The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 41, Issue 10 - January 13, 1964

Lions Topple {Fall Semester Waves, 78-76 • • • (Story in Sport's Section) Closes With Post Mortem i*si®a88 ' » ШЩШ * *’'''*' •*** '' *® Story in Cols. 1 & 2 ' ' ''" Щг 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. * (Continued on page 2) 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 I® 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.”