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October 28, 1959 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three CCB Chairman Gets Assistant In order to unite the aims and ac tivities of the individual organizations at Mundelein, the Club Coordination board went into full swing for a big ger and better program for the com ing year. THE ELECTION of a Coordination board co-chairman and the establish ment of regulations for the use of Philomena hall constituted their first attempts to accomplish this year's objectives. Club presidents, who make up the CCB, chose Bernadette Rinder, senior, chairman of the Young Democrats, co- chairman of the CCB. The reason for this appointment was to distribute the responsibilities of Perreannie Wilson, chairman and vice-president of the Student Activities council. THIS DISTRIBUTION of respon sibilities has become necessary because of the vice-president's ever-increasing duties with the Big Sisters of which she is also chairman, stated Sister Mary Assisium, B.V.M., Dean of Women. The recommendation for the division of responsibility was made last June by Mary Ann Wilczynski, retiring SAC vice-president. Psychology Majors Start Club Called Theta Psi Alpha Psychology department members are starting a club which will be open to any sophomore, junior, or senior. The chosen name, Theta Psi Alpha, means God, psychology and man. The club's purpose will be to exam ine trends in psychology, its historical background, and to correlate psy chology with Christian principles. Monthly meetings will be oc cupied by movies, lectures, panels and field trips. The girls plan to hold joint meetings with the re cently formed Loyola Psychology club for most of these activities. Setting the plans in order are Car- meline Napolitano, Virginia Brown and Rosalie Neufeldt, seniors; Mau reen McConville, Gloria Gallaci and Deborah Godart, juniors. An introductory meeting for those who wish to join will be held sometime in early November. Switchboard Ope 7 Years at Noisy, In the midst of glowing lights and humming buzzers resides tiny, gray- haired, blue-eyed Mrs. Rose Acton, guardian of Mundelein's switchboard. MRS. ACTON once declared before becoming an operator herself that whoever becomes a switchboard op erator is either crazy or very intellec tual. Now she controls a switchboard which has five outside trunk lines, and 30 extensions. She answers approxi mately 100 incoming calls a day, but the bulk of her business is with out going and inter-house calls. This neat, soft-spoken woman knows all of the Sisters in the college, and many of the students by name and face. They know her in return. For whenever one needs a schedule of a student or sister, or a nurse or just assistance, Mrs. Acton is always ready to help. The mother of two Loyola graduates, Mrs. Acton began her switchboard career 12 years ago for the Granville Apartment hotel when her boys entered the service. She took her position at Munde lein in 1952. Since the beginning of her switchboard career, two experi ences stand out the brightest in her memory. There was the time when all the Future Teachers Discover Fun in Students' Antics GETTING RIGHT into the swing of things, Bernadette Rinder, new co-chairman of the Club Coordination board, helps Perreannie Wilson, chairman, draw up regulations for use of Philomena hall by clubs and organizations. What Is Mundelein? All future Picassos, Rembrandts, and just plain dabblers are invited to participate in the Student Activities Council's poster-photograph contest from Oct. 15 to Nov. 9. WHAT IS MUNDELEIN? is the theme which requires each participant to present one aspect of Mundelein through the use of an original poster or photograph. Through this contest we hope to alert the students to things in their college environment which help to create the distinctive Mun delein atmosphere, says Anne Miller, coordinator of the contest. One prize in each division will be Sophomore Class Plans Annual Fall Tea Dance The Sophomore class of Mundelein College will hold their annual Tea Dance, on Sunday, Nov. 8. The dance, which lasts from 5 to 8 p.m., will be held in Room 405. Invitations are being sent individu ally, at the requests of the girls, and to various fraternities of Chicago area colleges. The co-chairmen of the dance, Sheila Rooney and Terry Duster, have announced an autumn theme. Music will be provided by long-playing rec ords. rator Recalls Busy Post fuses blew out in her office, causing the lights on her board and the warn ing buzzer to quit. It was impossible for her to know when a call was com ing in. Mrs. Acton noted a small whirring sound indicating that a call was trying to come through. She then took her outside trunk line and plugged it into each of the out side call lines calling hello each time. Eventually after a few misses, she would find the right outlet. ANOTHER TIME she turned away from the board not noticing she had forgotten to turn the buzzer on. When she turned back to find out why things had been so quiet, she met with a mass of glowing lights and questioning people. I never forgot again, she laughs. DOES ANYTHING ever bother her calm composure? The person who pushes the receiver plugs up and down till I answer. They seem to be una ware of the fact that as soon as they lift the receiver up, the operator's board lights up and the buzzer sounds, and that I will answer as soon as I finish with another caller. But as she said it, the twinkle in her eye proved it to be only one of those things which made her say about her job, It's just fun. awarded to the students who most suc cessfully capture the significant spirit of the college by using concrete and unique things. Individually, the posters will be con sidered on the basis of good design, coordination, execution and balance, while the photographs will be criti cized according to originality of ideas, clear focus, contrast and general com position. THE PRIZES, Mundelein medals, will be presented at the SAC assembly, Nov. 21. The blue-ribboned entries will be on display in the Phoenix cor ridor after Nov. 12. Judging the merits of each entry will be Sister Mary Donatus, journal ism instructor, Mrs. Edward Matula, art instructor, and Peggy Roach, alumnae secretary. Faculty Plans Saturday Talks The departments of Mundelein are planning a series of Saturday after noon meetings, beginning Nov. 7, for Catholic high school teachers. Discussions will include: new ideas on the subject of the department con cerned, new teaching techniques, preparation for students entering col lege, opportunities for advanced place ment and the preparation of college students for high school teaching. The dates are: Nov. 7: Economics, Government, So ciology, Music, Art and Religion. Nov. 14: History, Home Economics, Latin, Modern Languages and Re ligion. Nov. 21: Religion, Mathematics, Science and English. Each department will send a notice of its program to the corresponding department in the high school so that members of their faculty may be able to attend and contribute to the discus sions. Have you noticed ' a number of smartly groomed young ladies breeze into the tearoom shortly be fore 11:50? These high-heeled lasses are the student-teacher element of the senior class. Although their day at Mundelein be gins a bit late, they have already spent the morning in a classroom, behind the teachers desk, rather than the cus tomary Mundelein student capacity. THE FIRST WEEK or two is spent in strict observation, and then gradu ally they take over as teachers be tween 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. Elemen tary teachers usually conduct classes in one or perhaps two subjects, such as language-arts, arithmetic or his tory. One deviator from this schedule is Judy Gedmin, who is teaching her fourth grade class at Boone school to read and speak French. Quite a number of unusual ex periences have been overheard in the tearoom. Aileen Coutre, tells of the day she was to begin her 1-B class at Stone with the customary Pledge of Allegi ance. The class was not in their own room, and a little girl who missed the regular large-size wall flag, asked how they could say the Pledge without a flag. Aileen pointed to a miniature flag propped in a jar. Miss Coutre, said the little girl, maybe we could put some water in the jar and make the flag grow bigger. AT WALLER H. S., where Marge Masceri is teaching senior Civics, it is customary for students to have passes while in the halls during school hours. Marge was promptly asked why she had no pass. Valerie LaSerdo is probably the only student teacher who can claim a kiss from one of her pupils. A young first grade lad in her class at Clint gave her a big kiss and exclaimed, I al ways kiss the teachers I like. ROBERTA BERNAHL was demon strating Algebraic equations for her freshmen at Sullivan. She says she had the utmost confidence in her stu dent's responses to the problems. One pupil gave her a wrong answer which she promptly wrote on the board as correct. One boy in Fran Kotre's first grade at Boone reported back to her after reading the entire pri mer. 'That was the most inter esting book I ever read, he said. It was also his first, added Fran. Kathleen McDermott encountered an embarrassing situation after talking to her cooperating teacher, Mr. Stan ley, at Senn High School. She was approached by one of her math stu dents who asked Kathleen if she was Mrs. Stanley. During the sixth grade social stud ies class at Stone, where Mary Jane Bowler was explaining a chapter in geography, one fellow raised his hand an emergency; it may be a friendly social call. But no matter who wants to talk to whom, Mrs. Rose Acton is always at the switchboard, ready to quickly connect the two parties. IT MAY BE in response to Mary Jane's appeal for contributions. I believe I have some thing extra to contribute to the class, Miss Bowler, since I've read the whole text more than once. CURRENTLY the girls are relating not only pupil experiences, but also observation experiences. That is, the 20-30 minutes when they are observed in action by the Mundelein Education department faculty members. Most of the student teachers have come through without any great classroom catastrophies. It's such a wonderful experience, says Mary Dankowski, teaching in Boone's fourth grade, I'm going to miss them all when I come back to Mundelein full time in February. Mary, as well as the other student- teachers, assures us that none of the classroom antics have discouraged careers in teaching. Liturgy Revival To Be Topic of German Lecture Rt. Rev. Monsignor Gerhard A. Fittkau, S.T.D., will be the guest speaker at the German Club meeting, Nov. 9, at 4:10 in Room 607. Monsignor Fittkau is the author of the Catholic best seller, My Thirty- third Year, a book in which he relates his experiences as a slave laborer in Russian concentration camps after be ing kidnapped in 1945 by the Soviet Secret Police in Germany. This popu lar book has been published in Eng lish, German, Danish and Italian. The lecture, which will be open to all students, will concern the revival of the liturgy in Germany, and the role of the lay apostolate in this re vival. Color slides of modern churches in Germany, most of which were built by the faithful themselves, will also be shown. The Monsignor is the Director of the American St. Boniface Society, an organization to assist in the spiritual rehabilitation of uprooted German Catholics living in traditionally Prot estant areas. The American St. Boni face Society was established in New York in 1920 after the Nuncio to Ger many, Eugenio Pacelli, recommended it to the Apostolic Delegate in Wash ington. Economists Host N.D. Mundelein economists will be hostesses to the economics majors from the University of Notre Dame on Nov. 22. Current affairs, ranging from the steel strike to the St. Law rence Seaway, will be among the topics for their discussions. A social hour will conclude the day's activities. Sister Mary Eloise, B.V.M., chair man of the economics department, hopes that it will be profitable and stimulating to exchange ideas with students from another university. ia Omicron Polls Silver Preferences Alpha Omicron is sponsoring a poll on silverware patterns Nov. 10 in the home economics department between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. A representative from Reed Bar ton will conduct brief interviews with the students in order to secure opin ions from educated college women as to their p-eferences in proposed silver ware designs. This technique enables the company to keep abreast of what the coming generation prefers. An interview consists of a student examining a dozen or more handmade silver teaspoons and noting her pref erences on a convenient ballot, along with any comments she cares to make to the representative. In the past, Mundelein women have always picked the most popular de signs used in the country, remarked Reed Barton's representative. Alphi
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