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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER May 8,1963 Teacher-Pioneer Discusses Forty Years' Work in Asia Sklineraper Photo by Mickey Deutsch SENIOR CHEMISTRY MAJORS displaying the new pellet press used in their research project are (1. to r.) Judy Letkewicz, Adrienne Lubanski, Grace Peters, Geraldine Huitink, Joan Schipp, Bernardine Nemke and Kathleen Krogman. The machine's purchase was possible through the chemistry department's recent grant of 11,380. Everything A-OK Senior Takes to Space Meet Miss Aerospace of 1963 declared the salutation of a letter senior Virginia Zvonkovich re ceived recently. Beginning in Aug ust, Virginia will be an assistant engineer at the U.S. space-research center in Santa Monica, Cal., the Douglas Aircraft Corporation where she will conduct studies in volving gas dynamics, hypersonic research and environmental effects upon space systems. Never formally interviewed for the job, Virginia had a chance meeting at Mundelein earlier in the semester with alumna Helen Hol- man '39 who has been a Douglas employee for ten years and is cur rently working toward her doc torate at Yale University. Helen was impressed with the enthusiasm and scholastic ability of the senior physics major. Upon her return to Yale, she set the wheels in motion for Virginia's application at the Douglas Corporation. Earns Honors Virginia is also the recipient of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration fellowship at New York State University. A four- year honor student, she was offered an associateship at Purdue Univer sity. Displays Many Interests More than Newton's Laws inter est the soft-spoken senior. Satur day mornings Virginia teaches piano to four boys and girls in- Organists Plan Spring Recital The sound of music will echo through the College Theater as nine organists present a recital, May 14, at 3:10 p.m. Opening the program, Joyce Par- ren will play Song of the Chalet Girls. Kathleen Schevers will present Corelli's Gavotte and Me- lanie Renk will add an American tone with Larson's American Folk Tune. Also participating in the recital, Virginia Kelly will play Angelus by Massanet. Gail Topolinski will play Romance sans Paroles and Sheila Kirby will offer Le Petite Cloches and Marche Humoresque. Mary Reinerts will contribute Handel's Allegro. Concluding the program, Sister M. Marlene, S.C.C, will play Allegro Maes toso and Helen Skala will play Prelude in C Minor and Marche Grotesque. Virginia Zvonkovich eluding a blind high school student. She herself is versatile on the organ, accordion and piano. In f a c t, Virginia laughs, I was going to be a music major be fore Sputnik came along. Sister Mary Therese, B.V.M., believes is is an honor to go directly from college to a position of this kind, and says: There are entirely too few women in any kind of science. Virginia's acceptance of the research position will be a source of stimulus to other young women scientists. Virginia herself values the ex perience of entering a field which until recently had been closed to women. Science needs women's minds as well as men's, she says. A superficial first impression is that she is just like anyone's grand mother. That is if American grand mothers ordinarily spend nearly four decades living in Asia and do ing pioneer work for the blind. Genevieve Caulfield visited Mun delein in March when Mrs. Patrick F. Crowley received the College's 1963 Magnificat Medal. Miss Caul- field explained that their close friendship stems from being fellow alumnae of Trinity College, Wash ington, D.C, and from mutual ac quaintances in Los Angeles, Calif. I always try to visit the Crowleys when I come to Chicago, she said. Visits Chicago Chicago is just one of a number of U.S. cities in which Miss Caul- field lectures on the East and her work there. In lecturing I try to make peo ple in the United States understand what close neighbors we are, she explained, underscoring the last words with her voice. This has been her goal since, prompted at the age of 17 by the possibility of a California law com pelling Japanese children to attend separate schools, she decided to go to Japan as an English teacher. Goes to Orient Miss Caulfield refused to allow her own blindness, caused by an ac cident two months after her birth in Virginia in 1888, to interfere. Af ter 15 years of preparation, her ship docked in Yokohama in July, 1923. One Mundelein student among the listeners who gravitated to Miss Caulfield in McCormick Lounge linked that year with the devastating Japanese earthquake and asked if she had visited the ruins. My dear, I was in the ru ins, she replied apparently pleased at having had the experience. St u craplna5 Relationships at a prom can be either made or broken. Some glamorinas who attended our Tarn O'Shanter Dinner Dance decided that they had the strings but the wrong yo yo. When the music began, Carol Calderon was heard commenting to Elaine Turco that she couldn't twist in her long gown, but Elaine had her beat. She couldn't WALK. On the whole, a good time was had by all, especially the chaperones. Gal for Hire: This is the time of year when people are anxious to line up sum mer employment. Seniors even want to take stabs at permanent positions. A friend of mine went job hunting during Easter vacation. She was interviewed by one person nel official who assumed she ranked in the upper half of her class. She pertly exclaimed, Oh no, Sir. I'm one of those who make the top half possible. Now employers have to take note of such cleverness. When Damon Runyon applied for a posi tion with the Denver Post, the busy editor left a message that he would not see him, but that Runyon was to send in his card. Runyon reached into his pocket and withdrew a deck of playing cards, peeled off an ace and told a messenger boy to give him that. Runyon got the job. Looney Birds: The dormitory is going to the birds, not the dogs. Fourth-floor residents gave Sister Joan Francis a parakeet named Jeffie, for J. F. Seventeen freshmen and sopho mores attended the opening White Sox game in Chicago. They re ceived a special welcome on the Sox-o-gram. The hike craze is in for the spring. Sue Staudt and Pat Schultz walked to the Art Institute in something like three hours. Who but Mickey Coffaro would look for an old flame in a mink stole? Seems like she almost set the fur on fire after the Junior- Senior Luncheon when she failed to toss a cigarette ash out of her car window. Engaged: Lorraine Swarek became en gaged to Ed Kamis at the senior- junior Prom May 4. Junior Mary Ellen Bradley and Jim Jordon plan to be married in the summer of '64. Sophomore Rosemarie Gilmarten and Richard Jenson plan a Feb. '64 wedding. Junior Pam Wilt, the Sunbeam girl is pinned to Kael Kennedy. Seniors Kay Coyne and Gail Grundman now have that added something an engagement ring. Kay will be married a year from this summer to Joe Siblik. Gail is engaged to Jack Jacklich. CASSANDRA by Mary Etta Talarico For 14 years Miss Caulfield taught English to private students in addition to teaching at Tokyo's Prefectural Fifth Middle School for Boys and at a Tokyo settlement house. She returned to the United States in 1937 to raise money to found a Skyscraper Photo by Mickey Deutsch SKYSCRAPER REPORTER Mary Etta Talarico interviews Genevieve Caulfield, a pioneer in Asian work for the blind and underprivileged. school for the blind in Thailand where no program existed for them. From 1939-47 Miss Caulfield worked establishing a school in Bangkok and during the war years she was virtually a prisoner in the Japanese-held country. The school, in its third decade, now enrolls 145 students. Since 1952, there has been a foundation for the deaf in Thailand which is an outgrowth of her work for the blind. Miss Caulfield said that since the 1950's she has been working in Vietnam. Five years ago a school opened in Saigon to teach commer cial skills to 22 blind students ena bling them to work. Discusses UN Did the war thwart her efforts? The war has handicapped us psy chologically, but the UN is re sponding rather well. We don't have much trouble getting supplies if we have the money, she an swered. Smiling and perceptively eager, Miss Caulfield said she will return to Asia in May, interjecting But I always stop in Japan first. At 75, Genevieve Caulfield still has unaccomplished tasks in view. We're just beginning in Southeast Asia. Work for the blind is just one aspect; we can't narrow the perspective. Assign Peace Corps Volunteer To Teaching Posf in Philippines by Barbara Kubicz Senior Marya Pettit is following in the footsteps of Evelyn Mittman and Mary Koenig by entering the Peace Corps immediately after graduation. As a Peace Corps volunteer, she will attend 11 weeks of training this summer in either Hawaii or California. During this orientation period, she will learn the ten ma jor dialects of the Philippines, phy sical education, first aid, culture, politics, hygiene and methods and techniques of teaching sciences. After satisfactory completion of the training, she will go to the Philippines f o 1- lowing a ten-day visit home. As one of the 600-700 volun teers in the Phil ippines, Marya will receive Marya spending, travel Pettit and clothing al lotments. At her post, she will teach secondary science and possi bly English. She hopes to enter graduate school after her two-year stint is completed. Marya first became interested in volunteer work as a college fresh man. When the corps' program was initiated two years ago, she watched its development while be lieving the U.S. needs more self less people and fewer Ugly Ameri cans. Biology major Marya holds chemistry-physics and physical education minors. A member of the Science and Literary Honors Seminar, Marya will graduate cum laude. She is a Big Sister, appears frequently on the Dean's List and is in Who's Who among College Stu dents. A Terrapin, she partici pated in the Water Carnival. 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