DePaulia (DePaul University, Chicago, IL), 1959-10-09

              Volume 38, No. 3 The college president will speak on "The Sky Is Not the Limit" at 10:00 a.m., tomorrow, October 10, in the DePaul Cen- ter Theatre. Present in the audience will be approximately 500 DePaul faculty members, principals of Chicago area high schools, and English professors from colleges and universities in the area. Wrote Autobiography Sister Madelva's autobiography, titled "My First Seventy Years," recently published by the Macmillan Co. The book, composed at the request of the publisher,, was written in two weeks. Born in Cumberland, Wisconsin, Sister Madelva holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin, St. Mary's College, University of Notre Dame, and the University of California. She did graduate work at Oxford University in England in 193334.Honorary Degrees She has been awarded honorary degrees from Manhattan College, Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, University of Notre Dame, Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, Indiana University, Creighton University, and Marquette University. Sister Madelva has been the president of St. Mary's since 1934, and before that was president and dean of the College of Mary-of-the-Wasatch, Salt Lake City, for seven years. Her Best Works Recognized as an outstanding poet and writer, her best known works are Collected Poems," published in 1947, and "American Twelfth Night," published Sister Mary Madeleva, C.S.C. in 1955. Sister Madelva is the author of 16 books, most of them poetry. Among journals which have published her articles and poetry are "America," "Sign," Commonweal," "American Mercury," "New York Times." Saturday Review of Literature," "Thought," and "The Catholic Digest." Many Professional Societies She was president of the Indiana Conference on Higher Education in 1957 and is now College President to Speak at First Session of Lecture Series Sister Mary Madelva, C.S.C., president of St. Mary's College of Notre Dame, Indiana, will be the featured speaker at the opening session of the DePaul University lecture series. membership in fifteen professional societies. Lectured Widely Sister Madeleva has lectured Flemming was appointed to his present post Aug. 1, 1958. He previously had been president of Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Secretary Flemming held various posts at American Univer­ Paul DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois widely before universities and literary groups throughout the United States, in Canada, and at Oxford. She has traveled extensively in this country, Europe, and the Holy Lands. There is no admission charge for the series. Announce Speaker For Fr. O'Malley's Dinner Arthur S. Flemming, United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, will be the speaker at a dinner honoring the president of DePaul University on November 11 in the Grand Ballroom of the Conrad Hilton hotel. The dinner will commemorate two anniversaries of the Very Rev. Comerford J. O'Malley, C.M. It will mark his 25th year as a member of DePaul's faculty and his 15th year as university president. More than 1,200 persons are expected to attend the black-tie affair. Each invitee will be asked to make a $100 gift to De Paul. sity prior to his appointment to the U.S. Civil Service Commission in 1939. For four years he served as a member of the editorial staff of the "U.S. Daily" (now "U.S. News & World Report"). In 1948 he became president of Ohio Wesleyan. In 1S51 he served as assistant to the director of the Office of Defense Mobilization in charge of manpower problems. In 1953 he was named ODM director, a statutory member of the National Security Council, and by invitation of the President, participated in Cabinet meetings until March 1957, when he returned to Ohio Wesleyan. Flemming was a member of the Hoover Commissions which were charged with the responsibility of making recommendations relative to the reorganization of the Government. He is now a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization. The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Arthur S. Flemming (pictured above) will speak at a dinner honoring the Very Rev. C. J. O'Malley, C.M., DePaul president. Placement Association Meets Today Representatives of fortysix member colleges of the Illinois Teacher Placement association will hold their an- nual meeting at 9:30 a.m. to- liver a day, Friday, October 9, in De- come. president of the Catholic Poetry area. sity's education department, will Society of America. She holds Miss Elinor Kusman, director speak on "Education in Russia." of teacher placement at DePaul and president of the association, will introduce the Very Rev. Comerford J. O'Malley, CM., DePaul president, who will debrief address of wel- University's Frank J. Lewis Following the group's business Illinois Senator Paul H. Douglas will appear on the downtown campus next week. He will discuss the last session of Congress. Senator Douglas Will Speak Here Wednesday Opening political activity on the DePaul campus will be an appearance by Senator Paul H. Douglas (Dem.-Ill.), sponsored by the Young Democrat Club of DePaul. The Senator will speak on the "last session of Congress" at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14, in the DePaul Center Theatre, 25 E. Jackson Blvd. Senator Douglas has achieved national prominence academically, socially, and politically as a professor, author, economist, alderman, marine veteran and senator. Born in Salem, Mass., and raised in Maine where he attended Bowdoin College, he re- Beta Kappa key. Douglas holds a Masters and Doctor of Philos ophy from Columbia. He also studied at Harvard. He has been ™tue °f awarded honorary degrees from many universities, including De 1 also the year Senator Doug.as turned to public aifairs. achiev- ing national renown as a social scientist because of his major publications 'Wages and the Family (1^5) and /Real Wages center, 25 E. Jackson Blvd. meeting, luncheon in the faculty Economic Asso- Magazine poR of Washington This will be the first time the dining room, and tour of the organization's annual meeting Lewis center, Dr. Urban H. has been held in the Chicago Fleege, chairman of the Univer- October 9, 1959 Social Security Act, besides serving as an arbiter in labormanagement relations. Senator Douglas started his brilliant and successful political career as an alderman from the fifth ward of Chicago, in 1939. In 1948, after serving with the 15th Marine Division in the Pacific Theatre of World War II and receiving the Bronze Star for "heroic achievement in action" Douglas returned to the political campaigns in Illinois and was elected Senator. During his eleven years in the Senate, Douglas has been active as a member of the Banking and Currency Committee of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee and since 1958. of the ceived a B.A. degree and a Phi Powerful Senate Finance CornRets, Karma kev llombs holds mlttee: whlch has n„s' ou^ jurisdiction over tax matters, trade agreements, and social security. By hi? committee assign- as m^in hf. biJj Xhe last biIls to in the Lnitea States (1930). ernment spending, welfare and His leading publication, writ- pension fund disclosure, area ten in 1934, was "Theory of redevelopment and the conserWages" which received a $5,000 vaiion of the "Dunes area." international prize. In 1947 he Senator Douglas has been received what is said to be the honored by Time Magazine "highest honor in his field" which rated him as one of the w?s e'®c*e!i ciation. As an active participant in public affairs he helped formulate the Illinois Old Age Pension Act of 1935 and the Federal ":st in Senate has centered on legis- lation having to do with banking and financial institutions, housing, labor legislation, and tax. trade, and social welfare Paul. He was first an economics instructor at the University of Washington before becoming a bins full professor at the University important efforts during his of Chicago in 1925. This was Senate career are 0 in waste in government Douglas bill which inCreased minimum wage to 00 distressed areas session of Congress (86th) saw DougIas fi ht for eliminate waste in gov- president 10 best Senators the Pageant which picked him as the number one Senator, and 1952 in a nationwide poll of political scientists, he was again chosen number one in the Senate.