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May 20, 1959 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three *. - IIICT CI PfTCn are Sodality officers Ann Moran, Aileen Coutre, Barbara J U J I LLlLIlU Pierce, Katherine Griffin and Donna Malacina. They were installed in office last week during Sodality reception in the chapel. Junior Merits New Award, Society's Catherine Medal Jean Peterson, junior, will be the first Mundelein recipient of Kappa Gamma Pi's St. Catherine medal at the Honors convocation today. ACCORDING to the National Catholic Honor society recommenda tion, a faculty vote awards the honor to a student not of senior standing who has distinguished herself for scholarship and service. Miss Peterson, an art major, has extended her activities into almost every department in the college through her posters designed and exe cuted in the art workshop. Some of her more outstanding contributions include the cover de sign for Freshman Pointers, and the decorations, costumes and pro grams for the Terrapin show last spring. While hand-lettering the January Dean's list for the first floor corridor, she was able to include her own among the 127 names she printed. She was He lonors (ont. from p. 1, col. 3) has distinguished herself for scholar ship and service. Activities honors will be given in debate to Alice Bourke, Sandra Marek and Marguerite Phillips; for glee club to Mary Ellen Burg and Patricia Coak ley; for orchestra to Anamae Kehoe, Barbara King and Constance Teipe; for work on the Review to Claudette Ruffino; and for work on the Sky scraper to Mary Gart, Barbara Gu derian and Marguerite Phillips. Diane Szaradowski receives the Ann Lally Creative Art award for contributing illustrations to the college publications. Scholastic honors for an average grade point of 2.5 or over will be awarded to Isabelle Anderson, Teresa Breslin, Mary Ellen Burg, Patricia Cullen, Margaret Grange, Virginia Grasser, Kathleen Hendricks, Marian Hills, Anamae Kehoe, Barbara King and Mary Anne King. LORETTA KINZIG, Geraldine Kirby, Sandra Marek, Eileen McAvoy, Patricia Niec, Marilynne O'Dea, Mari lyn Picchietti, Mary Rohner, Geraldine Sofka, Clare Walsh, Mary Elizabeth Weiss, Mary Ann Wilczynski and Ca mille Zemrowski. In creative writing, The Josephine Lusk Memorial Award is presented to students in competition in the depart ments of editorial, essay, poetry, short stories and reviews. Entries are judged by literary critics. The editorial award will be given to Barbara Guderian, with honorable mentions to Kathleen Kilday and Lynda Rousseau. Judge of the contest was Joan Ackermann. The essay award was merited by Sister Mary John Bosco, B.V.M., and also a promoter of the Sophomore Cotillion and the Related Arts club. THE AWARD, originated at the 1957 National Congress of Kappa Gamma Pi, is named for St. Catherine of Siena, medieval patroness of learn ing. It was inaugurated to inspire higher ideals of education and to de velop a particular appreciation for a Catholic college education. In future years the St. Catherine medal will be presented at the October honors convocation. The request to grant the award was received too late this year for presentation at the fall undergraduate assembly. Art Majors Choose Religious Sujebcts Religious subjects dominate the col lection of senior art projects now on display on the eighth flooi Whether working with oils, ceramic mosaics, enamelled copper, hooked or wooden wall hangings, most of the artists chose to portray Christ, His mother or one of the saints in their final college work. ONE OF THE most unusual works is an intarsia or mosaic woodwork by Joan Indovina. By cutting and inlay ing wooden pieces of various grains and textures, Joan has produced an abstract figure of Blessed Martin de Porres. A ceramic mosaic cruifix is the work of Kathleen Hendricks. Mounted on black wood, the abstract shaped cross is patterned from predominantly blue and green tiles and flecked with gold to represent the nails. MARY ANNE KING, Patricia Niec, Maryann Hemrick and Diane Szara dowski wove hooked wall hangings for their projects, while Ann Kielty por trayed the head of Christ in enamelled copper pieces. Claudette Ruffino and Marilyn Karsh won honorable mentions. Rosemary Regan was the judge of the contest. SISTER MARY Christa, B.V.M., won the poetry award with an honora ble mention to Sister Mary Antonio, B.V.M. Jane Spalding Beck judged the contest. Claudette Ruffino will be given the award for critical reviews. Honorable mention goes to Marilyn Karsh and Patricia Flood. Joyce Gutzsit judged the entries. Claudette Ruffino will also receive the short story award. Marilyn Karsh and Sister Mary Antonio, B.V.M. will merit honorable mention. Beatrice Goldrick O'Connell judged the short stories. Following the awarding of honors and an address by Sister Mary Ann Ida, Rev, William T. Clark will offer Benediction. Sodality's Activities For Academic Year End with Installation New leaders are now taking over the various offices in the school. Among these are the five new sodality officers recently elected by the new and old sodality councils. BARBARA PIERCE will succeed Barbara Bukowski as prefect. Bar bara, an English major, held the office of treasurer of the junior class this year. Donna Malacina will take the office of first vice-prefect. Donna is also an English major and plans to teach in the future. KATHERINE GRIFFIN will be second vice-prefect. Katherine has been a member of the Sodality since high school. She plans'to major in mathematics. Ann Moran will act as secretary. She also plans a major in mathematics. Aileen Coutre, a psychology major, will serve as treasurer. Aileen has served as a counselor in the Sodality this year. Alumnae Plan Ahead For Sodality Meets Senior Sodalists attended a meeting of the Alumnae Sodality, held May 13, at which plans for future organization were discussed. The group will hold weekly meet ings. The first and third meetings each month will be group meetings in different areas of the city. The second meeting will be at Mundelein and Sodalists will be divided into groups according to the type of Act of Consecration they have made. The last meeting each month will be devoted to considering the aposto late, and the Sodalists will divide into groups according to profession. The first time the area groups will meet will be June 10. A general meet ing at Mundelein will be held June 17. . Alumnae Sodality Prefect is Joan Maher Considine, '58. Moderator is Sister Mary Georgianna, B.V.M. Juniors Go to Polls In Record Numbers, Elect Five Officers History was made for the class of 1960 on election day, May 8, when the seniors had the largest number of people voting for the largest number of candidates since the arrival of the class in 1956. From a group of five possible choices, Renee Sluka emerged as the new class president. Renee, a psy chology major, served as SAC social chairman this year. MARY DANKOWSKI and Lucile Jautz won the title of SAC represen tative. This will be the first office to be held by Lucile. Mary was vice- president of the junior class. Mary Jane Bowler defeated five other candidates to become the new vice-president. Mary Jane was class treasurer in sophomore year. Though there were only three running for secretary, it was tough competition for Fran Kotre who won the office. Fran received her official experience by being sergeant at arms this year. Counting all the money will be Mary Ellen Murray who is the new class treasurer. This will be Mary Ellen's first office. JUDY ANGONE as new social chairman will make all arrangements for the Senior Class in 1960. Judy got her experience on the Social Ar rangements Board in sophomore year. Order will be preserved if Marge Mascari has anything to say about it. Marge will be the new sergeant at arms, and will also hold office for the first time. In all a total of 25 running for sen ior office made elections a tough choice for the electors. Speech Department Initiates Major in Speech Correction The Speech department will initiate a major in speech therapy next fall in coordination with the Board of Educa tion's recently developed program for speech correction, Sister Mary Carme lia, B.V.M., department chairman, has announced. THE PROGRAM, formulated under the advice of Dr. Margaret Hall Powers, Board of Education director of special education, will give speech therapy majors an opportunity to com plete student teaching requirements through clinical work. Under the present program those interested in speech therapy training take a general speech major and a minor in elementary education. They complete their student teaching re quirements in elementary schools. Under the new program, stu dents will major in speech therapy and minor in education. Then they will do their student teach ing by working in Mundelein's speech clinic or clinics in the school system. Speech therapy majors will receive Med Tech Majors Train in Hospitals On Leave of Absence Three Chicago-area hospitals will be homes-away-from-home next year for 10 Mundelein chemistry and bi ology majors, who will begin their year's training to become registered medical technologists. Sophomores Louise Ornas, Mary Anne Lantvit, Ann Williams, and Barbara Pettit will take their course at St. Francis hospital in Evanston. Sheila Leahy will study at St. Anne's in Chicago, and Judy Petykowski and Beatrice Brantman will attend St. Therese hospital in Waukegan. Juniors Jane Randi, Janet Michela and Sophomore Liucija Lingis have also applied for training at St. Therese's. This program of medical technology, now in its third year, is sponsored in cooperation with the National Regis try of Medical Technologists. Subscriptions Planned For Laetare Dramas Sister Mary Jeanelle, B.V.M., chair man of the Drama department, an nounced a subscription plan for Lae tare productions. This innovation will begin next fall. According to the plan, a 10 season ticket will entitle the subscriber to attend all the college plays and have his name included on the patron list. Student tickets will sell for 1. The purpose of the new system is to build audience participation and to finance the productions. special certificates as speech correc- tionists from the Chicago Board of Education upon completion of require ments. Although it will take a year for the system to reach its full maturity, plans are being made to give the pres ent sophomore speech majors an op portunity to benefit from the program. ANOTHER CURRICULUM change was announced for the department of physical education at a recent faculty meeting. Under this plan which will be tried experimentally during the coming year, students may elect for credit a sufficient number of courses to complete a minor in physical educa tion. According to Mrs. Leo Gorski, swimming instructor, and Miss Au drey Sullivan, sports instructor, the program is being inaugurated as a result of requests to provide for pa rochial schools, teachers with physical education backgrounds in addition to the usual liberal arts qualifications. Dean Announces Summer Schedule Preregistration for summer school classes at Mundelein will continue un til June 13, Sister Mary Donald, Dean of Studies, announces. FINAL REGISTRATION for eve ning courses will be held June 22 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Day course regis tration is scheduled for June 22 and 23 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Evening classes will meet Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 6:15 to 8:30 p.m., June 22 through July 31. Day classes are offered Mondays through Fridays, June 24 to July 31. SAC President Begins New Job After attending the National Stu dent Association convention this summer at Champaign, 111., newly- elected SAC President Kathy Hotton hopess to come home filled with ideas for the '59-'60 SAC. She will attend the convention with Vice-president Parreannie Wilson and retiring SAC President Vicki Bomba. As a member of the advisory board composed of 15 students, Vicki will help plan the conference agenda as well as lead a panel or discussion. Kathy has always been active in school affairs. She was a fresh man SAC representative, sopho more governor and junior class president. When asked about her hobbies, she laughed and said, There's not much time for them. Besides being a member of the Math club, Kathy also tutors and works in an office. After graduation she plans to go into the business world. EMERGING VICTORIOUS from the election of senior class officers are (front row) Marge Mascari, Mary Dan- kowski, Renee Sluka, Lucile Jautz, Mary Jane Bowler, (back row) Fran Kotre, Mary Ellen Murray and Judy Angone.
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1959-05-21 (3)
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