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Benefit Turmoil Subsides; Campaign Swings into Gear Now that the controversy over the removal of James Joyce's Ulysses se lection from the benefit program has subsided, campaign promoters are pro ceeding with their plans to stimulate class and team competition. IN ORDER TO FURTHER student interest, the leaders have offered a personal introduction to Burgess Meredith as the prize for top salesmen. An Evening With Burgess Mere dith Nov. 18, 19 and 20 will include A Thurber Carnival by James Thurber; Winterset by Maxwell An derson; and Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas. Mr. Meredith will be assisted by Broadway actors Nancy Wickwire and Basil Langton. Miss Wickwire has appeared in pro ductions of the New York Shake speare Festival as well as in numer ous television programs, such as Stu dio One and Westinghouse Summer Theater. MR. LANGTON has appeared at the Kings Theater, in London, and the Theater Royla, Bristol. He has worked with such celebrities as Maurice Evans, Sir Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinnes. To promote 100 per cent student Europe u in Crisis Features Speaker on Continental Changes Dr. Francis Schwarzenberg, assist ant professor of political science at Loyola University, will be the second lecturer in the Europe in Crisis series sponsored by Loyola and Mundelein. He will speak Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. at Mundelein. A recent traveler throughout West ern Europe, Dr. Schwarzenberg will discuss the social, economic and politi cal changes taking place on the con tinent. A native of Prague, Czechoslovakia, Dr. Schwarzenberg received his LL.D. from Charles University, Prague, and studied at the Ecole Libre des Sci ences Politiques in Paris. In addition, he is a Knight of St. Sylvester, St. Gregory the Great and a member of the French Legion of Honor. A former Czechoslovakian govern ment official, he resigned his office when the Nazis took over the country, and later when the Communists came into power. Following World War II, professor Schwarzenberg re-established diploma tic relations between Czechoslovakia and the Vatican and served as Czech envoy to the Vatican. Writer-Lecturer Discusses Topic of Germany Today Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, writer, lecturer and columnist, will speak to the student body on Ger many Today at 1:10 p.m. Oct. 27 in college theater. His address will the second of the featured presen- ions in the current Concert-Lec- -ure series. Dr. von Kuehnelt-Leddihn will de tail the tremendous recovery of mod ern Germany, its place in contempo rary Europe and its struggle with the past. Born in Austria, he speaks French, German, Hungarian and Russian as well as English, which he learned while vacationing in Britain. After re ceiving his doctor's degree from the University of Budapest, he was asso ciated with Georgetown University, Fordham University and Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia. Dr. von Kuehnelt-Leddihn has trav eled throughout the world, studying, lecturing and writing. His latest, of several novels, Die Gottlosen, will be published in French. cooperation for the benefit drive, class tag days will be designated Oct. 25- 28. Seniors will get on the bene fit bandwagon Oct. 25 to further the sale of ads, tickets and pa trons. Juniors, sophomores and freshman tag days will be Oct. 26, 27 and 28 as each class vies for top honors in the sales campaign. The class with the highest amount sold on their re spective day will be awarded the tra ditional trophy. OCTOBER 28 marks the deadline for the sale of ads and patrons, but the tickets will be sold throughout November. In order to further student initia tive, the promotion department, headed by Margaret Ostrander, has divided the college into groups of 10 girls with a leader at the head of each. The team with the highest sales total at the end of the drive will meet Burgess Meredith at the for mal reception held after the first performance. Dems and Reps Bring Out Vote At School Polls With the rapid approach of the presidential election Nov. 8, political party activity is mounting to a frenzy. But Bob Kennedy, Barry Goldwater and former president Harry Truman aren't the only ones trying to get out the vote. Mundelein's Young Democrats and Young Republicans are campaigning strongly on their own. Thursday, Oct. 27 is the date of the all-school mock election and both clubs are out to win. Campaign publicity has adorned lockers, bulletin boards and blouse collars for several weeks as the clubs got off to an early start. Posters and publicity for the mock election itself, provided by the Young Republicans will appear this week, as Young Democrats prepare the ballots. One-hundred per cent participation is the common goal of the clubs, both vote. Registration will take place with students and faculty being eligible to the voting, by having names checked off of an all-school list. Polls will close at 4 and results will be an nounced the following day. As an added incentive to campaign- REFLECTING THE SPIRIT of the mock election, freshman Margaret Os- trander, left, looks on gleefully as the GOP elephant and senior Noreen O' Connor, president of the Young Demo crats, engage in a bout. ing, the club winning the national election in November will be honored at a party by the loser. So all stu dents interested in a party, join the Party of your choice And VOTE Vol. XXXI Mundelein College, Chicago 40, Illinois, October 19, 1960 Players Cast Lead Roles For Arsenic and Old Lace tt Arsenic and Old Lace, with Bar bara Porter and Arlene Cichon in the lead rolls of Abby and Martha Brew ster, will be presented by the drama department Nov. 13-14 in the college theater. Yvonne Gahagan as Elaine and Dr. Marshall Smulson as Teddy will play the supporting leads. Names of oth ers in the cast will be announced later. Arsenic and Old Lace is a comedy of two elderly aunts who murder sev eral men and bury them in their cellar. The aunts feel they are doing the homeless, disheartened men a favor by killing them. Teddy, the nephew of the aunts, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, believes he is digging the Panama Canal in the basement and it is there, in his dig gings, where his aunts hide the bodies. Teddy, thinking the dead men are vic tims of yellow fever, accommodates his aunts by concealing the corpses. Becoming more involved in their de ceit, the aunts bring about much laughter through their many antics. The Laetare Players will launch a patron and ad drive a few weeks be fore the play. FACULTY MEET Daniel J. Steible, Ph.D., North Central coordinator and head of the division of humanities, Our Lady of Cincinnati College, will address the faculty at the coffee hour in Room 405 on Thursday at 4 p.m. He will meet with student teachers in Room 502 at 3:10. Topic of his address: Status of Teacher Education in the Liberal Arts College. Return to Tradition A return to the traditional personal invitation is scheduled for the Junior- Senior Tea Dance Oct. 30 from 5-8. Blanket invitations will not be sent to clubs and fraternities, according to SAC social chairman, Anne Marie Wenthe. Names will be given to the invitation committee by the girls plan ning to attend the dance and the in vitations will then be sent. The co-chairmen of the event are junor Terry Duster and senior Sharon Ruppert. A Halloween theme will be used. Benefit Profits Furnish Lounge A student Union to be used by all members of the College is being planned for the ground floor of the proposed dormitory. Proceeds from the Student Benefit will be used for furnishing this area. The four-story building, housing 206 students will be located immediately east of the college, replacing the park ing lot and two garages on the prop erty. The building line follows an east- west direction. Each of the upper floors will have a large living room on the east end, with a view of the lake on .three sides. An application for final approval has been submitted to the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency. As plans now stand the ground will be broken next spring. Fathers Join Bandwagon For Annual Buffet-Dance Keeping in step with the trend of this year joining parties the Mundelein Fathers Club extends their invitation to join the fun at the Father-Daughter Buffet Dance Oct. 23 at 4 p.m. Beautiful, danceable music for the event will be provided by the Three Sharpes and a Flat, stated Fred Leh man, vice president of the Fathers Club and chairman of the dance. Tickets are 3 per person and may be obtained from Sister Mary Co- lumba at her office west of the switch board on the main floor. Dinner, Conference Will Highlight U.N. Week Program Oct. 26,30 FOUR FRESHMEN, representing diverse nationalities, join hands to symbolize unity in recognition of United Nations week. From left to right are; Mechthild Blum, Frankfort, Germany; Kathy Fardy, United States; Carmen Fernandez, Puerto Rico; Angelika Schreiner, Aberhauser, Germany. There young ladies are three of 11 students from foreign countries in the freshman class. Local Organizations Sponsor Conference A United Nations Conference for college students, sponsored by the American Association for the United Nations, in conjunction with other or ganizations and colleges, will be held at Mundlein on Sunday, Oct. 30, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The purpose of the conference is to inform college students and members of young adult organizations of the workings of the UN, its importance in today's world, and to provide ma terial to the participants for distribu tion to their respective organizations. The program will consist of regis tration, an opening session with a film and an address by Dean Watson of Roosevelt University. Three concurrent sessions will treat UN and Political Tension, the UN and the Role of the UN in Economic and Social Development. The program will conclude with a report on the'morning sessions and a panel discussion, a buzz session to dis cuss possible programs and related ideas to carry back to the various col leges and organizations, and a sum mary of the day's events. Co-sponsors of .the conference are: Mundelein College, Loyola University, Guest Speaker Discusses African Issue at Dinner The annual United Nations dinner sponsored by the International Rela tions Club will be held Oct. 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the college tearoom. Dr. Richard Houk, chairman of the geography department, DePaul Uni versity, will be guest speaker, discuss ing the problem of African national ism and its influence on the UN. Dr. Houk spent the past summer in the Congo. The buffet-style dinner is being given in conjunction with the Human Relations Club and the Economics Club in celebration of United Nations Week, Oct. 23-28. A discussion period is planned to follow dinner. Ticket chairman Denise Lenzi an nounced that tickets will not be sold at the door, but may now be purchased in front of the bookstore, for 2.50 per person. Mary Birren is handling arrange ments and Fran Dyra and Mary O'Malley are in charge of publicity. Roosevelt University, University of Chicago, North Central College, YCW, American Friends Service Committee, B'Nai B'rith, World Universal Service, Collegiate Council on the United Na tions and the YWCA.
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1960-10-19 (1)
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