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Names Make Neivs
CAMERAMAN CHAPMAN
Despite the weather
In the Public Eye
On the campus last week with Notre
Dame's official photographer, WALLY
KUNKEL, was CHARLES T. CHAP­
MAN, free-lance camei-aman from Evanston.
111. Though hindered by the Indiana
spring weather, Chapman shot up
plenty of Technicolor film to be released
by the University.
JOHN MEANY, from Chicago, 111. a
graduate student in political science delivered
an address last week to the student
body of Manchester College (Ind.).
His talk on the "Racial and Nationality
Aspects of the President's Civil Rights
Program," along with the four others
presented, was transcribed for broadcast
over radio station WOWO of Fort
Wayne. . . .
In Cincinnati last Aveek JOSEPH L.
BAUER welcomed an oppoitunity to
speak wth Senator Robert A. Taft,
Ohio's fair-haired boy and a candidate
for the Republican presidential nomination.
During the course of their little
conversation Bauer, a commerce senior
from South Bend, got around to informing
the good senator of his relatively
poor showing in the recent mock Republican
convention here. In response the
doughty lawTnaker was visibly perturbed.
. ..
In an address at a luncheon of the
Serra Club of South Bend last week, the
R«v. JOHN A. O'BRIEN, professor of
religion, held up "the need for religious
instruction and the wisdom of making
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other arrangements that will be just and
fair to all" in view of the Supreme
Court's recent decision rendering religious
instruction in public schools "unconstitutional."
While speaking on the
subject "Catholics and the School Question,"
Father O'Brien also pointed out
that Catholics have an enormous stake
in the working out of a satisfactry arrangement
because more than half of
the Catholic children of elementary
school age attend public schools. . . .
WILLIAM J. ELSEN, assistant professor
of speech, Avill represent Notre
Dame at the second annual conference of
the Indiana College Teachers of Speech.
The meeting will be held at Indiana
State Teachers College, Terre Haute, today
and tomorrow. At last year's conference
Mr. Elsen was appointed a member
of the organization's executive committee.
This year he will participate in
panel discussions on the speech needs of
the college student. . . .
Last week at the annual meeting of
the western division of the American
Philosophical Association held at Knox
College, Galesburg, 111., Professor ALO-
YSIUS R. CAPONIGRI and the Rev.
LEO R. WARD, C.S.C. both of Notre
Dame's philosophy department, took
leading roles. Professor Caponigri read
a paper entitled "Literature and Ideas"
and Father Ward led a discussion on
metaphysics. . . .
To the Victors
Winner of a brand new Kelvinator
refrigerator is Miss VELMA WUKO-
^ITS, attractive blonde secretary to
Rev. GERALD B. PHELAN, Director of
Notre Dame's Mediaeval Institute. Miss
Wukovits picked her prize last week as
one of the 52 winners from the Michiana
area in the Electrical Living Week essay
contest conducted recently. Her winning
essay chosen from 1800 entries on
the subject "Electrical appliances oifer
me the greatest value for my dollars
because ..."...
At the recent convention of the Midwestern
Political Scientists Association
held in Indianapolis, Dr. PAUL C. BAR­
THOLOMEW, professor of Political Science
was chosen as one of the officers
of the association. As chairman of the
Program Committee, Dr. Bartholomew
VELMA WUKOVITS
Because oi an essay
will draw up the agenda for next year's
convention to be held in April at the
University of Wisconsin. . . .
The Alumni Association of the American
Academy in Rome recently announced
the winners of prizes in its 21st annual
collaborative competition sponsored
by the Association for students of architecture,
landscape architecture, painting
and sculptui''e in the colleges and art
schools of the United States. The problem
was to design a cosmetic sales and
manufacturing center which would attract
people, be effective advertising for
the products, and eventually become the
"Showplace of America." For Notre
Dame an honorable mention was won
by the team of JOHN W. TRUEMPER,
architect; RICHARD P. MULLER,
landscape architect; GEORGE LEE,
painter; and CARLOS COLON, sculptor.
. . .
With many Notre Dame men in evidence
a terrific ovation was rendered for
St. Mary's ELAINE BRUCK last Monday
evening at her recital in St. Angela's
Hall. The Elyria, Ohio soprano is a senior
in music and the recital was a requirement
for her degree. Accompanying
Miss Bruck at the piano was Mary
Terstegge, of Louisville, Ky.
Engaged to DICK GORMAN, Dome
photographer and commerce junior from
Chicago, 111., Miss Patricia Northrop, St.
Mary's junior also from Chicago. . . .
Married to CHARLIE KEPP, commerce
senior from Philadelphia, Pa.,
Miss Connie Norwich, on May 1 in St.
Joseph's Catholic Church, Flemmington,
N. J