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THE SKYSCRAPER REFLECTIONS Freshmen Hold Juniors To Soccer Tie -* OUR first interview was a delightful experience, for its subject, Mar garet Mary Granger, a senior with a somewhat mischievous smile, classifies herself as an aesthetic type. Indeed, it is an unusal and a refreshing experience for the weary reporter to interview a stu dent who is less terrifyingly business-like than most of our modern college women. Miss Granger lives in Kankakee, Illin ois, and she comes to us from George town Visitation College, Washington, D. C, where she spent her freshman year. She has the honor of being one of the first five students to enroll at Mundelein College, and she holds the added distinc tion of having brought more students to our college than has any other girl. Miss Granger is majoring in French and she devotes much of her time to li brary research, since she is engaged just now in writing a thesis on Cyrano de Bergerac. She lived for a year in Paris, which, she declares, is a perfect place to study any of the fine arts. She is musical and is interested in vocal and in playing the violin, having formerly been president of the college orchestra. Although Miss Granger has not yet decided what she will do after graduation, she gives more than a gentle hint that it will not be teaching. KATHERINE Flood, a representa tive of the junior class, has dis tinguished herself in the somewhat com plicated field of domestic endeavor. She is majoring in home economics, and she expects to become a dietetian. After tak ing her degree at Mundelein, she will go to the County Hospital to take an advanced course in dietetics and then start out upon her career. Miss Flood was one of the Mundelein delegates to the State Home Economics convention held recently at Peoria, where she delivered a splendid speech, explain ing the aims of interests of the Alpha Omicron, our home economics club, to an audience of college and high school stu dents and faculty representatives. Miss Flood belongs to Die Rothenstein er Gesellschaft and to the Art club. Her favorite hobbies are collecting recipes and watching football games, and she has, be sides, a keen interest in swimming. TO complete our cycle we interviewed a student from our drama depart ment. This versatile young woman is none other than Sallie Agnes Smith, a sophomore, who recently played the fem inine lead in The Marvellous Adventure of Bernard de Menthon. Miss Smith comes to us from the Im maculata High School where she was president of the dramatic club and where in her senior year she starred in a medi eval play entitled, When All the World Was Young. Miss Smith began her college dramatic career in So That is That, one of the plays in the Mosaics of last year. She has also been an active debater and was one of the speakers in a debate between Mundelein and Purdue over station WLS last year. Miss Smith has had a number of radio auditions and she is playing the part of the young girl in a well-known dramatic skit over WGN. She is associate director of the Children's Theatre which has re cently been established at Mundelein and she devotes her Saturday mornings to coaching the children. We hear that Miss Smith is to play the lead in The Charm School, which is to be given by St. Gertrude's dramatic club. She is also a member of the Cecilians. Her hobby is characteristic she is compiling her own anthology of clever bits of verse. Tennis is her favor ite sport, and motor-boating her summer time diversion. TERRAPINS EXCHANGE BOWS FOR EMBLEMS No longer need the Terrapin pledges wear red bows and greet members with a humble I am a poor fish, for on Tues day, Dec. 6, they were formally initiated and received into the club and are priv- eleged hereafter to wear the emblem on their tank suits. The ceremony of the club promise was carried out with due solemnity, and Miss Magnuson, the moderator, was welcomed as an honorary member and presented with a tiny silver Terrapin. The much- anticipated spread followed, and the even ing terminated in characteristic Terrapin style. The new Terrapin club members are: Loretta Brady and Jeanie Ryan; and Terrapin juniors now include, Lucile Bar rett, Mary Louise Berryhill, Marguerite Collins, Eleanor Hopkins, Janice Linnett, Dorothy Oliver, Helen Shannon, Estelle Wingler, and Dorothea Von Wonter- ghem. Father Kelly Discusses Causes of Depression (Continued from page 3, col. 5) Applying the principle of causality, it is Father Kelly's belief that the financial crisis may be attributed largely to the present condition of the family in society. Since the family is the unit of the state, the state can be judged by the caliber of the men and women being produced by the family. Education, too, is a blameworthy factor in our present situation, Father believes. People, he said, are confronted with truth and are unable to recognize it. They do not act according to knowledge. After talking to Father Kelly for a half hour, one is deeply impressed by his mental energy and his ability to express so clearly his conclusions on vital ques tions. It was a distinct pleasure to inter view Father Kelly as it is always a joy to meet someone who in the midst of a whirl of duties takes time out to think I SHARE HONOR OF 1 TO 1 SCORE IN 0 VER TIME PLAY The freshman-junior championship soc cer game, played on Wednesday, Dec. 7, will go down in sports annals of Munde lein as one of the most exciting contests ever witnessed here. These teams must share the honors jointly, however, for the final score after a five-minute overtime period was freshman 1, juniors 1. No Score in First Half In the first half neither team scored, each discovering to its amazement that the other knew its soccer. The fresh men came back with increased power and early in the second half Leona Murphy, freshman captain, kicked in a goal. Then followed a few minutes of season play now in freshman territory now in junior. Finally, Pauline Duzeski, with a mighty kick, drove the ball past the freshman goal to even things up. From then on it was anyone's game. Frances Davidson was awarded a free kick, but again the freshmen held. The play shifted and the freshmen came very near to scor ing several times. However, the final whistle prevented a possible score by cither team. Overtime Fails to Break Tie The contest was too important to be left hanging in the balance, so by general agreement an additional five minutes of play was allowed. However, the splendid offensive attack of the juniors was bal anced by the staunch defensive stand of the freshies. The juniors were lined up for a corner kick as the whistle sounded. Whether or not the kick might have de cided the battle of the year must remain unknown. An unusually large audience witnessed this spectacular contest. The lineup was as follows : FRESHMEN JUNIORS H. McDermott ....L.F F. Davidson Dorothy Mason....R.F Evelyn Lincoln L. Murphy (c) C.F...E. McGowan (c) M. Peterson R.H M. Mahoney Marie Lysaght L.H P. Duzeski Rita Casey G.K M. Sifferman Substitutes: Marjorie Carroll for Dor othy Mason. BASKETBALL FOLLOWS SOCCER TOURNAMENT Fast on the heels of soccer came bas ketball, ushered in with cheers on Mon day, Dec. 5. Marion Sifferman was re cently elected manager of basketball and Margaret Mahoney was chosen as her as sistant. Plans have been outlined for tourna ments among the sports classes as well as for the interclass contest at the close of the season. Students who are interested in playing are invitted to come out even though they are not enrolled in sports classes, and, since the rules have been considerably revised, they are asked to become familiar with the new regulations. These are be ing taught by students of the management and coaching class. SKYSCRAPINGS We hear that Mary Jane McDermott spent her Thanksgiving vacation in North Prairie, Wisconsin, and Virginia Roboke tossed snowballs to the icy winds in northern Michigan. Jane Flick and Louise Seitz are quite excited over their new positions. The two girls, are coaching basket ball at St. Je romes school. Gretchen Kretschmer, Marion Ryan, Marion Hollenbach, Sallie Agues Smith, and one of our alumnae, Clare Allender, were seen at the Chicagoans dance on Nov. 26. Sophomores Fall Before Junior-Freshman Teams The sophomores were completely van quished following their defeat by the freshmen on Monday, Dec. 5, for they had previously been beaten by the juniors on Nov. 30. In both cases the final score was sophomores 0: opponents 5. The juniors scored 4 of their goals in the first half and 1 in the last. The fresh men reversed the order. The sophomore squad includes: Pauline Madison (Capt.), Eileen Bartels, Marie Buslinel), Irene Lavin, Virginia Meagher, Edith Dorn, Helen Piper, Lucile Barrett, and Mary Rita Murphy. From the balcony in the Medinah Temple ballroom where the Loyola for mal was held wc noticed Mary Stiles, Geraldine Koenig, Margaret Sullivan, and Rosemary Guinivan among the dan cers. On her birthday, Nov. 25, Patricia Pe terson entertained the Inner Circle of Philosophers at the Winthrop Arms apartments. Fortune telling, pineapple ice, and bedtime stories contributed to the glee, and reluctantly indeed did they tie on their nightcaps and retire to their couches for the night. Mary Toohey, Margarette Nolan, Dor othy Higgins, Mary Jane Sullivan, and Mary Catherine Schmelzer were guests. Immaculate Conception Is Subject Of Lecture The testimony of heaven itself is in favor of the Divinity of Christ and the virginity of Mary, declared the Reverend Bernard C. Heeney, pastor of St. Ger trude's parish, in an address to the stu dents on Nov. 30. In concluding a beautiful characteri zation of Our Lady, Father Heeney pointed out that she was gentle enough to become the Mother of the gentle Sav ior, and brave enough to stand at the foot of the cross and see His life blood ebb away. Now that Christmas is almost upon us the gay whirl of holiday parties is on. One given by Morel Farmer at her home was distinguished by the name slumber party. Among her guests were Gloria Barry, Helen Lang, Catherine Manske, Lenore Manning, and Helen Newhouse. O CHRISTMAS IN IRELAND By Mary Agnes Tynan lt; In a brown little church nestling closely among the northern hills, a wave of husky voices mingles with the heavy scent of incense and mistily ascends to become lost amid the rough rafters. The notes of Gloria in Excelsis gradually become softer until, at last, an exquisite silence waits the Elevation of Divinity, and a hundred Irish hearts swell in uni son and utter the same spontaneous ec static cry A Hundred Thousand Wel comes, Lord With the close of Midnight Mass, which is an inseparable Christmas cele bration, the people go their separate ways happily to sleep a few hours before the preparation of the great feast. The child-like, trusting, poetic manner in which Ireland wishes the Christ a happy birthday is perfectly summarized in the above phrase, a hundred, thou sand welcomes, for that is the way the Celt cradles the Tiny One, and that is the way he warms Him. From a long, unbroken line of Celtic progenitors I am, and the tale of a North Irish Christmas is a never-ending story of delight. How many times have I heard the story of Brian Fitz-Hugh who slew the Danish king, and, as his blood stained scarlet the green sod, extracted from the fierce Danes the promise of a Christian celebration of the day, Christ mas, and an embracing of the Faith. And it is today, that thousands of Brian Fitzhughs slay the invaders, Agnosticism, Despair, Persecution, and Famine, and turn with laughing eyes toward the day on which the Lord will be welcomed. There, folk have a strangely different attitude toward Christmas from that which we Americans possess. They have no kaleidoscopic Christinas tree, no exchange of gifts as we know the custom, nor rarely any snow to revivify the deathless drama of Bethlehem. Yet the warm hearts of them and the shining faith make Christmas a lovely thing. Americans usually regard Christmas as a re-birth of Christ, a coming back of the Messiah to make His world young and hopeful again. But the Irish never for a moment consider Christ as being ab sent. Christmas is merely His Birthday. The turkey, being one of the few be ings to have seen America first, is prac tically unknown in Ireland. But the great fire-place and spit that arc intrinsically a part of every Irish home are prepared the day before and garnished with mistle toe in preparation for the huge roast of beef which is slung thereon early Christ mas morning. The house is lavishly dec orated with heather kept green from the summer in little green boxes. There are special little scones baked in numerous forms to delight the younger set, and a great rice pudding bursting with raisins. The fare, for the rest, is the same as any other day. We who hur riedly expend our energy before Christ mas in an attempt to select gifts learn with awe that there is no exchange of gifts on the Irish Christmas. Instead, the generous Irish hand gives liberally and generously to the poor in the neigh borhood, secure in the belief that tiny Christ would not have it different. Christmas Eve is a happy, hearty time when there is much drinking of toasts and cooking and preparation for the next day. In the kitchen takes place the ritualistic cooking of the day's repast, which is al most a ceremony. . Among the parish churches there is a great deal of rivalry as to decorations and much homely pride is taken in the making of the Crib, the central figure of which usually bears a decidedly Gaelic look about His Baby eyes and suspicious ly Gaelic smile on His tiny lips I As many churches are visited as is possible, so that the Crib in all sanctuaries may be kept warm with the greetings and prayers of the people. The young Christ must love to come down upon this verdant bit of poetry set in the midst of the angry ocean. Where else does He find such faith, such guile less trust, such tender love and such laughing hope ? Where else would He be welcomed with such warmth of heart, and such gladness of soul ? Where else is He presented with such gallant staunch ness, such fragrant beauty, such shining ideals ? Oh, I know the Wee One impulsively tugs at the blue hem of Mary's cloak for her to hurry and take Him down to this tiny place where a hundred thousand churches throw open their doors to re ceive Him and a hundred thousand Irish hearts are aching to feel the soft touch of His tender hands. Ireland has had her own Crucifixion; the green grass has often been red with martyrs' blood. But she still preserves the glow of faith which drives back the cold winds from Donegal, and which warms the sacred little Feet. Her heart is yet young, her eyes are bright, her hands are still willing, and her back is yet strong. And so, with a laugh in which there is a lilt of adoration, she humbly murmurs in the tiny Ear A Hundred Thousand Welcomes, Lord Merry Christmas Mary Margaret Morrisscy attended the Irish Concert sponsored by the Carnival of Nations at the Holy Name Cathedral a week ago Sunday. Miss Morrisscy says the performances of Mario Chamlce, the operatic tenor of Rudolph Ganz, the pian ist, and of the Cathedral Choristers was truly inspirational. Bernadette Manning is planning a party for some of the Mundelein girls on the evening of Dec. 28. We've been cultivating a decided taste for the drama of late, for we are kept very busy attending the plays in which our college actresses are taking part. Janice Linnett and Ruth Tangney had important roles in St. Ita's dramatic pro duction, The Crazy Idea. After the performance the members of the cast went to the Edgewater Beach Hotel for supper and dancing. Miss Tangney is also taking part in A Family Man, one of Galsworthy's plays, to be presented at Hull House. She plays the part of a French maid. And just imagine our scientific chem istry instructor, Professor Schmeing, is playing the part of a lawyer in St. Ger trude's current offering, The Charm School. Sallie Agnes Smith, Mary Jane Blenner, and Mary McCracken, and Miss Eleanor Joyce, who graduated last year, also have parts. Catherine Finger, a freshman, played one of the leading roles in The Famous Mrs. Fair, a four-act comedy given by the young people of St. Peter's parish at Niles Center. Mary Agnes Tynan, Agnes Gill, Mary Sullivan, Arline Kroutil, and Mary Cath erine Shocbridge were seen among the gay crowd present at the Edgewater Beach Hotel on Loyola night. Among the students who are packing up their belongings in preparation for a trip home for Christmas we find Justine Feely, co-editor of the Skyscraper, who will leave for Dixon, Illinois, and Jeanie Ryan who will return to Hammond, Indi ana.
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