The Griffin: volume 17, issue 01 - Sept. 23, 1949

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Vol. XVII, No. 1
CANISIUS COLLEGE, BUFFALO, NEW YORK
September 23, 1949
Fatima Calls — C. C. Answers
The first Nocturnal Ad¬ oration-Reparation meeting of this school year is set for the hours from 7 P.M. Fri¬ day, September .'30th, to 5 A.M. Saturday, October
1st. The enrollment of Seniors is the largest of any individual class in the school: 351 men of the class of 1950 will be on the lists. With the 901 Freshmen, Sopho¬ mores and Juniors who have pledged themselves, the member¬ ship of the Canisian Reparation Society of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the school year 1949- 1950 totals 1252.
Freshmen  318
Sophomores  305
Juniors .: 278
Seniors     351
During the past two weeks an effort was made to contact every Canisius student. Those who did not have an opportunity to enroll in The Reparation Society are urged to sign up before Sept. 30 in the office of the Student Coun¬ sellors, Father Bellwoar's office in the Main Building or the office of Father O'Brien in the Delavan Division.
Group lists for the respective Adoration-Reparation hours of the October meeting will be posted on first-floor bulletin boards in the Main Building and at Delavan from Monday, Sept. 26, through Friday, Sept. 30. For the present, The Reparation Society will meet in the Auditorium, in the basement of the Main Building.
Informational Talks On Church's Tenets
Canisius College students are now in a position to offer real as¬ sistance to any of their friends or acquaintances who are desirous of embracing the Catholic faith or, at least, of knowing what the Church teaches.
Father Thomas A. Fay, S.J., pro¬ fessor of Senior Religion, will con¬ duct a course of religious instruc¬ tions each Monday night, begin¬ ning Sept. 26. Each class will start at 8:00 p.m., and be two hours long. The course will last three months. It is offered free of charge but restricted to friends and ac¬ quaintances of Canisius students.
Formal instruction, answered questions, and open discussion will characterize each session. A similar program conducted by Father Fay iast year met with remarkable suc¬ cess—of a class of 23 members, 18 became converts. Students are re¬ quested to give the names of any of their friends or acquaintances who may desire to enter the course together with their own names, to any Jesuit priest before Monday, Sept. 26.
Daily Mass: 7:50
Daily Confessions:   12:50
Student  Chapel
Second Floor, Main Building
ROBERT SCHULZ
"looks forward with relish"
Glee Club Goes Pops
The creator of "Piano Pops" (Fun with Music), thirty-one year old Robert Schulz, is the new director of the Canisius College Glee Club. Within four years, Mr. Schulz has become well-known throughout the country as an or¬ chestra conductor, piano soloist and teacher.
Although he directs the mixed choruses of Akron and Saint Aloysius Chorale and Choir, this is his first experience with a male college group. However, Mr. Schulz told your reporter that he "looks forward with relish" to the coming year's activities. He said he couldn't give an over-all impres¬ sion of the Glee Club as yet. How¬ ever, he said he hopes to be able to continue the "high calibre" of work accomplished by the former director, Arnold Cornelissen, and to work towards the development of the club as one of the outstand¬ ing college groups in the country.
Attends Eastman
One in a family of six, the new director attended Saint James school and Bennett High School, before he attended the Eastman Music School in Rochester, where he majored in choral conducting and piano. Mr. Schulz has appeared many times as piano soloist with the Buffalo Phil¬ harmonic Orchestra, and in the opinion of William Steinberg, music director of the orchestra, Robert Schulz is one of the best Gershwin pianists in the nation. He is also the only soloist to ap¬ pear three times in one year with the Buffalo Philharmonic. Mr. Schulz has also appeared in Car¬ negie and Town Halls with the New York Philharmonic. Last spring he conducted the Wheeling Civic Symphony Orchestra.
In 1947 he staged his first "Piano Pops" in Kleinhans Music Hall, and has presented this an¬ nual musical evening to capacity audiences ever since. During the war, the glee club head gave con-
OVERSEAS CONCERTS
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Council to Push Sodality Plans Student Activities Group System
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Come One - Come AH First Dance - This Fall
A hot flash that has been coursing through the corri¬ dors during the past two weeks has been the call of "back to school boogie." On Friday night. September 23, from nine to the bewitching hour, the campus will be flooded by
      the  music  of  Eddie  Flowers'  Or¬ chestra.     The    Back    to    Campus
The Sodality of Our Lady, first and foremost among the various organiza¬ tions on the Canisius Cam¬ pus, will be reorganized this year. The new program, under the direction of Father Fred¬ eric P. Rothlauf, S.J., newly ap¬ pointed moderator, has been care¬ fully devised to meet the needs of college men.
The main feature of the new program will be an endeavor to instill in each Sodalist a spiritual motivation for all his acts. Daily prayer and examination of con¬ science, regular spiritual reading and frequent Mass and reception of Holy Communion will be ex¬ pected of each active member of the Sodality.
Another feature of the new program is the group system of operation, which will make it possible for every Sodalist to be active in one phase or another of the Sodality's activities. The en¬ tire Sodality will be broken up into various groups or sections, each containing from four to twelve members. The meetings of these sections will be sched¬ uled at the convenience of the in¬ dividual unit and will be a great time and labor saving device for the Sodality as a whole.
Three officers of the Sodality who attended the Summer School of Catholic Action at Georgetown during the past summer, Charles O'Connor, Henry Poorten and Joseph Thimbach, will direct the activities of the Sodality for the coming year in their functions as Prefect and Vice-Prefects respect¬ ively.
Under the direction of Father Bellwoar, the Stu¬ dent Council has been re¬ vitalized this year. He promises a Council which will more actively back school activities in an effort to pro¬ mote greater school  spirit.
As in previous years, the presi¬ dents of the respective classes to¬ gether with the Prefect of the So¬ dality, and the Student Counsellor form the Council. This year's Coun¬ cil, headed by Father Bellwoar, in¬ cludes Howie Willis, Ed Gallagher, Robert J. Mooney, and Charles O'Connor, Prefect of the Sodality. A Freshman President will be elected after the Retreat in October.
Teachers Needed in Released-Time Work
During the past years, the Con¬ fraternity of Christian Doctrine, has established a record in the field of teaching released-time stu¬ dents in the local parishes. This year, however, owing to the loss of a number of former teachers, there is a pressing need for more members to continue this excellent work.
Canisius men, who possess a suf¬ ficient background of Catholic Doctrine, and who display a sin¬ cere desire to promulgate Catholic teachings, are asked to contact Father Rothlauf, S.J., in the Sodal¬ ity Office, Dewey Hall 7, or Ray Bennett at the same office immedi¬ ately. Those interested must be free on Mondays after the fourth period.
N. F. C. C. S. Locates On Canisius Campus
Once again Canisius College contributes Catholic lead¬ ership to the world. Representing Canisius College, Rich¬ ard T. Murphy was elected Vice-President in charge of
International   Affairs,   last  May
at the National Congress of the N.F.C.C.S. (National Federation of Catholic College Students). The following month J. Patrick Cotter was chosen Chairman of the Fund Raising Campaign for the Over¬ seas Service Program of the N.F.C.C.S.
The International Office of the N.F.C.C.S. is located in the Empire State. Building in New York City. During this academic year the In¬ ternational Program of the N.F.C. C.S. has its offices located at the Delavan Division of Canisius Col¬ lege.
Dick Murphy is the coordi¬ nator for the International Activi¬ ties of the N.F.C.C.S. Some of the activities consist of relief, dis¬ placed persons, travel, educa¬ tional reconstruction, research on international projects, and corre¬ spondence exchange.
Pat Cotter, as Fund Raising Chairman, has duties equivalent to those of the Student Relief Chair¬ man of last year. He will conduct a fund raising drive in all the American Catholic Colleges. The funds collected will be used for re¬ lief and educational reconstruction.
In the eyes of Pope Pius XII, and clerics and laymen everywhere, this project is an integral part of the overall relief program of Holy Mother Church. Small as it may seem to some of us, it is actually most significant, for many of the student problems of need are re¬ ferred to the Campaign for solu¬ tion. This is a sincere compliment to lay leadership and community responsibility among the Catholic youth. Watch for further develop¬ ments of the program in future issues of the Griffin.
Dance, which is currently being sponsored by the Griffin, is the first of its kind on the campus, and promises to be the hit of the social season.
"Get acquainted and have plenty of fun" will be the keynote of the affair, and from the onrush of ticket buyers so far, there will be a huge host of get-acquainters at the dance.
It's an informal affair, which is all for the better at the present time. Tickets have hit a new price low, selling at $1.20 per couple, which is also for the better, since
Tickets will be on sale tonight at the dance
many of the students' pocketbooKs have been squeezed pretty dry be¬ tween the bookstore and the Treas¬ urer's Office.
Though tickets have been selling at a fast clip, still there are a few unsold. These may be obtained at posts conveniently situated about the school and in the Delavan Divi-
NEW TYPE LAB FOR PHYSICISTS
Sometime about the mid¬ dle of October will see the opening of a new laboratory course for Junior and Se¬ nior Physics majors, ac¬ cording to projected plans of the Canisius College Physics Department. Two years of work are contemplated in the form of a weekly four-hour lab, and the ex¬ periments to be conducted will deal with all the branches of physics study. Students of the course will follow a lab text prepared by the Physics Department faculty.
The course is made possible by recent expansion of facilities as well as enlargement of the faculty of the department. Studies will in¬ clude high temperature, high vacuum and photographic tech¬ niques, and also glass working and glass blowing.
Among the equipment that will come into play are a new automat¬ ically controlled large-production type furnace, which achieves tem¬ peratures ranging from 500 to 2000 degrees F., a metaloscope for the photographic inspection of metals and their surfaces; a glass lathe; an induction heater, for the rapid heating of metals by induction cur¬ rents; a diffraction camera; and some newly acquired electronic ap¬ paratus. The latter, which includes a Geiger counter with scaling and amplifying accessories, will be util¬ ized for work in nuclear physics.
The aim of the department in in¬ stituting this course is twofold; namely, to prepare students for graduate training in their field and to better prepare those who do not anticipate further formal study enter a place in industry.
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