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Pafce Four Athletic Director Represents Chicago Red Cross Division SKYSCRAPER They Invite You Miss Eileen Scanlan is Instructor in Water Safety Eileen Scanlan, athletic director, has been appointed American Red Cross Field Representative in First Aid, Water Safety and Accident Prevention, for the Office of Civilian Defense, Division 5, of Chicago. During the summer, Miss Scanlan conducted Water Safety and Life Sav ing classes at Whalen pool. In September, she participated in die First Aid, Water Safety, and Accident Prevention Training Conference at Oco- nomowac, Wisconsin, which was spon sored by the American Red Cross. Commenting on her summer exper iences, Miss Scanlan says: Having met educators from all parts of the United States, I realized that we, at Mundelein, offer the best in educational opportunities. Our athletic department is in step with the nation. We are in line with physical fitness groups in all colleges and universities. Juniors, Seniors Tie For Bowling Honors Elaine Feiereisel, Betty Troost Top Scorers The first play-off of the inter-class bowling tournament, on Oct. 5, resulted in a league leading tie between the junior and senior teams, each winning three games. Betty Troost, senior, won high game bowling 184, at the same time taking high series with a 165 average. Second high game goes to Audrey McDonald, sophomore, with 169, and third to Mary Walters, junior. Elaine Feiereisel, junior, placed second in high averages with series 134, 157, 158 for 150. Team standings are as follows : Total W. L. Pins Senior I 3 0 1939 Junior I 3 0 1807 Sophomore II 2 1 1637 Sophomore I 1 2 1600 Freshman 111 2 1 1601 Sophomore 111 1 2 1590 Freshman I 0 3 1501 Freshman II 0 3 1324 Sports Information? Ask W.A.A. Captains Sixteen sports-conscious students have been appointed class representatives and activities chairmen for the various W.A.A. groups. Ruth Tender is the information center for seniors, and Mary Kay Jones has the sports answers for all juniors. Vir ginia Wathier and Lenore Brockhaus are seeking out sports-minded sophomores. Representing the freshmen are Char lotte Robertson, Anne Lillie, Marion Fischer, and Mary Clare Hornof. Catherine Griffin is captain of the tennis players; Mary Catherine Quinn of the riders, and Marion Stoffel of the rifle rangers. Angela Voller manages the bowling tournaments; Catherine Cunningham the basketball series, and Terese Logan the golf tournament. Mary Clare Hornof will be in charge of winter sports, and Elizabeth Millar of badminton. Orchestra Meets Tuesdays With a membership twice as large as it bad last year, the College Orchestra tunes its instruments for rehearsals on Tuesdays, at 4 p.m., in the rehearsal ball on the seventh floor. Joseph J. Grill conducts the Orches tra, which puts on its own concert each year and which stars, besides, at a variety of all-college productions. . . . and assure you of a good time at the Mundelein-Loyola coke dance today, as they chalk up the final bulletin. They are Frank Considine (Loyola) and Marianne Donahoe. (Story on page 1) Wins University Club Scholarship Senior home economics major Elea nor Kandratas has been awarded a full year scholarship to Mundelein by the Lithuanian University club of Chicago. Open to all students of Lithuanian descent in the State of Illinois, the scholarship was given to Miss Kan dratas on the basis of character, scho lastic record, and social activities. Two Mundelein graduates, Ruth Perry '41 and Barbara Ohab '42, have been awarded graduate fellowships to Loyola university, where they are studying philosophy. Another alumna, Gretschcn Kretsch- mcr Finn '33, a mathematics major and a summa cum laude graduate, has been awarded a teaching fellowship at Northwestern university, where she was enrolled in a defense course. Lecturer Talks Of Problems In Post-War World Join the Riding Club And Ride The Trails Whether you ride an English or a Wes tern saddle, you will fit into the Eques triennes. Membership in the riding club is based upon interest and service to the club, which is open to all students regard less of previous riding experience. Separate groups are open to beginners to train them in preparation for the an nual Horse Show, held in May. Those who have had riding experience are immediately promoted into the advanced class. Although the Equestriennes is a special organization, it is a branch of the Women's Athletic Association. It pro fesses to train riders to be expert and competent horsewomen. Exiled Scholar Traveled In 24 Countries Presenting no blueprint for some post-war Paradise, yet advancing vari ous plans which have been proposed for post-war reconstruction, Dr. Wilhclm Solzbacher, author, lecturer, and man without a country, outlined the topic, A Free World, at the student assembly yesterday. In a discussion of some of the publi cations, which consider the problem of a just peace Dr. Solzbacher considered the various problems which must be kept in mind by those who would win and preserve ultimate peace. Dr. Solzbacher, who has his Doctor ate in political and economic sciences from the University of Cologne, has travelled and lectured in 24 countries, including almost every European coun try, the United States, and Canada, and he has led American study tours through Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, and Spain. A citizen of no country, Dr. Solz bacher was born in Germany, but was asked to leave that country in 1933 and was deprived of his citizenship. After experiencing the harrowing adventures of war, he arrived in America in 1941. Before 1933 Dr. Solzbacher was a leader of the Catholic Youth Movement in Germany, and later he was asso ciated with Catholic activities and pub lications in Belgium, Holland, France. Austria, England, and Ireland. Alumna is Abie's Irish Rose in NBC Radio Serial When Abie's Irish Rose went back on the air several Saturdays ago, a Munde lein graduate, Mercedes McCambridge '37, starred in the leading role as Rose mary. In radio since her senior year in col lege, Miss McCambridge, who, in private life, is Mrs. William Fifield and the mother of eight-month-old John Law rence Fifield, had her first audition as the result of her work with the Munde lein Verse Choir six years ago this summer. Soloist with the Choir on the NBC Symphonic Hour, she was auditioned after its first broadcast, and signed a five- year contract with the National Broad casting Company. During her senior year and after grad uation, she starred in Grand Hotel, Lights Out. Guiding Light, Dan Harding's Wife, and other programs originating in Chi cago, After her marriage, she lived in Holly wood, and played in This is a Mystery, One Man's Family, and the Arch Obler scries, Plays for Americans. When her husband was awarded a scholarship for study and writing in New- York this summer, Mrs. Fifield gave up her radio work in Hollywood and went east, where she was interviewed by author Ann Nichols as a prospective star for the famous play, Abie's Irish Rose. A drama major at Mundelein, Miss McCambridge was president of the Lae tare Players in her senior year and was awarded the Golden Rose for outstand ing service to that organization. Scholar Gives 230 Books to College Collection Includes Many Foreign Works Two hundred and thirty books, in Spanish, French, German, Norwegian, and English, are a recent gift to the College from Dr. Peter Hagboldt, scholar, writer, and former staff mem ber at the University of Chicago. Two of Professor Hagboldt's own books, both in German, are a part of the collection, which is made up largely of foreign language grammars and of fic tion, essays, and history. Author of many books and articles on the teaching of modern language, Pro fessor Hagboldt is especially noted for bis newest volume on the teaching of German. Arguments Begin As Debate Club Meets Coach Announces Freshman Contest Debate Coach Fred L. Brandstrader, A.M., at the initial meeting of the Debate club on Sept. 30, announced that this year's official debate question will probably center about plans for a post war world. Mr. Brandstrader, also Loyola's debate instructor, will conduct weekly classes for Mundelein's upperclass debaters and for freshman sub-debs. As its first major activity, the club will sponsor the Annual Freshman Debate tournament, starting in November. An elimination contest open to all freshmen, the tournament is held to demonstrate the skill of freshmen orators and to intro duce them to collegiate competition. The winning team will speak on the John Marshall Law School of the Air. Attend OP A Wartime Education Institute Members of the Faculty attended the Educational Institute for School Ad ministrators on The Schools in a Wartime Economy, sponsored by the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration, at Thorne ball, on August 20. Marcella Garrity and Kathleen McNulty, both juniors, were hostesses at the Institute, and Mary Margaret Mitchell '40, a consumer representative in the local OPA, assisted with arrangements. Freshmen Elect Nine Qovernors Manage Class Affairs Until Elections Determined to prove that they do not undervalue their privileges and respon sibilities as voters, the freshmen have elected a Board of Governors, and are conducting try-outs for prospective of ficers through a series of temporary nominations. Representing the nine freshman orien tation groups, the Board of Governors in cludes Jean Beakey, Maryl Gorman, Mary Clare Hornof, Jane Klein, Betty Jayne Lang, Jane McMurray, Jeanne McNulty, Dorothy Sullivan, and Joan Templeman. The Board members are supplied with pre-nomination blanks which any fresh man may use to nominate officers who will preside at freshman assemblies. From the names turned in on the blanks, the Governors select a group of temporary officers to preside at each class assembly, thus giving the students an opportunity to judge the fitness for office of their various classmates. Official nominations, however, which will be made in a month, need not be made with refer ence to the pre-nomination blanks. Next month, when the class is better acquainted and after a score of more freshmen have appeared at assemblies as temporary officers, the official nomi nations and elections occur. Nominees for the official elections need not be students who have been nominated pre viously on the temporary ballots. SkyscrapingS What with gas rationing coniinH fond memories of this year's vacai may have to do some of us fori duration. Having fun this summer, ever, were Mundelein students scat* over the country In the romantic old Deep South. 1 bania's charms attracted Mary Walters, while in the same terra Mary Margaret Whelan ami Maryl Fitzpatrick visited Louisiana, PaJ Monaco was in Georgia, and Vim Dimmick chose her namesake. Vinl . . . Moving eastward we find li Bukowski in Maryland, and Kay hi dallying in South Carolina. ... SI seeing took on a new meaning oil East Coast this year with deif plants and blackouts but we find mary Shanahan and Ruth Anne I Carthy in New York, Mildred Wll in New Jersey, and Leocadia Melti Pennsylvania. . . . Massachusetts' ' shore provides Jeanne Kaufman, III Harrigan, and Margaret Hastings something to talk about. . Skill the coast of Maine and down thii the Great Lakes, we arrive in the 1 die West, which, after all, is thcL popular vacation land for us . . M( gaii's cool timberland invited Loti Connelly, Ruth Rinderer, Patricia I litz, Patricia Crumley, Betty HodJL Dorothy Sullivan, Rita Rathslag, Ski Klodzinski, Dorothy Scholzen, Brodsky, Patricia Curran, Shirley III . . . Vying with Michigan for the hij score of pleasure-seekers, Wise* wins again since Dotty Lou Shuflilo. Mary Jane Bresnahan, Laura Mali Coletta Roche, Audrey Anderson, Nordby, Rosemary Roeder, Irene Cecelia Olszowka, Mary Lou Thm Mary Corr, Mary Mauser, Jean Rd Jeanne Horan, Larrie Knaub, 1 Kennedy, and Madeleine Com roamed through the dairy state.. Seeing some of the gophers that wul the trails of Minnesota. MarM Kelly, Patricia Kelley, Jane McB nough, and Margaret Siemon t'4 the state of 10,000 lakes very rfl . . . Florence Flesch, Dorothy shecker, Rosemary Prohaska, BlM Afremow, and Jean Ryan pioneers plains of Indiana . , . the home oil Beautiful Ohio lured Dorothy Self Helen Nicholson, Rosemarie Mil Jeanne Piatt, Patricia Ferguson. I Shirley Hopper and the FeiereiselL ters, Ruth and Elaine, saw Bob Im home state, Arkansas. . . . Seeing) of potatoes in Idaho were Jane Murray, Joan Harrigan, and Maryl Connell. . . . Iowa captured the iandj Irene Mikos. . . . Mary Kay Jones, Ellen O'Farrell, Mary Kay O'lM Jacqueline Jacobs were in Missouri Go West, young woman. must I been someone's parting words as i the great expanses of the Dakota- lt; three of them La Vonne Krusel Mary Murray to the South, Wroblewski to the North. . . . Ml Montana was a source of woiidea Lois Leghorn, while Angela Volletj hither and thither in Nebraska. .. the oil wells of Oklahoma went garet Mary Sieja . . . while pictun Colorado thrilled Charlotte Robert . . . Margaret McCormick, Vin Hilfer, Dolores Rudnik, Bonnie Tq Helen Bielawa, Mary Germaine were city dudes in rugged Wyo . . . Seeing Washington were Mary Pallasch and Muriel Kadison. sorbing sun in California, Terry Lo Anita Caparros, Mary Jane Hat Virginia Cox, and Ruth Turley so while across the country, under L Florida skies, Celia Kilgariff turn* becoming bronze. . . . Hopping ova Kentucky. Gloria Rassenfoss enjj herself immensely, but Deep Heart Of (guess where?) was the I song of Loretta Gburczyk and Finney. . . . Turning to Canada, gery Rowbottom and Dorothy Gt visited Quebec . . . after all this, ml ing beautiful sunburns and wavingB cation trophies, they all came bad the Windy City. In SI 1
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1942-10-09 (4)
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