St Xavier College - Xaverian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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MANION DETERS The Dante Club ARLINGHAUS GLENN RUTHMAN MEYERS Page One Hundred Nineteen McGRATH l'A DDACK

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The Dante Club HE Dante Club is a student organization the purpose of which is to spread the knowledge and appreciation of that greatest of Catholic classics, The Divine Comedy, through the medium of popular lectures. It was founded in 1921, the six hundredth anniversary of Dante Alighieriis death, and during the past five years has lectured before many local fraternal and social groups, colleges, high schools, and parish audiences. The members of the Club during the 1924-1925 season were Joseph H. Meyers, 125, President; Robert A. Ruthman, '25, Business Manager; James P. Glenn, 26; Thomas J. Manion, '26; G. Murray Paddack, 126; Frank A. Arling- haus, '26; Eugene J. Perazzo, '27; Richard T. Deters, ,28 and Edward J. McGrath, 128. This season was probably the most active and successful in the history of the Dante Club. In its course the members delivered their lec- ture at nearly twenty local Catholic institutions, and on April 30 a free public entertainment, sponsored by The Italian Pioneer Society and The Alessandro Manzoni Club of Cincinnati, was presented before a large audience at the Hamilton County Memorial Hall. Two weeks later, on May 13, three members of the Club, Meyers, Ruthman and Perazzo, traveled to Louisville, Ky., and lectured there at Nazareth Academy and before the Louisville Council Knights of Columbus. The proudest boast of the Dante Club is the high scholastic standing of every one of its members. Although these are only nine in number, there are among them the following honor students: six of the ten 1925 Washington Oratorical finalists and the medal-winners for the past two years; five of the six Verkamp Debaters, including the medaI-winner; four Intercollegiate De- baters; Editor of the 1924 Annual and Assistant Editor of The News for 1923; Business Manager of the 1924 Annual and 1923 News; winner of first and sixth place in the Intercollegiate English Contest; winner of third and tenth place in the Intercellegiate Latin Contest; three members of the Student Council; Prefect-elect of the Sodality and President-elect of the Masque Society; former President of the Sophomore Class and former President of the Philo- pedian Society. Page One Hundred Eighteen

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The Masque Society AS'T year a band of histrinnically inclined students of the Liberal Arts De- partment, realizing that a dramatic club constitutes an integral part of college life, formed the Xaverian Masque Society with the approval, and encouragement of the Dean, and members of the Faculty. Hitherto, though theatrical performances had been given, no formal organization for that purpose existed The new society attracted the attention of the students from the start, and it now is one of the most prominent of student activities. The success which the Xaverian Masque Society has so enjoyed is in no little measure due to the co-nperative work of Mr. W. V. Gavigan, Professor of English, and M1: John A. Ryan, SJ. To these men fell the arduous task of transposing green, and eager material into capable and creditable actors. The Society extends to them its sincere thanks and appreciation. Pauv Om- Hundred Twenty