From the President Summer, 19R3 2 From the President Remarks from the Emmanuel College Volume I , Number 2 Commencement, May 22, 1983 4 Letters Members of the Board of Trustees and Editor: 5 Commencement '83 J ann Dohen y Corporation, Distinguished Guests, Alum­ CLass Notes EditoT: 6 The Cult of True Womanhood nae, Faculty, Administrators, and Staff. Peggy Connors '73 in the 1980's With you, I extend best wishes and con­ Administrative Star(" by Patricia Albjerg Graham gratulations to parents, spouses and child­ Gail Hernandez ren, families and friends of the Emmanuel Desig;n Consu Ltant: 8 A Superior Machine of Thought College Class of 1983. To you, the Class of WCBH Design by Dr. Rosemary Barton Tobin 1983, I give very warm greetings. As graduates you now celebrate your 10 Profile: Published four times a year: accomplishments and look forward to new Sister Mary T. Kelleher, SND Sprin g, Summer, Fa ll , Winter possibilities in your future. You graduate 12 Faculty Book: Selected EXeTcises from Emmanuel College in a year marked Depa rtment of Publi c Relations for the Biochemistry Laboratory by renewed vitality and strength as seen in Emmanuel Coll ege the College's reaccreditation, its increased 400 T he Fenway 13 On Campus enrollment, its growth in financial support Boston, Massachusetts 02 1 15 from alumnae and friends, and in the re­ 17 Upcoming Events cognition it has received for its academic T hird Class postage paid at programs. You graduate informed by the 18 People Boston, Massachusetts values of a liberal arts education whose 19 Class Notes academic disciplines have enabled you to Postmas ter: think critically, raise probing questions, Send add ress changes to 23 In Memoriam and form sound judgments. Emmanuel Quarterly As women with a liberal arts education 400 T he Fenway you will be called on to speak as advocates Boston, Massachusetts 021 15 for the importance of education at every level. The National Commission on Excel­ Photographs : lence reported two weeks ago that, "If an Patrice Flesch: unfriendly foreign power had attempted Pages 13, 14, 15, 16 top right, to impose on America the mediocre educa­ 18 top, middle right and left, 19 tional performance that exists today, we Hookailo Studio : might well have viewed it as an act of war. Cover bottom right and left, As it stands, we have allowed this to 5 top, left, bottom right, 10 left happen to ourselves." The report con­ Sandra Johnson: tinues: "Our concern includes the Cover top and middle, 3, intellectual, moral and spiritual strengths 5 middle right, 6 of our people which knit together the very J anice Rogovin: fabric of our society. The people of the 16 left and bottom, 18 bottom United States need to know that individ­ uals in our society who do not possess the On the cover: levels of skill, literacy and training essential (Top) Dean Marian Kilson, to this new era will be effectively disen­ Mary Beatty Muse '4 1, and franchised not simply from the material Presid ent Sister J anet Eisner, rewards that accompany competent per­ SND. (M iddle) The Class of formance, but also from the chance to 1983 Processional. (Lower left) participate fully in our national life. A high Maureen E. Hallice, President level of shared education is essential to a o f the Class of 1983, gives student commencement speech. (Lower right) Baccalaureate Liturgy celebrated by Bishop John M. D'Arcy. 2 require not only new ideas and new vision but what the Gospel calls conversion of the heart." As graduates you will be called upon to take similar prophetic positions, to be well­ informed, with alert intellects, with the search for truth leading you to act with conviction. To carry out these responsibili­ ties you have the support of your alma mater, of the 10,000 graduates who have taken seriously their education and carry out now their responsibility to speak and to act. In the rite of commencement your College addresses words to remind you of its expectations. It speaks to you also in those people it chooses to honor. Today Emmanuel sets before you the lives of four significant people - an Allan Crite whose legacy in the community of artists moved so many of the Emmanuel students earlier this year to see new faces in the world of President Sister Janet Eisner, SND, economy, of industry and business, nor the art; an Anna Harrison, a scientist whose delivers commencement remarks global issues of war and peace. This last work has enriched the quality of all our issue has particularly challenged the lives; a Mary Beatty Muse, an Emmanuel free democratic society and to the foster­ colleges and universities in the country graduate like yourselves, an attorney, now ing of a common culture, especially in a and we have read about conferences on Justice of the Suffolk Probate and Family country which prides itself on pluralism the role of the academ y in addressing such Court, whose life has been marked with and individual freedom. For our country issues as nuclear war, of the ensuing debate significant service to her profession and to function, citizens must be able to reach between value-free and value-laden society; and your commencement speaker, some common understandingon complex education. Dr. Patricia Graham, the first and only issues, often on short notice, and on the As grad uates of this Catholic college for woman dean at Harvard, a policy-maker basis of conflicting or incomplete evidence. women, you have seen that the quest for and an educator whose accomplishments Education helps form those common truth allows both an objective position and and spirit have enhanced the power and understandings." a prophetic stance. Such a stance is evident appreciation of education in our society. I urge you, graduates with a sound in the recent pastoral of the American I encourage you, the graduates of the education yourselves, to take up the task Bishops which reminds us of the tradition Emmanuel College Class of 1983, to con­ and to see that educational standards are which has always been prepared to relate tinue what you have begun in your years at improved, that illiteracy is obliviated, that moral principles to concrete problems. Emmanuel, to become advocates for an access to an excellent education is afforded The pastoral says, "In the nuclear arsenals informed and educated society, to take up to each person in the generation which of the United States or the Soviet Union with joy and courage your role as moral follows you. I encourage you to be propo­ alone there exists a capacity to do some­ leaders, and to act as women of responsi­ nents in your cities, towns and states for thing no other age could imagine. We can bility for your own future and for the the allocation of funds and resources to threaten the entire planet. For people of future ofthe world. My very best wishes to education at every level. faith this means we read the book of each one of you. As Emmanuel women you will be called Genesis with a new awareness. The moral upon to be catalysts for moral leadership issue at stake in a nuclear war involves the in the society. In your College the search meaning of sin in its most graphic dimen­ for truth was not isolated from the cares sions. Today the destructive potential of and concerns of the 20th century society. the nuclear powers threatens the human Your college education let you see that a person, the civilization we have slowly con­ viewpoint could be both rational and pas­ structed and even the created order itself. sionate, that the intellectual world could As a people we must refuse to legitimate not leave unaddressed issues ofthe the idea of nuclear war. Such a refusal will 3 Letters Turning Over a New Leaf Questions Priorities More Correspondents Congratulations on the first issue of the I was particularly interested in the Women I am very pleased and proud of the new Quarterly .' I've just finished reading it from in Transition articles in the new Quarterly. I Emmanuel Quarterly. I particularly enjoyed cover to cover. Wonderful! I especially en­ am now home raising my two preschoolers the Profile section and the articles by parti­ joyed Carol Gilligan's contribution. and am constantly grappling with the pro­ cipants in the "Women in Transition" pro­ blem of reentering the world of work. gram. I only wish more members of my Elizabeth Murtagh, S D '63 Here in Westchester, staying home is not class had contributed to the Class otes Salem, MA the common pattern for college-educated section. mothers. I am also pleased to note that applica­ Mayre McGrath Hammond '73 Bravo for a terrific Spring, 1983, edition of tions and alumnae giving are up. In recent East Weymouth, MA Emmanuel Quarterly! The publication was years, however, I have sensed so much slick, interesting, informative, and long emphasis on alumnae giving and recruiting overdue. In fact, the Quarterly isjust one of that my personal involvement has declined many recent efforts by Emmanuel to instill (though my annual contributions con­ For Good Measure renewed interest and enthusiasm into its tinue). Even those tentative attempts made alumnae. Continued communication such to organize New York area alumnae were as this will only have a positive impact on focused on recruiting and fund raising, at a Congratulations on the first issue of the the College. My sincere congratulations time when I felt the need for social and Emmanuel Quarterly. I received it in the mail and thanks for your premier efforts.