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Vice President Richard Nixon welcomes President-Elect John F. Kenny as a crowd gathers behind them.
President-Elect Kennedy visited Vice President Nixon at the Key Biscayne Hotel where the Nixon family was vacationing. They discussed the presidential election and the upcoming administration transition.
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Students gather in the Phoenix Room of Mundelein College during Discrimination Day.
Mundelein College students gather in the Phoenix Room of Mundelein College. To the right of the photo, two students hold up a signboard with the words "Equal Rights". Discrimination Day was organized by the Mundelein Student Advisory Council in a bid to raise awareness of the civil rights problem, although reactions to it were mixed.
The image appears with the caption: "DEMONSTRATION OF THE FINE ART OF DEMONSTRATING. Sit-downers, protesting Phoenix Room discrimination against "minors" enjoy hootenanny atmosphere by D-Day "non-violent direct action." The headline of the associated article reads: "D Day Roll Call Reveals Students Agree to Disagree on Racial Issue."
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"Horsepower", a horse sculpture made out of welded steel bumpers by John Kearney stands in front of the Learning Resource Center (now Sullivan Center). Mundelein students raised $1500 to purchase it in 1969.
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A student holding the signboard "Catholic Interracial Council" and a woman religious holding a signboard (words illegible) march in protest of discriminatory acts by the Illinois Club of Catholic Women located at Lewis Towers.
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The University Center at Lewis Towers opened in 1961 and contained student dining and service facilities.
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(L-R) Three Tau Kappa Epsilon students (known as TEKEs), Ed Murray, Ellen Miller, and Bob Styles are dressed in costume to generate publicity for the annual "Ugly Man Contest". Ed Murray holds a prop in their hands and Ellen Miller has their mouth wide open and hands splayed by her side as Bob Styles holds her by the shoulders.
The Ugly Man Mixer and Ugly Man Contest were annual events held by Tau Kappa Epsilon students (known as TEKEs) around Halloween to raise funds for the Patna Missions.
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This article in the Skyscraper student newspaper details the points raised by Loyola and Mundelein faculty members for and against the Vietnam War during a teach-in.
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The Lodorians pose standing in their performance attire. The original caption for the photo reads:
"'Hang down your head... Tom Dooley, Hang down your head and die..." strains of four-part harmony floating up from the practice hall of the Loyola LODORIANS... id est, our glee club.. this year, club boasts over thirty active members.
Repertoire consists mainly of folk songs, with a few religious selections for more hallowed occasions... Lodorians sung for the Rogers Park Community Festival in October, for Founders Day, for a charity benefit at Hull House in late fall... performed their traditional duty of leading hymns for the annual Christmas celebration at Madonna Della Strada Chapel... finished the year with a stint in Loyola's Variety Show in March...
Mr. David Campbell directed the group this year, his first."
"Top row: Jerry Wojtascowski, Margaret Manning, Roger Dore, Carol Kubistal, Ken Pveviti, Carol Offut, Ron Dombrowski, Jim Kubik, Frank Collins, Mike Benic, Ned Whiting, Marty Wisenberger, Cheryl Canner, Jackie Faller. Second row: Noel Smoran, Sonia Zdrilish, Barbara Bega, Mary Young, Pat White, Jeanne Kragh, Sally Beazens, Carol Knes, Janice Potacki, Geraldine Griffin, Alberta Matulis, Peggy McCarthy, Jerry Baril, Eve Friend, Joyce Reddington, Janne Neu. First row: Mr Campbell, director; Patricia Brown, Deanna Collins, Agle Augustus, Mary O'Connell, Barbara Doyle, Eleanor Stocker, Diane Dohm, Marie Mycek, Diane Ehrman, Penny Riddiford, Eunice Richter, Margaret Herminutz."
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This article in the Loyola News details Tom O'Hara's record-setting performance at New York, where he set a new world record for the indoor mile. It contains a picture of O'Hara speaking into a microphone.
O'Hara would go on to break his own record a month later (in March) at the Chicago Stadium.
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An aerial view of the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. The Hines Veterans Administration Hospital can be seen in the top left of the image.
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The 1963 Loyola's Men's Basketball team, winners of the 1963 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championship, pose with their championship trophy.
L - R: Capt. Jerry Harkness, John Egan, Chuck Wood, Vic Rouse, Les Hunter, Rich Rochelle, Jim Reardon, Dan Connaughton, Ron Miller, Mgr. John Gabcik, Asst. Mgr. Fred Kuehl, Trainer Dennis McKenna. Kneeling: Coach George Ireland and Asst. Coach Jerry Lyne.
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An aerial view of the former campus of the Rome Center. A stream of students can be seen walking across the road from one building to the gates of another part of the campus.
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Mundelein College (represented by the skyscraper) reclines on a couch while connected to a machine. There is a framed certificate with the word 'Psychiatry' at the top right. To the left of the comic is a bookshelf with books. One of the books has the name of an author, "Freud", on it.
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(L to R:) Dr. Chas Abildgaard, Milton Mozen, Joseph Scheidler, Mary Georgia, BVM, Ignatia Griffin, BVM, Sharon, BVM, Donatus, BVM and James H. Mullaley and other unidentified students stand in front of a building during the Selma March.
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Irene Meyer, BVM, Georgia, Irma Corcoran, BVM, Ignatia Griffin (later Mary Griffin), BVM, and "Ruby" Bonnie Rochetto, surrounded by a crowd, gather in front of a bus as they prepare to head to the Selma March.
On back of photograph:
"SM Irene Meyer * far left (Head of psychology dept.) SM Georgia [Dominic?] SM Irma Corcoran SM Ignatia Griffin *(later Mary Griffin) far right nun" "enroute to Selma "first Row left: "Ruby" - Bonnie Rochetto" "Mundelein College".
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Operation Breadbasket Choir sings and claps their hands with members of the audience joining in.
On back of photograph: "Breadbasket Choir".
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Shinda Tripp, LaShondria Purnell, MuCUBA treasurer, Felisha Tripp and Antonia James sing gospel songs during Black History Month at Mundelein College.
On front of photograph: Miscellaneous crop marks.
On back of photograph: "1990".
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Telisa Castille poses with her portrait of Mayor Harold Lee Washington. Mundelein College United Black Association (MuCUBA) had awarded Washington with the inaugural Black Leadership Award.
On back of photograph: "1989", "aB 87", "1-31". There is a separate slip of paper behind the photograph with the following: "JANUARY 31", ".06 1.95 112%".
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A woman religious lines up a cue in a game of billiards with a group of young boys at a Kiwanis Boys' Club.
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A group of five visiting Mexican students wearing suits and dresses smile in conversation with two women religious.
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Madeline L'Engle speaks with three Mundelein students, who sit near her on a sofa or on the floor. L'Engle holds her glasses on her lap.
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A group of students and adults hold pillows, suitcases, and a Mundelein College banner as they wave in front of a charter bus, on their way to the College Bowl competition.
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Three couples, with the girls in fancier dresses and the boys in uniforms, pose with leafy potted plants below a large portrait of John F. Kennedy.
A cropped version of this image appears in the Skyscraper, Mundelein's student newspaper on November 20, 1963, Page 1. The title of the article is "I Should Have Said No..." by Joan Gulab with an account of a student photographer's journey to report on the event on November 2. The image's caption reads: "THE CALL TO DUTY is answered by Mundelein students and cadets (l. to r.) Bobbie Richard, John W. Arrington, Anita Kaiser, Clint Price, Frank Cosantino, and Carol Grundmann."
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A group of students, the Mundelein chapter of Student Mobilization, meets over a lunch table to plan the anti-Vietnam War, one-day, student mobilization event.
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An article describes the weekly Mundelein Speak-easy events, open to Mundelein and Loyola students, moderated by WLS radio disc jockey Stan Dale. Discussions were frequently on controversial topics and could run for hours, and students and faculty could participate in the debates. The writer says that the Speak-easy has been "whetting the appetites of budding intellectuals". Future guests include Chicago mayor Richard Daley, Alabama Governor George Wallace, and Barry Goldwater. Photographed past guests are Dick Gregory, Ald. Dupres, and Eartha Kitt.