The Griffin: volume 09, issue 04 - Nov. 7, 1941

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CANISIUS COLLEGE. BUFFALO.  NEW YORK
November?, 1941
^AUL HANLEY NAMED iUNIOR PROM HEAD
Student Council Vote Announced At Friday's Rally
Holenstein Manager
Paul F. Hanley, prominent member of the Junior Class, was last week elected by a four-two vote of the Stu¬ dent Council to take over the general chairmanship of the Junior Prom- cn.ide of 1941.
Ouhfanding Student
Mr. Hanley has been outstanding in scholarship and extra-curricular work for two years. At present he is Managing Editor of the Griffin, a member of the Bards and Boards, the Senior Academia, and the Sodality. He is past president of the Sophomore Class.
The selection was announced at last Friday's rally by the President of the Council. It was the result of an ex¬ traordinary session of the student governing body, following a week during which Junior Class elec¬ tioneers were free to submit recom¬ mendations to the Student Counsellor.
Holenstein Prom Manager As his first act in office, Mr. Hanley issued a special statement in which he revealed the appointment of Robert J. Holenstein as Prom Man¬ ager. Mr. Holenstein is at present Sports Editor of the Griffin and Pres¬ ident of  the  St. Vincent de Paul
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¦ Subsequent issues of the Griffin will contain complete news of further committee appointments and plans for this year's Prom.
Fr. Guenther To Give Lecture
The first public lecture to be given by Father Anthony M. Guenther, S.J., on his recent accomplish¬ ment,—The Pharos,—described in the last issue of The Griffin, will be given before the members of the Canisian Society .it its regular month¬ ly meeting on the first Friday of November. As this is the first meet¬ ing since the very successful tea which the Society held for the Parents of Freshmen on October 19, it is expected that a very large crowd will attend.
Invites Parents Mrs. Peter J. Murrett, president of the organization, has extended an invitation not only to those parents who attended the tea, but also to those who were unable to come. Benedic¬ tion of the Blessed Sacrament in Our Lady's Chapel will open the evening, after which there will be a short busi¬ ness meeting, followed by Father Guenther's lecture. Cards will be played as usual in the Alumnae Room and refreshments will follow in the college cafeteria.
Commerce Men Hear Prong At Club Dinner
Plans For Commercial Tour And Next Dinner Discussed At Tuesday Business Meeting
CONFESSIONS...
Every Thursday— Our  Lady's  Chapel,   11:35
a.m., Fiither Smith, S.J. Our  Lady's  Chapel, 12:30
p.m., Father Cunningham,
S.J. Auditorium,     12:30     p.m.,
Father Bellwoar, S.J.
Evc of First Friday—
Our Lady's Chapel, 10:00 a.m. till 12:00 noon, ther« will be a priest available
Auditorium, 11:15 a.m. till 1:00 p.m., there will be several priests hearing.
Mass at 8:00 a. m. DAILY in Our Lady's Chapel.
Sodalists—remember the third Friday of the month—Gen-
¦ eral, Communion Mass at 8:00 a.m.
RaHy Features Colella Interview
At the Commerce Club's October dinner meeting at Lorenzo's Restau¬ rant on Monday evening, October 13, fully forty-five Commercemen turned out, to hear Mr. George Prong, the guest speaker, discuss the importance of Buffalo in the Defense Program; also what the plans are for the business organizations of Buflalo after the presenet emergency is over. Careers Treated Mr. Prong, prominent in the ac¬ tivities of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, is secretary of the Erie County Defense Board, secretary of the Niagara Frontier Builders' Asso¬ ciation, and a member of the Buflalo Civic Planning Board. Among other things, he pointed out that the young¬ er people of Buffalo are leaning more toward careers in the aviation indus¬ try than in any other local industry.
The statistics of the Buffalo Cham¬ ber of Commerce show that fifty per cent of the employees of Curtiss- Wright are single, while only twenty- two per cent of the employees of the Bethlehem Steel Company are in the unmarried class. Mr. Prong also discussed the plans of the Curtiss- Wright and Bell organizations to switch to commercial aviation after the war, making Buflalo the head¬ quarters of their operations. The experimental blackouts of the city of Toronto were thoroughly treated, and such points as the cost, planning and labor of the experiment were carefully brought out by the use of stiitistics.
Hellerer Chosen At the meeting on Tuesday, Octo¬ ber 28, Robert Hellerer was chosen to make arrangements for the No¬ vember Dinner Meeting.
A financial statement of the Club was given at the meeting on Wednes¬ day, November 5, by Louis Russo, secretary-treasurer.   At this meeting the plans  for the commercial tour and dinner meeting were discussed. George M. Martin announced that Mr.  Prong had  invited  the Com¬ mercemen   to   meet   on   Thursday, November 13, at 1:45 P. M., in the Board of Directors' room of the Buf¬ falo Chamber of Commerce. Tour Planned After  a  tour  of the   Chamber's offices, during which the stt-up of the Chamber of Commerce will be ex¬ plained, the members will go to the main   office   of   the   Marine  Trust Company,   where   Mr.   Leston   P. Faneuf, Assistant Vice-President of the  Marine  Midland  Group, Inc., has made arrangements for the Club¬ men  to  see  the inner-workings of Buffalo's   largest   commercial   bank.
TEN CANISIUS MEN ACCORDED HONOR
Religion In Education Is Sodality Topic
Schueckler, Holenstein, Schroeder To Consider Phases Of College Life
Robert J. HolensHin  (left). Sports Editor of Tom Colella, Canisius'
The Griffin puts pertinent questions to stellar half-back
SIX HUNDRED AT BONNIE PARADE AND RALLY
Song Written By Father Coughlin Introduced At Festivities In Gym
COMMERCE MEN {Continued on Page 4, Col. 5)
On Friday last, six hundred cheer¬ ing and singing Canisians participated in a huge Canisius-Bonnie rally. The evening began with a mammoth pa¬ rade from the City Hall, down Main Street to the Canisius campus. Al¬ though only two floats appeared, those sponsored by, the- Canisius- 0«flr/er/y]; and the Commerce Club, yet these: | won. wide acclaim from the specta¬ tors along the route.
Rally in Gym
The exercises in the Gym, which was decked in Hallowe'en and au¬ tumnal motif, proved to be a huge success. George Schreiner acted as the master of festivities and his em- ceeing was exemplary. He presented a well-rounded program, including several well known guest stars, com¬ munity singing and comedy skits,   .
Jim Wells, WBEN sports an¬ nouncer; Father Thomas Fay, S.J.; Father Timothy Dineen, S.J., and Dr. James Crowdle spoke. Bob Hol¬ enstein interviewed Jimmy Wilson and Tom Colella, who in turn intro¬ duced the football team.
Community Singing Following this, there was commun¬ ity singing, under the able leadership of Paul Juenker. The Band and Glee Club offered several selections, most noteworthy of which was the new song composed by Father Timo¬ thy Coughlin, S.J., president of the College.
Joe Herman and Chuck Crimi gave a skit, which was followed by a freshman skit, participating in which were Edward Alf, R. Joseph Naples, William Duryea, Randy Wall, Rob¬ ert Perrigo, Joseph Hughes, George Muscat© and Ralph Peck. This was directed by Edward Garland.
To Promote Christmas Offering For Pope ...
Promoters of the League of the Sacred Heart, ever active in advancing the spiritual good of the students, will soon ap¬ proach all League members in the interest of the annual Sodal¬ ists Christmas Offering to the Pope.
Each year the Sodalists of America offer to the Holy Father a spiritual bouquet they have collected for the benefit of our Holy Father. It consists of a triduum of Masses offered and Holy.^Communions received for the intention of the Pope anytime before Christmas and not necessarily on consecutive days. All the students of the school, whether in the Sodality or not, will be invited to join in this spiritual gift to the Pope. All they need to do is to sign their name to the slip of paper which will be distributed next week and return it to the Pro¬ moter of the League in each class. Since the last issue of the Griffin, the following Freshmen havc been appointed Promoters of the League of the Sacred Heart: Raymond Cool¬ ey, John Coughlin, Kenneth Foley, Joseph Hughes, John Malley and Charles Wechter.
To Be Cited In Intercollegiate "Who's JWho"
TWO MEN REPEAT
The Sodality of Our Lady will meet this afternoon at 1:45 P. M. in Room 3 and continue the program inaugurated for the year by studying various aspects of the College Or¬ ganization Course given by Father Lord, S.J., in the summer school. The present meetings are given over to a consideration of The Place of  Re¬ ligion in an Educated Person's Life. Mr. T. Theodore Schueckler, Pre¬ fect of the Sodality, will discuss the topic, "Why Does and Why Should the Smart Person Go to College?" Mr. Frederick Schroeder will review the    proposition,    "College    Spoils More   Than    it    Helps—Through Their Own  Stupidity," while  Mr. Robert    HoUenstein    will    discuss "Non-Catholics Are More Likely to Profit by College Than Catholics." Meetings Set This is the last chance  for this year for members of the Sophomore, Junior and Senior classes to join the Sodality at Canisius.   Regular meet¬ ings will be held on alternate Tues¬ days, but in order to accommodate those who wish to become Sodalists. but who are detained by cLisses on Tuesday, a separate meeting will be held on alternate Fridays.
Three members of the Sodality,— Mr. L. Robert Gauch.it, Mn Thomas Dalton and Mr. Paul R. Juenker will face a panel composed of three Sodalists of D'Youville Col¬ lege on Tuesday evening, November II at D'Youville on the question of the Date problem. Father Bellwoar, moderator of the Sodality, will .ict as chairman for the evening.
Fr. Bouwhuis Speaks On WGR
National Catholic Book Week Stressed By Librarian
SUARAQUIN CIRCLE ENROLLS STUDENTS
Father Beglan Mentions Advantages To Members
MISSIONARY SHRINE DEDICATED
On Saturday, October 25, 1941, in Youngstown, N. Y., Father Schlaerth, Dean of the graduate school and professor of history here at Canisius, represented the Society of Jesus at the dedication of a memorial to a valiant French Jesuit missionary.
The Buffalo Chapter of the Na¬ tional Society of the Daughters of American Colonists sponsored the ceremonies, which marked the un¬ veiling of a boulder in memory of Father Claude Joseph Virot, S.J., who was killed on the field of La Belle Famille, July 24, 1759. French Chaplain
Father Virot was chaplain of the French military forces stationed at Fort Niagara. Little more is known of his life, yet he has been identified
.IS a Jesuit which in itself gives one an insight into the character of the man and the probable motivation for his great work and still greater sacri¬ fices. Accordingly, Father Schlaerth tried to connect the two by explain¬ ing in somewhat brief form, the ori¬ gin of the Society of Jesus, its con¬ stitutions and aims, and its main fields of modern endeavor. Regent Presides
A business meeting was held in Old Fort Niagara prior to the un¬ veiling, with Mrs. George B. Nich¬ ols, chapter regent, presiding. .The Reverend Nixon of Youngstown, N. Y., gave the invocation.
"With deep sincerity," Father Schlaerth   began   in   thanking   the
FATHER SCHUERTH {Continued on Page 4, Col. 3)
Fiither Joseph F. Beglan, S.J., this week announced the enrollment of prospective members for the 1941-42 Suaraquin Circle. Canisius' young¬ est organization, having been formed in 1938, the Circle devotes itself to discussion, in informal study groups, of problems relating to Scholastic Philosophy.
. Membership will, at present, be limited to students of senior philoso¬ phy. At the completion of their course in minor logic, members of the junior class will be eligible for admittance.
Stressing the advantages of mem¬ bership in the Circle, Father Beglan cited the fact that "with a large group it is impossible, through formal classwork, to accomplish the real aim of a course in Scholastic Philosophy. It is to foster truly philosophical thought and philosophical discussion that this group is, each year, organ¬ ized. ^It can be of enormous advant- tige to our modern student to be able to look at present day conditions from the unblurred viewpoint of the phil¬ osopher."
, Details of Suaraquin meetings and announcement of officers of the so¬ ciety for the scholastic year will be given in subsequent issues of the Griffin. Father Beglan will continue as moderator of the club.
¦ Father Andrew L. Bouwhuis, S.J., spoke hist Sunday at 3:45 o'clock oil a program designed as a send-off for the National Catholic Book Week, November 2-9. The program origi¬ nated on Station WAGE in Syracuse and was carried over 190 other out¬ lets. Locally it traveled the air- w.nves over WGR,
In answering pertinent questions regarding Catholic literature. Father Bouwhuis illustrjitcd the great worth of National Catholic Book Week as a means of incrcising the circulation and appreciation of sound literature. Through his answers the Canisius librarian m.-ide it clear that the value of Catholic books extended to non- Catholics as well as to members of the faith. Said he, "They refresh the minds of Catholics regarding the SJilient parts of their religion and provide a wealth of information con¬ cerning the Catholic Church for in¬ terested but timid Protestants."
He further emphasized the ready .accessibility of Catholic literature stating, "It is always a pleasure for a librarian to notice, as well <ns to awaken and stimulate, interest in sound reading that develops charac¬ ter, inspires the miiUl and puts the reader in the way of noble thoughts and high ideals."
Ten outstanding members of the senior class of Canisius College hiive been chosen by impartial judges to appear in the 1941-42 edition of "Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities^ it was announced last week by H. Pettus Randall, editor of the book.
Canisius Nominees The   ten   representatives   of   Ca¬ nisius College in this year's edition are:
Thomas W. Dalton, president of the Athletic Association; L. Robert Gauchat, president of the Senior Class; J.nmes J. Murphy, president of the Strohaver Science Club; Fran¬ cis M. Phelan, holder of the basket¬ ball Sportsmanship Trophy; Donald S. Po-Chedlcy, president of the Men¬ del Club; Norbert J. Winkler, vice- president of the Glee Club; Richard E. Winter, president of the Blue and Gold Club, and Paul R. Juenker, president of the Student Council, president of the Glee Club and editor- in-chief of the Griffin.
Two men, J.imes L. Rastj' presi-. dent of the Academia Debating Soi ciety, and' Thomas A. Colella, cap¬ tain of the varsity football squad, ap¬ pear for the second consecutive year. ;   This year's issue of I'Who's Who/' - published through the co-operation oi all the colleges and universities in the United States, is in its eighth annual publication.    It is prefaced as "The only national means of recognition for honor students, devoid of initia¬ tion fees and dues."
> Purpose of Boole
Its purpose, as stated by the editor, is to serve as an incentive for stu¬ dents to get the most out of their college careers; as a means of com¬ pensation to students for what they h,ave already done; as a standard pf measurement for students comp.uaDle to such agencies as Phi Beta Kappa and the Rhodes Scholarship Award, and as a recommendation to the busi¬ ness world. . !
MENDELIANS HEAR INSECT LECTURE
Public Health Subject Of Address At Next Meeting
The research associate of entomol¬ ogy at the Buffalo Museum of Science, Mr. William Wild, i prp; seiitcd an illustrated lecture on^ "In-' sect Studies" at .the last Monday's meeting of the Mendel Club. ' '
His talk, which was a rambling description of various field trips, wiljh studies principally of the moth and butterfly, was accompanied by Kodak- chrome illustrations and the showing of colored plates painted by Mr.' Wild himself. .i >-,.¦¦. ¦- "   •;
On . November 17, Andrew M!.i Zillig, b.'icteriologist connected witlil the Buff.'do Health Department, wilt address the Mendelians on "ThbJ Value of n. Public Health Laboratory to a Community." '
In a subsequent issue of the Grif' fin, the special features department will sponsor an interview with Father John A. Frisch, S.J., modera¬ tor of the club.
REGARDING THE YEAR'S NO. 1 MUSICAL HIT ...
At List Friday's Bona Rally, one of the evening's major climaxes was the premiere of a NEW School Song, "To The Blue And Gold." After the first rendition by a double quartet, the audience showed, im¬ mediate interest—and roared its entluisi.'istic delight. The Blue and Gold Club is considering the playing of recorded versions of the song in the lower hiills. The song is new — it's origiiiiil — and it'll soon be on the lips of every Canisius Man. '
And who composed this new Song Hit? The energetic president of Canisius College, Father Timothy J, Coughlin, S. J. I
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