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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER October 14, 1959 PPNFCTIMF I A M T 11 A H a native of Kumasi, Ghana, and Mother L K II C 0 I IN C J A IN I U A II , Mary iKnatius, S.S.G, of Chicago, look at the map of Africa and survey the outlines of the country in which they both had once lived. They plan a reunion on the Dark Continent where they will meet and renew the friendship which they have begun at Mundelein. A Continent, an Ocean, and U. S. Bring Ghana Residents Together 'Tis indeed a small world when two residents of Kumasi, Ghana, cross Africa, an Ocean and many of these United States only to meet for the first time in the halls of Mundelein College. Such is the case with Ernestine Jan- tuah and Mother Mary Ignatius of the Sisters of the Holy Child. Ernestine, who enrolled as a junior at Mundelein this fall, attended the Holy Child Training College for teach ers in Cape Coast, Ghana. Mother Ig natius arrived on the African scene after Ernestine had graduated and come to America. RECENTLY Ernestine's oldest brother visited Holy Child and met Mother Ignatius. Since she was plan ning a trip back to the states, he asked her to look up his sister at St. Mary's, Notre Dame. This, Mother Ignatius did, only to find that Ernestine had transferred to another college. It was only by chance, through mentioning that she too was from Ghana, that the Admissions Office informed Sister of Ernestine's attendance at Mundelein. Ernestine, who is studying on a scholarship awarded by the Cocoa Marketing Board in Ghana, has also attended Indiana university. After the experiences of living on a large university campus, she prefers the at mosphere of a Catholic college. The girls are all friendly and helpful she said, and I don't get lost quite so easily. Before coming to America, Ernes tine taught at a boarding school in Bechem, Ghana, for over a year. She is now majoring in nutrition and plans to return to a hospital in Kumasi as a dietician. ERNESTINE'S FATHER was a tri bal chief, her oldest brother is ambas sador from Ghana to Paris. One brother is studying law at London uni versity, while her younger brother is in engineering school. Four of her sis- October Ushers in Basketball Season Freshmen will meet sophomores at 4 p.m. Monday to open the intramural basketball tourney. The juniors chal lenge the seniors at 1:10 the following day. Sophomores will vie with seniors at 1:10 on Oct. 22. Schedules of further games will be posted on locker bulletin boards, Irene Lizak, WAA president, announces. Oct. 19 also marks the opening date for the ping-pong competition. Matches will be arranged as soon as the lists posted on this day are completed. ters are married and one is a nurse in Accra. Mother Ignatius, a native Chi- cagoan, attended Immaculata high school before entering the Society of the Holy Child. She volunteered for missionary work in Africa, and spent two years teaching in Nigeria. She is currently auditing a calculus class while awaiting her return to Ghana late in October. Both Ernestine and Mother Ignatius are happy about their acquaintance so far from home and plan to renew their friendship when Ernestine returns to Ghana, probably in 1961. Fresh Dogs and Horses Occupy Students' Time Highlighting first semester activi ties of the Equestrians is the fall wiener roast. Club officers, Bonnie Whelehan, president; Sue Miller, sec retary; and Laura Rybski, treasurer announce these arrangements: When? Tuesday, Nov. 3. Where ? Along Lake Michigan from the Lincoln Park stables. Time? 7:30-9:30 p.m. Who ? All students invited. Why? Have a great time A Christmas ride is planned for Sunday, Dec. 27. The officers are also anticipating a breakfast ride in the early spring. To fulfill the college requirements of physical education, credit students ride on an average of once a week at least seven times per quarter. Riding at the New Parkway stables, 2251 N. Clark street, is open to all students whether they are credit riders or not. Terrapins Perform Dolphins, Dodzens A demonstration of stunts required for admittance into the Terrapin club will be presented in the college pool at 4 p.m. today. Club members will demonstrate all skills necessary for admission to the club. These skills include ballet legs, surface dive, hand stand in deep wa ter, dolphin, dodzen, kip, the five strokes and the waltz crawl. Students from any department in the college who have swimming agility and some knowledge of ballet tech niques are welcome to join the club, says Mrs. Leo Gorski, swimming in structor. The Terrapin agenda for this year includes trips to the University of Illinois and Northwestern, a Christ mas party, and a water show in May. SI udcrapinad NOTE: The Floating Busybody and Newsmonger association wishes that some of you would do something scandalous, so that its members would have the pleasure of putting it in print (or keeping it out). Your Auntie Pumpinella was cheering the Sox on TV last week, when a young whippersnapper came rushing into the tearoom in the last half of the third inning. What's the score? she asked. Nothing to nothing, I said. Oh, wonderful, she exclaimed, then I haven't missed a thing . . . Have you heard? The chemistry students have been making some explosive discov eries lately . . . June Gardula is taking names and addresses of boys for the Junior-Senior Tea Dance. But WATCH OUT She's asking for phone numbers too . . . The most confusing messages are being sent around this school banning the use of sticky stuff in decorating things like lockers and walls. Now, isn't Mundelein a liberal arts college? and isn't interior decorating con sidered an art? and what could be more liberal than our use of Scotch tape in interior decorating? Most confusing . . . Sister Mary Bartella is planning to have girl's start elevators here just the way they do in the big stores downtown. You'll know them by their badges. They'll read: Official Upstart. ... So all right We're Clods The Skyscraper printed an article which said that the WAA was raffling tickets to the coming Notre Dame-Carolina game. The WAA isn't being cheap. We're just square. That game was played three weeks ago . . . Nice things are happening around this place. Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Pat Piscitelli are engaged, and Barbara Jerz is pinned , . . Definition of oratory: The art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain From Aunt Pumpinella's Library: Arithmetic Can Be Fun by Munro Leaf J. B. Lippincott Co., 1949 (This book is highly recommended for all math majors. It contains some sound philosophy for the high flier who feels that she's been shot down in flames. For example: One of the big reasons that Arithmetic isn't much fun to so many people is that they never learn about it so that it make sense. If you learn how to use 10 little pictures the right way, you can do all the Arithmetic that ever needs to be done in the whole wide world. ) Things You Never Noodle Now: The world record for non-stop talking was set, not in our tearoom, but in Limerick, Ireland, by a MAN He talked for five days and 13 hours. (Useful information, eh, ladies?) Fools Venture Forth Where Angels Fear To Tread: Azumi House (Most honorable establishment to satisfy your yen for velly nice field lice and sukiyaki. Ah, so ) 5120 N. Broadway LO 1-2448 Thought for the Week: A silly young fellow named Hyde In a funeral procession was spied; When asked, Who is dead? He giggled and said, I don't know; I just came for the ride. Campus Cutups Want To Be Independent? Pay for Your Dates This is the first article in Campus Cutup series which will be run monthly. If there is any burning campus custom you'd like to see discussed in print, please leave your suggestions in the Skyscraper office. NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO come to the aid of girls. According to the rumors of our whispering walls the time has finally come when Mundelein women (not all, however) wish to be treated as equals. Do you? NOW WE ASK YOU: Would you pay half for a date? A locker room survey indicates that one-third of our girls would help out by paying their own way in such things as movies, lunches . . . They believe a fellow going to college often finds it difficult to make ends meet and therefore it is proper to pay one's own way. Most of the girls who agreed to pay decided it would be more fun to do so in a group. Others said this switch-around would be fun only once a year such as a Sadie Hawkins shindig. According to a student from another country who was interviewed, it is quite common for French girls to pay their way on an afternoon date. How ever, a date at night is always paid for by the escort. One feminist stated girls would achieve greater independence by paying for dates. Her colleague suggested that women should take their place in the world by footing the bill. It was also commented that boys nowadays have no initiative and girls have to take the initia tive in so many things, why not in this? SAFEGUARDING THE OLD-FASH IONED IDEAS, two-thirds of Mundelein's questioned population loudly echoed Let's not break these nice traditions. Other comments such as What are we going to do, turn this world around? and This is not protocol met our query with fire and determination never to pay. The majority confessed that they would rather watch television, take a walk, or take advantage of Chicago's entertainment per gratis than ever de grade a boy by having a girl pay for a date. ONE PENSIVE GIRL recalled the day when her brother, then in college, broke her cherished piggy-bank rather than accept money from his date. While some believed that this infringement on the escort's duty to pay harmed his masculine ego, others believed that if a girl paid for a date it was almost like paying a boy to take her out. One sparkling brown-eyed lass concluded boys do not possess chivalry anymore let's not make it any worse. What do you think? (Nov. 25 issue will present this topic from the male point, of view.) Daughters Prove Mothers Know Best Mother knows best, decided five freshmen, daughters of alumnae. The girls all admitted being influenced to a greater or lesser degree in their choice of a college by the former at tendance of their mothers at Munde lein. ONE REASON I came was be cause my mother (Virginia Harring ton Hughes, ex '40) went here , re plied Mary J. Hughes. But I had never been to an all girl's school before and I wanted to try it, she concluded. Mary Fran Burke commented that her mother had influenced her deci sion. Frances Joeger Burke ex '37, who was a freshman SAC representa tive, reminisced: When I attended, there were no Big Sisters and no facili ties for smoking. MOM LIKED IT, so that was a ho partial reason, revealed Betsy Coffey, daughter of Betsy Louise Hayes Coffey, ex '37. Not only the school, but in some instances even instructors are common ground for mother and daughter. Sister Mary Pierre, B.V.M., who taught Helen Daley Patch '35, now has Virginia 14 years later. I WORK for Sister Janet who was my mother's teacher at one time, stated Marybeth Harding. Rita Gra- bold Harding '38, a former scholarship winner, recalled her school days. There was no smoker, no places to study, and no locker rooms as there are now. Mrs. Harding's last comment was heart breaking. We never seemed to have as much homework as you do now. TAP AKin PnWhlC were no' Par' f *ne picture when these mothers * ' riliU U U VV H j were freshmen. Staging the capping ceremony on Parent-Daughter Day are four Mundelein alumnae and their freshman daughters (left to right): Betsy Hayes Coffey; ex '37 and Betsy; Helen Daly Patch '35 and Virginia; Frances Joeger Burke, ex '37 and Mary Fran; and Rita Grabold Harding '38 and Mary Beth. Not present for the picture were Virginia Harrington Hughes ex '40 and Mary Jacqueline.
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1959-10-14 (4)
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