Evening star., 1946-02-24
lust Between
Yourselves
BY PhiIib Fl. Love ,

It's always been q pleasure Tor
me to attend school journalism
conferences, to meet the staffs and
faculty advisers of the various stu
dent newspapers and magazines,
and to chat with them about their
editorial problems.
An especially pleasant visit Of this
kind was mine the other day, when
I was one of about dozen speakers
at the fourth annual Catholic Press
Conference for the High Schools and
Colleges of the Archdioceses Of
Washington and Baltimore. 1t was
one of the most successful get-to-
gethers of its kind that I've ever
attended-and I speak as an old,
experienced conference-goer.
One Of the reasons I enjoyed 1t
50 much is that I'm an alumnus Of
Calvert Hall College, Baltimore, and
my alma mater was very well rep
resented. Another reason may be
that the faculty of Gonzaga High
School, where the conference was
held, sat their guests down to about
as appetizing a lunch as I, for one,
have had an opportunity to sail into
for some time. And In these days
of warborn shortages, a free lunch
worth eating-or even one that
you pay for, for the matters worth
few words of thanks in anybody's s
column.
A general assembly in the Con-
zaga auditorium. at which the
Columbia Broadcasting Systems
Bill Costello discussed Radio Re-
porting VS.. Newspaper Reporting"
opened the program. Then the
conference broke up into a dozen or
more sectional meetings, each de-
voted to a particular phase OF
high school and college journalism.
1t was at one Of these smaller
sessions that I spoke my little piece
on, OF all things, Editorials:
What to Write On, How to Write
Them" And, to add to the
pleasure of finding anywhere from
IS to SO people willing to listen to
me, the floor leader turned out
to be a boy from good OIL c. H. C.
Seeing him out there leading the
floor, his Cardinal and Gold hair
flying (Calvert Hall boys always
wear their hair in the school colors;
I still do), I had all I could do
to keep from breaking into my
favorite cheer, the one that begins.
"Kassappawa, kassappawa, kassap-
pawa, kasee; chick, chick, hoorah,
c. H. c. ...'
Each speaker is introduced by a
chairman-at my meeting, a girl
from Notre Dame Academy-and
then talks on his assigned subject
for as long as his audience will sub
NIT to such treatment. Then the
floor leader takes over, and the
question -and-answer period begins.
What with CHG floor leader. my
alma mater came of all right. I
don't know how things went at the
other meetings, but here are the
speakers listed on the program:
DR.. Regis Louise Boyle, Eastern
High School; Caspar Names,
The Star; Bob Hiltz, Loyola Col
lege; Brother Martin John, Mount
st. Joseph's College; Charles Bar
bour, Washington ,Times-Herald: /:
Brother D. Luke, Calvert Hall;
Edward T. Folliard, Washington
Post: Miss Elizabeth Randall. A.
B. Dick Co.; Henry j. Kaufman,
Henry ]. kaufman d. Associates;
Sidney C. Schultz, H. G. Roebuck
81 Sons; Helen Essary, Washington
Times Herald, and Ralph L. Nc
Cabe, The Star.
Delegates came from as far away
as McSherrystown, Pa, though the
overwhelming majority were from
Washington and Baltimore. The
schools represented, besides those
already mentioned, included: :
Georgetown University, College Of
Notre Dame, Dunbarton College,
Academy Of the Holy Cross; Holy
Trinity High School, Sacred Heart
Academy, st. Patrick's Academy,
Loyola High School. St. Johns
College, Institute of Notre Dame,
Georgetown Visitation Convent and
Seton High School.
The sectional meetings were fol-
lowed by lunch, another general
assembly Cat which John c. O'Brien,
Washington correspondent, Phila-
delphia Inquirer, spoke on What
the Daily Newspapers Want in Writ
ers'D and Benediction of the Most
Blessed Sacrament in st. Aloysius
Church. The program was arranged
by the Rev. Ernest B. Clemens, s. j.,
moderator of the Aquilian, Con-
zaga's student newspaper.