Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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 Above: Senior class officers Charlotte Belmont, vice-president; James Fendrich, president; Marilyn Peterson Larkin, secretary-treasurer. To the graduating senior, springtime in its extravagant, impatient passage seems to brush the very buildings of a campus with a sudden sacredness as all the years converge to that mixed-emotion close we call in paradox Commencement. On Friday, on the third of June the graduating class stepped across the multi-gowned stage into the insurgent decade of the 60 s and heard with new responsibility the featured speaker, Mr. Richard E. Berlin, Chairman of the Board of the Hearst Corporation. Mr. Berlin received an honorary doctorate, as did Sister Mary Emil, I.H.M., Executive Secretary and first National Chairman of the Sister Formation Conference for her work with that program. His Eminence Richard Cardinal Cushing, Baccalaureate speaker, was awarded the honorary degree at a special banquet on May 27. Top: Irene Dunne, featured speaker, addresses the 1959 graduating class.

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Ronald A. Peterson, LL.B. Director of Admissions Rev. Robert J. Rebhahn, S.J., M.A. Dean of Students lone Redford, A.B., M.l. Circulation Librarian Agnes E. Reilly, M.A. Dean of Women Rev. Louis A. Sauvain, S.J. M.A., S.T.B. Assistant Professor of Theology and University Chaplain Eunice Spencer, A.B. Catalog Librarian John R. Talevich, M.A. Instructor in Journolism and Director of Information Services Francis White Commerce and Finance Librarian R. Donovan Willis, B.A. Director of Alumni and Placement SUMMIT CONFERENCE Three generations of presidents compare notes: The Very Rev. A. A. Lemieux, S.J., President of Seattle University; the Rev. Francis E. Corkery, S.J., President from 1936 to 1945; and the Rev. Harold O. Small, S.J., who served from 1945 to 1948.

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The Rev. Thomas L. O'Brien, S.J., talks with Gary Haggard during one of the private conferences which are an integral part of the seminar program. FATHER O BRIEN S SEMINAR. Seated: Mary Kay Prentice, Gary Haggard. Standing: Mike Albrecht, Mary Vitzthum, Joe Toutonghi, JoAnn Deymonaz, Jim Fendrich, Monty Adair, Lynne Weatherfield, Marilyn Berglund, Larry Donohue, Pat Morrissey. FATHER WELLER'S SEMINAR. Fred Youmans, Ron Gallucci, Maureen Driscoll, Dave Killen, Sr. Eve Marie, F.C.S.P.; Marta Schnuriger, the Rev. William Weller, S.J., Jonas Joneson, Sr. M. Estelle Gilmore, C.S.J.; Pete Olwell, Phil Cronin, Bob Guintoli, Dolores Vidis, Mary Murphy Bigger. program The Humanities Honors Seminar at Seattle University represents a bold experiment in education. It is an experiment with the definite hypothesis that the human intellect can be vitalized toward great ideas only by challenging contact with great ideas. The end of all education is intellectual autonomy, but how is this achieved? The originators of this experiment conceive four conditions to be essential to the growth of independent and creative thought. These four conditions, one, the historical approach, two, to the original sources of humanistic studies, three, in a seminar method, four, by the students' ideological engagement, constitute the cornerstone upon which the Seminar was created. Under the direction of the Rev. Thomas L. O'Brien, S.J. and the assistant direction of the Rev. William M. Weller, S.J., select students mentally travel from the first more homogeneous ideas of the ancient East, historically gaining momentum, toward the more complex contemporary ideas. 16