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Page Two SKYSCRAPER If I Were a Freshman Again... I'd come to Mundelein College and I'd get into the Mundelein spirit just as soon as I could, by making friends with Faculty and students alike. . . . Helen Sauer,' Student Activities Council Presi dent. I'd put my worrybird on steady sched ule and dispense myself from sighs and sniffles. Then I would have time to do the little things I want to do; my days would be gayer, and my forehead would be smoother. . . . Margery Rowbottom, Sen ior Class President. I'd try to decide as nearly as possible what 1 wanted to do after I was graduated, so I wouldn't have the confusion of scram bled schedules junior year. . . . Ruth Rind erer, S.A.C. Vice-President. I'd make the most of every minute of my brand-new college career and tuck away in some corner of my mind the mem ory of all the friends and fun Mundelein offers its newcomers. . . . Jerry Stutz, S.A.C. Secretary. I'd do the same things I did last year, because it was such a happy year . . . Mary Frances Padden, S.A.C. Treasurer I would especially like to plan for an other four-year stay here at Mundelein. . . .Irene Mikos, Sodality Prefect. I would pay closer attention in class, and eliminate the necessary 'cramming' when exam time comes. . . . Charlotte Smith, Junior Class President. Three things I would learn to do: de- ' velop a good sense of direction (O, the times I've Tieen lost ); acquire grace in walking up and DOWN the stairs; learn locker-placement economy. . . . Rosemary Tarsitano, Sophomore Class President. I would make every minute of my col lege-life count in equipping myself to ful fill my duty as an educated Catholic wom- .ai.i, capable of living up to my solemn -pledge to serve Cod and my fellow man, .vt.o-.be loyal to my country. . . . Mildred . iWelch, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Mundelein Col lege Review. I'd procure my 'elevator pass' early to avoid the rush; or, that failing, I'd take an extensive course in mountain-climbing. I'd try to open my locker without the aid of a blow-torch, and I'd be very obsequious to all upperclassnien. . . . Margaret Jean Burke, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Review. Instead of jumping head-first into four or five extra-curricular activities and then not .being able to keep them all up, I'd concentrate on one or two clubs and do my very best for them. . . . Marie Nordby, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Skyscraper. .. .. I'd wear my green cap at the jauntiest angle allowed, and be forever grateful that I was a freshman with four years of Mundelein ahead of me. . . . Mary Kay Jones, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Skyscraper. 1941..Freshmen.. 1943 THE SKYSCRAPER Ticker Tape While Allied forces pushed their tanks and guns north after capture of Nazi-razed Naples, millions of Catholics throughout the world offered heartfelt prayers for their beloved Vicar . . . For in Rome the position of Pius XII grew steadily more precarious as the hard-pressed German Command threatened to take steps against Papal belligerence . . . Simplifying the situation for press and public alike, and, incidentally, speeding the settlement of foreign problems, Presi dent Roosevelt swept four names from the roster of government organizations, and consolidated the powers of the four under one head. Leo Crowley, chief of the for eign economic administration . . . America turned its pockets inside out to over-subscribe the fifteen billion dollar Third War Loan . . . Back from her 23,000 mile journey in the Pacific Theater, Eleanor Roosevelt talked woman-to-woman with the coun try's mothers, wives, and sweethearts, and assured them that their boys were worthy of respect ... ' Vieing with Russian front good news in the headlines was advance publicity for another struggle ... the annual World Series, this year between the pride of the American League, the New York Yankees, and the St. Louis Cardinals, National League champions. We came in September, 208 of us. We were the Freshmen of 1941, with new three-inch feather cuts, and pleat ed plaid skirts, and a fervent desire to be all those things that are summed up in the word collegiate. Yes, we planned for a future. We had splendid visions of what we would ac complish with degree in hand after some far-distant commencement day. That our towering ideas were nebulous and misted bothered us not at all. Didn't we have four rich, beautiful years in which to etch them to sharpness and clarity? At the moment we had a charming pat tern for living to follow a pattern cut for us by tailors and seamstresses who learned their trade from experience in the same sort of world in which we were growing up. Our parents and teachers had fashioned a wise and tested blueprint of preparation for a full, rounded life in our lovely, peaceful country. And we followed it unhesitatingly, our hearts feather-light. This is another autumn an autumn two years or perhaps a hundred years from that gay and giddy 1941. This is an autumn of 332 Mundelein freshmen, of quickened tempo, of new de termination. This is a year of war. Because of that, our small world, the whole world, has changed. And with their safe world no longer close and familiar, freshmen of 1943 have grown up to the task of helping to cut a new pattern for a new world. The age-old principles on whic h our Catholic education is founded re main the same, but the pattern of liv ing is different for the freshmen of to day. But the freshmen of today are strong and courageous and in earnest. They've taken on a tremendous task, and they know it. Their strength has come more quickly than ours, their courage has been needed sooner than ours was needed. They are gay, as we were, but purpose glows from behind their gaiety, as it glows behind ours today, more brightly than it did when we were freshmen in a world at peace. They laugh, and it is laughter that bub bles spontaneously but not with the care- freeness of another year. The freshmen of '43 have the future in focus to them, it begins, not years from today, but right now. .- Collegianna of 1941 is a charming memory, but we have outgrown its pattern of living. The freshman of today, like her upperclass sister, is fitting the pattern for a probably difficult, an undoubted ly different, but, let us hope and pray, for a better, a brighter, a more blessed tomorrow. Official Semi-Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridaii Road Chicago.Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College For Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M. Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1897, 1.75 the year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College. Vol. XIV Friday, October 8, 1943 Xo. 1 Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Telephone: Ambassador 9011 Co-Editors-in-Chief Marie Kay Jones, Marie Nordby Associates Helen Nicholson Frances Wilkinson Feature Editors Jayne King. Jerry Stutz, ( Mary C. Tuomey Associates Mary Beecher, Mary C. Burns, Alyce Jeanne Kiley, Gene vieve Urbain News Editors Eleanor Arends, Mary Grace Carney, Patricia Hollahan, Joan Tcmpleman Associates Patricia Curran, Sheila Finney, Dolores Hartigan, Dellamae Laughlin, Julia Woodford Sports Editor Jean Kiley Art Editor Dorothy Schaar Business Manager Madeleine Courtney Reporters: Viola Brennan, Vivian Brust, Mary Martha Cooper, Dorothy Feidler, Mary Louise Gulick, Lois Hintze, Virginia Lee, Audrey McDonnell, Marianne Small, Mary Lou Walter, Jeanne Agnes Smith. A 'Forgotten Pasteur'? In recording for the world the phenom enal story of man's conquest over the yellow fever transmitter, most historians have completely forgot about the wiry Irish doctor who had fought a losing bat tle for 20 years and was able to prove he was right only when Major Walter Reed, struggling for any glimmer of hope, tried his method. Lois Mattox Miller tells the story in Carlos Finlay: The Ameri cas' Forgotten Pasteur, in CATHOLIC WORLD for September. A three-word sentence should be the catchword of every American at the pres ent time. It is a simple, direct sentence but important enough to be broadcast on every radio program. You have heard H. V. Kaltenborn say it; Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Fibber McGee have said it it has gone the rounds of every program, news, comedy, drama, and music. It is just this: BACK THE ATTACK Nothing could be more brief, yet the full import of Back the Attack is never for a moment bidden it is New Guinea, the Solomons, Russia, Italy, and Europe itself the Nazi-shackled Europe. It has been brought to our attention many times before, this lending of our money to save the world from ruin. It be comes more vital as the war progresses, and our side is in the lead. It's our dol lars against the lives of our men. Each student at Mundelein has a share in the destiny of the world. Each student must then bear a share in the burden of war. It's not father's war, .nor the next- door neighbor's war it's everyone's war, and everyone's responsibility. We have the largest enrollment this year at Mundelein that we have ever had. Therefore we must have a much larger quota of Stamps and Bonds bought by our students than ever before. Our aim, as of last year, is to send a parade of jeeps to the men in the armed forces. Last year's drive netted 17,232.15 in War Bonds and Stamps, the equivalent of 21 jeeps for our parade. With the in creased enrollment this year, that amount can be greatly enlarged. Remember, the jeep is this army's man Friday. It goes where nothing else on wheels can go. Therefore, as a goal for our investment in Bonds, it is in itself inspiring. Instead of buying quite so many cokes and magazines, let's put our dimes on the counter of the War Stamp booth in the Student lounge, in exchange for small shares in victory. If every girl at Mun delein made this practice a weekly habit, another parade of Mundelein jeeps would be on its way to the front in an unbeliev ably short time, along with the good wish es and prayers of all of us Let's: BACK THE ATTACK Study, Service, Plus Prayer Makes Winning Combination A college girl in these days is bus than a bubble in boiling water. She set ries to and from classes those classes picked with special care to bolster I present and boost the future. She's i ging in to her studies with renewed terest, not only because it's the beginni of a new scholastic year, but also becai she realizes now the value attached these studies. The college student is concentratinj with deadly seriousness and patriotk fervor on the war effort and on ha immediate future. She has a war jok after class, or she is on duty in htf starched blue Nurse's Aide pinafore, or she runs messages for the OCD. On weekends, there's hostessing a: i USO and writing those longed-for le to the boys on the fighting fronts. Id I ween times, she sandwiches in a gl at the budget.to see if more dimes ca squeezed out for War Stamps. She doesn't kill time now; she: right by it. The hours once spent in dn ing are now spent in practicalities.. because she is busy and time rushes the college student is apt to forget M important factors in her life. In her eagerness to learn, to gro? intellectually, she must not forget till silent reflection and prayer are lib illuminating searchlights on the ww to understanding. In the midst of tw whirl of her activity, she must re member that real peace of mind corns only with prayer. The President of the College reinia ed us, at our initial convocation, that J are combating spiritual enemies, and ;T paring to combat intellectual ones, :J American boys fight the material war.B reminded us that we must preserve Choi/ tian culture and civilization. Mere accic T lation of facts will not du that. BulB* flection, appreciation of the beauty aroi F us, and of the Truth presented to u-l classes and in books, will. I , Activity, study, service all are impfln taut, but, to make these purposeful Mtc permanently valuable, we need medfl tion and prayer. We can swing our miiKi back to the things of the spirit whentfc murmur the prayer to St. Thomas be:ft classes, when the Angelus rings, wlienB pause in the Chapel for our Rosary-a-Dwi for Victory and Peace. I N'( Yes, activity, study, and service anlAi essential and commendable, but tblOi wise college girl does not foster theswh at the expense of the real nucleus c:l dc her life, her spiritual strength ani vision. 1 Si,
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1943-10-08 (2)
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