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kcord'Breaking heshman Class Has 332 Members ne from 82 Schools 10 States, Canada Newfoundland in 332 members of the freshman is, the largest class in the history the College, represent 82 different h schools in 10 States, Newfoundland, I the Dominion of Canada. As always. Cbicagoans and suburban- pare in the majority, and local high His rank first in the number of isentatives registered. Fifty-six of the freshmen are from ft Immaculata high school; 49 are D St. Scholastica's; and St. Mary's Providence high schools tie for i place with 15 delegates from each sol. Is From Newfoundland inig-ilistance record for the class ir d by Adelaide Costello, from St. Newfoundland. Jane Michaels i from British Columbia, in Canada. FOut-of-statc students from the east k Joyce Archer, from New Jersey; ilhleen Egan and Patricia Tennyson New York; and Noreen Braun Pennsylvania. iFroni middle westeni states other Illinois come Donna Mooney, art'cn Mealey. and Charlotte Power, ii Iowa ; Kathryn Namyst and Mari- iMcClarcn, from Minnesota; F.dna : Holm, Joan Mullaney, and Man iac Schmitz from Wisconsin. From farther west are Mary Jane l: al. a North Dakotan, and Mary Burke, from South Dakota. Are Class Twins Th class twins arc Patricia and gy O'Brien, sisters of junior Mary, i O'Briens are two of the 39 fresh- who are sisters of present or Mundelein students. urth of her family to come to lelein is Dorothy Dimmick, sister anne '38, Betty ex '40. and senior ginia. nird of their families are Mary ires Driscoll, sister of Ursula ex and Josephine '41; Mary Jane igherty, sister of Catherine Ann and Ellen Clare '43: Charlotte k, sister of Virginia '38 and Dor- El; Noreen Roche, sister of Itila ex '45 and Maura '45; and Ir- I Russell, sister of Catherine '34 and in'40. 0ther freshmen younger sisters are Armstrong, sister of Jane ex '42; (othy Case, sister of Julia 43; (Continued on Page 3. col. 2) kt S.A.C. and Class Officers at Recent Meetings unanimous vote elected Mary uces Padden treasurer of the Stu- U Activities Council at its initial tting. Helen Sauer, president, ad- histcred the oath of office. Other AC. officers are Ruth Rinderer, vice- sident, and Jerry Stutz, secretary. Swiors at a recent meeting elected igery Rowbottom president; Dolor- Rudnik. vice-president; Patricia ran. secretary; Mary Catherine inn, treasurer; Dorothy Median and tricia Crumley, S.A.C. representa- t and Marcella Garrity, social man. limbers of the junior class voted Charlotte Smith, president; Ma- Catherine Tuomey, vice-president; ie Foster, secretary; Jean Spatuz- ,treasurer; Regina Casey and Irene Flaherty, S.A.C. representatives ; Ma- iLavin, sergeant-at-arms; Lois Shay, rill chairman. Sophomore class officers are Rose- ny Tarsitano, president; Margaret sene, vice-president; MargareJ O- nnor, secretary; Louise Pesut, treas- ; Sheila Finney and Patricia Hol la, S.A.C. representatives; Mary O'Leary, scrgcant-at-arms; Alyce oe Kiley, social chairman. . lt;S'- Vol, XIV MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1943 No. 1 Safety Council Declares War on Seventh Column Midshipmen Come for Tea Dance on Oct, 23 Adopts Safety for Victory Slogan; Appoints Chairmen Under the September slogan. Safety for Victory, and its adopted color, green, the College Safety Council, first of its kind to be established in a liberal arts college, was organized during Ac- cfdent Prevention Week, Sept. 20-27, and assisted with the various problems of direction and adjustment arising during the first days of school. Cooperating with the nationwide campaign against accidents, the Sev enth Column, the Council functions as a campus agent for the three E's of acci dent prevention, Education, Engineer ing, and Enforcement. By learning and promoting methods of accident prevention on the campus, students, the Council reasons, will be prepared to assist in the civic effort to prevent accidents in the home and in industry, and will thus contribute ma terially, through leadership and serv ice, to the nation's war effort. The Council consists of a Central Safety committee and an Auxiliary committee. The Central committee is composed of a Faculty director, Sister Mary Carmelyn, B.V.M., of the art de partment, and eight faculty represen tatives, including Eileen Scanlan, B.S., (Continued on Page 3, col. 5) One hundred and twenty-five midship men from Abbott Hall will be guests at a tea-dance in the gymnasium and tea-room on Saturday, Oct. 23, accord ing to an announcement made yesterday by Helen Sauer, president of the Stu dent Activities Council. Tickets for the tea-dance, which will lie sponsored by the S.A.C, will be opened to seniors on Oct. 18, and to tha other classes on Oct. 19. Later tea- dances, according to Miss Sauer, will be opened first to other classes. Review, Skyscraper Merit All-Catholic In National Rating In a nation-wide survey and rat ing contest conducted by the Catho lic School Press Association, THE MUNDELEIN COLLEGE RE VIEW and THE SKYSCRAPER have received All-Catholic Honors. Both publications have received these honors for 12 consecutive years. Publications are rated by the As sociation on their diffusion of Cath olic thought, their promotion of Catholic activity, their enterprise and service to the school and to the community, and their journalis tic excellence. Both publications also merited All-American Honors this year from Associated Collegiate Press. Promoting Allied Qood Will . . . 757 Students, Nine New Faculty Members Usher In New Academic Year Enrollment Is Up 26 Per Cent; Freshman Class Shows 29 Per Cent Increase; Sophomore Class 17 Per Cent Increase With an enrollment of 757 students, a 26 per cent increase over last year, and the largest freshman and soph omore classes in history, the College opened on Sept. 20 for its fourteenth academic year, with students from Newfoundland, British Columbia, New- York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Min nesota, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Illinois. The 332 freshmen who registered during Freshman Week, Sept. 13-17, represent a 29 per cent increase over last year's freshman class, and the 220 sophomores exceed last year's class by 17 per cent. Is From Clarke College To take care of the increased en rollment, nine new members have joined the Faculty. Sister Mary Cath erine of Siena, B.V.M., formerly of Clarke college, teaches organ and piano. The Reverend Jerome V. Jacobsen, S.J., editor of Mid-America, and professor of history at Loyola uni versity, and the Reverend Edward V. Cardinal, C.S.V., former president of St. Viator college, now on the Loyola staff, are members of the Faculty in the history department. Was Jesuit Provincial The Reverend William Magee, S.J., formerly president of Marquette univer sity and provincial of the Chicago Province, now at Loyola, teaches phi losophy ; and the Reverend William Clark, S.T.B., professor at St. Mary-of- Two Staff Members Are Summer Brides Wedding bells rang this summer for two members of the College staff, Doris Foley, of the drama department, and Joan Morris '42, of the publicity de partment. Miss Foley became the bride of James Kennedy, at a Nuptial Mass in St. Ignatius church, on June 19, and Miss Morris was married to Sergeant H. Vincent Agar, at a nuptial Mass in St. Jerome's church on August 21. Societies Honor Faculty Members Helen Sauer, Student Activities Council president, welcomes Mary Castro, fresh man who holds the Mundelein scholarship established this year for an American- born Mexican girl of high scholastic standing, while Helen Nicholson, senior who holds the Greek Women's University club scholarship, looks on. Two members of the Faculty in the science department were elected offi cers of the Chicago Catholic Science Teachers association, at its fall meeting held at St. Mary's high school on Sept. 18. G. Michael Schmeing, Ph.D., of the chemistry department, was elected vice- president, and Sister Mary Cecilia, B.V.M., of the biology department, was elected secretary-treasurer. Both Sis ter Mary Cecilia and Dr. Schmeing are members of Signia Xi, scientific honor society. Sister Mary Marguerite Christine, B.V.M., of the chemistry department, was elected this summer to member ship in Iota Sigma Pi, honorary so ciety for women i'h chemistry. the-Lakc seminary, teaches senior reli gion. Theodore Frank, Ph.D., who has his doctorate from the school of law and social sciences at the University of Vienna, is a member of the Faculty in the department of economics. A Knight of the Sovereign and Mili tary Order of Malta, whose headquar ters are in Rome, Dr. Frank, who comes to Mundelein from St. Joseph college, Rensselaer, Indiana, was, be fore the war, an executive of the Aus trian Institute of Credit, the leading finance institute in that country. Joins Spanish Department Other new members of the Faculty are Sylvia Gactti, who lias a Master's degree from the University of Chi cago, in the Spanish department; Ag nes McNcall, who has a Master's de gree from the University of Wiscon sin and is working toward a doctorate at the University of Chicago, in the English department. A new Faculty member in the home economics department is Ruth Whalen, who has her Master's degree from Columbia university, and who has studied at Iowa State college, Wash ington State college, and Syracuse uni versity. Comes from Pennsylvania Before coming to Mundelein, Miss Whalen, who is a member of the Com mittee on Home Economics Education for the State of Pennsylvania, was head of the department of home eco nomics at Mercyhurst college, Erie, Pennsylvania. Open Occupational Therapy Course to Incoming Freshmen Plan Course to Meet War, Post-War Needs To train young women for service in war time and after the war, the College opened to freshmen this fall a new department of occupational ther apy, the curriculum of which has been planned in accordance with the stan dards advocated by the American Medi cal Association for occupational thera py schools. Following the four-year college courses, graduates will spend a year as internes in standard hospitals pro vided with therapeutic facilities. Occupational therapy, which became a recognized need during World War I, is the activity prescribed by a doctor and supervised and directed by a trained therapist to rebuild strength, rc-cducatc muscles, and readjust men tal attitudes. The trained therapist works with children, with the aged, with mentally or physically disturbed patients, and diverts their minds from themselves to new interests, thus enabling them to resume, in time', the normal course of their lives, by occupying them with something specific handicrafts, art, drama, literature, music, and various recreational and educational activities.
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1943-10-08 (1)
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