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Panama Climate Will Be Subject Of Science Talk University of Chicago Professor Lectures on March 12 IHI rSffifn m Ralph Burhsbaum, Ph.D., author of Ian unusual and highly successful text- nok, Ammals Without Backbones. will give the Science I'orum annual lec ture, on March 12, at 1 p.m., on Tropical Rain Forests in Panama. In 1930 Dr. Buchsbaum received the li Lilly Fellowship at the University of Chicago, receiving his doctorate in 1932. Since 1931 be has been teaching lin the zoology department at Chicago. In 1939, he was awarded the Univer sity's 1,000 prize for excellence as a teacher, one of 12 faculty members who have received such an award. Dr. Buchsbaum's special fields of aca demic interest are ecology, cell physiology, and invertebrates. His most important search projects have been concerned antiseptics and the interdependence I cells. Dr. Iluchsbaiim is the second Univer sity of Oiicago professor to give the icience Forum annual lecture, Dr. Arthur . Compton having given it in 1938. tAtitti. mg y *5 gt;: Volume XII MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1942 No. 9 hid Ian of Peace Is Theme of Lecture Author of Companion to Summa Speaks Speaking yesterday before the student asscniMy. on St. Thomas, a Man of Peace, the Reverend Walter Farrell, O.P., author of the Companion to the Sum- fl . moved toward one message slowly, quietly, unimpassioncdly, but clearly. Your man of peace, he said in effect, today as always, is the man on fire. He IS the saint, lie is the lover. At a time when less courageous anil Hnvinced men hesitate to speak of peace, jhiding. perhaps, their incapacity to live hard life of peace behind the tumuli if war Father Farrell insisted that peace i- not paralysis, but activity, an activity rased on a hierarchy of values. Father Farrell's and St. Thomas' man of peace, practices, not the peace of the lifeless, the satiated, the enslaved, but the active peace of the owner, the doer, the philosopher. Only the courageous man, Father Far- pll pointed out, is willing to pay the mrice of two priceless gifts truth and love the supremely difficult and sweetly light burden of the lover, the saint, the nan on fire. The Reverend John Well- muth, S.J., of Loyola university, intro duced Father Farrell. FDR's Secretary Pens His Thank You for Record Acknowledges Victory Pledge and Picture According to a note from Miss Grace G. Tully, secretary to Pres ident Roosevelt, the President is especially pleased to have the re cording and photograph sent to him by the College for Washington's Birthday, and he has asked his sec retary to convey his very best wishes ... to all concerned. The recording, made by the Verse Speaking choir, the Glee club, and the Orchestra, includes a Vic tory pledge, read by Royce McFad yen in the name of the student body, a poem interpreted by the choir, the song Glorious America, by the Glee club, and the marching songs of the Army, the Navy, and the Marines, by the Orchestra. On the record cover is a picture of the Verse choir, which was taken by Russell Hamm, president of the Chicago Association of Newspaper Photographers, which appeared in the Daily News just before Christ mas. Dramatize Two Popular Works Senior Shannons Star on March 8, 15 Junior Passes Exams For Medical College Probably the first Mundelein stu dent to receive a commission in the United States Navy will be Evelyn Kosar. junior, who received word this week that she has been accepted by the University of Illinois Medical School. She may enter the school in September. Last April Miss Kosar. a biology major, took the Mass Aptitude Test. This was followed by four personal in terviews with the members of the Ac ceptance Committee who judged her on scholastic average and versatility. After receiving her degree she will be given a Naval Reserve Commission which is equal to the rank of Ensign in the United States Navy. Two different dramatizations on two different Sunday afternoons by two dif ferent Shannons thus reads the latest bulletin from the drama department. Scenes from Rachacl Crothcrs* Susan and God, one of the most successful Broadway hits ever staged, will be drama tized by Mary Louise Shannon, on Sun day, Mar. 8, at 3:15 p.m., in the theatre. Miss Shannon will portray the fem inine characters, Susan, Irene, Mary, and Blossom, in the play which shows the unhappy consequences of seeking God only in external things. Beverly Craggs, organ student, will supply mood music for Miss Shannon's recital, using as a theme the Largo from the New World Symphony, by Dvorak. On the following Sunday afternoon, March 15, Mary Celeste Shannon will dramatize bits from Doran Hurley's new- book. Herself, Mrs. Patrick Crowlev, the story of a staunch Irish-American patriot who was the rack and rib of the old Parish. Organ music will be provided by Jane Claire Brown, who will play At the Donnybrook Fair, by Scott, and an Irish Overture, and by Gomer Ann McMahon, who will play an Irish Melody by Sodermann. Attend Progressive Education Meeting Sister Mary Benedict, B.V.M., of the education department, and Sister Mary Columba. B.V.M., of the eco nomics department, attended the an nual conference of the Progressive F.ducation association, held at the Stevens hotel, Feb. 18-21. R. W. Ogan, associate director of the association, spoke on the problems in higher education during a period of war and outlined the technique of study. Stressing the need for combating in sidious propaganda, Carroll Binder, author and editor, discussed The World Today and Tomorrow. Record Flight to Washington Begins Consumer Week Activities Make Mundelein Students Conservation Conscious Fashion Show, Symposium, Play, Are on Today's Program During the Reclamation Vogue I lour in the tea room this noon, bright, ani mated mannequins, smartly dressed in their own reclaimed, restyled clothes will present a fashion revue. On the Home Front. Carrying through Mile's, role as the conserving consumer, the clothes mod eled will show actual dollar saving in their reclamation process, and illustrate what can be done, what may have to be done, with war wardrobes, and Mile's. imagination, her originality, her hand icraft. Is Commentator Helen Walz is the fashion commen tator, and modeling will be Patricia Herbert. L o i s Forman, Margaret Bromley. Betty McCambridgc. Helen Marie Kelly. Jane Champion. Lauren- tia Powers, Cyrilla Boyle. Helen Bie- lawa. Eileen Atkins, Sally Cahill. Mary Lou Choatc. Jeanne Moclig, Janet Farrell, Jeanne Kane, Barbara Thom son, Ellen McGurn, Jane Nelson, Phyl lis Schmidt, Bonnie Turner, Eileen Wolfe, and Frances LaDuke. Drafted for Victory, a play written and directed by Jeanne Horan will swing '-15 eyes stageward at the all-freshman assembly at 1 o'clock today when drama students Mary Catherine Davy, Mary Barbara Gale, Mary Ellen Gallagher, Dorothy Toobey, and Helen Marie Win ter will appear in family consumer scenes during wartime. Freshmen Preside Plan Well, Buy Well, Conserve, Sal vage, these cogs in the wheel of Consumer Week are subjects of speeches by fresh men Dorothy Klink, Betty Clifford. Jayne King, Mary Elizabeth Wolfe, also to be given at the 1 o'clock assembly. Ruthe Bransfield with her chalk-talkers Meta Shifris. Dorothy Clark, and Mary Jane Harvey will speak on Longer Life to Your College, and for Eyes Right it's Jerry Stutz. The role of the consumers as home- makers, as buyers, as conscrvers, as build ers, and as users, are themes worked out in a Symposium, We the Consumers, to be given in room 405 at 2 this after noon, by home economics representa tives Geraldine McGarry, Jeanne Kane. Sallie Cahill, Dorothy Hein, Jane Champion, and Ruth Conway. These six members of the Verse Speaking choir took to the airport the Victory Pledge, recorded by members of the fchoir, Glee Club, and Orchestra, for President Roosevelt. Captain E. A. Austen of American Airlines receives the record ing from Royce McFadyen. Other students are, front, Larraine Knaub, Joan McMahon, Ruthe Anne McCarthy; back, Mary Barbara Gale, Patricia Kelly. Alumna Stars in Two Nationwide Radio Programs Isabel Molloy '40, drama major who took her graduate work at the Catholic University of America, ap peared in two nationwide broadcasts recently, and is on call for NBC in Washington, D. C. In the Lincoln Memorial broad cast, Miss Molloy appeared with Walter Huston and Douglas Fair banks, Jr. She also appeared in the Call to Youth Program, sponsored by the National Council of Catho lic Women on Feb. 28. in a Youth at Work in Wartime skit. Miss Molloy teaches at four high schools in Washington, and is di rector of drama at two. 17 Departments Cooperate To Promote Wise Buying, Planning, Saving OPA Official Lectures Seventeen departments of the col lege collaborated this week in plan ning a program of lectures, discussions, exhibits, and demonstrations to make students and Faculty members Con sumer Conscious. Consumer week activities were for mally initiated at the College last Tues day in a general assembly conducted by Dr. L. T. Flatley, of the economics department, who introduced Miss Eliza beth Wilson of the Office of Price Ad ministration. Miss Wilson discussed the aims of the consumer education project in awakening, informing, and directing the attention of the students to being better Americans, better pa triots, by enlisting in the ranks of con scientious conservationists. Discuss Price Control The Wednesday program included a panel discussion. Consumer Coopera tion for Peace, with Peggy Schweist hal, Barbara Ohab, Margery Linne- han, and Ann Goode discussing the economic aspects of the consumer program in connection with govern ment price control and the inflation spiral. Something new in the tea-room a Conservation Luncheon was served on T hursday, with accompanying meaningful menus telling students what vitamins they were eating and why. and with valuable tips on how to serve attractive, nutritious meals us ing rationed foods and substitutions. Books Tell Why Window sill wonders for all who wished to know WHY MUST I buy well, plan well, conserve, salvage, are found in the library, whose sill space is informative space during Consumer Week. Magazines, books, pamphlets, and all current literature on the national program of conservation and consumer education are on furlough from their ordinary nooks and out for student reference that everyone may know what to do wisely, and why it is being done. Have Four Booths In the bookstore lounge, there are four major exhibition booths. Leona Mikos is in charge of the exhibit PLAN WELL your time and money under the auspices of the education and eco nomics department. CONSERVE your health, says Kathleen Warner at the exhibit spon sored by the biology, physical educa tion, and home economics departments. Demonstrate Buying Alyce Pankau is in charge of the exhibit BU? WELL all supplies. And for imVrmation on how to SAL VAGE. Altine Kelleher leads the ex hibit sponsored by the chemistry de partment To top off all efforts for consumer consciousness in a week of awareness comes a song from the pen of Joan Morris. Its chorus sums up the spirit of the week: We plan and we salvage We save and reclaim 'Cause we want conservation To be our middle name
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1942-03-06 (1)
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