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Silver Bells Herald Jubilee Tributes "May the blessing of Almighty God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost descend upon you and remain forever!" As Father Dill on turned at the end of Mass to bless al l who had joined with him in thanking God for the joys and blessing of his Silver Jubilee, these words were the fervent wish and pr:lyer of every Sister of Mercy for him as we knelt in our College • chapel. To us Father Dillon has been a loyal friend and disringu ished educator. He was first known to the Sisters in the early years of his priesthood as chaplain of Saint Xavier's Academy. There he gained the respect and esteem of both faculty and students. During his years of service to our country, his loyalty to the Sisters was always appreciated. When our college became a reality, Father assumed his work of chaplain with a priestly dignity always admired by those who know him. The faithful performance of his duties and his ardent piety give to all here at the College a greater love and
En g lish Department Con ducts Workshop In M odern Poetry
realization of the nobility of the things of God. As an educator, those who have benefited from Father's rheology classes appreciate the new vista which Father gives to truths long known and practiced. His classes manifest to everyone his great knowledge and love of God, and the significance he places upon the least creature of God. We are sure that God will bestow blessings innumerable upon this priest who is admired and revered by all who know him. It is persons of his character that make a College campus truly a training ground in the Summum Bonum. This Silver Jubilee year and every year, the Sisters of Mercy will always express prayerful gratitude for the work accomplished by this distinguished priestFather Gerald Dillon. What a glorious tribute to God are these twenty-five years of apostolic work. It is om heartfelt wish that the silver may turn to gold!
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Contemporary Literature determines the extent of subject matter for the Workshop that will be con- Vol. 8, No. 1 SALVE REGINA COLLEGE ducted here from August 26-Augusr 31 by Sister Mary Cleophas, R.S.M., Ph.D. To afford an opportunity for teachers of English to become acquainted with some of the major figures in contemporary literature Juvenile delinquency will be the core of a Workshop held at Salve and the twentieth century literary Regina College from September 6-9 from 9:30 A. M. to 4:30 P. M. under theory which integrates their work rhe direction of Mr. Albert McAloon, Director of Public Health and Welis the prime purpose of this work- fare in Newport. shop. Correctional officers, probation officials and social workers throughout Participating in the offering of the state will be in attendance. The workshop will aim at a close cooperathe Holy Sacrifice of the Mass each tion between misguided or unguided youth and the adults who can aid morning, the students will inauguthem. To carry out this aim promirate rhe daily program for the nent men from the fields of psychiaWorkshop. During the morning try, medicine, and law will speak on session two classes will be held each various days. Origins of delinquenday and in the afternoon one class cy, physical and environmental facA piano recital given by Miss tors, preventive measures and corwill be held. Modern Poetry-Its Differences and Difficulties, The Margo Kilroy of Newport was heard rective procedures will form the Myths of the Twentieth Century, by the summer school students in basis of workshop activities. and Auden includes the matter for the Grear Hall on Thursday, July 28 Aiming at diminishing juvenile the opening day, Friday, August 26. at 8 p.m. delinquency, Mr. McAloon hopes, Miss Kilroy, a student of Rogers through the workshop, to provoke Diction and Device- Then and Now, Yare's Vision, and Hart Crane High School, was born in this city, a wide-spread interest on the part comprise the material for discussion April 2, 1939. Her musical edu- of those already in the field, and to on Saturday, August 27. On Mon- cation began with Miss Eunice Con- interest others in working with day, August 29, Pound's Innovation, ron, a former resident of Newport, youth against corruptional forces. Eliot's Commedia: The Waste Land, with whom Miss Kilroy studied for Mr. McAloon's interest in this and Robert Lowell will be taken up. three years. Four years ago she con- work is long-standing. His posiAsh Wednesday, The Four Quar- tinued studying with Miss Ellen I. tions during 18 years have been tets, and Dylan Thomas will be ex- N ason. Co-ordinator of Prevention of DeFor three consecutive years, Miss linquency in the Rhode Island Jupounded upon on Thursday, Aug·•· usr 30. Some Important Continen- Kilroy has won rhe auditions in the venile Court, Chairman on the tal Contemporaries, Verse Drama N:uional Piano Teachers' Guild. Newport Family and Youth CounI of the Twentieth Century, and The She has appeared in concerts at cil, reacher of Community Organi/ Integration of the Arts will be sub- Rogers High School over the local zation and Abnormal Psychology at mitted for consideration on Wed- radio station and with the Newport Rhode Island College of Education 1 nesday, August 31, the closing day Music Club. In addition to this, and various other posts of similar Miss Kilroy is a member of the character. His work as a public of the Workshop. Sister Mary Cleophas, R. S. M., Mozart Club in this city. speaker throughout New England Included among her selections is well known. Particularlv does Ph.D., the director of the Workshop, Couperin's "Windmills", Mr. McAloon address gro~1ps of is the Pres ident of Mount St. Agnes were: College and the Chairman of the Scarlatti's "Sonata in G", Beetho- reachers, youth leaders and ~ocial Humanities Division. Sister is a ven's "Largo D" and "Scherzo a workers. visiting lecturer in the English De- C, B, B, G", de Falla 's "Fire Dance", In undertaking the workshop itpartment at the Catholic University minor", Chopin's "Four Preludes, self, Mr. McAloon hopes to combat and Debussy's "Engulfed Cathedral'. the inroads of delinquency. · summer school.
July, 1955
Lecturer Stresses Ideas of Pontiffs Workshop on Juvenile Delinquency On Religious Life
N ewport Welfare Director Holds
Pianist Entertains Studen ts At Recital
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To expound the papal concepts of a religious vocation was the purpose of a lecture given here by Reverend Stanley Gaines, 0. P., on July 20. Responding to the request of our present Holy Father, Father Gaines developed his remarks according to a five-point outline stressing that we have nor simply a call to follow Christ, bur also an invitation to answer that call in a specific religious institute. The basis for this five-point outline was the findings of noted Dominican scholars who, at the direction of their Father General undertook the compilation, from the writings of the Popes, of informamarion which would correct erroneous concepts of religious vocations found in books sent to the Holy Father. In addition to his work at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, Father Gaines is a retreat master for the Province of St. Albert the Great. A Providence College alumnus and a native of Woonsocket, Father Gaines has lectured to Sisters of Mercy in six American provinces. During the question and answer period which followed, Father explained the new curriculum being undertaken by the Sisters of Mercy at Xavier College in Chicago in cooperation with the Dominican Fathers.