Saint Edward's Echo (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 7, 1933 Page: 1 of 8
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AUSTIN, TEXAS, DECEMBER 7, 1933
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CONDOLENCES
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FATHER O’DONNELL ATTENDS FRESHMEN HONOR
COMMISSION MEETING HERE
Immediately following the afternoon
session the Commission members dis-
cussed the proposals of the two speak-
ers with a view to presenting them at
the annual meeting of the Association
of Texas colleges to be held in Fort
Worth on April 27 and 28.
MUSICAL COMEDY
CAST BEING CHOSEN
Steve Gardner’s Orchestra to
Play; Christmas Theme Being
Planned for Decorations.
TEAM WITH DANCE
AT COUNTRY CLUB
BORCHERS ACCEPTS
CLUB INVITATION
Leading Texas Clergyman Suc-
cumbs After Long Illness;
Many Attend Funeral.
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J. BARNEY DANIELS WEDS
HOUSTON GIRL
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thur B. Pope, C.S.C., professor of
philosophy at Columbia university in
Portland, Oregon. A number of the
musical scores have been harmonized
by director Van Ackeren, while his as-
sistant has worked with the cast and
the settings.
Members of the University choir and
orchestra will take part in the mu-
sical numbers, but th e remainder of
the cast is not complete for announce-
ment, according to the directors.
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TIGERS HONORED
WITH DANCE
entertaining the best football team St.
Edward’s has had in many years . . .
the Conference champions.
The grand march will be led by Bill
Dunn of El Paso, president of the
freshman class, and Miss Beth Duncan,
student at the University of Texas.
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FR. HAGERTY HEARS
FAMOUS LECTURER
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FATHER O’DONNELL
PRESENT AT MSGR.
WALSH LAST RITES
authorities on the new program of edu-
cational testing which is gaining popu-
larity in the United States.
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Four pre-medical students, Joe Sel-
mo, Eugene Toups, Charles Goodwin,
and Bennett LaCour, took the medical
aptitude tests of the Association of
American Medical Colleges under the
supervision of the Rev. Frank O’Hara,
C.S.C., dean of the School of Science,
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
The tests were adopted by the Asso-
ciation in 1930. All papers are cor-
a committee of the Associa-
form and reported in confidence to the
deans of all Class A medical schools
in America. The results are used as a
criterion in admitting students to med-
ical schools.
Father O’Hara said that more than
9,000 pre-medical students were re-
ported to have taken the tests this
year.
The Rev. Hugh O’Donnell, C.S.C.,
president of St. Edward’s, attended
the funeral services for the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. George T. Walsh, dean of the
Catholic clergy in Houston, on Mon-
day, November 27. Monsignor Walsh,
pastor of Annunciation Church in
Houston, died in St. Joseph’s Infirmary
on Saturday afternoon after a long
period of illness.
Three Bishops, six monsignori, two
vicars general, one provincial, two
Catholic college presidents, 100 priests,
and 100 nuns were present at the fu-
neral services. While the body lay
in state in the church from Sunday
afternoon until Monday, more than 15,-
000 friends of the deceased came to
pay their last respects.
The Most Rev. Christopher Byrne,
D.D., bishop of Galveston, was the
celebrant of the Pontifical Requiem
Mass on Monday morning. The ser-
mon of tribute was preached by the
Very Rev. Dr. J. T. Fleming, presi-
dent of St. Mary’s university, La
Porte.
Following the Requiem the body of
Monsignor Walsh was surrounded by
a guard of honor composed of fourth
degree Knights of Columbus and es-
corted to the Garden of Gethsemane
Cemetery, where interment was made.
All of the gatherings of the com-
mission were held in the Administra-
tion building at the University of
Texas. At the morning session Dean
Johnston of the University of Minne-
sota addressed the Commission mem-
bers, and at the afternoon sitting Dr.
Ben Wood, chairman of the commit-
tee on admission at the Teachers col-
lege, Columbia university, was the
GRAND KNIGHT BELIEVES AUSTIN WILL BE
FAVORED WITH STATE K. OF C. CONVENTION
The faculty and students of
Edward’s offer condolences to:
The Rev. John Margraf, C.S.C.,
whose mother died last week at her
home in the Rhineland, Germany,
after a long and serious illness. She
went to her reward without having
seen her son-priest since 1921.
Frank O’Rourke, freshman stu-
dent from El Paso, whose father,
Mr. J. F. O’Rourke, died at his
home last Sunday, December 3.
Walter G. Beach, professor of
journalism, whose brother, Eugene,
47, was called by God this morning.
To these three and their bereaved
relatives we extend opr heartfelt
sympathy and promise our fervent
prayers for the repose of the souls
departed.
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FOUR TAKE MEDICAL TESTS
Honoring the champion Tigers, the
St. Mary’s Academy girls presented
their second dance of the year in the
Crystal Ballroom of the Driskill hotel
Monday, Nov. 27. Clarence Neimir
and his university orchestra furnished
the music from 8:30 till 12.
The dance was well patronized by
the St. Edward’s students including the
guests of honor.
This was the second dance in honor
of the Tigers, the first being the San
Antonio St. Edward’s club affair after
the Texas School of Mines game. The
freshman dance next Monday will also
be given in honor of the Texas Confer-
ence champions.
“The Ambassador to France” is the
name of the musical comedy, Prof. Jo-
seph J. Van Ackeren and another mem-
ber of the faculty are the directors, the
cast has almost been completed, and
dramatic activities for the year are
under way.
For nearly two weeks the directors
have been going over the script, har-
monizing songs, and giving tests to
possible participants in the first mu-
sical comedy to be staged at St. Ed-
ward’s in a number of years. Prep-
arations are going ahead rapidly with
a view to having the show ready to be
put on some time before the Lenten
season. At present the directors only
hope to complete their cast and get
the various members started on pre-
liminary rehearsals. After the Christ-
mas holiday season regular practice
sessions will be scheduled.
Both the words and music of the
C. D. Blanchette, student here from
’28 to ’31, is now quartermaster on the
S. S. Dungannon, tanker for the Texas
company. The boat ships coastwise
from Tampico to New York. C. D.
has his cousin, J. Ben Fanette, ’28-’3O,
along for company, and the two of
them report that the life of a sailor is
all right.
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J. Barney Daniels of Victoria, stu-
dent here from 1923 to 1925, was mar-
ried to Miss Eleanor Blackman Kil-
lough of Houston on Nov. 14, according
to word received here. The wedding
ceremony was performed by the Rev. rected by
T. F. Sullivan, pastor at St. Mary’s tion and the results compiled in book
Church in Houston.
The young couple are making their
home in Victoria, where Mr. Daniels
is engaged as city attorney.
After leaving St. Edward’s, Daniels
attended the University of Texas law
school for several years. Later he
The Commission on Coordination of
the Texas Association of Colleges as-
sembled at the University of Texas last
Wednesday in a special meeting pre-
liminary to the Texas State Teachers
jnvention which was held in Austin
on Thursday and Friday.
The Rev. Hugh O’Donnell, C.S.C.,
president of St. Edward’s, attended as
an official of the Commisison which
was appointed by Dean Colby Hall,
president of the Association, for the
purpose of studying educational prob-
lems in the schools of Texas. The
Commission was appointed at the an-
nual meeting last spring and it was
Adeemed advisable to call the members
together for the first time immediately
preceding the State Teachers conven-
tion.
Dramatics Get Under Way With
Preparations for “The Ambas-
sador to France.”
At noon the commission members
were th e guests of Dr. H. Y. Benedict,
president of the University of Texas,
at a luncheon given in the New Union
(^>uilding.t
Members of the Commisison- on Co-
ordination are: representing state sen-
ior colleges: Douglas A. Shirley, regis-
i trar, West Texas State Teachers col-
lege; Dr. T. D. Brooks, Dean of the
Graduate school, Texas A. and M. col-
lege; and Dr. Herschel T. Manuel, pro-
fessor of educational psychology at the
University of Texas.
Representing church senior colleges:
Dr. Hugh O’Donnell, C.S.C., president,
4^\St. Edward’s University; Dr. J. U.
W Yarbrough, professor of psychology,
Southern Methodist University.
Representing municipal junior col-
lege; George Gotke, president, Browns-
ville junior college; W. B. Aiken, Dean,
Texarkana junior college.
Representing church junior colleges:
J. J. Delaney, president, Schreiner In-
stitute; R. G. Boger, president, Weath-
erford junior college.
Representing state junior colleges:
George Dickey, assistant dean, North
Texas Agricultural college.
County superintendent, Dupree Da-
vis, Waxahachie; city superintendent,
E. E. Oberholtzer, Houston; state su-
perintendent, L. A. Woods, Austin;
W Colby D. Hall, Dean, Texas Christian
V ” university, ex officio, as president of
the Association.
A number of the members of the St.
Edward’s faculty attended the various
meetings and session of the State i went to the University of Chicago
] where he received his degree in law.
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Several weeks ago professor Elmore
Borchers, grand knight of the St. Ed-
ward’s council of Knights of Columbus,
announced that the local council and
the Capitol City council of Austin had
combined to enter a bid to bring the
state convention of the Knights to Aus-
tin this year. To date no definite word
has been received from state deputy
Paul Kilday, but the local grand knight
believes that Austin will be favored,
with the convention for next spring..
The councils of Port Arthur, Fort
Worth, Laredo, San Antonio, and Tay-
lor also entered bids to have the an-
nual meeting in their towns. All of
these cities have been favored with the
convention at some time or other, ac-
cording to Borchers, and he therefore
believes that Austin will win out this
year.
In making this statement he gave
several reasons for his contention that
Austin would be the ideal site for this
year’s meeting. It is centrally located,
eliminating the necessity of some dele-
gates traveling unnecessarily long dis-
tances; there are two councils located
in Austin, something which no other
city in Texas can boast of; and, Austin
has never had the state meeting of the
Knights of Columbus.
The St. Edward’s grand knight
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because in that event the local council
would be given an opportunity to show
its organizing and entertaining powers.
Naturally a great deal of the program
responsibility would fall upon the St.
Edward’s group and it would give this
council of young members a splendid
opportunity to provide the great gath-
ering of candidates with entertain-
ment.
The annual freshman dance, honor-
ing the 1933 football team, champions
of the Texas conference, will be held
at the Austin Country club on Monday
evening, December 11. The commit-
tees in charge have made extensive
preparation for the dance and it prom-
ises to be one of the bright spots of
the social season. Music for the eve-
ning will be played by Steve Gardner
and his Hokum Kings.
Tom Simmons is in charge of deco-
rations, and says that a Christmas
theme will be used since it is so near
the holiday season. Joe Martin, who
is chairman of the program commit-
tee, has arranged the favors for the
evening in the Tiger field colors of
Blue and White.
Chaperons who have been invited
for the evening are: Dr. and Mrs. R.
Struhall, Mr. and Mrs. Frank J.
Skeeler, Mr. and Mrs. Julius I James,
and Dr. Terrence Watt.
It has been the custom for the fresh-
man class to be permitted to give a
dance in honor of the football team.
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The Rev. Cornelius Hagerty, C.S.C.,
head of the department of philosophy
here for a number of years, is now at
St. Michael’s college in Toronto, Can-
ada, where he is attending lectures by
Etienne Jilson, professor at the Sor-
bonne in Paris. After the series of
lectures is completed Father Hagerty
intends to return to Holy Cross col-
lege at Washington, D. C., where he is
preparing for publication a book on
philosophy.
He still indulges in his favorite
hobby, walking, according to his letter
to a member of St. Edward’s faculty.
He writes that he spends his leisure
hours walking about the Canadian
countryside.
Incarnate Word College Club
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Announcement was made early in
the week by Coach Elmore Borchers
that he had accepted the invitation of
the International Relations club at In-
carnate Word college in San Antonio
to hold a debate under the auspices
of that club some time during the com-
ing debate season. The invitation was
sent by Miss Agnes Whelton, secretary
of the club, and was accepted imme-
diately by the St. Edward’s coach.
Last year’ the St. Edward’s negative
team met an affirmative duo from
Southwest Texas State teachers col-
lege of San Marcos in a non-decision
contest under the auspices of the In-
ternational Relations club. The letter
from Miss Whelton stated that the
members of the club had such pleasant
recollections of that debate that they
had requested her to ask that another
similar meeting be arranged.
Borchers stated that he had not
chosen the opponent nor the date for
the meeting, but that such details
would be arranged later. To date no
definite plans for a schedule have been
made, but work of training the mem- .
bers of the team and gathering ma-
terial on the question are going ahead. .
Tryouts for all new candidates will ’
be held on Tuesday, December 12. ;
Borchers announced, and he expects at :
least eight new men to be on hand, i
From this group and the four men who :
represented the University last year I
the debate coach expects to build an ]
aggregation that will uphold the high
standards of past St. Edward’s debat- i
ing teams. <
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