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THE RATTLER
EDITED BY THE STUDENTS OF ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY
VOL. IX
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 23, 1927
No. 1
FATHER ALFRED H. RUBE NEW PRESIDENT
OF ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY
Well Known Educator Faces Big
Building Program
The Very Rev. Alfred H. Rabe,
S. M., M. A., is the new presi-
dent of St. Mary’s University of
San Antonio. Father Rab. suc-
ceeds the Very Rev. Robert W.
'May-1, S. M., M. A., as president
of St. Mary’s.
Father Rabe was born in Cov-
ington, Ky., in 1886. His gram-
,ar school education was receiv-
ed ill the St. Aloysius’ school of
his native city. In 1899 he went
to Dayton and completed his
high school training in the jun-
ior department of the present
Dayton University. In 1902 he
entered the Nazareth novitiate of
ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY
OPENS NIGHT SCHOOL
Courses To Be Conducted
Business Section of City
GROUND BROKEN
NEW GYM
FOR
After a meeting of the faculty, [ ^ exas
Well it can’t be long now. The
ground has been broken, the
plans drawn and bids are being
considered. Followers of athlet-
ics will have a chance to glimpse
on the St. M. U. Campus one of
the largest gyms in the South.
Not only that, but St. Mary’s will
put a team on that floor that
will compare favorably with the
the president, Rev. Alfred H.
Rabe, announced officially that
a night school forming an integ-
ral part of the University would
be opened to the public, both
men and women, of San Antonio.
The curriculum will include
courses in English, philosophy,
j sociology, mathematics, chemis-
try, economics, Spanish and a
course in Commerce and Finance.
Each course will be given three
INCREASE IN THE
TEACHING STAFF
SENIORS ELECT OFFICERS
Alfred Gianotti Chosen President
the Brothers of Mary,' pronounc- |^imes a week and credit for three
ing his first vows in September, s5.mes ei loursl w! ^e receivecF
of the following year. After com-' 1iese, C0Ulses up to the reg-
pleting the general no.rmal train-,11 ai Ye§ie?s offered by the Uni-
ing given at the Dayton head- ^sity winch enjoys a dass “A”
quarters of the. Society of Mary, I sending with the_ State Univer-
Father Rabe. was stationed sue-J^y aRd the Association of 1 exas
cessively at Spalding Institute, colleges.
Peoria, 111.; St. Mary’s College,! For the convenience of pat-
D ay ton, Ohio; St. A 1 o y s i u s,1 rons, it has been decided to hold
School, Chicago; St. Peter and,the classes at St. Mary’s Acad-
St. Paul’s School, St. Louis, and emy, which is easily reached
Chaminade College. I from all sections of the city.
In' 1912 Father Rabe was sent Classes will be conducted on all
six nights of the week. Classes
will open October first.
The following educators wili
to Fribourg,-Switzerland, to com-
plete his ecclesiastical studies. He
was ordained priest in 1916.
That same year he returned to
America and. was appointed chap-
lain at Chaminade College. He
next held the position of vice-
president and professor of. Ro-
mance languages at the sanje in-
stitution. In 1921 he succeeded
the Very Rev. Joseph C. Ei, S.
M., as president of Chaminade
College and held the office of
president until his recent appoint-
ment to St. Mary’s University.
Father Rabe had just complet-
ed quite a large building pro-
gram at Chaminade College and
we know that the building pro-
gram at St. Mary’s will benefit
by his experience.
Father Rabe is well known
among the educators of the coun-
try through his attendance at the
National Educational conventions
and the National Catholic Educa-
tional meetings. In the corpor-
ate colleges of St. Louis Univer-
sity, Father Rabe was the Cham-
inade representative.
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OUR GRADUATES
compose the teaching staff:
John J. Black,, S. M., M. A.,
Fordham University, sociology.
Alexander P. Bogle, M. A.,
University of New Hampshire,
economics.
Theodore J. Brenner, S. M.,
A. B., Dayton University, Span-
ish.
R. P. Hickey, S. M., M. A.,
Ph. D., University of Dayton,
English.
Peter J. Hill, S. M/, M. S.,
Fribourg, Switzerland, chemistry.
Michael Huebert, S. M., M. S.,
Fribourg, Switzerland, mathe-
matics.
Rev. Bernard Miesler, M. A.,
Catholc University, psychology
arid education.
Efforts are being made to se-
cure the services of an experi-
enced professor to handle the
Commercial subjects.
The ground-breaking ceremony
was very impressive. The crowd
was led from the main building
to the site of the new construc-
tion by the St. Peter’s Orphanage
Band.
Father Rabe, president of the
University, opened the ceremony
with an address, of welcome in
which he stressed the point that
St. Mary’s is to be San Antonio’s
University. The Hon. James R.
Davis next took the stand and
showed why the alumni had tak-
en steps to bring about the erec-
1 on of a building devoted to
sports. He pointed out that the Tjj
Professor Huebert, Dean of Men
Students returning to SL
Mary’s after the three month’s
vacation, armed with a healthy
ambition to march with a quick-
ened step along the arduous path
that leads to knowledge, missed
the familiar faces of several of
their last year’s guides. But they
soon learned that the places left
by retiring officers and
He attend-
College in
entered St.
nature have won for him the
friendship of the entire Campus.
A1 graduated from St. Mary’s
Academy in 1923.
ed Texas A. & M.
1924. In 1925 he
Mary’s, where he has been a stu-
dent ever since. At the end of
Catholic Church must insist on IU1C -Ye‘u. ^ie ^le known as
Education in order to fulfill its, Alfred Gianotti, B. S.
mission, and that education of i Charles Solcher, Editor-inChief
the soul cannot properly be di-10f the Rattler, was selected for
rfted without adequate training scr}pe duty. In other words he
of the body. He also paid a
glowing tribute to A. J. (Tony)
Castanola, in whose honor the leY
gymnasium is being constructed.
After Judge Davis’ address,
Father Rabe turned the first
spadeful of earth. He was fol-
lowed by several other promin-
ent men. Joe Nelson then auc-
“big’
one.
man in more ways than
tioned off the spade and it was right guard of the Rattler eleven,
sold to Albert Steves, Jr., for was given an extremely trusting
$225. Albert Steves then grac-
iously presented the spade1 to St.
Mary’s University.
During the ceremony, Lt. Carl
The well known Alfred Gian-
otti has been elected to guide the
destines of the senior class dur-
ing the year of 192 7 and 1928.
AT is known to his friends as one
of the most amiable boys on the | vacant
Campus and it is with joy that j professors had been filled by new
we welcome him as president of|men an^ that additional posts
the class. Al’s smile and good!had been created and occupied.
' New officers include the presi-
dent, the treasurer, the dean of
men, the registrar, and the ath-
letic director. However, the task
of the new head of the univer-
sity, Rev. Alfred H. Rabe, S. M.,
will be considerably lightened by
the presence of the following ad-
ministrative officers who held of-
fice during the term of Father
Mayl:
Eugene A. Paulin, S. M., vice-
president; John A. Waldron, S.
M., dean of faculty; John P.
Singer, S. M., librarian; Edwin
L. Mueller, M. D., medical direc-
tor; Joseph H. Lanfer, S. M.,
purchasing agent.
The position of treasurer, dean
of men, registrar, and althletic
director has been filled by Broth-
ers Francis -Hess, S. M.> Michael
Huebert, S. M., Lawrence T. Duf-
fy, S. M.,,and Fred A. Hannauer,
S. M., respectively.
In keeping with the growing
needs of the university and the ‘
increased number of subjects of-
fered,, several more instructors
have been added to the faculty.
is to be Class Secretary. Char-
also graduated
from St.
Mary’s Academy in 1924. He
has served as sports editor of
the Rattler for the last three
years.
Pat McMurrough, the husky
position. Pat is to take care of
the senior class’ finances. Now
that Pat is treasurer he says that
Crane; U. S. A., performed sev-Jhis shoes win shine where they. New names on the staff are as
THE ALUMNI FIELD DAY
era! stunts over the crowd in his never shined before.
new Wright whirlwind airplane, j _— -o
Lt. Crane sent a token of good
luck in the form of a basketball
to^ which was attached a para-
chute and a nine foot St. Mary’s
pennant.
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TWO MEMBERS OF LAST
FACULTY TO TEACH
IN CITY
C. W. Simms, the popular pro-
fessor of English at the univer-
sity last year, will teach the same i c^ose to eight P.
Even the rain could not stop
them, for they met as planned
on August 21, on the St. Mary’s
University Campus and say, talk
about fun, there was that in
every sense of the word. Autos
loaded with Alumni members be-
ban making their appearance as
early as nine A. M., and it was
M. that the last
- I <
Jimmie McKinley, who received ••
his B. A. at St. Mary’s last Jijne,
is back again this year with the
mind of getting his
Paul Daily, B. A., ’2 7, is hold-
ng down a position at Kelly
deld. No, Paul is not imitating
Lindy” as yet, but it won’t be
long now! Paul and his “Daily
Does ’Em” will be missed by
quite a few Rattler readers this
year.
purpose in
M. A. degree. At the same time
Jimmie is on the teaching staff of j0hn Trabucco, B. S. C., ’27, is
the Academic department. Hav-|WOrking for his Dad as fhis is-
spent his vacation in New sue goes to press. The members
subject during the-ensuing term
fit St. Mary’s Academy. Profes-
isor Simms will be remembered
(as an enthusiastic follower of the
games and other extra-curricular
activities of the Rattlers. Since
the distance is so short, it is to
be hoped that he will continue to
manifest the same -active interest
in the doings of his former stu-
dents.
York and the East, Jimmie feels
Ut for another year of work.
% * *
Clem Holzhaus, B. C. S. ’2 7, is
at present actively engaged in the
general merchandise business with
of the Rattler Club are wonder-
ing who will take the place of
Johnnie on their various commit-
tees this year. '
^
R. Beverly Caldwell, B. S., ’27,
his Dad and brother. Since Clem,seems to be putting his scientific
Edward V. Chambers, associ-
ate professor of economics and
government at the University last
year, has announced his inten-
tion of teaching at the Texas Mil-
itary Academy. Mr. Chambers
is a well known professor, hav-
ing taken his Master’s Degree at
the University of Rochester, New
York. Mr. Chambers has spent
considerable time in a certain psy- strangling.
car reluctantly made its depar-
ture. More than thirty entrance
prizes were given away. Races
were run, games were played,
and tricks galore, kept all in high
spirits. The annual baseball game
between the Brothers and the
Alumni was won for the first
time in history by the Brothers.
The score—what difference does
it make? Suffice it to say that
the Brothers got ample revenge
for defeats in previous years.
How the Alumni did eat when
the barbecue hove into sight at
noon time. Yes, real honest to
goodness barbecue with all the
dressing and seasoning. Beer, or
rather near beer, or soda water,
kept many, who in their anxiety
to get a second helping of the
deliciously “baked cow,” from
And now the Alumni
^ M., P. H. D.,
of biological sciences;
->
is not returning for post graduate knowledge to good use, for rumor, chological research. It is with , members are already talking
work the University, and especial-j has it that he is laboratory assist-, regret that we lose Me. Chambers about the next field meet which
ly the Rattler Club is losing ai (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) I to our faculty. 'will be held in August of ’28.
follows:
Leo J. Banck
professor
Alexander P. Boyle, B, A., M
associate professor of economics
and government; Thodore J.
Brenner, S. M., B. A., instructor
in Spanish; Herman Fien, S. M.,"’
B. A., instructor in German; Rev.
Andrew B. Heider, S. M., Ph. D.,
professor of Greek; R. P. Hickey,
S. M., Ph. D.j professor of Eng-
lish.
Doctor Banck has taught his
favorite subject of biology in var-
ious schools of the United States.
From 1918 to 1923, he was em-
ployed in a French speaking
school near Winnipeg, Canada.
The new professor of biology
comes to St. Mary’s directly
from the University of Fribourg,
Switzerland, where he made spec-
ialized studies of the anatomy,
habits and life of certain species
of ants. Doctor Banck has giv-
en to the public the results of
a particular aspect of this work
in a recently published work en-
titled: “An Anatomical-Histologi-
cal and Experimental-Biological
Study of Thorictus Foreli Wasm.’*
Rev. Dr. Heider, who will be
remembered by some of the old-
er students as a former vice pres-
ident of St. Mary’s, returned to
San Antonio after an absence of
six years. During five of these
years he taught Latin and Greek
at the Normal School of the Ma.
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 4)
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St. Mary's University (San Antonio, Tex.). The Rattler (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1927, newspaper, September 23, 1927; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth614938/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library.