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THE * ... N ''** v'-- Volt VIII MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 4, 1938 No. 12 Choric Mosaics Will Be Given On May 14, 15 Dancing, Organ Music, Drums Furnish Back ground for Poems Originality in theme- and interpreta tion, beauty of settings, and spectacular lighting effects are keynotes of the Choric Mosaics, to be presented by the drama department on Saturday, May 14, at 2 p. m. and on Sunday, May 15, at 2 p. m. and at 8 p. m. Most popular among the selections to be interpreted by the Verse Speaking Choir is the poem LepantO, by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Choir Members Act The poem, a dramatic account of the struggle and victory of Don Jon ol Austria in the last Crusade, will be read to the accompaniment of beating drums, with the Choir members enacting the scenes while they recite the lines in chorus. Pipe organ accompaniment will lend vividness to the choral rendition of Ca thedral Chimes at Midnight, and violin accompaniment will attend the reading of The Corn Stalk Fiddle. Combining choric speaking and the dance, the program will include two num bers in which the dancers will move to the rhythm of the speaking, The Butter fly, with Lucille O'Connell as dancer, and Tarentella, with Rosemary O'Brien dancing. Give Gheon Play The climax of the program will be the presentation of the last act of Henri Gheon's play, The Three Miracles of St. Cecilia, translated from the French by Lienor Loarie ex '38. Ann Cleary will portray St. Cecilia. Isabel Molloy will be Irene, Patricia O'Toole will be The Youngest, June Tripp will enact the role of the Bishop, and Dorothy Koziel will be Tarquin. The Choir members will carry the narrative in verse. James Weldon Johnson's famous negro poem, Let My People Go, will be inter preted in voice and action by the Choir, which will also read five poems written especially for it, The Good Luck Pot, Full Cycle, Sing On, The Proud Land, and Lake Michigan. The Choir, organized in 1935 by Sister Mary Leola, B.V.M., is directed by Miss (Continued on Page 4, Col. 2) Elect Student Council Officers For Next Year Geraldine Connell was elected pres ident of the Student Activities Council for the year 1938-39, at the general assembly yesterday. Patricia Conner is the new vice- president, elected unanimously, and Patricia O'Toole won the poll for sec retary. Miss Council has been president of the Class of 1939 since her freshman year. Miss Connor was treasurer of the Council in her sophomore year and .s secretary this year. Miss O'Toole is treasurer of the Council this year. Election of next year's treasurer will occur on Thurs day. Marguerite Kelly, freshman repre sentative on the Council; Dorothy Crowley, vice-president of the fresh man class; Jane Rohol, freshman ticket chairman for the S.A.C. card party ; and Kathryn Dealy, freshman treasurer, are nominees for the office of Council treas urer. Nominations for the vice-presidency of the Council were postponed until alter the presidential election, in ac cordance with the Constitutional amend ment authorizing the nomination oi the same students to the offices of both president and vice-president. Professor Flandorf Gives Organ Recitals When The Organ Plays At Noonday might be the theme of the organ recitals which Preifessor Walter Flandorf, direc tor of the Glee club, is presenting in the auditorium each Friday from 11 to 12 o'clock for the benefit of Faculty members and students who are free to listen at that time. Appreciation recitals of this type have been introduced at a number of colleges notably at the University of Michigan, where they arc a popular feature of campus entertainment. Professor Flandorf is also playing ra dio broadcasts for Radio Station WGN, which airs his music on Sundays and on Mondays. Faculty Members Attend Conferences, Conventions The Situation of Youth in Illinois was discussed by college and univer sity executives at the Conference on the Problems of Higher Kducation, held at the University of Illinois, on April 25 and 26. Sister Mary Consuela, B.V.M., President of the College, is a member of Committee A, on the Situation of Youth in Illinois. Among the subjects considered at the sessions were the social and financial problems of youth. The Reverend Sam uel Knox Wilson, S.J., president of Loyola university, presided at the sec ond session of the general assembly. Members of the Faculty attended a convention of the National Catholic Kdu cation Association in Milwaukee, April 20-22. Pontifical High Mass, celebrated by His Excellency, the Most Reverend Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, D.D., Arch bishop of Milwaukee, opened the first meeting of the convention. The Most Reverend John B. Peterson, D.D., Ph.D., I.L.D., Ilishop of Man chester, gave the President General's address at the opening meeting. The Reverend Charles M. O'Hara, S.J.. of Marquette university, reported on A Plan of Curricular Integration for the Catholic College. Another paper, The Revival of Ihe College Faculty committee, by Mr. George F. Donovan, Ph.D., pres ident, Webster college, Webster Grove, Mo., was particularly interesting since Mundelein has adopted this type of plan. Sister Mary St. Agnes, B.V.M., Sister Mary Janet. B.V.M.. and Sister Mary Carmelyn, B.V.M., of the art de partment attended the forty-fourth annual convention of the Western Arts associa tion, held in Milwaukee April 20-23. (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3 May Queen Catherine Ann Dougherty, prefect of the Sodality, was elected May Queen on April 26, and Helen Coleman and Mary Corby were elected atten dants. The ceremony of May Coronation will be held on May 10. Council Scores Qreat Success In Card Party Doubling and re-doubling the bid for support issued by the Student Ac tivities Council. Mundelein students and 1500 of their friends crowded the Grand Ballroom of the Stevens Hotel on April 28 for the annual SAC Card Party. Highlight of the evening was the fashion revue, introduced by commen tator June Tripp who read the script written by Catherine Heerey, present ing the models in A Trousseau Re- i.'earsal of the ideal apparel for the June Bride. Bridesmaids Lois Schoen and Mary Kathleen O'Connor walked down the ramp wearing dusty rose marquisette. Maid-of-honor Florence Griffin, in blue niarquisitte, completed the party of bridal attendants. Mary Corby, bride, wore a blush pink marquisette dress, topped with a blush pink tulle veil. Carrying her train was Page-Boy William Amy Crist. Modelling in the fashion revue were Irene Waldron, Catherine O'Reilly, Antoinette McGarry, Catherine Ann Dougherty, Concetta Alonzi, Colette Corbett, Dorothy Foy, Edythe Williams, Maxine Lindsay, Betty Crist, Catherine Heerey, Sue Adams, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Catherine Connell, Eloise O'- Rourke, Agnes Griffin, Grace Igleski, Roberta McTiernan, Phyllis Scanlon, and Margaret Finnegan. Professor Walter Flandorf played the organ music for the Trousseau Rehearsal background. Clepsydra Wins Honor The Ci.kpsvdra, college literary quar terly, has been awarded Ail-American Honors by the Associated Collegiate Press of the National Scholastic Press association, according to the score-book, which arrived last week. Freshman Editors Issue Next Paper While the seniors struggle with their comprehensives and the sopho mores study for theirs, the freshmen, under the editorship of Marguerite Kelly, S.A.C. representative, will pub lish their own edition of the Skvscraj'Er. Miss Kelly will receive editorial as sistance from Adele Parrish, Anita Gibian, Frances Carey, and Mary Lou ise Brennan. Features will be handled by Mary Jane Quinlaii, Jane Bernstein, Dorothy Crowley, Betty Podulka, Peggy Meade, Mary Elizabeth O'Brien, and Margaret Mary Kreusch. Members of the news staff include Jane Rohol, Virginia McGurk, Mar guerite Kenny, Mildred and Eileen Mahoncy, Mary Caroline Bemis, Ruth Mary Gamber, Irene Konkolitz, Ellen Jane Fitzgibbons, and Rita De Casola. Senior Comprehensives Scheduled for May 5 The senior comprehensives will be given from 9 until 12 o'clock on May 5, in the fourth-floor assembly hall, each examination being given in two 85-minute periods. The examinations will be based upon syllabi given to each student at the opening of the second semester of her senior year and will cover her major field. Because of the comprehensives, no senior will be required to take final examinations in courses in her major field which she is taking this semester. Terrapin Clubs Present Pageant May 3,4 in Pool Students Swim Through a Day's Ceremony at a Naval Academy The Swimming Marines, a pageant pat terned after a day at a naval academy, was presented by the Terrapin clubs last night and will be repeated tonight in the college pool. The carnival will climax one of the most successful sea sons of the organization. The performance will open with a color ceremony in which the flag will be raised and all hands will be on deck to salute it. Immediately afterwards, the crew will practice, drilling both on land and in the- water, under the direction of the cock swain, Annamarie Berk. Divers Perform Next in order is the Bubble-or-Nothing act in which the swimmers will show their skill at fancy diving and their speed as racers. The four ships' belles, led by Patricia McDonough, follow with a novel ballet, and the gun parade captained by Ruth McCormick will conclude the act. Act II opens with the afternoon cere monies of the nautical school. Marian Gilbert will tap a routine on a big bass drum while a military ballet keeps time- to her rhythm. A lively water polo game will follow between the Army and the Navy teams with Regina Demmer as captain of the Cadets of '40. and Patricia McEnroe, leader of the Midshipmen of '41. A five-pointed star ballet supplies the finale for this act. Play Water Polo The third act, illustrating the evening activities of the school, opens with a floor show as the swimmers perform their version of the current dance favor ite, The Big Apple. The winners of the polo game then swing into a victory dance ending the ballet as they swim through Flirtation Walk. The script of the carnival was written by Betty Brady, and the general produc tion manager is Irma Rilling. Music for the pcrformace will be supplied by the College trio. 10 Verse Speaking Choirs Enter Festival The first annual Verse Speaking Fes tival in the Middle West was held in the auditorium last Sunday, with 10 choirs, including the Mundelein group, taking part. In sponsoring the Festival, which was non-competitive, the College announced a three-fold purpose : to bring together groups who arc aware of the beauty of spoken verse; to enable the various choirs to hear discerning criticisms of their work; and to give them an opportunity to study the interpretative work of other choirs. Choirs which took part in the Festival were from Barat College of the Sacred Heart, Lake Forest, directed by Miss Anna Mae Hawekotte; Loretto academy, Woodlawn, directed by Mrs. Catherine W. Hennessy; Marywood high school, Evanston, directed by Miss Virginia Griffith; Loretto high school, Engle- wood, directed by Miss Margaret Cleary '37; Muldoon high school, Rockford, di rected by Sister Grace Alma, O.P.; St. Angela's academy, Morris, directed by- Sister Mary Gertrude Aloise; Joliet Township high school, Joliet, directed by Mrs. R. A. Whitney; St. Rita's school, Chicago, directed by Mrs. Lauretta M. O'Brien; and St. Columbanus school, Chicago, directed by Mrs. Marie O'Hern.
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1938-05-04 (1)
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