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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Memories That Bless and Burn Are Numerous for Class of '51 Any class discovers at the end of four years that months which seemed crammed with study, books, term papers, hooks, pan el discussions, books, projects, books, were really pinpointed with other activities, forming a potpourri of fun and friendship. We of the Class of 1951 have been to gether for a while, have made friends among the Faculty and other classes, and have come to know well or fairly well 157 interesting personalities. We were new together, si niggled through a self-conscious attempt at a Com munity Sing at our (Irientation week pic nic, with box lunches and cokes on the seawall. We remember Mass of the Holy Ghost . . . we enjoyed our first class Christmas party, complete with a gym nasium full of guests . . . and we cherish the memory, still flickering in our dreams, of our first Skyscraper Hall . . . our first holiday excitement . . . our first vacation as college girls. We remember Freshman elections, with a barrage of clever campaign posters, when everyone ran . . . we remember our first Coke dance, embarrassingly new to us. and the square dance with unique imported callers. We remember Retreat, then our Freshman Issue of The Skyscraper and our very own beats . . . Freshman contribu tions to the Review, to Debates, to Plays . . . our carnival with its weird sideshows, wish ing well, and walking minstrels . . . Then we were Sophomores with assur ance and poise and Freshman Little Sis ters ( Don't they look young ) . . . we remember the catching fun of the Talent show, ice-skating in the Arena . . . and a splash party for Little Sisters. We remember planning our first big College dance, the Cotillion . . . myster ious ET-G day . . . we remember applaud ing the Water Carnival . . . buying lina- ment for our Equestrienne friends, and initialing the Sophomore Variety show. Junior year, we enjoyed planning a Fash ion revue for the Freshmen . . . our Ma jor Departments welcomed us . . , wc re member our carefree manner and our anx ious prayers for our Senior friends ( We have another year to study for Comps ... )... We said thanks that the snowstorm came the day AFTER our Val entine Prom . . . we watched laughshaken oarswomen at our Class picnic . . . we pirouetted daintily before guests at the last Menefit Card Party ( It's smart to drag furs behind you ) We remember rounding up our very small friends to attend the Alumnae benefit of Peter Pan . . . the awakening at our Jun ior-Senior luncheon, when we first real ized that we must take the places of our Senior friends, and soon. And then wc were Seniors. We remem ber our first formal assembly ( 'Did I wear my mortar board backwards all dur ing the procession? ) . . . our heartbreak in November when our classmate was in jured, and died. We remember our Mothers coming for our last Candlelighting. when we sang on the special stairs . . . we remember the New Year, our last fill-in-registration-coup ons-day . . . pre-Comp groans and post- Corn ) glee . . . We remember top o'the morning and the better part of St. Patrick's day to you and the NFCCS bazaar . . . we remember perfected bridge games . . . prayers for peace . . . club coordination with the Loy ola boys next door . . . nostalgia when we entertain the Juniors . . . academically. we are almost has beens. But not quite. We still have College Day. Baccalaureate, momentous Com mencement, Senior picnic, the glamour of the Senior Ball, and surprise meetings at weddings. It's been wonderful It al ways will be wonderful Our Hearts Belong To Dependable Daddy Fathers are sometimes known as the forgotten men necessary to, but detached from, our gay young lives. They are a strange manner of being their heads filled with law or medicine or business, their right hands forever writing checks, and their left hands forever handing out the keys to the car. They magically appear each evening just in lime for dinner, then bury themselves in the newspaper for the rest of the even ing. They are creatures of habit, doing the same thing day after day and seeming to derive enjoyment from this dull existence. They ignore most of what we do and then complain that no one ever tells them what is going on. They're dignified and friendly when the girls drop over to the house, but they act like a combination of Milton Berle and Senator Kefauver when our dates come to call for us. Fathers are wonderful people. They mysteriously make everything right again when we're sure the world has come to an end whether it is putting a doll's head back in place or repairing the fender we crumpled last weekend. They bellow from the rooftops that they wouldn't be seen dead at our recitals, plays, or carnivals; but they're seen there alive, and their cheers and applause far out-echo former grumblings. They tell us that the boys we go out with should be locked in cages until they are no longer a menace to human ity, but they sit and talk baseball with these boys for most of our date time. They complain that we buy too many clothes, but they arc the first to mention it if we aren't always looking our best. We see in our fathers so many differ ent people that sometimes we hardly see them at all. When we drop in on them at the office, we sec the important execu tive. When we're being reprimanded, we What Goes On . . AT LONG LAST IT'S HERE GRAD UATION STRANGE THE WAY WE thought the day would never come it was something at the other end of Eternity. Now. suddenly, time has run out. With out so much as a flash of lightning, we are slightly shaky but proud figures march ing up the aisle in caps and gowns. IT'S FRIGHTENING IN MANY WAYS TO Til INK THAT OL'R REG- ular pattern of life is to be completely re shuffled and re-pieced, like a picture puz zle that's been shaken apart. No more ris ing at the crack of dawn, gulping down a quick breakfast, then setting out for a brisk, scenic hour and a half ride on the luxurious El. No more feverishly stuffing of last min ute facts into a lethargic brain. No more book reports or term papers. We're los ing a few headaches, but at the same time we're leaving a sure and happy life for an uncertain one. We're leaving some of the best things behind we're taking bright memories with us. see the justice of a Solon. When we need money (and when don't we ) we see the vaults of Fort Knox. When wc see the perfect companionship they have with our mothers, we see the ideal husband. When we ponder our ad vantages and privileges, we see the excel lent provider. Sometimes we can even see them as the men our mothers married. But we seldom see them as themselves. Fathers seem creatures apart, made of sterner stuff and moved by higher virtues than ordinary human beings. Fathers are, in fact, pretty much respon sible for us being the people we are. They seem to be always giving, and taking only our endless requests but now, we'd like to give them a heartfelt vote of thanks for everything Are You heading Or Being Lead? Where are you going? We don't mean to be your next class, or to the Union, or to Europe this sum mer. We mean, where is your life going? Is it set firmly on the path heading toward the good you want, or is it crazily weaving in and out of many paths that may lead anywhere? Life is, in many ways, like a grubby lit tle five-year-old. If you don't seize it firm ly by the hand right at the beginning and keep holding for all you are worth, it's pretty certain to scoot off to the nearest trouble spot before you realize what has happened. They tell us in Philosophy that man. by his very nature, cannot seek evil yet many people find much of it. The de linquent arrested for petty theft, the un detected but unhappily selfish, acquisitive people, the one-time partners of now bro ken homes these were not deliberately seeking evil. It's just that evil is easier to find. Peo ple who find it did not necessarily set out to lead lives of evil their lives probably are leading them. Divertissements . . . Family Book Records Liturgical Events The ideal gift for a summer bride or for any bride is a beautiful white-leath er-bound liturgical volume called Our Fam ily Book of Life. The content and plan of the Book of Life are designed to relate the sacraments and the liturgy to family life by including sections on Marriage. Baptism, the Bless ing of Mothers. Penance, First Holy Com munion. Confirmation. Religious Voca tions. Holy Orders. Extreme Unction, and Burial Rites. Each section includes an appropriate ex cerpt from Scripture, accompanied by a lit urgical symbol of the sacrament, and ex planatory text relating the sacrament or sacramental to family life. Pages have been provided for personal entry records and photographs. Our Family Book of Life, compiled by the Reverend Wilfred Tunink and the Rev erend Maur Burback, monks of Conception Abbey, is published by Designs for Christ ian Living. Kansas City. Calligraphy was done by Sister Mary Lconarda, O.S.B. The book is bound in white leather and may be ordered from the Thomas Moore bookshop for shower and wedding gifts. Student View . . . 1951 World Is Chaotic The senior emerges from Mundelein with her degree and a realistic knowledge that all is not right with the world. In her immediate life opportunities are num erous for a good position, but an objective survey of national and international affairs would dishearten any college graduate without firm faith in the Providence of God. The Great Debate is raging in America, with one adversary promising peace and the other victory in a man-draining war which has no apparent objective. On the international scene England also is split over an internal issue. A majority of the Socialist party places rearmament be fore further socialization while a very vo cal group under the leadership of Aneurin Bevan believe socialization to be far more important. France is suffering from a deficit of strong leaders who could inaugurate a firm governmental policy to combat Commun ism. Tito has finally asked for military aid from Britain and the United States be cause Hungary. Rumania, and Bulgaria are arming on the Yugoslav border and mav at any moment make the move which will set off World War III. Spain is riddled with strikes: India is faced with famine; Indo-China is at war with communist forces, and Malaya is in fested with guerrilla bands. Iran is wallow ing in oil avidly desired by the West and by Russia. A mammoth war cloud is enveloping all the world and threatens to burst momen tarily True, the air has cleared a little since the MacArthur affair brought national in decision into focus. But no flower-strewn path stretches before the 1951 graduate. There is much thinking, working, and pray ing- to be done. Vacation Challenge . . . Inertia or Growth Spiritually, Mentally Summer it should be fun Fifteen weeks for happiness but how to create it? There's a certain formula. Daily Mass and Communion . . . daily reading, the things we always wanted to read, and items from the onini-present syllabus if we're incoming Seniors . . . daily giv ing at home these make for happiness. Some of us will work, and some of us will play. All of us can give a bit to others, thoughtfully take Mother out to luncheon . . . take children to the beach . . . give some time to Red Cross, or USO, or hospital service . . . play golf with Dad. We might even see Chicago if we stay home . . . Art Exhibits. Ravinia concerts. Fifteen weeks let's make them count, spiritually, culturally. Jke gt;h uScraper Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Vol. XXI Mav 21. 1951 No. 13 Co-Editors Maribeth Carey, Sheilya Neary Associates Peggy Barrett, Mary Kay Gill, Judy Langhenry Nelson Student Views Rita Bresnahan What Goes On Paula Long, Barbara Heintz SAC Speaks Up Peggy Butler, Leona Adams Divertissements Joan Kares, Mary Ellen Ward, Elaine Ivory, Barbara Bid- well Skyscrapings Marjorie Coughlin, Mary Jane Lamb, Patricia McHugh, Barbara Shaughnessy Art Doris Kulilmann Sports Editor Margaret Reidy Reporters: Rosemary Burns, Eileen Duhig, Florence Granet, Arlene Gorgol, Kaye Haefel, Claire Healy, Agnes Hoff, Irene Johnson, Sibil Lillie, Donna Merwick, Jane Roach, Jean Schae fer, Helen Stewart, Marion Whelan, Nona Ar noldi, and Grace Benedetti.
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1951-05-21 (2)
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