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; The Curtain Rises On the Piano Discovering Music Recital of Rosemary Viglione, Senior Music Education jor, on May 14, Mother's day,-at p.m. In accordance with the theme of the jy, the program will be opened with B Poem To Mother, written by Mar- ret Jean Burke, editor of the Mun- ikix Coi.ij.ge Review, and presented y Patricia Rocap. of the drama depart ed. Uiss Viglione will first play several hopin selections, Scherzo, Op. 39, Use Op. 70, No. 1, and Prelude Op. No. 18. The Scherzo in C Sharp Minor, writ- lo by Chopin when his beloved Po nd was being partitioned by three Soropean powers, throbs with indigna nt, defiance, scorn, and also with eat tenderness for his wronged and ffering countrymen. Following this will be a modern roup beginning with Dohnanyi's Rhap- (dy in C Major. One of the finest ex- iples of the exhuberant mood, this imposition embodies in modern con- leption the spirit of joyous abandon in msic. Concluding this group will be De- mssy's well known Danseuses de klphcs, followed by Le Petit Blance he, by Ibert. The power of music to touch the hid- Bn springs of laughter is exercised Rely throughout the selection by jert. The braying of The Little White lonkey may be heard, interspersed with through the interpretations of Rose mary Viglione will be guests at her sen ior recital, on May 14, at 3 p.m. the sound of trotting hoof-beats. Returning to a classical vein, Miss Viglione will close the program with Liszt's Hungarian Fantasy. It is dis tinctly and characteristically gipsy mu sic, which Liszt has adapted for piano. Betty Ann Yunker will play orchestral parts at the second piano. Also assisting Miss Viglione will be Patricia Kelly, drama major, who will give her interpretation of two read ings, Edith Cavcll and Southern Colo nial, and Miss Rocap, who will read a selection entitled The First Dress Suit. Ushering for the occasion will be Jean Spatuzza and Rosemary Viglione, freshman, cousin of the pianist. First Lady in the Hearts of Mundelein students was honored yesterday at the May Coronation ceremony, climax of Sodality activities for the year, which was dedicated to the safety of service men and the cause of world peace. Wearing a bridal gown of white mar quisette and a fingertip veil, Margaret Mary Duffy crowned the statue of the Blessed Virgin, while the student body sang traditional May hymns. Maids-of-Honor in the Queen's Court included the following seniors and jun iors: Leocadia Meloy, Audrey Tobin, Virginia Dimmick, Mary Jean Pal lasch, Regina Moran, Janet Farrell, Edith Bukowski, Betty Jane Hcffcrnan, Rosemary Roeder, Lenore Brockhaus, and Mary Catherine Tuomey. Sophomores and freshmen in the Court- of-Honor were Mary Kay O'Leary, Marilyn Garlock, Margaret Mary Kiandl, Virginia Darovic, Louise Bra dy, Francine Lamb, Mary O'Malley, Carita Ward, and Adelaide Costello. Flag bearers were Harriet Mclnerney and Eleanor McBride. Preceding the Coronation ceremony, the Reverend William T. Clark, pro fessor of senior religion, spoke on Our Lady, Model of Christian Womanhood, and the assembly recited the Act of Consecration and the Pope's Prayer for Peace. The ceremony closed with a quartet of Glee Club members, Marilyn Matt, June Murphy, Gloria Rasscnfoss, and Josephine Gendielle, singing Rosewig's Ave Maria. Providing music for the ceremony were Jane Claire Brown, organist, Dor othy Grill, cellist, and Lillian Muza, violinist. They Also Serve, a Choric Drama, Will Highlight The Mundelein Mosaics of 1944, Presented on May 7 at 8 p.m. by the drama and music departments in the college theatre. As the patriotic drama unfolds, the audience will find that all his tory is not in books, that it is being lived and made each instant, not only on tiny islands rising out of the storm-tossed Pacific, but also in lonely homes where courageous mothers knit and wait. . t , - . The Mosaics have been presented in Marching On in The Role of Student Activities Council officers will he Jerry Stutz, incoming senior elected oil May 2 to succeed Helen Sauer as president of the Council, Jean Casey, elected to suceed Ruth Rinderer as vice-president, and Sheila Finney, who will succeed Miss Stutz as secretary. Next Tuesday, the student assembly will elect the S.A.C. treasurer. Nomi nees are Regina Bess and Marianne Peterson, both incoming sophomores. An English-journalism major, Miss Stutz was vice-president of her class in freshman year; treasurer of the S.A.C. in sophomore year, and secretary of the S.A.C. in junior year. A sociology major, Miss Casey was a junior representative on the Council this year, and Miss Finney, a history major whose home is in Texas, was a sophomore representative. credit classes ... ,. /X 7 ; *':-.- ' ..-* :v.vw- '-vf.vVww.;- :.;., .is; **.* ** * - . VC.'-' Vol. XIV RKSHMAN Mundelein College, May 5, 1944 ISSUE No. 12 Action This Day on Matter 0f College Physics is Recommendation of Faculty Scientist In The Physics Department, Sister Mary Theresc, B.V.M., who will leak at the Illinois Academy of Science ueeting, today, in De Kalh, Illinois. Sister Mary Marguerite Christine, B.V.M., of the chemistry department. lill also road a paper, and Patricia Crumley. Margery Rowbottom, Bar bara Lavin, Lillian Questiaux, Maria De Block. Dorothy McDuffic, and Har riet O'Brien, students of science and uthematics, will present a symposium on the Contributions of Science to Post-war Reconstruction. Sister Mary Thcresc's paper will be I report on a survey taken among Mun delein students who took physics in ugh school, to determine why so few freshmen elect the course in college. Results of the survey reveal that 59 per cent of the students failed to elect physics because they think it is too dif- Ecult; 52 per cent chose other sciences because they believe that the field of (hysics will be closed to women when formal conditions are restored after the ar; 41 per cent stated that physics requires too extensive a knowledge of mathematics, and 28 per cent consid ered other sciences easier. I The survey was conducted as a fol low-up of a review of colleges made by Anton J. Carlson, professor at the University of Chicago, in October, 1942. Mundelein was one of 21 colleges 'throughout the United States selected to take part in the project sponsored by an educational commission on col leges and universities. Sister Mary Thercse will conclude the report by noting that: To remove the objection that physics is too diffi cult and requires too much mathemat ics, the introductory course should find its way into the curriculum of more colleges. Such a course could be arranged for non-science majors, with the purpose of stressing the applications of physics to the life of the liberal arts student. Lecture, demonstration, laboratory, and problem solving, all are needed for satisfactory scientific training in phys- (Continued on page 4, column 3) You'd Better Come Quietly and thoughtfully to freshman assembly today, at 1 p.m., in the auditorium, for nominations for sophomore class officers will be in order. Elections will begin next Friday, May 12 We Followed Our Hearts To Summer School will be the theme song in September of those students who acquire hours by attending summer from June 28 to August 3. All courses here at Mundelein will be held in the morning, Monday through Friday, except Red Cross Home Nursing, given Saturdays, 9 to 12 a.m. Offered during the first period each morning, 8:55 to 10:25 a.m., are courses in Comparative Anatomy, General Chemistry 1, Analytic Geometry, Ele mentary Spanish 2, Geography of Latin America, Piano, Voice, Violin, Modern American Literature, Survey of Eng lish Literature 8, Fundamentals of Speech, and American Government. During the second period each morn ing. 10:30 to 11:55 a.m., are offered Comparative Anatomy, General Chem istry 1, Piano, Elementary German 1, Organ, Shakespeare, Dante, Twentieth- Century Europe, Essay Writing, Nutri- trian, Form and Analysis, American School Systems, Educational Psychol ogy, Latin 1, and History of Philoso phy. Registration will be held on June 28; final examinations on August 3. Above Suspicion The Higher Learning Includes Debating as winners of the Debate tournament can testify. Mary Ann Anderson and Patricia Curran, of the senior debate division, and Rita Stalzer and Marion King, of the junior division, are the winners. Other participants in the senior group were Jeanne McNulty and Irene Ken- ncy; in the junior group, Patricia Czar necki, Kay Hangsterfer, Lois Murriu, Lorraine King, Eugenia Gregory, Gcr- aldine Kelly, Jeanne O'Connor, Eddy Jo Noonan, Beth Goodwillie, and Pa tricia Hereley. is the gesture of these students who have an apple for their teacher, Mary Stokes, senior French major who did her practice teaching at St. Gertrude's. Twenty-eight other seniors have done practice teaching in various schools of the city. Pictured with Miss Stokes are Daniel Touhy, Rita Kremsreiter, Ruth Minogue, and John Brennan. the spring each year since the College was opened and have included selec tions of drama, dance, and song fitted into an artist mosaic pattern. Cooperating with the drama depart ment will he the Orchestra, conducted by Joseph J. Grill, the Glee club, di rected by Walter Aschcnbrcnner, and Barbara Ann Frick, Patricia Tiemey, and Margaret Cashman, accompanists. Directs Costume Dances The program will open with a series of costume dances directed by Cathe rine Denny Phelps. LaVergne Schroe der, Helen Walz, Patricia Czarnecki, Peggy Routliff, lone Henry, Mary- jane Ostendorf, Patricia Tennyson, and Gertrude Spellbrink will star in the Viennese Waltz. Jeanne O'Connor and Edith Moscar dini appear in a Gay Nineties dance entitled Strolling Through the Park, and Mary Beechcr, Janet Herrmann, Eleanor Layden, and Claudia Pelletier do a Dutch dance, entitled Fun in Tulip Time. Irene Foster and Carol Simmons, in eighteenth-century costumes, will dance the Dresden Romance, and Mary Cath erine Quinn, freshman, Alice Marie Horen, Miss Layden, Miss Moscardini, Eileen Murphy, and Miss Schroeder will appear in a novelty number. Do Novelty Numbers Mary Jane Harvey and Ruth Shmi gelsky appear in Rag Doll Capers; Miss Pelletier and Miss Herrmann are in the Russian Toy Romance, and Miss Beecher, Miss Horen, Miss Layden, Mary Jane Hogan, Miss Moscardini, and Miss O'Connor appear in The Sidewalks of New York. The final dance number, a patriotic ballet to the music of John Philip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever, will be a prelude to the choric drama by Harold G. Slikart, presented by the Speech Choir, with tableaux depicting the heroes of yesterday and today at home and abroad. Unique projections and settings form a background for the characterizations of outstanding patriots. Take Historic Roles . Patrick Henry will be portrayed by Grace O'Connor; Andrew Jackson by Larraine Knaub; and John Brown by Betty Howard. Abraham Lincoln will be shown by projection, and Jane Mi chael will be heard as his voice. Mary Patricia O'Bryan will take the part of the Questioner, and Barbara Brennan, Dolores Toniatti, and Julie Lenihan will be cast as Historians. The roles of the First and Second Heroes will be played by Patricia Kelly and Patricia Rocap. and the Other Sol dier will be Chloris Freeman. Irene Foster will take the part of the Mother, and Ruth Anne McCarthy will be a Neighbor. Junior Designs Setting The entire program is built around a unit set. Scene changes for the dance numbers and the tableaux of the drama will be effected by unique Linnebach projections. Junior art major Ruth Shmigelsky is the designer and tech nical director of the production. Soloists of the Speech Choir are Patricia Czarnecki, Betty Lamberti. Virginia Lee, Joan Moore, Peggy Rout liff, and Veronica Walsh. Members of the Choir include Joyce Archer, Noreen Braum. Dorothy Breit, Annamay Byrne, Rosemary Comfort, Eleanor Cossoff, Margaret Dovgalo, Marianne Farrell, Mildred Gethner, Joy (Continued on page 3, column 2)
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