The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 13, 1950 Page: 1 of 4
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'All-American7 Title
Attained By 7Rattler7
Rated as one of the three top college bi-weeklies in the
nation in schools over 500 enrollment, the 1950 spring semes-
ter series of the St. Mary’s Rattler has been awarded “All-
American” honors by the Associated Collegiate Press at the
University of Minnesota.
The "All-American” rating is
the highest recognition of merit
obtainable by a college newspaper
in the United States.
Excellence in news writing and
editing, news value and sources,
headline writing, typography, and
makeup placed the St. Mary’s pa-
per in its stellar spot, the Associa-
ted Collegiate Press critical report
showed.
Piloting the Rattler to its high
position in an estimated field of
40 or 45 competing college bi-
weeklies, was Lee Corkill, editor for
the academic year 1949-5 0. Corkill
graduated from St. Mary’s last May
with a B.A. degree in English.
Corkill was assisted by Ed Tay-
lor, then and now managing edi-
tor;. associate editors Clarence Rus-
sell, George Witte, and Thomas
Pape, and sports editor, Bill Mes-
kill. Pape now fills Corkill’s posi-
tion. Harry Nixon is faculty ad-
visor.
The recent award marked the
eighth time in twenty-six years of
publication that the Rattler at-
tained the high critical standards
set by the Associated Collegiate
Press.
First receiving the "All-Ameri-
can” rating in 1935, the Rattler
struck its pace a few years later
to cop the award four years in a
row—1939, 1940, 1941, and 1942.
The 1945 and 1946 editorial
staffs also won national recogni-
tion.
Corkill’s name is now recorded
with other past editors who have
brought the St. Mary’s publication
to "All-American” ranks—Elie Ar-
naud, well-known local educator;
Claude Stanush, now assistant edi-
tor of Life magazine; and Henry
Guerra Jr., of local radio station
WOAI’s news announcing staff.
These men accounted for the first
three awards, respectively.
Editors Rudy Vargas, killed
during the war; Martin Duggan,
now an editorial writer on the St.
Louis Lost-Dispatch; Calvin King,
and Ted Deming followed, each
obtaining the coveted rating.
The Rattler also gained "All-
Catholic” honors, the highest rat-
ing awarded by the Catholic School
Press Association, for the 1949-50
school year. It was the 13 th time
the paper had made "All-Catholic”
since its establishment in 1924. The
award was previously received from
1934 to 1940, from 1943 to 1946,
and in 1948.
Building Program Started Three-Day Student Retreat
Conducted by Fr. Kusman
Will Commence Oct. 16
The annual student retreat to be
held Monday, Tuesday, and Wed-
nesday, Oct. 16-18, will be con-
ducted by the Rev. Stanley J.
Kusman, assistant professor of phil-
osophy at St. Mary’s, it has been
announced by the Rev. Walter J.
Buehler, University chaplain.
Attendance at retreat functions
is obligatory for Catholic campus
students. Other male students,
Catholic or non-Catholic, attend-
ing downtown law or evening
classes, are cordially invited to par-
ticipate.
Beginning at 8 a.m. with Mass
and Communion in the gymnasium,
the daily schedule provides free
time to give students opportunity
for meditation and confession.
Stations of the Cross, Rosary,
and Benediction compose the re-
mainder of the devotional program.
Services end at 12:30 p.m. daily.
Final service of the retreat, a
Midnight Holy Hour of Repara-
tion to be held Wednesday, Oct.
18, will begin at 11 p.m. and last
till 12 midnight. Retreatants are
invited to bring dates.
Confessions will be heard in the
gymnasium by Father Kusman and
The Very Rev. Louis J. Blume, University president, breaks
ground for the new House of Studies. Assisting are, left to right,
Alvin Julian and Don White, architects; Bro. Joseph Duventester,
treasurer of the St. Louis Province, Society of Mary; and Emmett
T. Jackson, contractor.
Ground-breaking ceremonies for
the new House of Studies were
he'd on the campus Oct. 4. The
Very Rev. Louis J. Blume, presi-
dent of the University, officiated.
Father Blume turned the first
spadeful of dirt in the expansion
program in the presence of a num-
ber of students, members of the
faculty, the architects, and con-
tractors.
Members of the Student Council
officially represented the student
body at the ceremony, which was
held during a regular class period.
The House of Studies will pro-
vide living quarters for student
Brothers of Mary. After its com-
pletion next year, the student bro-
thers of the St. Louis Province will
complete their studies for their
bachelors degrees at St. Mary’s.
Cost of the House of Studies
will be $325,000.
RATTLER
Father Kusman
Father Buehler, and in the chapel
by the Rev. Alfred Schnepp.
As a general year-long practice,
confessions are heard throughout
the day at the Little Flower Church,
and from 3:30 to 4:30 each after-
noon at downtown St. Mary’s
Church, it was noted by Father
Buehler.
Breakfast will be served in the
cafeteria each morning after the
first service of the day to enable
retreatants to receive Communion
daily during the retreat.
RETREAT SCHEDULE
Lee Corkill
Kirn, Lecturer,
Expires Oct. I
Albert J. Kirn, 65, well-known
Texas naturalist and special lec-
turer of zoology at St. Mary’s, died
Oct. 1 in San Antonio.
A native of Kansas, Kirn was out-
standing in his field, with his col-
lections on display at St. Mary’s
Kansas University, and the Witte
Museum. At the time of his death he
had nearly completed a manuscript
on birds of Southwest Texas for the
local museum.
Kirn, who resided in Somerset,
Texas, was a member of St. Mary’s
Parish there. He was active in the
Holy Name Society, the Knights of
Columbus and was a lay member of
the Society of Mary.
Requiem Mass was offered by the
Rev. William R. Lamm of the Uni-
versity faculty, on Oct. 3 in Som-
erset. Interment was in Salina, Kan-
sas.
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Halloween Dance Set
Rho Beta Gamma fraternity and
the Order of the Barons will sponsor
a Hallowe’en Dance on Tuesday,
Oct. 31, at Shadowland Night Club
from 8:30 p.m. to midnight, ac-
cording to Art Troilo and Sy Guth-
rie, presidents of the respective or-
ganizations.
Tickets will be available from
any member of the sponsoring fra-
ternities and will sell for $1.75,
which includes tax. Music will be
provided by Mack Rogers and his
orchestra.
ST. MARY’S OF TEXAS
VOLUME XXXII
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS,
33 YEARS AGO . . .
Honor Students
I o Be Presented
Speech Awards
A speech honor award system
will be activated this year by Bro.
Aloysius Blume, chairman of the
speech department.
Students earning a total of 3 50
points under the program will be
awarded a jeweled honor key or
pin. Those who win at least 150
points will also be eligible for a spe-
cial key or pin.
Points are awarded retroactively
and a number of students have al-
ready earned points. Kenneth Her-
zig heads the list with a total of
450.
Nine other students have earned
over 100 points. They are James
Woodard, Donald O’Brien, Bob
Shaw, William Corbin, Alfred Ca-
mero, Frank Gebhardt, Arthur
Troilo, Joe Goodman and Jack Sims.
Other students who have earned
points are Carl Dorman, Thomas
Pape, David Estefan, Tom Conrad,
Ray Wietzel, Cruz Tijerina, Max
Wohlfarth, Bethel Coopwood, Karl
Dlugos, John Sudela, David Wolff,
Donald Debner, and Gilbert Kiss-
ling.
To be eligible for an award, at
least 25 points must be earned dur-
ing the current year.
. . . Our Blessed Mother ap-
peared for the last time at Fa-
tima.
Today, Friday, 33 years ago,
She warned us, Her children,
“I have come to warn the faith-
ful to amend their lives and ask
pardon for their sins. They
must not continue to offend Our
i Lord, already so deeply of-
fended. They must say the Ro-
sary.”
Today, 33 years later, the stu-
dents of St. Mary’s will join to-
gether—to say the Rosary.
In the gymnasium at 10 a.m.,
the Rev. Stanley J. Kusman will
speak of Her. The Glee Club
will sing for Her. We will pray
—with Her.
Mass Scheduled
The annual Tri-College Mass will
be held at 9; 15 a.m. Saturday,
Nov. 1, in honor of the promulga-
tion of the Dogma of the Assump-
tion. The Mass will be celebrated
in the St. Mary’s chapel. Students
from Our Lady of the Lake, Incar-
nate Word, and St. Mary’s will be
present.
The Very Rev. Louis J. Blume,
president of St. Mary’s, will be the
celebrant and the sermon will be
preached by the Rev. Stanley J.
Kusman.
Legal Frat To Initiate;
Banquet Follows at Menger
A formal initiation of Tarlton
inn pledges at the county court-
house, Saturday, Oct. 21, will be
followed by a stag banquet in the
Cavalier Room of the Menger Ho-
tel, according to Blair Reeves, mag-
ister of Tarlton Inn, St. Mary’s
chapter of Phi Delta Phi, interna-
tional honorary legal fraternity.
To be initiated are Jack Pope
(honorary), associate justice of the
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals; J.
Bruce Aycock, Roy Barrera, James
Castleberry, Nelson Copp, Henry
Finck, Louis Garcia, Walter Hum-
burch, Glenn Lacy, William Locke,
Brunson McElroy, Jose Ross, Wal-
ter Rueloff, and Bryan C. Schiller.
Honor guests at the banquet will
be the Very Rev. Louis J. Blume,
president of St. Mary’s; W. C. Mur-
ray, chief justice of the Fourth
Court of Civil Appeals; James R.
Norvell, associate justice of the
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals; Er-
nest A. Raba, dean of the Univer-
sity School of Law; G. W. Parker,
international vice-president of Phi
Delta Phi; and John G. Hervey,
province president of Phi Delta Phi.
Phi Delta Phi alumni members
throughout the Southwest are be-
ing invited.
OCTOBER 13, 1950 NO. 2
Outline of Marian Dogma
Theme of Sunday TV Show
The Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary will be the theme of a
quarter-hour television program to
be produced by the St. Mary’s speech
department and students of Incar-
nate Word College, Sunday, Oct.
15. Directed by Bro. Aloysius
Blume, the telecast will be carried
over Station WOAI-TV at 6 p.m.
St. Mary's Will
Send Delegates
To NFCCS Meet
Host for the Southwestern re-
gional meeting of the National
federation of Catholic College Stu-
dents, which will take place in
Houston from Oct. 20 through 22,
will, be Sacred Heart Dominican
and St. Thomas Universities.
Representing St. Mary’s will be
Gene Irvin, campus chairman of
the NFCCS Board; James Wasson,
regional Mariology chairman; Ar-
thur Troilo and Kenneth Herzig,
national co-chairmen of the Mari-
ology Commission; and Bro. Joseph
Schmitz, faculty moderator.
Irvin and Wasson will report on
past activities and discuss plans for
local and regional NFCCS pro-
grams for the coming year.
The schools affiliated in the
southwestern region of the NFCCS
and who will send delegates to the
meet are St. Mary’s, Our Lady of
the Lake, and Incarnate Word of
San Antonio; Sacred Heart Dom-
inican and St. Thomas University
of Houston, and St. Edward’s of
Austin.
Purpose of the forthcoming
meet will be to plan a program for
the year and to fulfill the com-
mission activities recommended by
the regional congress, which was
held last March in San Antonio.
Press, Mariology and Interna-
tional Relations are the commissions
chartered in the southwestern re-
gion.
ihe Rev. Stanley J. Kusman will
be featured on the program. Father
Kusman will outline the dogma of
the Assumption as he is interviewed
by several students. He will also
lead the recitation of a decade of
the Rosary.
Joan Bauer of IWC will be a liv-
ing representation of the Blessed
Virgin. Martha Gamble will sing.
The University speech department
and IWC students presented the
first Catholic television program in
the southwest when they produced
"The Shadow of the Manger” over
WOAI last Dec. 25.
Another television program was
presented by the speech department
March 19 on WOAI. The program
was dedicated to St. Joseph.
Two other television programs
were produced by a St. Mary’s stu-
dent, Thomas Pape. The first of
these, a half hour show May 7, had
the Rosary as its theme. The second,
on June 4, featured a dialogue Mass.
Offering the "dry” Mass was the
Very Rev. Louis J. Blume, president
of the University.
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College Poets
TojVie||in Meet
Competition among the nation’s
college poetry writers sponsored for
the seventh consecutive yeai; by the
National Poetry Association is open
to all St. Mary’s students, according
to Bro. Anthony Frederick, English
department head.
"We would like to have the prac-
tice of a St. Mary’s entry con-
tinued,” Brother Frederick added.
He named contestants of previous
years as Ina Edwards, John Cegel-
ski, John Lozano and Bill Dodds.
Rules for the contest can be got-
ten from the English department
faculty room. Entries will close
Nov. 5.
Also announced was a Poetry
Day Program to be held Sunday,
Oct. 15, at the Central Christian
Church under the auspices of the
Texas Council for the Promotion
of Poetry.
Oct. 16, 17, and 18
8 a.m. Assembly in gymnasium.
8:15 a.m. Mass and Communion,
sermon.
9:15 a.m. Breakfast, free time,
confessions.
10 a.m. Stations of the Cross, ser-
mon in gymnasium.
11 a.m. Free time, confessions.
11:30 a.m. Rosary, sermon, ben-
ediction in gymnasium.
12:30 p.m. Dismissal, confessions
heard until 1 p.m.
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NFCCS Board
Elects Irvin
As Chairman
Gene Irvin was elected senior
delegate of the National Federa-
tion of Catholic College Students
Board at the first meeting of the
board Sept. 29. As vice chairman
board Sept. 29. As vice-chairman
lected Donald David.
The representatives of the clubs
are Harold Gorrell, International
Relations Club; Ruben Fernandez,
Spanish Club; John Brinkman, Ket-
tering Club; Larre Skloss, speech
squad; Jerry Ruhnke, Rho Beta
Gamma; joe Byron, American
Chemical Society; Edward Brem-
mer, Knights of Columbus; Frank
Gebhardt, Order of the Barons; Al-
bert Trorra, Rattler Club; Don
Nichols, Kappa Pi Sigma; and
Thomas Pape, Rattler representa-
tive. The representative of the So-
ciology Club nas not been appointed
as yet.
The NFCCS board consists of
representatives from all the clubs
on the campus. The purpose of the
board is to coordinate all campus
activities and assist the present and
future campus clubs by obtaining
pertinent programs from the na-
tional NFCCS commissions.
ABSENTEE RULINGS
Absentee rulings for the cur-
rent academic year have been
announced by the registrar’s of-
fice.
For each absence after the
first four, students must obtain
a card from the registrar’s of-
fice authorizing their return to
class.
Evaluation of the first four
absences is up to the individual
instructor.
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