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Jilm - ../ .. Vol ume XI MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 14, 1941 No. 10 Attention Art Students Be A 10 Prizewinner Graduate Offers Creative Art Award to Be Given In June leader since her enrollment at Mun delein in the fall of 1931, Ann Lally '35, art supervisor of 32 Chicago public schools, announced on March 4 that she is establishing a Creative Art award, for Mundelein students, to be given at the close of the current academic year. Details of the contest will be bulletined I mi the hoard in the Student Lounge, and the winner of the ten dollar award will I he announced at Commencement. Editor of the Skyscraper and chair- man of the Senior Hall in her last year at Mundelein, Miss Lally, who was grad uated Cum Laude with a double major I in art and English, has since taken her Master's degree at Northwestern uni versity, where she is now registered for jl her doctorate. While she was head of the art depart ment at Carl Schurz high school, her students won city-wide contests, and the January issue of the Joi'KNAi. of the Illinois Vocational Association refers Ito a set of four huge murals done by her students there as the largest special art I project ever attempted in the Chicago puhlie schools. Miss Lally is membership chairman of tlie Western Arts association, and a nicm- i ber of the executive hoard of the Catho lic Art association. She was president of I the Alumnae association, 1936-38. Alumnae Recommend Creative Art Careers Story Writer, Artists Art Pays Say The creative arts are worthwhile avenues to success if the achievements of three Aluiiirae members tliis month may I He taken into account. Joan Quilty '33. who breaks her own (record of a story a month for 50 (months by publishing two articles this liiniith. and two artists. lietty Kreuzer 10 and Dorothy Kullman '38 testify that art pays. Miss Kreuzer has just taken orders for a second set of water colors, having Isold the first set she produced shortly bc- Ifore Christmas, and Dorothy Kullman , reports growing sales of her children's I pictures and decorative ideas. Miss Quilty has a short story, en titled Tragedy at Thirteen, in the cur rent issue of The Catholic Woman's WohUi. and an interview with the dis tinguished Catholic sculptor. Emory Sei dell, designer of the Danicn avenue bridge, the panels for the six million Idnllar Ogden viaduct, some of the small Ironsides for Radio Station WGN, and Intber artistic creations, in the current -in i The Queen's Wokk. Scholarship Tests To Be March 22, 29 The annual scholarship examinations in Liberal Arts will be given on Saturday, ilarch 22. at ' :3() a.m. High school niors who are recommended by the rincipal are eligible to enter. Applica tion blanks, which may be secured from office of the President, should be limed to the College one week before he date of the examination. Special departmental examinations will ie given on March 29. Drama and Art at 9 a.m.. Piano and String Instruments at 2 p.m., and Voice at 3 p.m. Virginia Woods f35 Takes Ph. D. Degree Alumna Is on Research Staff at Harvard Not the Ides of March, hut the day before the Ides, today in fact, is a red- letter occasion for the classics depart ment and fur the College generally. For today, the first Mundelein grad uate to be a candidate lor Doctor of Philosophy will receive that degree from the University of Chicago. Rut Virginia Woods '35 will not be present to don the traditional robe of the scholar and answer to the name of Doc tor. She will, instead, he busy in the library at Harvard university, where she is a member of the research staff of the Institute of Classical Studies. She will be busy collating Greek manu scripts on the life of St. Gregory of Nyssa. a work commended by the pres ent Holy Father before lie was elected Pope. Hut she will have time to accept the congratulations of one of the greatest classical scholars in the world. Dr. Wer ner Jaeger, at whose request she became one of the few women members of the Harvard staff, and to read a telegram of congratulation from her friends at Mun delein College. Faculty Members Go To Symposium at N.D. Sister Mary Esther, H.V.M.. of the mathematics department, and Sister Mary Theresa, B.V.M., of the physics depart ment, attended the fifth annual Mathe matical Symposium, at the University of N'otre Dame, March 1. General subject of the meeting was Mathematical Economics, discussed from a variety of viewpoints by professors from Northwestern, the University of Chicago, Columbia university, the Uni versity of Notre Dame, and by experts from the Institute of Applied Kconomics in New York. Classics Teacher Is on Committee Sister Mary Donald. B.V.M., head of the classics department, was named a member of the Executive committee of the Illinois Classical Conference, at its fourth annual meeting, held at Knox college, on March 6-8. Sister Mary Donald was a district representative for the meeting, which she attended with Sister Mary Cecilia, R. V.M., of the biology department. Dorothy Schreck, Senior Pianist, To Give Recital Eleanor Kandratas, Soprano, Assists in First Sunday Musical First senior recital of the year will he Pianist Dorothy Schreck's, given in the college theatre at 3 p.m.. on Sunday. March 23. with Eleanor Kandratas, so prano, assisting. Miss Schreck will open the program with the Allegro from Beethoven's Son ata, Opus 31, Number 3, and. in her sec ond group, will play four Chopin selec tions. Preludes Number 7. 21. and 22, and the favorite Grande Valse Brilliant. The third group of piano numbers will include Nocturne by Respeghi, and a lighter number, Debussy's Galliwog's Cake Walk. Concluding piano selection will be Liszt's brilliant and beloved Hun garian Rhapsody, Number 12. Miss Kandratas will sing Rosa's Star Vicino: Schubert's Hedgeroses, and Brin- disi from Verdi's La Tkaviata in her first song group. Gounod's Jewel Song from Faust will be her second selection, and her third group will include Chanson de Marie Antoinette, by Jacobson, Mood by Har nett, and Villauello, by De. Acqua. A piano major. Miss Schreck is presi dent of the piano club and a member of the Glee club. Open French Contest In Reading, Writing Parlez Vous Francais? Try For Prize According to a recent announcement from the French department, the annual French contest will take place on Satur day, April 19, in Room 508, at 1 p.m. The contestants will be required to make a literary translation of a selected excerpt, after which they will be asked to read a short passage in French with correct pronounciation and intonation. The winner in the upper division, for juniors and seniors, will receive the Col lege French award on Honors Day. A club award will he offered to the winner of the freshman-sophomore division at the last meeting of Les D'Arciennes. The contest is open to all members of Les D'Arciennes who are in good social and financial standing and who will have completed 10 hours of French at Mun delein by the close of the current aca demic year. Applications must be made in Room 508 by Monday. March 17. Freshman Rita Callaghan Sings on WCFL Irish Hour Her eyes are Irish, her name is Irish, even her voice is Irish, so she sings, oddly enough, on the Irish hour. This young colleen. Rita Callaghan by name, has been taking vocal lessons for only two years, hut in that short time she has won a voice scholarship to Mundelein, as well as first place in the South-East Music Festival of 19.39. Miss Callaghan. to whom freshman green is anything but displeasing, has a taste for sports, such as badminton and swimming; for reading, such as Belloc. Poc. and Hawthorne; and for dancing. Her activities here extend to the Glee club and the vocal ensemble in which she participates, the Sodality, and the Women's Athletic association. Then, of course, there's always the Irish Hour. Next Sunday night, on the program which is broadcast through station WCFL between 7 and 8 p.m.. she will sing two selections. Why Did They Sell Killarney. and I'was Only An Irish man's Dream. By no means the only musical member of her family, Miss Callaghan, if she so desires, can sing a soprano-tenor duet with her brother, while her sister accom panies them on the piano. A graduate of Visitation high school. Miss Callaghan expects to major in voice and minor in school music. Wins Assistantship Eleanor Landon, senior chemistry ma jor, has received an assistantship at the University of Illinois. Telegram Opens Door to Science Teaching Career Via Western Union, opportunity km eked at Eleanor Landon's door last Friday, when she received word that she has been awarded a half-time teaching assistantship in the analytical division of the department of chemistry at the Uni versity of Illinois, with research to he done in that division. A chemistry major. Miss Landon, who has merited Honors at successive Honors convocations since her freshman year, is working toward a Bachelor of Science degree, with a minor in biology. She is chairman of the Physical divi sion of the Science Forum, and a member of the Philosophy club. Now working on a research assistant- ship at the University of Illinois is an other Mundelein science graduate, Muriel Chimin '39, who was laboratory assist ant in biology here last year. In 1938, Dorothy Sigman, a chemistry major of the class of 1937. received her Master ol* Science degree from Illinois. Miss Sigman is now a research lihrar ian at the Universal Oil Products com pany. St. Xavier's Is Host For College Students St. Xavier college will be host to student leaders and Faculty members for an all-day conference on spiritual prob lems, conducted by the Reverend Daniel A. Lord. S.J., national director of the Sedality, on Sunday, March 23. The day will open with a dialogue Mass read in the college chapel at 10 a.m.. and will include four conferences with Father Lord, followed by student discussions. The day will close with an informal cotillion in the new gymnasium recently opened on St. Xavier's campus. Conferences during the day will deal with The College Life and the Life of Faith: The Collegian's Use of His Power of Influence; The Collegian as a Salesman of Christianity's Cause, and The Collegian and the Future. The Chicago meeting is one of many to be held throughout the country at Cath olic colleges, including Fordhain in New- York : Georgetown in Washington, D. C. Creighton in Omaha: Canisius in Boston: and Our Lady of the Lake in San Antonio. College Is Card Party Conscious; List Committees Student Activities Council Sponsors All-College Benefit Enlisting the cooperation of the entire student body to make the annual Card Party and Fashion Revue a record suc cess, the Student Activities Council has announced the Council and class commit tees, who will begin work at once on the largest student sponsored affair of the year. The party, which benefits the college library, is under the management of the S. A. C, and will be held at the Stevens I Intel on April 24. Handle Tickets Under the general chairmanship of Dorothy Homan. S.A.C. president, will he Mary Caroline Bemis and Louise Szkodzinski. co-chairmen in charge of tickets. Their committee consists of Mary Marotta, Marie Norn's, Patricia Gould, and Marcella Garrity. Mary Margaret O'Flahcrty and Jean Bemis are co-chairmen in charge of ad vertisements. They will be assisted by Loretta Calnan, Dorothy Hein, Shirley Decker, and Theresa Schmid. Co-chairmen of the Patron committee are Rita Valenzano and Dorothy Behm. Members of the committee arc Catherine Miller, Rosemary O'Donnell. Mary Cole, anil Mary lane Maloney. Kathryn Dealy and Loretta Howard will be in charge of the fashion revue, in which Loretta Calnan will be the bride and Margaret Ryron the maid of honor. Jane Brown and Eileen Ryan are co- chairmen of the special committee, and will be assisted by Helen Jane Dessero, Virginia Arado. Maryanne Brockhaus, and Patricia Cummings. Are Co-Chairmen Co-chairmen of the committee in charge of the door are Peggy Meade and Doro thy Grill. Members are Ellen Jane Fitz gibbon, Rosemary Lanahan. Colctta Roche, and Coletta Stanton. Lavinia Cole and Marianne Donahue head the committee which includes Alice Guest. Ruth O'Hearn. and Julia Case, who will take care of tables. Publicity will be handled by Margery l.iniieuan. Joan Morris. Marie Rudd. and Dorothy McCarthy. Father Kelly Talks On Business Ethics The Reverend Arthur J. Kelly. S.J., professor of philosophy here and at Loy ola university, is giving a series of three lectures to students in the secretarial de partment on fundamentals of business ethics. In his first lecture, on March 4. Father Kelly discussed general ethics as a science of man's behavior and morals, describing the distinguishing activity of man as his ability to know and classify things. Last Tuesday's lecture dealt with the s K'cial problems of ethics involved in industrial life, a subject which will be concluded in the final lecture. Peg O' My Heart Coming March 17 In the spirit of St. Patrick, shamrocks, and general wearing of the green. Cather ine Denny Phelps will read Peg O' My Heart, at 1 p.m., on March 18, in the Little Theatre. Instructor in dancing and in radio act ing, Mrs. Phelps has had wide experience in Chautauqua and in ballet dancing.
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