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May 8, 1963 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three Alumna Writer Urges Growth after College by Janice Jearas TRIBUNE REPORTER, photogra as she is welcomed by Sheila Prin Kathy Reynolds, Shirley Heying. Dougherty. Skyscraper Photo pher Julie Ann Lyman is photographed by Skyscraper photographer Rae Paul diville, May Lou Prichard, Pat Johnson, Josephine Gossclin, Mary Scanlon, Bottom Row: Molly Palen, Maxine Tyma, Jan Jearas, Mary Kay Dimatteo, Joan Students Answer Challenge Opportunities for the student who wants to do something for herself and for others are numerous on campus. Girls may act as tutors for their classmates or for drop outs. Others may donate their time to a local orphanage or may go out of state to work in the lay mis sions. Several students have al ready discovered these areas for so cial action. Mary O'Brien, sophomore, is rep resenting Mundelein in the College Service Council, an organization formed to coordinate all college ef forts in tutoring. The council is composed of representatives from Loyola, Northwestern, Rosary, Barat, IIT, DePaul, Chicago Teach ers College, University of Chicago and Wilson Junior College, who serve as a steering committee to activate the project on their cam puses. Northwestern was the first col lege in the area to have a successful program in tutoring the drop-out and potential drop-out in the Lawn- Girls Volunteer Next month Mundelein will again send girls to work in the home lay missions. Carol Lisowski, Rose mary Harrington, Judy Wilder, Letitin Grabowski and Bernadine Graczyk, all members of the senior class, have volunteered to do mis sion work in Louisiana this sum mer. Irene and Helen Skala will be working in Arizona. Last summer Dorothy Young '62, Carlotta Letizio '63, Irene Skala '64 and Helen Skala '65 worksd in Louisiana in connection with the Grail Movement. They taught cate chism, arts and crafts and worked with the children in Abbeville, Mel ville, Lafaye'te and Kaplan, La. Community living and a sharing of ideas completed the program. The CSMC, under the direction of Diane Tate is also cooperating with the summer program by try ing to find more opportunities where students can help. dale area on Chicago's west side. Their students saw the need to co ordinate all colleges in the metro politan area in a combined effort. Form Service Council With the help of the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago, the Chicago Human Relations Com mittee and various business men in terested in the economic factor of the drop-out situation, the College Service Council was formed. Mundelein's part in the project will go into full swing next Sep tember when it continues the tutor ing project begun by the sophomore class in the Rockwell Gardens area. The tutoring will take approxi mately two hours of students' time each week and will be in the area of remedial reading. On May 9 Robert Holding, direc tor of the Northwestern project, and Dr. Catherine Richards, staff member of the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago will be available to speak to the students and give them information regard ing the program. Explains Position Mr. Holding, a recent speaker at the SAC-sponsored Emphasis Op portunity said, The Northwest ern tutors are in the business of putting themselves out cf business. For only after the need of our proj ect has been eliminated, can we term ourselves a success. Another tutoring service which is strictly an on-campus project is sporsored by NSA. Sigma Tau Sigma, Student Tutor Society, is a product of a regional meeting at tended by Mundelein representa tives. Approximately 22 juniors and seniors have volunteered to act as tutors in the fields of math and science for Mundelein students. According to the NSA newslet ter, Membership in the Sigma Tau Sigma will be limited to juniors and seniors who have received a grade of A or B in the courses they desire to tutor. They will re ceive no pay, but will receive hon ors at the May convocation. Their tutoring load will average one to two hours per week. Angel Guardian Orphanage pro vides another opportunity for stu dents wishing to give of them selves. Volunteers play with the children, bathe them and prepare them for bed. Last year students began to tutor children in reading, math and speech. Carlotta Letizio '63 says that students receive their greatest reward from working with the children. Julie Ann Lyman '59, a success ful Chicago Tribune feature writer- photographer, returned to Munde lein April 24 to speak on Wom an's Place in the World at the SAC-sponsored Emphasis Oppor tunity. A speech major at Mundelein, Miss Lyman stressed the impor tance of growth after college based on the abstract principles learned there. The blue-eyed brunette pointed out, The normal girl has a desire to marry and have babies, but she also has a desire to make some kind of contribution to society. The two need not be mutually exclusive goals for the successful wife and mother is forced to understand the problems of her husband's and chil dren's worlds. Shows Understanding Since she has become a profes sional writer, Miss Lyman's experi ences have led her to research on such varied topics as Purdue's Golden Girl, the unwed mother in today's society, the rookie cop, the world at 63rd and Halsted, the high school drop-out and state mental institutions. Her stories in the Sunday feature section show a great comprehension of the prob lems and an attempt to share her experience and understanding with her readers. Meets People While not everyone has the op portunity to meet this great variety of people, all college graduates meet various kinds of people with different viewpoints. Trying to see the viewpoints of others which do not agree with yours will make the Mundelein girl a true woman, ac cording to the pert reporter. The period of active living should not stop with a woman's marriage, Miss Lyman (who plans to be mar ried soon) emphasized. If a wife Delta Mu Theta Presents Award For Musical Talent, Scholarship Rewarding tha achievement of Noreen Walsh in the field of music, Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., Col lege president, presented her with a diploma and pin from Delta Mu Theta yesterday. Delta Mu Theta, National Catholic Music Honor So- c i e t y, acknowl edges the work of college students to encourage ef fort in musical perform- ance, original composition and mu sic leadership. Noreen merited the recognition on the basis of scholarship, work in the music department, promotion of Cathol'c music, participation in li turgical courses and liturgical functions. Noreen Walsh Coke Dance Freshmen and sophomores will sponsor that Final Fling, a coke dance May 19, in Lewis Center and McCormick Lounge. Tin Lake Shore Four will pro vide music from 5 to 9 p.m. Varied activities have helped No reen gain experience in the musical fisld. She has served as an officer of the Glee Club for two years, and as a student director of such school productions as Monette and 'Amahl and the Night Visitors. Scholastically, Noreen claims a four-year Mundelein voice scholar ship and a four-year honorary Illinois state scholarship. Moonyeen Brown, who is presi dent of Mundelein's chapter of the society, and presently doing doc toral work at Northwestern Uni versity, spoke at the presentation held in 703. Members of Delta Mu Psi, Mundelein music club, attended the ceremony. Alumnae Present Informal Meeting For Class of '63 A ch'p and dip party, for the class of 1963 will be held by the Alumnae Association, May 9 at 1:10 p.m. in McCormick Lounge. The purpose of the party is to acquaint the class with the func tions of the organization, to con gratulate the seniors on their forth- com'ng graduation and to welcome them into the Alumnae Association. Short talks, emphasizing various aspects of the association's work, will be given by Juanita Gilmore Serafin '50, president; Mary Can ning O'Brien '54, vice president; ard Margaret Mary Madden Parent '38, director of alumnae relations. remains aware of the world about her she can give to her husband and family a well rounded, more com plete personality. Miss Lyman entered the world of the Tribune immediately after col lege as a secretary in the city room. She then advanced to an editor of the Tribune Company house paper and learned photography and the technical skill of the journalist. Soon after submitting free-lance work to the Sunday magazine sec tion, she advanced to the position she now holds. May Calendar Lists Papers, Talks, Dinner Several departments have an nounced the publication of papers, guest speakers and club parties among May activities. The theology department has an nounced that an article titled A New Pentecost, by Sister Mary Carol Frances, B.V.M., will ap pear in the May issue of Worship. At the invitation of the modern language department, Mr. Thomas Keating of the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations will show slides of South America in 405 tomorrow at 3 p.m. The slides are of a boys' refuge home which Mr. Keating set up in Caracas, Venezuela at the re quest of the Archbishop of Vene zuela and the Minister of Educa tion. Dr. Fred Bosolo, co-author of Reactions and Mechanism of Inor ganic Chemistry, will speak at the Chemistry Seminar, May 10 at 1 p m. on his recent research on co ordination complexes. Eight senior chemistry majors doing research on metal complexes of protein-related substances will discuss their work at a meeting of Phi Theta Nu, May 15 in 601. The seniors: Geraldine Huitink, Kathleen Krogman, Judy Letke- wicz, Adrienne Lubanski, Berna dine Nemke, Grace Peters and Joan Schipp have been using instruments purchased with the 11,380 grant from the National Institute of Health. Adrienne, Grace and Judy will present a combined paper on this work May 18 at St. Xavier College during a Student Symposium of the American Chemical Society. Senior chemistry majors will be the guests of honor at a buffet given by Phi Theta Nu today at 4:10 p.m. in Lewis Center. Skyscrap -r Photo by Rae Paul SENIOR ART STUDENTS Lo retta Bernbom and Keiko Waka- bayashi examine the announce ment of their exhibit on the eighth floor.
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1963-05-08 (3)
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