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Eddy Jo Noonan, Philosophy club president, is planning the Philoso phy program for March 12. (Story ;in CoL 5.) For the Sophomores This Is It Take Comprehensives March 19 and 20 The entire sophomore class will gath er in the auditoriun at 9 a.m. on Tues day and Wednesday, March 19 and 20, for the sophomore comprehensive ex aminations, designed to assist in the guidance of the lower division students who are about to begin intensive study in their major fields. Tests in English and in Contemporary Affairs will be given on Tuesday, and a test in General Culture is scheduled for Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, the sophomores will take the Mundelein Sophomore Inventory, a locally constructed test which purports to measure certain im portant outcomes that Mundelein, as a Catholic college, aims to achieve. Josephine Gendielle, voice major, will give her senior recital on March 17. (Story in Col. 2.) Joan Collins, sophomore, is a a member of the Debate team which placed among the top five in a re cent tournament. (Story in Col. 3.) Negative Team Places High in College Tourney Winning four out of five debates, the college negative team placed among the five best teams of the 58 repre sented at the Indiana State Teachers College Second Annual Forensic meet at Terra Haute, Indiana, March 1 and 2. Regina Milligan and Joan Collins debated on the negative team. Speaking on the national question, Free Trade, each of the college's teams, Patricia Curran and Mary Claire Lane, affirmative, and Miss Milligan and Miss Collins, negative, participated in five debates with teams from the University of Minnesota, Wayne university, Bowl ing Green, Purdue, Kalamazoo, East Illinois Institute of Technology, Lake Forest college, Manchester college, and the University of Indiana. His Eminence, Cardinal Stritch Will Be Guest of Philosophy Club Tomorrow Evening Canadian Scholar Gives St. Thomas Lecture The Very Reverend Gerald B. Phelan, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C., distinguished Canadian scholar, will discuss some illus trations of St. Thomas' Development of Augustinian Wisdom, at the student as sembly tomorrow. The occasion is the annual lecture sponsored by the Philosophy department in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. The Mediaeval Academy of America, which includes only SO fellows, numbers Dr. Phelan as one of its members. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Acad emy of St. Thomas. Dr. Phelan is the first president of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. THE v../ T JSfs:'1teii)fR Vol. XVI ' v., -' MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MARCH 11, 1946 No. 8 Regina Millian, sophomore, is the second member of the Debate team which won honors at Terre Haute. (Col. 3.) Senior Will Qive Voice Recital Junior Pianist Will Assist Voice major Josephine Gendiellee, with junior pianist Jean Macferran as sisting, will present her senior recital at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 17. in the College Theatre. Miss Gendiellee's first group will in clude two songs from the Italian school, Donzelle Fuggite, by Cavalli, and Durante's lovely prayer, Vergin, Tutta Amor. Also in the first group are the de lightful aria, Deh Vieni, Non Tardar, from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and O, Had I Jubal's Lyre, from the Ora torio Joshua, by Handel. Pianist Plays Chopin Three compositions by Frederic Cho pin comprise Miss Macferran's first group the Ballade in A Flat Major, which, for appealing interpretation, re quires both a facile technique and a piquant sense of humor; the Etude in E Major, which Chopin himself de scribed as having the most beautiful melody he had ever written, and the Fantasic Impromptu, from which was derived the popular song, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows. Art songs from the German and the French are included in Miss Gendiel lee's second group Schumann's Der Nussbaum, characterized by a gentle, flowing melodic line; the Standchcn, of Brahms, a lilting description of a ser enade; Apres un Revc, by Faure; and the lyrical Chere Nuit, by Bachelet. Sings Air de Lia The climactic point of the recital will be reached in the compelling Air de Lia from Debussy's opera, The Prodi gal Son. The song laments the loss of Lia for her son Azael. Miss Macferran's second group will open with Liszt's Concert Etude, and will include Henselt's If I Were a Bird, and Percy Grainger's Molly on the Shore, a tribute to St. Patrick. Selections from the works of modern composers comprise Miss Gendiellee's concluding group, which includes Si lent Noon, by Williams; Ay Gitanos, by Eakin; Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? a spiritual, and The Wind's in the South, by Scott. (Continued on page 3, column 2) President Truman Appoints Faculty Member to Committee Sister Mary Carmelyn, B.V.M., or ganizer of the College Safety Council and faculty adviser of the campus unit of the American National Red Cross, has been appointed to the Education committee of President Truman's Con ference on Highway Safety. The Conference, called by the Presi dent, will be held in Washington, D. C, May 8-10, to develop an action pro gram designed to halt the serious in crease in traffic accidents since the end of gasoline rationing. The Education committtee, composed of 30 members from all over the coun try, will define the responsibility of schools, colleges, and universities for traffic and safety education, evaluate current safety programs on these levels, and recommend programs and ways and means for securing universal adop tion of these. Prior to the May conference, a special Education meeting will as semble in Washington, March IS and 16, to prepare a report for Conference representatives. Sister Mary Carmelyn was suggested as a member of the Conference by National Headquarters of the American Red Cross. 14 Students Begin Cadet Teaching Are Assigned to North Side Schools This semester 14 new student teachers are learning about a beginner's exper ience in her first days on the other side of a teacher's desk. Mary Catherine Crosby, the only ju nior of the group, teaches science at The Immaeulata high school. Mary Louise Lauer teaches biology at Senn high school, and Theana Tomaras teaches general science at Mundelein Cathedral high school. Business training is the subject taught by Eleanor Kearin at Senn, where Fran ces Kelly teaches English. English majors who have classes at St. Gertrude's school are Eleanor Arends, Frances Kelly, and Dorothy Rudman. Irene Kenney teach es English at The Immaeulata. Georgette Demos, of the History de partment, instructs students at Munde lein Cathedral. Jeanne Piatt, Josephine Roche, and Maureen Roche are mathe matics teachers at Mundelein Cathedral. Edith Moscardini is a speech instructor at St. Michael's high school for girls. Seven of the 18 students who taught last semester are continuing their work this quarter. Faculty Member, Student Are on Convention Program Stressing the data compiled in a recent national survey which reveals the coun try's need for well-equipped social work ers. Sister Mary Liguori, B.V.M., chair man of the Sociology department, ad dressed delegates to the convention of the American Catholic Sociological so ciety last week, in Cleveland. Sister Mary Liguori, who is treasurer of the society, also pointed out that an increasing number of Catholic colleges are training young men and women for professional social work, and presided as chairman at a discussion of College So ciology. Jeanne McNulty, senior sociology major, discussed The Catholic Peace Pro gram at the student section of the con vention. Dramatizes Life Of Famous Song Writer Drama major Mary Beecher will pre sent her senior recital at 8 p.m. on Fri day evening, March 22, in the college theatre with Rosemary Tierney, organ ist, assisting with a group of organ selections. A dramatic monolog entitled Road of Melody, it is the story of Carrie Jacobs-Bond, famous American com poser. In writing her monolog, Miss Beecher corresponded with Mrs. Bond and secured the songwriter's permis sion in planning the recital. Carrie Jacobs-Bond, who celebrated her eighty-fourth birthday last August, composes still, and lives in her pic- (Continued on page 4, column 5) Chancellor Talks on Basic Truths in the Restoration Honor guest and speaker at the Mu Nu Sigma dinner to be held tomorrow even ing at the Lake Shore club will be His Eminence, Samuel Alphonsus Cardinal Stritch, Chancellor of the College. The Cardinal, who will be presented by Nancy Enzweilcr, social chairman of Mu Nu Sigma and toast mistress at the dinner, will talk on Basic Truths in the Restoration. Also on the program will be the Very Reverend Gerald B. Phelan, Ph.D., of Toronto; the Reverend John Wellmuth, S.J., chairman of the Loyola Philosophy department; Jerome G. Kerwin, Ph.D., of the University of Chicago, and G. Michael Schmeing, Ph.D., of Loyola. Are on Program Students and alumna who will speak in clude Daisy Lennert Elward '32, Jane Spalding Beck '37, Mary Catherine Tuomey '45, Eddy Jo Noonan, Mu Nu Sigma president; Patricia Curran and Geraldine Thorpe, vice-presidents; Dor othy Rudman, secretary and Jeanne Piatt, treasurer. Former Mu Nu Sigma presidents who will be guests are Mrs. Beck '37; Eve lyn Templeman '41; Inez Thomas '42; Florence McDonnell Stritch '43; Marie de Block '44, and Rita Guinane '45. Dinner music will be provided by Lil lian Muza, violinist; Yvonne Aldridge, cellist; and Margaret Cashman, pianist, and by Robert N. MacDonald, pianist, who will play selections from Chopin, Debussy, Leschetizky, and Schultz-Evler. Will Be Hostess Hostesses will include Ruth Tangney Timke '35; Emilie Sondcregger, Esther Wethington, and Betty Kreuzer '41. Miriam L. Rooney, Ph.D., of the Ed ucation department, Miss Thecla Doniat, Miss Joanna Doniat, Mrs. Elward, Dr. Kerwin, and Dr. Schmeing are on the Reception committee. Also on that committee are Miss Noonan, Mary Kay Semlow, Mary Jane Smith, Miss Thorpe, Frances Kelly, Miss Enzweiler, Miss Piatt, Shirley Irwin, Dolores Hartigan, Miss Rudman, Jean O'Toole, Marian Barrett, and Jane McMurray. It's 46 Days Until Card Party Night Only 46 days remain before the annual benefit Card Party and Fashion Revue, sponsored by the Student Activities Council with the cooperation of the entire student body. Scheduled for Friday evening, April 26, in the Grand Ballroom of the Stevens Hotel, the Card Par ty, top social event of the year, is under the general chairmanship of Sheila Finney. North Central Study Coordinator Visits College, Lectures George E. Hill, Ph.D., coordinator of the North Central Study on the Preparation of High School Teachers in Colleges of Liberal Arts, lectured on postwar problems of the liberal arts college at a Faculty meeting, and dis cussed the work of Faculty committees on personnel and instruction during a two-day visit to the College last week. Director of personnel at Macalaster college in St. Paul, Dr. Hill is one of three coordinators for the North Cen tral study, which, organized iti 1941 with 28 charter colleges of which Mun delein was one, now includes 73 colleges in the North Central area.
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