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Page Two SKYSCRAPER Wearing a Diamond? You Must Know All, Understand All, Be All It happens every year After Christ mas, after St. Valentine's day, after Easter, we return to school. Most of us look the same. A few of us have changed. We've become obviously left-handed. We're engaged We're happy. Our parents are usually happy for us. Our friends are happy. But, to dim our excitement, there are the people who look, shake their heads, and sigh, But, after four years of college. What a waste of time. We have taken a giant step toward fulfillment of the vocation for which we have prepared since the days when we rocked and petted fed and clothed our dolls. It was instinctive for us to follow our mothers about the house, imitating their every ac tion, cleaning, sewing, cooking. But we had a long road to travel un til the day we would be ready to be followed about by another little shad ow imitating us. During the years that slipped by we went to school and helped at home. We were being trained for the day when we would say, I do. Every girl goes to school. Some finish before others. We, here, are among the small percentage who are privileged to enjoy college education. Is this education wasted if we finish school, receive our degrees, and march down the aisle to the strains of Lohen grin I We think not I College is not just the training grounds for a select few who are preparing for professional work. What mother is less than nurse, teacher, diplomat, accountant, mech anic, decoratoi-, nutritionist, and cook? Can any education which gives her the opportunity to remain serene while raising the farnily she brings into the world, and only too quickly sends off into it, be called a waste of time? Four years of additional prepara tion beyond the high school program are a short period in which to arm our selves for answers to the materialis tic opinions which will assail our chil dren even more than they have as sailed us. The years in which we will raise our children will undoubt edly be among the most historic in the story of the world. The Communism menace cannot re main static it must grow or di minish. We will be parents in the years when the major conflict about it is being decided. Society is placing much emphasis on the legitimacy of many practices which are morally wrong. We must be prepared to defend our Catholic stand on these questions. We will be rearing families in communities in filtrated with prejudices and bigo try. We must have the ability to combat these evils with logical rea soning. Motherhood is not an easy job. Everyone recognizes this. Yet, when the engagement ring is dis played, a few heads shake and a few voices sigh, Four years of college. What a waste of time. to become a certain hind of person 1955 Magnificat Medalist Blueprints Woman's Role Doris Barnett Regan '33, first Mundelein graduate to receive the Mag nificat Medal, established by the College in 1948 to recognize the influence of Catholic college alunmae, voiced the folloiving appraisal of her college education in her acceptance speech on April 28. Sister Mary John Michael, B.V.M., President of the College, cited Mrs. Regan's record of influence, and His Eminence, Samuel Cardinal Stritch conferred the Medal. It is with deep appreciation and sincere humility that I accept the undreamed of honor conferred on me today. As you all must know, its sig nificance is even greater for me than for previous recipients, since I am the first alumna of Mundelein College to be singled out for this award. When the committee who chose the Medalist decided to honor one of Mundelein's own daughters during this jubilee year of the College, they must have considered many candidates and narrowed the list with difficulty. And in receiving the Magnificat Medal, I do so gratefully in the name of the entire alumnae who, like me, were all potential Medalists until the official announcement was made. The word'Magnificat'denotes immediately the opening of the Blessed Virgin's canticle in the first chapter of St. Luke's Gospel, 'My soul doth mag nify the Lord . . .' Familiar as we are with the words, we do not always recall the occa sion on which Our Lady uttered them. Pregnant with her Divine Child, Mary traveled from Nazareth to Judea on a visit of charity to her cousin Elizabeth who was about to give birth to John the Baptist. It is the first recorded incident of Mary bringing Christ to another. These two dedicated women recognized the high purpose of each other, and when Elizabeth declared Mary 'blessed among women' Our Lady responded with her 'Magnificat.' It is precisely in this way that all truly Christian women bring Christ to others through charity love for God and neighbor. This does not mean that the Christian woman must involve herself in any given number of organizations or activities. It means, rather, that whether her life is active and before the public eye, or obscure and retired, she must take pains to become a certain kind of person the kind of person Almighty God wants her to be. This personal summons varies with the individual, according to her nature and talents. In a college like Mundelein, this motivation is the terrain of every field of study. A student may pursue the Classics or the Arts or the Sci ences but, whatever she chooses, one goal is continually emphasized that of a woman, a woman fulfilling her Christian vocation to magnify the Lord in hor own life. Her life work is creative and begins with the deliberate formation of herself exercising daily the discipline the sculptor imposes upon the stone he chisels to bring forth an image, the discipline the gardener levies on the shrub he prunes to make it flourish. This is to leave the perimeter of life and plunge into its chal lenging and exciting center. One of life's striking paradoxes is that one must abandon her own will and caprice to become truly free; one must risk security to enjoy the adventure of a more abundant life both here and hereafter. This self-control must be applied with a courageous love and an objec tive compassion for discipline performed for its own sake becomes a cult; while, affiliated with charity, it becomes an integrating force producing a serene, complete personality. If a woman accomplishes this task of becoming a selfless, devoted, courteous person, she need not worry about her influence or her success or even her failure. The skills required in one's particular condition of life are necessary. They must be studied industriously. They must be mastered. These are a visible part of our duty to our neighbor. In a sense, this is what we render to Caesar. More significant, and certainly more enduring, is the molding of one self becoming the kind of person Divine Providence has called us to be. This is what we render unto God for all eternity. Week Moments Monday, May 9, 8 p.m., Water Car nival Tuesday, May 10, Election of SAC Vice-President 1 p.m., Freshman nominations Sophomore Nominations 8 p.m., Water Carnival Friday, May 13, 8:15 p.m., Cecilian Concert Sunday, May 15, Richard Pattee Lec ture Monday, May 16, 5 p.m., Resident Stu dent Formal Dinner Tuesday, May 17, Junior Nominations Wednesday, May 18, Father-Daughter Dinner Thursday, May 19, Ascension Thurs day, no classes Sunday, May 22, 3:30 p.m., Piano Re cital, Jeanne Regan Current Movies Challenge Public Divorce Opinion Within recent months the skeleton of divorce-acceptance has emerged conspicuously on the movie screens anil in the national magazines. Soldier of Fortune is a revolting example of the complacent mate who bravely surrenders his wife to the other man, in this case Clark Gable, It's all very modern, sophisticated, and completely immoral and disgust ing. To Catch A Thief is a second in stance of divorce-propaganda. Cary Grant puzzles over Grace Kelly's cool ness, but is relieved to learn that it's only due to her recent divorce. The American public en masse at tends the movies. Divorce-approval is bad enough in books and plays, but these have only a limited audience. The movies, on the other hand, play to the child, the adult, the uneducated, the intellectual, the teen-ager. When the marriage bonds are portrayed as light fet ters to be dropped at will on the movie screen, they will soon be come the same in the minds of even more American people. The Christian-minded campaigned for the clean-up of movies and maga zines in the thirties. Today, popular magazines have returned to the di vorce plot and movies are testing pub lic-acceptance of it. Whether it's money-hunger, pa ganism, or communistic influences, there's an attempt to destroy the mor al fiber of the United States. Vulgar song lyrics, suggestive com-1 ics, immoral movies and stories, all j these combine to reduce us to the stat us of pagan civilization. Only con certed action on the part of an intelti gent, aware public can stay the tide Jke hudcraper Vol. XXV May 9, 1955 No. 12 Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30,199, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under Ik Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to Mn inclusive by the students of Mundelein CoUeR 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Editors-in-Chief Rosemarie Dalf, Grace Pertell, Patricia Samps* Associates Mary Cartj, Ann Storin* SAC Speaks Up Mary Ann Lashmtl Skyscrapings Jean Kidtr Virginia Durli Editorial Associates Loretta Cisfj, Marie Kobielus, Nancy Mammowj Art Editor Vasilia SouIsm Reporters Leora Brack Chandra Camp, Patricia Sullivan, Rita Caprini, Toni Cassaretto, Hannah Man Dwyer, Geraldine Gross, Donna Han son, Diane Letourneau, Joanne Mat* zak, Josephine Mele, Maribcth Nant ton, Marilyn Santini, Mary Ann Scb mann. Genevieve Teutsch, Frances Th sen, Nan Voss, Patricia Kobal, Maiy Ann Banich, Ann Norton, Mary A Herold, Maureen Connerty, Diane Go- lash, Dolores Le Compte.
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1955-05-09 (2)
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