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January 22, 1936 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three Alumnae Members I Clepsydra Publishes Wear Diamonds; Continue Study Diamond rings sparkled among color ful formats at the Alumnae dance, held in the Continental Room of the Stevens on Dec. 26. It was just two days before two alum nae weddings that of Katherine Bren nan '34 to Charles O'Neil of Loyola, and that of Marie Bushnell to Robert Flan agan. Marie Sweeney '3.3 and Mary Nichol son '34 are among the recently engaged. Miss Sweeney's fiance is Rudy Schuess- ler, and Miss Nicholson, a prominent Laetare Player and Council member of the Charter Class, is engaged to Edward Shaeger. On Jan. 12, at a tea at her parent's home, Margaret Webb's engagement to Harry A. Wardenburg was announced. Miss Webb was a home economics major in the class of '35. Another Charter Class member, Julia Matenacrs, whose home is in Santa Mane, California, was recently married to Lay-ton C. Kinney. Not all the alumnae, however, are for saking their studies. Mary Margaret Morrissey '35, who won the Anna Hope Hudson scholarship to the Catholic Uni versity of America last June, spent part of her Christmas holidays in Newberry library, gathering material for her Mas ter's thesis on The Irish Builders of Chicago up to 1865. Margaret Roche McNeills ex '34, Mar garet Grace '35, now an apprentice teacher and a graduate student at Loy ola, Bertille McEvoy Walsh ex '34, and Irene Lavin '35, who is putting her horti cultural training to use at Schillers, visited the College during the holidays. Ann Lally '35, an apprentice teacher at Amundsen high school, and Mary Agnes Tynan '35, were at Candle lighting on Dec. 20. On New Year's Day, Margaretta No- Ian '33 was busy saying farewell to her Chicago friends, preparatory to leaving for Toledo, Ohio, where she has been ap pointed Activity Secretary of the Na tional Catholic Community House. Miss Nolan, who has been associated with the Catholic charities in Chicago since she finished her graduate work at Liyola in sociology, will be in charge of all club activities in the Archdiocese of Toledo. Cosmopolitan Issue The clepsydra. College literary quar terly, strikes a cosmopolitan note with the publication of the Winter issue. Italy, France. Japan, China, and America con tribute themes for the essays and short stories. Two essays on philosophers will be featured, in Mary O'Callahan's sketch of St. Augustine and in Roberta Chris tie's discussion of the work of Jacques Maritain. Of unusual interest to internationalists is Florence O'Callahan's feature, CHI NESE PURGATORY, as is HORACE'S FATHEK by Lorraine Horn. The essay which won second prize in last year's contest, WIS CONSIN WINTER, by Joanne Dimmick, will also be featured. A Japanese marriage ceremony moti vates a short story by Jane Malkemus, and there will be other narrative offer ings by Loretta Brady and Elenor Loarie. The magazine will be off the press next month. Sings Here Debate Wisconsin Team Here Tomorrow at 3:30 Sylvia Lubi Consul for France Sponsors Contest According to an announcement from the French department, 16 freshmen and 10 upperclassmen are eligible to enter the French contest for which Monsieur Rene Weiller. Consul for France in Chicago, is offering a prize at the close of the year. The following upperclassmen have ful filled the scholastic requirements thus far: Margaret Egan, Rita Casey, Catherine Mulvihill. Lorraine Philipps, Genevieve del Beccaro, Mary Houlihan, Esmine Kakarakis, Maria Isabel Pesquiera, Juan ita Maria Pesqueira, and Grace Igleski. The following freshmen may compete: Katherine Byrne. Geraldine Ferstel, Mary Mclntyre, Lucille Trudeau, Rita McGuane, Muriel Clinnin, Gertrude Fee- ny. Frances Geary, Virginia Pelleticr, Georgette Thoss, Mary Casali, Ruth Roe- scbcl, Mary Jane Hoene, Grace Mch- ren, Katherine Wilkins, and Armella Cicminecki. Concert Soprano Sings in Recital Miss Sylvia Lubi, American concert soprano, presented a program of foreign songs, opera, and folk songs, at the stu dent assembly on Jan. 9. Miss Lubi, who was accompanied by Miss Rhea Shelters, studied with Francesco Daddi, formerly a member of the Chicago Opera associa tion and the Ravinia Opera company. Among Miss Lubi's numbers were Musieu Bainjo, a Creole song, by Grant- Schaefer; Les Filles de Cadix, by Del- ibes; One Fine Day from Puccini's Madame Butterfly; and Riinsky-Korsa koff's The Nightingale and the Rose. Readin', writin' and 'rithmctic examin ations lose prominence in favor of debat ing, in the judgment of Ruth Quirk, Mar garet Cleary, and Catherine Ann Dough erty who will meet Central State Teach ers college of Wisconsin on the negative of the Supreme Court question, in the Little Theatre on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. Scheduled debates for February include a forensic encounter with De Paul uni versity at De Paul on Feb. 10 at 8:15 p.m., on the socialized medicine question, and one with Marquette at Milwaukee on the Supreme Court question, probably on Feb. 21. Types 137 Words a Minute; Tells Commerce Club How r t; Las Teresianas Discuss Mexico Las Teresianas considered Mexico as a pleasant vacation spot and also as an internally troubled nation at their last meeting, on Jan. 13. Anna McCracken read a paper on The North American Attitude Toward Mex ico, and Mary Marnell gave a colorfully- detailed account of her recent summer trip to Mexico. At the close of the meeting plans were announced for initiating all new members al the first meeting of the new semester. Dorothy White Will Enact Pavlova's Life In an unusual dance recital scheduled for Feb. 22 and 23, Dorothy White, sen ior drama student and Laetare Player treasurer, will read and interpret an original monologue on the life of Anna Pavlova. Miss White will be assisted by fresh man drama students, who will play the part of gypsies, and by the following solo dancers: Mary Frances Sullivan, Marian Gilbert, Kathryn Wolford, Kath erine Ott, and Helen Wcinecke. Mundelein College Heads Legion Unit The first of a series of sectional meet ings of Legion of Decency Unit I was held at Mundelein College, on Jan. 21. The assembled delegates of seven grammar schools, four high schools, one college, and one university were ad dressed by the Reverend George T. Mc Carthy, chairman, and Mrs. Charles El- son, district adviser. Sectional meetings will be held quarterly. Thank You The Faculty of Mundelein College most grateful to the various clubs and classes for their generous Christinas gifts and for the beautiful poinsettias which made the altars in Stella Maris Chapel especially beautiful during the Christmas holidays. French Club Has Literary Program At their first reunion of the New Year, Les D'Arciennes held a social hour on Jan. 10 in Room 511. Elenor Loarie read one of Maurice Baring's charming little French essays from Hildesheini. An unusual combina tion of two old medieval songs of the ballad type with piano accompaniment was presented in a Diseuse by Grace Mehren and Margaret Hanlan. Daudet's familiar Les Petits Pates was interpreted by Catherine Mulvihill, and a game of fishing with many tongue- twisters closed the meeting. The former typing champion of the United States, Miss Hortense Stallnitz, gave a demonstration to the commerce department on Jan. 13, through the cour tesy of Remington Rand. Miss Stallnitz's lecture was an infor mal discussion of the methods of achiev ing accuracy and speed in typing, em phasizing the importance of rhythm and uniformity of stroke as essential aids in good typing. Suggestions and criticism formed an interesting incentive for intelligent ques tions concerning her career and the in dividual work of tlie students. As a conclusion to her demonstration, Miss Stallnitz gave an exhibition of her skill and speed as a typist, writing 129 and 137 words a minute in two one-min ute tests. Freshmen Are Quests At City High Schools The freshmen have been carrying the College colors into various city high schools during the past two weeks, where they have been guests at College day programs. Marjory Quilty and Mary Margaret Finnegan represented Mundelein at Sulli van high school on Jan. 10; Ccraldine Connell and Rita McGuane were dele gates to Lindblom, and Marcella Windlc and Jane Lacey were delegates to Harper high school on Jan. 15. j A.M. TO PM j O ROWN-BAGGERS, black-baggers,' and portfolio-totters are becoming:, more in evidence as green-book timc-i draws nigh. But even the forbidding1' clouds of the semesters can't stop the ex-'' citing rumors that are circulating about ( the Junior Prom. Not only are the Mun- deleinites to be dancing at the Blackstonei- on the night of Feb. 14, but it is being seriously considered that every accomp- ' anying knight wear white tic and tails. Now the universal plea will be for 500 Fred Astaires 1 a TO ELEN COLE (who has no connec tion with Old King Cole) is develop ing a reputation among the gym-f requcnt- crs as a most ardent plyer of knitting needles. At the game between the Press club and the Commerce club, she sat on the substitute bench knitting placidly un til she was called to sub. When she had finished subbing, she returned to the side lines and re-undcrlook her purling and knitting. Which all goes to prove that you can knit your next sports sweater and play in it too I COR YEARS your special gossip- spondent has heard about the perfect conversationalist that can discuss any thing from Gabby Harriett's batting- average to the latest picture (if you can call it such) of Cezanne, and now we have discovered her at the north nata- torium at Mundelein. Miss Scanlan can not only show you how to improve your front jack-knife and tell you a thing or two about conditions in Europe, but she can also actually explain the rolling scenery of the great waltz .so that even the tinstagcy, untechnical folks like you and me can understand. Wanta Knitta Kappa Club Keeps Students In Stitches By Anna Marie Masterson Blind Organist Charms Students Almost 40 years ago a little boy, blind since birth and destined to spend his days in darkness, groped his way to the piano and astonished his parents by the skill and accuracy of his first playing. Last week that boy, now grown to manhood and become a religious in the Order of Carmel, found his way to the pipe organ and the piano in the College auditorium and caught the minds and hearts of his audience. Brother Anthony Jawclak, O. Carm., was playing at Mun delein. The seeing fingers of the blind musi cian swept over the keys of the organ, and the delicate, lovely notes of In a Monastery Garden rang out, followed by- several of his own selections, among them Grand Cbouer, which, Brother Anthony revealetl. he composed for his brother's wedding march. Brother Anthony decidedly does not like popular music, but because the re curring favorite, Three O'Clock in the Morning, appeals to him, he has devised original variations of it and played it for the students. Wanta Knitta Kappa and Santa Claus co-operated extensively during the holi days, and as a result the Mundelein back- to-college movement has been clothed in an irridescent yarn array, ranging from mint green to Renaissance red. Around every corner, posing placidly in upward- and downward-bound elevators, and en livening every class room, trillions of gay knitted bits are keeping the College population chic and warm. The sweater parade, which seems to have made its debut simultaneously with a lock er room rendition of The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round, began at 9 o'clock on Jan. 6, when Ruth Quirk, buttoned up in a coral twin-sweater set, rushed for the elevator in an effort to start the New Year right by being a trifle ahead of her first class. From then on, the surge of sweater-wearers increased rapidly and without end. The freshmen had the biggest repre sentation in this yarn march down the corridors of education. The east locker room occupants, among whom could be seen Geraldine Ferstel in pink, Lucille Trudeau in yellow, Joan Smith in gold, Josephine Reichl in burnt orange, Mary- Jane Hoene in blue, Ruth Mac Amann in green, Katherine Byrne in brown, and Helen Cole in coral, proved to on-lookers that their New Year's Resolutions had incorporated in them a promise to wear belter and smarter sweaters during 1936. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors, how ever, were not outdone by this freshman yarn avalanche. All during the day, no matter where one turned, one would meet Charlotte Wilcox, who is the fortunate possessor of a wine-colored knit suit, or Jean McKeever in her purple sweater, talking eagerly to one of the juniors about the next Junior Prom. Helen Coleman, in a brown knit, and Catherine Heerey, in an aquamarine blue twin-sweater set, made a pleasing duo rushing out of 10 o'clock psychology. They met Maxine Lindsay dressed in a Kelly-green sweater, dashing into the 11 o'clock class and paused with the breath less crowds who paid mute tribute to Dorothy Grace's beautiful dark-red, band- knit ensemble. At the end of the day, there were two fatigued factions of students resting in the wicker chairs outside the locker rooms the proud possessors of holiday sweaters, who were tired by the terrific effort necessary to display their yarn prizes, and those unfortunate individuals who had spent the entire day explaining to nobody in particular why they didn't wear sweaters, and at the same time en viously glancing out of the corners of their eyes at the Yarn Parade. THE SKYSCRAPER, my friends, is * five years old Five years ago next week the first issue appeared, under, the editorship of Rhea Moustakis '33, and a week from Monday afternoon, on Feb. 3, at 4 o'clock, the staff members and pledges will have a gala birthday parly-, with candles 'n' everything. Ann Ellen Smith and Catherine Heerey, co-chairmen of the affair, cordially invite all those who plan to come and blow the candles out to make reservations before Friday. We'll be seeing you, fellow scribblers Happy Birthday ' pHE BEST back-to-school story we've * beard is the sad tale of Angela Pfciffcr, who, under the dictatorship of parental guidance, rushed from Minne sota on a midnight train in order to be at Mundelein for her first Monday class. Arriving ahead of time, she hied herself off to her room and snuggled into the land of dreams, in order to recapture a slight bit of Morpheus' nectar. Un fortunately, dreams ensnared her fast and kept her soundly- sleeping during her first three scheduled classes. After which, she rose brightly, tripped around gaily, and consoled herself with the maxim, Better late than never. AND NOW to toss the first corsage of the year our loveliest roses and gardenias to Dorothy While, senior dra ma student, who was chosen by the sen ior class to represent them on the Mun delein beauty page of the Chicago tri- bone and who rose immediately on hear ing the announcement, thanked her class for the compliment they bad paid her,, and withdrew in favor of some other student, since she had had the privilege of. representing the juniors on the beauty i page last year. That, my dears, is mag- nanimity, worthy of the fair-haired Lae-; tare Player and of the brave little Ro-i mail maiden she represented in the com-: EDIAN.
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1936-01-22 (3)
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