.citrar)' .rt. !Paul. 97l'/nnt1'~otiJ/ '<JIt£. e~ 0/ St. eathf!/dH,e , , ,IlJumnae NeUJ4 I A HEARTY WELCOME UNE 8 will mark the date of a new addition to J the Alumnae Family when 165 graduating sen· iors become the youngest members of The Alum- nae Association of the College of St. Catherine. As in a family, so it is with the Alumnae Associa- tion; the youngest members have a very special place. The Alumnae Association wishes to congratulate its youngest members on their graduation and to assure them that their welcome into the Alumnae family is a hearty one indeed. The Association hopes that it will be of service to this year's grad- uates in their new homes and jobs, and, no matter where they may be living, that it may always serve as a means of bringing alumnae together, and if keeping them always close to the College and its ideals. Scan Published Quarterly by the Alumnae Association of The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota ~ Vol. xx~x No.4 President .Doris Cline Hathaway Editor Mary McMahon Faculty Advisers Sister Marie Ursule Sister Mary H~nry St. Joseph's Hospital Celebrates Centennial Anniversary~ May 16 By Delores Peltier '52 Minnesota's oldest hospital, St. Jos- established in 1894, and graduated its college graduate students 111 medical eph's of St. Paul, observed its Centen- first class of 16 in 1896. Graduates now technology. nial on Saturday, May 16, and Sunday, total 2,285 with 192 nurses in training Active in research, the hospital re- May 17, 1953. Starting from a humble, this year. Since 1942, the department cently opened the David Young rough-hewn log cabin, and then moving has been affiliated with the College of Memorial Laboratory for studying vein to its present site, the tri-winged hos- St., Catherine. In 1952, the hospital re- and artery diseases, and in the near pital with its laundry, heating plant ceived approval from the American future a radio-active isotope laboratory and nurses' home covers almost com- Society of Clinical Pathologists to train (Continued on Page 14) pletely the five-sided block in downtown . St. Paul. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Caronde- let started St. Joseph's Hospital in 1853, Chauncey H. Winbigler, medical technologist at St. Joseph's Hospital these past 34 yearl to care for the cholera-stricken inhabi- Delores Peltier '52, student technologist, compare old and new laboratory equipment tants in the then small town of St. Paul. The townspeople feared that these Sis- ters who nursed the sick would dis- courage settlement, but the Sisters stay- ed, and in 1854, they moved from the log cabin Chapel to the original build- ing of St. Joseph's Hospital. The hos- pital stands on land donated by Henry Rice and a Sioux Indian Chief. The Centennial celebration pays hom- age to the determination of the four pioneers of St. Joseph's-Mother St. John Fournier, Sister Philomena Vil- aine, Sister Francis Joseph Ivory, and Sister Scholastica Vasques. They would be amazed if they could see today what they started a hundred years ago, for the hospital boasts of more than two million dollars worth of business in 1952. Its 238 beds handled 11,365 pa- tients last year, not counting the 2,177 new babies. The original staff or four has grown, too, in the hundred years of existence. There are now 203 profes- sional and 312 non-professional workers, 41 Sisters, 8 resident physicians, 11 in- terns, 243 staff doctors, 192 student nurses and 4 student medical technolo- gists. Since its founding in 1853, the hos- pital can boast of its historic "firsts" in the field of medicine. The first suc- cessful complete removal of a gall bladder in America was done in 1886, by Dr. Justus Ohage, Sr.; then in 1903, the first formal bronchoscopy USil1ga bronchoscope was performed by Dr, Arnold Schwyzer. Recently St. Joseph's became the first private hospital to take chest X-rays of all patients at the time they enter the hvspital. St. Joseph's nursing department was Page Th,ee ~ine Ari:} ... College Receives Area Study Grant Third Annual Festival Features St. Catherine's has been named re- cently as one of four St. Paul colleges Student Music, Drama Productions to share in a $111,300 grant from the Combining the talents of Twin City artists with those of students and faculty, Louis W. and Maud Hill Family the College held the annual Fine Arts Festival on the campus from April 18 Foundation. through May 5. The festival included presentations of drama and music, art Ninety-six thousand dollars of this exhibits, and discussions and lectures on the fine arts. grant will be used to set up a new A performance of Dona Rosita, by the Spanish playwright Frederico Lorca, opened the festival. Mabel Frey produced and directed it. Sister Mary Davida series of special area studies at St. composed and arranged the music; the setting was by Donald Stubbs, the Catherine's, St. Thomas, Macalester, choreography by Nancy Robb Amerson, and the costumes, designed by Peter and Hamline. Lupori, were executed by Alice Clark. Leading roles in the play were taken These area studies will include re- by Patricia Slater, James Cronin, Sunny Bach, Sue Dolan, Dick Klein, and Rod Simon. search in the literature, language, his- Closing and climaxing the festival was a performance of L'Orfeo, an opera tory and culture of Soviet Russia, the by the seventeenth-century composer Claudio Monteverdi. It was sponsored Middle East, the Far East, and Africa. jointly by the Collegium Musicum ahd the College. Some of the area studies courses will Howard Skinner sang the title role of Orpheus, amI Eurydice was sung by be. given, on the campus at St. Cath- Joanne Johnson. The chorus, directed by Walter Targ, included the choral clubs enne s. of the College and of St. Thomas college. Gerard Samuel, Assistant Conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, The .remainder of the grant, $15,000, will be used to make the resources of conducted the work. George Amberg staged it, and sets were by David Snead. all four college libraries available to Richard Fosse managed the production. each other. This will involve a cross- Student recitals were given through- reference author catalogue of all perti- out the two weeks of the festival, and CSC Librarians To Meet nent titles in the St. Paul Public li- on April 29 a faculty recital featured Sister Mary Davida, Sister Lucina and At National Convention brary, Hill Reference library and the four college libraries. Copies of the cata- Walter Targ. Margaret Sheridan pre- Library School graduates of C.S.C. logue will be placed in the public li- sented a song recital on April 28. The brary and in each of the college li- choral club concert took place on April are to have a get-together during the braries. 30, and May 1 a chamber music pro- American Library Association Conven- gram was presented. Both were directed tion at Los Angeles. Although no mem- by Walter Targ. ber of our faculty will be able to be The major selection featured in the Alumnae Profess Vows there, Sister Catherine Anita, C.S.J., Choral Club concert was "Naomi and And Receive The Habit Ruth" a small cantata by M. Castel- one ot our graduates and librarian of nuovo-Tedesco. This was the premiere Mt. Saint Mary's College, promises to performance in the Twin Cities. Other represent us. Whether or not you are a Sixteen almunae made their first vows or received the habit of the Sisters selections included "Soon-a Will Be librarian you are invited to join the of St. Joseph at the novitiate on March Done" (A Negro Spiritual), and group. We are to meet Wednesday, "Comin Through the Rye" by Simeone. 19. June 24 at 12:30 p.m. in the Ladies Drama students presented a chil- Those who made their first profes- dren's play and a series of one act plays dining room of the Los Angeles Ath- sion were: Sister Marya (Carol John- in the Little Theater April 24. The letic Club, 431 West Seventh Street. son '50), Sister Mary Eileen (Patricia fine arts tea was held in Mendel Com- Price a little lower than $2.00. Please McKenna '53), Sister Ann Joachim mons April 26. Students presented orig- note the difference in day from the (Catherine Moore '47), Sister St. Domi- inal works in art, theater and music at statement on the American Library nic (Jean Rooney '50), Sister Mary the tea. Roman (Florence Steichen '50), and Josephine Lutz Rollins presented a Association Program. We look forward Sister Mary Irene (Phyllis Matton '53). to having many of you notify Eliza- lecture demonstration on water color Those who received the habit were: techniques April 23, and Malcolm My- beth (Betty) Norton, 1915 South Bent- Mary Bussard '52, Jane Dowd '53, Jean ers demonstrated intaglio April 27. A ley Avenue, Los Angeles 25 that you Dummer '54, Maxine Eckes '55, Rita panel discussion on some controversial will see her at the Athletic Club, June Foster '54, Patricia Kadlecek '54, Mary aspects of modern art was held on April Ann Kieffer '54, Sheila Mulloy '55, 29, preceded by a showing ot the film 24 at 12:30. Next year the A.L.A. meets in Min- Patricia Strain '52, and Helen Heinz Jackson Pollock· N '54. Works of sculpture, painting, in- neapolis. We hope many of you will taglio and metalcraft by Twin City be able to take in the Convention and The Most Reverend William T.