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I SKYSCRAPER Page Three Freshman Prescribes Choral Music for Dunning Patients Organ Major Directs Hospital Choir in 4-Part Masses, Hymns Possessor of great enthusiasm for music, Annamarie Maher, fresh man organ major, has encouraged patients in numerous wards at Dunning's State hospital in their vocal pursuits, during the past four years. She spends her Friday evenings conducting a 30-patient choir and teaching its members the rudiments of harmony and voice. Since first year high school, Miss Maher, by special request of the Passionist father who is chaplain of the institution, has played the organ at Dunning's two Sunday Masses. Piecemeal, the young organist began introducing various hymns, which were sung in unison at first, then in two and three parts. She marvelled at the patients' determination, but gaining ground was a slow tedious process. Once an arrangement was memorized, however, the choir never forgot it. Miss Maher's musical therapy reached success when, on Easter morning, 1944, her little group sang a four-part High Mass. All during Lent, the rehearsals had been anything but encouraging Ko the young director of the choir. Four-part harmony, difficult enough For professionally-trained singers, hardly lived up to its name in her ittle choral group. But the eagerness of the patients spurred Miss fclaher to continue instruction in part-singing until practice prefected he ability of each patient. Since that time, Dunning's choristers have enlarged their musical epcrtoire to include 10 Masses, some of which are Gregorian, as the l lass of the Angels. They now sing two and three part Communions nd Offertories with comparative ease. The head nurse in the receiving ward at the hospital recruits new inembers, and coaches the choir during her lunch hour. The results are what Miss Maher calls musical magic. Here Are Things That Make QI Hamlet Successful Spectacular settings, story-book cos tuming, and a modern musical score add interest to the G.I. version of Shake speare's immortal Hamlet, now being presented in Chicago by Maurice Evans. In an address before the Laetare Play ers, on Nov. 21, Allen Ludden, manager of the Evans' attraction, thus explained the success of the current production. In modernizing the great tragedy, con tinued Mr. Ludden, Maurice Evans' aim was to tell the story, emphasizing Ham let as the swashbuckling hero that he was. To hold his soldier-audience, Evans tightened the structure of the play, stress ing the conflict between the hero and the villain. In this way, the immortal bard keeps up with an accelerated age. Religion Chairman Opens Lecture Series Knowing Christ Better was the theme of a lecture by the Reverend William P. Murphy, chairman of the Religion depart ment, at the Sodality meeting on Nov. 26. The lecture was the first of a Personality Clinic series, inaugurated by the group. The Sodality collected canned goods for the distribution to the needy for Thanks giving. SL Drama Majors Turn Directors Minuet, a one-act play by Louis Par ker, was the choice of Rosemary Gorm ley, drama senior, for her first project as a member of the play-directing class. The play was presented in the Little Theatre, which will be the site of the remainder of the student-directed series. Mildred de Vic, Patricia Reynolds, and Dolores Wojciechowski, freshman drama students, composed the cast. 5 r Lucille Janda, Ursula Brodbeck, and Mary Guy, art majors who serve as guides for the exhibit now displayed on the eighth floor, study detail in an El Greco, one of the SO paintings and icons in the Hanns Teichart collection, here until Dec. 15. dventure? Travel? Visit Art Exhibit. . light This Way ?o World-File The Dreamboat may have made a :ord'flight around the world, but what lultural value did its passengers pick p on the way? , Mundelein students have the oppor- mity to travel through Continental lurope, the British Isles, Africa, the ater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and Mexico, and also view some of the cul- ral and artistic treasures of each coun- You ask how? The answer is piplc and near at hand. I i the right of the library staircase liere stands a five-foot green, steel file se. Within it is the beginning of a omising postcard collection of repro- Klions of famous paintings, statues, id noted sites all the world over. Although it is in its embryonic stage, ie collection of postcards, estimated to umber 3,500. includes scenes from Ger- lany, England, India, Japan, China, Ja- laica, Santo Domingo, Canada, and va- tous states of the union. See America First As a student prepares for her trip, she lay first take nctc of the historic monu- lents right under her nose ; the famous - ridges, buildings, roads, and rock forma- : , ions here in America. ig An entire section is devoted to the missions in California. Another portion a ;ives considerable attention to the capital, ashingtcn, D.C. X, Successive cards will transport the stu- .r ent to another state, another country, ,j( nd then another hemisphere. With the U ip of the wrist, she views the archipelago : the Japanese Empire, watches the san- ,ns in the harbors, or examines the road ie shrines, a common sight along the ad in Japan. From there, she will go on to see the Bwrled streets of HongKong filled with kshaws and coolies, and then to India, lere the Moslems honor Mohammed. One more twist, and the traveler is Ess the Mediterranean Sea and in mtiiicntal Europe. Here she views the ifhrertals of Belgium and Germany. nifus for their Gothic architecture. productions of many classical paint- n gs will carry her not only to Italy. c- ranee, and Greece, but also back through e ages to the Renaissance, the Holy jman Empire, and the Age of Pericles. JBig Ren in London and the Blarney bne at Killarney introduce the tourist Jthe historic spots of the British Isles. prom here she journeys to the tropics uftcrapinaA . . . It seems our neighbors over-the- fence are way out front in commending the successful Mundelein-Loyola Coke dances. Not to be completely scooped, may we too convey the good time had by all spirit prevailing after the dances, and add a note of thanks to the aforementioned neighbors and our own Student Council who have made the dances possible. Maurice Evans in the guise of the Melancholy Dane is the cause of Re gina Caulfield, Colette Clifford, Patri cia Conley, Teresa Gormley, Mary Lou Hafner, Jeanne Horan, and Margaret Schriver rushing to see Hamlet. Theater-going would seem to be a well-thought-of pastime with Jeanne Corcoran, Gloria Guilfoil, Rosemary Martin, Mary Nolan, Virginia Powers, Helen Jean Rogers, Joyce Saxon, Lu- ella Schall, and Rosemary Tierney, who for the lighter touch, saw I Remember Mama. Luckier than first nighters, Mary Leona and Joan Merrick previewed Sweethearts at the critics' dress re hearsal. Where there's life, there's a Munde lein girl or words to that effect. Any way, Skyscraper collegiates are belles of many a ball- Thanksgiving holidays started off for Yvonne Bellamy, Lois Hayhurst, Diane Marken, Marilyn Rey nolds, Mary Frances Ryan, and Jeanne Schubert at the Alpha Delt formal. Mary Ann Berghoff, Mary Frances Connery, Virginia Grimes, Katherine Hangsterfer, Mary Anne Hopkins, Ma rian Madden, Mary McCarthy, Joan Shea, and Margaret Wolf attended Kap pa Alpha Phi's November Nocturne. Febbie Elikunas went dancing at the Wright Field Officers' club during a November holiday in Dayton, Ohio. Loyola medical students escorted Pa tricia Brannigan, Mary Alice Courtney, Roseann Kennedy, Mary Claire Lane, Joanne Roberts, and Mary Ann Shaw to their dance at the Saddle and Cycle club. Rosemary Halec attended De Paul's Cotillion at the Congress, where Dor othy Mant and Rita Marcheschi went to the Illinois Institute of Technology's dance. Wkat Qoes On.., / 'HILL winter winds whip wildly V* against the west door; busses drone past again I warm holiday thoughts fill anxious minds, and IS short school days remain until Christmas. A LUMNAE brides are no novelty to ** Skyscraper staff members who spend alternate Saturdays in the press room, but two former editors complete with bridal parties on the same Saturday are SOMETHING. First to come was Lois Hintze '46, in ivory satin with four bridesmaids. She was married to William Wrase, Jr., at a Nuptial Mass at St. Ignatius, and will live in Muskegon, Michigan. Married to John Brown, brother of Jane Brown Johnson, S.A.C. president in '42, Rae Haefel '43, with her two younger sisters as bridesmaids, arrived from a Nuptial Mass at St. Peter's church, in Skokie, while the Hintze- Wrase party was being photographed on the grand staircase. Mrs. Brown wore white crepe and a tiara of seed pearls. r OROTHY Scott, junior, displays *-*' artistic talent in art and sewing, as well as in dramatics. For Mary Jean Ward's exciting trip to Wiscon sin's Homecoming, she decorated MJ's black blouse with hand-painted figures and green sequins. Blouse painting is becoming a campus fad, but this blouse takes a special prize. OOPHOMORE Nancy Prindiville, en- * * gaged to Robert Cunneen, is voted the girl with the different engagement ring. Five glowing sapphires in a gold oval setting draw more than the usual number of oh's and ahs. CHORTLY before Thanksgiving, Pat- * ' ricia Dannehy, sophomore, found an owl in her back yard. It is now loved as a member of the family, but there were some anxious moments after Thanksgiving, when OWL was missing. Fearing the worst, Patricia questioned her mother, learned that it really had been turkey the day before, owl stuffing and taxidermology in general being out of her mother's line. /CHICAGO'S crisp Thanksgiving wea- ther is still a novelty to Mexican- born sophomore, Olga Sokoloff. Though she had her first glimpse of snow last year in Omaha, Olga, educated previously in Mexico City, is not yet conditioned to the November-December vagaries of the Windy City and Mundelein's windy west entrance. / vN a recent Friday night, Philomena v- Hall drew a host of resident students and their dates who danced to the music of the Dorsey, James, Beneke, and Miller bands. Responsible for the galaxy of tunesmiths was Rosemary Kiley, general chairman of the party. Three Cheers for The Freshmen Earn while you learn, declares a hardy proverb. And, nothing loath, the freshman English students recently earned the gratitude of librarians and fellow-stu dents as they learned about the college library. While studying the card catalogue and standard references, the freshmen com piled a file of biographical information about authors on the freshman reading list and on the psychology reserve. If your next book report requires facts about the author, consult the new index, and smile a bigger smile at the nearest freshman. En Route to Everyplace . . . Jamaica and Santo Domingo. Tradition al costumes reveal the story of the peo ple's civilization, while Aztec temple ruins and treasures unfold the beauties of Mexico, the last stop of her tour. The cards were donated by members of the Faculty, alumnae, students, and friends of the college. Many countries are not represented, but it is expected that they will be in the near future. i Joanne Mulvey and Peggy Roach embark on a world tour, via the new postal card file in the library. Student travelers are invited to mail contribu tions to the collection. (Story in Column 1.) Gives Report At Language Teachers' Meet Sister Mary Irma, B.V.M., of the English department, reported on progress of a Study of English in the High School Curriculum, at a meeting of the Catholic Language Teachers association, of Chi cago on Nov. 30. The report demonstrated certain dis crepancies in methods of teaching Eng lish in the high schools, and noted that many students entering college lack ade quate preparations in background ma terial for freshman and sophomore courses. The committee aims to submit a plan for the study of English in Chicago's Catholic high schools. Spanish Club Sees Life South of Border Las Teresianas caught a glimpse of Mexico when Silvia Gaetti Calesini, A.M., club moderator, described her re cent trip south of the border. Christmas festivities for young Mex icans at Chicago's Mexican settlement were planned at the November meeting under the leadership of the club's off icers.
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1946-12-02 (3)
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