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J Amahl, Carolers Spark Glee Club Presentation Vol. XXXII Mundelelin College, Chicago 40, Illinois, December 13,1961 Traditional Candlelighting Opens Christmas Recess Candlelighting, a ceremony sym bolic of Christ coming into the world, will once again commence the Christmas season for Munde lein students Dec. 19, at 2:15. The order of the traditional pro gram is similar to that of other years. As the seniors enter the au ditorium the entire student body will sing Adeste Fidelis. When in place, 45 seniors will light battery- controlled candles, forming a star Variety Show Tryouts Set The SAC has announced prelimi nary plans for Mundelein's Variety Show, March 16 and 17 in the Col lege auditorium. Class, group and solo acts will participate in the program and each will be limited to seven, five and three minutes, respectively. The SAC has also stated that a minimum of ten students compose the class acts. Skits should ex press fresh and original themes. Carolyn Kilkenny, alumna and former drama major, vvill direct the program. She recently spent two years in Europe working for gov ernment special services and is presently teaching in Chicago. Assuming the duties of co-pro ducers are Juniors Mickey Coffaro and Marianne Wagner. Auditions will be held Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 4:30 p.m. with the di rector, producers, SAC and class presidents acting as judges. Mickey asks that the girls begin preparing their acts during Christ mas vacation. Queen of Skyscraper Ball To View City thru Wall The queen of the Skyscraper Ball will be crowned in a regal atmos phere Dec. 27 at the Furniture Mart, 666 N. Lake Shore Drive. The setting for this year's Christmas dance includes a full view of downtown Chicago through a glass wall which frames one side of the dance floor in the Furniture Club. Former SAC president Anne Mil ler will crown the queen chosen from the following girls: senors Jackie Bergen, Mary Fran Hoffman and Ann Marie Wenthe; juniors Patti Gilles, Gail Grundman and Rosemary Harrington; sophomores Pat Appleby, Roselle Delisi and Pam Wilt; and freshmen Penny An derson, Jean Campbell and Ann Foxen. Rosemary Harrington and Pam Wilt withdrew from the contest. The queen, after receiving a bou quet of roses, will reign from 9-12 p.m. and lead the grand march. Bids for the semi-formal dance are 4.50 and can be purchased in the lounge area. According to Gail Grundman, general chairman, students who wish to vote for the queen must purchase bids in school. Amahl and the Night Visitors, a one-act opera by Gian-Carlo Menotti, will be presented for the first time by the Glee Club and En semble in the auditorium Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. A special performance will also be given at 2 p.m. that day for high school girls. The story opens with the arrival of light in the middle of the dark ened theater. This will be followed by a verse choir recitation of A Woman Wrapped in Silence, a poem by Reverend John Lynch, and the Glee Club rendition of There Is No Rose. Mary Williams, SAC president, will then light a large candle that represents Christ. Then the class officers and club presidents will light individual tapers, symbolizing the love of Christ enkindling all hu man hearts. When all candles are burning, the Glee Club will sing Jesus, Light of All the World. Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., president, will close the ceremony with her Christmas message to the student body. As the assembly leaves the audi torium, Mary Williams and Senior President, Helen Berg, will hang two wreaths on the front doors, which officially marks the beginning of Christmas vacation. So that all students may attend the Candlelighting, the classes scheduled for 2:10 will be moved up to the 1:10 period. Skyscraper Merits Ail-American Title The Skyscraper has received an All-American rating from the As sociated Collegiate Press Associa tion, it was learned last week. As one of only three out of 27 newspapers in the bi-weekly class the rating indicates distinctly su perior achievement. The award is for the second semester of the 1960- 61 school year. The editor during the period was Kathleen McGuire '61 now news editor of The Back of the Yards Journal. In discussing the quality of the paper, Judge Vanderpoel cited fea tures written in colorful style, but with restraint and simplicity. The judge also singled out the editorials written by now co-editor Joanne Twomey as some of the best in the newspaper's class. , DETOURING ON THEIR WAY to Bethlehem, the Three Wise Men offer Christmas cheer to a frightened Amahl, portrayed by Josephine Falbo. Others in the cast include: (1. to r.) Mary Farley, Pat Principe, Carol Bel lamy, Marianne Wagner and Noreen Walsh. Faculty-Student Committee Proposes '62 Honors Program The Mundelein College Commit tee on Academic Affairs composed of the dean of studies and faculty department chairmen recently voted in favor of re-evaluating the present honors courses with a view to establishing a firmly structured program, Sister Mary Ignatia, B.V.M., discloseu 1 sl week. The proposed honors program will provide for academically tal ented students who could benefit from more intensive study. Included in the four-year pro gram beginning in September, 1962 will be new courses of an interde partmental character built around a core of required courses. After a task force of the Com mittee on Academic Affairs has launched the initial phase of the program, the North Central Asso ciation regional director, Mr. Alan Pfaister of the University of Michigan, will visit Mundelein in February to offer advice on the lib eral arts study. The proposed honors program was also discussed at the November meeting of the Committee on Aca demic Matters attended by six fac ulty members and six students un der the chairmanship of Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., president of Mundelein. The student showed interest in the new program it was reported. First steps toward an experimen tal honors program led to the pres ent opportunities for academically talented students which include: ad vanced courses and college credit for sluueiits who have satisfuctolily passed achievement tests and have been considered by departments concerned; independent research to encourage interest and direct stu dents' talents and abilities; and the interdepartmental honors sym posium whose participants earn two credit hours. The second semester honors sym posium, open to superior students selected according to norms set by a faculty committee, will shortly be announced. Library Hours for Christmas Vacation Wednesday-Friday, Dec. 20-22 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, Dec. 27-29 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2 same. COME TO THE BALL The SAC invitation is seconded by the Queen candidates (I. to r.) Gail Grundman, Ann Marie Wenthe, Ann Foxen, Pat Appleby, Jean Campbell Rosale Delisi, Penny Anderson, Jackie Bergen, Patty Gilles and Mary Fran Hoffman. of the Magi at the house of the crippled Amahl and his widowed mother and reaches a climax when Amahl decides to accompany the Three Kings to Bethlehem and dra matically throws his crutch aside. The double-cast leads of Amahl and his mother will be played by Josephine Falbo and Mary Jane Ostrander Sunday night, and Mary Ellen Scott and Mary Farley, in the afternoon. The Three Kings are Carol Bel lamy, Noreen Walsh, Marianne Wagner; the page is Pat Principe. The shepherds will be played by Kaye Coyne, Eileen Cowan, Jo Anne Haberman, Joan Schipp, Mary Lynn Mikols, Helen Loos, June Carter, Cynthia Bell, Edwina Te- lutki, Elaine Whitney, Germaine Dettloff and Joyce Bussher. Piano accompanists are Mary Michael Parent and Joanne Miks. Both performances will be pre ceded by a short Christmas concert consisting of Ceremony of the Carols by Benjamin Britton and other traditional carols. An inter national nativity scene, highlight ing the Mystical Body of Christ, will conclude this portion of the program. According to long-standing Col lege tradition, SAC President Mary Williams will be the Madonna. Christ will be portrayed by the infant son of senior Pannamma Tharayil. Representing the East will be Alice Tan from Singapore and Mary Poovathumkal from In dia. Carole De Coster, a native of the Chicago area, will represent the West. Teacher-Poet Reads Original Selections For Student Body No country is unfamiliar, no lit erature foreign to John Frederick Nims, guest speaker at the Jan. 11 Concert Lecture Series. A doctor of comparative litera ture, graduate of Chicago Univer sity, this renowned poet, teacher, lecturer and traveler, Professor Nims will read selections of his poetry for Mundelein students. Presently the University of Notre Dame's professor of English on leave of absence, the lecturer is visiting writer in residence at the University of Illinois. Nims has also taught at the Uni versity of Toronto, at Bocconi Uni versity in Milan and the University of Florence in Italy as a visiting lecturer in American literature. From 1958 to 1960 he was stationed at the University of Madrid as a visiting professor of American studies. A lecturer in England and Po land, as well as Italy and Spain, the poet has also traveled to Greece, France and Germany. Often witty and brilliant, at times unpolished, always refreshing to the eye and ear were the terms used by the New York Times to describe Mr. Nims' first book, printed in 1947, The Iron Pas toral. His latest works include, The Poem Itself, Knowledge of the Evening, and A Fountain in Kentucky. John Nims' first writings were accepted by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Daily News. For three successive years he was awarded prizes by Poetry and in 1944 be came one of its editors. Mr. Nims has also been on the staff of Bread- loaf Writers Conference and Indi ana Writers Conference.
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1961-12-13 (1)
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