College Begins First Semester With Record Registration ClrJ.sses began September 14 at the Eiel'en of the 12 new faculty high school English. Sister Andre College of St. Benedict with 421 members arc in the biology, chem­ has her B.A. from 51. Benedict's and students and 52 teachers. Of the 421 istry, English, French, Latin, mathe­ her M.A. from NolTe Dame. Robert students 361 are lay students and matics, music and sociology depart­ J. Kovacs is a new member of the 60 arc l)Ostuiants or members of a ments; one is particillating in Tri­ English department. Mr. Kovacs religious community. Of the 52 teach­ College which is supra-del>.1 rtmental. earned both his B.A. and M.A. de­ ers nine are lay teaehers and 43 arc Nicholas K. 7..aC"£kowski, who is grees in English at the University religious with 12 of the 52 being the husband of Uden Mu ggli (40-), of Michigan. new teaehers on the faculty. teaches in the Biology Dellartment. Sister Etienne, O.S.B. has returned Among the lay students the fresh­ Mr. Zaczkowski received his B.5. at to the French Department after m~n c1as! is once again the largest 51. John's University and his ~ I. S. ,pending the past two years in class on C"JlllpUS having 150 fresh­ at the University of Wisconsin. He France as a student at the Univer­ men registered this semester. The has done additional work at the sities of Dijon and Paris. Sister at­ freshman class is almost three times Biological Station of Montana State tended the University of Dijon under as large as the senior class which University and Kansas State College. the Fulbright scholarship program. has 52 members. The sophomores Sister Ruth !legan, 0.5.3. of SI. Sister Ki eran, O.S.B., who taught and juniors rank ve ry nenr one nn­ Placid Priory, Olymllia, \Vashington, at Holy Angels in 51. Cloud last other in class membership. The teaches chemistry. Sister !luth, an year, has resumed teaching for tIle This year marked year 25 for the production of $0 T... el Your SOI)homorcs have 86 members while alumna of 51. Benedict's, received Latin Dellartment at CSB. Sister Light Shine. For 25 Septembers, students at St. Benedict's have the juniors have 73. Among the her B.5. in June. Kieran has a B.A. from the College been the only students in the world inducted into coUege with postulants and sisters there arc 19 Returning to the Engli5h depart­ of St. Benedict. freshman, 21 SOI>homores, 10 juniors ment is Sister Andre, O.S.B., who such a pageant ceremony, a ceremony imbued with beauty­ Kay Ann Fox is an instructor in beauty that comes from and 10 seniors. has spent the last six years teaching seeing white, barb.1 rism, red, grace­ mathematics. Miss Fox comes to Minnesota from 51. Xavier College ful ness, fla me, OPI)Osi tion, in Chicago where she e.luTled her victory, peasant work, peas­ B.S. in mathematics. ant happiness, scholars, re­ spect fo r the prince, com­ After a two year absence during mon prayer, rows of blaek, which she did doctoral work at youth, torclles of light Indiana University, Sister Clement, THE BENET O.S. B., is once again teaching piano hearing "Behold;" tom - tom - tom - lom- "and never a nation Official Alumnae Publication of the College of St. Benedict for the Music Department. Newly shall tame usl Hal Hal Hal appointed to the Music Department HalHa!"; the soft organ­ VOL. XXVI, NO. 1 St. Joseph, Minnesota Octobe r, 1960 is Sister Nathan, a graduate of 51. and not a word from the Benedict's. Sister Nathan received a mouths of the flames; "\Ve Master of Music Education Degree toil, we toil with sickle Course Offers Convert T alks with higllest dislinction at Indiana keen;" hoof beats - and TV Features University's June commemcemenl. "Listenl Listen! Listen! The Sister A(IUinas, O.S.B., a candidate Prince comes riding, riding, To Open Roads About Leaders for an M.S. in sociology at 51. LOllis Riding to his people;" ding, Sister Joanne University, has joined the sociology dong, ding - and "compline To Meet As:a At Assembly faculty. Sister Aquinas, too, is an time;" "!leceive, receive, re­ Sister Joanne, O.S.B. , teaches TOll­ alumna of St. Benedict's having re­ ceive oh )'oung and beauti­ Sister Emmanuel, O.5.B., opened ics in Modem Algebra on KTCA-TV Douglas Hyde, who spent six ceived her degree here in social ful." the 1960-1961 Tri-College course, every Tuesday and Thursday at months of 1960 in tlle jails of South science. Besides her work here Sister thinking The torch of light, of pray­ East Meets \Vest - Understanding 8:00 I) .m. This course is a part of East Asia working to convert Com­ also teaches SOCiology at the St. er and labor, YOUf high and Asia, at the College of St. Benedict, the Minnesota Private College Hour munist leaders to Catholicism, is Cloud Nurses Home. blessed dedication. September 27. In her lecture Sister which has been a regular feature of scheduled to speak at an assembly Mr. Henri Belleau, a member of This year's pageant was again Emmanuci said that in a 1955 survey KTCA educational television pro­ program at the College October 20. the St. John's Unh'ersity Sociology under the general direction of Sister 40% of the United States' under­ grams for the last rOUt yedfS. Si$u,r Mr. Hyde's talk will analyze Training Department, teaches eriminoiogy at Colman, O.S.B. The dances were graduate colleges offered no oppor­ Joanne, who is professor and chair­ Christian Leaders. CSB. Mr. Belleau has a B.A. in directed by Miss Constance Zierden, tunity for their students to study man of the Dcp:utment of Mathe­ In London Mr. Hyde was news commerce from the University of who is actually the original chorco-­ Asia. As can be seen from the title matics here at the College of St. editor of The Daily Worker until Ottawa, an M.A. in law fr<)m the grapher. Of course, Sister Colman of this year's Tri-Col1ege program, Benedict, began tcaching her course he was sued for libel for Jlublishing University of Montreal and an M.A. and ~'I iss Zierden were hcll>ed by this percentage ought to be lowered Scl>tember 20. TIle course includes an alleged eX l)I)se of The Weekly in 1)I) Iiticai and social sciencc with many committees of sislers and because an attempt is being made 32 telecasts. This means that the Review as a Faseist publication. a major in sociology and labor prob­ final teJC("ast will be made January students. right here in ~ I innesota to put some While he was preparing to defend lems from the University of Louvain. students and some teachers attending 19, 1961. himself, Mr. Hyde studied old issues Dr. William Davidson, who is the 51. Benedict's College, St. Cloud of The Weekly Review and came College and Convent physican, be­ High School State College and 51. Jolm's Univer_ to know Catholic thought through carne a member of the faculty when sity in contact with the minds of such writers as Chesterton and HeI­ he accepted his invitation to partici- Starts Classes the East. loc. Because he was in tell ectually 1)'1te in the current Tri-College convinced that Catholicism was true, program. Aecording to Sister Therese r-.l arie, Sister Emmanuel, O.S.B., deelared Mr. Hyde had hi s two children bap­ principal, 153 students began classes that if we of the \Ves t want to tized Catholic in January, 1948, even September 26 at 51. Benedict's High form a world with the East - a though he himsclf did 1I0t resign School in a completcly new Il igh world based on "COOI'ERA nON from the Communist Party and enter Pianist Plays school plant. The student registra­ rather than UN IFonMITY" - we of the Church until la ter that year. tion shows that there arc 54 fresh­ the 'Vest must make a new atlilroach At present Mr. Hyde is a repre­ men, 31 SOllhomores, 28 juniors and to the East. This time we must sentative of the British Foreign Of­ In New Series 40 seniors. All resident students are approach the Hindu, the Buddhist, fice to SEATO where he is chairman Sister Ellen, O.5.B., will play housed in the new two-story resi­ the llama, the Muslim, the Catholic, of the committee for combatting a piano conccrt on the KTCA dence building located just II few the Taoist, the Sikh mentally and psychological subversion. He is the Artists Series November 10 at steps south of the academic building. spiritually. The era of the vielor and author of I 8eJieve1 curriculums in the very (Kern '36-) Cary, Kathleen is the Artists Serics on KTCA. It is a from South Dakota, one from Iowa, cipants are studying roots-geography, ncar future. This will, of course, daughter of Albert and Dorothy I)rogram sponsored by the Min_ one from \Visconsin and two from pcrsonality, communication; arts­ require new knowledge on the part (Vos '33-) Schaefer. Roman and nesota Private College Council Montana. visual arts, literature, music; values­ of the mathematics teachers. It is to Catherine (Bettendorf '32) Niedziel­ and it features faculty members I s I a m, rationalism, Confucianism; these people that Sister is channel­ ski of Gilman have their daughter, from the Mi nnesota private col­ faculty Plans community - family, village, school ; ing her program. Mary Catherine, Ilere; !loman aud leges. Alumnae Reception society - nationalism, IHoduction, The course covers topics that have Elaine (Spaniol '37) Truzinski of 51. democracy; and prospects - educa­ Cloud arc tIle parents of JoAnn Sister Remberta and the Fac­ been recommended by the Commis­ tion, natural science, social science, sion on Mathematics and the Under­ Truzinski; Arthur and Marjorie (Bas­ ulty of the College of St. Benedict medicine. tien '38) Welp of Bancroft, Iowa, Dear Sennies invite the alumnae of 51. Bene­ groduate I)rograrn of the American At the College of St. Benedict are the parents of Mary Noel Welp. l'\ease notify the alumnae office dict's, their Johnny husbands or Mathematical Association. It empha­ the Tri-College program is under the For the first time, a foreign of address changes. 1£ you are Johnny escorts to a reception in si1.es the understanding of conccpts general direction of Sister Jeremy. alumna has sent her daughter to St. teaching, if you have moved, if Mary Hall Commons from 11 :00 - sets, number, systems, conbreligious habit here June 14, 1960, building is not complete, Miss Ruth and sacred sciences. This meeting weco T 1 was held at St. Benedict, Oregon, were six women who were students Earthly Life Allen docs hold classes there after a few weeks of mceting her classes August 23-27. Conventual Life at the College of St. Benedict. Sister Magna Werth, who taught Among 28 gi rls who entered the at 1\'lary Hall Commons because the For the library science diVision physics and chemistry at the Col­ old gymnasium contained the stacks Sister Conehessa prepared a paper, 's scholasticate September 8, 1960, lege of S:. Benedict from 1915-1956, were four forme r St. Benedict's stu- when school opened. Princil)les of Book Selection For At St. Benedict died June 21 at the St. Cloud Hos­ dents; and across the United States THE ART DEPARTMENT, Small Benedictine Libraries. Because When he coordinated educational llita!. A Solemn Requiem "h ss was eight more former students either THE MATHEMATICS Sister Conchessa was unable to at­ television for KTCA in 1958, ~"Ir. sung for Sister June 24 in the Sacred began or took one step further in DEPARTMENT tend the meeting, Sister Remberts Karl Ruble came to the College of Heart Chapel here at the Convent their religious life. The Old Laundry Building is now presented the paper. St. Benedict to arrange Sister ~Iary's of St. Benedict. Wearing a habit for the first time called Loretto Hall, and it is to Sister Mariella was one of a four Heredity program. These contacts at July 11, 1953, Sister ~: I agna mark­ Loretto Hall that the art and mathe­ member panel on Benedictine cul­ St. Benedict's were Mr. Ruble's first and white veils as a symbol of their ed her fiftieth year as a professed matics departments have been moved. ture. Sister read ller own paper contacts with the Benedictine Com­ novice status are Delores Dufner sister in the Order of SI. Benedict. (Sister Vercna), Carol Freund (Sister The art department is on the first whicll she called Bcnedictines and munity. He was impressed. She entered the seholasticatc at St. floor and the mathematics del)art­ Christian Culture, Now Mr. Rublc is director of Dominica), hIargaret Corcoran (Sister Emmet), Ceraldine Luke (Sister ment is on the basement floor. The Covenant Blood, a paper on public "Ifair ~ for \VeCO-TV. As DIAL PHUNES the scriptural aspects oi sacrifice, such he developed the seed of his Hugh), Barbara Kort (Sister Irene), Dial phones have been put was read by Father JerOme Doch­ impression of SI. Benedict's Convent and SuSan Wild (Sister Moira). throughout the community from the crty. into a ' VCCO television news pro­ Theresc Ann Collison, Diane Jirik, vestment department to the news gram which he called W ho Is A Mary Lou J'o·leisinger and Caroljene service department on fourth floor Nun? and presented September 11 Topel joined thc communi ty as pos­ tulants September Therese Ann, of the main building. Any building Students Get at 3:30 Il.m. 8. on campus can be dialed without Two staff members from channel Mary Lou and Caroljcne wcre fresh­ going through the portress's switch· four TV spent three days at St. men at 51. Benedict's last year. Diane Fina ncial Aid board. Benedict's. During this time they attended St, Benedict's from 1955- According to the St. Joseph D is­ THE PonTRESS' DESK observed the life of the sisters and 1957. I)ateh 12 students at CSB received Besides the dial systcm there is took pictures of them at work, pray­ The day aftcr Margaret Corcoran scholarship grants from the Catholic another change in the communica­ er and recreation. All classes of nuns received her habit herc at St. Bene­ Aid Association for 1960-1961. Scv!'n tions system here. The Portress' desk were featured in the program- nuns dict's, her twin sister Patricia re­ of the students-Ceraldine Backes, St. has been moved. The portress is now who have spent as much as three­ ceived a Benedictine habit at 51. Nicholas; Mary Ka y Kane, ' Vest seated in the first parlor to the left fourths of a century at the convent Paul's Priory in St. Paul, Mi nnesota. Union; Bernctta Plathe, ~Iadison; as one enters the front door of the as well as women who entered the Sister Donald is the name that Pat Rosalie Heu ter, Hastings; Ann Louise main building. The old portress' room community September 8, 1960. received j une 15. Schommer, Minneapolis; lone 'Vieb­ In three Benedictine convents­ has becn changed into a parlor. ~ I r. Ruble developed this program er, Farming; Viola \Vuebkers, St. THE HUMPS IN THE FLOOH to purposely acquaint viewers in his two ill North Dakota and one in Frances - received the award for the It looked as if it were a very television audience with the purposc­ California _ three students are serv­ second time. ing God. Diane Welder ('62) became simple operation - just cut out the filled and !leace-filled life at SI. Benedict'~ in made her Margaret Mary AuEang, St. Paul; a novice at the Convent of the humps and put in straight boards! Benedict's-to acquaint them wldl vows four years later, July 11, 1903. Mary Lou Backes, SI. Nicholas; Anna Allliuneiation in Bismarck, North Simple or not, it's a luxury (for those this mode of life in case they never For 53 years Sister h-Iagna taught .Mae Braegelmann, Hi chmond; h-h rion Dakota. Diane's name is Sistcr of us who drag our feet) not to ACCIDENTALLY meet it as he elasses in the schools run by the Egerman, St. Clond; and ~Iari e Thomas. Mary Kay \Vermerskirchcn stumble or stub our toes when we ACCIDENT ALLY met it through his Convent of St. Benedict. She taught ~ I U rl )hy, Faribanlt merited their first ('61 ) went to Sacred Heart Convent walk on the basement floor! contacts with Sister ~ I ary in 1958. three levels of students- gra de school scholarship granl. in Minot, North Dakota. Mary Ka y students in Hastings, high school is n (lOstulant nt Sacred Heart Con­ Sisters Meet Alumnae students in SI. Cloud, and college Ford Company Doubles Grant Them Rest ve nt. In Glendora, California, Rose­ students in St. Joseph. Since the llIary Burns ('55) entcred St. Lucy's Mary Tess Donlin Stangl, '42-, on During Summer Travel College was only begun in 1913, Mary Sohler's Gift Priory. Before she joined her new Scptcmber 15. 'Vhen Sister Linnea and Sister Sister Magna was certainly among Because she is a contributor to Benedictine home, Hosemary visited Fedora Julien Thomas, HS '10, in Colman were traveling this summer, the first to be listed on the faculty a private college and because she is SI. Benedict's. She told us then that May. they met three alumnae - Florence of the College of SI. Benedict. In an employce of the Ford Motor Father of Alvina Brinkman Klocker, 0 she would become a postu lant Empson '19 , Judy Poncelet Hoff­ Sister Crace ~ l c Donald's book With Company, Miss Mary Sohler's recent Sc ptember 8, 1 96~, HS '40, on j une 5. man '51°, and Rosemary 1·lynes Lamps Bu ~n in g Sister Magna is pic­ contribution to the College of SI. Joan Emmel, who just graduated Son of Dorothy Berg Kelm, '48, Threlkeld '52°. tured with "some of the first faculty." Benedict was doubled-not matclled on May 20. They met Florence, who was re­ from SI. Benedict's in June, 1960, but doubled-by the Ford Educa­ left her home in West Union, Minne­ Father of Mary Pfenning, '58, on turning to Minnesota after spending Council Develops tional AI D Program. July 6. sota, to join the Maryknoll Sisters. the summer in Russia, at both the The Ford Educational AID (As ­ Mother of Dorothy Zellner Rader j oan is now at the MaryknoU Sisters' London and New York aiTJ)Orts. In Brotherhood Theme sistance and Incentive Donation) '51, on July 7. Novitiate in St. Louis, MissourJ. fact the thrce travelled together from According to LuVerne Youso, Program matches $1-5010 contribu­ 0 Brother of Julia Zehnle, '38 , on New York to Minneapolis. As a mcmber of the Franciscan Faculty-Student Council President, tions made by employees to eligible August 13. At 'Vindsor Castle Sister Linnea Ordcr in Rochester, Minnesota, Lois "Brotherhood " is the council's theme public colleges, universities and high H usband of Pat Colville Th"l, happened to look at a tall woman Knipp ('62) reccived her religious for the year. schools; however, it doubles $1-1000 '49, in September. with red hair. It was Judy Poncclet habit August 12. As a religious Lois As a part of the year's program contributions made by employees to Mother of Angela ~ I eyer, H.S., in Hoffman. will be called Sister M. Barbara. being de,·eloped around this theme, eligible private collcges. June. Hosemary Hynes l 11relkeld and her At Sacred Heart Convent in Fargo, the council is sponsoring Brother­ There are EIGHTY corporations in Maurice, husband of Kathleen llUsband met Sister Colman and North Dakota, two women made hood Day October IS. The plans for the United States that will MATCH Eidan Lamb, '29 in July. Sister Linnea at the London airport temporary vows as members of the this day arc under the co-chairman­ employees contributions to colleges. llclped them to get their feet on Presentation Order of the Blessed shill of ~hrgaret Faulkner, all-college Your gift can be matched if you or The Alumnae Association ex­ the ground for their London visit, Virgin Mary. These two women arc secretary, and Mary Jean Nieren­ your husband are employed by a tends deepest symllathy to Sister and at the end of that visit waved Hose mary Marcotte (,59), who is Sis­ garten. Their committee members are company with a matching gift pro­ Itemberta ul)On the death of her good-by to them as they left the ter Mary Mark, and Phyllis Moen Gretchen Etzell, Margaret ' Varmka gram. See page four, column five, sister, Sister Doris, O.S B. in July. London airport for Ncw York City. ('60), who is Sister Anna r.Iarie. and Connie Nelson. "Corporations Match." Vi car General Erects Stations In Chapel October, 1960 THE BENET 3 These are three of the new sta­ New Doors Open tions which were erected in Sacred Alumna Gives Hearl Chapel "by 18. The figures on the stations are single, paired, To Old Faculty or tripled full figu res si lhouetted Scholarship and mounted on a gray background During the last four months fac­ which lIlatches the pilaster. They arc ulty members either changed thcir made from buff ceramic clay un­ positions at St. Benedict's, received glazed except for those (>arts of the To College a new office or left St. Benedict's to study or teach. figure which represent ncsh. The Mrs. Donald Bohmer (Miriam ~ l ul­ SISTER CONCHESSA LEAVES numerals on the stations are made [ins '32) contributed $2000 to the LlBRAHY from red clay which is ungbzed College of St. Benedict to establish Sister Conchessa, now in charge of and blends with the Kasoda Stone a ~Iarg\lerite Mullins Memoria l the convent's three year juniorate from which the base of the Chapers Scholarship. The scholarshil) com· program, is mistress of the junior pillars arc made. Tiny crosses which memorates Mrs. Bohmer's mother, sis ters. Sister, who was head librarian arc above the figures (they do not Mrs. Marguerite Mullins. show on these pri nts) are made from in the College from 1944-1960, re­ gumwood, the same material from The $2000 contribution will be ceived her new appointment in June. which the pews in the Church are invested and the money that accrues SISTEn LUKE WINS ELECTION Sister Luke, St. Benedict's Com­ made. These stations were designed from this interest will be given by Peter Lupori, husband of Cath­ munity Accountant, was cleeted as annually for the scholarship. The erine Pribyl '41°, a director of the American Associa­ Vicar Cencrol Peter Lorsung, who student to whom this scholarship will tion of Hospita[ Accountants last represented Bishop Bartholome, erect­ be given wi!! be selected by the spring. Sister was installed for a ed the stations. He made three trips faculty. She must be a deserving two-year term at a membership meet­ ing held at Indiana University in around them - first, to sprinkle each student and preferably the daughter station with holy water; then to in­ August. Sister Luke is also a mem· of a widow. cense the stations; and finally, to ber of the Board of Directors for bless each tiny cross which was the Minnesota Chapter of the Asso­ placed above each station. It is this ciation. In this capacity she attended tiny cross that really receives the a chapter meeting held at Duluth blessing; if all parts of the stations CAMPUS CALENDAR in August. are removed and only the crosses SISTERS STUDY remain, the blcssing is still present. October 15 - Student Council Last spring Sister Ingrid merited Brotherhood Day This was precisely the ease in Sacred a $3000 Ceneral Foods Fund Fel­ Oclober 16 - Alumnae Executive lowship from the Ceneral Foods 11 eart Chapel. From the time of re­ Board Meeting decoration until the erection of the Deha EI)si[on Sigma Corporation. Sister is now using this present stations, there were only October 20 - Douglas lI yde; money to attend the Un ive rsity of wooden crosses fo r the stations. Training Christian Leaders Minnesota where she is earning her October 23 - Anna Mari Z.1glia, doctorate in nutrition . Sister Class of 1960 soprano Mary David spent a month at CSB No\'ember 2 - St. Cloud Challters this summer. She is now back at Graduates Enter ~'lee t ing at CS13 Boston College completing work for November 13 - Duo di llama: her doctorate in education After piano and cello spending the summer here at St. November 20 - Theodore Ull­ N ew Occupations mann: piano dedication con­ Benedict's, Sister Simon is aga in at cert St. Lollis University where she is Dixie Aus (/I.·lrs. Robert Labat), November 26 - Johnny Belinda earning her doctorate in English. living in St. Cloud Irene Bates (Continued on page 4, col. 1) (Mrs. Eugene Sullivan), teaching, Junction City, Kansas ... Joann ikrg, social work, New York . Mary j ane Hemaci.k, clinical chemist, SI. ~I ary's British Traveler Tells Hospital, Rochester ... Laura Braegel­ man, $acrctary, Remington Rand, St. Pau[ ... Kalheryn Briscoe, living in About People, Places Minneapolis ... Ann Marie Burgmcier, Since there are fh'c sisters who spent the summer abroad, we have leaching, Glencoe High School decided to I)ublish execrl)ts from one sister's letters homc in each of the Marion Casey, te.'lehing, Fridley . five BENETS. Since Sister Linnea and Sister Colman traveled he<:a use Donna Mae Doll, teaching, New of alumna e ge nerosity, they will alll>ca r in the first two issues. Prague .. Delores Dufner, novice, Sister Lillnca writes. Convenl of SI. Benedict joan New York City was a nightmare . Only a movie camera could have Emmel, entered ~ l aryknolJ Sisters, St. done justice to our hectic jOurney from one part of Idlewild to the other. Louis, Missouri ... Judy Faulkner, \Ve kept on being assured we would make the plane even when it was teaching, Powers Lake , North Da­ perfectly evident we would have to miss it. The climax came when we kota . . j oan Heider, teaching, Frid­ hailed a deaf taxi driver who did not know the location of the KLM area. ley . , . Marian Hof, Cirl Scout work, Today was devoted to the Ve nerable Berle, in his monastery of SI. Appleton, \Visconsin Marianne l'aul (Jarrow) and St. l'etcr (\Vearmouth), and his tomb at Durham. But Burkes, secretary, Ceneral Electric, what to say? I wish each of you could hear the verger at Jarrow tell Minneapolis Ar[ene Inderrieden, about SI. Bede - nothing you don't know, but such love! At both places, teaching, Bloomington Katherine tllere is what remains of a high narrow stone church. \Vbat was added Keefe Fruth, living in St. Cloud at Jarrow down the years is in good taste, hut SI. Peter's is pretty bad, Ellcn Keller, teaching, Bloomington and in a poor industrial neighborhood. A young theological student told Patricia Kellogg, teaching, Edina us that there arc plans to surround the building by a grecn Durham . . . Iris Kenna, social worker, Albert is one of the Cathedrals; who can sing its glory? It is better to share Lea ... Janice ul\'inc ( ~I rs. Cerald with you the praye r thai visitors find at Bede's lomb: Grant, 0 Lord, we Schram). beseech Thee, that as Thy servant, the Venerable Bede, living his life Mary Lawrenz, General Mills home in an obscure place, never ecased his diligence in pra)'er and study, so economist, Mi nneapolis .. Lois Lom­ we laying aside all discontent and idleness, may cheerfully work the work mel, United Air Lines emploree, Thou givest us to do. Through our Lord ... May it be granted to all Chicago ... Frances Lyman, teaching, of us H lU tin~ ... Camilla McCarron (Mrs. York- and the Bar Convent. The name comes from the fact that Bill Weber) ... Marilyn Meyer, teach- this, the oldest (1686) convent in England, is located near the Bar, that is ing, Ogilvie ... Agnes Miller (Mrs. ;\licklegate, one of the gates in the old city wall. Their history, their Robert C. Flynn), living in North­ treasures, their Mary \Vard dc.scrve more time than I have now. \Ve brook, Illinois . . Carole ~ liller , teach­ made a brid visit to the little chapel in the home of Blessed Margaret ing, New Prague . . Caroh'n Moos· Clitllerow, one of the forty lIIartyrs who all hOllC will be canonized soon . brugger, studying medical technologr, \Ve have, of course, been going to school regul arly. Mr. Spencer's St. Cloud Hospital ... Maurcen Mor­ lectures on the Roman plays of ShnkesllCare were a live preparation for le y, teaching, Cirele Pines . Karen the filmed Julius Cuesar. He madc it quite clear that fo r Shakespeare Mo t nes!i, dietetics intern, St. Mary's and llis audiences Caesar was the ma gnanimous, the great man, and that HOSI)i tal. Bochester . Deanna Mur­ they would still have understood Dante's placing Brutus in the very mouth ray, teaching, Fridley . Jane Opatz, of Satan. There was al so an entertaining introduction to the even more teaching, Uloomington . . Alice Ann entertaining play, The Knight of the Burning Pestl e Orr, teaching, St. Cloud .. Kathleen ... We went to Call ow End and the comilletely unidentified Stanhrook I'etry, teaching, St. Paul Catherine Abbey. (I reall y must go back to In n Great Tradition to find out how Petsch, tea e II i n &, SI. Timothy's George Bernard Shaw found his way there.) The Sisters were most School, Minneapolis ... Sally Pollock, friendly; Lady Abbess Eli7.libeth Sumner gave us almost all of her day teaching, Holdingford ... Mary Reie_ not spent in the ohapel. \Ve stayed for two Masses; as outsiders, wc hcrt (Mrs. Donald Ehresmann), living stayed in a side chapel. All the visiting was through a double grill. We in North Kings ton, Rhode Island wcre presented to the entire community - also through the grill. They Patricia ncngel, Hamm's Brewery are having With Lamps Burning fo r table rca ding and made friendly employee, St. P a u I ... Charlotte favorable comments about it. TIle fact that there is, currently, public Speikers, teaching, Mjnnesota School prayer for the canonization of Forty Martyrs of England and Wales of Business, Minneapolis .. Sandra brought conversation around to them and we learncd that the Abbess's Stotko, Russell-Miller employee, ~ I in ­ family never lost tlle faith. She told us that one of her ancestors had neapolis .. Lucille Stramer, teaching, owned a better horse than the penal laws llCrmitted. It was claimed, St. Cloud ... Kathleen Sullivan, teach­ as was permitted, by olle of his Protestant neighbors. Mr. Sumner agrced ing, Hastings ... Ma rietta SwoHer, to its being t.'lken on a certain day. When the Protestant came, he found (Continued on page 4, col. 4) a dead horse; it had been shot by its ownerl O ct!)Qar, 196'0 4 THE BENET Created In Thine Image 1940 THROUGH THE YEARS Carol Mary to Ken and l\-lary (Flynn") Cameron on June 27. 1 boy, 3 girls. 1932 Beatrice White Johnson" is teach­ 1941 ing first grade at Larkspur, California. Mary Linn to Harry and Ruth (Linnemann*) Knevel on June 25. WRA Hosts 3 boys, 1 girl. She has been in the profess ion since she returncd from Hawaii where she 1944 and her family lived from 19'11-1949. Lisa Carol to Ben and Anacleta (Yurcek) Seifert on June 29. 1 boy, State Meet 19 34 6 girls . Thomas Edward to Joseph and Dorothy (Lippert") Blashack on St. Benedict's 'Vornen's Recreation­ Lucille Malone Roach" is both May 20. 4 boys, 5 girls. al Association was hostess to a meet­ librarian and English teacher at 1947 ing of the J\'linnesola Athletic Hce­ Harding High School in St. Paul. Susan Marie to Robert and Rosemary (Hable) Nichols on May S. rcation Federation of College \Vomen 193 9 2 boys, 4 girls . .. John to Karl and Marge (Reichling") Voelker in May. October 7-8 at Camp Courage, " Iin­ Lorraine Stegmaier Gay" was in­ 2 boys, 2 girls. nesola. DiAnn Tinles, \VRA Ilfesi­ stal!ed as treasurer of the LaCrosse 1948 dent, and Sister l'> lary l\:lark, O.5.B., Cirele of the International Federa­ MelisSl. Langdon to George and Teresa (Blatz") Walker on June 30. \vRA moderator, llcadcd the organi­ tion of Catholic Alumnae i\hy 7. 2 girls .. John Charles to Raymond and Frances (Hynan") Baron on j un e zation of this meeting. 1943 30. 1 boy, 1 girl . . . Mark William to Gerald and Eileen (Opatz.") Berger Sister Enid opened the program Betty Crace Antony Traynor" was on August 11 . 3 boys, 1 girl. Clare Mary to Richard and Mary (Pluth") at Camp Courage with her lecture hostess for an alumnae meeting in Palmquist on June 1. 2 boys, 2 girls. on the use of leisure time. This was Denver, Colorado, in September - I ... ·i, followed by infonnal discussions. A when Sister Glenore and Sister Col­ 1949 Michelle Anne to Harry and Henrietta (Pfau) Reiner on August 22. Corporations Match wo rkshop on caml}ing was conducted lcen (Joanne Haggerty '54) were 3 boys, 1 girl . Roger Brian to Jerome and LaMay (Wagner") Bechtold by Dr. L. L. Ricke from Waterville, there to attend a Dietary Institute. (See article page two, column on July 29. 5 boys, 4 girls. and finally there was a panel dis­ 1944 four, "Ford Company Doubles Mary cussion which centered around pub­ From Goffstown, New Hampshire, 1950 Sohler's Gift.") licizing WRA activities. Kathleen Alice Ann Kovarik Slattum went to Rose Antoinette to Harold and Marianne (Ahasic) Gorenz on j uly lB. All egheny Ludlum Steel Corp. Brudos was chairman of this program. Manchester, New Hampshire, to rep­ 1 gir!. .. Susan Amy to Mel and Joyce (Wild") Mattson on ~Iay 26. Americ ~ n & Foreign Power Co. American Brake Shoe Co. resent St. Benedici"s at a dedication 5 girls Carol Elizabeth to Thomas and Joan (Gaida") Schmitz on August 2. 1 boy, 3 gi rls ... Frances Marie to Gil and Dolores (Gagnon HS) Gaucher Am erican Home Products ceremony at St. Anselm's, a Benedic­ Bank of New York Schedule Soprano tine Col!ege. on Jnly 17. 3 boys, 2 girls. Whitney Bla ke Co . 1946 1951 Bonwit Tell er Mary Louise to Roger and Phyllis (Wyffels) Johnson on May 2. Burlington Industrits Rosemary Muggli Jasken" is teadl­ Godfrey L. Cabot, inc. For Convocation 1 boy, 1 girl. Anna Mari Zaglia will appear at ing for her fourth consecutive year Clmpbell Soup Co. Canadi;!.n General Electric Co., Ltd. St. Benedict's October 23 at S;OO in Ogema, Minnesota. 1952 Jo Ann to Gharles and Nancy (Bums") \Venner Oil June 30. 3 boys, Chase Manhattan Ba nk p.m. A lyric soprano of the San 1948 The Cleveland Electric lIIuminliting Co . I girl. Carlo Opera Company, Madame Anna Lou El!enbeeker Ritz" repre­ Columbian Carbon Co. Zaglia has appeared in Southern sented St. Benedict's at commence­ 1954 Connecticut Gentral Life Insurance Co. Europe and Northern Africa although ment exercises at SI. Benedict's Craig Michael to Charles and Wanda (Ayers) McGarvey on July 4. Connecticu t Light & Power Co. Continenbl Oil Co. 25. 2 boys, 2 girls . Mark Joseph to Richard and Jacqueline (Ulmen") Zbaracki this is ller first tour of the United Col!ege in Atchison, Kansas, May Corni ng Glassworks on July 9. 2 boys . David John adopted by Robert and Mary Jane (Dols") States. 1954 Deering, Milli ken & Co. Ploof on June 24. I boy .. Thomas Dominic to Jeruld and Betty Lou Madame Zaglia will sing arias Celine Sauerer" has been promot­ Di~mond Alhli Co . from Pagliacci, La Boheme, ~Iadame (Sweet") Weiland on July 25. 3 boys, 2 girls . Diane Marie to james Dow Cheminl Co. ed from ensign to It. j. g. (lieutenant, Dow - Coming Corp. Butterfl y and Conchita. and Marjorie {Theisen") Brutger on September 2. 1 boy, 2 girls .. Kathleen junior grade) in the U.S.N.R. at D r~per Therese to Mark and Mary Jo (Willette- ) H ughes on August 2. 2 boys, Corp. Great Lakes, Illinois. Wilbur B. Driver Co. NEW DOORS OPEN . 3 girls ... Teresa Mary to Paul and Arlene (Donkers) Myers on May 5. (Continued from page 3) Ebasco Services, Inc. 1957 4 girls Barbara Anne to Phil!ip and Donna (Marx-) Cowles on June S. El ectric Bond & S h~re Co. SISTEHS TEACH j\'largaret Mae Machtcmes (h.s.") 1 boy, 2 girls . Ann Catherine to Phil and Betty (Mandell-) Heymans on Fa lnit Bearing Co. Sister Linus has gone to Cold graduated from the St. Cloud Hos­ Jnne 16. 1 boy, 2 girls Ann Elizabeth to Malcolm and Joan (Whitman) General Atronics Corp. General Electric Co . ( Found;!. tio n) Spring to teach English at St. Boni­ pital School of Nursing, August 15, Teare in February. 1 boy, 1 girl. Michelle Ann to Robert and Betty Gen e r~1 Foods face High School Sister ~ I ar­ 1960. (H unt") LaBrosse on May 30. 1 boy, 3 girls. General Public Utilities anatha left the College for St. Anne Marie Gaffrey· is teaching Gibbs & Hi ll Joseph's School in North Minne­ 1955 Ginn & Co. in the Navy Scll':)QI, Yokc-hR ma, i.-i a ur""'l1 ; ~ :i:uo~th I" Tom M,d ~,: a i' il yn (Yunke!" O) M"rray 011 June 27. apolis to teach music and direct the Glidden Co. Japan. Anna Marie hopes to visit 1 boy, 1 girl Paul Jeffrey to Floyd and Elizabeth (O'Hotto) Gillen on parish choir Sister Mariella re­ B. F. Goodrich Co. Sister Benedice at Hokkaido, Japan. W. T. Grinl Co. turned to Marillac College in Jeffer­ June 9. 4 boys. 1958 Gull Oil Co. son, Missouri, where she is again 1956 Harris-Intertype Foundation teaching English. Bonnie Kieffer Fiala completed her Anne Marie to Paul and Marvel (Lee) Pryor on June 29. 1 boy, 1 girl . Hewlett-Pichrd Co . LAY TEACHERS LEAVE work toward her B.s. in home econ­ Denise Kathleen to Ray and Mary Pat (Hart") Kobe on July 25. 4 girls Hill Acme Co. e "'[iss Mary Byers is in St. Louis, omics education in ~Iay. Stephen Anthony to Jack and Eileen (Potter ) Simmons 0 11 June 14. 1 boy, J . M. Hu b.. Corp. 1 girl. . . Patrick John to Dr. Eugene and Mary (Baker") O'Brien on Hughes Aircraft Co. ~Iissouri, where she is teaching Eng­ 1959 International Businon Machines Corp. lish at Maryville Col!ege i\.Jr. Judy Veeder Christenson" has September 20. 1 boy. Jefferson Mills Edgar Buyco and his family are in moved from Mason City, Iowa, to 1957 S. C. Johnson & S~ns, Inc . Canada. Mr. Buyco is on the faculty Austin, Minnesota, where IlCr hus­ Nicholc Therese to James and Yvonne (Lescarbeau·) \Vilson on June Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Kliiser Steel Corp. at the University of Alberta in band Jim ha s accepted a position 21. 1 girl. . . Ann Jacquelyn to Bob and Belty (Stoltz-) Spaeth on July 15. Walter Kidde & Co. Edmonton . Mr. Sylvester Theisen with B. F. Goodrich. Judy writes, 2 girls . Colleen Marie to Dan and Kay (KellyO ) Conlon on May 29. Walter Kidde Constructors and his family have moved to South "\Ve had a Benny reunion at Della 1 girl TllOmas Joseph to Denis and ~ I ary (M cCullough-) Novak on Koil ed Kords. Inc. Bend, Indiana. ?o. -Ir . Theisen is earning Pauly's wedding Carol Coyne, July 21. 1 boy, 1 girl. .. Christopher James to James and Janeene Lehigh Portlllnd Cemen t Co . McCormick & Co. his doctorate in sociology at Notre Mary Bauer· and I all have our (Mahoney) Gellennan on June IS. 1 boy. McGraw· HiII Publishing Co. Dame University. Michaels to brag about!" 1958 M;!.nu facturers Trust Co. Jeffrey Mark to Philip and Kathryn (Callanan) Mayer on February 7. May tag Co. Foundation, Inc. 3 boys ... Janet Marie to Don and Donna (DeZiel) Hamling on July 24. Merck Co . Foundation 1 boy, 1 girl. Rachacl Marie to Roger and Irma (Centilini") Scherer on National Di stillers Produc t. Corp. A Great Sacrament n e National Lead Foundation, Inc. September 4. 1 girl. . Barbara Ann to James and Elizabeth (DempsterO) The N ~ tion a l Supply Co. 1952 Kertz on June 9. 1 girl. . Carla Marie to Lowell and Jo Ann (Sandal) New York Trap Rock Co. Rose Glatzel to Anthony Gornik on June 20. Miles on May 12. 1 boy, 1 girl . Thomas James to Jim and Bonita Northrop Avilltion Co. 1955 (Witkowski) Keller on May 14. 1 boy. Owens·Corning FiberglllS Lois Guggemos Lane· to John Kobler on Jnne 25. Pennsalt Chemicals Corp. 1959 Phelps Dodge Foundation 1956 Mary Beth to Gerald and Dianne (BormannO) Mahoney on August 21. Pitney· Bowes, Inc . Agnes Bedltold HS" to Donald Steichen on September 3. 1 girl. .. Michael James to Jim and Judy (Vceder") Christenson on June 1. Reliible Efectric Co. 1957 1 boy . Michael John to Gramer and Mary (BauerO) Davis on May 19. Schering Corporation Lorraine Sterner" to Doctor James A. Chervenak on June 25. 1 boy . :\{argaret An n to BiI! and LaVonne (SchniederO) O'Connor on Sco tt Paper Co. Seton Leather Co. ( Foundation) Carole Zender" to James Krysan on July 2. June 1. 1 girl. Sharon Steel Corp. ( Foundation) ~ I argaret Parent" to Roger Schrantz on July 2. 1960 Smith, Kli ne & French LlI boratories 1958 Robert Clark to Gary and Darnell (Zachman) Klein on April 24. TeKt ronics, Inc. Donna Harrer to Bernard Dupont on June 11 . 2 boys Mary Patrice to Ed and Ruth (Riebel) Germscheid on June 24. Tennessee Gas Tr.. nsmission Co. Kathleen l\ latthews to Richard P. Lutgen on June 25. Towers, Perrin, Forster & Cros by, Int. 1 boy, 1 girl. United Clay Mines Corporation Bette Jayne Youso" to Louis A. Haak on August 13. Wallingford Steel Co. Carol Schuler to Donald Valenta. DAUGHTEn s FOLLOW GRADUATES ENTER Warner Brothers Co. 1959 (Continued from page 3) John Wiley & SOM, Int, (Continued from page 1) Williams & Co. Kay Stein" to Luigi Balletto on September 2S. program computor, Hemington Rand, Three other Bennies have mothers Young & Rubica n, Inc. Mary Alice \Vedl" to George Keenan, Jr. on June 25. Minneapolis . . Ro se Marie Thomas, Mary Jean Herbst" to Michael Moetell on May 14. who arc alumnae. Gail Koch is the teaching, International Falls . Bar­ Catherine Whalen· to Gerald McGraw on June IS. daughter of Mrs. M. G. Koch bara T womey Wolfe, living in Min­ DES learns Mary Ann Maas" to Phillip T. Wagner on October L (Aurelia \"alters '36). Patricia Burg­ eapolis .. Judith Varner, teaching, Julie Janzen" to Keith Hughes on August 27. About Africa meier's mother, Mu . Lawrence Burg­ Bloomington . Nanc y ' Vadckamper, Ann Bechtold" HS to Robert Reischl on July 27. teadling, Fridley Margaret 'Ven­ meier, was Rose Marie Broker (h.s. DES meets at the College October Patricia Chmielewski to Donald Klarkowski on July 23. ner, teaching, Virginia Eyvonne 16 with Sister Enid, O.s.B., presi­ '35), and Mary Zimmer's mother, Della Pauly" to Bob Theis. W right, teaching, Woodland Hil!s, dent of the DES Omega Chapter, 1960 ~lrs . Louis Zimmer, was Irene California .. i\Iidori Yamaha, student conducting the mceting. Janice L ..... vine .. to Gerald Schram on June IS. Brown ('29°). at Loyola University, Chicago A discussion of Africa- its culture Agnes Miller· to Robert Flynn on August 29. Ruth Zenner, Remington Rand em­ and geography wil! follow the busi­ Of speoal interest is a student Irene Bates" to Eugene Sullivan on August 19. ployee, Minneapolis. ness meeting. Dixie Aus" to Robert Labat on August 6. whose fa6er was a Benny. John ~Iary Reichert" to Lt. (j. g.) Donald Ehresmann. L. Rochdord of Minneapolis pre­ THE BENET Camilla McCarron" to Bill Weber on October B. cedes his daughter Martha in at­ Kathryn Hoffman to Lawrence Gds on September 10. Published by the College of SI. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota, in tending St. Benedict's. Mr. Roche­ 1961 October, December, February, April, and /lIay. Subscription $.50. Entered Anne Murray to Eugene Kuyava on April 13. ford attended St. Benedict's Aca­ as second class matter January 14, 1945, at the post office at St. Joseph, Peggy Zimmer to Alex Schuhwerdl on October 1. demy for boys. Minnesota, under the act of March, IB79.