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ID Vol. XXXV Mundelein College, Chicago 26, 111., Dec. 16, 1964 Candle Ceremony Heralds Christmas Symbolizing selfless generosity, a tall Christmas candle will be lighted to open Mundelein's 35th commemoration of Christmas on Thursday, Dec. 17 at 1:40 p.m. in the college thea ter. Christine Mocarski, SAC president, will light the taper for the student body. Light Candles Clad in academic cap and gown, the seniors, SAC officers and representatives, class and club presidents will move in procession down the aisles of the theater. Mary Canning O'Brien '54 and Mrs. Edward Matula of the art department will represent the alumnae and faculty. The class and club representatives as well as the SAC officers will light a candle symbolizing their groups. The verse choir will read the Christmas Gospel of St. Luke and the College Chorus will sing an ar rangement of the Magnificat by Sister Mary Mark, I.H.M., and Fan-Fare (for Christmas) by Shaw. The audience will join with the chorus in singing Joy to the World. Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., will close the ceremony with her Christmas message. Hang Wreaths After leaving the college theater, senior class president, Ginger Fin- negan and SAC president, Chris Mocarski, will hang the Christmas wreaths on the main entrance of the skyscraper marking the official opening of the Christmas recess. Following the ceremonies the mem bers of the senior class will enter tain their mothers at a tea arranged by Mary Catherine Grill and Pat Kaufman. llllu'ii TjJt tt sliall otJtr all tl r earth 311 -. aiuicitt aplenbors fling . nb tb,e mljalc foorlb stub hack the sang lEHlieh, now tljr angels sing. Sears Library Hours Friday, Dec. 18 9:30-4:30 Monday through Wednesday Dec. 21-23 9:30-4:30 Monday through Wednesday Dec. 28-30 9:30-4:30 Sunday, Jan. 3 1:00-4:30 6:00-10:00 Note-takers Talents Taxed Philosophers Discuss Freedom of Man Freedom, the layman, society, creativity, authority and responsi bility and science aroused questions and confirmed opinions of the Mun delein students who attended the Patrick F. Healy Conference on Freedom and Man at Georgetown University Nov. 30 - Dec. 2. The group, composed pre dominantly of the junior honors class, avidly recorded the ad dresses of such eminent phi losophers and theologians as Reverend Hans Kung, Reverend John Courtney Murray, S.J., and Reverend Karl Rahner, S.J. Sister Mary Jean Michael, B.V.M., philosophy department chairman, who accompanied the students, said that the material and experience of the sessions will complement their course, Perspectives on Man and help in the preparation of papers on freedom and the nature of man. Student reaction was summarized by junior Mary Reser. She said that Kung, Rahner and Murray were just great ; response to other speakers depended upon the amount of interest and knowledge each in dividual had in the topic. In further comment, she added that both Murray's and Kung's speeches were interrupted several times by applause, and the audience was generally both visibly and au dibly reactive. The conference, which was originally planned as a small in terchange between philosophers and theologians in a multi lingual center, expanded to a gymnasium to accommodate the 5,000 people who attended. Com ments of amazement at the in tense and spontaneous response to the conference were heard continuously, Sister Mary Jean Michael said. The striking thing is that the interest was not a phenomenon of any one group in the Church, Sis ter emphasized. Pre-seminarians, nuns, students, teachers and laity of all ages and background made the conference a true cross sec tion of the American Church. The intense pace of the confer ence left little time for the audience to do much more than snatch meals between sessions. From 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. two papers were read and commented on by two discus sants. From 2 until 5:30 p.m. this procedure was repeated. When they reconvened for the evening session, which lasted until 11:30 p.m., one paper was read and discussed. Slight physical discomfort by Jean Durall was overshadowed by speakers like Reverend Robert O. Johann, SJ., who was a favorite of the Mundelein delegation. The au thor of The Meaning of Love, set the whole tension of au thority and responsibility on the point of what Dr. Tillich has called 'listening love' in the words of Sister Jean Michael. Sister added that she hopes to have Father Johann speak here next year. Commentators on Daniel Calla han's Freedom and the Layman also aroused much interest among the Mundelein students. Phillip Scharper, an editor for Sheed and Ward Publishers, said in comment that the image of authority in the Church has always been that of a pyramid with the Holy Father at the apex and the laity and lower clergy at the base. Rather than a pyramidunculus structure, au thority should take the form of concentric circles rippling outward in dynamic relationships. Reverend George F. Van Ackeren, dean of St. Mary's Theological College in Kansas, added his comment that the re sponse must be made by the lower clergy as well as the laity. Perhaps the symbols for au thority are evoking reactions which detract from them, Fa ther Van Ackeren said. In over-all summary, Sister Mary Jean Michael said that the confer ence was so magnificent that you couldn't really criticize at all. This conference gathered all the outstanding Jesuits in the world, Sister observed. Perhaps it could have had a more universal tone if other theo logians besides Jesuits had been in vited to it. It was generally agreed by the girls who took all the notes that the rewards of the experience far exceeded any hardships involved. So excited was the returning con tingent that they are considering a similar excursion next semester. (See Seminar Report on Page 3) College Adds to Funds With Grants and Gifts The college has received nearly 40,000 in grants since the end of the 1963-64 academic year. Most recently received is a 3,000 unrestricted grant from the Esso Education Foundation. Receive Other Gifts The sum has been awarded under the Foundation's regular program of grants to privately controlled four-year educational institutions of higher learning in the United States. Mundelein has received pe riodic gifts from the Foundation in the past and is the only Catholic college for women in Chicago to have received them. An 800 gift is the sixth in seven years received from the Sears Roe buck Foundation. Mundelein is one of ten Illinois colleges to be cited for a grant. Add Scholarship Aid Thirty thousand dollars has been added recently to the college's en dowment fund by an anonymous donor. Another 2,500 to be used for scholarship assistance has been pre sented to Mundelein by an anony mous alumna. Illinois Bell Telephone's unre stricted gift of 1,200 has been ap plied to the cost of the Inner-city program.
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1964-12-16 (1)
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