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L-HI MS Morth Central Names College For Research Mundelein College has been selected I is one f 28 cooperating member institu tions by a committee of the North Ccn- tral .Association of Colleges and Secon dary Schools to participate in a program of educational studies and experimenta tion during the next two years. Sister Mary Benedict, B.V.M., of the education department, director of the program as it applies to Mundelein, at tended a workshop at the University of Minnesota this summer in preparation for the study. Concerns Teacher Training The general study is under the super vision of Dr. Russell M. Cooper of Cornell college and is concerned with improving the curriculum, instruction, and counseling for prospective teachers. During the past year. 10 liberal arts college conferences relating to the prepar ation of high school teachers have been sponsored by the North Central Commit tee. These conferences were attended by representatives of nearly 200 schools. Organize Six Committees The Mundelein branch of the study will be carried on through the cooperation of six Faculty committees, the Planning Committee, the Committee on General Education, the Committee on Student Needs, the Committee on Professional Education, the Committee on the Library, and the Committee on Examinations. Edits America's Friendly Journal To promote hemispheric solidarity through understanding. Paul J. Cooke. Ph. I)., instructor in Spanish, is editing and publishing AM1GOS, America's Friendly Magazine. The first issue, ded icated to Rafael A. Kspaillot, consul of the Dominican Republic, was released in September. Commenting on Dr. Cooke's project, Diego Xewbery, of the Muxdo Argen tine, Buenos Aires, said, The name Amigos is. . . . the best introduction you could have in our South American countries. Articles pertinent to North and South American problems, and fiction trans lated irom Latin-American publications are contained in the magazine. Special editors representing Argentina. Chile. Mexico, and Peru provide first hand information. Ruth Perry '41, last year's music editor of The Review, is music editor. Welcome Parents At Reception On Sunday, Oct. 12 Each student will be hostess to her own parents, on Sunday. Oct. 12, when the College sponsors the Parent-Daughter reception and tea. The President and the Dean will greet them in the formal reception rooms, after which the students will escort their guests through the buildings, and take them to tea in the model apartment. Planned to acquaint the parents with the college and with members of the Faculty, the Parent-Daughter Day re ception will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Start Tryouts, Name Date for Fall Play Try-outs are under way for the major fall production of the drama department. Quite a Remarkable Person, a three- act modern comedy by Elizabeth H. Brace, which will be presented New. 16 and 17. The stage craft class is already work ing on the designing and constructing of the scenery which is demonstrative of a well-furnished modern pent-house apartment. mm Vol time XII MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 10, 1941 No. 1 Faculty Roster Includes Seven New Professors Junior Class Is Largest In College History Despite the war and the consequent defense boom, the enrollment, approxi mately 530. shows an increase over last year, with 208 freshmen registered, and with the largest junior class 99 mem bers in Mundelein history. Seven members have been added to the stall, to take care of increased upi gt;cr- class enrollment and to replace two members of last year's staff, Dr. A. I.. O'Toole and Dr. C. J. Wittier, who have been called to government service. Had Fellowship Sister Mary Liguori, B.V.M., who, in 1940. was awarded a fellowship for ad vanced study at the Catholic University of America, has returned to the sociology department. Sister Mary of the Cross, B.V.M., who has been principal at the Immaculate Conception academy. Davenport, for the past six years, lias returned to the Eng lish department. Hmilie Sonderegger, LL.D., has return ed to the French department, after six years spent studying at the University of London, the University of Turin, and the University of Friebourg. Edwin L. Ooclfrey, A.M., formerly of the staff at Indiana university and also at Northwestern, is a new member of the mathematics department. Studied at Oxford Sister Mary Richard, B.V.M., who has Studied at Oxford university, and who has been clean of studies at Clarke col lege. Dubuque, has joined the staff in the English department. Assisting in the science department are Agues Johnson, M.S.. a graduate of Northwestern, and Miss Lee Dugau. graduate student at De Paul university. Joanne Dimmick '38 has joined the de partment of press relations. Quest, The Review, And Skyscraper Win All'Catholic Honors According to an announcement from the Catholic School Press Association, The Review, Quest and The Skyscraper, the three college publications, have again received All- Catholic Honors in a nation wide survey and rating contest. The Association rates publications on the diffusion of Catholic thought, the promotion of Catholic activity, enterprise and service to the school and to the community, and journal istic excellence. The Review and The Skyscraper also merit Ail-American Honors from Associated Collegiate Press, which conducts an annual survey and rating contest among American college and university publications. 208 Freshmen Come From 10 States, 68 Schools; Chicagoland Artists Sing Opera Here at Assembly, Oct. 16 Oinra will come to the assembly on Oct. 16, when Richard Cordon, tenor, and Shirley Diekerson, soprano, both of the Chicago Opera association, will pre sent, in costume, the first act of Puccini's La lioheme. Also on the program will be the lilt ing Waltz Song from Romeo and Juliet, by Gounod; Caro Nome from Verdi's Rigoletto: the Flower Song, from Car men, and the Doll Song from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman. Mr. Gordon was soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony during the past season and is a member of the St. Paul Opera company and of the Milwaukee Opera association as well as of the Chi cago Opera group. One of the outstanding young singers of the present day. Miss Diekerson first appeared in Chicago as the 1939 winner in the coloratura division of the Chicago- land Music Festival. Delegates Will Attend Art, Press Conventions Artists Contribute to Catholic Conference Art in the Service of Religion and of Our Fellowmen is the theme of the Na tional Catholic Art Association's fifth annual conference. Oct. 11 and 12, at Mount Mary college. Milwaukee, which will be attended by Faculty members, alumnae, and students of the art de partment- Sister Mary Janet. B.V.M., treasurer of the association, will demonstrate and explain the art of wood block illustra tion, and Sister Mary Carmelyn. B.V.M., will explain the technique of painting in tempera. Ann l.ally '35, a member of the execu tive board of the association, will lecture on the Drawing of the Figure. Donor of the Mundelein Creative Art award last year, Miss Lally is a supervisor of art in the public schools. Irene Waldron '39, who has been chairman of the Cisca Catholic art ex hibits for the past two year, will demon strate techniques in leatherwork. Rita Valenzano. Florence McDonnell, and Dorothy Scholzen, art students, have prepared process sheets illustrating pro gress in the preparation of linoleum block prints on paper, showing tools, materials and the purpose of the work. Editors Attend Regional Meeting Co-editors Virginia Coffey and Altine Kelkher of The Review and Dorothy McCarthy and Joan Morris of The Skyscraper, together with other mem bers of the staffs of both publications, will be delegates to the regional con ference of the Catholic School Press Association at Providence high school tomorrow. Miss Morris will participate in a round table discussion of the Catholic Editorial, conducted by Virginia Heck, editor of The Catholic School EDITOR. Theme of the conference is The Catholic Jour nalist and the Liturgy. Following I loly Mass celebrated for World Peace and for the Catholic Press. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Samuel A. Stritch, D.D., will discuss the topic the Catholic Journalist Takes In spiration from the Liturgy. Dean J. L. O'Sullivan, head of the Marquette university college of journal ism and director of the C.S.P.A., will talk on The Catholic Journalist in the World Tomorrow, and the Reverend Thomas A. Meehan. circulation man ager of The New World, will explain How the Knowledge of the Liturgy May Be Promoted Through the Newspaper. 14 Are Little Sisters ii Come to the Fairl Where.7 Qymnasium, Today, Pledge Day Converting the gymnasium into a bazaar of international displays and gay colored banners, active members of the college clubs are sponsoring booths at the Activities Fair today. On the theory that participation in a college organization is a definite part of education, the Student Activities Council Sponsors this annual exhibit for the bene fit of freshmen and other new students who are unacquainted with the work of the various clubs. Pledge chairmen and other officers will be in the booths all day. ready to de scribe the objectives and activities of their organizations, and to explain the point system by which new members are admitted. Customarily, a would-be member of each organization is considered a pledge for the first semester, and is required to earn a certain number of points, and evince real interest in the club, before admission. Some time during the second semes ter, the individual club will have a pledge reception and tea, when new members are welcomed, possibly initiat ed, and formally received. Incidentally, according to the Hand book, no student may belong to more than three clubs. To Set Date for C.A.I.P. Meeting As a prelude to the annual meeting of the Midwest Unit of the Catho lic Association for International Peace, moderators of the International Rela tions clubs of five colleges in the Federation will meet here tomorrow. Rosemary O'Donnell is president of the Midwest group, and Ruth O'l learn is secretary. Other colleges represented are St. Xavier's, which was host to the meeting last year, Rosary, St. Mary's, Notre Dame, and St. Francis, Joliet. Cotillion Time Is Here Again; Nov. 7 Is Date Be ready to don your best date dress for a special occasion Nov. 7 when the sophomores will sponsor their informal Cotillion, the first all-college social event of the year. Gay Claridge will be the gentle man with the baton, according to Marcella Garrity, social chairman of the sophomores, and general chair man of the Cotillion. Dorothy Behm, chairman of the ballroom committee, has announced that the Mediterranean Room of the Lake Shore club will be the scene af the affair. Class officers, Rita Ann Mulhern, Dorothy Meehan, Mary Jane Ma loney, and Dorothy Grill are being assisted by other committee chair men, Patricia Cummings, Irene Fitz gerald, Helen Eichstaedt, and Audrey Ewry. Immaculata Sends 28; St. Scholastica Has 23 Recruits The 208 freshmen who enrolled for the orientation program represent 68 differ ent high schools in 10 states. The Immaculata takes top honors for sending 28 students, the largest group from a single school, and St. Scholastica follows closely with 23 representatives. Senn, of the public schools, furnishes six freshmen, and Sullivan runs second with five. In all, 40 Catholic schools and 28 public schools are represented. Although most of the class are from Chicago or its suburbs, some of its mem bers have come from such widely separ ated places as Wheeling. West Virginia. Santa Barbara, California, and Boston, Massachusetts. Other states represented are Indiana. Iowa, Maryland. Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Come From Distance Freshmen farthest from their high schools are Helen Meyers, graduate of the new Catholic high school conducted by the Sisters of Charity. B.V.M.. in Santa Barbara: Rosemarie Vogler, from St. Joseph's academy, Wheeling, and Rosemary Dooley, from Notre Dame of Maryland. There are two sister sets in the class, Sheila and Maura Roche, twins who were born in Ireland, and Lorraine and Frances Wuerth. of Skokie, who, like the twins, are from St. Scholastica. Besides the two sister sets, there arc 14 little sisters of other Mundelein students in the class. Helen Meyers is the sister of Marjorie, '36; Betty Geary, of Frances '39 and Catherine ex '38: Dolores Hayes of LaVonnc '39, and Hel en Walz of Frances '39. Are Sisters of '41 Class '41 contributes three little sis ters to Class '45. Irene O'Flaherty is the sister of Mary Margaret '41 ; Vera Kreusch of Margaret '41. and Virginia Finan of Ethel '41. Isabel Obab is the sister of Senior Barbara; Lenore Brockhaus is the sister of Junior Maryanne; Rosemary Knock- aert of Junior Doris and of Adeline ex '39; Ruth Wagner of Jean, ex '39; and Betty Scguin of Zclda, ex '43. Daisie Berliant is the sister of Sopho more Maxine, also a new student, and Florence Einsweiler is the sister of Doro thy, ex '44. Chemist, Economist Write for Journals Sister Mary Martinette, B.V.M., of the chemistry department, and L. Thom as Flatley, PhD., of the economics de partment, have contributed articles to recent magazines. In The Science Counselor, Sister Mary Martinette discusses various meth ods of Balancing Oxidation Reduction Equations and describes the one most logical and efficient from the viewpoint of the teacher. In the July issue of The SOUTHERN Economics Journal, Dr. Flatley has a review of a new book, Business Cycles, by James Estey. In this re view. Dr. Matley analyses the author's method and purpose, presenting at the same time a concise summary f the work. 33314
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