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Feb. 10, 1965 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three Volunteers Tell Rationale for Work, Enact Philosophy: Living Is Giving Living is giving. Such is the unanimous philosophy of a group of independent volunteers from Mundelein. For one volunteer, giv ing of oneself may include dodging marbles and grapes at a lively CCD class or discussing vinyal sin and miordal sin with fourth grad ers. Another volunteer may give her time to teaching a blind child to read or to feeding and diapering an abandoned baby. Helps Others Helping others through Confra ternity of Christian Doctrine courses, auxiliaries, hospital work and special programs brings Mun delein students directly in contact with the challenge of love. Senior Connie Tracz has two and a half hours a week set aside for helping blind children with their lessons at St. Wenceslaus. These are seven youngsters from second through seventh grades from all areas of Chicago. The teacher is a lay person from the Archdiocese, Connie explains, I help the boys and girls with their typing and reading. They use braille while I have a regular text book. There was a certain amount of adjustment on my part before I got used to it. You can't pity or help them too much. Another senior, Cynthia Osowiec, spends an occasional Sunday work ing at Holy Cross Hospital. Her hours are taken up with youngsters in the pediatrics play room or with older people who are so lonely that they are grateful for anything you do for them. With Cynthia, these patients can enjoy a friendly card game or just plain, old-fash ioned conversation. Cook County Hospital is the stomping ground for a four-mem ber troup of seniors. Sue Worny, Holly Kopke, Judy Jones and Kathy Kammien take care of boarder babies. These tiny tikes have either been abandoned or are victims of child-beating. Feeding them is a long, messy affair, tells Holly. They clamp their teeth shut and won't open their mouths or they spit the food all over the place. I don't blame them; they get spinach mixed with jello at times. She adds, Even the older kids never get meat. Cottage cheese is a meat substitute. Equally as important as feeding, is simply picking up a child and showing some attention. We can't just let them lie around, Judy says, or many will be retarded be cause of lack of stimulus. Kathy says, Quite a number of them are already late in starting to walk be cause they've been neglected for so long. Attaches Nicknames Fond of referring to the young sters as my baby or my child, the girls admit they get attached to some of the little ones and miss them when they are placed in homes. In the line of occupational haz ards, Holly remembers when one boy came after me with a syringe. I got bit once, too. Why do the girls take three hours from their schedule to help such children ? We're selfish, they all echo, We enjoy it so much. They say, There's a feeling of ful fillment and contentment from be ing able to do something for some one. Kathy says simply, Giving is better than receiving. Yet another hospital volunteer is senior Cathy Rose. She works by Barbara Kubicz in the gift shop at Resurrection. I feel the best way to get out into the world is to do volunteer work. Cathy is also a substitute CCD Skyscraper Photo THIS YOUNG FELLOW possesses latent potential. Stimulus through personal contact, the independent volunteer, will channel his re sources in the right direction. teacher at St. Robert Bellarmine Parish. She has charge of all the public high school girls who seek supplementary religious instruc tion. The girls who work in the Con fraternity of Christian Doctrine classes, give an hour of their Sun day mornings to the catechetical work. Barbara Haligowski, a jun ior mathematics major, teaches CCD at Divine Savior. She finds that subduing a cantankerous 6- year-old is a wee bit more difficult than leading a choir, her former parish duty. Running out of the classroom, an urchin named Billy shouted back at her, Come and get me; I dare you Cites Incident I hauled Win, back in, says Barb. Then during another class, I asked a boy to tell us some of the things God made. He went into a regular dissertation on microbes. I later discovered his father was working for his master's degree in microbiology. Sophomore Connie Cavaliero be gan her CCD career at Our Lady of Mount Carmel three years ago. Right now I'm tutoring a seventh- and Caryl Cinelli grade boy who's made the decision to become a convert from the Greek Orthodox faith. Freshman Dor- ann Klein and sophomore Joyce Milkowski also teach at Mount Carmel. Dorann is preparing a First Communion class of third through fifth graders. After stressing a lesson on sin and confession to her Com munion class, Dorann asked Lynn why she wanted to make her First Communion. Lynn replied, to get my sins back. Her class takes their recreation by tossing marbles and grapes around the room. While Dorann chooses to call her class very lively, Joyce describes her first graders as very wiggly. She copes with questions such as, How does God fit into that little 'taber- nickle' ? and We've heard this six times already; can't we learn some thing new? Tells Problem Joyce tells of the problem, They forget everything from one week to the next. And it's impossible to test their knowledge because they can't read. When Adam and Eve sinned, God promised to send a savior. Who is the savior, Johnny? Mary. Joyce describes this classroom situation to point out that her first graders have a total lack of religious training. Joyce confesses that the first year she taught, she was petrified, but now, she melts when she looks into the beautiful brown eyes of her Spanish stu dents. Freshman Charlotte Mass strug gles with the same problem with her fourth graders at St. Isaac Jogues in Niles. Drawing a map of Italy, one day, she told them, This is where the Pope lives. Now remember that. The next Sunday, she asked if anyone remembered what they learned the week before. There was no response. She drew another picture of Italy and one little boy piped, I know who lives there, the apostles Integrates Bible Charlotte integrates Bible pas sages into her lessons to instill an interest in the Scripture for the youngsters. Results have been ex cellent, remarks Charlotte. The kids go home and pull out the Bible to read. Connie Killoren, a freshman, finds her experience very reward ing at St. Ignatius, although she has to plug away at the same things because they go in one ear and out the other. Most of their first and second graders have no religious background at all. They are starved for religion. She says, We had a play for the Epiphany. I asked Danny to be one of the Three Kings. I 'druther' be a camel, he com mented and remained firm in his decision. I'm trying to teach them that God loves each one of them, that God is in each of them and that's why they're so special. She goes on, Before I started CCD, I won dered how I could teach without any experience, but I found out I had so much to give to those who have nothing. Senior Adrienne Voisinet had discplinary problems on the high school level. Teaching junior and senior boys and girls in one room at St. Rosalie's was chaos. I couldn't keep order, so I only lasted two classes. Then I had the boys alone in class. I couldn't han dle them either. Now I have just the girls and there's peace. She also says, I used to teach lower grades, but I have more of a feel ing of accomplishment with the older ones. It was through CCD that I decided I wanted to be a teacher. The high school girls ask questions because they're in terested, not because they try to stump the teacher. The text? Oh, I use my notes from Christian mar riage. Relates Cooperation Adrienne Banke, a junior, also says her sophomore high school girls are cooperative at Five Holy Martyrs. For a text, she prefers Hi Time magazine. Adrienne had had former teaching experience and when she saw an ad in the parish bulletin, I decided that as long as I had the experience, I might as well help out. As a member of the Third Order of St. Francis, Adrienne also manages to visit St. Monica's in Indiana where she teaches a group of Negro chil dren. Once a month, she goes to Misericordia, a center for retarded children. CCD could not exist without its secretaries as well as its teachers. Junior Judi King does the actual business work for the CCD at Our Skyscraper Photo by Aldine Favaro AFFECTION AND INTEREST are vitally important to youngsters. Not only time but also loving care is given to children by independent volunteers like Pat Padbury. Lady of the Angels Parish. Her job is to get materials to the class room, keep attendance records, reg ister new applicants and make out those all-important report cards. But there are yet others at Mun delein who take time out from school to contribute to their neigh borhood or parish in some way. Freshman Mary Mejia words at the Cordi-Marian Settlement House, run by an order of sisters who came from Mexico just 30 years ago. Mary is the secretary of the House's Junior Auxiliary; she is the only girl officer of the Auxil iary. Inscribes Ideals Junior Chris Walenga is a Girl Scout leader at Chicago Valentine Boys' Club. Trying to inscribe ideals on them is an immensely valuable experience, says Chris, who is planning a teaching career. Another junior, Bernadine Thomas, is the president of the Women's Auxiliary at St. George's Parish. The auxiliary is currently raising money to get the church roofed. She entered the organiza tion because, it's difficult to get people to help and it's important to get cooperation. The priests can't do everything. All of Mundelein s independent volunteers feel the time they spend helping others is worth it. There are no regrets. I wish I could do more, one sophomore said. In the wake of student apathy, there are these few who show the diversifica tion of Christian charity. Professional Communicators Endorse Student Action in World Affairs Continued from Page 1) fight to preserve the United Na tions. States Question U.S. Ambassador Yost stated the Article 19 controversy as the ques tion of continuing peace-keeping by assessment or by voluntary con tributions. The United States' call for enforcement of the article is based on its desire to promote peace-keeping operations which are as effective as possible. The U.S. government asserts that under a system of voluntary contributions to such operations, reduced revenue would curb effectiveness. On the perennial Red China ad mission question, Ambassador Yost commented that currently a ma jority of the General Assembly might vote for the admission of Red China to the UN but would not vote for the simultaneous with drawal of Nationalist China which the Peking government considers the prime requisite to its entrance. Stresses Purpose Reiterating the position that cur rent crises in the UN do not mean its collapse, the Ambassador stressed that the purpose of the UN is not to stop change but to insure that it is peaceful and called the world organization the only al ternative to international anarchy. During a panel discussion of De Gaulle and European Politics, as sistant New York Times managing editor Freedman proposed several interpretative ideas: that General DeGaulle is re luctant to communicate his policy to his ministers but wants an in dependent Europe with France as its leader that Europe seeks no formal ties with the U.S. but desires the aid of U.S. nuclear power when it is needed that DeGaulle seeks the neu tralization of the Indochina penin sula that the French President en courages trade ties with Eastern Europe. Panel member Sidney Gruson, foreign news editor of the New York Times, proposed that the core crisis today is the struggle for con trol of nuclear force. He holds that the rumblings within NATO are not its death knell but that they signal the last chance for Atlantic nations to develop political unity based on a structure other than the present state-nation form. Explains MLF Gruson called the late President Kennedy's proposal of a multi lateral nuclear force (MLF) this country's answer to European pres sure for nuclear forces. He offered no opinion on the reason for Presi dent Johnson's current coolness to ward MLF, however. From another panel on the NATO Alliance, the conclusion emerged that NATO is not crum bling but is in a state of change from a negative association for protection to a positively oriented organization to promote eeconomic welfare and mutual assistance.
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1965-02-10 (3)
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