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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Oct. 12. 1962
Roman Catholic Pontiff Is a Dynamic Leader
By United Press International
By United Press International
Pope John XXIII, a short, humble swear-smile and a beaming personality, is a man of many surprises.
His biggest surprise was the calling of the first Ecumenical Council in nearly a century.
With his 81st birthday little more than a month away, the peasant's son who became leader of more than a half billion Catholics is a vigorous man who still enjoys a glass of wine and a good cigar. He has rarely been sick and apparently is in fine health.
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was born in the village of Sotto II Monte (under the mountain) near Bergamo in Northern Italy, one of 13 children—three died at birth—of a sharecropper, Giovanni Battista Roncalli and his wife, Marianna. He was their third child and eldest son.
Because of Pope John's humble origin and his jovial personality it is easy to forget he is an experienced diplomat and has served in many key posts as a representative of the Holy See.
WHEN ANGELO GIUSEPPE Cardinal Roncalli was elected pontiff to succeed the late Pope Pius XII on Oct. 28, 1958, he immediately was tabbed an "interim pope" because of his age and the stature of his predecessor. But from the moment he took the name "John XXIII" and donned the white robes of his office he showed little intention of sitting back and letting the world go by.
It appeared he was destined to spend his life earning a meager living in the fields. At the age of 11 he announced he wanted to become a priest. His father gave him his blessing and he entered the seminary at Bergamo.
FROM THERE HE WENT to Rome to study at the pontifical seminary and was ordained a priest Aug. 10, 1904, officiating his first mass in St. Peter's Basilica that same year.
In December, 1944, Pope Pius XII picked him for what was then one of the most difficult assignments in Vatican history—nuncio to postwar Paris. Despite Roncall's protests he was not fit for the job, he went to Paris to hand Premier Charles de Gaulle his credentials on New Year's day, 1945.
Using his wit, humor and the wellserved meal as a political opening, he soon became a popular and well-known figure in postwar France.
On Jan. 12, 1953, Pope Pius named him a cardinal and three days later
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WHEN POPE PIUS died Oct. 9, 1958, Roncalli was one of 51 cardinals who met in the Sistine chapel of the Vatican to vote on a successor. The conclave began Oct. 25. Three days and 12 ballots later Roncalli became John XXII.
appointed him Fatriarch of Venice. After 27 years Roncalli had returned to his best-loved occupation, that of priest.
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In the nearly four years that have passed, Pope John has captured the hearts of Catholics and non-Catholics alike with his simplicity and warm ways.
He has left tradition behind to do what he felt was right for the church and for the papacy.
With campus temperatures hitting the balmy 70s, summer hardly seems over yet, but the University Extension is already planning next summer's activities.
University Extension—which organizes campus institutes and short courses for about 5,000 persons in June, July and August of each year has released the "housekeeping" schedules for three of the 1963 events. The schedules are reservations of the Kansas Union, dormitory and hotel facilities which will be needed for the events.
The scheduling includes a Financial Institutions Seminar for high school teachers of economics and social studies, June 4-15; Life Insurance Marketing Institute, June 15-19; and the Kansas Writers Conference, June 25-28.
The nation's leading physicists will meet Oct. 21-24 at KU for the national convention of Sigma Pi Sigma, physics honor society.
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Among the scientists attending will be Stanley Ballard, University of Florida physics department chairman and national president of the society, and Elmer Hutchisson, director of the American Institute of Physics, New York City.
PROF. BALLARD, who will give the only public address of the meeting, will speak at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Oct. 23, in the Kansas Union. His subject is "Infra-red Physics and Its Applications."
Others who will attend the meeting include Donald E. Cunningham, director of the student section of the American Institute of Physics; Vincent Parker, deputy director of the American Institute of Physics;
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Reactor School and former national president of Sigma Pi Sigma, and Marsh W. White, University of Pennsylvania professor emeritus of physics and executive secretary of the society.
L. WORTH SEAGONDOLLAR, KU professor of physics and national vice-president of the society, said organizational problems will be the main item on the meeting schedule. The delegates also will take conducted tours of KU research facilities in physics, including the nuclear reactor center.
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