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K. Vol. XXIII JUNIOR Mundelein College, Chicago 40, Illinois, March 2, 1953 ISSUE No. 9 Pfl miTflD Marion Whelan smiles uU'lUIIUK approval of Junior Skyscraper staff putting issue to press while Seniors recover from Compre hensives. Juniors Have College Day Orientation Members of the Junior class who have volunteered to represent Munde lein at College Days next year will at tend an orientation program of four lectures, on Tuesdays. The series will begin on March 3. Other dates are March 10, 17, and 24. Barbara Campbell. Angela Chemazar, Mary Jane Colvin, Genevieve Connolly. Marcia Daly, Helen Friel, Joan Horan. Nancy McHugh. Anita Sachs, Mary Kay Snyder, Joan Dawson. Barbara Mazzilo, Sheila Corcoran, and Berna dine Pochalka are sonic of the volun teers. Others are Margaret Haas, Patricia Fitzmorris, Loretta Rezutko, Dolores Stevens, Rosemary Ernst, Mary Ann Piskosz, Emily Kloc, Mary Lou Hirsh, Patricia Winkler, Nancy Mahoney, Diane Vainowski, Joan Kasmeja, and Geraldine O'Keefe. Other volunteer Juniors arc Peg gy Moran, Monica Brodbeck. Angela DcFlorio, Katherine Lamb, Joan Ji- ganti, Barbara Moran, Margaret Ack- erman, Margaret Yuhas. Jo Ann Picola, Martha Myers, Joan Heath, Dana Parducci, and Judith Czarnik. , Wear a Tagl Bring Student From Overseas March 12 is Tag Day for Mundelein. Sponsored by the NFCCS Overseas Service Program the Tag Day will gather funds to help students from other countries attend colleges in the United States. Many of the students are from Iron Curtain countries, and the benefit of an education will enable them to help their people conquer Communism and rebuild their lands. The Tag Day drive, under the chair manship of Dorothy Schneider, will be conducted by students from every class, who will be posted on each stair-way between periods. 25 High Schools Enter Tourney X square plus 2 xy minus 3 y square may equal confusion for some people, but Mathematics students from ap- proxjmately 25 high schools in the Chicago area will solve more than this simple equation when they meet here on March 14 for the annual Mathematics tournament. General chairman for the event is Alice Pawlak. The Program commit tee is under the direction of Dolores Feehan. Cecelia Moran will take care of score cards, and Joan Debrecht is in charge of Preparations. Mary Ann Klose will head the Check Room committee, and Marilyn Flaherty will direct Registration. Hostesses will follow the lead of Mary Cay Han non, and Refreshments will be served by Mary Kay Cumming's committee. Plaques are awards for the winning schools. Individual medals are prizes for the six highest scorers. RECENT GIFT to the Psychology and Education de partment is the projector which Ronna- wyn Groom Martin, Psychology major, uses in previewing filmstrips for a Per sonnel Psychology demonstration. Debaters Meet Loyola, Illinois Four dates loom large on Debate club schedules for March. Beginning de baters will enter the Navy Pier Be ginners tournament on March 6. Loyola and Mundelein teams will dis cuss the national collegiate question, Resolved: That the Congress of the United States Should Enact a Com pulsory Fair Employment Practice Law, March 11, and on March 12 the two schools will debate with Illinois. You're Invited To Party on March 17 March 17 is the date of the St. Patrick's Day dinner and card party sponsored by the Mothers auxiliary of the Fathers club. Dinner will be served from 5 to 8 p.m. in the tea room, and cards will be played in the social room both in the afternoon and in the eve ning. You, your parents, and your friends are invited. Philosopher To Qive Aquinas Lecture, March 5 St. Louis University Professor Is Speaker Vernon J. Bourkc, Ph. D., philosopher and author, will be guest speaker at the annual Philosophy assembly, to be held March 5 at 1 p.m. In honor of the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor Bourke will speak on Some Mysteries In the Life of St. Thomas. One of the first graduates of the In stitute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, Canada, Dr. Bourke has written many books on the philosophies of St. Thom as and St. Augustine. These include a Thomistic Bibliog raphy, the Introductions to a current re-, print of the Parma edition of the works of St. Thomas and to the first English translation of his Truth, and an Ethics text presently used at Mundelein. Doctor Bourke is a frequent contri butor to philosophical periodicals, and is at present assistant editor of Modern Schoolman. Past president of the American Cath olic Philosophical association. Doctor Bourke is professor of Pholisophy at St. Louis University. He has recently been invited to speak at the International Congress of Phil osophy to be held in Belgium next summer. Pianist Prepares Musical Program For Assembly Helen Ketner, pianist, will include numbers by Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, and other composers in her re cital at the assembly, at 1 p.m., Thurs day, March 12. Opening her program with a Busoni arrangement of Bach's Chaconne in D Minor, she will then offer two Liszt compositions, Sonata di Petrarca, No. 104, and Valse Oubliee. Her Chopin selections will include Etude Opus 25 and Ballade in F Min or. Mrs. Ketner will then play Rach maninoff's Prelude in E Flat Major, and Stravinsky's Etude in F Sharp Major. Concluding numbers on her program will be Ondine by Ravel, and Sug gestion Diabolique, by Prokofieff. Lucky Sophomores? Instead of Classes They Take Tests Two classless days await the Sophomores, March 10 and March 11. On these dates all students classified as sophomores in March, 1953, will be expected to report promptly at 9 a.m. to the auditorium for Sophomore Com prehensives. The examinations will test the participants on English grammar, literature, history, science, fine arts, and mathematics, including also contemporary affairs and a Mundelein Sophomore Inventory, which attempts to evaluate the students attainment of some of the objectives of the college as a Catholic college. The test are used for the pur pose of student self-appraisal and guidance. Individual profile charts on which the test results are recorded, will be available in May. New Chalice Is Alumna Memorial Used for the first time at Mass in Stella Maris Chapel. Feb. 14, a new gold chalice bears the inscription: In Memoriam, Mary Margaret Morris- sey, Class of 1935. When Miss Morrissey, librarian at Taft High school, died a year ago last summer after a short illness, her friends among the Taft teachers resolved to present a memorial of her to her Alma Mater. On Feb. 14, they gathered in ' the College Chapel, with members of her family, to offer Mass with Father John P. Downey, S. J., of the Philosphy de partment, as celebrant. After Mass, they were guests of the College at breakfast in the tea room. A Magna Cum Laude graduate. Miss Morrissey received a scholarship to the Catholic University of America, where she took a Master's degree in Library Science. fl Q I r K T A1 music awakens nostalgia UKILN I ML in Music major Vera Eng, who auditions recordings she will play for members of the Music Litera ture class, now studying ancient and modern Chinese music. NSA Discusses Freedom An NSA sponsored panel discussion on the general topic, What Does Aca demic Freedom Mean? will be pre sented Thursday, March 5, at 3 p.m. in Room 405. Speakers will include Dick Warr, news editor of the University of Chi cago Maroon; Don Steele, president of Young Republicans at that school, and Mary Schweitzer, editor of the Mun delein Review. Socialists To Hear Of Apostolic Needs Opportunities for the Apostolate in the Chicago Area is the topic Sodality members will discuss, Tuesday, March 3, at 1 p.m., in Room 204. Stemming from the suggestions made by Father Joseph Shinners, S.J., of the Queen's Work Staff when he visit ed here Feb. 16, the discussion will point out specific local needs which Sodaiists might try to meet. Pfl F n IT fl R Arlene Gorso1 beams UuLUI I lilt appreciatively as she sees her future successors on Skyscraper staff send the paper to press. College Qives 20,000 In Scholarships Tuition scholarships amounting to approximately 20,000 will be the goals of high school seniors who will visit Mundelein on March 7 and March 14 to take competitive examinations. City and suburban high school stu dents, who are in the upper fourth of their classess and merit the recom mendation of the high school principals, are eligible to compete in the liberal arts examinations. Liberal Arts scholarship tests will begin at the College at 9:30 a.m., Sat urday, March 7. Art and Drama scholarship examina tions are scheduled for March 14 at 9:30 a.m.; Piano and Violin scholar ship examinations will be given on March 14 at 3:00 p.m. Hostesses for the day are Catherine McManamon, Faith Farley, Ethel Prendergast, Agnes O'Malley, Lor- (Continued on Page 4, Col. 5) Alumna Artist Has Exhibit On Eighth Floor The Art department introduces its newest exhibit of 14 outstanding water colors, now displayed in the eighth floor gallery Ursula Brodbeck Randall '47, the artist, has introduced considerable var iations in techniques. Some of the 14 are in transparent water color; others are in gouache; a few are a combination of the two. One of the most outstanding paint ings is a water scene showing skill in giving depth of reflections. Another in gouache is of a road with build ings on either side. It is worked out in flat plains and brilliant colors. Mrs. Randall, sister of Junior Mon ica Brodbeck and of Dorothea ex 49, had an exhibit on the soiithside last fall in an art shop.
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