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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER May 5, 1965 Flexible Continuing Provides Challenge Education Program for Mature Women Starting in the fall, Mundelein will begin a new era in educational possibilities. Through the Con tinuing Education Division, the college hopes to redeem some of the undeveloped talent to be found in mature women who have not had the opportunity to complete their college degree, according to Sister Mary Ignatia, B.V.M., Aca demic Dean. At present the college within a college, unique for the Chicago area, consists of the committee chairman and administrative head, Dr. Norbert Hruby, vice president; the Committee of Continuing Edu cation; and Mrs. John (Katharine Mann) Byrne who will serve as counselor and instructor. In addi tion to Sister Mary Ignatia, other committee members are Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., Dr. Rus sell Barta, Sister Mary Donald, B.V.M., Mrs. Edward Matula, Sis ter Mary Cecilia, B.V.M., and Sis ter Mary Marina, B.V.M. Name Counselor Mrs. Byrne is a lecturer and writer on educational subjects and has had articles published in Com monweal, New City and America. She spent several years working in psychometrics at the University of Chicago where she received her master's degree. Her position of counselor is especially vital because the pro gram is based on counseling and the individual needs of the women enrolled. Dr. Hruby emphasized that in the preliminary counseling sessions the women will have to prove that they are fully com mitted. The function of the in- by Jean tensive counseling is to exclude those who might fail as well as to fit a woman back into the process of education. Another facet of the counseling program will be the referral of prospective students to schools which can meet their needs better than Mundelein or to prepare them for transfer to other schools. The individual background of each applicant will also be care fully studied and credit will be given for equivalent experience in life, Sister Mary Ignatia ex plained. In this way a mother of several children could be given credit for a course like Child De velopment with the completion of prescribed readings. Outline Schedule The tentative outline calls for a day-long discussion format once a week for each course. The stu dent will supplement the actual time spent in class with extra reading and research. The program is specifically geared to the woman who left col lege after her sophomore year but other possibilities, according to Sis ter Mary Cecilia, would be for the woman who has had no college ex perience or for the graduate who, after years away from study, is considering advance study and would like to brush up before beginning graduate school. However, the program is care fully organized, guided and coun seled to lead to a degree, em phasized Sister Mary Cecilia. The degree will parallel the new cur riculum but it will be geared to people with more experience so it Si udcraplnad Durall will be possible for a woman to complete requirements in any field of concentration, according to Dr. Hruby. The Division courses will stress the humanities and are designed to equalize the educational and psychological background of its students with those of the regular students. When this is accom plished, each woman will take the regular courses in her field. Stress Individual With its basis in the needs of the individual, the program is highly flexible and will allow classes to meet at the time which is most convenient. This flexibility will also allow a woman who is considered ready for immediate specialization to begin regular courses without any contact with Continuing Education courses. This would be particularly true for a graduate who now needs certain work which she had not previously wanted. School Election Replaces SAC With Congress A total of 482 students voted for the proposed Student Congress, April 26. Four hundred seventy- five affirmative votes provided the necessary margin, one over half the total student body, 943, for its adoption. The referendum giving the Big Sister chairman an ex officio seat on the Congress was defeated 262 to 164. There were 22 abstentions. Continued NSA affiliation was passed by 351 votes. News Briefs on Campus We were just polishing up our second-best pair of sneakers for a short romp the other day when out of a clear blue sky a thunderbolt struck our beleaguered brain with the overwhelming thought that sum mer is soon to be upon us. A brain so small doesn't need much to overwhelm it you say with a sneerl (a wicked cross between a snarl and a sneer) knowing full well that summer does hit the country annually around this time of year. We therefore, in defense, must clarify that we are not speaking of summer in the singular, strawberry ice cream cone word as 'twas spoken of yore. We speak rather of compound summer a semantic goulash that spells out things like summer job (when all there is left is car-hopping) and summer school (mechanical drawing at 8 a.m. five days a week). We therefore extend sympathy to those who, like ourself, find the times pressing and ourselves in dire straits. We do not, however, extend any sympathy at all to those whose va cation .time placed them in the lap of luxury resorts to the south. But who wanted to go anyway? sitting down there day after day, playing a little bridge with Mrs. Gorski, getting sunburned, windblown and gritty with sand; and what in heaven's name would anyone do with a 7'4 stuffed white marlin even if she did catch it herself? Maybe Ovita Cihlar will donate it to the school. We think it would lend that touch of carefree elegance to Sister Mary Assisium's office. She might even get a nun of the world award with it. We now appeal to our readers to keep this news item from gather ing momentous proportions and perhaps endangering the sanctity of our administrative hierarchy, but we couldn't in truth to our journalistic spirit allow it to pass distorted into dusty oblivion. As many already know, whosoever opens the Skyscraper office door is smacked in the puss with a playful little wooden rabbit tenderly termed 30 (in news jargon the end ). It has been an established tradition that upon encountering this dar ling rope toy, each who enters tugs its little pulley knot to make its legs and arms flap up and down. For some time now, this enter-pull syndrome has been evaluated as a positive test for normality of the entrant. Just recently Sister Mary Ann Ida had occasion to call upon the Skyscraper for a visit. She entered through the door but to the mount ing consternation of all present, neglected to pull the toy's cord. We feel, therefore, the necessity of propagating a spirit of peace and tran quility to those concerned over this incident with the thought that for Sister Mary Ann Ida, busy with the weighty affairs of our college and enmeshed in mountains of preparation for next year, undoubtedly this was merely an inconsequential oversight and not to be mistakenly con strued. Muffin Name New Editor Dr. Russell Barta, chairman of the Political Science department, has been appointed editor of the New City magazine and will as sume this position with the May 15 issue. Dr. Barta, currently an associ ate editor of New City, will preside over the bi-weekly meetings of the editorial board and will make the final decision regarding articles to be published in future issues of the periodical. New City is published monthly in Chicago by the Catholic Council on Working Life. Observe Reunions Silver jubilee reunion for the class of 1940 will be held on cam pus, May 22. The alumnae will be served brunch in Lewis Center fol lowing Mass in the college chapel. The day will close with a formal tea. The class of 1945 is planning a reunion for May 29 and the gradu ates of 1950 will gather on campus May 8. The ten-year anniversary of the class of 1955 was celebrated Student Artists, Dancers Present May Recitals Five music recitals to be held in May will feature a variety of com posers and performers. Seniors, Edwina Telutki and Sister Mary John Edmund, B.V.M., will present their hon ors project May 9 in the col lege theater. Sister and Ed wina have compared the music and philosophy of various his torical periods. The modern dance class will join the Chamber Singers May 12 in McCormick Lounge in a presenta tion of selections from Sound of Music and the Four Seasons' folk songs. They will also perform works by Vaughn Williams and Brahms. Sister Daniel Marie, B.V.M., and Sister John Marie, B.V.M., will present a joint piano and organ recital, May 16 in the college thea ter. The final program will be performed May 18 in McCor mick Lounge. Sister Mary John Edmund, B.V.M., will play a movement from Mac- Dowell's second piano concerto, and Nancy Vandenberg will play a movement from the Craig Concerts. Denise Pleshar and Mary Cooper will each play a movement from a contemporary concerto by Virgil Thompson. May 1, while the class of 1960 chose to commemorate their five- year reunion May 15. All alumnae celebrations will begin with Mass and continue throughout the day on campus. Attend Mock U.N. Eight members of Mundelein's International Relations Club at tended a Model United Nations at the Milwaukee campus of the Uni versity of Wisconsin during Easter break, April 21-24. Margaret Brennan, Halina Ko nopacka, Janet Liscarz, Karyl Mil ler, Bonnie Porter, Rita Richter, Renee Ring and Anndrea Zahorak represented the Republic of France. More than 20 colleges and uni versities joined in the activities of the four days, following the regu lar procedure of the U.N. council meetings, committee meetings and general assemblies. Receive Year Book Mundelein's first Senior Memory Book will be distributed May 17. The 44-page book, co-edited by Kathy Reynolds and Florence Mor- risey, contains senior portraits and highlights of affairs sponsored by the class of '65. Chairmen for the Memory Book include Judy Lerner, copy; Kathy Vaillancourt, photography; Phyllis Kozlowski, layout and cover; Lor raine Steinbronn, business; Mary Ehlert, typing; Mary Hagerty, pub licity, and Kathy Humbert, treas ury. Induct Biologists Meta Omicron, a chapter of the Tri Beta (National Biological Hon orary Society initiated 12 new members into the organization last month. The following were in ducted by Sister Mary Cecilia, B.V.M., Jeanne Cinikas, Pat Cza- par, Carol Ann Eliasek, Geraldine G- .ett, Pat Madl, Sharon Mc- Cann, Sharon Minster, Alanna Morrison, Cynthia Pelke, Diane Horn and Kathy Ward. Hold Jr.-Sr. Ball The annual Junior-Senior Ball, Taste of Spring, will be held May 15 from 9 p.m.-midnight at the Lake Shore Club, 257 E. Chestnut St. Senior social chairman, Judy Weimerskirch, announced that tick ets are now on sale in the lounge for 5.50, and 6 at the door. Quality Graduation Portraits K0EHNE STUDIO (K-NEE) Since 1892 17 N. State Stevens Building De 2-2780 SENIORS BREAK the lock-step in Pre-School Education BECOME a MONTESSORI teacher WRITE: Charles Munat, Administrator Midwest Montessori Teacher Training Center P. O. Box 821 Oak Park, Illinois Only Midwest Course begins its second year July 6 (Graduate Credit) Enrollment limited, write now THE SKYSCRAPER Mundelein College 6363 Sheridan Rd., Chicago, 111., 60626
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