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- Considering Education for Victory Midshipmen Have Return Engagement Cooperating with members of the junior class, the Student Activities Council will sponsor another tea dance with midshipmen from Abbott and Tower Halls, at 2:30 p.m.. on Satur day, Nov. 20. Tickets will go on sale to juniors at 11:55 a.m.. Monday, Nov. IS. Organize Red Cross College Unit Here According to a recent announcement, a College Unit of the American Red Cross will be established here this month, and all members of the student body will be eligible for membership and service. Details will be posted in the student lounge. tktse six seniors will discuss educational problems in wartime, at the Catholic Book Week and American Education Week assembly, on Nov. 9. They are Edith Bukowski, Regina Moran, Dolores Rudnik, Audrey Anderson, chairman, Virginia Dimmick, and Jeanne Coughlin. Freshmen Choose Officers Today With Eileen Harmon, newly-elect ed class president, in the chair, the freshmen will choose Student Ac tivities Council representatives and elect other officers at their 1 p.m. assembly today. Students Illustrate Book Week Display Planned by Library Portraits of Dante, Thomas More, Cardinal Newman, and Pope Pius XII, painted by Marjorie Schaller of the art department, and pictures, by Georgian- na McGregor, representing the most outstanding contributions of these writ ers, will form a distinctive note for Catholic Book Week in the library. Opened formally with the annual Faculty tea, on Nov. 7, Book Week will find an extensive exhibit of new books on the library shelves. Among the new biographies on ex hibit will be Maisie Ward's G. K. Ches terton. William T. Walsh's Theresa of Avii.a, Lillian Olf-Browne's Sword of St. MICHAEL, and Edwin J. Pratt's Brkbeuf and His Brethren. Included in the current historical se lections are Thirtv Seconds Over Tok yo, by Ted Lawson; Paris Under ground, by Etta Sliiber, and India WITHOUT Faule, by Kate L. Mitchell. Of interest to devotees of fiction arc Thunderhead, Mary O'Hara's se quel to My Friend Flicka, Touched by Thorn, by Michael l.averty, and The Spanish Lady, by Maurice Walsh. Other new volumes include The FBI, by John J. Flaherty; This Mod ern Music, by John T. Howard; and The Best Plays of 1942 and 1943, edited by Burns Mantle. iducation for Victory Will Be Theme of Forum mors Discuss Aviation, Health, Citizenship at Assembly on Nov. 9 With a quotation from Ecclesiasticus, fitter Wisdom than Weapons for pi, as a slogan, and Education for iry as a theme, six seniors will part in a symposium at the gen ii assembly on Nov. 9. Audrey Anderson, chairman, will ex- B the significance of the observ- ttof Catholic Book Week and Amer- Education Week and present the sis that only through the effee- tness of right ideas adequately dis affiliated can permanent and just ace be established. Discussing Education for the Air 'p, Regina Moran will consider some llhe technological changes which are hencing education, and the neces- ft.- emphasis which aviation and the oltant change in international rela- tis are placing upon science and lihematics. Discusses Safety Education Jeanne Coughlin, talking on Educa- K for Health and Safety, will indi- Ite that, although the war has stimu- led medical research and progress, nation has brought the hazard of the lead of communicable diseases, here- Ifcre confined to remote sections of If world. To counteract this hazard, education kt provide, not only adequate knowl- 1 .i for the preservation of individual : group health, but also adequate pons for disseminating safety edu- ption to all peoples and for bringing i suffering people all over the world e best of scientific care. Edith Bukowski, in a discussion of location for Wartime Citizenship, ill stress the obligation of the liberal its college to combat the erroneous tilosophy of totalitarianism and to lild up in the individual a right idea his relationship to God and to his lowman. Considers Peace Problems Virginia Dimmick, talking on Edu- in'on for World Understanding, will kiis attention on the hazard of inter- mi and international hatred, which mist be conquered before peace can be restored. Books, according to Miss Dimmick, prticularly Catholic books which show- lie proper place of man in the universe (Continued on page 3, column 1) PHIiJ Vol. XIV MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1943 No. 3 Member of Faculty Is Conference Speaker Inter-Faith Tolerance Is Subject of Talks Several times each week, the Rev erend Edward V. Cardinal, C.S.V., of the history department, lectures before Chicagoland groups for the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Thus far this week, Father has lec tured on America's World Task before groups at Von Steuben high school and at the Covenant club, downtown. Organized by the late Chief Justice Hughes and Newton D. Baker to do away with bigotry, the Conference has groups in various areas of the United States, working, chiefly through three- way lectures given by members of the Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant churches, to promote inter-faith un derstanding. During September, Father Cardinal was one of three speakers who ad dressed 15,000 men in eight different sessions at Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois. Last summer, Father spoke to more than 150,000 men at 15 army and navy posts. Alumna Conducts New Radio Project For Queen's Work Promotes Radio Teaching In Catholic Schools, Sodalities Six June Graduates Are Back to Books Two Volunteer For Service In WAVES Midwestern Town Is Background of Fall Production Graduate, Sophomore Write for Magazines A Mundelein graduate and a member of the sophomore class have contributed articles to current magazines. Dorothy E. Higgins '33, a sociology major who is now supervisor of the Catholic Home Bureau, discusses prob lems of adoption, in The Catholic Charities Review. Irene Kenney, member of the Re view staff, contributes a review of James Hilton's book, The Story of Dr. Was- seix, to the October issue of Library Sparks, published by St. Peter's Library association. The latter publication is eager to se cure reviews of current books, and ac cepts contributions from students. Mary Agnes Tynan Schroeder '35 is conductor of a complete coaching serv ice known as The Queen's Workshop of the Air, which the National Sodality office is launching in St. Louis and making available to groups all over the United States. Designed to provide Catholic circles with radio advantages equal to those offered in many school systems, the project is under the direction of the Reverend Leo Wobido, S J., radio lec turer and member of the Queen's Work staff. Is St. Mary's Graduate Mrs. Schroeder, who attended St. Mary's high school befort coming to Mundelein, and who has done graduate work at Northwestern university, was a drama-English major, a staff member of The Review, editor of Quest, presi dent of the Debate club, star of many .dramatic productions, and winner of sev eral creative writing awards during her college days. Graduated Magna Cum Laude, she organized her own Children's Theatre and directed debating and dramatics at St. Mel's high school before becom ing a staff member of the Radio Coun cil of the Chicago Public Schools, for which she planned, wrote, and pro duced broadcasts on a wide variety of topics. Wrote Many Scripts Among Mrs. Schroeder's more popu lar scries were Pieces of Eight, Chi cago Says: I Will, Let the Artist Speak, Young America Answers, and The Hour of Magic Boots, in which she took the role of the Story Hour Lady. Recently Mrs. Schroeder, who was (Continued on page 4, column 2) Six graduates of the Class of 1943 put their books away in June, but briefly, since they resumed study again this fall on scholarships or on indus trial appointments. Patricia Cummings is in Washington, D. C, on a two-year scholarship to the school of library science at the Catholic University of America. Patricia Gould and Sylvia Owczarek have scholarships to the graduate school of social work at Loyola uni versity. Shirley Hopper was chosen by the RCA-Victor corporation to take a spe cial training course in preparation for a position as a musical sales repre sentative. The only Chicagoan who passed the tests to be admitted to the course, Miss Hopper is one of the 30 college gradu ates, all of whom have musical edu cations, who are being trained for the positions. The WAVES gained two recruits from the Class of 1943. Ensign Cath erine Bettenbender is stationed in Washington, D. C, and Frances Smith is a technician stationed at Great Lakes. Double Cast Rehearses Three Act Comedy Scheduled For Nov. 19, 21 Chemist Lectures To Quincy Qroup G. Michael Schmeing, Ph.D., of the chemistry department, lectured on the topic, The Laboratory Looks at War, before students of Notre Dame high school, Quincy, on Oct. 29. Secretary of the American Chemical society and consultant with the Bureau in Chemical Warfare, Dr. Schmeing has had three years of radio experience and has given over 1,500 lectures before groups in Chicago and vicinity. If not geographically, at least theat rically, a quaint little town on the banks of the Wabash will be moved to the college theatre, when the drama department presents its fall production. Once There Was A Princess, on Nov. 19 and 21 at 8:15 p.m. In rehearsal for the three-act comedy, which is being directed by Doris Foley Kennedy, are two casts, one of which, the first named in the story following, will play in the Friday performance and the other of which will appear on Sunday. Play Opens Abroad The prologue, which is laid abroad, introduces Signor Moroni, played by Marianne Farrell and Jane Michael, and the Princess Dowager, played by Betty Lamberty and Virginia Lee. Irene Foster and Grace O'Connor ap pear in the role of the Princess, a girl from Indiana who married a foreign prince and stirred the imagination of everyone in her American home town. The first-act curtain rises on the resi dents of that town, excitedly prepar ing a reception for the widowed Prin cess, now on her way back home. Share Character Role Claudia Pelletier and Larraine Knaub portray one of the most interesting characters in the town. Aunt Meta, while Ruth Anne McCarthy and Pa tricia Rocap alternate as the American boy who falls in love with the Princess. Jean Hanson and Edith Moscardini will share the role of Hazel Boyd, and Patricia Kelly and Jeanne O'Connor will appear as her mother, Mrs. Boyd, an influential townswoman. Marjorie Siemon and Muriel Speng- ler will take turns as Ruby Boyd, (Continued on page 3, column 2)
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