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MUShare The Phoenix Campus Newspaper Collection 12-8-1954 The Phoenix, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (December 8, 1954) Marian University - Indianapolis Follow this and additional works at: https://mushare.marian.edu/phnx Recommended Citation Marian University - Indianapolis, "The Phoenix, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (December 8, 1954)" (1954). The Phoenix. 16. https://mushare.marian.edu/phnx/16 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Campus Newspaper Collection at MUShare. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Phoenix by an authorized administrator of MUShare. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CHAPEL DEDICATION CLIMAXES MARIAN'S TRIBUTE TO MARY THE PHOENIX Vol. xvm Marian College, Indianapolis, Indiana, December 8, 1954 No. 2 n.pud F«"om the Air: Foreground—Gymnasium and Clare hall; Auditorium, Administration building with Science hall at rear center, chapel; Alverna hall, north of chapel. Background—Lake, Madonna hall. Dedication Events Dec. 8- Chapel Dedication with Cast, Choral Groups, Audience Solemn Pontifical Mass Archbishop Schulte Officiates Blessing of Administra tion—Science Buildings Take Part in Mary Program Dec. 11. Mary Program for Sis At Dedication Ceremonies Culmination of the Marian Year on campus will be the ters Dedication of the Bishop Chartrand Memorial Chapel of performance of Mary, a dramatic production written and ar Benediction in New Cha- Mary Immaculate, the new administration building, and ranged by Sister Mary Olivia and Sister Mary Jane. pei Scotus Science hall, will be the nucleus of a three-day obser Theme centers around the Little Office of the Immacidate Open House vance: Dec. 8, Dedication ceremony; Dec. 11 and 12, per Conception. A tableau representing a mystery in Mary's life Dec. 12. Mary Program for Gen formance of Mary, dramatic-choral presentation. is presented at each of the seven hours. eral Public Sisters of St. Francis, who own and operate the college, Open House Jim O'Donnell will open the with the college administration program with the prologue, in- Pennies BuHd Fwid; and faculty have scheduled the Marian Year Ends viting the audience to take an _ Hand Carved Statues, Dedication proper for Dec. 8 as a special tribute to Mary Immacu- With Pilgrimage, active role and " to speak to Mary PHestS, Laity Unite late. in accents of praise and wonder, ' i fM St. Meinrad Sandstone Pontifical High Mass Bel Canto Activity to make the performance a prayer 10 JfUmiSil K^fiaUeL Beautify New Chapel —not a play, a protestation of de Literally thousands, young and The Most Rev. Paul C. Schulte, Bel Canto will contribute to the votion, love, deep admiration for old, have contributed within the Of modern Gothic architecture, D.O., archbishop of Indianapolis Mary—not a program." the new chapel is at the extreme and chancellor of the college, will archdiocesan close of the Marian last few years to the college build year by assisting Cathedral men's Narrator Mary Lou Cummins ing fund. east of the new building units, perform the dedication services will join with the men's verse Unique financier has been Moth marked by a large stone cross beginning at 10 a.m. and celebrate schola cantorum, and St. Agnes choir, women's verse choir, and er M. Clarissa, O.S.F., founder and above its front entrance and a Solemn Pontifical High Mass. Academy and Cathedral grade the faithful for the liturgical- first president of the college, now smaller one above the sanctuary. Schola of six men and six wom school choirs singing the evening scriptural text. Bel Canto will con en furnish the Gregorian chant in her 90th year. Through a penny At the inner doors of the main Mass at the cathedral Dec. 8. tribute the Gregorian chant se drive, begun in the summer of entrance is a bronze memorial for the dedication services. Chapel lections; a double trio, the invo 1953 and cai-ried on through per plaque to Bishop Chartrand pre dedication prayers conclude with On campus the close of the cations to Mary. sonal contacts or by letters, she sented by the Most Rev. Joseph E. "God . pour out Thy grace up Marian year will bring to an end "Come, my lips, and with joy has presented the college with over Ritter, archbishop of St. Louis, on this edifice, so that all who the duties of the Mary committee proclaim the Blessed Virgin's $50,000: and she intends to keep former archbishop of Indianapolis, shall here call upon Thy name may formed last December. Present stu spotless fame" introduces the Im right on working. and auxiliary bishop here at the experience Thy merciful help." dent members of this committee maculate Conception at Matins. time of the Bishop's death. Fr. Horrigan Speaks are: Pat Doerger, Mary Jo Mc Anne Petty will impersonate Mary. Mother Clarissa Inspires Giving Interior walls of the chapel are Speaker will be Rev. Alfred F. Hugh, Joann Hazlewood, Mary Suzanne Otto, as St. Anne; and Among her helpers have been finished in St. Meinrad sandstone, Horrigan, Ph.D., president of Sommers, Marlene Waggoner, and Mary Krieg, Marty Beckerich, and the Sisters themselves, who have shades of burnt sienna predominat Bellarmine college, Louisville. Harry Reith. Joan Myslinski, as women at directed into the penny heap the ing. Robinson flagstones form the Proper of the Mass is to be tendants, will portray the Birth gifts offered to them personally or flooring, except for the Granox Final student-initiated activity, chanted by men's schola; ordinary of Mary. Keynote of the scene is: remunerations for such extra en Quaker gray marble of the sanctu sponsored by the sophomore class of Mass IV, by men's schola and "The Loi-d Himself created her deavors as magazine article writ ary. under the direction of Mary Som ing. Her greatest satisfaction, student body, antiphonally; Offer mers, was a Marian Year pilgrim in the Holy Spirit and poured her Altars of Black-Gold Marble out over all His works." however, has come from the re tory motet, Tota Pulchra Es, by age Dec. 7. sponse of the Sisters' pupils. Their The main altar table is a rec college choir. Presentation of Mary with In private cars 50 to 75 students ingenious fund-raising has varied tangular slab of black-gold marble Blessing of the other building Phyllis Guidone as St. Anne, visited four of the Indianapolis from a ten-year old's search for a resting- on eight cylindrical pillars units will follow the Mass. During Nicholas Watt as Joachim, Paul churches dedicated to Mary: Our lost dog and donating the reward, of the same material. A second, this ceremony the Archbishop Livers as the highpriest, and Ei Lady of Lourdes, Assumption, to Christmas caroling in a rural larger slab with hexagonal base, asks God's blessing "upon this leen Fleetwood as little Mary will Holy Rosary, and St. Mary's. follow. At the close the narrator neighborhood. supports the tabernacle. The three building destined for the education comments: "She is the brightness Mother Clarissa's goal is to step predella, on which the main of youth, and upon all who dwell Fr. Courtney will lead the Mar of Eternal Light and the unspot furnish Scotus Science hall. altar rests, is of pine green marble. in it." ian Year prayers required to gain ted mirror of God's Majesty and Of a different type has been the High above the altar hangs a Clergy and representatives of the special plenary indulgence and the image of His goodness." work of two committees organized life-size crucifix, carved of light colleges and universities will be impart the Benediction of the Portraying the Annunciation in October, 1954, by Fi-. Reine, wood. special guests on Dec. 8. Blessed Sacrament at St. Mary's. are Dian Herman as Mary and Jan college president, to help finance Both side-altars are smaller Saturday, Dec. 11, at 2 p.m., Pilgrims will recite the rosary (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on. Page 5) (Continued on Page 5) en route. Page Two THE PHOENIX December 8, 1954 Bishop Chartrand, Devotee of Mary Immaculate, CSMC needs: .^heu •^ cJLoued vJur cJLadi f For Christmas baskets: As this year, the Marian Year, draws to Promoter of Education, and Friend of Youth a close, it is fitting that we pause a moment Clean clothing to reminisce. The past days surely have Food—canned goods and staples Life work of Bishop Joseph Chart seen our devotion to Our Lady grow in Toys and hard candy strength and beauty. There have been many Pleas3 bring your contributions to: rand was the bringing of people to 'Mary" activities on campus: the opening Carol Welp, senior; Gertrude Lenhardt, the Blessed Sacrament. "Never miss of the Marian Year, the perpetual candle junior; Rita Frey, sophomore; Bert O'Bryan a Communion that you can possibly before our Lady's statue. Sodality recep and Maureen Feeny, freshmen. tion, rosary and the Little Office in chapel, make" was the frequent admonition May crowning, and a host of others, all of this "Bishop of the Blessed Sacra expressions of the love and reverence felt by each Marianite toward our Heavenly Cross Campus ment" to his more than 25,000 peni Queen and Patroness. tents a year. And now we look to the future. Let's not have it said of us, "They loved Our Lady", By Joan Hazlewood The chapel memorial is a tribute to but rather, "They love Our Lady." Let us Rejoice and be glad! Good ole exam days this Eucharistic apostolate as well as not call one year of our lives the Marian Year but make every year, every month, are over and we can sleep again.