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              The Loyola Maroon VOL. XXXIII Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Friday, March 9, 1956 No. 17 Brass Ensemble In Concert The Loyola Concert Series will present the University Brass Ensemble in its eighth program of the 1955-56 season Monday, at 8:15 p.m. in Marquette Auditorium. The evening's feature will be the premiere of Three Pieces for Brass Choir, an original composition written by Curtis Rome, principal trombonist in the Loyola Concert I Band. Soloists on the program include: Carl Hellmers, trumpet; Robert Morgan, baritone horn; John Bourgeois, French horn, Curtis Rome, trombone, and accompanist Wanda Laris, piano. The program includes: Trumpet Voluntary by Henry Purcell- Corley; Pa van and Almand from Music for King Charles II by Matthew Locke; Honie-Suckle and Night Watch by Anthony Holborne; the Finale from Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss; the second movement from Concerto Grosso No. XI by Arcangelo Corelli-King; Tragic March for brass and percussion by Paul Beckhelm; Three Pieces for Brass Choir by Curtis Rome; the first movement from Sonata No. V by Johann Galliard; Prelude and Fugue from Concerto Grotso for Arcady Dubensky; Sonata in A three trombones and tuba by Major by Domenico Scarlatti, and seven conversation pieces by Robert King. The ensemble will be directed by George Jansen. Admission is free and the public is invited, Guy Bernard, concert series manager, announced. Included in the ensemble are: trumpets: Carl Hellmers, Euclid Hart, Carl Meyer, Vincent Trauth, Kirby Honnettc; trQmbonei 1 Louis Pendarvis, Curtis Rome, Betty Johnston, Sylvia Deschamps ; horns: John llourfreois, Jerome Reso, Carol Wendell, Ronald Schneider; baritone : Robert Morgan and Curtis Rome: tuba: Clark Griffin: timpany: Robert Olivier; percussion: Charles Suhor and Cecil* Riehinse; and accompanist Wanda Laris. PARTICIPATING IN the Brass Ensemble concert are, from left to right, soloists JOHN BOURGOIS, French horn; BOBBY MORGAN, baritone horn; accompanist WANDA LARIS, piano; and CURTIS ROME, trombone. An original composition by Rome will be one of the features of the concert, which will take place Monday at 8:15 p.m. in Marquette Auditorium. _ "TEACHER" PAT FINNEY (See «tory, page 2) Frosh Reach Moot Court's Semi-Finals Winners in the opening rounds of freshman Moot Court were the teams of: Charles Gaudin and Orlando Bendana, Tom Rayer and Walter Escarra, Al Boudreaux and Charles Cassidy, all petitioners; and Tom Woods and Gerry Choppin, respondents, Nicholas Gagliano, chairman of the competition, announced* Tuesday's first section of the ivent, sponsored by St. Thomas More Law Club, got under way at 2 p.m. and lasted until after 5 p.m. with the future attorneys presenting their arguments pro and con liefore student judges consisting CDf law juniors and seniors. The mock case argued before the simulated United States Supreme Court was that of Acadia College vs. the State of Claiborne. The dispute arose over an alleged violation by Acadia College of a Claiborne statute which prohibits and abolishes all Schmidt Merits $750 Award From Oil Firm Edmund Schmidt, business administration junior, merited the newly established $750 award in the college, according to Dean Henry J. Engler, Jr. The award will be presented annually, by the California Oil Company through the college of business administration beginning September of 1956. Schmidt will be the first recipient of the award, the official presentation of which will be made on Business Administration Recognition Day sometime near the end of next month, Dean Engler said. He added that $500 of the amount will be used for tuition, and the remaining $250 will be given to the student. Schmidt merited the award for being outstanding in leadership, character, personality and scholastic achievement in the college, Dean Engler said. The award is one of several grants given to colleges and universities by the California Oil Company. Loyola To Operate Hurricane Station By LEO McLEAN A hurricane research station will be in full-scale operation at Loyola University next fall, an internationally known hurricane and typhoon expert said here this week. The Rev. Ernest Gherzi, S.J., veteran of over 35 years of experience in typhoon and hurricane predictions in the Far East, paid a return visit to Loyola last week-end after launching initial preparations here in mid-October. The new station will operate in conjunction with a similar station at the Jesuit col-(-  lege of Jean de Brebeuf in Montreal, Canada, and is expected to prove valuable in forecasting hurricanes in the Gulf and Mid-Atlantic regions. He U in New Orleans after attending an international hurricane seminar in Cuidad Tru} jillo, capital city of the Dominican Republic, under assistance by the United Nations technical assistance department. The meeting, first of its kind in the Western hemisphere, was attended by meteorological experts from 20 nations to communicate their various experiences with the hurricane problem. According to the Italian-born priest, the convention showed a serious deficiency in systems of communicating hurricane information to interested areas. He said that a United States Weather Bureau system to go into effect during the next hurricane season would I alleviate this situation. Father Gherzi, speaking with a heavy accent, preferred to talk of his studies of the social condition! of the Dominican Republic rather than labor on the technical aspects of his meteorological work. He lamented the common conception that Trujillo was an absolute dictator, and pointed to press- jssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssa freedom, highway improvement, and other advancements there to prove his point. , The advent of Protestant missionaries has, according to Father Gherzi, proved a disturbing influence on the predominately Catholic populace not because of their presence, but because their exterior "manifestations can be erroneously taken by the undeveloped population as those of the * Catholic Church." Father Gherzi !D supervising the erection of the two North American observatories to prove a theory which ha* been successful in hit Far Eastern work. He wishes "to add consideration of the electro-magnet factors to the thermo dynamic factors in the study of the earth's atmosphere."His work in China ended in 1949 when the Communists gained control of China. He believes his observatory there is now in use by the Chinese Red Air Force as a radio station. Father Gherzi was director of the Zikawei Observatory in Shanghai, China, for over 30 years and by his own estimate predicted over 200 hurricanes in the immediate area and over 1000 in the Pacific area. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, of which many members are Nobel Prize Winners; and prior to World War II was a member of five international scientific commissions. The Jesuit meteorologist is extremely spry for his age, having been born in San Remo, Italy in 1886. He joined the Society of Jesus to go as a missionary to China in 1903. Fast, Abstinence Cards Available Lenten fast and abstinence cards will be placed in front of the barber shop, and in the library and the cafeteria for the convenience of the students, according to Tom Walshe, Student Council president. Loyola Receives Mencken Letters f arty-nine informal letters written by the late Henry s Mencken, famed editor of the American Mercury a prolific author in his own right, were presented to Loyola Library last Saturday. The letters were given to Loyola by Miss Lou Wylie to whom they were written in the period between late 1927, when she sold her first poems to the American Mercury and November, 1948, when Mencken suffered a heart attack which impaired his I  Several letters were tent to Wylie, a one time feature writer on The Timet-Picayune, after 1948 by Rosalind Lohrfinck, Mr. Mencken'* secretary. The letters, which will be placed in the rare book room of the library, contain constant encouragement to Wylie in her efforts to find a publisher for her book. Many of the letters are filled with interesting and sometimes explosive remarks on current matters. An example of his "explosive" quality is found in a letter of October, 1941: "My belief is that the only sound ideas in democracy are the following: equality before the law, free speech and limitation of the government. The first has been wrecked by the New Deal and also the third. I believe the second will go out of the window the minute Roosevelt gets his with regard to corruption in politics, "After all, very few Americans are in favor of honest government. The overwhelming majority is hot for anything that promises loot." In speaking of Louisiana politics, he wrote, "New Orleans is discovering what the swarming centers of the North learned long ago. There is nothing so quite expensive or so quite ineffective as a reform administration. It always leaves honest men longing for the return of the guerrillas." The great collection of letters and papers in the Mencken collection are to be given to the New York Public Library and sealed for 25 years, Mr. Mencken's secretary informed Wylie. In 1941 the Princeton University library borrowed and microfilmed some 8,000 Mencken letters, including several which are now among those turned over to Loyola. REVIEWING THE LETTERS of the late Henry Louit Mencken, famed editor of the American Mercury and author, are the REV. JOHN A. TOOMEY, S.J., left, chairman of the department of journalism, and JAMES W. DYSON, head librarian. The collection of letters were presented to the Loyola library last Saturday. Jesuit Grads To Fete Ignatian Year Sunday Mass, Breakfast Set For Jesuit High School The simultaneous nation-wide observance of the Ignatian Year by all who have ever attended Jesuit schools will consist of a Mass and Communion celebration followed by a breakfast in localities throughout the country. I In New Orleans, alumni from the surrounding area will attend such' observances at Jesuit High School at 8:30 a.m. The Moil Rev. Joseph Francis Rummel. Archbishop of New Orleans, will preside and deliver the sermon at the Mass. The Rev. Harry L. Crane, S.J., president of Jesuit High, will be the celebrant. The Rev. W. Patrick Donnelly, S.J., University president, will deliver the principal address at the breakfast. Loyola alumni have scheduled such observances in Arkansas, New Mexico, Mississippi, and Texas, as well as in Louisiana. Louisiana observances include: Baton Rouge, St. Joseph's Church, 8 a.m., breakfast in Catholic High Gymnasium; Lafayette, St. John's Cathedral, 8 a.m. breakfast in "Da Wabbit Cafe"; Lake Charles, Immaculate Conception Church, 7:15 a.m., breakfast in the Majestic Hotel; and Shreveport, St. John's Church, 8:15 a.m., breakfast in the Captain Shreve Hotel. The Most Rev. Charles P. Greco, Bishop of the Diocese of Alexandria, will celebrate the Shreveport Mass and the Rev. Robert E. Walet, S.J., president of St. John's High, will deliver the sermon. The Rev. Rodney J. Kissinger, S.J., assistant principal at Jesuit High in Dallas and a Loyola alumnus, will be guest speaker at the breakfast. Chairmen for the Louisiana observances are: New Orleans, Warren Mouledoux; Shreveport, Henry A. Pardo and Barney Ghio; Baton Rouge, William H. Gallman, Jr.; .afayette, Fred Mouton; and Lake Charles, Dr. W. J. Brulet. Other officials in the New Oreans celebration are: Alfred M. rarrell, Mass arrangements; CekM. Lashley, national vicelan of the celebration. New Moderator EVANGELINE MOLERO, assistant dean of students, was recently elected moderator of Cardinal Key, national honor sorority, succeeding Mary Lou Suhor who resigned. Miss Molero, while attending Loyola, was a member of Cardinal Key and is presently active in the alumnae chapter. Library Book Display Honors St. Ignatius In observance of the Quadricentennial Anniversary of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order, a display is being featured throughout this week in the library.Books on the life of St. Ignatius, pamphlets, pictures, maps, articles and related topics are exhibited.(See MOOT COURT, page I) (See MENCKEN, page 6) Attend Student-Faculty Game Tonite Remember Brass Ensemble Concert Monday Nite