!!. STUDIES DECENNIAL ~ ANNIVERSAIRE '75 ~ ES SUPtRIEURES V) V) <(_, u.... V) 0:: ----------------ALUMNUS. FEBRUARY 1975 LL ~r-· WHEN .LOYOLA BECAME ._ 0-ED By Lorraine McGuirk-Flaherty This is International Woman's Year and the Alumnus is loo/ring baclr to the pioneers who ended Loyola's all-male tradition. Curiosity, resentmentand-orindif- year was tough. Professors treated Ference were some initial reactions of me like one of the boys - one even Loyola men students when they found called me Stevie-Boy. Classes were two women had infiltrated their male huge and there were never any other bastion in the fall of 1959. Then came girls in my courses. As lo social life, labels like husband-hunters, social the studentsweretimidaboutasking us climbers, or "just one of the boys". out. There were dances, but always That first year for day studentpion- in conjunction with Marianopolis." eers was traumatic. Lo r etta Mahoney In 1963-64 there were 35 women who entered the second year at Loyola and they formed the first Geth Cool en, Commerce '64 engineering programmesays, "I was Women 's Association . Mary Derewecka grateful to get into the engineering was its first president. The group, programme. I knew I was being considered a protective league by the tolerated, that my motives were in men, organized annual shoe shine question. I didn't want to confirm the days and leas. male students' susp icions of me, so "My last year, 1964-65, was the I deliberately kept a low profile. I best", says Stefanie. "There were socialized only in clubs that combined 150 of us . We knew everyone on academics with social activities." campus and were being asked lo join In contrast Gabrielle Paul, also an male clubs. We participated in Home- engineering student in 1959 and 10 coming Events, Carnival, Freshmen years older than her classmates, found Reception; we were cheerleaders for the first year "a ball " . She says, the football team, and we were active Marie Boyle, Arts '64 "I could go anywhere I wanted; I in all the on-campus societies." was spoiled rotten". Extension Department offered no re- By 1962 there were four women on sistance to women campus. The two additions were Tw~ years before the women day Stefanie Derewecka and her sister students began struggling for accept- Mary. once, male students in the Extension "For two girls who were eventually Department made the transition to co- labelled 'the most powerful women on education without resistance. In 1957 campus' ", says Stefanie, "that first the Loyola Extension - now the Even­ ing Division - opened its nightcourses to women, and the event went practi­ Stefanie Derewecka, Science '65 Wine and Cheese cally unnoticed. Geth (Agatha) Cool en, a Maritimer Party Cancelled who had come to Montreal in 1949, was one of the first lo enroll in the The annual Wine and Cheese Party Bachelor of Commerce programme. and Fashion Show scheduled for "When I arrived at the College there Friday, February 14 has been can­ were no facilities for women", says cell ed. Location and catering prob- Geth, " but we were well treated by 1ems lead the Alumni Board of Direct- both professors and students. No ors to forego this year's event. Plans allowances were made in class be- are being discussed forasimilarpar,ty cause we were women." next year. cont'd on page 2 Lorraine McG. Flaherty, Arts 70 Loyola Women cont'd If women enrolling in evening Courses courses at Loyola fa iled to cause a stir, it was probably duetothe"mature student" nature of the Extension De­ for partment. Most of the women were working, a fact thot mode them accept­ able in the classroom . Marie Boyle, a teacher who re­ Every turned to college in 1960 to complete the last two years of her B.A., re­ members only one incident where Taste old attitudes prevailed. "One of my professors told me my place was at The Loyola Centre for Continuing home", says Marie. "He claimed Education is offering topical courses education was for men, and that I this term for the serious-minded. was taking o man 's place at the "Great Books", a recurring series College." beginning February 4, is a six week Loyola in 1966 - 'Abmen en masse course co-ordinated by Brendan By the time this writer entered Cavanaugh, Philosophy Department, Connie Broden is a member of the first year university in 1966, going Loyola Campus. Two sessions will be Loyola Sports Hall of Fame and Teom to Loyola was like going to any other devoted to on analysis of Alder's Captain of the Loyola Grads hockey co-ed school. There were 568 women "How to Read a Book", with the team. The team will participate in on campus that year and I was com­ remaining four sessions involving the Sorel Intermediate Hockey Tourna­ pletely unaware that the first women studies and critiques of "Great Books" ment, March 1. 2. Broden is the only had undergone any struggles for ac­ selected by class members. ($25) hockey player to play on a world 11 ceptance. Modern Political Ideologies" - con­ amateur and world professional The Women's Association had servatism, liberalism, socialism, com­ championship team in the same year, broken up into two sororities active munism and racialism - will be 1958. He was with the Whitby Dun lops in all sectors of campus life. The discussed in an eight week course and the Montreal Canadiens. timidity surrounding social life in the starting February 12. Course leader early '60's was gone. The ratio of is Dr. Bhikhu Parekh, a visiting pro­ men to women overwhelmingly fessor from the University of Hull, favoured us and we made every effort Gabrielle Paul Douglas worked at Yorkshire, England, in the Political to use it. There were innumerable Loyola for two years as a research Science Department, Loyola Campus. dances, beer bashes, football and assistant in the Geology Deportment; ($35). hockey games including a women 's obtained an MSc from McGill; and "Problems of Our Day" will varsity hockey team. is now the accountant at Century Plaza examine some of the issues: al­ The cafeteria was the official meet­ Limited, the administrative office of coholism, drugs, education, violence, ing place for on-going and up-coming Place Cremizie Complex. inflation, bilingualism and bicultural- romances. Many days were spent Geth Coolen was working at playing bridge, drinking coffee and Imperial Oil when she began taking ism. Authorities from the Loyola and talking in that noisy, overcrowded courses at Loyola. She has been with Sir George campuses will leod the building. the company's accounting office for discussions. Starting Tuesday, Febru­ It was only after I had interviewed 30 years. ary 11 for 6 weeks. ($10) the first Loyola women that I discover­ Mrs. Marie Boyle completed her "Moral Crisis of Our Times" puts ed that two years before my arrival B.A. in English and History in 1964. practical emphasis on moral di­ women were very much the outsiders. She then taughtthe English 211 course lemmas, marriage and the family, I find it hard to believe it was the at Sir George Williams for six years. business ethics, society and sub­ same Loyola I knew. Mrs. Boyle also has an "A" diploma cultures. Beginning February 17, for from St. Joseph Teachers College. 6 weeks, it will be given by Dr. Jack 'Abmen's struggles no obstacles to This year she is taking it easy, pre­ Morgon, Philosophy Deportment, careers paring a move to a farm she and her Loyola Campus, along with faculty The pioneer worn en at Loyola do husband, Tom, bought in Glengorry members from the Sociology, Political not consider themselves suffragettes. County, Ontario. Science, Philosophy, and Fine Arts They chose Loyola because it offered After her BSc at Loyola, Stefanie Departments. ($10) the education they wanted. If initial Derewecka wentta St. Joseph Teachers For those geared to hobbies and attempts at recognition were difficult, College in 1965-66 to take a Bachelor crafts, the Centre offers Jewelry- Mak­ they were not obstacles to future of Education. She teaches at John F. ing, Typing, Shorthand, Yoga, Interior careers. In fact, all the women in­ Kennedy High School, Montreal Design, Book-binding, Batik and terviewed, claim they would do it a­ North, and is working on an M.A. Design, Outdoor Gardening, Draw­ gain. in education administration at State ing- Painting, and other practical Loretta Mahoney opted out of en­ University of New York. She plans to courses. g ineering in favour of an MBA which do a doctorate there. Certificate courses in Management, she obtained last year. She is on Mary Derewecka is vice-principal Journalism, Commercial Art, Dress analyst in tech nical planning and re­ of studies at Montreal's William Hings­ Designing and Pattern-Making, and search at Petrofina's Headoffice. ton Comprehensive. French Conversation, also continue. A Memorium: Concordia's Dr. Arthur Donohue Place Dr. Arthur Donohue, well-loved in Quebec and form er president of the Alumni Association died in mid-January. He leaves his wife, Allison Donohue, a Following is excerpted from the member of the staff of the Assistant redor's slatemenfs in the Su&url>an: lo the Rector, Loyola campus, Con­ cordia University; five children; and "The English language community 13 grandchildren. should insist on the maintenance of Dr. Donohue entered Loyola High Concordia and McGill Universities School in 1919, was graduated from which complement and compete with the College in 1928 with an Arts each other and which will provide degree. His degree in Dentistry was a stronger guarantee of continuing from McGill University, and he English-language education in the pro­ practiced for over 40 years in the vince." (Each has an enrollment of Drummond-Medical Building in down­ approximately 16,000 full-time equi­ town Montreal.