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...seat arena-type theater. The University of Michigan is building a $3,000,000 playhouse with 1,426 seats to serve the university and the off-campus Ann Arbor theater crowd. With $1,500,000 donated by Conrad Hilton, St. Louis' Webster College has put up its new Loretto-Hilton Center...
...with the Tried-and-Tired. Sister Jacqueline was born a country girl, in Rock Falls, Ill., and she has retained the tenacious energy of a girl raised on a farm. A member of the Sisters of Loretto since she graduated from Webster College in 1948, Sister Jacqueline was tried out "on loan" five years ago as vice president for a year. Before very long, the 48-year-old school in the St. Louis suburb of Webster Groves was animatedly percolating with her fresh ideas and projects, and the appointment, which includes control of curriculum development, was made permanent. From...
...embraced Holy Poverty by begging for food and sleeping in stables. Their modern descendants handle filthy lucre as little as possible, but this is obviously difficult when traveling in an age of gas stations motels and Howard Johnsons. Last week at a Franciscan financial conference at St. Francis College, Loretto, Pa., U.S Franciscans heard of a happy compromise used by their Canadian brethren. Surprisingly, it is the same solution used by man non-Franciscans not sworn to poverty but headed for it. The device: credit cards...
First they advertised that a Roman Catholic priest named Loretto du Manoir would be chairman. Johannesburg's Bishop William Patrick Whelan (son of an Irish father, a Boer mother) summoned the priest and told him that "it would be impolitic for the church to be mixed up in this." Said Du Manoir later: "He was awfully polite about it, but firm." The next advertised chairman. Philosophy Professor Errol Harris of W'itwatersrand University, quit when the university principal warned him that Witwatersrand dared not anger the Malan government, whose subsidies it needs. Jack Unterhalter, a Johannesburg lawyer, finally...
Once upon a time (in Loretto, Pa.) humble little St. Francis College had a rich neighbor and alumnus who lived across the road in a $3,000,000 mountain castle called Immergrun (German for Evergreen). He was the late Steel Tycoon Charles M. Schwab. Often Mr. Schwab promised his alma mater a $2,000,000 endowment, but he never got around to it. Instead, when he died three years ago, bankrupt Mr. Schwab left the college holding the bag to the tune of $25,000, which he borrowed from it in 1932 and never repaid...