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              The Loyola Maroon Ttie Voice of Loyola since 1923 40 th. Anniversary Vol. XXXIX Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Monday, May 27, 1963 No. 21 '63 Grads To Receive Degrees Distler Speaker at Commencement Some 340 graduates of Loyola's six years and colleges will receive their degrees at commencement exercises tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the fieldhouse. Dr. Theodore A. Distler, executive director of the Association of American Colleges, will deliver the commencement address. A former dean of Lafayette college and president of Franklin and Marshall college, he has been awarded honorary degrees by 27 colleges and universities for distinguished service to education. Dr .Distler is one of three distinguished educators who will receive honorary degrees of doctor of laws at the commencement exercises. Very Rev. A. William Crandell, S.J., president of Spring Hill college in Mobile and Dr. Henry King Stanford, president of the University of Miami will also receive honorary degrees to be conferred by the Rev. Andrew C. Smith, S.J., university president. Dr. Distler, a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., holds three degrees from New York university and served on the faculty of that institution. He also served as director of admissions and student personnel at NYU. Father Crandell assumed the presidency of Spring Hill college in 1959. He has held a number of academic and executive posts in the Southern province of the Jesuit Order. A native of New Orleans and graduate of Gonzaga university, he is a former dean of Loyola, serving in that post from 1942 until 1950 when he was appointed provincial of all Southern Jesuits. During his term as dean, the university library was built and its college of business administration founded. Father Crandell also developed Loyola's war-time trimester curriculum and supervised the education of the huge influx of returning veterans. Dr. Stanford, a graduate and former faculty member of Emory university, University of Denver and New York university, became president of the University of Miami in 1962 after having served as president of Birmingham Southern college since 1957. He has served as director of a technical assistance program to the University of Ankara, Turkey and to the Turkish Ministry of Education, and has visited educational institutions in Russia, the Arab countries and Israel. DR. DISTLER Jack Dardis, Kathy Eberle Honored as Campus Leaders Jack Dardis, BA senior, and Kathryn Eberle, A&S senior, received awards as the outstanding campus leaders at the annual Awards day ceremonies Monday in the fieldhouse. The" Charles H. Bailey award, given to Dardis, is annually awarded by Alpha Delta Gamma to the outstanding male student of BA who has consistently maintained a high scholastic average, has been outstanding in numerous campus organizations, has represented the university elsewhere with honor and has brought credit to the Catholic faith. Honorable mention went to Lawrence L. McNamara, law junior.Kathryn Eberle received the Lambda Sigma Lambda award as the outstanding coed on campus. She was selected on the basis of leadership, initiative, industry, school spirit and personality. Linda Musmeci, law freshman, received the honorable mention. • 65 HONORED The Very Rev. Andrew C. Smith, S.J., president, presented these awards in the ceremonies in which approximately 65 students were honored for leadership, service, and scholarship. The deans of the different schools and colleges presented the awards. The Archbishop Rummel key for the outstanding Catholic male was given to James Doyle, music senior, and honorable mention went to Diarmuiel Nicholson, A&S senior. Doyle also received the ROTC award for outstanding scholarship and learship in military science. The Alumnae Marian award for the outstanding Catholic coed went to Kathryn Eberle, and honorable mention to Carolyn Meyers, A&S senior. Top scholastic honors went to Carl R. Smith, A&S senior, who received the Fater Percy A. Roy Memorial award as the candidate for graduation in the college of arts and sciences who has maintained the highest average for the entire four years. Smith maintained a 3.92 average. Honorable mention went to Judith A. Drane, 3.85, and Kathryn Eberle, 3.83. • PII.IE AWARD The Louis H. Pilie award for Campus Elite... Jack Dardis and Kathy Eberle display the trophies they netted for being tops on the campus in leadership. Dardis received the annual Charles H. Bailey award given to the outstanding BA student by Alpha Delta Gama, social fraternity. Kathy was given the Lambda Sigma Lambda award on the basis of her leadership, initiative, industry, school spirit and personality. Brodrick, Young Head Maroon Fall Editions Katsanis Wolf Editor journHiism seniors* ocr€ nHmcci editors oi xne iviHroon ior the 1963-64 session at the fifth annual Communications Banquet Saturday night at Frank's steak house. Brodrick and Young will edit competing staffs during the fall semester, while San Marco will take over as editor of one of the two staffs during the spring semester. A second editor for the spring will be appointed at the end of the semester. Eugene Katsanis, journalism senior, was appointed editor of the aging editor for the 1963 ye arbook.Other staff appointments include:Staff A—Brodrick, editor; Ronald Virgets, news editor; Bill Murphy, desk editor; Charmaine Currault, feature editor; and Carrol Me Bride, sports editor. Msgr. Frey Talks Today _ 1 Rt. Rev. Msgr. Gerard L. Frey, pastor of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini church, New Orleans, will deliver the address at the annual Baccalaureate Mass of Loyola university today at 5 p.m. in Holy Name of Jesus church. Celebrant of the Mass will be the Rev. E. P. Hecker, S.J., university chaplain. The traditional academic procession will be held prior to the Mass. Members of the university's board of directors, faculty and approximately 340 graduates, attired in caps and gowns, will follow the familiar path around the campus "Horseshoe" before filing into the church. A diocesan consultor, fttagr. Frey is also director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine for the Archdiovese of New Orleans. Since his appointment in 1946, he has expanded existing CCD programs and established many new ones, some of which have attracted nationwide attention.Msgr. Frey is the founding pastor of St. Frances Cabrini parish. During April, 1963, the priest reached two milestones in his life: his silver jubilee as a priest and the dedication of an award-winning, strikingly modern church for his parish. Yearbooks Out Distribution of The Wolf yearbook will begin today at 10 a.m. and continue through 3 p.m. The Wolf distribution continues tomorrow and will go through this week from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily. No books will be presented to the faculty until all students have received their year books. (See AWARDS, page 2) (See EDITORS, page 2)