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SKYSCRAP Volume II. MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JANUARY 29, 1932 Number 4 MUSIC AND SPEECH STUDENTS PRESENT RECITAL TONIGHT The College Orchestra will play overture and other numbers The students in the Departments of Speech and Music will present their Becond annual January recital in the college auditorium at 8:15 o'clock this evening, January 29. The formal Music Month recital is the official pres entation of the work accomplished in the school of music during the year, and the program includes an interest ing variety of selections. The college orchestra, whose mem bers distinguished themselves in sev eral programs earlier in the semester, will appear this evening in their offi cial uniforms, which consist of gold frocks worn with cardinal-red circular capes and cardinal-red mortarboard caps with gold tassels. The program lOverture Widdell Mundelein College Orchestra Rhapsodie Hongroise, no. 8 Liszt ij Margaret Mary O'Neill Rlone But the Ixmely Heart 1 Tschaikowsky Josephine Valley Prelude, op. 28 Chopin March Wind MacDowell Ruth Hottinger Perpetual Motion Jenkinson Irene Timko 4 En route Palmgren Coming of Spring Palmgren Lucretia Michels tomance Debussy Soft-Pooted Snow Sigurd Lie Dorothy Weldon landarin Cecil Cowles lumoresque Rachmaninoff Elizabeth Gorman lfare Lemmens Mae Murphy Aunt Dilsey Sees Othello Parker Kathryn Walsh (Air de Ballet Herbert J Mundelein College Orchestra bf The Gypsy Trail Kipling i Penelope Haloulos iff Fragment Symphonique Lemaigro Virginia Boland Rigaudon MacDowell Elizabeth Gorman Ruth Hottinger Elegie Czerwonky ,: Eleanor Kucki d In Imminent Peril Parker ji Geraldine Gardiner j The Passage Bird's Farewell. .Hildach Penelope Haloulos Betty Smith I Concerto, op. 1G Grieg First Movement Emer Phibbs m Orchestral Parts at. Second Piano it Lucretia Michels Recessional March Mundelein College Orchestra '' Girl Scout Awarded The Golden Eaglet To Mary Jane Sullivan, Mundelein sophomore, has been awarded the Golden Eaglet, the highest honor that the Girl Scouts of America have to offer. At a Tecent camp reunion of (the Oak Park Girl Scouts, Miss Sulli van was presented with the Golden Eaglet in recognition of her splendid work as a scout, and her ability to ful fill pie rigid requirements that always precede the awarding of this honor, which comes as a signal distinction from officials at Girl Scout National Headquarters in New York City. To merit the Golden Eaglet, a beau tiful symbolic pin, Miss Sullivan was I required to be proficient as an athlete, cook, laundress, pioneer, swimmer, and housekeeper, as well as to be a first class scout. She must, besides, hold a letter of recommendation, possess at least twenty-one merit badges, and have belonged to this organization for at least three years. Mary Jane is the second Mundelein Student to be honored in this way. Hary Emily Garvey has also been warded the Golden Eaglet, and to gether with Mary Jane has planned and sponsored the Girl Scout Club of Mundelein. O'ur new Golden Eaglet was a mem ber of the Junior Council at Camp JLone Tree, Michigan, last year, and because of her excellent work there she has been asked to become a member of the Senior Camp Council, a distinction seldom given to so youth ful a member of the organization. SKYSCRAPER STAFF Evelyn Lincoln, Janet Ruttenberg, Justine Feely, Margaret Roche, Berlille McEvoy Students Take Part In Mission Program The Very Reverend Monsignor James J. Horsburgh, Director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, gra ciously invited the students of Mun delein College to participate in the commemoration of the seventh anni versary of the foundation of the So ciety, which celebration was held on Monday, January 25. Holy Mass at the Cathedral was the opening of the cere mony, and a business luncheon, and program followed. Representatives of all Catholic schools in the city were present. His Excellency, the Right Rev erend Bernard J. Sheil being guest of honor. In 1925, in compliance with the earnest wish of the Holy Father, this unit of the mission organization was established in Chicago, through the zealous efforts of His Eminence, George Cardinal Mundelein. Last year, with his usual initiative, Monsignor Horsburgh inaugurated the present ob servance of the event, and, indeed, the splendid growth and the excellent work of the Society merits recognition. Mary Lally, vice-president of the senior class, and Chesa Wolniewicz. president of the sodality, were official representatives from Mundelein, while Penelope Haloulous. Emer Phibbs, and Betty Smith took part in the program. TRIO CONCERT IS The Loyola University Trio pre sented a most artistic program in the college auditorium on the afternoon of January 20. Vaughan Avakian, violin ist, Milan Hranilovich, 'cellist, and Emer Phibbs, of Mundelein, pianist, compose the trio; all are well-trained musicians, and under the direction of Mr. Walter Dellers they have arranged a variety of excellent numbers. Ten attractive selections were of fered, with Haydn's Trio no. 18, Adagio Pastorale. Andante Molto, and Finale. introducing the program. Two vocal solos by Robert Windier, tenor, gave a pleasing variety to the program, and his encore selection of such familiar airs as Hills of Home and At Dawn ing, proved an appropriate contrast to the trio numbers. His Farewell and Wanderers Nachtlied, by Schubert, were rendered with skill worthy of a professional. Selections from Beethoven, Mosz- kowski, an Andante from Mendelssohn, and the colorful Bolero from Arbos concluded the program. The Reverend Raymond Bellock, S. J., director of music at Loyola Uni versity, spoke briefly of the genuine enjoyment the musicians in the trio find in their work, and the enthusiastic ovation accorded them by the audience was proof sufficient that they can give real enjoyment to others. Editors visit Chicago Tribune offices and printing plant The Skyscrapki: is just one year old On the thirtieth of January in the year of fame, 1931, the first issue was dis tributed for the diligent perusal of the charter students of Mundelein College. In the fervent hope thai the paper lias improved with age, the editorial staff celebrated their anniversary by a trip to the offices of the Chicago Tribune, on January 21. Under the gracious direction of Mr. J. A. Gartin, official guide at the Tri bune Building, the five editors, armed with explanatory pamphlets, began promptly at 3:30 to view the opera tions of the World's Greatest News paper. Having studied the memora ble words of former editors and states men, carved in the walls of the lobby, they wont on to the editorial room, an immense office comprising almost an entire floor. The activity seemed to revolve around the man in the slot of the city desk, but the room was compara tively quiet at four o'clock in the after noon. Mr. Gartin assured them that the Tribune offices never present the feverish picture many people have of newspaper offices, since everything is efficiently organized. However, he said that four hours later the activity would be much more intense. Important writers, known to the world by reason of the by-lines above their well-written stories, hurried through their work like normal human beings, the fires of their genius omit ting no haze of hectic smoke. (Continued on page 4, column 4) College Anthology Spring Publication In May of this year a slender little volume, attractively bound in metal rayon, containing approximately nine ty-six pages, and bearing the fascinat ing title Quest, will take its place be side our other student publications, and in it will be the hopes and the dreams and the longings, rhythmically expressed, of our students devoted to poetry. Splendid work is being done by the Technique of Poetry class, and by other students who entertain the Muse from choice outside of class hours, and the faculty has determined to publish each year a college anthology. The deadline for contributions has been set as April 20. Meanwhile, the students of all classes are invited to submit selections for criticism, and perhaps finally for publication. The price of this little book is one dollar, and subscriptions are being filed now in the publication's office. Loyola Dean Speaks To College Students Pertinent reflections on educa tion might have beeii the title of a delightfully informal talk given in the auditorium on Wednesday after noon, January 13, by the Reverend Thomas A. Egan, S. J., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of Loyola University. Interspersing his talk with a num ber of entertaining yet ultimately worthwhile anecdotes from his own reading and experience, Father Egan directed the thoughts of his enthusi astic audience toward an adequate evaluation of education, presenting first a few apt definitions of the term. All education, he said, is, in a way, restraint. And he went on to explain the necessity for moderation and for toleration in social life, and in religious and intellectual circles as well. With the understanding of an experienced educator, he pointed out the necessity for judicious decisions as to what not to do, and warned the students against a. too-absorbing in terest in learning to do many things, more or less well. He stressed, too, the idea that edu cation is to a great extent self-educa tion, and that just so much as the individual determines to learn, just about so much he will acquire. STUDENT RETREAT INITIAL ACTIVITY OF NEW SEMESTER Students who are looking for new fields to conquer will have a number of new courses from which to choose next semester. For those interested in science, there is a fascinating subject which bears the brief title Light. A course in Statistics will gain the atten tion of those who are mathematically inriined, while the Music Department oilers Psychology of Music. Young philosophers will be given the opportunity to take Applied Ethics or History of Philosophical Studies, and the English Department offers a number of engrossing subjects for scribes and lovers of literature, name ly, American Literature, Contemporary Drama, The Age of Romanticism, The Age of Milton, and Newman, while Newsw:riting will be open to sopho mores interested in Journalism. The Speech Department announces a course most advantageous at the present time, Methods of Broadcasting. The Home Economies department is offering courses in Economics of the Household, and History of Costume and Foods survey and Clothing Sur vey, the latter two being open to stu dents in other departments. The Art Department has one new course in Design, dealing with elementary deco rative design in black and white and in colors. The Rev. J. M. Cunningham, S.J., will conduct the exercises The three-day students' retreat, which will be directed by the Rev erend John M. Cunningham, S. J., will be the opening activity of the second semester, registration for which will be held on Friday, January 29, and Monday, February 1, the re treat exercises beginning February 2. Father Cunningham is a missionary and lecturer of the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus, and has dis tinguished himself by reason of his zealous work in the Middle West, and the retreat under his guid ance promises to bring much that is vital into the lives of the students. The admiration of the student body was accorded to Father Cunningham last year, on the occasion of his initial address to them given on January 14, 1931, according to the first edition of the Skyscraper. No doubt many of them recall his challenge to their Catholic consciousness in his sugges tion that they strengthen their spir itual life by means of a system of will-gymnastics destined to produce a moral force comparable to the physical strength resulting from sys tematic exercise. The retreat will comprise three days of instruction and quiet reflec tion on the meaning and the end of life, and on the duties and responsi bilities of educated Catholic young women. The lectures will include an outline of the fundamental principles of the Catholic faith, and suggestions as to how these principles may be worked out in the conditions of mod ern life. The various conferences will be given to present to the students the necessity for and the methods of meeting their spiritual difficulties in telligently. The retreat exercises will take place in the college auditorium, and will open with Mass at 9 o'clock each morning. Two lectures will be given in the mcrning, and lunch will be served in the college cafeteria at noon. The lectures will continue at intervals during the afternoon, clos ing with Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament at three o'clock. Between the exercises the various departments of the college will be open to the students, and suitable reading matter will be placed in the library, the study rooms, and by the Sodality bulletin board in the base ment. Friends of the college, former stu dents, and Catholic women students of Loyola University and Northwestern (Continued on page 4, column 5) Radio Broadcasting New College C ourse A course in radio broadcasting, con ducted by Miss Katherine Gould Hoche, daytime studio director for Station WGN and co-worker with Quin Ryan, nationally known radio announcer, will be introduced into the Speech Department of Mundelein College in the second semester, which opens February 2. Much has been said and written about the radio as an educational agent, but Mundelein College is the first school in Chicago to incorporate such a course into its curriculum. The college is equipped with an acoustic amplifying system, with centrally located microphones and a loud speaker in every room. A special microphone has been installed in the Little Theatre on the eighth floor to facilitate the work of this course, and when the front curtain is drawn the Little Theatre stage, with its soft gray drapes, is transformed into an ideal broadcasting studio from which no sound can be heard in the body of the theatre. Here each student will take her turn at addressing an unseen audience, while the others in the class, seated out front, listen and comment upon the voice as it comes through the loud speaker over head. The radio magnifies speech defects and isolates them from other impres sions, and thus it is an invaluable de vice in the study and correction of poor enunciation, nasality, breathi- ness, and other speech defects which often go unnoticed if the speaker pre sents a pleasing appearance.
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1932-01-29 (1)
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