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Vol. 41, No. 10
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANGELES
January 1 3, 1 964
Ft Gustave Weigel, S.J.,
Noted Theologian, Dies
| At 57, In Washington D.C.
By TERRY O’REILLY
On Friday, January 3, a heart attack took the life of
one of America’s foremost theologians, Fr. Gustave Weigel
S. J. 57, at Washington D.C.’s Campion House, home of the
editorial staff of America. — ~ —
Fr. Weigel, corresponding editor
of the Jesuit weekly, had recently
returned from Rome, where he
had served as peritus (expert) for
the Ecumenical Council. One of
the leading liberal theologians in
this country, he was bom in Buf¬
falo, N. Y. on January 15, 1906,
and received his Ph.d. from Gre¬
gorian University in Rome, and
his S.T.D. in 1938. Also in 1938
he was ordained and becdtne Pro¬
fessor of Dogmatic Theology a4*
the Catholic University of Chile.
In 1942 he Was made Dean of the
Theology Department, which posi¬
tion he retained until 1948, when
Chile awarded him their Order of
Merit, and. he returned to Ameri¬
ca to become Professor of Eccle-
siology at Woodstock, a position
he retained until his death.
Since 1948 Fr. Weigel has been
twice selected as a State Depart-
Gustave Wiegel, S.J.
ment exchange lecturer, speaking
in Germany in 1953, and Chile and
Columbia in 1956. *
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SOPHS SHARP
IN DECEMBER
DEBATE TOURS
Loyola’s debate squad received
an unprecedented number of hon¬
ors in debate and individual speak-*
ing contests in December. Ten
students won more than a dozen
awards in the Pacific Southwest
fall championship tournament at
Los Angeles State College and the
Southwestern College tournament
in Winfield, Kansas.
Four Loyola debate teams en¬
tered the Pacific Southwest tour¬
nament at L. A. State on Decem¬
ber 7 and 8, and each team re¬
ceived honors. In the uppet* divi¬
sion of debate, Terry O’Reilly
teamed with Tom Woods, and Bill
Waysman teamed with Bob Mc¬
Donald; Both teams received
awards of excellence, in spite of
"'theTfact that all except Woods are
sophomores. Customarily sopho¬
mores and freshmen enter lower
division.
Loyola’s lower division team of
Joe Wilson and Andrew Dobson,
paired together for the first time,
received an award of excellence.
Our novice team, George Henni-
gar and Scott Wood, came though
with flying colors and bagged a
superior a#ard in novice division
debate.
the sky and the sparkling sands
of the Santa Monica Beach have
begun to glisten from the moon*
light of a full moon promised by
an Alpha Delta Gamma Frater¬
nity Alumni with the highest ce¬
lestial connection; This alumni,
from the fraternity which sponsors
this event, has annually seen to it
that a I?OSTf MORTEM Dance
would never be held without the
light from the fullest of moons.
The dance will end at 1:00 a.m.
at which time the moon is sche¬
duled to blink.
The site for this year’s dance
will, be the; magnificent Miramar
Hotel located at the conclusion of
Wilshire boulevard facing the
shores of the beautiful blue Pa¬
cific Ocean. This breaks the tra¬
dition that a POST MORTEM
Dance has. never been held in the
same place twice.
In individual events at the L.
A. State tourney, Terry O’Reilly
was one of the few double win¬
ners. He received' a superior award
in exterporaneous speaking and
an excellent award in impromptu
speaking in the lower division.
Bob McDonald, entered in his first
intercollegiate individual . speaking
contest, won a- superior award in
lower division impromptu. Larry
Agriesti, participating in his first
college tourney? won' a superior
award in novice interpretative
reading. Tom Woods won an excel¬
lent award in upper division inter¬
pretative reading. George ^hows
also entered novice interp; and
made a good showing.
On December 13-14, four Loyola
debaters attended the Southwest*
em College tournament in Win¬
field, Kansas. This tournament is
the oldest annual collegiate de¬
bate tourney in the nation and
attracts many of the country’s
best debate tearqs. This year out¬
standing college debaters , from
more than a dozen states were in
attendance, Loyola’s senior divi¬
sion team of Terry O’Reilly and
Tom Woods debated several of the
finest debaters in the midwest, yet
still finished in the top ten teams.
The Loyolan Staff was very
sorry to learn of the death of
Bruce Bussell’s father during
the Christmas holidays. We,
particularly, have been indebtel
to Mr. Bussell for his superb
art work. At this time we offer
our condolences to Bruce and
his family.
.THE SCINTILLATING Satellite Room of the Miramar Ho¬
tel, the scene of the upcoming Post Mortem, January 22.
Bids are on sale today in the Lair for $3.00.
Miramar to Host Final
Term Dance , January 22
Loyolans will celebrate the passing away of the late,
loudly and longly lamented fall semester at the POST
MORTEM Dance, perennial social highlight of the Winter
Season, on Wednesday, Jan. 22. The dance will commence at
9:00 PM when the last faint rays of sunshine have colored
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FR. DE JONG TO SPEAK
ON PROBLEMS OF BRAZIL
On Monday evening, Feb. 10 at 8 P.M. Father John Wil¬
liam De Jong will speak in the Loyola Lecture Series on
“The Restless Millions of Brazil,” The subject represents Fa¬
ther De Jong’s life-long specialty. With charm and kindly
understanding, Father De Jong has the gift of making us
feel deep concern for the prob¬
lems which confront the people of
Brazil in these precarious times.
Brazil is a country^ almost as big
as continental United States, and
has a nominal Catholic population
of 75 . millions, making it the larg¬
est Catholic' country on earth. But
due to inadequate clergy and re¬
ligious facilities, grave problems
face the Church. Among the most
“liberal” of its ecclesiastical think¬
ers is the interesting auxiliary
bishop of Rio, who has advocated
that bishops 4turn in their jeweled
pectoral crosses for wooden ones
and use the money derived for the
alleviation of the poor.
BRAZIL FOB 25 YEARS
Father De Jong has been in
Brazil working among her people
for over 25 years. Bom in Hol¬
land, he was twenty-five before he
entered the seminary, giving up
his association with his father’s'
international transport and ship¬
ping business. Shortly after being
ordained he was incafrdinated in
the archdiocese of Ribeirao Preto,
Rev. John William De Jong
Sao Paulo State. He has traveled
extensively throughout Brazil and
is thoroughly ‘acquainted with this
country and its pressing: problems,
which he can discuss with the ob¬
jectivity of a European. This per¬
mits him to speak dispassionately,
but with great authority on the
timely subject of inter- Arperican
relations in this critical period;
CARDINAL 10 DEDICATE
COMMUNICATION CENTER
The Foley Communication Arts Center and the Strub
Memorial Theater will be dedicated by his Eminence James
Francis Cardinal McIntyre, on Sunday, January 26, at 2
p.m. All alumni and their families, parents, members of the
President’s Council, faculty and students, and friends of the
University are invited to attend
the event.
The Professor of Language Arts
at San Francisco State College,
Dr. S. I. Hayakawa, will give the
principal address. Rev. Terrence
Mahan, S.J., Deal of the College
of Arts and Sciences, will be the
Master of Ceremonies for the ded¬
ication of the $1,500,000 structure.
The program will take place in
Strub Memorial Theater.
The Foley Communication Arts
Center, already an architectural
highlight of the Southern Califor¬
nia area, is one of the newest cen¬
ters in the nation constructed spe¬
cifically for the study of the com¬
munications field.
“Recognition of the vital im¬
portance of the study of commun¬
ications by friends and donors to
the University— -notably Mr. Ed¬
ward T. Foley and the Strub fam¬
ily through the Santa Anita Fount-?
dation— is a tribute to these far- i
sighted individuals,’- declared War¬
ren Sherlock, Chairman of the
school’s Communication Arts De¬
partment.
“Although Loyola now joins the
more1 than 150 colleges and uni¬
versities throughout the nation in¬
volved in communications studies,
a review of these institutions’ of¬
ferings demonstrated to us what
we consider to be a general weak¬
ness in the programs: a lack> of
emphasis on creative writing ; cre¬
ative writing for press, television,
radio, advertising, and the film.”
In speaking of the physical ad¬
vantages of the Center, Sherlock
pointed out that “it is significant
that Dr. Elmer Engs trom, Presi¬
dent of the Radio Corporation of
America, described our Center as
one of the finest facilities for its
purpose he has seen in the Unit¬
ed States.”