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...... /' ' fr ' IHE ** C*.v- .-- - :.---* .--*-: - :: :: ' -- 'fl ; :rtr-fV:- ::':- loiume X MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 19, 1939 No. 6 Skyscraper Ball Highlights Gala Winter Holiday jviidergraduates, Alumnae I Gather at Drake Hotel On Dec. 29 Top hats, white ties and tails, or- feds and billowy skirts will take the ihrislmas spotlight on Dec. 29, when I;- Student Activities Council and the Klumnae sponsor the third annual Sky- fcraper Ball, in the Tower Room of lie Drake Hotel, with Carl Schreiher's Irchestra providing Blue Heaven taythm. I Annamarie Berk, president of the pudent Activities Council, and Mary trances Burke '34, president of the pinnae association, arc co-chairmen pr the Ball. Student committees, composed of Council members, include Mary Mar garet Mitchell, Louise French, and Phyllis Puener, who are in charge of file bids. Marguerite McNulty, Dorothy Ho- pn, and Marjory Stanley, on the or- pestra committee, have selected the Echrciber rhythm masters, who, al- ihougli new at Mundelein parties, are iopular with college and university iioups. Mary Caroline Bemis, Margery I.in- than, and Mary Veenemen arc on the totel committee, and Kathryn Dealy, )ane Brown, and Anne Marie O'Rourke (omprise the chapcrone committee. Livy, St. Jerome Qood Journalists, Classicist Says Transactions of the American Phi- locogtcai. association. Incorporated, will carry an article by Sister Mary Donald, B.V.M., head of the Classics de partment, entitled Two Romans in Fleet Street, in its next issue, printed in con nection with the association's meeting at the University of Michigan, Dec. 27-29. Compares Styles Two Romans in Fleet Street is a com parison of the narrative styles of Livy and St. Jerome, based upon Book One of Livy, and St. Jerome's Vita S. Hilari- onis, of which Sister Mary Donald has made an extensive study. The two Romans have in common qualities calculated to put them on the front page as war correspondents or fcaturc writers were they living today. Points of similarity include an uner ring sense of news, with emphasis on the human interest angle, enthusiasm, free use of authentic character speeches, the personal touch, and effective repetition. Cites Differences Another common characteristic stres sed in the paper is the vividness of their narrative style, which depends largely on their informal way of wandering in and out of the story and their use of graphic description. According to Sister Mary Donald, their difference lies in the types of picture they paint: Livy's are cinematic, one detail leading into and developing the next; St. Jerome's are snapshots taken at the height of some hectic scene. CtlRlSTAV The Skyscraper wishes the Faculty, the students, and the friends of Mun delein College a joyous Christmas vacation and happy and successful New Year. May every day from now until Jan. 4 be a real holiday, and may the Christ Child bring to each one the gift most desired. Candle Lighting Ceremony And Caroling Procession Preface Christmas Holiday Qlee Club Sings On WQN Tonight Listeners from coast to coast will hear the Glee club, directed by Otto Singenberger, broadcasting over WGN- MBS at 5 o'clock tonight. From 5 to 5:30 the broadcast will be nationwide, and from 5:30 to 6 it will continue through WGN and over the loud speak ers that line State Street for the benefit of the Christmas shoppers. Included in the program will be the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah, Today is Born Emmanuel, and While By My Sheep. A special feature will be an arrangement of selections from the Christmas Mass, set to music by Mr. Singenberger. Soloists will be Mildred Martinez, Maude Shuflitowski, Mary Gertrude Maerk, Shirley Hopper, Dorothy Brecha, Lois Kenny, Virginia Eckmann, Dolores Groford, and Betty Lou Dep pen. The Glee club gave a concert last Wednesday before members of the Evanston Catholic Woman's club. On Candle'Lighting Night All Students Share In Ceremony Today In traditional ceremony, the All- College Christmas Candle will be kin dled by Annamarie Berk, president of the Student Activities Council, at the assembly today. Preluding the ceremony, Helen Ca hill will play an organ solo, Black's arrangement of Holy Night, and the Glee club will sing three selections, with Maude Shuflitowski as soloist and with Angela Voller, Mary Belle Tros- per, and Mary Loretta Graham provid ing organ accompaniments. As the Glee club members leave the stage, representatives of the Faculty, the Alumnae, the classes, and the clubs, carrying lighted candles, will start in procession from the auditorium entrance. The entire student body will hold lighted candles during the cere mony. When the procession reaches the stage, the Speech Choir will gather around the Candle to read the Christ mas Story according to the Gospel of St. Luke after which Miss Berk will light the College Candle. The choir, the students in the proces sion, and the seniors will extinguish their candles one by one. Juniors, sopho mores, and freshmen will extinguish theirs by class. The procession and the student body will leave the auditorium in silence. Dr. Rooney will represent the Faculty in the Procession, and Muriel Clinnin, '39, assistant in zoology, will carry the Alumnae candle. Hand-painted souvenir programs with a block-print of the College and a Christmas greeting from the President will be an innovation at the ceremony this year. Kindle 9-Story Cross Of Candle Light Tomorrow President Gives Message An impressionistic sketch of the Skyscraper building with the cross of Candle Light. Verse Anthology Includes Work Of 59 Students Forty-six student writers, three Alum nae members, and 13 student artists have contributed lo Qcest, Volume IX, an thology of verse which is issued annually at Christmas and which will be off press tomorrow. Olive B. White, author of The King's Goon Servant, and sister of Novelist Helen C. White, has written the Fore word, and the editorial staff includes Hel en Sheahan, Mary Margaret Mitchell, Mary Caroline Bemis, Mabel Holmberg, and Rosemary x nderson. The book is dedicated to Mother Mary Francis Clarke and the Very Rev erend Terence James Donaghoc, co- founders of the Congregation of the Sis ters of Charity, B.V.M. Seventeen seniors, 7 juniors, 11 soph omores, and 11 freshmen have verses in the black-suede and red-leather-bound book, with the college seal embossed in geld in the cover. Alumnae contributors are Joanne Dim mick, '38 Virginia Gaertner '39, and Genie Harper '39. Illustrations are by Georgene McGow an, Betty Kreuzer, Sally Davis, Mary Margaret Kreusch. Helen Marion Bic- kett, Frances Kane, Kay Rheiner, May Farmer, Rita Valenzano, Virginia Fur- bershaw, Virginia Coffey, Margaret Du- ane, and Florence McDonnell. For an instant before the evening Angelus hour tomorrow, the skyscraper building will tower dark above Sheri dan Road dark to the hurrying cars, to the lake, to the buildings that look at its height. Then, as the candle lighting prayer, I touch you, O Candle of Faith, with Light, the Symbol of His Love Who is the Candle of the World . . . sounds through the College, 52 tapers will kindle the flames of a 9-story cross of candle light. I christen you with fire, O Candle of Charity, the prayer will continue over the newly-lit candles and in the hearts of all those who share in the Mundelein Christmas ceremony. Class and club officers, assigned to light the tapers which, placed in win dows on the south side of the build ing, form the cross of candle light, will join the student body when the tapers are lighted, to carol through the corridors. Seniors Lead Starting the procession on the eighth floor, the seniors will lead, joined by the juniors on seven, the sophomores on six, and the freshmen on five, sing ing as they go down through the build ing and out the east door for the hang ing of the wreaths at the main entrance. Inside once more and gathered around the tree, the students will hear the President's Christmas message, sing favorite hymns, and open the Christmas vacation with greetings and holiday farewells. The Carol and Candle ceremony, best loved of Mundelein traditions, will be preluded by a motion picture at 3 p. m., and a holiday supper in the tea-room at 5. Promptly at 6 the message for assembly will be broadcast, and the students will assemble by classes for the carol procession. Sister Mary Justitia, B.V.M., Presi dent of the College, will kindle the Fac ulty taper in the Chapel, and Mary Frances Burke '34, president of the Alumnae association, will light the Alumnae candle. Represent Classes Dorothy Hollahan will light the So dality candle; Marguerite McNulty the senior class candle; Dorothy Homan the junior class candle; Marjory Stan ley the sophomore class candle, and Mary Veeneman the freshman class candle. Club representatives will light ta pers as follows; Helen Ahem, Alpha Omicron; Sally Davis. Art; Helen Sheahan. Poetry; Peggy Meade, De bate ; Constance Campbell, English Round Table; Mary Gertrude Maerk, Glee club; Mary Mackey, International Relations; Patricia O'Toole, Laetare Players; Marjorie Byrne, Las Teresia nas; Joan Kaspari, Les D'Arciennes. Mildred Murphy, Mu Nu Sigma; Frances Piskozub. Orchestra; Marjorie Thomas. Organ Guild; Catherine Kel ler, Piano; Lillian Bojar, Polish; Hel en Murphy, Press; Dorothy Kaufmann, Die Rothensteiner Gesellschaft; Mar jorie Chapman, Science Forum; An nette Specht, Stylus; Ellen Jane Fitz gibbon, Terrapin: Helen Russell, W.A.A.
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1939-12-19 (1)
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Women and Leadership Archives http://www.luc.edu/wla
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Mundelein College
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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Religious communities--Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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