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TIHIE Volume V. MUNDELEN COLLECE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, June 7, 1935 No. 13 Fete Thirty-five Commerce Students At Class Luncheon Bishop O'Brien Will Confer Degrees At Commencement Exercises June 12 Nine Take Commerce Degrees; Twenty-six to Receive Certificates The 35 members of the Commerce department who are candidates for certificates will be guests of honor at a luncheon given at the College on Monday, June 10. This year there arc nine majors in economics among the seniors; 11 students will receive two-year secretarial certifi cates, and 15 students will receive one- year certificates. After the certificates have been awarded, Jane Flick will respond for the seniors, Betty Neil for tne iwo-year graduates, Betty Lucas for the one-year graduates, and Dorothy Grace, newly- elected president for next year, for the club. This will be followed by a short musical program given by Dorothy Grace and Loretta Sturm. The nine graduates are Eileen Bartels, Virginia Bosch, Marion Fitz gerald, Jane Flick, Mary Margaret Gerity, Bernice Hendricks, Phyllis O'Neill, Irremorc Trant, Mary Jane Tully. Those receiving two-year certificates are Josephine Albanese, Mary Costello, Catherine Dooley, Mary Feely, Char lotte Heun, Frances Joerger, Marion Murphy, Betty Neil, Margaret Nolan, Rita Tatgfe, and Angeline Wester. One-year certificates will be awarded to Joanne Dimmick, Isabel Fikany, Beatrice Hein, Betty Lucas, Frances McCambridge, Bernadette O'Connor, Jean Parks, Sabina Richards, Mary Louise Rodell, Elizabeth Schoenberger, Dolores Sifferman, Loretta Sturm. Helen Tremulis, Teresa Wendell, and Josephine Zorn. Special honors have already been awarded as a result of a recent contest in the shorthand and typing classes. Betty Neil, Betty Hein. Caroline Bugnits, Betty Lucas, and Loretta Sturm carried off the honors in shorthand, while Do lores Sifferman and Charlotte Heun led in typing. His Excellency, The Most Reverend William D. O'Brien Charlotte Wilcox To Lead Sodality The Sodality activities of the year were bOugltt to a close, on May 23, when the student body elected the officers for the coming year. Charlotte Wilcox was elected prefect. During her three years at Mundelein, Miss Wilcox has been outstanding in Sodality work, having been treasurer in her sophomore, and recording sec retary in her junior year. The duties of recording secretary will be fulfilled by- Mary Catherine Rose, who is also editor of the Cisca Page of the New World. Another Cisca scribe, Catherine Heerey, has been chosen corresponding secretary. Financial matters will be taken care of by Catherine Ann Dougherty, while Roberta Christie is program chairman. Students Win Awards For Creative Writing Four seniors and one sophomore re ceived awards on College Day for their contributions to the Creative Writing contest sponsored by the English department and judged by a group of distinguished writers and editors. Cycle of Seasons at Nazareth, by Marv Agnes Tynan, merited the poetry award, according to the judgment of Sister Madeleva, C. S. C, president of St. Mary's college, Notre Dame, and author of Penelope and other books. Virginia Woods and Joanne Dimmick merited honorable mention. The Posterity of James, an essay by Ruth Tangney, merited the essay award, in the judgment of Shane Leslie, Fellow of the Royal Society of Lit erature, former editor of the Dublin Review, and author of Cardinal Maiming, The Oxford Movement, and other volumes. Joanne Dimmick, Virginia Woods, and Magdalene Kessie received honor able mention in the essay contest. Portrait d'un Vieux Homme, a short story by Ann Lally, merited the short story award, and stories by Ruth Tangney and Jane Malkemus received honorable mention from the judge, Frank Hamilton Spearman, Catholic novelist and Laetare medalist. Virginia Woods merited the book review award for her review of Henri Gheon's In Search of Mozart, and re views by Mary Agnes Tynan and Jane Malkemus received honorable mention from the judge, Morton Dawen Zabel, Ph. D., head of the English depart ment of Loyola university and acting editor of Poetry. For her editorial on the Legion of Decency parade, entitled We're Al ways on Parade, Jane Malkemus, a sophomore, merited the editorial award, according to the judgment of the Right Reverend Monsignor Thomas V. Shannon, editor of the New World. Ann Lally received hon orable mention for editorial. Miss Tynan is editor-in-chief of Quest, the College anthology; Miss Tangney is managing editor of the Clepsydra, Miss Lally is editor-in-chief of the Skyscraper; Miss Woods is editor-in-chief of the Clepsydra, and Miss Malkemus is feature editor for both the quarterly and the newspaper. Dr. Frank V. Lusk, the Reverend Richard Kelly, the Very Reverend Jos eph P. Morrisson. and the Reverend Arthur Terlecke are the generous donors of the Creative Writings awards. Margaret Grace, Virginia Woods Receive Degrees Summa Cum Laude In solemn procession the 77 mem bers of the senior class, followed by the General Faculty in caps and gowns, the Guests of Honor, and the Most Reverend William D. O'Brien, auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, will enter the auditorium at 10 o'clock on June 12, for the fifth animal Commencement exercises. The College Glee club will sing selections from Bach, Saint-Saens, and Tschaikowsky, and the College Orchestra will play Allegro from the First Symphony by Beethoven, after which the Reverend Samuel Knox Wilson, S.J., president of Loyola uni versity, will give the Invocation. Father Wilson to Assist Father Wilson, assisted by the Rev erend Thomas J. Reed, will present the candidates for degrees, and His Excellency, the Bishop, will confer degrees and honors. Margaret Grace and Virginia Woods, both classics majors, members of the Sodality, and editors of the Clepsydra, will receive the degree Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, the third ami fcvl t , tudeyits in the history of the College to achieve that distinction, Gretchen Kretschmer hav ing merited it in 1933 and Katherine Brennan in 1934. Four Merit Magna Cum Laude Ruth Hazle, Marjorie Nichols, Mary Agnes Tynan, and Mary Margaret Morrissey will receive the degree Bach elor ol Arts Magna Cum Laude, and Jane Flick, Lucile Barrett, Frances Burke, and Ruth Tangney will receive the Bachelor of Arts degree Cum Laude. Irene Lavin will receive the Bachelor of Science degree Cum Laude, and Ruth Hottinger the degree Bachelor of Music Cum Laude. Fifty-four students will receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and the following special degrees will be con ferred: Eileen Bartels and Irremore Trant, Bachelor of Science in Com merce; Norine Golden, Bachelor of Fine Arts; Mae Murphy, Bachelor of Music. The following will receive the degree Bachelor of Science: Mary Orpha Albright, Edith Dorn, Mary Domes, Lorraine Gohde, Mary Thercsc Kavanaugh, Ann Lackncr, Jean O'Connor, Frances Regan, Dor othy Rutstrom, Virginia Schmidt, Margaret Webb, and Sister Mary Rufina Cosgrove, D. of C. GIVES BACCALAUREATE Freshman Wins Essay Contest Lorraine Manske, sophomore pres ident-elect and high honor student of the freshman class, has been awarded first prize of 25 by the Department of Germanic Languages and Litera tures of the University of Chicago in a recent essay contest. Miss Manske's subject was The Value of a Reading Knowledge of German as an Aid in Research. The essay termed by the judges clearly presented and carefully prepared, will be forwarded to the German consulate where it will be considered for pub lication in Germany. The Reverend E. J. Mullaly, C.S.T. Dean Contributes Study to Journal A valuable contribution to research in education, the work of Sister Mary Fvangela, B.V.M., Dean of the College and author of a historical- stuc'.. 'ie leave Irish Catholic Colonization Association of the United States, will appear in a forthcoming issue of Mid-America. Part of a more extensive study of Catholic Secondary Education in Illi nois, Sister Mary Evangela's article is entitled Foundations of Catholic Sec ondary Education in Illinois, and traces the development of the high school from the academy, and the en trance of various teaching communities into the field prior to the year 1884. Mid-America, edited by the Rev erend Jerome V. Jacobson, S.J., is a journal devoted to research. Father Mullaly To Give Address At Baccalaureate Orchestra, Glee Club, and Juniors Attend Seniors In Ceremony To the strains of Bach's Proces sional, played by the College Or chestra, the members of the junior class, the seniors in caps and gowns, the General Faculty, and the Reverend Edward J. Mullaly, C.S.P., speaker, will enter the auditorium at 4 o'clock, on June 9, for the Baccalaureate exercises. The College Glee club members will sing How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings, by Brahms, Ave Maria, by Tschaikow sky, Nunc Dimittis, by Gretchaninof. and the Orchestra will play the Andante Cantabilc from the First Symphony by Beethoven. Father Mullaly, the distinguished Paulist orator, will give the ad dress, after which the Orchestra, di rected by Herman J. Beringcr, will play selections, the Glee club, directed by Walter Flandorf, will sing, and Rita Smith will accompany at the organ. Concluding the ceremony, Father Mullaly will celebrate Solemn Bene diction of the Most Blessed Sacra ment, after which the procession will trie auditorium wfiile tfi lt;; Or chestra plays the Recessional. The members of the General Fac ulty and the officers of the senior class will be guests of the College at a ban quet at the Edgewater Beach hotel after the Baccalaureate exercises. The following students will act as ush ers at Baccalaureate: Margaret Cleary, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane Malkemus, Marion Green, Kathleen. Feely, Virginia Lounsbury, Jane Spalding, Edythe Wil liams, Maurita Kelly, Mary Rose Brown, Eleanor Bertrand, Anna Margaret Healy, Mary Young, and Helen Coleman. Combine Honors, College Day Ceremony on May 29 Mary Ann Walsh, retiring president of the Student Activities Council, called to order the last student meet ing of the year, at 10 o'clock on May 29, and ushered in the fifth annual College Day celebration, at which all departments and activities of the school were recognized, and of whicl the central feature was the presenta tion of a two-thousand-dollar gift to the Administration. Mary Margaret Smith gave the first activities report when she spoke of the achievements of the Art club during the past year. Marion Fitzgerald spoke for the commerce department, Sallie Agnes Smith for the drama department, and Virginia Schmidt for the home economics department. Mary Agnes Tynan represented the literary clubs, Mary Alice Wolf the language clubs, Ruth Hottinger the music clubs, Agnes Gill the Interna tional Relations club, Frances Woods the Social Service club, and Caroline Holland the Science club. Virginia Woods spoke for the So dality, Irene Lavin for the W. A. A., Jean O'Connor for the Terrapins, and the retiring class presidents for their respective classes Ann Ellen Smith for the freshmen, Rita Smith for the sophomores, Julia Hagerty for the juniors, and Lucy Crowley for the seniors. Resuming the chair, Miss Walsh, speaking for the entire student body, expressed appreciation to the Pres ident, the Dean, the Class Councillors, and the entire Faculty for the inspira tion and encouragement they had given throughout the year, and del egated Irene Lavin, vice-president of the Council, to present the College gill to the President. After thanking the students for the wholehearted cooperation which they had manifested during her presidency, Miss Walsh administered the oath of offee to Julia Hagerty, newly-elected president of the Council, to Lillian Scholzen, the vice-president, to Rita Smith, the treasurer, and to Helen Farrell, the secretary, after which Miss Hagerty adjourned the meeting. Assisted by Mary Ann Walsh, Irene Lavin, Lucy Crowle3-, and Jean O'Connor, the Reverend John F. Mc Cormick, S. J., head of the department of philosophy at Loyola university, presided at the Honors Day ceremony on May 29, and gave a brief but ap propriate address on St. Thomas More as an example of a man who achieved great distinction in wordly matters. (Continued on page 6, col. 5)
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