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Rattlers Head for First-Place Finish
To Meet St. Ed's, TWC
In Gym Here Next Week
StMU will host St. Edward’s University of Austin on
Feb. 17 and Texas Wesleyan College of Fort Worth on Feb.
20—for the most crucial games of the year. The Snakes
hold second place in the Big State Conference, behind de-
fending champs TWC, with a six-won one-loss record. The
TWC Rams have won six without
single marker with about 25 sec-
onds in the contest, Ernie Sena
and Gus Plugmacher took turns
in failing the clincher. It was the
Rattlers’ first defeat in the con-
ference.
TWC will be without the serv-
ices of their fine senior center
Bill Mundy, the Rams’ leading
scorer with 17 points. Mundy
failed to pass the required num-
ber of hours for his eligibility.
The Rattlers are particularly
looking forward to this game, the
sentiment among the players be-
to have played an ineligible play- ; ing that it is a “must” grudge
er in the conference race. j victory. They know that this
The champion of our confer- ! game is the big one, and to re-
ence must play the winner of the | cord a victory against the Rams
Lone Star Conference to decide j anywhere is no easy order. But
which team will represent this all feel confident and are priming
a loss.
Against the Hilltoppers, the
Snakes will try to avenge the de-
feat handed them last year on
the home floor by St. Ed’s that
knocked them out of the eonfer-
enc j picture. StMU already owns
a first-round victory over the
Hilltoppers. The score was 65-61.
It’s a Cinch!
Should the Saints finish in
second place in the Big State
Conference race, they will be in-
sured of a spot in the post sea-
son playoffs. TWC was declared
area in the NAIA tournament in
Kansas City next month. This
will be a three-game playoff, one
game to be played at StMU, and
the last two in the home of the
Lone Star foe. At this time
SWTSC from San Marcos is
leading and probably will be the
team that the Snakes must face.
Dates for these games are not
set as of now. It is almost cer-
tain though that they will take
place the week following the end
of the regular season.
Against the Rams, the
Snakes will play the last
home game of the year, and
a game that could well decide
the conference representative
to the post-season playoffs.
The Rams defeated the Snakes
by a single point, 77-76, in Fort
Worth on Jan. 13. A real thriller,
the game saw the Rams leading
the Snakes by as much as 14
points before we closed the gap
and pushed ahead with just over
one minute to go. Trailing by a
themselves for this contest.
Ooh-ee-ooh-ah-ah,
Witch Doctor Wins
And Nurse Does, Too
King and queen of the Ba-
rons’ annual Mardi Gras ball
were Jim Braniff of StMU and
Miss Joyce Johnson, from La-
redo Junior College. The king
and queen were costumed as
cannibals, Braniff being a cam
nibal witch-doctor.
Runners-up were Dracula and
Vampira, represented by Philip
Leyendecker of StMU, and Lu-
cille Johnson, IWC junior. The
queen and her runner-up are
sistei-s.
Emcee for the ball was
KONO disc jockey Doug China.
The king and queen were se-
lected by presidents of the
sororities and fraternities at-
tending.
Till?
1 iifj
RATTLER
ST. MARY’S UNITERSITY OF TEXAS
Vol. 41
San Antonio, Texas, Friday, February 13, 1959
No. 10
St. Mary's Again to Offer
Master's Degree Studies
A pi’ogram of graduate studies
leading to master’s degrees in
five fields will start in Septem-
ber at St. Mary’s University.
The Very Rev. Walter J. Bueh-
ler, S. M., president, told the
semi-annual faculty meeting Sat-
urday night, Feb. 7, that gradu-
ate work would start in mathe-
matics, physics, history, econom-
ics and business administration.
Graduate courses in the field of
education also have been ap-
proved by the academic council
State Inspectors Will
Eye Teacher Training
A visiting team from the Texas
Education Agency will arrive on | Dr- Ludwig Mai, associate profes-
for teachers who want to
strengthen their teaching subject
field and minor in education.
The degree program will re-
quire at least 18 hours beyond
the bachelor’s degree in the
student’s major field plus 12
hours in a minor in any of the
areas in which graduate work
is offered.
Graduate work at the Univer-
sity has been under study by two
committees since Dec. 1, 1957.
A steering committee for math
and science was under the chair-
manship of Martin Goland. vice
president and director of South-
west Research Institute. A grad-
uate studies faculty committee
was under the chairmanship Of
the campus Monday to evaluate
the University’s teacher-training
program, Dr. Henry Ringkamp,
S.M., dean of the department of
education has announced. They
will spend approximately three
days here and report their find-
ings to the agency headquarters
in Austin.
Members of the team will be
Mrs. Waurine Walker of the
TEA; Dr. Ruth Alcott, Lamar
Tech College, Beaumont; the Rev.
Ed Maher, University of Dallas;
Dr. John Payne, Sam Houston
High School; Dr. George Naggs,
St. Thomas University; and Mr.
C. Mathews, superintendent of
schools, Plainview.
<r~
sor of economics and co-director
of the International Relations In-
stitute.
Both committees narrowed
the scope of potential graduate
instruction to limits which were
suitable both to the Univer-
sity’s program and the need for
graduate education in the £>an
Antonio area.
The steering committee for
mathematics and science in addi-
tion to Mr. Goland, was composed
of Maj. Donald Becher, director
of maintenance engineering at
Kelly AFB; Dr. William J.
Hamm, “S.M., of StMU; Mr. Jack
Ammann, president of Jack Am-
mann Photogrammetric Engi-
neers; J. S. Ellis, civilian person-
nel officer of Kelly AFB; Dr.
Wayland P. Moody, president,
San Antonio College; Mr. J. J.
Walden, Jr., manager of the San
Antonio office of Convair; and
Dr. EdWard Wenk, Jr., chairman
of the department of engineering
mechanics of Southwest Research
Institute.
Members of the faculty com-
mittee in addition to Dr. Mai
were Dr. Thomas J. Treadway,
S.M., registrar; Dr. Joseph
Schmitz, S.M., professor of his-
tory; Bro. Hamm; Bro. George
Kohnen, S.M., chairman of the
BBA school; and Bro. Anthony
Frederick, S.M., chairman of the
English department.
The Rev. James A. Young,
S.M., vice president of academic
affairs said of the new program:
“The decision to undertake
graduate work . . . was made in
response to pressure from local
military installations, research
groups, teachers and prominent
civic leaders interested in mak-
ing available to SA at the grad-
uate level programs of the same
caliber of excellence that has
marked these departments in St.
Mary’s undergraduate school.”
Members of the faculty, like-
wise, have expressed again and
again an intense desire to restore
the graduate degree at St.
Mary’s,; he said. The last mas-
ter’s degrees awarded at St.
Mary’s were in August, 1952.
“The results of the long in-
quiry and of the advice of so
many outstanding persons will be
reflected, I believe, in the excel-
lence of the graduate program at
St. Mary’s University,” he con-
cluded.
A TENSE MOMENT in “Time Limit,”
the three-act Broadway play presented
here by the Marianist scholastics, is
shown above. So successful was the origi-
nal production on Feb. 5 that it was re-
peated Thursday night in a “command
performance.” The play had a cast of 16,
all student brothers. Center of attention
above is Bro. Charles Martens, S.M.
Pounding on the table is Bro. William
Neterval, S.M. In the background* left to
right, are Bro. William Czarnecki, S.M.,
Bro. Leo Mize, S.M., and Bro. Paul Don-
oghue, S.M. Settings were the judge ad-
vocate’s office of an army post in the U.S.
and a Korean prisoner of war camp. Di-
rector was Bro. David Paul, S.M.
5 Students Named
As Dorm Proctors
Expansion plans for next year
and trust in the dorm students
have led to the establishment of
student proctors in Chaminade
Hall.
On Monday, Feb. 2, Bro. John
Donohoo, S.M.. dormitory director,
at a special meeting of the dormi-
tory students disclosed that stu-
dent proctors were to be tried in
Chaminade Hall this semester.
The student proctoi’s, under
Bro. Donohoo and Bro. Harold
Huels, S.M., are Ronald Monford,
Pat Regan, Manuel Prado, Ron-
ald Kippenberger, and Arthuro
Serrano.
Bro. Donohoo explained that the
new dormitory and the proposed
addition of a graduate school,
both scheduled for next year,
would call for more brothers as
supervisors than are available.
Thus far the students have giv-
en splendid support to the new
program.
Lent- Brings Special
Services in Chapel
Daily masses will be offered in
the University chapel at 6:30,
6:KC and noon during Lent. On
Fridays the noon mass will be
said at 12:30 p.m. Masses will
also be offered at 6:30 and 11
a.m. at Holy Rosary Church.
The Way of the Cross will be
made Sunday through Thursday
at 9 p.m. in the chapel.
Confessions will be heard dur-
ing each of the masses, from
7:45 to 8 a.m. daily, and after
the stations nightly.
Fr. Buehler Asks
Honors Program
Does St. Mary’s University
need an honors program?
This was the question that the
Very Rev. Walter J. Buehler,
S.M., president, posed for the
combined Woodlawn, Law, Kelly,
and Community Services facul-
ties at their recent semi-annual
meeting.
An honors program is a pro-
gram of intensified undergradu-
ate studies to be offered to the
gifted students here. Enrollment
would be limited to a few top
students, and the program would
offer a special challenge to their
superior abilities.
The program would be charac-
terized by interdepartmental
studies—cutting across the vari-
ous major fields now offered—
and would include seminar stud-
ies, special reading and report
writing and admission at any
time to any class being offered
on the campus. The honors pro-
gram students probably would not
take examinations.
No decision was made on the
program at the meeting. A com-
mittee will be appointed to study
the need and problems involved
in setting it up.
Some of the interdepartmental
courses suggested by Fattfer
Buehler to “demonstrate the
unity of multiple areas of knowl-
edge” are: Christianity and
Western Thought, American
Thought, Southwest United
Stat*' ) Catholic Influence in
Texas, Criticism, The Scientific
Mind, Communications, and The
American City.
Law Trustees to Meet
The board of trustees for the
Law School will meet on the
Woodlawn campus on Thursday,
Feb. 26, at 6:30 p.m., for dinner
and a meeting. The school also is
planning a Law Day for May 1.
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