SAINT CA THE COllEGET~EFR5rNE lIBRAR'f T. CA THERIN! ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA THE COLLEGE OF ST. CATHERINE ALUMNAE NEWS Spring 1963 Vol. XXXVIII, No.3 Colle~e of St. Catherine Alumnae News CONTENTS FEATURE 9 Vatican Council Stimulates Discussion NEWS 3 June Reunion Activities Set 3 Senior Tea Plans 3 Board Party 3 Loyalty Gifts Permit Unusual Project 3 Review of Styles 3 Association Add Summer Secretary I 3 ,swimming Notice '1 4 Nominees for A.ssociation Offices i'DEPARTMENTS 6 Campus and Faculty 11 Wedding Belles '. 12 Books in Review 13 Dupli-Kates 14 Requiescant in Pace 14 Chapter Chats 15 Here and There COVER: Seniors Margaret Malone, class president, and Carolyn Gilbreath, class repre- sentative, examine a copy of SCAN in the Alumnae Rooms with Sister Marie Ursule. President Kathleen Shea Ryan Executive Secretary Si ter Marie Ursule Editor Ruth Haag Brombach Staff JoAnne Pietsch and Dori Thaemlitz SCAN, quarterly Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, by The College of St. Catherine Alumnae Association, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota. Subscriptions for association members included in loyalty gift. For non-members, $2.00 per year, payable in advance. Second class mail privileges authorized at Saint Paul, Minnesota. Page IIUO to ElIen Grisim Lenertz '38, chairman June Reunion Activities Set of the Loyalty Fund Drive for the fourth year, and to those Twin Cities The mo t exciting part of the 1963 business meeting follows the luncheon. and out-of-town alumnae who have jubilee reunion Saturday June 1, will The afternoon reunion activities in- worked on the drive. be the banquet to be held in the newly clude a tour of the campus for tho e decorated rooms under the chapel. who want to see the new buildings and Cherry paneling, beige walls a foyer a reception for jubilarians with faculty Review of Styles fireplace are some of the features of the and alumnae in Marian Lounge. The annual spring Alumnae s ocia- rooms. They are furnished with Paul Members of the classes of 1923, 1933, tion style how will be held May 14 in McCobb furniture. Alumna coming to 1938, 1943 and 1953 are invited to re- We t Marian Lounge. AII alumnae are the reunion will feel truly proud of their main on campus for the evening invited. Graduating eniors will be the gift to the ollege. banquet and talent show. Bulletins have honored guests. Breaking with the tradition of an been sent to members of these classes. tyles from the Mary Adams stores afternoon business meeting followed by Tho e who wi h may attend the com- will be featured and Mrs. Adams will a tea, the aluml)ae are invited this year mencement Sunday, June 2. be the commentator. ames will be to Ma s at noon in ur Lady of Victory The jubilee reunion committee in- drawn for door prizes contributed by Chapel. The College chaplain, the cludes Margaret McDonald Travers '33, the tore. De sert and coffee will be Reverend William H. Bullock, will be Katherine Jansen '38, Mary Clare Mur- served after the show. celebrant. All alumnae are invited to ray Kitchell '43, Lucille Knaff Wam- Doris Bartl Healy '44 is chairman of lunch immediately after Mass in the chura '43, Ann Heimel Hamel '53 and the style show and Kathy Schwebel '62 dining room in Saint Jo eph Hall. The Suzanne chmitt Bolger '53. is in charge of the hostesses. Keefe Clifford '45, Carol Hendrickson Senior Tea Plans Pazandak '45 and Dorothy Dillon Orput Association Adds Teas for graduating College seniors '50. Patricia Mabin Robertson '43 and are being given by ister Marie Ursule Kathleen Schwebel '62 were also on the Summer Secretary in the Alumnae Rooms in Saint Joseph committee. Margaret McGinn '57 will take the Hall. place of Sister Marie Ur ule, executive The 15 teas began Thursday, April Loyalty Gifts Permit ecretary of the Alumnae Association, 25, and will continue until May 13. They in the alumnae office when Sister goes are given to acquaint the "almost alum- Unusual Project to France this summer. She is a member nae" with the structure of the As ocia- of the ational Defense Education Act tion, the Loyalty Fund Drive and some As the jubilee project, the finishing of summer French institute faculty. Si ter of the work of the Association for the the rooms under the chapel, nears com- leaves St. Paul June 17 for the nine College and for the individual alumnae pletion - just a few more chairs and weeks in France. members. ister encourages the girls to tables to be delivered - the end of the Margaret has an M. in history from write to the office for books from the Loyalty Fund Drive draws near. Of- Marquette University and i working lending library, for names of other area ficial clo e of the drive is May 31. for a econd master's degree in guidance. alumnae if they move to a different town The Association has undertak n it he does guidance work and teaches or for any other service or information bigges~ project by remodeling these history in the Milwaukee school system. the office or ollege can give them. rooms and we know that alumnae com- Sister Marie Ursule feels that the teas ing for the reunion, June 1, will be over- have been successful in making new whelmed when they see their gift to Swimming Notice alumnae feel more at home with the the College. It really takes imagination Swimming lessons for alumnae Alumnae As ociation. to remember the dark, be-pillared library daughters, sisters or nieces (at least when we ee these light walls and four feet tall) will begin June 10 and beautiful furniture in shades of blue Board Party continue for three weeks. The lessons and green in one ection, orange and are in the College pool in Fontbonne The Alumnae s oClatlon annual gold in another section and the tange- Hall. board party for class chairmen, execu- rine, aqua and white combinations in The lessons will be held Monday tive committee members and alumnae the dining room. through Friday at 8:30 a.m., 9:30, in charge of major projects was held The remodeled rooms will be waiting 10:30 and 11 :30. If anyone is in- April 23. to welcome all alumnae - for after all, terested, a junior life saving course Community singing followed a buffet they are your gift - as you return to the will be offered at 11 :30. upper in aint Joseph Hall. In recogni- campus. Frances Rita Smith Rooney '59 tion of her energetic work, Si ter Marie Loyalty Fund gifts to sponsor this and Susanne Maley Benolken '59 Ursule, executive secretary of the Alum- huge project are being generously given. are instructors in the program. nae Association, was given a transi tor With the end of the drive in sight, how- To register for the lessons call the radio for her trip to France this summer. ever, we want to take this opportunity Alumnae Office, Mi 9-1126 during Theodora Arens Coenen '58 was gen- to remind tho e who have not yet sent the week of May 27. Charge for the eral chairman of the party. Her commit- in their gift that only three weeks reo 15 lessons is $10.00. No further no- tee included the other executive board main. We know you want to have a tice will be given of this program. member newly elected in 1962, Yvonne part in this project. Your gift is your Registrations must be completed by Brettner Wagner '33, JoAnne Pietsch opportunity to share in its completion. May 31. '53, Genevieve Haas Hammar '24, Jane The Association is especially grateful Page thrt:t: Nominees for Association Offices Major Office Second Quarter Board Representatives Mary O'Donnell Martin '37, second quarter representative. Mary graduated with an English major and taught at Mount Mercy cademy in edar Rapids, Iowa. She is married and has five children, three daughters and two sons. Mary is currently teaching two classes of English and a hri tian Family Liv- ing course at the Good Shepherd Home in t. Paul. This is her third year of teaching the girls at the Home. Prior to that, she taught at the novitiate there. Mary pioneered in organizing the Fleur-de-Lis shop but she says that most of her efforts for the Association have been in encouraging her mother to make Florence Wolters '32, Treasurer. baptismal robes for sale in the shop. Florence majored in Latin in ollege. Since graduation he ha worked as a secretary for various firms. Tn 1941 she started work for the Internal Revenue Ellen Grisim Lenertz' 38, second quar- service and in March, 1963, became ter repre entative. ElJen is serving her secretary to the District Director of fourth year as chairman of the Alumnae Internal Revenue in St. Paul. Association Loyalty Fund Drive. he A very loyal alumna, Florence has al 0 served as an Alumnae ssociation served as cla s chairman and chairman class chairman. of a Day of RecolJection. She con- A sociology major,. Ellen was a social tributes handmade articles for sa.e in worker in Dakota county following the Fleur-de-Lis Shop. graduation. During World War II she Florence served as treasurer of the worked as personnel manager of the Alumnae Association from 1957 to Zenith Optical ompany in West Vir- 1959. ginia. Recording secretary for the b:>ard of Ellen is married and lives in South St. directors of the credit union for fed- Paul. She has six children, five boys and eral agency emp~oyees in the Twin one girl, from 16 to seven year old.