VOL. 37 MARCH, 1963 No. 3 Thirty-Fifth National Convention tions that are available will be listed for your choice. at Beta Kappa Chapter Arrangements have been made for a group picture to be taken at the Beta Kappa Chapter at the College wood Room. The hotel is located in Saturday morning meeting. Chapters of Notre Dame of Maryland, Balti­ the heart of the city at Calvert and who desire a print may order them more, is nourishing the hope that all Baltimore Streets. It is within easy at the time of registration. A tour of the chapters of Eta Sigma Phi will be access from Camden Station (Balti­ the city is planned for Friday afternoon able to send one or more delegates to more and Ohio Railroad), from Union —of at least that much of the city that Baltimore when the fraternity meets Station (Pennsylvania Railroad), and can be seen in the short time at our dis­ there for its Thirty-fifth National from the Greyhound and Trailways posal. It will include the Walters Art Convention at the Emerson Hotel, on Bus Terminals; limousine service is Gallery, with a view of its ancient March 22 and 23, 1963. supplied from Friendship International collection conducted by Miss Dorothy Airport to the hotel. U. S. Highway Kent Hill, the Curator of Ancient Art Mary Elizabeth Klein, Prytanis of route 40 leads to the city. Garage fa­ at the Gallery; Fort McHenry; the har­ Beta Kappa Chapter, Jarritus Boyd, cilities are available. bor; the Johns Hopkins Medical Cen­ Grammateus, Sarel Fuchs, Chairman ter; some of Baltimore's famous row of the Convention' Committee, extend Rooms will be ready for occupancy houses, with their white steps, and its a cordial invitation to each one. on Thursday, March 21. Reservations equally famous Pimlico Race Course. Beta Chi Chapter at Loyola College, should be made immediately if they Dinner will be served on Friday through its Prytanis, Mr. Thomas Ken- have not already been arranged. Upon evening at 6:30 at the College of Notre ney, Beta Tau of Georgetown, through arrival, it would be well to come to the Dame of Maryland, 4701 North Mr. Daniel O'Leary, Prytanis, and Mezzanine Floor, outside the Wedge- Charles Street, in Mary Meletia Hall. Gamma Xi, Howard University, wood Room, to register and to secure Sister Margaret Mary, President of the through Prytanis Dorothy Brown, join tickets for the annual subscription din­ College will welcome the delegates. with Beta Kappa in welcoming the ner ($3.00 per person) and other in­ After dinner, in the Little Theatre of chapters to Baltimore and making formation before going to your room. Fourier Building, Miss Dorothy E. them feel at home in unfamiliar sur­ Members of Beta Kappa and Beta Chi Miner, Librarian and Keeper of Manu­ roundings. Chapters will be on hand. scripts at the Walters Art Gallery, will The Emerson Hotel will be head­ For those who arrive early enough give an illustrated talk on Mediaeval quarters for the Convention, and all on Thursday, Baltimore offers a variety Manuscript Illumination. A reception meetings will be held in the Wedge- of evening entertainment. Some selec­ will follow in Fourier Lounge. Photograph courtesy of the College Photograph courtesy of the College Mary Meletia Hall, College of Notre Dame of Maryland Fourier Building, College of Notre Dame of Maryland 18 NUNTIUS Notre Dame of Maryland is about two miles distant from the hotel, situ­ ated on an estate of sixty-four acres, Thirty-Fifth National Convention which at one time was heavily wooded with oaks and pines, beeches and To Be Held at Baltimore, Maryland, March 22 and 23, 1963 chestnut trees, as well as walnuts and Upon the Invitation of Beta Kappa Chapter, cultivated orchards, flowers and vege­ The College of Notre Dame of Maryland table gardens. It made its own elec­ tricity and pumped water from its ar­ tesian wells, churned butter in its own Friday, March 22, 1963 dairy—a spring house, and winter veg­ etable cellar still exist, though no 8:00- 9:00 A.M. Registration, Mezzanine Floor, Emerson Hotel longer used. Notre Dame is now a part 9:00 A.M. First General Session, Wedgewood Room, Emerson Hotel of city life, but retains much of the Business Meeting natural beauty of its ancient oaks and Minutes of the Thirty-fourth National Convention sloping valley. It was opened in 1873 Roll Call of Chapters and Chapter Reports as a Collegiate Institute for Young La­ Report of Megas Chrysophylax dies, and rapidly expanded its curricu­ Report of Chairman of the Board of Trustees lum so that in 1895 it was chartered Report of the Executive Secretary by an act of the Legislature of the State Report of Standing Committees of Maryland as a four-year Liberal Report of Committee on Expansion and Reactivation Arts College. The first degrees were 12:00 Noon Lunch awarded in 1899. These dates confer 1:15- 5:00 P.M. Tour of Baltimore, including Fort McHenry, Walters Art on the college the distinction of being Gallery, and Pimlico Race Course (Buses will leave from the the first Catholic College for Women Emerson Hotel promptly at 1:15) in the United States. Besides the regu­ lar four-year Liberal Arts curricula, 5:45 P.M. Buses leave the hotel for the campus of the College of Notre Dame the College sponsors Saturday classes of Maryland for the teachers of the city, and Adult 6:30 P.M. Subscription Banquet, Mary Meletia Hall Education courses two evenings a Address of Welcome: Sister Margaret Mary, President of the week. Notre Dame is fortunate in be­ College of Notre Dame of Maryland ing able to share in Baltimore's many Response: Megas Prytanis Richard G. Kemmer offerings in the intellectual, cultural 8:00 P.M. The Little Theater, Fourier Building and social fields. Illustrated address: Masterpieces of Mediaeval Illumination, in March 25 is Lady Day in Maryland Baltimore — Maryland Day — usually a lovely Miss Dorothy E. Miner, Librarian and Keeper of Manuscripts, spring day. We are hoping and praying Walters Art Gallery that the three days preceding will be Following the address there will be a reception and social hour equally fine so that the delegates may in the Lounge of Fourier Building know Maryland weather at its best— it can be delightful. Saturday, March 23, 1963 The Convention Committee will greatly appreciate your sending in the 8:30 A.M. Second General Session, Wedgewood Room, Emerson Hotel form with dinner reservations, so that Business Meeting (concluded) all arrangements can be carefully Address by Miss Patricia Thompson, Eta Sigma Phi Scholar, made, and transportation for the tour Summer 1962 be settled. Be sure to send the form Election and Installation of new officers to Miss Sarel Fuchs, Chairman. 1:00 P.M. Adjournment of Thirty-fifth National Convention Prepared by Beta Kappa Chapter. Photograph courtesy of the College Photograph courtesy of the College Le Clerc Hall, College of Notre Dame of Maryland A view of the campus of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland NUNTIUS 19 Alpha Mu Chapter at the University the battle at North Point. Baltimore Petitions of Missouri, Columbia, has submitted is the only major American seaport Petitions for charters to found chap­ a petition to reactivate the chapter and that has never had an enemy flag fly ters of Eta Sigma Phi have been re­ the reactivation is under the direction above it. of Mr. Ronald B. Hehn, a former Hy­ ceived from the following clubs. Local When the Erie Canal threatened chapters should inform their delegates parchos of Gamma Gamma Chapter, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Baltimore's trade with the West, the to the National Convention concern­ first commercial and passenger rail­ ing the manner in which they should and a member of the National Con­ vention when it met in Huntington, road was built and opened in 1827, the vote when these are brought before the Baltimore and Ohio, with the first Convention. West Virginia. This chapter has been inactive since 1937 and its inactivity passenger station at Mount Clare on The Classical Club Phi Sigma of has been a matter of grave concern to Pratt and Poppleton Streets. It is still Belhaven College, Jackson, Mississippi, your Executive Secretary, since he was there. The Round House contains a has submitted a new petition. The initiated into the Fraternity by that transportation museum, although it is Thirty-fourth National Convention chapter "a few" years ago. It will be not open to the public at present. It did not approve the former petition a pleasure to welcome Alpha Mu was from Baltimore in 1844 that Sam­ from this Club inasmuch as it did not Chapter back to active status. uel Morse sent out the first telegraph feel that the petition was executed in message: "What hath God wrought?" a very persuasive manner nor that the In the Civil War, sympathies were Club was strong enough to support BALTIMORE divided; some of them still seem to ex­ a chapter. Belhaven College was ist. Baltimore has always been a founded in 1883 and now has an en­ The following account of the city of home-owning city, hence the many rollment of 360 students. There are 61 Baltimore, furnished by Beta Kappa streets of row houses wi'th their white students enrolled in the Department of Chapter, was evidently prepared by a marble steps. Somehow, Baltimore has Classics. The Classical Club Phi Sigma Chamber of Commerce which was not retained the intimate atmosphere of a was organized in February 1961 and interested in the educational advan­ small town, while growing into a large has a membership of fifteen.