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              The Loyola Maroon Vol. XXXII, X-259 Loyola Univereity, New Orleans, La., January 28, 1955 No. 11 Janet Perrault Named Freshman Sweetheart Sparkling green eyes, wavy black hair, and a dynamic personality are attributes anyone wants in a sweetheart, and the freshman class is no exception. Soft-spoken Janet Perrault, 18, boasts all these qualities and more. "Will you repeat that please?" was the half-hopeful request Janet made of the informing frosh council member. "I just couldn't believe it, but I was very happy when Lou Cressionne repeated his congratulations and expelled my doubt," she added. Janet is a graduate of Dominican High School and a native Orleanian, though she spent most of her intermediate school years under the Mercy Nuns. "Must give them some credit," she smiled. It was Loyola's course in medical technology that convinced the attractive coed that this was the university for her. A future in the field of medicine is not her only present interest, however. Janet is a student at Josie Cabera's dancing school where she excelles in ballet and modern dance. She also dance* with the New Orleans Opera Association. She has no ideas of going into dancing professionally and looks at it as "merely a hobby." "No plans," was her quick reply when queried about a future marriage. "Right now I'm too interested in studying toward that degree that will enable me to enter the field I've chosen," she explained. With a toss of black curls she smiled and said her little 10- year-old brother was prouder of this honor than anyone she knew. "Mom and Dad like the idea too, but they teased a little."To date this newcomer to the campus has added her name to the roster of members in LSL service sorority, the Med Tech Club, the Med Tech Sodality, and the Rifle and Pistol Club. The Frosh Sweetheart will be formally presented at the annual Sophomore Cotillion Tuesday at O'Dwyer's. Janet succeeds Jackie Keiffer to become the second coed thus honored in the University's history, Jackie being the first. FROSH SWEETHEART—JANET PERRAULT Parking Prohibited Tulane University official* have requested that Loyola student* refrain from parking on the Tulane campus, the Rev. Anthony C. O'Flynn, Dean of Students, announced. Fr. O'Flynn said that Tulane ha* asked his cooperation in order to cope with the complex parking problem of the faculty. Tulane faculty will be issued passes for their cars, and only cars bearing these passes will be admitted to the parking area. Cadets Receive Bars Tomorrow Six ROTC cadets will receive their commissions in the Army tomorrow at 9 a.m. in Marquette Auditorium, Lt. Col. Luther R. Barth, PMS&T, announced. Cadets receiving their commissions are: Ronald L. Redmann, Robert M. Wallbillich, Melvin A. Graziano, Donald A. Hamlin, Walter E. Kollin, and Harold A. Tomes. All cadets are being commissioned in the Military Police Corps. The cadets will be presented their certificates for commission in a formal ceremony, and will also receive their orders for active duty. The Rev. W. Patrick Donnelly, S.J., Rev. Edward A. Doyle, S.J., officers of the ROTC and members of the cadets' families will be present. All ROTC personnel and students are invited to attend. Blue Key To Honor 'Doc, At Appreciation Dinner Dr. John G. Arnold, recently retired moderator of Blue Key, national honor fraternity, will be honored at an appreciation dinner in the Loyola cafeteria Thursday, Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. "The dinner is being given in appreciation for Doctor Arnold's many years of service and devotion to our chapter of Blue Key," Dan Stapp, secretary-treasurer, said. "His belief in the ideals of the fraternity has given encouragement to the many efforts of the fraternity during these 15 years," Stapp added. Warren E. Mouledoux, president of the Loyola Alumni Association, will be toastmaster at the dinner. John P. Nelson, Pr., president of Ike Blue Key alumni chapter and former president of the active chapter, is general chairman of the event. Sam Mayes, president of the active chapter, will work with him. Joseph Famiglio and Stapp are co-chairmen of the program committee. Other committee chairmen include John Fuchs, gift, and Hayes Hebert, attendance. All members of the active chapter and their ladies, alumni and honorary members, and faculty members of Blue Key are invited to attend. Blue Key members on the campus may contact Mayes or Stapp for reservations. Dr. Arnold was succeeded as moderator by Henry J. Engler, Jr.,-acting dean of the college of business administration. Alumnae Group Offers Award The Alumnae Association voted to give a coed graduate an annual award at the group's recent meeting in the Student Lounge. A committee has been set up to determine qualifications of the recipient. Members are Ethel Duffy, Helen Cahill, Mercedes Discon, Janet Riley, Marrietta Gagnet, Mrs. James F. Comiskey, Mrs. Cecil M. Sanders, Mrs. Robert C. Kelleher, Mrs. John Dominguez, and the Rev. Edward A. Doyle, S.J., advisor. The graduate will be chosen by the board of deans and presented the award at graduation by the Alumnae president. This will be the first award given by the association. Dublin Players Open Forum Tomorrow Night The Dublin Players will present George Bernard Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple" tomorrow night at the first of the Loyola Forums at McMain Auditorium at 8:30 p.m. Another performance, "The Far Off Hills," by Len-1 nox Robinson will be pre- \ sented Monday night by the players. Directed by Maureen Halligan, "The Devil's Disciple" stars Ronald Ibbs, founder and director of the Dublin Players. Others in the cast I are Nora O'Mahony, Aileen Harte, Charles Blair, Geoffrey Murphy, Julia Worth, i Ken Huxham, and Brian Vincent. The play is about the American Revolutionary War. In it is reflected ! Shaw's love of toppling public idols, coloring white black, and showing more than a streak of grey in most of his characters. He hated a world that the melodramatists had over-simplified in terms of black and white in which the villain was all evil and the hero brave and pure. He shocked ATTENTION STUDENTS Your student activity card I will admit you to the drama* ! of the Dublin Player*. Don't ' mis* them in "The Devil'* Di»- j ciple," Saturday, January 29, I and in "The Far Off Hill*," January 31. Both performance* are icheduled for McMain Audi| torium at 8:30 p.m. men back to reality by finding good in the worst of men and by poking fun at hero worship. Marion's plans are shattered by the arrival in town of a go-getting young man who is very much attracted to her. The two younger girls are determined that Marion go on with her plans. The young man, on the other hand, is equally determined that she is going to marry him. The conflict presents a typical glimpse of life in rural Ireland with a view of the effect of love upon a household filled with tensions. Lollie May portrays Marion in the leading role, supported by Julia Worth", Maureen Halligan, and Ronald Ibbs. This will be the second appearance of the Dublin Players. Last year they presented "Pygmalion" and "Shadow and Substance" on the Forum. The players are drawn from the renowned Abbey and Gate Theaters of Ireland.Stoma Named Maroon Editor; 4 Staff Appointments Made It's A Woman's World, Sometimes! Shirley Stoma, journalism junior, was appointed Executive Editor of The Loyola Maroon for the spring semester, according to Edwin P. Fricke, Maroon moderator. Stoma is the third coed in the University's history to head The Maroon staff as Executive Editor. During the fall semester she served with John Nicosia as co-editor. Nicosia, who would have been appointed co-editor with Stoma for this coming semester, resigned his post because of schedule difficulties. He re- iC%f\i c W mains, however, as a feature writ- 30 TOT NICOSIQ er and as University correspondent for the Times-Picayune. Jane Suhor, journalism senior, was appointed Managing Editor. She is a former co-editor of The Maroon. Other appointment* are: Joan Gaulene, journaliim sophomore, as News Editor; Jean Steib, journalism junior, as Feature Editor; and George Rhode, journalism freshman, as Sports Editor. Rhode's appointment wa* announced *everal week* ago. Tereeita Williams succeeds Teresita Lopez as Society columnist. The business staff remains the .same with Raphael Eiffert as Business Manager. Others retaining their posts are Marilyn Johnson as Advertising Manager and George Rojas as Circulation Manager.Fricke said that this is the first time in the University's history that coeds are filling the four top positions on The Maroon staff. Stoma won a gold key last year for outstanding work on the staff and has been one of the top journalism students for the past two and a half years. Gaulene is a former Feature Editor and columnist. Steib is a transfer student for LSU and served as a reporter during the fall semester. Williams is a former Desk Editor of The Maroon and is currently serving as editor of the Wolf yearbook. THREE COED STAFF EDITORS get together with next semester's executive editor, SHIRLEY STOMA. Standing are JEAN STEIB, feature editor, JANE SUHOR, managing editor, and JOAN GAULENE, new* editor. This marks tbe third time a coed is in the editor's position, and the first time four coeds are in the top four positions on the staff. * JOHN NICOSIA 20- Year-Old Desk Drawer Reveals Historic Past In Maroon Office By JEAN STEIB There's a desk that's been standing in The Maroon office for some 20 years. It's an ordinary, old and brown thing. But it's got a past. In fact, its past is right in the middle drawer. Take a good look and you'll see the signatures of Maroon editors dating back to 1934. Student editor Mark Daniel Hor'ne (our own Doc Home of the English Department) started things off by signing his name in the desk drawer way back in '34. Little did he realize when he signed his name that he would start a custom that has lasted these 20 years since and—who continue ad infinitum. (The Maroon must go on, you know.) When cornered in the midst of correcting final exams Dr. Home took time out, reminisced a bit, and said that the Maroon of '34 was quite a bit different from the one you're now reading. The circulation then was around 1,000. He changed it to a tabloid although he encountered quite a bit of opposition in so doing. "We had personal columns from each college," Dr. Home said.' "They were unsigned and IF DESKS COULD TALK . . . The itory behind the old desk drawer in The Maroon business office U revealed as JEAN STEIB, reporter, gets the facts. JOHN NICOSIA, co-editor, follows a tradition as he adds his signature to the long list of editors which we think began in 1933. 3 New Officers Named To APO Pete Cavallo, William La Salle, and James Bordelon are the newly elected officers of Alpha Pi Omicron service fraternity, Richard Colson, president, announced. Cavallo, BA sophomore was named vice-president; La Salle, A&S junior, secretary; and Bordelon, A&S sophomore, treasurer. Colson added that the fraternity's next project will be to assist at the Loyola Forum January 29 and 31. 'Journalism Day' Here Next Saturday Some 200 high school journalists will attend the third annual "High School Journalism Day" Saturday, February 5. The Rev. John A. Toomey, S.J., chairman of the department of journalism, will open the program at 10 a.m. with a talk on "What the Loyola Journalism Department Has To Offer High School Students." Principal speaker for the event is Warren C. Ogden of the Time»- Picayune, editor of the Dixie Roto Magazine. He will address the high schoolers on "The Newspaper's Biggest Change in Our Generation."Other features in the day-long event will be speakers from the allied fields of journalism. They include Loyola alumnus John W. Parham of the Time»-Picayune, speaking on advertising; Loyola alumnus Tom Fox, director of NORD public relations; Dindy Whiting of WWL, promotion and press affairs; and Mel Leavitt of WDSU-TV, radio and television. A question and answer session will follow the four speakers. Speaking on the two University publications will be John Nicosia, co-editor of The Maroon, and Teresita Williams, editor of The Wolf. The Maroon will present a skit at 11:45 a.m. on "Satire on How to Conduct a Class in Journalism." Cast in the skit are Jane Suhor, Joan Gaulene, George Rhode, Jean Steib, Carol Olivier, Kathleen Dowling, Mike O'Connor, Soph Cotillion Set Tuesday The annual "Sophomore Cotillion" is dated for Tuesday at O'Dwyer'i on Jefferson Highway from 9 p.m. till 1 a.m. Janet Perrault, med tech freshman, will be formally presented as the 1955 Freshman "Sweetheart," according to Lou Cressionie, president of the Freshman Council. The Campus Capers orchestra will play at the Cotillion. Admission is $2 per couple or stag. No corsages will be allowed at the dance, Cressionie added. ROTC To Sponsor Pack-Marquette Tilt The ROTC regiment will sponsor the Loyola-Marquette basketball game tonight starting with a pep-rally bonfire in front of the ROTC building, Lt. Col. Luther R. Barth, PMS&T,' announced. Students and all Loyola followers are invited to attend the pep-rally which will begin at 7:30 p.m. Following the rally the band and ROTC regiment will march to the Loyola gym, where they will view the game in a body. During the halftime, precision drill ceremonies will be executed by the ROTC Pershing Rifle drill platoon. The platoon is commanded by cadet George Prilot, 111. (See JOURNALISM, page 4) (See DESK, page 4)