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. ' * IMF ' iflli-lfk, : .. -v -- *-'' Volume IX MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 31, 1939 No. 13 Classes Choose Officers, S.A.C. Representatives Marguerite McNulty, Dorothy Homan, Margery Stanley Lead Picture on Page 4) Marguerite McNulty was elected president of the incoming senior class at a meeting on May Id; Dorothy Hu man was elected junior president, and Margery Stanley was reelected sopho more president. Miss McNulty has been a class offi cer since her freshman year; Miss Human was sophomore representative on the Student Activities Council this year, and Miss Stanley was freshman class president. Helen Russell will be senior vice- president : Genevieve McGratb will be secretary. Georgene McGowan, treas urer, and Betty Kreuzer will be social chairman. Gertrude Sweeney was reelected ser geant-at-arms for the seniors, and Helen Conlon and Louise French were elected senior representatives on the Student Activities Council. Eileen Mahoney was elected junior vice-president; Peggy Meade, secretary, and Ellen Jane Fitzgibbon, treasurer. Marjorie Carlos was chosen junior social chairman; Mildred Mahoney is sergeant-at-arms, and Council represen tatives are Mary Margaret O'Flaherty and Mary Caroline Bemis. Myma Lamont will be sophomore vice president: Rila Valenzano, secretary; La vinia Cole, treasurer; Muriel Kelly, so cial chairman: Helen McGuire, sergeant- at-arms. Anne Marie O'Rourke and Peggy Tobin will represent the sopho mores on the Council. Alumnae, Seniors Exhibit Work in New Art Qallery Eight pictures, original work of the senior art majors of 1938 and 1939. form the nucleus of the north wing sec tion of the permanent art galleries. opened this month. Nineteen-thirty-eight contributors are Maurita Kelly, Lillian Krez. Dorothy Kullman. Grace Igleski, and Ellen Birn baum. This year's contributors are Ma rie Nack. Virginia Gaertner, and Irene Waldron. Miss Nack's picture is a floral compo sition ; Miss Gaertner's is a portrait of Frances Galgano, and Irene Waldron's is a religious composition. A series of Currier and Ives prints is the major feature of the south wing of the gallery, which is composed of pro fessional work. Additional work of the south wing group is a landscape of Alfred Jansson; a miniature on satin by Eugene Kelly; and a painting of the sand dunes by Fisher. Two German wood engravings of Augustin Roll) en titled Versuchung and Crcmit are included in this group. A bright note in this exhibition, which also includes a selected group of stu dent work, is the treatment of a single subject in conventional, geometric, ab stract, and surrealistic designs. Music is put into colored design by Betty Kreuzer, Georgene McGowan, and Sally Davis. Water color stills, not ably those of Margaret Mary Kreusch, Rita Valenzano, Catherine Rheiner, and Sanfer Cieslak, are part of the exhibit. Wins Scholarship Catherine Wilkins, senior sociology major, has been awarded a two-year scholarship to the graduate school of sociology at Loyola university. Miss Wilkins, who is president of the French club, will be a candidate for the Bach elor of Arts degree Cum Laude at Com mencement. Announce Summer Session Schedule All the advantages of a lake-side summer will be open to students who atlend the Mundelein summer session, opening this year on Tuesday, June 27, and closing on August 5. Classes will meet in the morning five days each week, and will also be held on one Saturday morning during the session. For each course, three semester hours of credit will be given. The following subjects will be offered during the first period, 8:30 to 10:00 a. m.: trigonometry, English rhetoric 2, American government, physiology, gen eral methods, adolescent psychology, speech, art, violin, organ, and piano. Subjects offered in the second period, 10:05 to 11:35, include calculus, survey of English literature 1, French 4. ra tional psychology, child psychology, German, violin, organ, and piano. Chicago University Professor Speaks At Baccalaureate Solemn Benediction Follows Procession and Address Cooperation between rich and poor, between those who have and those who have not, between all nations of the world for the maintenance of peace and the law of Christ was the remedy for world chaos suggested by Jerome G. Kerwin, Ph.D., of the University of Chi cago, in the Baccalaureate address on May 28. Opponents of social and industrial co operation, Dr. Kerwin insisted, are rac ing us back to the individualism and spe cial privilege which characterized the nine teenth-century conception of democracy, rejecting socialized cooperation before it has even a chance to succeed. You young people, he declared, should be the radicals of today, with the radicalism of the Sermon on the Mount. Believing in the Mystical Body of Christ, you bold for peaceful cooperation among its members. Your faith teaches the dignity, the high state of man, and the equality of all men Ik-fore God. All men and this is a fundamental principle of democracy all men are your brothers, not just Americans, not just Catholics, but all men, united as brothers under the father hood of God. Associate professor of political science and dean of students in the University's division of social sciences, Dr. Kerwin is an authority on municipal government, and has been active in movements looking toward the improvement of city govern ment in Chicago. The Baccalaureate address, preceded by a procession of juniors, seniors, and Faculty members, in academic robes, was followed by the Graduates' Pledge of Loyalty and Service and by Solemn Ben ediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. The Reverend Eneas B. Goodwin, J.D., professor of political science, was cele brant, with the Reverend Joseph A. Mc Laughlin, S.J., and the Reverend James J. Mahoney, S.J., Faculty members at Loyola and Mundelein, as deacon and sub-deacon. Name Winners in Annual Creative Writing Contest Virginia Gaertner, co-editor-in-chief of the Review, merits awards in three divisions of the Creative Writing con test sponsored by the English depart ment, and takes first place of honor in a fourth division, according to the de cisions received last week. James O'Donnell Bennett, former Chicago Tribune feature writer, names Miss Gaertner winner of the Editorial contest; John Towner Frederick of Northwestern names her winner of the Essay contest: Lee Mitchell, faculty member at Northwestern and Munde lein. names her winner of the Contem porary Criticism division, and Joseph Auslander. American poet and critic, names her second to the winner in the Poetry division. Betty Vestal is winner of the Poetry contest, with her selection Wagon Train, which appears in the summer issue of the Review. Miss Gaertner lake, second place ilh Idle 1 lands, and Gertrude Sweeney takes third place with The Storm. Miss Gaertner's Sign of the Sun flower is the prize-winning essay. Mary Margaret Mitchell's Forward to the Land takes first place of honor, and Agnes Griffin's Information, Please, merits second place of honor. A freshman, Virginia Coffey, merits the short-story award for her Foot note to History, in the judgment of John P. Lally, fiction editor of the Chi cago Daily News. Agnes Griffin takes first place of honor with her story, Within These Walls, and Virginia Cheatham takes second place of honor with Memories Die in the Dark. .Miss Gaertner's editorial, The Pass ing of a Troubador, wins the editorial prize: Betty Vestal's While Thousands Cheered, one of the Georgia Jean series, takes first place of honor, and Margaret Gleeson's You Can Take It With You wins second place of honor. Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca is the subject of Miss Gaertner's prize-win ning review; Ruth Perry takes first place of honor with a review- of Piati- gorsky's Cello recital, and Agnes Grif fin takes second place with a review of Madam Curie, by Eve Curie. The Creative Writing Awards are made possible through the Mary Jo sephine Lusk Memorial Fund, estab lished by Frank B. Lusk, M.D. 78 Seniors Will Receive Bachelor's Degrees At Commencement, June 5 Bishop William D. O'Brien Will Confer Degrees, Honors, Give Address; One Senior Merits Summa Cum Laude Merit Qold Keys; Kappa Qamma Pi The Mundelein College Gold Key. awarded for scholarship, will be con ferred at Commencement upnn the honor graduates. Dorothy Fitzgerald, Georgette Thoss, Virginia Gaertner, Ruth Mae Ainann, Patricia Connor, Geraldine Ferstel, Frances Geary, Agnes Griffin, Virginia Pelletier. and Catherine Wilkins. The Kappa Gamma Pi key. conferred by the national Catholic honor society of women's colleges, will be awarded to seven students, elected by vote of the Faculty and senior class as out standing in character, leadership, schol arship, and service. The seven students are Geraldine Connell. Miss Connor, Miss Ferstel, Miss Fitzgerald, Miss Geary, Miss Griffin, and Miss Thoss. Miss Connell is president of the Stu dent Activities Council; Miss Connor is vice-president of the Council, and Miss Ferstel is president of the senior class. Miss Fitzgerald is prefect of the So dality, senior representative on the Council, and chairman of the biological section of the Science Forum. Miss Geary, vice-president of the senior class, is co-editor of the SKYSCRAPER and president of the Press club. Miss Griffin is senior representative on the Council, co-editor of the College Review, and president of the Piano club. Miss Thoss is president of the Debate club and of the Cooperative club. His Excellency, the Most Reverend William D. O'Brien, auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, will confer degrees upon the 78 members of the senior class at the eighth annual Commencement Exercises at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 5. Assisting Bishop O'Brien will be the Reverend Fran cis Trainor, professor of religion, the Reverend Harold Kenney, assistant director of the Society for the Propa gation of the Faith, and the Reverend Thomas Reed, secretary to His Ex cellency. In solemn procession, the candidates for degrees, followed by members of the Faculty in academic robes, and by the Reverend Speaker, will proceed from the second floor of the skyscraper building down the grand staircase and through the main corridor into the theatre, where the strains of the Saint Saens' Militaire Francaise will meet them. Following the reading of the invoca tion by the Reverend John T. McCor mick, S.J., bead of the philosophy de- partment of Loyola university, the Rev erend James J. Mahoney, S. J., pro fessor of philosophy, will present the candidates to His Excellency. Leads in Honors Leading the class in academic honors is Dorothy Fitzgerald, a zoology major who will be a candidate for the Bach elor of Science degree Summa Cum Laude, the sixth student in the history of the College to merit this distinction. Georgette Thoss, an economics major, will receive the degree Bachelor of Arts Magna Cum Laude, and Virginia Gaert ner will receive the degree Bachelor of Fine Arts Magna Cum Laude. The fol lowing students will be candidates for the degree Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude: Ruth Mac Amanii, economics major, Pa tricia Connor, history major; Geraldine Ferstel, economics major; Frances Geary, mathematics major; Virginia Pelletier, mathematics major; and Catherine Wil kins, sociology major. Agnes Griffin, a music education major, will be a can didate for the degree Bachelor of Music Education Cum Laude. The following students will be candi dates for the degree Bachelor of Sci ence : Alice Addison, Betty Boehme. Kath erine Borcbcrs, Muriel Clinnin, Beatrice Cronin, Catherine Fahrendorf, Aileen Farrell, Marian Gilbert, Marie Lynch, Felicia Pontecarvo, Sister Sophia Rose Underberg, S. Sp. S. Two students will be candidates for the degree Bachelor of Fine Arts: Marie Nack and Irene Waldron. Chestera Nic- winska and Mary Louise Sayre will be candidates for the degree Bachelor of Music. Takes Arts Degrees Other candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree are Joan Argyropulos. Joan Bourque. Kathryn Byrne, Margaret Cal lahan, Mary Callahan, Victoria Chiri- gos, Helen Coens, Rosemary Conley, Geraldine Connell, Mary DeAcetis, Alice D'Arcy, Elinor Davern, F.lcctra Deligi- annis. Jane Fancy, Margaret Finnegan, Dor othy Foy, Veronica Gill, Margaret Glee- son, Genie Harper, La Vonne Hayes. Helen Holman, Kathleen Johnston, Lor etta Klodzinski. Angela Kospetos, Mary Loughlin, Lois Leggate, and Lourdes Mackey. Patricia McDonnough, Antoinette Mc Garry, Mary Molloy, Mary Muellman, Florence Nardi, Adelaide Nilles, Grace Nolan, Marcclla N o w a c k i, Monica (Continued on Page 3, Col 1) Named Vice-President Of Psychology Group Sister Mary Liguori, B.V.M., head of the sociology department, was elected vice-president of the Chicago Society of Catholic Psychologists, at a meeting of the Society al the Morrison hotel on May 13. Dr. Philip M. Law, who held the of fice of vice-president during the past year, was elected president, and the Rev erend Charles I. Doyle, S.J., was re elected secretary-treasurer. Organized in 1936, the Society is at tempting to effect a closer integration of theoretical and applied psychology with the principles of Scholastic philos ophy, through study, discussion, and research. Junior Wins Daily Neivs Story Contest Clare Anderson, junior and news edi tor of the Skyscraper, will receive a check for 25.00 next week from the Chicago Daily News the reward for her prize-winning short story. Sponsored by John Patrick Lally, fiction editor of the DAILY News, the contest was open to all Mundelein stu dents. Miss Anderson's story, entitled The Garden Plot, will be published in the Daily News.
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