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) 3 Mundelein College, Chicago 40, Illinois, March 23,1961 Vol. XXXI PLANNING THE CRYSTAL AND LILAC MOTIF of the Junior Prom, L-r. Denise Lanphear, Carol McCormack and Joann Woods review plans for the April dance in the conducive atmosphere of the social room. Drama Dance Troupe Performs In Acclaimed Dance Repertoire The Dance Drama Company, featur ing Miss Emily Frankel will perform as part of the Concert Lecture Series to be held in the College Theater Thursday, March 23 at 1:10 p.m. Miss Frankel assisted in the Burgess Mere dith production of Ulysses in Night- town. Haunted Moments, fantasy of peo ple and sounds, is one of the numbers the group is scheduled .to perform. Critics note that the dancers are adept at manifesting a wide range of mood, subject, spirit and in communicating these in action. Main soloist and also director of the company, Miss Frankel, has been ac- Home Ec Majors Discuss Role of Modern Women Women of 1970 will be spotlighted at the 26th annual Home Economics Symposium April 19 at 7:30 p.m. The program will begin with a panel dis cussion composed of five seniors in Room 405. Geraldine Dusik, Terry Beaver, Sally Greco, Lynn Stachura, and San dra Mehl will cover the role of the modern woman, the motives and in centives for her numerous accomplish ments. Not to forget the outlook of the '60s, a fashion show will be presented in the tearoom by the clothing and textile students, modeling their own creations. Maureen McCue will be the commentator. Denise O'Malley is the chairman. Explaining the importance of the symposium, Sister Mary Pierre, home economics department chairman, com mented that Young women must be helped to face the rapidity of changes in society. Refreshments after the program will be served by Ellen Lannert and her committee. Invitations will be mailed to parents under the supervi sion of Marilyn Sims. Joanne Rozuch and her committee are in charge of miscellaneous arrangements. Parents, friends and students of Mundelein are cordially invited to at tend the symposium and fashion show. Emily Frankel claimed by critics for her unique quali ties as a dancer and for her innova tions as the head of a rapidly expand ing company. In 1950, Miss Frankel Having had rec ord successes in seven years of coast to coast tours, the com pany of eight and Mark Ryder started the com pany which has since performed in 600 American cities. dancers is the only group of its kind in America today, Each dance in the repertoire has been created especially for the company. All dancers in the company are soloists in their own right. Dante, Drugs, Art Lure Parents Back The Fathers' Club will present their second edition of parents' Back-to- College Day, A View from the Sky scraper, on Sunday, April 16. On this day parents and friends of stu dents, and parents of the incoming freshmen are invited to attend the se ries of lectures given by faculty mem bers. The program will begin with classes at 10 a.m. followed by a panel discus sion moderated by Sister Mary Ann Ida, president. A noon Mass in the Scholasticate will precede luncheon in the tearoom. Additional classes will be held dur ing two afternoon periods and the program will close at 3:30 with a coffee hour in the tearoom. The topics to be covered in the class sessions will include Africa, Latin- American problems, modern drugs, Communism, improving reading ability, music, art, theology, Dante and nuclear science. Reservation slips mailed to parents are to be returned with 3.50 to Sister M. Columbia, B.V.M., co-ordinator of the Fathers' Club. Marterie Booked, Edgewater Picked For Junior Prom Lilacs in Crystals is the theme. The Edgewater Beach's Crystal Ball room is the place and April 15 is the date for the annual Junior Prom. Bids for 4 according to Mary Fran Hoffman, social chairman of the jun ior class and general chairman of the dance. Music will be provided by Tony Marterie, local bandleader and hus band of a former member of the class of '62, Jean Caliguari. Assisting Mary Fran are publicity chairmen Denise Lanphear and Carol McCormack and bid committee chair man Joanne Woods. Bids are on sale in the lounge at the special booth opposite the eleva tors. HUAC Film, Talks Enlighten Students On Controversy The Mundelein Young Democrats and Young Republicans will present the film Operation Abolition April 13 in a nonpartisan effort to inform the student body f the controversy over the House Un-American Activi ties Committee. Sue Brown, Mundelein representa tive to the Cook County Young Demo crats, has announced that speakers from the University of Chicago and Loyola will attend the movie and give short talks explaining both sides of the controversy. Operation Abolition is composed of TV and Movietone newsreel clips of the student riots in San Francisco last May, when the House Un-American Activities Committee attempted to hold hearings on Communist infiltra tion in that area. The film depicts scenes of rioting students within the courtroom and in the corridor of the City Hall. Contro versy over .the film has been raised by groups contending that poor film-edit ing results in a badly distorted picture of student actions. U. N. Consultant, Educator Receives Magnificat Medal His Eminence Cardinal Albert Meyer will present the Magnificat Medal to Mrs. George Vergara, edu cator, social leader and consultant at the United Nations, at the 14th an nual ceremony held April 18 in the College Theater at 2 p.m. Given annually to an alumna of a Catholic women's college in the United States, the medal signifies outstanding achievement and leadership in social, cultural and religious activities. A CUM LAUDE GRADUATE of New Rochelle College in New York, Physicist Views What's in Space The last of the current Concert-Lec ture Series will feature Sister Mary Therese, chairman of the physics de partment. Sister will speak on What Is in Outer Space? Tuesday, April 11 at 1:10 in the College Theater. Sister will discuss the means of dis covering what composes the universe. She will relate the use of cepheid variables (pulsating stars) by which distance can be measured in millions of light years and the use of the radio- telescope, by which stars can be heard. This lecture will be illustrated with several slides and a 20-minute movie. The movie shows the entire day of an astronomer, Dr. Sandages of Mt. Wi- son-Palomer, including his trip through the mountains to the observa tory, entering the telescope, adjusting it, and finally the results of his ob servations. Holding degrees from Northwestern and Georgetown Universities, Sister is the only woman in the world to hold a doctoral degree in astro-physics. Last summer she studied at the University of Munich on a NSF Grant, and will continue her research this summer at Mt. Wilson on a project entitled The Nature and Condition of Material Re sponsible for Interstellar Absorption of Light. Mrs. Vergara has served as a con sultant to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and as a consultant for the Catholic Interna tional Union for Social Service at the U.N. Associate professor of speech and English at New Rochelle, Mrs. Ver gara has also gained recognition for her work in the field of education and citizenship. DIRECTOR OF NEW ROCHELLE'S Citizens for Public Education, she is also a member of the American Asso ciation of University Women and founder of the Catholic Interracial Council for New Rochelle. In addition to delivering over 100 talks before the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, Mrs. Vergara has addressed 1,200 social workers at Brussels' World Fair. Listed in Who's Who of American Women, Mrs. Vergara received the Bene Merente Medal from Pope John XXIII for her outstanding Christian endeavor, the St. Angela Merici Medal and the Lane Bryant citation for her community service. RECEIVING HER Ph.D. in speech from Columbia University in 1944, Mrs. Vergara was awarded member ship in Pi Lambda Theta and Kappa Delta Pi, two national honorary fra ternities. Besides these organizations, Mrs. Vergara holds membership in the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, the New Ro chelle Council for Unity, and the Catholic Poetry Society. THE ACTUAL CONFERRING of the medal will be preceded by a pro cession of seniors and faculty and the reading of the citation by Sister Mary Ann Ida. An address by the recipient will complete the ceremony. A reception following the ceremony will be held in the social room. Friends, representatives from other women's colleges, and guests of Mun delein are invited to attend. Students Evaluate SAC Before April Nominations The SAC nominations and elections have been postponed to April 13 and April 20 respectively, in order .to in vestigate more fully the function of the SAC and its officers. A committee of two seniors, Anne Miller and Evelyn Mittman, and three juniors, Mary Margaret Grady, Jackie Bergen and Joan Sheridan, are con ducting the investigation. The com mittee has already contacted the ad ministrative officials to determine their attitudes toward SAC activities. The postponement also will allow SINGING ALONG WITH MR. McGUINNESS and Peggy Roach at the recent St. Patrick's Day Dinner, are I.-r. sophomores Noreen Walsh, Mary Jo Murray, Rose mary Harrington, Sister Mary Harrita, B.V.M. and Joseph Smith. This Irish harmony followed the March 12 dinner and entertainment which netted the Women's Auxiliary 2,000 for the new dormitory lounge. more students to consider running for office. The offices which are to be filled in this election are president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, social chairman, NSA delegate and NFCCS delegate. Mary Williams, senior, is the first candidate to file her nomination for the office of president. The investiga tion is being made partly on the re quest of the juniors who would like to know about the effectiveness of the SAC, before electing a president and vice president from their class. This matter plus the lack of com munication between SAC and class of ficers and the student body was dis cussed at a junior class buzz session last week. One of the juniors sug gested that a meeting of the SAC and class officers take place once a month. It was also mentioned that the class social chairman and sergeant at arms are not really used as officers. Seniors Elect Members For National Society Election of seniors into Kappa Gamma Pi, the National Society of Catholic Women College Graduates, which encourages its members in Church and secular fields, will take place after Easter in Room 203, dean of students' office. Those eligible for membership are Catholic lay graduates who have main tained an honor point ratio of 2.6 and have shown outstanding leadership in extracurricular activities. The list of seniors who have main tained a 2.6 average for seven semes ters will be posted. The faculty and senior class will vote for one or up to ten per cent of the lay students eligible in the graduating class.
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1961-03-23 (1)
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