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TiiEJiiiMiii Vol. XXI lt;- gt; Mundelein College, Chicago 40, Illinois, December 11, 1950 No. 6 Club Yule Plans Include Charities At Home, Abroad Clubs and departments have planned their holiday festivities to include gift giving and gayety for less fortunate per sons. An appeal from the Catholic Charities in the name of 1400 children under the bureau's care set members of the Club Coordination board to work. Several or ganizations which have not pledged them selves to particular projects are answer ing the plea by supplying gifts for boys and girls from ages 11 to 14. Seniors are undertaking the dressing of dolls for the children of Angel Guar dian orphanage. Visit Marillac House The Economics club is following its traditional policy of collecting dolls for orphans, and the German club is remem bering its adopted family in Germany by sending boxes of Christmas goodies. Service club members are selling mistletoe for the benefit of a colored mission in Oklahoma. Mrs. Mary Blake Finan, recipient of the Magnificat Medal and director of Marillac House, will be on hand to greet Biology club members when they arrive for their traditional Christmas party, Dec. 23. N The party is being given for women of the area. Gifts and refreshments will be furnished by the club, under the direction of Frances Fazio, Dolores Nowikowski, and Lucille Winkler. Chemistry club members will help in ject the spirit of Christmas into the hearts of the women of Saint Augustine's Motive for the Aged, Dec. 18. In addi tion to its gift of food, the club will pro vide money and entertainment for the guests. Arrangements for the visit are under the direction of Carol Calabrese, with J. lt;w Schreiber and Patricia Carr organ- mil,' the entertainment. Entertain Children Food, clothing, and good cheer from the Spanish club will delight the little Spanish children at the Cordia-Marian settlement, Dec. 19. Santa Claus. in orivate life a Loyola Spanish student, will distribute presents. In return, the children will offer entertainment while the Sisters at the settlement serve re freshments. Home Economics students will give their annual Christmas party for kinder garten children in Holy Family parish on Dec. 19. providing dolls for 20 little girls and trucks for 35 small boys. Geraldine Tyrrell heads committees planning transportation, gifts, entertain ment, and refreshments. Loyola will pro vide the Santa Claus, who will distribute the gifts. With hopeful thoughts of a White Christmas ahead, we of the Skyscrap- staff turn from editing to caroling. With you in spirit, we will bring Christ mas into our homes as we Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly, but our decorations will be incomplete until we place the Little Town of Bethle hem under the Tannenbaum. O Come All Ye Faithful, out into the Silent Night to Midnight Mass. We remember, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. Listen . . . Hark, The Herald Angels Sing in praise of our newborn King. When the last echoes of the Holy Night fade, and wc hurry home to await the visit of Jolly Old St. Nicholas, we will pause to wish the Faculty and students a Holy, Happy Christmas and a Blessed New Year. SAC Sponsors Skyscraper Ball Hold Annual Formal Dec. 29 in Palmer House Climaxing the Christmas holidays will be the annual Skyscraper Ball, to be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Palmer House, Dec. 29. Sponsored by SAC, the Ball is strictly formal and will present the music of Jimmy Blade and his orchestra. Dancing will be from 9:30 to 12:30. Chairmen of the committees for the Ball, headed by Peggy Butler, SAC pres ident, include Leona Adams, Mary Therese Jordan, Gina Moran, and Mary , Breen of the Bid committee, and Virgin ia Volini and Marian Quinn of the Ho tel committee. Patricia Dee, Clare Hillyard, and Bar bara Mann head the Orchestra committee. Chaperones will be invited by Carolyn Kilkenny. Publicists are Mary Ellen Ward, Lau ra Bergamin, Mary Agnes Morau, and lieatrice Hector. Joan Simon will tally after the Ball. Hids are on sale in the Bookstore lounge. *ft Christmas Biologists To Meet At Lecture, Mixer Dr. John W. Hudson, professor of Biology and acting chairman of the department at Loyola university, will address the members of the Biology club. Dec. 13. at 4 p.m. The illustrated lecture, How Nature Takes Care of Her Children, will be followed by a mixer with biology stu dents of Loyola. Arrangements are under the direction of Frances Fazio, club pres ident. Pictured is the traditional Cross of Candlelight as it will appear to the thou sands of homeward bound Chicagoans, Dec. 21, the night of the Mundelein Candelighting ceremony. It will burn frdm 6 to 7 p.m., in the South windows of the Skyscraper building. (Story in columns 4, 5.) Nine-story Cross Will Blaze Mundelein's Holiday Greeting In Traditional Candlelighting The Cross of Candlelight, symbol of the coining of the Prince of Peace, will he kindled at 6 p.m., Dec. 21, in the south windows of the skyscraper building. Formed by 52 candles, the nine-story Cross will burn for one hour, as a climax to the annual Caroling and Candlelighting program, one of Mundelein's most distinctive traditions. Following class parties, conducted from 3 to 5 p.m., the student budy and Faculty will assemble in the auditorium. Members of the Senior class and club and class presidents will form a procession in the main corridor, and enter the auditorium carrying lighted tapers. The Glee club, arrayed in gray and Music, Art, Drama Students Present Under The Stars Christmas will come to Mundelein, as always, on the night of Under the Stars, a program of music and tableaux pre sented by the Music, Art, and Drama departments, Dec. 17, at 8 p.m. Climax of the evening will be Nativity tableaux, with the Glee club singing Handel's stirring Hallelujah chorus from the Messiah, and the Orchestra accom panying. Margaret Shaughnessy will be the Madonna in the Nativity tableaux, with Joan Bridgman, Angela Battaglia, and Mary Catherine Peters, the Angels. Mark Pinkowski, baby son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pinkowski (Margar et Wenigman '35) will be the Christ Child. Two members of the Class of 1951 were associated with first Mundelein Under the Stars program. Maureen McCarthy was the Christ Child in the Nativity tableau, and Elizabeth Starrs, originally slated for the cast, unfor tunately contracted whooping cough and was unable to make an early the atrical debut The Orchestra, conducted by Joseph J. Grill, will open the program with a Christmas Medley, and will accompany the Glee club in its carols and in the Cantata, The Prince of Peace. Adalbert Hugeulet will direct the Glee club. Composed by June Murphy '45, the (Cantata includes six parts with special music and Christmas tableaux. Soloists will include Miss Murphy, who will sing The Virgin's Lullaby, and Mary Am McCaffry, Maryanna Griglak, Mary Lou Hirsh, Rita Frische, Virginia Walsh, and Rosemary Donatelli. Sopranos in the Jesu Bambino car ol will be Mary Lou Hirch, Mary Ann Piskosz, Barbara Schmitt; second so prano will be Kegina Dowd, Elizabeth Adorjan, Marilyn Ziembecki; and al tos will be Norma Galvin, Betty Well- ner, and Marilyn Egan. In the tableaux will be Peggy Butler, SAC president, the only non-fine-arts major in the production; Elaine Anto- nucci, Dorothy Szczepanski, Joan Blakes- lee, Rosemary Kramer, Nancy Neel, Joan Overhalt, Winifred Green, Eliza beth Stars. Rose Marie Keane, Rose mary Murphy, and Pelayia Limbos. In charge of staging and production are Joan Mallow, Dorothy Chanoux, Monica Hrodbeck, Catherine I.amb, Pa tricia Hooper, Rosemary Rapp, Catherine Murphy, Margery Pendergast, Melita Lynch, Anne Llewellyn, Patricia Nicol, and Jean Martin. Dr. John D. McKian Will Address Group Of Philosophers Mu Nu Sigma, the Philosophy club, will sponsor a lecture by Dr. John D. McKian, on Thomistic versus Communis tic Society, at 1 p.m. in Room 405, Dec. 19. An assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola, Dr. McKian received his A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. at Loyola and has done advanced study at the University of Chicago. in gray crimson and accompanied by Rosemary Donatelli at the organ, will continue the program with Christmas salu tations including The Light of All The World, a student composition. The Speech choir will then present the Christmas Gospel of Saint Luke. Members of the group will be Mary Patricia Anderson, Francine Blaszynski, Mary Catherine Davy, Jcannine Camp bell, Carole Hbhmeier, Patricia Hooper, Mary Therese Jordan, Marianne Levis, Anne Llewellyn, Jane Nix, Rosemary Rapp, Barbara Schmitt, and Mary Sra- mek. Presidents Hang Wreaths Following tlie Speech choir, Peggy Butler, president of the Student Activities Council, will light the all-college candle from a taper lighted at the sanctuary lamp in the Chapel. Then officers will pr lt;x:eed to specified windows to form the Cross; the students will remain in the auditorium, caroling. On the return of the officers. Sister Mary Josephine, B.V.M., President of the College, will give the annual Christ mas Message from the Faculty. Miss Butler and Virginia Volini, Senior class president, will proceed to the main entrance to hang holly wreaths on the doors. Traffic on Sheridan road will slow as students and hundreds of other Chi cagoans gather outside the building to see the flickering Cross, and the notes of Silent Night and Adeste Fidelis will echo through the corridors as students wish each other Merry Christmas. Officers Light Candles Sister Mary Josephine will light the Faculty candle, and Dorothy Sugrue '41 will represent the Alumnae; Virginia Vo lini will light the Senior candle; Barbara Mann, the Junior; Marian Quinn, the Sophomore, and Mary Breen, the Fresh man. Jean Kennedy will light the Sodality candle, Serafina Traficanti will light one for Alpha Omicron, and Joan Blakes- lee for the Art club. Frances Fazio will represent the Biol ogy club; Carol Calabrese, the Chemistry club; Peggy Egan, the Quanta club and Gladys O'Brien, the Mathematics club. Norene Trapp will represent the De bate club; Nancy Brown, the English Round table; Sheilya Neary, the Press club; Mary Alma Sullivan, the Stylus club, and Dolores Nowikowski, the Resi dent students. Carol Higgins will represent the Na tional Federation of Catholic College Students; Patricia Carr, the National Student association; Dorothy Spratt, the International Relations club; Evelyn Craig, the Interracial Justice club; Joan Kares. the Reel Cross unit; Kay O'Mal- ley, the Economics club; and Patricia Bowen, the League of Women Voters. (Continued on Page 4, Col. 4.) New Year Brings One Act Drama Initial entertainment of the post-holiday period will be a presentation of Edmond Rostand's play. The Romancers, at the student assembly, Jan. 11. Francine Klaszynski will direct the comedy.'which is set in eighteenth cen tury France. In the cast are Barbara Prohaska, Monica Brodbeck, Nancy Neel, Patricia Winkler, and Melita Lynch. t
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