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Volume Ten of Quest Comes With Student Verse, Art As Christmas Qreeting dedicated to Holy Father, Anthology Has Contributions from All Classes, And 15 Alumnae Members Timely as a snowflake is Father l. Carey's Foreword to Quest 10, because the anthology of mlent verse, dedicated this year to E gt; Holiness, Pope Pius XII, appears eday, in time for the traditional ladle-lighting. rather Carey, moderator of student bikations at the University of Notre ftoc, observes that it is particularly portant that young people continue to nhten today's darkened world. Aleutian Christmas of 1942, the first bn in the volume, is by Helen O'Gara iWey '32. The frontispiece by Senior mi Caparros illustrates it. Representatives from the Alumnae and every class in the school have coo led poetry. Among the senior con ns are Ellen Foran, Helen Printy, Rosemary Shanahan. laniors include Edith Bukowski. leen McNulty, Grace O'Connor, Kay Jones. Adele Bujewski, Har- llclnerney, Rita Ann Mulhern. Sophomore poets arc Irene O'Flaherty, Mary Louise Hector, and Kathryn Fox, Freshman contributors are Mary Beech- er, Mary Ann Anderson. Mary Louise Tliurber. June Tatge, Josephine Roche, Angela Krieter. Geraldine Thorpe, Pa tricia Carroll, Irene Kenny, Genevieve Loacker, Marie Muleronek, and Jcan- ette Vangel. Alumnae contributors are Sister Mary Charatina, B.V.M., Enier Phibbs Ditch- field, Sister Mary Adorita, B.V.M., Vir ginia Cheatham Julicr, Genie Harper, Joanne Dimmick, Sister Mary Aquin, B.V.M., Virginia Gaertner Broderick, Genevieve Del Boccaro McGowan, Mrs. Conley, and Sister Mary Athanasius, B.V.M. Quest has also received contributions from Catherine Dwyer, ex '4.3, Rosemary Anderson ex '43, Charlotte Safranski ex '44, and Sister Mary St. Denise, B.V.M. The illustrations in Quest were done by Artists Florence McDonnell, Mary Cole, Dorothy Scholzen, Ruth Shniigel- sky, Rita Valenzano '42, Mary Jane Har vey, Patricia Gallagher, Marjorie Schal- lcr, Anita Caparros. and Dorothy Clark. Graduate, Instructor Don Uniforms of U. S. Two more Mundelein representatives have enlisted in the services, bringing the Faculty and student quota in uniform up to 11. Alphon.se L. O'Toole, Ph.D., who taught mathematics here before he was sum moned to Washington in May, 1941, has been commissioned as a Lieutenant, senior grade. Lieutenant O'Toole is now stationed at the Naval Training School at Hanover, New Hampshire. Mundelein's first alumna in the WAVES is Ann Wilkins '42, sociology- major, who, since graduation, has been on the civilian staff at the Navy Pier. Miss Wilkins joined the WAVES last month. Lieutenant Robert J. Xiess, formerly a member of the Faculty in the romance language department, is now affiliated with the Office of the Director of Ground Training in the Army Air Corps, at Kelly Field, Texas. Ten-Story Cross Kindle Of Candle Light Tomorrow In Skyscraper Windows All Students Carry Tiny Tapers In Symbolic Ceremony At 4 P. M. Jobs A-Waiting I Two senior dietetics majors who will finish their college work in Jan uary have received appointments as students dietetians and will report for duty on Feb. 1. Sallie Cahill has been apnointed to the University of Maryland Hospi tal, in Baltimore, and Jane Champion has been appointed to Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Tomorrow at a special assembly at 4 P.M., against the background of a white-robed choir, the Christmas Candle will burn with a clear, bright flame, sym bol of Mundelein holiday rejoicing and hope. Following the tradition of former years, all college organizations and all students will participate in the ceremony. After the processional of black-gowned seniors into the auditorium, the student body will open the assembly with Adeste Fideles. Von's Jesu Bambino and The Shep- liard's Story by Dickinson, both in the spirit of the season and of the cere mony, will be sung by the Glee club under the direction of Walter Aschen brenner. Then, with lighted candles, represen tatives of Faculty, Alumnae, the four classes, and all college organizations will come in procession down the aisles, until two lines of tiny flames stretch from either side of the stage to the back of the auditorium. The body of the auditorium will glow (Continued on page 4, column 5) * * . FHI ' - mm Volume XIII MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1942 No. 5 Christmas Spirit Of Giving Looms In Sodality Work ,11 Students Join Sodalists In Preparing Baskets For the Poor On Candle-Lighting Night. Wartime activities have found a strong ilhl among the students in Christmas charity work. Once again the Sodality is top in the enthusiasm of Christmas I is On the Day of the Golden Mass, Dec. i the baskets, gift of the entire student . :;. will be delivered to the Little Sis- moithe Poor. Student deliverers will lid to the holiday spirit by singing Christ- ill carols. Les d'Arciennes are carrying on their annual collection for a French order of ik The children of Holy Family tool will receive the festive Christmas ckings that are being filled with cook- Band toys by Alpha Omicron members. The (lolls for poor children, which ire been a traditional Christmas project J for the Commerce club, arc being left on lit shelf this year as club members enter the Sodality enterprise. The club tcts to return to its doll-days next Christmas if transportation problems I ire solved. Similarly, Die Rothensteiner Gescll- I waft has turned its effort to the So dality baskets, but expects to resume its work for Corpus Christi youngsters next year. The basket committee chairmen, under the general chairmanship of the So dality prefect, Ellen Clare Dougherty, in- dude Seniors Florence McDonnell, Ruth Tentler, Mildred Kuratko, Patricia Gould, I Dorothy Green, Rosemary Shanahan, (Continued on page 4, column 2) Carol Procession Will Begin On Eighth Floor At 6:30 P. M. Out of the darkness tomorrow night a ten-story cross of candle light will loom over the Christmas-awaiting city and watchers will know that here at least there is room for peace and joy. Supper at 5:15 will prelude the lighting of the 52 cross-forming tapers. Each of the four classes will have pre-holiday parties seniors in 405. juniors in the home economics department, sophomores and freshmen in the tea-room. An hour after the call to supper, a warning bell will be the signal for the various classes to assemble on assigned floors, ready for the moment when the candles will be lit. Chime Signals Darkness In a single instant at a given signal at 6 :.10, class and club officers will strike matches, hold them to wicks and the sign of faith will be illuminated against the black of the skyscraper building. Then, from the eighth floor, the sen iors will come down the staircases, joined on five by the juniors and on four by the sophomores. The freshmen will complete the group on the third floor. Caroling, the student body will leave the building by the cast door and circle- to the front where two red-ribboned wreathes will be hung on the glass and wrought-iron main entrances. Assemble in Foyer Retracing their steps, the students in procession will assemble around the col- Icge candle in the first floor foyer to receive the Christinas message of Sister Mary Justitia. B.V.M., President of the college. Then, with carols and Merry- Christmas to you, the holidays will offi cially begin. Sister Mary Justitia will kindle the Faculty candle in the Chapel, and Flor ence O'Callahan '38, Alumnae president, will light the Alumnae candle in 205. Ellen Clare Dougherty will light the Sodality candle in the Chapel; Julia Case the Senior class candle in 806; Rita Ann Mulhern the Junior class candle in 504; Betty Jane McCambridge the Sophomore candle in 404; Eileen Coyne the Fresh man class candle in 304. Represent Clubs Club presidents and representatives will light candles in the following rooms: Jean Kaufinann, Alpha Omicron, in 801, -Mary Cole, Art. in 802: Suzanne Shau man, Commerce, in 505 : Rosemary Shana han, Debate, 204. Rose Wirth. German, in 406: Eleanor Kandratas, Glee club, in 708; Dolores Rudnik. International Relations, in 706; Jeanne Horan, Laetare Players, in 804; Jean Patnoe. Las Teresianas, in 806, Nathalie Letcher, Les d'Arciennes in 710. Florence McDonnell, Mu Xu Signia, 204; Marian Anthoulis. Orchestra, in 709; Angela Voller, Organ, in 705; Louise Szkodzinski, Piano, in 711; Mary- Louise Hector, Poetry, in 707: Rae 1 lae- el. Press, in 707. The following students will light the Science Forum candles: Patricia Tierney. Biology, in lt;i()4; Rita Kennedy. Chemis try, in 604; Ann Merfcld. Mathematics. in 605; Ellen Perry. Physics, in 605. (Continued on page 3, column 1) Reprinted by request is not again for the duration. this impressionistic sketch of the College as it will look tomorrow night and perhaps Announce Plans for Festive Holiday Ball Silver slippers and frothy formats head Santa's request list as Mundeleinites pre pare for the popular Skyscraper Rail. Dec. 30. The Knickerbocker Hotel will be the site for this annual Student Ac tivities Council formal, with I larvey (Clyde furnishing the music. Frances Smith heads the committee which will invite the chaperons, and Charlotte Smith and Gene Casey are on the reception committee. (Continued on page 4, column 4)
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1942-12-14 (1)
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