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. * . TIHIE,: Slliicl '- gt;. ** - Hit -'-in-Ti'li-i:.).;.;.:.:..J..2j:i jj .-0-*:.-' ' *' , iO ll,'j 3 'r'ifi ' J-i n?flM::n H: .-? lt;; c gt; ; w Volume XI MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 28, 1941 No. 9. Alumnae Penwomen Are Busy During Press, Other Months In line with Catholic Press Month, the Skyscraper presents a bird's-eye-view of Ladies of the Press, graduates who have engaged in writing, either as a career or as an adjunct to a career. Joan Quilty '33 It's SO stories and articles in 50 months for Miss Quilty which gives her an even 100 per cent suc cessful production record, with work ap pearing in Catholic magazines throughout the United States and Canada. Insists Miss Quilty, who gave up teaching after a year to have more time for writing, Life is never dull when two or three of one's manuscripts are always in the keeping of Uncle Sam's post. Yvonne Crowley '38 It's been only a step out of the Mundelein home econo mics department into the foods department of the Chicago Tribune for this gradu ate. Miss Crowley is now assistant to Mary Meade, the foods editor. Edits Textbooks Justine Fecly '34 Co-editor of the cam pus newspaper in her junior and senior years, Miss Feely is now employed in the Catholic promotional department of Scott Foresman Publishing Company editing text books is only a part of her job, says Miss Feely. Joanne Dimmick '38 As a student at Mundelein, Miss Dimmick edited Quest and won verse awards. As a graduate she docs free lancing and feature writing , for America, Commonweal. Spirit, and Rotary International. Magdalene Kessie '35 She's still col lecting royalties on The Summons of Sarikl, given at Mundelein in premiere in 1935. listed in the Federal Writer's Play list, published by the Dramatic Publish ing company, and winner of three play awards. The Man in Command, a re cent collaboration with a fellow-teacher at Klmwood school, is Miss Kcssie's latest, all set we're hoping to follow the high Simmons ok Samel, Writes Publicity Lenore Healy '32 Affiliated with Fer ris and Livingstone Inc.. national organ ization which handles publicity for Coca Cola, Packard Motors, Nicaraguan Gov ernment, the State of Wisconsin, and other groups, Miss Healy writes pub licity copy for New York and Chicago newspapers and for national magazines. In addition, she has written serials and short stories for the Daily News Syndi cate, feature articles for the Chicago Sunday Times, for Writer's Digest, for Allied Feature Syndicate, and for Music Trade Magazine. She's had two radio scripts produced, too. Julia Mary Hanna '40 We're back at school with Miss Hanna. who has the official title of Press Representative at Mundelein College. In in-between time Miss Hanna does graduate work at the Medill School of Journalism of North western university, has written for The Queen's Work, and handled publicity for the Loyola Community Theatre, of which she is the youngest Board Member. Acts in Own Scripts Mary Agnes Tynan Schroeder '35 com bines radio acting and writing as a staff member of the Chicago Radio Council, for which she writes four regular scripts each week, including Pieces of Eight, The Hour of Magic Boots, Your Dental Health, and Chicago Says I Will. Margaret Cleary Anderson '37 is the author of two plays. The Order of the Purple Heart, which was presented here in premiere in 1938, and Jeanne d'Arc, which is included in the Federal Theatre Project's list of plays and among tlie 160 plays of Catholic tradition in Long- (Continued on Page 3, Col. 5) Graduates Tell Of Careers in Forum, March 4 Careers will Ik- the topic of the general assembly on March 4, when Alumnae members who have succeeded in a variety of careers will return to the College and speak of their professions. The assembly will open the college ob servance of Vocation Week. Katherine Brennan O'Xeil '34. Alumnae president, will be chairman of the assembly. First of the career speakers will be Ann Lally '35, art supervisor of a district of 31 Chicago public schools, mural design er, and book illustrator. Mary Agnes Tynan Schroeder '35, staff member of the Chicago Radio Coun cil and author-producer of four weekly radio programs, will talk on careers in writing and radio acting. Ruth Mae Amann '39, private sec retary at the Lake Shore liank. will talk on business careers. Lucille Trudeau '39, who took her Mas ter of Science degree at Loyola and who is now teaching chemistry at Mundelein, will talk on careers in science and teach ing. Sue Adams '38. nutritionist for the Chi cago Relief administration, will lecture on careers in home economics; Mary Louise Sayre 39, who teaches piano, plays the organ at St. Anthony's church, and (Continued on Page 3. Col. 4) Calling All Artists Here's your chance All you have to do is draw a design for the cover of the program for the annual S.A.C. card party. For this artistic adventure yon will have your name printed in the booklet, and the S.A.C. will award you a prize. March 17 is the deadline for the contest. Rules to be followed will be published on the S.A.C. bulletin board. Debaters Meet Winona Today Have Forum With De Paul On March 4 At 4 o'clock today, Patricia Hoffman and Rosemary Shanahan will meet a team from St. Mary's college. Winona, Minnesota, on the negative side of the Pi Kappa Delta question. Resolved: That the Nations of the Western Hem isphere Should Form a Permanent Union. The Pan-American alliance will be the subject again when Mundelein debaters join De Paul university speakers in a roundtable discussion, on March 4. Opposing a visiting team from the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. Flsie Cramer and Rosemary Roney will uphold the negative side of the Pi Kappa Delta question, on March 17. Faculty Member Tells Of Creative Art Work News of Mundelein's recovery from an epidemic of linoleum block printed Christmas cards reached the vocational world, as covered by the January Journal ok the Illinois Vocational Association, in an article written by Sis ter Mary Carmelyn, B.V.M., of the art department. In one studio alone, reports Sister Mary Carmelyn, about 2.500 cards were block printed. The designs, as with all work in the department, were original, and varied in subject matter from strict ly ecclesiastical models and angelic cherubs to one lone Scottie. In her article, Sister Mary Carmelyn explains the aim of the art department in its selection and arrangement of art courses as the furtherance of the gen eral aims of the College, to develop the individual for the accomplishments of his life work here and for the attain ments of his eternal destiny. Rehearse for March 9 Concert When the College Orchestra appears in its annual concert Sunday evening, March 9, at 8:15 p.m., these two senior music majors, June Kash (left) and Frances Piskozub, will be seen in the first violin section. Noted Mediaeval Academy Member Lectures, March 6 The president of the Pontifical Insti tute of Toronto, Canada, the Reverend Gerald B. Phelan, Ph.D., LL.D., will address the Faculty, the students, and their guests on March 6, on The Contem porary Alternative, which will be a com parison of the philosophy of Aristotle and St. Thomas with the philosophy of Kant. Just this month, Dr. Phelan was sig nally honored in being named one of the 50 Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America, of which he is a member. Dr. Phelan, a translator of St. Thomas' On the Governance of Princes, is the first president of the Institute of Me diaeval Studies, founded in 1929 by the Basilian Fathers at St. Michael's, one of the corporate colleges of the Univer sity of Toronto. Dr. Phelan joined St. Michael's staff in 1925 and assisted in the development of mediaeval studies in the college. Courses at the Institute, which cover all the civili zation and culture of the Middle Ages, include theology, philosophy, canon law, history, Latin and vernacular literatures, archeology, and paleography. Since his appearance here last March. Dr. Phelan has addressed many leading groups of philosophers, scientists, and theologians both in the States and in Canada. He was one of the leading speakers last October at the celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the Jesuits. The Reverend John F. McCormick. S.J., head of the philosophy department at Loyola, will introduce the speaker. Mu Nu Sigma Banquet To Be at Lake Shore Fvelyn Templeman, president ot Mu Nu Sigma, has announced that the Lake Shore Qui). 850 Lake Shore Drive, will be the scene of the club's annual banquet, to be held on March 6. lane Spalding '38, who has done graduate work in philosophy at Loyola university, will be toastmistress. Guest speakers will be the Reverend Gerald H. Phelan. Ph.D.. LL.D.. presi dent of the Pontifical Institute of Mediae val Studies, Toronto, anil the Reverend John J. Clifford. S.J.. professor of moral theology at St. Mary-of-thc-Lake semi nary. OrchestraPlays Beethoven, Bach On Concert Stage Eleventh Annual Concert Will Be Given Sunday, March 9 Explains Fall of French Republic Dr. Yves Simon, professor of econo mics and philosophy at the I'niversity of Notre Dame, explained the fall of the French Republic to members of the In ternational Relations club, on Feb. 18, according to sociological factors of uni versal significance, that made the fall of France a universal tragedy. Before France was defeated on the battlefield, she was already defeated from within, maintained Professor Simon, en larging the popular connotation of the word traitor by explaining the particular situation that was responsible for the fall f France. There was only a small handful of men who betrayed Fiance for petty gain, said Dr. Simon. A larger group, by far, were the men. who. believing themselves patriotic, betrayed her for ideological rea sons, swept, as were the common people, by a fluid and inconspicuous propa ganda that succeeded because of its uniquely simple psychological attack. For the eleventh consecutive year, the College Orchestra will appear in an nual concert, for the first time under the baton of Joseph J. Grill, who will con duct a March 9 program that sweeps from a seventeenth century Bach to a twentieth century Victor Herbert, taking up in passing the whirling dance strains of Sinetana's Bartered Bride and the three-four beats of Tchaikowsky's Waltz hi the l- Ii gt;wcrs. lt; Ipening the program, the Orchestra will play the epoch-making composition that definitely closed the rococo age of Haydn and Mozart with a dominant seventh chord Beethoven's First Sym phony. Composed during the years 1799- 1800. the symphony was first performed in a Vienna just turned nineteenth cen tury, with Beethoven himself conduct ing. The Orchestra continues with the Conductor's arrangement of Bach's Adagio from Sonata in G Minor. Play Tschaikowsky As a mid-program departure into the lighter vein, the Orchestra presents the Waltz of the Flowers from Tchaikow sky's well-loved, melody-caught dream, The Nutcracker Suite. The three dances from the Smetana opera. The Bartered Bride, are Polka. Furiant, and Dance of the Comedians. Concluding Orchestra selections are Beethoven's Largo from Sonata No. 4 opus 7; Westminister from Coates' London Suite, and the stirring American Fantasie of Victor Herbert. The program lists one guest and three college soloists. Florence Lambert, pop ular artist of the Chicago Civic Orches tra, will play a harp solo by Zabel, La Source. Gives Cornet Solo Yvonne Pelletier, the first of Munde lein soloists appearing on the March con cert, will give a cornet solo by Clarke, Stars in a Velvety Sky. Albina Gher ardi. violinist, plays a Kreisler arrange ment of Rimsky-Korsakov's Hymn to the Sun. and Francis Piskozub, violinist, Wieriawski's Polonaise, opus 21. The Mundelein String Trio, which was organized this year, will play Mendel ssohn's 'hi Wings of Song. Frances Piskozub is violinist; Dorothy Ann Grill, cellist: and Florence Lambert, guest ar tist, harpist. Daily News Editor Announces Contest Tree to the tenets of his trade, John Patrick Lally. fiction editor of the Chi cago Daily News and manager of one of the largest fiction syndicates in the United States, wound up his lecture, Ca reers in Writing, on Feb. 18, in grand style by announcing that he would spon sor a short story contest for Mundelein students. Mr. Lally will award a cash prize of S25 for the best short story submitted, which will also be published in the Daily News at a later date. The prize for the second best story is 15 and publication. To simplify the process of elimination, the five best stories will be selected by members of the Faculty, and then sent on to Mr. Lally. who will be the final judge. The deadline is March 19. In his lecture Mr. Lally touched on the principles of commercial short story writ ing, emphasizing the necessity of analyz ing the particular markets for stories.
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