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Lecture on World Affairs Is Part of Observance Of Silver Jubilee Year I Promising; Aspects of Contem porary International Affairs is the pic on which Mr. Richard Pat tee will lecture. Sunday. May 15. It 3:30 p.m.. in the college theatre. A foreign correspondent for I the National Catholic Wel- I fare Conference Press Ser- I vice, Mr. Pattee contributes I a weekly column to the New I World, Chicago archdiocesan I newspaper, and to many other I Cafholic journals. I A graduate f the University of Krizona. he holds a Master of Arts Lgree from the Catholic Univer ity of America and has studied I:: Louvain university. Belgium, Ld at the University of Coimbra, Ertugal. I He lias taught at the University Puerto Rico, at the Catholic Diversity of America; at Middle- lory college, Vermont; Laval uni- niity, Quebec; the National Uni- l-ersity of Mexico; the University If Haiti, and the University of ribourg, Switzerland. I He worked for the United States Department of State, first in the Division of American Republics pnd later as assistant chief of the Division of Cultural Relations. He has lectured in most of I the Spanish universities, in I Ireland, England, Scotland, I the Netherlands, France, Italy, I and in many South American I countries. Currently, he is on I a lecture tour in Cuba. I In 194.S he received the Chris- Ban Culture Award Medal. He Is a former president of the Amer- Itan Catholic Historical associa tion, and a member of the Acad emies of History of Ecuador, Ven- Luela. Panama. Columbia, and Ni caragua, and of the Geographical Jvciety of Lisbon. I He is the author of many books. Lost recent of which are This Is rain, published in 1951. and The Ese of Alovsius Cardinal Stepin- tc. published in 1953. He attended the San Fran- 1 cisco conference as consultant I to the American delegation, I and since 1947 he is a member I for the United States on the I Vatican Commission on I UNESCO, with a seat in I Paris. I In October 1946, Mr. Pattee pent a week here, serving as gen- Hi chariman for a five-day Insti tute for Study of the United Na- If.n'is Charter, the first academic litudy of the L'N in any American Itollegc. Vote Tomorrow jFor Council Vice President I Tomorrow at 1 p.m.. students hill nominate seniors for the office Li vice-president of the Student lAc'ivities Council. I Virginia Leidinger, Economics Major and president of the Junior tlass. was elected May 5 to succeed Barv Ann Lashmet as Council Resident. Rosemary Esposito, who has just Iroirpl. ted a term as treasurer, will Be SAC secretary next year. I Diane Sherwood. Freshman rep- Ire-; native, will hold the first maj- lor Council office for her class, serv- Img as treasurer. I Miss Lashmet will preside at the Iwniination session tomorrow and li: all other SAC meetings between lv v and May 26, College Day, I when she will administer the oath lei office to the incoming officers. Sponsored by the Fathers club and the Womans auxiliary, the lec ture, to which the students, their parents, and their friends, are in vited, is one of the academic events of the Jubilee year. Founded in September, 1930. the College has served Chicago and its young citizens for 25 years. Mind ful of its anniversary, it honored one of its own alumnae last month, confering upon Doris Barnett Re gan '33 the Magnificat Medal. Preluding the lecture, the Glee club, directed by Mr. Adalbert Hu guelet, will present Ave Maria by Somervell. Sweet Little Jesus Boy by MacGimsey, and Little Clock- by van der Stucken. Following the lecture, tea will be served and guests may meet Mr. Pattee. THE ,-C - r f 5r i-'.r-U ' i SiiiflR4lliR V 'WiIi i: .:U. *S Vol. XXV Mundelein College. Chicago 40, Illinois, May 9, 1955 No. 12 Daughters Plan Dates With Dads A date with the handsomest man in her life is what every student attending the Father-Daughter din ner, May 18, looks forward to. Dressed in their smartest after noon dresses, girls will escort their fathers to the gymnasium, where a catering company guarantees expert cuisine. Mary Ann Lashmet, SAC presi dent, general chairman of the dinner, has announced that entertainment will include professional music. Senior Pianist Will Qive Recital Sunday, May 22 inspired by an old Breton myth ac cording to which the sunken cath edral of Ys rises to view on cer tain clear mornings from a trans lucent sea. Fantasy appears with myth in the strains of Jeanne Regan's Sen ior Piano recital. Sponsored by the Music department. Miss Re gan will perform on May 22 at 3:30 p.m.. in the college theatre. Her first selection is one of Bach's improvisations. The Chromatic Fantasia is one of the composer's most famed keyboard compositions. A disturbing piece of music, it is a long restless declamation which successfully translates recitative into terms of a keyboard instru ment. Chromatic harmonies are broken and spread up and down the keys in a turbulent fashion. Rhapsody Opus 119, No. 4, by Brahms will follow the Fantasia. Comprising the second group of piano numbers are three compo sitions by Chopin, Waltz Op. 64, Xo. 2; Nocturne Opus 15. No. 2. and The Winter Wind Etude Opus 25, No. 11. La Cathedrale Engloutie by De bussy will open Miss Regan's mod ern numbers. This selection was Bells chime and priests chant until the mirage disappears again below the waters. Included also in the second group will be Mac- Dowell's Polonaise Opus 46, No. 11. Climaxing her recital Miss Regan will play the Adagio sostenuto and Allegro scher- zando movements of the Con certo No. 2 in C Minor, Opus 18, by Rachmaninoff. Lenore Walker will play the orches tral parts at the second piano. This concerto is rich in melodic invention, harmonic warmth, and unsought effectiveness. It is one of the last post-romantic virtuoso concertos written by pianists for pianists and for the exhilaration of the audience. Johanna Korte, soprano, will as sist Miss Regan, singing Mascag- (Continued on Page 4, Col. 2) Faculty Member Guides Chemistry Research, Wins Notre Dame Appointment Since the fall of 1949 a quiet corner of the Chemistry labora tories has been turned over to a yearly changing little group of senior Chemistry research work ers. Under the direction of Sister Mary Martinette, B.V.M., chair man of the Chemistry department, and aided by three grants, they have steadily probed the mysteries of the Stereochemistry of Coor dination Compounds fundamen tal chemical research. Two grants amounting to more than 3000.00 have come from Research corporation, New York, and a smaller grant is from the Illinois State Academy of Science. Each spring has found one or two students with results interest ing and important enough for pre sentation before the College Stu dent Division of Chicago's Ameri can Chemical Society section. At the fourth annual meeting of this group a Mundelein senior won second prize for her work on a study of the aquation of certain coordination compounds. This spring, two seniors will present papers at North western university where the meeting is to be held. Constance Gonzalez will pre sent The Rotary Dispersion and Absorption Studies on Dichloro- bis-Ievo-propylenediamine Cobalt (III) Chloride. Arline Jarrett will describe a Study of Iridium and Its Coor dination Compounds. The meet ing is May 21. SENIOR P'anist Jeanne Regan practices the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 in C minor, in preparation for her Recital on May 22. Debaters Conquer Space With Tape Scientists are not the only ones to have conquered space. Without leaving Chicago, the Discussion team competed at Purdue univer sity and the University of Hous ton in Texas in the regional and semi-final eliminations of the Fourth Annual Public Discussion contest. The original discussion was recorded early in December, and the tape has been sent from campus to campus. Since that time the voices of the Mundelein team earned a rating of Excellent, after participating with ? lt;2 universities from Los An geles State college to the Univer sity of Virginia. Student discussants were Faith Farley, chairman, Bar bara Strandberg, Ellen Galla gher, Barbara Fischer, and Joan Panka. Topic was How Can the Ameri can Educational System Best Meet the Needs of Society. Because of her interest and ex perience in the field of Stereo chemistry of Coordination Com pounds, Sister Mary Martinette, B.V.M., has received a summer appointment as post-doctoral re search associate at the University of Xotre Dame. In the Notre Dame labora tories, Sister will carry on research particularly in the field of infra-red absorption spectra. The work is a segment of the Radiation Project in Chemistry which is being conducted at the University under the direction of Professor Milton Burton under contract with the Atomic Energy Commission. Sister Mary Martinette holds a Master of Science degree from St. Louis university and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Uni versity of Illinois. Sister has contributed studies and reviews to professional scienti fic journals including the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Chemical Edu cation, and she has done research in the libraries at the Gates and Crellin laboratories at the Califor nia Institute of Technology. Music, Spring Harmonize For Annual Concert Lilting melody wafting through soft spring breezes will fill the col lege theater on May 13 at 8:15 p.m. The annual Spring Concert will in clude piano, organ, and vocal selec tions. The piano selections will include -Mozart's Sonata in F Major, K. S 3. played by Elizabeth Casieri. -Mary Sklavounos will interpret Nocture, Opus 9, Xo. 1 by Chopin, and Eleanor Di Maggio will play Toccata by Khatchaturian. Prelude and Fugue in B Flat Major by Bach will be Joan Kies' offering. Sylvia Dominquez will perform Torjetas Postales, Madrid. Paisaje Granadino, and Romeria by Turina. Nancy Alias will in terpret Preludes No. 2 and 3 by Gershwin. Bonnet's Variations de Concert played by Moonyeen Brown and Scherzo from Sonata VI by Guil mant interpreted by Mary Ellen Casey are the organ selections. Included in the vocal selections will be La Girometta by Sibella sung by Xancy Ostos, Marilyn Zanke will interpret Summer by Chami- nade. Madonna Toney will sing Charpentier's Depuis Lc Jour from Louise. Mimi's Farewell from La Boheme by Puccini will be Joyce Knox' selection. Sylvia Dominquez, Con stance Gonzalez, and Miss Casey will accompany the vocalists.
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1955-05-09 (1)
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