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Page Six THE SKYSCRAPER May 20, 1959 Graduation Plunges Seniors Into Strange, New Worlds It's a grand American custom to plan for the future and the seniors have no desire to break tradition. This year's graduates will enter many walks of life. The educational, medical, dramatic fields and many others will be represented. Camille Composer Appears In Melodic Debut Budding musicians in the first and secontl year theory classes vied for recognition in the Original Song pro gram yesterday. Piano accompani ments and skits highlighted the com posers' works. THE FIRST year class presented A Trip to the Zoo. This skit, written by Patricia Hamill, portrayed a boy's and girl's reminiscenes of the zoo. Patricia Prindiville played the boy and Mae Britt the girl. Members of the class wrote the ac- companing music describing various animals in the zoo. Mae Britt's music described the peacock; Loretta Goer- res, the lion; Patrica Prindiville, the elephant; Joyce Robinson, the hum mingbird; Patrica Hamill, the condor and monkey; and Fayneta Moore, the squirrel and camel. Gloria Koop, nar rator, composed the opening and clos ing music. Fayneta Moore, Loretta Goerres and Patricia Hamill were pianists for the program, and Joyce Robin son produced the sound effects. The second year class presented a one-act tragedy, Drusilla's Dilem ma, which concerned a Mundelein girl's day in college. GLORIA CALLACI wrote the skit while Mary Wisz, Loretta Cahill, Kath leen Huhmann and Sister Mary St. Alfred, B.V.M., composed the music. Nancy Itnyre and Audrey Cihlar were narrators and Mary Wisz Lor etta Cahill and Maureeen McCue por trayed the characters in the skit. Zemrowski, chemistry ma jor, prefers scientific endeavors. She will be working as a literature chemist in the information and liaison division at Standard Oil research laboratories in Whiting, Ind. OTHER CHEMISTRY majors have ideas and jobs also. Mary Patricia Dorsey will be a biochemist at the Veterans' Administration research hospital. Yura Yucas who works for the American Field Publishing Com pany plans to work as a research typ ist this fall. Planing a teaching career in the Catholic grammar schools, Rosemary O'Connor, Sharon Roth, Nancy Mayer, Edna Millet and Judy Witt have se cured their jobs in the Chicago area. Beverly McGuff, Clare Walsh, June Wesol and Marilyn Coffey all plan to teach in the Chicago public school sys tem in September. Kathy Murphy, Marilynne O'Dea, Evadean Watts, Sue Dur burg and Sheila Kelly, psychology majors, will be case workers for the Cook County Department of Welfare in June. As a script writer for Paul Saliner's Gad About Show on WGN-TV, Julie Lyman, speech major, will also handle public relations for the three-state listening area, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana. HEEDING THE cry, Go West Mary Phyllis Fulgaro will travel to Los Angeles to look for a job and live there for a year. Continuing her journalism career, Marge Phillips, co-editor of the Sky scraper, will be a reporter for The News, a weekly paper in Niles town ship. Marge has worked there since last June. Adventurers Journey to Cuba To Search for Bearded Rebels Almost anything can happen when you're lying on the beach under the tropic Fort Lauderdale sun. Seniors Teri Lenihan, Mary Lou Bartholomew and Betty Ciolino first got their wild pipe dream of hopping to Cuba while in Florida. Exactly 15 hours later they were on board a plane bound for Ha vana. OUR MAIN reason for wanting to go to Cuba was to see some members of the rebel army, Betty reports. Linguistically lost in Havana, the girls hired a guide. His name was Joe Number 13 and not only did he possess all the adeptness at the Eng lish language which we lacked in Spanish, but he knew everyone, im portant or not, in town, they said. New Havana was a surprise to the tourists, because of its simi larity to Miami Beach. They were especially attracted by a huge building that they assumed was a hotel. It actually was the private home of an American business man. In direct contrast was a small prov ince outside Havana, with its ex tremely narrow streets and closely built wooden buildings. IT WAS the real Cuba, Betty say, or at least the Cuba we had ex pected to see. They had come to see the rebels, beards and all, so their guide took them to the Cabana fortress. After Joe haggled with a lieutenant in rapid- fire Spanish, the girls were allowed into the fortress for their picture- taking. The soldiers couldn't understand the girls and kept talking among themselves in Spanish. Not knowing what they were say ing was the funniest feeling of all, claim the adventurers. AFTER THE tourists had seen the Army, Joe suggested visiting the Cu- Teri, Mary Lou and friends. ban Navy at Morro Castle of Spanish- American war fame. The Navy was more fascinating to the girls. It's because they were beardless, Betty answered. The girls climbed to the heights of the castle and descended to the depths of the dungeons, accompa nied by a crew of sailors. At the end of the tour Teri decided to make a special effort to be gracious by attempting her first Spanish com ment a rather un-Spanish gracius. The sailors replied with a salute. BEFORE returning to Florida, the girls and Joe toured Old Havana, the poorer section of the city. It was there that they saw what to them was the city's most impressive structure, the Cathedral. One of its more beautiful features was the stained glass windows at the top of the church which looked like a 3-D picture, Betty says. Armed with bongo drums, July 26 banners and pins and post cards, the tourists flew back to Fort Lauderdale after that. Their sentiments upon arrival were Alumnae Group's Activities Varied Says Secretary To most of Mundelein June is va cation time. But to 167 seniors it's graduation time, and graduation time means that they will soon be part of the Alumnae association. According to Miss Peggy Roach, executive secretary of the Alumnae, many more days of Mundelein activi ties lie ahead for the seniors who will become active alumnae members. The June graduates were intro duced to alumnae affairs at a series of teas given by members in their homes April 19. On May 24 they may attend the cocktail party at the Shera- ton-Blackstone hotel, Miss Roach an nounced. Formal induction for seniors will take place on June 2, Miss Roach con tinued. Florence Miller '45, alumnae president, will give the membership pledge following the Senior Mass and breakfast. Almost every Mundelein graduate can take part in some activities since the alumnae groups are organized on a neighborhood or zone basis, Miss Roach said. Usually they meet not only to socialize but to provide a con tinuation of the intellectual develop ment begun during college years. Sometimes guest speakers or members of the alumnae themselves present views to stimulate discussion. One of our youngest and most ac tive groups right now is the Alumnae Sodality, Miss Roach commented. Since the Alumnae is 25 years old, groups are also organizing in various parts of the country to which Munde lein graduates have moved. San Francisco, Detroit, Denver and Mil waukee have thriving organizations already, Miss Roach reported. At least twice a year events are sponsored at the college to give the graduates an opportunity to return and renew acquaintances there. Usu ally a homecoming is held in the fall, and Kiddie Day, held around Valen tine's Day, finds all the proud parents back to introduce the Mundelein- Loyola set of the 1970's and 80's. Last year, Miss Roach continued, Back-to-College Day with a full program of classes for husbands as well as the grads was a very popu lar event. Sometimes the girls who have at tended the college for only one or two years are among the most enthusiastic and active members. But whether you've graduated or not, Miss Roach concluded, it's to your benefit to pay your 3 annual dues and be an active Mundelein alumna. . . . that when spring struck the cam pus in 1936, fraternity pledges from Loyola dressed in war paint and In dian blankets staged a powwow com plete with whoops in front of the Skyscraper building. The Indians also paraded up and down Kenmore bowing to passing Mundelites. The Skyscrapings editor commented, We want mere Indians. .. . that Rev. Fulton J. Sheen delivered the baccalaureate address in 1934. . . . that the heavens smiled down benignly and provided a perfect eve ning with soft breezes, a thin crescent moon and myriads of stars for the seniors' grand finale, the Senior Ball in 1934. At the ball a special song was composed by a member of the class was sung. The Senior Ball song became a tradition during the 30's. . . . that Cardinal Mundelein officiated at the first commencement exercises of the college June 13, 1932. There were 24 seniors in the class. . . . that on June 3 the Class of '59 will have concluded four history-making years at Mundelein. typical. We were well aware of the security attached to being a United States citizen, they decided. And then they returned to the Florida sun. T D A n IT IH hi CCTTIMP graduates, Roselle Primeau and Rosemary IKAUMIUrl JLllINU O'Connor, help their mothers, Mrs. Victor Primeau and Mrs. Richard O'Connor, recall their own college days. Two Seniors Begin New Traditions; Follow Their Mothers' Footsteps By Mary Ann Makowski On June 3, two graduates of the classes of '35 and '36 will return to Mundelein. As they recall their for mer college days, they will watch their daughters walk across the stage to re ceive the long-awaited and much- treasured degree. AS DAUGHTERS of former gradu ates Agnes Gill O'Connor '35 and Myrtle Peterson Primeau '36, Rose mary and Roselle, respectively, are establishing a mother-daughter gradu ate tradition at Mundelein. Next year, this new tradition will be carried on by juniors Mary Fogarty, daughter of Evelyn Lincoln Fogarty '34, and Lucille Jautz, daughter of Lu cille Barrett Jautz '35. As this year's graduates are preparing for those hectic, excit ing commencement days, we asked their mothers to share their remi niscences with us. A noticeable similarity exists between them selves and their daughters. The social sciences, it seems, hold a mutual attraction for the O'Connors. Mrs. O'Connor concentrated on soci ology and economics. Rosemary, how ever, finds history more to her liking. As former president and present sec retary, respectively, both mother and daughter agree that the International Relations club played an important role in their extracurricular activities. IN THE FIELD of physical educa tion, Mrs. O'Connor laughingly re marked, Rosemary has all the ability. I even failed my course in folk danc ing, but my daughter made the Ter rapins. A mother of eight, Mrs. O'Connor commented, We enjoy comparing Mundelein's traditions. Our class was busy setting them up, while Rose mary's is carrying them through. The romance languages, on the Notre Dame Hosts National Catholic Theater Conference God Behind the Masque will be the theme of the twelfth biennial National Catholic Theatre conference to be held at Notre Dame Aug. 18-20. THE CONVENTION, will begin with the celebration of Mass and will include sessions on Children's Theatre, acting, directing, makeup and stage photography. Demonstrations on puppetry and lectures on interpreta tions will also be included. Among the productions to be.staged at the convention are The' Match maker, Japanese Noh plays, The King's Standard, and a selection of one-act plays. other hand, were most interesting both to Mrs. Primeau and Roselle. A Spanish major, Mrs. Primeau was president of the Spanish club and sup plemented her major with a minor in French. Roselle, a French major, is president of Alpha Mu Gamma and a French club member. Asked if she had retained her interest in languages, Mrs. Pri meau replied that because of her marriage into a French-speaking family, she had become more in terested in French, as has Roselle, for whom Spanish is a secondary interest. Both mother and daughter ex pressed a fondness for their French professor, Sister Mary St. Irene, B.V.M., and wish to see language in troduced into elementary education. MRS. PRIMEAU, who looks almost as youthful as her graduate daughter, finds that her college education has been one of her greatest assets. I would be grateful for my college education even if it were for nothing more than the help it has given me to understand my children and to help them with their problems. These are the mothers and the daughters then, who have cooperated to give Mundelein her newest tradi tion, and another link on the chain of traditions begun in the 30's. Sophomore Elections When the sophomores elect new of ficers, they really believe in making them new. Election returns of May 13 show that of the eight, officers elected, only one has held a class office at Mundelein before. NEWLY-ELECTED President Frances Dyra says she plans to call the Council the Greenstick council. (Greenstick is a word used for frac tures in the very young.) So if there is ever a blunder, you can call it 'the greenstick blunder', she says. Anne Miller and Madelyn Lowry will assist the new presi dent as SAC representatives. Alice Connelly, the one pro on the council, will take over the responsi bilities of the vice-presidency. She was secretary of the freshman class. SUSAN McCALL, Carole Schremp, Marilyn Parrilli and Margie Coumey will complete the council as secretary, treasurer, social chairman and ser geant at arms respectively. Though they are all novices at their new jobs, Frances says they will try to do their job well.
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1959-05-21 (6)
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