Loyola University - Wolf Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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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

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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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Iii 1957 Loyola received a license from the Fed- eral Communications Commission to operate a television station on channel four in New Orleans. On Sept. 7 of that year, WWL-TV aired its first television program, using the latest type of tech- nical equipment which is located in a modern building in the down-town section. Besides the many national programs and local features, both WWL radio and television broadcast panel discus- sion and sports shows originating directly from the university. STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY 2 ome of the landmark dates, names and build- ings have been cited, but it takes more than these to make a university. It takes students who came to Lovola to be molded, but who in turn, also molded Loyola. Then, as now, the students had a favorite gath- ering place. It was located two blocks above Terp- sichore St. and featured huge nickel draughts. The big social event of the year was the Junior- Senior dance given in the family home of a friend of the college. J. B. Sanarens was president of the 1911 class consisting of 32 members. There was one coed. Miss Lurline Wilson of In- dependence, La. Organized then was the Thespians, oldest organ- ization of Loyola; it was founded at the Immaculate Conception College prior to the establishment of Loyola. Also on campus was the Zeta Zeta chapter of Delta Delta, national dental fra- ernity. If you were entering Loyola in 1918 you would have had the following courses to choose from: collegiate classical course; collegiate scientific, law, dentistry, pharmacy, post graduate medi- cal, wireless telegraphy, business (two years), marine architec- ture, marine drafting and oratory (three years). The roarin ' twenties roared mighty loud at Loyola. The society column of The Maroon, Loyola ' s newspaper founded Nov. 1, 1923, frequently reported which flapper was ga-ga over which sheik. The ideal girl of the raccoon set was a boo-boop-de-doop girl with pouty lips, who would gaze coyly down at the tilt of her little turned up nose and in a voice just dripping with honey say, T don ' t ' ove nobody but ' oo. ' In the early days of the university women attended classes in pro- 24