Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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PAUL HILL RONALD HILL LAWRENCE McKNIGHT JOHN H. MILLER LUDOVIC PERRY Alpha Sigma Nu Alpha Sigma Nu, national Jesuit honor society for men, cosponsored the first annual President’s Scholarship Banquet on November 22 honoring Seattle University’s top academic students. Dr. Dixie Lee Ray, director of the Pacific Science Center, was the guest speaker. With Gamma Pi Epsilon. Alpha Sigma Nu co-sponsored the Voluntary Reading Program, holding five discussions. The honorary initiated 20 new members at a banquet at the Washington Athletic Club. They are Robert Alexander, Gregory Barlow. Mike Beers, James Boitano. Gile Downes. John Ehrenberg, Daniel Farrell, Stephen Haycox, Stephen Hopps, Eugene McGrath, John Miller. John Osterfeld, Lawrence Owens. Adriano Pasion. Ludovic Perry, Ronald Peterson, James Raisio, John Richmond, William Taylor, and Dennis Vercillo. The banquet’s featured speaker was Mr. Albert Mann of the history department. At the senior breakfast held last June in the Olympic Hotel, the honorary presented its annual Gene Fabre Award to Daniel Costello for displaying outstanding qualities of scholarship, loyalty, and service. Sam Sperry, president; Paul Hill, vice president; Larry McKnight secretary: and John Seeley, treasurer, guided the Seattle University chapter throughout the year. Dr. J. Robert Larson was faculty moderator. The Very Rev. A. A. Lemieux. Dixie Lee Ray. head ol the Pacilic Science Center; Mary K. Wood and Sam Sperry, presidents ol Gamma Pi Epsilon and Alpha Sigma Nu. are on hand to pay tribute to S.U. scholars at the Annual Scholarship Banquet sponsored by the honoraries and Silver Scroll. BERNADETTE CARR MARY CONNERS COLLEEN CORWIN ANN CURFMAN MARGARET DAEGES KAETHE ELLIS MARY KIMBLE CECELIA MONTCALM MARGARET RONEY SHARON SCHULTE DIANNE SCHELLIN DIANE WILDE 19

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Fall initiates to (tie national Jesuit honoraries, Steve Hay cox, Margaret Oaeges. Jim Boitano and Mary Kimble, share the remaining copy of the reading program's first selection. The major project of Gamma Pi Epsilon, national Jesuit honor society for women, was the co-sponsorship with Alpha Sigma Nu and Silver Scroll of the first annual President’s Scholarship Banquet held during fall quarter. Gamma Pi Epsilon also co-sponsored with Alpha Sigma Nu the Student Voluntary Reading Program. At Homecoming time, a tea was given for alumnae members. The society’s purpose is to honor those women students who have distinguished themselves in scholarship, loyalty, and sendee to their college or university. The eighteen pledges for the 1964-65 school year initiated in January are Kathleen Baginski, Janet Baker, Roberta Barsotti, Catherine Butler, Bernadette Carr. Colleen Corwin. Susan Denman, Kaethe Ellis, Mary Fiorentino, Sheila Fisher, Laurie Hendrick, Alice Helldoerfer, Mary K. Hickey, Anne Kelly, Mary Beth Kuder, Dianne Schellin. Sharon Schulte and Marcia Waldron. The moderator was Dr. Mary B. Turner. Officers were: Mary K. Wood, president; Margaret Roney, vice president; Margaret Daeges, recording secretary; Mary Kimble, corresponding secretary; and Mary Ann Kertes, treasurer. Gamma Pi Epsilon CATHERINE BUTLER KATHLEEN BAGINSKI MARY FIORENTINO SHEILA FISHER ALICE HELLDOERFER UtURIE HEORICK MARY ANNE KERTES 18

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The Core Curriculum committee members representing the various departments within the College of Arts and Sciences are Or. J. Robert Larson, head of the sociology department; Rev. Robert Bradley, S.J., head of the history department; Dr. David Downes, head of the English department; Rev. Armand Nigro, assistant professor of philosophy: Rev. Edmund Morton, S.J., acting head of the philosophy department; Rev. Webster Patterson, S.J., head of the theology department; Rev. Ernest Bertin, S.J., head of the chemistry department; Rev. John Fittercr, S.J.. dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Dr. John Toutonghi, assistant professor of physics. New Core to Be Initiated in Fall of '65 A faculty core curriculum committee was established in October 1963 for the purpose of re-evaluating the University’s core curriculum. After a year of deliberation the committee presented the Academic Council with a dynamic new concept in education which will be executed Fall Quarter 1965. The new core will emphasize integration of knowledge, quality teaching and greater student participation in the learning process. It will consist of 80-84 hours and will lx required of all students attending the University. Under the new program, degree requirements will lx? reduced to 180 hours for most students. Philosophy will combine historical, comparative and systematic approaches. Theology will take its place among the other liberal arts courses. The English sequence will enable the student to read critically and write intelligibly. History will serve as an integrating agent for all core courses. All students will be required to take two of three science sequences. ROTO will lx voluntary under the new core and the department in which the student majors will determine any additional requirements. The committee consisted of Fr. Ernest Bertin, S.J., head of the chemistry department and chairman of the committee; Dr. Robert I.arson, head of the sociology department: Dr. David Downes, head of the English department; Fr. Robert Bradley, S.J., head of the history department; Fr. Armand Nigro, S.J., assistant professor of philosophy; Fr. Webster Patterson, S.J., head of the theology department; Fr. Robert Saenz, S.J., acting head of the language department, and Dr. John Toutonghi, assistant professor of physics. Fr. John Fittercr. S.J., then dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and now University president, replaced Fr. Ernest Bertin, S.J., as chairman of the committee in January 1964. 20