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THE SKYSCRAPER Terrapin Clubs Give First Test Fo r Mem bersh ip BULLETIN Last minute news from the pool brings us the results of the Terrapin tryouts. The only swimmer to pass the senior test was Catherine Lindley. Those who succeeded in the Junior test were Roberta Christie, Mary Fin negan, Margaret Michael, and Eliabelle Michael. By Irene Lavin Splash The swimmers are at it again We are proud to introduce to the new comers the Terrapin club and its sub sidiary organization, the Terrapin juniors. In order to become a member of the Terrapin club a swimmer must first meet the requirements of the Junior club List Tryout Requirements Tryouts for both organizations will be held this week. The time of tryouts is posted on the bulletin board and every one who so desires is invited to come. The requirements of each organization are now posted on the bulletin board in the pool locker room. Prospective mem bers may practice for the tests during the open hours. The Terrapin clubs boast a large and active membership, and all have many memories of happy times spent in the pool and at various parties and activities of the organizations. Classes to Vie for Cup The Terrapins promote the interclass swimming meet and a large, attractive sil ver cup is presented to the winners. The present junior class won the meet last year, and will have its name inscribed on the cup. Will you help your class to win the cup this year? The fame of the Terrapin Water Car nival, which is presented each spring, has traveled far and wide. These activities make Terrapin club one of the most in teresting in the school. We anticipate a large increase in membership this year. When choosing your clubs, give the Ter rapins serious consideration FAMILY LIFE UNIT OF N. C. W. C. MEETS HERE The initial meeting of the Catholic Family Life Conference, affiliated with the National Catholic Welfare Council, was held at Mundelein College on Sept. 4. Miriam R. Rooney, Ph. D., of the sociology department, addressed the group, speaking on Adult Education and the Family. The Conference was conducted by the Reverend Edgar Schmiedler, O. S. B., Ph. D. Among the objectives outlined for the group were the encouragement of unit)', sanctity, and happiness in family life; the establishment of courses in family life in high schools and colleges; and the establishment of parent study groups through parish organizations and women's clubs. According to Dr. Rooney, the Con ference will meet hereafter annually on Jan. 8, the feast of the Holy Family, and meetings will be open to anyone who cares to attend, teachers, students, and parents, being especially invited. W. A. A. MAPS YEAR OF FUN AND SPORTS Children's Theatre Opens With Enrollment of Fifty The Children's Theatre began its sec ond season on Sept. 16, with an enroll ment of SO children ranging in age from 6 to 14 years, an increase of more than 50 percent over last year's enrollment. To care for the larger number of stu dents, additional classes have been formed and five new directors have been added to the teaching staff. The drama classes, which meet on Sat urday mornings at 9 and 10 o'clock, are directed by Geraldine Gardiner, Pene lope Haloulos, Frances Burke, Ruth Hazle, Sallie Agnes Smith, and Virginia Sweeney. Miss Ruth Joan Finnegan, assisted by Dorothy White, conducts classes in tap, ballet, and toe-dancing, likewise on Saturday mornings. Do you like to play soccer, basketball, and baseball even though you are not an expert player? Have you a secret desire to experiment upon the apparatus in die gymnasium, but a fear of going in be cause you feel that you are not good enough? Are you eager to go horseback riding ? Or is it dancing that you would enjoy if you knew that pleasure and not perfection was the aim of the dancers? If any of these desires is yours, and if it is whole-hearted / you are looking for this year, the W. A. A. is the place for you List Extra-Curricular Hours The schedule of the Women's Athletic Association this year provides for hours of sports, apparatus work, and dancing apart from the actual gymnasium routine which, by the way, will include a little bit of everything. Each of these extra-curricular hours of sports, dancing, and apparatus work will be in charge of a student manager who, with the aid of Miss Elaine Scanlon, in structor, will see that everyone who at tends derives pleasure as well as pro fit from the activity. Miss Scanlon, who has been newly ap pointed director of physical education at Mundelein to take the place of Miss Bea trice Marshall, the former director, is anxious that everyone hi the college ex perience the splendid feeling of good- fellowship and well-being that can be se cured by taking part in some of the ac tivities sponsored by the W. A. A. Committee To Reorganize Constitution A committee composed of Evelyn Lin coln, president of the club, Marion Siffer man, and Evelyn McGowan has volun teered to reorganize the constitution of the W. A. A. Points in the W. A. A. are merited by attendance at gymnasium classes, and by playing on any of the teams in the vari ous tournaments that the organization sponsors. Managers already appointed to take charge of the following activities are: soccer, Evelyn McGowan; apparatus, Margaret McKeon; dancing, Rita Pat terson ; basketball, Irene Lavin and Mary Lyon; and volley ball, Marion Sifferman. Royal Economics Group Honors Father Goodwin (Continued from page 1, Col. 1) its membership, is fifteen years old, and, although it is purely honorary in char acter, it exerts wide influence in economic circles. Father Goodwin, who has been a mem ber of the Mundelein College faculty since 1930, and who is at present con ducting a course in international political parties, is a Fellow of John Hopkins University, one of two Catholic priests in the United States who have that distinction. Geology Museum Includes 1000 New Specimens Minerals from Mt. Etna and Poland and Derbyshire, England, and all parts of the world, metals from Sweden and Saxony, dainty corals from Singapore, marine algae from the Mediterranean, fossils from every geological period all these and many hundreds of other speci mens are on display in the six large cases near the geology laboratories on sixth floor. The collection, which is the gift of the Immaculate Conception Academy, Daven port, Iowa, was started early in the nineteenth century, and a fairly extensive catalogue of it was published in 1884. Aside from the great scientific value of such a collection, it has an aesthetic value in that many of the minerals, com pounds, and corals are beautiful both in color and in form. Specimens Are Being Classified Carl A. Lamey, Ph. D., of the depart ment of geology and geography of North western University, is relabeling and clas sifying the collection which will be ready for study by the opening of the second semester. A collection of extraordinary minerals from Wichita, Kansas, and one from Pasadena, California were received at the College recently. These are likewise on display in the laboratories. Home Economics Students Attend Summer Conference A new deal in home economics was inaugurated at the 26th annual confer ence of the American Home Economics Association in Milwaukee, June 26-30. Representatives from Columbia Uni versity, the University of Chicago, the Home Economics Service of Washington, D. C, Clarke College, Dubuque, and Mundelein College, and approximately two thousand other interested persons gathered to discuss the problem of mak ing the new deal do its part in promoting happiness in American home and family life. The home economists discussed not only the methods for promoting the phy sical welfare of the American people, but considered means for advancing the spiritual welfare of the nation as well, realizing that spiritual regeneration is a distinct need and that it can come only through the cooperation of the family unit. Two faculty members from Mundelein, and the following members of Alpha Omicron attended the conference: Ade laide Brost, Katherine Flood, Morel Farmer, Frances Rockleman, Mary Elizabeth Ronan, and Margaret Webb. DEBATE CONFERENCE ANNOUNCES QUESTIONS Questions open to debate during the next forensic season, as determined by the Midwest Debate conference held at Auditorium hall, Sept. 23, will be as fol lows: for men, Resolved: That the powers of the President of the United States should be substantially increased as a settled policy; for women, Resolved: That the federal government should give assistance for public elementary and sec ondary education. Miss Katherine Brennan, president of the debating club and Mundelein repre sentative at the conference, reported that the following colleges and universities sent delegates: Michigan State, Illinois, Loyola, Rosary, Monmouth, Wheaton, Colleges of Detroit. Northern Illinois State Teachers' College, Knox, Olivet, and North Central College of Naperville. FIFTY ATTEND FIRST DEBATE Fifty students were present at the first meeting of the Debating club on Sept. 27, at which Katherine Brennan, Betty Fra- ser, Ruth Tangney, and Mary Agnes Ty nan debated the question: Resolved: That centralization of power as exemplified by the N. R. A. is to be deplored. Miss Tynan and Miss Tangney, uphold ing the negative, received the majority of votes in an audience decision. Jane Spalding, Margaret Nolan, Mar garet Cleary, and Mary Geiger debated the Conference question for men at the meeting on Oct. 4. Debates are held each Wednesday at 12:10 in room 507. All the students are invited to attend. Organ-Cornet Concert Opens Recital Series SKYSCRAPINGS Professor Walter Flandorf, organist, and Maude Deist Beringer, solo cornet- ist, presented the first concert of the lec ture-recital series on Wed., Sept. 20, and created a precedent in excellence for sub sequent concerts. Among the more beautiful selections were the Hymn to the Sun by Rimsky- Korsakov, Chopin's Polonaise in A Major, and the final number, Johann Strauss' Waltzes on the Beautiful Blue Danube. Mundelein Alumnae President Meets Balbo By The Spectator After the Navy planes had formed a beautiful ITALY over the Lake on the day the Italian fliers came, Balbo's squadron landed at the Navy Pier where the Italian consul, Governor Horner, Mayor Kelly, and other officials were assembled. Proceeding in a launch to the Fair Grounds, they were welcomed in front of the Hall of Science by the Rlack Shirts and the Foreign Legion, resplendent in uniforms. Behind this glamorous line, the children of the Black Shirts, sombre in black blouses, ties, and hats, were waiting. And behind the lines of chil dren was Miss Vera Carson, president of the class of '32, representing Mun delein College. A letter to the Italian consul, Giuseppe Castruccio, had taken her safely past the policemen who had been on guard since noon, and from 5.45 until 9:15 p. m. she waited. The Black Shirts had linked arms to keep the line, but when the cavalry on black horses a thrilling sight came by, and the dignitaries with Balbo, there was a general surge forward, accompanied by waving and shouting in Italian, which almost brought destruction to Miss Car son and her gifts, a silk American flag and a basket of roses. Two gallant Black Shirts, however, still waving and shouting, managed to extend to her what protection and support they could. It would have seemed funny, Vera declared, had she not been so worried about the flowers and the flag. In the midst of the tumult, Vera made her volunteer guard understand that she must give her offerings to Balbo. It was enough they would see that she did. Confident, but wondering, she waited. The shouting increased as the Gen eral's car approached, and the swaying crowd moved forward. With it moved Vera, piloted by the Black Shirts. The car door closed and Vera's heart sank, but her guards were not to be gainsaid. Stepping briskly forward, they raised their right hands. The car door opened, and Vera presented her gifts. General Balbo smiled a most beautiful smile and indicated by the gentle courtesy of his attention that the only things in the world of immediate impor tance at that moment were Miss Carson, her flowers, and her flag. Answering the general's question as to who she was and where she came from, she was impressed by his simple grati tude and warm, Italian eagerness. Gen eral Balbo smiled again and thanked her for the only flowers and the only flag in his car. The hand that came down on her shoulder as she turned away from the car was ominously suggestive of the law, but Vera was strangely indifferent even to the law at that moment. The press, howeyer, had superceded the law. Who are you, asked the reporter, and how did you ever get up here? I am Vera Carson, she replied, rep resenting Mundelein College. And how did you say you got up here? I didn't say, Vera replied, because well, that's my secret. A camera clicked a few feet away, and Vera's adventure was over. Catching up the loose ends after the summer vacation is quite a job for any one, let alone for an absent-minded scribe. Threads of knowledge and of news are tangled up in a woolly ball, and as this is as good a place as any to straighten out the tangle, we shall give you the news and let the sterner bits of knowledge find their way to our notebooks, and thence; we hope, to our brains. At the Century of Progress Exposition, which has become the all-absorbing pas time of Chicagoland during the current summer, we not only met a galaxy of Mundelein students touring the grounds, but we saw quite a number of them work ing in the various exhibits. Virginia Meis, one of our contemperaries, and Dorothy Weldon, who graduated last year with a major in voice, exercised their vocal chords in the Firestone build ing, telling the stirring tale of the life of* a spark plug. Later, we met Helen Ryan in one of the concessions display ing novelty jewelry. At the Loyola uni versity exhibit, whom should we find but Margaret Scannel, who took her pre- medic course at Mundelein, and who is now firmly established in the Loyola Medical school. We suppose you saw the stunning photo graph of Margaret Roche in the society page of a local newspaper re cently. Miss Roche's engagement to Richard Vincent McNellis, Jr., was an nounced. Since she was the first editor- in-chief of The Skyscraper, we are es pecially interested in extending our con gratulations and best wishes. Feeling very out-of-place in wilted summer things as the first days of Sep tember came around, we sauntered down to the dress department of one of the loop stores. Mary Nicholson, a senior drama student and a Laetare Player of course, was one of the shop's college girl sponsors of fashion. She looked so collegiate, and soigne in the clothes, that we seemed to want one of everything, and consequently had a terrible battle with our conscience over the relative elasticity of a fall budget. Evelyn Lincoln is thinking of hav ing a trophy room all for herself. Miss Lincoln recently won second place in the doubles and third place in the sin gles of the Lincoln Park Tennis Tourna ment. She was also runner-up in the River Park singles tournament. We wonder if you noticed the two freshmen unconcernedly ensconced at the faculty table in the cafeteria the other day? Joan Limburg, sophomore art student, entered a radio contest for illustrations for Alice in Wonderland, this summer, and one of her sketches is now on display at the World's Fair. Miss Limburg received honorable men tion in a cartoon contest sponsored by The Queen's Work last year. Penelope Haloulos, senior drama stu dent and president of the Laetare Play ers, will give a program of songs, dances, and readings before the members of the Wilmette Catholic Women's club on Oct. 11. Miss Haloulos has sung over the radio a number of times. Lady of the Evening, a drama in one act, written by Ruth Hazle and Frances Burke, was given on the air over station WMAQ, on Sept 7. Miss Burke, Miss Hazle, Kathryn Ann Walsh, Marian Bertrand, Dorothy White, and Penelope Haloulos were members of the cast. Faculty Enlarged; New Courses Added (Continued from page 1, Col. 4) college is teaching English; Miss Mary Marquardt, of the University of Illinois, is teaching mathematics, and Miss Made leine Schlitzer, Syracuse University, is an instructor in the art department.
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