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t. r -j rr *' -Nt axi pjgi i, Volume VII. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 19, 1937 No. 10 Senior Radio Star Golden Rose, Drama Leatare Players Honor Club President at Ceremony ns Mercedes McCambridge, 20-year-old senior at Mundelein College, who finds time to complete her studies while taking part in several NBC shows ... that is what the daily papers say. But the Laetare Players said it with roses or rather with one golden rose, when they awarded to Miss McCam bridge, their president, the highest honor they give, at the Laetare Sunday award ceremony following a club Mass and breakfast on March 7. Five-feet three inches tall, brown-eyed, and born on St. Patrick's day, Miss Mc Cambridge has been on the ladder to radio success since she first came to the attention of the National Broadcast ing Company when the Verse Speaking Choir, of which she is soloist, was auditioned before the planning board last June. Has Five-Year Contract Don't let that young lady out of the studio before she signs a contract, was the board's reaction, and today Miss Mc Cambridge is rounding out the first of five years she has signed with NBC. Thus far she has appeared on Dan Harding's Wife, Your English, the Lights Out thrillers, Grand Hotel, and she is now starring on the Guiding Light show each Enthusiasm, energy, and a zest for study and playing see Miss McCam bridge through her 17-mile ride to school each morning she lives on the far auditions, rehearsals for her own show and for the weekly broadcast of the Choir, and pursuit of her favorite books into a schedule including lectures, term papers, and examinations. A drama major, Miss McCambridge is a member of Sigma Rlio Upsilon, honor ary dramatic organization, a member of the English Roundtable, and president of the Laetare Players. Wins Radio Award In addition to the Golden Rose, Miss McCambridge was given the award for highest achievement in the field of radio for 1937. Jane Malkemus won recogni tion for excellence in original creative work for her poem. Knitting Needles, and Margaret Cleary received honorable mention for her work on Joan of Arc to be presented in May. Eleanor Conly received the award for the highest number of points secured for admission to the Laetare Players, and (Continued on page 3, col. 3) Wins Daily News Short Story Prize Roberta Christie, senior English major is winner of the 25-dollar award in the short story contest sponsored by the Chicago Daily News. It is a typically American story, al though the title, In a Moment There Are Many Days, is taken from Dante's Divine Comedy. The story will be published in the Daily News on March 23, according to an amiouncement from Mr. John P. Lally, fiction editor of the News and former Mundelein faculty member. Faculty Member Receives Prize In Ode Contest Quest Moderator Awarded First Place for Poem On Centennial Diocesan Director Describes Missions Proving even more genial as an in terviewee than as a lecturer, the Right Reverend James J. Horsburgh, diocesan director of the Society for the Propaga tion of the Faith, declared in an inter view following his lecture on Tuesday that every country in the world is or ganized in Propagation of the Faith ac tivity and that in the United States the most extensive work is carried on in the west and south. It is significant, he remarked, that Chicago's first prelate, Bishop Quarter, received aid from the Society in France in founding the first university in Chi cago the predecessor of St. Mary-of- the-Lake seminary and significant, too, that the present offices of the organiza tion are now located on the site of that first foundation. Urging the students to cooperate with the Society by reciting the prescribed prayer for the Missions and paying the nominal dues, the Monsignor described in detail the organization and the ideals of the Society. Monsignor Horsburgh's lecture was sponsored by the Apostolic academy of the Sodality, which presented a skit on the missions at the opening of the meeting. Sister Mary Irma, B.V.M., moderator of Quest and The Clepsydra, is win ner of the Ode Contest, sponsored in connection with the Centenary of the Archdiocese of Dubuque. Catching the spirit of the frontiers man and the missionary, Sister Mary Irma divides her Ode into three parts, the first of which describes the repeated efforts made to exploit the riches of the Mississippi and the failure which came to all such attempts until the missionaries arrived. Part Two treats of the almost in credible expansion of the Church in the Mid-West, after the erection of the Diocese of Dubuque in 1837, tracing the work of Bishops Loras and Smyth, who organized parishes throughout the length and breadth of the diocese, established schools, and procured teaching Sisters, the first of whom, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, arrived in 1843 from Philadelphia. As the Ode progresses, the work of successive Bishops is noted, until, with the advent of Archbishop Beckman, Du buque becomes the center of the Catholic Student Mission Crusade. The day of the pioneer is over and Dubuqne-has-To'ndrcated her right to the title, The Rome of the Middle West, when Sister Mary Irma, in Part Three, invokes the continued protection of the Archangel Raphael on the great arch diocese dedicated to his patronage. Sister Mary St. Virginia, B.V.M., in structor at the Immaculata high school and winner of the Poem for Our lLady contest sponsored by America last sum mer, was second place winner in the contest. The official Ode will be pub lished in the Centenary program. Sister Mary Irma, B.V.M., is a mem ber of the Catholic Poetry Society of America and a contributor to Spirit. Debaters Schedule After-Easter Tilts Closing the pre-Easter schedule of de bates, Catherine Ann Dougherty and Georgette Thoss defended the negative of the question, Resolved: That Con gress Should Be Empowered to Fix Maximum Hours and Minimum Wages for Industry, in an encounter with a team from Quiucy college, yesterday at 3 p.m. Miss Thoss and Miss Dougherty up held the same side of that question in a debate with De Paul university on March 10, and Patricia Mack and Geraldine Ferstel defended the affirmative of the Cooperatives question against a team from Mt. Mary college, on March 9. The after-Easter schedule includes a radio debate with St. Viator's college, over WJJD, at 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 3; a debate on Cooperatives with Loyola on April 14, an encounter with Northwestern on the same question on April 14, and a discussion of the present Supreme Court crisis with Marquette university on April 21. HAPPY HOLIDAYS The Easter vacation opens at 5 o'clock today and continues through Easter Mon day, March 29. Classes will resume on Tuesday, March 30, and the quarterly examinations will be given March 30 to April 3. Script Writers Prepare Sketch For Good Friday Suspending the serial narrative, Col lege Cameos, presented each Friday at 5 :15 p.m. over station WCFL, the script writing class is working on a sketch appropriate for Good Friday, since the broadcast occurs on that day. Using the Gabriel Max picture, Ve ronica's Veil, as a motif, the script writers are creating their own version of the story of Veronica, depicting her early antoganism toward the teaching of Christ, and her touching conversion when she meets Him on the Way to Calvary. Since the broadcast will go on some time after all the Tre Ore services in the city are over, the students are urged to tune in and hear the program. The Verse Speaking Choir broadcast on the Choral Voices program over WMAQ on Palm Sunday will include Cecil Fanning's Pipes of Pan, Elinor Wylie's Peter and John, and the Twenty-Third Psalm. The program for Easter Sunday, at the same time, 1:15 p.m., will include Charles L. O'Donnell's Questionnaire, John Oxenham's Some Blesseds, and a se lected Festal Hallelujah. The regular College Cameos serial will go on the air at 5:15 today. Tune in S.A.C. Organizes All-School Drive For Card Party Annual Benefit to be Held At the Palmer House Thursday, Apr. 22 President Announces Cisca Scholarship Sister Mary Consuela, B.V.M., Presi dent of the College, announced last week that in the future Mundelein will offer a scholarship to the winner of the Cisca Annual Writers' club contest. Loyola university and St. Xavier college are offering similar scholarships, in order to promote creative writing among Cath olic students. According to the terms of the contest, a one-year scholarship in liberal arts, renewable if the student proves worthy, wrill be given to a senior high school student, who has an average of 80 or is in the upper third of her class, and who is a qualified member of a writers' club, or of a publication staff. The contest proper, which is extempo raneous and two hours in length, will be given annually in February. Prelimi nary judgment will be made by the Cisca Writers club, and final judgment will be given by the head of the English department. Urging organized school-wide support of the annual S.A.C. card party for the benefit of the college library, members of the Student Activities Council announced officially at a general assembly last week that this year's affair will be held at Exhibition Hall of the Palmer House, on Thursday evening, April 22. A fashion revue featuring the latest in spring apparel for a bridal party and for street and evening wear, modeled by juniors and seniors, will be the highlight of the evening. Seniors have elected Sheila Sullivan as the bride, Margaret Cleary as maid-of-honor, and Kathleen Feely and Ruth Kees as attendants. Table prizes, door prizes, and a raffle will form additional attractions, accord ing to the announcement of committee members. Council headquarters during the rush will be the fourth floor room just west of the study hall. The following is a list of the S.A.C. committees: Tickets: Gertrude Rafferty, chairman; Geraldine Connell, Patricia Connor. Patrons: Wilma Roberts, chairman; Betty VestaL Advertising: Marion Green, chairman; Helen Coleman. Style Show: Rita Smith, chairman; Rosemary Muruighau. Door Prizes: Helen Farrell, Gertrude Brant, co-chairmen. Table Prizes: Rita McGuane, chair man ; Peggy Jordan. Publicity: Carol Sweeney, chairman, cooperating with Julia Mary Hanna, stu dent press representative. Class ticket chairmen, announced by Miss Rafferty are: Seniors: Mary Margaret Smith, assisted by Anna McCracken, Catherine Lindley, Marion Weber, and Veronica Kasses. Juniors: Magel Brown, assisted by Rita O'Donahue, Alberta Boden, Mary Mar garet Murray, Ruth Wunsch, Carol Sweeney, and Sue Adams. Sophomores: Helen O'Neil, assisted by Patricia Mack, Margaret Hanlon, Mary Louise Sayre, Katherine Wilkins, Ger trude Feeney, Dorothy Fitzgerald, Ruth Mae Amann, Rosemary Conlcy, Mary Muellman, and Monica O'Meara. (Continued on page 3, col. 2) Organ Quild Round Table To Discuss Qregorian Chant The Organ Guild, composed of Munde lein organ students, is to sponsor a series of round tables on problems confronting the modern church organist, according to a recent announcement. The first subject, The Organist and Gregorian Chant, will be presented by Rita Smith, chairman of the group and organist - choir - director at St. Pius Church. Miss Smith's talk will include discussion of Gregorian chant as a coun- teractant of Communism, and its place in the Liturgical Movement. Veronica Kassis will speak on the sec ond topic, Causes For the Slow Spread of Gregorian Chant. Miss Kassis plans to mention the lack of appreciation by those who should lead this phase of lit urgy, and will show why its popularity did not increase rapidly until recently. The History of Chant, and its Promo tion in Modern Times will be treated by Alice Szambaris. The return to chant was a result of the publication of the encyclical Motu Proprio in 1903. The Benedictines have fostered it, in conjunction with the revi val of liturgy, and have instituted schools of liturgical music both at the Abbey of Solesmes, and at the Maria Laach Abbey, in Belgium. In America the movement has gained nation-wide recognition. The Pius X School in New York offers courses in Gregorian Chant, and several bishops have aided by forbidding secular church music in their dioceses. The well-known Pius X Girl's Choir of New York City has presented whole concerts of liturgical music, and the Rev. Edgar Boyle of San Francisco is intro ducing similar organizations in the West. Dates for the talks will be announced shortly. Informal discussion will follow the addresses.
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