Evening star., 1921-10-19
|GONzAGA TO HAVE
| CENTENNIAL week
subcommittee in Charge Of
Banquet Meet Tonight.
Alumni to Gather.

Gonzaga College, on I street near
North Capitol. is planning an elabo-
rate celebration Of it's centennial, to
last five days, from November l3 to
II, inclusive. Some of the most
prominent men in Washington today
are alumni of this college and are
acting on committees assisting in the
celebration.
lie college in the country, being ante
dated by Georgetown first. Mount st.
Mary's second and st. Mary's (Ken-
tucky) third.
A souvenir alumni catalogue has
been prepared. and one of the big
events of the centennial program
will be banquet in the New Will
lard Hotel. which it is hoped will be
attended by every living alumnus of
the college. Various subcommittee
IN charge of the BANQUET are to meet
tonight in Gonzaga Hall, and meet
ing of the general alumni association
has been called for Thursday night.
Program of Celebration.
The program for the centennial
celebration follows:
Sunday-Opening with a pontifical
high mass in st. Aloysius Church
Bonzano officiating. The sermon will
he by Rev. Owen A. Hill, S. J.. a
distinguished alumnus of the college.
who is now professor of moral phi
Sunday evening there will be pontifi-
cal vespers, with Rt. Rev. Archbishop
Thomas J. Shahan. rector of the
Catholic University, officiating. The
preacher will be Rev. Francis P. Le-
Buffe. s. j., an alumnus, now pro-
fessor of ethics and psychology in
the postgraduate school of Fordham
University.
Monday-Solemn pontiflcal mass
celebrated by Rev. Owen b. Corrigan,
D: D. The preacher will be Rev:
Charles w. Lyons. former rector of
Gonzaga and now assistant rector OF
st. Ignatius, New York. Monday
evening there will be an informal re-
union and smoker of the alumni and
old students in the lower auditorium
of GonZaga College.
Tuesday-Military mass. celebrated
by Rev. Paul r Conniff. S. j.. rector
of Gonzaga College. The preacher will
be Rev. Richard H. Tierney: S. j.,
editor of America" Following the
mass there will be a dress parade and
the Gonzaga College Cadets. the Oldest
college military organization in the
United States. Tuesday evening will
be given a centennial performance of
Macbeth in the college auditorium.
by the Gonzaga College Dramatic AS
sociation.
Mass of Thanksgiving.
Wednesday-Mass of Thanksgiving,
with Rev. Joseph H. Rockwell, s. j..
as celebrant. who is provincial of the
Maryland New York province of the
Society of Jesus. Wednesday evening
there will be academic exercises in the
college auditorium, including reading
of centennial odes in English. Latin
and Greek. and comforting of degrees
on distinguished scholars and states
men. There will be an address by
Representative w. Bourke Cochran of
New York.
Thursday-Mass of requiem for de-
ceased members of the lumni associa-
tion, celebrated by Rev. William j.
lyman. S. ]. Thursday evening the
alumni banquet will be held.
a beautiful bronze medal espe-
cially designed to commemorate the
Tooth anniversary of Gonzaga Col
lege. will be struck off and ready for
distribution at the opening of the
centennial.
A handsome souvenir program will
be issued. containing photographs Of
the college, the officers of the COL
lege. distinguished patrons and patron
esses of the plan and of the GEN.
tennial functions and a brief history
of the college.
A handsomely bound volume, with
numerous illustrations. containing q
complete history of GonZaga College
during the entire 100 years, has also