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signer Hochwalt himself was much in favor of such a program 

 and urged the writer to undertake either the revival of the 

 Catholic Round Table, or the organization of a new group. He 

 offered the services of the NCEA in publishing a periodical in 

 which such questions would be discussed and news of the 

 activities of Catholic scientists would be chronicled. The writer 

 undertook the editorship of the new publication, Catholic 

 Science Notes. This was sent several times a year to all former 

 members of the Round Table whose mailing list was made 

 available by its last presiding officer, the Reverend John Cor- 

 telyou, C. M., head of the Biology Department of DePaul 

 Universty. 



Also at Monsignor Hochwalt's suggestion, a meeting of 

 Catholics attending the AAAS convention at St. Louis in 1952 

 was called to determine whether there was sufficient interest 

 in forming a new organization of Catholic scientists. The re- 

 sponse was unanimously favorable. A call was sent out for an 

 organizational meeting at the next AAAS convention in Boston 

 in 1953, with Boston College serving as host. 



The distinguished chemist and dean of the Graduate School 

 of Princeton University, Sir Hugh Taylor, was asked to pre- 

 side. After considerable discussion it was voted to form a new 

 organization to be called the Albertus Magnus Guild. The 

 Guild's Constitution states its purposes: 



i.) to serve as a means of contact among Catholic scientists; 

 ii.) to promote productive scholarship and a greater partici- 

 pation in scientific activities by Catholic scientists; 

 iii.) to assist Catholic scientists in relating the Church's 

 teachings to the findings of science. 



Sir Hugh Taylor was elected first president of the Guild. 

 Later His Eminence Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago, 

 accepted the title of Honorary President and until his untimely 

 death gave the Guild his whole-hearted support. His successor, 

 the Most Reverend John J, Wright, Bishop of Pittsburgh, has 

 continued such support. The publication of Catholic Science 

 Notes was assumed by the Guild under the title of Bulletin oj 



