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Page Four - THE SKYSCRAPER - November 17. 1967 News Briefs SKYSCRAPER ohoto by Thareja Ebenhoe Foreign Films: Therese Des- queyroux, the second film in the '67-'68 Foreign Film Forum, will be shown Nov. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Col lege Theatre. Tickets for this French film adaption of Francois Mauriac's nov el may be purchased for 1. Art Convention: Art majors Pat Hehir. Cathy Harring ton and Jo Ann McGuire accompanied Sister Blanche Marie and Mrs. Betty Ma- tula to the convention spon sored by the Illinois Art Education Association. Un der the theme of Sculpture in Art Education, the group Sky scrapings CHILD BUYERS, DEPT. Time was when we knew the Early Church as a cadre of the Lunatic fringe Roman underground which eschewed orgies in favor of agapes, and advocated Total Immersion. Now that a virulent Left Wing is, so to speak, Gropplng through the dark of the Insti tutionalized Church, the Early church is suddenly what we, the Transition Generation were baptized into. Indeed, many of us have one foot mired In that archaic seedbed of our super- egoes, while the other flails frantically to straddle the gap between two worlds. Roman Catholic Grammar School was the installation site of Archetypal fear, but the de tachment of age gives it a nos talgic perspective. Existence there was circumscribed with comfortable Totems and Ta boos, figments and fetishes, as pleasant a round of ritual as a Buddhist prayer wheel. Con sider what was then quaintly termed Catholic Action at St. Whosit's. Missionary Zeal, now discredited, was at a premium in the second grade, in the form of Ransoming Pagan Babies. As everyone knows, they cost S5 apiece. We weren't quite sure whether this was the price of a bap tism Certificate, or the bribe necessary to prevent an irate Chinese father from exposing his infant daughter to the ele ments on a mountaintop. (In that culture, said Sister, as the boys across ihe aisle sneered, girls couldn't earn their keep and were so much gratuitous ballast. She evidently knew not Mao.) There was always the rich kid who defeated the spirit of Sacrifice and brought in his 5 in a lump sum. there' by securing for himself the gilt-edged document crediting him with the baby's salvation. Most of the time, however, it was a corporate effort, and the entire class voted on a Christian namesake, for the baby, consensus usually sway ing toward a martyr who had the goriest Capsule Commen tary in the Lives of the Saints. Well Into the age of Reason by fourth grade, tne young Catholics prepared, with Mc- Cluhanesque fragments of vin tage Thomism programmed from a grey, freyed CCD cate chism, to be tempered by Con firmation. The slap meant you must be ready to suffer for your faith, which in turn meant if you were walking down the street on Ash Wednesday, and were accosted by a 10 year old Protestant who derisively remarked upon your Smudged Forehead, you were to civilly explain to him in detail its symbolism, in stead of yielding to your child like impulse to rub his own face in the dirt. MEMOIRS OF A HOLY CHILDHOOD: So scarce were Protestants in our Irish ghetto, however, that they became the victims, not the inflictors, of martyr dom. Hapless Seventh Day Ad- ventists that chanced to come seeking simple human contact were seized upon as candidates for conversion, and subjected to a daily saturation session in Catholicism behind some one's garage, plied with Holy Cards and other bribes. Un sportsmanlike (or merely Adamant) Dissenters copping out of this Neighborhood Game had to resort to the flimsy expedient of saying their Mothers wouldn't let them be baptized. WHY CAN'T YOU DO RIGHT (GET ME SOME MONEY, TOO) And then there were the de vious Intrigues and fierce vendettas carried on between rival factions of the Holy Childhood Mission Club to which the entire fifth grade, by virtue of forcible extortion of dues, belonged, willy-nilly. There were the Bourgeois Lib erals who advocated non-vio lent sewing circles and the Prayer and Good Example Method as means of imple menting Mission Work. The Militant Activist Element called Its sector the Victory Club, and sang this incendi ary song: Victory, Victory, we're gonna have our Victory/ We send our money across the Sea/And put other clubs in Misery./Other clubs Are so Dumb/If they want war well give them some. This group used the street corner ap proach thrusting their Mission THE SKYSCRAPER Mundelein College 6363 Sheridan Rd., Chicago, 111., 60626 Banks under the very noses of Passers-by. And then there was the Reactionary Right, which refused to raise money for the missions at all; this was the largest (though least vocal group,) comprising as It did the fifth grade boys. We learn, with the disen chantment of age, that much of our money never made it Across the Sea, but only so far as the Staff Payrole of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, of which the H.C.M.C. was the grass roots branch . .. Untopically, Tully toured the new Lakeview Art Center and the art de partment of Bradley Univer sity In Peoria. CSCA Exchange: Sister June M. O'Connor, theology de partment, is a CSCA ex change instructor at Luthe ran affiliated Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Pet- er, Minn., Nov. 13-17. Sis ter is participating in in formal seminars on church and society, religion and lit erature, and Luther. As part of the exchange. Dr. Gerald W. B ekke of the Education Department at Gustavus Adolphus will lec ture here Nov. 27-Dec. 1. Auxiliary Show: The Wom en's Auxiliary will present their tenth annual fashion show, High School Moth ers In Fashion. Nov. 18, In the Gold Coast Room of the Drake Hotel. Proceeds will be donated to the Learning Resource Center. Represen tatives from local high schools' mothers' clubs will be modeling. The three top models will receive cash prizes for their club. Library Meeting: Librarians from 12 colleges and univer sities of CSCA will meet at Mundelein the last week of November. Headed by Dr. Rodney Ferguson of Illinois Wesleyan University. Bloom- Ington, the group will dis cuss the possibilities of co operation to Improve their Now- one more thing not to worry about Neat discreet bags for pad disposal come FREE in each pretty new box of Scott Confidets., campus libraries. Chemistry Lecture: Rev. Al bert Maraczewskl, O.P., will speak to the Chemistry Club Nov. 29, at 3:20 p.m. in 607 on the Science of Love. Maraczewskl, who has a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Chicago, is presently teaching there af ter spending the last eight years at the University of Texas Research Center in Houston. Spanish Music: Students of the music department will pre sent a Program of Spanish Music, Nov. 19, at 4 p.m. in the College Theatre. The pianists are Sister Marihel- en Campbell, Sheila Cullen. Sister Diane Foster, Bar bara Seltz, Sister Laverne Smolka, Connie Manka and Maureen Tuman. Students Alice Griffin and Sister Cath erine Hendel will perform vocal selections. for the nearness of you Ldette. You're sure of yourself when you have Bidette. Here is a soft, safe cloth, pre* moistened with soothing lotion, that cleans and refreshes...swiftly banishes odor and discomfort. Use Bidette for intimate cleanliness at work, at bedtime, during menstrua tion, while traveling, or whenever weather stress or activity creates the need for reassurance. 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