Siena News 1953-11-13

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College of Saint Bernardine of Siena
No. 8
Vol. XV.
SIENA COLLEGE, LOUDONVILLE, N. Y., NOVEMBER 13, 1953
Delegates Arrive In Albany For Tonight's NSA Regional Assembly
Robb, Fitzgerald, Fraser to Highlight Our Career Day
Delegates   have   already  begun   arriving  in  Albany   for  the Pegional Assembly of the National Student Association,  which
in  the Assembly Chamber   of
GERALD MULVEY
President, New York Region
convenes tonight  at   7:00   p.m.
the New York State Capitol.
An address by Congressman Leo W. O'Brien will highlight the open¬ ing session, which marks the first visit of the group to Albany in two years.
Gerald Mulvey, St. Bonaventure University, President of the New York State Region, arrived yester¬ day to conduct final arrangements for the assembly, which will follow a new format. In the past, assem¬ blies have been conducted more or less as an overall review of regional programs with preparation of future plans. This will be the first NSA Assembly to follow a theme, which this time will be "Student-Faculty- Administration  Relations."
Under the new type program, student, faculty, and administrative leaders will discuss all sides and all opinions informally and frankly, on topics ranging from intercol¬ legiate athletics to student conduct.
Among Siena's representatives at the Assembly will be Arnold Carrese, campus and district chair¬ man, Larry Buckley, who will chair the panel sessions on Intercollegiate Athletics, and Bill Hunt, Paul Agnello and Joe Early.
Other high points of the Assembly will include an informal get-to- ^^ a career. The discussion will be gether after the Friday session, and j ^^^ ^y Joseph J. DeRusso, Wheeler the District Variety Show and Paper Corp., Albany, as moderator, dance, scheduled for Saturday night T. Stuart Melvin, Mica Insulator, in the Ten Eyck Ballroom.     ' I Schenectady, will cover Accounting
in   Small  Industry;   John  E
Accountants Here Wednesday
R. J. Ferrara, Cohoes, vice-presi¬ dent of the Albany Chapter, Na¬ tional Association of Cost Accoun¬ tants, has announced that the Association will take part in our Career Day activities next Wednes¬ day, November 18.
The Association will present a 55-minute discussion on Accounting
Most of the delegates will be housed in the DeWitt Clinton Hotel, not far from the Capitol Building. These will include not only student delegates and observers, but also deans and professors from member and non-member schools alike.
GRADS RETURN TO AID STUDENTS
Featured among the representa¬ tives from business and the profes¬ sions who will be on the campus on Career Day will be nine former Siena students. As always, on Career Day, the Placement Bureau en¬ deavors to bring back to our campus some former Siena men who have gained prominence in their respec¬ tive fields.
These men are: Mr. Edward Flynn
who is now District Claims Manager for the Farm Bureau Mutual Insur¬ ance Company in the Syracuse dis¬ trict; Mr. Victor T. DoUery, CPA, who is now associated with the CPA firm of William J. Nusbaum of Albany; Dr. Rudolph R. Del Giacco who is a practicing physician in Albany and is on the staff of St. Peter's Hospital; Mr. Timothy F. O'Brien, lawyer, who has been elected to the post of District At¬ torney of Rensselaer County; Mr. Robert Abba, who is presently in the Personnel Division of the Watervliet Arsenal; Mr. WUliam J. Cunning¬ ham, previously associated with Gurley Instrument Co. of Troy, and
Vava¬ sour, General Electric Co., Schenec¬ tady, will present Accounting in Large Industry; Victor T. Dollery, CPA, W. J. Nusbaum Co., Albany, will tell about Public Accounting; and Clifford Van Pelt, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Albany, will talk on Gov¬ ernment Accounting.
Joe Murphy, Snow Ball chair¬ man, announces that the com¬ mittee will hold its first meeting Wednesday, November 18 at the Old  Friary,  during free   period.
recently appointed to the staff of the Sprague Electric Co. in North Adams, Mass.; Mr. Thomas J. Pen¬ dergast, now associated with the National Surety Co. of Albany as a Special Agent; Mr. Henry Gentile, former evening student at Siena, who is now the Manager of the Industrial Relations Department of Behr-Manning Corp. in Watervliet; and Mr. James Rooney, a partner in the real estate firm of Rooney Realty and Development Co. in Al¬ bany.
Among the other speakers will be several men from out-of-town areas such as Mr. Charles Antolina, Chief Probation Officer of the Division of Probation, N.Y.S. Department of Correction. Mr. Antolina comes to us from Buffalo. Rev. Salvator Fink, OFM, will come to Siena from St. Joseph's Seraphic Seminary in Callicoon, New York. Mr. James A. Cunningham, Jr., is the Chief of Personnel Procurement of the Cen- (Cont. on Page 7)
Joe Murphy To Roll Snow Ball
Joseph T. Murphy, a Pre-Med senior, has been chosen by the Stu¬ dent Senate to be chairman of the Annual Snow Ball.- The dance is a formal affair and will be held Friday   evening,   February   5,   1954.
Murphy is a graduate of Vincen¬ tian Institute, Albany, and resides at 18 Rooney Ave., Albany. He will graduate this June with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Pre-Med.
The following were also selected by the Senate to serve on the com¬ mittee: Seniors, Don Petro, Tom Ryan, Bernard Stein, Martin Stein, Dick Dugan, and Fred Coons; Juniors — Don Ardell, and Herb Deitcher; Sophomores—Lou Belan¬ ger and Dino Cimino. Freshmen are ineligible to serve on the Snow Ball  Committee.
Senate members met with the chairman and his committee Wed¬ nesday, November 11, to discuss plans in getting the "Snow Ball rolling."
Career Day Time Table
10:25 to 11:20 a. m.
Room 101—Chemistry,
Dr. Sidney Archer
Room 310—Social Work,"
Mr.  Charles Antolina
Room 205—Claims  Adjusting,
Mr. Edward Flynn,  Jr.
Room 209—Radio and T.V., Mr. Celeb Paine
Room 305—Religious Vocations,
Rev. Salvator Fink, OFM
Room 301—Accounting,
Mr. Joseph J. DeRusso, Mr. T. Stuart Melvin, Mr. John Vavasour, Mr. Clifford S. Van Pelt, and Mr.  Victor  T.  Dollery
Room 211—Medicine,
Dr. Rudolph Del Giacco
Room 216—Sales,
Mr. Philip Richardson
11:30 to 12:25 p.m.
Room 201—Pharmaceutical Sales,
Mr.  Vincent  J.  Coniglio Room 205—Law,
Mr. Timothy F.  O'Brien Room 310-Math,
Dr. Glenn'M. Roe Room 305—Unions,
Mr.  Thomas Walsh Roomi 301—Accounting—continued
from previous period Room 211—Advertising,
Mr. Tedford Woodard Room 209—Civil Service,
Mr. Robert Abba Room 301—Armed Forces,
Col.   Peter   P.   Dawson,
USAF Room 101—Technical Sales,
Mr. J. M. Gibson (Cont. on Page 4)
GENE BOBB
Siena's Third Annual Career Day, sponsored by the Place¬ ment Bureau and to be held next Wednesday, November 18, will be highlighted by the presence of three area dignitaries. Gene Robb, publisher of the Albany Times-Union, Hon. Edward Fitzgerald,  Mayor of Troy,   and  Carl Frazer,   Albany
•businessman.
Mayor Fitzgerald and Mr. Frazer will speak at the opening general assembly in Gibbons HaU, and Mr. Robb will give an address at the Career Day luncheon.
Frazer is the president of Carl A. Fraser Inc. Fuel and Heating Equip¬ ment Sales and Service, and a direc¬ tor of General Mutual Insurance Company. He is past president of the Albany Chamber of Commerce and a past director of the Albany Rotary Club and the Albany Auto Club. He holds membership in the University Club, Albany, the Pro¬ ducer-Retailer Committee of the Anthracite Industry, and the Ad¬ visory Committee of the Eastern States Fuel  Conference.
Gene Robb, publisher of the Times-Union, came to Albany in June 1953 upon appointment to that position by the General Management of Hearst Newspapers.
In his twenty years of association with the Hearst Newspapers, he was first a reporter on the Lincoln (Neb.) Star. After his graduation from the University of Nebraska in 1930, he attended the school of public affairs at Princeton University and was later graduated with the degree of juris doctor from George Wash¬ ington University Law School.
For ten years Mr. Robb was Washington representative of the Hearst Newspapers. He has also served as chairman of the news¬ paper central committee of the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
He is a member of the Newspaper Advisory Committee of the National Production Authority and of the executive committee and board of directors of the Newspaper Bureau of Advertising.
For eight years immediately pre¬ ceding his coming to Albany, Mr. Robb was assistant to the general manager of Hearst Newspapers, with offices in New York City.
He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, the Na¬ tional Press Club, Washington, D.C. and the Riverside, Conn. Yacht Club. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Delta Chi jour¬ nalism fraternity, Phi Delta Phi legal  fraternity  and  Delta Upsilon.
Area Judges Named For Queen Contest
A panel of prominent area citi¬ zens, comprised of Lt. Col. William Law, PMS&T, Siena College; Miss Jean Arnold, Society Editor of the Times-Union and Miss Rhoda Hath¬ away, Society Editor of the Knicker¬ bocker News, will select a Queen to reign at the Fourth Annual ROTC Military Ball which will be held Friday evemng, November  20.
The Queen will be selected from photographic entries submitted by the Cadets. In a ceremony to be conducted at the Ball the Queen will be presented with a lasting memento of her coronation.
The deadline for the submission of the photographs has been ex¬ tended until the evening of Novem¬ ber 17 and the actual selection will take place on November 18.
Arrangements have been com¬ pleted for the decoration of Gibbons
Hall with the insignia of Active Army Divisions and for the serving of a buffet during the dance.
It has been announced by Lt. Col. William Law that the honor guest for the Ball, Col. Frank A. McNamee, a senior Artillery Reserve Officer with a long and distinguished mili¬ tary record and who now is the head of a prominent local law firm, has accepted the invitation of the ROTC to attend the Ball in the role of honor guest.
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