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fj? ..- .; innn-TCx ' . IIHIE Volume VI. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 2, 1936 No. 13 Final Convocation Is Student Tribute To College President Council Presents Card Party Gift to Faculty on College Day In her farewell address as retiring president of the Student Activities Council, Julia Hagerty paid eloquent tribute to the first president of Mun delein College, under whose adminis tration the College was opened. Voicing the sentiments of the en tire student body, Miss Hagerty spoke simply and sincerely of the success which has come to the College in its first six years, and of the affection and deep gratitude which the students feel toward the President and toward the entire Faculty. The College gift was then pre sented, after which Miss Hagerty ad ministered the oath of office to the incoming officers of the Council, and turned over the meeting to Jean Mc Keever, incoming president, whose in augural address brought the cere mony of College Day to a close. In the review of the year which preceded the farewell address, the various clubs and departments were represented by officers who summar ized the work accomplished during the year. Rosemary Walsh, speaking for the Art club, Agnes Griffin for the Ce- cilians. and Dorothy Grace for the Commerce Club, summed up the ac tivities of their organizations. The Home Economics club was repre sented by Lillian Scholzen, and Dorothy O'Donnell spoke for the In ternational Relations club. The activities of the English Round Table were summarized by Helen Lynch. Roma Murphy spoke for the Laetare Players, Myrtle Pet erson for the Language clubs, and Jane Spalding for the Philosophy club. The Terrapins were represented by Margaret Vendley, the W.A.A. by Mary Tuohy; Caroline Holland spoke for the Science Forum, Virginia Corcoran for the Sociology Forum, Charlotte Wilcox for the Sodality, and Jane Malkemus for the Writers' and Debating clubs. The retiring class presidents, Ger aldine Connell, Dorothy Roche, (Continued on page 3, col. 5) Faculty Members Attend Olympics Among the trans-oceanic travel ers al Mundelein are the instruct ors in the athletics department, who will attend the Olympics in Germany this summer. Miss Alma Jones, physical edu cation director, and Miss Eileen Scanlan, instructor in swimming, will sail for Europe shortly after the close of school. Daisy El ward '34, a member of the Philos ophy circle, is also going abroad for the summer, and will leave on the Zeppelin sometime in July. Bishop Griffin to Confer Degrees; Honors Upon 71 Seniors at Fifth Annual Commencement on June 8 Margaret Werlein Leads; Takes Degrees Summa Cum Laude William H. Conley Is Toastmaster At Faculty Banquet William H. Conley, M.A., coach of debate, presided as toastmas ter at the Faculty banquet, which was held at the Belden Stratford Hotel, following the Baccalaureate address by the Reverend Raphael N. Hamilton, S.J., of Marquette uni versity, on May 31. Mary Frances Petrie gave a toast to the Baccalaureate speaker, and Father Hamilton responded. Regina Niewinska contributed a harp solo, after which Virginia O'Connell gave a toast to the United States. Roma Murphy presented a dra matic reading, after which George M. Schmeing, M.S., of the chemistry department, gave a toast to Loyola university. James A. Fitz gerald, Ph.D., professor of educa- (Continued on page 3, col. 2) Present Academic, Activity Awards Annual Honors Program Held on May 28 The stirring strains of Meyer beer's Coronation March, played by- Rita Smith at the organ, opened the Honors Day convocation at 1 o'clock on May 28. After the sing ing of the Official College song by the assembled student body, the Reverend Arthur J. Kelly, S. J., professor of philosophy at Loyola and Mundelein, awarded the hon ors, assisted by Julia Hagerty, Lil lian Scholzen, Jeanne Devaney, and Virginia O'Connell. Father Kelly addressed the stu dents, choosing as his topic the pru dent judgment with which young peo ple should meet the problems of life. Immediately following the address the students sang the Pledge song and Veronica Kassis played an or gan solo. Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament closed the convo cation. Highest College Honors were awarded to four seniors who have been in the upper five percent of their class in both junior and senior years, and whose names will be in scribed on the Honors Tablet and placed in the permanent Honors Record these seniors are Helen Driscoll, Frances Mikkelson, Mar garet Werlein, and Charlotte Wil cox. College Honors were awarded to students in the upper five percent of the sophomore, junior, and senior class, who were given the scholar- (Continued on page 7, col. 3) Margaret Werlein, a history ma jor and vice-president of the Inter national Relations club, will be a candidate for the Bachelor of Arts degree, Summa Cum Laude, the fifth student in the history of the Col lege to merit this distinction. The following students arc candi dates for the degree Bachelor of Arts Magna Cum Laude: Helen Driscoll. Margaret Egan, Myrtle Peterson, Ruth Quirk, and Char lotte Wilcox. Mildred Sperry is can didate for the degree Bachelor of Music Magna Cum Laude, and Helen Keenan is candidate for the degree Bachelor of Science in Commerce Magna Cum Laude. Lillian Scholzen, Kathryn Weni ger, Mary Marnell, and Justine Mar tin are candidates for the degree Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude, and Frances Mikkelson is a candidate for the degree Bachelor of Music Cum Laude. Fifty-six members of the class are candidates for the degree Bach elor of Arts; 9 for Bachelor of Sci ence; 5 for Bachelor of Music, and 1 for Bachelor of Science in Commerce. .- Skyscraper Leads Fifty-seven Varieties Since the announcement, made in the last issue ol the paper, that for the second time the Skyscraper had received Ail-American honors in the National Associated Colle giate Press survey, the detailed score sheet has disclosed some in teresting statistics. Of the 298 newspapers submitted, only 11 percent merited All-Amer ican honors. In the Monthly or Bi-Weekly division of the College and University section, the Sky scraper was the only entrant to receive this top rating. This rep resents 1.8 per cent, or one out of the 57 publications represented in that division. - lt;3 gt; Judges Announce Creative Writing Contest Awards Confers Degrees The Most Reverend William R. Griffin, D.D. Twenty-Six Merit Certificates for Commerce Courses Returns from four sections of the annual Creative Writing contest spon sored by the English department re veal that two sophomores, one junior, and one senior arc prize winners. Re turns from the essay contest, being judged by Helen C. White, author of A Watch in the Nicn-r, have not yet come in. In the judgment of Morton Dawen Zabel, Ph.D., head of the English de partment of Loyola university, Joanne Dimmick's poem, To Genesius, written for the hero of the Henri Gheon play presented last fall by the Laetare Players, receives the poetry prize. Gertrude Feeney and Caroline Holland take first and second places of honor. Margaret Werlein, senior, merits the short-story award, in the judg ment of John Towner Frederick, au thor, editor, and faculty member of Northwestern university, for her story Degrees of Darkness. Jane Mal kemus and Mary Catherine Rose take first and second honors. Roland E. Wolselcy, author and book review editor of The Evanston Xews Index, judges Miss Malkemus' re view of Unpublished Poems of Emily Dickinson the prize-winner in that section of the contest, and places Julia Mary Hanna's and Mary O'Brien's :ontributions in honor positions. According to Charles S. Ryckman. chief editorial writer of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, Katherine Ott merits the editorial award for And Sudden Death, written in support of i safety traffic campaign sponsored nationally by the Student Federation f America. Jean McKeever and Ann Ellen Smith take first and second places of lonor in the editorial contest. The Most Reverend William R. Griffin, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of La Crosse, will give the address and confer degrees upon the members of the Class of 19.36, in the fifth annual commencement exercises, on June 8. The 71 members of the senior class, followed by the General Fac ulty, in caps and gowns, the Guests of Honor, and the Bishop, attended by the Right Reverend Robert C. Magttire, Chancellor of the Arch diocese, the Right Reverend Daniel A. Frawley, rector ol St. Jerome's parish, and an escort of fourth-de gree Knights of Columbus, will en ter the auditorium in procession at 10 o'clock. The College Orchestra will play, and the Glee club will sing several selections, after which the Reverend Francis J. Gerst, S.J., dean of the graduate school of Loyola univer sity, will read the Invocation. Monsignor Maguire will then pre sent the candidates for degrees, and His Excellency, the Bishop, will con fer degrees and honors, as the rep resentative of His Eminence, George Cardinal Mundelein, Chancellor of the College. The following students are candi dates for the degree Bachelor of Arts: Mercedes Beyer, Dorothy Boynton, Loretta Brady, Janette Brennan, Margaret Burke, Marjorie Carroll, Rita Casey, Virginia Cor coran, Mary Dorothy Curtin, Mary- ellen Decker, Jeanne Devaney, Hel en Domkus, Helen Driscoll, Mar garet Egan, Dorothy Grace, Julia Hagerty, Gertrude Hans, Violet. Hans, Eileen Hettinger, Mary Fran ces Hoban, Eleanor Hopkins, Ma rion Home, Mary Home, Ella Jam ieson, Rosemary Kearns, Violet Kil bane, Mary Lamont, Dorothy Lindsay. Helen Lynch, Bernadette Man ning, Mary Marnell, Justine Martin, Mary McManus, Mary Moss, Mai- (Continued on page 3, col. 1) Father Hamilton, S.J. Gives Baccalaureate Listening to their Baccalaureate address on May 31, the seniors were be transported again to their fresh man year, when the Reverend Raph ael X. Hamilton, S.J., who gave the Baccalaureate address, gave their first college retreat. Father Hamilton, in a dynamic at tack upon Godless education, pointed to the spread of Communism among young people of today as the logical result of education which denies the existence of God and ignores the Commandments, and urged the Cath olic college graduates, who have been trained to a philosophy of life founded on right principles and sound ideals, to be as logical in their zeal for the spread of Christianity as arc the Communists in their desire to win the world for Moscow. The Baccalaureate processional, which started at 4 o'clock in the Chapel corridor and proceeded to the auditorium, included the members of the junior class, the seniors in caps and gowns, the members of the General Faculty, the Guests of Honor, and the Baccalaureate speaker, Father Hamilton. The Orchestra played the proces sional and recessional, and the Glee club sang several selections and the hymns for Solemn Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament, after which the Graduates' Pledge of Loyalty and Service closed the Baccalaureate ex ercises. Four Receive Honor Pins In Department Twenty-six students in the com merce department will receive secre tarial certificates at a luncheon in the tearoom on June 4, and one econom ics major, Helen Keenan, will receive the degree Bachelor of Science in Commerce at Commencement. Two-year certificates will be award ed to Shirley Brice and Helen Franks, and the following 24 students will re ceive one-year certificates : Eleanor Coyne, Martha Duda, Nor- een Grace, Peggy Grimm, Adelaide Harrington, Loretta Haugh, Mary Haync, Marion Holy, Marie Hughes, Josephine Jagoditch, Eileen Kane, Jane Lacey, Catherine McCrickard. Mary Ruth Moran, Frances Noll, Dorothy Pasterski, Marie Scheckel, Betty Jane Sheridan, Mary Ellen Spelman, Lois Steffans. Mary Jane Walsh, Laura Witkunski, Helen Wro- blcwski, and Irene Horvath. Tn a departmental meeting on May 28. the President of the College con ferred Commerce Honor pins upon Shirley Brice, Xorecn Grace, Laura Witkunski, and Helen Wroblewski. Second Honors in Commerce were conferred upon Helen Franks, Jose phine Jagoditch, Catherine Pearson, and Helen Smith. Freshmen Choose Cotillion Leader Dorothy Foy will be leading the Sophomore Cotillion next fall, ac cording to the freshmen, who elect ed Miss Foy social chairman of their class at the assembly on May 19. Marcella Windle, who held the office of treasurer this year, was re-elected as sophomore treasurer, and Merle Smith was elected ser geant-at-arms,
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