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( V s v r gt;r lt;- if roc--. Itf lRHflL - .r* 7 Nine Departments Have New Faculty Members, Two Are On WTTW Staff Vol. XXVII Mundelein College, Chicago 40. Illinois. Oct. 1. 1956 No. 1 Ford Foundation Gift of 120,000 Raises Salaries Matching the July 2 gift of 120,000.00. first installment of the Ford Foundation grant, Mundelein has been able to increase Faculty salaries, Sister Mary John Mi chael. B.V.M., President of the College, announced last week. Providing aid at precisely the right moment for the college to expand to academic program, Sis ter continued, the gift is also help ing to pay salaries of new Faculty members. It has, furthermore, made it possible for us to release one re- igious Faculty member. Sister Mary Eloise of the Economics de partment, for advanced study at the University of Notre Dame. In December, 1955, the Ford Foundation announced the largest gift in the history of philanthropy 550 million dollars to privately supported colleges, universities, medical schools, and hospitals. c Open Medical Technology Course Here The College is introducing this semester a new degree program in medical technology, preparing stu dents as registered medical tech nologists for work in such areas as blood chemistry, parasitology, bacteriology, and clinical chemis try. The program is a response to an increasing demand for combined academic and professional training to meet the needs of local hospitals and of young women who are in terested in careers as medical tech nologists and who wish to finish college. Students registering for the course will spend two years and a summer session at Mundelein, tak ing liberal arts courses including such requirements as Religion, Bi ology, Chemistry, English, Speech, Fine Arts, Social Science, Foreign Language. Psychology, and Phi losophy. They will spend the third year i Lining in hospital laboratories, gaining practical experience in the 'vpes of work professional tech- juogists do. Returning to Munde- for the final year of study, u , will complete requirements in i lt; iig:on and Philosophy, and in i'.iology and Chemistry, having se lected one of these as a major and the other as a minor. - Twenty-sixth Year Enrollment Tops 900 Nine hundred and eleven students have enrolled for the 1956-57 academic year, ac cording to figures released by the Registrar's office last week. There are 123 Seniors; 168 Juniors; 256 Sophomores, 314 Freshmen, 19 Special stu dents, and 31 Saturday stu dents. A P. A R F M I P stars are the 10 A If A U EM lb Freshmen pictured on this page, all top ranking stu dents in their high school classes and, like all other Freshmen, are getting acquainted this week. Shown on the Library porch are Arlene Stasior and Rosalie Jankowski, from St. Stanislaus; Lucille Jautz from St. Scholastica, and Barbara O'Donnell, from St. Sebastian. Wise Old Owl Says: i(This Is Week To Qet Acquainted A feathered owl peering far into the night is the symbol of wisdom. During the first few weeks of school the wise women of Mundelein imi tate the owl by their endless ques tion, Who? Who? Who are you? Get Acquainted Week, de signed to eliminate any question of Who are you? will open today and will continue through Friday. Each student will wear a distinc tive class tag, with her name on it, and members of the Faculty also will wear name tags. Each organization on campus will decorate a booth at the Club Fair in the lounge. Rosemary Esposito, chairman of the Activities Coordination board, is general chairman of the Fair, which is planned to acquaint new students with activities and to en courage each one to pledge at least one club. Carole Bauer is in charge of ar rangements for the Fair, and Rita Caprini heads the booklet com mittee made up of various club presidents. BVM Councillor Will Be Oct. 4 Guest Lecturer The apostolic work of Mother Mary Frances Clarke, foundress of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, will be the topic of the Foundress Day ad dress. Oct. 4, at 1:10 p.m. Lecturer will be Sister Mary Frances Patricia, B.V.M., one of the four Councillors General who assist Mother Mary Consolatrice, Superior General, in the govern ment of the Congregation founded by Mother Clarke in Philadelphia in 1833. Nine new Faculty members joined the staff for the opening of the twcntv-sixth academic vear, Sept. 10. Sister Mary Josetta, B.V.M., a new staff member in the English department, holds a Master of Arts degree from De Paul university, where she has done advanced study. Sister has just completed a six- year term as principal of St. Jo seph's academy, Des Moines. Sister Mary Donalda, B.V.M., who holds a Master of Arts degree from the Catholic University of America, and who has done ad vanced study at the State University of Iowa, is teaching History and supervising the high school stu dent teaching of History majors. Formerly. Sister was principal of Mount St. Gertrude academy, Boulder, Colorado. Sister Mary Richardine, B.V.M., who holds a Master of Arts degree from Marquette university and who has also done work in the Classics, is teaching in the Educa tion and Classics departments. A member of the National committee of the Sister For mation Conference, Sister as sisted in conducting the first National Survey of the Prepa ration of Teaching Sisters in (1 P I AI hours attract them, too. u u u i n l Here are Virginia Rol. la from Alvernia; Judith Juszak from St. Patrick's, Des Plaines; Jacqueline Kosturak from The Immaculata, and Rosalie Neufeldt from Wells. SAC Mixerama Opens Social Whirl Of '56-57 Ask any History major what Oct. 12 is. She will answer: That's the day Columbus dis covered America. Oct. 12. 1956, is the day stu dents will discover the new social world of 1956-57, at the Fall Mixerama, guaranteed to rival Cinerama. Aquarama. Futurama, and Powerama. Men from neighboring colleges have been invited to the dance, which will be in the gymnasium. from 8:30 p.m. until 12. Committee chairmen include Barbara King, Marilynn Ryan, Mary Ann Cashman, Jacqueline Schwartz, and Rita Hoffmann. The mixer is sponsored by the arrangements board of the Student Activities Council, which planned also the weekend at St. Joseph's college, Collegeville, attended Sept. 22-23 by 100 students. tli2 United States, and pre pared the critical analysis of this survey. in 1955, she addressed the First Iowa Teacher Education and Pro fessional Standards conference, and was asked to submit the paper for publication by the TEPS Commis sion of the National Educational Association. Sister has just completed a six- year term as a BVM Provincial Superior, during which she super vised the educational policies of 14 high schools and 36 elementary schools. Andrea Doman. Ph. D., new Fac ulty member in the Psychology department, holds a Doctor of Phi losophy degree from Pazmany uni versity, Budapest, has studied also at the Sorbonne in Paris, the Cath olic University of Louvain, and the University of Chicago. Formerly assistant custodian at the National Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Dr. Do man has served with the U. S. Military Government, Restitution Control Branch, in Hungary and lt; iermany. At Louvain, she was secre tary of the Institute for Arch eology and Fine Arts, and resident tutor counselor to stu dents at the University Center for Women. She has also been counselor in training at the University of Chicago Coun seling center. Mary Cornwall Hill, Ph. D., who has studied at the University of Texas, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern university, from which she holds a doctorate, is a new Faculty member in the Eng lish department. She has taught at West moorland college and at the University of Texas. She is a member of Phi Reta Kappa. Martin J. Maloney, who holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kansas and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from North western university, is teaching Tele vision and Radio Script writing in the English-Journalism depart ment. An associate professor of speech at Northwestern and a lecturer in the University college, University of Chicago, Dr. Maloney, an au thority on Semantics, is writing a television series on that subject (Continued on Page 4. Col. 1). S P I R 1 T i A I values are vital, also. Pictured are Patricia Farnum from Mundelein Cathedral and Donna Malacina from The Immaculata, visiting Stella Maris Chapel after classes. See story on Page 4 about the Class of 1960.
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