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THE SKYSCRAPER April 16, 1934 Greek Mythology Inspires Theme of Water Pageant As sure a sign of spring as robins and crocuses is the announcement of the spring water pageant presented annually by the Terrapin club. Of late there have come rumors of the theme, indicating that this year's pageant is to be based upon Greek mythology. The carnival is always a splendid ex hibition of aquatic skill with tandems, formations, and diving, novel lighting ef fects, unusual costumes, and appropriate music. In this, their fourth presentation, the Terrapins plan to surpass all previous efforts. Pauline Duzeski, senior Terrapin and charter member of the club, is general chairman. Her committees are as fol lows : Properties: co-chairmen, Ruth Wright and Gertrude Rafferty, assisted by Ruth Mary Gorman, Beatrice Marshall, and Marguerite Collins. Costumes: co-chairmen, Irene Lavin and Mae Sexton, with Helen Bulchunis, Clementina Paloney, Rosemary McVey, and Marion Sifferman. Publicity: chairman, Margaret Vend- ley, assisted iby Roberta Christie, Marian Ryan, Lucille Barrett, and Rosamond Carney. Lights: chairman, Jeanne Ryan; Elea nor Hopkins, Mary Finnegan, and Mary Louise Berryhill assistants. Music: chairman, Catherine Lindley, assisted by Mary Touhy and Estelle Wingler. Tickets and programs: chairman, Jean O'Connor; assistants Ellabelle and Mar garet Michaels, Loretta Brady, and Grace Allen. Athletes Win Honors In Parish Basketball Once more Mundelein students have gone places in the Catholic Youth Basket ball tourney. In the St. Ignatius section, the contest between St. Margaret Mary's, with whom Marion Sifferman plays, and St. Ignatius', with Loretta Brady, ended in a tie. However, in the playoff, St. Ignatius' came out on top. In the first game of the final play, St. Ignatius' lost. St. Margaret Mary's fared better, battling to the quarter finals where they were stopped. In the same sections St. Gertrude's, with Marion Weber, and St. Gregory's, aided by Frances Sturm, tied for third place, and St. Jerome's, boasting Jane Flick among its members, finished in fourth place. Beroadette Gannon plays with St. Charles' team, which finished second in the west central section. They lost to Help of Christians' in the first round of the finals. Blessed Sacrament's team in the same section claims Mary Lyon, Rita Casey, Marjorie Carroll, and Marie Lysaght. Blessed Sacrament's finished in fifth place with seven victories and as many defeats. Helen Daly and Mary Jane Tully are the mainstays of the St. Columban's sen ior team, which finished fourth in the south section. Alice O'Brien, who with Frances Sturm and Marion Weber played on the Munde lein freshman team, plays with Our Lady of Mercy's team, which placed in its sec tion. Delia Strada Lecturers Portray Maryland History A lecture on the Maryland Tercen tenary, with slides depicting the found ing of the Catholic colony by Lord Balti more, was given in the lecture room on April 6 by two members of the Delia Strada Lecture Bureau of Loyola uni versity. The clear and beautifully colored mas terpieces added interest to the lecture as did the many authentic photographs. Maryland history from its beginnings to the present day was outlined, and espe cially informative was the account of the conversion of the Indians. The history of civilization classes and the history majors attended the lecture. BASEBALL SEASON AGAIN IN EVIDENCE ON CAMPUS Baseball returns to Wrigley Field and Mundelein College alike. The class tour nament will be arranged shortly. Take due warning, upperclassmen. The freshmen are practicing diligently, and with three sport crowns resting serenely on their youthful brows, it is time we stopped them. Practice times can be arranged with Miss Scanlon. Come on Batter up The first annual indoor tennis tour nament will be held soon. Those de siring to participate are asked to register in the gymnasium office as soon as pos sible. Pairings will then be made, and it will rest with the individual contestants to ar range the meeting time. There is a pos sibility of a doubles tournament also if the demand be great enough. Points toward their class score will be awarded the winners, besides points in W.A.A. Debaters Have Forum The Debating club held an open forum discussion on the question of extracur ricular activities in the regular meeting on April 11. Katherine Brennan, presi dent of the club, led the discussioa W.A.A. Hunts Roller Skates It's a Party Are you coming to the W. A. A. roller skating party on the fourth floor porch Wednesday? Of course you are and we're going to have plenty of fun even if you do tumble occasionally. The W. A. A. is sponsoring the party, but everyone may come. There will be refreshments, games, and prizes. Three o'clock, and don't for get your skates College Card Party Features Style Show (Continued from page 1, col. 3) ginia Schmidt, and Margaret Webb. Modeling the bridal costume will be Marion Ryan, and acting as bridesmaids and flower-girls Mary Catherine Schmel- zer, Jeanette Griffin, Geraldine Gardiner, and Anna Mary Mann. Emilie Barron and Rita Eppig will dis play furs, while the following will model the other garments: Adelaide Brost, Morel Farmer, Elizabeth Gorman, Cor- rine Murnigham, Mary Nicholson, Mary Elizabeth Ronan, Sally Agnes Smith, Virginia Sweeney, and Frances Woods. After the style show, numerous door prizes will be given. The player in the individual party who has the highest score will receive a table prize. Plan for Next Ciscora Meeting at St. Charles At the last Sodality meeting an an nouncement was made of the next Cis cora meeting which will be held at Mount St. Mary's, St. Charles, 111., on May 10, and arrangements are now un der way to have a representative group present. Fifty sodalists were received into the Handmaids of the Blessed Sacrament at the general Sodality meeting on April 11. Promising to receive Holy Communion once a week, to attend Benediction fre quently, and to make a daily visit to the Blessed Sacrament, they pledged them selves to be faithful handmaids of our Lord and His Blessed Mother. In connection with the Summer School of Catholic Action, Katherine Brennan, chairman of the Catholic Social Action committee, outlined a report for the next meeting. Plans for attending the College Sodality were made, and volunteers of fered to serve on the various committees. The Skyscraper extends the sym pathy of the Faculty and students to Miss Mary Oona Marquardt, instructor in mathematics, on the death of her father. Freshmen Debate Finals to be Held Friday, April 20 Semi-finals for the freshman debate contest will be held at 11 o'clock on Fri day, April 20, in the auditorium and the lecture room. Agnes Grogan, Mary Rose Brown, and Margaret Geary of Team B will defend the negative of the child labor question against Ann Pazemis, Mary Herlihy, and Margaret Vendley of Team F. Gertrude Rafferty, Ruth Quirk, and Mary Catherine Rose of Team E will likewise defend the negative and will op pose Mary Houlihan, Helen Sheehan, and Rita Tatge of Team C. The decisions will be given by critic judges, according to a statement given out by William H. Conley, M. A., coach of debate, and the winners will go into the finals next week. Faculty Member Dies After Long Illness (Continued from page 1, col. 5) In her graduate work at the Univer sity of Notre Dame, Sister did intensive study in the Old and Middle periods of English literature, and in the summer of 1931 she was a member of the faculty at the University. Sister Mary Angelita was an inspiring teacher, and a wise and sympathetic friend and counselor. Her office on the fifth floor was always open to all who sought expression for their own ideals and dreams, and one of her greatest joys was developing in others the creative gifts which she herself possessed in high de gree. Sister Mary Angelita, who has been a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M., for 36 years, has one Sister in the Community, Sister Mary Charlotte, B.V.M. WILLA CATHER SENDS NOTE OP SYMPATHY Among the many messages of sympathy sent to the College by friends of Sister Mary Angelita was one from Willa Cather, which reads as follows: May I offer my deepest sympathy to the faculty and students of Mundelein College for the loss they sustain in the death of Sister Mary Angelita? Sincerely, Willa Cather. New York, April 5th, 1934. Nobel Prize Winner Lectures on Chemistry A demonstration of the reactions of acids upon various oil films over water was made by Dr. Irving Langmuir in a vitaphone picture shown to the students on April 11. Dr. Langmuir, who worked for ten years perfecting his tlieory and won the Nobel prize in science for his achieve ments, first sprinkled powder upon water, rendering the water currents visible, and then put various acids into the water, showing their effect upon the currents and oil films. Members of the chemistry classes and of other science groups attended. Attend Oratorical Contest Katherine Brennan, president of the Debating club, Ruth Tangney, Jane Spalding, Mary Margaret Morrissey, and Jane Malloy were among the Mundelein students who attended the Harrison Ora torical Contest at Loyola on April 5. Thomas E. Byrnes, first speaker on the Mundelein-Loyola philosophy program of March 7, took first place with a speech on Freedom of the Press. William L. Lamey took second place, and John A. Miller took third. The Reverend Daniel A. Lord S.J., won the contest in 1907, and William H. Conley, Mundelein coach of debate, won it in 1928. INTRICACIES OF FROSTING EXPLAINED BY DIETITIAN A gracious introduction to the delights of frosted foods was given to the foods class of the home economics department on April 6 by Mrs. Burke, dietitian of Maguer, Winslow Co., distributors of Bird's Eye frosted foods. Fat green peas, golden ears of corn, luscious sliced strawberries, and other garden products which would have seemed to be freshly picked but for their frigidity were displayed, cooked, and sampled by the students while Mrs. Burke explained the process of their preparation. The inspiration for the method came from the Arctic where fish frozen into solidity retain enough life and vigor to swim off merrily when their icy prison thaws. Years of experimentation perfected a process similar to this natural freezing which now enables one to serve, regard less of season, almost any fruit or vege table desired, in the same state of flavor, color, and vitamine content in which it was picked. And, incidentally, the cook is relieved of the problem of waste, clean ing, and sanitation. The natural appeal of this information was heightened by Mrs. Burke's deft presentation. Her final sketch of the numerous opportunities for dietitians in the field of research work in quick freez ing sounded a note of welcome invitation to her audience. Miss Kersting Is Qlee Club Soloist (Continued from page 1, eol. 5) arts essential to an opera singer. Al though Madame Calve aided as much as possible, the Kersting savings dwindled, and at this point when her career was in danger, the Wichita Rotarians came to the rescue, and they have been financing her education ever since. In 1928, the young prodigy made her operatic debut in Milan, singing the role of Marguerite in Faust. Italian critics, usually cool to foreign artists,' were fa vorably impressed, and the press notices were cordial/ Later she sang in La Bo- heme, II Pagliacci, and Manon, before going home to appear in a concert in Wichita. Her Chicago debut was with the Chicago Civic Opera company in Beethoven's Fidelio, and here, also, the press notices were favorable. In 1931, Miss Kersting was the only American prima donna in the Wagner festival at Bayreuth, Germany. There she sang in Die Walkure under Karl El- mendorf, and in Parsifal under the great Arturo Toscanini. This year she has been filling a 32- week engagament at the Stadttheater Opera in Teplitz-Schoneau, Czechoslova kia, and after singing at Mundelein will leave for other American engagements. SKYSCRAPINGS Freshmen Are Hostesses To High School Seniors Four hundred and sixty-three seniors from forty-five high schools in and about Chicago took the scholarship examinations at the College on April 14. Thirty members of the freshman class acted as hostesses to the visitors, escort ing them through the building after the test, to lunch in the cafeteria, and to a musical program and a performance of The Princess With the Shiny Nose given in the auditorium in the afternoon. They also took their guests to a gymnasium demonstration and a brief swimming ex hibit. Freshman hostesses were: Catherine Schoen, Mae Sexton, Mary Geiger, Ei leen Stigall, Helen Loehr, Bernice Wal ters, Marion Greene, Wilma Roberts, An- narose Schofield, Ruth Mary Gorman, Helen O'Hara, Coletta Nagel, Mary Catherine McCarthy, Rita Cagney, Lae- titia Kalisz, Margaret Fitzgerald, Mar garet Michael, Ellabelle Michael, Mary Frances Malone, Irene Menarek, Cather ine Wolford, Eileen Carroll, Emily Paska, Anne Pazemis, Frances Sturm, Eileen Madden, Mary Margaret Smith, Florence O'Malley, Eileen Roche, Aileen Clark, and Catherine Finnegan. In the absence of Ann. Lally, our gift ed feature editor, who usually picks up these delightful bits of gossip for your enjoyment, a new scribe has nobly volun teered to take over this column. She hopes it will be temporary. Miss Lally is convalescing from a bout with pneu monia germs and hopes to be back soon. Among the very fortunate people who escaped the inclemency of Chicago's Eas ter weather this year were Margery Meyer, a proud '' week-ender'' in Peo ria, 111.; and Jean Fowler who spent Easter Sunday in La Crosse, Wis. Jean emphatically avers that La Crosse was the ondy town within a radious of one hundred miles that was untouched by even a single watery drop from the heavens. Celebrating the close of Lent, Ger trude Scanlan, Jeanne Ryan, Mary Tracy, and a group of other Mundelein girls danced gayly at the Black Friars Dance in their Spring finery during vaca tion. Virginia Tompkins just about made her first early morning class last Tues day morning when she returned from Kentucky, where she spent an exciting vacation. Lucille Barrett is directing a play with the distinctive title Assorted Nuts, for the Irving Park Catholic juniors to be given at St. Viator's auditorium on April 29. Margaret Wenigman presided as Queen Cole and Lucille Barrett was the Jester at a Story Book Review for the Irving Park Catholic juniors recently. Members of the secretarial class of '33 are distinguishing themselves these days. Catherine Finger has become secretary to the Mayor of Niles Center, while Lucille Shrader has accepted a sec retaryship at the Cicero airport. And speaking of positions, Mary Lyon, a library science major, is proudly tell ing all her friends of the one she has se cured. It seems that she will work for several hours each day at the Loyola li brary Congratulations, Mary It has been a hard task indeed for those two genial seniors Fuller O'Malley and Virginia Meis, to concentrate on the quarterly exams. The girls have been too excited over their coming jaunt down to Illinois university for the first spring formal to do full justice to aforemen tioned tests. Spring fever and the exams descended on Mundelein all at once. Teachers and students alike shared in the general feel ing of misery. The Reverend Donald Carroll, brother of Marjorie Carroll, sophomore, said his first Solemn High Mass on Sunday morning, April 8, and Mundelein College was well represented. Two members of the Faculty attended as well as Rita Casey, Mary Lyon, Evelyn Lincoln, Ma rie Lysaght, and Genevieve DelBecarro. Mundelein freshmen forgot their newly acquired college dignity on Easter Sunday and revived the days of their childhood at a reunion of the St. Gertrude's class of '29. Those who attended were Beryl Klein, Sheila Sullivan, Betty Neil, pres ident of the class, Lorraine Horn, Anna McCracken, Kathleen Tevnan, and Mar ion Weber Janice Queen and a group of friends terminated their vacation by spending a gala evening at the Edgewater Beach last Monday. Frequent letters postmarked London, England, have found their way to Margaret Vendley, Gladys Henry, An- narose Schofield, Ruth Kees, Rowena Houlihan and Ruth Quirk, these spring days. Their former classmate, Edythe Will iams, who recently accompanied her family to London, is an enthusiastic let ter writer, and the result is vivid de scriptions of the King, the Queen, the Prince of Wales, and all the historic places in and around London. Edythe writes that the Queen is much nicer than her pictures, but that her hats are rather unusual. Edythe also declares, with pardonable pride, that members of the Catholic Evi dence Guild are among the daily speakers at the Hyde Park sessions.
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