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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER April 16, 1937 Seniors Capture Swim Title for Fourth Season Amassing 41 out of a possible 80 points in the fifth annual Telegraphic and Interclass swimming meet on April 8, the class of '37 easily swept aside the concerted opposition of the other class teams to win the champion ship cup for the fourth consecutive year. An enthusiastic freshman team of 10 members won second place with 22 points; the sophomores placed third with 12 points; while Lucille Small, the lone junior representative, earned 5 points. Leading the senior victory with 10 points was Captain Helen Bulchunis, who tied with Marietta Caron, fresh man, for high-point winner. Close on their heels was Mae Sexton whose three seconds in major events gave 9 additional points to the seniors. Telegraphic records of former years shattered in this meet were the 40- and 100-yard back-crawl and the 100-yard breast stroke. Marietta Caron cut 4 seconds from the 1936 record of 31.2 set by Irma Rilling and 8 seconds from the 100- yard back-crawl of 137.4 established by Ruth Mary Gorman in 1935. Lucille Small bettered by 7.8 seconds the 100-yard breast stroke record of Estelle Wingler in 1936. Swimmers who will be awarded gold medals on honors day are Helen Bul chunis, Patricia Carin, Katherine Wilkins, Lucille Small, Gertrude Raf ferty. Ribbons will be awarded to second-place winners. A summary of the events follows: 40-yard front crawl: Won by Helen Bulchunis, senior; second, Mae Sexton, senior; third Katherine Wilkins, sophomore. Time 24.66. 40-yard breast stroke: Won by Helen Bulchunis; second, Mae Sexton; third, Roberta Scheild, freshman. Time 34.20. 100-yard front crawl: Won by Katherine Wilkins; second, Mae Sexton; third, Marguerite Mc- Nulty, freshman. Time 120.8. 100-yard breast stroke: Won by Lucille Small, junior; sec ond, Rosemary Walsh, senior. Time 149.40. 40-yard back crawl: Won by Marietta Caron, freshman; second Irma Rilling, sophomore; third, Ruth Mary Gorman, senior. Time 30.80. 100-yard back crawl: Won by Marietta Caron; second, Ruth Mary Gorman. Time 129.4. 60-yard medley: Won by the senior team composed of Helen Bulchunis, Rosemary Walsh, Ruth Mary Gorman; second, fresh men; third, sophomores. 80-yard relay: Won by the senior team composed of Helen Bulchunis, Rosemary Walsh, Mae Sexton, Gertrude Rafferty; sec ond, sophomores; third, freshmen. Fancy dives: Won by Gertrude Rafferty, senior; second, Anna Marie Berk, freshman; third, Florence Banach, freshman; fourth, Marion Gilbert, sophomore; fi'th, Ruth Wright, senior. Honor Champions At Science Party To the victors belong the spoils and so to the champion Science basket ball team went a surprise party in the formal social room, on April 8. The party was given by the other mem bers of the Science Forum in honor of the team. In charge of arrangements for the social were Beatrice Cronin, Mary McNulty, Dorothy Sigman, and Mar garet Mary Murray. The only defeat of the Science team came when it met an All-Star basket- oall team of the Immaculata high school in the Immaculata gymnasium, on April 6. A closely-fought game in which Mundelein held the lead up to the. last lWO minutes resulted in a 28-22 victory ior the Immaculata team. Freshman Scribes To Edit Skyscraper Freshman ladies-of-the-press get your pencils sharpened According to an announcement from Jean McKeev er, editor of the paper, the May 14 issue of the Skyscraper will be an all- freshman product, with a freshman staff supplanting the upperclass execu tives in the masthead. Freshmen pledges of the Press club, and all other students of Class '40 ex-editors, ex-feature writers, ex- newshounds of various high school papers, or inexperienced aspirants to the editor's chair and the rights of the Music Box are invited to register in 305 next Tuesday. Children's Theatre Presents Two Plays Tack's Beanstalk in Loreland and Cross Your Heart, two plays featuring the work of children in the Play-Mak ing classes, were presented in the Lit tle Theatre on April 10 and 11. A philanthropic Jack, a curious Jill, and a blood-thirsty Giant combined to give Jack's Beansta k in Loreland, a th-ee-act comedy, all the spice and eydtement of the story of Fairlyland fame. Helen Coens, sophomore in the de partment of drama, played the part of the hated, gold-hoarding giant. Cross Your Heart had a plot center ing around an Anti-Tattle club and its anti-tattle gossip. Debate Cooperative, Education Questions In Intercollege Tilts Consumers' Cooperatives will be the major interest of the Loyola Cudahy forum and a Mundelein affirmative team, Patricia Mack and Geraldine Ferstel, on April 19. Miss Mack, Jane Spalding, and Catherine Ann Dougherty defended the affirmative of the Cooperatives ques tion in a forum debate with North western university last Wednesday. Presenting an exhibition debate be fore the St. Athanasius Study club in Evanston, on April 6, Patricia Mack and Rita McGuane, affirmative, and Miss Dougherty and Veronica O'Hern, negative, used the forum method and answered questions put by the audience. Mary Helen Flanagan ex '38 was chairman. The question was Re solved: That the Federal Government should equalize educational opportuni ties throughout the nation by annual grants to the several states for public elementary and secondary education. Impersonates Marie Antoinette MARY ROSE BROWN, senior drama major, will present an original series of dramatics monologues on the life of Marie Antoinette, in the College Theatre on Sunday, April 25, at 2:30 p. m. Glee Club Spring Concert Stars Senior Music Major With Kathryn Wolford, senior piano major, starring with solo numbers, the Glee club, directed by Professor Walter Flandorf, will present its annual spring concert in the auditorium on Sunday, April 25, at 8 p. m. Opening the program, the Glee club members, wearing light Sunday evening dresses, will sing Sumer Is Icumen In, an early thirteenth-century piece by John of Fornscte, arranged by Taylor; Ma- tona, Lovely Maiden, by Lassus, and Awake, Thou Wintry Earth, by Brahms. Miss Wolford will then present a Chopin group, including Fantaisie Im promptu, Op. 66, Nocturne in F Sharp Major, and Waltz, Op. 18. The Glee club will present Clouds, by Charles-Deis; Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes, by Crist; Hopli, the Rickshaw Man, by Manning. Miss Wolfords next offering will be a Debussy group and Danse des Delphaes, Dance in F Major. The final Glee club numbers will in clude Meadow Solitude, by Brahms; Appears in Recital Sunday Social Security Offical Lecture Are you dreading old age ? Do visions of the time when you will be alone, helpless, cheerless, sitting in a wheel chair, watch ing endless days creeping by, bother you? Cheer up R. B. McCune, technical analyst of the Social Security Act for Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana, assured economics students last Wednesday that with the introduction of the Social Se curity act, your days of worry should be over. Economics classes recently visited the Federal Reserve bank and the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust company. Mr. Frank Quinn arranged the tour through the Continental, supplying spe cial guides who explained in detail the operation of a commercial bank. KATHYRN WOLFORD, senior music major, will appear in recital with the Glee club on Sunday evening, April 25. Les Berceques, Faure-Taylor; La Chan son Du Tambourineur, French aid of the eighteenth century, and Tschaikowsky's Sleeping Beauty Waltz. Liszt's Spanish Rhapsody, played by Miss Wolford, with Professor Flandorf at the organ, will close the program. Miss Wolford represented the College at a meeting of the International Feder ation of Catholic Alumnae, at Rosary college, on April 4, and played two piano solos, Chopin's Nocture, Opus 15, no. 2, and Gnomerreigen, by Liszt. Representatives from Loyola, De Paul, St. Xavier's, Barat, and Rosary were also on the program. Over 500 Students Try for Scholarships Over 500 students from 41 high schools in Chicagoland assembled at the College on April 6 to compete in the annual scholarship tests in liberal arts. Hostesses for the day included the following freshmen; Marjorie McPart land, Gertrude Sweeney, Rosemary Murnighan, Mary Berger, Betty Brady, Rosemary Burns, Ruth Collins, Sally Davis, Ursula Driscoll, Rosemary Flynn, Mary Ellen Groark, Helen Healy, Violette Lasker, Betty Lopker, Loretla Lynch, Frances Mahoney, Pa tricia Morse, Marion McGinnis, Helen Sheehan, Annette Specht, Marjorie Thomas, and Mary Helen Walker. Scholarship examinations in art were held on April 10, and the date set for examinations in violin and orchestral in struments is April 24. Schedule Lectures Dr. William Baird White, director of acoustic research at the American Steel and Wire company, will give an illustrat ed lecture and demonstration on SOME SECRETS of MUSICAL SOUNDS be fore the Science Forum and members of the music department on Monday. The second program in the science lecture scries will be given on April 28 by Andrew Benson, collector and hy bridizer, who will present an orchid ex hibit in connection with his lecture on A TROPICAL ORCHID HUNT. A graduate of Harvard university, Dr. Benson is an internationally known auth ority on orchids, about which he wrote an article for a recent copy of FOR TUNE magazine. SKYSCRAPINGS Jotting down these few lines between races with an Easter Bunny, we com pare the good times we had at Easter with Agnes Drew's visit to Washing ton, with Annapolis thrown in for good measure . . . now that exams are over we have time for the latest in movies, etc. Geraldine Connell, Al ice Addison, Eileen Farrell, Betty Boehme, and the Fahrendorf sisters saw LOST HORIZON at the Erlanger . . . Spring is here, but definitely, with Mary O'Connor swimming at the Me- dinah Club . . . The Father's club theater Party at Loyola entertained half of Mundelein, among whom were Anna McCracken, Magel Brown, Madeline Brandstettf.r, Marion Cox, Rosemary Murnighan, Agnes Drew, Joan Gar- rity, Peggy Jordan, Jane Carney, the Reilly twins, and the Sontag twins . . . At the same party Marjorie Burke and her dancers entertained . . . Georgette Thoss' diamond studded charm brace let is the envy of all . . . The Circus- minded students at the residence hall who are treking down to the Coli seum these days are Betty Haffner, and Germaine Muuholland . . . Mary Louise Sayre and Alice D'Arcy, those inseparable psychologists, attended the Alpha Sigma Phi dance at the Medinah club . . . Annette Konopa enjoyed dancing of another kind when she saw the Ballet Russe . . . Jane Hf.aly ex '39 voices her approval of the dancing displayed in the South Shore Country Club Follies . . .Mundelein's loyalty was divided at the recent Loyola-DePaul basketball game in the Stadium . . . Marian Gilbert, Kathrvn Wilkins, Mary Geicer, Betty Zoes, Maxine Lindsay, Carol Sweeney, Dorothy Kullman and Florence, Griffin, shouted themselves hoarse for their favorites . . . Despite climatic disapproval, Rosemary Conley, Mary Fitzgibbons, and Cath arine Dugan had a gay day sliding down the iceless ski-jump at Palos Park . . . We wonder if Margarf.t Mary Pem broke was able to locate a much- sought-after companion for her trip to Joliet. .. Florence Griffin was a brides maid at her brother's wedding on April 13 ... The little green monster has risen in us again; just today we saw the diamond that proclaims Karen Steffen as en gaged . . . Peggy Jordan is going around with quite a smile on her face, the other day was her birthday and everybody remembered . . . Well it's time to leave until we see you at the Card Party, so long . . .
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1937-04-16 (4)
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