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October 8, 1936 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three Sodalists Unite For Action; Hold Annual Rally Week Attending the national convention in St. Louis, acting as delegates and public ity managers at the summer school of Catholic Action in Chicago, teaching at vacation schools and catedietical centers, and planning for the most successful So dality year in the history of the College were absorbing occupations for the So dalists during the summer. The first two weeks of school have found Mary Rose Brown, prefect, and her fellow officers and academy chairmen launching the second annual Sodality rally week with Skylight, issued from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, with an all-freshman meeting called by academy chairman, and with a Student Spiritual Council meeting, held at the College on Sept. 28. Hold Weekly Meetings Regular meetings of the Sodality are held each Wednesday, with Academy meetings and general sessions alternating each week and .with double sessions of each, one at 11:20, tlie other at 11:50. Mary Catherine Rose ex '37, Catherine Heerey, Helen Coens, and Mary Ann Riley represented the College at the Stu dent's Spiritual Leadership convention at St. Louis, June 26, 27, 28, and brought back detailed reports of lectures, discus sions, and a vivid presentation of Father Lord's play, Storm Tossed. Mary Rose Brown came all the way from Alaska to attend the Catholic Ac tion school at Providence high school, where Miss Rose, Miss Coens, Mary Margaret Pembroke, Anna McCracken, and Joan Smith were among tlie 1200 delegates. Attend Summer School Faculty members attended the sessions each day, hearing lectures and participat ing in roundtable discussions on Catech- etics, Cooperatives, Parish Sodalities, Catholic Literature, Mental Prayer, Stu dy clubs, Leadership, Liturgy, and Cath olic Action in the American College. Mundelein students edited the Sopalite put out each day during the school, un der the direction of Miss Rose. Catherine Heerey has been appointed recording secretary of Cisca, and Anna- marie Masterson has taken over the edi torship of the New World Cisca page, formerly conducted by Mary Catherine Rose, who has transferred to St. Ambrose college, Davenport. SUPPORT THE SODALITY Five Former Students Enter Religious Life Five former Mundelein students left during vacation for novitiates of religious communities, and two former students re ceived their white veils and began their canonical years. Catherine O'Connor, treasurer of the sophomore class last year and secretary- elect of the present junior class, Mary Lynch, another of last year's sophomores, and Eileen Roche, a junior, left for the novitiate of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mount Carmel, in Dubuque, on Sept. 8. Mary Gunning, also of Class '38, left earlier for the Providence novitiate, and Virginia Sweeney '35 left for the Domin ican novitiate at Sinsinawa, Wisconsin. Adeline Zdenek, formerly of Munde lein, received the white veil and the name, Sister Mary St. Benedict, B.V.M., on August 15 at Mount Carmel, and Sister Mary Thomas Aquinas, O.P., formerly Betty Kelso '38, received her white veil at Providence. SUPPORT THE SODALITY French Professors Return from Paris (Continued from page 1, col. 2) their meeting with General Pershing after he had been elected foreign associate of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the French Institute. The General expressed himself as glad to see friendly American faces in the gath ering of distinguished Frenchmen. The Sisters were also present when M. Urges Earnest Study In Keynote Address Schedule your time, was the advice of the Reverend Daniel M. O'Connell, S.J., Provincial General of Studies at Loyola university, in an address at the Mass of the Holy Ghost, read in the auditorium on Sept. 25. Declaring that each time a student gives way to discouragement or weari ness, each time he decides to give up, he betrays himself intellectually, Father O'Connell proffered the advice of St. Ig natius as insurance for success: Work as if everything depended upon you; pray as if everything depended upon God. After urging the students to adopt a daily plan, scheduling time for study and recreation, Father O'Connell concluded with a challenge, College is a thinking life, and to play the game of college life you must be a thinking player, SUPPORT THE SODALITY Recital Today Honors Foundress Each year on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Mundelein students pay tribute to the memory and achievements of Mother Mary Francis Clarke, foundress of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M. and special client of the Little Poor Man of Assisi. Thus, today, students in the music and drama departments will present an assembly program, with the Glee club contributing Rubenstein's Seraphic Song, with Rose Hurley, contralto soloist, and Margaret Madden, violinist. Miss Mad den will also appear alone playing the first movement of De Beriot's Concerto. Two preludes by the pianist's composer, Chopin, played by Jeanne Theis, with the ever-popular Gnomenreigcii by Liszt, played by Kathryn Wolford, music ma jor, will comprise the pianistic portion of the program. Vocalists will be heard in Schubert s Ave Maria, sung by Margaret Mary Jor dan and Estrellita by Ponce-La Farge, sung in Spanish by Peggy Sue Adams, who with their accompanists, Elizabeth Vestal and Catherine Keller, will make their debuts on the program. Traditional since 1933, the Centennial year of the Congregation of Sisters of Charity, B.V.M., has been the recitation of the sonnet A Valiant Woman written in honor of Mother Mary Francis Clarke by Mary Agnes Tynan '35, and this year given by Mary Rose Brown, drama ma jor. The concluding number, Pagliacci, by Leoncavallo, will be rendered by Rita Smith, organ major. SUPPORT THE SODALITY Preside and Model At College Shops Eight Mundelein students assisted the staffs of prominent Loop stores in mak ing collegians fashion-conscious during the summer, acting as hostesses at the College Shops and models in the College Fashion Revues during August and Sep tember. Honore O'Brien, a member of the se nior class, was hostess at Field's to Mun delein students, while Merle Smith and Sallie Agnes Smith '35 modeled the latest fashions .for college girls in the Field tea room. Carson Pirie Scott's College Shop pre sented the wardrobe selected by Vogue and Catherine Heerey gave welcome to students from the skyscraper college. Maxine Lindsay and Alice Addison mod eled clothes designed for smart coeds at Carson's. Kathryn Wolford answered all inquir ies about wardrobes selected by Munde lein girls at Mandel's, while Marion Green, vice-president of the Student Ac tivities Council, aided students in choos ing correct clothes as presented by the Fair store. Alumnae Receive Class of 1936; Hold Elections Meeting in the social rooms on Oct. 4, the Alumnae association welcomed into its ranks the members of Class '36, and elected the following officers to serve during the coming year: Ann Lally '35, president; Frances Burke '35, vice-presi dent, Gloria Barry '34, recording secre tary; Josephine McGurn '33, correspond ing secretary; Lucille Barrett, treasurer. As board members were chosen: Mary Farmer James '32, Violet Park '33, Betty Smith '34, Margaret Wenigman '35, Julia Hagerty '36. Class '36 Is Employed Marjorie Carroll and Violet Hans, so ciology majors, have opened a new Mexi can Community settlement on the west side, and Gertrude Hans, Senior Bal chairman, a home economics major, is a supervisor in Marshall Field's tea room. Loretta Brady, editor of the Clepsy dra, and Mary O'Callahan, a classics major, are employed in the offices of Time and Fortune magazines, and Char lotte Wilcox is at the Chicago Daily News. Eleonore Solewska, violin major, has been in Poland since late in June. The principals at two summer wed dings were also members of the Class of 1936. Frances Mikkleson Harley, a voice major, was married in June, and Virginia O'Connell, S.A.C. representative, became the bride of Francis X. McLaughlin in August. Class '35 Has Reunion Class '35 held an informal reunion at the College on Sept. 13, with Lucy Crow ley, president, in charge. A highlight of the meeting was the announcement of the engagement of Agnes Gill to Richard T. O'Connor, a member of tlie Loyola fac ulty. Emer Phibbs '35, former editor of Quest and staff member of the Clepsy dra, became tlie bride of Thomas J. Ditchfield on Oct. 3. Irremore Trant '35 became the bride of John J. Garvey on Sept. 5; Janice Linnet ex '34 became Mrs. Edgar Beaumont last month, and on the same day Maryon Walsh became the bride of Frank J. Birkenheier. Katherine Brennan O'Neil, president of the Charter Class, received her Mas ter's degree at Loyola in June and is now in Toronto, Canada, where she and her husband are studying at the University. Alice Alexander '33, an art major, is teaching art at Presentation, St. Vincent, and St. Tarcissius schools. Another grad uate of tlie art department, Sylva Aron- ian Lawson '34, announced the birth of a daughter, Eugenia Frances, on Sept. 8. Irene Galvin '34, was guest speaker at an Art Guild meeting on Sept. 22, where she told of her teaching at six parochial schools in the city and su burbs. Miss Galvin exhibited her work in Evanston and at the Western Arts association exhibit in Chicago last spring. support the sodality Sodalists Attend Opera For Reiner Memorial Junior Wins Place In Qerman Contest The committee of judges in the recent essay contest conducted by the German department of the University of Chicago has announced that Gertrude Kraus, a junior, has tied for second place. The title of the essay written by Miss Kraus is A Comprehensive Analysis and Liter ary Appreciation of the Works of Theo dore Storm. Josephine Reichl, Gertrude Brant, and Adelaide Nilles merited first, second, and fifth honorable mention awards. This is the second consecutive year that Munde lein has received recognition in the Uni versity of Chicago contest, Lorraine Manske having won first place last year. SUPPORT THE SODALITY Freshmen Come From 62 Different Schools George Duhamel was received as succes sor to the historian, G. Lenotre. Returning on the motor vessel, the Georgic, which docked in New York on Sept. 27, the Sisters came on the following day to Chicago, arriving on Monday ev ening, and resumed their class work on Tuesday. To aid the Memorial fund being rais ed to honor the late Reverend Joseph A. Reiner, S.J., Cisca will sponsor a per formance of Tannhauser by the San Carlo Opera company on Oct. 15, at Orchestra Hall. Mundelein's official representatives will be Mary Rose Brown, Catherine Ann Dougherty, Gertrude Feeney, Jean Mc Keever, Catherine Heerey, and Anna- maric Masterson. SUPPORT THE SODALITY Students Contribute To Waif s Messenger For the next two months, stories by Mundelein students will appear in issues of the Waif's Messenger. Students who have contributed are: Stella Bruun, Dorothy White, Roberta McTiernan, Catherine Mulvihill, Rita Irwin, Mary Geiger, Caroline Holland, Margaret Fitzgerald, Mary Catherine Rose, Dorothy Boynton, and Lillian Wa- sielewska. A.M. to P. Representing 62 high schools in Florida, Michigan, Georgia, Vermont, Maine, Iowa, Washington, D.C., and Illi nois, the 188 freshmen of the College are now fairly well acquainted witli their new school. As a part of the activities of Get- Acquaintcd week, Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, the seniors entertained the members of the freshman class on Oct. 1, with a program in the auditorium followed by a reception in the formal social room. Margaret Cleary, social chairman of the class of '37 was in charge of arrangements and Rosemary Kelly won the freshman prize. SUPPORT THE SODALITY Launch Class 1940 With Freshman Day In accordance witli the current educa tional emphasis placed upon personnel work and individual guidance of students, Mundelein opened its seventh year with a Freshman Day, designed to acquaint high school graduates with college life and standards, and to establish friendly per sonal relations between Faculty and stu dents. Twenty-two sophomores cooperated with the Student Activities Council, the Student Spiritual Council, and the Fac ulty to welcome the freshmen who as sembled at the College on Sept. 14. Sister Mary Consuela, B.V.M., Presi dent, addressed the group, explaining the ideals and objectives of the College, after which the Dean, the Registrar, and the Moderator of the Sodality described va rious aspects of collegiate life. Continuing the orientation work begun on that day, the freshman are taking a series of weekly tests, five in all, after which they will attend freshman lectures each Tuesday at 1 o'clock. Freshman day hostesses included the following students: Geraldine Connell, Dorothy Foy, Merle Smith, Geraldine Ferstel, Rita McGuane, Kathryn Byrne, Helen Coens, Natalie Creutz, Beatrice Cronin, Ruth Dunklau, Mary Fitzgibbon, Marion Gilbert, Margaret Gleeson, Ro berta Malloy, Frances Geary, Agnes Mor rison, Helen O'Neil, Josephine Reichl, Georgette Thoss, Irene Waldron, Laura White and Catherine Wilkins. SUPPORT THE SODALITY Plays in Winning Band At Tribune Music Fete Acting as percussion soloist, Margaret Madden, a music major, was a member of the Wurlitzer Band which won first place in the Chicagoland Music Festival contest sponsored by the Tribune. Under the direction of Marcel Ackcrman, the 71-piece band played in the Music Festi val held on August 15 at Soldier's Field, and broadcast over NBC. Anna Marie broadcasting to the People of Mundelein in case you forgot . . . IIaving done a little pre-school recon- 1 noitering during registration week, Miss A.M. Holmes (all upperclassmen are Miss to you, freshies) is proud to report that the great and the near-great and the might-have-been-great are en rolled on our student list. We present to you Helen Jackson (minus the hunt, and, so far as we can tell, minus Lo, the poor Indian), Miss Steele and her upperclass partner, Miss Addison; Miss Gray, who may or may not have had experience with curfews; Miss Moses, who will probably write five books of her own during examinations; Miss Burke, on whom the eloquent de baters already have their eyes and to whom the International Relationists look for Conciliation with the Colonies; Miss Whisler, voted here and now the honor ary chairman of the Mother's Day pro gram ; Miss Vestal, who should go in for classics or at least for ancient history; Miss Anderson, who may or may not be lieve in fairy tales; Miss Wilson, des tined, perhaps, to be our first woman president; and Miss Virginia Lee, a happy combination of historical fact and literary allusion, headed for a straight A if names mean anything to the history and English departments. Freshman called by other names may be as sweet, but not as significant nominally, we think. T he first day of school found more thaii one freshman and at least three sophomores, heedless of conversational tones, buzzing around the book store lounge with news that Mundelein had gone coed. Why else were the dashing- looking men in uniform standing guard outside the Bursar's office? Why, in deed It look an economics major to con vince them that it was only prosperity returning and the strong arm of the law on hand to guard that long-lost friend. / atholic Actioneers have unanimously ' gt;-/ voted our Mary Rose Brown to a gilded place in the Hall of Fame. Mary Rose, giving way to a Halliburtonish im pulse, went north to the Klondike to see if there were any gold in those famous hills. The clarion call of the College Sodality penetrated even to the frozen north, however, and home she sped to the Summer School of Catholic Action. What Mundelein and Catholic Action need are a trillion Mary Roses. ( * ertrude rafferty and Helen Farrell -* are staring in mirrors and asking friends to be really frank with them. It seems that on the L platform the other day they kindly directed a brand-new student (fresh) toward the special Mun delein exit, and, after thanking them pro fusely, she murmured, You're freshman, too, aren't you? Talk about wasted years 1 B ; ut the most beautiful story of all s about the Dean, who, besides di recting the destinies of over 500 students, is head of the modern language de partment and professor of Spanish. The three-hundred-and-twentieth face in her unending line of interviewees looked hauntingly familiar, but the name was elusive. You are Miss . . . ., Sister began, trying to remember in which of her class es she had seen that little freshman. Blank, replied the freshman blithely. You are in my Spanish class. T rudition has its place in every well- * ' regulated College, but our mind will run off to the Cotillion. Already we have detected that which-of-the-five-shall-I- invite look on a score of faces, but un less the communicative spirit attacks us soon we'll just have to go to the Cotillion to find out which everyone else is taking.
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1936-10-08 (3)
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