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Envoys to Student Union . . . X. fas v r TIHEJliftli lPK 2* s* -' ; t Rita Stalzer, senior, and Ruth Casey, junior, will represent Mundelein at the conference of American College Students, to be held at the University of Chicago, Dec. 28-30. They were elected by the Faculty-Student Executive Board last week, after having been nominated by the Student Activities Council and the Club Coordination Board. New Course Reveals What Canada Writes In order that students may become better acquainted with the social and cultural backgrounds of their Canadian eighbors, the English department will offer a two-hour course in Canadian literature, starting in February. Probably the first such course to be offered in an American college, where Canadian literature is usually studied as a small subdivision of English literature, it will be a lower division offering, open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Although no American publisher issues a text suitable for such a course, the English department has drawn up an outline of the geographical and historical influences affecting Canadian literature and tracing the English and French cultural legacy enjoyed by the Canadian people. December Student Congress Will Consider National Union Rita Stalzer and Ruth Casey will speak for the Mundelein student hody at a conference of American college students which will meet at the University of Chicago, Dec. 28-30, to consider the formation of a National Union of American Students. Nominated at a joint meeting of the S. A. C. and the Club Coordina tion Board, the delegates were elected by the Faculty-Student Executive Board, on Nov. 26. The Board is made up of the 16 members of the S. A. C. and nine members of the Faculty. The conference will be sponsored by the American delegation to the World Student Congress, which met in Prague, Czechoslovakia, last August, to establish an International Student Union. A report of the Prague meeting will be given at the Chicago conference. Purpose of the proposed union is to provide a means of inter changing student opinions on international issues to form a channel for unified student action. Representatives from colleges, universities, and national student or ganizations all over the United States will attend the Chicago conference. Each college may send one delegate for a thousand students and a maxi mum of four in proportion to enrollment. In addition to the official delegates, however, a limited number of student observers may attend the sessions, although only the delegates have the privilege of voting. Senior Will Greet Red Cross Delegates At Midwest Meeting Janet Sprickman, chairman of the Council of College units in the Chicago Chapter of the American Red Cross, will act as hostess to delegates from Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin, who will participate in the six-state College unit conference to be held in Chicago, Dec. 6 and 7. Miss Elizabeth Hunter, midwestern area director of college units, and Earl Krib- ben, chairman of the Chicago chapter, will lead the discussion of the charter obligations of the Red Cross and the problems of the organization. Sister Mary Carmelyn, B.V.M., faculty adviser, and Lucille Cook, Mundelein unit chairman, will attend the two-day sessions. Debaters Plan Three jPre-Holiday Tilts Three Mundelein debate teams, in cluding Laura Lee Hilgers and Patricia iluckian, Ellenmae Quan and Mary laire Lane, and Ethel Ann McGuire . Lorraine King, will meet three teams from Wheaton college, here, on Dec. 16. Rosemary Legenza and Mary Lou Haf- lier debated Miss Quan and Miss Lane in a demonstration debate for a speech fclass, on Nov. 21. Barbara Fallon, Patricia Dannehy, iss Legenza, Miss Hafner, Mercedes 'arker, Patricia Hallihan, Miss Lane, Miss Quan participated in the second hi a series of practice debates with JLoyola on Nov. 25. All debates were on the topic of the rear, Resolved: That labor have a llrcct share in managing industry. Senior Artist Paints in Summer With Ox'Bow Qroup Rustic and primitively enchanting is art's setting at Ox-Bow, near Saugatuck, Michigan, where the Summer School of Painting has found Ursula Brodbeck these past four summers. Planning to develop her talents next year while traveling through Mexico, the new center of art, Miss Brodbeck speaks of the Ox-Bow school as presenting an ideal existence for artists where the students live in an atmosphere of art. Young art enthusiasts of Ox-Bow have organized into an active company. The Ox-Bow Group, displaying their works and stimulating interest and incentive. The Highland Park Woman's club has presented one exhibition, including two of Miss Brodbeck's water colors. The next showing, of entirely new works, will be held at New Trier in March. Vol. XVII -**Wh MUNDELEIN COLLEGE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 2, 1946 No. 5 Skyscraper Ball Highlights Holidays Stevens Grand Ballroom Will Be Setting for Formal With the swish of long skirts and the crisp smartness of black ties, Mundelein students and their escorts will see the old year in its final stages at the Skyscraper Ball, on Dec. 30. Apex of the year's social activi ties, the Ball, sponsored by the Stu dent Activities Council, will be held this year in the Grand Ballroom of the Stevens Hotel, in order to ac commodate the large number of stu dents who wish to attend. Sodality Announces Reception Date for New Members Stella Maris Chapel will be the scene for the reception of new members into the College Sodality on Thursday, Dec 5, at 1 p.m. The ceremony will be conducted by the Reverend William P. Murphy, chairman of the Religion department, assisted by Muriel Millar, prefect of Mundelein's Sodality. The members of the Sodality will join in singing the hymns for Bene diction. Following the reception, tea will be served in the tea room, in honor of the Sodality officers and new members. Sing in Christmas Cantata . . Eunice Dankowski, Gloria Maloney, and Edelle Boarini are soloists for the annual Christmas program, Under the Stars, which the Fine Arts depart ments will sponsor on Dec. is, at 8 p.m., in the College Theatre. Senior Is Chairman Of NFCCS Meeting At Notre Dame Ethel Dignan, senior economics major and chairman of the regional commis sion on Inter-American action for the National Federation of Catholic College students, is general chairman of a bi- regional congress which the commission will have at the University of Notre Dame, on Dec. 7, 8. Sister Mary Liguori, B.V.M., chair man of the Sociology department and faculty moderator of the International Relations club, and 24 members of the club will attend the congress, as guests of the Inter-American commission and the La Raza club of Notre Dame. Florence Moore will be chairman of a discussion of Woman's Place in the Professional Life of the Americas; Roscann Kennedy and Marilyn Mc Grath will be discussion leaders, and Isabel Brown will be secretary. Theme of the congress, held in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, is Woman's Place in Inter-American Affairs. Sen- orita Maruja Cabrere Cardus will talk at the first general session, on Saturday afternoon. The Sunday schedule opens with Mass and breakfast, at which the Reverend Gervis J. Coxen, M.M., will speak on (Continued on page 4, column 5) Anthology Prints Student Poetry Contributions from one Mundelein stu dent and four alumnae will appear in a national Anthology of College Poetry, to be published early next year. Described as a compilation of the best student verse in the country, the anthology will include Guarantee by Ruth Casey, junior and editor of QUEST, Volume 12. Alumnae contributions include Spring's Name is Valor, by Geraldine Thorpe '46; Lines on a Sailing, by Mary Ann Anderson '46; Feast of the Purification, by Mary Louise Hector '44, now a mem ber of the Faculty, and Song not Heard, by Irene Kenney Cummings '46. Ageless Christmas Story Will Unfold in Under The Stars Tableaux Orchestra, Glee Club, Drama Departments Unite The climactic final Hallelujah of Handel's chorus will once more bring the curtains together on the tableaux depicting scenes from the Story of the Incarnation, at the traditional Cantata to be held Sunday, Dec. IS. This Christmas program, Under the Stars, is a result of the concerted ef forts of the Glee club, the Orchestra, and the Drama and Art departments. The Orchestra, under the direction of Joseph J. Grill, will open the program with a Christmas Fantasy, by Erno Rapee. Another collection of favorites, Christ mas-Tide, by Rosario Bourdon, will be sung by the Glee club, conducted by Adalbert Huguelet, and assisted by the Orchestra. Songs Tell Story The first half of the program also in cludes three choruses and a trio. The Glee club will sing In David's Town, by Nordine Moore, Luella Scholl will be soloist; Ding-dong Merrily on High, a French carol; and the Shepherds' Story, by Clarence Dickensen, Rosemary Brul will be soloist. Grace Komornicki, Eunice Dankowski, and Mary Kaye Tentinger will sing How Far Is It to Bethlehem, by Gregory Shaw. The Orchestra will play Jesu Bambino, by Yon, and the Prayer, from Humper- dinck's opera, Hansel and Gretel. Marjorie Kroske, senior Drama ma jor, as the Virgin, and Ursula Brodbeck, senior Art major, as the angel, will be in the first tableau, The Annunciation. Sing and Rejoice, by George B. Nevin, will be sung by the Glee club. The Birth of Christ, a short Christmas Cantata by Willy Richter, is to be per formed in three-part chorus with so prano and contralto solos. Soloists are Miss Tentinger, Miss Dankowski, Lor raine Stajdohar, Edelle Boarini, and Mary Jane Rowantree. A string orchestra will accompany. The Carol of the Seraphs, by Charles O. Brooks, for chorus with soloists, Miss Komornicki and Rosemary Briel, will be sung during the Nativity tableau, pre sented by freshmen drama students. The angels will be Patricia Reynolds, and Alice Marie Niesen; shepherds will be Mildrid de Vic, Florence St. Ville, Dolores Schreimer, and Rosemary Thompson. The Madonna in the Nativity scene is to be Marianne Peterson. Patricia Broderick will portray St. Joseph. Jane Bush, senior Art major, and Joyce Ar cher, senior Drama major, are the angels. (Continued on page 4, column 1) Faculty Member Serves on Standard Setting Committee Sister Mary Pierre. B.V.M., chairman of the Home Economics department, was one of 20 faculty members from land grant colleges, universities, state colleges, and privately endowed institutions, who met in Chicago last week. The group, a committee on standards for membership in the American Home Economics association, met under the leadership of Miss Gladys Branegan, chairman of the Home Economics department at Ohio State university. Sister Mary Pierre is first president of the recently organized American Catholic Home Economics association.
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