Vol.
40
No. 8
1962
December 3,
Donnelly's Debaters Doing
Fine, Strike Again At W.S.A.I.
Despite competition from some 80 schools from 10 West-
ern States, Tom Woods and Steve Shiffrin won 1st place in
the Western States Association Tournament held at San
Fernando Valley State College between Thursday 22nd and
Saturday 24th. They debated 8 rounds, losing only one, to
Idaho State. Both debaters participated in other events, Tom
taking 2nd place in Interpretive Speaking and Steve reach¬
ing the semi-finals in Impromptu. Their combined efforts
in all 3 events won, for Loyola,
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the upper division sweeptakes tro-fsuch others as SC, Stanford, Red-
phy. lands* Santa Clara, USF, Idaho
In the Lower Division of De¬
bate, Terry O'Reilly and Bill
Waysman reached the octo-finals,
debating 6 rounds and losing 2 to
Wamalach U. and Idaho State.
Both Terry and Bill qualified to
the semi-finals in Extemporaneous.
Also attending the tournament
were John Torelli, who spoke in
Impromptu, and Bill Schneider*
who participated in Original Ora¬
tory. Neither qualified for elimin¬
ation rounds.
TOUGH COMPETITION
The preliminary rounds, which
were held on Thursday and Fri¬
day, were attended by schools
from California, Washington, Ore¬
gon, Arizona, New Mexico, Nev¬
ada, Utah, Idaho and Montana,
presenting the toughest competi¬
tion and the most interesting and
variated judges met by our de¬
baters this year. Schools present
ranged in size from UCLA to Cali¬
fornia Lutheran, and included
State and Brigham Young.
With their record now standing
at 2 won, 2 lost, presently the
best record on the West Coast,
Shiffrin and Woods are preparing
to attend the National Tourna¬
ment, to be held at the Air Force
Academy in Colorado, with great
hopes for success, the same
weekend (30th of November to
December 2nd).
Debate Coach Mr. William Don¬
nelly is hoping to send several
teams to the Western States Al¬
ternate Tournament, which will
be held At Los Angeles State Col¬
lege. The following week is the
Tournament, which will be held at
Los Angeles State College. The
following week it is also, hoped
that Shiffrin, Woods and O'Reilly
and Waysman will attend the tour¬
nament to be held at Albuquerque,
New Mexico. r All in all, it looks
like a busy few weeks for our de¬
bate squad.
SHIFFRIN AND WOODS display trophies from recent vic¬
tories in Western Division competition.
Former Loyolan Editor Succumbs
Mariano J. Zafarano Jr., class
of '56, died of a brain cancer after
a years illness, on Wednesday, the
21st of November, 1962, at his
home in the San Fernando Valley.
Mike, when at Loyola, was both
sports editor and editor-in-chief of
the Los Angeles Loyolan. He was
also involved in the Glee Club and
the Italian Club.
FUNERAL MASS
Father Alexander Tait, former
religion professor at Loyola, flew
down from Santa Clara to lead the
Rosary held on Friday, Nov. 23,
at Saint James' Church in the
Valley.
The funeral Mass was held the
following Saturday. Pall Bearers
were Loyola Graduates Albert
Bouelli, '56, Joseph Dias '55, Lu-?
cian Glaudini '55, Michael Kirk
56. John K. Wilhelm '57.
After leaving Loyola, Mariano
served in the Army and worked
at Douglas Aircraft. He leaves his
wire Sharon, his parents and two
sisters.
Requiem Mass
Said for Late
Jesuit Brother
The faculty and students of
Loyola University, join together
in expressing their sorrow on the
recent death of Brother John Be-
necke, S.J.
Born in Hamburg, Germany, 77
years ago, he entered the Sacred
Heart Novitiate in August, 1937,
following the death of his wife,
Frieda.
SKILLED ARTISAN
Father of Rev. Carl Benecke,
S.J., assistant director of Indus¬
trial Relations here at Loyola,
Brother Benecke became widely
acclaimed within the Order for his
intricate handmade tabernacles
and wrought-iron grille w
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skills which he had mastered in
Germany. Examples of his artwork
may be found in the chapel at the
Sacred Heart Novitiate and also
at Loyola High School.
RED CROSS WORKER
He had been employed as an
ornamental iron worker in Los
Angeles prior to entering the or¬
der. In Europe he worked as a
locomotive engineer with the na¬
tional railroads of Germany and
during World War I drove a Red
Cross train.
The Requiem Mass was celebra¬
ted in St. Clare's Church, Santa
Clara, with his son Rev. Carl Be-
neck, S.J., as celebrant and Rev.
John F. Connolly, S.J., President
of the University of San Francis¬
co, as deacon. Interment took
place in the Santa Clara Catholic
Cemetery.
REBUKED
In an effort to uncover the
basis of the problems besetting
relations between Loyola and
the Catholic Girls' Colleges,
the Los Angeles Loyolan at¬
tempted to conduct a helpful
survey on the campi of the sev¬
eral colleges involved. The sur¬
vey consisted of the following
questions:
1) What was your first im¬
pression of the Loyola Man?
2) What, really, is the typi¬
cal Loyola Man as far as per¬
sonality is concerned?
3) Do we seem overly pos¬
sessive of ‘‘our" five local
women's colleges? Explain.
4) How do you think your
school stands in our eyes . . V
how do we stand in your eyes?
5) How may we improve?
In presenting this appraisal,
the Loyolan Staff was entirely
sincere and only wished to put
in print the often-spoken-but
never written - criticisms about
Loyola. Since the social chair¬
men from the six girls' colleges
refused to present the survey
sheet to the members of their
schools, the staff now extends
an invitation to the rank-and-
file members of the girls' stu¬
dent bodies to express their
written opinions to the Los An¬
geles Loyolan.
ROTH STRING QUARTET entertains Loyolans on Sunday
evening, December 9, in St. Robert's Auditorium.
Rabbi, Roth String
Quartet On Campus
The internationally famous Roth String Quartet will
appear at Loyola on Sunday evening, Dec. 9, at 8:15 p.m.
in St. Robert's Hall.
The program will be comprised of works by Beethoven,
and will include Quartet No. 10^
in E-flat Major, Op. 74 (Harp
Quartet) ; and . Quartet No. 16 in
F Major, Op. 135 (Last Quartet) .
FOUNDER ROTH
possessed of one musical soul is
an inspiration not to be missed.
RABBI-DIRECTOR
The ensemble is made up of Dr.
Feri Roth, first violinist and foun¬
der; Thomas Marrocco, second
violin; Irving Weinstin, viola; and
Cesare Pascarella, cello. Three of
the members of this quartet have
been playing together for ten
years, and the fourth has been
with the ensemble for five years.
During this period they have
become world famous as interpre¬
ters of Beethoven's chamber mu¬
sic. The world-wide circulation of
Roth Quartet recordings, distin¬
guished by seventeen different
awards is now in its third million.
The National Association of Amer¬
ican Composers and Conductors
granted to the Roth Quartet its
Award of Merit in 1943.
SMALL FEE
A fee of 50c for students, $1
for adults will be charged as a
donation. Although Beethoven's
music is attractive in itself, the
opportunity to see the precision
and rapport of four string players
On December 7, the Loyola Uni¬
versity Faculty Club will sponsor
the appearance of Rabbi Marc
Tannenbaum. The Rabbi is direc¬
tor of the Inter-religious Affairs
Department of the American Jew¬
ish Council. He is also affiliated
as consultant to the Pius XII Re¬
ligious Education Resurces Center
in Monroe Michigan, and has pub¬
lished extensively in Catholic and
secular journals and newspapers.
He will address the faculty and
those interested students on “New
Trends and Developments in In¬
ter-religious Relations." In view
of the present sessions of the Sec¬
ond Vatican Council and the spirit
of Ecumenism, the Rabbi's visit to
Loyola is an event of capital im¬
portance. Faculty members from
other schools in the Southern
California area are welcome to at¬
tend as well as the students from
these schools. The Rabbi will
speak iri St. Robert's Auditorium
at 3 p.m. on Friday, December 7.
Student Court Judges
Plan Radical Changes
By PAT DUFFY
The scene, room 106, St. Robert's Hall; the players, Fred
Aldrian, defendant; John Vinculin, prosecutor; Chief Justice
Joe DiMassa, and the rest of the A.S.L.U. Court; the play,
the trial of Fred Aldrian for speeding and reckless driving.
It was an old scene at Loyola for there has long been a kind
of Student Court, but the courts
itself, the judges, were new and
some had hope that the play, the
trial, would be different. There
were many onlookers. Some laugh¬
ed and waited for the trial to
turn out to be a big joke; some
saw the new court as a tool to
avoid administration decisions.
$25 FINE
There was one man who didn't
laugh, there was one man who
would lose twenty-five dollars and
see his student parking privileges
put on probation. That man was
Fred Aldrian. When the decision
was read, the clowns lost their
laugh, penalty-dodgers saty their
hope for an ineffective court van¬
ish, and all Loyola saw the im-
mergenoe of a new wave at Loy¬
ola, a wave in justice that may
one day become a pounding surf,
a tradition of justice. It's not a
wave that will wash away the
world, the state, or even Los An¬
geles, but the Student Court will
and is changing Loyola.
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The Loyolan Staff extends
its condolences to the family of
Dr. Lucy Bassett, who died last
Thursday. We also express our
regrets to senior Bott Cannon
on the unexepected death of his
father.