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May 31,1967 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three Mother Graduates Three Months before Son DCP Awards First 11 Degrees As released to the Skyscraper by Mrs. Katharine Byrne, compiled by Sheila McCarthy. In the sunny autumn of 1965 Mundelein College welcomed the pioneer members of a pioneering project, the Degree Completion Pro gram for mature women. On June 11 of this year nine of these first ladies will achieve a long-sought goal: graduation from college. Dr. Norbert J. Hruby, vice-president of Mundelein, and Mrs. Katharine Byrne, counselor for DCP students, working within the Division of Con tinuing Education, have made the graduation of these women possible. THE GRADUATES are Helen Cagney, Marjorie Conroy, Elaine Goldman, Charlotte Hanley, Betty Prevender, Marion Sandberg, Flor- ine Scanlan, Rita Schaerli and Vic toria Smaller. Stephanie Dumser and Peggy Stevens will take part in commencement exercises June 11 but will study until August to actually fulfill their degree re quirements. Mrs. Helen Cagney, Long Grove, 111., will be awarded her degree in history three months before the oldest of her five children receives his in economics. Her ultimate academic goal is a master's degree, but since two of her children are still quite young, she plans to join them next fall as a teacher in the school they attend, St. Anne's in Barrington. WITH A BACKGROUND in psy chology, including work at the Uni versity of Chicago Orthogenic School where she worked as secre tary to Dr. Bettelheim and assisted him in the preparation of his manuscript for The Informed Heart, Mrs. Marjorie Conroy will graduate with a major in psy chology. Next fall she will join the staff of the Illinois State Men tal Hospital where she will work in psychology. On paper, Mrs. Elaine Goldman from Chicago was almost a sopho more when she entered the pro gram in the fall of 1965. In less than two years she completed the requirements for a degree in drama. With an extensive back ground as director and producer of scores of college and community theater projects, she has been able to convert much of this experience into academic credit. Mrs. Gold man has been awarded life experi ence credits by the art, psychology and home economics departments also. Her immediate plans are to study psychodrama, a technique of group psychotherapy, with Dr. Mo reno in New York. MRS. CHARLOTTE HANLEY'S police lieutenant husband should have received life experience credit for baby sitting while his wife pur sued her academic career. Soci ology is Mrs. Hanley's concentra tion in attaining a DCP diploma. She will teach in a local junior high school next autumn. Miss Betty Prevender entered the program with a wide editorial background with a number of na tional magazines. After receiving her B.A. at Mundelein, she will en gage in graduate work at Loyola University with a teaching fellow ship in the English department. Unlike the other DCPs, Miss Pre vender has resided in the dormitory the past year she moonlights as the head resident of the Northland. MRS. MARION SANDBERG was the woman Dr. Hruby had in mind when the Degree Completion Pro gram was still a dream. He thought she would welcome the opportunity to return to the academic world, since she was a Mundelein drop out who had reconsidered her de cision. Twelve years and three children after her sophomore year, Mi's. Sandberg resumed her stud ies. Strongly motivated to finish a job once started, she has now completed her work for a degree in home economics. At present, Mrs. Florins Scan lan, sociology major, is on leave from St. Juliana's grade school. But after receiving her diploma, she will add on to her four years there in her third grade class room. Being both teacher of hun dreds and mother of five, she feels the Degree Completion Program has opened up a whole new world. AT THE TIME of her acceptance into the program Mrs. Byrne was not aware of it, but Mrs. Rita Schaerli from Chicago turned out to be the median student of the entering group: a 38-year-old mother of four children (actually, in DCP arithmetic, 3.3 is the me dian number of children per mother). She also has turned out to be the first graduate, complet ing her degree requirements in the winter term of 1967. This coming fall Mrs. Schaerli will be teaching the arts of homemaking to girls in an inner-city high school. Mrs. Victoria Smaller, wife of an Argonne physicist and mother of three children, has frequently made the Dean's List. Her pre vious background was in biology and chemistry but she is graduat ing from Mundelein with a B.A. in psychology. Her future plans in volve a career in psychology but first she will enter graduate school. THE DEGREE COMPLETION Program, which has enabled these women to graduate, is an educa tional system designed for adults away from the classroom for some time and who want to direct their courses toward the fulfillment of a degree. The need for such a program was revealed by the Institutional Analysis of 1963 headed by Dr. Norbert Hruby, vice-president of the College. Besides being admin istered to current students and fac ulty, the analysis also was given to alumnae, both graduates and drop-outs, and alumnae husbands. The data revealed that more than half of the former students did not receive a degree either at Munde lein or elsewhere. DR. HRUBY'S BACKGROUND as assistant dean of adult educa tion at the University of Chicago provided him with first-rate experi ence in the field. As assistant dean he found the most basic problem is that it is very difficult to persuade adults to come to school unless they are rewarded. Later he met Mrs. Byrne, a woman who had five children and an M.A. but had not formally stud ied or worked outside her home in years. Mrs. Byrne has written professionally for New City and several national magazines. Be cause she would understand the problem of the woman leaving home, Dr. Hruby felt that Mrs. Byrne would make an excellent counselor. AS A TEAM they studied adult education programs used by vari ous colleges and universities throughout the country. Special seminars, arranged for the adult student during the day, a time when the housewife is nor mally free of responsibility, and a consulting system are two points that were borrowed from Sarah Lawrence College. Life experience credit is the aspect of the program borrowed from Brooklyn College. dent has unique problems. All in all, praises for the pro gram smothered the complaints. Nearly every DCP describes the program with superlatives. About the graduation, Dr. Hruby exclaimed, I'm very proud of them and very happy for them ... I feel like a father whose daughters Skyscraper Photo by Jennifer Joyce THE FIRST SPRING DAY brought out 1967 Degree Competition Program graduates Helen Cagney, Victoria Smaller and Marion Sandberg to bask in the Mundelein sun, and maybe do a little studying. In the execution of Mundelein's program there has been some quiet criticism of these aspects. Many students feel there are bugs to be ironed out, as Mrs. Smaller put it, and the main criticism is pointed toward the consulting system. I WISH it had been tailored a little more individually, re flected Mrs. Dumser. Each stu- are finally coming through. He further explained that the Degree Completion Program suc ceeded beyond my best hopes two years ago ... I didn't expect them to finish so soon. Mrs. Byrne feels that the gradu ates have justified our confi dence. Assembly Cites Informality Contrasts Solemnity scholarship of At Activities Convocation Today T 2s S* The Activities Convocation, an assembly to be held today, May 31, at 9:50 a.m. will be built around complete informality for the first time, to contrast with the solemnity of the caps and gowns Honors Convocation this afternoon. Informality will be carried even into the processional music which will be a Tijuana Brass recording. Highlight of the Convocation is the presentation of activities awards under the auspices of MSC. Awards to be given include a Special Activities Award to the Academic Affairs Committee, the organization which has accom plished most on campus this school year. Seniors elected to Who's Who last November plus those chosen as juniors will be recognized, in addition to the senior Big Sisters. To provide a new note to the 1967 convocation, Special Activi ties Citations will be given to a number of students who would not ordinarily be recognized. Nancy Neis, chairman of the Ci tations Committee, will read the Skyscraper Photo by Marianne Kusillo STUDENTS ALDINE FAVARO, Gay Moran, Mary Paul, Barbara Wright and English instructor Sylvia Hajek, emote at the May Art-In. Although news of the Happening was well-disseminated throughout the campus police force was not needed to quell the riotous student body. Knees and sweatshirts were painted, prints were sold for a nominal fee and paintings were auctioned off. Proceeds went to the art department. names of the recipients and Mary Ann Griffin, MSC president, will present the awards. The Relationship of Mundelein College to the City of Chicago is to be the theme of the convocation and will be reflected in the MSC and class reports traditionally given by the respective presidents. This year the emphasis will be on the students' academic projects in the city rather than on the class council activities. MSC officers for the coming year will be inducted at the convocation. These include Marge Sklencar, president; Jane Wilczak, vice-president; Gerry Kurtz, corresponding secretary; Barbara Nowicki, recording secre tary; Nona Setter, treasurer. Dele- gates-at-large and committee chairmen also will be inducted. Nancy McDonough, MSC treasurer, will present the student gift of 750 to Sister Ann Ida Gannon, College president. Co-chairmen of the convocation are Jane Wilzack, 1967-68 MSC vice-president; and Gerry Kurtz, 1967-68 corresponding secretary. The convocation program will carry a complete listing of stu dents and faculty members of the Academic Affairs Committee and the Cultural Affairs Committee and students on Rules Committee and the Social Arrangements Board during the 1966-67 academic year. Helen Sauer Brown, mother of Helen Ann Brown; Audrey Ander son Hegner, mother of Audrey Ad ams; Carol Sweeney McDonough, mother of Nancy McDonough; Ruth Quirk Meyers, mother of Carol Meyers; Madeline Palucci Rossetti, mother of Madeline Ros- setti. To those senior science majors who have distinguished themselves in their field and who wish to con tinue their interest in science, Sci ence Alumnae awards are presented to: Sister Pamela M. Mclntyre, B.V.M., in biology; to Patricia Finn, Carol Meyers, Arlene Mootz and Mary Ann Rice in chemistry; and Nancy Vandenberg, in physics. Under the heading of Publica tions Awards, students are recog nized for their artistic and literary contributions to Mundelein publi cations. The Ann Lally Creative Art Award is presented to Patricia Lenihan. In order to encourage young writers toward excellence in the field of creative writing the Mary Josephine Lusk awards and the Atlantic Monthly Creative Writ ing Awards will be cited. The final awards, those for writ ing and editorial to those students whose work for the college news paper is distinguished by its quality and quantity will be conferred upon these members of the Skyscraper staff: Jean Durall, Marilyn Gibbs, Diane Sargol and Nancy Vanden berg.
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