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SKYSCRAPE R Pa e Three English Actor Marks Catholic Culture in US, Robert Spcaight, English actor and star of T. S. Eliot's Murder In the CATHEDRAL, who lectured here on March 22, recently published the following com ment on his American tour, in the London Taiii.et. What I found attractive in Amer ica, apart from what amused or ex cited me, was the leaven of Catholic ism in the American people, bringing their humour and friendliness and sin cerity to a graceful fruition. 1 hope I shall not be misunderstood when 1 say that 1 saw it as a civilizing, even more than as a spiritualizing force though, indeed, you cannot separate the two. To come out of the world of the theatre, and visit a great Catholic Uni versity, like Fordham or Notre Dame. or a great Catholic college for girls, like St. Mary's, or Rosary, or Munde lein the skyscraper on the shores of Lake Michigan is to meet a new America. It is, I believe, the America of the future, and it is not without significance that some of its ideas have percolated to the White House. In these academies you will find efficiency without hustle, friendliness without familiarity, culture without pe dantry, spirituality without pietism. You will find an American remember ing its European rools and untouched by European decadence. You will find a Catholicism shaking hands a little more easily with the present day than the Catholicism of England and France. And you will discern a fascinating paradox. The principles of equality and justice, of human dignity and free dom, which animated the Republican Fathers, are today only guaranteed by that philosophy which they, in their invincible ignorance, rejected and by those dogmas which they despised. Where, one asks, would Jefferson stand today? Would he be able to sep arate the shibboleth from the reality? Would he have the lucidity to recognize the transcendental reasons why he had been so triumphantly in the right? It is a provocative question. Hut that lucidity, which is no small part of spiritual illumination, is the great and necessary gift of American Catholics to their country, for without it the 'American dream' will remain like a receding horizon in the minds of the American people. Reelect College To Cisca Office At Rosary Meet Barat College Holds Final Cisca Forum Lecturer Stresses Need for Catholic Research Workers Stressing the need for Catholic scien tists in American colleges and universi ties, the Reverend George L. Warth, S.J., regent of the I-oyola University College of Medicine, encouraged members of the Science Forum, on May 22. to seek ca reers in medicine, bio-chemistry, and al lied fields. Father Warth celebrated the Science Forum's annual club Mass in Stella Maris Chapel and was guest, with moth ers of the Forum members, at the third annual breakfast and program, which cli maxed the year's activities. Drawing a parallel between the knowl edge of God acquired in religion classes and the observation of God's power and wisdom made manifest to those who study the higher sciences. Father Warth commented upon the religious convic tion which should grow in the minds of research workers, and upon the power of prayer as an aid to scientific study. Speakers on ihe program, which was held in the Social room after the break fast, were Margaret Mary Murray, Col ette Corbett, Virginia Newell, Mary Corby, Kathryn De l.age. Dorothy Ho- man. Frances Geary, and Marian Gil bert. The College was reelected to the office of secretary of Cisca by the Cisca delegates who attended ihe final general meeting of the year, at Rosary college, on May 22. Catherine Heerey has held the office for the past two years, having been appointed lo represent the College both in 1936-37 and in 1937-38. Loyola university was again elected to the presidency. The program for the General meeting offered by the four committees sug gested a plan of action for summer months, including attendance at the Chicago Summer School of Catholic Action, which will be held the week of August 22. A May coronation ceremony, an add ress by His Excellency, the Most Rever end Bernard J- Sheil, D.D.V.G., modera tor general of Cisca, and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament concluded this thirty-fourth general meeting. The final Cisca Forum of the year was held at Barat college, on May 22, with William H. Conley, M.B.S., coach of debate, presiding as chairman. With The Crusade of the Encyclicals as a theme, four Barat students pre sented ten-minute discussion on dif ferent aspects of the current economic and social conditions. Seniors Contribute To New Clepsydra Clepsydra's summer issue, to be off the press before the end of the week, is being devoted primarily to the creative work of the seniors, since it marks their final appearance as members of the col legiate literati. Following the frontispiece of a brawny laborer, done by Ellen Birnbaum, are the twin essays on Labor Poetry by Joanne Dimmick, who studies the poetry of the nineteenth century, and Helen Farrell, who examines the rhyme and reason of twentieth century poetic efforts. Outstanding in this issue of the maga zine is an essay on Evelyn Waugh, writ ten by Elizabeth Higgins, who has been doing research on this newly-converted Fnglish Catholic author since last Octo ber. Accompanying this serious study of Mr. Waugh's life, is an enlightening, laugh-provoking essay about writing the essay, which exhibits Miss Higgins' muse i.i a humorous attitude. The fictional content of the magazine includes a story on dogs by Joanne Dim mick, and narratives by Virginia Gaertner and Mary Caroline Bemis. Katherine De Lage dips her pen into the tribe-lore of the Hiloxi Indians to produce two more in her series of Indian legends, and Eliza beth Bellucci makes her initial appearance as a Clepsydra essayist with an interest ing piece on sleep. Qlee Club Sings At Chicago Organ Quild Convention Fifteen members of the College Glee dub, directed by Professor Walter Flan dorf, were guest artists at the regional convention of the American Guild of Organists on May 24. Sponsored by the Illinois Chapter of the (luild, the program included appearances by distinguished musicians from Illinois. isconsin, Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa. Included in the Glee club's selections were Psalm 91 by Mendelssohn; The Nightingale, by Tscbaikowsky; Ave Ma ria, by Arkadelt; and Psalm 150, by Walter Flandorf. Organists taking part in the concerts included Wilbur Held, Blanche E. Vcr- linden, Emory L. Gallup, Eugene Dev- creatix, Van Dennian Thompson, C. Al bert Scholin, Hazel Atherton Quinney, am Hugh Porter. Faculty Members Plan Continental And World Tours Will Visit Hawaii, China, India, France Joanne DuPont Dimmick received on Honors Day the award given by the French government to the Mundelein student meriting the highest average in a test on French culture. Miss Dim mick also merited the Contemporary Criticism award in the Creative Writ ing contest sponsored by the English department. Chaliapin Autograph Is Inscribed on Grand Piano Chaliapin, the great Russian basso for whose funeral cortege Paris traffic was stopped in order that a final trib ute might be paid by Paris musicians to a master, has a permanent memorial at Mundelein. His autograph is inscribed on the steel frame of one of the Baldwin Con cert Grand pianos in the auditorium, having been written there during one of the singer's visits to the Chicago music house. Feodor Chaliapin died on April 12, 1938, after more than 40 years of almost unrivaled success as an opera singer, having been ranked second only to En rico Caruso by most critics and com mentators. A Russian by birth, Chaliapin gain ed fame in his own country, in Italy. in England, and in the United States, his last appearance here being in 1929 when he sang the role of Mephisto- pheles in Faust. Chaliapin is the author of two auto biographical works, Pages From My Life, and Man and Mask. Interesting vacation plans for travel and study in Europe and the Orient are absorbing two Faculty members, Miss Janine Nowakowska, instructor in physi ological chemistry, and Miss Eileen Scan lon. instructor in swimming. Miss Scanlon. with Miss Claudia Eck ert, national AAU swimming and diving champion, plans a world tour for the summer, and Miss Nowakowska expects to visit England. France, Germany, Roumania, Poland, and Turkey, and probably to enroll at the University of Turkey for study this fall. Miss Nowakowska, who received her secondary education and part of her uni versity training in Poland, cofilpleted her work at the University of Illinois, and has been on the Mundelein Faculty for the past four years. She returned to Eu rope in 1935 on leave of absence for study at the University of Krakow-, where she had a scholarship from the Kosciuszko Foundation. Miss Scanlon and Miss Eckert will sail from San Francisco on June 17 for Hono lulu. Japan, India, and China. They plan to visit tea ranches in Ceylon, pyramids in Cairo, and then sail through the Med iterranean, stopping at Naples, Marseilles, Paris, and Monte Carlo, and, if possible, in Spain. Miss Scanlon, who attended the Olym pics in 1936, has traveled extensively in Europe and the British Isles. She plans to be back in Chicago for the opening of school in September. A.M. to P.M. College Considers Affiliation with Pax Romana Group In an effort to affiliate Muiidelein with the Pax Romana, international confed eration which links together associations of Catholic college students and alumni lo encourage peace among nations, the French club has contacted three of the secretaries of the organization and is planning to spread the movement into the various departments of the College. Catherine Wilkins has written to the literature secretariate; Helen Jegen to the women students secretariate; and Kathryn Byrne, to the press secretariate. Pax Romana hopes through its various sub-divisions to spread peace among Catholics in all countries. One of its outstanding efforts has been promotion of a plan for Catholic students to study for at least a year in foreign schools. Realizing the importance of the mis sionary work which these students may do while they arc studying abroad, it has established definite machinery ensuring its members introductions, and frequently hospitality, for long or short periods, when they are traveling in the various countries of Europe. By such means as this Catholics of dif ferent rations can learn to know each other better and to work through the spirit of Christian charity for a universal peace: Pax Cluisti in Regno Christi. Cooperative Thrives; Has 27 Percent Profit Neither depression nor recession has impeded the progress of the College Hos iery Cooperative, according to Georgette Thoss, president of the organization, which was launched in September, 1936, and which is closing its second year with its books well out of the red. The annual report of the Cooperative reveals that it has 60 members, about 3 limes as many regular customers, and that in Ihe present academic year the members doubled their original investment, and made a 17 percent net profit. The Cooperative has assisted in the organization of similar enterprises in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and in Salina. Kansas, and its officers recently presented their plan before students of Visitation high school, Chicago, who hope to estab lish a similar organization. Miss Thoss, as president of the group, was a guest at a Club President's lunch eon at the Steven Hotel, on May 21, at which club executives from Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois gath ered to exchange experiences and to hear Admiral Richard Byrd lecture on his ad ventures as president of a history-mak ing expedition. The Admiral received on that day the Award for Outstanding Achievement for the Benefit for Human ity. SOME people are content to leave foot prints on the collegiate sands of time. Not so Joanne Dimmick. When she leaves the portal guarded by Uriel and Jophiel on a certain June 6, not only will she leave behind her reams of litera ture, but also she will leave an almost unbreakable library record. Students have come and gone at Mundelein's lakeside library, but Joanne is the only one who has ever withdrawn 18 books from said library at one time, and actually walked away with them in her arms. Even a college education doesn't confine its back- breaking moments to classes in the mod ern dance. pHE sparkle that one glimpses in the corridors these days is due in part to dewey eyed seniors who grow sad at the thought of leaving their youth behind them, but largely to eight sparkling dia mond rings oil the lingers of prospective brides. And believe it or not, the first bride of the season will not be a senior. Sophomore Rullunary Cardy, who has been taking courses in the home econom ics department since the opening of the second semester, will be married on June 11, at 11 o'clock, in St. Jerome's church. FIRST bride of Class '38 will be * Genevieve Kruzel, who will be married to Dr. Philip Rogalski, in St. Stanislaus church, on June 19. Other engaged seniors are Kathryn Kenney, Anna Mae O'Carroll who is taking uialb. methods because she like it and not because sue intends to teach Lor raine Doody, Dolores Sifferman, Leo- nore Hershensoii and Melba Weber. Their majors, in case you are interested, are respectively, home eco nomics, sociology, mathematics, socio logy, economics, sociology, and, again, economics. Which may prove something ... or nothing. SWAN SONGS are usually dirgey things, beat out to the accompani ment of dripping tears. Not so the Senior Farewell. Our adieux will be made to the tune of a smooth orchestra at the Drake on the night of June 3. Substan tiate your court alibis early. Be able to answer definitely the inquiry WHERE WERE YOU ON THE NIGHT OF JUNE 3? by shaking out the folds of your latest formal creation, hanging your evening bag and David or Paul or John or Peter, or even Bill, on your arm, and heading for the Drake. Terrapin Clubs Are House Party Guests Members of the Terrapin clubs will be guests of Marietta Caron at Rochelle, Illinois, June 3-5, and will spend a week after graduation at the summer homes of Ellen Jane Fitzgibbons and Lucille Small, which are located next door to each offici al Lake Lawn in Delavan, Wisconsin. Among the members who plan to at tend the house parties are Irma Rilling. Marian Gilbert, Rila Eiden, Betty Wha- lcn, Aldine McGarry, Kathryn Byrne, LaVonne Hayes. Patricia McDonough, Regina Deinmer, Helen Russell, and Ruth McCormick. Faculty Member Publishes Paper Offering one of the first analysis of the value and necessity of laboratory experi ence as part of a teacher-training course in physical education, Alma V. Jones, A. L, director of physical education, has written an article, Supervision of Student Teachers in Swimming, which was pub lished in the 1938 issue of the SWIMMING Pool. Data and Reference Annual. According to the author, the danger in swimming makes it essential that the student-teacher acquire the self-confidence and teaching technique necessary for safe conduct and actual achievement in the activities which only laboratory experi ence can provide. However, Miss Jones deems it advis able that this training be given in the senior year, preferably under the admin istration of the teacher-training depart ment. Miss Jones also discusses the prerequis ites, the supervision, the lesson plans, and the grading of the student-teachers.
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1938-06-02 (3)
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