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November 25,1959 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three D C/ CC lk p p AMC for tne Alumnae Endowment Program (seated, left to right) are Betty Bogie '54. I J I U J J I N U iLAllJ vice-president; Sister Mary Pierre, alumnae moderator: Madelaine Courtney Ptacin '44, corresponding secretary; Sister Mary Ann Ida. president; Florence Miller '45, alumnae president. Standing (left) Dorothy Scholzen '43. treasurer and (rieht) Patricia Quinn '53. recording secretary. Help Admissions Office with College Day Talks Late President... In the next week, three alumnae will represent Mundelein at high school college days. Mary Ann Berghoff Hoban '49 will go to Dundee high school Nov. 30. Mary Ann Cashman '58 will attend college night at Pro viso high school in Maywood. For the second year, Elaine Foto- play Pappas '50 will represent Munde lein at Elgin high school Dec. 2. Patricia O'Donnell Ewers '57 and Maureen Sweeney '58, faculty mem bers at Mundelein, work part time with the Admissions Office and visit the high schools. Mrs. Ewers is a member of the English department faculty, and Miss Sweeney is the de bate coach at the College. DURING NOVEMBER, nine alum nae have visited college days or col lege nights for the Admissions Office. They are: Marilynne O'Dea '59, St. Francis, Joliet and Oak Lawn; Bar bara Bukowski '59, Hammond; Mary Kay Marren '59, Geneva; Eileen Mc Avoy '59, York in Elmhurst; Mary El len Dwyer '59, St. Patrick, Kankakee; Mary Catherine Davy Thomas '52, Newman High, Sterling; Helen Daly Patch '35, Waukegan; Peggy Grange '59, St. Joseph, Kenosha; Therese Ur- banek Weigand '50, West Aurora. Evedean Watts '59 has assisted the college day program by driving Mundelein faculty representatives to the high schools. Mary Lou O'Brien '55, Alice Campbell '55 and Mary Agnes Moran '54 cooperated in the pro gram last year. During the summer, teas for incom ing freshmen, another part of the ad missions program, were sponsored by Madelaine Courtney Ptacin '44, Lynne Sheeran Sundstrom '58, Ann Coe '58 and Barbara King '59. Mundelein stu dents assisted the alumnae as co-hos tesses. ALUMNAE REPRESENTATIVES have also attended Big Sister teas given by students for their freshman little sisters. Florence Miller '45, Peggy Roach '49, Alice Bourke '59, Lois Shay Wilson '45, and Mary Ann Cashman '58 joined the Big Sisters in welcoming the freshmen last year. Association Launches Endowment Program BULLETIN: Ten responses by re turn mail brought in S316 to kick off the AEP. Gifts of alumnae from '41 to '59 ranged from SI to 80. Alumnae association officers recently completed plans for launching the Alumnae Endowment Program, an alumnae program of annual giving to the College. SINCE ALUMNAE are not in a po sition to make large endowments to the College the new endowment program asks them not for the capital invest ment, but the interest such an invest ment, if made, would draw. For example, an alumna might wish to give Mundelein College 1,000 but she couldn't afford it. However, she might be able to afford a year's income at 4 per cent on an imaginary 1,000 investment a contribution of 40 to the College. THE ALUMNAE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM BROCHURE, which has been mailed to all members, pinpoints specific areas where alumnae contribu tions will be used. (Continued from Page 1) Many features of the current pattern of Mundelein education were intro duced at this time. IMPROVEMENTS directed by Sis ter Mary Josephine included among other things the remodeling of the li brary. To stimulate interest in inter national affairs a five-day UN Insti tute brought to the campus a number of nationally known speakers. Participation in student affairs was sparked by organization of the Serv ice Club, affiliation of the student body with NFCCS and SAC, and the com pilation of the officer's handbook and student directory. Under a reorganized student teaching program, Mundelein stu dents were admitted for the first time to elementary class rooms in the Chicago public schools. During the same period nine Mun delein faculty members were re leased to study for higher de grees. In 1947 the College awarded the first Magnificat Medal, an honor be stowed annually on an outstanding graduate of a Catholic women's col lege in the United States. In 1951, the Sacred Heart shrine on campus was erected by a group of Chicago Laymen. SISTER MARY JOSEPHINE, a na tive of Sioux City, la., entered the Congregation in 1920. Her neice, Sis ter Mary Benedict, B.V.M., is former chairman of Mundelein psychology department and a present president of Clarke college. Mundelein students assisted at a Mass for Sister Mary Josephine in the College auditorium at noon on Nov. 18. Off and On Campus Alumnae Serve Mundelein In his address to the American Alumni Council convention this past summer, David D. Henry, President of the University of Illi nois, said this: The university that is fairly certain how to make a good chem ist or physician or teacher is not at all certain, as the records will show, how to make a good alumnus. No institution, not even the most successful, has yet mobilized its full strength in alumni relations. Higher education will not pros per until all institutions have been reasonably successful in such a mobilization effort. THE ALUMNUS IS IMPORTANT for what he can give. He can give money, he can give advice, he can give interpretation. These are all important gifts, but in the current period, inter pretation is the most important. The alumnus will be most effective in the interpretation task when he comes to understand that in working for his Alma Mater he is not fulfilling a duty, although it could be so classified, nor repaying an obligation, although he owes one, but accepting an opportunity to become a part of the continuing life of an institution with a great mission. He belongs to its history; he will have a great joy in having a part in its future. Many Mundelein alumnae have accepted numerous opportuni ties to become a part of the continuing life of Mundelein. In this issue of the Skyscraper, we wish to highlight some of the opportuni ties and the alumnae who responded to them. IN THE COLLEGE'S admissions program, approximately 100 local and suburban public and parochial high schools are visited each year. When a college day (or college night ) is scheduled in a high school, colleges throughout the country are invited to send rep resentatives to meet and talk with prospective students and their parents. Alumnae have helped to ease the burden on the Admissions Office by representing Mundelein at college days in their localities. In their homes, alumnae, assisted by Mundelein student-hos tesses have held teas for incoming freshmen, another part of the admissions program. A special program called Your Daughter's Education was held for the parents of high school girls this month. Over 500 par ents listened and learned about College Board Entrance Exams, available scholarship plans, student government loans. MUNDELEIN'S PRESIDENT posed and answered the ques tion : Why educate a woman ? Four alumnae representing the voca tions of homemaker and mother, teacher, religious, wife and profes sional woman evaluated their college education personally and in terms of their careers and vocations today. The President of the College receives many invitations to aca demic functions of colleges and universities throughout the country. When she is unable to attend them, she designates an alumna to rep resent her. From New York to California, 11 alumnae have repre sented the President and the College in the past two months. Departmental club meetings often feature alumnae speakers who relate student learning to working life in their respective fields. Student leadership programs rely upon alumnae to point the way to practical application of their training. Certainly Mundelein alumnae have accepted and will continue to accept more and more opportunities to serve and to share with joy in Mundelein's future. Graduates Don Academic Hoods As Social Service to College AAUW Official Visits Campus Dr. Rosalind Cassidy, member of the higher education committee of the American Association of Univer sity Women, recently completed her official visit and report on Mundelein's application for membership in AAUW. AAUW standards cover five points. A prerequisite for consideration by AAUW is accreditation. The first standard, therefore, is proper accredi tation of the college or university by the appropriate regional accrediting association. THE SECOND STANDARD is pro vision for basic liberal education for all graduates. At least 50 per cent of the student's four-year program must be in the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. The third standard concerns ade quate provision for women students opportunities for participation in ex tracurricular activities, well-organized residence halls, an adequate health sei-vice and program of physical edu cation. This standard is particularly applicable to coeducational institu tions. PROFESSIONAL opportunities for women is the subject of the fourth standard, following from the third. AAUW feels that women should be represented in the administration of an institution, as department chair men, and in general, equal opportuni ties with men be provided for appoint ment to the faculty and for advance ment in rank and salary. The fifth standard relates to aca demic freedom. AAUW believes it is desirable that an institution have a philosophy with regard to academic freedom, developed through joint ad ministrative and faculty discussion, and that it be specifically stated and clearly understood. DR. CASSIDY met with college deans and student leaders, visited classes, and inspected facilities during her two-day visit. Her report will be submitted to the higher education committee in Washington, and if ap proved there, will be forwarded for vote by the board of directors within the next few months. When these steps are completed, Sister Mary Ann Ida will be notified whether the college's application has been approved or disapproved. AAUW, FOUNDED in 1882, now has 145,000 members in 1,438 branches throughout the country. Its members continue their quest for learning through AAUW study groups and programs in international relations, social and economic issues, elemen tary and secondary education, legisla tion, the arts, higher education and status of women. The association is also affiliated with international associations of university women. Mundelein's boundaries cannot be reckoned. She is in Chicago, in West Virginia, in Minnesota, in California and in New York. She is where her alumnae are, and they locate in the four corners of the United States. And wherever their homes may be, they continue to serve her. During recent months Sister Mary Ann Ida has called on graduates living in far away places to substitute for her in fulfilling Mundelein's social ob ligations, representing the College at official functions sponsored by other colleges and universities. IN CAP, GOWN, and academic hood mailed from the college to the alumna especially for that occasion, the repre sentative participates in the faculty procession, extends Mundelein's offi cial greetings to the guest of honor, and becomes guest of the host college at a formal dinner or tea. June Edda Kopal Smith '49, found her situation an unusual one when she attended the inauguration of the presi dent of Western Illinois university in Macomb last month. She walked up the aisle with her robe-clad husband who had been selected to stand in for his alma mater, the University of Vir ginia. Eileen Hoover Miles '49 of Indian apolis attended ceremonies at Rose Polytechnic Institute. Frances Walz Mackey '39, now living in Louisville, Ky., traveled to nearby Georgetown College for a similar ceremony. MARY WOOD Stussy Severson '49 stayed at home in St. Paul to attend inaugural ceremonies at Macalester College, as did Catherine Manske Bo- gren '34 at Portland State College in Portland, Ore. San Franciscan Rosemary Shanahan '43 made a quick trip to nearby Oak land when Mills College inaugurated their new president. Victoria Chirigos Communtzis '39 of Morgantown, West Virginia stepped across the city to at tend ceremonies at West Virginia uni versity. The College also receives invitations to attend centennial celebrations. Mary Jo Bornhofen Wiltgen '50 of Winona, Minn, helped Winona State College usher in its second century. Mary Sel- linger Ward '49 of Morristown, New Jersey did the same for the College of St. Elizabeth. Mary Alyce Wolf Lynch '35 of Buf falo, N. Y. answered here for her alma mater at the dedication of the new Duns Scotus Hall at Rosary Hill College.
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1959-11-25 (3)
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