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October 21, 1957 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three L DAPPnnU PfliTQ are the latest fashion for Brigid Duffy as KHbbUUN UUMIO Therese McManamon and Judith Angone help her prepare for the Varsity Drag. Campus Revives Roaring Twenties 23-Skiddo To Varsity Drag Charlie get your racoon coat and let's go Everyone's going to the Varsity Drag. On Friday, Oct. 25, the holding the first social mixer Student Activities council is of this year, the Varsity Drag. Under the leadership of Mary Ann Wilczynski, head of the Social Arrangements board, the mixer is planned with the idea of bringing back the Roaring 20's. Dancing, beginning at 9:00 and lasting until midnight, will be held in the gym, with music supplied by Duane Woodruff and his four-piece dixie land combo. Terri McManamon and Judy Angone, members of the Social Ar rangements board an co-chairmen of the mixer, have sent invitations to fraternity presidents and New man clubs at all colleges and uni versities in the surrounding areas. Committee chairmen include Flor ence Larkowski, publicity; Diane Szaradowski, decorations; Terry Pasquinelli, hostesses; Jean Peter son, invitations; Betty Ciolino, re freshments; and Barbara Hegan, head of the coat checking commit tee. Seven Former Students, Alumna Enter Novitiates Seven former students and one alumna entered four religious com munities during the summer. Maureen. Sullivan ex '59 entered the Carmelite Monastery. Reno Nevada. School Sisters of Notre Dame, Milwaukee, accepted Mar tha Flach ex '59, and Vivian Lar son ex '59 entered the Medical Mis sions Sisters. Judith Nelson ex '59, Barbara McGarvey, Kathleen Bruin, Joyce Mach, Anne Zingarelli, all fresh men of last year, and alumna Rose marie Harrison '53 chose the no vitiate of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Du buque, Iowa. Juniors Beat Sputnik, Span Globe in Hour During Class Day Skit Mike Todd's Phileas Fogg re quired 80 days in his journey around the world, but the junior class will spend one day, Oct. 23, in completing their class day itin erary. Beginning with a card party at 4 o'clock, the day will continue with the recitation of the Rosary in the Chapel. A buffet supper in the tearoom will preceed the even ing's entertainment. Through the medium of the stage, the juniors will invade Eng land, France, Italy, Siam, Japan, and Mexico, using varied and un usual means of transportation. Sharon Roth is the general co ordinator of the activities. She is assisted by the following chair men: Constance Brunell, arrange ments; Barbara Guderian, enter tainment; Elizabeth Ciolino, decor ations and publicity; Judith Witt, invitations; Joanne Vecchillo, fi nances. Women's Auxiliary to Hear Alice Curtayne Lecture The Women's Auxiliary will hold a general meeting Oct. 24 at 1 p.m. Tea and attendance at the lecture given by Alice Curtayne will be on the entertainment schedule. General chairman of the meeting is Mrs. J. A. Prindiville. Enrollment Soars, Sets New Record While most Illinois colleges dropped in enrollment this fall, records here show an increase of 109 students over last year's 916. Mundelein with its enrollment of 1025 students, retained its record of the largest Catholic all-women's college in Illinois. The 319 freshman represent 58 schools, 41 Catholic and 17 pub lic. Immaculata ranks the high est with 42 girls; St. Scholastica comes in second with 31. In the class of 1961, we find that there are 19 girls who have placed first, second, or third in their high school classes. Thirty-six have been received into the National Honor Society; 27 received schol arships; and 10 have been editors of their school papers or annuals. Sister Mary St. Ida, dean of ad missions, indicated that the great est number of peoule have indi cated their interests in the social studies, science and business car eers. Boy Growing Up Highlights Mundelein Faculty Poet's Paradoxical Character Widens Activities When Emlyn Williams, drama tist, brings to the stage his own in terpretation of Dylan Thomas' early- life and poetry, he climaxes an in teresting study of a man of extremes. Thomas' life which seems to par allel a character out of Chesterton's drinking songs is characterized by a blowsy humor and erratic behavior. The here and now excited the poet. Today critics debate the extent to which Thomas' life may have been influenced by his philosophy. Like George B. Shaw, he embraced a theory that there exists a Life Force that pervades and invades all living things. His hopeless attitude may JLJk ina . . . By Roberta Dirzius IT confronted me quite suddenly. I had no chance to defend myself. 1 had been doing my English assign ment on that fateful evening. All the lights in the house were out. My studv lamp alone pierced the black ness with a narrow gleam. Then IT suddenly loomed before me, just outside the rim of light thrown by the lamp. As IT menac ingly approached, I could see IT was beetle-like in shape, but not nearly that size. ITS body and legs were covered with greyish green or yel low hairs, each topped by a globule of a jello-like substance. Red eyes burned at me from the tips of thick antennae. IT seemed to enjoy playing with me much as a cat plays with a mouse before she eats it. The terror grew in me as I thought of what IT might do to me. Then, abruptly, IT seemed to tire of ITS deadly game. Open ing ITS beak-like mouth IT ad vanced at me. I cried out, No, no, you can't, I don't want to, I . . . It grasped me and I reacted im mediately. I sneezed. Asiatic flu had struck. explain why Dylan wrote so com pulsively in and for the present. Two recent biographies of the Welsh poet are available at present. His friend, John M. Brinnan, wrote Dylan Thomas in America. How ever it concentrated so on Dylan's erratic life, that his widow, Caitlan, wrote a fuller, more sympathetic account. She has done an admirable job of capturing his personality, to gether with his many good points, in her offering, Leftover Life to Kill. Critiques by reviewers and collec tions of Dylan's works will be available in the college library starting Nov. 1. Alumnae Secretary Gains New Office With Many Duties The glass partition at the end of the second floor coridor is the new office of the alumnae secretary, Alice Campbell, '55. Miss Campbell has assumed responsibility of all alumnae business formerly cared for by Sister Mary Bernarda. Miss Campbell keeps files on the alumnae, recording any changes in address, when and whom they marry, and how many children each has. A second file holds newspaper clippings of alumnae accomplish ments. A third, the geographical file, lists alumnae according to city zone, suburb, or state. Miss Campbell puts out a monthly news sheet, Between the Lines, supplementing the quarterly, Alumnae Line. She also edits Junior Line, a paper designed to keep local discus sion and lecture groups in con tact with one another. In addi tion, she sends greetings and Mass cards to newly married alumnae. An English major, Miss Camp bell taught fourth grade at Our Lady Help of Christians school for the past two years. She is a form er Terrapin and was head of the Service Club in her senior year. The faculty and students offer their prayers and sym pathy to Sister Mary Richard, B.V.M., whose brother died recently. Sodality Stresses Christian Woman, Social Apostolate Following an intensive four weeks of organization and drafting of plans for the coming year, Sodalists have settled down to a year of concentra tion on spiritual formation and social apostolate. Aiming at developing a mature spirtuality among sodalists, group leaders will devote 15 minutes of each meeting to discussion of spir itual formation. Topic of major stress in all group meetings is the social apostolate as advocated by Pope Pius XII in his Apostolic Constitution, Bis Saecu- lari. The first project undertaken to bring about a healthier Christian structure in society is an attempt to develop the Christian ideal of wom anhood. Attitudes of fellow pa rishioners and students will be the first under observation. Approximately 75 new candidates have begun probation training. 25 student counselors who have made acts of consecration will assist the candidates. Newly appointed group leaders who will conduct weekly group meetings are: Alice Bourke, Bar bara Bukowski, Patricia Hellgeth, Joan Maher, Mary Kay Marren, Marge Phillips, Alvena Shell, and Diane Szaradowski. At Conferences Sister Mary Cecilia and Sister Mary Ignacio will attend a con ference on the teaching of biology in colleges and small universities in Des Moines on Oct. 24. * * * The growing problems of inter- cultural education in the school and in the community was the sub ject of a statewide conference on Human Relations in Teacher-Ed ucation attended by Sister Mary John Vincent and Sister Mary Alexander. The conference, held in the Sheraton hotel on Oct. 17, was sponsored jointly by the Office of the Superintendent of Public In struction, and the National Con ference of Christians and Jews. * * * Literary talent at Mundelein is not limited to only the English dept. If you pick up the recent issue of The Science Counselor, you will find it includes an article, Coordination Compounds, Cha- lates and General Chemistry, by Sister Mary Martinette, chairman of the chemistry dept. * * * Sister Mary Renee, B.V.M. and Sister Mary Pierre, B.V.M. at tended the third annual meeting of the College Foods and Nutrition conference, Congress Hotel, Oct. 18, 19. * * * Mrs. Ralph Schlarb, Sister Mary Renee, B.V.M. and Sister Mary Pierre, B.V.M. will attend the annual meeting of the Illinois Home Economics association at the La Salle Hotel Nov. 1, 2. Debaters Set Sights On Purdue Parley To Open Season The 1957-1958 competitive speech season will open with debaters Maureen Sweeney, Diane Sherwood, Alice Bourke, and Marguerite Phil lips traveling to Purdue university Nov. 1,2. They will attend a conference on the collegiate debate topic, Resolved: That membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment should be illegal. Never Sand When You Can Sit Warns Beachcombing Prospect By Marcella Brown Weary and shaken, I welcome my return to the humdrum activity of college life, after a strenuous weekend. Early in college I learned that there is no such thing as homework. Mother learned too, and showing a misguided confidence in her studious daughter gave me a Dangerous Assignment, Advanced House work. The result is chaotic confusion. I sit amidst the ruins of my once happy home and gaze at the furni ture gathered cozily together in the center of each room. The bare floors and stacked furnishings evi dence the sad fact that my house is not in order, and that as a home economist, I have flunked. However sanding floors (the Dangerous Assignment) was an education in itself, though, I don't regret that the course should be taken only once every 20 years. It will take 20 years to gather cour age enough to attempt it again. Housework is a fine art which I could pass with flying colors, pass up with yellow cowardice, that is. But a skilled science such as sand ing floors does not allow the imag ination to thrive. Yet an active mind can take charge of the situation and see immediately what good sanding of floors can accom- lish. But Mother refuses to make her apartment into a du plex beach and charge one CTA token for admission. Since my failure in Housework 211,1 have had the feeling that I'm not wanted. Mother has been wrapping my lunches in roadmaps. Now that the beach does not seem to be a paying proposition, due to a lack of co-operation, per haps I can hire out as a beach comber . . . experienced student of Wind, SAND, and Stars.
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1957-10-21 (3)
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