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Page Two This Is April's Young Surprise, and Here in quick-stepping banner heads, inescapable as 72-point type, we have put forth as Spring does with all green things our gay, gloating We belong. Freshmen are as young as Margery Daw or as Mistress Mary, and as foolishly spend thrift with laughter. There is such a need for laughter 1 But strange things have been happening deep in our minds. Before our present pause, as before April's first step on the lake front, there were the long fall and the winter of going to college. We may have surprised you with sudden spurts and starts sudden lapses but, underneath, there has been consistent developing. Into our lives last fall came bigger things, more difficult texts, heavier responsibilities, greater demands upon individuality, strong er friendships, deeper understanding of truths than we had known before. In the environment of a Catholic college, all-envel oping, all-sustaining like the very earth, we found deep meaning. For us, there has been work in laborator ies, work over Spanish verbs. We have been required to attend forums and concerts and lectures, and we have emerged with more information, much more appreciation. We have worried over term papers, helped with the card party, studied for quizzes and quarterlies, prayed for the San Francisco conference, petitioned with St. Thomas be fore class recitations. We have been blase about an essay on the bourgeois mind, a long library assign ment, a precise history outline -but not too blase to capitalize on the brush with truth these afford. We have learned to cull the lessons from books, from the sudden shift- ings of the lake, from the varying moods of classmates. If we come out into the spring sunshine today and splash up your world with ultra modern rocket heads mixed with child hood's nursery rhymes, it is because we have a store of energy, and an eagerness for new things and a nostalgic memory of earlier pre-war and pre-worry days. Do not be mistaken we have learned that life is not all this environment. Even April is not all sunshine. And when rain comes another day we will be prepared. SKYSCRAPER Prayer for Europe O Cod, let not the end of this war mean for the people of Europe a renewal of the old wars. May the return of men from the comradeship of the battle line mean not the rebirth of class-selfishness, race pride, or the anarchistic individualism which sweeps all things before it. Bring peace not only to Europe's armies, but also to her shops and factories, to her homes, and to the hearts of her people. May caste of class or race give zvay to a commun ity of free men whose only elite are un- selfiish leaders, a group not cut off from the people, but the flozvcr of their vital energies. Give to her people grace to know that their only chance for true peace is a return to the heritage of Christendom so that, un der just Unvs, they may realize the promises made to God's creatures which arc more es sential than all the additional privileges and distinctions given them by government. May they, by their sufferings and the merits of Your Son, be worthy to share in the work of Christianity in which lies the only true democracy, the only true happi ness, the only true peace. Amen. HI Tell You a Story About A Book . . . Interesting yet intellectual, light yet full of fact, this book has been firmly placed on the shelf of best sellers of the past century. A classic, in fact. It is hard to analyze the public appeal of a book that was written long ago and thai has found its way into the living rooms, the class rooms, the libraries of the country. The plot is light, but sometimes confus ing; in fact, there are so many sub-plots the reader often has difficulty finding the main thread. A great part of the liook is devoted to the adventures of the Un family, a large and loosely woven clan, which has become so popular with readers that its name is known the world over. Readers of this review are undoubtedly familiar with Uncial, Unambiguous, and other members of the group. At times the reader may find the book dull, slow moving; nevertheless, to those who are subject to bibliomania the editors suggest the reading of the fifteenth edition of Webster's Dictionary. College Is the House That Jill Builds around a thousand things .... gay rimmed glasses, the awe-inspiring interior of the junior-senior social room on the second floor, green Safety Council post ers along the staircases, somebody's gift of a gardenia corsage in the outstretched hand of Our Lady's statue. It's walking into the auditorium, hearing the grand pianos teamed in a soulful duet which swings into the Air Corps song when the buzzer rings. This is college, but it is only the exterior part, the gay, frothy, whipped cream and strawberry ice surface, which is appealing and attractive because it is based on the granite-strong belief that a Catholic college instills and strengthens. A Diller, A Dollar, A 10 O'Clock Scholar or are you a 10 o'clock scholar? Did you used to buy War Stamps every day, and now do you buy them every month? Do you want the war to be over? Do you want your favorite ensign, your seaman first class, your own special army pilot to come home soon and victorious ? Then mo bilize your money for the Seventh War loan. You've seen the picture of the Stars and Stripes going up on a hill in Ivvo-Jima. Four/' thousand servicemen and more will stay on Iwo-Jinm. Thousands of other men includ ing YOUR serviceman may stay on other island outposts UNLESS YOU BUY THE STAMPS AND BONDS THAT INSURE VICTORY. There is more than a personal motive however behind our Seventh War loan giving. The Seventh War loan, dedicated to the memory of President Roosevelt, may be the last we'll need to support. If the Seventh loan is the success we can help to make it, the flag of peace may be raised in lands around the world. With its elevation, Naziism and Asiatic totalitarianisroj may be erased from the earth, and Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear will have a chance to become realities for people everywhere. Give a tenth of a dollar now, and another tomorrow, and another the next day and the next and all the days and insure victory, peace, and your serviceman's return, For Tommy . You had always taken hir.i for granted. HE would ALWAYS be around As tots you were playmates; in grammar school he was the one you meant when you said, I'll get my big brother after you ; in high school you confided in each other and you knew, before his girl, that she would be wearing his class ring. Even though things were pretty much up set for others, you thought every Sunday afternoon would mean playing records anel trying to teach that clumsy, funny-looking boy to dance, and every Sunday night would mean an argument with lt;lad to de cide whether he could have the Duchess to himself, or if he would have to drive you to and from Sabina's. He was your Legion of Decency when it came to dates, clothes, or hair-do's; his was the sheiulder you would cry on after a lost love; and he was the one who teased you like mad and seemed to enjoy it. You never thought you would miss these things be cause you didn't think you would ever have to do without them. You always sort of hero-worshipped him, and wanted everyone to know when he began to smoke a pipe, or when he got that first sharp crew-cut. After graduation from high school he ranted about going into the Air Corps, and when, just for fun, he put Pvt. before his name you laughed and said the army usu ally rejected mental. 4F's. But all this isn't so funny now is it? It HAS happened to you and he IS gone. It's a long time and you miss him. You miss him so much you cry sometimes because you're just a girl, and besides, you're his little sis ter. You've found out from Mom that he teased you so much because he liked you, and. well that's just how boys are. You think a lot now, too. You think of the time he wanted to wear your socks but you said his feet would stretch them, or the time you could have helped him per suade Mom to let him get that new sport jacket that he didn't need but wanted badly. You are sorry for a lot of things too. You called him 4F, and now he is in the Air Force doing something you thought on ly Spencer Tracy could do on the screen. He is flying every day, and now you are worried. You see things differently. Why YOUR brother could win the war alone When you show his picture around the girls think it's o.k. but you think it could rate any magazine cover. Now you write letters and tell him what you are wearing and who you are dating, but it isn't the same because you don't have his stop and go signal. You wonder if he will be very different when he does get back, if he will still have that squint, and if his hair will still fall over one eye. Sometimes you even get mad because all you have to show for a brother you are crazy about is a service flag in the window. You want him back, and you want him back soon You want him back before the ar my has a chance to change him. So what are you going to do ? You are depressed and you think it is impossible for anything to be right again, but you thought it was impossible for him to leave and he's gone. So you pray and pray hard, especially if you were one who thought It can't ever happen to me Grimmer Primer Faculty that which no student can da anything without ... or with. Mundelein no man's land. Elevators everyone's little tips and downs. Reserve Desk you can't take it with yon Campus back yard with waves. Library Blacklist bankruptcy incorpor ated or goodbye allowance. Swimming course 10 easy lessons in hot to ruin a perfectly good permanent-3 you don't drown first. Research paper a preparatory course fotj library guides a cross between playinjj Sherlock Holmes to card catalogues, and co-editor to Alice in Blunderland. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE Chicago, 40, Illinois Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30,19ft at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under w Act of March 3, 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to Ms:- inclusive by the students of Mundelein College Vol. XV April 30, 1945 No, 11 All-Catholic Honors All-American Honors Telephone: Ambassador 9011 FRESHMAN ISSUE Co-Editors-in-Chief Coletta Balaam Margaret Benza Norma Biller Lucille Burns Katherine Burwitz Ruth Casey Mary Ellen Martin Catherine McAnener Regina Milligan Patricia Mitchell Patricia Muckian Virginia Net Margaret Mary Campbell Jeane Ondesco Dorothy Doyle Ann O'Reilly Mary Margaret Doyle Ellenmae Quan Mary Gould Ruth Reynolds Jeanne Halm Dorothy Scott Helen Earkazis Mildred Stanek Rosemary Kiley Virginia Sversky Adeline Laschiazza Rosemary Templemii Mary Margaret LaVaque Jean Udelhofen Louise Mahan Martha Wade Kathryn Malatesta Mary Jean Ward Dorothy Watters
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1945-04-30 (2)
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Women and Leadership Archives http://www.luc.edu/wla
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Mundelein College
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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