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November .5, 1937 THE SKYSCRAPER Pafte'3 Sophomore Sees Cotillion With Orchid Glasses By Joan Kaspari Applied to the Sophomore Cotillion, held at the Congress en Oct. 22, Walter Winchell's old catch-line, Orchids to you, just hadn't any significance, since the sophomores and their guests looked as though they already had more or chids than they could use. Almost everywhere one looked, orchids nodded from black velvet shoulders and caught in sweeping veils. Marjorie McPartland, chairman, add ed an individual finishing touch to her outfit by not adding a veil to her black velvet calot. After all, it wouldn't have done for her to have seen the world that night through a cloud of mesh. But the black cloud spread itself sartorially speaking over most of the Gold Ballroom, lightened, however, by scores of amusing touches. Annamarie Masteron's sheer black wool was dotted with red candlcwicking. Lois Jane Flynn also chose red, in a gay Dalmatian bolero, to highlight her black frock. The entire bodice of Rosemary Kelly's dress was made up of rows of fringe, which swished delightfully. Sequins added their glamour in pink for Is- mene Papalheodore's collar and cuffs, and in gold for the broad belt Lucille Gonder wore. Catherine Heerey chose a velvet prin cess frock in a heavenly shade of blue, and the Cotillion also saw the debut of one of Margaret Wieland's breezy crea tions, a, shrimp-colored crepe with cloth- of-gold trim. The eternal feminine takes one back ward look to record what was probably the most stunning costume of the evening Alice O'Brien's tailored silver lame. Commerce Students Visit Steel Plant With the studying of the basic in dustries of large-scale production as their objective, 40 members of the com merce department visited the Carnegie Illinois Steel company in South Chicago, on Nov. 1. Organized in 1881 as the Old Federal Steel company, the name was changed first to the Illinois and later to its present name. The company includes some 592 acres, with a land value not including the machinery of 222 million dollars. There are 14 furnaces, not all of which arc used simultaneously. When the tour was made, seven were in use. Three processes are employed, the open hearth, the Bessemer, and the blast. Furnishing automobile parts for General Motors is one of the functions of the mill. The tour, under the guidance of es corts furnished by the company, lasted about an hour and a half. Busses which conveyed the students to South Chicago remained and brought them back to the College later in the day. Organize Alumnae Philosophy Qroup Alpha chapter of Mu Nu Sigma, phil osophy club, was organized by alumnae members interested in continuing their study of philosophy, at a meeting on Oct. 25. Jane Spalding '37, philosophy major who is now doing graduate work in philosophy at Loyola, is president of the chapter. Miss Spalding was charter president of Mu Nu Sigma, which was organized in 1935. Charlotte Wilcox '36 is vice-president; Mary Geiger '37, president of the Phil osophy club last year, is secretary; Jean McKeever Egan '37 is treasurer; and Cecilia Wasisco '37 is program chair man. Present at the organization meeting were the following alumnae members: Daisy Lcnnert Elward '35; Anna Mc Cracken '37; Florence O'Callahan '37; Margaret Werlein '36; Mary O'Brien '36; Lorraine Horn '37; Margaret Egan '36; Bernice Walters '37; Cecilia Was isco '37; Ruth Quirk *36; Harriet Reed '36; and Miss Spalding, Miss Wilcox, Miss Geiger, and Mrs. Egan. The College group, Mu Nu Sigma, held an election meeting on Oct. 27, with 82 members present, a large increase over last year, in attendance. Magel Brown is president; Gertrude Brant, vice-president and social chairman; Anna Margaret Healy, secretary; Rosemary Byrne, treasurer; Rita Granhold, program chairmani Pianist Appears On Program With Chinese Consul Not often does one have the oppor tunity to share a program with so dis tinguished a person as the Chinese Consul in Chicago. This honor, how ever, was accorded to Ruth Perry, pia nist, who, at the invitation of the An- thro-Cosmo Open Forum, presented a program of piano solos in conjunction with Mr. Gung Hsing Wang's discus sion of the Japanese-Chino conflict, at the Fine Arts building, on Oct. 24. Miss Perry's program included the Chopin Waltz in E Minor; the Fan- tasie Impromptu of the same composer; Debussey's Arabesque; and Mac- Dowell's Scotch Poem. At the annual Pall Concert of the music department a week earlier, Miss Perry was also an outstanding performer. She is a freshman, majoring in piano, and treasurer of the Piano club. Resume Weekly Recital Series Two Charter Class Alumnae Are Brides Wearing her mother's wedding gown, with lace from Brussels, Adelaide Brost '34 became the bride of Edward Agnew in a nuptial ceremony at Holy Name Cathedral on Oct. 23. Miss Brost had chosen as her wedding day her mother's thirtieth anniversary. Ran-on '3-1 and Frances Ruckle- man, also of the Charter Class, were at tendants to the bride, who is now on her honeymoon in Bermuda. During her college days, Mrs. Agnew was president of Alpha Omicron, home economics club. Another Charter Class wedding oc curred on Oct. 20, when Mary Catherine Schmelzer became the bride of Joseph Lynskey, who has taken her to the Stnokey Mountains on a honeymoon trip. Mrs. Lynskey, who was the first stu dent ever to register at Mundelein, in the summer of 1930, was a member of the Clepsydra staff during her college days, and lias been on the editorial staff of a Chicago publishing company. Freshmen Orientation Is Radio Forum Topic James A. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., of the department of education of Loyola uni versity and former Mundelein Faculty member, conducted the Student Forum last evening on Station WCFL at 5:15. The subject of the forum was The Freshman Orientation Program, with discussion on freshman adjustment to college life. Freshmen participating with Dr. Fitzgerald in the Forum were Jean Spanuth, Lucille O'Connell, Amy Miller, Veronica Barnett, Virginia Cheet- ham, and Dorothy Homan. Scientists Sponsor Movie, Lecture, Tour Certain members of the Science Forum have been going around with a far-away look in their eyes that even approach ing examinations cannot dispel. The reason? They were among those who visited Mr. Andrew Benson's orchid green-house in Dcs Plaines, on Nov. 1. Mr. Benson, who has written many art icles on orchid culture, lectured on the subject at Mundelein last year. Beginning in the laboratories where the orchids are tiny seeds, Mr. Benson conducted the group through a dozen greenhouses where plants of every pos sible age, size, and stage of development grow in moss-filled pots on long tables. Following the tour, the students were invited to tea as guests of Mr. Benson. A motion picture and lecture were last week's Science Forum offerings to the student body. The former, given at 3 and 4 p.m. on Oct. 26, was entitled The Heart and Its Circulation, and de monstrated the progress being made by scientists in their unending fight against the causes of death and disease. The lecture, given by Mr. J. Barton of the Peoples Gas Light and Coke company, was illustrated with slides. Members of the Science Forum at tended meetings of the American Col lege of Surgeons, at the Stevens hotel last week. With the presentation of a program on Oct. 20, the Piano club resumed its Wednesday Musicales, the weekly pro grams which serve as a testing ground for the instrumentalists and prima don nas of the music department. The Mu sicales are open to all students, and pro vide a course in appreciaton of music for students in other departments. Freshmen who appeared on the pro gram are Dorothy Schrcck, who played I'almgrcn's The Sea; Betty Ryan, who, accompanied by Florence Kelly, sang The White Swan, by Hulten; and Nancy Durza, who was heard in the difficult Schumann Novelette. Also on the program were Betty Fa- gan, soprano soloist, in Massanct's Open Thy Blue Eyes; Mary Louise Sayre, who played Sibelius' Caprice; and Agnes Griffin and Ruth Perry, who united in a two-piano performance of Chaminade's suite, Andante and Scherzettino. Organize Trio Composed of Kathryn Wolford '37, pianist; Margaret Madden, violinist, and Marie Madden, bass violist, the Mundelein Trio performed recently be fore members of the South Shore Ca tholic Women's League. The Trio made its initial public ap pearance at the Music Faculty recep tion last spring and has performed sev eral times since then. Miss Wolford, who received her degree in music in June, was a guest at the Zanc Grey ranch in California this summer. Mary Is Favorite Mundelein Name Leading all other names in popularity, Mary is the favorite of Mundelein stu dent, if the 74 Marys' or combination names of which Mary is a part, listed in the service files may be regarded as an indication of preference. The 25 Elizabeths and Bettys rank next in name popularity, followed succes sively by 24 Jeans, Janes, Jeannes, and Joannas; 20 Helens, 20 Margarets and Marguerites, 18 Catherines, Kathryns, and Catherines; 18 Virginias, and 17 Dorothys. There are 12 Marjories, 11 Ruths, 11 Frances', 11 Rosemarys, 9 Alices, 9 Patricias ,8 Ritas, and 7 Eleanors. Most unusual among the 152 different given names of the students are Alba, Chestera, Clemence, Concetta, Zona, Hyacinth, Georgette, Germaine, Priscilla, Lrda, Maririta, and Joanadele. The Hall of Fame welcomes a col legiate Bernhard ft), a Byron, a Marie Antoinette, a Victoria Rcgina, an Adams, and an Addison. At the head of the alphabet Mary Absmeicr's name leads all the rest, and Ruby Zenn brings roll call to a close. Tribune Editor Gives Lecture on Furniture Furniture arrangement should suit the needs of each family, declared Miss Claire Windslow, interior decoration edi tor of the Chicago Tribune, in a lec ture on furniture arrangements given before members of the art and home economics departments on Oct. 27. Miss Winslow suggests as a key to effective decoration a main grouping of furniture around a center of interest, with other small conversational group ings advantageously spaced. Other suggestions included the Sol- lowing : place scatter rugs parallel to walls; balance all furniture; hang mir rors fairly close to tables; avoid plac ing chairs with their backs to the ma jor furnishings of the room. Attend Collegiate Registrars' Meet Sister Mary St. Helen, B.V.M., re gistrar, and Sister Mary Thcrese, B.V.M. attended the annual convention of the Illinois Association of Collegiate Regis trars held at Loyola university, on Oct. 28 29. Work for Peace, and Write Is Message from Zona Qale By Julia Mary Hanna Zona Gale, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Miss LuLu Bett and ranking American writer, left a message for college women in general and for aspiring writers in particular when she lectured in the book department at Man- del's last Saturday. A college graduate herself, Miss Gale feels that college women can be ef fective as promoters of peace in the United States. There must be no war, she insists. Keep hammering away at that idea. It is one of woman's biggest jobs right now, and, psychologically, it can do con siderable good. I suggest that you read A. A. Milne's Peace With Honour, in which he illustrates the idiocy of war by making fun of it. A feminine and vibrant person with cameo-like features and a magnetic voice and personality, Miss Gale decided to be a writer when she was only a child. Living Authors tells of her first book, a volume of verse hound in ribbon, which she wrote when she was seven. She wrote a p ay when she was in high school, but no one ever saw it. Why? Miss Gale says, The maid threw it into the waste basket and burned it by mistake. It is probably a good thing. After attending the University of Wis consin, from which she has a Master's degree, Miss Gale went to New York to write for a newspaper, and reported for the New York World for four years. Then she returned to her home in Portage, Wisconsin, to write novels, plays, and short stories. Of her journalistic experience as an aid to her in her writing, she says News paper work aids anyone who w'ants to write, no matter in what field. You are assigned a story and you have to get it, and that trains you in the habit of setting a task and completing it. Too, you meet many people, and meeting people is even better than traveling, for the type of experience writers need. An eighth-generation American whose pioneer ancestors have written the family name in the pages of history, Miss Gale is of a Scotch-Irish descent, and, although she is not a Catholic, she remarked as she was leaving: You might like to know that I am an honorary member of the Catholic Writers group in my home town in Wisconsin. Loyola Arts Dean Talks to Seniors, Parents, Oct. 31 Addressing the seniors and their par ents at the Mass of Christ the King on Senior Sunday, Oct. 31, die Rever end William A. Finnegan, S.J., dean of the Loyola University College of Arts and Sciences, reminded the students that they were gathered at the College to dedicate the last year of their formal education to the glory of Christ the King. Dedicate yourselves with deep and sincere conviction your physical and spiritual life, your intellectual and moral life, your domestic and social life in order that, in years to come, you may have the courage and grace to live as truly educated Christian women, adhering in practical every-day life to the Chris tian principles you have learned at Mun delein College. The seniors were invested in caps and gowns before the Mass, which was read in the auditorium at 9:30, and marched in solemn processional from the social rooms on second floor to their places in the auditorium. Following the Mass, the seniors and their parents and friends were guests of the College at breakfast in the tearoom, where they met the Faculty informally. The Glee club sang during Mass, and members of the Sodality acted as ushers. Katherine Keller played the organ re cessional. Monsignor Horsburgh Lectures at Assembly As guest speaker at the Sodality meet ing on Nov. 2, the Right Reverend Monsignor James J. Horsburgh, diocesan director of the Society for the Progaga- tion of the Faith, compared (lie work of the Society in its relation to the Missions, with the work of a quarter master, in relation to the army, point ing out that the heroic achievements at the Catholic Mission Front are made possible only by the heroic devotion of Society members at home. After arousing student enthusiasm for this type of aid to the missions, Mon signor Horsburgh explained that mem bership in the Society entails the recita tion of one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one aspiration, St. Francis Xavier, pray for us, daily, and the subscription of 50 cents each year to the missions, and promised to send the mission maga zine to each Sodalist next year. Sister Mary Donald, B.V.M., mod erator of the Sodality, addressed the group briefly, explaining that the ob jective of the Sodality is the enrichment of the spiritual life of each student. Preceding the lecture, Catherine Ann Dougherty, prefect, led the group in the recitation of the Little Office, and introduced the Academy chairmen, La- Vonne Hayes, Eucharistic-Our Lady; Helen Farrell, Catholic Social Action; Annamarie and Masterson, Literature; and Helen Coens, Apostolic. Draws Portrait Of Ideal Husband There is no such being as an ideal husband, began the Reverend Edward Colnon, S.J., dean of men at Loyola university, in his lecture on that topic to members of the Sociology club on Nov. 3. There are, however, approximations of that ideal, and Father Colnon listed a number of qualifications which ordinarily insure success in marriage. Character, consisting of fairness, hon esty, self-control, faith, and courage, heads the list of desirable qualities for a life partner. Good health is another important fac tor, and compatibility is an almost in dispensable quality, compatibility in re ligious belief, in racial background and tradition, in intellectual and social status, and in general disposition.
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1937-11-05 (3)
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