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Sacred Heart Plans
Benefit Card Party
And Fashion Show
The annual Benefit for the
Scholarship fund will be held this
year at Sacred Heart College on
February 22. In its Tenth Succes
sive year, the party promises to
be the best ever. Patrons are asked
to bring their cards but every
thing else is furnished. Refresh
I r.ftnts will be served. Among
I prizes is a $50 gift certificate for
Ivey’s of Gastonia. Ivey’s is putting
on the fashion show and Mrs. Tom
Brown is chairman of the party.
For reservations call Mrs. Brown
at Mt. Holly 827-3023. Any alumna
can also take reservations and for
ward them to the college office.
4 Tarheels Named
To Honor Society
Four Catholic boys from North
Carolina have been elected to the
Gamma Iota Chapter of Delta Ep
silon Sigma national honor frater
nity at Belmont Abbey College,
Belmont, N.C.
They are Patrick R. Marotta and
David Van Zile of Belmont, Paul
E. Bruchon, Jr. of Gastonia, and
Terrell C. Estes of Winston-Salem.
Election of Delta Epsilon Sig
ma is the recognition of outstand
ing academic performance during
the college career. It requires the
student to be in the upper 10 per
cent of the class and have a scho
lastic average of B or better over
& three-year period, which is a
point ratio average of 2.25. Mem
bership in the national honor so
ciety is the highest scholastic
award to be gained by students
at the Abbey.
Religious Emphasis
Week is Observed
At Wake Forest
Fr. Richard Butler, O.P., Pro
vincial Director of the Newman
Apostolate for the Dominican Or
der, was a guest speaker during
Religious Emphasis Week at Wake
Forest College. He joined a Bap
tist minister, a Jewish rabbi, a
Hindu professor and a Buddhist
scholar in a four-day discussion
program entitled “Religious Reali
ty in Revolutionary Times.”
Father Butler, presently as
signed to his order’s Provincial
House in Chicago, is the past Na
tional Chaplain of the Newman
Apostolate in the U.S. He is the
author of four books, including
God on the Secular Campus. Next
fall his new book which treats
twelve current themes of concern
will be published by Doubleday.
He holds graduate degrees in both
theology and philosophy.
Father Butler keeps a busy
schedule of lectures and panel par
ticipations on secular college cam
puses throughout the country.
Within the next few weeks he will
speak at Texas Western College,
the University of Arizona, and
Nicholls State College in Louisi
ana.
He expressed his delight with
his visit to Winston-Salem and the
program at Wake Forest. “With
such a diversified ecumenical pan
el,” he said, “there was much for
all of us to learn. We received
more than we gave.”
During his stay in Winston-Sa
lem, Father Butler was the guest
of the Most Rev. Charles B. Mc
Laughlin at St. Leo’s Church.
Catholic Daughters
Make Annual Retreat
Attending the Catholic Daughter
Retreat at Maryhurst Retreat
House in Pinehurst February 4-6
were Miss Elizabeth, state secre
tary, Miss Mary Sheehan, Miss
Anne Sheehan and Miss Nell Shee
han of Court Wilmington, Wil
mington; Mrs. Orah Mills Russell
and Miss Mary A. Nash of Court
Sacred Heart, Salisbury; Mrs. Doro
thy Brock of Court Christ the
King, Rocky Mount; Mrs. Paul Mc
Sorley and Miss Virginia McSorley
of Court Msgr. Michael A. Irwin,
New Bern. Due to illness many
reservations had to be cancelled.
Msgr. James McSweeney, chan
cellor of the diocese of Raleigh,
was the retreat master.
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Danforth Lecture
LA. LAWYER TO
VISIT SACRED HEART
Dr. Jose Maria Chaves, a distinguished
international lawyer, diplomat, educator and
authority on Cervantes, will be on the campus
of Sacred Heart College on February 24th
as a Danforth Visiting Lecturer.
A native of Columbia, Dr. Chaves attended
the Institute de la Salle, and the Superior Nor
mal School in Bogota, where he pursued stud
ies in anthropology. He holds the degree of
Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University
of Bogota, and Master of Arts and Doctor of
Philosophy degrees from Columbia University
in New York.
In this country Dr. Chaves has represented
Colombia as a diplomat in Washington and at
the United Nations. He negotiated several in
ternational treaties with the United States,
promoted closer relations in atomic energy,
capital investments, cultural exchanges and
agricultural surpluses.
as AIN EUULATOK he helped establish
the first public high school in Bogota in 1941,
and the first private university in Colombia —
the University of the Andes — in 1948, be
coming its first dean of the faculty.
Since 1948 Dr. Chaves has been president
of the Institute Israel-Iberoamerica in New
York. He was cited by the National Conference
of Christians and Jews for his successful in
tervention on behalf of Protestants in Latin
America in 1953.
Between 1955 and 1958 Dr. Chaves was
director general of the National University
Fund in Bogota. He planned and conducted
university reform programs and promoted
higher standards of research and teaching, as
well as faculty exchanges in all twenty-five
Colombian universities. During the same per
iod he served as professor of International Law
at the University of Colombia.
DR. CHAVES is a great friend and cham
pion of the United States in Latin America
and has sponsored the formation of a United
States of Latin America for commerce, inte
gration and development of the region.
Among the honors that have come to Dr.
Chaves for his many activities are a Doctor of
Science degree, honoris cause, from the Uni
versity of Antioquia; membership in Phi Delta
Kappa, the national educational honor society;
Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, Universidad
Popayan; the Medaglia Universitatis in Rome;
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Dr. Jose Maria Chaves
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in France;
the Medalla de los Andes, and the Or den de
Alfonso X El Sabio.
Here at Sacred Heart College on Feb. 24th
at 8:15 p.m. Dr. Chaves will give a public lec
ture on “Latin America, the New Frontier.”
This talk is a comprehensive survey of Latin
America with particular emphasis on the close
relationship with the United States and the
need for continental solidarity. At a student
convocation he will speak on Feb. 24th at 12:50
p.m. on “The Cultures and Civilizations of Lat
in America,” giving an interpretation of intel
lectual, artistic and scientific accomplishments
of the Latin American peoples and a compre
hensive analysis of their way of life.
In two informal or class meetings on Feb.
25th he will discuss “Patterns of Political and
Social Progress in Latin America,” “The Great
Literary Figures of the Latin American Epic”
and “The Alliance for Progress and the Future
of Democracy in the Western Hemisphere,”
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