EXAMS SENIOR ISSUE START NEXT MAY 21 WEEK VOL. XVII, No. 22—SIX PAGES PROVIDENCE COU.ECE. PROVIDENCE. It. I., .MAY 16,1956 10 CENTS A COPY Fr. Quinn To Commemorate Seniors To Present Camera Club Awards Silver Jubilee On Saturday Commencement Prizes At Annual Salon On Saturday morning. May 19th. at Ball On May 31 ten o'clock. Father Robert 0, Quinn, At the annual salon of the Camera OP, chairman of the Education De• Club, held May 8, 1956. the following partment, will commemorate his sil• The Annual Commencement Ball, prizes were awarded: ver jubilee as a priest. Father Quinn sponsored by the Class of 1956 of Grand prize, James DiSarro. Providence College, will be presented will be the celebrant of a solemn high Slide division, first prize William on Thursday evening. May 31, at the Mass in the students' chapel of O'Connell; second prize. William Sheraton Billmore Hotel, in the cen• Aquinas Hall, with Fathers Donovan O'Connell; third prize George Mc• ter of the city of Providence, The and Schmidt assisting as deacon and Laughlin. subdeaeon, respectively; Fathers Mur- evening will promptly begin at six Scenery and architecture division, taugh, Masterson. Schnell and Hackett thirty with a reception This will be first, second and third prize. James will be the servers of this Mass. followed by a dinner ai seven o'clock. DiSarro. Father Irving A. Georges, O.P., of Dancing, with music furnished by the Sports division, first, second and Salve Regina College, will preach the Dee Francis Orchestra, will com• third prize Charles Curran commemoratory sermon mence at nine and terminate at one. No flowers will be required for the Portrait division, first prize, James Father Quinn was born in Colum• ladies; however, the dress will be DiSarro; second prize, Robert Trem• bus. Ohio. July 24, 1903, and was ed• formal for all. ble: third prize, Manuel Martins. ucated at St, Patrick's, Holy Rosary Human interest division, first prize, and Aquinas College High School in Bernard Dzinski iml John Lowe, co- James DiSarro; second prize. Robert his native city. Then he studied at St. chairmen of the affair, would like to Tremble; third prize, Charles Curran. mention that all reservations arc to Louis University and Boston College. Judges for the event were Rev. be made hy this Fri<: ly, May 18 This He was graduated from Boston Col• Robert G. Quinn, O.P. William R. Clark, O.P., Rev. Law• is to allow the note to make plans lege in 1924 with a B. A. degree rence Hunt, OP. Donald J Stubbs, concerning the nun of dinners to After the customary course of studies ing these two decades he has been '54, former Camera Club president, prepare and the nu nber of chairs for Dominican clerical students, concerned with the Education Depart• and William Slattery. '55, also a ment, particularly with the practice and tables to set Ui> Reservations Father Quinn was ordained on June 1st Prize Winner. former president of the Camera Club. 15. 1931, by the late Most Reverend leaching program From 1938 to 1939 may be made, with five dollar de• Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Bal• he also served as athletic director for posit, at the ticket office in Harkins timore In 1932 after graduate studies the college After doing graduate Hall. The total price of the bid at the Catholic University, Father study at Harvard University, he was amounts to twelve dollars Invitations Quinn received an MA From 1932 to awarded an M. Ed it 194« may now be picked ip at the ticket P. C. Students Win Honors 1936 he taught at Fenwick High booth The commit!''- also requests This celebration of his priestly jub• School, Oak Park, Illinois. that table arranges!' fits be made by- In International Exam ilee Father Quinn happily shares with Friday Six couple* Mill be seated at Since 1936 Father Quinn has been all his Dominican confreres and his each table. assigned to Providence College, Dur students, both past and present. Results of the 26th Annual Nation• Walker, Somerset, Ohio; Joseph Lion. Guests of honor for the evening wide L.iim Examination, sponsored New Haven, Conn.; William Clifford, will include the Very Reverend by the Association for the Promotion South Boston; John Farren, Medford, Robert J Slavin. O P., President of of the Stud) of Latin, publishers of Mass.; Jerome Haladus. Cleveland, Vietnamese Priest Lends P.C.i Providenc e College the Reverend • national classroom Latin magazine, Ohio; and James Stewart. New Vork. Vincent C Dore OP. Vice President, entitled Auxilium Latinum This group's members each scored An International Atmospherean d the Reverend Vincent F. Mc- Twenty six of the twenty seven between 110 and 114. Henry, O.P Moderator of the Senior students ui Guzman Hall participated The Magna cum laude merit, for a Class along with over 20.000 Latin students 100-109 score, was secured by five The Reverend Joseph Oanh, a stu• pendence in Viet-nam; more than in throughout the United SUtcs and its students: Ronald Colavecchio, Provi• dent at Providence College for the many other Far-Eastern Countries, possessions, Canada. South America, dence; Thomas Joy. Jamaica Plains, past two years, who resides at St. especially India. There are many and as far away as Ireland The Mass; John Kiley, Newark, N. J.; Lawrence's Rectory in Centredale, forms of religion in Vietnam: Bud- Providence College students displayed Philip Leonardi. Waterbury, Conn.; was requested by the COWL to give hism. Taoism, Confucianism; the pres• their efforts soon after the Easter and John Sharp, Centerville, N. J. his estimate of the situation in Viet• ent religion is a mingling of the Of• recess Results, announcing their in• To complete the honor roster five nam, a Ear-East trouble spot with ficial Cult of Heaven and Ancestor dividual achievement, were disclosed competitors scored in the 90-99 range, which he is very familiar His answer Worship. There is also a religion this weekend. and were awarded the cum laude is as follows: called Caodaism, a form which com• honor: John Ryan. Hartford; Joseph bines the elements of Budhism, Con• Paul Veilluex, a freshman hailing My dear friends, I come to you Hagan, Pawtucket; James Hahn, Free- fucianism, Christianity and Free-mas• from Danielson. Conn , and a graduate from a land that is far away, but a port. N. Y.; Carl Mason. Jersey City; onry. But the strongest and most in• of Saint Thomas Seminary, scored land about which you have been read• and Michael Mclntyre. Newark, N.J. fluential religion in our country now 115 of a possible 120. He merited ing much during these past months Catholicism. the Summa cum laude distinction The Very Rev, Robert J. Slavin, in your newspapers. I come from Viet• Ten students earned the Maxima O.P., college president, at a student nam which is part of Indo China. The Catholic Faith was first brought cum laude award: Joseph Philibert. assembly presented the appropriate lndo China comprises three states, to Vietnam between the years 1580 Baltimore, Md ; Raymond Shea, New• certificates, noting each student's three different nations: Viet-nam, and 1585. The first missionaries in• port; Joseph Breen, Providence; achievement in this nationwide com• Laos, and Cambodia with the territory cluded priests from the Philippines, James Shaw, Newark, Ohio; Martin petitive and scholastic exam. of 700,000 square miles or about one- Portugal, and France. Since that date, fourth the area of the United States. Christianity has made wonderful The population is estimated at 29,- progress throughout Vietnam Al- Howard Lipsey 000,000 My country. Vietnam, is the igh but twenty-five years have Eight Hundred Cadets Parade largest of the three. It has 23 million elapsed since it endured a great per• Howard Lipsey people. secution and massacre which included In Fifth R.O.T.C. Review Viet-nam is mountainous in the about 100,000 native Catholics who Elected Proxy Of laid down their lives for the Faith, north. The weather is cool from Oc• On last Tuesday afternoon, at Hcn- school year. The Outstanding Com• the Catholic Church never has been Student Congress tober to May, but the rest of the year dricken Field, the ROTC held its pany Award went to Company I, led in such a flourishing condition in is hot and humid with the tempera• final review. The overall appear• by Cadet Captain Edward Hornstein. ture ranging from 80-105 degrees. South Vietnam as it is today. There By Jim Sheahan ance of the Cadet Regiment and the The Outstanding Cadet Award went are now in Vietnam (including the to Cadet Colonel A. Michael Victory. In the North, rice is grown in great Northern part, 19 dioceses with 19 Rep Howie Lipsey, '57, was elected performances of the Band and Drill quantities, and the MeKong River President of the Student Congress Team went along so smoothly, that The Outstanding R. A. Candidate bishops, most of whom are native; went to Gerard Landry. The Out• delta in the south is one of the prin• and of the Student Body by a con• it was heard said in the reviewing 2,000 priests; 2,500 catechists; 6,000 standing Enthusiasm Award was pre• cipal rice regions of the world. The siderable vote last Wednesday as stand that this was the finest ROTC native nuns; 5,000 members of differ• sented to Paul F. Pothin The Stale country is particularly rich in min• members of the Freshman, Sophomore Review ever seen at Providence Col• ent Orders and congregations, and Championship Trophy was presented erals, but we have not been able to over two million Catholics.