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              The Loyola Maroon Vol. XXXIII Loyola University, New Orleans, La., September 30, 1955 No. 1 'Antigone' First For Thespians Joel L a r k i n, chemistry sophomore, will appear in the title role of "Antigone," the first Thespian production of the season. "Antigone," the last in the Oedipus trilogy by Sophocles, will run Oct. 25-29 in Marquette Auditorium.This play marks the third Greek production presented by the Loyola Thespians. During the 1962-53 school term, the group produced its first Greek play, "Oedipus Rex," which was proclaimed by Item critic Ewing Poteet as "the most stirring, the most powerful and the most polished theatrical presentation we have seen in New Orleans." Last year, the group attempted its second Greek production, "Medea." Poteet had this to say: "this Thespian 'Medea' makes extraordinary theatre, something far out of the ordinary run. It deserves— more, you owe it to yourself that it have—packed houses at the other performances." "Antigone" i* the itory of a conflict between the natural law and the law of the State. The latter iD exemplified by Creon and his decree, while Antigone maintains that the natural law supercede* the law of man. Others in the cast are: Myra Monahan, Richard Redmann, Reginald Hendry, George Hoag, John Bourgeois, Jim Arceneaux, Teresita Lopez, Anna Copponex, Gloria deßram, Fran Armstrong, Albert Monlezun, and George Piazza. Leo C. Zinser, Thespian director, will be assisted by Kate Scully. The next regular monthly meeting of the organization is scheduled for Monday night at 7:30 in Marquette Auditorium. Officers for 1955-56 include: Copponex, president; Hoag, vicepresident; Scully, secretary; Bill Longfellow, treasurer; Matt Schott, parliamentarian; and Corinne Gately, librarian-historian. D • Chaplain Posts Retreat Dates For Students Retreat dates for the school term 1955-56 were announced by the Rev. Harold L. Cooper, S.J., University chaplain. They are: Sept. 30-Oct. 2, Oct. 7-Oct. 9, Oct. 14-Oct. 16, Oct. 21- Oct. 23, Oct. 28-Oct. 30, Nov. 4- Nov. 6, Nov. 11-Nov. 13, Dec. 2- Dec. 4, Dec. 9-Dec. 11, Jan. 6- Jan. 8, Jan. 13-Jan. 15, Jan. 26- Jan. 29. "Each Catholic student in the University is required to make a retreat," Father Cooper said. Retreats will be held on the indicated week-ends on the campus, but those who wish to make a closed retreat may do so. Closed retreats for men will be held at Manresa, Jan. 12-15, and Grand Coteau, March 1-4. Closed retreat dates for the ladies are scheduled for Lafayette, Dec. 9-11, and at the Sacred Heart Convent for alumnae only, March 2-4. Manresa can accommodate 55 students comfortably. Grand Coteau and Lafayette can handle 45 students. Manresa asks that each student make an offering of $10 to help cover overhead expenses. The retreat houses ask that you contribute whatever you are able. Lists with the names of students under the date on which they are to make their retreat will be posted on the bulletin board just outside the barbershop. The campus retreats will begin with the freshman men in A&S, BBA and pre-pharmacy going down the list alphabetically. If you wish to make a retreat on a specific date, and your name has not appeared on the list, report to the Student Lounge on the Friday night on which that retreat begins. If you prefer to make a closed retreat contact Father Cooper in his office in Marquette Hall. The campus retreats run as follows. Students are to report to the Student Lounge at 6:30 p.m. on Friday for a short talk by the retreat director or captain followed by Benediction at 7 p.m. in Thomas Hall Chapel. Saturday and Sunday mornings students are to report again to the Student Lounge for roll call at 7:40 p.m. Mass is at 8 a.m. There will be four talks each day at 9:15 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 3:30 p.m. Each day is closed with Benediction.The retreat instructor will be available for confessions and private interviews at free hours during the day. If a student misses the retreat for which his name is listed his name will be added to the list for the following week-end. If the student does not attend that retreat his name will go into a pool for a general retreat. If this retreat is also missed without sufficient excuse his name will be turned in to the Dean of Students. Pick Up Your '55 Yearbook Those students who have not yet e received their 1955 yearbooks are asked to pick them up at The Wolf office as soon as possible. The office is located in the new journalism building, the former Rec Room, behind Biever Hall. A business meeting of The Wolf will be called soon, datt and time to be announced, Vinca Carevich, 1956 Wolf editor, said. The purpose of the meeting will be to organise the staff so that work on the 'Sβ Wolf may begin. Anyone interested in joining the staff is invited to attend. At this meeting, the associate editor, managing editor, and business manager will be announced. Pictures for The Wolf will be taken soon after the social fraternities have pledged their members. Watch The Maroon for announcement of the dates. NFCCS Meets Sat. The National Federation of Catholic College Students will hold its first regional meeting of the season tomorrow, at Dominican College from 7:30 to 9 p.m. NFCCS delegates, campus and regional chairmen and observers are expected to attend. Council Plans Mock Election For Governor Invitations to address the University student body during the current semester have been tendered Louisiana's four gubernatorial candidates, Thomas Walshe, Jr., Student Council president, revealed this week. Candidates and prospective speakers, are New Orleans' Mayor deLess'eps Morrison; Earl K. Long, former La. governor; James Mc- Lemore, Alexandria cattleman; and Francis C. Grevemberg, head of the Louisiana State Police. The dates of the talks have not been decided, but will definitely fall before the Christmas holidays, Walshe said. They will be held in the Quadrangle. According to the student body president, the talks are being sponsored in an effort to "stimulate interest in state and local elections." Loyola students will go to the polls in a mock election on the Wednesday prior to actual gubernatorial election date to decide the students' choice to fill the state's chief executive's chair. Voting machines will be used. All students, regardless of age, will be eligible to vote. Med Techs Plan Freshman Party The annual "Welcome Freshmen" party of the Medical Technology Club to acquaint new members with the upperclassmen, will be held Sunday, at 3 p.m. in the Student Lounge. The Rene Descartes Mathematical Society will give instructions in the use of the slide rule. The time and place of these instructions will be announced in the near future. The Michelson Physics Society will meet each Thursday in the physics building at 4 p.m. according to Hillary Deßen, president. ORDER SENIOR RINGS Orders for senior class rings will be taken in the book store  day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. A $5 deposit is required to place the order, the Rev. Anthony C. O'Flynn, S.J., dean of students, announced. Enrollment Reaches 2569 As 594 Frosh Enter Loyola Of Books and Beanies and Freshman Things FROSH JOAN O'BRIEN FROSH BRIAN BRINKER See Story, page 2 Whether It's Chemistry Or Choir, Father Francis Loves To Teach 50 Years A Jesuit After 50 years in the Jesuit Order, the Rev. George A. Francis, S.J., still considers teaching his greatest joy. lither Francis celebrated his 50th anniversary as a ber of the Society of Jesus Tuesday, love being with students and trying to make better and women out of them," the 69-year-old priest said, native of Belgium, Father Francis joined the Society esus on Sept. 27, 1905 and was sent to the United States to begin "the regular rou- I  tine course of study." "It was in 1911 that I got my first impression of New Orleans, when I was sent to the College of the Immaculate Conception on Baronne Street. And a very good impression it was, though there Kore mosquitoes than I was , and the Mississippi River was threatening to swallow us up at any moment," he reminisced. Ordination was still a long way off for the Jesuit. The next few years were spent in study at Springhill College and in St. Louis, Father Francis was ordained a minister of God. But his school days were far from over, for shortly after his ordination he received orders from the Provincial, sending him to Fordham University to obtain his PhD in chemistry. 1923—Father Francis, professor of chemistry, became a member of the Loyola faculty, a position he has maintained for the past 32 years. To avoid monotony in his work, Father Francis took up the hobby of directing the Holy Name of Jesus choir, beginning in 1939. "When you live a long time, monotony forces you to look for variety in your activities. My hobby as choirmaster relieves the tension of monotony," he explained. He added that a choirmaster must know how to interpret music. "When singing before the altar of God, you should put a prayer in your voice. The choirmaster must feel the tempo of the music and communicate it to his choir, if the music is to mean anything." The chemutry professor does not find any difference in teaching the students of today as compared with those in the 1920 V "Human nature hasn't changed," he said. "The mind of a student just coming out of high school is still immature. The student feels it unimportant to study, for he FATHER FRANCIS Singing Priest Opens Forum Oct. 11 The Rev. Sydney MacEwan, Scotch tenor, will appear on the first Forum of the season, the Rev. John A. Toomey, S.J., Forum director, announced. The Forum is scheduled for October 11 at 8:30 p.m. in McMain Auditorium. Praised by such notables as Sir Compton Mackenzie, novelist and music critic, as "the finest living interpreter of Celtic music," the singing priest has appeared in concerts in the British Isles, Australia, New Zealand and America. Father MacEwan began his musical career aD a boy winning contents in Scotch seaside resorts, wu encouraged by Mackenxie and others, went on to a successful concert and recording career. In 1938, the 29-year-old singer announced his intention to study for the priesthood. He was ordained in Glasgow. In 1947, a request by a priest of the Cork diocese, brought the tenor back to music for a fund raising concert. Since then, concerts for churches have taken him to Australia and other countries. Between concerts, Father MacEwan is pastor of the tiny church of Lochgilpead where his earnings have furnished an altar, stations and floors of terrazzo marble. Born in Glasgow in 1909, the son of a Scottish commercial traveler, Father MaeEwan was raised by his widowed mother who now keeps house for him in Lochgilpead.The family was always musically inclined and both his father and brother were amateur pianists. The Scot tenor first tried his musical hand with the violin. His first public appearance was at the age of 10 when he was taken to a seaside resort in Argyll and entered in a singing competition.After graduation from the Jesuit college at Garnet Hill, Glasgow, he took a master of arts degree at the University of Glasgow and became active in many of the university shows. Urged by those at the university to audition for John Me- Cormack, Father MacEwan met two people that were to greatly influence hi* future. Not only did he form a lifelong friendship with McCortnick aD a result, but he alto met at their home a young priest by the name of Father Fulton J. Sheen. Winning a scholarship, he studied at the Royal Academy and it was during his student days that he began making' recordings. To date more than a million of his records have been sold under various labels. At the height of his career and while yet the idol of London, Father MacEwan decided the "glitter of the world was a dreadful life" and decided to study for the priesthood.At home in his parish in Lochgilpead, life is quiet but busy. There is only one school in that area and Father takes all the children of the parish for instruction each morning before they go to regular classes. FATHER MacEWAN Four Colleges Get Increase For 1955-56 Those 594 freshmen you've been seeing this week sporting "dinks" and dog tags have brought the University's enrollment figure to 2569. The college of arts and sciences shows the biggest increase as compared with last year's statistics, having swelled its enrollment from 936 to 982, the freshmen accounting for 330 of that number. Close behind A&S is the college of business administration which boasts an increase of 41 students over last year's enrollment. Of the 330 BA students now enrolled, 124 are frosh. Also showing an increase in registration are the graduate division with 109 students (16 more than last year), and the school of law with 153 (12 more). Sixty-eight of the letter's figure are entering their first year of law. Of the 209 student* in the school of dentistry, 54 are freshmen. Six freshmen have entered the college of pharmacy, bringing its total figure to 73. The college of music's enrollment numbers 54, 12 of which are freshmen. Enrollment in the evening division numbers 659. Orientation for the freshmen was conducted September 8-14. In addition to taking placement tests and registering, the freshmen were addressed by several deans and department heads of the University. Representatives from campus organizations gave brief talks on the history of their respective groups. Lambda Sigma Lambda and Alpha Pi Omicron, service groups, took the freshmen on a tour of the campus, after which Cardinal Key, national honor sorority, entertained the coeds at a party in the Student Lounge. Add Staffers To ROTC Unit Loyola's ROTC unit has added a new officer and a sergeant to replace staff members transferred after the spring semester, and is expecting another officer shortly, Lt. Col. Luther C. Barth, PMS&T, announced. Capt. Thomas C. Oberst replaces Major Robert C. Goggans, now transferred to the Provost Marshall School at Camp Gordon, Georgia. Capt. Oberst, a 1949 West Point graduate, has served previously in the Canal Zone and at Fort Knox, where he was in an advanced class in the Armored Division.The other officer to be added will replace Major Robert J. Kriwanek, also at Camp Gordon. The sergeant appointee, SFC. Joseph H. Geraci of New Orleans, is a graduate of Peters High here. Entering the Army in 1947, he has served with the Counter-intelligence Corps at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, at Guam, at Ft. Riley, Kansas, and Korea. He attended Korean Linguist School in Monterey, California, and spent his time in Korea as an interpreter. Immediately before coming to Loyola, he was stationed at Ft. Hood, Tex. Loyola's unit, converted last year from the. Military Police Corps to Branch General, has completed its first year of the Military Science and Tactics Course. Col. Barth expressed satisfaction with last year's progress, and hopes for an even better showing this year. Loyola now has officers representing all Army combat branches in keeping with the Branch General program designed to equip the graduates for duty in any combat arm or service element of the Army. (See FR. FRANCIS, page 2)