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-/ Student Relief Campaign Begins National Goal Is Set at 750,000 Senior Patricia Dannehy, elected last spring to be Mundelein's senior delegate to the National Federation of Catholic College Students, has been named region al chairman of the Student Relief drive. Marion Travaglini will conduct the Relief drive here, assisted by La Von Froehlich, Margaret Daly, and Peggy Barrett Contributed 2000 Last year Mundelein contributed over 2,000 and 200 pounds of clothing. The entire national campaign netted 250,000 which has already been distributed to needy European students. First campus project of the campaign, which has a nation-wide goal of 750,- 000 to be sent to students abroad, is the benefit performance of Trial By Fire, to be given here Oct. 29, 31. Louis J. Burns of the University of Notre Dame is national chairman of the drive. Ethel Dignan '47, employed full- time in the New York office of NFCCS, is executive director. Committees Meet Here Representatives from Loyola, Munde lein, Notre Dame, Rosary, and St. Xa- vier's met here Oct. 8 to discuss plans for the drive. Irene Huzuliak, Austrian student at tending Rosary, gave a first hand account of the deplorable conditions of the stu dents in Vienna, particularly those in the displaced persons' camps. More is needed than charity, she said. We must give not only of our abundance but also of our necessities. Heads Fund Drive Faculty Member Presides at CBEA Session Agenda Includes Aims Of Business Education Sister Mary Gregoria, B. V. M., chair man of the Economics department, will preside at the second general session of the midwest unit, Catholic Business Edu cation association, meeting, Nov. 1, at Lewis Towers. Elected chairman last year of the ex ecutive board which formed a midwest unit of the CBEA, Sister Mary Gregoria has been guest speaker at two of the association's national conventions and was executive director of the first region al meeting, held at Mundelein a year ago. Represents De Paul Chairman of the first general session of the Nov. 1 meeting will be the Very Reverend Edward J. Kainmer, C. M., dean of the college of commerce, DePaul university. Also on the program in the college divisions are Howard Wilson, Loyola university; the Reverend Thomas F. Divine, S. J., Marquette university; L. M. Becker, Loras college; and Sister Volande, College of St. Teresa. Loyola President Speaks The Very Reverend James T. Hussey, S. J., president of Loyola university, will welcome the association members to Loyola. Agenda for the regional meeting in cludes the study of curricula in higher education, the objective of Catholic busi ness education, and reports from high school and college work sessions. The aim of the organization is the Stimulation of Catholic educators to ex change experience and knowledge in the fields of Commerce, Finance, and Busi ness Administration and to encourage research and graduate work. Faculty'Student Committee Outlines Workshop Plan The Group Guidance program intro duced last year will continue this year in the senior, junior, and sophomore Classes. The first Workshop meetings will be on Oct. 26 at 1 p. in. Members of the Student Activities Council met with a Faculty committee during the summer to make a general outline of the Workshop program. Patricia Dannehy, senior English- Journalism major, is regional Chair man of the NFCCS Student Relief drive. Gold Room Beckons Cotillion-Minded Students to Congress First All-College Social Affair is Friday (Picture on Page 3.) Committees are completing arrange ments for the Sophomore Cotillion to be held in the Gold Room, of the Con gress hotel, Friday evening, Oct. 22. J' hniiy Ol ins' orchestra will provide music for the semi-formal dance, first all-college social affair of the college year. Judy McNulty, class president, and Patricia Dee, social chairman, head the Hotel and Decorations committee. On the Orchestra committee are loan Moran, chairman, with Peggy Barrett. Katherine O'Malley, Dorothy Feery, and Mary Ellen Ward. Assisting Peggy Butler, chairman of the Publicity committee are Mari beth Carey, Joan Bridgman, Judy I.anghenry, R lt; scinary Murphy, Sera- fina Traficanti, and Virginia Volini. Gay Pembroke, chairman of the Bid committee, is assisted by Betty Byrne. Madeline D'Hooge, Mary Lu Erhard. Margaret Griff en, Mariana Hagarty, Patricia O'Callahan, Nancy Price, and Dorcella Spengler. Norene Fantozzi is chairman of the Chaperone committee. Sociology Chairman Answers Indictment Of Catholic Colleges AMERICA, weekly review of the news, devoted the Correspondence column of its Oct. 9 issue to a letter from Sis ter Mary Liguori, B. V. M., refuting an indictment made by William J. Grace in AMERICA of Sept. 11 that Catholic colleges are failing to present to their students the economic and social views of the Church. Replying to this, Sister Mary Liguori states; That Quadragesimo Anno and subsequent encyclicals have seeped into the general consciousness so much more rapidly than did Kerum Novaruin is, I submit, due principally to the efforts of teachers in Catholic institutions of higher learning. Sister Mary Liguori is chairman of the Sociology department and has served as guest professor at the University of Notre Dame and at the Sheil School of Social Studies. In June, Sister was chairman of an Institute on curricula in college Socio logy, sponsored by the American Catho lic Sociological society. Classes Will Not Meet On All Saints' Day Classes will not meet on Monday, Nov. 1, the feast of All Saints and the eighteenth anniversary of the laying of the Mundelein cornerstone. Date of publication for The Sky scraper will be Nov.. 2, because of the holiday. * f Vol. XIX Mundelein College, Chicago Illinois, October 18, 1948 No. 2 Curtain Rises On Lady of Fatima Nov. 12, 14 Curtain time for Lady of Fatima, first Drama department produc tion of the year, has been postponed until Friday, Nov. 12, and Sunday Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. The matinee will be Saturday Nov. 13, at 2 p.m. Sign Book Critic Reviews Heart of Matter, Oct. 21 Graham Greene's recent novel, The Heart of the Matter, is the subect on which the Reverend John Sexton Ken nedy will lecture at assembly on Oct. 21. Book-of-thc-Montb club selection for July, the novel has been widely dis cussed and reviewed, creating even more interest than Mr. Greene's The Pi wer and The Glory, filmed under the title The Fugitive. Editor of Fiction in Focus, in Sign magazine, Father Kennedy also writes book reviews for the diocesan papers in Hartford, Conn., and in Los Angeles. Racial Play Aids Foreign Students Scheil School Actors Star in Production Trial by Fire, a three-act drama on the race question, will be presented at the college theater, Oct. 29 and 31, under sponsorship of the Sociology club, to raise funds for the European Student Relief drive sponsored by the National Federation oi Catholic Students. Written and directed by the Rever end George H. Dunne, S. J. and pro duced by the Sheil School of Dramatics, Trial By Fire is a documentary account ( f an actual coroner's inquest. The plot deals with the burning to death of a Negro family in a white district by a fire of accidental origin. Trial By Fire, which, last month, played at the Eighth Street theater, under the auspices of the Sheil School of Social Studies, is dedicated to the memory of Claude McKay, Negro poet and author. At the Mundelein showing, Sociology department members will act as hostesses, with Mary Sellinger heading the Ticket committee and Patricia Troy in charge of publicity. The play is open to stu dents and the public. Students Show March of Science Through History Constance Weber, Marcella Mulveil, Maureen O'Brien, and Lorraine Staj dohar prepare for the History-Science symposium, which will be held at 4 tomorrow. On the board are symbols used by Arabian alchemists. To show the interrelation of History, Chemistry, and Biology, majors in these three fields will trace the roots of modern science through two great historical movements, at a History-Science sympo sium, tomorrow at 3 p.m., in the inner social room. After an introduction by general chair man Marcella Mulveil, Lorraine Stajdo har will describe the two movements from which modem science takes its beginning: the Mohammedan invasion of Spain, and the counter-movement, the Crusades. Constance Weber will then outline the development of mathematics and chemis try, including astrology, astronomy, and alchemy. The biological effect of the crusading movement will be explained by Maureen O'Brien. Student participation in an open forum will follow. History majors participating in the symposium arc Lois Fallon, Geraldine Linden, I.iduina Barbatini, Marilynne Larsen, Frances O'Donnell, Marguerite Weren, Patricia Allie, Florence Schoen- enberger, Patricia Kelma, Miss Mul veil, Dorothy Munton, Clarice Figliu- olo, Jean Donnelly, Miss Stajdohar, Margaret Luft, and Catherine Gallagh- Senior Chemistry majors are Helen Chalos, Mary Jane Dougherty, Marilyn Foss, Therese Gormley, Rosemarie Leg enza, Joan Mathews, Mary Jo Newhart, Alberta Palermo, Vivian Walkosz, Con stance Weber, and Vivian Winkates. Senior Biology majors include Regina Caulfield, Barbara Feldhake, Sheila Hoye, Helen Mazzcnga, Connie Naples, Maureen O'Brien, Jeanne Regent, Kathe rine Revis, Mary Russell, and Irene Sera- fin. Truman Wins Straw Ballot By 39 Votes Paul Douglas Polls Largest Single Vote President Harry Truman received 53 per cent of the votes cast in the Straw ballot, Friday, winning exactly 39 votes more than Thomas E. Dewey, who polled 46 per cent. Norman Thomas, the Socialist can didate, received a total of 5 votes, and Claude A. Watson, the Prohibition candidate, received 3. Largest vote given to any candidate went to Paul S. Douglas, Democratic candidate for the United States Senate. who received 64 per cent of the votes. Wayland Brooks received 36 per cent i the senatorial votes. Favor Democrat Governor Adlai Stevenson polled 57 per cent of the votes cast for Governor of Illin ois, and Dwight Green polled 43 per cent. J. S. Boyle received 51 per cent of the votes cast for States Attorney, and M. J. Coghlan received 49 per cent. Six hundred and thirty-five students, approximately 69 per cent of the stu dent body, voted in the Straw ballot. which was held in the student lounge from 10 a. in. until 3 p. in., Oct. 15. Voter's League is Sponsor The mock election was sponsored by the campus unit of the League oi Women Voters, who, with members lt; f the Skyscraper staff, served at the registration desk. Voting booths were supplied by the Election commission. Students in the Mathematics depart ment assisted in tabulating the votes. Fifth Straw Ballot This is the fifth straw vote in Mun delein history, and the fifth vicrory for the Democratic party. Franklin I). Roosevelt won 3 to 1 in 1932; 4 to 1 in 1936; 2 to 1 in 1940; and 3 to 2 in 1944. A mi ck political rally brought the ex citement oi the presidential campaign to the SAC assembly Thursday. Speak for Candidates Announced by- Town Crier Patricia Padden, Patricia Troy, senior Sociolo gy major, spoke for Harry Truman, Democratic candidate, and Dolores Duffy, senii r drama major, spike for Thomas Dewey, Republican candidate. Colorful banners and placards ap peared in the audience during the speeches. The rally was planned by League of Women Voters members to heighten interest in the Straw ballot poll taken Friday. Contest Winner Plays at Kimball Hall, Oct. 19 As an award for placing second in a music contest sponsored by the Chi cago Woman's Musical club last March. Anastasia McGown will take part in a joint recital at Kimball Hall tomorrow at 8:15 p. in. Miss McGowan, a junior, has selected two of Brahms' works for the recital, Scherzo in E Flat Minor, and Inter mezzo, Opus 116A, No. 4. The contest last March was city- wide and included students of every conservatory in the Chicago area. Miss McGowan selected for that Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Handel and Reflections on the Water, by Debussy
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