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— 1 - Page Ten THE V I EX' A N d V A N ^ MAY 11, 1955 ^ Drill Team Senior Writers EnginMrs • • . CMiNiuiiioii \ ^ Sweeps Honore Bid Adieu Breakfost • • • P h y s i e s In Philadelphia to Villanova Campus Organization News Club in Compus Spotlicpht (Page 5) (Pages, 2 & 3) dent of the group. He succeeds phomores. After the first quar- gineering students were treated A. S. C E. Bill Quinn. ter of next year the post of Se- to a dinner at the Engineer's Student CouikiI cretary will be filled by an elect- Club in Philadelphia last Mon- The Villanova student chap- Also elected were Pete Quinn, '54-'55 ed Freshman. day night. The annual Students The entire Student ter of the American Society of a junior history major, vice-pre- Constitution Framing Night was held under the aus- Council will attend the 9 a. m. Civil Engineers will hold its sident; Frank Adams, junior The working constitution of pices of the Philadelphia Section Mass in the University Chapel Vol. 30—No. 23 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY. VILLANOVA. PA. May 18. 1955 semi-annual field trip this Fri- philosophy major, secretary- this year will be formalized by of the American Institute of day. treasurer; and Pat Kean, junior on Ascension Thursday, May 19. the addition of a few regulatory Electrical Engineers, and was The trip will be to a portion arts, Student Council represen- Following the Mass, Commu* laws to the statement of pur- sponsored by local electrical in- of the Garden State Parkway tative. nion Breakfast for the group pose, said current president, dustries. now under construction in Cape Plans are now being made for Dave Vachon. wUI be held at the Viking Inn in May County, N. J. The mem- an increased program of guest Illuminating Meeting Sen. Bridges Graduation Rev. Sp Ardmore. Robert M. Sul- bers will provide their own lectures and field trips next The joint A.LE.E. - LR.E. livan, O. S. A., Dean of the transportation on the trip, and year, Taddeo announced. Chapel branch is holding a meeting to- Men Honored WilK|ini^j||Mmn will assemble at the Beesley's night at 7:30 p. m. in 215 Men- School of Arts and Sciences, will (I Point Bridge near Somer's Rev. Joseph Kemme, O. S. A., del. The topic of the meeting be the guest speaker at the '^j^- University Chaplain, announced / Point, N. J. at 10:30 a. m. Physics Club will be •llluminaUon." breakfast. At Annual Merit Vail this week that there has been Afternoon Tour Elections and constitutional Chairman Jim Wrzesinski k a "noticeable" increase in Tour of the project will last legislature will be the order of urges all who intend to make Chapel attendance during the Awards Assembly Of about three and a half hours, the day at the final meeting of the all-day field trip to the Bell COMMENCEMENT 'n so that everyone should be back past academic year. the Physics Club Thursday, Laboratories in Murray Hill, Dick Winfield and Frank Gun- Sen. Style3^i|dd£;^ (R-NH) by dinner time. This fact, coupled with the 10:30, in the Physics Lab. N. J., tomorrow, or the group's Bill Quinn, senior history ther are the recipients of the will address theulass of 1955 The last ASCE meeting of large number of communions According to the club's unique annual picnic at Mermaid Lake major, will deliver the com- Gold Medal, awarded annually at commencement exercises June the year will be held next Wed- distributed during the annual system of filling offices, the this Saturday, to attend the mencement address at the Class to the senior who gathers the 6. The senator and four others nesday night. There will be retreat, has brought him satis- members will choose a President meeting. Tickets for the latter of 1955 graduation exercises most merit awards during four will be awarded honorary deg- several films, refreshments, and faction. Father Kemme said. from among the seniors, a Stu- event are available from Wrze- June 6. He was seliected In final year. rees during the ceremonies. the officers for next year will dent Council Representative sinski, Rudy Gangemi, Jack judging Monday. Runner up for Receiving honorary LL- D. be announced. Elections are A. i. E. E. - I. R. E: Presentation was made during from among the juniors and a Downing or Gene Rzodkiewicz at the honor was Joseph Dorris, degrees, besides Senator Bridg- the Merit Award assembly at being held this week. Treasurer from among the so- electrical Over forty V. U. en- $1.50 a head. of the C & F School. es, are : Bishop Paul Yamaguchi, the same time that 271 students of Nagasaki, Japan; Brother E. *.. '"It received 432 awards. Stanislaus, F.S.C., president of v Winfield and Frank Gunther, Library La Salle College; Edwin K. senior history major, were rec- Miss Emily Maloney took a Daly, president of the Horn and ognized for earning the most memorial membership in the Li- Hardart Baking Co. awards (6) for the past year. Enthusiasm, curiosity, and political interest galore was the by-word in front and around brary in memory of her late An honorary doctor of science Six other student took five Alumni gym last Thursday during brother Ben Maloney. Maloney, class elections. degree will be conferred on awards each and 10 more stu- Villanova graduate, was Capt. Joseph A. McHenry, USN, a dents had four each. editor of the deputy chief of the Bureau of VILLANOVAN Other Varities while here. He was killed in Yards and Docks and a Villan- Taking five awards were Joe an airplane crash during World Hartmanri/ Laughlin Elected; oya alumnus. Blimm, Bernie Coyne, Edwin War lL\^::i:j':-.,.:-.,^^fA:r^-- Daly, Tom Mentzer and Bill An old friend of the Library, '.iT-ry; Quinn—all seniors—and Pat Miss Maloney contributed For the third consecutive year Cur- Kean, a junior. Soph Deadlock Is Settled a senior who will be commission- rier and Ives prints to the Intramural athletic awards, ed in naval service will deliver Library in 1953. A myriad of posters and placards as numerous and colorful as the candidates themselves LYNX short story contest prizes tells the story of election day at Villanova last Thursday, as some 73% of the university's stu- the student commencement ad- and special awards were also dents turned out to chose 27 representatives. dress- presented during the assembly. Seventy-six percent of the junior class visited the polls to name Frank Hartmann next William J. Quinn, a day hop Chemistry Dave Crowley was awarded year's Senior Class President. This turn out was slightly under the record showing of that class from Ithan, Pa., is a history On Apr. 30, a meeting of the the Intramural Department's last year. major. He attended Bishop Pennsylvania Catholic Round trophy for the outstanding in- Sophomores had the highest turnout as 79% marked their ballots and declared a tie be- Loughlin High School in Brook- Table of Science was held at tramural athlete. tween Art Odabash and Jack Decker for the future junior presidency. The run-off election was lyn before moving to Ithan. Villanova from 8:00 a. m. until President Speaks scheduled for yesterday. Quinn was chosen from a late in the afternoon. Those Merit awards are presented to field of 12 candidates, who were attending were welcomed students Only 63% of the eligible freshman used their voting privilege however, but they over- by who have shown con- named by deans of their respec- Very Rev. James A. Donnellon, sistent and effective whelmingly elected Paul Laughlin to the Sophomore Class presidency. cooperation tive schools. In this selection 0. S. A., University President. in extra-curricular Recounts and disputes were the order of the day, but balloting itself proceeded very smooth- activities and academic standing, extra-curri- Following a business meeting en.ioy good scholastic ly under the direction of the Student Council's Election Committee headed by Frank Licopoli. standing. cular activities and general pre- and election of officers, Dr. Closing the Voting lasted from 10:00 a. m, to 3 p. m. with the heaviest being during the 10:30 a. m. new assembly was a sentability were considered. Francis Mahoney, Radiologist short talk by Very Rev. activities period. A highlight of the day was the voting of the Nursing School co-eds en masse James The top six candidates com- and Director of Professional A. Donnellon, O. in Alumni Gym. S. A., Villano- peted in an oratorical contest education of the American va president, and the An excited milling crowd of nearly 100 would-be winners and constituents awaited the de- Can- playing of May 9 to determine their speak- cer Society (Delaware County the Alma Mater by Mr. cisions of the vox populi in the Alumni Hall shadows after the 3 p. m. poll closing. Robert ing ability. Runner up in the Branch), spoke on "Future Whelan. The results of the decisive freshman voting were announced quickly, and all the winners contest was Joseph Dorris, of Trends in Cancer Research." were disclosed by 4:30 p. m. the C & F School. In the afternoon the meeting SYMPATIIV : 4;< '56 Others in Running divided into three distinct sec- The staff of the VILLA- Class of Class of '57 Class of '58 Other candidates in the final 4: "V tions: Chemistry, Physics and NOVAN extends its sympa- Frank Hartmann, a pre-law Faced with the first presidenti- Arts school student Paul contest were Thomas Mentzer, Biology. The Chemistry section thy to Jack Dunn, a sopho- Commerce and Finance major al tie in the institution's history, Laughlin of Pittsburgh, Pa., from the Arts and Sciences was further divided into an more in the C&F School and who was instrumental in the the Class of 1957 went to the won by a landslide to become School; Paul Ake, from the Analytical, Physical and Organic an assistant in the Chaplain's success of the Junior Class this in Alumni Gym yesterday president of the Class of '58.
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