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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER November 25,1959 c Ah areer-conscious /Mumnae Will Speak at Clubs Here LEADERSHIP DAY BROUGHT a panel of alumnae speakers to Mundelein to address SAC and club officers. Pictured above are Patricia Nealin '49, Ann Coe '58, Mary Ann Cashman '58, Sharon Ruppert, a junior, Julia Case Happ '43, Judge Catherine Nohelty and Lucille Jautz, a senior. The panel was held on Sunday, Nov. 15. Tape Reels, Recorders Aid Foreign Language Study If Sputnik's murmurings are availa ble on tape, where is the most logical place to find them? In Mundelein's language laboratory, of course. In a tape library that's jumped from 70 to 200 reels since last September, you can find anything from a Spanish version of My Fair Lady to nursery rhymes in authentic Russian. One of the newest and most popular centers of intellectual activity at Mun delein, the lab during an ordinary week serves over 500 regular students, all polishing their Spanish, Russian, Ger man or French pronunciations with scarcely a trace of accent. The two and one-half year history of this center of linguistic learning is a dramatic one. From a meager be ginning of two magic disc recorders in the corridor, to 30 sets of earphones and four tape recorders sheltered tem porarily in a third floor closet, the lab has grown to Chicago's largest, most streamlined and probably most beauti- Dance Will Benefit Language Laboratory THE SILVER DOLLAR Ball spon sored by the alumnae association will be held Friday evening, Feb. 5 at 9 p.m. at the Saddle and Cycle club. Mary Jane Harvey Ratty '45, gen eral chairman, and her co-chairman, June Rettig '45, have announced that the proceeds of the Ball will benefit the language laboratory. CHUCK CAVALLO and his orches tra will provide the evening's music. Bids are 4.00 per couple. Serving as Ball committee chair men are Betty Kreuzer Matula '40, decorations; Madeleine Courtney Pta cin '44, invitations; Terry Jordan Barr '52, door; Lois Shay Wilson '45, reservations; Audrey McDonnell Snite '45, publicity; Helen O'Gara Conley '32, patrons. ful educational center for linguistic learning. The State Office of Public Instruc tion in Illinois put its stamp of ap proval on it by choosing Mundelein as a center for three workshops for Chi cago Public School teachers. From October through December, 90 high school language teachers from Chicago and suburban schools attend weekly evening classes at a workshop financed by the National Defense Edu cation Act. Sister Mary St. Irene, B.V.M., acts as workshop coordinator. Each of the 42 laboratory booths where students may learn their les sons via earphones is equipped with a selector dial which enables them to tune in on any of 11 tape channels. Thus students of four different lan guages on as many different levels of instruction may listen simultaneously without distraction. Not only may they listen, but they may speak into a special microphone which channels the voice right back into the speaker's own ears. The learner may compare her prounucia- tion with a perfect specimen and judge the merit of her own performance im mediately. When the student feels she has achieved the desired state of effective expression, she may record her own voice on tape, then listen while it is played back to her. A glass panel separates the tape re corders and channel controls from the listening booths. Here at the controls the instructors may listen to the work of a student at any one of the booths. Control panels are equipped with jacks which also allow the teachers to duplicate as many as eight copies of a master tape at one time. The former temporary lab has become a small re cording studio for instructors who wish to make their own fresh tapes. Visual aids are part of the new lan guage learning program too. A movie screen at one end of the lab allows for the showing of a 16 millometer movie or a series of slide projections while students listen to a commentary or les son in a foreign language. The setting for the laboratory work is as interesting as the equipment it self blue walls and blonde formica reflected in yards of glass and chrome fittings. The Cadillac lab, as one visitor jokingly called it, has attracted a steady stream of sightseers. They range all the way from a group of 7 to 10 year-old French students from St. Gertrude's grade school to the President of Creighton university. If Cadillac equipment seems ambi tious on Mundelein's Rambler budget, it is. Part of the cost of the 20,000 installation has been paid by a gift from the Sears Roebuck Foundation. Grants from Esso Educational Foun dation and Rivco Corp. have also helped finance the lab. Alumnae hope to help with the pro ceeds of their Silver Dollar Dance. The rest will come from somewhere. Meanwhile, almost one-half the stu dent body is happy becoming bilingual by listening. Their eight foreign lan guage teachers are equally enthusias tic about their success. College To Offer French For Alumnae at Night A series of French classes for alum nae who wish to brush up their speak ing techniques or learn a new lan guage is tentatively scheduled for second semester. Classes will be held one evening a week beginning in February at a time and on a night convenient for those who wish to enroll, Sister Mary St. Irene, foreign language chairman, has announced. A questionnaire will be mailed to alumnae members early in January asking them to indicate their prefer ence of night, time and previous study so that classes may be arranged. THE TABLES are turned when Mary Pat Carr, senior, shows Bertrand Henne, of East Ley- den high school, and Norman H. Nielsen, of Arlington Heights, how to adjust controls during an evening workshop session. Members of the alumnae will ad dress the economics majors and all those interested in careers in econo mics today at 12:10 in room 504. Betty Bogie '54, statistical re searcher at Blue Shield, and Mary Breslin '58, who is on a scholarship to the graduate School of Economics at Marquette university, will discuss the opportunities in business and research open to economics majors and minors. Also speaking will be Christine Ce sario '58, secretary to the Stock Re search Analyst in Oils at Stein, Roe and Farnham. PROGRAMS of the departmental clubs feature alumnae speakers regu larly. Donna Jean Powers '47, Service club director at the U.S. Military Institute Offers Jobs For Grads/ Students A Career Institute will be conducted from November through February to acquaint students with job opportuni ties available in their special fields. INVITATIONS have been extended to representatives from large Chicago firms which employ many women col lege graduates, and to alumnae in re sponsible positions. Representatives will spend half-days on the campus interviewing students and explaining the type of positions their firms can offer. Already booked to attend are repre sentatives from Montgomery Ward, Zinser's Employment Agency and the Cook County Board of Social Welfare. Definite times and places will be an nounced at a later date. ALTHOUGH the program, which was planned by Sister Mary Assisium, dean of students, and Sister Mary Bartella, B.V.M., placement director, is intended mainly for June graduates, sophomores who will choose their ma jor fields in February are also invited. Alumnae Celebrate Anniversary Year Five alumnae attended the closing of the 125th anniversary year of the Sisters of Charity, B.V.M., in Phila delphia this month. They are Mary Sellinger Ward '49 of Morristown, N.J., Dr. Marie Smith Kelly '36 of Haddon Field, N.J., Peggy Conahan Maloney '47 of Queens Village, N.Y., Ramona Marion Dinon '48 of Havertown, Pa., Marilyn Feery McNicholas '48 of Wayne, Pa. Sister Mary Howard, B.V.M. (Ethel Dignan '47), studying for her Ph.D. at Fordham, met her fellow alumnae at the celebration. Mother Mary Consolatrice had in vited alumnae in the surrounding areas of Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey to the Mass closing the anniversary year, followed by lunch eon. Academy West Point, will address the sociology majors early in January. Patricia Bledsoe '44, psychologist at the Catholic Charities Guidance Cen ter, spoke to the psychology majors re cently. Last year's psychology tea featured Catherine Ivis '49, Katusha Didenko Setze '51, Frances Even '51, Mary Ma- honey '53, Angela Chemazar '54, Mari lyn Lindahl '56, Rita Hohmeier '56 and Ann Codd Forst '56. Moonyeen Brown '57, a Ph.D. candidate in music at Northwes tern university, dicussed oppor tunities in graduate study for the members of Kappa Mu Psi. Dorothy Sugrue '41, manager of the publications department of Halli- crafters, was the featured speaker for the high school math teachers work shop at Mundelein last Saturday. An other math major Marie Prindiville '59 appeared on a math club program re cently. HOME ECONOMICS majors have received helpful hints recently from Marie Therese Gauer '55, dietitian at Anker Hospital in St. Paul; Giedre Girdauskas '59, dietetic interne at the University of Oklahoma Medical Cen ter; and Marion Bollman '40, head of the experimental test kitchen at the U. S. Army Quartermaster Depot. Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois will address the Young Democrats at the Dec. 15 meeting at 3:30 p.m. in Room 405. The meeting will be open to the public. 2nd Alumnae Retreat Scheduled for Cedars The alumnae will sponsor their second annual closed retreat at Our Lady of the Cedars retreat house in Lake Villa the weekend of March 11- 13. Fee for the retreat weekend is 15. SISTER MARY BERNARDA, B.V.M., former Mundelein dean, well- known to the alumnae, is the superior of the new B.V.M. retreat house which opened in August, 1958. Sister Mary John Michael, B.V.M., past president of the college, is co- director of the Cedars. THE RETREAT HOUSE can accom modate 52 girls and is used through out the school year for student re treats. The weekend of March 11 has been set aside specially for alumnae. The retreat master will be named at a later date. College Varsity Brave Alumnae The annual Alumnae volleyball game will be held in the gymnasium Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. Alumnae, '49-'58, will challenge the college varsity to three games, and the winning team must take two of the three games. Refreshments will be served in the tearoom after the games. FOREIGN TRAVEL will be easy for the girls who learned their language this way by speaking it.
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