St Josephs College - Phase Yearbook (Rensselaer, IN)

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.3 .1 , Gaspar Hall Seifert Hall, with Power Plant in Background A EA UELEEE Father Aloys Dirksen succeeded Father Cyril Knue as president in the fall of 1938. Work was nearing completion late in 1939 on Seifert Hall, named for Father August Seifert, the college's pioneer president. Came last spring and ground was broken for Noll and Xavier Halls, together with the Fieldhouse, which is being sponsored by alumni donations. Less conspicuous, a new kitchen furnished a fourth item, all of which were dedicated in this spring of 1941. Nor was the sputter of cement mixers unrivaled by other changes. In the fall of 1937 the old C0.l1Ugidl1 was discontinued, its place being taken by MUHSlll'C, a literary journal, and Sfujff, the campus weekly newspaper. Edward Fischer, alumnus of St. Joe, took up the work of the college news bureau, journalism classes, and the reorganiza- tion of the alumni, crystallized in the publication of C0lIftZC'f, the new grad newspaper. Social life came to Collegeville in this decade. The first formal Monogram Prom occurred in May, 1937. The first Homecoming dance was an event of the fall of 1939. Early in 1940 was the set- ting for the original Raleigh Club Valentine Ball. Coach DeCooke turned over the destinies of St. Joe athletics to Mr. Joseph Dienhart during the summer of 1938. -4.0 -V' E ,X ,ff s A XX X . ,.., , V Q .,.. , A I z X ,f il l X ff .1 W

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I W' Y' ' 1-. ,J ' fig? QM , , Noll Hall Named for the Bishop of Fort Wayne Drexel Hall-Formerly an Indian Normal School ST. FSIPIFS QC ES Intercollegiate sports had been suspended during the years When the college was a preparatory seminary. The school reverted to its former status in 1931, a year also marked by the arrival of Coach Ray DeCooke, an All-American basketball player from Notre Dame. DeCooke led St. Joseph's back into the realm of college athletics. In 1931 also, the famous Lourdes Grotto in the south grove was erected, almost entirely by student labor. Winter of this year saw more than 100 sports enthusiasts vying for positions on the first Cardinal Varsity basketball squad in six years. Soon after this Work was begun on the present massive stone gates of Collegeville. In all its fifty years, the college must point to ,the month of June, 1935, as the setting for another memorable event in local history. The board of trustees laid plans for the enlarging of the school into a full four-year college of liberal arts and sciences. With this goal of a four-year college in view, Collegeville plunged into a period of building and adjustment that bade Well to out- shadow even the booms of earlier years. Work got under way at once on the new Science Hall addition to the gym building. The completion of this project in 1936 heralded the remodeling of the old Indian School across the highway. Thus arrives Drexel Hall to the modern scene. This home of the upperclassmen is named for Mother Catherine Drexel, whose donation to the American Indian Society made Indian education a reality here from 1887 until 1896.

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w Thus unwinds the scroll of Collegeville, bringing the narrative to the threshold of modern times. These fifty years have been resolved and purposeful. Certainly they have not been in vain, as the St. Joseph's of the Golden Jubilee Year testifies. Fifty years ago there were Hfty-four students answering the roll. The office register of that time shows that five states appeared on the address list. Today, however, the St. J0seph,s student body is composed of three divisions. College men number around 350, which when added to the academy and religious stu- dents, section, swells the total to near 500. These students reside in eighteen separate states-from Maryland to Nebraska and Kansas, from Michigan and Wisconsin to Tennessee. When Father Seifert and his aids welcomed the first detachment of students from Fort Wayne in 1891, there were but two departments of study-commerce and the classics. With the addition of Civil Aeronautics to the curriculum last fall, there are now ten avenues of study. In early years there were seven professors who taught ten subjects. The Jubilee Year opened with a faculty of fifty and 227 available courses. y .-ZZMET? W f MiiQSjSfjf?2Wjfi3i'2, ' sz, ,. . f Y 4. , 4. - sg,-55: 1-x3 ,v haf ' A , V: ' ' A, r' ' T 75' A T I f ' ' A iXi?5g.4ff ,ff ' V 64? Hfngijigwffrs - 'Q r L w Y , ,ll 1 .1953 . K X wf:'?i3?f'fr e i ,f ' si Qs C '- T' C .-s5'z,y,,fa2ja 'J r e 5 .. f K - . .fswffi 2' ' . ' ' 4. ff ' 2 - f' A v 7' ' , ' ,fa-wif ' . an -' . 4 weirfm. . . . 'iv fi , Y Mal 'ff r 'faq ,- A ' as 1' af 'X f 45' ,pf i , h.fg EY'Ui,,j?v,'1l7'..' ' vi ,WV 'L' N 3 gi ff K -' ffl? ' ' .- 1'!i19?'f, L, .133 V f . -' ni , :J 'ii iii' . ganfifa fa,-ga n N V ,. ' . - w efwi ' .- . iftlL i T ' ' arf is s' .s f 1' T .. 'ffa'- V Fr a I if ,f N fl i e,.,1v 4' 'ga :ii .ff gfi 5Nv, . 5 A ' 1.315 ,Z A 1 , f' . . ' ' at 'e f L ffl e ,gf s g, ffff'f12fag,ifQ.,:f e Wg., kv 1 . VV' X N- ' ?g'.'i?'T' . , ' fir. ' ' Y. '- ' ' ' '12l144 ' Q . 1. , , , . ,1. mg 1 . I .,, xr, t r 'yi' , f V 1 V V ' ' 'f' ' ? 'H ---' - 2,555 -gif' e r, ' ' rv' 1231. ' ,A 4. Q H a f ,- Y 1 1. M. 4 1 e :if , a X- i ., if ,.. . W-A . 12 it 7 . '11 ' vw ' 1- ' 'Zi 4-' i 42713 'fa . W R3 M52 fi Q TK 'ifm sf' , '- 5 f 1.0: ff mf' ' X' 9. ff? af gf a,f'z':g,: if ,iff e' 2 Ii ' - ' if Mfr- Vw- ...iff -flflfw-wg. . ig f' . i 1 e -.Q ,: e. W. .1 .4-misfgffzaszaf ' ' ' he s rf- W -1: swf r, . ' as . - ' Q' 'j1?'i'f'ffmrQtf.f 1 1 515 3 4 5 4 X 1 , W1 W V U .I :iw jyxx . k 1 - ., , l, '.H...g'. V . 1' g Af. X cyl.. ' T f - iii-1 f' ZF., f , .. ' J - ff ' -f A 'gi M V Tax, M -se' ,, A ' ug, ' 3: ' 5,52 7 fl, F . I . f J R4 , .W - if r , W Q, af.: ii W- ,ti 3 - . - 2, 4 5 1 .J r fs ' Q..-if 1 '---- 'f'--- ff - ,, f..f- uw, I V ' , -, f ' wc, . f 'st 1 X1 . 'p a'g:f:4.'v:a,-Q 1, Y 1 , a , f '-r f,lww ,,, , 1. ' Maw 'wwf' -.-1 f A -- fl . .. R, V, g 2,942 A H ' lf, y Q fl' ei-,. 1.22-.13-sz Mi f' V: 1 - ,fr N. . - H. W... ' .- iw any 1 if ww .. it -f1 '.. Www ws ,- f, . Q ff W 1 ' ag f' 42, , V ,. -+ ' .1 f' '11 'f'f-:M W 1 .M -W