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ask. now * s .- iUfftilifO : t ih ie ,: I Zlj;: ; --: PIEfc Volume V. FRESHMAN MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, May 22, 1935 EDITION No. 12 Mary Ann Walsh Chosen Queen of May Ceremony Maids of Honor to Assist At College Coronation On Friday Mary Ann Walsh, S.A.C. president, will reign as May Queen at the corona tion of the Blessed Mother on May 24. By vote of the student body Miss Walsh was chosen as the most worthy represen tative for this honor. Miss Walsh will be attended by 16 maids of honor. Virginia Woods and Margaret Grace will represent the senior class: maids from the junior class arc Eleanor Hopkins, Annamae Shinnick. and Marie Cuny; sophomore attendants will be Eileen Carroll, Mary Geiger, Beryl Klein, and Cecilia Wasisco; while Helen Mahoney. Janine Dziejowski, Concetta Alonzi, Joanne Dimmick, Col ette Corbett, Carol Sweeney, and Flor ence Griffin, are the freshmen represen tatives. A procession of the queen and her maids followed by the seniors in caps and gowns and the rest of the student body in light dresses will march from the Col lege building to the east end of the li brary porch where the decorated shrine of Our Lady will be placed. As Miss Walsh places the crown, the entire stu dent body, assembled on the east campus overlooking the lake, will sing Bring Flowers of the Rarest. Sallie Agnes Smith And Ruth Hottinger Qive Final Recitals Ruth Hottinger, the only piano major in the senior class, and Sallie Agnes Smith, who recently received the Golden Rose for outstanding dramatic work, presented a joint recital on May 19, at 3 :30 in the College auditorium. Miss Hottinger is the author of sev eral musical compositions and has writ ten the theme song for the Senior Ball. She played a few pastorals and a Con certo by Schytte. A group of musical readings and an original adaptation of the novel, A Daughter of the Samukai, by Etsu Sugimata was presented by Miss Smith, president of the Laetare Players. Miss Smith has appeared in the annual plays for the past four years, and in the Mo saics of 1-935 took the lead in The Sum mons of Sariel. Skyscraper Receives All-American Honors The Skyscraper received AU- American Honor rating from the National Collegiate Press associa tion, the highest honor given to any college newspaper, in the contest, results of which were received last week. : Newspapers from 214 colleges and universities were submitted to the contest this year, and the rates, All-American, and First, Second, and Third Class Honor Rating, are awarded on writing, editing, and make-up. The. paper won All-Catholic honors last year in the nation wide contest sponsored by the Cath olic School Press association, and the March issue of the Catholic School editor, official organ of the C.S.P.A., carried a picture of Ann Lally,- editor-in-chief. Elect Student Council Officers For Coming Year President, Vice-President, Secretary Are Former S.A.C. Members Six Students Attend Bishop's Jubilee Mass Five Mundelein representatives, Vir ginia Woods, Margaret Grace, Mary- Margaret Morrissey, Charlotte Wilcox, Mary Catherine Rose, and Catherine Heerey, attended the services at Holy Name Cathedral in honor of the Silver Jubilee of His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bernard J. Sheil, D.D., V.G. on May 21. The principal event was the cele bration of the Solemn Pontificial Mass of thanksgiving which was celebrated by His Excellency at 10:30 a. m. Bishop Sheil has received a great deal of commendation for his work with the Catholic Youth of Chicago. He is found er of the C.Y.O., whose main purpose is to meet the dangers of the day and to train this generation in upholding higher morals. His Excellency is also the di rector of Cisca. On Sunday, May 26, the clergy and laity of Chicago will honor His Excel lency at a banquet. Senior Comprehensives Scheduled for May 31 The chic coiffures and ruffled organ dies of Mundelein graduates at the Sen ior Ball will bear no trace of the men tal struggles endured earlier in the day when said graduates shall have proved the precedence of business over pleas- ur by taking their comprehensive ex aminations. The comprehensive will be given from 9 until 12 o'clock on May 31, in the fourth-floor study hall, each examination being divided into two parts to allow for an intermission between two 85-min- ute periods. Cover Major Field The examinations, which are given in accordance with recommendations of the North Central association of American Colleges, will be based upon syllabi given to each student at the opening of the second semester of her senior year. They cover the major field of each student, and serve as a check upon her assimilation of the work covered and her ability to organize and select essentials. Because of the comprehensives, no senior will be required to take final examina tions in courses in her major field which she is taking this semester. Chemists Write Theses An announcement from the chemistry department reveals that three seniors majoring in chemistry have written theses. Edith Dorn has written a Study of the Relationship Between the Solubil ity of Certain Chlorides and Their Crys tal Structures. Ann Lackner -has written The Study of the Relationship of the Solubility of Certain Sulfides and the Periodic Table; and Frances Regan has written a thesis entitled, A Language Incidence Study From the Chemical Abstracts. Seniors Have Class Day Mass, Breakfast, May 23 The annual round of events for the seniors, opened by the Junior-Senior banquet, will continue on Thursday, May 23, with Class Day. Mass and Holy Communion in the Chapel at 7:30 a. m. will be followed by the blessing of the class rings by Father Mertz and break fast in the tea room. At 3 o'clock, the class will and prophecy will be read. Senior Ball Will Climax Annual Social Activities Julia Hagerty, president of her class as freshman, sophomore, and junior, treasurer of the S.A.C. in her sopho more year, and secretary of that organis ation during the past year, was unani mously elected president of the Student Activities Council on May 6. Miss Hagerty will succeed Mary Ann Walsh, who was class president during her junior year. Miss Walsh leaves be hind an admirable record of successful leadership of the student body and of extra-curricular activities. Lillian Scholzen, Who received the of fice of vice-president, will succeed Irene Lavin, who is prominent in athletics and is sports editor of the Skyscraper. Miss Scholzen is president-elect of Al pha Omicron and was a member of the Student Activities Council during her junior year. The office of secretary of the S.A.C. was merited by Rita Smith. Miss Smith has been president of her class for two years and was treasurer of the S.A.C. during the past year. Helen Farrell was elected treasurer of the S.A.C. Miss Farrell is at present secretary of the freshman class and is a graduate of St. Thomas Apostle high school. Ann Ellen Smith, Elenor Loarie Win Freshman Contest Elenor Loarie Ann Ellen Smith At Mundelein at least, the oft-argued question of limiting incomes was settled at last when Ann Ellen Smith and Elenor Loarie emerged victorious in the final round of the Freshman Debate contest, defending the affirmative of the ques tion against the attacks of Catherine Ann Dougherty and Agnes Griffin, on May 14. With the opening of the quarter-finals, the grave matter of decisions was turned over to a group of Loyola debaters, in cluding William Lamey, president of the Loyola Debating club, John McKian, Warren McGrath, Fred Brandstrader, George Fleming, and James Rafferty. In the semi-finals, Edythe Williams and Maryhelen Flanagan, affirmative, opposed Catherine Ann Dougherty and Agnes Griffin, while Miss Loarie and Miss Smith opposed Catherine O'Connor and Julia Mary Hanna. Mr. McKian, Mr. McGrath, and Mr. Fleming judged the finals, at which Mary Agnes Tynan, president of the Munde lein club, presided. Following the Mundelein tourney, the winners debated the negative of the question in a no-decision contest with Loyola on May 16. LEADS SENIOR BALL Ann Lally Observe Anniversary Of Papal Encyclicals Commemorating the anniversary of the publications of the Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII and the Quadragesimo Anno of Pope Pius XI, the class in in troductory sociology held a symposium on the causes, purposes, and results of the encyclicals on May 15. Rita Devaney presided while the fol lowing students participated in the dis cussion : Mary Rita Murphy, Mary Ann Kirschten, Marian Green, Lillian Gruss, Jean McKeever, Catherine Mulvihill. Discuss Backgrounds The social conditions of the present day have brought into the limelight the pro nouncement of the two great Pontiffs with regard to labor and capital. With the enactment of the National Industrial Recovery Act particular interest has been manifested in the stand of the Catholic Church on the subject. Miss Murphy, whose subject was the special reasons for the issuance of both encyclicals, traced the social background of the times preceding their publication. Causes for social distress she gave as the growth of industry, discoveries of sci ence, greater poverty of the masses, and the ignoring of the proletariat. Consider Social Legislation Speaking on the economic conditions of the times of publication, Miss Kirsch ten gave a resume of the legislation en acted for economic improvement at the period of the encyclicals. Miss Green outlined the labor program of Catholics in the United States from 1891 to 1931, while Miss Gruss devel oped as her subject the growth of so cial and later legislation during the past 44 years. (Continued on page 4, col. 2) Lake Shore Dinner Dance Will Commence With Traditional Song To the strains of Tonight With You, written for the Charter Class Ball, the fifth annual Senior Ball will glide into reality within the luxurious portals of the Lake Shore Athletic club, on May 31. Dinner will be served at 11, and the grand march will begin at 12, with Ann Lally, chairman of the Senior Ball com mittee, leading the right wing, and Lucy Crowley, senior class president, leading the left. The orchestra, which has not been se lected as yet. will also play the Ball Song of the present senior class, the inspira tion of Ruth Hottinger. Bids will be dis- triblted this week, and may be secured from any senior, according to Virginia Meagher, bid chairman. The song, Tonight With You, com posed by Olga Melchione '34, was adopt ed last year as the traditional song of all future Mundelein Senior Balls. Miss Hottinger's song is a special contribution of the present senior class. Expect Large Attendance At Cisca Meet Thursday Come one Come all to the last Cisca meeting of this scholastic year. This meeting is to be held at Mt. Carmel high school, 6428 South Dante avenue on Thursday, May 30. On that day Virginia Woods, prefect of the Sodality, will relinquish her office as secretary, which she has ably fulfilled during the past year. Qlee Club Director Will Be Organist At San Diego Fair Bidding adieu to the Glee club.Mr. Wal ter Flandorf introduced Mr. Alexander Harley as the director pro-tem, on May 10, and left for California, where he will play at the Ford Exhibit at the Ex position in San Diego on a pipeless and windless organ invented recently in Chicago. Mr. Flandorf merited this position be cause of his excellent playing in the Black Forest at the World's Fair last year and also because he is one of the outstanding organists of the United States. Mr. Flandorf will fly back to Chica go for the Baccalaureate ceremony on June 9, on which day he will resume di rection of the College Glee club, and the will remain in Chicago until Commence ment after which he will return to Cali fornia. Officers for 1935-36 Selected by Classes Rosemary Kearns will assume the du ties of president of the senior class for the year 1935-36. Assisting Miss Kearns will be Gertrude Hans, vice-president and social chairman; Harriet Reed, treasurer; Rita Casey, sergeant-at-arms; and Virginia O'Connell and Jeanne De vaney, Student Activities representatives. Junior class offices will be filled by Jean McKeever, president; Wilma Rob erts, vice-president; Eileen Madden, sec retary; Helen Bulchunis, treasurer; Mar ian Green, social chairman; and Ger trude Rafferty and Margaret Mary Smith, Student Council representatives. Lorraine Manske will act as president of the incoming sophomore class. Doro thy Roche will be vice-president; Betty Kelso, secretary; Catherine O'Cononr, treasurer; Maurita Kelly, social chair man; and Gertrude Brant, sergeant-at- arms. Representatives to the Student Activities Council will be Helen Coleman and Shirley Brice. These elections took place May 20-21.
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