tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post3826071582696798982..comments2024-03-26T11:33:59.219-06:00Comments on Religion in American History: Crossings and Dwellings: Mundelein College and the Legacy of Catholic Women's Higher Education in ChicagoPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-89734684116197114212014-11-20T13:55:55.308-07:002014-11-20T13:55:55.308-07:00I, too, appreciate this summary of what I found to...I, too, appreciate this summary of what I found to be a fascinating conference. I attended as the daughter of a Mundelein graduate and the granddaughter of a St. Mary's High School student. My mother had a ceramic tile in our home which mentioned something about Mundelein being the only skyscraper college for women. We paid scant notice, but it wasn't until I heard Ellen Skerrett speak about "Sister-Builders" in a talk in October in conjunction with the exhibition that I truly understood how extraordinary that skyscraper and those Sisters were. The contributions of Dr. Rima Lunin Schultz connected the neighborhoods of Hull House, Holy Family Parish, and St. Mary's High School and wove my family's personal history up to the lake shore campus of Mundelein through these same Sister-Builders. Some of the beautiful art deco artifacts in the exhibit got my mother's friends and fellow classmates from Mundelein reflecting upon rooms, furnishings, and discussions from their college days in ways they hadn't thought about in years--successfully making history come alive for them and their descendants. Glad to hear you are exploring different facets of sister-builders in this century.Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07495493271410396212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-32734038674454853822014-10-31T05:39:16.168-06:002014-10-31T05:39:16.168-06:00Anne, many thanks for your comment.
I do find it...Anne, many thanks for your comment. <br /><br />I do find it fascinating to see how the representation of women religious shift in the yearbooks from these institutions over the course of the 1960s; with so much attention to that tumultuous decade I've also become increasingly interested in campus life during the immediate postwar.<br /><br />It was a fantastic conference with many Mundelein alumnae in attendance!Monica L. Mercadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00165609014576491077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-8945698235578606192014-10-30T19:26:33.415-06:002014-10-30T19:26:33.415-06:00Thanks for this very interesting post as well as t...Thanks for this very interesting post as well as the conference summary. I attended Mundelein College (Class of 1968) and, to answer one of your questions, going to classes with our contemporaries who had entered the religious life didn't seem strange to us; we were or became friends and later exchanged visits when they received teaching assignments. Some had been our classmates in high school, but they were a year "behind" because they had been in Los Gatos or Dubuque during the time that we were first-year college students. And, like almost all of us, they were first-generation college attendees. It's worth noting that of Mundelein's legacies was that it trained teachers for Chicago's public and parochial schools. Of course, during my 4 years there, the women religious (both faculty and students) were throwing off their habits and so the visible differences between us diminished considerably. It might have been different during the 1950s. Best of luck with your spring course.<br />-Anne Boylan, History Department, University of DelawareAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03374504330373125975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-56765475478611389402014-10-30T08:43:26.406-06:002014-10-30T08:43:26.406-06:00Fascinating post, thank you!Fascinating post, thank you!Ray Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11123638351874519446noreply@blogger.com