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Seattle nivU ersity ScholarWorks @ SeattleU The peS ctator 4-16-1959 Spectator 1959-04-16 Editors of The pS ectator Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/spectator Recommended Citation Editors of The peS ctator, "Spectator 1959-04-16" (1959). The Spectator. 642. http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/spectator/642 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The peS ctator by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. Irene Dunne to Speak at Commencement University's can Heart Assn., Red Cross drive, and the volun- Irene Dunne will be the Com- Society. A. A. Lemieux, teer field army of the American Cancer mencement speaker, the Very Rev. Medal S.J., today. The University will award Notre Dame awarded her the Laetare announced annually outstanding Cath- honorary doctor of law degree at the June in 1949, given to the her an She will be the third 5 exercises. olic layman of the year. University Dunne," Laetare Medalist to speak at S.U.s commencement "Seattle will honor Miss Alfred said, "because of her work with the in the past five years.The others wereGen. Fr. Lemieux 1956, and Jefferson United Nations and because of her outstanding M. Gruenther, who spoke in achievements innumerous civic andpublicgroups." Caffrey, a diplomat, in 1955. Fr. Lemieux said the degree would be a testi- MISS DUNNE WON the American Brother- monial to an outstanding woman who has been hood Award of the National Council of Christians a credit to her community, her country and her and Jews in 1948 for her contributions toreligious profession. unity. Movieland's regal beauty was appointed as an S.U.s honorary doctor's degree will be the alternate delegate to the United Nations in 1957 third for the actress. She has an honorary doctor by President Eisenhower. She pinch-hit once for of laws degree from Mount St.Mary's College, Los Henry Cabot Lodge at a General Assembly meet- IRENE,DUNNE at the United Nations. Angeles (1949), and an honorary doctor of music ing in October that year. The star of "I Remember Mama" (1948) has from the Chicago Musical College (1945). She is school. OF five Academy Award nomi- concentrated on civic service during the last dec- a 1926 honor graduate from the latter RECIPIENT speaker was born in Lou- nations for the best actress during her acting ade. She is a member of the U.S. Defense Advis- The Commencement isville, Ky., she attended Loretta Academy career, Miss Dunne made one of the Oscar pre- ory Committee andhas served as an executive in and the National Women's Committee of the Ameri- there. Her father died when she was 11. sentations last week. (Continued onPage Three) StudentBulgarianDelegation California-Bound for MUN SEATTLEUNIVERSITYSpectator The seven SU delegates to the Model United Nations will leave Monday for the University of Southern California. They will represent the People's Republic of Bulgaria at the ninth general session of the western region of the MUN. Volume XXVI Seattle, Washington, Thursday, April 16, 1959 ®<*»gRr,A. No. 23 The delegates are Jane Merry- man, chairman; andFranc Schuck- ardt, Mary Kay Prentice, Mary Modern Education Kay Panisko, Joe Demo, Chuck Simmons, andJack McLaughlin. Prom Committee Hires Billy May, The delegates willarrive in Los Topic for Debate Angeles in time for a Soviet Bloc The Rev. J. Gerard Bussy, S.J., meeting on Tuesday. The meeting May of Olympic O'Brien, profes- to consolidatethe policies the 6 Ralph is Ballrooms for and Dr. K. Rents sor of education, will debate the Soviet nations, and to determine The "big band sound" of Billy May will dark suits or dinner jackets for the boys and contemporary voting methods during the Assem- problems of educa- sweep the Spanishand Grand Ballrooms of the formals for the girls. Corsages are in order, tion next Tuesday at the Education to Ritch. Club's monthly meeting. It will be THE CONVENTION opens offi- Olympic Hotel for the SU Junior Prom, on according chairman at 7:30 p.m. in the arts and crafts cially Wednesday with the first May 6. From 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. the 15-piece Prom committee chairmen are: Publicity, room on the fifth floor of Pigott meeting in the General Assembly. orchestra and vocalist Frankie Lester will pro- Sam Brown and Pat Pavelka; Programs, Mary and is open to all students. Thursday and Friday willbe de- vide dancing rhythms, it was announced today Kay Panisko and Ron Gallucci; Decorations, Father Bussy will discuss voted to committee meetings in by Prom chairman Mike Ritch. Chuck Schmitz and Frank Lara; Arrange- "What," in his opinion,"education preparation for the final General Assembly Saturday. The planning FOR THE FIRST time in over five yeai-s ments, Charlotte Belmont; Business, Clark is not accomplishing." Dr. O'Brien - Olympic Hoyt. will give his views on what edu- and policy making will be con- the Junior Prom will be held at the cation is accomplishing. ducted during committee meetings, Hotel. Seating- will be in the Spanish Ball- The theme for the evening will be dis- according to SU chairman Jane room, a of 800, and danciri" closed at a later date. This will be the last program of Merryman. having; capacity the year offered by the Education will be in the Grand Ballroom. Some of Billy May's biggest albums have MORE THAN 70 colleges from Dancing," Club, and officers will be elected California, Washington, Oregon, Six hundred programs will go on sale April been "Billy May for Fancy "You for next year. Arizona, Idaho and Montana will 27 in the Chieftain. Prices will be $2 for all Turned the Tables on Me" and "Dance to the Sue Redmond, chairman of the be represented. The convention senior students and $4 general price. Bands." His music is featured onKraft Music May 20 Critic Tea, will discuss was at the University of Washing- DRESS FOR the evening will be formal— Hall television show. final plans for this annual event ton last year, and the University for all cooperating and cadet of California at Berkeley will be teachers. host next year. purpose of the convention is Outstanding Junior Coed Selected education of the delegates in Jo Ann Arsenault has been president and last year wasa Spur. on campus. By studying the girls' UN setup, according to chair- Her other activitiesinclude Valen- activities throughout their three Father Lemieux Merryman. named outstanding junior Eie tolo chairman last year, committee years on campus, the field was woman by Kappa Gamma Pi, chairman for the 1958 Homecom- limited to three. 'Man of Year' honorary Catholic ing and co-chairmanfor the AWS The Very Rev. A. A. Lemieux, AWS Charm Talk an for wom- Tolo Day which will be held in THE FINAL selection was made by S.J., president of Seattle Univer- an graduates. May. the faculty. sity, was honored last night with Next Wednesday At the Awards Assembly May According to Miss Agnes E. Reil- 22 Jo Ann will receive the St. the "Man of the Year" award of Mrs. Mary Peterson, from Kath- major the chapter of the B'nai Peck Studios, speak JO ANN is an education ly, dean of women, a full list of Catherine Medal, undergraduate Seattle leen will at from Tacoma. She is AWS vice B'rith. Presentation was made by Marycrest April 22, at 7:30 p.m. junior women was drawn up. It achievement award of Kappa Rabbi Raphael Levine,of the Con- The subject of her talk will be was then narrowed down to those Gamma Pi, from Mrs. James Hig- gregation Temple de Hirsch. "Seven Keys to Charm." No Parents' Week End who had been recognizably active gins of the honorary. The award was presentedto Fa- Mrs. Peterson is being sponsored Parents' Week End has been ther Lemieux for his "humanita- by the AWS in hopes of benefit- canceled for this yearby the school rian work with individuals of all ing the woman students. It will administration, according to the faiths and groups." It is given be open to the public and all SU Rev.Robert J. Rebhahn, S.J., dean Funeral Mass To Be Offered annually to a person not of the girls, according to Pat McNulty, of students. The event was sched- Jewish faith. Interhall president. uled for the week end of May 8-9. For Father Beezer Tomorrow The Rev. Gerald R. Beezer, S.J., a Seattle U. faculty mem- ber, died Tuesday in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Yakima. Five Seniors to Attend Matrix Table THE FUNERAL and burial will be tomorrow at Mount St. Mi- Five senior women have been invited to THE DINNER marks the 50th anniver- chael's, the Jesuit house of studies attend the Matrix Table, an annual banquet sary of Theta Sigma Phi. Seven to Join in Spokane. A requiem Mass will sponsored by the alumnae of Theta Sigma Phi, The girls from SU have been chosen be- offered at 9:15 a.m. tomorrow national women's journalism society. The ban- cause of outstanding scholastic achievement. Military Club Sthe Cathedral, which faculty quet will be in the Grand Ballroom of the Jane Merryman has a summa cum laude and students may attend. There Olympic Hotel, April standing. delegation Scabbard and Blade, upper di- will beno9 a.m.classes tomorrow. 21. She is head of the MUN vision ROTC honorary society, will Father Beezer was a faculty year GIRLS Jane Merryman, Shirley and will attend Stanford University next initiate sevenmen Monday at 7:30 member here from 1937 to 1957, THE are fellowship.