The Cardinal News
Dedicated to the Advancement of the University of Louisville
VOL. I. No. 21. LOUISVILLE. KY., MARCH 18, 1927. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TEN FACULTY MEMBERS LEAVING
H. Boehl Elected General Alumni Head
DR. J. T. O’ROURKE
BECOMES DEAN OF
DENTISTRY SCHOOL
Founder of Athletic System
Had Served As Acting
Dean.
Dr. John T. O'Rourke, affectionately
known among students as "Tim.”
“J. T.” and "Prince.” has been ap-pointed
Dean of the School of Dentist-ry
of the University of Louisville. Pre-sident
George Colvin announced last
night.
Since the death of the late Dean
Henry B. Tileston. Dr. O’Rourke has
been serving as acting dean of the
School of Dentistry. Dr. O'Rourke is
Professor of dental pathology and den-tal
therapeutics. He took his degree
in dental surgery at the Louisville
College of Dentistry in 1917. He has
been in Louisville for fourteen years.
He is a native of Maine.
Dr. O’Rourke fills a colorful niche
in the life of the University of Louis-ville.
The high quality of his leader-ship
in the dental work, both in the
lecture room and in the clinic, is at-tested
to by fact that his senior classes
seldom fall below a one hundred per
cent record on state board examina-tions
in all parts of the country. It is
largely through the work of Dr. O’-
Rourke that the School of Dentistry
has attained the distinction of being
one of the nine class A dental schools
in the United States and Canada.
Dr. O'Rourke is considered the ath-letic
godfather of the University of
Louisville. When he joined the fac-ulty
of the University of Louisville he
1927 Junior
Prom Program
Formal Affair
Arrangements for the second annual
Junior Prom to lie given at Kosair on
Friday evening. April 22, are now be-ing
made at a fast clip, Charles J.
(Chick) Robinson, chairman of the
1927 Junior Prom, stated yesterday.
The greatest difficulty which the
Junior Prom committee has encount-ered,
Mr. Robinson stated, was the
collection of the Junior Prom fees,
especially from the Campus juniors.
The Junior Dents have, as is the cus-tom
of Dental students, subscribed to
a man.
Selection of favors is now being
made by the committee. The com-mittee
announces that juniors failing
to pay the Junior Prom assessment
will not be admitted to the Prom and
will not receive an invitation to the
1928 Junior Prom.
The Junior Prom this year will wit-
Civic Leaders Pledge Aid
to Endowment Fund Drive
Supjfcirt of the University of Louis-ville
$2,000,000 endowment fund cam-paign
was pledged by about seventy-five
representatives of Louisville clubs,
churches and civic organizations at a
luncheon held in the crystal ballroom
of the Brown Hotel at noon Monday.
Upon request of Henry M. Johnston,
chairman of the speakers’ committee
they agreed to become members of the
campaign organization that will mould
public opinion and create the back-ground
out of which large gifts to the
university’s endow-ment fund will
come.
1h presenting the needs and out-lining
the opportunities of the Univer-sky
of Louisville, Alfred Selligman, a
member of the board of trustees, said:
“There is greater need now for the lo-cal
university than ever before be-cause
the bigger universities of the
country are cutting down on the num-ber
of undergraduates, and they ac-cept
only those who have a special
apptitude for advanced research and
study.
“The number of students ready to
enter universities are increasing faster
than the universities can take care of
them. Last week a member of the
General Education Board, who* was
New Alumni
Body Is Born;
Watson S'tary
Herbert Boehl, attorney, and a
graduate of the School of law, was
unanimously elected loathe presidency
of the General University of Louisville
Alum:ii body at an organization meet-ing
in the Alumni Rooms in the Li-brary
Building on the Campus Tues-day
night.
Organization of the new alumni
body, which includes graduates of
ev*erv school of the University of
Louisville, was practically completed.
The constitution and by-laws “tibmit-ted
for approval were adopted with
the exception of two clauses referring
to the election of officers. These two
clauses will be returned to the execu-tive
committee to be re-written as it
was the opinion of the assembly that
the sections as they now read, pre-clude
a fair and democratic election
of officers.
Miss Grace E. Watson has been ap-pointed
executive secretary of the
Alumni association by the Board of
Trustees with salary paid by the Board
of Trustees. Miss Watson will keep
in touch with alumni all over the
country.
Mr. Boehl, who has been president
of the College of Liberal Arts Alumni
Club for the past two years, was
elected as part of a ticket submitted
by a nominating committee upon mo-tion
of Sam Hyman, ’26.
The officers elected are as follows:
Board of Directors
President, Herbert F. Boehl, School
of Law, 2 years; Vice-President. Dr. J.
Garland Slierill. School of Medicine, 1
year; Vice-President, Dr. W. W. Riv-ers,
School of Dentistry, 1 year; Vice-
President, Mrs. Robert L. Johnston,
School of Liberal Arts, 1 year; Vice-
President, W. Pratt Dale, School of
Law', 1 year; Secretary, John E. Hell-er.
School of Liberal Arts, 2 years;
Tresurer, Huston Quin, School of Law,
2 years; Directors, Dr. John T.
O'Rourke, School of Dentistry, 2 years.
Leonard Brecher, School of Liberal
Martin Gives Additional
Performance of R. and J.
So great is the interest in the Uni-versity
of Louisville Players produc-tion
of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and
Juliet,” which has its initial perform-ance
at the Playhouse Thursday even-ing,
that Boyd Martin, the director,
has decided to present an additional
performance on Mondav evening,
March 28.
So that there will be five perform-ances
of “Romeo and Juliet,” Thurs-day,
Friday, Saturday and Monday
evemings and Saturday matinee. Boyd
Martin, Instructor in Dramatics in the
college hopes that his fond dream of
four “capacity houses” will be real-ized.
The students have worked willingly,
cheerfully and hard, to fill the house
for they realize the importance of this
production. It is the idea of the di-rector
to draw so large an audience
that by the proper spreading of the
necessary propaganda that a long and
interested subscription list may be
secured at these performances of
“Romeo and Juliet,” to make it un-necessary
next season to solicit sea-son
ticket patrons.
To Cost $2,400.00
The play, if all five performances are
sold out, will bring approximately
2600 visitors to the Playhouse on the
campus It is the hope of the director
to add other performances in order
that the production may show a hand-some
profit above the equipment for
which the production is being made:
Since the cost of the production is set
at $2,400 it is obvious that additional
performances will have to be sold in
order to make this possible.
The production is going to be one
of the most strikingly beautiful that
has ever been staged by the Players.
Rollo Wayne who designed the set-tings.
and himself an alumnus of 1917
•will be on hand to see how well Leslie
Hauger and his crew, under Mr. Mar-tin’s
direction have executed his
charming models. It is predicted that
Mr. Wayne now- a famous New York
scenic artist, will heartily congratulate
Head Fund Committees
HENRY JOHNSTON WILLIAM HEYBURN
Neolithic Stoner Emerges
From His Ample Breeches
In a Gothic Chapel, now converted
into a House of Satan, w-here play
actors prance, posture, and preen, the
Boxing Match was held. On the stage,
perhaps the very spot where the altar
was, men stood toe to toe and whaled
hell out of each other. Amid scenes
of the medieval splendor of Florentine
architecture, the bruisers battled, en-couraged
by wild cries from the pit.
Fledgling medicos cried for blood.
Hard boiled virgins shrieked with de-light
when flashing, leather encased
fists spat against the naked flesh of
the fighters or caromed on a jaw bone.
Anemic academics, too thrilled for
words at their first sight of the manly
art of assault and battery, gripped the
arms of their chairs and made imita-tive
and incipient thrusts.
The air was blue with cigarette
smoke and indelicate suggestions when
Neolithic Stoner catapulted himself
into the ring. The voice of a well
known collegiate restaureateur could
be heard, bellowing like a stentor.
Catamount Cal, Stoner’s rangy oppon-ent
went down under the furious
charge of Stoner who struck Cal like
a five ton truck loaded with pig iron.
There was a titter in the,audience as
Stoner and Cal squirmed on the floor.
Stoner had wriggled himself out of
his breeches, and was emerging like
Aphrodite from the sea. The analogy
should end at the word “emerging.”
Although Stoner’s breeches are ample,
they are not as wide as the sea. And
Stoner looks as much like Aphrodite
as a horse chestnut looks like a chest-nut
horse.
The watchful eye and the ready
hand of the drum major pharmacist-referee,
who sprang forward and
grasped the- puckering string of
Stoner’s breech clout, prevented
Stoner from striking his colors. But
even this little diversion did not pre-vent
Catamount Cal from measuring
his hurled length on the padded floor.
GOTTSCHALK QUITS
WHEN JOHANNESEN
DISMISSAL OCCURS
Johannesen Requests Trial
By Trustees; Colvin
Makes Statement.
With the announcement Wednesday
night by Dr. Louis R. Gottschalk. as-sociate
professor of history at the
University of Louisville, that he had
tendered his resignation to Dean War-wick
M. Anderson following the re-ceipt
of a letter by Dr. Rolf Johan-nesen,
assistant professor of history,
from President George Colvin, the fact
that seven other faculty members
would not be connected with the insti-tution
after this semester was re-vealed.
The letter notified Professor Johan-nesen
that his services at the t niver-sity
will terminate at the end of the
summer session. Dr. Gottschalk de-clared
that he had resigned because he
thought the dismissal of Dr. Johan-nesen
and W. Hill Shine, who received
notice of his dismissal several weeks
ago. had been made for “unjust and
inadequate reasons.”
Besides Dr. Johannesen, five faculty
members have been dismissed. They
are Dr. A. Lee Eddy, who has been
connected with the biology department
for eighteen years: Miss Keith Sperry,
who has been giving art courses; Dr.
George Moyer, professor of sociology;
Miss Juretta Bamber, instructor in
English; W. Hill Shine, instructor in
English; and Miss Alice Gosset, in-structor
in Biology.
Dr. Harry Jensen, assistant profes-sor
of chemistry, has resigned, Dr.
Colvin said, so that he might do re-search
work at Yale. Dr. G. L. Doty
stated that he had requested a year’s
leave of absence to study abroad, and
that he would resign if the leave were
not granted. He stated that his resig-
3 New Drive
Fund Leaders
Are Appointed
Mr. Henry M. Johnson, president of
the Associates Company and an alum-nus
of the University of Louisville
Law School, has been appointed to
head the Speakers Committee of the
local drive of the Endowment Fund
Campaign to be launched here April
22, Mr. Richard Bean, general cam-paign
chairman has announced. The
announcement follows the appoint-ment
of Mr. William Heyburn, presi-dent
of the Belknap Hardware and
Manufacturing Company, as chairman
of the Preliminary Gifts Committee.
About fifty well-known men and wo-men,
selected by Mr Johnson from
Louisville churches, business clubs,
civic organizations, etc., are to be
organized within the next few weeks.
The personnel of the committee will
i be instructed to carry the story of the
Faculty , Student Groups
Organize for Fund Drive
Undergraduates and faculty mem-bers
of the University of Louisville
are to launch a special money-raising
campaign of their own in advance of
the city-wide drive for the $2,000,000
endowment fund, the opening date of
which has been set for the night of
April 22, it was decided at a meeting
Wednesday night in the dental school
building, at Brook Street and Broad-way.
The campaign will open April
12 and end April 22. It was decided
to make student and faculty pledges
payable over a five-year period ending
May 21. 1932. Complete results of the
student and faculty campaign are to
be announced the night of the opening
dinner of the city-wide campaign.
Dean Bennet M. Brigman, of the
Speed Scientific School and chairman
of the student and faculty campaign,
was in charge of the meeting. Speak-ers
included President George Colvin
and Richard Bean, general campaign
chairman. Dean Brigman gave his
outline of the student campaign or-ganization.
Each of the five schools
of the University will be organized as
a separate unit. A faculty chairman
and student campaign leaders for each
class were appointed. Student leaders
were instructed to select team captains
and workers within the next few days.
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Help Fill
5 Houses
for
“Romeo
and
Juliet’’
Louisville, Ky.
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