University of the Incarnate Word - Logos Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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This is an organization to Which the critical realist in the college community would Will that very high and special tribute be accorded. That it has functioned effectively in the praiseworthy mission in which it en- gages is due first to the indefatigable scholar who directs its activities, Dr. Thomas Ragusa. It is true, of course, that the members are indispens- able and that they are plainly emulative of their directoris example. For that they are especially to be commended. Without the example, however, the achievement would, in all likelihood, be less. The members essay to keep abreast With events in the march of time through investigation and report of world affairs. At the bi-monthly meetings important foreign and domestic questions are discussed. In ad- dition to this development, each member gives at least one extensive report a year. To increase the range of activity, the club this year held joint sessions With the International Relations Club of St. Marys University. The names inscribed on this roll of honor for 1939-1940 are Jane Chinner, Dorothylee Freeman, Ellamarie Speier, Gerda Balluder, Carmen Balluder, Margaret Adams, Alice Devine, Ruth Budow, Libby Pines, Mary Ann Dunn, Catherine Strauch, Helene Houssiere, Jean Craig, Maria del Socorro Ruiz, Camille Du Bose, Sybil Stroman, Ruth Dukes, Herlinda Ramirez and Peggy McDonough.

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A national honors society, Phi Sigma Kappa functions primarily to cultivate interest in the physical sciences. The formal activities of I. W. C. chapter of the society, for 1939-1940, were begun with a card party, October 25. In the course of its program of events, delegates from the local body attended the annual convention of the Texas Academy of Science, at Austin, November 9 to 11. During that meeting Aurora Elizondo read a paper entitled nAn Experiment Confirming the Presence of Violanin in Sophora Secundiflora tMountain Lauren and Jane Lowery reported on itExperimental Evidence of the Nature of the Glucosides in the Lupinus Texensis. In honor of thirty pledges the club members gave a tea, December 13, in the Home Economics Building. Subsequent to the mock initiation, January 6, and the formal initiation, January 10, the 901d members were entertained with a supper, February 6, by the newly enrolled. The policy of cooperative enterprise was marked in the meeting of Phi Sigma Kappa with St. Edwardts Academy of Science, January 13. After a tour of the compus on this occasion, a buffet supper was served. Throughout the year lectures were provided, to keep the members instructed in the latest developments in physical science. Speaking to the Texas Division of the American Chemical Society, which met at Incarnate Word College, February 8, 1940, Dr. Roger John Williams described his discovery of Pantothenic Acid in his laboratory at the University of Texas. Doctors Hochte, Lenze, Schoch, and Felsing, were among the distinguished physical scientists who attended this meeting. Notable 0n the program of lectures for the year was that of the Reverend Stanley Kusman, of St. Marys University, a discussion of the various philosophies of matter. Phi Sigma Kappa celebrated the conclusion of the year, informally, with a picnic, May 2, and formally with a dinner dance, May 25. The activities of the society were carried out under the direction of Lynette Goldman, president; Lulu Mims, Vice president; Mary del Socorro Ruiz, secretary; Frances Hynes, treasurer; and Gerda Balluder, reporter.

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The work of the sodality in 1939-1940 has been manifest of a spirit of enlivened enterprise. New projects have been undertaken and sutcess- fully prosecuted, new devices employed to stimulate interest in fafniliar activities. A program of catechetical instruction for under-privileged children has been not the least important of these endeavors. The enthu- siastic interest developing from this work has made possible the opening of several new centers. Besides administering the Sunday instructions, the catechists have provided special holiday feasts, on Christmas and Easter, for their missions. Seventy-five 0f the sodalists, associating themselves, November 25, as Handmaids 0f the Blessed Sacrament, promised therewith to receive Holy Communion at least once a week and to show special devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. To foster and promote the reading of appropriate subject matter, a pamphlet drive was conducted. Further, in cooperation with like groups, the college sodality formed the Catholic Youth Organization unit that is to be known as the College Sodality Union. When it had sponsored a spirit- ual retreat in January, new members were received after the days of prayer. All activities of the sodality are purposed for sanctification of self, sanctification of neighbor, and defense of the Church. The years work has been ably directed by wetrude Martin, prefect, with the assistance of Patsy McGoohan, Vice brefect; Mary Elizabeth White, secretary; and Clare Notzon, treasurer.