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Page Eight THE SKYSCRAPER June 1,1966 Top-ranking Grads Win Aid for Advanced Study As of press night, 23 of the 221 graduates of the class of 1966 have been awarded scholarships, fellowships and assistantships for advanced study, either in universi ties or hospitals. Barbara Kaiser, history major, will study medieval history at Har vard University on a Woodrow Wilson fellowship. Sheila O'Shea, also a history ma jor, has accepted an assistantship at Purdue. Loyola University of Chicago has offered Dorothy Sacks and Mary Anne Slater, mathematics majors, teaching assistantships. Marcia Uebbing and Mary Baker also in mathematics, have accepted teaching assistantships to the University of Illinois. Marcia also was offered a fellowship at Illinois Institute of Technology and a teaching assistantship to Purdue University. Mary received teaching assistantships to the Uni versities of Nebraska, Massachu setts, Kansas and Purdue. Awarded internships for the MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) program at the University of Chi cago, Harvard and Northwestern, a mathematics major, Patricia Wa decki will study at the University of Chicago. A research assistantship in com puter science at the University of Illinois was accepted by Kathleen Walsh, also in mathematics. Studying at Northwestern Uni versity on the MAT internship pro gram will be mathematics major Kathleen Garvey. Speech correction majors Eliza beth Lusk and Catherine McDon nell were awarded assistantships in speech pathology. Elizabeth will attend Northwestern University, and Catherine has accepted the University of Wisconsin. Marianne Krier, also in speech correction, has been granted a par tial scholarship in speech therapy at Northwestern University. English majors Marian Delaney, Sue Petronella and Frances Karen Smith will continue study next year. Marian will attend the State University of New York, Bingham- ton, on an assistantship with sti pend and tuition, and Frances re ceived an assistantship at Loyola University. Accepting a scholar ship for the MAT program at the University of Chicago, Sue was also awarded a resident tuition scholarship at Northwestern Uni versity. Adrienne Bailey, French major, will study at the University of Maine on a NDEA (National De fense Education Act) alternate award. French student Joan O'Connor has been awarded a tuition schol arship from the University of Wis consin. Dietetic internships with grants have been awarded to home eco nomic majors Barbara Maguire, Angela Miraglio, Sister Mary Maurice, S.S.C., Roberta Virsila and Mary Wasilewski. Barbara, Roberta and Mary will intern at Western Reserve Univer sity Hospital, Cleveland; they will earn a Master of Public Health. Barbara was awarded a similar internship at the Univer sity of California, Berkeley, while the University of Kansas Hospital offered Mary an internship. Angela and Sister Mary Mau rice will intern at U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines, 111. Russian major Halina Kono packa will attend the University of Michigan on a fellowship awarded by the Center for Russian Studies. With a fellowship at Indiana University, Christine Rydel, also in Russian, will work there on her M.A. Seniors Qualify for Independent Housing Clarifying the newly adopted policy regarding off-campus housing, Sister Mary Assisium, dean of students, announced in a communique May 20, Starting in the fall of 1966, seniors who have filed in the Office of the Dean of Students a note from parents giving their approval, may reside in off-campus housing of their choice. There is no deadline for the filing of parental approval, but the dead line for registration for on-campus housing will remain the end of this term. Next year's seniors, then, must make their decision or possibly be left without any housing. Formerly, housing that was completely independent and unsuper vised was prohibited, Sister said in an interview. Off-campus housing could be approved by the dean for those students whose circumstances prevented them from living in College residence. Usually, the reasons were working hours conflicting with dorm curfew, lack of money, or student teaching assignments far from Mundelein. However, the student could not make her own choice of the type of housing. She referred to someone accredited by the College, and the housing normally was a room with kitchen privileges, Sister said. This, policy will still hold for freshmen, sophomores and juniors, and the new rule, effecting seniors is an experiment, said Sister. The new policy was requested by the Rules Committee, and Sister Mary Assisium commented, I think we (administration) acted in re sponse to student demand. Portuguese Instructor Recounts Experiences As Brazilian Social Worker and Missionary After opening several schools, clinics and food kitchens in Brazil, Mundelein's newest language in structor, Sister Mary Virginis, C.S.S.F., finds her comparatively tame, present occupation thor oughly enjoyable. I love teaching my class the idiomatic and idiotic expressions of Portuguese she confides. Recently returned to the United States to further her studies in psychology and sociology, Sister took over instruction of intermedi ate Portuguese for the third term. Before coming to Mundelein, Sis ter Mary Virginis spent 12 years teaching and catechizing in Niteroi, Vila Alpina and Pocos de Calclas, Brazil. Learns Portuguese When she left Chicago in 1955 to conduct an American school in Niteroi, the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Sister did not know a word of Portuguese. But, she said, I really conducted school. I By Sister Mary Kevin, C.S.S.F. was the only teacher and had all she continued, eight grades in one room for the entire afternoon. In the mornings I learned Portuguese in the kinder garten. Sister explains that while the older children all spoke English those in kindergarten were Brazil ians. We had to communicate, Sis ter remarked, so they taught me Portuguese. This came in handy, she continued, for in my spare time I was cook, which meant Faculty Sketches Summer Travel, Scholarship Plans Four members of Mundelein's faculty have formulated plans for summer study or travel. Sister Mary Crescentia, B.V.M., chairman of Mundelein's history department, has been awarded a grant from the Organization of American States to do research in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for three months this summer. Sister's research this summer will be a continuation of her pre vious study in Brazil, begun in 1962 at the University of Sao Paulo, cul minating in a book: The Old Bra zilian Republic (1889-1930.) Dr. Russell Barta, acting head of the sociology department, will at tend the World Council of Churches meeting at Geneva, Switzerland as an unofficial observer between July 11 and July 26 of this summer. The World Council is composed of about 200 Protestant, Anglican, Old Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches in 80 countries and ten territories. Its aim is to discuss the relevance of the church to revo lutionary movements in the world today, especially in underdeveloped countries. After this, Dr. Barta hopes to spend one week in Prague, Czecho slovakia, interviewing both com munists and Christians to examine how the Catholic Church is adjust ing to the communist regime. Sister Mary Georgia, B.V.M., chairman of the Russian depart ment, has been invited to partici pate in a Slavic Workshop at In diana University this summer studying Intensive Russian for eight weeks along with other Rus sian teachers throughout the United States. During the eight- week program Sister Mary Georgia will live in a Russian house and speak Russian at all times. Sister Mary Irene, B.V.M., chair man of the psychology department, has received an appointment from the Illinois Department of Mental Health to work in Chicago this summer. Sister will be part of an interdisciplinary team studying the high rate of emotional illness in Zone 3 on the near south side of Chicago. They will work to correct causes of mental disturbances. Sister Mary Virginis, C.S.S.F. buying food, and for a while I was in charge of the aspirancy (a school for the native girls of high school age who wish to be reli gious.) Counteracts Superstition During the next nine years Sis ter established and was superior at two schools, opened several soup kitchens and medical clinics, did door-to-door social work and cate chized on 25 large coffee planta tions outside Pocos de Caldas, Minas Gerais, the honeymoon cen ter of Brazil. Counteracting the superstitions of these people is the hardest work we have, Sister said. All of them, rich and poor wear fig as, a small carved clenched fist similar in meaning to our rabbit's foot, on chains around their necks along with a medal of the Blessed Virgin, and they believe in both with equal intensity. They often come to our clinics for medical aid after first having sought help from a native curer, These curers put dirt and leaves on open wounds so when the patients come to us their arms or legs are often thoroughly infected. Hygienic practices and sanita tion are really bad, Sister re marked. Most of the children are in fested with worms. Quite fre quently one of them will have to leave the classroom because the worms are coming out his mouth and he is choking. They need medi cation which we just don't have. Discovers Friendliness However, the people are warm and friendly in spite of their suf ferings, Sister contends. Only once did I run into any trouble, Sister Mary Virginis re lated, and that was at Vila Alpina in teaching the children of the ba- hianos (plantation workers from Bahia known for their violent tem pers and expertness in handling a knife). The bahianos were completely unrestrained and had little or no previous experience with education. When we tried to discipline and teach the children the parents couldn't understand what we were trying to do and one day all of the mothers banded together and at tacked the school, but we managed to keep barricaded until the police came. Shortly after I was attacked by a man with a knife and another Sister was assaulted with a crow bar. However, when the people got to know us and saw we wished to help them they became wonderful friends. Demands Ingenuity Sister's work often called for in genuity. At one time she was told to open a library. We had no room for the library and no money to build; all we could do was convert an extra washroom by removing the fixtures and plas tering up the holes in the floor. It wasn't really a large library, she says smiling, for half of it had to be turned into a principal's office. Another time Sister attempted to get the government to build a road from the town to her school so the teachers and students would not be forced to walk in knee-deep mud, but she met with little suc cess. So I invited the mayor to visit our mission and to take part in the installation of a dental clinic which we were opening. I set the day for the opening in the heart of the rainy season. Of course the mayor came in a car and of course the car got stuck in the mud. The next day, Sister added, men began construction on a road. I don't know exactly how triumphant I was, but the men ended the road when they reached the door of our school. Continues Work Although back in Chicago, Sister Mary Virginis is still working for the missions. Besides teaching at Mundelein and attending courses at Loyola, Sister is seeking donations of cloth ing and medications from doctors and medical laboratories which she sorts and packs to send to her con gregation's two hospitals and seven clinics in Brazil. At present Sis ter plans to return to South America in February, 1967. Study of Clubs Shows Atrophy; Four To Disband The results of the evaluation of clubs by the Club Coordinating Board were delivered by the Execu tive Board at a meeting with club presidents last Wednesday. It was announced that four clubs have voted to disband next year due to lack of interest. They are the Art Club, the Russian Club, the Young Catholic Students and the Sodality. The Sodality and the Young Catholic Students are being replaced by CALM. The economics club, Mu Theta Epsilon, has been placed on proba tion because of inactivity. Diana Utz, chairman of the Club Coordinating Board, believes many of the problems that have arisen with clubs this year are due to the difficulty in finding time to meet. Members of the Executive Board are Mary Ann Rice, Peggy Bren- nen, Mayda de Armas and Jeanne Kesser.
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1966-06-01 (8)
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