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Sitiors Apprehensive; Take Comprehensives Seniors will take comprehensive ruminations in their major fields os Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 23- :X The examinations, six hours in sength, will b; given in two three- sour periods. Room 405 and other assigned rooms will be reserved for lie seniors. 162 Socialists Register For IVeekly Meetings New Group Leaders Join Spiritual Council Two hundred sixty-two students have Blistered for Sodality meetings this tester. This is an increase in mem- jtrship over the first semester eiiroll- Bt, which was the largest in any Be organization in the history of the Le. Spiritual Council members meet the eclor every Monday to prepare the kly discussion meetings, whssth are Tuesday at 10 and 11 a.m.. 1- L and 2 p.m.; Wednesday at 10 and jjn., 2 and 3 p.m.; Thursday at 10 I a.m.. 12 noon, 2 and 3 p.m.; Fri- Hst at 10 and 11 a.m., 1 and 2 p.m. JXewly appointed group leaders Pa tina Nealin, Mary Case, and Rose- nry Tenipleman have joined the Spir al Council, r- -. Went Musicians Present Midwinter liusicale, Feb* 18 l midwinter Musicale will highlight k Music department's schedule of units, Wednesday, February 18, at (.n. in 701. Joanne Kecnan will open the pro- with Beethoven's Ecossaiaea. billing to a modern air, Jacqueline by will follow witli MacDowell's iocert Etude. Evening in Granada. Debussy, will be played by Camie- I Larocco. Patricia Dee will play Respighi's fctturno, and Ida Quintiliani will in- spret Liszt's Friska from Rhapsody ..2. Vocal numbers on the Musicale pro- am include I,'Heme Excjtiise, by ,ith Joyce Stedem sinking and me Wornnoff playing piaii accom- stanent. K'ith Jean Beckman at the piano. Schall will sing Let My Song Your Heart, by Charles. The Musicale ill close with the faying of the lirst movement of Men- Idssohn's Scherzo in E by Virginia sjabeck and the Adagio of the Moon- ht Sonata by Beethoven, offered by spline Mazza. TtiE ili;l4 EI ' . 's.y-' ' Vol. XVIII MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHIC AGO, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 16, 1948 No. 8 Campus Critic Mary Case, junior will direct the reorganization of the Entertainment Board. Junior Coordinates Campus Critic Board Revival of the Entertainment Board under a new title, Campus Critic, be gins its activities at a board meeting today. Mary Case is general chairman of the project. Committees will evaluate current plays, movies, books, and radio pro grams and post the results for the gen eral use of the student body. Rotating teams of ten students each compose the individual committees. The team issuing the most helpful and at tractive bulletins will receive an hon orary citation of merit. Mary Nolan, June Stcbbins, and Margaret Leiinon are co-chairman of the Play committee. Leona Adams heads the Music committee, and Mary Frances Ryan, the Floor Show com mittee. Catherine Clancy, Marilyn Brown, and Mary Ann Warner lead the Movie committee, and Beatrice Goldick, Ruth Ward, Cynthia Knight, Eileen Damuth, and Mary Lou Farrow, the Literary committee. Mary Ellen Martin, Patricia Dignan. and Kay O'Malley head the Radio com mittee. Team positions are available, and all those interested should contact the committee chairman or report to Kap pa Phi Omega. 12 New Students Join Freshmen, Sophomore Classes at Semester That new girl sitting beside you in the auditorium is one of twenty- lio students who joined .Mundelein ranks at the beginning of the wcond semester. Lthe sophomore class now includes Joan Buckingham, from Carleton ( lege; Jean Doyle and Marjorie Mandelbaum. from the University of (inois; and Grace Mete and Peggy Roch, from Mount St. Scholastica flege. New students among the freshmen are Patricia Anderson, Sullivan h school; Mary Ellen Barker, St. Scholastica high school; Patricia Ven and Frances Mazurek, Carl Schurz high school; Mary Clarke, Immaculata high school; Nancy Daigre and Mary Welsh. Engle- od high school. Others arc Christine Dones. llirsch high school: Frances Even, Wilding high school; Yvonne I.owry. Sacred Heart high school. Oma- a.Nebraska; Mildred Fitzgerald and Sally Wasserman. Clarke college. Juan Kares is from St. Mary's college, Notre Dame; Jeanine St. Bernard, Lake View high school; Patricia Karras, Morgan Park Junior nidge; Joan Mazaar, Austin high school; and Josephine Marino, fright Junior college. Contest Deadline March 18 College Sponsors Annual Student Creative Writing, Art Competition To encourage literary and artistic talent among the students, Mun delein is sponsoring its annual Creative Writing and Creative Art con tests, announced as a feature of Catholic Press Month. Every student is eligible to enter the contest, and may submit as many entries as she wishes to the six divisions: Essay, Verse, Short Story, Editorial, Contemporary Criticism, and Creative Art. Deadline for the submission of entries is March 18, and manu scripts are to be taken to Room 506. Awards are announced on the Commencement program. Traditionally, outstanding writers and artists are judges of the contests. Last year, J. F. Powers, short story writer, judged the short stories. The Reverend James M. Keller. M.M.. director of The Christophers, judged the essays. Clifford Lattbe. literary editor of the New York Times, judged the verse; Euphemia Van Rensselaer Wyatt. drama critic of The Catholic World, judged the contemporary criticism. James Stipple, religious editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, judged the editorials, and Sister Mary Gabriel, B.V.M., chairman of the Art department at Clarke college, judged the art. Winning awards in 1947 were Lois Kay Willard, short story; Ruth Casey, verse; Kathryn Malatesta. Patricia Muckian, Rose Marie Hussey, contemporary criticism, and Margaret Mary Campbell, art. High School Debaters Meet Here Feb. 28 Mundelein-Loyola Offer Three Awards Mundelein and Loyola will welcome representatives from Chicago area high schools to their co-sponsored high school debate tournament, Feb. 28. Planned to foster interest in debate, the tournament will consist of four rounds of competition. Awards will be given to the outstanding boy and girl debater and a trophy will be presented to the fcremost team. Although the deadline for entries is Feb. 18, the following schools have already entered the contest; Alveniia High school; Aquinas High school; Fenwick High schcol; Loyola academy; Marywood High school; Providence High school; St. Casimir academy; St. Ignatius high school, and St. Philip's High school. League of Women Voters To Hear Ex-Congresswoman The Hon. Emily Taft Douglas, former congresswoman from Illinois, and. at one time, staff member of the Illinois League of Women Voters, will be the principal speaker at the Saturday din ner meeting of the League of Women Voter's national convention to be held at League headquarters on Michigan Avenue, Feb. 20 and 21. Florence Moore, president, Harriet Diacos, Eleanor Garby, Barbara Mc Gowan, Dorothy Larney. and Ann O'Malley of the campus unit of the League will be hostesses to a group of delegates representing approximately 41 college leagues from 12 states. Miss Moore will give the welcoming ad dress. Miss McGowan and Miss Moore will discuss with other delegates the role of the college student in the League's non-partisan program to stimulate citi zen's participation in government af fairs. Appoint Faculty To Executive Posts Sister Mary Liguori, B. V. M., chair man of the Sociology department and, currently a lecturer at the Sheil School of Social Studies, has been elected to the Executive board of the American Catholic Sociological society. The election occurred at a late Janu ary meeting of the society in St. Louis. Sister Mary Liguori has held the office of treasurer of the organiza tion, and has presided at regional meetings. Sister Mary Irma, B. V. M., modera tor of The Review and of Quest, and Mary Louise Hector '45, of the Eng lish department, have been appointed members of the Board of Directors of the Chicago unit, Catholic Poetry Soci ety of America. The Reverend C. J. Lehane, C. M., of DcPaul university, chairman and newly appointed chaplain of the Chicago unit, led a discussion at a Board meet ing held here on Feb. 14:. Plans for the year were considered at the meet ing. Serve Breakfast In Tearoom Daily Breakfast for students attending Mass at Loyola will be served in the tearoom every morning this semester from 8:30 to 9 a.m. Stu dents may attend the 8:15 Mass- at the Madonna Delia Strada chap el on the Loyola university lake side campus. Student Mass in the Mundelein chapel is at 7 a.m. Mundelein Accepts NFCCS Press Post Mundelein has accepted the first chairmanship of the Press commission of the Illinois region of the National Federation of Catholic College Stud ents. A committee of six juniors will su pervise activities of the commission. On the ci mmittee are Beatrice Goldrick, chairman; Patricia Hanson, Patricia Kecnan, Cynthia Knight, Mary Leona Merrick, and Ruth Ward. Alumna Pianist Will Give Recital Thursday at 1 p.m. Muriel Meinken '46, pianist, will play for the college assembly. Feb. 17. In her senior year, Miss Meinken won a piano contest sponsored by the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, and within a month after graduation made her debut with that group. Following an audition with Artur Rubenstein, who commended her work and encouraged further study, Miss Meinken began preparation for her con cert career. Selections from Brahms, Chopin, and Griffes, will comprise Miss Meinken's program. She will also play Andalucia by DeFalla and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12. Launch 1948 Drive For Red Cross Funds In cooperation with the annual plea ' f the American Red Cross, the College Red Cross unit will launch its fund drive at an assembly on Feb. 26. The drive will aim at complete cov erage of the school. The main fund raising day will be Feb. 26, but the drive will extend from Feb. 26 to Mar. 5. An observation by President Truman is appropriate on the eve of the 1948 fund campaign. Many times a year the people turn to the Red Cross. Once a year the Red Cross turns to the people. Members of the student body On the fund raising committee are Eileen Dolan, Fund chairman. Claire John son, Maribeth Kinsella, and Barbara Morrison, Urge Student Cooperation Eileen Dolan and Maribeth Kinsella promote all-College participation in the 1948 Fund drive sponsored by the American Red Cross.
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1948-02-16 (1)
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