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Volume XX|—No. 4
MERCYHURST
February 14, 1950
Weber Home Is Delegates Attend
NFCCS Council Mercyhurst Dramatic Society to Stage
Gift to Sisters 4
Mary Alice Hoerbelt, senior dele-
Mercyhurst has just received a gate of the Mercyhurst NFCCS and
Murder in a Nunnery/ Thursday, Feb. 16
most welcome gift in the form of Peggy Jetter, junior delegate, have
theJWeber Mansion, a gray stone received an invitation to attend
building * located at 209 W. ?21st the Regional Congress of the Lake Father Kennedy j Opening night for the Janus Club production, Murder
in a Nunnery, will be Thursday, February 16. The mystery-
Street. If present plans are com- Erie region of the National Federa- Revisits School comedy, adapted from Eric Shephard's book by Emmet
pleted, it will be the new home of tion of Catholic College Students. Lavery is being staged both Thursday and Friday nights at
Mercyhurst Seminary. This move Other interested Mercyhurst stu- the Strong Vincent High School Auditorium. Under the
will give five more classrooms to dents are also invited to this Mercyhurst welcomed to its direction of Miss Helen Kelly, the play has been in rehearsal
the college and thus alleviate the Congress, which will be held on Lecture Program for the third since the beginning of the year. Gannon College students
crowded conditions of the past the Niagara University campus, consecutive year Rev. John S. will assist m the male roles. f 7
few years. March twenty-fourth and twenty- Kennedy, lecturer and writer. On
February 13knd 14, '-Father spoke Murder in a Nunnery centers about the murder of a
The college, however, is not the fifth. I If 1 *
to the students on "The End of Baroness (Barbara Tonry) in an English Convent Boarding
only party to benefit, for the Plans for the National Congress
Human History" and "The Fiction — School. When Scotland Yard, led
Seminary will at last have a build- to be held in Pittsburgh will be Field." Mercyhurst remembers •r} | -p| | by the Inspector General (Andrew
ing of its own. The mansion will be made at this meeting. Guest Father Kennedy for the enlighten- rattier reteVSOn Fabrizi), investigates the case,
remodelled? into a modern school speakers will be present at the ing lecture which he I gave here HT T*\ ***£>*%+ D i- 4- ever n
yo e in the entire school in-
complete from classrooms to gym- morning session on March twenty- last year when he discussed "The -i O UlYCCt t\CtY€Ctt eluding Reverend Mother (Joanne
nasium. The location off the new fifth, and the various committees Heart of the Matter." | B Bellas) is under suspicion. Moth-
Seminary is also advantageous be- of the NFCCS will hold panel dis- 8 The much j discussed Jretreat, j ers Peagle (Dorothy Zak), Peck
cause it is centrally located, easily cussions in the afternoon. In hisjlecture on "The End of
accessible to the city students. A new feature at the 1950 Re- Human History,"|Father Kennedy sponsored annually by the Sodality (Aline Karlak),! Trevor (Claire
considered the present and future of Our Lady, has a note of special Todd), and Bassonwaite (Patricia
The college, indeed, owes a vote gional Congress will be the award- impact |of jthe {secularists' > ideas interestlthis year. It has just been Moran), and Sister Carmela (Anita
of thanks to the Weber family who ing of the John Aloysius Duffy and agitation lonlAmerican life. announced I that I Father I James Santomenna) are members of the
so generously donated the family Memorial Medal to an outstanding He touched upon every day affairs, Peterson jof Gannon College ^ has boarding school faculty. Lay mem-
mansion to the Sisters of Mercy. lay person in the Buffalo diocese, as well as the fields of literature, consented to direct the activities bers! of the administration are
Sister M. Alice, Registrar, and Sis- and in following years it will be the drama, education land med- of Jthe retreat during Ithe fearly Mrs. Moss | (Ann Boyd) and Miss
ter M. Rachel, a teacher in the passed on to the Erie, Rochester, icine, and suggested «what must Geza (Effie Honkala).
part of| Lent. £$|k j S WM> the roles "of students are: Marie Enacting
Home Economics department, are and Syracuse dioceses. and can be done to stop the trend " Father? Peterson j is well known Gray, | as Verity, | Cecilia Wert as
of the Weber family. Mr. Robert J. Lanigan of Niagara toward self-destruction. . f f e f M i to Mercyhurst! Sodalists through Prudence, Joan Murphy as Inez,
The separation of the Seminary University and president of the A general lecture on newly pub- his work in Study Club and Cath- and Arlene Murphy as Turkey. As-
from the| College, however, will be group, has announced that the lished novels is, each year, a olic Action Groups as ^ well as his sisting |the Inspector General in
merely physical, for the spirit is following area colleges and uni- popular feature of Father £ Ken- memorable visits to the college in his seachjjfor the murderer is the
one. The spirit is Mercyhurst. Turn to page 3 nedy's lecture topics. This year he the capacity of guest speaker and Sergeant (Bill Lacey). Richard
discussed "The 3 Fictionf Field," lecturer. A familiar figure at Laird? as the ^reporter, Thomas
analyzing*fthe provocation novels Mercyhurst gatherings, Father-Ms Manning as the Baron, and Les
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work in their respective colleges. heard of her cheerful acceptance of BunchefJNPale$tineMedUaort Inspection Set: New Hospital Is Planned
and j torn from its many battles
the many trials and pains that she Human Relations Speaker Tomorrow for p o r Community!Colgate L
The delegates voted in favor of and campaigns. The foe has come
forward only to be J thrust back. had to endure during seven long m WlBAAIr^.rZZ:
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months, until God ; called I her I to
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layman who had been outstanding And our flag, even in our moments Ttm • 9K ^ . . *•.*_ *t •r*r*r^*r>_*^t*_*i^*rt^i c*ic r*j_._^A_
of failing spirits, s has proudly and Himself on January 22,, 1950 ^ ^ B | <NV . ' . V
in Catholic youth work in his di- Yes. we feel that there is now an-
ccese. The medal will be awarded valiantly waved us on! And in our
worst battle, it was the flag, our other saint in heaven—the first of
by the senior delegate from the the Class of '52 to reach her goal. S3SS9S
symbol of peace and joyi among w
schools of the diocese in which Mac's place here on earth will nev- S&-
the inhabitants of Mercyhurst, SS&
the medal [is to be given. The that carried us through. The er be taken. We miss her in every- A n n
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medal will be presented in each enemy laid seige for :-nearly a thing we do, individually and as a "MT»_*»«_«W_
diocese in accordance with the week. Though we outnumbered class. In our hearts we know that 8 fSS^SSfx
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original establishment of diocese: she is happy and that she is watch- iMP
them considerably, we were almost
Buffalo, Erie, Rochester and Syra- ing over us now, not* just as a
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were victoriously the excellent monodrama presented Ask for it either way... both
by Jeanne Welty at Mercyhurst^ trade-marks mean the same thing,
NFCCS Counciil Each night, five minutes before.
Scout "rest period," our battle- College on Thursday evening, Feb-
REG. US. PAT. OFF.
ment which is being kept a sur- we're the best troop that ever has Qne outstanding feature of her
prise, been!" *
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Has Mercyhurst Turned
(pPORT Aotlinai Co-ed ?!! So I tplay.Appears!
o>COOPS The O. O. A. has several in-
teresting features planned for its Ah, my dear friends, I am sorry Please give any gay news to Mr
Richard Laird, "Reporter." j / '
next meeting. A representative o say, nci\ Those gay young men
vw w w v v vw w i/v • r i ' i r i r i v i y i y i v i y i v T V 'I'tviTiTiYivivrnvivivivivi'iTTrr from the Pennsylvania State Em- you see roaming our famed halls Laird, a Freshman at Gannon Col!
ployment Bureau will speak on after visiting hours are part of that lege and a member of the Gannb
COLLEGE BEATS SEMS LASH "What The Business Man Expects great American institution, the Players is starting his apprentice
of The College Trained Secretary." ship in the Children's Theater 0f
Friday, -the 3rd, saw the Mercy - iInstead of traveling to Edinboro theater. f> the Erie Playhouse.
hurst gym crowded with Sems and this year for swimming courses, Following this talk the club will As one connected with the "Arts ,
hear from an Academy High Critic Mr. Thomas Manning of 113 West
college students. The occasion was the instructors will go to the Mi. Andrew Frabrize has the priv-
Teacher, who will speak on "What 20th Street is the Baron, no W
the annual Sem-College game. The YWCA for three nights to take]a ilege of entering our sanctum sanc- The mantis very talented and does
game got off to a flying start with water pageantry course. This The Critic Teacher Expects of The torum. We know him as Inspector
Practice Teacher." One of the an excellent job of "lording it 0ve
"Georgia" making a basket for worthwhile course will be taken by Pearson and he does a splendid job the others." c A graduate of Pren
the college in the first two min- D. Klein, N. Hantz, H. Walsh, M. alumnae will then give\ valuable of it. You probably know him as
pointers concerning the secretarial now a student at -Gannon, Tom
utes of play. The game was a fast Gemperle, and Miss P. Kelly. a junior at Gannon* College where also a familiar figure around is
and furiouslone and was full of profession. To close the program he is the technical president of the the
That's all the sport scoops for Playhouse.
thrills. The first quarter ended now. See you 'round! a movie will be shown entitled "It Gannon Players. When not doing
with the College leading the Sems Must Be Somewhere." This movie And last but far from least is Mr
radio plays for the "Players" or Leslie Rudolph. We delved into
18 to 4. The College kept ahead VIVACIOUS QUEEN will correlate with the filing unit
acting at tho Playhouse where he the past of Mr. Rudolph only to be
of the Seminary durin B the corn- in Office Practice. dabbled in "The Little "Foxes", Sir
plete 'game. "Georgia!it was higrh astonished by his accomplishments.
Frabrizi lives at 1146 West 20th He spent the summer in stock as a
scorer for the College totaling 14 At the next meeting of the Home Street.f A local man, he also did
points and Joan McCabe for the designer, and an able one he is for
Economics Club, two very interest- "Our Town", a Gannon production he did j the complete set of the
Sem with 8. ing sound films will be shown. The of two years back. "Hasty Heart" in Portsmoth, New
Cheering their team on to vic- first entitled "Footsteps To The Inspector Pearson manages to Hampshire. An active member of
tory were the newly picked cheer- Future" deals with the home give Reverend Mother a rough the Playhouse, he appeared in "The
leaders: P. Dugan,f P. McHugh, C. economics curricula in college. The time. Or is it visa versa? Miss Taming of the Shrew", "Ruin Dy
O'Laughlin^B. Klein, M. L. Benek, second film, "When Food Is The Joanne Bellas, a Mercyhurst senior, Drink" and in the televised, "Our
A. M. Pagano, I. Simmons, and P. Finest" shows the ^preparations goes into the character of "Rever- Lady's Juggler". Need! more be
Miller. The College gave them their and serving of food in some of the end Mother" with all the sophisti- said, H
spirituous support. The girls have large hotels and restaurants j in cation of one born on the stage.
worked hard on* these cheers and the country. With the Messrs. Frabrize, Lacey,
Miss Bellas is a veteran of three Laird, Manning and Rudolph, we
have really goodfones. So c'mon Mercyhurst {productions and num-
College^et's get "on the ball" and can't go wrong in finding the mur-
An intercollegiate debate be- erous smaller plays. derer, can we?
show some spirit! tween Gannon, Villa, and Mercy- Someone said {there was a De-
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A. A. NEWS ;: hurst will be the main topic of tective Sergeant in the house and
February 13 saw eleven new
discussion at the next I. R. C.
meeting.
the grape vine got into full swing IO,oOO Miles
until we discovered! it was Mr.
members; initiated into A. A. So William^Lacey. Since we are not
the screams';and yells you heard Continued from j Page One
Mrs. J. Edmund Kelly, chairman afraid of the law, we put him back to the* mainland. So Molly
were not "Murder in a Nunnery," throughfthe first degree and dis-
Mercyhurst girls are still talking of the Bishop's committee for enrolled at Aurora University.
but just the new members going covered he is a Freshman!at Gan-
about Ithe Winter Carnival and Christian Home and Family, is Though Molly's here for only a
through their obstacle course. non College and, undoubtedly, a
how vivacious Queen Nancy was. scheduled to give a lecture to the short four years, we all hope they
After the ^initiation proper there welcome member ofj the Gannon
Sociology Seminar on March 1. will be pleasant and happy ones-
was a surprise^in the ^'Lounge for Players. After further investiga-
Mrs. Kelly has been an outstanding, years that will always be remem-
old and new members. Also on the tion, we were ablefto gather many
agenda that night, three lucky Crowning Is Main leader in Catholic work for many
years in Buffalo. The small com- interesting facts about him. A
bered when she returns to China.
members received their much- summer of stock in Weston, Ver-
prized A. A. sweaters. So you can Event of Ball fi mittee she started in 1936 has
grown and does much to help mont, gave "Bill", the youngest ap- #
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started, Miss P. Kelly has an- an evening that she was a modern might know he is a member of the 4
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soon start. Keep in touch with her an old-time Southern belle. Whirl- Dr. fHass, a member of the
famous productions as the "Taming' 0 P h o n e 48792 £|2
and the bulletin^board for further ing hoop skirts of pastel nets, Spanish Group of International
Institute, has invited the Spanish of the Shrew", "Ruin by Drink" « ~ -" - " * " *- * -
information on this. ruffles, and eye-catching satins, and "Command Decision" to his 1
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The College b a s k e t b a l l gays created a colonial effect. The a Mexican ffilm, to be- shown at 4
Compliments of
Villa I Maria I College. The full television and! radio for the Play- 4 t
schedule fori the season is as fol- .most picturesque event of the ev- 4
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Lyons. Appearing in beautiful
ruary 20, at 8:00 p. m. Mrs. Down-
ing, mother of Roxanna Downing,
home to 1354 West 11th Street, but
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