Evening star., 1939-11-26
Winning Grid Team
Spurs 6. j. Drive
For Gymnasium
Alumni Chuirmen Are
Seeking to Roise Funds
In 70 Cities

The combination of a winning
Hoya football team and a rapidly
growing alumni organization has
given. momentum in recent weeks to
the campaign being conducted by
Georgetown University for the erec-
ton Of the proposed McDonough
Memorial Gymnasium to provide
more adequate athletic facilities for
both students and alumni.
Special alumni chairmen in charge
Of local drives for funds are now
functioning in more than 10 cities.
Each week the names Of additional
chairmen are being received by DR..
James S. Ruby, jr., alumni secre-
tary, who is cooperating with the
Very Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, S. j.,
Georgetown president, and Frank j.
Hogan of Washington, general
chairman of the campaign.
When the last official financial re-
port was made month ago, approx
imately $4,000 had been raised to-
ward the building fund. Since then
there has been a marked increase
in the number of donations as
result not only of the expanding
campaign organization, but revig-
grated interest in the football team.
Now that the Hoyas have just COM
pleted second undefeated season
the campaigners among the alumni
are looking forward even more
hopefully.
Auditorium Is Proposed.
The widespread affection for the
late Rev. Vincent S. McDonough,
s. j., who symbolized the spirit of
Georgetown athletics for more than
q score Of years is the main incen-
tive to honor his memory with the
kind OF gymnasium which he, him
sell, was so anxious for the univer-
sity to erect. In addition to pro-
viding ample space for general in
door athletics and training, plans
for the gym call for its conversion
into an auditorium with a seating
capacity Of $500 for university con-
vocatlons. Georgetown's recent
sesquicentennial convocation, which
had to be held outdoors, emphasized
the lack OF a suitably large audi
torium at the university.
Some OF the more recently named
alumni chairmen in charge of the
campaign were announced as fol-
lows: Joseph P. Lanigan, Balti-
more; William H. Sitterding, Rich
mond, Va; John F. Thaete, Phila-
delphia; Joseph G. Smith, Pitts
burgh; Anthony B. Brennan,
Charleston, w. Va; John E. Farrell
Essex County, N. j.; Joseph P.
Lynch, Boston; Thomas F.. Moriarty.
Springfield and Western Massachu-
sets; Walter o. Briggs, Detroit:
Jozach Miller, III, Kansas City, Ma:
DR.. Michael L. Mullaney, Providence
and Rhode Island; George E. Over
Jr, st. Louis; j. Howard Ziemann,
Los Angeles, and Edward j. Tobin
San Francisco.
Club Plans Busy Season.
Georgetown's International Rela-
tons Club. of which Burke Schoen-
see Is president, is preparing for two
busy sessions.
Accompanied by DR.. Thor Ker-
ekes, moderator, the club members
go to Baltimore on December 2 for
the second meeting of the Capital
branch of the Catholic Federation
for International Peace. This is the
organization formed here about
three weeks ago, representing some
20 schools in Washington and Bal
timore.
The second meeting for the
Georgetown club is the Middle At
lantic Conference of International
Relations Clubs, which will be held
December 8-9 at the New Jersey COL
lege for Women. Student delegates
from about 200 colleges and univer-
sites will attend. DR.. Kerekes leads
the round-table discussions held
regularly by the Georgetown club,
which boasts its largest membership
this year.
The Georgetown Glee Club will
participate in benefit performance
at the Willard Hotel the evening of
December l to help raise funds for
Chinese refugees. 1t will mark the
clubs initial public concert of the
season.