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SALVE REGINA COLLEGE, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND
VOL. 20, No. 4
J UlN IE, 1966
l(aren McCarty Heads Council
ETHEL BARRYMORE COLT
D~ama
Session Opens; Miss Colt in Residence
This summer Salve Regina College will sponsor its first Drama Workshop from June 27 to August 1 under the leadership of Ethel Barrymore Colt and Miss Joan David. The Workshop's curriculum includes three courses, no more than two of which may be taken by any student. Acting, to be taught by Miss Colt, will focus on techniques for beginning, intermediate and advanced students. Miss David will guide the Direction and Production cour;;e and also that concerned v .th Producing the School Play. The former will be geared towards both students and community theatre personnel. Lectures on the history and theories of direction will aid in the preparation of class projects. The latter course, which is tile only one to offer credit in Education as well as in Speech and Drama, was planned primarily for education students and for teachers. Any of the three courses may
be audited by those who wish to participate in the Workshop without college credit. Application of techniques learned will be made by means of the School's productions. The major project will involve the efforts of those enrolled. Among the plays being considered for this purpose are: The Mad Woman of Chaillot, The Chalk Gar· den, Dear Brutus, Bittersweet and The Old Maid. . Miss David also reported that the class studying the Production of the School Play will stage Laboratory programs using students from high schools in the area and possibly children in the Newport Project Head-Start as raw material. Gala Opening On Tu~sday, June_ 28, at 8:~0 p.m., ~ISS c,?lt Will star m :·curtatmhs CUp,_ thTeh Gtala · Ohip~nhm_gllabt e astmoth eabrl~' w The wi e open o e pu Ic. ~ school will share tile proceeds (Continued on Page 3)
/(;ate Delivers Valedictory Kathleen Dillon delivered the valedictory speech at the Class Day exercises on May 25, 1966. The following is the text of her valedictory address, which she entitled, "But Not To Yield " · Dear Graduates: Today we don for ~he first time the blue-and-white academic hoods of Salve Regina. At the end of this week we will take semester examinations for the last time. In two weeks we will assemble here once again to receive a blue folder containing a white piece of pa per-our college degree. An era of life ends at that moment; an epoch terminates as the arch of the future opens before our ken. The valedictorian can describe in sweeping tones the minute details of the upcoming ceremonies. She can retrace the
events and memories of the past four years in a class history. . Yet, wha~ she cann?t _accomphsh today ls the prediction of the years to come. That task falls not to your speakers, nor to your professors, nor to your parents-only you, the gradf tu re ; ua1t es, can f oret e11 your 1 · u th e on Y you can proc aim prophecy of the Class of 1966 Graduation from co II e g e marks a significant step in life It is a feat to regard with pride, with gratitude, with a tinge of sorrow. Yet, entrance into the ranks of Salve alumnae does not automatically transform one into the intellectual vanguard of the community. Neither does the acquisition of a signed degree constitute a formal challenge to equal or better the socia! status of an ivy league grad. The tassel's left-forward position on the academic cap does not of itself transmit the pow(Continued on Page 6)
The student body elected Karen McCarty Student Council President after Karen and two other candidates for the office, Leslie Murtha and Kathleen Ryan, waged a three day campaign for votes that ended April 1, 1966. Among the other officers elected were: Adrienne Guilmette, vice-president; Donna Roberto, secretary, and Mary Dowd, treasurer. The officers-elect · will assume their duties in September, 1966, and will begin the trek toward fulfilling their campaign promises, and the obligations of their positions. During the time of the campaign which was designated for the candidates' presenting their platforms in formal speeches, the winning four said the following: Karen McCarty, President ... If I am elected president, you can be sure that you will have the student lounge open during the day to the day hops -and the commuters will be as much a part of the student body as is physically possible for a non-resident to be. I intend to d all in m power in allowing n~n-residenls to be eligible for the presidency of any club. This position has been ridiculously closed to them in the past and will not be if I am elected president. A system that was put into one. of the candidates' platforms last year and not carried out was the initiation of job placement bureau and graduate school. An information center will finally come into actual existence if you will elect me. for your' president. What I will do because of my affiliation and experience and contacts in the entertainment world, is to bring you the type of culture that you are interested in.. Jazz, the new blues, folk music and even rock and roll ... I intend to see that not only Catholic, but Jewish, Protestant, atheist speakers will address the student body. . In concl~siolf, when you elect me as president of your student council, I will see to it, you can be sure, that all of these promises will not disappear with campaign posters, but will be an active, and effective reality next year. . You must have a president
who will be strong enough, inMy final point is in defense of terested enough, and diplomatic those poor souls who have to enough to make sure that the carry their lunches in brown boundaries of administration paper bags-the commuters. I and students are not over- would like to see a little more stepped. And, if you elect me consideration shown toward our president, I will work my hard- commuter citizens, while realizest to see that you are repre- ing that tilis means that they, sented strongly, intelligently, in turn, should make an effort and continually. to attend activities and give Adrienne Guilmette, Vice-Presi- their support to school functions. dent Donna Roberto, Secretary Encouraging school spirit and Remember that there will alunity is vital. To convince other people that Salve is up- ways be leaders, and there will and-coming, we must first con- always be followers, but people vince ourselves. This spirit can change, times chan·ge, ideas be prompted by expanding our change, and with them the role club activities to include other of a leader must change. Evencolleges and univez:sities. We tually a leader must submit to are doing this now on a smaller the evolving ideals of his supscale. IRC sent representatives porters. Yours are the ideals, to a conference ' at Harvard, the and I'm your supporter. SJ?anish Club has weekly socials Mary Dowd, Treasurer with Bro~n, and t~e Glee CI_ub The Student Council of Salve has associated t~Is year with Regina College needs more acboth Fordham, m New York, tion, more spirit, and more comand Iona, here on ?~r own cam- munication. As treasurer of the pus. Such c?mpetltlo? and ex- student council I will diligently change . of_ Ideas with other work to fulfill _these needs. schools IS mtellect!Jally healthy My one promise to . the stufor us, and I b~lieve that we. de~t b~y IS that ~ Will be an need more of th1s type of ~c- actlve, mterested, I n formed tivity. council member.
College Confers Three Honorary Degrees Salve Regina College will hold its sixteenth annual commencement on the terrace of Ochre Court on Monday, June 6, at 3 p.m. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Russell J. MeVinney, Bishop of Providence, will preside. Dr. Paul van K. Thomson, Academic Vice President, Providence College, will address t~e graduates. ~ister Mary Enuly, R.S.M., President, w~"ll presen t th e can d"d I a t es to. His Excellency. The honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters will be bestowed upon Dr. Thomson. Th.e honorary degree of Doctor bl" H lth .ll b t of Pu_ IC . ea WI e . gran · ed Mlss Rita Murph~, Director of Public Health Nursmg, Rhode Island Department of Health. Rev. Edwin J. McCab~, M.M., founder of Boys Town m South China (a counterpart of Boys Town, Nebras~a) and founder of the Cathohc Cultural Serv-
Ed.·torsPlan'67 Regm· aMaris . The staff for the Regm·a Maris for 1967 Wl"ll I·nclude Jaru·ce Chenail, Nancy Ruling, Rosalyn Martone editors· Nola Woods . ' ' ' Mananne Cavanaugh, Joan Godin, Connie Quirk, photography editors; Jane Harrington, business manager; Gail Bocheneck, Susan Reardon. ads. The staff has already begun to speak with different publishers and has arranged for Senior portraits, which will be finished by June 14. The staff is now working on theme and lay out ~nd has distributed questionnaires to the class in an attempt to incorporate some of the ideas of the class that may add to originality. One innovation is
to incorporate candid shots Cavansnapped by Marianne augh · A festive note marked the commencement of activities and work which will face the newly elected year book staff of the class of 1967-a party was given for them by the 1966 Regina Maris Staff. The 1966 Staff presented Sister Mary Jean with a laurel wreath and yellow roses, symbolic of well deserved honor and appreciation. The girls also composed an ode to Sister and presented her witli a wrist watch and mock year book. In appreciation for Sister Mary Wilhemina's work with the staff, she was given yellow roses and candy.
ices Center in Miaoli, Taiwan, Republic of China, where he is now located, will receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Education. ----
Mr. John Corrigan Wins Fulbright Mr. John Corrigan, a member the Englishhere and at Philosophy of departments, Salve for the past two years, will soon be packing his bags to leave for Europe, where he will sttidy at the Institut Superieur de Philosophic at the University of Lou vain in Belgium, under the auspices of a Fulbright-Hayes grant to obtain his doctorate in
,Philo~ophy
This Fuibright grant allows for one full academic year with possibilities of extension and provides for round-trip 'transportation tuition books living expenses 'and incidentals: Mter being awarded his Bach elor of Arts in English fro~ Holy Cross, Mr. Corrigan went on to receive a Masters Degree in English and in Philosophy, and has already completed half of the requirements for his doctorate in Philosophy. In June he will receive a licentiate in Philosophy from the pontifical faculty of Weston College, Jesuit House of Studies in New England, which will enable him to teach Philosophy while he is studying. ' Since an ecclesiastical degree such as this commands a high amount of respect in Europe, this will further expedite his doctorate there. Mr. Corrigan plans to continue teaching Philosophy after receiving his degree, but he will specialize in philosophical theology. He feels that theology (Continued on Page 3)
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