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GcdUe/tiwe Wheel PUBLISHED BY THE COLLEGE OF ST. CATHERINE 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 re- sumed 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.