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Authorities on Head Slate for The experts on African life and culture who will assemble at Munde lein are bringing to the city some of the best and most authoritative think ing on this timely subject stated Sis ter Mary Harrita, B.V.M., chairman of the department of history and coor dinator of arrangements for the three- day Institute on African Affairs at Mundelein May 15 to 17. IN ADDITION to intensive study of African problems, nearly all of the speakers have visited Africa and many have traveled extensively throughout the country. The Institute is being sponsored for the students and for the public by the departments of economics, history and sociology. James K. Penfield, who will deliver the keynote address at 8:30 p.m. Fri day in the college theater, is deputy assistant secretary of state for Afri can affairs. He has served in various government capacities in China, Eng land, Austria, Greenland and Greece. Speakers on the educational situation in Africa are Edward G. Olscn, Fulbright lecturer at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and Edward J. Kirchner, Pax Romana delegate to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, who has visited various educational institutions throughout Africa. George H.T. Kimble, who will dis cuss the economic potential of Africa, has made three trips to that country and as a weather expert conducted a major survey of tropical Africa for the Twentieth Century Fund. BERNARD BLANKENHEIMER, chief of the African section of Near East and African Division of the De partment of Commerce, will handle the topic Foreign Trade and Private Investments in Africa. Walter Elkan, speaker on social problems in Africa, is professor of economics at the University College of East Africa in Uganda and presently a visiting lecturer at Northwestern university. Douglas Williams, colonial at tache of the British embassy in Washington, has worked in the Central African department deal ing especially with Northern Sodality Council Elected; New Officers Announced Newly elected Sodality officers and Council members will assume office during reception ceremonies in the chapel, May 13, at 4 p.m. Names of the new officers will be announced sometime today. MEMBERS OF THE Sodality Coun cil who will be installed are Arleen Coutre, Virginia Griffard, Donna Ma- lacina, Mary Ann Peter, Barbara Pierce, Elaine D'Ambrosia, Barbara Hartke, Ann Moran, Katherine Griffin, Virginia Rowland, Geraldine Lusson and Eileen Raczak. In addition to the installation of offi cers, Sodality members will renew their act of Consecration which will be followed by Benediction. FATHER LESTER EVETT, S.J., Mundelein and Loyola Sodality direc tor, will conduct Benediction. African Life Institute D Vol. XXIX Mundelein College, Chicago 40, Illinois, May 5, 1959 Sodality Prefect ToCrown Statue Sears President Gets For May Event Honorary Law Degree James Penfield Rhodesia. His lecture Africa Faces Independence. Robert Whyte Mason, discussant of Mr. Williams' talk, is British consul general in Chicago and former consul general in French Equatorial Africa. THE FINAL SPEAKER of the In stitute, Father John J. Considine, M.M. is a founding member of the African Studies Association and au thor of several works on Africa. Father Considine's address is titled New Men in Africa. Presiding at the final conference will be Most Reverend Raymond P. Hill inger, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago. Freshman Class Plans For Picnic at Cedars A day of contests, prizes and re freshments is in store for freshmen at tending the class picnic at Our Lady of the Cedars, May 7. According to Mary Margaret Grady, entertainment chairman, games will include a hula-hoop contest, balloon games and a three-legged sack relay. A small card tournament will be spon sored for the physically tired yet men tally alert students. The traditional May Coronation will take place May 19 at 1 p.m. in the auditorium. Father Lester J. Evett, S.J., from Loyola university, will offi ciate at the ceremony and give the benediction. The ceremony will consist of recita tion of the rosary, the Litany of Lor- etto and the Act of Consecration and the singing of the Magnificat by the entire student body. Members of the senior class will present flowers be fore the statue. Barbara Bukowski, Sodality prefect, will crown the new statue of Mary which now stands in the main stair way of the school. She will be as sisted by first vice-prefect, Clare Walsh, who will carry the crown. Other Sodality leaders who will make up the court are: Mary Anne King, Eleanor Ferraina, Gerry Sofka, Arlene McCarthy, Sandra Marek, Pa tricia Noonan, Marianne Morgan, Marilyn Zacharias, Kathy Griffin and Ann Moran. Deadline Approaches Sister Mary Frederick Cecile, B.V.M., bursar, has announced that applications for student loans are now available in her first floor office. These loans for 1959-60 are made possible by the National Defense Edu cation Act. Applications must be made before Friday, May 15. Charles H. Kellstadt, president of Sears, Roebuck and co., will speak at the 1959 commencement excerises June 3 and will receive the first hon orary degree conferred by the college, Charles Kellstadt Retiring President Installs Incoming Activities Counci Retiring SAC president Vicki Bomba will install incoming Council officers during College Day ceremonies May 21 in the auditorium. VICKI WILL YIELD the gavel to Kathy Hotton, present junior class president. Kathy, a mathematics ma jor, was a sophomore governor. Parreannie Wilson will replace Mary Ann Wilczynski as vice-president of the Council. Parreannie, who served as vice-president of her class in sopho more year, is a music major, president of the Glee club and active in Kappa Mu Psi. Rosemarie Schneider, retiring SAC treasurer, will take office as secretary replacing Marilyn Vetter. Rosemarie is an economics major and a sodalist. MARY GRADY, a mathematics ma jor, assumes the fitting position of treasurer. She is a member of the Sodality, Mathematics club and WAA. Sharon Ruppert will replace Renee Sluka and serve as the second social chairman. Sharon previously was on the Social Arrangements Board. She is a speech major, and a member of Vital Speakers and Kappa Mu Psi. Hearing Tests Given By Speech Majors As May is Good Hearing month, students will be given opportunity to have their hearing tested without charge in the Speech Clinic. Tests will be administered during the weeks of May 18 and 25 by senior members of the speech department. Juniors Host Seniors AtEdgewaterGolfClub For Annual Luncheon The senior class has a date with the juniors this Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the annual Junior-Senior luncheon. Upperclassmen will be excused from classes at noon to attend the affair. SECRECY SURROUNDS arrange ments for the luncheon so it will be a surprise for the seniors. The menu is top secret information as is the entertainment directed by Marilyn Karsh, Judy Angone and Ro berta Dirzius. SINCE THE SUSPENSE must be killing the seniors, permission has been given to reveal the place of the luncheon. It will be held at the Edgewater Golf Club, Pratt blvd. and Ridge ave. Barat Accepts Invitation For Philosophy Discussion Mundelein student philosophers and theologians will exchange ideas with their peers from Barat college at a panel in room 405 May 8 at 4 p.m. Four panelists will discuss the book, The Incarnation of the University. Discussions of the talks by students and faculty members will follow. This is the second in series of Mun- delein-Barat discussions, the first hav ing been held at Barat during March. Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., college president has announced. In addition to receiving the first honorary degree, Mr. Kellstadt will be the first laymen to deliver the com mencement address. THE HONORARY doctor of laws degree will be awarded Mr. Kellstadt in recognition of his outstanding ca reer in the merchandising field and his many positions of trust in chari table enterprises, including Catholic Charities. It will be Mundelein's way of honor ing a distinguished Catholic layman in these days when the Church is turning more and more to laymen for leader ship and guidance, said Sister Mary Ann Ida. The honorary degree will also be a tribute to a great firm which has done so much to pioneer the intro duction of American merchandis ing methods in South American countries. This year of the Pan American Games in Chicago is a fitting time to take note of the role Sears, Roebuck and co. is playing in fostering better relations with our South American neighbors. THE SON of a department store family, Mr. Kellstadt was born in Co lumbus, Ohio in 1896. After studying journalism at Ohio State university, he moved to Charleston, West Virginia where he was associated with Frank- enberger and Co. In 1932 he accepted the manag ership of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. retail stores in Cleveland. Twenty-six years later he was elected president of the company. Mr. Kellstadt is a director of Ford Motor co., Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Commercial Corn Exchange of New York, Allstate In surance co., Simpson-Sears Ltd., and the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust co. BESIDES his executive duties Mr. Kellstadt is a trustee of the Eisen hower Fellowship Exchange and is active in the Red Cross, the National Better Business Bureau and the Com munity Chest. Light Reading Overdue books have shed new light on the library. Reference books ap pear brighter since overhead lighting for the front and middle reference rooms was purchased with pennies col lected from forgetful book lovers. Fines also bought a new light for the ceiling of the library porte- cochere. Here Are Your New SAC Officers Kathy Hotton, President Parreannie Wilson, Vice-President Rosemarie Schneider, Secretary Mary Grady, Treasurer Sharon Ruppert, Social Chairman
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1959-05-05 (1)
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