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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Four Years of College Are Wartime Kaleidoscope Every college has its first class, its Charter Class, and. ultimately, its silver and gulden jubilee classes. Hut this June, colleges of the nation are facing something unique in I he history of this country. In June of 1945 the college war class will lie- graduated. Prior to December 7, 1941, college life was a glorious adventure with the academic aspect only one of many. Social activities. proms and parties, frequently loomed as important as studies, and the carefree life was considered the fullest. But I'earl Har bor overnight produced a radical change, and the realization of the significance of college life became sharp. The Class of '45 grew soberly wiser dur ing those first weeks of war. Drawn closer together by the danger and sorrow that every member shared, there was a sort of renewal of the spirit that had its beginning a scant few months before when eager freshmen listened for the first time to the inspiring I'ledge Song. Wordlessly we re solved to appreciate the great gift we had been given and to use it for its intended purpose the development of our minds and hearts and souls. We threw ourselves into our work with vigor and a new kind of light-heartedness. The vigor was brought on by the new- challenge which was presented to us, the light-heartedness was an effect partly of the natural buoyancy of youth that we could not quell and partly of the realization that the world needed all the cheer that we could create. So we started to study more in earnest and supplemented our school work with many things. War work bad to be done MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago, 40, Illinois Chicago's CotXEOE Eon Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, IH97, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XV Mav 31. 1945 No. 13 All-Catholic Honors All-American Honors Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Mary Grace Carney, Jayne King Associates Mary Burns, Jerry Stutz, Mary Catherine Tuomey Copy Editors Eleanor Arends, Joan Templeman Associates Viola Brennan, Mary Martha Cooper, Dolores Hartigan, Lois Hintze, Patricia Hollahan. Feature Editors Mary Beecher, Patricia Curran, Sheila Finney, Alice Marie Horen, Genevieve Urbain News Editors Regina Bess, Florence- Jankowski Associates Patricia Lee, Dolores Toniatti, Gladys Sullivan Sports Mary Cannon, Dolores Ccrvenka, Colleen Rettig Art Editor Mary Jane Smith Reporters: Mary Ann Anderson, Ruth Casey, Adelaide Costello, Mary Catherine Quinn, Geraldine Stack, Ann O'Reilly, Muriel Has ten, Rosemary Kelly, Maureen Horan, Jeanne McNulty, Patricia Harmon, Dorothy Doyle. Katherine Burwitz, Rosemary Templeman. so we worked after school and bought Bonds with our earnings. Clothing became scarce, so we made over what we had and were surprised at our own ingenuity. We became nurses' aides, canteen hostesses, we danced with sailors, read to convales cent soldiers, comforted gold star mothers. c filled our davs with action because they passed more quickly that way. -And we appreciated more fully than ever before the security that emanates from the Sanctuary, the anchor that faith can be in a time of heartache. The world we knew changed completely in only a few months. Mundelein geared to war needs. Formal social allairs were cancelled for the duration ; the Christmas tree did not sparkle in the foyer; the Red Cross took over the mezzanine; and the War Bond committee set to work. Four years have passed four years of waiting for V-mail letters, of studying island clusters on maps; of applying the truths of religion and philosophy to events and trends in a world of war. For us. the Class of 1945. only a few college days remain. Like the 900 Mun delein graduates who preceded us. we have our memories of Candlelighting breatli- takingly lovely of Honors Day. May Cor onation. Junior-Senior farewells. But we have something more. We have seen our College and our Country set aside the easier ways of peacetime and put on the harder ways of war. We have shared in this, and in our sharing we have grown in strength and wisdom. They're Talking About . . . A solemn religious triduuiii commemor ated the diamond jubilee of Jesuit edu cation in Chicago, May 11. 12. 13. Fach day of the celebration began with a Pon- tificial High Mass of thanksgiving, which students, alumni, friends, and benefactors of Chicago Jesuit schools attended. EWTIIFR Brown, detective-priest immor talized by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, who is in reality the Very Reverend Monsignor John O'Connor, parish priest of St. Cuth- bert's church in Yorkshire. England, cele brated recently the golden jubilee of his ordination. Long a friend of (i. K. C. he received the famous author into the Church. PHE prayer for peace of St. Francis of Assisi, written in 1226, was read in the United States Senate the day of the open ing of the San Prancisco Conference. The reader. Senator Alexander Wiley of Wis consin, said of the prayer, lt is the deep and earnest yearning of mankind that this prayer . . . be fulfilled for the delegates at the Golden (late. For through such fulfillment, power and inspiration may come to them to build well the edifice of peace. AMERICAN Army authorities have pro- **vided special guards to protect 47-year- old Therese X'euniann. stigmatized peasant woman whose death has been rumored many times since the start of the war. Catholic news services report that she is rejoicing in the arrival of the Americans who came shortly after her narrow es cape from Nazi shells. CUCCFFDINt; the Most Reverend John F. (I'Hara. C.S.C.. recently installed as Bishop of Buffalo. Major (ieueral William R. Arnold, former chief of chaplains, has been appointed delegate of the Military lt; Irdinariate. according to a recent an nouncement. Last month. Major General Arnold, who has seen 32 years of con tinuous service in the Army, was made as sistant inspector general of the Army with reference to religious matters. At present he is overseas on an inspection tour. New and Novel NOVEL OF PATRIOTISM NOVEL OF Nashville, Tennessee, is the HISTORY locale of this story of the Reconstruction period that followed the Civil War. It is the account of Nashville's answer to a plea for patri otism the restoration of the magnificent relics of the old Southern Colonial tradi tion, the crumbling estates that stood as monuments to a Lost Cause. This is the story of tlie loyal people of the South who at tempt to restore the pre-war grandeur of the old Southern mansions. The chief in terest in the story lies in the Hermitage, of which Andrew Jackson was once proud master. The historical old mansion is in dire need of repair, just as are many of the old Nashville estates, and the public-spirit ed citizens decide to do something about it. Nashville is in the midst of a building boom a building boom of cheap and shod- dv structures that seem to defy the ruins of the stately old mansions, boasting the splendour of another day. It is largely through the efforts and enthusiasm of Ma jor Eugene Lewis that the people of Nash ville are again moved to construct homes of architectural beauty similiar to the old pre-war Southern mansions. NOVEL Hunt Justice and Ncely OF ROMANCE Barrow enrich the plot with a beautilul and ten der love story. Hunt, when a young boy. moves to Nashville with his parents. His deepest ambition is to become one of the outstanding builders of the South. He dis plays remarkable talent and wins the recog nition of delightful Mrs. Folk, widow of the late I'resident. As her protege. Hunt studies architecture and is graduated from the university in time to help plan the fa mous Tennessee Centennial buildings, in cluding the Parthenon reproduction, the most outstanding structure of the Centen nial. Here Is a Weapon To Win the World Beneath the gigantic network of the Catholic educational system, behind the careful coordination of secular subjects with religion and philosophy, permeating instruction in science and languages, litera ture and economics, art and social study, is a message an urgent message, an insistent message, a message that often is not heard. It has a ringing challenge, this message. It could stir imaginations, it could inspire latent courage, it could impel forward to magnificent accomplishment. Hut too often it goes unheeded. Couched in simple terms, the message is this To influence others for good is a vital part of our business in life. This is the obligation of the Catholic college graduate, of the thousands who march from their Alma Maters into a world as pagan as the (ireece of Pericles. The aching futility of the mortar boards, of bright new diplomas, of the high and misty hopes of some of these graduates lies in their failure to grasp the message and to carry it. emblazoned on the banner of their youth and enthusiasm, to a world tattered and torn by the travesty of false ideologies or the poverty of no ideologies. What miracles could be accomplished by a Catholic generation afire with the ideal of radiating Truth Truth that the years of instruction and study, of listening and being led have instilled into minds era ,-ited for its quest The tranquility of order, that magnifi cently logical and satisfying conception of St. Augustine of man's relationship to God and to his fellows what might it not bring to a disordered, panic-stricken tini- verre? Saint Francis of Assisi's doctrine of love and brotherhood what possihility of lieaven-on-earth does it not promise? Is there any vista of progress that is not incomprehensibly widened, any facet of life that is not thoroughly, exhaustively explained by the acceptance of a Supreme Creator and Sustainer? Too often, to the Catholic college gradu ate, the mission is not clear, the objective is clouded, lie cannot vision the Mass as the glowing Core of an all-encompassing Love which would reach out to all men with the desire to bring them a share in Christ. He cannot see his life, so richly endowed with the bulwarks of faith and knowledge, as a crusade, as the dedication of self to the giving to other men of what has heen lavished upon him. Too often, to him, the Mystical Body is a name, not the reality of men wonderfully joined to the Head, a Body vivified by the Life Blood that is Sanctifying Grace, the Soul of which is the Holy (i'host. To influence is not his business? Until it becomes his business, the world will not be won Remembering Things- Small and Large I Iere and there around the town, June is preparing to make a flowery entrance. With its coming, procession als, Mendelssohn melodies, the lovely ritual of gradu ation dominates the scene. -And memories crowd in on senior minds. I'he sweep of the lake on stormy days . . . the excite ment of walking down the locker room stairs for the first time after summer va cation . . . the beauty of the marble-walled main corridor . . . the seemingly endless sessions in the lounge . . . the atmosphere in the col lege after First Friday Ben ediction . . . the loveliness of spring reflected on the library campus and down Sheridan Road . . . The sense of pride one feels after participating in a college program . . . the thrill of marching in cap and gown, not just the first time but every time . . . the wonder of the Cross of Candlelight, seen from down Sheridan Road . . . The holiday spirit that pervades the halls before Christmas and Thanksgiv ing and Easter . . . the al most tangible school spirit that exists on Honors Day . . . the never-acknowledged fun of meeting buds and riding to school on busses, streetcars, and trains . . . the solemnity of Senior Sun day . . . The charm of club teas and programs . . . the frenzy of working on publications and in various activities . . . the excitement of back stage duties . . . the weird spreads that activities in duce . . . the tenseness of minutes before- guests ar rive for tea dances . . . The simplicity and inspi ration of May Crowning . . . the reflection of lights on the glass floor of the Knick erbocker in now-gone Sky scraper Ball days ... the congestion and gaiety of the locker rooms . . . the breath- lessness of between-class radio-listening on the day before Y-F . . . the sense of achievement and satisfaction we had working for the Card Party . . . the relief when examinations are over The messages on the Dean's bulletin board . . . the noonday rosary in the Chapel . . . the harmony of (ilee club and Orchestra programs . . . the luxurious- ncss of the library browsing room . . . the tranquility oi stained-glass windows . . . the casualness of cokes . .. the Angelus bell . . . the sound of organ music . . . the solemnity of practice for graduation . . . the pride that is ours in Mundelein.
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1945-05-31 (2)
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