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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
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IN ROOTING SECTION
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VOL. XXI, No. 4
SAN FRANCISCO, SEPTEMBER 15, 1939
FRIDAY
DONS START BEST EVER YEAR
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By THE EDITOR
FALL'S MADNESS . . . starts this
Sunday when the Dons and Rattlers,
, for the fourth consecutive year, officially open the intercollegiate season.
From  now until January  the only
topic from coast to coast will deal in
yardage, punts, and passes. Sunday's
game holds especial interest for San
Francisco fans in that it will be the
unveiling  of   what   George   Malley
openly declares to be his best team in
USF history.   Material galore in all
positions, plus a galaxy of talented
backfield stars, have prompted the
Duke to be boastful almost to the
point of being bold. We are inclined
to tag along with George  though,
and do predict that at the season's
end  a new  name will be  blazoned
across the gridiron horizons of the
country.
NATIONAL    PUBLICITY .
looms for the Dons in Sunday's
game, for "Life" magazine is having their sports photographer on
the scene to snap pictures of the
game as the official opening of the
new season.  The pictures will be
used as part of a feature story surrounding   the   traveling   Rattlers,
and, as part of the game, the Dons
get in on the national angle.
NEWS IS . . . plentiful around the
campus, and The Foghorn strives to
bring it all to you.   However, some
stories do escape us, perhaps a short
story about some gathering or another personal angle that will prove
interesting reading to The Foghorn
subscribers.   Short stories, a plentiful amount of them, tend to make a
paper attractive.   If you have anything in the way of news bring it in.
We'll   publish   it,  and   you'll  enjoy
reading  it.   What could  be  fairer?
SO FAR . . . this semester no activity towards appointing an annual staff has appeared, nor has
any mention of the Don been heard
around the campus. We learned
from last year's experience how
damaging it is to let a thing slide,
and how a rush job at the end of a
semester imposes too much of an
obligation upon the editorial staff.
The staff of the 1939 Don did nobly
under the terrific handicaps under
which they were forced to work,
but there is no reason why this
same situation should reappear this
year. If the annual is to continue,
let's get moving on staff appointments, and avoid hardships later
on.
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College Players To Do
"Our Town" In October;
"WhataLife" Cancelled
Pulitzer Prize Winner to Be First Production;
Uses "No-Scenery" Technique Developed
By Orson Welles
"Our Town," the Pulitzer Prize
play for 1938, written by Thornton
Wilder and produced by Jed Harris,
will be the College Players' first
production early in October, according to Director James Gill. "What
a Life," originally scheduled, has
been cancelled due to the failure to
obtain the producer's release.
Unique Play
"Our Town," from the standpoint
of   the    College    Players,   will   be
unique in  that its  presentation  re-
Flash!
John Freed, prominent young
alumnus, class of '34, will return
to the boards of the Little Theater
in the lead of the College Players
new production, "Our Town."
Freed, one-time president of the
College Players, is noted for the
young lead in "The Bad Man,"
in which he co-starred with Barney Carr.
quires no scenery and carries out
the theatrical aspect utilized by many
successful bare stage productions
now enjoying popularity on Broadway.
James J. Gill
The absence of scenery, according to Mr. Gill, permits the actor's
presentation to dominate the performance   rather   than   be   overshadowed  by  extravagant  props.
This technique was developed by
Orson Welles, of "The Man from
Mars"   fame,  in   his   first  WPA
production, "Dr. Faustus."
"Although devoid of scenery, 'Our
Town' will be one of the most expensive  productions  ever presented
at USF,"  stated  Richard Tichcnor,
S. J., business manager for the College Players.
The announcement of the cast
will be made in the forthcoming
issue of The Foghorn.
Reception for
Law School Men
Faculty to Honor Law
Students Sunday
Night
Following   the   football  game  on
Sunday afternoon, September 17, the
faculty of the School of Law is going
to meet informally with the members
of the Law School student body and
their wives in the Francesca Room.
This reception is to be held for
the purpose of having the faculty
become better acquainted with each
other.
The faculty is  being assisted by
President   Clifford   and   William
Landtbom of the Day Division, and
by   Frank   Frisch,  George   Helmer,
Agnes O'Brien of the  Evening Division.
Father Dunne Guest
Special guests will be Very Rev.
William J. Dunne, S. J., Rev. Cornelius A. Buckley, S. J., Rev. Raymond T. Feely, S. J., and Rev. John
Preston, S. J.
Ex Committee
Meeting Held
Last Tuesday
Fair  Dance  in  Conflict
With Annual Soph
Drag
ROSSI HABLED
Tuesday, September 11, saw the
first Executive Committee of the
new year. The meeting was called
to order by the president of the Student Body, Frank Lawson. The
absent members were Jim Herning
and Dave LaValle.
The reports were submitted of the
various activities in which the Student Body officers have- been engaged in since the first weeks of
school.
Art Zief made a report on the
progress of the raffle, and stated
that it looked as though the results would be satisfactory. However, arrangements have been
made for keeping open the Student Body office until 11:45 Friday morning, when the drawing
will be held. Thus all returns will
be able to be turned in.
A report was read from the Frosh
Reception, and it was decided that
Bob Rossi should be congratulated
on the huge success of the dance.
The vacancies of the various committees were filled and a notice will
appear on the bulletin board giving
further information on this matter.
Al    Larkins,    the    Sophomore
Class  prexy,  inquired  about   the
possible dates for the annual Soph
Drag.    However,  because  of the
scheduled USF Day at the  Fair
on  October   14,  a  difficulty  presents itself concerning the appropriate date for the dance.   It was
decided   that   tentative    arrangements will be made for some time
in November.
A request from the officers of the
ROTC to form a club among themselves was heard by the committee.
The purpose of this club is to foster
better spirit and create more interest
and unity among the officers of the
USF Battalion. Bill Scott, Bob McCarthy, and Bill Figari have been
appointed to consider this matter.
At this point Tom Waters moved
for an adjournment of the meeting
and the motion was immediately
seconded by Ed McGuirk.
St. Marys of Texas Rally
Today at Eleven O'Clock
Drawing for Band Raffle to Be Day's Feature;
Don Band to Play
By DICK KEEGAN
The music of the new University
of San Francisco Band will mark
the beginning of the first rally of
the year to be held today at 11
o'clock in the college auditorium to
arouse the fighting spirit of the
student body for
the game against
the Rattlers of
Saint Mary's of
Texas.
The drawing
for the two portable radios, ten
season tickets to
USF football
games, and ten
sets of tickets to
USF Day at the
Fair will be held.
The raffle was given by the University of San Francisco Band.
The band will march through
the halls in both the main building and the annex on its way to
the auditorium. The organization
will begin its trek from room
D10. It will march up the aisles
of the auditorium playing the
school songs. The student body
may get a preview of the new uniforms to be worn by the band this
season.
George   Malley   is   scheduled   to
PHIL HANLEY
Directs Rally
give another one of his sparkling
talks to the student body. The
spirit of the school should be raised
to fever pitch by the talk by the
Don coach.
The committee headed by Phil
Hanley is trying hard to get Mose
Sims and Doug Locke, coach and
assistant coach of the Rattlers respectively, to appear before the
assembly.
The band will then give a few
selections, so that the school will
see how far the organization has
come in the past year.
The drawing will then be held
under the direction of Phil Hanley.
Yells
The last part of the rally, which
is scheduled to last one hour, will
be devoted to learning the new yells,
the practice of old ones, and the
singing of our school songs. This
will be the first appearance of our
new yell leaders, Vern Gates, Cliff
Jenson, and Jack Kinbark.
Phil Hanley, assisted by John
Barbagelata, Frank Courtney, Harry
Katz, Ray Agosti, Cliff Jenson, and
Ed McGuirk, have worked hard to
make this an initial success. It is up
to the student body to get in the
spirit of the affair and make it liter
ally a howling success.
Banquet Given for
USF Army Officers
Last evening the officers of the
University of San Francisco R. O.
T. C, led by Cadet Major Paul D.
Golden, attended a banquet held in
their honor by the Reserve Officers
Association at the National Guard
Armory. Eighteen senior and junior
officers of the USF unit attended
and were addressed by Major-
Gcneral Paul Malone, who quoted
the need and use of a sufficient and
well-trained reserve officers' organization. Also all the members of the
University unit were presented with
their membership stripes in the
Junior Reserve Officers Association.
Salesians Hold
Annual Meeting
With an eye toward building future leaders, the Salesian Academy
held their annual convention last
week-end at the Dante Building.
Delegates attending the activities
were students and alumni from such
colleges as USF, Santa Clara, St.
Mary's, California, Stanford, Catholic University, Creighton, and
SFJC.
NATIONAL REGISTRATION
Dons Open Season Sunday
In Qame With St Mary's
Rattlers From San Antonio
Band Will Show
Novel Uniforms
In Texas Game
School of Law Releases Figures and Averages
The final figures for registration
in the School of Law have been released by Margaret Proctor, secretary. There are thirty-nine enrolled
in the Day Division and seventy-one
in the Evening Division.
The majority of those enrolling
in the Day Division have come
from the University of San Francisco, but there are representatives
of Georgetown University, University of Denver, University of
British Columbia, University of
California and the University of
Utah.
Wide Registration
The Evening Division is about
evenly divided between the University of San Francisco and other
schools, among them University of
South Carolina, Santa Clara, University of Michigan, University of
Hawaii, University of Minnesota,
the   College   of  the   City   of   New
York, St. Mary's, University of California, San Mateo and Fresno State.
There are, in addition, three special
students holding responsible positions with the Crown-Zellerbach
Corporation, Matson Navigation
Company and Rathbone, King and
Seeley.
The pre-legal averages of the
entering classes are exceptionally
high. There are twenty-eight students who have pre-legal averages
above 1.50, fourteen of which have
pre-legal averages above 2.00.
Seven students have pre-legal
averages below 1.50, four of which
are above 1.40. Three of the above
seven have pre-legal averages below 1.29, the lowest of which is
1.24.
These figures seem to give convincing proof of the increasing influence of the University of San
Francisco in the field of legal education.
Bus Line Shows
Movies to KAP
Lecture Is Centered on
Greyhound Tour
The first of this semester's series
of noontime lectures given by Kappa
Alpha Phi was held last Wednesday
in C-10. The Greyhound Bus Company's representatives brought out
movies and showed them to the
assembled students.
The pictures, complete with
sound and music, showed the tour
of a young honeymooning couple
in a circle trip around our country, visiting scenes of beauty and
historic interest in many states.
Undecided at first as to where to
go on the momentous occasion,
they were convinced by Greyhound's
low fares and the fact that they
could see as much in the United
States as they could in a world
tour.
Most of the large cities and vacation spots were visited and the
couple arrived home with money
saved, tired but happy, and resolving to take another such trip whenever the opportunity would present
itself.
Thomists Hold
First Meeting
Inaugurating their yearly series of
philosophical discussions, the Thomists met Monday evening in the Father Semeria Room.
Speaker of the evening was Mr.
Joseph Rock, S. J., who spoke on
"The Baptism of Aristotle by Aquinas."
Mr. Rock, S. J., traced the history of Aristotlean philosophy
from its birth to the time of
Thomas Aquinas. He explained
how the Arabian philosophers distorted this philosophy and how, on
the other hand, the Augustinians
disclaimed this philosophy.
It was shown how St. Thomas had
to take the middle road so that the
truths of Aristotlean philosophy
would not be lost to the world.
Describes Course
Following the formal talk Mr.
Rock, S. J., described the course in
philosophy as given at Mount St.
Michael in Spokane. The manner by
which the philosophic circles were
held in order to impress upon them
the forms of the theses was also described.
At the close of the meeting Mr.
Fearon, moderator of the group, gave
a short talk. Ralph Newport then
welcomed the new members that
were present and announced that the
next meeting would take place the
first Monday after mid-term.
All members of the junior class
that wish to join are informed to give
their names to Dino Orlandi.
Onlookers will rub their eyes in
astonishment as the ostentatious
issue of the Don Band parades onto
the stadium floor this Sunday. Black
Levi's are a thing of the past. Bright
green whipcord pants with shining
gold braid stripes down the sides are
the order for the day.
Plato Leads
The four drum majors, led by
George Plato, will be completely
outfitted in new ensembles as will be
the leaders and mascots. It remains
for the raffle to be a huge success to
outfit the band entirely. Remember,
we still have tickets to be sold and it
requires the support of the entire
student body.
A huge program is in prospect
for the band this year. Among feature events will be participation in
"Don Day" at the Fair on October 14, and the parade on Armistice Day. While on the Isle the
band will introduce a new "pep"
song dedicated to Father Flynn,
S. J.
Many Members
Looking over the roster, we note
there are thirty members of the Pep
Band who also are players in the
R.O.T.C. Band. Mr. Earley, S. J.,
moderator, would like to see an increased participation in the Military
Band. He also suggests any instrument player contact him if interested
in participating, as all students are
eligible and the school bands can
always use more players.
Paleontologist
Speaks to Club
About Fossils
I.R.C. to Enter
Fresno Confab
Carrico to Continue Joint
Conferences
Paul Carrico, head of the International Relations Club, today
announced plans for its participation
in the Northern California I. R. C.
Conference at Fresno State on the
10th and 11th of November.
The Conference will be held
under the auspices of the Carnegie
Endowment and is in charge of
Amy Hemmingway Jones, the
Divisional Assistant Director of
International Relations Clubs. The
Carnegie Endowment will send
several distinguished speakers to
the round-table discussions. This
conference should be especially
interesting in view of the present
circumstances existing in Europe.
Mr. Carrico also announced that
the custom of holding discussions
with International Relations Clubs at
the College for Women, Dominican,
and other Bay Area colleges will be
continued.
By PAUL TISSOT
Yesterday the Wassman Club, at
their regular Thursday meeting in
room D-l, had as their guest speaker,
Dr. Leo Hertlein, Ph.D., noted paleontologist of the California Academy
of Science. He talked on the largest
and smallest fossil remains on the
Pacific Coast, and his lecture was
well attended by members of the
club and faculty.
Dr. Hertlein is a member of the
Paleontology  Department of the
California Academy of Science located in  the  Golden  Gate  Park.
His department boasts a collection
of over 1,000,000 specimens of invertebrates.
Speeches such as Dr. Hertlein's are
planned by Wassman Club President
Bill  Robertson  in  order  to  attract
even a larger attendance than that
usually had.   The president is also
planning many field trips for the immediate future.
Many Members
The Wassman Club has about fifty
student members and over 100 doctors and dentists from the vicinity
of San Francisco enrolled within its
ranks.  Lectures are given at various
intervals   by   these   prominent   and
learned members of this profession.
"The Collector," the official journal of the club, has attained nationwide publicity due to its originality
and resourcefulness, and it is published bi-annually by members of
the organization.   The first "Collector"  will  be  published  in  the
latter part of November.
Due  to  the   resignation   of  John
Shea as treasurer of the club,  the
vacancy has been filled' by the appointment of Jack  Gorevan  to  the
office.
Any student wishing to join this
active club should attend the meetings held every other Thursday in
room D-l at 12:10 p. m.
Malley Freely
Predicts Great
Year For Dons
Registration Up
In All Divisions
The   largest   Catholic   university
west of St. Louis is the position held
by the University of San Francisco,
according to figures just released by
the office.   The total enrollment of
all   schools   of   the    University   is
slightly in excess of 1,250 students.
Indicative   of   the   general   increase in registration is the College of Liberal Arts with a gain
of 10 per cent over last year.  The
extension courses show a growth
of 25 per cent.
The reason for this general development of the University may be
traced to the splendid work of the
students in general in promoting
their college, and in advertising it
among their friends.
A more immediate cause is the
efforts of the newly organized Publicity Bureau, under the direction of
Executive Secretary Joseph Rock of
the Alumni Association.
Final registration figures will be
available for Foghorn readers next
week.
Mark Hopkins to
Hold USF Night
Prior to the San Jose State game,
the Mark Hopkins Hotel is sponsoring a University of San Francisco
night in the Peacock Court, Friday,
September 22.
Emil Coleman and his New York
Society orchestra will play for the
Dons, and special entertainment is
promised all who attend. See John
Barbagelata for reservations.
Renovate Stage
Wanted — Painters, electricians,
and general handymen. With preparations already under way for the
new play, "Our Town," the stage
crew of the University College
Players are giving the back stage a
clean sweep. Paint will be spread
generously around the back stage,
while a crew of electricians will
work on the lights.
For some time now, the backstage of the Little Theater has
needed some repair work, and it is
now being realized. All those members of the student body who are
interested or who have had any experience with a paint brush are
urged to contact Trude Spearman,
who will immediately put them to
work.
Strong Reserve Strength
Present for First
Time in History
In what has practically become an
annual game, the University of San
Francisco officially opens the intercollegiate gridiron season this Sunday afternoon against the traveling
Rattlers from St. Mary's University
of San Antonio.
Arrived Yesterday
Thirty-four strong, the Rattlers
pulled into town late yesterday
and checked in at the Empire
Hotel, where Head Coach Mose
Sims immediately held a press
conference with the San Francisco
scribes, informing said gentlemen
of the press about how good was
his new squad from other ones
that have appeared on the Kezar
turf of the Dons' home field.
But no matter how much improvement is evident in this year's Texas
team, it will have to be something
to cope with Malley's rejuvenated
squad.
Plenty of Reserves
For,   for   the   first   time   in   Don
gridiron history, the Hilltoppers are
blessed with lettermen in every position,   and  can  go  two  and  three
deep in capable reserve strength.
Blessed with a galaxy of triple-
threat backfield material, the Duke
of the Hilltop is hard pressed to
name his four starters to carry the
mail.
Malley freely and fearlessly predicts a great season for the Dons,
and when one looks over the roster
of names like Fisk, Johnstone, Mosconi, Visentin, Finch, Reid, Bianchi,
Wunderling, Pudoff, and the soph
sensation, Pete Franchesci, it is hard
to see how the Dons can miss.
Line Untested
However, it is the line tljat presents the problem.   If Al Tassi and
Eddie    Erdelatz   have    done    their
work well then George's worries are
over.    Graduation  left  four  big vacancies   in   the   forward   wall—two
great tackles and two steady guards.
Nevertheless, Tassi  and  Erdelatz believe that Hill and Keith at
the   tackle   posts   will   offset  the
graduation of Miatovich and Rice,
while the two guard posts should
be strong what with thirteen candidates for the starting call.
At center and at the end posts the
Dons are well fortified, and can go
three deep without any noticeable
slack in performance.
Sophomore Star
Malley's eyes gleam with pride
when you mention the name of his
prize sophomore pupil, Pete Franchesci. George predicts that Pete
will be the sophomore sensation of
the Coast this year, and is counting
on him to electrify the fans with his
long runs for which the flashy Italian is famous.
Two weeks of intensive practice
have been held by the Dons in
preparation for this gridiron
opener Sunday, and the Green and
Gold team is ready to launch its
"best ever" year. Malley and his
aids honestly believe it is the year,
the fellows themselves have
caught the spirit, and the material
is there. Results will speak for
themselves!
There goes the opening whistle!
Grab yourself a program and settle
down, for the Dons are on the
march—goalward.