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M . gt; - ... m ,*-*V '*'-' : .,, T*;v*; Volume V. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 6, 1935 No. 11 2000 Attend Fifth S.A.C. Card Party At Palmer House Juniors Lead in Ticket Sales For Second Consecutive Year; Win Holiday Through the combined loyalty of the students and the efficient leadership of the S.A.C, the College has just wit nessed the most successful student proj ect in its history, the fifth annual all- College card party which was held at the Palmer House on April 25. Following the custom of past years, the proceeds of the party will be formal ly presented to the President on College Day. All Classes Go Over Top Particularly commendable this year was the cooperation of the classes, each of which more than fulfilled its original quota of 100 . The final standing of the classes was: seniors 284 ; juniors, 343 ; sophomores, 110 ; and freshmen, 130 . For the second year in succession, the present junior class, which retained first place throughout the campaign, won the free-day award promised to the victors in the class competitions. More than 2,000 people filled the Ex hibition Hall of the Palmer House for this S.A.C. card party and the style show, which was easily the high point of the evening's entertainment. Gowns and millinery were furnished by Alma Wei- ner-Tne.; furs by Thomas E. McElroy of the Stevens building; and footwear and bags by O'Connor and Goldberg. Upperclassmen Are Models The following students acted as man nequins for the revue: Florence McCormick, Genevieve Col lins, Margaret Webb, Frances Woods, Mary Elizabeth Ronan, Ann Lally, Vir ginia Sweeney, Ruth Hazle, Kathryn Ann Walsh, Frances Burke, Irremore Trant, Margaret Broecker, Ruth Hot tinger, Mary Jane Blenner, Norine Gold en, Jane Flick, Mary Jane Tully, and Mary Alice Wolf. Roma Murphy, Gertrude Meyers, Eleanor Hopkins, Dorothy White, Jane Spalding, Mary Moss, Margaret Egan, Sabina Slarzynski, Virginia O'Connell, Violet Hans, Caroline Holland, Marie Cuny, Alice Mayfield, and Myrtle Peter- Seniors Merit Distinctions Mary Margaret Morrissey Virginia Woods Magdalene Kessie Mary Agnes Tynan Ruth Tangney Merit Scholarships For Qraduate Study Mary Margaret Morrissey, senior and library science major, received word last week that she has been awarded the Anna Hope Hudson scholarship to the Catholic University of America, a full one-year scholarship in the graduate school, where she flans to matriculate in September Miss Morrissey, who will continue her work in library science, has been an honor student throughout her College career, is a member of the Classical club and a prominent Sodalist, having been a cav ftf i'ts.-the Cisca page of the-N'ew World for the past two years. Virginia Woods, classics major, has received a half scholarship to the Uni versity of Chicago, where she will study Greek. Miss Woods is prefect of the College Sodality and editor-in-chief of the Clepsydra. Since her freshman year, she has been prominent in creative writing and won tlie short story and editorial prizes last year. Miss Woods edited the Cisca page of the New World until her resignation in February. As was announced earlier, Virginia Schmidt, dietetics major, has received an appointment as student dietitian at Michael Reese hospital and will start her work there in February of next year. Staff Bequeath Positions To Freshman Issue Editors Being of sound (and occasionally clever) minds, and faced with the prob lem of comprehensives and term papers, the staff of The Skyscraper duly be queaths its publication and positions for the next issue to the following fresh men pledges of the Press club: To Catherine Ott, the position oi editor-in-chief. To Anna Marie Masterson and Cath erine Heerey, the positions of associate editors, with the recommendation that they assist Miss Ott in being firm about the deadline. To Ann Ellen Smith and Helen Cole man, the joint responsibility of the news editor. To Agnes Griffin, the position of feat ure editor, with the following department editors: Skyline, Julia Mary Hanna; Skyscrapings, Nona Mae Linton; Read ing, 'Riting and' 'Rithmetic, Elenor Loarie; Book Chatter, Betty Kelso; So dality, Catherine Ann Dougherty. To Elizabeth Higgins, the position of public relations agent of The Sky scraper,- i. e., alumnae editor. To Janine Dziejowski, a similar charge, the exchanges. To Mary McMahon and Edythe Wil liams, the joint editorship of the sports page. To Frances McCambridge, the position (most difficult in these days ) of busi ness manager. The said bequests are made with the following commendations: That the typewriters and pencils be longing to the press room be kept in the same mellow stage of antiquity. That the press, files, and wastebasket remain in the present inviolate state. Whereto we have affixed our names on this sixth day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty-five. (Whereupon the staff has picked up roller skates, fishing poles, knitting needles, and tennis rackets, and is leav ing for parts unknown, for the next two weeks.) Seniors, Mothers Will Be Guests At May Banquet On Mother's Day, members of the senior class and their mothers will be guests of the College at a banquet at the Crystal Ballroom of the Edgewater Beach hotel, after which the mothers will be guests of honor at the special Mother's Day performance of the Mosaics in the College auditorium. Ruth Tangney, treasurer of the class, will preside as toastmaster, and the fol lowing students will give toasts: Lucy Crowley, president, To Our Class; Mag dalene Kessie, To Our Sisters; Virginia Meggher7-T-e Alma aJSfuir; Jane Flick, secertary, To Our Mothers. Ruth Hottinger will provide an orig inal musical setting for Sallie Agnes Smith's reading of The Shepherdess, by Alice Meynell, after which Marion Fitz gerald will give a toast To Our Fathers, and Margaret Grace will read a saluta tion to Blessed Mother. The program will be concluded by a senior chorus singing a Mother's Day song. Ann Lally Announces Senior Ball Committees The date for the Senior Ball, the love liest and most dignified of the College dances, has been set for the evening of Friday, May 31. It will be a formal supper dance and bids will be placed on sale next week. Ann Lally is general chairman of the affair and will be assisted by the other class officers. Miss Lally has chosen the following committees to aid her in mak ing final arrangements. Margaret Wcnigman is chairman of the hotel committee, and her assistants are Mary Alice Wolf, Florence Mc Cormick, and Frances Burke. The or chestra committee is headed by Genevieve Collins as chairman, and Margaret Webb, Mary Jane Blenner, and Lucille Barrett are her aides. Virginia Meagher, the senior's top- ranking ticket seller, is chairman of the bid committee. She will be assisted by Helen Daly, Edith Dorn, Jean O'Con nor, Virginia Schmidt, Rita Riordan, Mary Margaret Morrissey, Mary Eliza beth Kelly, Mary McCracken, and Dor- othv Rutstrum. Wins Honorable Mention In Feature Story Contest According to a recent announcement from the Catholic School Press associa tion, Charlotte Wilcox, managing editor of The Skyscraper, won first place of honor for her feature story on the C.S.P.A. conference held in Chicago on March 2. QiveThree Original Senior Productions Three Mundelein playwrights will have their own opening nights on May 10 when the Laetare Players present two plays and a choral dedication, the plays the work of Magdalene Kessie and Ruth Tangney, and the dedication for the verse speaking choir the work of Mary Agnes Tynan. Miss Kessie made her debut as a play- writer last year when her curtain-raiser, The Princess With the Shiny Nose, was given as the opening number of the Mo saics of 1934. Her contribution this year is an unusual experiment in exprc.oK/i, ism, The Summons of Sariel, a one-act play occurring on tlie borderland of life and death and presenting a beautiful and impressive motif. Air de Ballet, Miss Tangney's one-act play, is a comedy with panoramic set tings and intense human emotions, laid in the dressing room of the Imperial Bal let in Prague in the summer of 1914. Both plays were written under the direc tion of Garrett H. Leverton, Ph.D., in structor in playwriting. Miss Tynan's Dedication to Mothers, which she is directing herself, is the first verse-speaking project undertaken by the College. The instrument is narrative, but the content is historical, tracing the office of womanhood from Eve to the mothers of today. Mosaics of '35 To Be Presented On May 10-12 Verse Speaking Choir Will Read Original Tribute To Mothers Originality and variety will be the key notes of the Mundelein Mosaics of 1935, according to announcements from the drama department, which will present its fifth annual production of one-act plays on May 10 and 12. An entirely new type of dramatic ac tivity will be introduced with the pres entation of a verse speaking choir, a departure which has had increasing vogue in America since its success at the Mal vern Festival in England several years ago. Dedicated to Mothers, who will be honor guests at the Sunday evening per formance, the verse, the composition of Mary Agnes Tynan, will be given by the following students: Mary Jane Blenner, Frances Burke, Ruth Hazle, Sallie Ag nes Smith, Virginia Sweeney, Kathryn Walsh, Mercedes Beyer, Janette Bren nan, Mary Rose Brown, Margaret Cleary, Kathleen Feely, Marion Green, Kather ine Kearns, Mercedes McCambridge, Janice Quinn, and Frances Shipp. Two Plays Are Original When the Mosiacs were planned five years ago, it was hoped that ultimately the plays presented would be written by Mundelein students. This ideal is real ized at least in part, since Ruth Tangney and Magdalene Kessie have each written one play for the program. Air de Ballet, by Miss Tangney, is a one-act play, with the scene at the Rus sian Ballet. Ambition, jealousy, love, to gether with rumors of war lend rich flavor to the little comedy which is played by Mercedes Beyer, Janette Brennan, Ella Jamieson, Jeanette Kuzba, Roma Murphy, Madeline Wells, Margaret Wenigman, and Dorothy White. Present Eaton Play The Purple Door Knob, by Walter Prichard Eaton, is the second play on the program. A sparkling comedy, it presents a play within a play, since its leading character, whose attempt to buy a door knob right off the door leads her into adventure, is an actress. (Continued on page 4, col. 2) Father D'Arcy of Oxford Talks on Qerard Hopkins By Virginia Woods The Reverend Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S.J., eminent authority on scholastic philosophy, Master of Campion Hall, Oxford, lectured at the College on April 29, on the life, eccentricities, and poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit poet of the nineteenth century. Father D'Arcy, because of his en thusiastic admiration of the Jesuit poet, his familiarity with Oxford, as well as his thorough understanding of the metric al and contrapuntal theories of Hopkins, communicated to the students his own appreciation of the excellence of the poet's work. After giving a brief sketch of the life of Father Hopkins, which included a number of intimate glimpses into char acteristics gleaned from the poet's fel low priests, Father D'Arcy quoted sev eral contemporary critics who are agreed that Hopkins should be ranked among the major poets in English literature. The climax of the lecture came with the reading of several of the poems il lustrating the musical beauty of the meters employed by Hopkins. Having heard Father D'Arcy's reading of Bin- sey Poplars, The Leaden Echo, and The Golden Echo, one realized the complete justification for the use of the adjective great in connection with the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. While the reporters waited to inter view Father D'Arcy, Monsignor Shan non, the English priest's host during his stay in Chicago, furnished much inter esting information concerning his guest. Especially did the Monsignor comment upon the gentleness of spirit that char acterizes Father D'Arcy and upon his in tense devotion to the Hall of which he has been Head Master since 1933. Monsignor Shannon noted how hectic the English priest's visit to America has been. Coming to New York to give the lenten sermons at Our Lady of Lourdes church, Father D'Arcy found his days filled with lectures to be given at the universities of that city, Fordham, Col umbia, the College of Mount St. Vin- (Continued on page 4, col. 3)
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