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THE SKYSCRAPER Sports Classes Have Record Enrollment ALUMNAE The Alumnae Association of Munde lein College was organized on Sept. 26 at a meeting of the class of 1932 in the model apartment of the home eco nomics department. Vera Carson, president of the class, was elected president; Mary Lally is vice-president; Chesa Wolniewicz, sec retary; and Eleanor Joyce, treasurer. The program which was outlined for the coming year includes a homecom ing dance, a series of card parties, and regular monthly social meetings. When the business of organization was finished for the evening, the first graduates of Mundelein held a social meeting, similar in almost every re spect to their old-time monthly bridge parties which were usually held in the model apartment, and Vera Carson collected the following interesting bits of information for the Skyscraper. Elaine Krambles is registered and prepared to study hard at the Illinois Medical College in order to acquire an M. S. to follow the A. B. in her signa ture. Loyola University Graduate School has enrolled as students Mary Bruun, who is in the sociology department, Annamerle Kramer, who is studying English, and Lillian O'Keefe, who is taking special courses. Mary Emily Garvey, Clare Allender, and Margaret Gavin, after a strenuous day in the Joint Emergency Relief Sta tions where they are employed, also attend classes in the Loyola School of Sociology. Edith Slattery is working at the Re lief Stations and she plans to enter the Loyola Graduate School during the winter quarter. Dorothy Riley is at Hinsdale, Illi nois, but she plans to return to Chi cago very soon. Helen Demetry has moved bag and baggage to Philadelphia, and from all reports is quite delighted with the Quaker City. Lenore Healy is working in an ad vertising corporation, and Marion Young and Vera Carson are spending their time making hieroglyphics (Vera's term) in notebooks at Moser's Business College. Lecturer Analyzes George Bernard Shaw (Continued from page 1, column 3) youth. His early training was in a religion which eliminated all beauty from its liturgy and which made belief an ugly, gloomy part of existence such a religion is necessarily repug nant to an artistic nature. In the matter of patriotism, Shaw is scarcely in a position to call any coun try his own. He is in England an Irishman, and in Ireland an English man. Neither was his home life of such character as to instill into his heart a love for home and the family. Father quoted from Shaw's own writ ings remarks which would indicate the lack of family feeling existing in the Shaw household. A Logical Socialist Finally, as a follower of Voltaire, Marks, Spinoza, and Nietzsche, Shaw rejects Christianity and a personal God. He is, Father declared, a thoroughgoing pantheist, accepting God as the life force expressing Him self in all forms of creation. Man, therefore, is God, and a law unto him self. With such a background and such a philosophy of life, it is no wonder that Shaw advocated socialism. He is the most logical socialist in the world. So cialism is the natural result of such beliefs. The Paradox of Shaw Yet, declared Father Lord when he had summed up the high points of Shaw's disbelief, Shaw talks like a Student Wins Tennis Medal Testing her skill at tennis with that of many other Chicago athletes, Evelyn Lincoln, Mundelein junior and editor of the Skyscraper, helped carry off second place in the Lincoln Park women's doubles tournament, and third place in the match held at Welles Park this summer. The lovely silver medal which Evelyn received in the Lincoln Park tilt is the pride and joy of her heart. You see, she explained, laughing, it's my first, and I still can't believe I really won it. For her partner in the doubles tour ney, Evelyn played with Evelyn Kuehnle, former Immaculata graduate and now a nurse at Ravenswood hos pital. We're going to try to make it first place next year, confided our ath lete, that is, if I don't break my neck playing soccer, basketball, and volley ball here this winter. Former Students Enter Convents Catherine Solon, a sophomore of last year, entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Dubuque, Iowa, on September 8. Theresa Sieben of the class of '35, entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Notre Dame in Milwaukee in Septem ber. pagan and lives like an ascetic. He preaches socialism and is himself up roariously individualistic. He believes in a universal brotherhood, but states that relatives cannot get along to gether. He follows the evolution theory, but admits that our modern young people are exact replicas of Caesar and Cleopatra. He does not be lieve in marriage, yet he is himself happily married. Finally, he affirms that all earnings should be govern- mentally regulated, while he has amassed an immense fortune for him self on the basis of his unerring wit. In conclusion, Father pointed out what seems to him the supreme irony of Shaw's career that the work for which he will be remembered is his creation of the Catholic St. Joan, the antithesis of all his theories, a virtu ous, pure. Christian woman, a lover of Church, and country, and home, an ideal woman, a saint.' The Skyscraper expresses the sym pathy of the faculty and students to Winifred Greene, '35, on the death of her mother, Oct. 5. TWELVE SPORTS SECTIONS LISTED Mundelein students believe in phys ical as well as mental fitness if one is to judge by their registration for sports classes but of course some such courses are required. For this semester, the physical edu cation department has scheduled twelve sports classes. Volley ball, basketball, indoor hockey, and tennis are some of the fixed groups. Of course these sports are not played out of season at present there are tennis classes. Next will come basketball, and hockey and volley ball will take their turns sometime late in the winter. Plan for Tennis Tournament The majority of students who have turned out for tennis are masters in the fundamentals of the game, and in all probability there will be a full tennis tournament as well as the usual spring set. In order that this may be possible the students are encouraged to prac tice whenever possible and they have been accorded the privilege of using the Loyola tennis courts during school hours. The only restriction involved is that flat-heeled shoes or regulation gymnasium shoes should be worn. Dancing Classes, Too There are dancing classes, too, for students who are not inclined toward the more strenuous athletics. Mon days and Wednesdays at 3 o'clock the social aspirants go into action. The steps taught are the fundamentals of graceful ballroom dancing. Tap dancing is another feature of this musical section and classes meet Wednesdays at 2 o'clock and Thurs days at 1. The besici-e.-s and advanced students work together on these days and the beginners receive special coaching on Tuesday at 11. Interpretative dancing, required of students in the drama department, is held in the Little Theatre on eighth floor. Ruth Tangney recently received a copy of Edith Merick's book. Flower and Weed, a gift from the author, who sent it to Ruth after having read a review she had written for the Clepsydra. Alice Yocum, who spent the summer traveling abroad, tells us that every thing about Europe was so interesting she cannot decide which place or thing to mention first. Alice left in May with her father. Former Swimming Teacher Married Miss Ethel Magnuson, swimming instructor at Mundelein last year and the year before, was married to Fred Humbert, the former University of Illinois football star in the Adminis tration building of Loyola University on June 20. The Reverend Paul V. Jacobsen, S. J., performed the cere mony. Mrs. Humbert, a graduate of the University of Illinois, came to Munde lein when the college was opened, and took charge of the swimming classes both during school hours and also the swimming classes held in the evening. Early in the fall of 1930 the Terra pins were organized under her direc tion, and by spring the club had grown into two divisions, the juniors and seniors, and gained distinction in the presentation of a water carnival, The Dream of the Ancient Mariner. Miss Myrtle Magnuson, sister of Mrs. Humbert, and likewise a graduate of the University of Illinois, has taken her place here as swimming instruc tor. Mr. and Mrs. Humbert are living in Marinette, Wisconsin, where Mr. Humbert is coach of the high school football team. In a recent letter to her sister, Mrs. Humbert stated that she will try for the golf championship in Marinette, and she sent best wishes to the students at Mundelein. Biology Laboratory Has New Equipment The biology department boasts new equipment in the shape of models of the eye, ear, and brain, and a new skeleton is due to arrive in the labora tory within the next few weeks for the use of students in anatomy and kinesiology classes. A fine insect col lection, including different species, all found in the state of Illinois, and a number of species from neighboring states is an especially valuable addi tion to the laboratories. The department has announced that a science club will be organized this semester. Membership will not be lim ited to science students, and anyone who is interested in scientific investi gation of any kind is invited to report in the zoology laboratory as soon as possible in order that plans may be made for trips to the planetarium, the aquarium, and the Field Museum. A VISIT WITH ETHEL BARRYMORE COLT The young Princess of America's one and only royal family sat quite composedly amid the bustle, indescrib able noises, and the pungent odor of grease paint which are somehow in separable from show business, and smiled enthusiastically at the pros pect of visiting Mundelein College, and of being interviewed for the SkX- scraper. She is very young, very friendly, and very charming, this daughter of the First Lady of the American Stage. Her taffy-colored hair clusters in numerous ringlets at the back of her slender neck, and her grey eyes are flecked with a warm brown which makes them more inviting than ever. There is, perhaps, no one in the world who looks so much like Ethel Barry more Colt the First, as does Ethel Barrymore Colt the Second. Here is the famed Barrymore profile, only soft ened by youth and enhanced by a ra diant skin. The most arresting thing about Miss Colt is a super-abundant vitality, un checked and untarnished by five per formances a day. Her slim, tanned By MARY AGNES TYNAN Miss Ethel Barrymore Colt accepted the invitation of her interviewer and came to Mundelein College on Tuesday morning, October 4. Students in the drama department escorted Miss Colt through the build- ing and later had lunch with her in the college cafeteria. She spoke very briefly to a number of the students in the auditorium at an informal assembly and returned to the theatre in time for her first per formance. hands are never still, and are most ex pressive. Her voice has that peculiar quality often sought for but seldom attained a deep, feminine throatiness which seems best fitted to hum Rhap sody in Blue. She has the naive poise which two years on the stage have given her. She has the genuine friendliness car ried from delightful years spent at the Academy of Notre Dame in Philadel phia, from which institution her mother and grandmother were also graduated. She speaks with a charm ing absence of sophistication of the breathless and glorious days devoted to the production of what sometimes turned out to be hilarious theatricals. There was the time, she confides laughingly, when I was taking the part of Marc Antony in Julius Caesar, and I began with great gusto to intone the immortal lines 'Friends, Romans, Countrymen,' when I chanced to glance at the corpse supposedly lying dead at my feet, only to find it grinning up at me, and winking with all its ghostly might She graciously consented to visit the college, and proved to be really inter ested in the forthcoming Laetare pro duction. Her warm little smile thanked me for coming to see her, and then she was gone in a swirl of white dressing gown and a flash of red slippers. As I left the back stage of the Chicago. I somehow wondered at the fitness of a democracy and sighed for the advent of royalty which could produce such a youthfully lovely, delightfully charming, and altogether interesting Princess SKYSCRAPINGS Rhea Moustakis, who was a junior at Mundelein, 1930-1931, has returned from a year's sojourn in Greece and has enrolled in the ranks of the class of '33. Mary Frances Burke has just re turned from a trip to the Eucharistic Congress in Ireland. We learned that she toured England and France, as well, and became so infatuated with the French language, and so mourned her limited linguistic ability, that on her return she decided to major in French, and is now spending some of her time chattering volubly in Miss Sonderegger's class. If you want to hear travel talk, just see Veronica Kearney. Boston, New York, Newport, and Royal Oaks, Michi gan (where she visited Father Cough- lin's shrine of the Little Flower) were only a few of the stops she made. Rita Eppig, a junior who comes to us from Georgetown Visitation Col lege, Washington, D. C, is the niece of the Chancellor of the College, His Eminence, George Cardinal Mundelein, Daisy Lenert Elward seems to be a perennial traveler since this is the second successive summer she has spent abroad. Mrs. Elward can tell fascinating tales about her beloved London. Third place in a local tennis tourna ment was the proud achievement of Cecilia DeBiase in August. Gertrude LennoD danced, hiked, boated, swam, and had a perfectly grand time at Lake Geneva, we hear, and she saw more than a little of Irene Lavin there. Elizabeth Boyle and her sister, Mary Helen, spent part of the vacation at Fox River. Music lessons occupied one of our star vocalists Betty Smith being the young lady so designated. Mary Jane Blenner spent most of her time canoeing on the broad ex panses of Lake Michigan. 'Tis ru mored that the boat sprang a few leaks, but these casualties fortunately occurred very near shore. Ruth Tangney rounded out the sum mer activities by suddenly finding her self in the way of an oncoming auto mobile, and having her skull fractured. She is all over it now, however. The news that Sallie Agnes Smith received a radio audition at WGN served to increase our pride in our classmates. We can imagine Sallie Agnes in the not-far-distant future sending announcements over the ether waves for perfectly enormous sums. Clementine Paloney and the Collins sisters, Genevieve and Marguerite, spent over a month of their vacation teaching in the vacation school estab lished at Holy Name Cathedral. We understand these ambitious young ladies had pupils ranging from the first grade to the fourth year of high school. The success of Jean Armstrong, who received her certificate in the com merce department last June, is a source of real inspiration to her class mates. Jean received a position in the Lincoln Life Insurance Company do ing detail office work and within a very short time her employer, noticing what a competent young lady she was, advanced her to a better position.
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