Evening star., 1942-03-08
Catholic University
Alumni 10 Elect New
Officers THURSDAY
Engineers Club
PIons Yearly Dinner
Tuesday Night

Catholic University alumni will
meet in the gymnasium of the uni
verSity at pm. Thursday to elect
officers and outline a program for
the rest of the year for the Wash
ington chapter of the alumni asso-
citation. S. Dolan Donohoe. '16. presi-
dent of the organization, announced
yesterday.
Encouraged by the large attend
ance of the younger graduates of
c. U. at the annual home coming
celebration last month, many of the
older members of the alumni asso-
:lation are advocating the election to
Office this year of men who have re-
Gently completed their studies at
the university The officers to be
named include president, vice
president, treasurer. secretary, chap
lain and three members of the Ex-
ecutive Committee.
President Donohoe also announced
that weekly meetings of the alumni
association will be held each Thurs
day night in the gymnasium, with
Athletic Director Edmund La Fond
and his associates supervising a
series of workouts to improve the
physical well-being of the men who
have completed their college life.
Engineers Club to Meet.
The Engineers Club of the uni
verSity, which is made up chiefly of
alumni members, will hold a dinner
meeting at the Highland Cafe,
Connecticut avenue and California
street NV. at 7:30 pm. Tuesday.
Ralph M. Berry. who graduated as
civil engineer with the class of 1888,
will be the speaker.
The activities of the Engineers
Club have been feature in the
yearly program of the alumni asso-
citation. The annual plaque award
arouses much interest in the stu
dent body, faculty and club men,
hers. The outstanding students of
this years engineering class are
already preparing for their ora
torical contest, according to James
j. BoWe, secretary treasurer of the
alumni association.
Six freshmen from the school of
engineering and architecture and
one from the college of arts and
sciences of Catholic University
have been chosen for men,
bership in Phi Eta Sigma, national
freshman honor society, it was an
nounced yesterday by the Rev. DR..
Charles A. Hart, associate professor
of philosophy, who is moderator Of
the organization.
Robert F. Morrell of Havana,
Cuba, member of the school of en-
gineering and architecture. led the
entire firSt-year group and will re-
ceive plaque emblematic of his
scholarship. Others elected in
cluded Samuel J. Rosenfeld and
Charles E Wise of Washington,
George O'Neil of New York City,
Richard Sundell of Denver. Colo,
and James Baker of Fort Wayne,
Ind, all from the engineering de-
partment. The lone member of
the college of arts and sciences was
Brother James keenan, of the OBJ
1ates of ST. Francis de Sales. Keys
are to be awarcNd each new men,
Der at banquet to be held in their
honor sometime later in the month
of March.
Annual Ready May Is.
The Cardinal, Catholic Univer-
sity's annual will be ready for dis
tribution to the students by May Is,
Editor chief Ted Scullen has an
nounced, Formal In style. the year.
book will depart from the custom
Of showing scenes of campus ac-
tivities and will present the fa-
miliar sites in novel manner, AS
yet undisclosed. Sections on the
hockey and swimming teams will be
new features, this being the first
year In many that Catholic Uni
versity has been represented in these
sports.
The guidance programs in $40 sec
ondary schools have been surveyed
by DR.. Eugene A. Leonard, dean
of women at Catholic University,
and Anthony C. Tucker of the oc-
cupational and guidance service Of
the United States Office of Educa-
ton, and the results are published
in a booklet entitled The Individ-
ual Inventory in Guidance Pro-
grams in Secondary Schools"
The authors discovered that prac-
tically all high schools receive from
elementary schools some record of
each entering pupil and that more
than three-fourths of the schools
record regularly personal data,
teachers marks. attendance records
and intelligence test scores. The
results of the survey are disclosed
in the cational division Bulletin
No. 215 of the ONCE of Education.