Loyola University - Wolf Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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CADETS COP AWARDS Loyola ' s Army ROTC unit ended another successful year with its presentation of awards and commissioning exercises in May. Nineteen awards were presented to a total of 32 cadets May 10 on the parade grounds. The top award went to Cadet Major Lawrence L. McNamara, who received the Pres- ident ' s award as the graduating senior maintaining the highest military science scholastic average. The Dean ' s award to the graduating senior with the highest average who had best contributed to the university events went to Cadet Captain Charles J. Hanemann, Jr., commander of the Pershing Rifles. Commissioning exercises for those students who had suc- cessfully completed four years of ROTC were held on the morning of graduation, May 25, in the Fieldhouse. Forty- two cadets accepted commissions as second lieutenants, and eight more were scheduled to receive commissions by the end of the summer. The Dean ' s award is presented by the Rev. Edward A. Doyle, S.J., of the college of arts and sciences, to Cadet Major Charles ' Skippy ' Hane- mann, graduating senior. The President ' s award is presented by the Very Rev. W. Patrick Donnelly, S.J., university president, to Lawrence L. McNamara, graduating senior. The PRs celebrate their sixth victory as winners of both the Sixth Regimental Pershing Rifle drill meet and the postal rifle match. The Professor of Military Science and Tactics awards to the two best-drilled cadets were presented to James K. Lagarde, center, for the Pershing Rifles division, and to Albert McSweeney, right, for the lettered company and band division, by Lf. Col. Marion 8. Noland, PMS T.

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RELIGION vs. POLITICS Politics has taken the place of religion as the dominant topic of thought and conversation in the world today, the Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen explained in his 16th annual lecture on the Loyola Forum. Speaking to a crowd of over 2000 persons in the Field- house the night after graduation, Bishop Sheen went on to say that most people fail to realize the tremendously beneficial role religion can play in international politics. He said that just as Christ sent out apostles trained in holiness, to convert the Roman Empire, so must we, as Catholics, help spread our faith in a world stumbling under the burden of conflicting political ideologies. The main obstacles which religion can help mankind overcome are colonialism, poverty and materialism. Bishop Sheen said. A face not easily forgotten. The Most Rev. Fulton J. Sheen An audience of over 2000 persons, several of whom have at- tended all of the bishop ' s lectures on the Forum since the first, September 25, 1944, came to hear this year ' s talk.

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Even the alligators were thirsty at the 2nd annual Theta Phi Alpha Swamp Stomp, Saturday night, April 23, in the Fleldhouse. The swampy affair attracted a large number of students. AROUND THE CAMPUS DURING THE SPRING The spring luncheon and installation of officers of the Philaristai, mother ' s club, was held at the New Orleans Country Club. Mrs. Frans J. Labranche succeeded her- self as president of the group. Looks as if the Rev. Robert L. Boggs, S.J. is in his glory as he takes down signs in the college of arts and sciences after the student council elections. He is ably assisted by Henry Asher. The journalism department ' s Publications Banquet saw the distribution of the first 1960 Wolfs to officials of the university and members of the department.