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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER March 11,1964 Sister Mary Elsa Earns Doctorate; Relates Impressions of Paris Life SI udcrapinad Back from a two-year stay in Paris where she earned her Ph.D. at the Sorbonne on a Fulbright, Sister Mary Elsa, B.V.M. was will ing and anxious to communicate her impressions of life in Gay Paree. Sister's first words offered a word of consolation to 18-and- anxious man hunters, In France, the youngsters don't start dating until well into their 20s. Comforts Students She also unconsciously soothed harried American students by say ing, The school day of a French child often extends from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The students work harder and, consequently, get far ther faster. They start analysis in school much sooner. But French students never go to school and hold an outside job simultaneously. And, she remembered, there is less homework and a longer time for lunch, when the entire family is united in the home. All the stores close at noon and children are not permitted to have lunch in school. Commenting on the structure of French society, Sister said, Home by Barbara Kubicz life is much more important in France. The family remains very close, even outside the home and there is a great deal of affection. A term equiva lent to the Eng- lish dear is tagged on to all forms of direct address in the family, she added. The French h a v e a differ ent concept of friend 1 i n e s s than we do. By our standards, the French are not neighborly, or they mind their own business. Sister illustrated her point by re lating the story of the day she went to visit the widow of Jules Supervielle, the poet on whom she was writing her dissertation. Ten ants in the building where Madame Supervielle lived could not recall the floor on which she lived and Sister had to spend time trudging up and down staircases because Sister Mary Elsa News Briefs Represents College Barbara Mounsey '65 will con tinue to represent Mundelein Col lege on the Mademoiselle College Board. She reports news from the college to the magazine and will be able to compete for 20 guest editor ships awarded in May. Addresses Students Dorothy Day, convert and founder 6T the Catholic Worker Movement, will speak March 19 at McCormick Lounge at 12:40 p.m. Miss Day is author of The Long Loneliness and Loaves and Fishes. Display Art Art majors Yuki Ito and Judy de Jan are exhibiting their work in Gallery Eight until March 30. The display, fulfilling part of the re quirements for their bachelor of fine arts degree, includes 100 paint ings, prints, wood cuts, designs, etchings and sculpture. Plan Institute The 1964 Summer Institute in French for high school French teachers will be held July 1 to Aug. 12 at Mundelein. The program co- conducted by Mundelein and Loy ola, is sponsored by the NDEA in cooperation with the U.S. Office of Education Language Development Program. Announce Judges The Review recently announced the remainder of the judges for the Josephine Lusk creative writ ing contest. Editor of The Critic, Paul Cuneo will judge critical re views and Don Sullivan, police re porter for the Chicago American will judge editorials. Announces Study-Trip Sister Mary Donald, B.V.M., chairman of the classics depart ment, has been elected to the vice presidency of the Illinois Classical Conference. She also announced that she will take a study-trip to Italy and Greece this spring to study at the Vergilian School at Naples for two weeks and attend a convention in Athens, May 11-16. Offers Workshop Sister Mary Eloise, B.V.M., chairman of the economics depart ment, will offer a six-day workshop in economics for high school teach ers of social studies and business education, June 14-20. The pro gram, which will feature Professor Lawrence Senesh of Purdue Uni versity, will offer an optional two hours credit. people don't know who their neighbors are. Religious habits are treated dif- fei-ently in France, too. Resulting from the French Revolution, there is no particular respect for a reli gious habit as such. But there is respect for the person after they get to know you. Learns Customs Unfamiliarity with the customs of a land can put a person into em barrassing situations, as Sister found out on Valentine's Day when she went into the French equivalent of a dime store to buy a card for her parents. Sister noticed that the displayed cards were terribly affectionate and two clerks were doubled up with laughter off to the side. Sister later returned to her residence hall and discovered that in France Valentine's Day is ob served only by engaged couples. The French have remarkably refined taste. Even their bakery windows are attractively arranged. And while there are a certain va riety of teens who correspond to our 'Beatle lovers', they are in the minority. Discusses Sentiment The French have none of our re spect for 'progress.' Their efforts are directed toward restoring and preserving because of sentiment. History is much more alive to them and they read more than Ameri cans. Five out of eight persons read books, not magazines while riding the subway or standing in lines. There's a book store on al most every city block. Sister concluded by describing Paris as charming although the population is dense and you have to fight your way through the crowds constantly. Continuing the comparison, Sis ter admitted she is glad to be back but, I wouldn't like to think that I would never see France again. We have been seeking hither and yon for that first herald of spring, friend robin, but he is evidently still in hiding somewhere souther-Iy. We suspect that if he doesn't arrive promptly, the yearly human mass migration to New Orleans, Daytona and other peninsular lost paradises will have diminished his audience considerably, and those of us who re main will be too busy with Easter-week term papers and/or fun and games to notice him at all. As we go to press, the New Hampshire primary is still a week away; but, on the very day you receive Mundelein's contribution to the mass media, you will also have received news about how it all turned out. Now, from where we sit, Barry seems to be looming and zooming ahead of his considerable number of Republican cohorts. We were happy to see Margaret Chase Smith in the race, in spite of her coy and somewhat flighty announcement speech. She is obviously breaking ground, as our grannies said, circa 1910. Amor-Vincit-Omnia Dep't: Is it true that YD prexy Maureen Burns, having tea-ed with dashing young Barry, Jr., will turn in all her old madly-for-Adlai buttons and her I'm-just-wild-about-Harry fluorescent bumper banner? Deus-ex-Machina and what else is new? Because our curiosity be came unbearable, we finally made the move and Dialed-a-Saint. Perhaps you have read about it in your parish bulletin: Electronic Equipment (sic) instantly and automatically answers your call day or night . . . The day or night we called, it was the feast of St. Chad (?), a seventh century English bishop who cared naught for fame. The spiel was delivered by a clipped and tidy parlor-British voice that first (and fore most) reminded us that this message was brought to us by a chain of funeral homes that shall remain nameless here. We put it all in the same class with Dashboard-Art-Plastic-Saints, and went on to more rewarding things. What's-in-a-Name Dep't: (Teenie Division): We were relieved to see that Luci (formerly Lucy) Baines Johnson was spelling it that way. Ironically, sister Lynda uses that strange y to make up for the i that Luci adopted. At any rate, it reminded us of our own insistence upon a diminutive (spelled with an i, of course) in the late great years we called high school our home. Trouble was, Mama didn't have a press secretary to re-affirm our new name, and so it never really stuck Take a bow, Georgie Klubertanz: St. Joe's in Renssalaer has a holi day on the feast of Thomas Aquinas, of all people, but goes to school on the feast of St. Joseph. Dearies-Are-Discussing: The Variety Show, bigger, better, livelier than ever this year, March 20 and 21 . . . The Retreat Controversy: or, Should Big Girls Be Required To? . . . Phrases-We-Don't-Expect-to- Hear-Much-Anymore: I'd rather fight than switch. The thinking man's filter. . . . Take Her, She's Mine, a near-professional adaptation and performance, in spite of almost impossible conditions in 405 . . . The Tuition Hike, like the swallows at Capistrano . . . Lent: It's not either a snack: it's my dessert from lunch . . . The Concert-Lecture program of late: where are the thrilling days of yesteryear, when Mundelein's stage saw such pros as author Sean O'Faolain and pianist Soulima Stravinsky? . . . Dammit dolls, spring, the identity crisis, Albert Fin ney, and the Alpha Delts who carried Julie Ebner's typewriter to school in a rousing display of group chivalry. Pandora Aid Foreign Students English Department Initiates Language Program The English department is ob serving with great interest the progress of its newest program of English for foreign students, said Sister Mary Antonia, B.V.M., English department chairman. Initiated by Sister Mary Josetta, B.V.M., the program is designated to help the foreign student master the intricacies of the English sound system, structure and vo cabulary. The students meet four times a week in the classroom and once in the language laboratory. Stresses Improvement Since the course substitutes for freshman rhetoric if the student acquires the proficiency to enter a sophomore literature course, Sister Mary Josetta emphasizes improve ment in speaking, reading, writing and literature interpretation. Sister Mary Josetta's students are of six nationalities, for Sister Mary Clare and Sister Mary Ther- esita are from Burma; Vedavalli Screenivasan is from India; Bea- triz Canelas and Marcela Ugarta from Bolivia; Philomena Okon from Nigeria; Mrs. Magdalena Lo pez from Cuba and Josephine Men- tesana from Italy, Beatriz Canelas and Vedavalli Screenivasan find that the course has aided them in pronunciation. Beatriz mentioned she has acquired confidence in the use of English expressions, rules and idioms. In English class I have the opportu nity to speak and hear others speak, added Philomena Okon. To add variety to the course, Sis ter Mary Josetta uses laboratory tapes. Through practice in sentence patterns, Sister checks the stu dents' progress in grammar. She emphasizes correct sentence place ment of adverbs and other modi fiers. To supplement the English gram mar text, English Sentence Pat terns, Sister uses The United States of America, a book contain ing sketches of our Founding Fa thers, the progress of the westward movement and descriptions of the American way of life. She wel comes the students' reaction to American ways adding that her foreign students lack understand ing of American government policy. President Kennedy's death left them confused, bewildered and afraid since they linked his assassination with government col lapse. Sister prepared a tape for them emphasizing the United States strength in spite of disaster. The tape contained President Kennedy's inaugural address, his Thanksgiving proclamation, Bishop Philip M. Hannah's eulogy at the funeral Mass and Senator Mike Mansfield's (D. Mont) tribute de livered in the capitol rotunda. THE SKYSCRAPER Mundelein College 6363 Sheridan Rd., Chicago 26, 111. DL L ountdownA Available for: Wedding Receptions Proms Dances Private Parties NE 1-4784 Your Official School Photographer KOEHNE STUDIOS, INC. (K-NEE) Stevens Building 17 N. State St PHOTOGRAPHERS SINCE 1893 Executives Identification Passports Child Studies Home Sittings Engagement Photos Traditional Wedding Portraits Complete Wedding Stoiy Candids Snapshots and Faded Portraits Copied and Restored DEearborn 2-2780
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