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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER Sept. 16, 1964 Mundelein Inaugurates Performing Arts Because the questionnaire last year showed that most students want high-level cultural programs and are willing to pay from 5-10 for them, a faculty-student com mittee has selected four groups of performing artists to be presented in the college theater this year. Season tickets are 4.50 for four performances, and individual tick ets will be 1.50 each. In addition to the funds supplied by the col lege, money from students who purchase tickets has enabled the committee to contract for these groups. Each program will be presented on a Thursday from 12:40 until 2:30, which will enable the audi ence to enjoy a complete produc tion, according to Sister Mary Assisium, B.V.M., dean of students. Sister also points out that lectures will still be sponsored by depart ments or groups of departments. Each of the four groups of art ists is rather new, but each has had as much success as a seasoned per former. First to be presented will be the company of the Theater On- the-Road, Oct. 22. This young pro fessional group is directed by Karin Osborne, Ph.D., formerly on the faculty of the University of Minnesota. On their first tour last year, they performed successfully in Midwest ern states. The players will pre sent Eugene Ianesco's The Killer, a suspense comedy of the author's own creation set in Paris. Psychological ballet will be pre sented by the Illinois Ballet Com pany. They will perform The Metamorphosis of the Owls and two other ballets Nov. 19. They too are a young company and have received an enthusiastic response in the Illinois area. The group is Chicago based, and is known for providing a showcase for talent in the area, and for encouraging works of young choreographers. English Opera Opera in English is the fare of the Boston Opera Players who will present Mozart's So Do They All (Cost an Tutte). Their perform ance of this opera has kept other audiences in a panic of laughter. This company strives for an American concept of opera. John Ring has developed this concept in his function as manager, director and often leading baritone. Herbert Mayer, who has conducted opera, symphony and even motion picture scores, is the musical di rector for the group. The complete 70-player Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra will per form here April 8, as part of their cross-country tour. Their director, Lukas Foss, intenationally known College Offers Festival Rates A limited number of 2 tickets for three Shakespearean plays will be available to Mundelein stu dents this week in the lounge area for 1 each. The performances, part of the Ravinia Shakespearean Festival in Highland Park, include Hamlet, Sunday, Sept. 20, Twelfth Night, Saturday, Sept. 26 and Henry V, Sunday, Sept. 27. All are after noon performances. Peter Dews, formerly of the British Broadcasting Company's Age of Kings series, is directing all performances. as a composer, conductor and pi anist, is Berlin-born but American- bred. Student Challenge Sister Mary Assisium, B.V.M., Dean of Students, says that this se ries is an experiment, placing re sponsibility on the students. A voluntary response to these high- level cultural performances pro vides a real challenge to all stu dents. Suggestions for next year's Per forming Artists Series can be made to the members of the faculty-stu dent committee in charge of the series. They are: seniors, Mary Ellen McGreevey and Mary Fran Ehlertj juniors, Marian Delany and Marianne Krier; and sopho mores, Nancy Sweeney and Sharon Minster. Senior Janet Foody is student co-chairman with Sister Mary Assisium. Faculty members have not yet been named. Barta Stresses Importance Of Effective Leisure Time Never before have people been so poorly prepared for their leisure time, said Dr. Russell Barta, pro fessor of political science, as he addressed the National Catholic Social Action Conference at Boston College, Aug. 14-16. - Leisure is not merely rest time to recuperate for more work, he asserted, it is the opportunity to achieve the purpose of life freely and on our own terms. Dr. Barta was the main speaker at the closing session of the eighth annual convention entitled Ameri can Social Revolution For Whom? Much of the program, he said, was geared to the problem of the paradox of today's tremen dous affluent American society on one hand and its equally significant poverty-stricken sector on the other. by Rae Paul More particularly, Dr. Barta's speech, Leisure in the Affluent So ciety, empha sized the impor tance of estab lishing a more urbane, intellec tual culture to counteract some of the popular movements which are actu ally imposed by the mass media. An intellectual culture usually exists with the folk or popular cul ture, which has a creativity of its own, and in turn, is able to feed the intellectual form. The problem, he explained, lies in the ultimate disappearance or complete deterio ration of the popular culture. Dr. Barta The mass media is then able to impose a popular culture of its own. Therefore, Dr. Barta stated, the culture by which the ordinary man lives today is sold to him. Besides restoring the worker physically and mentally for the next day, he concluded, leisure must also be an end in itself, a concept of leisure associated with arts, poetry, drama, philosophy, as it has always been in the classic tradition of Western civilization. Other speakers at the convention were Daniel F. Moynihan, Assist ant Secretary of Labor; Roy Wil- kins, executive secretary of NAA CP; Leon H. Keyserling, president, Conference on PJconomic Progress; Reverend John J. Harmon, director of Packard Manse, Ecumenical In stitute in the slums of Boston. Variety of Backgrounds, Experience Distinguishes Incoming Instructors A number of new instructors have joined the college faculty this fall and others have returned to the campus. Mrs. Donald Rietz of the educa tion department, a graduate of Mundelein and the Alcuin Montes- sori School, will lecture in Mon- tessori Methods. Nora Thielen, a Brazilian educa tor on leave from the University of Rio Grande de Sul, Porto Alegre, joins the faculty as a lecturer in Portuguese. Mary Cook Manchester, a graduate of Clarke College and a performer with the Omaha Symphony, the St. Louis Mu nicipal Opera, the National Company of My Fair Lady and the American Savoyards Gilbert and Sullivan Repertory, will teach voice. Mrs. Philip Hyman, who holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Chicago Music College and a Mas ter of Music from Northwestern University, will teach ensemble. Gerald Bradley, B.A., M.A., La Salle College, Philadelphia, will lec ture in philosophy. Stephen Gornick, who will lecture in psychology, is a psy chologist with the Rehabilita tion Institute of Chicago. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and received his MLA. from Roosevelt Univer sity. Jack Grossman, the Chicago Re gional Director of Guidance and Counseling at B'nai B'rith, who will also lecture in psychology, is a graduate of Roosevelt University and is now a Ph.D. candidate at Loyola University. Herbert Sachs, assistant princi pal at Von Steuben High School, holds his B.A. from Roosevelt Uni versity and his A.M. and M.Ed, degrees from Loyola. He will lec ture in education. James Jordan joins the art department after two years at Christian College, Columbia, Mo. Mr. Jordan has a B.FjV. and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Dr. Leonard Stach, an instruc tor in chemistry, has his B.A. from Loyola and a Ph.D. from North western University. Dr. Stach is the author of several articles in the Journal of Organic Chemistry and a member of the American Chemical Society. Sister Mary Brenan, B.V.M., a Mundelein graduate who received her M.A. from Marquette Univer sity, will teach economics and as sist the College business manager. Marian Rognas, an instructor Brains, Beauty, Bounce Three B's Add Zing to Freshmen Hailing from 15 states and four foreign countries, approximately 307 new faces are now a part of Mundelein. Foreign students number five Grace Kit-Bing, Hong Kong, China; Catherine Liu, Formosa; Isabelle Fuentes and Maria Con- suelo Barreda, Peru; and Maria Antonieta Contreras, Chile. Many Scholarships The old saying that beauty and brains don't mix is disproved by the freshmen. National Honor So ciety members number 16.2 per cent and 3.5 per cent belong to Quill and Scroll. Scholarships are held by 34.8 per cent of the class. Recognized beauties are Dorothy Rupp, a homecoming queen; Bar bara Bock, a senior prom queen and Stephanie Ann Bogle, an at tendant in a Mardi Gras court. The fact that the class of '68 is intellectually capable is shown by its scholarship winners. Thirty-two girls have Mundelein scholarships, 60 hold Illinois State scholar ships, four acquired Alumnae schol arships and 53 girls were awarded both Mundelein and Illinois State scholarships. Dianne Lally, Holy Child High by Caryl Jean Cinelli School, and Ksenia Atanowsky, Resurrection High School, ai-e Na tional Merit winners. Various Awards Verna Chalupnik was awarded the Chicago Drama Festival schol arship. Alice Lempke was a Catho lic Science Fair Award winner. Two girls, Gay Moran and Mau reen McLain, have Mundelein Art scholarships. Denise Pleshar and Patricia Smith both have voice scholarships. Many come to Mundelein with leadership qualities. Thirty-three girls were newspaper editors, 11 were yearbook editors, 22 were class officers, and six were student council officers. Janice Butler was student council president. Preferred Goals English, math and history are the most popular major fields that the class of '68 hopes to pursue. Only one set of doubles will con fuse classmates and teachers Denise and Mary Ann Ryan from Wilmette. Mary Jo Duquette and Marilyn Walsh both come from the largest families in the class. Mary Jo and Marilyn have 13 brothers and sis ters. At the opposite extreme, 8.7 per cent of the class are from one- child families. Over 85 per cent of the girls have from one to five brothers and sisters and five per cent have from six to nine. Dates Possible A statistic which may prove in valuable to any freshman girl hunt ing for a date to the Sophomore Cotillion in November is the fact that 31 per cent of the class have eligible brothers between the ages of 19 and 27. Frosh can entertain St. Joe's men in seven different languages Dutch, French, German, Ukrain ian, Spanish, Latin and Greek. From Nancyanne Greco to Mary Doan, the class rises from 4'91/ to 5'11 and carries 18,816 pounds. in education and sociology, graduated from Washington Square College and is enrolled in a doctoral program in soci ology at the University of Chi cago. Joining the English department are Yohma Gray, a former faculty member at Northwestern Univer sity, and Paul O'Dea, who served as assistant department chairman at the University of Chicago High School. Mr. O'Dea holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and Mrs. Gray is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University. Sister Mary Carita, B.V.M., a Mundelein graduate and a Ph.D. candidate at Loyola Uni versity, will teach ancient stud ies in the classics department. Marie Hank, who has a B.S. from St. Mary's of Notre Dame and an M.S. from the University of Illinois, will teach mathematics. John Wechter will join the phys ics department as a laboratory as sistant. Mr. Wechter is a gradu ate of Loyola University and has studied at Roosevelt and DePaul Universities and the Illinois Insti tute of Technology. Mary Kay Merkle, a Mundelein graduate who taught physical edu cation at Alvernia High School, will teach sports. New lecturers in the home economics department are Pau line Brown who received her M.A. in nutrition from the Illi nois Institute of Technology and R. Ellen Scholly, a gradu ate of the University of Wis consin. Returning to Mundelein are: Marion King, instructor in Eng lish; Sister Mary Margaret Irene, B.V.M., of the education depart ment; Patricia Bledsoe of the psy chology department and Mrs. John Ewers of the English department. THE SKYSCRAPER Mundelein College 6363 Sheridan Rd., Chicago, 111., 60626
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