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Don't Miss The Christmas Fair J Vol. XXVIII Mundelein College, Chicago 40, Illinois Divine Light Shines Voices, Music, Color, Lights, Drama Harmonize Into Christmas Cantata For the second year, The Divine Light, an original composition for women's voices and orchestra, by Mundelein Alumna Moonyeen Brown '57, will be presented as the annual Christmas cantata. It will be held Dec. IS at 8:15 p.m. in the college auditorium. St. Cecilia Concert To Spotlight Talent Of Music Students The best of Mundelein's music department will share the spotlight on Tuesday, Dec. 3, in the annual St. Cecilia concert beginning at 1:10 in the college theater. Variety will be the keyword this year when students, fresh men to seniors, will present vocal, piano, glee club, violin and organ selections by com posers ranging from Mozart to Tschaikovsky. The recital, usually presented dur ing the week of the Feast of St. Cecilia (Nov. 22) was postponed for two weeks in order to oblige the per formances of the benefit and the drama department's Blithe Spirit. Under the direction of Adal bert Huguelet, the glee club will op n with Holy Lord God by Cain, Tschaikovsky's The Nightingale and For the Beau ty of the Earth by Kocher. Organ selections of Guilmant and Widor will be interpreted by Par- reannie Wilson and Jacqueline Buf- fetti. Pianists Elizabeth Casieri, Mary Sklavounos, Gene McCarthy, and Marv Ellen Burg will play Mozart, Dcbussv and Albcniz. Smetana's Aus der Heimat will be the violin solo of Suz anne McBride with Parreannie Wilson as accompanist. Voice students Marilyn Zanke and Joan Dohcrty, accompanied by Ka- therine Jackson and Elizabeth Ca sieri, will sing compositions of Leoncavallo and Puccini. PflUDOtrD Moonyeen Brown encircled by Glee club officers Mona UUMrUOLK Cahill, Mary Ellen Burg, Audrey Cihlar, and Lydia Rousseau prepare for second presentation of The Divine Light. Whirl Like Flakes At Skyscraper Ball Mundelein's annual Skyscraper Hall will be held at the Furniture Club of America, 666 N. Lake Shore Dr., Dec. 27, from 9 p.m. until 12:30. Music for the formal ball will be supplied by Ralph Berger. Bids are 4.00, and can be pur chased in the lounge after Dec. 4. Dean Chosen to Serve On Steering Committee Sister Mary Donald, Dean of Studies has been chosen by Vernon L. Nickel , Superintendent of Public Instruction in Illinois, to represent Mundelein College on the Steering Committee. The meeting will be held Dec. 6-7 in the Coral Room of the St. Nicholas hotel in Spring field at 1:30 p.m. The Steering Committee is a statewide cooperative program for curriculum improvement. Sister will serve a term of three years. Three Students Gain A Grades; Sophomores Top Dean's List Sophomores captured 25 of the 69 places on the newly established Dean's List for the first quarter. Two of the three students who merited the highest possible (three point) average for the same period were also members of the Sophomore Class. Carmelina Napolitano and Theodora Pierdos shared the honor of STRAIGHT A their straight A's with Jean Engelhardt, senior French major. Jean was one of the 18 members of her class who merited honors. Fifteen juniors and 11 freshmen also attained the 2.5 or above aver age necessary for honor citation. The official Dean's List will be posted today on the first floor bul letin board opposite the President's Office. Inauguration of the Dean's List at Mundelein, announced at the Oct. 4 Honor's Convocation, is one of the measures introduced this year to stimulate interest in super ior achievement by intellectually gifted students. Sophomores who merited honors are: Mary Ann Bilski, Lucille Black, Audrey Cihlar, Patricia Flood, Mary Ann Fo garty, Barbara Gotsch, Eliza beth Hackett, Kathleen Hot- ton. Katherine Jackson, Lorna Ja- nowski, Marilyn Karsh, Kathleen Kilday. Jacqueline Kosturik, Saule Liulevicius, Dorothy Matthei, Mar cella McCann. Joanne Miller. Carmelina Napo litano, Rosalie Neufeldt, Theodora Pierdos, Sister Mary Daniela, B.V.M., Sister Mary DePorres, B.V.M., Sister Mary Matteo, B.V.M., Sister Mary Lois, B.V.M., and Dorothy Thomas. The 18 senior names appear ing on the Dean's List are: Mary Breslin, June Chenelle, Patricia Cline, Jane Cordes, Jean Engelhardt, Margaret Ford, Marjorie Kasner, Patri cia Kobel, Melissa Lewis. Mary Jan McNally, Eugenia Mickevicius, Marguerite Moliter, Kathleen Newman, Jean Rieck. Al- vena Schell, Sister Mary de Sales, S.S.C.. Sister Marv Teresina. B.V.M., and Karen Tuley. Honored juniors are: Vic toria Bomba, Mary Ellen Burg, Virginia Grasser, Ar- lene Luberda, Sandra Marek, Ulana Nimylovych. Sister Marielouise, S.Sp.S., Sis ter Mary Andreau, B.V.M., Sister Mary John Bosco, B.V.M., Sister Mary Lelith, B.V.M., Sister Mary Louise, S.S.C., Sister Marv Mel, B.V.M., Sister Mary Michaelo, (Cont. on page 3, col. 2) By students Theo dora Pierdos, Jean Engelhardt, and Carmelina Napolitano receive official con gratulations from Sister Mary Ann Ida for grade points that top the Dean's List. Mr. Adalbert Huguelet, of the music department, will direct the production to which the Glee club, art mid drama departments, and the Orchestra will contribute. The art department arrange the colors in the tableaux, and drama students supervise lighting and staging, for the Glee club-Orchestra production. Last year, Miss Brown, then a Mimdclein music major, composed words, music, and orchestration for the ten-scene dramatization of the Christmas story. At present, she is studving at Northwestern university on a music scholarship merited in part by this composition. The cantata will be preceded by a Christmas Overture by S. Mundelein Observed Visiting Educator Today Dr. William J. McKeefery, Dean of Alma College, Alma. Mich igan, will visit Mundelein. Dr. Mc Keefery. who represents the North Central Study on Liberal Arts Edu cation, will talk informally with stu dents in the Phoenix room and throughout the school all day. At 4 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. he will meet the faculty. As North Central coordinator, Dr. McKeefery will observe the college in action, pick up ideas to suggest to other schools, observe problems, and assist in planning answers to them. The North Central Study, a coop erative organization of 78 schools, has for 17 years helped colleges im prove educational programs. The NCS does not accredit schools but serves to improve con ditions within schools. In the past it has served in the development of new courses in general education and in the preparation of faculty handbooks. At Mundelein, Sister Mary Harrita is chairman of the NCS. Dean McKeefery, a graduate in electrical engineering from Pennsyl vania university, received his Bach elor of Divinity degree from Prince ton Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Higher Education from Columbia. After advanced en gineering study at the General Electric research center in Schenec tady, New York, Dean McKeefery taught engineering for three years at Yale and Princeton. Coleridge-Taylor and a medley of carols, played and sung by the orchestra and she club. The Divine Light dramatizes those events leading up to and including the birth of Christ. Tableaux such as the Annuncia tion, the Magnificat, am the journey to Methlehem have been arranged as a background for orchestra, a chorus of female voices and soloists. Voice students Patricia Coakley, .Audrey Cihlar, Joan Doherty, and Marilyn Zanke will be the soloists. Jane Cordes and Joyce Kuhlmann will appear in the Annunciation ta bleaux, Ellen Schoen in the Mag nificat scene, and Lillian Kucera in the Shepherd's Soliliquv. Mary Ann Cashman will portrav the Blessed Virgin and Yvonne Damien will be St. Toseph in the Virgin's Lullaby. Mi-hacle Lamb, Patricia Lorrigan, and Ann Cortv a e in the story of the M',rr; Mary- thomas H 'son 'T'rginia Muzika, Judith Skwiot, and Jean Rieck appear as sh n- herds and townspeople in the Sanctum. In the finale. King of Kings. Ann Coe. president of the student body, will be the Madonna, and Daniel McGrath. son of alumna Loretta Gibbons McGrath '52, will be the Child. Advent Spirit Wreathes School The Advent wreath ceremony tak ing place today at 11:50 in the tea room with the blessing of the wreath by Father William T. Clark, will begin a program co-sponsored by the Sodality and the Freshmen class to act as Mundelein's prelude to Christ mas. As Sodality Prefect Kay Parrilli lights the first candle symbolizing the first week of Advent, Barbara Hartke, freshmen class president, will recite the traditional prayers. In succeeding weeks the candles will be lit by the vice-prefects Mari lyn Zanke and Ruth Charlton; and the secretary, Alvena Schell. The prayers will be said by the class presidents: Judith Bogan, soph omore ; Elizabeth Weiss, junior; and Lynne Sheeran, senior. The cere mony will take place each Monday of Advent at 11:50 a.m. To promote an active parti cipation in the Advent liturgy in the home, freshmen have sold kits containing materials used in making wreaths. Stu dents sponsoring this project are: Patricia Bozis, Jacqueline Dempsey, Shirley Geiser, Ro salie Lowery, Margaret Mc- Guire and Joanne Walsh. Sodalists will join the freshmen in promoting and publicizing the Advent wreath, by selling the book let, Christ the Light Is Coming. This contains a liturgical meditation for each dav of Advent and an explana tion of the O Antiphons. A daily meditation will appear on the Sodal ity bulletin board for students' con venience. Sodalists, in a dual attempt to en courage true Christmas spirit, have also ordered leaflets entitled Christ mas Eve in the Home. Patricia Hell- treth will organize a mistletoe sale, with proceeds going to southern state missions badly in need of as sistance.
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1957-12-02 (1)
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