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Mundelein College, Chicago 40, Illinois, April 21,1959 Vol. XXIX No. 11 Africa's International Role, Topic of Scheduled Seminar Mundelein College will note the growing importance of the African continent by sponsoring a three-day seminar on African fairs May 15-17 in the college auditorium. Guest experts on various phases of African life and culture will discuss the explosive issues which could be as dangerous to world peace as the Berlin situation or the Middle East. The Institute on African Affairs, sponsored by Mundelein's departments of economics, history and sociology, is open to all students and to the public without charge. Assisting the vari ous department chairmen in making arrangements for the sessions is Pro fessor Richard Houk, chairman of the department of geography at De Paul university. and member of the board of directors of the African Studies association, will speak on the topic, New Men in Africa. Kappa Gamma Pi Adds 10 Members The keynote address at 8:30 p.m. Friday, May 15, will be deliv ered by James K. Renfield, deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Four sessions are scheduled for Sat urday. Edward J. Kirchner, Pax Ro- mana's permanent delegate to the Economic and Social council of the United Nations, will discuss Africa's educational problems. A PANEL composed of George H. T. Kimble, chairman of the depart ment of geography at Indiana univer sity, and Bernard Blankenheimer, chief of the African section, Near Eastern and African division of the United States Department of Com merce, will discuss the economic po tential of Africa. In the afternoon, social prob lems in Africa will be the topic of an address by Walter Elken, pro fessor of economics at Makerere college, Uganda, and visiting pro fessor at Northwestern university. Douglas Williams, colonial attache of the British Embassy, Washington, D.C, will discuss the subject, Africa Faces Independence. The concluding address will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 17, when the Rev. John J. Considine, M.M., a foundei Ten seniors were elected last week to Kappa Gamma Pi, national Catholic scholastic honorary society for women who excel in character, scholarship, leadership and service. THEY ARE Alice Bourke, Mary Ellen Burg, Patricia Cullen, Margaret Grange, Virginia Grasser, Sandra Marek, Marilyn Picchietti, Geraldine Sofka, Clare Walsh and Camille Zem rowski. Faculty members and the senior class voted in the election last Wednes day. Those elected will receive the gold key of the society during the May Honors Day convocation. Kappa Gamma Pi strictly enforced this year its requirement that all can didates have grade point average of 2.6 or above. In previous years each college was allowed some freedom in determining for its own students the scholastic achievement necessary for nomina tions. Kappa Gamma Pi was founded in 1927 for outstanding alumnae of Catholic colleges. Its purpose is to stimulate Catholic college graduates to leadership in worthwhile activities. A meeting or activity is held monthly by the local chapter. SAC Nominations Slated for April 23, Election for April 27 Candidates for next year's Student Activity council offiices will be nomin ated during the assembly period April 23 in the auditorium. THE ELECTION will be April 27. Votes may be cast at the polling place in the Lounge from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. SAC Nominations April 23 SAC Elections April 27 Spiritual Council Elections . April 29 Sodality Officers' Elections May 4 Senior Nominations '60 ... May 5 Senior Elections May 8 Junior Nominations '61 ... May 12 Junior Elections May 14 Sophomore Nominations '62 May 14 Sophomore Elections .... May 16 Nomineees will elected to fill each of the five major Council offices, presi dent, vice president, secretary, treas urer and social chairman. At the nominating session, each candidate will present a short campaign speech to introduce her self and her platform. Each candidate must present a peti tion signed by 25 students. All candi dates must be approved by the Dean of Women and the present SAC presi dent to be eligible to run for office. After Council officers are announced, classes will elect their new officers. The Sodality will elect 12 members of the Spiritual council April 29. Mixer Makes May Merry The merry month of May will make a gay entrance to the Mundelein scene on May 1, the date for the SAC spring mixer. General Chairman Barbara King says that the mixer will be held in the gymnasium from 8:45 p.m. until mid night. Admission will be 1. Creative Dancer Performs in Arts Festival r Engaging . . . provocative . . . won derfully adventuresome . . . are sim ply a few of the adjectives that critics have used to describe that art of Jean Erdman, creative dancer and choreog rapher, who will appear at Mundelien on April 28 at both 1:10 and 8 p.m. as part of the April Fine Arts Fes tival. HER AFTERNOON appearance will be a demonstration lecture on the origin and form of modern dance. This lecture is one of the 1958-59 con cert-lecture series. In the evening Jean Erdman will present a complete dance recital for students and the general public Tickets can be obtained without charge by the public by writing or calling Mundelein and sending a self-ad dressed, stamped envelope. Free tickets for students will be available in the lounge and office of the Dean of Women starting April 22. Miss Erdman has derived the in spiration for her unique form of dance from Oriental, Primitive, European and American tradi tions, blended with the inspiration of her native Honolulu. She danced for many years as a solo ist with the Martha Graham com pany and then founded her own school and company. Since then the critics have acclaimed her the Jean Erdman proponent of a bold new form of movement expression. Recently Time magazine cited her for her part in the creative synthesis of music and dance. Seven of her scores have been added to the library of the American Composers' alliance. JEAN ERDMAN has been com mended in Dance magazine for her choreography of The Perilous Chapel and Jean Paul Sartre's Les Mouches. Not only a dancer and choreogra pher, she has taught classes at Uni versity of Colorado, Columbia univer sity, Bard college in New York, and has presented courses in technique and composition in many other cities. American Composers Honored at Concert Mundelein's musicians will contrib ute their share to the Fine Arts Festival when they present a pro gram of American contemporary music for the student body, April 30 at 1:10 p.m. in the auditorium. MUSIC WRITTEN by the younger set of American composers will fill a greater part of the program. Composers to be presented include Kent Kennon, Paul Creston, Celius Dougherty, Emerson Whithorne, Sam uel Barber, Merritt Johnson, John Duke, Joseph Clokey and Richard Purvis. AS a FINALE to the program, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue will be played at the piano by Sally Ann Lipinski while the orches tral parts are played at the organ by Nancy Sullivan. Other performers will be Terry Ke hoe, Mary Ellen Burg, Katherine Jackson, Parreannie Wilson, Betty Gonwa, Charlene Hincks, Patricia Coakley and Mary Ann Wisz. 1959 Magnificat Medal Awarded to Teacher The Magnificat Medal will be awarded to Miss Ruth Mary Fox, pro fessor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in a formal convocation ceremony today at 2 p.m. in the auditorium. THE MOST Rev. Albert G. Meyer, archbishop of Chicago, will make the presentation. Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., will read the citation ac companying the medal. Both students and faculty will wear cap and gown for the academic procession which opens the convocation. Following the ceremony, a reception for seniors, their mothers and faculty members will be held in the social room. First awarded in 1948, the medal is given each spring to a Catholic women's college alumna who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and accomplishment in social, cultural and religious activities. Miss Fox is being honored spe cifically for her remarkable ac complishments in teaching, her eminent work in the field of hu man relations, and for her re search on the life and writings of the Italian poet, Dante. She is the author of a recently pub lished book Dante Lights the Way. Miss Fox's crowded classrooms and the esteem in which she is held by her former students are, in them selves, a great tribute to an out standing teacher, Sister Mary Ann Ida said, Teaching, for her, has Artists Win Awards In Midwest Exhibit Artists representing five of the eight participating colleges merited awards Saturday for entries in the second annual Midwest Catholic Col lege Art Exhibit sponsored by the Mundelein department of art. The Lamp of Eternal Light sub mitted by Dolores Nathan of the Col lege of St. Francis, Joliet, merited first place in the oil painting division. Honorable mention went to an ab stract entered by Dailey of Notre Dame university. Two awards went to St. Mary-of- the-Woods college in the print divi sion. Winners were Mary Lou Hinchey for her black and white House and Buildings and Mary Alice Cullen for her color print, Moses and the Burning Bush. Sister Luke, S.S.N.D., of Notre Dame received the gold medal in the sculpture division for her wood fig ure of St. Thomas Aquinas. Honora ble mentions were awarded to Mari anne Muller of St. Xavier's college for her ceramic plaque and to Jean Freialeben of Alverno for the ma hogany relief carving, The Shep herds. Sister Thomas Aquinas of Alverno college received the only award in the water color section for her entry en titled After. Judges for the contest were Miss Alice Grill, instructor of art at Barat College of the Sacred Heart, and Mr. John Parker, Office of Museum Edu cation, Art Institute of Chicago. Miss Fox been an apostolate in which she has won distinction. A NATIVE of Racine, Miss Fox was graduated from St. Clara college, Sinsinawa, Wis., (now Rosary college, River Forest 111.). She earned her master's degree at the University of Wisconsin and did additional work at Leland Stanford university, the Uni versity of Chicago, and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She headed English departments and supervised English in Wisconsin public schools before joining the staff at Wisconsin State in 1922. She is also credited with organizing the first junior high school English curriculum in the state of Wisconsin and devel oping one of the first humanities courses in the middle west. In 1956, an honorary degree of doctor of letters was conferred upon her by the college of Saint Thomas Aquinas, River Forest 111., a pontifical institute of phi losophy. She is the only woman to be so honored. Miss Fox is also the author of edu cational charts and studies and ar ticles of a professional nature. Her poems, several of which have been anthologized, have appeared in such publications as America, Common weal, Ave Maria, Spirit, The New York Times and 77(e English Journal. Mothers Sponsor Lunch,Card Party It might as well be spring as long as the Women's Auxiliary is planning the annual Salad Bar luncheon and card party to be held in the college tearoom May 7 at noon. Mrs. William Schoen, Auxiliary president, has announced that invi tations have been issued to mothers of all students and their friends. A TANTALIZING table of luscious homemade salads, a rainbow-tinted Maypole and assorted prizes chosen for their appeal to any woman are the triple attractions of the day, Mrs. Victor Primeau, general chairman of the party stated. In charge of tickets is Mrs. Anthony Casieri. Mrs. Joseph Walsh is door prize chairman, and Mrs. George Madden heads the prize committee. Mrs. Therice Howell is in charge of tearoom arrangements, and publicity for the party is supervised by Mrs. John Quinlin. THF f P I T I f A I FYCC ar' maiors Diane Szaradowski, Eleanor inC LrvllllAL. Cltl Ferraina, Mary Anne King and Patricia Wendt appraise one of the paintings entered in the Midwest Catholic College Exhibit, a part of the Fine Arts Festival.
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