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THE RATTLER
December 2, 1949
Fill It Up!
On Saturday night, Dec. 3, another important milestone
in the history of St. Mary’s athletics will have been reached,
the first home game of the 1949-50 basketball season. This
is important for two reasons. First, it will mark the initial
appearance of the team in a regular season game before the
students. Second, it will give the freshmen of St. Mary’s their
first opportunity to see their school’s team in action and to
pass judgment on its intercollegiate worthiness.
The vast majority of the freshmen have come here
straight from high school. They have grown up in an at-
mosphere of high tension created by healthy interest in the
fortunes of their school’s athletic teams, whether they be
football, basketball, baseball, or track. Thus far, in almost
three months of attendance at St. Mary’s, the frosh have
heard very little about athletics, the only exception being the
outcomes of the intramural football games. Now they hear
that we have a basketball team and that it will perform for
them Saturday night.
The freshmen will probably be out in force to back their
team in its first home game. Whether they will continue to
come to the games depends, not on the outcome of this con-
flict with the Fourth Army team, but on the example set for
them by the upperclassmen, to whom they naturally look for
guidance. If they see the bleachers filled with members of
the other three classes, making noise and backing the team,
then they will catch the spirit. If the freshmen find that
they’re almost alone in the stands, then . . .
For the last two months the basketball boys have prac-
ticed unceasingly for this season, passing up less strenuous
entertainment so that they might field a team of which St.
Mary’s can be proud. They’ve run and sweated without any
encouragement whatever, with hardly a sign that anyone is
aware of their efforts. Now is the time for the student body
—freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors—to do its part.
The gym is waiting. It stands empty and silent, so fill it up!
Campus Revolution
The Nov. 28 issue of LIFE magazine carries an editorial
entitled “Revolution on the Campus,” which applauds the cur-
rent trend in U.S. colleges and universities toward the re-
quired study of the ancient cultures from which our civiliza-
tion springs. The most surprising aspect of this news is that
not only are the small schools doing this, but that many of
the great universities are realizing the over-all benefit of
such a program.
Under the new system, the freshmen and sophomore
students become acquainted with the full scope of Western
culture, from ancient times to the present. Only after com-
pletion of such courses are the students permitted to special-
ize in any one field. At the risk of being called braggarts, we
will say that this sort of thing has been going on at St. Mary’s
for a long, long time, even during the 1920’s when the trend
was in the opposite direction.
In conclusion, LIFE says, “. . . it is important that news
of the present revolution—or counter revolution—in U.S. col-
lege education be noised abroad. A nation that conceives its
culture in terms of universally shared ideals is obviously a
safer international partner, a more responsible world power.
It should be good news to other nations that U.S. preoccupa-
tion with its own gadgetry is dying along with political iso-
lationism ...”
It should be good news to the people at home, too. For
if the youths of today study and understand the cultures of
the past, they, as leaders in the future, will realize the proper
role that our country should take in regard to the rest of
the world. History, they say, repeats itself; if so, then men
who recognizes the forces that undermined ancient empires
and civilizations will know best how to protect their own.
THE RATTLER
EDITOR -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Lee Corkill
MANAGING EDITOR _________________________________________________________________Ed Taylor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS ------C. A. Russell, Thomas Pape, George Witte
LAW SCHOOL CORRESPONDENT_____________________________________Bruce Aycock
CIRCULATION MANAGERS---------------------------Peter Irwin, Max Jalufka
ADVERTISING MANAGER ________________________________________...________Earl P. Kelly
SPORTS EDITOR ____________________________________________________________________.Bill Meskill
STAFF ARTIST _________________________________________________ Ed Taylor
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER __________ ________________________________________Bob Coffman
REPORTERS: Kenneth Herzig, James Clark, James Salisbury, Irwin
Miles, William Roane, Phillip Spiller, Francis Matocha, A1 Van
Veen, Ray Parker.
FACULTY ADVISER ________________________________________________________________Harry Nixon
THE RATTLER is published twice monthly during the academic
year at St. Mary's university, San Antonio, Texas. Subscription one
dollar a year.
Kelly Tops Round-up Sales Again;
Perseverance Pays Off for Pat
By Lee Corkill
Nov. 22, 1947: Earl P. Kelly
wins the student prize for selling
the most Round-up tickets.
Nov. 20, 1948: Earl P. Kelly
wins the student prize for selling
the most Round-up tickets.
Nov. 19, 1949: Earl P. Kelly
wins the student prize for selling
the most Round-up tickets.
Earl P. Kelly
NewEngagements
Booked for Band
The St. Mary’s band is rapidly
rounding into a full symphony or-
chestra, according to its director,
Frank B. Sturchio.
Mr. Sturchio stated that eight en-
gagements will be filled early next
year, four of which will be out of
town.
This year the band numbers 5 8
members, most of whom are fresh-
men. The bandsmen include Rob-
ert Afflerbach, Robert Ottis, Pas-
quel Barrientos, Jack Bauer, Philip
Brinkman, John Bauer, John
Chesser, John Cochran, William
Corcoran, Pervis Darby, Vernon
Denman, Malcolm Dixon, Leon-
ard Duckworth, and Gene Duran-
tes.
Other members are Don Ed-
mondson, Frank Gebhardt, Gene
Grafe, Ernest Grammar, William
Guardia, Severiano Guerra, Homer
Haynes, Roy Hill, John Hughes,
Morris Ingenhuett, Leo Jauregui,
John Karnavas, Gilbert Kissling,
Ernest Laurel, Richard Lockhart,
Alonzo Lopez, Homer Mackie, El-
gin Marbach, Alelandro Martinez,
and Maxwell Russell.
The others include Melvin Mead,
Victor Mocek, Claude Marty, Cul-
len Offer, Manuel Ondarza, Roman
Pedrazine, Juan Rivera, Earl Ross-
man, Perfecto Solis, Jim Sperry,
Philip Stringfellow, Alfred Stur-
chio, William Traeger, James
Tweedy, Farrell Tyson, Homer Vil-
larreal, Taft Vordenbaum, Richard
Wall, John Webster, Rubin Weh-
meyer, Jim Williams, and Robert
Williams.
These three items give a fair in-
dication of the selling abilities of
Earl P. Kelly, senior finance ma-
jor, who has made a habit of cap-
turing the money offered to the
student selling the largest number
of Round-up tickets each fall.
Kelly, who attributes his success
to a refusal to take "no” for an
answer, sold many of his 51 books
of tickets in a house-to-house cov-
erage of his home town, Lockhart,
rexas. The rest were sold at odd
c.me:—he always carried about 10
books with him for such emergen-
cies.
Kehy will graduate with a BBA
degree in January, 19 5 0, and then
will enter the St. Mary’s law school.
He’ll be around several more years
and hopes to repeat his annual sales
campaign.
A dorm student, Kelly, is also
the business manager of The Rat-
tier and of Man, secretary of the
student council, and president of
the dormitory International Rela-
tions club. During the war he was
in the army.
He is a veteran debater, having
spent some three years on the St.
Mary’s speech squad.
When asked what he intended to
do with the $75 he won, Kelly
neatly evaded the question. There
is a rumor making the rounds, how-
ever, that the flashy new jacket
he’s been wearing lately didn’t come
out of his GI allowance.
After completing a law course,
Kelly hopes to become a corpora-
tion lawyer. If he does as good a
job for his corporation as he’s done
selling Round-up tickets, he’ll
probably be a whopping success.
--o-
Government Group
Plans Workshop
The Student Government com-
mittee, recently appointed by Stu-
dent Council President William J.
Dodds, will participate in a Student
Government workshop at Our
Lady of the Lake college Friday,
Dec. 9. All schools in the South-
west region of the National Fed-
eration of Catholic College students
will be represented at the work-
shop.
The committee was formed to
„tudy the theory and practice of
student government.
Jack Ihelan, chairman of the
committee, said in an interview,
"One of the most important func-
tions of student government in a
Catholic college is to train edu-
cated young people for effective
Catholic Action.
"With this end in mind,” Phe-
lan continued, "the committee will
endeavor to make a thorough study
of all forms of student government
as well as the one now in operation
at St. Mary’s.”
Other members of the commit-
tee are Lee Corkill, Roland Hargis,
Calder Chapman, Bill Porter, Je-
rome Knaupp, Clarence Russell,
Danny Loth, Ed Taylor, Richard
Wall, and Peter Meehan.
Aw, Sarge, I’ll bring it back after deer season.
Snake
Pit
While demonstrating the sim-
p icity of the execution of "inspec-
tion arms” to a freshman ROTC
class the other day, Sgt. Kelly found
his thumb in the path of the bolt.
—o—
St. Mary’s student John Carl is
| now in bu:iness for himself. He
I recent y bought a Humble service
station on East Commerce. How
about a discount, Jake?
—o—
A warning to freshmen Bill
Crawford and Art Robalin: don’t
lean on the railings between the
buildings. This is one time the say-
ng "you can’t take it with you”
does not apply.
tice, Jack: an oily rag on the mani-
fold won’t make it run any faster.
—o—
St. Mary’s annex lodgers have
been nursing cases of goose pimples
lately. Sy Guthrie was recently
found huddled over a burning can
of Sterno, trying to keep his writ-
ing-hand warm.
—o—
Arturo Martinez has been sing-
ing "The One I Love Belongs to
Somebody Else.” Recently a song
was dedicated to Art over station
KITE. You guessed it: "Don’t Cry,
Joe.”—let her go, let her go, let
her go.
—o—
—o—
Ton Nichols, Rattler golfer,
swears that he wears that mustache
to maintain balance in his golfing
stance.
—o—
The driving of vehicles on the
campus is progressing over the years.
Ihe sun dial seemed to be the fa-
vorite target last year This year
Wueste’s no-curb service appears to
be the main attraction. No names
mentioned; we needed another door
In the cafeteria, anyway.
—o—
Al ”N azel-nose” Sturchio really
wowed the guys at the Round-up.
what can’t that boy do?
—o—
-t seems that monograms have
become very popular with Phillip
ipiller. Wonder what his handker-
:hiefs look like?
—o—
jack fuel son has a real hot rod.
if you don’t believe it, ask Charlie
Hutzler, who rescued the rod from
burning up on the senior lot. No-
St. Mary’s has no gridiron behe-
moths at the moment, but if you
want to see a gang of muscle-
eared boys in action, study the
group in the cafeteria feeding pen-
nies to the newly-installed Grip-
O-Meter.
—o—
Leonard Kotzur has decided that
the most lovely song on the cafe-
teria juke box is that new jive joy,
"Mule Train.” Ain’t that right,
Leonard?
—o—
Campus gossips are still talking
about the mongrel pup that stole
the show from Tom Brickley,
NFCCS president. Tom agreed
that not even his splendid, Dam-
yankee, vaudevillian style could
compete with a pooch.
—o—
Ned Day had better look to his
laurels if some of the scores loqua-
cious kegmen about St Mary’s claim
are anywhere in the vicinity of the
truth.
Alumni Ass7n Inaugurated
AtGolden Jubilee of 1902
By George Witte
With St. Mary’s in its 97th year
of existence and looking forward
to its Centennial in 1952, and with
the Ex-Students’ association re-
cent.y staging its annual Round-
up, the memory of the Golden
jubilee of St. Mary’s and the in-
auguration of the original Alumni
as.ociation in 1902 has become more
prominent in the minds of the
older exes.
The celebration of the Golden
jubilee of St. Mary’s college was
an important epoch in the history
of Catholic education in Texas. The
program of the celebration cov-
ered a period of four days, begin-
ning April 27, 1902.
Several hundred former St.
Mary’s students assembled at the
college Sunday morning, April 27,
and marched in procession, escort-
ing the Bishop and clergy to St.
Mary’s church where a Solemn
Pontifical Mass was celebrated by
the Rt. Rev. John A. Forest, bishop
of San Antonio.
The interior of the church was
decorated with great festoons of
drapery in the college colors. The
sanctuary and high altar were
superbly adorned and illuminated;
masses of flowers, palms, and ever-
greens formed an effective setting.
After Mass all the clergy who
were present at the services, and
the faculties of St. Mary’s and St.
Louis colleges, were entertained at
a dinner in St. Mary’s college.
Bro. George Deck presided and in-
troduced the speakers.
The principal event of the secu-
lar celebration of the Golden Ju-
bilee was an entertainment given
in Beethoven hall on Monday eve-
ning, April 28, 1902. The spacious
hall was crowded with an audi-
ence composed of the old students,
their families and friends, distin-
guished clergymen, citizens, and the
faculties of St. Mary’s and St. Louis
colleges.
The musical program was under
the direction of Brother Louis—
there were 31 instruments in the
orchestra and 150 voices in the
choir. All were admirably trained
and the result was a magnificent
volume of melody such as had sel-
dom been heard in San Antonio.
The master of ceremonies was
John C. Sullivan, who introduced
the speakers, Dr. G. G. Clifford,
Edward Dwyer, and John McHugo,
all of whom paid tribute to the
zeal and devotion of the Brothers
of Mary, and testified to the strong
bond of affection that has always
existed between the teachers and
their students, and to the deep hoid
that the institution and its directors
have on the heart and life of Texas.
A social reunion of the former
students was held on the college
grounds on Tuesday evening, April
29. At 9 o’clock the old college
bell, which for years had called the
students to their classes, summoned
the 3 50 present to rhe speaker’s
stand, there to be greeted by a
former studem, Bryan Callaghan,
mayor of San Antonio, who acted
as chairman and introduced the
speakers—Leonard Garza Jr., Ed
Steves, James Davis, Thomas Mur-
phy, Ed Tynan, and F. J. Bowen.
It was moved that an Alumni
association be formed and that all
former students of St. Mary’s col-
lege be eligible to membership and
that a reunion be held each year in
the college yard or at some other
place that may be designated by
the officers of the Alumni associa-
tion. This motion was unanimous-
ly carried by cheers from all pres-
ent.
On Wednesday afternoon, April
30, pupils of St. Mary’s college
were treated to a trolley ride over
all the car lines in the city, after
which they were served with a
luncheon at the college. This closed
the Golden Jubilee celebration at
St. Mary’s college in 1902.
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