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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER Nov. 21,1962 Children Delve in Creativity Youth Theater Encourages Power of Expression Interpretations Bring Smiles Mondays through Fridays, the Little Theater assumes a scholarly air. Eight neat rows of desks stand at attention during daily classes. Come Saturday morning, how ever, the desks stand at ease and the room wears its sunniest wall- to-wall smile. A troop of children, the 43 members of Mundelein's newly formed Youth Theater, smile back. Expression, Creativity Stressed The Youth Theater is a junior extension of the drama depart ment. According to faculty mem ber Geri-Ann Boyle McCarthy '60, who introduced the program this year, the theater aims to encour age children to use their power of expression and to work creatively with other people. Three drama students Sister Mary Helene, B.V.M., Sister Mary St. Naomi, B.V.M., and Carol Ryan, work with the children under Mrs. McCarthy's direction. The first semester runs 15 weeks from Oct. 6 to Jan. 26. Memory work, elementary dance steps and simple exercises are in troducing Sister Mary Helene's third and fourth graders to the need for bodily control and ability to retain knowledge. Imaginations Used Often, the youngsters' bubbling imaginations make up what they lack in polished dramatic ability. One chubby little fellow was hav ing trouble with an exercise drawing a wide arc in the air as though throwing a ball. Sister sug gested, pretend you're going to throw that ball 500 feet. His eyes College Library Holds Children's Book Fair Three hundred to 400 children's books with selections from modern fairy tales to classics will be on display in the Browsing Room of the Library from Nov. 27 to Dec. 7. Loaned for exhibition by the Miracle of Books Fair, sponsored by the Chicago Tribune, the books represent 23 categories recom mended by the Children's Book Council for children from first to eighth grade. An invitation is especially ex tended to student teachers to bring their classes for a browsing session at the Library Fair. lit up behind his glasses. That's Yankee Stadium. When Sister asked a little girl what the wind did to her, the child tripped cheerfully along the floor and smiled sweetly. I've had the wind do that to me before. This same willing tyke was told a story was being written about her class. My name is Elizabeth Dougan, she offered, adding, That's D-O-U- G-A-N. by Tina DeRosa One of the projects of Sister Mary St. Naomi's class is the memorization of poetry. Sister asked what they thought of a little pink doll who began to hop and had no notion of when to stop. One sophisticated moppet volun teered, I think she's very flighty. Pantomime and creative drama have strong appeal in Carol Ryan's class of seventh and eighth graders. The boys especially seem to wel come the opportunity pantomine presents for burning up energy. Seventh grader Phillip has been shot and killed each week and happily throws himself down the stairs of the stage each time. Storytelling dramatics is a sure fire method of drawing an efferves cent imagination to the surface. The children are given a familiar situation in which they have to im provise their own dialogue. A lit- cr Hear about Sister Mary Jean Mi chael's new classification of Saints? She says Saints Peter, James and John were the smallest apos tles because they slept on a watch. Not even the groans from her class stopped Sister. She went on to explain that Archangel Ga briel was the patron Saint of thin people because he came down to an nounce. At 6:30 a.m., Nov. 6, Jo Ann Haberman waited in line contem plating the qualifications of the political candidates. She had stud ied the major office seekers and was now ready to make thoughtful and unbiased decisions. So she en- CAROL ZEHNELE AND PAT APPLEBY entertain St. Joe juniors Leo Brueggeman and Rudy Debbik at a special party in Coffey Hall recently. tered the booth and began going through the long list of names. Af ter 15 minutes, she emerged with the glow of victory in her eyes. The glow subsided a bit when the long lines of waiting voters ap plauded her exit. Post-examination definitions . . . Education it represents the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient informa tion. Philosophy intensified common sense. And, speaking of exams, it took some seniors longer to recuperate from Patti Gilles' Examination Re cuperation Party than it did for them to recuperate from the ex ams As a little six-year old boy en tered the elevator on the first floor, Marsha Goron exclaimed, Ah, fate has just sent me my last chance for a date for the Sophomore Cotil lion. Grace Peters and Fred Francl are planning a post-graduation wedding. They became engaged Nov. 1. She's true-blue . . . After turn ing down an invitation to the 100- a-plate Democratic Rally, Carol Grundmann explained to a fellow Young Democrat, I'm going to a Mundelein mixer tonight. On one of those dreary Monday mornings Mother St. Agnes re marked to her class, I don't un derstand why I couldn't put my nephew to sleep yesterday; it seems I'm doing a pretty good job with you today. As an added incentive to sell So dality tickets for Miracle Worker, Kathy Madden gave away S H Green Stamps with each purchase. 'Bye for now, C.B.S. GREASE PAINT and garb young dramatists: Robert Mullin, Annalee Jean Vukovitz, Mary Kathy Schevers, Zina Patty McGuire. footlights (1. to r.) Mussman, Meyskens, Emanule, Seven Faculty Committees (Continued from Page 1) committees will compile answers appropriate for Mundelein. During phase four, the Central Office will circulate each commit tee's report to other committees for comments and reactions. Reports plus comments will then be de livered to the Central Office as ma terial for the final conspectus. Phase five includes study and evaluation of the conspectus by the Advisory Committee. Faculty Considers Honors Program Expansion of the Mundelein Honors Program designed to stimu late and challenge students who could benefit from intensive group study is being studied by a four- member committee. Sister Mary Martinette, B.V.M., chairman; Sister Mary Cecilia, B.V.M.; Sister Mary Donald, B.V.M.; and Sister Mary Therese, B.V.M., are meeting to explore the possibility of inaugurating an in tegrated science program as the sophomore phase of the honors pro gram. During the second quarter of this year, the honors class will form two seminars under the di rection of Sister Mary Antonia, B.V.M., and Mrs. Vere Chappell to study the present topic, Litera ture and the Arts. Honors grades will be weighted with A carrying four grade points, B three and C two. tie girl was told she was a mother whose daughter has ripped her skirt. The girl looked at her daughter and with a disgusted shrug of her shoulders asked, What do you think we're made of (pause) money? Another improvisation turned into hilarity when a little boy took the role of a grandfather smoking a pipe. His grandaughter walked onto the stage and before she could say a word, the boy's logic got the best of him. Hey, he shouted, you got a light? The climax of the Theater's first semester will be a play Dec. 22 in which all members will participate. Until then, the youngsters will con tinue memorizing, giggling and having fun. Annua Science Forum Presents Opportunity For Alumnae Reunion Upperclassmen of the biology, chemistry, physics and mathemat ics departments will entertain the alumnae of those departments at the annual Science Forum, Dec 9 in Robert R. McCormick Lounge and Franqk J. Lewis Center, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Dr. Calvin Midgley, medical doc tor in the Lake Villa area and lec turer at the College, will be the guest speaker at the reunion. Dr. Midgley will discuss the instruction of small children in science. Pres ently he is conducting a course in the teaching of physical sciences at the elementary-school level for Mundelein students enrolled in the teacher-education program. Refreshments will be served fol lowing the address. There will be a voluntary offer ing of 1 for the alumnae and 50 cents for the students who attend. Reservations should be made by Dec. 7. TeacherExplains Variable Stars Sister Mary Therese, B.V.M., chairman of the physics department, will lecture at the Marywood High School Joe Berg Seminar Dec. 11. Her topic is, Lighthouses in Island Universes. She will explain how a special class of variable stars known as Cepheid variable when identified in any distant galaxy, makes it pos sible for the astronomer to deter mine the distance to the galaxy in question. Jtjfe fjStha-lMotrtbo.Tieru iU6f5tofl 3
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