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Students not only worked hard but also took the time to unwind and enjoy themselves by watching sports games and listening to live performances.
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Under the auspices of the Radio Workshop, Loyola and Mundelein students produced, directed and acted in radio programs that were aired weekly over radio station WGES.
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Students engage in a series of mock brawls as part of the Push Brawl Contest.
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Students engage in a series of mock brawls as part of the Push Brawl Contest.
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Bill Graydon, Bill Durkin, and Len Zimny stand beneath a hoop in their Loyola basketball uniforms.
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A basketball player holds up his teammate on his shoulder, who is dunking a basketball into the hoop.
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Leonard "Lenny" Sachs crouches on the floor holding a basketball and looks up at five members of the Loyola basketball team. Sachs was the basketball coach for the Loyola team from 1926 until his sudden demise in 1942. He was highly regarded in the Chicago sports world. Under his coaching, the Loyola basketball team won 31 consecutive games between 1928 and 1930.
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A Loyola student athlete races their competitor from another school to the finish line as spectators watch from the sidelines.
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The students of the Arts Campus had a retreat where there were activities such as daily communion, conferences, and private meditation.
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The Tannery originated when some members of the Men's Sodality split into their own club. The organization discussed social issues and philosophies that applied to their own lives. Membership was by invitation only. In 1941, women from Mundelein College were also invited to participate in the discussions.
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About 19 students sit as an audience at a row of tables along a wall with windows, while one student with glasses stands and speaks. This took place at the five-day United Nations Institute that Mundelein College held in 1946.
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Four members of Mundelein College's Red Cross chapter practice carrying another student on a stretcher near a set of stairs and a sign on the wall for the Mundelein College Safety Council.
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A clipping from the Skyscraper student newspaper shows thre students posing with their collection of scrap metal objects to donate to the war effort, including a large teakettle and a standing scale. The caption reads: "Mary Kennedy, Isabel Ohab, and Margaret Mary Durkin weigh Mundelein's contribution to the scrap metal drive, find enough to make three machine guns."
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A double page spread of a student-written song called "Conservation Swing," with lyrics by Joan Morris, Mundelein College '42, and music by Bessie Fairchild Morris.
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A blue-green pamphlet titled MUNDLEIN COLLEGE: WOMEN IN WARTIME, reads:
"help to fill the country's need for leadership and service-- prepare for the readjustment of the post-war period." "Long before the war, Mundelein College students were being trained in character, initiative, leadership, and service to meet with knowledge, confidence, and integrity the demands and crises of the years to come. Today, Mundelein alumnae members are helping to supply the nation with its needed womanpower; their successors, Mundelein students in wartime, are combining with the college's traditional basic training special courses which fit them for positions keyed to the nation's need, now and in the future." "Sheridan Road at the Lake - Chicago 40"
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A group of Mundelein and Loyola students gather on steps and talk with one another. As part of an article on the United Nations Institute at Mundelein, the image is titled "The UN-quiring Reporter..."
The caption reads:
"...finds ex-GI students at Mundelein and Loyola vitally interested in the Study of the United Nations Charter. In a step-by-step session are, left to right, Lois Billingham, Patricia Wescott, John Treacy, Thomas Dee, Helen Bieber, Fred Inden, and Robert Wagener."
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Four Mundelein students in floral smocks prepare paint and apply it to a large map, with the Eastern hemisphere in the center and the Western hemisphere shown twice, on the right and left sides of the map. The image appears with the headline: "'I'll Daub A Little Britain on My Brush...'"
The caption below reads:
"...says Ruthe Bransfield (third from left) preparatory to painting Australia on the new map planned, drawn, and painted by art and history students, to artists Meta Shifris, (left to right) Dorothy Clark, and Mary Jane Harvey. The map, which is soon to be put up on the wall opposite the tea-room, is being done in oils, so that the boundaries may be changed weekly as the balance of power shifts."
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Five Mundelein students stand in height order, posing with their knitting needles and in-progress projects against a blank wall.
This image appears in the Skyscraper student newspaper on December 18, 1941 with the following headline: "Knit One, Purl Two, for Uncle Sam"
And the following caption:
"Concentrating on their knitting are (extreme left) Marian Anthulis, who led a phalanx of Greek Youth in Athens before Greece entered World War II, Patricia Tierney, heading a committee to secure a Mundelein Red Cross unit, June Eng, (center) and Patricia Moy (extreme right), American-born Chinese sophomores, and Ruth Wagner, all knitting for Red Cross."
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A group of Mundelein students, wearing coats, aviator caps and goggles, stand and crouch by the side of a small aircraft as an instructor in a leather jacket puts a foot on the wheel and lectures.
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A series of photos in the student newspaper, The Skyscraper, illustrates the annual Bake-A-Cake-For-A-Soldier-Day, where students baked over 100 cakes and sent them to soldiers on army and naval bases across the country.
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Mercedes McCambridge and costars pose in a still from the 1949 film, All the King's Men. The light is focused on McCambridge, playing the role of Sadie Burke. [image cropped, photo detail from script]
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Students from the Verse Speaking Choir hand the Victory Record created by the Choir, Glee Club, and Orchestra to an American Airlines pilot to deliver to President Roosevelt in Washington, D.C.
Caption: "These six members of the Verse Speaking choir took to the airport the Victory Pledge, recorded by members of the Choir, Glee Club, and Orchestra, for President Roosevelt. Captain E. A. Austen of American Airlines receives the recording from Royce McFayden. Other student are, front, Larraine Knaub, Joan McMahon, Ruthe Anne McCarthy; back, Mary Barbara Gale, Patricia Kelly."
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A series of photos in the student newspaper, The Skyscraper, illustrates the annual Bake-A-Cake-For-A-Soldier-Day, where students baked over 100 cakes and sent them to soldiers on army and naval bases across the country. [image cropped]
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Three Mundelein students use the telescope in the Mundelein Observatory dome.
This image appears in the Skyscraper student newspaper on May 16, 1941 with the following caption:
"It takes these three scientists to figure out their findings through this newly-acquired telescope, but everyone is invited to see and hear about it at the Dedication ceremonies, Sunday, May 18 at 8 pm. In the observatory above are Catherine Miller, chairman of the Biological division of the Science Forum; Margaret Groark, chairman of the Mathematical division; and Eleanor Landon, chairman of the Chemical division.
