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May 27, 1958 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three A I AKF vPAPF is the site of Dr- Essler's (left) Ballad class, con- n Lnnu ,UnrL sisting of Maureen Joyce, Mrs. Haris Katakis, and Mary Ann Herold. Writers Launched, Literally Speaking Junior Claudette Ruffino re ceived two awards at Honors Con vocation last Thursday for her winning entries in the Mundelein Creative Writing contest. Miss Ruffino won top awards in tbe contemporary criticism and short story divisions, judged by Joyce Gutzeit '54, and Mary Zavada, a Vogue Prix de Paris winner. Regina Swierzynski merited the essay award for her These Are My Cameras ; Sister Mary Georgia, B.V.M., won the poetry division award; and Mary Ann Her old merited top place in the editorial division. Honorable mentions were also awarded to: Betty Weiss and Lo retta Kinzig. in the contemporary criticism division; Lynne Sheeran and Marguerite Phillips, in the es- Sodality Plans Packed Summertime Schedule Summer plans for Sodalists, will include attendance at the Summer School of Catholic Action and at a series of meetings at Mundelein continuing from June through September. Designed to provide training for a much-needed militant Catholic laity, tbe SSCA has arranged spe cial college sessions to be held at the Pick-Congress hotel. August 24-29. Generally, tbe morning session of each day's program will cover the aspects of Sodality organiza tion. Noon Mass will be offered each day to enable tbe delegates to receive Holy Communion. During the afternoon sessions, the topic for discussion will lie tbe Sodality Spiritual Formation. Evening sessions will be inaugu rated this vear to accommodate adult Sodalists who must work during the day. Tbe subject of the evening meetings will be the Sodality Apostolate. Tbe calendar of Sodality activi ties both on and off campus this summer includes a general meeting for all members to be held at Mun delein, August 12. Group meetings will be arranged on an area basis to accommodate those who live far from school. Dates for the candidate meetings, to be held at 7 p.m. at tbe college, are June 3. 17. and July 2. 22. Meet ings of tbe Spiritual Council will be held at Mundelein from 6:30- 8:30, June 3. 17. July 15. and Au gust 5. Counselors meetings are scheduled for 11 :00. Mav 28-29 in Room 401. say division, judged by Marion King '47; Sandra Marek and Clare Walsh in the poetry division, judged by Rosemary Regan, '54; Marcella McCann and Sister Mary Georgia, in tbe short story divi sion ; and Diane Sherwood and Barbara Guderian in the editorial division, judged by Margaret Ne ville, a former member of the Mun delein faculty. Sister Mary Irma, B.V.M., has announced that Sandra Marek received an honorable mention and a merit rating in the 37th Annual Atlantic Monthly Creative Writing Contest. Sister Mary Loras, B.V.M., merited an honorable mention for her poem, Apollo, in the same contest. Miss Marek's two entries were Your Promises and November's Child, tbe honorable mention poem of which tbe judges wrote, The poem is a well-wrought, extremely delicate lyric, without a single flaw in rhythm or tone, an unusual accomplishment for a young poet. Frosty Philosophy 'Good Fences Make Good Neighbors' . . . But We Are Those Who Don't Love Walls One of my fondest memories of America will be the friendliness of Mundelein girls and of their college whose whole atmosphere I found both cordial and distinguished, in a scholarly way, stated Doc- Zks w7thdraTv7from he' Mun- tor Hildegarde Essler in a recent .luncheon interview delein Co Libran, One of the f M a i ' T TStr,an Fu,b.n lu scholalr- fho has been teaching junior readers. Clare Walsh, was Handbook Revision Debuts in Summer A number of innovations will be found in the revised Mundelein Col lege handbook which will come off the press this summer, Ann Coe, SAC president reports. Besides a division of the book into six distinct sections, the new handbook will feature: 1. a short section explain ing the purpose and activities of each club; 2. a larger size, 5 x 7 , and 64 pages in length; 3. a new cover designed by a student from the art depart ment. The revision will retain the sec tion on school standards as the introduction to the book, and the college song and index as the con cluding section. The three sections comprising tbe new section of the book will be entitled You and God, You and Formal Education, and You and Other People. At present the handbook, which has been re-organized and re-writ ten by Miss Coe, awaits faculty ap proval. Attendance regulations will be discussed at a faculty meet ing before the book is printed. Book Worms Turn To Our Reading List The Junior Class produced the greatest number of book worms for 1957-1958 as evidenced by their school-topping total of 5,398 at Mundelein under the one-year foreign teacher's program, will return to Austria this summer. When asked how she hap pened to come to America, Dr. Essler told of her meeting with Dr. Joseph D. Mills and his wife in Austria in 1956. This couple convinced Dr. Ess ler that she should apply for a Fulbright scholarship to America. Dr. Essler took the advice of these friends and applied for a teaching position at Mundelein while awaiting a reply concerning tbe Fulbright. Simultaneously with being ac cepted at Mundelein, she received notice from tbe Fulbright Commis sion that she bad been chosen to teach at a high school in Massa chusetts Faced with a choice, she took the position at Mundelein be cause it was a women's college and located in Chicago, one of the largest cities in the United States. While here, Dr. Essler has taught classes in elementary, in termediate, and conversational Ger man. She has also instructed ad vanced students in German litera ture, drama, and the ballad. As the interview became less formal over chocolate sundaes, Dr. Essler's favorite dessert, she discussed her ap proaching trip in which she will re-discover the Wild West, traveling on a com bined train and bus trip as far north as Yellowstone Park and then south to San Fran cisco. An experienced trav eler, Dr. Essler has visited the New England area as well as Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico proper. The latter trip was taken during the Easter vacation. Delta Sigma Rho Inducts 3 Members Senior Jacqueline Doyle and sophomores Mary Jane Burns. Margaret Ryan, and Mary Carroll have been elected to membership in Delta Sigma Rho, National Honorary Forensic Society. In order to qualify for member ship the girls had to participate ac tively in inter-collegiate competi tive speech events. Miss Burns and Miss Doyle entered the col lege discussion program concern ing the problem of higher educa tion in the United States. Miss Ryan and Miss Carroll debated the college topic about the right- to-work laws. Present Presented To College Library Christmas in May No. but the chemistry department still receives gifts. Ernest W. Thele, Associate director of research at Standard Oil Company has presented the de partment with a gift file of chem ical journals. The file includes Chemical Ab stracts 1919-1951 and Journal of the American Chemical Society 1919-1951. These contain experi mental data compiled over the years. eyes, her On July 26, Dr. Essler will leave New York for Austria. Once there, she smilingly added, I will enjoy a three week vacation in Salzburg and then back to school to prepare for all the questions my students will ask. With a twinkle in her blue she also commented on interest in American slang. She affirmed language is a living thing, the develop ment of which is often best expressed in slang which changes almost daily. She pointed out that even great American contemporary liter ature contains much slang. My Austrian students like it, too, she laughingly confessed. (Dr. Essler teaches English as well as German in Aus tria.) In conclusion, Dr. Essler re marked, I have gained an appreci ation of the American culture and way of life, as well as a realization of what I possess at home. the sole student who read a book from each of the 12 categories on the Mundelein College Reading List. Mary Ann Herold, senior, had the highest individual circulation for this year, with a total of 129 books. The seniors proved to be the most avid readers in the language, text, text related, reference, and periodical sections of the library. Junior tastes preferred general lit erature, light fiction, and drama, while sophomores delved most heavily into modern and classical literature and biography. Freshman turned more of their interests to poetry than any other class. Total circulation for the year numbered 20,329, plus a reserve circulation of 14,096. Opening of the stacks to the students boosted circulation by a 1,132 gain over the same period last year. Sk udcrapmad . . . ENGAGED: Wearing a rosy glow that rivals the diamonds on their fingers are Melissa Lewis, who answered yes to John Farrell, Therese Osowski, who gave tbe same reply to Edward Lauraitis, Ann Corty, who will become Mrs. Raymond Summers. Also engaged are Marjorie Kasner to Bertram Sweeney, Mary Kay Kelly to Fred Wagner, and Kathleen Hughes to Steve Schostok. FAIR LADIES: Whirling at De Paul's Senior Prom will be Ann To- land, Mary Carroll, Judith Angone, Vicki Bomba, Virginia Bomba, and Virginia Brown. Duke Ellington's Orchestra will provide the mu sic at St. Joe's Senior Prom, attended by June Gardula and Loretta Se- gala. Mary Pat Dorsey attended a Knights of Columbus dinner dance which dispelled her exam blues. Dancing at John Carroll University's Military Ball in Cleveland were Virginia Stoffey, and Mary Kay Marren, and dancing to the beat of Harry James Orchestra at Notre Dame's Senior Ball will be: Ruth Wolf, Denise O'Malley, Terry Kehoe, Patricia Dwyer, and Mary Ellen Cahill. The home of the fighting Irish was also the scene of the ar chitect's masquerade ball, The Beauxarts , attended by Dorothy Cis- zewski and Elaine D'Ambrosio. RED FACE DEPARTMENT: A crowning blow is our neglect to men tion the fact that Mary Ann Ryan was crowned Queen of Phi-Mu Chi's Queensbip Ball at Easter. ENTERTAINMENT WORLD: Appearing in Loyola's production of Kiss Me Kate were Patricia Hellgeth, June Gardula, Marilyn Coffey, Eleanor Ferraina, and Mary Fulgaro. Appearing on Ron Terry's Pol ka Party, May 15 were Adrienne Karas and her partner, who won the Chicago area finals in the Nation-wide Polka Contest. TRAVEL PAGE: Heading for the Florida sun after exams will be: Isabelle Anderson, Barbara Gotsch, Marie Catalano, Jean Keifer, and Marjorie Siemieniak. Mary Therese Walsdorf plans to visit New York City for a week following exams. Nancy Ann Smith will spend the summer at Courtland, New York, which is her home town. California is the destination of Rose Rohter, who will spend June in Santa Bar bara. Bernadine Cherney spent the weekend of May 2 at her home in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Wisconsin-bound this summer will be Nancy Hinchey. PARTYING MOODS: VV.A.A. members were pleasantly surprised by a visit from ex-Mayor Kennelly at their banquet. May 14 was the date of the beach party for Marshall Pidgeon, which was attended by many Mundelein girls, and this time by Marshall. The Como Inn was the scene of the Art Club Banquet, May 1. Nellie Gluck and Rembrandt Peale, artists, were the guest speakers. COMEDY WRITER'S CORNER: Definition of a Freshman One who doesn't go to the Union to study because she'd be distracted. Definition of a Junior One who goes to the Union when she has work to do because she knows no one will bother her, and she won't be dis tracted.
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1958-05-27 (3)
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