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December 14,1960 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three Senior English Exam Heads College News by Joanne Twomey To acquaint the students with interesting activities and news on other campuses, here are excerpts from college newspapers across the country. BRESCIA COLLEGE, KENTUCKY Brescia has introduced a new re quirement for the awarding of a bachelor's degree. Seniors, regardless of major, must take an oral exam in English. Each candidate will be asked a bat tery of questions designed to demon strate his command of the English language by a panel composed of fac ulty members. DePAUL, CHICAGO Editorial comment: Is the Stu dent Activities Council ineffective? Which came first, lethargy in SAC or lethargy about SAC? MOUNT ST. SCHOLASTICA, KANSAS The girls at the Mount have a King competition for boys from nearby St. Benedict's for their annual fall fes tival. BARRY COLLEGE, FLORIDA St. Jude, patron of hopeless cases, has been chosen as freshman class patron. UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT Coeds at the University are re quired to place temporary lifts (at 15 cents apiece) on their shoes to pre vent them from marring the gym floor during dances. Editorial comment: The only real pain in registration is the laborious task of filling out what soon seems to be a million forms. ST. MARY-OF-THE-WOODS, INDIANA Editorial comment: College is a vacation from the commonplace. IMMACULATA COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Editorial comment: In a guest edi torial reprinted from a 1957 issue, President-elect Kennedy writes of the two-fold purpose of a Catholic Uni versity: 1. Quoting Pius XI, Preparing man for what he must be and do here below in order to attain the sublime end for which he was created . . . 2. Continue searching for the truth. LOYOLA, CHICAGO The Loyola Women's Rifle Team has won its last two matches. The ROTC team, however, lost its first match in conference competition. CHICAGO TEACHERS COLLEGE Editorial Comment: Students who ignore campus events aren't neces sarily apathetic. We believe many of these students may easily be classi fied as independents who refuse to be swayed by vigorous committee chair men and publicity committees. BOSTON COLLEGE, MASSACHUSETTS The Campus Council will award a 1,000 stipend for European study to a sophomore chosen by the committee. XAVIER UNIVERSITY, CINCINNATI Two African students received equal convocation time to answer Dr. Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, who they claim misrepresented the African con tinent in his lecture last month. Student Epiphany Mass Set For Auditorium Chapel The auditorium chapel will be the setting for the first student Mass of the new year on First Friday, Jan. 6, the feast of the Epiphany, at noon. Epiphany means manifestation. The feast commemorates the triple manifestation of Christ the first to the Magi as universal Savior; the second, at Our Lord's Baptism when God's voice was heard, This is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased; the third, at Cana when Christ changed water into wine, pre figuring His transforming action in the sacraments. Father William Clark will celebrate the Mass. The Proper will be sung by the Schola. Participating students will sing the Ordinary. Kitchen Chair Commentaries Herb Shriner Explains Today's Humor; George Alexander Tells Folk Song Appeal A reporter's job is never done which can be a welcome advantage because after working hours, you meet some tremendous people such as Herb and Pixie Shriner and George Alexander. An aura of friendliness sur rounded college editors as they entered Mr. Kelly's recently to in terview the club's headliner, Herb Herb Shriner Shriner. The dimly-lit interior ac centuated the warm, friendly man ner of the star as he greeted us and showed us to our table. Upon learning that we were from Mundelein, Mr. Shriner introduced us to his wife, Eileen Joy, who once had First Review Includes Short Stories, Poems The first semester Review will be distributed on Candlelighting Day, an nounced co-editors Mary Ann Ryan and Alice Connelly. FOUR SHORT STORIES, two es says, seven reviews and nine poems will be listed on its table of contents. The critical evaluations include re views of contemporary plays as well as of a novel by a former Review edi tor. The magazine displays the cover design of Carolyn Schroeter combin ing incidental designs by student art ists. Pat Ryan, Gail Rattery, Nancy No- wick and Mary Ellen Bradley are the short story authors. Barbara Loescher and Mary Ann Ryan will contribute essays. ALWAYS ROOM FOR ONE MORE, by alumnae Virginia Cheatam Julier '41, is reviewed by Sheila Ma loney. Gertrude Schoepko evaluates Spartacus, Hamlet and the Sym phony Chorus. Plays being reviewed include: The Flower Drum Song, by Mary Ellen Ryan, The Lady from Toledo, by Susan Thelin, and Lay Seige to Heaven, by Kathleen McGuire. THE POETS represented in this is- use are Barbara Runkle, Sue Wand- rei, Patti O'Toole, Eileen Raczak, Gertrude Schoepko, Mary Ann Ryan, Pat Ryan, Alice Connelly and Vita Milaknis, who is currently in Vienna for her junior year. WITH A REGAL smile, Loretta Bern- hom accepts one dozen long-stemmed roses shortly after her coronation as princess of the Sophomore Cotillion. The tiny dark-haired winner also re ceived a gold medallion. The Cotillion was held at the Sheraton-Towers dur ing Thanksgiving recess. by Mary Ann Makowski and Dorothy Nelson attended classes at Mundelein while performing at the Edgewater Beach Hotel. Mrs. Shriner, or Pixie as she is appropriately called by her hus band and friends, is a shy, diminu- itive, elfin-like individual. A mink coat and purple sheath set off her waist-length red hair which she wears in a classical pony tail. Seating herself at our table where she remained until the end of the press conference, Mrs. Shriner inquired about her Alma Mater and the changes which had taken place since she had attended classes here. She asked about the drama de partment and confided that Mer cedes McCambridge had been the most talked-about alumna at the time. Although an acrobatic dancer by profession, math and physical educa tion were Mrs. Shriner's major inter ests in college. An opportunity to work in New York ended her college career but brought her not only a job, but a husband as well. Now the mother of three a daughter and energetic twin sons Pixie is a full- time mother and wife. A slow Hoosier drawl inter rupted Pixie's reminiscences as Herb Shriner stepped under the steady spotlight glow on the so phisticated Rush Street stage. He dragged a tacky kitchen chair with him, which he explained was his prop and the best that I can afford. After the laughter sub sided, he introduced his partner, folk singer George Alexander. Even without Scarlet O'Hara in the background, this Southern singer brought back memories of Rhett But ler. His powerful and emotion-packed voice hushed the small, but attentive audience as he sang Old Tar River and The Streets of Loredo. The latter song, he commented, is used for background music at the gunshot demise of a cowboy who fights and loses. From his post on the white kitchen chair, Herb answered questions put to him by the col lege editors and a Chicago Trib une reporter. In the conversational free for all which ensued, Herb sparked a lively discussion of the differences between humor and comedy. A comedian makes you laugh at what he's doing, he commented, but a humorist makes you think while you laugh. This is an era of comedy, he observed, but humor today is more sophisticated. People are laughing more than ever, but at different things. Mr. Shriner pointed out that the trend of world affairs influences hu mor. Comedians don't tell hydrogen bomb jokes because the thought is too frightening. The new Shelley Ber- man-Bob Newhart school of humor de rives its popularity from the satiri cal treatment of the things that peo ple are familiar with. Discussion of comedians led into Herb's wry analysis of tele vision: TV today is like a faucet Career Minded? Teachers Needed About 2,000 elementary school classrooms and 500 high school assign ments will be in need of new teach ers before school opens next semester. These encouraging facts were im parted to the 90 Mundelein student teachers by Richard McVey, Ph.D., as sistant superintendent in charge of personnel for the Chicago Board of Education, Dec. 5. Miss Mary Shea, teacher counselor for the Board of Education also ad dressed the group. The talks were held in Room 405 of the College. you turn it on and let it run for awhile, and if somebody thinks about it before he goes to bed, he turns it off When asked if television fitted into any of his future plans, he explained that he makes it a policy to get out before (a thing) dies. He admitted that he did this in radio and plans to follow suit in TV. His current brain child is a pro gram in which he will interview people from all over the country. It will be a series of humorous George Alexander conversations with interest-pro voking people. At the present time, Mr. Shriner is engaged in a concert-lecture tour of colleges and universities. An in teresting feature of this program is his incorporation of youth symphony orchestras into his scheduled enter tainment. Under this arrangement, the school is sent sheets of music for rehearsal by the group, which then is put into the musical program. This arrangement has been en thusiastically received by college students throughout the country, with whom folk music is the cur rent rage. Mr. Alexander, the folk singer, in terjected the comment that folk mu sic is here to stay. The reason for its popularity lies in the fact that the young people identify themselves with it. He explained that folk music was almost unknown to the young people of his generation because theirs was the age of Tin Pan Al ley. Folk music has a limitless appeal he observed, There is a folk song for every mood and everybody can take part. The conference was ended by busy place-and-plate-setting waiters who viewed the assemblage, not as a group of writers, but only as potential wa ter-glass breakers I Coming on Campus by Mickey Meindl WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14 12:00, Golden Mass; 4:10, Alpha Omicron; 4:10, Sodality Meeting, 405. THURSDAY, DEC. 15 3:10, Kappa Mu Psi; 3:30, World Federalists; 4:10, Quanta Club. SUNDAY, DEC. 18 1:30-4:30, Sodality Day of Recol lection; 8:00, Cantata. MONDAY, DEC. 19 3:10, Vital Speakers; 3:30, World Federalists. TUESDAY, DEC. 20 2:15, Candlelighting, auditorium. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21 Christmas Recess. WEDNESDAY. DEC. 28 9:00, Skyscraper Ball, M and M Club. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4 Classes Resume; 3:10, Skyscraper Staff; 4:10, Sodality Meeting, 405. THURSDAY, JAN. 5 1:10, Freshman Educ. Meeting; 3:10, Human Relations Club. FRIDAY, JAN. 6 12:00, Mass Epiphany; All-day exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. MONDAY, JAN. 9 4:10, Spanish Club. TUESDAY, JAN. 10 1:10, Freshman Class Meeting; 1:10, Big Sisters, 405; 4:10, French Club; Chemistry Club; 4:10 and 6:30, Foreign Film. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11 4:10, Sodality Meeting, 405. THURSDAY, JAN. 12 1:10, SAC Meeting with Class Of ficers; 4:10, Related Arts Club, Quanta Club. SATURDAY, JAN. 14 Morning, CEEB Exam. SUNDAY, JAN. 15 Sophomore Tea Dance. MONDAY, JAN. 16 4:10, German Club. TUESDAY, JAN. 17 1:10, Junior Class Meeting; 4:10, Press Club; 4:10, Faculty Coffee Hour. Forum Continues Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (the Would-be Gentleman), a French comedy by Moliere and the fourth film in Mundelein's foreign film forum, will be shown in the college theater, Jan. 10 at 6:30 p.m. The 1959 color release is set to the music of Lully and is the first in a series of movies being made by the world-renowned Comedie Francaise, which was organized in 1680 by Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere. WIN BUY JUST TRYING FOR SIZE, says Kathy to her mother, Mrs. John Patrick, and Rosaria to her father, Mr. James Colletti. The scene was the Father's Club and Women's Auxiliary joint Bazaar held in the Tearoom Dec. 9. Dinner, card play ing and the sale of gifts highlighted the occasion. Both organizations agree it was one of their most prosperous activities, with proceeds being given to the College.
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