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THE SKYSCRAPER CLUBS HAVE FINAL SOCIAL MEETINGS Clubs and Classes PressClubEntertains Have Coronations Simple, yet impressive ceremonies marked the second annual coronation of our Lady by the members of Eta Phi Alpha, the Classical Club. The altar in Stella Maris Chapel looked es pecially beautiful for the occasion, banked with dainty white flowers, as the students marched in procession through the cloister entrance and took their places in the Chapel, singing hymns in Latin. Helen Demetry and Mary Lally, senior members of the club, wore caps and gowns and acted as crown bearer and crowner respectively. The flower girls, Virginia Woods and Margaret Grace, were dressed in white and car ried huge bouquets of lilacs. The prayers and hymns were in Latin and were sung without accom paniment. The program read: Orio Caeremoniarum Litaniae Lauretanae Baetae Mariae Virginis Salve Regina Coronatio Baetae Mariae Virginis Actus Consecrationis 0 Domina Mea Magnificat Ave Maria Each student passed before our Lady's altar placing her rose in a bas ket, and the procession filed out to the corridor where they awaited their mothers who were guests at the cere mony. Miss Ann Patrice Morrissey, the small sister of one of the club mem bers, was a guest of honor and an hon orary flower girl. They were escorted to the mezzanine where tea was served in a distinctly classical atmosphere, a statue of Hebe giving tone to the occasion. Some of the guests played cards while others became acquainted over tea, sand wiches, and cookies. Stylus, Tower Staff All our noted scribes were together last Tuesday, May 24, when the Press Club entertained the Stylus Club and the Tower Staff at an informal tea. It was the first time that the two writer's organizations had a party together and since they have much in common, they were very congenial. The sophomore social room shed its everyday clothes and donned a May- time festivity in honor of the occasion. There were bouquets of pink roses on each table and huge baskets of peonies on one long table at the end of the room and by the piano. Olga Melchione was playing the piano softly as Margaret Roche, presi dent of the Press Club, escorted the guests to the tables where dainty place cards indicated the place of each. The members of the Press Club served delicious refreshments of fruit- and-aspic salad with dainty open-faced sandwiches, ice cream, cup cakes, and coffee. While this was being done, Mary Catherine Schmelzer, mistress of ceremonies, introduced the guest art ists. Olga Melchione played her own composition, A Night in May, the prize piece for the Senior Ball of the University of Notre Dame, while Mar garet Roche sang. Rita Patterson did a tap dance, and Helen Jane McNellis, a former Munde lein student, sang several popular se lections. Mary Frances Burke played two violin solos and Ruth Tangney accompanied her and played several numbers besides. Those who had charge of the ar rangements were Margaret Roche, chairman of the entertainment com mittee and general hostess, Janet Rut- tenberg, serving, Justine Feely, re freshments, and Evelyn Lincoln, decorations. The Stella Maris Chapel was the scene of a similar coronation ceremony early in the month when the members of the zoology classes, in procession, crowned our Lady with a simple yet lovely ceremony. Marching slowly, the students en tered the chapel to an organ proces sional with violin accompaniment. Vir ginia Sweeney was chosen to crown, Agnes Gill was crown-bearer. Mar garet Grace, maid of honor, and Gloria Barry and Violet Park were flower girls. Several hymns and a prayer to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart preceded the coronation, and the Act of Consecration was read just be fore the solemn recessional sounded a signal for each girl in the procession to place her rose at our Lady's feet. The ceremony is an annual occasion for the zoology department. Business Talk The secretarial students enjoyed a talk on Monday, May 23, given by Miss Laurine V. Kinney, the only woman chief clerk of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. Miss Kin ney started her business career as sec retary to the former chief clerk, and from her experience gave, our aspiring secretaries many valuable suggestions. Miss Kinney received her commercial training at St. Mary's High School, Chicago. Piano Ensemble Presents Recital A musical program was presented by the members of the piano ensemble and Miss Dorothy Weldon, soprano, on May 11 at 2 o'clock in the college auditorium. The program was an ex cellent display of skill and technique, and the final number, Dance Galicien- ne, was beautifully interpreted by four of the group playing two pianos. The performing pianists were: Antonietta Tornabene, Emer Phibbs, Virginia Meis, Lucretia Michels, Eliza beth Gorman, and Ruth Hottinger. S.A.C. Sponsors Informal Party The Student Activities Council had a party on Friday evening, May 13, in the model apartment in the Home Eco nomics Department, forming them selves into a committee of the whole to plan the arrangements. It is the first activity the council has sponsored this year for itself, and it was an ideal opportunity to fete in advance the senior members and to welcome the new representatives. Skyscraper Editor Meets Miss Katherine Cornell Where is Flush? Oh, Miss Cornell, please find Flush. Basil Rathbone is in here with that horrible police dog of his and I'm sure he would just as soon eat up poor Flush as not So in rushed Miss Gertrude Macy, stage man ager for Miss Katherine Cornell, and so I met the celebrated actress. My heart was won at once as she stood to receive my friend and me. In her special dressing room just off stage, one still felt that she was Eliza beth Barrett Browning, she looked so charmingly old-fashioned in the deep red dress she wears in the last act. Her black, shiny curls were set just- so, and her whole appearance delight fully suggested Wimpole Street. Warm, isn't it? she remarked, and we were brought back to 1932 Chicago. Miss Cornell is more charming, more gracious, more lovely than one could imagine. As we spoke of her charity performance that was to be given the next day, Flush wandered slowly and sedately into the room and we saw the darling dog of the stage as he appears in real life exactly the same Although Miss Cornell has been of fered many contracts to film The Bar retts of Wimpole Street, she refuses to do so, because the movies take something away from every actress who has left the legitimate stage for them. Her husband and director, Guthrie McClintic, agrees with her, so the two, perhaps the most famous combination on Broadway, continue to produce excellent plays that are loved by everyone. It might be interesting to note that Miss Cornell does not care about the money she makes, but only wants her audience, those that love her work, to see her. Because of this she refused to let scalpers receive more than 75 cents higher than the box-of fice price for their seats. This is sur prisingly low. We remember the firm, friendly handclasp we received at parting and we wish heartily for the time when Katharine Cornell will return for another engagement. Seniors Guests of Lower Classes This Month These last few weeks have been gay and crowded for almost everyone, and especially for the seniors because most of the activities have centered about them. It was the seniors themselves who started things when they enter tained the juniors at a luncheon in the clothing laboratory on May 4. Vera Carson, lovely in a dress of robin's-egg blue, was the hostess at this delightful affair. The long U- shaped table was decorated with yel low tea roses, and triangular baskets, surmounted by tiny red flags sugges tive of the Bicentennial year desig nated each guest's place. Glass-framed pictures of the senior class were novel favors for the ju niors. Immediately after a delicious luncheon, the voice in the wall, stu dent terminology for the central broad cast system, was heard and it was none other than Mary Jane Sullivan broad casting the class poem, class history, and class will, from the Little Theatre. These last amusing documents and the really beautiful poem were supposedly being read from a copy of the Sky- sckaper of 1942 in which they were re printed in honor of the tenth anni versary of the first senior class. * * * A perfect night a perfect dance such was the verdict given of the Senior Ball on Friday evening, May 20, in the Lantern Room of the Drake Hotel. It was quite the loveliest affair that the college has ever sponsored and the guests united in agreeing that the music was splendid, the service excel lent, and the atmosphere everything that could be desired in the final, cli matic social affair of the class of '32. Helen O'Gara, chairman of the ball, looked charming in a simply-cut yet strikingly-lovely gown of white crepe and a corsage of sweet peas and roses. Vera Carson, president of the class, wore chalk-blue crepe with cfirise ac cessories. Two gorgeous orchids com pleted her ensemble. It was a supper dance, and the com mittee, senior officers, and a few guests occupied one long table. Smal ler tables accommodated happy groups of four, or six, or eight. Former Mundelein parties have been held in either the Tower Room, the Gold Room, and the recent junior prom was in the Main Dining Room, but the Lantern Room seemed an ideal place for the Senior Ball. Candelabras were the only table decorations, and their green-shaded light cast a soft glow around the room. To complete the success of a perfect party the orchestra played even longer than was anticipated, and the guests united in thanking Miss O'Gara and her assistants for this final dem onstration of their success as host esses. Miss O'Gara was assisted in the ar rangements by Vera Carson, who dis tinguished herself as chairman of the junior prom last year, and Mary Emily Garvey. Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Mur phy, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Rooney, and Mr. and Mrs. George M. Schmeing acted as chaperones. The sophomores have changed the mode of entertainment a trifle and are going to give a breakfast for the Seniors on Sunday, June 5. As far as is known now, it will be in the Marine Dining Room of the Edgewater Beach Hotel, and should the day be warm, it lis probable they will use the beach walk for an after-breakfast stroll. Those in charge of the arrangements are Katherine Brennan, Mary Jane Sullivan, Margaret Roche, and Char lotte Knerr. The following Wednesday, June 9, the juniors are having a farewell luncheon for these same popular seniors at 1 o'clock, and this, too, will be at the Beach. * * * Taking advantage of the leap year custom at the latest (Loyola-Mundelein affair on Thursday, May 19, every other dance was girl's choice. The par ty was held in the Mundelein gymna sium, and the formal social-rooms and the cafeteria were also popular ren dezvous. About 5:30 the orchestra stopped and the young men took leave of their friends at Mundelein and trailed home ward to the neighboring campus. The Student Activities Councils of both colleges were in charge of the party. The social committee of Loy ola consisted of James Brennan, John Lenihan, James Bennan, and Charles McNicholas. The Mundelein committee included Vera Carson, Mary Toohey, Katherine Brennan, and Maryon Walsh. Stylus Club Members Receive Pins at Party The Stylus Club held its formal in itiation, combined with the hanging of the pictures of the honorary members, on Tuesday afternoon. May 17, in the fifth floor social rooms and the publica tion office. Before the new pledges were initiat ed, the members of the Stylus Club whose contributions to the Clepsydra were marked by exceptional literary merit, steady productiveness, and fav orable criticism from an outside source were received into the honorary chap ter of the Club, Delta Gamma Sigma. Those meriting this honor were Helen O'Gara, Mary Lally, Virginia Fischer, Dorothy Riley, Emer Phibbs, and Ger trude Scanlan. Then followed the re ception of the pledges, who were solemnly initiated and received their pins. The members of the Delta Gamma Sigma performed the ceremony of the hanging of the pictures. Short biographical sketches of these dis tinguished literary figures were giv en. After the ceremony, the students enjoyed a social hour and tea. The entertainment, consisting of a stunt program, was most amusing and dis played much originality. The honorary members of the Stylus Club, all of whom have addressed the Club members on different occasions are: the Reverend Charles L. O'Don nell, C. S. C, president of the Uni versity of Notre Dame and of the Cath olic Poetry Society of America; T. A. Daly, Litt. D., well-known Catholic poet and author of several volumes ot delightful verse; John T. Frederick, editor of the Midland, who is a mem ber of the faculty of the University of Notre Dame and a lecturer at the Medill School of Journalism of North western University; Harry C. Phibbs, who was formerly associated with William Butler Yeats and John Mil- lington Synge in the Irish Theatre Re vival; and Whitford Kane, the well- known Shakespearean actor and a member of the Catholic Actor's Guild of America. Laetare Players See Old Movies Much amusement was given to the Laetare Players by Mr. LeRoy Stran- sky and his antique movies at a party held in the Little Theatre on May 6. Mr. Stransky has preserved three films taken prior to 1910 which are in sufficiently good condition to afford humor to our present generation. They were entitled, Why Dogs Leave Home, The Doctor, and Inverse Gravity, the latter of which per tained to the discoveries of modern science. The girls were royally enter tained by the queer costumes, the ra pidity with which the characters moved, and Mr. Stransky's pertinent remarks during the most dramatic mo ments. When the pictures were concluded refreshments were served and the girls spent the remainder of the afternoon dancing in the Little Theatre. The Laetare Players held their an nual election Wednesday afternoon. May 11, at 3 o'clock. The members of the club assembled in room 204 and chose the following girls as representa tives of the Mundelein Laetare Play ers: President, Penelope Haloulas; vice- president, Frances Burke; treasurer, Mary Nicholson; business manager, Sallie Agnes Smith; recording secre tary, Geraldine Gardiner; correspond ing secretary, Mary Agnes Tynan; chairman of social committee, Ger trude Scanlan; chairman of program committee, Ruth Hazle. The final activity of the Laetare Players this year will be a luncheon at Laurie Jacobsen's, given in honor of the senior members, in token of appre ciation for their splendid service in the foundation and organization of the club. Miss Helen O'Gara, first presi dent of Laetare Players and recipient of the Golden Rose last year, will be guest of honor. Miss O'Gara will at this time retire as president in favor of Penelope Haloulos, recently elected president for 1932-33. Miss Chesa Wolneiwicz is acting as chairman of the luncheon committee. LaetareScholarships Given Four Students Miss Vivian Murray of Siena High School was chosen as the most tal ented speaker in the first Mundelein Laetare Scholarship contest which was held on April 20. Miss Priscilla Glenicki, of Alvernia High School, won second prize. The second contest, held because the number of candidates for the first was too great to admit of accommodation in one afternoon, resulted in the selection of Miss Helen Weber for first place and Miss Mary Corby for second. Both are students of the Immaculata High School. Chemistry Club Has Spring Party The Mundelein College Chemistry Club held its spring party on Wednes day afternoon. May 18, in the fifth floor social rooms. The party was given in honor of that section of the chemistry classes which secured the largest number of books in a recent campaign conducted by the club for the potential Chemistry Library. The united efforts of the group have brought together a representative col lection of books. Art Club Members Have Sketch Party The early morning sun found the Art Club picnickers on their way to Lincoln Park on Saturday, April 23. The north end of the lagoon was the end of their destination, and their ob ject to catch in water color, oil, pastel, or pencil, some of the lovely scenery in that section of the park. After a morning of genuine though doubtless inspired work, the picnic lunch was welcome, but the artistic urge was upon them again shortly and until late in the afternoon the sketch ing continued. Although most of the sketches were not completed until the following week, several of them are really quite lovely. The students who attended the pic nic were Mary Honan, Ann Lally, Yvonne Decker, Dorothy Comeford, Irene Galvin, Eunice Portt, Alice Alex ander, and Sylva Aronian. The only catastrophe reported was but a vague rumor that someone's easel slipped into the lagoon. College Orchestra Plans Picnic Members of the Mundelein College Orchestra are completing plans for a picnic to be held at one of the forest preserves on Thursday, June 9. The principal source of amusement will be the initiation of the following pledges: Josephine Doherty, Lucia Mazurek, Lucretia Michels, Mae Murphy, and Mary Paoli. Sketching In Lincoln Park Eunice Portt, Silva Aronian, Dorothy Comeford, Mary Honan, Ann Lally, Irene Galvin.
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1932-05-31 (3)
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