Seattle nivU ersity ScholarWorks @ SeattleU Commencement Programs 1960 1960 Commencement Program Seattle niU versity Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/commencementprograms Recommended Citation Seattle nivU ersity, "1960 Commencement Program" (1960). Commencement Programs. 28. http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/commencementprograms/28 This Program is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Commencement Programs by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. srATThENI =:cNivERITA3l 1960 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES SEATTLE UNIVERSITY • MAY 27 TO JUNE 3 Baccalaureate Mass ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL Friday, May 2Z 1960 10:30 A.M. Presiding His EMINENCE, RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING Archbishop of Boston Present in Sanctuary THE MOST REVEREND THOMAS A. CONNOLLY, D.D., J.C.D. Archbishop of Seattle Celebrant of the Mass VERY REVEREND ALBERT A. LEMIEUX, S.J., Ph.D. President of Seattle University Officers of the Mass REVEREND JAMES W. KING, S.J..........Deacon REVEREND JAMES P. GOODWIN, S.J........Subdeacon VERY REVEREND MICHAEL P. WALSH, S.J.....Archpriest Baccalaureate Address His EMINENCE, RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING Archbishop of Boston MAss—Missa Brevis . Joseph Gallucci dedicated to His Eminence, Richard Cardinal Cushing Seattle University Choir Mr. Joseph Gallucci, Conducting Mr. Clarence Zaar, Organist Reception and Social GRAND BALLROOM • OLYMPIC HOTEL Thursday, June 2, 1960 8:00-10:00 P.M. To Honor The GRADUATING CLASS OF 1960 MR. RICHARD E. BERLIN Commencement Exercises Friday, June 3, 1960 Civic Auditorium . Seattle • 8:00 P.M. /)Ocoy 041"It PROCESSIONAL, March from Aida . Verdi SEATTLE UNIVERSITY BAND Mr. Carl A. Pitzer, Conducting PRESENTATION OF COLORS THE CHIEFTAIN GUARDS Seanle University R.O.T.C. Drill Team COMMENCEMENT CONVOCATION REV. JOHN E. GURR, S.J. Academic Vice President TN VOCATION REv. Louis A. SAUVAIN, S.J. University Chaplain VALEDICTORY ADDRESS DONALD VALENTINE Douø SELECTION, A Tribute to Romberg . Sigmund Romberg SEATTLE UNIVERSITY CHORALE Mr. Carl A. Pitzer, Directing ADDRESS TO GRADUATES MR. RICHARD E. BERLIN President, Hearst Corporation, New York Introduction by VERY REVEREND ALBERT A. LEMIEtJx, S.J. President of Seattle University PRESENTATION OF DEGREES THE MOST REVEREND THOMAS A. CONNOLLY, D.D., J.C.D. Archbishop of Seattle, Presiding Conferring of Honorary Degrees His EMINENCE, RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING (awarded May 26, 1960) SISTER MARY EMIL, I.H.M., Ph.D. MR. RICHARD E. BERLIN Conferring of Bachelors' Degrees Conferring of Masters' Degrees CHARGE TO THE GRADUATES PRESENTATION OF COMMISSIONS PRESENTATION OF AWARDS President's Cup Bishop Shaughnessy Medal Loyalty Cups RECESSIONAL, Hall of Fame ........... J. Olivadoti SEArFLE UNIVERSITY BAND Mr. Carl A. Pitaer, Conducting Academic Marshal—REV. JAMES T. MCGuIGAN, S.J. Honorary Degree His EMINENCE, RICHARD CARDINAL CUSHING Archbishop of Boston Throughout the nearly 2,000 years of its existence, the Catholic Church has been richly blessed with leaders eminently fitted to meet the challenges and tensions of their times. In an age stressing the inherent worth of all mankind and the basic dignity of the solitary person, the universal concern, the serene simplicity and engaging honesty of Richard Cardinal Cushing are providential qualities in the contemporary life of the American Church. Of unpretentious origin, but with impressive natural and supernatural gifts, Cardinal Cushing has risen to the highest level of statesmanship in the Universal Church. His character and his achievements command and have evoked the respect of Catholic and non-Catholic alike. Yet, with truly Christian compassion, he has labored unceasingly for the defeated, the handicapped, the underprivileged. Especially dose to his heart have been the mentally retarded, those "children forever," for whom he has provided not only the institutional guidance of special schools, but the personal affection of his company and care. The reach of his involvement in mankind has been contrastingly revealed by his concern with necessary age, his establishment and expansion of facilities dedicated to the spiritual and physical welfare of the senior citizens of the Archdiocese of Boston. An alumnus of Boston College, Cardinal Cushing has been no less zealous in his efforts for education. Since his ascent to the episcopacy in 1944, through his encouragement, urging, and financial support, the number of colleges and universities in his archdiocese has been doubled, and the number of scholars many times multiplied. Thus, on all levels, there are at the present time more than 300,000 students enrolled in his archdiocesan schools. In addition to his provision for these general educational needs, he has instituted his unique system of special schools, not only for the retarded, but for the deaf, the blind, the crippled—for every need and for every ability. Cardinal Cushing has enlarged the program for the care of the sick and the training of nurses. He has expanded hospital facilities, instituted psychiatric departments, geriatric care and research programs. He is currently the Honorary President of the Catholic Hospital Association. Recently, he has endowed Boston College with a new building for its nursing education program. He has imple- mented the essential and recognized role of religion in treating mental disorders, by installing chapels in mental hospitals in the State of Massachusetts. To provide as well for the spiritual needs, not only of his own archdiocese but of other areas and other countries, Cardinal Cashing has expanded seminaries, fostered the establishment of 55 additional religious communities and, in ful- fillment of his episcopal motto "Ut Cognoscant Te' '—"That they may know Thee, 0 Lord"—has been the founder of the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle, to provide priests from the Archdiocese of Boston to serve in the missions of South America. Again, as author, editor, and as a striking orator, Cardinal Cushing has vividly realized the effectiveness of all the modern media of communication. His Boston television station, the first ever operated by an archdiocese, has been merely an expression of his unceasing activity, his efforts to bring the word of truth to the children of God. His intelligent tolerance and his engaging informality have spread Cardinal Cushing's influence beyond the formal area of the Catholic Church, as an ever- lengthening list of honors accorded him by civic organizations, foreign govern- ments and leaders of other religious denominations bears witness. In recognition of his significant encouragement of every level of education, in acknowledgment of his personal concern with all levels of mankind, in tribute to his tireless engagement in spreading the proper knowledge of God, Seattle Univer- sity is proud to confer upon Richard Cardinal Cushing the seal of its highest award, the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa. Honorary Degree SISTER MARY EMIL, I.H.M., Ph.D. Executive Secretary of the Sister Formation Conferences Stimulated by the call of Our Holy Father to renovation and adaptation, to an improvement of professional preparation, the American Sisterhoods within the last eight years have organized in a vast, dynamic movement of rethinking and replanning their formal education, and the influences, spiritual and intellectual, which go to make better religious teachers and better professional persons. The Sister Formation Conferences, as the movement has been called, were inspired, organized, and directed through their incipient stages by a Sister who is a scholar and an author, and who has been recognized nationally for her life of vigorous dedication, her bril- liance in scholarship, and the resulting high achievement in re- ligious education. Today, Sister Mary Emil of the Sister Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is completing her term as Executive Secretary of this organization which functions as a section of the National Catholic Educational Association, and has been cited as the most significant development in Catholic Education.' With admirable prudence, tireless zeal and burning enthusiasm, Sister Mary Emil has travelled from coast to coast lecturing to learned groups, visiting remote centers, and inspiring new efforts in the advancement of a total formation of Sisters. No convent has been too distant, no convent too small, for her to reach, to advise, to challenge. Four years ago, aided by a Ford Foundation grant, Sister Mary Emil brought eminent Sister-educators to the Far West to work with combined efforts on the drawing up of a curriculum which has become nationally known in the educational world as the EVERETT REPORT. The carrying out of this blueprint curriculum is the raison d'etre of Seattle University's College of Sister For- mation. Since earning her doctorate in Philosophy at Sr. Louis University, Sister Mary Emil has been the recipient of the St. John Baptist de la Salle Medal at Manhattan College, and has been recognized by numerous other honorary awards across the continent, as well as having received special commendation from Rome. Because of her exemplification of the fire and truth of the Holy Spirit, her inspired leadership in the educational world, her dedica- tion as an apostle and a scholar, Seattle University is honored to confer on Sister Mary Emil the degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa. Honorary Degree RICHARD EMMETT BERLIN / President, the Hearst Corporation 7 Throughout the progress of civilization, the