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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER May 19, 1965 Record Election Turn-Out Nun Surprises Viewers, Classes Elect New Officers Reveals 'Horse Sense' A wave of student interest sparked the hotly contested Stu dent Congress elections resulting in a record vote. Almost 700 students cast bal lots in the all-school SC elec tions, May 3-4, to elect junior Judy Ewing, former SAC treas urer, Chicago Area College Union delegate and YCS presi dent, student body president; sophomore Andrea Zahorak, vice-president; sophomore Kathy Ward, recording secre tary; freshman Karen Peter- man, corresponding secretary; sophomore Mary Ann Griffin, treasurer and sophomore Fran Fetyko, CACU delegate. Delegates - at - large are juniors Gloria Ciucci, Kathy McDonnell, Kathy Garvey and Tina Stretch, sophomore Kathy Harrington and freshman Cathy Liu. Chosen as standing committee chairmen are junior Alice Fetter- man, cultural affairs; freshman Sharon Pavett, social arrange ments board; and junior Laura Nutini, academic affairs. The chairmen of the Club Coordination board and rules Committee will be appointed by the new congress. On May 10, the class of '66 elected Liz Gordon as senior class president; Mary Jardine, vice-president; Mary McMa- hon, secretary; Anita Skowron, treasurer; Joyce Plennert, so cial chairman; Margie Witwer, SC representative and Mary Fran La Fleur, sergeant-at- arms. Sophomores selected to serve as junior class officers next year are Madeline R o s s e 11 i, president; Karla Lamphear, vice-president; Mary Jane Marolda, secretary; Kathy White, treasurer; Lynn Klopstock, SC representative; Marilyn Gibbs, social chairman and Barb Wright, sergeant-at- arms. Winners in the race for sopho more class offices are Pat Woods, president; Madonna Carsello, vice- president; Donna Small, secretary; Mary Jane Delisi, treasurer; Judy Ratto, social chairman; Barb Dahl- der, SC representative and Nancy Reynolds, sergeant-at-arms. Out- going SAC president, Christine Mocarski, cited the enthusiasm obvious in all the elections as a sign of renewed interest in student government and the role of the student in the college community, brought about by the potential of the new Student Congress consti tution and the joint effort of members of all classes to af fect a smooth turn-over to the three-term system beginning in the fall. by Jean Durall Skepticism changed to disbelief and quickly became open admiration as Sister Mary Georgia, B.V.M., Russian department, called out com mands of Canter your horses please or Reverse and walk. Serving as judge for the Equestrienne Club Horse Show, May 9, Sister proved that riding and Russian do mix. Peace Corps Accepts Graduates Into Final Phase of Instruction After intensive training this summer five seniors, Marsha Gor don, Veronica Ferrera, Gerry Bruchhauser, Carol Wolanski and Holly Kopke will travel .to coun tries around the world and by mid- September they will begin two years of service in the Peace Corps. In training the girls will learn the language of the people they will be working with and also their culture, customs and religion. An other main phase of study will be learning the government and his tory of the United States as well as the government of these foreign lands. Physical fitness too will be included in the training. Gerry Bruchhauser, who began her training last summer, will fin ish at Morehouse College, in At lanta, Ga. Besides student teach ing she will be learning Ibo, the language spoken in southeast Ni geria. Her work in Africa will consist of teaching English and French on the university or high school level. Veronica Ferrera and Marsha Goron, training to teach English as a foreign language in Turkey, will spend the summer at Prince ton, and .then go to Roberts' Col lege in Istanbul before beginning their official work. Holly Kopke will be part of an education-improvement program as a grammar school teacher in the Philippines. She will train at Sacra mento State College in California. Carol Wolanski will return to Dartmouth this summer, training to teach mathematics in French. She will teach on the high school level at Togo, in French-speaking Africa. Frankly dubious at the outset, onlookers from Idle Hour Stable, where the show was held, were soon convinced that Sister Mary Georgia, who owned and trained two of her own horses, knew what she was doing in the center of the ring. As Sister announced the winners of the first class, beginning riding, instructor Jess Ford commented that Sister had judged the class exactly as it should have been and was much better than many of Idle Hour's professional judges. Winners in beginning riding were Sandy Ragsdale, first, Phyllis Fair, second, Helen Moorhead, third, and Noreen O'Brien, fourth. In advanced riding, Arlene Mootz was first, Sharon McCann, second, Gretchen Finn, third, Alanna Mor rison, fourth and Bonnie Porter, fifth. For jumping, Arlene Mootz won first place and Gretchen Finn, second. In pairs competition, Gretchen Finn and Marie Uster were first, Arlene Mootz and Sharon McCann, second, and Kathy Walsh and Pat Wadecki, third. For bridle path riding, Sharon McCann was first, Bonnie Porter, second, Arlene Mootz, third; Dolly Ganas, fourth and Marie Uster, fifth. The last class was a horseback version of musical chairs called musical stalls won by Helen Moor head. Scores Highest Total Points were given for each place and were totalled to determine the champion of the show. Arlene Mootz who earned the highest to tal was followed by Sharon Mc Cann. As the contest progressed, Sister Mary Georgia continued to amaze spectators and contestants alike by calling for backing, figure eights, partial dismounts, and other de tailed maneuvers from the more advanced riders. Assistant Academic Dean Heads Inner-City Project Sister Mary Georgita, B.V.M., assistant academic dean, has been appointed director of the Inner-City project, now in its second year on campus. Miss Susan Graefe will assume the duties of assistant aca demic dean and freshman modera tor. During the past year, Sister has worked in cooperation with mem bers of other departments to de velop a social science concentration program in the curriculum. Under Vote Temporarily Suspends Plan Performing Artists Debate The Performing Artists Series Committee, at a meeting with Sis ter Mary Assisium, B.V.M., May 7, voted to discontinue the concert series for the 1965-66 school year. An all-college debate to determine whether or not the series should be re-activated the following year will be held. It was suggested if the stu dents reactivate the series, the number of programs be re duced to one major production in each of the three terms, held at 6:30 in the evening. Another suggestion was made to reduce the total cost for the series to 2 with the hope that an increased volume of sales would still bring in sufficient revenue to insure a fine series. The committee stressed that next year's discontinuation is not per manent but merely a temporary one to enable students and faculty to discuss and evaluate the place of the concert series on campus and to arouse student interest and en thusiasm to enable the newly formed Cultural Affairs Committee to receive wider support. The responsibility for bring ing lecturers to the college will also depend on student-faculty initiative. Lectures should arise from class discussions or common interest in a subject such as the Paul Tillich lec- by Eileen Jack ture, where students communi cated their enthusiasm to pro duce an overflow audience. The committee members cited poor attendance as the reason for their decision to close the se ries and open a debate. Only 178 series tickets were sold in advance and a cumulative total of 370 tickets for the four per formances were sold at the door. Since the cost of each concert could not be covered by the ticket sales, the college had to pay two- thirds of the cost, using part of the activity fee paid by students, the majority of whom never at tended the programs. The committee listed three ma jor reasons for this poor attend ance. First, the price of tickets was prohibitive for some students and the drive for series tickets came early in the fall when many required fees had to be paid. Second, the performance in the middle of the day was not necessarily conducive to at tendance. With fewer Thurs day classes available, many stu dents had only one, two, or as in the case of student teachers, no classes. Others found it difficult to sandwich the per formance in between classes or tests. Third, as this is the first year without the required Concert-Lec ture Series, there were possibly some who chose to exercise their freedom by staying away from the series altogether. this program students will take courses in sociology, psychology, political science and education, es pecially planned to prepare them for inner city work. Sister is also handling appli cations for approximately 60 upperclassmen who are apply ing for summer positions in Project Head-Start under the supervision of the Chicago Catholic Board of Education and the Pre-kindergarten pro gram sponsored by the Chicago Board of Education. The tutoring plan, working un der the Economic Opportunity Act, was kicked off at a White House College Convocation To Recognize Josephine Lusk Award Winners Winners of the annual Mary Josephine Lusk creative writing awards will be cited at tomorrow's Honors Convocation, 1 p.m. in the college theater. Dr. Frank Lusk, college benefactor, is the award donor. First place in the editorial division was won by Skyscraper associate editor, Rae Paul, '65, for Prelate's Illness Evokes Church, World Con cern in the March 24 edition of the college newspaper. Honorable mention was awarded to Bobbie Bohan, '67, Skyscraper staff member for College 'Parish' to Miss Favorite Bridge Partner, in the Feb. 10 edition and to Sylvia Hajek, '65, Skyscraper feature editor, for Cupid Has Substitute; IBM Matches Lovers in the Dec. 9 edition. In criticism, first place was awarded to Sister Mary John Katrine, B.V.M., '65, for The Future of Man and honorable mention for Are Parochial Schools the Answer? Honorable mention was also awarded to Eileen Jack, '68, for Grotesque Emotional Art. In the poetry division, Mary Ellen Scott, '65, won first place with The Cave, honorable mention was given to Mary Mejia, '68, for A Will to Need, and to Barbara Mounsey, '65, for Returning, Subdivided. In the essay division, first place was awarded to Patricia Kaufman, '65, for William Golding: A Choice and an Echo ; honorable mention was given to Review co-editor, Helen Skala, '65, for Mikhail Sholokhov: Epic Novelist and to Ginger Finnegan, '65, for A New Russia? In the short story division, Helen Pierson, '66, was awarded first place for The Orchard at Orion ; honorable mention was granted to Carol Gendron, '65, for Sir Gawain and the Toucan and The Prose lyte. luncheon in February by Mrs. Lyn don Johnson. The purpose of the national-city program is to motivate and pre pare culturally deprived children for grammar school. The ratio of teachers to students ideally will be one to five when the schools are fully staffed in June. The Mun delein students will be working un der graduate educators as teacher assistants and aids. All of the tutoring centers are non-denominational institu tions open to all races, creeds and colors. They will be lo cated in parochial and public schools as well as other public agency facilities on the west, south and near north sides of the city. Under the inner-city project, tentative plans are also being made to employ a Math for Mites course, designed particularly for pre-schoolers of culturally deprived areas. This course will be used on an experimental basis in vari ous Boys' Clubs this summer. The curriculum, drawn up by Sister Mary Georgita, Sister Mary Ed win, B.V.M., and other members of the education department, will be used next year possibly in ap proximately 20 areas throughout the inner city. According to Sister Mary Geor gita, mathematics will be taught to these pre-school children not so much to teach mathematical con cepts but as a means of motivating and orienting them for first grade through a new vocabulary as well as a newly constructed environ ment. A series of workshops is also being arranged for the next school year for inner-city teachers as well as for those preparing to go into inner-city work. Discussion will be headed and lectures delivered by teachers, social workers and others directly involved with people in the culturally de prived areas.
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1965-05-19 (4)
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