The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 14, 1949 Page: 2 of 4
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THE RATTLER
October 14, 1949
%000 Years In San '
Tells Story of St. Mary s
By THOMAS PAPE
"It is worthy of enthusiasm on
two counts. It is both a Christian
college and a small college and it
intends to remain both Christian
and small.” With those words
Gerald Cullinan describes St. Mary’s
university and presents the theme
of his 41-page book, or booklet, to
be more accurate, Four Thousand
Years in San Antonio.
Four Thousand Years in San An-
tonio is about St. Mary’s. It is
not all about St. Mary’s, but it is
enough to show the University as
exemplary of what Cullinan consid-
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'Peace Of Soul' Is
Library Favorite
Peace of Soul, Msgr. Fulton J.
Sheen’s best seller, currently ap-
pearing in serial form in the San
Antonio Light, has been the most
called for book in the University
library for the past two weeks.
In the book, Monsignor Sheen
discusses the Catholic viewpoint,
and its application to everyday
modern living. The author treats
the timely theme in his customary
down-to-earth style. Readers of
the book are amazed at the "punch”
contained in the treatise.
ers an ideal educational institution
—the small Christian college. The
title is the result of figures com-
piled by Bro. Eugene Gittinger,
which show that 600 priests and
brothers of the Society of Mary
have given 4000 work-years to
higher education in Texas since
18 52.
Cullinan admits "bemoaning the
passage of the small Christian col-
lege from the American scene,”
particularly since the religiousness
of the small colleges of the East
seems to be limited to foundations.
He discusses the importance of the
code of ethics instilled in a Chris-
tian college and he weighs the mer-
its of large and small colleges.
In describing St. Mary’s, Four
Thousand Years in San Antonio
pictures an institution which is
working towards an average stu-
dent-teacher ratio of 12 to one. The
faculty has only one reward for
good work and that is more work,
and standards are continually be-
ing advanced.
It may take more than one read-
ing of Four Thousand Years in San
Antonio to make the student or
graduate realize that these are the
conditions that exist at the school
at which he is studying, or where
he received his degree.
BARRISTERS' CLUB
FATIMA CLUB
The newly-elected president of
the St. Mary’s Barristers’ club is
Edward W. Penshorn, senior law
student and member of Phi Delta
Phi, international scholastic legal
fraternity.
The Barristers’ club is the largest
student organization at the law
school and is charged with the re-
sponsibility of conducting student
affairs there.
Other new officers elected are
Patrick H. Dooley, vice-president;
Matias W. Garcia, secretary; John
M. Gilliland, treasurer; and Walter
Madalinski, parliamentarian.
The new committees and chair-
men for the year will be: mem-
bership, John Gilliland; law insti-
tute, John Spence; social affairs,
Bob Strickland; and publicity,
Bruce Aycock.
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CENTENARY CLASS
At its first meeting of the new
school year, the Centenary class of
St. Mary’s elected Roland Hargis
president, Frank Gebhardt vice-
president, Bob Masek secretary-
treasurer, Joe Grammier treasurer,
and James Finley sergeant-at-arms
and parliamentarian.
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The Fatma club, formed for the
purpose of encouraging the daily
recitation of the Rosary, is again
active on the St. Mary’s campus
this year.
The Fatima club differs from the
other campus organizations in that
its members have only two rules to
follow: to carry a rosary at all
times and to recite the Rosary
every day.
Day students usually gather in
the chapel at 9, 10, or 11 a.m. for
their devotion. The dormitory stu-
dents recite the Rosary together
after the evening meal each day.
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PHI DELTA PHI
The St. Mary’s chapter of Phi
Delta Phi, national honorary legal
fraternity, will be formally in-
stalled at ceremonies Saturday eve-
ning, Oct. 22, at the Downtown
law school. A reception at a local
hotel will follow the installation.
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KETTERING CLUB
The Kettering club, inactive
since 1947, held a reorganization
meeting Oct. 11 in the physics lab.
Officers were elected and plans for
the forthcoming year were dis-
cussed.
RATTLER CLUB
Fourteen pledges were formally
initiated into the Rattler club Oct.
6 at a banquet at Wolfe’s inn.
Bro. Louis Thein, faculty mod-
erator, spoke to the group, empha-
sizing that the club must be uni-
fied in spirit and action.
The new members are John
Scott, Bennett Hall, Philip Bauer,
Joseph Castorina, Anthony Mendi-
cino, Donald David, Roland Har-
gis, Paul Attanasio, Albert Trotta,
Charles Ulcak, Marvin Bippert, Al
Van Veen, Frank Scrivano, and
Virtor Stavinoha.
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KAPPA PI SIGMA
Kappa Pi Sigma, business fra-
ternity, will initiate 15 new mem-
bers at a banquet Oct. 20 at La
Paloma. Those being initiated as
new members are the ones accepted
as pledges during the summer.
The main address at the banquet
will be given by a prominent busi-
ness man.
The new officers are George
Payne, chairman; Ferdie Stehling,
secretary-treasurer, and James Fend-
ley, program supervisor. Bro. Wil-
liam Hamm is the faculty modera-
tor.
Brother Hamm addressed the club
members os radio fundamentals and
new equipment used in television.
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Ex-Students Plan
Nov. 19 Round-Up
Final plans have been completed
for the annual Ex-Students’ Round-
up to be held Nov. 19 on the Wood-
lawn campus.
The evening’s entertainment
will be climaxed by the drawings
for five television sets.
All St. Mary’s students are in-
vited to support this Round-up by
their attendance and by selling
tickets to the affair. The cam-
paign will begin on the campus in
^ the near future.
If you happened to see an alli-
gator at the Get-acquainted dance
at the Olmos, you weren’t drunk.
It was just Gary Boivman’s pet
"Allyson” attempting to crash into
society. For a while we thought
Gary was just trying to protect his
date from the wolves.
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Pat Edivards was so interested in
the outcome of the football games
that he brought his portable radio
along—could be SMU is more in-
teresting than his date. It didn’t
look like it.
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Gilbert ”Poker Face” Kissling
put on quite a show with the de-
tailed description of his newly-
found girl friend—if you missed
it maybe he will perform at future
dances.
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The newest angle seen yet was
about 21 students hiding their soda
water bottles under their girls’ coats
and very innocently strolling past
the policeman standing at the en-
trance to the Olmos club.
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It seems that St. Mary’s has ac-
quired two models just recently,
Charlie Barberio and John Cegel-
ski, who were gala attractions at a
fashion show given at OLL—hon-
est fellows we didn’t know.
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Caught Wayne Glenn and Jack
Tancred confiding in the fact that
Gus Wueste must change the
grounds and clean the coffee urn
every night in the cafeteria be-
cause the coffee and the food are
pretty good this year, thank you
Mr. Wueste.
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Charles LJlcak and Tony Mendi-
cino looked very chic with their
clothes on backward, but it is be-
lieved that the style of men’s
Published State
Reports Acquired
By Law Library
The Hobart Huson law library
at the St. Mary’s law school has
recently acquired all state reports
published before the establishment
of the National Reporter system,
Mrs. Frances Henke, librarian, has
announced.
The total book accessions now
number 17,607.
Mrs. Henke recently attended
the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Association of Law librarians.
Recent improvements at the St.
Mary’s School of law include the
painting and decoration of the fac-
ulty offices and the installation of
an inter-office telephone commun-
ication system. The legal aid clinic
at the law school has been moved
to a more convenient location.
clothes won’t change that much, at
least we hope not.
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Here is a notice to all card-
sharks. Phillip Spiller claims to be
an expert at the art of cribbage—
any takers.
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Bro. Herbert Leies has formed a
Sociology club which has as an out-
side project a tour of the county
jail, in what Bro. Leies puts—a
(quote) '"nice way” (unquote).
Who knows, this might be a change
for some of our better students.
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It has been suggested by John
Carl that the students who have
class on the third floor try out for
intramural football, seeing the way
some of the fellows take the stairs in
an attempt to get to class on time.
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In ROTC the other day one of
the instructors was calling roll and
came to the name Morris Ingin huet
and called, "Inginhut—couldn’t 1
just call you TeePee?”
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Guild Will Meet
To Plan Dance
The St. Mary’s university Guild
will complete plans for a square
dance at its meeting Oct. 21. The
meeting will be held in the univer-
sity reception room at 2:30 p.m.
Mrs. B. J. Logan, president, an-
nounced that the Guild will re-
decorate the faculty guest room
and complete repairs on the ladies’
lounge.
The Guild is driving for new
members and is open to mothers of
St. Mary’s students and to all la-
dies who wish to take an active
part for a better St. Mary’s. Any-
one interested should contact Mrs.
Logan at G-7997 or Mrs. W. J.
Bryan at P-2-1862.
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Speech Dept. Backs
High School League
A C a t h o 1 ic Interscholastic
Speech league, sponsored by the St.
Mary’s speech department, was or-
ganized at a meeting Saturday, Oct.
8, in the downtown law school
courtroom. Eleven San Antonio
Catholic high schools were repre-
sented.
Officers for the new league will
be elected during the Teachers’ in-
stitute at Central Catholic high
school Oct. 24.
A tournament of the Catholic
high school league is planned for
next spring at St. Mary’s. The
four activities to be participated in
then are original oratory, unorig-
inal oratory, humorous interpreta-
tion, and serious interpretation.
Retreat Is An Advance
A great retreat means a great advance. Do you believe
it? Omy you can prove it to yourself and the next and best
opportunity to do so will be the student retreat Oct. 17, 18
and 19. _ _i ui^J
“Ketreat!” will be the order of the day during those
three days as St. Mary’s students once again lay aside their
books for the annual tnree-oay period of spiritual reorganiza-
tion and reconstruction. Following these orders, they will
withdraw from their scholastic duties to devote themselves
to meditation and religious exercises.
It is not embarrassing tnat the Church Militant must
retreat regularly, for this is a matter of strategy necessary
to prevent a transforma cion into tne Church Dogged-down.
Furthermore there is no ground lost in this retreat. It is
simply an act of retiring into privacy away from the dis-
tractions of everyday living.
There is only one way to make a successful retreat. That
is to work with the retreatmaster in following the retreat
program, with its alternating religious exercises, conferences,
and periods of meditation. And aitnough the nearest inn, cafe,
or drugstore may be an extremely quiet and dignified estab-
lishment with an atmosphere conducive to the deepest
thought on absolutely any subject, students would do well
to remain at the university after checking in as present and to
reserve their favorite off-the-campus spot for their afternoon
introspections.
We can count on the retreatmaster. You are the only
unknown quantity in St. Mary’s formula for a successful
retreat. Show us your worth. Can we count on you?
—Thomas Pape.
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Quantity, Or Quality?
At the beginning of the twentieth century the majority
of the colleges in the United States were small. Througn
the years the centers of higher education have expanded until
today we are in the era of the great university, with its
mushrooming campus and a student body reaching into the
tens of thousands. And with the coming of the large college
there has developed a tendency to rate a school according
to its enrollment—the bigger, the better.
Each type of school, the large and the small, has its ad-
vantages. The great university boasts of its huge physical
plant and the number of students it can accommodate. With
equal vigor, the small college tells of its selectivity and close
pupil-teacher relationship.
No school, however, can be judged adequately by the
size of its enrollment. Several factors enter into the evalua-
tion, but the two most important are the quality of the
faculty and the scholastic standards required of the students.
If a college does not have a qualified teaching staff or
high scholastic requirements, then the number of students it
has registered is unimportant. The aim of every school is
to turn out well-educated graduates, and without these at-
tributes no college, regardless of size, can reach this goal.
The next time someone mentions a college, don’t shrug
and say, “Podunk U? Oh, it’s only got about 600 students.
Not much of a school.” Remember—it’s quality, not quantity,
that counts in the long run.
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Think!
During 97 years of existence, St. Mary’s university has
been proud of her students. Their achievements and cour-
age, in civil life and war, are well known. No act by a student
has ever caused dishonor to the University.
Because of a single thoughtless act or prank, a school or
college can be disgraced, through no fault of the majority.
All in an institution suffer for the acts of a few who believe
it clever to be rude and commit acts of vandalism.
Years of effort can be swept aside in a few moments,
and undue suffering for the innocent and a ruined reputation
for the guilty will result. Think what you and others have
to lose before you act. Then and only then can St. Mary’s
remain proud.
—George Witte.
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THE RATTLER
EDITOR ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Lee Corkill
MANAGING EDITOR --------------------------------------------------------------Ed Taylor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS--------C. A. Russell, Thomas Pape, George Witte
SPORTS EDITOR_____________________________________________________________________Bill Meskill
LAW SCHOOL CORRESPONDENT___________________________________Bruce Aycock
ADVERTISING MANAGER _________________________________________________Earl P. Kelly
CIRCULATION MANAGER____________________________________________________Peter Irwin
STAFF ARTIST _______________________________________________________________________________Ed Taylor
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER _____________________________________________Bob Coffman
REPORTERS: Kenneth Herzig, James Clark, Janies Salisbury, Irwin
Miles, William Roane, Phillip Spiller, Francis Matocha, John Carl,
Al Van Veen, Ray Parker.
FACULTY ADVISER _______________________________________________________________Harry Nixon
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