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THE RATTLER
EDITED BY THE STUDENTS OF ST, MARY’S COLLEGE
VOL. VII.
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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, OCT 8, 1925 No.
BRO. JOHN WALDRON, S. M.
Bro. John A. Waldron, for many years
the inspector of schools in the Western
Province of the Brothers of Mary, was
recently assigned to St. Mary’s College,
San Antonio. It was reported at one
time that he would go to the Hawaiian
Islands; but at the beginning of Septem-
ber all rumors were laid when news ar-
rived from Santa Cruz, Calif., that Bro-
ther Waldron would leave on September
13th for San Antonio.
St. Mary’s is especially fortunate in
being able to add to its faculty such a
well known educator as Bro. John A.
Waldron. Associated with the founders
In 1908, at the formation of the West-
ern Province, he was appointed its first
vvaiaron. Assoc.atea w.,n tne tounciers SCh°°IS’ WhrC,h he ^
of the National Catholic Educational oh?,Ig'=d t,U a year ?f°- was however
a • i j . rather as member of the Executive Board
Association, he served on its executive x ,, -xT ,. , ^ .. , ,. , A
of the National Catholic Educational As-
sociation that he gained national promi-
nence. He is well known to Catholic edu-
cators. He is an expert not only in ciass
and school management as well as meth-
ods of teaching, but also in construction
and equipment of educational institu-
tions. He has served in advisory capacity
on many educational boards during the
Dast twenty-five years.
Bro. Waldron is not only an excellent
organizer and executive but also a fluent
speaker and a versatile writer. Besides
many articles that he has written for
educational journals, he has composed
several college plays and has adapted
many more for his own use as well as for
the use of the religious community of
vvhich he is a member.
Bro. Waldron has come south at his
own request, and we hope that San Anto-
nio with its fair climate will reestablish
him completely in health, and that we
shall have the honor and pleasure of hav-
ng him yet many years among us.
board for over fifteen years.
A little more than a year ago Bro.
Waldron was compelled by ill health to
resign from the office of inspector of
schools of the St. Louis Province of the
Brothers of Mary. He had filled this of-
fice for over fifteen years, and it was, no
doubt, the frequent demands made on an
already overworked constitution that led
to a nervous break-down. He retired to
Santa Cruz, Calif., and an absolute free-
dom from all responsibility as well as an
abundance of out-door occupation re-
stored his health and forces so rapidly
that he seemed in better physical condi-
tion and strength than he had enjoyed
for years.
On October 20th Bro. Waldron will
have completed fifty years of almost
uninterrupted work in the cause of Chris-
tian education. He attended, at the time
he joined the Brothers, St. Patrick’s
Parish School, Cleveland, Ohio. Here he
had as teacher Bro. Bertram, the venera-
ble old man of St. Mary’s, with whom he
is again fortunate to be associated. After
passing through the postulate, novitiate
and scholasticate at Dayton, Ohio, he
was employed as teacher in Dayton, New
Orleans, Pittsburg and Chicago. He was
then sent to Paris where he spent three
years in advanced work, and upon his re-
turn was appointed vice-president of St.
Mary’s Institute, Dayton.
He worked intensively to build up what
is now the University of Dayton, and
made himself a host of friends by his
genial personality as well as by his re-
markable success as a teacher. Over-work
however, forced him to take a rest and
he was then stationed at Cleveland, Ohio,
as principal of St. Patrick’s School, where
he remained ten years.
The football squad will now render us a
little ballad entitled “Why did I eat the
pie, Why, O Why, O Why?
You may use Goldsmith Athletic goods,
but in St. Mary’s College dining room I
want “Reach.”
The super collegiate are now replacing
the “Charleston” by the “Duck Waddle.”
PROSPECTS.
One of the old students upon his re-
turn to St. Mary’s was very much sur-
prised and impressed at the improved as-
pect of the school and its grounds. “And
just think”, he remarked, “I had other
ideas but now I’m surely coming back.
Why who would not be proud to say, T
am a Rattler.” Then comes the ques-
tion, “Who is that man over there who
seems never to tire running about?” In-
variably he is answered, “Why, that is
Brother Joseph Dolan, the man who is
enthusiastically working to make St.
Mary’s what it is now merely hinting at.”
This was part of the conversation of near-
ly every student, new or old, when they
first came out to St. Mary’s this year.
St. Mary’s has progressed rapidly in
every possible way. The faculty, with the
addition of Brother John Waldron. Bro-
ther John Singer, Brother Peter Hill,
Brother Joseph Dolan, Brother Joseph
Siemer, Brother Charles Priesmeyer
and Mr. Thomas O’Donnell has been en-
larged to twenty-nine professors. The
college department has jumped from
twenty-five to some sixty members.Every
available private room has been filled and
probably in nineteen-twenty-six when we
return to continue our studies a new dor-
mitory building will be the first thing to
attract our attention. Already finer labo-
ratories, as well as a new cafeteria have
been constructed.
The campus has taken on an altogether
more picturesque appearance. After one
passes through the gate he sees two grav-
el roads, one of which leads to the nu-
merous laboratories and the other to the
beautiful buildings of the school proper.
Passing on the party comes to the spa-
cious campus, consisting of three football
gridirons, two baseball fields, five tennis
courts and a fine out-door swimming pool
With Thomas O’Donnell, erst-while
Illinois University Star Athlete, as coach,
the Rattlers have one of the best footbali
teams that St. Mary’s has ever had.
A cattle stampede is hard to stop, but
a stampede of human rattlesnakes is
much harder to stop and it is question-
able whether they are to be stopped at
all. A rattlesnake stampede is now in
progress at St. Mary’s College and their
onrush is certainly of the non-stoppable
variety. This human onward rush, com-
>ined with the unquellable desire for prog-
ress, which is indeed the S. M. C. spirit
is unconquerable and one that is not to
be suppressed. Just attempt to subdue
this onward surge and watch out for the
sting!
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St. Mary's University (San Antonio, Tex.). The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1925, newspaper, October 8, 1925; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth614850/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library.