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rfffis - ,:r Jfft.... 'p?s TIHIE -v.;.--5 S..*ili.isl:r'saB nisasj-iljii ' Volume VIII FRESHMAN MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 18, 1938 EDITION No. 13 May Coronation Ceremony Will Be Held May 24 Queen and Attendants Are Assisted by Sodality And Class Officers Relinquishes Qavel On the library campus with Lake Michigan for a background the annual May coronation ceremonies, climax of the religious activities of the year, will be held on May 24, with Catherine Ann Dougherty, prefect of the Sodality, pre siding as May Queen. Forming a procession in the auditorium, the students will precede the May Queen, her maids-ol-honor, Helen Coleman and Mary Corby, and her twenty class atten dants to the library terrace where the May Queen will place a crown at the feet of the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary while the students recite an Act of Con secration and sing hymns. Sodality Officers Lead Sodality officers who will act as atten dants are Dorothy Fitzgerald. Marjorie McPartland, Ik-leu Farrell, Annamarie Masterson. Helen Coens, La Vonne Hayes, and Virginia Gaertner. Magcl Brown, sergeant-at-arms of the senior class, will he master of ceremonies. Alary- Muellman ami Ague* Griffin will be l'.ag bearers. Maura Rooney, small daugh ter oi Dr. Miriam L. Rooney, professor of sociology, will be crown bearer, Sheila Fraser, small sister of Mary and Jean Fraser, and Nancy Campbell, daugh ter of Catherine Winn Campbell, of the sociology department, will be flower girls. 20 Are Attendants Class attendants will be Frances Walz, Geraldine Ferstel, Catherine Wilkins, Mary Delaney, Mary Margaret Mitchell, Anna Marie Hickey, Florence Graham, (ieorgene McGowan, Annette Specht, Clare Anderson. Catherine Miller, Peggy Meade, Dorothy Sugrue, Marie Kane, Katherine Kospetos, Dorothy Homan, Loretta Colnan, Bernice Joerger, Janet McCarty, Helen Donnersberger. Thanks For The Memories Commerce Awards To Be Presented To Students June 1 Twenty-eight secretarial students are candidates for ccritficates, to be award ed on June 1 at the commerce depart ment luncheon in the tea-room. At that time awards will be given lo those students who have completed the prescribed course of studies, who are efficient in secretarial work, and who can he recommended for business posi tions. Successful candidates will re ceive their certificates from Sister Mary Consuela, B.V.M., President of the College. Those seeking two-year certificates are Mary Delaney, Mary Louise Drury. and Ellen Kelly. Candidates for one-year certificates are Mary Absmeier, Alba Adams, Ber nice Bazata, Angela Bellucci, Eliza beth Bellucci, Virginia Caudle, Mary Cronin, Betty Anne Feeney, Jean Flan agan, Dorothy Georger, Frances Kane, Marie Kane, Marie Keenan. Rosemary Kelly, Agnes Marx, Mary Morcschi, Virginia O'Neill, Dorothy Quinlan, Rosemary Ritten, Janet Shoe- bridge, Josephine Tracey, Rosalie Ver- helst, Jeanne Wagner, Josephine Wall, and Marjorie Whisler. Hold Honors Convocation Tomorrow; Install New Student Council Officers Retiring from the office of president of the Student Activities Council, Helen Coleman will give her farewell address at the College Day ceremony tomorrow and will administer the oath of office to her successor, Geraldine Connell. Win Freshman Debate; Merit Honor Awards Contending that two years of mili tary training should be required of all boys in the United States during their high school courses, Bette Diltz and Peggy Meade came through the finals victorious in the last round of the Fresh man Debate contest. The negative in the finals was upheld by Mary Caroline Bemis and Marguer ite Kenny, the only negative speakers to win a decision in any round of the con test. The winners will he awarded medals on Honors Day, and they will he re ceived, with other contestants, into the Debate club at a luncheon at noon today in the tearoom. Thanks For The Memories Talks on Character Before Psychologists Sister Mary Benedict. B.V.M., of the education department, read a paper on Some Aspects of Character Education, at the seventh quarterly meeting of the Chicago Society of Catholic Psychol ogists, at Loyola university last Satur day. Miss Bernice A. Flynn, of the child Study department of the Chicago public schools, discussed the paper. Also on the program were a paper on The Meaning of Character, by the Reverend William P. O'Connor, of St. Francis seminary, with discussion by- Sister Mary Charitas, S.S.N.D., of Mount Mary college, and a paper on Research in Character, by Eleanor M. Doyle, of the F.phpheta school for the deaf, discussed by Miss Marcella A. Twomey of Loyola. French Chorus To Broadcast Songs, May 30 Repeating selections from their con cert program presented in the Little The ater on May 1, the French Choral group will be heard over station WCFL on May 30, in a 15-minutc program dedica ted to Saint Joan of Arc, whose feast oc curs on that day. Another program will be given for the Fidac, Federation Interallied des Anciens Combattauts, women's auxiliary unit of the American Legion, which has been studying France and the French people during the past year. As a fitting conclusion to their study, the members have requested the French department of Mundelein to stage an all-French program in the Humboldt Park field house on June 24. This program will include Debussy compositions, played by Katherine Kell er; the duel scene from the first act of Cvra.no de Berc.erac with Amy Miller and Eileen Upton as fencers; Fin de (Continued on Page 4, Col. 5) Thanks For The Memories Silver Forest Room Is Setting for Senior Ball Members of the senior class are com pleting final plans for the annual Se nior Ball to be held on Friday, June 3, in the Gold Coast room of the Drake Hotel. Maxine Lindsay, senior social chair man, is in charge of the Ball, with the class ofPccrs, Gertrude Brant, Helen Farrell. Sue Adams, Virginia Newell, and Magel Brawn, and with the fol lowing committee members, as assist ants, Mary Kathleen O'Connor, Roberta McTicman, Catherine Heerey, and Cath erine Ann Dougherty. Choose Sodality, Class Officers, Representatives Student Activities Council, Sodality, and class elections were completed this week, and announcement was made al the Sodality installation ceremony on May 12 of the Academy chairman for next year. Marguerite Kelly, freshman S.A.C. representative, was elected treasurer of the S.A.C. for next year, at a meet ing on May 6, following the one al which Geraldine Connell was elected president; Patricia Connor vice-pres ident; and Patricia O'Toole treasurer. Dorothy Fitzgerald will lead the Sodality next year as prefect, with three vice-prefects, Helen Coens, from the incoming senior class, Mary Margaret Mitchell, from the incoming junior class, and Dorothy I Ionian, from the incoming sophomore class. Name Chairmen Annamarie Berk is secretary of the Sodality; Virginia Brady is treasurer; Ruth Klodzinski heads the Euchar istic-Our Lady academy: Betty Vestal is chairman of the Apostolic academy; Helen Sheaiian is chairman of the Literature group, and Georgette Thoss is chairman of the Catholic Social Action academy. Geraldine Ferstel, junior representa tive on the Council, was elected pres ident of the incoming senior class at a meeting on May 10. Agnes Griffin and Dorothy Fitzgerald were chosen as S.A.C. representatives. Seniors Reelect Frances Geary was reelected to the office of vice-president, Rosemary Con ley was reelected secretary, Irma Ril ling was reelected treasurer, and Alice Addison was reelected social chair man. Margaret Finnegan was chosen sergeant-at-arms. Offices in the junior class of next year will be filled by Marjorie Mc Partland, president; Mary Margaret Mitchell, vice-president; Marguerite McNulty, secretary;' Frances Sayre, treasurer; Alice O'Brien, social chair man ; Gertrude Sweeney, sergeant-at- arms; and Helen Jegen and Marjorie Chapman, S.A.C. representatives. The sophomore class officers will be Ruth McCormick, president; Dorothy Crowley, vice-president; Dorothy Ho man and Kathryn Dealy, representa tives on the S.A.C, Jane Armstrong, secretary, Mary Jane Boehme, treasur er; Margaret Byron, social chairman; Mary Caroline Bemis, sergeant-at-arms. Thanks For The Memories Faculty Member Reads Paper at Science Meet Gladys Bucher, A.M., of the science department, presented a paper that she had compiled in collaboration with J. S. Gray and A. C. Ivy of the North western university college of medicine, on May 5, at the thirty-first annual meeting of the Illinois State Academy of Science, held at Southern Illinois Normal university, Carbondalc. The paper was entitled A Statisitcal Approach to the Problem of Acid Se cretion by the Gastric Glands. Miss Bucher is studying for her doctorate at Northwestern. Scholastic, Activity Leaders To Receive Awards; Club Presidents Give Reports Tomorrow at 10 o'clock classes will be dismissed and one of the most ex citing convocations of the year the College Day and Honors Day convo cation will draw the entire student body to the auditorium. Climaxing a program of college- songs and reports by every class and club president on activities of the year, will come the Farewell Address of Helen Coleman, retiring president of the Student Activities Council. Miss Coleman will present the student gift to the College President, Sister Mary Consuela, B.V.M., and will then ad minister the oath of office to the in coming Council leaders, Geraldine Con nell, president; Patricia Connor, vice- president; Patricia O'Toole, secretary; and Marguerite Kelly, treasurer. The convocation will adjourn at 11 :00. and will reconvene at 1 p.m. for the Honors Day ceremonial, at which academic, departmental, and activities honors will be given. Scholastic honors will be given as follows: Class Honors, to students in the upper 10 percent of each class; College Honors to students in the upper 5 percent of Ihe sophomore, junior, and senior classes; Highest College Honors to students in the upper 5 percent of their classes in both junior and senior year. The Reverend Martin J. Phee, S.J., will preside at the Honors Convoca tion, and, after addressing the students at its close, will celebrate Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Thanks For The Memories Baccalaureate Will Be May 29 Marquette President Will Qive Sermon at 4 P. M. The Reverend Raphael McCarthy, S.J., president of Marquette university, will give the Baccalaureate address at the annual ceremony on May 29. Following Ihe Address, solemn Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament will be cele brated, and the seniors will take the Graduate's Pledge of Loyalty, a tradition established two years ago. Members of the junior class, the sen iors, and the Faculty members will form the Baccalaureate procession, which will progress down the grand staircase and through the main corridor to the audi torium. The annual Faculty Banquet will be held the evening of May 29 at the Bel- den-Stratford hotel, with William H. Conley, A.M., dean of Wright Junior college, and coach of debate, as toast- master. The program will include toasts to the Reverend Speaker by Helen Coleman, with a response by the Reverend T. A. Egan, of Loyola university; to the United States, by Maurita Kelly, to Loyola university by Dr. L. T. Flatley, professor of economics, to Mundelein College by the Reverend Eneas B. Good win, professor of political science, to tin- Faculty by Maxine Lindsay, and to Our Holy Father, by George M. Schmeing, M.S., of the chemistry department.
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1938-05-18 (1)
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