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SKYSCRAPER Pa e Three Music Majors Achieve Success as Teachers, Composers, Vocalists Music hath charms, and a charming and successful career is predicted for the music major in the post-commencement success of Mundclein's graduates in that field. Of the 22 students who have majored in music in the last 10 years, 10 are teaching, eight in public or private schools or in their own studios. Three graduates are church organists, two are composers, one is an accompanist, two are choir di- i-u tors, and one a concert cellist. Writes Music Among those former students who are imw active in the pedagogy of music is l-'rances Mikkelson Harley '36, voice major, who is instructor in music and harmony in the public schools, and who I has published a number of compositions including Gypsy Moods, a melody built on the Hungarian minor scale and issued by the Music Products company. Mrs. 1 lar ky has recently had two arrangements i f choral numbers performed by the Chicago Symphonic Choir. Rita Smith '36, organ major, organist at St. Pius's church, has arranged and played the organ accompaniments for a major production at Northwestern uni versity. Ann O'Sullivan. another organ ist, plays at St. Hrigid's church and is choir director. Mary Louise Saver '39, piano major, conducts her own music studio, directs la choir and is the organist at St. Au- Ijtliony's church, and is studying for her 1 Masters degree at the American Con servatory of Music. Agnes Griffin '39, now Sister Mary Ignatia, R.V.M., music education raa- Ijor, is in the music department at the Normal college at the Mount Carmel novitiate. Tours South I Chestera Niewinska '39, is a concert cellist, who recently completed a tour of I the southern states. A European tour, I arranged before the outbreak of the prcs- I ent conflict, had to be cancelled. Eleonore Solewska Skowronski '39 is now conducting private classes in her violin studio in Chicago, after a year of I study in Poland. Katherine Wolford '38, is a teacher of music in the public schools and is sttidy- ling for her Master's degree at North- Iwestern university. Mae Murphy Walsh I'35 is a teacher at Carl Schurz high school, and Rita McHale and Helen I Domkus, both of '36, are also teachers. Is Accompanist Mildred Sperry is a professional ac companist and also conducts private music classes. Virginia Meis Farley, the mother of two children, teaches in her nun music studio. Olga Mclchione '34. has specialized in creative music, having had some of I her work published. Catherine Keller 40 has registered for graduate work towards a Master's degree in music at I the American Conservatory of Music. Illinois Pioneer Is Topic of Lecturer Former French Consul Talks On La Salle The adventures of Robert Cavelier, seventeenth-century explorer whose stat ue stands in Lincoln Park, were de scribed by Rene Weiller, former consul- general of France in Chicago, for mem bers of Les d'Arciennes, on March 18. M. Weiller. now a s H-cial lecturer at Northwestern university, stated that Cavelier, more commonly known as La Salle, is sometimes called the first gov ernor of Illinois, since he was appointed tii that office by Louis NIV, through his minister of finance, Colbert. Born at Rouen, birthplace also of Joan of Arc, La Salle, whose brother was a member of the Sulpician order in Mon treal, organized an expedition to New France, as Canada was then called, and. later, to the Ohio valley. M. Weiller has made a special study of historical figures of great Frenchmen who have contributed to the culture and the cultivation of this country. Be Chic for Spring in Turban or Toque Golden Rose, High Drama Award, Goes To Loretta Calnan Lucille O'Connell Named For Best Performance Attend Convention Of Art Association Mundelein Faculty members and art I students were among those who attend ed the annual convention of the Wes tern Arts association at the Stevens Hotel, March 19-22. I The aim of the convention was to I show the educators, as well as the gen eral public, the important place a free art holds in the defense program of America. The association is convinced that tbrcugh the humanizing of the arts Ithe American social order may he more surely preserved. Sister Mary Janet, B.V.M., and Sis ter Mary Pierre. B.V.M., attended the Art and Home Economics divisions. Helen Rickett. Frances Kane, May iFarmer, Florence McDonnell, Rita Val- enzano, Margaret Kreusch, Marion Dy- cr, Jane Trahey, Mary Cole, and Dor- I othy Scholzen were among the student visitors to the educational exhibits and Ithc Catholic Art section. Ann Lally '35, an art supervisor in the Chicago public schools, was co- I chairman of the local committee. Loretta Calnan. senior drama major, received the Golden Rose for distin guished service to the Laetare Players, at the annual Laetare Sunday program, in the little theatre. March 23. Lucille O'Connell, also a senior drama major, received the award for the out standing performance of the year, her interpretation of the role of Claudia in Starbound. Miss Calnan is president of the Players and Miss O'Connell is treasurer. Audrey Ewry and Dorothea Walters received awards for accumulating the largest number of points made by drama students for membership in the club, and Ruth Shmigelsky. freshman art major, received the award for the largest num ber of points for associate membership. Traditionally, the Laetare Sunday pro gram, which is attended by both students and alumnae of the department, opened with Holy Mass celebrated in the Col lege Chapel by the Reverend William P. Boyd, professor of encyclicals. In an address to the Players, Father Boyd sjioke of drama as a means of teaching truth to the world, and de scribed the Mass as the greatest drama ever enacted, with the world's greatest Dramatist and Actor as its Center. Following the Mass, breakfast was served in the tea-room, with Miss Cal nan acting as toastmistress. A highpoint in the program was the reading of a telegram from Mercedes McCanihridge Fifield, winner of the Golden Rose in 1937 who is now an NRC star in Holly wood. Miss Fifield wired: I extend my heartfelt congratu lations on this Laetare Sunday. That the year holds your continued success is my hope. That future years bring you peace and happi ness is my prayer. So much I owe you, I am ever grateful. Mercedes McCambridge Fifield Maryanne Achten spoke in honor of the President and Faculty of the College: Doris Ruddy in honor of the College; Royce McFadyen to the Laetare Players, Grace O'Connor responding. Mary Nicholson Schagar, winner of the Golden Rose in 1934 and now president of Sigma Rho Upsilon. the honorary or ganization of drama alumnae, presented a gift to the College, and welcomed new- members. Miss O'Connell responded. Following the reception of pledges, and of new members into the alumnae organi zation, a group of sophomores presented a one-act comedy. XlNCU. Appearing in it were Jeanne lloran, Marie Kukman, Grace Mannebach, Jane Redlin, Paulette Lear. Miss McFadyen. Geraldine Resch. and Mildred Greene. Milliners Jeanne Kaufmann and Dorothy Green put the last touches on the turbans of Marjorie Carlos (left, seated) and Barbara Thomson, as Mary Jane O'Brien (center) admires the pink feather in her hat. These five are members of Clothing Class I, which is engaged in making chapeaux this season. Spring Issue of Review to Feature Unpublished Works Two articles on previously unpublished literary works will be features of the spring issue of the Mundelein College Review, off press this week. I.aurette Kcshen's study of Vera Marie Tracy, Catholic poet and essayist who died in September, 1940, sill be based in part on some recently collected biograph ical material about Miss Tracy. Through correspondence with the poet's mother, Catherine Dwyer has secured some previously unpublished poems by Maurice Fields, Negro poet and convert, who died in 1938. In lighter vein is an article on Kather ine Brush, by Mary I larrington and Ruth Tentler. Other stories and articles are contributed by Virginia Cheatham, Mary Caroline Bemis. Virginia Coffey, and Helen Eichstacdt. Heads Up Hats on Handmade Turbans Join Spring Parade Designers Drape Hats Match Ensembles to Banker Sees Wage, Profit, Price Rise Good Business in Sight, No Depression Higher prices, better wages, and higher profits are on the way. accord ing to James J. McNulty, vice-presi dent of Ames Emericb and Co., Inc., oldest original banking house on La Salle Street, who addressed the Com merce club March 18. on Present Day Trends in Banking. All this and better business, ton. will be a result of the 20 billions of new- bonds which will be floated by the U. S. Treasury in April to finance the armament program. These bonds, at 3'/ percent, will re sult in a loss for present generation bond-holders because of their 2Y* per cent returns, but since the trend of general business will rise, they will be benefited in the end, added Mr. Mc Nulty, who is the father of Alumnae Mary and Marguerite, and Freshman Kathleen. There will be no inflation and con sequent depression to follow the up n business, however, asserted Mr. Mc Nulty. Regulations of the Federal Re serve System in Washington prevent monetary inflation, although commodity inflation is inevitable. Drape it while you wait might well be the slogan of the Clothing I class on the fourth floor this season, for personal ized, exceptionally attractive turbans are being turned out by the hour by these talented beginners. This project, the results of which will be outstanding in the spring parade of millinery, is an innovation in the home economics department. While it is not difficult to pur chase a turban at any store, it is another matter to find one which is not only based on the individual's facial contour needs, but which is also made from the identical ma terial as some other article of dress. Both of those qualifications are tilled in the turbans made in Room 408. for the turban is draped by a fellow-milliner on the head of the one who is to wear it, and is whipped up from material left over from a skirt or dress made in the same class. No patterns are used, but the style, which may be formal or informal, is based on architectural forms. If the mod el has a long, thin face, the turban is built out rather than elongated, and vice versa. An unusual twist of material, pleats, or tucks, are used to emphasize good features, or to minimize poor ones, if any. No trouble is spared to find the most becoming style for the model. An ex ample of this occurred when Senior Mar garet Byron draped and completely pinned the same piece of pastel plaid on Dorothy Greene's head three times in one hour, be fore the result satisfied both. Another turban, of cinnamon shantung, with matching dress, is being entered by Miss Greene in a current fashion contest. A pink feather waves gaily from the powder-blue toque worn by Mary Jane O'Brien to match her recently made herringbone long torso suit. The material for this ensemble, which is estimated to be worth 40, was purchased by Miss O'Brien for a fourth of that price, including lining. Joyce Frank-el's beige herringbone tur- (Continued on Page 4. Col. 2) Students Discuss Opportunities in Home Economics Fifteen home economics students took part in a symposium entitled Opportuni ties in the Field of Home Economics, before members of Alpha Omicron, on March 18, with Margaret Shay presiding as chairman. Jeanne Kaufmann discussed opportuni ties in teaching for home economists; Dorothy Green spoke on the fields of textiles and clothing; Mary Jane Poffen- lierger considered the possibility for dem onstrating household equipment, and Jeanne Moehlig stressed the need for home economists in the various public utilities. Patricia Brons and Rose Mary Gib bons told of opportunities for dietetians, and Ftheliuda llarrigan and Lorraine Vaeger discussed the possibilities for careers in institutional management and hotel work. Janet Farrell talked on the need for home economists in the advertising field; Mary Ellen Winblad discussed oppor tunities in budgetary service; and Mar gery Muriiighan and Mary Jane O'Brien considered opportunities for home econ omists in journalism and radio. Joyce Fraukle told of opportunities in interior decoration, and Catherine En- right and Dorothy Fiedler concluded the symposium with talks on opportunities in government and social service. Les D'Arciennes Sponsor Luncheon All conversation was in French at Les d'Arciennes luncheon last Saturday at Chappell's French restaurant, when Ma dame Germaine Gallois Starrs was guest of honor. The club plans a series of such luncheons, to be held at different French restaurants. A native of Besancon, France, Madame Starrs wove picturesque information about her homeland into the conversation. Attending the luncheon, which was ar ranged by Adele Ross, were Patricia Flynn, Vali Ballantinc, Rosemary O'Don nell, Thora Hansen, Helen Siemianowski, Mary Ellen Kelly, Bette Condren. Vir ginia Arado, Dorothy Grill. Mary Lor raine Stokes. Mildred Welch, Jeanne du Moulin. Margery Rowbottom, Mary Kaye Smith. Mary K. Herold. and Rosemary Shanahan.
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1941-03-28 (3)
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