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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER Dec. 18,1962 Expert Backgrounds Count Advisory Council Benefits College After the first visit of the institutional analysis advisory committee to the College Dec. 1 and 2, many of the faculty carried their enthusiasm from the sessions to the classroom. The faculty members related various points from the weekend discussions, but all teachers emphasized the down-to-earth at titude of every advisory committee member. It is fortunate that Mundelein has five education experts interested in her. What ever steps Mundelein does take as a result of the analysis, the College will have bene fited from the diverse backgrounds of these five friends. Dr. Bernice Brown Cronkhite retired as dean of Radcliffe Graduate School in 1959, after holding various administrative posts at the college from 1923. Twice president of the New England Conference on Gradu ate Education, she is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Association of Uni versity Women, the United States Board of Foreign Scholarships and the Society of In ternational Law. She is the author (with others) of Graduate Education for Women (1956) and the editor of the Handbook for College Teachers (1950). Dr. Cronkhite received her A.B. from Radcliffe and her A.M. and Ph.D. from Yale. She holds honorary degrees from Wheaton, Brown and Keuka colleges. Professor H. Marston Morse is on the faculty of the school of mathematics of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Lost in Christ Downtown Chicago is in the fury of brotherly love. It is amazing how so many stores, shops, theaters, restaurants and hotels can celebrate the birthday of Christ and ignore Him simultaneously. One of the most difficult things to find in the loop, besides a size 17 A A turtle-neck raincoat for Aunt Lou, is a Nativity scene. Marshall Field and Co. boasts of 15 mam moth window displays portraying The Night Before Christmas. A manger scene has been inconspicuously placed in the win dow next to the side door on Washington Street. There are no zany flashing lights to draw attention to it. There are no lights at all. No one stops to look. It is difficult to imagine what Wieboldt's State St. store's five Hansel and Gretal dis plays have in common with the Christmas season. Yet most shoppers marvel at the old witch coaxing two children into her gingerbread house rather than at the still forms by the crib in the casement near the department store's side door. Unless a person is an habitual above-the- Shopper Shuffle: Versus Storylond marque gazer, he will probably miss the two angels perched above The Fair's State St. entrances. Most window gazers, however, could hardly miss The Fair's animated ice- skating scene at State and Adams. Carson Pirie Scott Co. has an excep tionally striking Nativity scene located above the crowds at State and Madison. At eye level, Caron's presents three interpretations of an old-fashioned Christmas and one of the call of St. Francis of Assisi. The Saint's prayer to be made an instrument of . . . peace is linked to the message of peace conveyed by the angels on the first Christ mas. These discoveries indicate a person can find a Nativity scene in the heart of Chi cago if he looks hard enough, very hard. Barbara Kubicz N.J. The originator of the variational theory in the large, a new branch of mathe matics, Dr. Morse is the author of two books and numerous papers in this field. He edited the Princeton Mathematical Series (1938). Dr. Morse represented the Vatican at a con ference of 82 nations establishing an Inter national Atomic Energy Commission in 1956. Formerly president of the American Mathe matical Society, he is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation (member of the Board, 1950-54), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophi cal Society. In addition, he is a correspond ent of the Academie des Sciences. Professor Morse graduated summa cum laude from Colby College and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has honorary degrees from 13 universi ties, including Pisa, Milan, Vienna, the Sor- bonne and the University of Notre Dame. Dr. George N. Shuster, formerly presi dent of Hunter College and editor of Com monweal, is assistant to the president of Notre Dame. Presently a member of the Executive Committee of UNESCO as United States representative, Dr. Shuster was chairman of the United States National Commission for UNESCO, 1953-54. He is on the Board of Directors of the National Educational Television and Radio Center. Dr. Shuster has received the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame and the Butler Medal of Columbia University for service to education. He has honorary degrees from Columbia, the New York College of Music, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the University of Freiburg and the Free Uni versity of Berlin. After earning an A.B. and M.A. from the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Shuster re ceived his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He was awarded fellowships by the Vereini- gung Carl Schurz, the Oberlaender Trust and the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation. He is the author of several books on litera ture, Catholicism and Germany. The Reverend William J. Dunne, S.J., is executive secretary of the college and uni versity division of the National Catholic Education Association, of which he is a former president. He was president of the University of San Francisco from 1938 to 1954. After study at Lyons and Gonzaga, Fa ther Dunne received his Ph.D. from the Gre gorian University. The Reverend Joseph Sittler, Lutheran theologian on the faculty of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, was DL Si Powers Combines Satirical, Sympathetic in First Novel by Barbara Kovacs y Scraper Vol. XXXIII Dec. 18, 1962 No. 6 All-Catholic The Skyscraper is published semimonthly. October to May inclusive, except during vacations and semes ter examinations by the studenW of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Rd., Chicago 26. III. Subscription rate IB 2 Dor year. Entered as second-class matter Nov. 30. 1932, at the U.S. Post Office. Chicago. III., under the act of March 3. 1897. The Skyscraper is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Press As sociation. Editor in Chief Mary Jo Murray Managing Editor Barbara Brzezinski News Editor Mary Etta Talarico Assistant Maureen Racine Editorial Editor Eileen Schaefer Feature Editor Janice Jearas Layout Editors Pat Krochmal, Dianne Arturi Photographers Rae Paul, Elynore Deutsch Columnist Carlotta Serritella Artist Diane Mazza Staff Assistants Kathleen Sweeney, Pat Collins, Joanne Infantino, Louise Nunziato, Elaine Casello, Carol Jankow- ski, Tina DeRosa, Maxine Tyma How familiar we are with the scores of books about the good fathers. Even though these mythical characters may vary in the degree of their goodness, they are portrayed as holy, but essentially unrealistic. Morte D'Urban breaks this pattern. In his first novel, J. F. Powers has created a human priest in Father Urban of the Order of St. Clement. Urban is concerned with pumping life into his spiritually and materially lagging order. Unfortunately, he tries to give it a solely material boost, and it is through these ef forts that Powers reveals his character. Father Urban uses his speaking talent on wealthy benefactors and devout retreatants to obtain a good near-north-side site in Chi cago for the order's offices. Through his honest portrayal of people, the author shows that Urban is equally at home in the Pump Room and in the chapel. In short, Father Urban might have been a religious oil tycoon as well as a rather worldly Clementine. Powers, however, is too great an artist to reveal only one aspect of a character. He shows us Urban's inner qualms of con science in several instances. On one such occasion as Father Urban kneels in the chapel he muses, I ought to spend more time here. Another time, he loses the sup port of a wealthy benefactor by rebuking him. Father Urban changes from a dynamic, outgoing, energetic man to a passive, ill and uncommunicative provincial, to which the title of the book refers. Powers does this so skillfully, that the reader hardly notices the subtle change. The rector of the retreat house is inept, irritable and irritating; the local pastor pre fers to hide in his rectory rather than be active with his parishoners; and the bishop has such a sentimental attachment to an old church that he tries to keep a new one from being built. Despite these weaknesses and faults, Powers is honest enough to show that there are many worthy as well as un worthy men in the clergy. And it is this characteristic, more than anything else, which makes such a delightfully satirical and yet sympathetic novel. a key speaker at the World Council of Churches meeting in New Delhi in 1961. Dr. Sittler was Lyman-Beecher lecturer at Yale in 1959, and William Belden Noble lecturer at Harvard in the same year. A member of the American Theological So ciety, he has written three books on theology. Dr. Sittler completed undergraduate work at Wittenberg College and received his D.D. at Wagner College after earning a bachelor of divinity degree from Hamma Divinity School. He also holds an LL.D. from Wit tenberg College. Mundelein extends a sincere thank you to the members of the advisory committee for their time and interest in coming to the College and thereby sharing the wealth of their backgrounds with us. Mary Jo Murray Sounding Board Editor: We ought to be insulted. Not only did you question our right to be Big Sisters, but you expressed some doubt as to how we were fulfilling our responsibilities in that capacity. Your point is well taken. We aren't insulted. As a matter of fact, we're glad that someone had the courage to begin the battle for better Big Sisters. Isn't it unfortunate that the Big Sisters themselves can't solve their own problems; than non-member upperclassmen can't ques tion the system without appearing to be poor losers; that many sophomores are glad just to forget that period when they were little sisters; that many freshmen are too often left on their own by a disinter ested Big Sister? Theoretically the Big Sister program has one of the greatest potentials on campus, for despite the degree of sophistication among many of the incoming freshmen and the help extended them by faculty and ad ministration, each girl is provided with one upperclassman who is personally interested in her. Just as participation in student government develops leadership, the So dality spiritual growth, YRs and YDs po litical awareness, the Big Sisters can pro mote a sense of security, security that can form the foundation of a successful college career. Obviously, not all of the current crop of Big Sisters are to blame. But be fore we overhaul the training program, the formal summer teas and the orientation- week activities, a first step in the right di rection would be a reform of the selection system. We heartily support the volunteer program so clearly outlined in your edito rial, and we appreciate your pointing out such specious objections to it as prestige and hurt feelings. We not only concur in your appraisal of the situation and in your suggestions for improvement, but we thank you for provid ing the only forum where this particular aspect of student affairs can be discussed. You may have discovered a skeleton in our closet, but you will also find that some of those dry bones are ready to be swept out. Sheila Prindiville Pat Appleby Mary Ellen Cronin Editor: Thank you for saying so well what many of us have been saying so long It seems to me that the Big Sister pro gram as it now exists does a fine job. The point, however, remains that there is a way to improve it by putting it on a voluntary basis and then allowing the process of se lection to take over. Why not give this a more adequate hear ing by the Big Sisters, with pros and cons of a volunteer-selection program more fully discussed? If no conclusion can then be reached, let the advocates of volunteering have their way for a year, only since the selection program has evidently been the method since the inception of the Big Sister program. Marianne Littau
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