Evening star., 1942-09-13
Alumni Of Catholic j.
Planning Chapters
For Men in Service
Units to Be Set Up
In Latin America,
Caribbean and Cunudu

In step with the war program
which is being advanced in the class
rooms of many departments of
Catholic University, the Alumni
Association of the institution has
embarked on plans for keeping in
touch with all graduates who are in
the armed services or engaged in
productive tasks in private and gov
ernmental industrial plants doing
war work
Under authority of the national
alumni officers, the association has
waived all alumni dues of graduates
and former students in any branch
of the service, including the nursing
corps. 1t has also set up in the
foyer of Mcmahon Hall service
roll upon which are inscribed the
names of the men and women who
are in the services of the country.
To further honor members of the
alumni in the service a mass for
their safety and for an early VIC
torious cessation of hostilities, will
be offered in the National Shrine
OF the Immaculate Conception at
the university early next month.
Similarly State chapters of the
alumni are being urged to attend
special devotional services in their
home communities for this purpose.
Plan Chapters Abroad.
Another alumni move Is the estab-
lishment of chapters in the several
Latin American countries and in the
| Caribbean area and Canada, from
which countries many students have
come to the university to complete
their scholastic work.
The National Alumni Association
recently employed a full time secre-
tary, Wilfred D. Howell, a member
OF the class of 1928, who also is
director OF the Placement Bureau
and assists in the student procure
ment program IN which many mem
bers OF the graduate body are also
engaged.
Secretary Howell announced yes
terday that the directors of the
alumni association have adopted
resolution whereby graduates of the
unlversity's School of Nursing Edu-
cation will be admitted as an
alumnae unit. The results of the
chapter forming campaign and
other measures being taken bv the
! alumni office will be disclosed to
the graduate body at the annual
reunion scheduled to be held
November Is in New York City.
Secretary Howell said,
DR.. M. Gertrude Rieman. assist
ant professor of psychology of the
Chlld's Center at Catholic Uni
Verslty, spent three days the past
week at the Baltimore Academy of
the Visitation administering the
Viennese development scale to bows
and girls registering for admission
to that school. In consultation
with the Visitation Sisters DR.. Rie-
man worked out a program whereby
all children of better than average
intelligence were tested as to their
ability to pursue the accelerated
program this semester at the Ralti-
more school.
Forum Series Planned,
The Rev. DR.. James A. Magner.
procurator of the university and
president Of the Charles Carroll |
Forum, has announced a series of
seven lectures for this fall and |
winter which will be available for
members. The general theme will !
be the world crisis considered in
the light of Catholic principals, I
DR.. Magner said. The forum ses-
sions will be held each Sunday
afternoon in the Willard Hotel be-
ginning November l. Among the /
speakers already engaged are Al
fred Noyes, the English poet; the |
Rev. Father Bernard Hubbard an |
authority on Alaska, and Wilhelm /
Solzbacher, a refugee from Ger
many, where he was one of the
leaders in the Council of Catholic |
Youth activities.
Sister M. Jeanette Blair, o. S. u.
head of the university's school of !
art, has just celebrated her silver
anniversary at the Ursuline Mother
house in Cleveland. Sister jean
nette was professed in the Ursuline
Order in 1917 During her admin
istration as head of the art school,
many improvements and extensions
have been made in the physical
properties and additions to the cur
riculum which have attracted in
creased enrolment in the school.
The post of editor and manager of
the Inland Register, new publica-
ton in the diocese of Spokane.
Wash. has been accepted by the Rev.
Terence Tully, graduate of the
Basselin Foundation of Catholic
University.
Word has reached the university
from the West Coast that James E.
Toomey. who graduated from the
school of engineering and architec-
ture with the class of 1897, has been
selected by Henry J. Kaiser as one
of the staff of Is technicians to
work on plans for the proposed
giant flying boats and cargo car
riers. Mr. Toomey, whose WASH
ington address was 3135 Highland |
place NV, was head of the patent |
department Of the Kaiser organiza-
ton at Palo Alto, Calf. His new
most will take him to Oakland Calf |