Loyola University - Wolf Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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by the Very Rev. Thomas J. Shields, S.J., president from 1945 to 1952. Before this time each school and college had individual libraries, located in their respective buildings. The library houses over 200,000 volumes, plus periodicals. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ,he first professional school especially planned for Loyola was the school of law. The Hon. John St. Paul, A.M.L.L.B., former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and a prominent group of Louisiana lawyers campaigned for the school in 1913. With Judge St. Paul acting as dean, the school offered a three-year course of studies. In order to cooperate with the students the lectures were to be offered in the evening so that they could work during the day to finance tuition and have an opportunity of employment in a local attorney ' s office. The first session began on Oct. 5, 1914 and classes were held in the Pere Marquette building on Baronne. After September of 1915 they were held on the St. Charles Ave. campus. In 1925 a regular day division of the school opened. Classes have been held in the present law building since June 3, 1942. Dr. Phillip Asher was responsible for the present college of pharmacy. Incorporated as the New Orleans College of Pharmacy May 14, 1900, it was located in Dr. Asher ' s home on St. Charles Ave. near Lee Circle. In 1911 it asked to become a part of Loyola and subsequently became affiliated with the university Jan. 16, 1913 when classes were held at 725 Camp St. In 1919 pharmacy moved to its present site on the fourth floor of Bobet hall at which time Loyola assumed all rights and privileges of the old New Orleans College of Pharmacy. The college of music was founded in 1919 by Dr. Ernest E. Schuyten and called the New Orleans Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art. It was situated at Felicity and Coliseum Sts., and later moved to the corner of Jackson Ave. and Carondolet St. ( bartered by the state legislature in 1922, it began to grant de- grees of chancellor of music, master of music and doctor. It was incorporated into the university in 1932 and the following year was moved to its present site, McDonald hall, on St. Charles. In the spring of 1914 a faculty of dentistry was organized. This group consisted of 26 doctors of medicine and dental sur- gery, organized under the leadership of Dr. C. Victor Vignes, first dean. The school was opened on Oct. 6, 1914. It remains today the only dental school in Louisiana and its neighboring states. The dental school conducts clinics on campus which ad- 22

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built to hold a seismograph, a device for detecting and measur- ing earthquakes. The ground was broken in March, 1910. It is one of the two seismographie observatories in the South, the other located at Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala. William Burke con- tributed the building in memory of his son Nicholas D. Burke, who died while attending Loyola in 1909. This and subsequent edifices were built in the Tudor-Gothic architectural motif, con- structed of oriental brick and sandstone. In July of 1910 the foundation for the present Marquette hall was begun and in November the cornerstone of the hall was blessed. Costing more than $400,000 it was ready for the first session in 1913 under the new charter. Also in Julv, 1910 the ground was broken for Thomas hall, named for Mrs. Stanley O. Thomas, university benef actoress, and was dedicated May, 1912. Thomas hall is now used as a rectory for the priests. The present Church of the Most Holv Name of Jesus had its beginnings in 1914 when Miss Katherine McDermott gave the Jesuits $100,000 to build a church in memory of her brother, Mr. Thomas McDermott. After a second donation of $50,000 work was begun. To curtail expenses the Jesuit brothers aided in the work. Completed in 1918 the first occupants were soldiers quar- tered on Loyola ' s campus during World War I. A few months after the Armistice it Avas opened to t he public, and dedicated Dec. 9. 1918 by His Excellency, the Most Rev. John W. Shaw, D.D., then archbishop of New Orleans. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Bobet were among the many benefactors to the school. Mr. Bobet donated $12,000 in 1912 ' for Loyola ' s arts and sciences library. This library was located until 1950 in Marquette hall on the second floor where the present dean ' s of- fice is. He also donated the marble altars in Holy Name, along with Mrs. William P. Burke. Mrs. John Douglas, Mrs. Josephine Burke Palmer and Mrs. George Swarbrick. Mrs. E. J. Bobet gave the 13 bells in Holy Name ' s tower and the carved pulpit which stands in the chancellory. Mr. and Mrs. Bobet were re- sponsible for the building of Bobet hall which opened for classes in 1924. The wooden stadium, used when Loyola had football, was com- pleted in 1918 where the drill field is now. Lights were added in 1937 at a cost of $14,000. The construction of the present library was begun in 1948. It was erected at a cost of $800,000 and dedicated April 2, 1950 21

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minister to 60,000 patients a year and also spon- sors an outpatient dental clinic in Charity Hospi- tal, one of the largest hospitals in the nation. The college of business administration had its beginnings in the department of economies which was founded in 1926 by Dr. John Connor. In time it reached the status of a school and attained the college status in Sept. of 1947 and occupied Stal- lings hall. Loyola ' s evening division has operated since 1924, offering credit and non-credit courses for the student who can not attend the day session, for adults, educators and the business world. WWL radio and television has come to be con- sidered as integral a part of New Orleans as the Vieux Carre. Long known as the voice of South, WWL is owned and operated by Loyola Universi- ty. WWL radio is the successor of an old wire- less code station which was operated under the Rev. A. Kunkel, S.J., in a physics workroom in Marquette hall around 1911 during the days when radio was in its infan cy; actually, the aerial was erected in 1907. In these humble surroundings the first radio station in the Mississippi valley was to emerge. The Rev. Edward Cassidy, S.J., with the assistance of the ra- dio school ' s teachers and workers, built a tiny transmitter, 10 watts in power, which was obtained from a. trunk wireless set removed from a government ship after World War I. The baby radio station made its debut March 31, 1922 when the Very Rev. Edward Cummings, S.J., president of Loyola then, delivered a speech. The embryonic station moved from Marquette hall to Bobet, May, 1928. On March 31, 1921 a 5,000 watt trans- mitter had taken to the air; this and its 500 watt predecessor were constructed almost entirely in a university workshop by the Rev. Orrie L. Abell, S.J. Feeling its growing pains, WWL moved its stations to the Roosevelt hotel in 1932 and in 1935 became a ffiliated with the Columbia Broadcasting Station. WWL radio is now one of the nation ' s 50,000 watt, clear chan- nel stations, the most power a radio station can have. It has been heard all over the world, in such places as Alaska, Israel and the Aleutian Islands. 23