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VOLUME V SAINT PAUL, MINN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1939 NUMBER 13

rm ••iii • ... . -.,••• Mr. Birder Sings on National Hookup; Warning! Juniors Appoint Easter vacation begins today, J-S Chairmen 'Seven Last Words' Assembly Praised April 5, and classes will be resumed Tuesday, April 11. Hasty Choral Director Sings • By Miriam May vacation-goers are urged to re- For Spring Ball In accordance with an annual Part of Evangelist in member that absentees are sub- Director Lenten custom, the combined St. ject to the usual $5 fine for Mary Palcich and 'Passion' by Bach Catherine-St. Thomas choral club every first class hour missed under the direction of Cecil April 11 and 12. Betty Perkins Head Mr. Cecil Birder, director of the Birder, presented The Seven Last May Social Event Choral club at the college, will Words of Christ by Theodore Du . sing the part of the evangelist in Bois, Monday during assembly. Mary Palcich and Betty Perkins St. John's Passion by J. S. Bach, Freshmen Elect have been appointed co-chairmen which will be presented by the Solos were sung by Jane Smith of the Junior Senior ball, which University Bach society on a and Anna jean Merill of St. will take place May 12, in the National Broadcasting Company Catherine's, Bernard Fitzpatrick Spring Quarter Health Center. Every junior has hook-up, locally over radio station and Joseph Mulheran, St. Thomas been placed on a committee for KSTP, on Good Friday, April 7, students. Accompanying the Class Officers this event, and these committee from 10:30 to 11 p.m. Mr. Birder singers were Rita Kelly, piano, members will be announced after will sing a tenor narrator part. and Bernard Schuler, organ, with Ann Sweetser has been elected Easter. the English interpretation of the president, Mary Jane Mason, vice- The committee heads include: Seldom Heard Latin text read by John Snyder. president; Marion Wagner, secre- refreshments, Charlene Blassing- The Passion is known as a dif- First Given in France tary; and Kathleen Newman, treas- ham and Helen Louise McNicoll; ficult and seldom heard work. In The Seven Last Words of Christ, decorations, Irene Huch and urer of the Freshman class for the its entirety it would take about first performed in France on Good Joanne Kingrey; orchestra, Betty three hours to perform and only Friday of 1867, begins with a spring quarter in elections held Puhr and Irene Peterson; pro- certain selections will be chosen plaintive, almost desolate strain Wednesday, March 29. grams, Marian Micka and Mary for the program. in the opening soprano solo sung Other candidates for the offices Shannon; publicity, Geraldine by Jane Smith, continuing at an Baldwin and Nadine Winterer; Bach a Moralist were president, Winifred Scanlan; even pitch, expressive yet not reception, Lorraine O'Brien and Bach was essentially a moralist. stormy until the baritone and vice president, Maureen Keane; Anne Quigley; reservations, Helen Courlesy Aquin He tells the story of the Passion tenor soles of Bernard Fitzpatrick secretary, Virginia McConville Dignan and Eleanor Hoch; busi- not as the most tragic and moving Mr. Cecil Birder, Choral club and Joseph Mulheran, when the director, will sing over KSTP on and treasurer, June Horner. ness and arrangements. Maria episode in the world's history, but music reaches the fever pitch of Schultz and Elaine Niquette; Good Friday. Ann Sweetser, newly electee as the means of grace to lost mob frenzy, as the Jews crucify follow-up, Eileen Eichinger and sinners. Bach considered the their Redeemer. No delicate nu Freshman president, is a graduate Jeanne Ahern. The annual dance rending of the veil of the temple ance now, but forceful, swelling of Holy Angels academy and a will be-held on a Friday evening so important a feature in the Sister M. Stella crescendo. resident of Minneapolis. She is a and supper will be served after history of the Crucifixion that he Restrained, a quieter though member of the Wheel staff. midnight. Committees will begin incorporated it into his setting of deeper mood prevails in the plans after Easter as to the theme Publishes Book Mary Jane Mason, vice presi- St. John's version, even though it second and third words as the of the dance, which is a traditional dent, is from Blue Earth, Minne- does not appear in St. John's scene of anguish between mother affair, *Here Only a Dove' sota. She is a boarder, living on Gospel. and son is portrayed, with Anna- third floor Whitby. The secretary, Class officers from both junior Printed by St. jean Merrill singing the soprano Marion Wagner, is also a Whitby and senior classes will be leaders role accompanied by baritone and Anthony Guild Press resident and is from Bismarck, in the grand march. Senior offi- Scientists Make tenor. cers are: Virginia Schlichting, Sister Maris Stella, instructor in North Dakota, Kathleen Newman, At the fifth word the music treasurer, comes from Clear Lake, president; Katherine Swenson, the English department at the vice-president; Charlotte Orr, Plans For Year rises, loud with the mocking cries Iowa, and lives on fourth floor College of St. Catherine, will pub- of the crowd, softening brieflly at Cecelian. secretary; and Katherine Colburn, treasurer. Officers of the junior Mary Margaret Ford lish a book of sonnets entitled the resignation of Christ to the Here Only A Dove, sometime will of His Father. Ascending to These officers will succeed Kath- class are: Dorothy Gormican, a grand climax at the seventh erine Westerfeld, president; Betty president; Irene Huch, vice- Awarded Fellowship around Easter. The book has gone word, in a strain weird, super- Carroll, vice president; Margery president; Lucille Dickof, secre- to press, and it is being printed At Brown University natural, and strangely disquieting, Albright, secretary; and Margaret tary; and Mary Palcich, treasurer. by the St. Anthony Guild press. "It will be grand to be in the the music changes to a quiet Kennelly, treasurer. East and to make contacts there," The volume receives its title prayer of devotion and adoration said Mary Margaret Ford, senior from one of the sonnets in the concluding the selection. W.A.A. Plans chemistry major and president of book, which is a favorite of the 9 Mendel Forum, who was recently author. The book will contain a Players Club Spring Formal notified that she had been awarded collection of forty-two sonnets Junior Enters a teaching fellowship at Brown which have been written over a period of years, and which are re- university, Providence, R. I, Presents Comedy For April 28 printed from the Commonweal, Essay Contest Several seniors have been noti- America; Poetry: a Magazine of The Players club of the College Anne Ryan, President, fied of their acceptance as appren- Verse, Spirit, and many other well Representing St. Catherine's, of St. Thomas in connection with tice technicians. Katherine Swen- known publications. Mary Palcich, junior, has entered the Players club of the College of Makes Arrangements son will begin her interneship at the fourth annual essay contest of St. Catherine, will present a three- Sister Maris Stella, who has For Annual Dance Minneapolis General hospital, Au- New York City alumnae groups act comedy entitled, Thru the Key written poetry "ever since rny gust 1. Jeanette Hirschboeck will of the 25 national women's frat- Hole, by William Davidson, on A spring theme will be carried high school teacher assigned a start work at Miller hospital, St. ernities. This contest is devoted May 19 in the Auditorium of the out by the Women's Athletic asso- poem for a class exercise," is a Paul, July 1. Genevieve Ozark to a consideration of America's so- College of St. Thomas, under the ciation at its annual formal to be graduate of Derham Hall, the will choose between St. Joseph's called "four freedoms," in 846 col- guidance and direction of Mr. held April 28. Anne Ryan, W.A.A. College of St. Catherine, Oxford hospital, Kansas City, Mo., and the leges and universities of the coun- Leonard H. Hauer, professor of president, is in charge of arrange- university, England, and has spent Detroit Receiving hospital, Detroit, try, according to information re- Latin and Greek at St. Thomas. ments, but as yet only tentative considerable time in European plans have been made. Mich. Her appointment is effective ceived from Miss Sophie P. Wood- The cast of the play, which is travel. September 1. man, chairman of the Fraternity made up of students from the two The following committees have Mary Alberi, treasurer of the Included in the volume is a Women's Committee for the New colleges, includes: Grandpa, Art been appointed: publicity, Frances College Association, will leave in group of poems about "the child- York World's Fair. Lodge; Jim, Dick Gavin; Joan, Utecht, chairman, Phyllis OToole, ren," a sonnet sequence composed Joan Manderfeld, Geraldine Bald- July to fill her interneship in The Fraternity Women's Com- Margaret Mary Carroll; William, of fourteen sonnets, and a sonnet Bernard Guider; Mary, Loretta win ; orchestra, Ramona Dever- dietetics at Iowa State college, mittee has chosen the theme of the entitled "O Never, Never Again." Kelly; Archie, Fred Browning; eaux, chairman, Nancy Humphrey, Ames, Iowa. Mary's applications four freedoms" — freedom of enevieve, Barbara Rosacker; and Virginia Bohmer, Mary Anne also were accepted by the Uni- speech, press, worship, and of eorge, James Powers. Stubbs; reservation, Mary Margar- versity of Chicago and the Uni- peaceable assembly—in the belief The play, which was presented et Ford, chairman, Margaret Bish- versity of Minnesota. that in these days of world unrest, Alice Marie Gerold at the University of Minnesota, op, Phyllis Hale, Mary Louise Other seniors in the home it is of interest to American stu- eceived many complimentary O'Connor. economics department who have Wins Jelly Bean Jar dents to review again some of the press notices. Merle Potter, in the Refreshments, Jean James, chair- received appointments are Mary basic principles of the Federal Alice Marie Gerold is the win- Minneapolis Journal, said, "Mr. man, Grace Guarnera, Peggy Herr- Adele Wenzel who will start in- government. terning in February at Michael ner of the jar of jelly beans and Davidson's play is neatly written; .y, Maybelle Homan; program, National leaders who have sup- Reese Hospital in Chicago and chocolate bunny given by the it holds nicely together always Catherine Tussing, chairman, Nel- plied topics for the contest are: Mary Streidl who will begin her Players' club to the one who could and there is a constant flow of lie Sioris, Ruth Parks, Margaret General John J. Pershing; Sumner interneship in September at either guess the numbr of beans in the amusing action." Hoffman; invitations, Marie Irvine, the St. Louis University hospital jar. Welles, Under-Secretary of State; i Settings and costumes for the chairman, Frances Costello, Mar- or at the Swedish hospital in Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New j production are being planned garet Kennelly, Catherine Foley. Out of 376 guesses submitted, York City, Dr. James Rowland Seattle, Wash. and executed by the combined Decoration, Bernadine Barrett, Alice Marie came the closest Angell, former president of Yale Gertrude Speck accepted an ap- by guessing 866 beans. There were Players' clubs, under the direction chairman, Helen Ryan, Donna Mae University i of Miss Mabel Frey. The pro- pointment yesterday, to begin her 869 in the jar. Nadeau, Gertrude Nelson, Mary Any student may enter the con- ceeds from the play are to finance iou Jorgenson; follow-up, Cyn- interneship October 1 at the Uni- The contest was open free of test and more detailed information the new Players' Little Theater ;hia Keyes, chairman, Margaret versity of Cleveland hospital in charge to anyone who cared to may be obtained in the Wheel which will be completed shortly STash, Elaine La Pointe, and Phyl- Cleveland, Ohio. hazard a guess. office. after the Easter recess. lis Lahn. Page Two THE CATHERINE WHEEL Wednesday, April 5, 1939 He Was Crucified Christ, Redeemer, And Died For Us Rises Triumphant Crucifixion! "Greater love hath no man, And on the third day after His death, He that he lay down his life for his friend." rose—"God of God, Light of Light," He rose— It was the supreme sacrifice; the laying Christ the Victor rose, triumphant and glor- down of His life that all men might live ious, to die no more. forever. The whole Lenten season leads to His humiliation ended with His mortal life. this climax, the solemn day when the whole His glory, which shall never end. commenced world commemorates the unbelievable deed with the immortal life which He resumed on whereby the All Powerful Christ died the reached its culmination that which was begun death of a criminal that man might be saved. by the Virgin's: "Fiat mini secundum verbum Surely it is an example by which all men tuum," On that day a pure love redeemed can profit. When we are beset by difficulties mankind, responsible to God's justice for an and our own cross seems a bit too heavy for infinite debt. our finite strength, the thought of Calvary How great was the joy of His mother who and of Jesus Christ dying a death of torture had so long and so eagerly awaited the ful- for love of us, will make our burdens lighter fillment of her Son's mission. How great was and easier to bear. the joy of the holy women who had come Calvary and the scene enacted there is the to the sepulchre bearing ointments and spices. pattern by which all of us should live. On They had found the stone rolled back and that hill, Christ showed us that we must going in they wondered because the tomb be willing to die that our Faith might live. was empty. Then Jesus addressed Magdalene Good Friday is the one day of the year, and said: "Woman why weepest thou? Whom set apart so that men might search their souls seekest thou?" She turned and seeing that and decide whether their lives have shown it was the risen Lord fell on her knees. gratitude for the sacrifice of Calvary, or For those who saw Christ, who knelt at whether through the hardness of their hearts "By Thy Holy Cross Thou Hast "Christ is risen from the dead, His feet that Easter morning, the Divine they have rejected the Saviour Who laid Redeemed The World." Alleluia!" Presence was very near, very real. They down His life for them. could see Jesus standing before them, they Down through the ages, the sacrifice of could hear Him saying: "Peace be to you; Calvary has been the perfect model for it is I, fear not." They could touch the Christian life. Love of God, love of neighbor, Wheel Scoops Faculty on Keep Off Drive wounds made by the nails and the hole in and the willingness to sacrifice oneself that His side from the spear. others may live were the virtues exemplified There once was a lady of whom it was said, "She treads so lightly the by the Crucifixion. They are the virtues that grass bends not." Many apostles believed in the resurrected any Christian worthy of the name should But that lady, nor her prototypes, is not at C.S.C. Witness the poor, mangled Christ only after they had seen and felt Him practice. blades of grass screaming for mercy, and the tulip shoots that push through with their own eyes and hands. We have the ground only to be stepped on for their pains. been given the gift of pure Faith, without Through the world, on this day, there is the testimony of our senses. sadness. All the ordinary pursuits of life slip Somebody must do this wholesale stampeding across the lawn. It might be into near obscurity as all men ponder the fairies; no one has ever seen them not doing it. The faculty doesn't believe in Though we cannot hear Christ, cannot see awful mystery of the Crucifixion. fairies, however, because every spring we are requested (all right, warned) Him, let us not be estranged from Christ Yet even as sorrow and meditation fills all to keep off the grass. through ignorance and perversity. Rather let hearts, there can be seen beyond the gloom Now just to show how wide awake the Wheel is, let it be known that it us dispel ignorance by knowledge, perversity of the Sacrifice, the bright promise of the anticipates all faculty announcements and says "Give the Grass a Chance." by earnestness. And on Easter morning may Resurrection on Easter. What with the ground so soft and all, you only get your sabots wet, tripping we share as fully as possible in the graces It is the same with our lives; beyond the among the tulips, and come May lounging time the grass will be worn away. of the Redemption and in the promise of trials patiently borne, lies the shining cer- So pu-lease don't smash down every blade of grass brave enough to show our Savior. "And I, if I be lifted up, will tainty of salvation. its face. draw all things to myself."

Recent Rumblings Alarm Wall Street In America, the stock market is jit- Dear Spoke, only one. It was one night go- historic woman; you don't se« cJ; this little epistle is to bring tery in the face of new crises in Europe. In the midst of all the onions ing home on a street car. I me walking up and down the this little tid-bit of inside The recent rumblings have quite terri- passed out in Spokesman let- wasn't listening; I couldn't help street leadlnS a dlnosaur knowledge into light for those fied Wall street and have caused an ters lately, may I offer a few overhearing They said-her f°Und °n a Ift ™ *m Wh° se'm , Questioned alarming sale of stocks and drop in prices. Yet, in other lands, the govern- ,., ? uveiiiecuuiB. j.ncy ^w IKL doing away with the primitive our sudden fervor. Alas, it is 01 S hair 1S awful) and those shoes ments are struggling frantically to con- Th h'd t th n ' patter this year. I'm going to not for knowledge that some of trol the outflow of gold to America. responsible1 for° the assembly and that man she goes to for" try to be a lady' You watch my 0Ur brave seniors flock down At present the United States treasury programs Assemblies can be mals with ~" wel1' honestly- dust—er'er—my dash, I mean. and desert their alma mater, holds three fourths of all the world's pretty sleepy, but the last three Then they said about someone Rev. Ery and I pray them not to be gold. This is a powerful weapon to be have been excellent else—I don't think she's a fair • hypocrites about it all. handled carefully in the event of war. Everyone enjoyed' the really marker' she?s got pets (grads Dear Spokesman: A Book-Learner On the face of it, the imminent war exceptional harp and violin sch°o1 Btutf>; she's dr^ l al" Why the sudden fame of the would not be necessary if it were not concert and Mr. Blegen's bal- most g0 to sleep" Wel1' there l HiU Reference Lib- Three Dear Spokesman: for the last war. Germany is striding lads were fun The choral was getting some of my own classes in a row brought out We all do a lot of "griping" over Europe getting back what it lost club's presentation of the ^ne ri&ht back at me, and I can the advantages of our own in spite of the Sodality sugges- by the Versailles treaty. Must we fight Seven Last Words was stirrine- te^ you * sa^ up as s^ as ^tle book nook. True, so true. tion that we give it up for Lent. another world war to make way for lv beautiful '' ~ " Monday's wash in sub-zero But there are times when we But we don't want to complain yet another in twenty more years? Please let's have more as- weather. I've decided to re- must inhabit the downtown this time. We day students Edwin C. Hill, in talking of the sernblies' like these ' form. I wish mv colleagues branch of knowledge, how- would like to give an orchid trouble over French protectorate, Tun- Marv Hoffmann would. That's not charity; it's evah—there are those who fail to Sister Flavia for the fine isia, had a word for it. "Why must we not even a good, interesting to note the real reasons for Lenten dishes she cooked up help one thief to despoil another thief " indoor sport. It's primitive, such little sarafi. And I should for us during the past few of what is not rightfully his in the first Spoke: tearing an associate into little like to bring out the great so- weeks. They've been wonder- place?" Ouch. I was scratched. I was bits and not even bothering to cial contacts that can be made ful! * * * back-bitten. And I wasn't the pick her up again. I'm no pre- at the Hill Ref. The purpose Day Stude The Catholic Action group, spreading throughout the world is beginning to show the well-grounded basis upon ne. WUeel Easter Bunny Lays Colored Eggs which its principles are based. No other EdiLor-in-chief Winifred Haul ^^. B I"" I T" B * a * {* {* I I attempts have been made to cure the ^£^&r-::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::i£?%e£gX Only Fake Tradition, SaVS illSleuts of society hby working to correct the Advertising Manager Nadine Winterer * ' # morals of the individuals in that so- Circulation Manager , Jeano Letlln citey. It seems to be a case of a right Art Editor Mary Loa Jorgeneon Since the Easter season is drawing Another version is that Christians Review? ,.".'.'."''.','.',',','.'.'.','.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. .Mary 'Hoffmann^Miriam *May nigh, it is time to dig into the past of used to exchange the 'pace' or cause gaining many followers. There Exchanges , .Mary Helen Thomt«n the Easter egg and the Easter bunny. 'pasche ege' on Easter morning in is still hope. Sporta Ann Ryan, Catherine Ueenman & * * * Reporters: Mary Shannon, Elizabeth Ann Quigiey, Irene Hnoii, These two symbols of Easter have memory of the Paschal feast of the been A young gentleman in Kansas City *2&^^*«gZ\£?^"&S£2%£^. connected by tradition for cen- Jews. Webster's dictionary has it was stopped as he sped down a main Marjorie Conway, Bonnie j©an Kelly, Ann Sweeteer, Ruth turies. They tell one tale of how they that the egg is a pagan symbol of J J thoroughfare at sixty-five m.p.h. In Weber, Phyllis O'Toote. Winifred Scanlan, Gertrude Nelson, , , , . n . Patricia McHaie, Ardith Eodeison, started in Bavaria, long, long ago. resurrection which Christians bor- court he explained that he was hungry Faculty Adviser Sister Antoninc T+ cpprnQ n Rnviriin npiQint wnman rmwH and when he was hungry he just had orrice of The Catherine wheel; whitby Hail, Room 6. ll seems a âvaiian peasant woman iowea. to have a hot dog. Anything goes, it Published by The college of st. Catherine, st. Paul, Minn.. was too poor to give her children Egg rolling was started in merrie alternate Fridays during the school year. Subscription price: i i • J? T-I ± -I -I -n I -. I ,, , seems. $1.00 per year. Advertising rates on application. "" cakes and wine for Easter, as was olde Englande where the men and Member 1937 ê cusôm» so sne dyed some hard- boys used to roll them, toss them, * * # boiled eggs and hid them in a nest play ball with them, and finally eat Tarzan in real life is not so romantic ALL-CATHOLIC of moss in a nearby woods. When the them. as the Tarzan of funny paper fame. $wS^Sj^ children found the eggs, they clapped Another Easter custom which has Tarzans in real life come out of the HONOR RATING |P^ C|p their hands with joy and asked who died out (thank heaven) is that of mountain and rob and plunder ancj pil- Hii wll kac* la*d the eggs. Just then, a rabbit "lifting." Two or more men would lage. In Wyoming, one was captured j ' jfSgJ TOST hopped out of the bushes. Of course, lift any woman they chose and carry after killing three bank officials and 1937 HSillfJSB! ':*"'e children jumped to conclusions her fifty paces or so clown the street. two possemen. In Nevada, another Tar- 1938 and told everyone in the village that The next day the women had their zan was trapped in his mountain home. All American Honor Rating, 1936-37 a rabbit had laid colored Easter eggs. turn. We'll stick to egg-lifting, Helen Ryan. AH American Honor Rating, 1937-38 That's one story! thank you! Wednesday, April 5, 1939 THE CATHERINE WHEEL Page Three Science Class Art Instructor Patty Vande Castle Devotes Self College Students Visits Museum, Judges Contest To History, I.R.C., and Teaching Attend Congress Sees Displays Sister Philomene, art instructor (This is the second in a series Of Confraternity at the College of St. Catherine, In Sympathy of interviews with prominent will act as judge of a poster con- seniors.) First Provincial Cate- Light Rays "Fluoresce" test which is being sponsored by The Catherine Wheel extends its sympathy to Charlene Blass- Patricia Vande Castle, or, as For Members of Gen- the International Institute, Inc., of chetical Congress Held ingham on the death of her fa- she is better known, "Patty," is St. Paul. The contest is being held At St. Paul Hotel eral Chemistry Class ther, March 30. our petite blond senior from West in connection with the 1939 Folk de Pere. Wisconsin. Although she By Anne Hanson The First Provincial Catecheti- Festival, April 21, 22, and 23 in the says that in high school she was When the bus failed to arrive, cal congress of the Confraternity Auditorium Arena. interested mostly in athletics, she it looked as if we of the General Home Ec Students of Christian Doctrine in the Prov- since has given her whole love to Chemistry class would not reach The poster contest will be for St. ince of St. Paul will be held Tues- Participate in State history and all its clubs and corol- the Museum of Science to see the Paul school children of the sev- day, Wednesday, and Thursday, laries. light exhibit. But the bus did enth, eighth, ninth, and high school Annual Observation April 11, 12, and 13, under the pa- grades. Over 1,000 people will take Patty is president of the Inter- tronage of His Excellency, the come, and after going the wrong The Home Economics club has part in the festival itself. Typical national Relations club, and re- Most Reverend John G. Murray, way for a while, we finally been invited to participate in the reached the destination of our houses and shops of thirty dif- cently represented the St. Cather- S.T.D. Sessions of the congress will annual State Home Economics day field trip. ferent peoples and countries will ine's organization at the regional be held at the Saint Paul Hotel. to be observed Saturday, April The exhibit ranged from pre- be a feature of the festival. Mrs. meeting in Omaha. The respon- 15, on the University of Minnesota Mother Margaret Bolton historic oil lamps to the last work Harold Bohen of St. Paul has ex- sibilities of this office keep her campus. in electric lighting. There were pressed the wish that every student pretty busy, but in the time that Students from the College of St. The program for the day will in- old oil lamps which were hardly of St. Catherine's will see the exhi- she has left, she is active in the Catherine who are doing confrat- clude a style show, lectures, vari- more than saucers, early coal oil bit. League of Women Voters, the ernity work will take part in the ous contests, luncheon, and a tea lamps, the type of buio that Edi- W.A.A. and the Mendel'Forum. congress. Mother Margaret Bolton, Sister Philomene has arranged in the afternoon. A dance will be whose methods are used by girls son invented, and finally our for an art exhibit of hand blocked Considering the five Vande held from 9 p.m. until 12 p.m. doing confraternity teaching, will modern electric light. A large textiles made by students of Miller Castle brothers, one of whom is Dorothy Jameson of the Univer- come from St. Regis Cenacle, New bulb of 50,000 watts, such as is Vocational High School in Minne- a priest, Patty seems surprisingly sity is in charge of reservations York, for the convention. Also used in searchlights, and a tiny apolis. A feature of the exhibit unspoiled. Perhaps that is because and Virginia Anderson is president taking part in the program will be bulb of less than one-half watt, will be a large hanging of Indian she has such a fund of good of the Home Economics club at the Miss Margaret Hannigan of St. as small as a grain of wheat, were symbols combined with designs of common sense and a thoroughness University of Minnesota. Cloud, a graduate of St. Cather- on display. Indians. and seriousness of purpose that Dorothy Bartelme is in charge ine's. Electrical Phenomena gets things accomplished. The greater part of the exhibit of the program which the College Following the historical dis- New Confraternity Teachers plays were many interesting elec- will consist of textiles blocked by Home Economics club will spon- When questioned about her lit- The new confraternity teachers trical phenomena. A battery of hand with designs depicting nurse- sor, and Mary Rita Hovland is erary penchants, Patty disavowed lights stood on a stage, alternately ry rhymes. Among these are "Little working on a linoleum cut of the any creative propensities, but then for the spring quarter are: Doro- forming multi-colored patterns of Black Sambo/' "Humpty Dumpty," club emblem which will be sub- she remembered that prize-win- thy Gormican, Margaret Nash, light. This was rather mystifying and "The Little Red Hen." mitted at the State meeting. ning essay of her senior year in Nancy Boettner, Jean James, Hel- because from the foot of the stage high school entitled "They Call It en Houghtaling, Dorothea Hurley, 11 one could only see green bulbs. Love, which she has never been and Betty Mahood. Nancy Hum- Upon closer inspection, however, able to live down. phrey, Geraldine Baldwin, and Dorothy Gauthier are also doing there proved to be three different liliiiiiil Her major is, of course, history, Confraternity work. colored lights in each little part and she has minored in sociology of the whole series, and these and English. All during the year gave the different patterns. League President Qualifications for clothes as far Patty has been teaching history as Elaine is concerned are sporti- Mary R. Whitaker Then there was a lamp which Elizabeth Anne Quigley, illus- classes. Now doing practice teach- ness, simplicity, and smartness. gave off heavy ultra-violet rays trious president of the College ing at Monroe Junior High School, Her advice to future women vot- Speaks At Meeting which were invisible to the eye. League of Women Voters comes she is nearing that goal of 75 hours ers — "Voting helps women keep Certain dyes and oils convert from Wabasha, Minnesota. Tail- practice teaching, a Wisconsin re- Mary Rose Whitaker, class of in contact with what is going on these dark rays into visible color ored clothes suit her—in fact, they quirement. "That's the only mis- 1937, was guest speaker at a meet- in civic affairs" so quote vote un- rays, which is called "fluores- are the only kind she will be seen fortune of being a 'Badger'," Patty ing of the French club on Thurs- quote. cence," and the dies that reflect in. Swimming is one of her defi- says. day, March 30. She spoke on her the rays are said to "fluoresce." nite likes and she doesn't care Treasurer Debates experiences in France during the Synthetic Glass Rod After teaching for a while, how her hair looks afterward— Patty hopes to do graduate work years 1937-1938, which she spent Betty Puhr is in charge of the A synthetic glass rod made from much. She has come to the bril- in international relations at the studying at Toulouse. Miss Whit- League's funds if it so happens a substance called "lucite" has the liant conclusion that no bathing Badger university in Madison. aker contrasted French schools property of being able to make cap on the face of the earth will that there are any of. Sheboygan, with those in America, and de- light turn corners. It looked rather keep even a strand of hair dry for Wisconsin, is home to her, but scribed scenery and customs in odd to see a beam of light go into one minute. This she discovered even so her friends say she is Toulouse and the south of France. the end of a bent piece of lucite after years of experimentation exotic. She is majoring in eco- Patricia McHale, She accompanied her talk with and then turn the corneri a|id and research. nomics and history—debating is a movies taken during her trip, shoot out the other end. sideline. She is for the totalitarian Sodality Members showing the Basque country, Biar- Hobby is People state—at least, it starts a good ar- Practical use of the photo-elec- ritz, sights seen on a motor trip gument. About her spare time—- Take Part in Meet tric control was shown 'by an Anne's other hobby is people in through France. electric machine which turned on her roommate is her hobby and any guise or disguise. Her favorite Patricia McHale, prefect of the electricity when daylight faded, everything else in general in- Preceding Miss Whitaker's talk, spots are depots, department College sodality, headed a group of and turned it off again as natural trigues her. a supper for members of the stores, and street-cars. People students who attended a meeting light became brighter. Our parents French Club was held in the com- fascinate her and she is going to of the St. Paul Archdiocesan thought that the peak of conven- Dresses Smartly mon rooms of Mendel Hall. do something about it someday— Union of the Sodality, March 27, ience was being able to press a teach or something. Tall, sophisticated, she wears Irene Peterson and Lucille Dick- at the College of St. Thomas. button to turn something on, but smart simple clothes, the kind she of were in charge of arrangements By way of conclusion—Anne's Jeanette Hirschboeck, Dorothy now we don't even have to press likes best. Chic and double chic for the supper. sister is the famous Abigail Quig- Gauthier, and Maria Schultz ac- the button. for Betty. We hear that she is es- Bonnie Jean Kelly, freshman, ley. It must run in the family. companied Patricia to the confer- Neon Signs pecially adept at term papers, presented two vocal selections: ence. Dorothy and Maria particip- The use of neon and other sim- Vice-president which is an art we envy, but then, "Marie," by Robert Franz, and ated in a play which centered at- ilar types of signs for advertising brilliance just pops out of Betty. "The Cuckoo Clock," by Groat- Elaine Niquette, vice president tention about the forthcoming was displayed. Incidentally, "neon" When we saw her she had just SchaefTer. She was accompanied of the League can usually be seen Sodality retreat. The dates for the signs are not always neon—they bene sleeping. Can you imagine by Maxine Binet. running about in the Office Ap- retreat have been set for May 3, sometimes are made from other the luxury of it in the middle of pliances class room with big rub- 4, and 5. rare gases which you probably the afternoon? But maybe that is ber gloves and ink spots between never heard of. the secret of Betty's success. the duplicator and the mimeo- After discussing retreat plans, Nature Groups Plan Before leaving we stood in the graph machines. Otherwise she N. Winterer, I. Huch. the sodalists took part in a forum yellow light of the sodium lamps Spring Field Trips has an irrepressible yearning to on vocations. on display. The light from these go for long walks in the woods. Sister St. Mark and her nature lamps show up nothing but black, Election of officers followed the "To study nature?" we queried Combined Orchestras study classes will jaunt river-ward and every other different-colored discussion. efficiently. But no, she goes just sometime after Easter in search of object, including us, looked a to look. She likes out-of-doors, the Play at Lowry Hotel the various flora and fauna of this sickly greenish-gray. more of it the better and maybe section of the state. Sister, no that is why she likes to drive too For Red Cross Fete College League Conducts doubt, will keep a sharp lookout —"it's a date, and drive that darl- Piano and Songs Feature Members of St. Catherine's or- Contest Meeting April 13 for those transgressors who cut 9 ing Packard." Elaine comes from This Afternoon s Musicale chestra played with members of across lawns and trample the new Two Rivers, Wisconsin, on Lake The League of Women Voters St. Joseph's orchestra Thursday, grass. Sister St. Mark believes The regular Twilight Musicale Michigan. Doesn't that sound March 30, in the Grand Ballroom at the College will hold its annual that "a single person taking a will be held this afternoon at 4:30. liquid? Coolest spot in Wisconsin, of the Hotel Lowry at the Red contest meeting April 13. Mrs. short cut at this time of year does Piano selections will be played by brags Elaine. more harm than a troop of people Cross meeting for all of the Nurses1 Mary K. Swain, head of the Min- Margaret Spaeth, Grace Virginia in mid-summer." Homes in St. Paul. The orchestra Fooshe, Geraldine Rowe, Mary Mathematics Major nesota College league, will judge was under the direction of Ellen The' nature study groups have Bohland, Catharine McNally, Ce- She is majoring in mathematics the value of the meeting. Margaret McGuire. been classifying birds and already cilia Zaug, Florence Bogaczyk, and business. Her plans—to start the students have observed the Nelly and Alice Callanan, Marcia off managing a business concern. St. Catherine students partici^ Mrs. Swain visits each college following birds on the campus: Anderson, Dorothy Gauthier, Dor- Amazed at this lack of ambition pating in the orchestra program once a year and decides which di- red-headed woodpecker, hairy othy Waldrnan, Rosemary Tanous, we asked about her hobbies. Her were Helen Dignan, clarinet; Rose- vision of the League does the most woodpecker, red-winged blackbird, Margaret Salmon. best pet is her little brother called mary Tanous, trombone; Nancy important and helpful work. A bluebirds, bluejay, killdeer, pur- Singers for the Musicale are Colonel and her books must be Boettner, cello; Catherine Parker, small prize is awarded to the win- ple martin, white-throated spar- Margaret Joyce and Geraldine served up with cleverness, wit, cello; Virginia Dolmage, flute; and row, and bronzed grackle. Benson, and mystery. Mary Louise Sagger, violin. ning college. Page Fouf THE CATHERINE WHEEL Wednesday, April 5, 1939 Many Hands Make Light Work, Appointee Hasten Opening of New Theater Costume Trunks Antiqued, Chemistry Instructor Chair Designs Stenciled, Gives Paper April 15 "Da Eastah time Theater Piano Painted Is da time fo' eggs, At Annual Meeting Comes Eastertime And da time fo' eggs Those important little finishing with pink-eyed bunnies, lilies, but- Is da Eastah time." touches are being put on the Play- "Training Youthful Leaders for ter-cream eggs and wishes like: ers' Little Theater. The electrical Margie Bishop the Lay Apostolate" is the title of Mary Jane Swenson's for a bun- wiring has been completed and the ny bigger than the teddy bear in patters about the campus chant- competent new electrical switch- the paper Sister Antonius of the ing these prophetic words. For this College chemistry department will Marshall Field's with a fluffy tail board will be installed during the too— year the Easter bunny is doing Easter vacation. read at the annual convention of double duty in lending the pastel Many hands are busy antiquing the Sisters of St. Joseph at Mount Betty Mahood's for fresh violets colors of his eggs to the Easter with dew drops on them— the costume trunks, stenciling de- St. Mary College, Los Angeles, parade. signs on the backs of the chairs . .Helen Steppe's for Frank Parker April 15 and 16. Sister Antonius to sing Your Easter Bonnet— Overview in the make-up room, touching up expects to leave lor Los Angeles of this spring's clothes seems to the light room and the workroom, Mary O'Toole's for a really and painting the piano to match the April 2 and will return about April Eastery day—all yellow and lav- be a profusion of chartreuse, char- 23. treuse, and more lime green, and Theater decorations. ender— reefers are becoming a habit. New Lighting Fixtures Sister Ste. Helene, former dean . . Eleanor Faricy's for roller skates The dramatic department has of St. Catherine's, is now teaching with shiny wheels. Frannie Reiss designed a copper electric lighting at Mount St. Mary's, the sister Kathleen Finerty's for all things refuses to be a fad-follower and fixture. The fixtures are composed college of St. Catherine's. The Cal- —Courtesy of St. Paul Dispatch she couldn't have for six weeks— will Easter in Sheboygan, Wise, of scroll work and designs, and are ifornia school is under the super- Esther Hoffman, a graduate of Emmie Keller's for shocking wearing a soft pink crepe dress being made for the Little Theater vision of the Los Angeles province the College of St. Catherine, re- perfume in a funny dressmaker with a full skirt and short sleeves. by the Mille Vocational school in of the Sisters of St. Joseph, which cently received an appointment to She will add dark blue accessories. Minneapolis, under the direction of bottle with flowers around it—but is celebrating its Golden Jubilee, a position in the Department of especially the perfume— M. V. Lasher. Agriculture at Washington, D. C. Nicki Winterer Miss Alice Mogelein, a 1936 The walls of the body of the graduate of St. Catherine's, will While Esther was attending St. Marguerite Loftus' for the Eas- says she defied parental author- ter bunny and eggs too— ity when she bought another beige Theater are being decorated with substitute in the chemistry depart- Catherine's, she majored in Busi- The Easter bunny's for baskets outfit. Over a tailored yellow silk designs and murals, suggesting the ment during Sister Antonius' ab- ness, receiving her degree in June, 1938. Since her graduation, until dress, she will wear a beige coat drama. A memorial plaque is to sence. Miss Mogelein will receive with wheels. be hung in the Little Theater to her Master's degree from the Uni- the time of her government ap- * * * with brown stitching around the pointment, she has been employed pockets and what she calls a "Rus- serve as a memo for those who versity of Minnesota this spring. Signs of Spring: made the Little Theater possible. by a St. Paul publishing com- Sister St. Mark putting funny sian" back. Yellow doeskin gloves Players Plan Opening pany. and bag and toast-colored shoes red and yellow cards under wind- complete the outfit. The players are planning a for- shield wipers that say the parking mal opening of their theater to Young Directors Try Delinquency Class lot is better than in front of Men- Black and white take place soon after Eatser. New One-Act Plays del and wondering should she or will emphasize Charlotte Gil- Visits Juvenile Court shouldn't she because was that eece's auburn locks. With her At Several Schools Father Shanahan's car or a stu- black belted reefer, she will wear Dr. Theodore Blegen, Students in Sister Jeanne dent's. The colors don't mean any- a white straw hat gone romantic Under the guidance of Miss Marie's juvenile delinquency thing, just the printing which does. with a black veil. History Professor, Mabel Frey, head of the speech class are making a comparison of the different methods used in the Marge Albright saying now she Reads, Sings Ballads department, the direction class can really wake up; Alice O'Brien One of the pastel-ists are presenting one-act plays, prevention of juvenile delin- is Theresa Castellano, who will At assembly March 29, Dr. The- directed as a requisite of the class. quency. Thursday and Friday saying now she can really go to vacation in Austin with Ruth odore Blegen, professor of Minne- Donna Mae Nadeau, who has mornings, students from the class sleep— Baumgartner. Theresa has chosen sota history at the University of directed the play The Flatterer will visit the Ramsey County Gracie Guarnera thinking those a pink jersey pleated skirt with a Minnesota, assisted by Miss Leona will present it twice at Humboldt, Juvenile Delinquency court where funny little tracks that go the combination aqua, teal, and wine Schuneman, Hamline university and once at Johnson high schools they will attend informal hearings same way and never meet were jacket. student, read and sang ballads and in St. Paul. of juvenile delinquency cases in meant for her shiny new Plymouth Hennepin county. and wondering what the big yellow On the Hiawatha songs, popular in the nineteenth Mary Jo Goyette and Mary Jane century among the settlers and ad- Riley will present their play, A Judge Carleton F. McNally has thing with the gates was in front ^ Wednesday, Wisconsin - bound Study in Black and White, whose of her especially when all of a will be Mary Lou Jorgensen, who venturers in the northwest terri- made it possible for students to tory of the United States. cast is made up of students from visit the Ramsey county court and sudden there was more paint on it has prepared for a busy vacation Derham Hall, on Tuesday, April than on her Plymouth. in a chartreuse silk with a black According to Dr. Blegen, half observe the regular method of the pioneers regarded the old 4, at the Derham Hall assembly. dealing with juvenile delinquents. Much candid camerantics reefer and accessories accented by March Wedding, under the In contrast to these regular hear- white doeskin gloves. northwest as a veritable Eden over everywhere—at all times on the , which the Queen of Sheba would direction of Margaret Dempsey, ings is the new method being field trip to Saint Cloud bus—by Japonica, gladly rule, and the other half was given March 29, in Jeanne tried in Hennepin county which the Dewdrop—in labs—one of Peg a new earthy shade, is the cur- complained bitterly about its hard- d'Arc auditorium, and Helen consists of informal hearings of Ford saying "oh'J for ice cream rent answer to the puzzled coed's ships. The different themes—sor- Steppe presented her play, Gypsy, cases reported. The object of this and laughing too— predicament of "being different." on Friday, March 31 in the au- new method is to try to prevent row at parting from home, enthu- Everybody being Cornellish infl Mary Jane Mason adds it to a siasm for adventure, disgust and ditorium. juveniles from getting police rec- navy dressmaker suit with a white The dramatic department also ords. March Wedding as was predicted disappointment with fruitless lands in assembly—Marge Dempsey did- Peter Pan collar. Dede Barret —which ran through the ballads— has been invited to present one of The class is sitting" in on the contrasts it with a blue herring- the one act plays at the Stillwater n't want people to hear paper were pointed out by Dr. Blegen. Hennepin county hearings through flowers and laugh in the wrong bone skirt, blue broken-plaid jack- High school soon after the Easter the courtesy of Mr. Howard Hush. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, recess. places so there was a big bouquet< et, and a pink cardigan. North Dakota, and Nebraska were Up on 3rd Whitby of lilies that smelled purty, with among the states about which the a white satin ribbon. "Paradise Alley" is practically songs were written. Umbrella Court Held a maelstrom with vacation prep- Joint College Classes The Principles of Physical Educa- In conclusion, Dr. Blegen told of tion Class arations. Marie Heider cocks a his collection of over one hundred In Civilization Class fuschia antelope pillbox with a Inspect State Homes doing Danish gymnastics from. Norwegian ballads concerning the An Umbrella Court, including Whitby to the Health Center— miniature handle on top and puts advantages and disadvantages to on a medium gray reefer with Tentative plans are being made questions on current history, was Sister St. Charles be found in immigrating to Amer- for Mr. S. M. Mamchur's sociology a feature of the History of Civiliza- teaching people how to raise their darker stripes. Ann Fitzke will ica. wear an olive green suit and classes from St. Catherine's and tion class yesterday. Students other eyebrows and look really thunder- brown herringbone sports coat. St. Thomas' colleges to visit the than class members, interested in cloudish and then gradually sunny^ are reason enough for coeds to Minnesota State Prison at Still- the Court session, also attended. Harriet Severson is conservative fare forth on Easter Sunday in by bunging them down. in a brown and beige suit and beige water, and the State Training Dorothy Melicek was chairman rain, sun, earthquakes, and drastic School for Boys at Red Wing some- of the committee for arrange- The Little Theater tweed topcoat. Rosemary Tanous international situations. getting redder and bluer every goes in for gayer things in a pow- time in April. ments. Members of her commit- Plaids and stripes The sociology classes made a tee were: Grace Wilkinson, Ann day and the classes real-er be- der blue skirt-cardigan jacket are the thing! There is a red and cause is the stage right there— * combination. field trip March 28 to the Women's Sweetser, Catherine Roper, Mary blue taffeta ribbon on one coed's Detention home in Shakopee, the Joan Carroll, Mary Lenore Hilger, At St. Mark's white starw—and white diagonal The Nature Study State Hospital for the Insane in Virginia Gamble, Ilarnae Jerue, class finding out that all birds on Easter Sunday, Petie Backer stripes on the black taffeta skirt Donna Melius, Kathleen Newman, will indulge in a navy blue sheer St. Peter, and the Minnesota School aren't canaries and sparrows— of a "Gypsy" formal—and more and Colony in Faribault. Mary Coffey, and Dorothy Turner. with a lime green belt, a beige white ones in a longsleeved teal Dr. Blegen and Miss Schuneman ' coat and fuschia accessories. Bar- shirtwaist—in a peppermint strip- showing us that the pioneers bara Rosacker is harmony itself ed taffeta slip to be worn under a New Books in Library could swing it too, only they said in a light blue wool, matching hat, harmonizing dress—in sports jack- ole-ole-ana instead of toodle-um- and dubonnet reefer. Connie ets—in pastel pleated and flared Gross, Madeleine Beethoven, Master Musician a-lum-a. O'Connor will sport a dusty rose skirts—and, of course, in those Spaeth, S. G Great Symphonies * * * ^ dressmaker suit with royal blue usual monstrosities known as Michel, Virgil, Father Liturgy of the Church accessories. People have "sox." Bernhart, J The Vatican as a World Power hunted looks in their eyes who Eileen Miller like friend Ros- Speaking of sox Brenner, Rica Twelve American Poets before 1900 have just finished Rebecca and are i acker will wear blue, but hex ver- the newest are—cable-stitched Sandburg, Carl , Early Moon reading the first chapter again to •• sion will be a 3-piece herringbone three quarter length half sox. Vann, G Morals Makyth Man find out who done what—Who' suit which includes a reeefer, of They're worn in place of the usual Croft, A Twenty-One Saints can't find the right shade hats to course, a pink sweater, and navy anklet with fiats, huaraches, or Lutes, D. T Home Grown go with their Easter suits and odds and ends. sabots—and are reminscent of one's Mason, A. T The Brandeis Way their shoes. These brave colors of Mr. Bunny "youth." J. Ledin. —M. Keefe. Wednesday, April 5, 1939 THE CATHERINE WHEEL Page Five SPORTLIGHTS Dolphins Imitate Directs Tournament Tennis Tourney Who is this Judy Blatz and what in the world does she mean by Billy Rose Show Begins April 17 letting her weird ideas of a scholar disrupt this complacent old world and the Health Education class In Pool Pageant For All Students and Marg Nash? She and disciple An imitation of the Water Show Marg are like two hungry wolves staged by Billy Rose at the San Names Must Be when it comes to assignments. Francisco exposition will be the Entered Before They beg for them—in fact they theme of the Dolphin swimming April 15 snap at potential assignments and pageant which will be presented have them whipped into shape April 20, in the Health Center. The all-college tennis tourna- just about the time the instructor Margaret Bishop, club president, ment, including both doubles and discards said potential assignments will act as general chairman for singles divisions, will begin April for something new and different. the demonstration. Their motto; not only answer all 17, under the direction of Gerald- The following committees have ine Baldwin, W.A.A. sports man- questions but ask them all. Won- been appointed; formations, Cyn- der how many nights a week they thia Keyes, chairman, Evangeline ager. lie awaks bullying screwy ideas Boner, Mary Louise O'Connor, into brain children. AH Students Eligible Maybelle Homan, and Maxine Every student in the college is * * 5; Maze; properties, Phyllis Hale, 'Member way back to the chairman, Dorothy Schmidt, Jo- eligible to participate, but must Friendship League finals? 'Mem- anne Kingrey, Betty Carroll, and enter her name in the tournament ber that the team that won didn't Nancy Boettner; publicity, Vir- lists before April 15. have to pay (nor sing) for their ginia Bohmer, chairman, Marian In order to have the tournament Wagner, and Elaine La Pointe; supper? Poor Gracie Guarnera completed by June 1, it has been was in a lather—and she gave a business, Grace Guarnera, chair- honey of a pep talk to her team man, Geraldine Baldwin, Gertrude ruled that all matches must be mates. They just had to win—on Nelson, and Virginia Gamble, played off by the date specified or accounta because she only had diving, Bernadine Barrett, chair- both players will be eliminated fifteen cents of the required twen- man, Phyllis Hale, and Betty from further competition. Awards ty, and nickels don't grow on trees Carroll. will be given to both singles and these days. Incidentally Nancy doubles champions. Humphrey is looking woefully around for many missing twenty Miss Bellows Sees Asked to Give Names cents. Just because she was chair- 9 Players interested may sign on man is no sign she should be left Modern Dancers the bulletin board in Whitby hall holding the bag. Recital at Convention or leave their names with the man- ^: * :j: ager, Geraldine Baldwin. Hast heard of Freshman Marg Two hours of dance instruction Co u rtesy Minneapolis Star. under Martha Hill, of New York Geraldine Baldwin, junior, will direct the all-college tennis Kennelly? She's the dark one tournament beginning April 17. (surely you haven't still got them university, and the recital of Doris mixed). Any how Marg is a reg- Humphrey and Charles Weidman, r Dolphin Members ional doubles champ in North Da- noted modern dancers, are only Yippee! Eet Ees Parfait,' Say Seniors Participate in Show kota. And it has been said that two of the interesting features Miss Rosemary Tanous is nobody's Katherine Bellows experienced at Who Gave Evening Swimming A Trial Thursday, April 13, members of pushover. As a conclusion of these the 1939 Central Distrist Physical the Dolphin club, swimming at two statements weighed against the Education convention, held last Margaret La Bine; you don't think Dede and Marie the St. Paul Y.W.C.A., will par- soon-to-be tennis tournament we'd week in Sioux City, Iowa. Peg Ford Tie in Irvine show 'em how it's done ticipate in the Hobby Show, given say, "Look to your laurels, oh ye you're on the wrong side of any on April 13, 14, and 15. mighty, lest ye be taken for a Although primarily interested in Breathless Race fence. They were using some Club members will exhibit both ride." the dance, Miss Bellows also at- By Catherine Meersman mighty wicked swings. swimming and diving techniques, tended several lectures on the * * * Yippee! A masterpiece in And then to the pool—one side as part of a three day hobby dem- problems of education and the im- thought—the idea of a life time! or a coat of paint off! No use rhap- onstration, an all city project. Conies ten o'clock Monday, portance of heredity and environ- Excuse us while we get enthusi- sodizing about the under water Wednesday and Friday, and a ment in child development. astic, but the senior night-swim- lighting effect nor the beauty of bunch of horses turn out for tap Miss Hill, who is also of theming privilege is the thing. Take the pool—everyone knows about class—now don't get huffy and Bennington School of Dance, stres- that; but when it comes to all this Hessburg Brothers don't jump at conclusions 'cause if from the six of us who know— sed general flexibility of the body we gave it a fair trial and we're plus Marg La Bine and Peg streak- Distributors of we're not casting aspersions. The ing through the water and ending idea is that the latest dance learn- and both lomotar and axial move- for it. ments, including swinging and In all probability, too, there in a breathless tie—ah, eet ees par- SCHRAFFT'S CHOCOLATES ed is called Sleigh Bells and rep- fait! To say nothing of the modern resents horses, three in a group, swaying. won't be a conflict next time—and 1201 Washington Ave. N. On Thursday, March 30, Doris don't go finding any sissy ex- mermaids doing a schottische and pawing, galloping and all but polka to music of the sea shells. neighing — supposedly pulling a Humphrey and Charles Weidman cuses. That's a challenge! Incid- sleigh (which isn't, of course). presented a lecture demonstration. ently, where was Mary Alberi? All ST. PAUL, MINN. This exhibition brought out theright, defendant excused on plea MI dway 0700 Prize horses are Mary Shannon, of first offense—but be warned National Engraving Co. Mary Ann Stubbs, and Jean James importance of body conditioning 309 Sixth Ave. South Asbestos Products Corp. (wotta mane). and also included several studies against further clash with the law. MINNEAPOLIS A. V. WINTERER, President * * * in composition. And, as an interesting sideline: Peg Ford was awarded a be-yoo- Diplomas and Cleveland and Wabasb Aves. And have you noticed all the Miss Humphrey and Mr. Weid- tiful ghost-cup for being the best practise teaching going on? Such man teach at Bennington college, dressed goon. Announcements industry! Some are happy days Bryn Mawr, Temple university, First there was badminton—and Apparatus and Supplies and some are sad—but Dede's days Columbia university, and Newhow those birdies flew. (Really, are quite the thing. She teaches at York university, in addition to no harm intended!) But it shore GIESEN'S Laboratory Supplies Roosevelt and every day at tenmaking shorter excursions to other was a mighty slick game—and if o'clock the teachers gather for cof- COSTUMES FOR RENT GEO. T. WALKER colleges for briefer periods of in- for fee and once in a while a cut of struction. PLAYS and OPERETTAS COMPANY, INC. ice cream—so there, too! Both Doris Humphrey and Wigs - Beards Cynthia Keyes is teaching high SCHOCH'S 324 5th Ave. So., Charles Weidman were born and 23 West 5th Street Minneapolis, Minn. school and college dance classes raised in the middle west. Miss Good Things to Eat and loves it. But she moaned: "I Humphrey coming from Oak Park, talk so much I wear myself out— a !/uburb of Chicago, and Mr. Weil- CEdar 6677 no telling what it does to the pu- man from Lincoln, Nebraska. pils." THE KENNEY CO., INC. t- # * The History and Principles class General Insurance Bonds are working on term papers due Commonwealth the end of May—and with en- thusiasm if you please! Each mem- Electric Co. W. C. Kenney, Pres. St. Paul ber of the class is sending a ques- tionnaire to universities in different countries of Europe to obtain Contracting Engineers information about deparements of physical education: the number of ST. PAUL, MINN. Buy a Remington Portable instructors, the objectives of the St.PaulBottlingCo. 417 Broadway Tel. GA. 1836 classes, the equipment supplied, 520 Payne Avenue MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. and even the uniform required. TO wer 2490 TYPEWRITER Quaint idea—unless it incites a 504 Kasota Bldg. Tel. GE. 6531 war. * * * for as little as Heigh-ho! And we'll be seeing al of you at the W.A.A. formal. STAR MEAT MARKET 10c a day We know you won't want to miss this one 'cause it's going to sur- MEATS pass the best and leave the rest PAUL MILSKE AND SON Remington Rand Inc. miles behind in a cloud of dust. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PHONE DALE 0780 N-210 First National Bank BIdg. GA. 1878 A. Ryan, C. Meersman, 078 1166 SELBY AVENUE Page Six THE CATHERINE WHEEL Wednesday, April 5, 1939 A HAPPY EASTER! A-Tisket A-Tasket We're Going toFindan Easter Basket; Students Skip from Classrooms to Look for Holiday Fun

Train whistles call and familiar Main humanity by rescuing flood victims. When When asked about their vacation plans, Streets beckon as St. Catherine's girls not engaged in this noble work she has Irene Molyneaux and Margaret Fuller just make plans for Easter homecomings. After decided to spend her time thinking up yawned lazily and said, "We're going to being cooped up, more or less, during the snappy comebacks for people who say, sleep!" Cynthia Keyes is going to do any- Long, Dreary months of January, Febru- "My, aren't you getting a little heavier?" thing but look at a textbook. Thinking ary, and March they're really going to Gracie Takes a Dip of her holidays at home in Sioux Falls, S. D., Ellen Dineen has visions of herself fling this spring. Molly Murphy has invited Ruth Weber consuming huge platefuls of baked noodles Jane Smith Rides Bike to her home in Winona for the vacation, and tuna fish, her favorite dish. Jane Smith tells us that she plans to and Eleanor Burns is going to Fargo as Babe Scott, Betty Bartelme, and Pat spend the holidays at "Auntie Bess' house the guest of Mary Pat Ford. in Albert Lea." It seems that the main McNulty have engaged as their new chauf- Either she misses the sub-zero weather attraction is riding bikes. Jeanne Heaney feur Mary Hayes, a Minneapolis girl, who hasn't planned anything special for her or she just can't wait for summer, but will drive them to Albert Lea today where few days at home in Red Wing, but she's Gracie (ice-breaker) Guarnera actually Pat will catch a bus for Belmond, Iowa. going to do everything she's been wanting intends to take a dip in White Bear Lake While home, Babe will be hostess at a to do all during Lent. when she goes home for the holidays. luncheon for her St. Catherine's friends Marge Albright will be the guest of the Phil Hale Gallops living in Albert Lea and Austin. Kennelly twins at their home in Mandan, "That is," says Gracie, "if my mom Dorothy Feyder is planning to get in S. D.—"out where the West (and the doesn't K.O. it." Phil Hale will spend condition for her Tuesday morning classes grasshoppers) begins." Mandan is also the much of her vacation galloping about Fort by dancing Monday night to the music of destination of Gracie Wilkinson who will Snelling and surrounding territory (on a Blue Baron who will play in Sioux Falls, continue her policy of giving her "all" to horse, of course). S. D., Dorothy's home town. Society Announces President Attends Faculty Members Plan Reading, 7 Film on Mexico Housecleaning, * Chats? Sewing, Writing Competition Educators Meeting Stresses Talk In News, Editorials Mother Eucharista, president of the College, accompanied by Sis- Father George Ryan, Just Plain Work for Vacation Pi Delta Epsilon, national com- ter Marie Ursule of Derham Hall, mittee on college journalism attended the forty-fourth annual Of St. Stephen's Parish, Sister St. Charles Seems awards, announces a contest on meeting of the North Central Gives Lecture Management Class editorial and news writing for association of Colleges and Secon- Disillusioned About "The people of Mexico are not Gains Experience the current year 1938-39. W. W. day Schools at the Stevens Hotel, Whole Idea of Vacation Waymack, editor of the Des Chicago, from March 29 to April in sympathy with Communism," Sister James Agnes' Home Man- Moines Register and Tribune and 1. was one of the points stressed by Students are not the only ones agement class is now working with winner of the 1938 Pulitzer prize the Rev. George Ryan of St. Ste- The regional meeting of the with plans for Easter vacation. The for editorial writing; Dr. M. Lyle phen's parish in his lecture last the Family Social Service agency National Catholic Educational faculty, too, have things to do. Be- of St. Paul, under the direction of Spencer, dean of the School of Wednesday night. Father Ryan ac- Journalism, Syracuse University; association was held Wednesday tween church and sleep, Sister Fla- Miss Bodil Fenger. companied his talk with colored and Geoffrey Parsons, editor of at the Stevens. Topics discussed via will sandwich in a little spring Miss Bodil Fenger, who is under movies which he took on his re- the New York Herald-Tribune, at the Wednesday session of the housecleaning and Sister Mary the supervision of Dr .A. A. Heck- will judge the editorial writing. North Central association were cent trip to Mexico. Edward, some "nice long chats" man, teacher of social case work The Year's Development of the After showing the film, which at St. Catherine's, received her so- Critics for news-writing are Dr. with her family. Sister Helen Mar- Curtis D. MacDougall, editor of Cooperative Study and The Co- was chiefly concerned with the cial service degree from Smith col- garet hopes to do a little sewing, News Map of the Week and lec- operative Study in All Its Present architecturally beautiful old Span- lege, and her degree in home man- try to finish off a few more of the turer at the Medill School of Implications. The Reverend Al- ish monasteries and cathedrals, agement from the University of phonse M. Schwitalla, S.J. of St. senior folders, and then just sit Journalism, Northwestern univer- Father Ryan answered questions on California. She assigns work to the sity; Philip W. Porter, news ed- Louis University, St. Louis, Mo. the position of the Church in Mex- back and think of her vacation-to- members of the class including itor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer; read a paper entitled The Curri- ico. Father said that while there come. "For further facts," she spending one the day a week with and John E. Stempel, head of the culum of the Liberal Arts College is still legal persecution, it is not says, "read the April 21 issue of a family, purchasing food, plan- Department of Journalism, Indiana and Dean C. H. Oldfather of the very severely enforced, because of The Catherine Wheel" ning infant feeding and diabetic university, and former managing University of Nebraska, Lincoln, the strength of Catholicism among diets, and working on clothing Neb., talked on The Curriculum Sister Marie Philip is "going to editor of the Easton, Pa., Express. the Mexican people. He praised construction. in the University. read Claudel" and maybe just To be eligible for prizes, edi- highly the work of a group of Irish Members of the class include: mention to anyone who seems the torials or news stories must be The meetings on Thursday, Fri- Sisters who have a convent school Jane Smith, Mary Rita Hovland, least bit interested the latest tricks submitted to the director of the day, and Saturday included re- in Mexico City, where they teach Dorothy Leonard, and Cecelia Mul- of her little nephew, the same lit- competition, Dale H. Gramley, ports by the Executive Committee, the children of the highest Com- len. tle nephew who was heard visiting director of courses in journalism, the Commission on Institutions of munist officials in the country- her recently. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Higher Education, the Commis- Telling of the clever ways in Sister Jeanne Marie Pa., not later than June 1, 1939. sion on Secondary Schools, and which the Sisters have so far evad- Wanted: one good detective story Editorials and news-stories must ed the law, Father added that they by Sister Eleanore with which to the Commission on the Curricula have been published during the are daily in danger, and asked the relax after reading Maritain An Attends ME A Meet of Secondary Schools and Institu- academic year 1938-39 in a college prayers of his audience for them. and Scholasticism, Gilson Medieval tions of Higher Education. Sister Jeanne Marie will attend journal. Monthlies, quarterlies, Philosophy, and making out tests literary magazines, alumnae pub- for German classes. two meetings to be held at the University of Minnesota today in lications, or "comics" are not in- It was Sister St. Charles who conjunction with Schoolmen's cluded in the competition. sounded a little disillusioned about week. As secretary of the commit- The contest is open to all un- the whole thing. "What ami going tee on guidance, she will attend a dergraduate students and rules to do during vacation? Well— meeting of the Minnesota Educa- and conditions of the award may Thursday is Holy Thursday, Fri- tional association section officers. be obtained in the Wheel office. day is Good Friday, Saturday is Purpose of the meeting is discus- Holy Saturday, Sunday is Easter sion of plans for the 1940 state con- SILVER CARBON Sunday and Monday I have to get vention of the MEA, Smokeless & Ashless, Sized for ready for the girls to return on any heating plant. dJIQ (ft Tuesday. 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