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Vol- XXIX Mundelein College, Chicago 40, Illinois, September 30, 1958 Dean To Cite Student Leaders At Convocation The second annual fall honors con vocation recognizing students who are beginning their academic year with a record of high achievement will be held Thursday, Oct. 2, in the college theater. Scheduled to commemorate the feast day of Mother Mary Frances Clarke, Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M., the convoca tion will include public recognition of upperclassmen who maintained a 2.5 average during the past two semesters. Freshmen who have merited college scholarships and alumnae who have achieved academic distinction within the last year will also be honored. The formal convocation will mark the first appearance of the sophomores and juniors in aca demic dress. Faculty and seniors will enter the auditorium in for mal procession. Sister Mary Donald, Dean of Studies will present the students for recogni tion and deliver a brief address. Seventy-seven upperclassmen will be honored for their two-semester 2.5 grade point average. This is 18 more than were so honored last year. Members of the class of 1959 who (Continued on Page 4) Enrollment Goes Up for '58-'59 Mundelein's 1,092 enrollment for 1958 clearly shows that the yearning for learning is still strong. The freshman class numbers 347, closely followed by the sopho mores' 246, and the juniors' 217. The 210 seniors comprise the larg est Senior Class ever enrolled at Mundelein. Fifteen special students, plus, 57 attending Saturday classes help to make the 1,092 mark. The 347 freshmen represent 50 Catholic and 23 public high schools from the Chicago area. Greatest number of student representatives are from Immaculata with 34 stu dents, St. Scholastica with 26 stu dents, and Alvernia with 22. Among the students from Immacu lata, St. Scholastica, and Cardinal Stritch are those who ranked first and second in their classes. The class of 1962 can also claim 48 national honor students, 10 former sodality prefects, five former senior class presidents, and four editors of high-school newspapers. Four for eign freshman students are also en rolled. Forty-nine of the freshmen brought with them the distinction of winning scholarships, most of them on a com petitive basis. Twenty-eight Illinois State Scholarship winners are en rolled, 11 of them having also merited liberal arts scholarships in the Mun delein competitive examination. Another dozen freshmen will be educated through scholarships granted by industry, high school alumnae associations, or by Mayor's scholarships. One New World winner is also enrolled. New Handbook Easy To Read The 1958 revision of the Student Handbook, now on sale in the college bookstore, offers a variety of new fea tures interesting to upperclassmen and freshmen alike. Both style and format of the new book are designed to make the hand book easier and more attractive read ing for the student. A concise summary of the college standards, drawn up as a result of joint faculty-student discussions held at counselor meetings last year, gives an accurate picture of the immediate goals to which students presently en rolled at Mundelein aspire. Between the heavy red, white and black spiral-bound covers are 67 pages of complete information on student activities, academic regulations, and rules of the college. A committee of volunteers who as sisted Ann Coe, 1957 SAC president, with the completion of the book dur ing the summer, included Nancy But ler, Mary Ann King, Mary Therese Burke, and Jeanine Dwyer. Preparations for Benefit Begin; Committees Share Lounge Area They saw him in Brussels; they saw him in Berlin, and soon they'll be seeing him in Chicago. In Mundelein's lounge prepara tions are under way for the exclusive local appearance of Benny Goodman Oct. 31 in Orchestra Hall. SAC President Vicki Bomba Archbishop Meyer is general co-ordinator of all Benefit committees. Ann Zarlenga's ad com mittee has set up headquar ters across from the ele vators. Copy for advertis ing in the Benefit program may be turned in daily Eager Physicists May Watch TV Series For Class, Credits How would you like to attend class in the comforts of your home? Mun delein, in cooperation with the Na tional Broadcasting company and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, will offer a two- semester course in Physics for the Atomic Age five days a week. The course will be televised over NBC channel 5 five days a week, Monday through Friday, from 6:30 to 7 a.m., beginning Oct. 6, 1958, and ending June 5,1959. Dr. Harvey E. White, professor and vice-chairman of the physics de partment at the University of Cali fornia, and other internationally known scientists will teach the course. Sister Mary Therese, B.V.M, chairman of the physics depart ment, will co-ordinate the pro gram here at school. She will an swer questions and help students of the course with basic labora tory experiments on material cov ered on television during the pre vious week. Those who success fully complete the course will re ceive three hours of credit for each semester. Tests, additional reading, and out- of-class activities will round out the course. Final examinations will be held at Mundelein on Saturdays fol lowing the completion of the two se mesters. from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The committee's goal is a hun dred-page program book. Sharing lounge space are the pa tron committee, headed by Mary Ann Wilczynski, and the ticket committee, headed by Marilyn Vetter. The ticket booth will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Ticket prices range from 1.75 to 5. Betty Weiss and her committee are searching for artists with a talent for sketching. They are sponsoring a contest to find a cover for the Benefit program. Judges for the contest, which ends Oct. 8, are Sister Mary Assisium, B.V.M., Dean of Women; Sister Mary Janet, B.V.M., chairman of the art department, and two SAC mem bers. Barbara Hartke has charge of the promotion committee. A bul letin board in the lounge will keep tabs on the number of ads and patrons sold. The highest-scoring class will receive a loving cup. The promotion committee also an nounced that prizes for super sales women will be a fur-blend sweater, a Shetland cardigan, and a Benny Goodman LP album. Annette Busse is in charge of bene fit publicity. Kathleen McDermott's committee will mail notices of the Benefit to friends of the college. Terri McManamon will contact Alumnae, and Rosemary Schneider will be in charge of bookkeeping. Autumn leaves and col lege pennants will add color to the gymnasium when the fall mixer, Pennant Prance, is held Friday, Oct. 3, 9 to 12 p.m. Music will be provided by the Swing Kings. General co- chairmen are Nancy Butler and Sue Haglund. Archbishop of Milwaukee Welcomed As Chancellor The faculty and student body of Mundelein College offer their warmest welcome to The Most Reverend Albert G. Meyer of Mil waukee, the newly appointed leader of Chicago Catholics. In his capacity as Archbishop of Chicago, His Excellency will also become the third Chancellor of Mundelein College. The press releases reporting Archbishop Meyer's appointment to the Chicago See indicate that the announcement was met with evident satisfaction on the part of both Churchmen and civic lead ers. Governor William G. Stratton and Mayor Richard J. Daley issued official and very cordial statements of welcome and congratu lations to the newly-appointed prelate. The Catholic people of Chicago rejoiced that they had been given a new spiritual leader. To Archbishop Meyer, we of Mundelein pledge our loyalty and support. We are honored that he, like Cardinal Mundelein and Car dinal Stritch, will play a part in the history of our College. Modern Art, from Drama to Dance, Developed in Lecture Series Theme Highlighting the 1958-59 concert-lecture series, the SAC and Faculty have invited eight lecturers and artists to develop the theme, Modern Arts for the Modern Student. A unique once-a-month program has been especially selected and geared to the modern Mundelein woman's tastes and ideas. Studs Terkel, author of Giants of Jazz and authority in this field, opened the series with vital information on America's own contribution to world culture. His topic was Jazz as a Modern Art Form. Bringing a modern interpretation to stagings and studies of Shakespeare, Margaret Webster, noted actress, author, and director of Shakespearean plays, will lecture on A Shakespearean Anthology Oct. 23. Students of Shakespeare are familiar with her book, Shakespeare without Tears. To give a view on contemporary political situations. Urban H. Fleege, Ph.D., will offer My Im pressions of Russia Nov. 25. Dr. Fleege is chairman of the Edu cation department at DePaul Uni versity and has just returned from a summer tour of the Soviet state. After the Christmas holidays, the Clebanoff String orchestra, famous for modern mood music, will give a concert Jan. 13. Originator and leader, Herman Clebanoff, has been violinist and concert master for such orchestras as the Illinois, New Or leans, and Chicago Symphonies. Though American born, he has created a string orchestra playing American music with the moods and sounds of the old European ones. His idea is to retune the American ear to forgotten Euro pean musical beauty. Keeping the progression of Ameri can music in mind and using English ballads as well, Richard Dyer-Bennet, the Minstrel in White Tie, tenor, and guitarist, will entertain Feb. 3. Mr. Bennet has toured the U.S. like Freshman Ceremony To Highlight Program At Parents' Reception Freshman class members will be in vested in their academic caps and gowns, Sunday, Oct. 5, at 2 p.m. in the auditorium during a ceremony that will be an annual occasion now that the student body wears full aca demic dress at formal assemblies. Freshman parents have been invited to attend. Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.YJ , President of the College, will open the program with her address. Freshmen will go to the stage indi vidually to receive their caps from Sister Mary Donald, B.V.M., Dean of Studies. A reception, to which all students and their parents are invited, will fol low at 3:30 p.m. in the College social rooms. Afterwards parents will meet departmental chairmen and faculty members. the old 20th Century Troubador with guitar in hand and almost 600 classic folk songs in his heart. Mr. Bennet appeared at the Ravinia Fes tival this summer. To alert the students to trends in contemporary thinking, Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., former chairman of the department of philosophy, will lecture on Thomas Aquinas in the Modern World, March 3. Thomas Molnar, Ph.D., author and professor at Brooklyn College, will follow this philosophic assembly with a discussion, Modern Art as an Ex pression of Our Times, April 7. Dr. Molnar has attended schools in Ru mania, Belgium and Hungary. He acquired his doctoral degree from Co lumbia University and has written for several Catholic and secular maga zines. In keeping with this modern tone, Jean Erdman, creative dancer, plans a double program for April 28. At the early assembly, she will discuss Dance Traditions and Dance Invention. Later in the evening, 8 p.m, the subject will be Dance Ritual. Miss Erdman emphasizes a lyrical and dra matic style of highly original character based on masterly tech nique. Like most modern authorities, she feels that dance should reveal great breadth and depth of human feeling and aesthetic sense. Students of the music department will also participate in presenting this series. First the Glee club will pre sent a program of songs and melodies. Later soloists majoring in voice, piano and organ will conclude the series with a concert of Contemporary Lit erary Music. In connection with the Concert- Lecture series, the SAC-Faculty committee has also planned a tentative Fine Arts Festival. Besides participants, Dr. Molnar, Jean Erdman, and Students of the Music Department, mentioned above, the Festival will include an Inter collegiate Art Exhibit April 9-May 8, a Spanish Foreign Film, April 8, and a play presented by the Laetare Play ers, April 19-20. Freshman Class Elects New Student Governors Freshman governors elected Sept. 29 are Joan McCabe, 405; Mary Frances Hoffman, 401; Mary Ve ronica Williams, 307; Kathryn Hig- gin, 407; Rosann Pinto, 507; Mary Lou Lorscheider, 510; Judith Harris, 511; Patricia Sullivan, 501; and Bar bara Lenehan, 715.
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1958-09-30 (1)
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