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Oct. 14,1964 THE SK JRAPER Page Three Volunteers Tutor Wentworth Children Colleges Cooperate in Community Involvement by Tina Eleven Mundelein students are participating in a Midwest college tutoring program in cooperation with Loyola, IIT, Georgetown, Loras and St. Joseph's College. One night a week and Saturday mornings Joan Condon, Mary Ellen King, Kathy Duskey, Madeline Klaves, Pat McMahon, Mary O' Brien, Laura Nutini, Lillian Ricci, Sue Snyder, Toni Vitelli and Ber- nadine Thomas tutor children from Wentworth Gardens. Separated by the Dan Ryan Expressway from the Stateway Project, the Wentworth Project covers the city blocks from 37th to 39th streets and from Wentworth to Princeton. Approximately 422 families live in the Gardens' apart ment buildings and small row houses. The Wentworth Gardens Social Center, a small one-story building on Wentworth Avenue, houses the embryonic activities of the two- year-old Residents' Council. Com- De Rosa posed of adults who live in the proj ect, the Council is attempting to in troduce activities into the Gardens that will be beneficial to the com munity in general and to the chil dren in particular. According to Mrs. Hallie Amey, who served two years as the first chairman of the Council, the So cial Center had previously been used for storage and by the Chi cago Housing Authority for reloca tion purposes. The Council has secured the Center for its activities: the Youth Council meets there to plan its recreation program; the Brownies converge on the building to conduct their pre- Scout fun; and Mundelein stu dents use the facilities to direct their year-old tutoring project. Sponsored by the Inland Steel Company, representatives from Chicago-area colleges met with wel fare agency advisors in February, 1963 to discuss the question of op- Van Zeller Urges Youth Act Right, Cultivate 'Self-Forgetting Virtues' bv Judv Wardwell by Judy The trouble with the present generation is that they spend too much time analyzing life, asserts Dom Hubert Van Zeller, O.S.B., 59- year-old author, retreat master, lecturer, critic, sculptor and cari caturist. He advises them to do the thing that is right at the mo ment and then forget about it. With his subtle British wit, Dom Van Zeller conducted informal dis cussions with the faculty and stu dents during a three-day visit at Mundelein. Since 1950 he has vis ited the United States eight times giving retreats and lectures, while the rest of the year, he is an acting chaplain at a convent in Wales. He also points out that many young people are subjective and are inclined to be intro verts. As a remedy he recom mends that the self-forgetting virtues be cultivated. On the subject of the liturgy, Dom suggests that the liturgical movement is being taken up by young people as a kind of fashion. He warns that it is becoming more of a performance than a prayer and more of a spectacle than a sacrifice. Wardwell He also believes that the Church is looking westward to wards America as an eagle tak ing up the seed of faith and dropping it for a new harvest of Catholicism. Despite his busy schedule, Father has written 59 books. Among them are Come Lord, Lord God, Watch and Pray and a new series, In Other Words. He says that he writes be cause it is quite exciting to write for the Church, but confesses that his publisher is demanding a book a month, too, which is quite a sched ule for a man who professes to have one foot in the grave. As an author, Dom Van Zeller says he has not encountered the gap between advancing theology and essentially traditional philoso phy which many teachers and stu dents face. I never read a book about phi losophy if I can help it, he admits. The monk added that much of the material in his books is derived from research and from thoughts he wishes to share with others, many of which date from his ear lier life as a Carthusian. portunity for active student in volvement in the community. Among the student delegates was Monica Sheils from Mundelein. From this meeting, a core group of student representatives was formed to write a series of working papers which could provide colleges with concrete ideas for organizing proj ects. One of the results of these papers was the joint Mundelein- IIT Wentworth Gardens tutoring project. Last March, Governor Otto Ker ner called representatives from campus and industry, social work ers, educators and others to a large- scale Conference on Literacy and Learning. From this conference, the Governor's Committee on Lit eracy and Learning was spawned. The Wentworth Gardens tutoring project now functions in coopera tion with this Committee, with the Committee on Human Relations and with the Chicago Housing Au thority. As a part of the program, the tutors keep individual records of their work with each child. A typical account reads: To day we got a book on airplanes and this was great. Cal re ally likes airplanes and would someday like to be a pilot . . . We spent the whole hour on geography of the United States. Cal had told me he was poor in social studies. I was shocked to find that he knew absolutely nothing about the U.S. And after a session with 7-year- old Betty who sat and stared in bewilderment at her tutor, a Mun delein student records, She will not communicate. I think her big gest problem is that she freezes when confronted by a question. Books for the program have come from such varied sources as the Chicago Housing Authority, parents of the children being tu tored and a Christmas book drive at Mundelein. The growing need for teaching materials, as well as the pressing need for teachers, con tinues to be one of the major prob lems still facing the year-old pro gram. Most of the tutoring is done in the auditorium, the largest room in the building, with tables set up at one end and a small platform at the other. Over the platform a gold and white banner reading Wentworth Gardens Council '64- '65 bears mute testimony to the re cent selection of five new members to lead the community. The group of college students who faced multiplication tables, grade school readers and children sticky from hot summer nights, bears equal testimony to an adven ture in human relations and to the emergence of a people who care. TONY VITELLI, one of the 11 Mundelein students in volved in the Midwest college tutoring program, reads to children in the recreation center at Wentworth Skyscraper Photo by Diane Sargol Gardens Project. Children from the second through the eighth grade are tutored individually once a week in reading and arithmetic. Coffin Material1 'Farther Along' Dies en Route Skyscraper Photo by Betsy Braulin DOM HUBERT VAN ZELLER, who participated in informal lectures with faculty and students during his recent visit to Mundelein, scans an issue of the Skyscraper with Rae Paul, associate editor. Like little Miss Muffet, so goes Farther Along, the Second City's latest effort. When it is good, it is every inch a grabber; but when it is bad, it is primitive. Although the performers are lively a quintet of four males and one female the skits are often coffin material. The result levitation conquered by gravita tion Omar Quips The first act moves in a kind of dead weight fashion during which Omar Shapli, a tall, moustached young man who excites a glowing empathy within the audience in the second act with such quips as Dur ing his life James Joyce wrote a story called The Dead; now he is dead. Isn't it ironic? is reduced to singing four bars of Off we go into the wild blue yonder. In fact, of the first eight scenes there are only two meriting any laudable attention. David Stein berg, in The Second Eskimo Folk by Pat Porwicz Singer, nearly propells the audi ence into an euphoric state when he sings: To all you atheists we've got God and you've got noth ing and ends by impishly sticking out his tongue. Where Have They Gone, The Old Days, the last scene in the first act is another salvific attempt to rescue the audience from the sloppy depths of Ian Davidson's and Sally Hart's interpretation of Goldfish in the Water. Recalling the old days, Harv Robbin bemoans his abandoned Pub and smiles upon yesteryear. To this poignant tale of days gone by, Ian Davidson comments: Why, they don't make wakes like they used to? Remember when Old Flin died and his wife bent down into the casket to kiss him good-bye? Goodness, goodness, the lid slammed on her head and cut it off. But while Act One only trots along, Act Two whips up into a healthy canter. If the group isn't particularly clever in their slap stick adaptations, there is more than enough fun to be had in their political and feminine satires. Omar Shapli, as Senator Dirk sen, discusses his famous oration on the Senate floor regarding the marigold's merits as a national flower. Complete with gravel voice, Mr. Shapli comments that at the crucial point of this discussion he resounded throughout the Senate chamber: In the words of King David himself Is this not Lady Bathsheba, wife of Eurian the Hit- tite? Sally Parodies With a kind of do-you-want-to- know - a-little - secret - smile, Sally Hart warms her audience with lit tle girls grimaces and big girl in- nuendos. If her lines are not that original, her delivery certainly is as the leggy brunette parodies femi nine vanity. Farther Along offers but one consolation half a loaf is better than none.
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1964-10-14 (3)
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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