College of St Scholastica - Towers Yearbook (Duluth, MN)

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DECEMBER-Continued -The annual Bishop's banquet. Perfectly appointedg perfect in every way. The Seniors are hostesses and all had places at the Bishop's table. Banquet is followed by an artistic and realistic rendering of an original Christmas Pageant. His Lordship addresses the students on Christmas, its meaning and the ideal spirit of the day. -Noel! Noel! Now the Kappa Zeta's are caroling both inside and outside the building. -All aboard! Resident students scurry for home, via cars, via buses, via trains . . . via galoshes. JANUARY -College classes reconvene . . . work and worry about approaching exams! -Friday the 13th! Skulls and witches play an important part! Superstition Dance sponsored by all the sororities. One good time! '28-Serious countenances . . . semester examinations are on! ' -New semester . . . hope it will be as helpful and as interesting as the first . . . And the Choral Club begins to sing weekly over WEBC, Songs of the Centuries. Their work is acclaimed excellent by both faculty and students. FEBRUARY -And the Monocles entertain the Kappa Zeta's! Badminton, ping pong, all games and lunch . . . and to bed. -Luncheon and theater for the Juniors. - V -Valentines, hearts, and a glorious winter evening emphasize the beauty of the Nursing School Students. Dreamy music, pastel gowns, dainty luncheon complete the picture. Traditional Sophomore Valentine Day Dance in Stanbrook Hall. -And the Sodality carnival in the gymnasium was well planned and afforded a perfect evening of just fun. MARCH Thrilling pantomime! The W. A. A. presents Bluebeard and His Seven Wives during the convocation period. -Thrilled again! A blizzard closes school for the day. -The same storm! The resident students carry on with classes. Nomresident lassies sleep. Irish students take over the convocation. 'Twas lots o' singin' and dancin' they did. At the resident students' formal dinner, we find Rt. Rev. Monsignor Byrnes guest of honor. -Climax of the skating season. The NofDal-rs, Wisconsin Club, and the Michigan Club, entertain at the Curling Club. -Resident students entertain their nonfresident friends at a formal tea. -A formal dinner given by the faculty to the members of the Student Council. , -Dr. F. H. Hirschboeck at Convocation . . . Burning the Candle at Both Ends was the subject. It was the type of lecture that gives both knowledge and personal help. -Formal installation and initiation of the Alpha Tau Delta at the Lincoln Hotel. Cute favors, fine talks, ripping play. APRIL r . f3-Judgment Days for the Senior Nurses. The State Board exams are almost overwhelming, right? -Excitement supreme. Easter vacation begins. -Suitcases, bundles, and boxes return. Lazy days are over for another seven weeks. -The Seniors open the spring picnics with a day at Lester Park. Those dignified individuals romp and play all day. -Alumnae nurses welcome spring with a lovely formal dancelat Hotel Duluth. -Hibbing Junior College invites the W. A. A. for Play Day . MAY -THB day arrives. They write, and write and write. It's Senior Comprehensives. -The Honors Convocation. The College presents awards to the outstanding girls. -Ascension Thursday. No school. High Mass, heavenly singing and then the seniors spend the day at Three Lakes. ' Shamrock Lodge, one of the college cabins. I-Smiling girls in iiuify gowns seen at the Hotel Duluth for the Spring Formal. 3 The Alpha Chi presents its annual revue. I-A week-end at Three Lakes for the Monocles. Science Open House and the Freshman Reception. 4-Memorial Day and the last holiday before school closes. JUNE .-Those exams begin again. Cramming? Not the second semester. -Baccalaureate services in the Chapel of Our Lady, Queen of Peace. Reception into the Alumnae Association of the College. -Class Day exercises on the campus. juniors and Seniors Weave the Standards . Sadly beautiful . . . our reign is nearing its close. -Commencement, solemn, dignified, and now we stand beside the Open door and life that lies before . . . and we would that it were closed a little longer! Adieu! l .yi ra..

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ww, mai? MM N 'V W' ima nuff gvenfa . . . SEPTEMBER 15-Excitement on the Campus! Registration day! Physical exams! Psychological exams! Orientation talks! Fare and moist hankies . . . but Phi Alpha Chi, all school tea, to the rescue . . . all hands saved. 17-Sky Line Drive and see Duluth for new students. 19-Bells ring out and girls assume studious air. College classes begin and we wish to impress. 27-Regard for the Spiritual, one of the College Ideals, was evident as students assembled en masse . . . in traditi cap and gown for the opening Mass celebrated by the Most Reverend Thomas A. Welch, Bishop of Duluth . . . than 400 students present. '78-Phi Alpha Chi supper meeting at Maryglade . . . a good time. 30-Monocle Cabin party at Three Lakes just to talk over summer conquests . . . have a dip and go rowing from College dock and return for marshmallow roast around the big Ere place . . . then to bed, all in Shamrock Ca Sounds good and it was. Kappa Zetas were hostesses for all resident students in Chester Park Bowl . . . Bo steak fry . . . does that sound better? OCTOBER 1-Freshmen are weighed in the balance and found . . . anything but wanting. Resident students elect a Ca reductionfgammafomicron ration, taken five times daily with interspersions of fudge, salted almonds and pea and ice cream bars at irregular intervals between. Ad lib. Result, evidence of acute adiposis . . . and the prom around the corner. Class goes into a huddle for exchange of ideas. 3-Tri Arts get going . . . an all school tea, much work for the hostesses but all went smoothly to a perfect occa 4-Phi Sigma Pop . . . together at Maryglade . . . great success. 6-Press Club initiates new members. Steak dinner followed by informal discussion on the aims of the College Bi-mon paper and rules of the game . 7-Aloha Chi, another nonfresident student organization gets going . . . hostesses at a tea for faculty and resident stud Seniors initiate the worried Freshmen, and are surprised to End that they were good sports and hard to frig 8-Taffy pull, apples and spooks . . . remember, and the Monocles are hostesses. 12-Dignihed but not boring was the Kappa Zeta tea for the faculty. 14-Roller skating at the Amphitheater for the Sophomore class. 15-Chamber Opera Trio at Convocation. Annual Play Day sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association. Girls from the Duluth and Superior State Teacl 22- Colleges, and the Duluth junior College participate . . . lunch at Maryglade . . . aftemoon tea in Tower Hall more games and then au revoir. - 23fSodality tea and open house for Faculty and friends. 25-Did you hear Reverend Owen F. Dudley, well-known Priest and Author speak at Convocation on Be Origin' Gain Success ? The Playmakers' Guild tea for forensically inclined folk had Father Dudley as guest of honor. 23-Annual Retreat . . . silence . . . meditation . . . long walks. We begin to realize what life means and wh its end. Very Reverend Bonaventure Schwinn, O.S.B., Ph.D., was most inspiring. NOVEMBER 1-Feast of All Saints . . . High Mass, Gregorian singing, a sermon which inspired all the students to attempt h spiritual levels. Phi Sigmas, off campus sorority, held their pledge dinner at Lincoln Hotel . . . traditional ca. light ceremony. , 1-The junior President, Lois Hagen, and her escort led the grand march . . . and the annual junior Prom got way at the Hotel Duluth Ballroom. About two hundred and twentyfiive couples present. Good music, exc service, glorious gowns. 12-Ellen Drew, author and lecturer from Cambridge, England, spoke on Modem Drama . 23-Suitcases pulled down from top shelves, dusted and packed. Resident students leave for Thanksgiving vacation . . . glorious anticipation of turkey with trimmings. They go to eleven states and one hundred or more towns. Only left to carve the College bird . DECEMBER 3 -Dr. E. L. Tuohy at Convocationg subject: Adequate Diet. It was a most interesting presentation of new and old il 5 -Annual Sodality card party in social halls on second and first floors in Tower Hall. Splendid cooperation. 6-Phi Alpha Chi begin to think this early of Christmas and give a Christmas party. 8-One of the most memorable days of the year is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception . . . lifty additional Scl ticans now have the privilege of being called Children of Mary. A very inspiring sermon by our Chaplain. Rt. Monsignor Patrick Byrnes. 9-Winter togs dug out for a skating party . . . just the Sophomores. 12-W. A. A. thinks of Christmas and sponsors a party in the Alumnae Parlor, Gymnasium.

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1 I 4 HELLO, DEAR: I've just seen the grandest play. The sad part of it is that it will never be enacted again. I do wish that all of you could have seen it. Since fortyfeight seniors and myself were the only ones there, I will give you the high lights. By the way, the play was entitled 35-39 or Four Years of College . 22 ACT I. Setting: Just Tower Hall, the Gymnasium and the Triangle at the South Entrance. Characters: Freshmen of 35936. Time: September, 1935. ' Action: The girls walk around the Triangle after school and in the evening. Mail is distributed by the store clerk as if it were candy bars. Students report for study hour in the library on Second Floor every evening and Saturday mornings. Everyone makes a wild dash for lunch in the Rec in the afternoon. No one enters third floor: Cit's the cloisterD. Late risers get down on their prayer bones in the assembly before breakfast. High school students rule the south wing. The scene closes with much animated discussion concerning the New Buildings . ACT II. Setting: The scene gradually changes. When the curtain goes up after a long wait, a belching steam shovel is disrupting the beloved Triangle , An excessive amount of pounding, hissing' and shouting accompanies all action. Characters: Sophomores of '36-'37. Time: September, 1936. Action: Convocations are still held in the Gym . . . students just packed Characters: Juniors of '37f'3S. in. All resident students take their repast in the one dining Time: September, 1937. room. Some energetic girls put out the Erst College Year Book. The scene Closes amid much confusion. I am told that Action: The administrators of the College have handsome suites off th it is because of the --New Buildings--' Everyone goes home and main corridor of Tower Hall! Stanbrook Hall is completed an Waits for more Changes' iiedAcademy girls 'Image in to the Eouthh Rockhsrs u itorium is comp ete just in time or t e ristmas an ...'hddd .ThB'h' ACT HI' giieeeit of hzlitor uflihize Cgllegiiiiserhajf SSI-13531135 partici altidjrli Setting: The scene changes still more. We Erst see skeletons of buildings ' , ,P . . government! Thanks! The scene begins to change with talk o budding upward and southward from Tower Hall. There 18 a th Ch 1 fo L d fp dth C u I-,b profuse amount of sawdust, lumber, cars, cement and bags of e ape O ur a y'Queen0 eacedm e 0 egg 1 tary h' f bl d , ., l ' . . . d ZvLplr3i1rI1oZVZ1H3i'prkmen etc about at al times an ACT IV' I Setting: The scene is permanent pro tem. 'Everything is stationary ,f The College of St. Scholastica stands in impressive beaut i : ...- on the hill. Tower Hall. The Chapel of Our Lady, Queen o X A I Peace, Stanbrook Hall, Rockhurst Auditorium and the Gym nasium dominate the scene. ff ' ' Time: September, 1939. Characters: Seniors of 38939. Action: When the curtain rises this. time, every one stands in aw ff D fl , and admiration before the new chapel. fBeautiful simplicit X - makes one feel very humble and appreciative.j Then, too, th - f new library with its reading room, accommodating more than if-635 Z6 three hundred in the general reading room, is opened. Tim , ,, goes by smoothly. Towards the end of the year, the student 'N fre given access to a new laundry . . . just think those separat . ,, I rooms for washing and ironing dainties! Oh!How they like i , -Z The model home is opened and the Home Economists move i l 4' ' The scene closes with a group of figures in academic dres 141 moving down the aisle of Rockhurst. I am told that they ar l the graduating Seniors. In their expressions, there is a minglin WZ T7 of sadness and joy. X 2 6 Q t Script: You know, I found the end of the panorama very sad. I regr ' . more every day that everyone could not have seen this pr , gf . - l sentation. I consider it one of the most worth while activiti 54' 405 1 5 l : 4 if of my life. And so, those of us who were fortunate enough t witness the presentation thank the producers from the botto 1 of our hearts and thank the Benedictine Sisters who have made t Z' Play a reality as we take the open door to life that stan fp f . efore . 5466 5,54 M. J. ALBRIGHT 1 f, 1 ' 1 ,CZ . ' 7 J A