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October 4, 1961 THE SKYSCRAPER Page Three Lay Late Tuition Hike C r Owners To Uncertain Enrollment *e'fce ver Parking Lot Student queries regarding the late notice of the tuition raise were answered in a recent interview with the College President. Uncertain registration was one of the causes of the late notice this year, explained Sister Mary Ann Ida. She agreed that an announce ment concerning the status of tution for the next school year, 1962-3, will be carried in the last issue of the Skyscraper. We make every effort to compute tuition in terms of the im mediate academic needs of the College, Sister related. As stated in her letter of July 26 to the student body, We urge any one who may feel that she cannot meet this added commitment to consult with us about possible ways to take care of it. A few students have taken ad vantage of this suggestion and have received aid in various ways. Tuition is used for academic purposes. Most physical improve ments are made with the help of outside contributions. We are Sodality Plans Apostolate To deepen the interior life as the necessary means to an effective apostolate on campus will be the primary objective of Mundelein's Sodality for the 1961-62 year. The program will include con sideration of some of the principles contained in the Spiritual Exer cises of St. Ignatius and a consid eration of personal responsibility in student life. Candidates, depending on their previous experience in the Sodality, will meet in separate discussion groups. The Sodality will also sponsor its fourth annual five-day retreat at Our Lady of the Cedars. Burmese Freshmen grateful to the parents and the students for their contributions for these needs, Sister concluded. Parents Attend Capping Ceremony The Class of '65 will don the cap and gown, a sign of academic achievement, for the first time, at the annual Parent-Daughter Day Sunday, Oct. 8, at 2:30 p.m. in the auditorium. Sister Mary Ann Ida, president, Sister Mary Ignatia, dean of studies, and Sister Mary Assisium, dean of women, will present the black tassel to the freshmen and address the assembly. A tea and meeting with the faculty for the entire student body and their parents will immediately follow in the tearoom. Also featured will be a panel, The College, Your Daughter and You, moderated by Sister Mary Ann Ida. Time To Apply for Fulbright Grants Nov. 1 marks the deadline for Fulbright Scholarship applications for the Institute of International Education and the Inter-American Cultural Convention awards under the Student Exchange Program. Awards for graduate study and research in 31 countries in Europe, Latin America, the Asia-Pacific areas and Ireland are given by the HE, which administers the pro gram for the U. S. Department of State. Grants include tuition, main tenance and round-trip travel. Students interested should apply to Sister Mary Crescentia, Munde lein's Fulbright Program adviser. Successful candidates are re quired to be affiliated with ap proved institutions of higher learn ing abroad. Darn Late for class again. Mundelein students will wave bye- bye to these all-too-familiar quotes as they welcome their newest con venience a parking lot. Sister Mary Columba, secretary- treasurer, expects the 12,000 lot on Sheridan and Kenmore to be ready for use by Nov. 1. The Rock Road Construction Company, 5915 N. Rogers Ave., will erect the 44- car blacktop lot, 38 spaces for standard cars, 6 for compact size. A single gate will regulate the entrance-exit on Kenmore by either a magnetized card or a key system. Concrete wheel stops and a steel guard rail inside of the landscaped area will complete the facilities. Mundelein has owned the site since 1956 when it served as the location of a dorm for Scholastics uji until 1958 and for resident stu dents until 1960. Since spring Mundelein has tried to secure the necessary permit to blacktop the property for parking. Because of zoning restrictions in a residential area, it was necessary that the City Council vote to re move the restriction. On Sept. 19 Public Relations Di rector Leo Flanagan, Alderman Paul T. W i g o d a , Edgewater Community Council President Charles Holleb and Attorney Anthony Murray (father Mary Jo, '63) appeared before the Council in behalf of the College. The council took the case under advisement and approved it on Sept. 21. Meanwhile students may use the ccmmerciii pari;:.:,, lot at Win- throp and Sheridan for 25 cents per day. Spaces on the west side of Mundelein and in the Scholasticate lot are reserved for the faculty. Mr. Flanagan cautions the girls not to leap over the bushes to get to cars. Remember that steel railing on the other side OFF TO MEXICO, Ann Moran waves goodbye to her family before de parting to a Papal Volunteer training session. Ann was Chicago's first and only PAVLA volunteer. It's Spanish All Day For Papal Volunteer Spanish is the menu. Spanish for breakfast. Spanish for lunch. And guess what Papal Volunteer Ann Moran gets for dinner? No. A movie on Latin America. A '61 graduate of Mundelein, Ann is deep in the intensive train ing course in Mexico required be fore she teaches in a Catholic high school in Tulancingo. Under the Foreign Service Institute Plan, she is studying at Cuernavaco with lay volunteers, priests and nuns. It's just three months since Ann bade her parents good-bye before flying to Mexico to begin her train ing program. A lot has happened in this time. Discouraged at first and a little homesick, Ann soon be came too busy to think of anything except work. Mass begins the day at 6:15; breakfast follows, then Spanish from 9 to 1, lunch and Spanish from 2 to 3:15. Ann's free time to wash, iron, shop or study ends at 6. Holy hour and Exposition of the Blessed Sac rament from 6 to 7 precedes 8 o'clock dinner. A lecture or movie on Latin America follows, and when 9 o'clock rolls around, the Papal Volunteer welcomes col lapse time. But dessert comes to Ann with Twin-sister Sisters Try Out American Education by Sister Mary Fabian, B.V.M. Two Sisters, tucked between the B.V.M. Scholastics crossing Sheri dan Road, look much like each other and different from the rest. Dainty, almond-eyed Sister Clare, S.F.X., and Sister Theresita, S.F.X., are twin sisters belonging to the Sisters of St. Francis Xavier, a native Burmese community. Dodging traffic, riding elevators and attending Mundelein fill the days of these oriental Scholastics who, a few short months ago re sided in quiet Bassein, Burma. The sisters originally came from a small northern village where they attended the Roman Catholic Mission primary school. Upon com pletion of the first four grades the girls were sent to Bassein to attend middle-school and high school. Here they met the Sisters of St. Francis Xavier. In 1957 the Sisters completed high school and took the govern ment metric exam which qualified them for college. Both entered their native community in this year. The Sisters made their Profes sion in 1959 and were assigned to teach. But because the government does not allow religious in college, they were faced with the dilemma of teaching without an education. American Jesuits in Burma sug gested contacting Sister Forma tion, an American organization concerned with the spiritual and in tellectual development of young sisters. This organization in turn contacted the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the twins were notified in July that they would be coming to the United States in August. Equipped with two suitcases and wearing black habits (the Sisters wear white in their native land) the voyagers took their first plane trip. After a stopover in Paris and a long flight over the Atlantic, the travelers arrived in Boston where they were met by another community and taken to an Eastern college. Here they practiced Eng lish all the time. Their next plane trip brought them to Chicago and St. Xavier's College. Sister Mary Ann Ida, president A PHOTOGRAPHIC TRICK? Not really. Sisters Clare and Thereista, S.F.X., studing in preparation to teach in their Burmese homeland, look forward to spending four years at Mundelein. of Mundelein and Sister Mary Joan Therese, superior of the Scholas ticate, brought the Sisters to their new lakeside home early in Sep tember, where they joined the Scholasticate program and became first years. With the B.V.M.s the Sisters pray, attend instruc tions, do light household tasks, recreate, eat and study. They at tend freshman classes and will teach at St. Joseph High School in Bassein after graduation. Sister Clare intends to major in English, while Sister Theresita is undecided between chemistry and math. The Burmese Sisters enjoy trees on the sidewalk and all the water; and they find big buildings wonderful. American food appeals to Burmese tastes, they say, but Sister Clare was kindly warned about the onion which she took because it looked so white and pretty. Joining in the Scholastics' favorite pastime, the Burmese sing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and Do Re Mi with their characteristic, slightly- English accents. Both have studied English since primary school. B.V.M. Scholastics have dis covered that while the Burmese are learning about Americans, they are learning much about the Burmese. holy days when classes are dropped. Then the future teacher joins Mexico in week-end fiestas. Meeting new people and making new friends gives her an extra op portunity to practice the language she must master in four months, just the beginning of her three- year stay south of the border. Until then every morning, noon and evening will be entirely Spanish. Frosh Numbers Spell Scholars Ninety academic-minded stu dents, almost one third of the freshman class, began college life this year on scholarships granted by Mundelein, Illinois State, and 11 foundations. Thirty per cent of the freshmen ranked in the upper tenth of their senior classes and 64 per cent were graduated in the upper fourth. Mundelein's freshman class can also boast of 21 girls who ranked first or second in their class, while 19 were class presidents and so dality prefects. The 292 students represent 105 high schools, 8 states, and 6 countries. The Immaculata, St. Mary's and St. Patrick's in Des Plaines claim honors for the largest total of stu dents enrolled in the college. The class of 1965 hails from Oklahoma, Michigan, Iowa, Colo rado, Wisconsin, Texas, Ohio and Florida. The six countries repre sented are: Iran, Haiti, Cuba, Burma, Italy and Germany. Ten students are daughters of alumnae and 32 are sisters of for mer or current students. Mark Third Year For Student Mass Wednesday, Oct. 11, Feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, marks the date for the first student Mass celebrated in Mundelein's Stella Maris Chapel. Reverend William Clark, professor of theology, will officiate. This notes the third consecutive year of monthly Masses in which students are asked to participate actively. All will have an opportunity to make symbolic offerings of them selves with Christ by placing a Host in the ciborium before Mass. The ciborium, which will be placed at the door of the chapel at 11:50 will be taken to the altar at noon. Students are asked to sing the Ordinary of the Mass. The Proper will be sung by the Schola. Any students interested in joining the Schola are asked to attend practice on the Monday and Tuesday preceding the Mass in Room 715 from 11:50 to 12:10.
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1961-10-04 (3)
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Student newspaper for Mundelein College
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