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SKYSCRAPER Pafee Three Faculty Member Named Treasurer By Sociologists America's leading Catholic social scien tists gathered at the Morrison hotel for the annual convention of the American Catholic Sociological society during the holidays. Dr. Miriam L. Rooney, of the sociol ogy department, was elected treasurer of the society. Other officers are Dr. Raymond W. Murray, of the University of Notre Dame, president: Dr. Paul Furfey. Catliolic university, vice-pres ident; Dr. Ralph A. Gallagher, S.J.. Loyola university, executive secretary. Sister Mary Ligouri, B.V.M., head of the college sociology department, was exe cutive secretary of the society and also served on the reception committee. The following students acted as ushers at the convention: Kathleen Johnston, Phyllis Peterson, Betty Vestal, Georgette Thoss. Ann Cleary, Catherine Wilkins, Roberta Scheid, Antoinette McGarry, and Gene Brabets. Members of the Faculty also attended the meetings of the American Economics association, American Accounting asso ciation, and American Sociological socie ty in Detroit, Dec. 28-30. and the meeting of the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science, in Richmond, at which Dwight L. Hopkins, Ph.D., of the zoology department read a paper. Music Delegates Meet Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt Sister Mary Rafael, B.V.M., and Sis ter Mary Francis Xavier, B.V.M., dele gates to the convention of the Music Teachers National association and the American Musicology society, in Wash ington, D.C., Dec. 27-30, met Mrs. Frank lin D. Roosevelt, who received the con vention delegates in the White House. An important discussion at the joint convention, held at the Mayflower Hotel, concerned a bill for the establishment of a National Bureau of Fine Arts, to be presented to Congress by Dr. Walter Damrosch, celebrated conductor. The bill provides for complete separa tion of the Bureau from the art projects of the WPA. Students Usher At History Meet The nineteenth annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical association was held at the Stevens Hotel, Dec. 28-30. Sister Mary Augustina, B.V.M., head of the history department, was a member of the executive commission on local ar rangements, and Miriam L. Rooney. Ph.D., member of the sociology depart ment, was chairman of the committee on registration and information. Although no theme predominated in the addresses and papers, topics were considered with a view to promoting the study of the history of the Catholic Church. Students from Mundelein, Barat, St. Xavier, Rosary, and St. Francis colleges served on the committee on registration and information. Margaret Gleeson, Kath ryn Byrne, Lucille Trudeau, Helen Coens, Virginia Caudel, Hattie Schuetz, Dorothy Dcmber, Gene Brabets, Catherine Wilkins, Ann Sheahan, Veronica Gill, Patricia Conner, Loretta Klodzinski, Patricia O'Toole, Audrey Herzog, Mar guerite Eichten, and Eileen Flannery rep resented Mundelein. Commerce Teachers Meet at Sherman Members of the commerce department attended the forty-first annual conven tion of the National Commercial Teach ers Federation, held at the Sherman Ho tel, Dec. 27-30. Prominent among the speakers at the Panel Discussion of the College Instruc tors' Round Table was John M. Tryttcn, University of Michigan, who, in a study of the interest trend of college students, computed that 33 percent of the upper half of freshmen classes were in com merce as a major interest. Cuban Christmas Lacks Holly, Trees Il was Christmas with holly and icy streets for the Great Lakes region, but il was a Cuban Christmas with a few- fireworks and a tropical climate for Le- nore Bleekman, in Havana. Telling about her December trip to Cuba's capital, where warm weather com bines with tropical rains to produce a year-round luxuriance of growth, Miss Bleekman. who left Chicago Dec. 18, said she swam in the Gulf Stream on Christ mas day, the water being well over 70 degrees. The only sign of Christmas among the Havanesc, according to Miss Bleekman. was a display of fireworks. Even the beautiful Spanish churches had none of the fir. pine, and poinsettia decorations associated with our celebration of Christmas. Hotels, however, catered to tourist interest with Christmas trees in their lobbies. The general Cuban pattern of brilliant flowers and tiny thatched houses or bohios seem a more congruous back ground for the tourist from the north. Miss Bleekman believes, than does the exotically tropical landscape of Ber muda. Miss Bleekman drove from Chicago to Key West. Florida, which is about 90 miles from Havana, and then sailed for Cuba, taking her car along on the boat. After a stay of eight days, she sailed for Miami, and was back in Chi cago on Jan. 3. Workshop Presents Historical Drama An historical drama, inspired by a lec ture in a history course and entitled If The Queen Be Fair, was presented by Ihe Radio Workshop on Jan. 11, through station WCFL. Written by Virginia Cheatham, the play starred Helen Coens as Queen Eliza beth, supported by Martha Van Dyke, Frances Walz, Mary Powers, Audrey Leibowitz, Eleanor Conly. Paul Sylvester of Loyola university was also in the cast. Yesterday's offering of the Workshop, a clever comedy entitled The Dark Horse, was written by Agnes Griffin. The cast of the play included Miss Griffin, Josephine Stanton, Mary Lau- rentia Powers, and Marie Kane. Alumna Organist Accompanies Play At Northwestern News of the college organ students includes Ihe announcement that Rita Smith '37, who has continued her study of music since graduation, will play the accompaniments for the production of the Greek tragedy, Oedipus, which will be presented at Northwestern university this month, Lee Mitchell, a member of the drama departments of both Northwestern and Mundelein. is directing the production. Miss Smith is organist at St. Pius church. Another organ student, June Voorhees, gave three concerts during the holidays, one on a Hammond organ, at a meeting of the Association of Commerce at the Stevens Hotel, and two on a 5-manual Mocller organ, at the Medinah. Student organists who played at vari ous churches during the holidays are Vir ginia Corrigan. at St. I.awrence church. St. Leo's, and the Church of Christ the King; Marguerite Cullato who played at St. Philip Benizi church; and Rosalie Wiora who is organist at the Church of St. Frances of Rome. Connoisseur Talks On Joy of Pictures Insisting that there is a constant aes thetic impulse inherent in man that is cul tivated in a greater or lesser degree in each individual. Dr. Carlton Palmer ad dressed the assembly, Jan. 12, on the Joy of Pictures; Dr. Palmer discussed what to look for in pictures, the appeal of color, the ro mance of story pictures, and the under standing of pictorial art. Illustrating the lecture with a selected group from his own collection of original work by European artists and American painters. Dr. Palmer exhibited a group including snow scenes, flowers, the sea, and portraits. Outstanding in the exhibition were Early Snow, by Hobart Nichols; Green and Gold, a work of flowers by Maud M. Mason; Rockport, a sea scene by Anthony Thieme; and a portrait of Mrs. Hubbard bv Nicholas Haritonoff. Dearborn Orchestra Plays The Dearborn Concert orchestra will give a program at the general assem bly today. A 45-piece ensemble, the group is a project similar to the Illi nois Symphony orchestra which played here in the fall. A. M. to P. M. npO brighten and reassure the fledgling 1939 after his rude initiation into a world perplexed by dictators, jitterbugs, and seedless watermelons, we offer him Ferdinand the Bull, symbol of the leisure and repose we all seek; hoods and ba bushkas to rival outmoded ear-muffs and peasant scarves; sweet music, heralding the return of the gentler, more graceful era predicted by fashion experts; and Kilty Keller's advance note of, bclieve- it-or-not, wooden shoes. NOW for a first flashback to dear, dead 1938 the highly successful Sky scraper Ball. Prophetic grace notes of the evening were the quaint becoming hoopskirts and turn-of-the-century gowns; Lucille O'Connell's old-fashioned sweet heart bouquet; and a variety of orchids and gardenias in smoothly coiffed hair. Pre-Ball dinner parties, such as Bette McCaughey's, added just the right touch to a gay evening. THE sunny south summoned two trav- * elers Rosemae Carrere, who va cationed in glamorous New Orleans, and Angela Kospctos, who visited Mobile, Alabama; Pensacola, Florida; and again New Orleans, where she heard Buddy Rogers play at the Hawaiian Room of the Roosevelt Hotel and saw tennis-star Gene Mako and the teams from Texas U. and Carnegia Tech before the Sugar Bowl game. /CELEBRITIES at home attracted Ma- -' rie Vonesh, who was with the Santa Gara football team at the Edgewater Beach on Christmas day; Gerry Ferstel, who attended a holiday luncheon with the Whiteoaks ingenue, Martha Hodges; and Mary Laughlin who dined with Alice lave and Tony Martin the other night. A ND Speaking of the great Mary ** Louise Sylvester's brother one of her five brothers to be exact was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives in Washington State last week. It isn't every family that numbers an Honorable among its members, and a 29-year-old one at that. Mary Lou lived in Seattle before coming to Chicago and Mundelein. JUST one more celebrity Rita Mc Lean, who cut graceful figures at the skating party at the Arena last Friday, is Ihe niece of THE Bob McLean, profes sional skater. Now how about the oaks who were once acorns on YOUR family tree ? FOOTNOTE on Fame: The Dramatic * Publishing Company's 1939 Cata- i OOUE of Pi.ays carries a picture of the stage setting for The Summons of Samel, written by Magdalene Kessie '35, presented here in the spring of that year, and published last fall by the Dra matic Publishing company, with the fol lowing note of description: Drapes and lights make an effective setting, and do much toward creating the supernatural atmosphere for tliat powerful play, The Summons of Sariel . . . one of the most unusual plays it has beeii our good for tune to publish. Forward to Land Is Forum Theme With forward to the land as his theme, Monsignor Luigi Ligutti, di rector of the Granger Homestead Pro ject in Iowa, described the Catholic Rural Life Movement to delegates at the second college Cisca Forum of the year, held here last Sunday Dr. L. Thomas Flatley, professor of economics, opened the panel discussion on the Place of Agriculture in the Christian Social Order and introduced three student speakers. Traces History Clare Anderson traced the history of agriculture in the United States, and enumerated the economic disad vantages of commercial farming. Mary Margaret Mitchell showed that a reversion to subsistence farming would eliminate these evils, and Georg ette Thoss described the place of agri culture in a Christian society. Leading the discussion from the floor. Monsignor Ligutti insisted that God created the good earth for a definite purpose and that to fulfill thai purpose there should be a closer relationship than exists now between man and the earth. Declares Purpose The Monsignor declared that the primary purpose of the Catholic Rural Life Conference, of which he is pres ident, is to take care spiritually of the underprivileged and lo enable them to find economic security through the cultivation of the land. Of the Granger Homestead project, Monsignor Ligutti explained that the farmers there produce most of what is required for their own needs, and dis played, as evidence of their artistic handicraft, a finely woven scarf made1 from the wool of a Granger Project, sheep. Following the Forum, approximately) 200 delegates were guests at a tea in the college tea-room. Former Student Writes Of Christmas in Athens The holidays brought Christmas greet ings from Alumnae members and former students who are now living in foreign countries. From Athens, Greece, Theodora Alexo- paulos, a scientific artist who was at Mundelein in 1932-34, writes of an Hel lenic winter: We are having a delightfully mild winter with glorious sunshiny days. It is flower time now in Athens. The streets arc filled with the flower vendors who lead their flower-laden donkeys along anil cry out their wares. It is really a charming sight. The clean well-cared for patient beasts their backs covered with huge baskets brim ming over with violets, narcissus, huge chrysanthemums, all so beautifully ar ranged. Wc arc living in one of the last rows of houses at the feet of I.ycabelus. All the odor of the pine trees comes in from our dining-room windows and from my balcony I can follow every evening at sunset the exquisite colorings of Mt. Hymetus which change from a pale rose tint to deep purple and dark blue, taking on a new tone every few seconds . . . On the other side I can see the shining waters of the bay. and, when the moon is full as it is tonight, it sinks into them and turns them to silver. Marion Green Tatem '37, a former member of the Student Activities Coun cil, who has been living in the West In dies since her marriage last February, describes a tropical Christmas, entirely different from one in the United States, and Katherine Brcnnan O'Neil '34, for mer president of the senior class, sends word of a Canadian Christmas from her home in Toronto, Ontario. Skyscrapings By LaVonne Hayes A bridge pencil and innumerable little pieces of paper collected many Mundelein wherc-abouts during vaca tion. Let's review the variations of collegiate dancing . . . with Marjorie Thomas at the St. Mary's dance . . . At the Drake with Jane Carney . . . listening to Orrin Tucker with Joan Wiltzius in the Empire Room ... at the Stevens discovering why Jane Fahey rushed back to the city, from Pennsylvania . . dropping in at the Immaculata Alumnae Formal with Rosemary McGinnis and Rita Valen- zano . . . with a weekly check on the Beach to note the dancing attendance of Mary Margaret O'Flaherty and Jean Fraser . . . by peeking in on Rose mary Lanahan and Betty Kreuzer as they clicked their sandals to Jan Gar- ber melodies at the Blackhawk . watching Virginia Cheatam, a Tri Kap pa's lady at that fraternity's dinner dance . . . looking over the shoulders of Peggy Jordan, Marjory Stanley, Jane Armstrong, Jane Dunbar, Mar gery Linnehan, and Anne Marie O'- Rourke as they jotted in their diaries one of the best dances of the year the what is the Notre Dame Chicago Club dance, the where, the Gold Coast Room of the Drake . . . catch ing a glimpse of Mary Marotta at the College Inn . . - hearing the details of the Northwestern Fraternity din ner dance at the Medinah club from Mildred and Eileen Mahoney, and Hel en Russell . . . Alpha Delting with De Paul and Barbara O'Brien in the Medical Arts building . . . previewing Pierson Thai at the Stevens with Lor etta Calnan, Frances Walz, and Mary Muellman, and seeing that trio again at the South Shore Country club, this time with Muriel Donnellan. who counts six formals for the holidays . . . at tending another Pi Alph dance, which was, incidentally, a Mundelein turn out, with Margaret Finnegan, Kathryn Byrne, Lucille Trudeau, Roberta Scheid, Dorothy Fitzgerald, Veronica Gill, and Alice Guest . . . Catherine Wilkins fraternity dancing with Phi Mu Chi. Dining notes: Georgette Thoss din ing formal at the Beach last Saturday . . . Happy Birthday for Alice Reid at a dinner party in the Empire Room . . . Dorothy Foy and Carole Sadler at Margaret Wieland's tea in her Lake Shore Drive apartment where her engagement was announced . . . Betty Vestal and Joan Kaspari at Mary De- Acetis' dinner party in Joliet . . . Mary Louise Shannon and Rita Kloss, host esses of teas, linked the names of Joan Morris, Joan Wiltzius, Donna Lacher, Doris Ruddy, Jane Brown, Rosemary Auer, Mary Lou Bell, Marie Norris, Mary Ellyn O'Brien, and Alice Reid . . . Helen and Mildred Murphy shar ing hostess duties at their dinner parly. Mementoes: Fort Dodge for Frances Geary and Marian Gilbert . . . Jose phine Stanton, Ottawa, III., hostess to Laurentia Powers . . . Pennsylvania for Kay Rheiner and Anne White . . . Sonja Hcnie's grace on ice for Virginia McGurk, Patricia Dunn, Irma Rilling, and Lucille O'Connell ... A bit of Wisconsin for Jeanne Beck and Ruth McCormick . . . Kathryn Dealy and memories of Iowa . . . Mabel Holm- berg viewing the Night of- Stars bene fit at the Stadium from the James G. Petrillo box . . . Peggy Eby's Ala bama visit all for a football game . . . Recommends Qraduate Study in Sociology Stressing the importance and advant age of a master's degree in sociology, the Reverend S. L. Barton, S.J., dean of the Loyola School of Social Service, addressed sociology students in the assembly hall, Jan. 6. Father Barton assured the audience that superior salaries and more con genial positions await the social work er who has an M. A. He also empha sized the value of contacts made through study and association with other graduate students and teachers.
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1939-01-19 (3)
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