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Page Two, THE SKYSCRAPER, May 21, 1956 To The Seniors . . . I Show The Way I Teach The Truth I show the Way, says .Mundelein College, and lor lour years you have been treading my path. I show the way to intellectual fulfillment. For eight semesters you have pursued my light. I show the way to womanly leadership; you have responded to my call. -l have shown the way Tor you, and you in turn must show others, whether it be the class behind you or the city around you. I teach the Truth. Within my walls you have come in contact with the great body of Catholic culture that is part of your heritage. I teach (he Truth. My Faculty is dedicated to it. You leave me after four years, but by then you are enveloped in its beauty; it is your crowning star. '' Truth is always the other side of the argument, the side that sometimes is hard to find, most difficult to hang on to, and the one that usually demands the most sacrifice from its followers. You never rushed out of the house in the morning for a ) o'clock class telling everyone, Hurrah I'm oil' for more truth But when you look back you know it was there saturating every lecture you listened to, every paper you wrote. Truth is the thread of serenity run ning through the most chaotic assign ment. Truth is a revolution trying to overthrow the world, or that part of it that has set up a golden calf. I teach the Truth, says Munde lein College, and you must be chan nels transporting it back and forth among your classmates and to those outside. 1 give it to you in (rust. You must nourish it. You must love il, for there are many who would choke it and obliterate it from the face of the earth. Preserving it is your re sponsibility now. but I have prepared you well. I reveal the Life, says Munde lein College, the only way of life. I teach you the life of my .Master. I teach you as lie would have taught you. I teach the life of faith, of hop;. of charity. T am a woman all beauti fill in my virtues. ''Rich with gifts, generous in sharing. I symbolize a woman bending over a crib, standing at a blackboard, using a type writer, speaking into a micro phone. I have a model, too. In fact, I pray to her every day . I say quite simply, 'Mary, the Woman, pray for us.' I reveal the Life, says Munde lein College, '(he only way of life. I (each the life you will lake with you. 1 teach the life that saves, the life of love. As your parents have given you physical life, as the Church has given you spiritual life, I have attempted to give you intellectual and social vital ity. You are my masterpieces, l.'pon you, I rest my hopes. A Senior Speaks . . . What Will We Take With Us Commencement Day? If someone had told the parents of many of us, in the crest of the de pression, thai their infant daughters would someday be graduated from college, that person would have received an incredulous or amused reac tion. The foremost concern of many parents at that time particularly was providing absolute necessities for their children. On .June G, less than 25 years later, seniors will enjoy the thrill of se ing the wonder and happiness in the eyes of their fathers and mothers at commencement. Many graduates will be the first in their families to have had the opportunity of a college education. And many may have actually had to convince practical minded parents of its value for women. It is impossible to foresee the influence our persistence i attaining thai education will exert upon our younger sisters, cousins, and future familie. Many serious thoughts absorb II: e seniors in their last few days before Commencement and, paradoxically, some of the students who counted re maining days and hours while sighing impatiently are the same ones whose eyes will glisten most on their day. We struggle through four years and find ourselves reviewing them nos talgically. We'll miss the belongingness we shared, and go on to face new experiences alone as we look for for our first permanent positions, marry, and. later, re-discover that belongingness with our own families. Few commencement addresses omit the reminder that commencement means the beginning, not the end. It is a beginning of many things; among these is the beginning of forgetting of classmates' names, textbook material, and difficult assignments. It is similar to the feeling of amnesia we had each September after a long summer vacation. We are left mostly with lasting impressions and attitudes. It will take con stant alertness to avoid dulling the keenness of mind which these four years have developed in US. No one will demand that we read a good book or dis cuss a current controversy. In our most impressive and wise tone of voice we pass on some advice to undergraduates. Four years pass quickly. Make the most of them. Spend at least one semester enjoying and investigating the ex tra-curricular spiritual and intellectual activities college offers. Make many lasting friendships. Nowhere else will you have so much in common with so many others. As we look forward, we borrow something from the past, making a slight change: (itant us we beseech Thee, ' Merciful God, ardently to de sire, prudently to LIVE, rightly to understand, and perfectly to fulfill, all that is pleasing to Thee.' ' 100 Blissful Days . . . Summer Intermission Offers Leisure Or Does It? June 1 marks the termination of a school year. We are leaving the tow eling skyscraper a year wiser per haps, changed in opinions and out looks, confirmed in habits, tired of tests, and longing for leisure. We are granted the bountiful bless ing of about 100 days of blissful liv ing. No more assignments (except for those attending summer school), no trips to the Phoenix (we white collar girls will have coffee breaks instead), no more just looking at the cool blue lake (now we'll be able t plunge in). What to do? What to do with those summer days? Lounge? Of course. Work? Probably. Read? Maybe not Bugs Bunny, but bio graphy and fiction, humorous, his torical, and otherwise. Go to daily Mass? If possible. These will be days lo sport cotto skirts, cowl necklines, and berinudas; to play tennis and golf; to go swim ming, boating and water-skiing; to en joy outdoor concerts, Buckingham Fountain; to see the sights, travel, get sun-burned and windblown. Wonderful, wonderful summer va cation What would we do without you.' Grand are the things we plai. to do with vou Jhe hudcraper Vol. XXVI May 21, 1956 No. 13 Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Co-editors-in-chief Jean Kielty, Marie Kobielus, Nancy Mammoser Associates Diane Letourneau Genevieve Teutsch, Maribeth Xaughten, Chandra Camp. Marilyn Sanlini The REPs Report Virginia Leidinger 100 Blissful Days Alice Raczak To The Seniors Rita Caprini Artist Joyce Kuhlmann Reporters Janice Zumwalt. Geraldine Battista, Michaella Burton. Mar ilyn Devereaux, Jeanine Dwyer, Dolores Ferraro, Marilyn Jensen, Gloria Mrazek, Beatrice Hoang, Maureen Connerty, Lynne Sheeran, Carole Bauer, Lynda Rousseau, Diane Seifres, Kathleen Slattery, Dorothy Strzechowski, Jean Vetterick, Marythercse Walsdorf. Joan Zander. Marguerite Phillips. Barbara Guderian Now We Encounter Cruel, Cold World Now that school days fire fast draw ing to a close for some of us, our thoughts naturally turn toward the future and What's To Become Of Vs. Whether we realize it or not, classes and assignments have become SO much a pail of our daily lives that any other routine may make us feel like starfish in a desert. For as many years as we can re member the major portion of our lives has been planned for US nine o'clock class, lunch at 1-, book report due a week from Thursday. Someone has always been be hind us: prodding and pushing, even in our social lives 'Buy a bid for the Christmas dance . . . Come to a class meeting . . . Don't forget the mixer Friday night We h; ve In,'ii cogs in a wheel, and. no matter how unimportant we ma- have fell at times, we didn't have to wait long for some organization or group to come along and say. remi niscent of the famous wartime poster, We want you. Perhaps this is the real test of our education's worth not. How many A's or B's did T get on my semes ter report card.' (impressive as the may be), bid How well am T pre pared to face the problems or better still, the humdrumness of life that will come my way? From now on our lives will be what we, and we alone, make them. We are equipped to think for ourselves and we have the responsibility to do so. Our minds must be filled with the seeds of enough ideas an ' enough intellectual and spiritual interest to last a lifetime. School days are the sowing time; what we reap becomes evident only later. That a college graduate would be completely aware of the intangible something that she possesses is as un likely as expecting a three-year-old to recognize the value of high-topped shoes. Bui others will be able to see it. Even now, others will be able to see what we have been fortunate enough to acquire, whether we acquired it through scrimping, saving, and tear ful pleading or whether it has been handed to us on platinum platters. And there is a very good chance that we will some day know it, too. i
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1956-05-21 (2)
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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