description:
SKYSCRAPER Pa e Three 1940 (Continued) World Affairs, Christmas Teas Take Club Spotlight I MAY The Allies Northwestern Expedition ary Force slips on slushy, slippery, narrow, air-vulnerable ports. on its way to aid Norway . . . Pope Pius XII can onizes first two Saints in his reign, Marie Euphrasia Pellcticr and Gemma Galgani . . . After 23 days. Norway, a nation of 3.000,0(10 people, is con quered . . . May 10. Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxciii- MOVES ON THE bourg . . . Italian INTERNATIONAL hattle ships stream CHECKERBOARD int.) the Mcditer- I ranean and war comes home to Eng land . . . I.ahorites. Liberals, and dissi dent Conservatives in the English Parlia ment shout 'Resign Go Go ' and Nev- I illc Chamberlain rises, smiles wanly, and marches out of the House . . . New Prime Minister Winston Churchill an nounces his Cabinet . . . Soviet Russia celebrates ccntennary of the birth of j Peter Ilich Tschaikowsky . . . Leopold of Belgium surrenders, following the capitu lation of the Netherlands to their first I protector since Napoleon Bonaparte J set up his brother Louis as king there in 11806 . . . the month closes as the Naziis j wheel their mechanical cavalry harmlessly around the green parks of 81-year-old I Willhelm II at Doom, as Prance meets I German invasion for the third time in I her life span, and as Britains of all faiths join in a day of prayer. Senate votes down U. S. Film Service I created in 1938 . . . Democrat Jim Far- I Icy is reported entertaining first ballot I hopes if F.D.R. doesn't run . . . I Thomas Dewey, ill at Colorado Springs, lis confident of enough G.O.P. conven- I tii ii votes to nominate him for president Ion first ballot.. .William Phillips' visit to ADVANCES 11 Duce as U. S. Am- RED, WHITE bassador to Italy viewed AND BLUE by news commentators I as first step in U. S. economic intcr- I vention in Europe beyond moral wrist slapping . . . President Roosevelt gets Democratic nomination on first ballot al national convention in Chicago . . . Con gress is asked for a 1,182,000,000 ap propriation to speed national defense . . . The President again attempts in secret message to hold Italy at peace, while all America goes rapidly preparedness- conscious, the Naziis break through the Maginot Line and sweep on to the Chan nel ports : and Colonel Lindbergh warns: We need not fear a foreign invasion un- J**, American peoples bring it on through their own quarreling and meddling with affairs abroad. U. S. State department languidly goes back to President Roosevelt's Neutrality Edict that 'no U. S. citizen shall take part, directly, or indirectly, in the said war,' and settles the matter . . . The Forty Fair opens in New York, and in Philadelphia a gun club gets ready to shoot any Nazi parachuters . . . IT COULD HAPPEN .. .Restaurateur ONLY HERE George Rector, 1(1, acts as judge in a Boy Scout cooking contest and registers exquisite antici pation when handed the winning dish, a plate of fried flounder . . . The Nazi Party's poet makes up words I of new official marching song. We're Marching Into France . , . Mussolini I makes demands of Tunisia, Djibouti, French and British Somaliland, Corsica, Malta. Gibraltar, Suez, etc. . . . France gets ready for war with Italy, and Nor way capitulates . . . June 10 Mussolini AGGRESSORS announces Italy's entry CHECKMATE into war against the al lies, to light to safeguard her honor, interests, and the future . . . Premier iReynaud says, France has nothing to say. Posterity will be able to judge, as the Germans occupy Paris on June 14 (. . . Neville Chamberlain moves from Xo. 10 to No. 11 Downing Street I., . Paris falls . . . Russia invades I.ithu- lania, Latvia, and Estonia . . France surrenders on June 24 and Carol makes I Rumania a totalitarian state. Must economic settlement precede a military alliance? Pro's and con's of this question were given and weighed by Mundelein and Loyola students at a joint meeting of the International Relations club in Loyola's Cudahy Lounge, Dec. 9. Papers on the Pan-American Good Neighbor policy were read by Robert Burns of Loyola and Evelyn Templeman of Mundelein. Mr. Burns defended the work of the Lima Conference and Miss Templeman pointed out certain defects in the program. Prepare Star Budgets Looking for an ideal budget.'' Getting tired of the same melius week-in, week- out? Be sure to read the Star Budget currently featured in the Nortown, Howard, and Edgewater News. The menus were planned and tested by students in the home economics department. Alpha Omicron members have been dividing their leisure hours between Star Budgets and a Christmas party for a group of grade school children. Dec. 18. Are On Committees Janet McCarty. president and general chairman of the project, is being assisted by Jane Addison, Winifred Kelly, Mar garet Zwicker, Ruth Conway, Dorothy I lein, Betty Troost. Ann Wingler. Dorothy Green and Mary Jane O'Brien. Laetare club members have their holi day calendars dated for luncheon at Tracy's on Michigan avenue, Dec. 26. Loretta Calnan. president, and Jean Tracy are in charge of the arrangements. Plays, carols, and readings com prised the German club program. Dec. 10. Marion O'Brien, Jeanne Coughlin, and Helen Eichstaeclt presented one selection. The cast of characters for an other play included Carol Diamond. Charlotte Schoenenberger, Mildred Kur- atko, Genevieve Locaitis. Eleanorc Kan dratas, Anita Gibian, Virginia Arado, Colette Bergeron, and Margery Saklem. Eileen Redmond, Dorothy Median, Celia KilgarifT, Beatrice Johnson, and Evelyn Kosar took part in the reading. Present Play Wanted a Secretary, a play in two acts, was presented by the Commerce Organists Play Holiday Numbers An all-Christmas concert preluded the holidays, with the Organ Guild members playing favorite melodies, on Dec. 10. Mary Loretta Graham played Sunset at Bethlehem, by Lacy, and Hernice Schnei der played Yon's Gesu Bambino. Mary Margaret Sheehy presented White's ar rangement of O Holy Night, and Cather ine Barton played a Christmas Medley. Beverly Craggs gave the favorite, Silent Night; Rosalie Wiora presented a Christmas Fantasy by West, and Mary Ruth Venn played Manney's Lullaby from The Manger Throne. Virginia Parr, pianist, joined Mary Rita Brady in a duet, O Little Town of Beth- Alumna Makes Debut In One Man's Family Mercedes McCanihridge '37, NBC radio actress who has starred in a variety of programs including Midstream, Lights Out, Grand Hotel, and Dan Harding's Wife, made her debut in the One Man's Family program, on Dec. 1, in the role of Father Barbour's secretary. Miss McCanihridge. who, in private life, is the wife of William Fifield, radio and short story writer, now lives in Hollywood, where she has appeared, also, in the Everyman's Theatre broadcasts. club' on Dec. 10. Jean Tomaso, Charlotte ,ehem' and A Bela Vollcr Pla gt;cd a medie* Fifth-column suspicion grows as (Continued on Page 4, Col. 4) Cantata Sounds Holiday Note at Qlee Club Program The Coming of the King, a cantata by Dudley Buck, was the central feature of the annual Christmas program, Under The Stars, which the Glee club and stu dents from various departments pre sented on Dec. 15. Directed by Professor Otto Singen- bergcr, the Glee club soloists were Maude .Shuflitowski, Betty Lou Deppen, Mildred Martinez, Geraldine Koppa. Patricia Her bert, Marion Jacobs, Shirley Hopper, and Rita Callaghan. Margaret Groark, Rita Guest, Mar jorie Carlos, and Janet McCarthy ap peared as the Madonna in successive tableaux, and Anna Mae Joyce, daugh ter of Margaret Fitzgerald Joyce '37, took the part of the Christ Child. Appeared in Tableaux Others in the tableaux were Margaret llagen, Virginia Caudle, Dorothy IIus- lik, Ethel Finan, Dorothy Gresik, Pa tricia Holland, Mary Allegretti, Sally Cahill, Helen Cashion, Bette Condren. Mary Jane Bresnehan, Frances Kane. Jean Eraser, Bernicc Jocrgcr, Betty White, Dorothy McCarthy, Catherine Miller, Marianne Vitek, and Irene Weber. Liam and Sean Rooney, small sons of Dr. Miriam L. Rooney of the psy chology department, represented shep herd boys. Rosalie Wiora and Angela Vollcr played organ selections; Virginia Parr accompanied at the piano, and the Col lege Orchestra, directed by Joseph J. Grill, played the Gloria from the Twelfth Mass by Mozart and A Ytiletidc Fantasy by Erne Rapee. Sing in Glee Club Glee club members are Mary Barclay, Mary Bottum, Anita Caparros, Therese Catalano, Ethelynne Cooney, Helen Duf fy, Virginia Eckmann, Audrey Ewry, Genevieve Faust, Elaine Galvin, Anita Gibian, Mary Loretta Graham. Vivian llackett, Patricia Herbert, Marion Jacobs, Beatrice Johnson, Mar garet Kilbane, Geraldine Koppa, Pa tricia l.encgan, Louise Lcnnartz, Marie O'Malley, Mary Jane Poffenbargcr, Col- etta Roach, Dolores Riewer, Eileen Ryan. Lorraine Saigh, Marion Schmidt, Peggy Schweisthal, Dorothy Shields, Dorothy Shuflitowski, Corinne Simon, Vivian Tarant, and Audrey Wade. Kepner. Virginia Eckman, Mary Mar garet Sheehy, Helen Kennedy, Rae Bal samo, Mary Magner, Mary Jane Ritchie, and Audrey Anderson enacted the skit. Carols echoed through the tea-room on the evening of Dec. 18 when the resi dent students were guests of the College at a formal dinner in the tea-room. Later, they enjoyed a Christmas party in the residence Hall. Members of the Stylus and Poetry clubs will meet at tea in the model apart ment, today. Virginia Cheatham and I lelen Printy, respective presidents, will be hostesses. Scientists Have Tea Mary Virginia Murphy, Dorothy .Schneider, and Aldona Sakalos poured at the tea given by members of the Physical Section of the Science Forum as a reception for their pledges, on Dec. 10. Eleanor Landon, chairman of the Sec tion, was in charge of the program, and Lucille Trudeau, A.M., instructor in chemistry, was guest of honor. The Cecilians and the Laetare Players were represented on a program given for the Loyola university Mother's club on Dec. 9. Marion Jacobs played a piano solo, and Doris Ruddy presented an original dramatic monologue. Ellen Jane Fitzgibbon, Debate club president, and the senior debaters spon sored the coming-out party of the sub- debaters on Dec. 12, in Room 406. The 12 participants in the Freshman tourna ment were accepted as Debate club mem bers. Entertain Mathematicians The Mathematics club, with Margaret Groark, chairman, played hostess to prospective members at the annual Pledge Tea, Dec. 13, in the model apart ment. Marjorie Carlos, social chairman of the senior class, presided at a Christ mas party held on Dec. 16 in the new senior lounge. Christmas carols and a gift bag were the highlights of the party. New members of the French club were received on Dec. 17 in the college seminar, and later had tea in the model apartment. Arrangements were made by Virginia Arado, social chairman, and Helen Siemianowski, president. Santa Claus really came to town for the Orchestra party on Dec. 16, for Dorothy Rickens, dressed in red suit and full regalia, came with an interest ing sack which contained in it a gift for every player. of Christinas melodies. Maude Shuflitowski played the conclud ing number, A Christmas Prelude, by llosiner, including Glory to God in the Highest, and the Adeste Fidclis. Sees Religion In Mexican Art Speaking before the members of the Art club on Dec. 10 on those Aspects of Mexican Art discernible to the casual traveler through the country, Paul J. Cooke, Ph. D., of the English and Span ish departments, put special stress on the noticeable influence of religious feeling in the products of the native artist. In order to appreciate Mexican pic tures at least until about 1900 one must know the Bible well, he said. The gracious, peace-loving Mexicans arc, according to Dr. Cooke, sensitive to the beautiful, attempting at present to infuse their native spirit into the works of the modern art movement, most famil iarly represented by Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orazeo. With the genius of Diego Rivera pav ing the way for future followers of his school. Dr. Cooke predicts a great fu ture for the art of Mexico, if the inci pient threat of a growing industrialism is not allowed to affect it adversely. Sodality Director Talks at Reception It is a Catholic girl's honor and privilege to be a member of Our Lady's Sociality, stated the Reverend Martin I. Carrabine, S.J., when he addressed the candidates to the Sodality on Dec. 5 in Stella Maris Chapel. The new members of the Sodality are Katherine Anselmo, Don thy Behm, Rita Callaghan, Lucille Caputo, Marie Cas- setari, Jane Courtney, Frances Dickin son, Geraldine Koppa, Jean Patnoe, and Rosemary Viglione. After the ceremony of reception, Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament was celebrated. Tells of Experience At Oxford University The Oxford experiences of the Rev erend John Wcllmuth, S.J., of the Lo yola university Philosophy department, proved a fascinating subject for his in formal talk at a meeting of Mu Nu Sigma, on Dec. 11. Father described the university, which he attended when in England, and explained its purpose, and its methods in accomplishing that purpose- According to Father Wcllmuth, the method of education at Oxford consists of tutoring for the individual, who works with his teacher for an hour or two a week, plus seminars, or discus sion groups where several students ga ther to talk over what they have learned. Art Exhibit Will Open in January An exhibit of German prints of Chris tian Art Today will open after the Christmas holidays. The collection of works, made during the last eight years, will include examples of reproductions of religious paintings and photographs of sculpture and architecture. Examples of modern liturgical art were exhibited by the Art department last week as an Advent feature. The collection of woixl block prints and sim ple designs in black and color is a travel exhibit of the Catholic Art Asso ciation. Scrapings are Christmas-edged with the festive and the fanciful, and topped with a miscellany of fun as Munde- leinites prepare for the holidays and a New Year . . . IN THE FESTIVE TEMPO Patricia Tierney's dinner party in hon or of her cousin, Robert Stritch, nephew of His Excellency, Archbishop Stritch. was enjoyed by Doris Knockaert, Betty Brown, and Sally Cahill . . . Mary Stoker has become another Pump Room enthusiast . . . One Ann Trave is still talking about her evening at the Ste vens Charity Ball . . . Phyllis Zielinski is off to West Point for a glorious holiday . . . Starting the holiday season, Dorothy Schreck will dance at Loyola's Pi Alpha Formal at the Congress . . . Virginia Walsh has a definite bias for the Panther Room . . . Seen at the Empire Room, Ellen Busse . . . In the Walnut Room of the Bis marck, Lynn AuBuchon and Jeanne O'Malley ... In the Congress Conti nental Room, Evelyn Kosar, Evelyn Templeman, Rosemary Shanahan . . . Patricia Lenegan danced at Notre Dame's Chicago club dance and St. Vi ator's dance rcunionists included Rita Kennedy . . . Patricia Leahy attended De Paul's Homecoming dance . . . IN THE FANCIFUL GENRE Florence Kelly enjoyed Pygmalion as did the cast and student staff of Love's Labour's Lost ... It was the Chicago Teachers college production for Charlotte Safranski . . . the Opera Ballet for Mary Rita Brady . . . Shirley Hopper was delighted by Songstress Grace Moore appearing in The Love of Three Kings . . Dorothy Lou Shufli towski heard Aida . . . while Patricia Herbert chose Tosca at the Civic . . . and Louise Szkodzinski went on Martha and Falstaff nights . . . Others at the Opera were Rosemary Viglione, Albina Gherardi, and Angela Voller . . . Helen Printy says It was an evening well spent, after seeing The Long Road by the young playwright. Leon Lu- kascewski . . . Mary Bottum .and Marion Jacobs bad tickets for the Chi cago Bach Chorus . . . and Harriet O'Brien had a leading role in Loyola Community Theatre's production, Ex cursion . . . And it's still Life with Fa ther for Helen Carlin . . . MISCELLANY IN FUN A Rodeo for Margaret Kilbane and Lois Austin . . . Loyola's basketball games for Dolores Rudnick, Mary Lou ise Beakey, Irene Mikos, Mary Alice Myers, and freshman Jane Brown . . . It's professional hockey and the Black- hawks for Evelyn Sugg . . . Intellectual funsters for the moment were Betty Lou Riordan, Rosemary O'Donnell, and Sylvia Owczarek at the Charles Car roll Forum, to hear Sigrid Undset, on The Blitzkrieg in Norway ... At the recent College Cisca meeting, Marie Kiobege, Patricia Gaffney, Helen Fish er, and Mary Catherine Quinn ... At the meeting of the American Chemistry society were Patricia Bledsoe and Kathleen St. Clair . . . We wish we could go with Catherine Harrison for a Florida holiday . . . Bernice Hones took in an old-fashioned hayride and Rita Valenzano reports a U. of Michi gan week-end . . . Merry Christmas now and best New Year's wishes until we see you in your merriest mood (and new formal) at the Skyscraper Ball...
title:
1940-12-19 (3)
publisher:
Women and Leadership Archives http://www.luc.edu/wla
creator:
Mundelein College
description:
Student newspaper for Mundelein College
subject:
Newspapers
subject:
Religious communities--Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
subject:
Students
subject:
Universities and colleges
subject:
Women's education
relation:
Mundelein College Records
type:
Text
language:
English
rights:
This image is issued by the Women and Leadership Archives. Use of the image requires written permission from the Director of the Women and Leadership Archives. It may not be sold or redistributed, copied or distributed as a photograph, electronic file, or any other media. The image should not be significantly altered through conventional or electronic means. Images altered beyond standard cropping and resizing require further negotiation with the Director. The user is responsible for all issues of copyright. Please Credit: Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago. wlarchives@luc.edu
coverage:
Chicago, Illinois
coverage:
Mundelein College