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lllIDRS of the Skyscraper, with all other Seniors, rejoice that last week and Comprehensive Examinations are over. try Lou Rohlfing, Peggy Winslow, and Barbara Brennan abandoned ieir staff positions for this issue of the paper, and spent much time tap in the books. Like To Write? College Offers five Awards Students with a yen for the pen till have ample opportunity to test tor ability between now and April jdging from the announcements of rreral literary competitions. Mundelein is sponsoring a Crea te Writing and Art Contest in- mded to promote good Catholic lerature and to recognize artistic piHty among the students. Essays, verse, short story, edi- rial, and contemporary criticism it the five divisions of the Creative feting competition. Art entries lill consist of illustrations which Save appeared in The Review and Jyscraper. Awards for the contest, which xses April 9, will be given at the Honors Convocation in May. All fines should be submitted to Room K Commonweal magazine announces s annual Essay contest. A 1,000 : ze will be awarded in June to fcauthor of the best 3,000 to 5,000 lord essay on The Catholic In a )mocratic Society. Entries are to it submit ted to Commonweal before April 15. Kappa Gamma Pi, national schol- sic and activity honor society of itholic women's colleges, reports 1 Short Story contest with prizes of liOand 25 for the two best stories. liatries must be postmarked no later an March 15. For Sophomores Only: Tomorrow Is Your Day Holy Mass Will Be at 8:15 a.m. This is strictly for the Sopho mores, who are invited to don their smartest hats and highest heels and bring their famous class spirit to the Sophomore Class dav, Feb. 24. Holy Mass at Madonna Delia Strada Chapel at 8:15 a.m. will open the day's pro gram, which includes dinner in the tea room and a card party. Virginia Leidinger and Therese Salvator are general co-chairmen of the Day. Diane Barrett heads the Program committee, and Ed na Behm. Barbara Fischer, and Rita I lassenauer are planning the Entertainment. Elly Assim and Alyce Saunoris will take care of Dinner arrange ments, and Margery Caldwell is planning the Card party. Lillian Hartke is in charge of Favors, and Anne Jurkash is planning the awards. Cath erine McManamon will man age Collections, Barbara Quinn is handling Publicity, and Katherine Cannon is in charge of Re-Service. NFCCS Sends Speaker, Art Work to Meeting Mary Agnes Moran will partici ple in a Marian Panel discussion I the regional meeting of the Na- ional Federation of Catholic Col- ige Students, March 7, at St. Fran cs college, Joliet. Miss Moran's topic will be Our lady of Mercy. Other Mundelein delegates will include Nancy Mc- Hugh, Dorothy Schneider, Mary Frances Chambliss. Miss McIIugh was one of the speakers at the NFCCS-sponsored Went Government workshop held it Rosary college, Feb. 7. * . ffft. til .' v . Vol. XXIV Mundelein College, Chicago 40, Illinois, February 23, 1954 No. 8 Find Your Way To, Intellectual Life, March 4 The Intellectual Life will be theme of the annual Philosophy lecture, given at the general as sembly. March 4, by Vincent E. Smith, Ph.D. Currently professor of phil osophy at the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Smith is the author of Philosophical Fron tiers of Physics; Idea Men of Today; Philosophical Phy sics, and Footnotes for the Atom. Editor of New Scholasticism, be is also a contributor to Shield, the Thomist. and other scholarly per iodicals. A graduate of Xavier university, Cincinnati, Dr. Smith has studied at the Institutum Divi Thomae; the University of Fribourg, in Swit zerland ; the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology; Harvard, and the Catholic University of America. Holder of a doctorate from the Catholic university, Dr. Smith taught there for three years before going to Notre Dame. He holds membership in many learned societies. Red Cross Unit Asks Student Support in Annual Drive Feb. 25 and March 1 are important dates on the calen dar for the campus unit of the American National Red Cross. Thursday of this week the Red Cross unit will present its annual assembly program, designed to stimulate student interest in the Fund Drive, which will open officially on March 1. Mary Canning' and Nancy No lan, Fund Drive chairmen, invite interested students to volunteer for service by signing the committee lists on the Red Cross board in the lounge. Attending the Pre-Fund dinner, Feb. 3, for Chicago area students who are Red Cross leaders on their campuses, were Martha Meyers, Loretta Soule, Miss Canning, and Miss Nolan. Relax . . . Friday Is Recollection Day Father Thomas F. Connery, S.J., of St. Mary-of-the-Lake seminary, will conduct the second Recollection Day of the academic year, Friday, Feb. 26. The day will open with Holy Mass celebrated at 9:30 a.m. in the auditorium. Students may receive Holy Communion and have break fast in the tea room or the gymna sium. Conferences will be at 11 a.m., 1:15 p.m., and 2:15 p.m., and the day will close with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Figure Experts Compete In Mathematics Vivian Carroll heads the Hostess committee for the annual Math ematics tournament for High School students, which the Mathematics department will sponsor on March 6. Three students from each of 22 high schools will enter the competi tion, consisting of eight rounds, with problems from arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. Plaques will be awarded to the two highest ranking schools and gold pins to the six high est ranking students. Jane Panka will take care of Test registration; Dolores Feehan and Shirley Snyder have charge of the Problems; Rosemary Anzona is planning the Program; and Dolores Bihun will supervise Scoring. Jane Panka will take care of Test Supervision; Eugenia Wallin of Service; Beverly Battiste of Refresh ments, Joan DeBrecht of Mainten ance, and Diane Barrett of visiting Faculty members. Like Books? Visit Library This Week Displays of brightly jacketed books and arresting posters make the library an enchanting place during Catholic Book Week, Feb. 21 to 27. An elaboration on the national general theme, Christian Reading for the United World, to Christian Reading for a World United under Mary, keys the slogan to the Marian Year. The central cove on the second floor holds the exhibit of new Mariological literature. Rose Anne McCreal and Sandra Stringfellow designed the posters which emphasize the Marian theme and supplement official Catholic Book Week posters. Students visiting the exhibits receive annotated lists of 30 out standing new books, The Best in Catholic Reading, 1954. Almost all are available at the library, and students may reserve their choice for spiritual reading during the Day of Recollection. Feb. 26. A Faculty tea on Feb. 21 official ly opened the Book Week exhibit. Guest reviewer at the tea was Fa ther Vincent T. Mallon, of Mary- knoll seminary, Glen Elyn, who discussed Matthew Ricci's China in the Sixteenth Century, one of the 30 outstanding Catholic books of the year. Four Senior Art majors contri bute works to the Art exhibit which will be a part of the Marian cele bration at Joliet. Sylvia Grigul has entered a water color painting of the Madonna and Child: Doris Kuhlmann has sub mitted an oil painting titled Our Lady at the Well. JoAnn Picola contributes a Pray er to Our I-ady, hand-lettered and illustrated in symbols. Margaret Ackermann has entered a ceramic medallion, called Mother and Child. OOieTiUO the Fathers club in its benefit plans for the College are student captains Dana Parducci, Mary ttOOlO I 111 U Ann Carroll, Jean Martin, Frances Brennan, Donna Flahaut, Mary Lou Doherty, Mary Jule Greeley, Patricia Lampe, Charline Quinn, and Catherine Frey. Mr. N. J. Ziener, promotion manager, and Mr. C. V. Sramek, club president, give instructions to their aides.
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1954-02-23 (1)
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