Rosary College - Yearbook (River Forest, IL)

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NOVEMBER LeotoLeion Theotokeion is many things. It is an association of Rosary College students outstanding in scholastic work. It is a society fostering high Ideals of honesty and scholarship, initiating Its carefully selected members in impressive chapel ceremonies, and uniting them through the study of subjects of common interest. It is an active organization, conducting a drive for the scholarship fund, meeting frequently to discuss the best that has been done in art and literature, holding a round-table talk on communism, evaluating war-time discoveries in medicine. It Is a union of Catholic college women, loud In the praise of their Church and anxious to support - er in all the activities In which She may need their assistance. It Is an organization dedicated to and placed under the special protection of Our Lady. All this is Theotokeion. It truly belongs to the Mother of Sod. OFFICERS Mary Elizabeth O'Connor, President Helen McGrath, Vice-President Winifred Bowman, Secretary-Treasurer Full Members Charmian Aeby Elizabeth Anne Burbridge Dolores Brosnahan Corinne Cohan Anne Cox Janet Cunningham Mary Curran Lorraine Delany Mary Virginia Doyle Theresa Doyle Arlene Egan Clara Rose Faist Mary Lucille Flanagan Clare Foley Betty Gloudeman Ann Marie Hacker Mary Halloran Genevieve Hanley Kathleen Heller Ruth Marie Hiclcey Isabel Kipping Muriel Long Marilyn Madden Patricia Mork Joan Morley Catherine McGarr Isabel McLaughlin Aileen McNeills Mary Alice. Naughton Ethel Oink Helen Oselka Rita Petrick Marjorie Quinn Madelyn Rice Gloria Shepanek Ritamarie Sima Audrey Smith Mary Spalding Betty Spehar Betty Sweeney Marian Triner Antoinette Valeric Delfina Vergara Bernadette Ward Mary Constance Woods Mary Helen Woods Carol Wuerst Loretta Zolper Associate Members Mary Helen Mondeika LaVerne Naugzemis Sylvia Raczkus Joan Stinson Jane Taylor Marguerite Thompson Betty Wagar Marjorie Weiss Mary Joan Weitzel Marilyn Williams Margaret Bowman Helen BradI Joan Cummings Genevieve Czerwinski Mary Catherine Dowd Virginia Eischen Marian Johannes Patricia Kopecky Winifred Kuhn Inez Kuipers Edwina McDonald Mary McKenzie Jean Manix Virginia Monarque 27

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NOVEMBER REVEREND J. W. REGAN, O.P. Retreat Master Though the outward transition fronn pulsating activity to simple meditation is startling, the Retreat brings an inward change too, not quite so noticeable, but that is only because no one can hear hearts sing or see thoughts wing themselves to God. Father Regan's each thought is a meditation; each sentence a challenge. Vibrant collegians are brought to realize that not united to God we are worse than nothing. Intimate nearness to Love during the days of retreat makes us appreciate Mary Dixon Thayer's surging emotion in writing: Love rose — for thus Love would atone — and passed through space and chose our mean, ungrateful earth To the wonder of the skies, saying, I shall pause here. Yes, Love paused — and in Retreat we pause to learn more of it; to learn that the things that count most are the things we cannot count. In these days we taste a mere fragm ent of the fabulous joy we are sometime to possess if our human lives are lived for the love of God. Father Regan states that we become like unto the things we love most, then asks what might happen if we love God very much. If we love God enough we shall appreciate suffering because we will Interpret it not as a sign of hHis malediction but of hHis benediction, for, whom the Lord loveth. He chastiseth, and v e shall strive to reproduce the life of Christ in ourselves. There must be enough clouds in our life to make of its passage a very beautiful sunset. 26

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NOVEMBER The black and white marble hall of Lewis Memorial, lit only by candle, loomed high in the flickering shadowsoneevening lastfaij, as black cap-and-gowned figures conducted the new members through the rituals of Torch's formal initiation. There the new members were presented with candles as burning symbols of the ideals for which Torch stands — Religion, Sportsmanship, and Leadership. The annual initiation was followed by a buffet supper for all members, both new and old. Its most elaborate activity of the year was the Mardi Gras, given for the benefit of the Blessed Martin de Porres Center. Torch was organized in the fall of 1927 with ten members; at the present time it numbers fifty- three members. Left to rlsht (seated at desk): Audrey Smith, secretary; Isabel Kipping, president; Ethel Oink, vice-president; (standing) Winifred Bowman, treasurer. Top Row: M. C. Woods, V. Doyle, A. Bush, P. Supan, S. Beaton, M. Graffy, M. Bowman, B. Sweeney, J. Hubbard. Second Row: J. Lord, P. O'Brien, R. Leahy, D. Catalano, H. Grady, P. Mork, R. Jennings, M. E. O'Connor, A. Cox, J. Cunningham, B. Gloudeman, R. McNamara. Third Row: J. Considine, M. Thornton, N. Gallagher, G. hianley, G. McDowell, R. Petrick, R. Polanco, M. Quinn, L. Zolper, P. Tighe, J. Parazin, M. Spalding, M. Wright, H LaBerge, L. Delany, C. Cohan. Bottom Row: R. Holland. G. Bruns, R. Bulavo, P. Gildner, C. McGarr, A. Murphy, J. Morley, J. Morley, J. Lynch, H. McGrath, W. Kuhn. 28