest.” His inspiration
came from a trip to the mountains
with the class of seniors of 1942.
Much singing had been done,
much wanting of a “show” had
been threshed out, and when the
trip was over, Brother went home
and set to work. The show played
his education, and graduated,
after a final summer school ses-
sion, from Oak Park High School.
Ernest Hemmingway didn’t re-
member him, but he remembers
Ernest; they were both Oak Park
products.
It was after high school days
and after a year of working in
Chicago and going to night school,
that the childhood haunting
thoughts of a vocation began to
return to him.
“More than once,” he says, “I
sat on the edge of my bed at night
and asked myself some serious
questions, and the answer always
came back: ‘to know Him, to love
Him, to serve Him.’ ”
A magazine article asking young
men to consider the life of a
Brother fell into his hands one
evening. He read it. That's what
he decided to do. In 1936 he went
to Watertown, Wis., to the Pos-
tulate of the Brothers of the Con-
gregation of Holy Cross.
"Is wasn’t easy, that adjust-
ment,” he says, “but the things I
learned made great sense. What
had been so much a matter of
faith gradually took on the con-
creteness of reality, and knowing
led to greater depth of belief.”
In 1937 he received the habit of
the Brothers and with it the dis-
cipline of the novitiate life. “God
is a flambuoyant Lover; one gives
nothing and receives everything;
He makes one wonder about the
quality of justice,” he said. “I
wonder now how such things can
be lost to sight, at least at times.
When the end of the year and a
day came there was nothing else
to do except to give one’s self to
By Norm DeTullio
On Feb. 2, the fantastic, fast-
moving world of Brother Dunstan
Bowles, CSC, digressed for the
moment as he celebrated with
solemn festivity, his silver jubilee.
Participating in the joyous occa-
sion were friends, faculty mem-
bers, and students.
A private Holy Cross Commu-
nity testimonial on Feb. 4 began
with a High Mass at 9:30 a.m. in
the High School Chapel. At 1:00
p.m. members of the Community
attended a banquet emceed by
Brother Charles Andersen, CSC.
Guests included Brother John
Baptist Titzer, CSC, provincial of
the South-West Province. Brother
Charles Edward Smith, CSC, from
the Canadian Province, was the
principal speaker. He delivered a
speech in French and then trans-
lated it into English. Brother Ray-
mond Fleck, CSC, president of the
University, also spoke on the oc-
casion. Brother Dunstan, the hon-
ored jubilarian, responded.
The many qualities for which
Brother Dunstan is known and
loved seem to have taken root in
the little hamlet of Chicago, where
he was born and reared. He saw
the boys come back from the
First World War, the Victrola
come into the parlor as the big
bit in entertainment, trudged after
a pail of suds, and almost drowned
in the newly dug foundation of the
Bunte candy factory. He was in
and out of Catholic and public
for a week’s run, costumes came
from 20th Century Fox Studios,
finances from Bing Crosby.
And from then on plays were
dashed off as the need arose:
“American Living Room,” “With-
out the Light,” “The Best Laid
Plans,” “Gianni Schicchi,” “The
Princess of Tallenberg" (for which
Hermes Pan, 20th Century chor-
ographer did the dances), “Strang-
ers in Our Midst,” “It Happened
Here,” “If Jack Were Only Here,”
”Go, Mac, Go” (a musical comedy
version of dead Shakespeare’s
MacBeth), "Upon Our Children,”
and “All the Way Home” and a
series of one-act plays.
Brother Dunstan entered three
plays at the Pasadena Playhouse
Festival, all of which were sen-
sational smash hits. All of the
plays were built for teenagers;
they were usually fun for the kids
and fun for the audience. “Have
fun!” is one of his favorite ex-
pressions.
In September of 1957, Brother
Dunstan was assigned to teach at
St. Edward’s High School. When
he came he brought his enthusi-
asm for theater with him. He be-
gan slowly with one-act plays and
later became involved in lavish
cast-packed productions. During ,
this time he was a member of the
Board of Directors for the Na-
tional Catholic Theater Confer-
ence.
In September of 1961, after hav-
ing produced and directed a num-
ber of St. Edward’s University
plays, including “White Sheep of
the Family,” and “Charley’s
Aunt,” he was assigned to the
University faculty as director of
dramatics and a member of the
English department.
Considering the complex pattern
of hops and jumps in the past 25
years of Brother Dunstan’s life,
we are most fortunate to be able
to host him on this very blessed
day. We might all wonder for a
moment: how unfortunate it
might have been for so many of
us, had he not picked up that
magazine one evening and decided
to devote his life to Christ.
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