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RIVER FOREST, 111. — Lay
teachers in American Catholic
universities are seldom given
“the status, the freedom of the
function of co-building” they
would receive in secular schools,
Dr. George N. Shuster said here.
Dr. Shuster declared that “the
only way a tradition of Catholic
scholarship — or rather, per
haps, of Catholic participation
in scholarly activities — can be
firmly established, is to use lay
men and women as .the founda
tion.”
He made the statement in an
address given at a two - day
symposium on the Catholic con
tribution to American intellec
tual life, held at Rosary Col
lege here under sponsorship of
the .college and the Thomas
More Association. Dr. Shuster
is president of Hunter College,
New York.
Asserting that “it is wholly
impossible to create a fraternity
of scholars unless one first
kindles the spark of coopera
tion,” he maintained that Cath
olic educators should ask them
selves “some really incisive
questions.”
Among these questions he
listed: “To what extent is a
Catholic university ready to ac
cord to those it has chosen to be
its professors full equality of
status, whether they be Relig
ious or lay folk? Will it give
the professor an opportunity to
help shape the policies, of all
kinds, for example, when a new
president is chosen, or when
new members of the faculty are
to be recruited?”
“Until such questions . . . can
be answered affirmatively,” Dr.
Shuster added, “there can come
into being no tradition of Cath
olic scholarship, which rests on
a continuing progression of lay
men and women through the
generations.”
He also contended that the ar
gument that “a need for broader
opportunities to exercise pastor
al care” justifies the establish
ment of more and more Catho
lic universities will not “hold
much water.”
“In the long run,” he contin
ued, “the only valid reason for
going to a university is to ob
tain what a university, with its
traditions, professors, labora
tories and library, has to offer.
“To assume that, because able
and sagacious Religious pour out
their hearts’ blood in the effort
to keep institutions going, the
holiness of their graduates or
their ability to move to the fore
front of the scholarly procession
will be guaranteed, is to run
afoul of statistics.”
Dr. Shuster warned that the
result of the multiplication of
Catholic universities is that
“Religious admirably trained in
important areas of learning are
being tied to backbreaking ad
ministrative posts. They wrestle
manfully with budgets, stage
ftmd-raising dinners, cope with
faculties perennially underpaid.
Meanwhile, Catholic enroll
ments in public and other non
religious centers of higher edu
cation increase by leaps and
bounds.”
He suggested that it might be
better to set up effective Cath
olic centers at secular universi
ties, rather than to try to estab
lish still more Catholic schools.
Dr. Shuster also examined
Catholic elementary and sec
ondary education in the United
States.
He declared that the sacrifices
of the nuns who teach in Cath
olic parochial schools are “no
doubt as glorious and moving as
anything in the history of the
Church in the United States, but
. . . also from many points of
view very costly indeed.”
The system, he said, “has with
implacable permanence fed into
the unending, burdensome pro
gress of elementary education, a
large number of the morally
and intellectually gifted. More
than that, whenever there have
not been enough Sisters, the so
lution of the problem has been
-to add steadily to the load car
ried by them as individuals.”
Dr. Shuster added: “Does it
. not sometimes seem that the
quest for a quantitive attain
ment of the educational goal
appears to involve forgetting
that not every Sister every
where can be placed in a class
room with confidence?”
“Is it not obvious,” he asked,
“that the maxim ‘every child
in a Catholic school’ can be a
perilous slogan — if only be
cause the papal encyclical to
which all of us hark back in the
discussion of educational mat
ters, that of the great Pope Pius
XI, specifically stipulates that
the quality of instruction must
be of the most admirable tex
ture?”
The speaker remarked that
the value of a good college is
very great to a community of
nuns, to whom it “gives institu
tional expression to the com
munity’s religious and educa
tional ideals.”
“Already it is true,” he de
clared, “that, exception having
been made for the Society of
Jesus, the Sisters of college fac
ulties are making the most not
able contributions to scholarship
directly fostered by Catholic ac
ademic institutions, as well as
to creative writing . . .
“One can only hope that the
major communities of Sisters
can keep their colleges going.
The trend is against them, pri
marily it may be because of
the lure of coeducation, which
might, however, be offset by a
well-considered policy of affil
iation with nearby colleges for
men.”
Dr. Shuster then turned to a
consideration of the Catholic
high school. “Whatever may be
averred in favor of such insti
tutions from the point of view
of the moralist and the teacher
of religion,” he said, “the plain
fact is that the basic education
al problems posed by such
schools are not solved under
Catholic auspices any more than
they are under public ones.
“When one discovers — as I
have — that seniors of a high
school bearing proudly its dedi
cation to Aquinas do not have
the foggiest notion who he may
have been, the prognosis is not
less bleak than it is when one
finds out that the seniors of
Thomas Jefferson High School
do not realize that he wrote the
Declaration of Independence.”
Dr. Shuster suggested that
“the Catholic high school mus
ters in young people who would
in all likelihood find very well
for themselves” in preserving
their Faith in public schools,
and turns over to the public au
thorities those most in need of
religious solicitude.”
He declared that, if Catholic
education is to do its share of
the work imposed on the Ameri
can school system, additional fi
nancial help “must come t.o it
from somewhere.”
Americans should realize, he
said, that “religious motivation
can be of the greatest social val
ue, and that therefore the com
munity as a whole ought not to
deal in a niggardly fashion with
the social welfare aspects of a
religious education conducted
under whatever auspices.”
Msgr. William McManus, su
perintendent of schools for tha
Chicago archdiocese, was chair
man of the session at which Dr.
Shuster spoke. He summed up
his comments and the discussion
which followed by saying:
“Catholic education has the po
tential for a deep and lasting
contribution to American intel
lectual life. But because it is
spread too thin, largely through
the proliferation of educational
institutions, it isn’t reaching its
full potential.
“A dilemma is posed by try
ing to carry out the pastoral
mandate and the academic
mandate.”
Dr. James A. Reyniers, direc
tor of the Lobund Institute and
research professor of biology
at the University of Notre
Dame, addressed another session
of the symposium and declared
that “a very serious problem is
the growing concern of the
Catholic lay professor with his
place in the Catholic universi
ty.”
“Unless this problem is fac
ed,” he added, “there is danger
of alienating the lay professor
from the Catholic institution.”
Dr. Reyniers suggested that
an “objective group” be set up
“to examine the structure and
organization of our Catholic uni
versities, their policies, and their
records with respect to carry
ing out the policies.”
Dr. Reyniers cited what he
called “shortsighted” admini
stration of some Catholic
schools and declared that “for
all the public talk, I have failed
to see the intellectual revolu
tion which is supposed to be
NCCW to Provide
Medical Care For
Mothers, Babies
WASHINGTON, (NC) — The
president of the National Coun
cil of Catholic Women has an
nounced that the initiation of
the “Madonna Plan,” a fund
raising effort of the NCCW
Committee on Foreign Relief for
a Vatican City “well-baby clin
ic.”
In a letter to presidents of
the council’s 11,500 affiliates,
NCCW president Mrs. Robert H.
Mahoney, of Hartford, Conn.,
urged each member to contrib
ute one dollar to launch the
program in honor of the Lourdes
centenary.
She called the plan an effort
to demonstrate in a concrete
way the desire of American
Catholic .Women to restore the
Christian tradition of mother
hood emphasized in the sym
bol, “Madonna.” Funds, chan
neled through Catholic Relief
Services-National Catholic Wel
fare Conference to the Dispen
sary of St. Martha in Vatican
City, will provide medical care
along with health and nutrition
education for mothers and
babies.
The NCCW hopes to receive
sufficient funds to expand the
program to establish or aid
“well-baby clinics” in the Brit
ish West Indies, Puerto Rico and
Japan.
“In countries where children
are born into misery and dis
ease, and where, for the mother,
the advent of a new child is a
cause for dread and even des
pair,” Mrs. Mahoney wrote,
“medical help, nutrition and ed
ucation can serve to lift the bur
den that lies on the bodies and
spirits of so many mothers and
their children.”
This is the sixth major na
tional project introduced since
1945 by the NCCW Foreign Re
lief Committee in cooperation
with CRS-NCWC. These in
clude: “Children in Need,” col
lections of new and used cloth
ing for children; “F e e d-a-
Family”; China doll sales; cloth
ing collections for the store
rooms of the Holy Father, and
the sewing of First Communion
dresses.
Members of NCCW affiliates
in 1957 sent more than $400,000
in cash gifts, and new and used
clothing to 53 countries. In the
past 10 weeks, the council’s af
filiates have contributed $14,000
in cash gifts alone.
underway in the Catholic uni
versities as a whole.”
He said the responsibility for
Catholic universities’ failure to
produce more scientific rests
with the administrations of the
schools.
“With few exceptions,” he as
serted, “in no institution is the
weight of administration felt so
heavily, or do administrators
have such powers, as in Cath
olic institutions. Nor does the
faculty have less to say about
the policies of the university.”
Dr. Reyniers added: “If, as
has been stated, Catholic uni
versities want to become great
. . . there must be a sharing of
responsibilities and there will
be a gradual loss of control,”
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Indian Sfafe 4
Exempts Schools
From Socialization
HYDERBAD, India, (NC) —
Catholic schools have been ex
empted again from, a proposed
extension of the Andhra state
government’s program for tak
ing over privately-operated
schools.
The program was introduced
four years ago. It provides for
the “nationalization” of private
primary schools in the region
on the ground that employment
conditions of teachers there
could not be improved appreci
ably without government own-
ership.
The scheme was first tried in
the district of Nellore. But the
many Catholic-owned schools in
that area were exempted from
the Socialization project. The
groups whose schools were tak
en over received monetary com
pensation for their properties
from the government.
The exemption to Catholic
schools was granted on the
ground that they were “well
conducted” and their teachers
were contented. Following the
promulgation of the education
act, owners of Catholic schools
petitioned the state education
ministry, saying that there was
no “teacher problem” in Catho
lic schools.
The proposed widening of the
Socialization scheme is intended
for the neighboring district of
Vishakhatnam. Here, too, there
are many Catholic and Christian
primary schools. But the gov
ernment exempted them from
the Socialization.
By so doing, it faced criticism
of alleged “discriminatory treat
ment.” The criticism was voiced
by communists. The commun
ist government now ruling Ker
ala state had cited the Andhra
legislation in support of its at
tempt to grab all private schools
there. Communist leaders had
said at that time that the Kerala
bill is not so rigid as the And
hra legislation and, while the
latter had received the consent
of the nation’s president with
out a hitch, the Kerala legisla
tion was being blocked at every
turn. The Reds charged bias on
the part of the central govern
ment in New Delhi in favor of
the Congress party-controlled
government in Andhra.
Mrs. Ann Wilki ns
Services In Savannah
SAVANNAH — Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Ann T. Wilkins
were held June 14th at the Ca
thedral of St. John the Baptist
with a Requiem Mass, Rev. Rob
ert J. Teoli officiating.
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs.
Harry J. Middleton Sr.; two
brothers, Charles M. Farrell and
William J. Farrell; a grandson,
a granddaughter, all of Sav
annah, and several nieces and
nephews.
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