Siena News 1962-03-09

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SIENA COLLEGE, LOUDONVILLE, N. Y., MARCH 9, 1962
No. 19
Annual ROTC Breakfast Features Former Officer
Corps and Cadets to Hear Fr. Louis E. Douglass
Over four hundred cadets and guests are expected to fill Serra Hall Sunday for the annual ROTC Com¬ munion Breakfast. Fr. Louis E. Douglass will be the featured speaker at the breakfast. C/Lt. Col. Ernest I. Zima is chairman of the event.
Mass will be celebrated in St. Mary of the Angels Chapel on the Siena campus at 9:30 a.m. Fr. Edmund F. Christy, OFM, President of the College, will offer the Mass which will be attended by Cadets in their regular uniforms and their guests.
Breakfast will immediately follow the Mass, at approximately 10:20. Chairman Zima has assured all who attend that the dining hall staff will prepare an excellent meal.
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This is the first time Fr. Douglass has spoken at Siena. He is present¬ ly chaplain at the Sisters of the Resurrection Provincial House in Castleton - on - Hudson, New York. From 1958-1961 he was assistant pastor at St. Pius X parish in Lou¬ donville. Fr. Douglass served in the armed forces after his gradua¬ tion from Holy Cross as an intelli¬ gence officer in the Central Intelli¬ gence Agency. His experience with the CIA took him to the Far East, where he served for two years.
Father entered the seminary in 1953 and was ordained in 1958 after receiving his Licentiate Degree in Sacred Theology from Catholic Uni¬ versity of America.
FR. LOUIS E. DOUGLASS
Dr. Robert Morris Featured Speaker at Regional Congress
Dr. Robert Morris, President of the University of Dallas, will ad¬ dress the first plenary session of the NFCCS Congress this Sunday, March 11, at the College of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey.
Dr. Morris served on the minority coimcil of the United States Senate and on the Foreign Relations Com¬ mittee. He was also Chief Council on the State International Security Committee and will speak on foreign affairs insofar as they are related to freedom and responsibility. Dr. Morris is the author of a book against Commimism, No Wonder We Are Losing.
Dr. George K. Himton will pro¬ vide new slants on the timely sub¬ ject of race relations. Dr. Hunton is the secretary of the Catholic In¬ terracial Coimcil of New York and a Director of the National Associa¬ tion for the Advancement of Colored People.
Following the discussion sessions, Father Francis Keating, S.J., chair, man of the theology department at St.   Peter's   College,   will   speak  on freedom   and   responsibility.
Air Force OCS
students interested in obtaining information about a commission in the United States Air Force wiU have an opportunity to taUc with Major WilUam M. Dauchy, area Officer Training School Selection SpeciaUst, on March 21 between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. He wiU be on campus at the Placement Office.
Though the Officer Training School program is designed for persons possessing a degree, coUege seniors can apply in their senior year and, if selected, may elect training after graduation. Those selected will undergo a twelve week familiariza¬ tion period, and are then commis¬ sioned as a second heutenant. After this, they wiU go on to training in such field as they see fit to choose.
233 Students on Fall Dean's List
Two hundred and thirty-three students comprise the Dean's List for the Fall Semester this school year. One hundred and ninety-six are in the Day Session while the remaining thirty-seven are in the Evening Session.
The Arts Division leads with nine¬ ty-one, followed by the Business Division with seventy-nine and the Science Division with sixty-three.
Breaking the list down into classes, the Freshman Class numbered seventy members on the Honor Roll; the Sophomore Class is represented by fifty-three. Fifty-one Juniors and fifty-nine Seniors complete the list.
Leading the list are Mary Jane Frederick, a sophomore from Scotia in the Evening Session, and James K. Hart, a freshman from Loudon¬ ville. Both attained the perfect index of  3.0.
The complete Fall Honor Roll is found on page six of this issue.
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Spring Greyfriar Lecture Features Sr. Bernetta on New Look at the Inferno ^^
Sister M. Bernetta Quinn, O.S.F., will return to the Siena campus next Thursday, March 1 5, to deliver the first Greyfriar lecture of this semester. The lecture, entitled "Stairway To Satan: A New Look At the Inferno," will be delivered in the Dawson Memorial Library at 8:00 p.m.
Head of the English Department at the College of St. Teresa, Winona, Minn., Sister Bernetta comes to Siena following a reading of her own poetry at Boston College.
Known especially for her book of critical essays. The Metamorphic Tradition in Modern Poetry, dealing with works of Yeats, Pound, Stevens, and others, Sr. Bernetta is also the author of two biographies. Give Me Souls, the life of Cardinal Merry del Val, and To God Alone the Glory, a life of St. Bonaventure. Her poetry has appeared in Joyce Kilmer's Anthology of Catholic Poetry, College English, The Yale Review, America, Catholic World, Sign and Spirit.   Her critical essays
Franciscan Radio Founder Returns from Goias Mission
Last week witnessed the return to the Siena campus of Father Celestine O'Callaghan, OFM, former professor of Mathematics and now a missioner in the Franciscan missions in Brazil. From 1949 till 1956 Fr. Celestine was a member of the Siena faculty. He left Siena in the Fall of 1956 to assume his duties in the state of Goias, Brazil.
During his first year in Brazil, Fr. Celestine worked as Assistant Pastor of the Franciscan Church in
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TWENTY YEARS HAVE PASSED since the Siena Women's Club pre¬ sented the statue of St. Bernardine of Siena lo the College. The statue stands in the main lobby of Siena Hall. St. Bernardine, Patron Saint of Public Relations, is shown holding a plaque of the Holy Name, a devotion he did much to propagate.
Goiandira, Goias. The following year he was transferred to CoUegio Sao Francisco in Anapolis. This school comprises a high school department and a junior college department. It is mainly devoted to the teaching of science.
Notable among his contributions to the work of the Franciscans in Goias is Fr. Celestine's active par¬ ticipation in the foundation of a commercial radio station in the city of Anapolis. This station has been operating under the auspices of the Franciscan Fathers for almost a year.
This radio station marks the initial efforts of the Franciscan Fathers in the field of radio in Goias. The foundation of future radio stations throughout the state of Goias is the goal of Fr. Celestine and his fellow Friars.
Fr. Celestine has expressed his interest in the Siena radio station, WVCR and was very much im¬ pressed by the studios and the mod¬ em equipment. He expressed his sincere hope that WVCR will con¬ tinue to grow and perhaps someday become the Voice of Siena in the Capital District.
Beginning with this issue of the Siena News, Fr. Celestine is writing a special series of four articles on the grov^rth and development as weU as the necessity of Franciscan radio in Brazil.
PAGING THE NEWS
Editorials    page 2
Student  Spotlight   page 2
Report  from  Brazil page 3
Coach's Letter   page 4
St. Peter's Game  page 4
Marty and  the Mouse page 5
Inside  IM  Sports page 5
Dean's List  page 6
have been published in Renascence, PMLA, Sewanee Review, Perspec¬ tive, America, Four Quarters, and Western Review. Her article on Pound's poetry was reprinted in Lewis Leary's Motive and Method in the Cantos of Ezra Poimd.
A visiting professor at Siena last summer, Sr. Bernetta has taught at Catholic University in Washington and in San Antonio, Texas. This summer will find her traveling in Europe with a seminar group spon¬ sored by the College of St. Teresa.
The Greyfriar lectures are open to the public. English majors must attend these sessions. The current publication of Greyfriar will be available at the lecture. The Grey¬ friar lectures were instituted by the English Department in 1955 and first pubUshed in 1958. The title for the series was chosen to commemorate the English Franciscans of thirteenth century Oxord and Cambridge who were popularly known as Greyfriars because of the color of their relig¬ ious habits at that  time.
The next Greyfriar lecture will be on April 6 when Fr. Owen Ben¬ nett, OFM Conv., will present "The Philosophical Positions of Albert Camus."
Charity Drive OpenTilll6th
Campus Charities, the annual drive held on the Siena campus, wiU end on March 16 in what the NFCCS hopes will be a flourish of dollars.
HighUght of the drive itseU so far was the highly successful Campus Charities Dance held a week ago today. About 450 people attended the dance and Campus Charities grossed over $175. Thanks have been extended to all those who at¬ tended the dance by Tony Rudmann, chairman.
The drive so far has not met the expectations of the NFCCS and since this is the last day of the drive, that organization hopes that all who have not contributed wiU do so now.
It is expected that the collector system wiU be abandoned on the last day and those who wish to donate will find someone ready and waiting to receive their money in the Snack Bar. It is highly probable that members of the NFCCS wiU go from table to table today hoping to reach their goal.
Campus Charities, it is to be noted, is the only coUection taken up fofe charity on the campus throughout the entire year. All charitable de¬ mands on the coUege from many worthwhile groups are met from this fund.
Among institutions who have benefitted from the drive in the past are the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, the Carmelite Nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor.