Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Green Recognizes Need for Women and Minority Consciousness Dean Carol Hurd Green began her association with the University community in the 1960’s, as a faculty member in the English Department and later in the History Department. Leaving the school in 1973, she took a teaching position at the former Newton College until 1975 when she left the education field for a short time to pursue her own interests. During this time, she served as co-editor of a biographical encyclopedia of famous women, Notable American Women: The Modern Period. After four years of diligent work on this book, Green felt ready for a new challenge. Now, she has returned to campus as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, successor to John L. Harrison. Green remarks that she sees very little change in Arts and Sciences since she was last here in 1970. A firm supporter of liberal arts education, she looks upon it as a learning experience in “how to know things, and how to learn.” She feels that there has been a loss of social consciousness on college campuses as a whole, and she regrets the passage of a general interest in “seeing education work for others.” Green notes that there is no more of the “let’s change the world” attitude that prevailed in the sixties, and she recognizes a new generation of students who are conscious of how the declining job market and rising inflation rates will affect their futures. Calling herself “someone with feminist credentials,” Green feels there is a lack of consciousness concerning women and minorities on campus. Involving herself specifically in the Women’s Study program, as well as the Black Studies program, she would like to see courses on women and minorities come in from the periphery of the college curriculum and be recognized as a vital part of the Arts and Sciences program. Dean Green is comfortable in her new position as Associate Dean. She says that she is continually “encouraged to follow my own interests”, which are mainly her involvements in the women and minority programs on campus. In comparing her present administrative position with her former faculty standing, she says that she is now more aware of the different programs that exist in the school, and that she has a better perspective on the College of Arts and Sciences as a whole, rather than a series of individual departments. Stressing that the deans are not far removed from the academic life of the school, Green would like to dispel the image of the administration as being out of touch with the students. She emphasizes that her job as an Associate Dean is to help students academically, and to be aware of happenings in the academic aspect of the university. Dean Green presently is writing a book on women in the 1960’s, and while she feels it is important to follow her own specific interests, she also sees herself as someone “who continues to be a scholar,” needing to stay involved in the academic activities of the college of Arts and Sciences. As an academic Dean, Green has dedicated herself to continually working toward the school’s improvement, and, through that, her own improvement as well. Associate Dean Carol Hurd Green 26

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Mrs. E.J. Mudd, wife of television journalist Roger Mudd, Rev. Thomas J. Gibbons. S.J., Principal of Boston College High School, is begins her first year on the Board at the December 4 one of 11 Jesuits who serve on the Board of Trustees. meeting. While some of the Board members have served a number of terms, the Board is far from being a static entity. Each year new Trustees move onto the Board as others rotate off. Individuals selected for membership do not fit any stereotypical pattern of age, financial or social status. Each Trustee has a background or specific talent which the Board determines it would like to draw upon in order to provide an expertise that will aid the University in looking at major undertakings. For example, “When it was clear that the University would be going through a lot of building, we looked at people who could understand the inner workings,’’ noted Dwyer. But the position of a Trustee is not one of all work. Many of the Board members attend various social and athletic events throughout the year, as well as meeting with students and others of the University community, in both personal engagements and Trustee meetings. The role a Trustee plays for the University is just as important as the role the University plays for the Trustee. As one Trustee, just before the full Board meeting in December, commented: “The men and women who come here could be at other board meetings earning several thousands of dollars, but they come here because it means much more to them.” McElwee echoes this thought, “The most valuable thing in my life is personal time and 1 give my personal time to causes with great reservation.” In being a Trustee, he remarks, “I am trying in some form or other, as I guess many Trustees who are Alumni are, to pay a dividend or at least repay, in part, what the school has given me; and hope that I can in turn help the University to grow in a way that will make it possible for students in the future to have the same kind of very positive life experiences that I’ve been able to have.” Wayne Budd, of the Boston law firm Budd, Reilly and Wiley, is in his second year on the Board and, as Chairman of the Student Life subcommittee, he has seen a much more active participation on the Board as a result of the work by Margaret A. Dwyer, University Vice-President and Assistant to the President. students to gain a student trustee. “I have a much greater appreciation of B.C. than when I was here as an undergraduate or at the law school. 1 have come to work with outstanding people on and off the Board; and I have a lot of respect for all of them,” he commented. Tim Shea, the student chairman of the Coalition for a Student Trustee, feels the Board is excellent. “Most were very receptive to the arguments presented and many took the time out to meet with Coalition members individually and ask them questions. They are more active than some boards and they have a lot more dedication than one might expect from a board of trustees.” So, one hundred and nineteen years have passed since the incorporation of Boston College was placed in the hands of John McElroy, Edward Welch. John Bapst, James Clark, and Charles Stonestreet, but their 39 successors — the present Board of Trustees — carry on the same tireless and determined fight, guiding, overseeing, and gaining new experiences from an ever enlarged, modem day University. All this done for little compensation other than the knowledge that they are helping to perpetuate that institution known as “the Boston College”. by Peter Van Hecke 1 j 25

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Panuska leaves for Scranton Holding what President Monan once called “the most important management role in furthering the central mission of the University,” was Joseph A. Panuska, S.J., the Academic Vice-President and Dean of Faculties. Coming to Boston College in 1979 from the biology department of Georgetown University, Panuska spent his three years here devoted to improving the quality of education and now leaves to tackle a new mission as the president of the University of Scranton. With a list of board appointments, honors and prestigious memberships which runs on for pages, Panuska is clearly a sought after individual qualified in numerous fields. As one-time Provincial of the seven-state Maryland province of the Society of Jesus, Father Panuska is very familiar with the Scranton area and is looking forward to taking on the challenging position with enthusiasm. As Academic Vice-President, Panuska was the liason between many different groups: between faculty and deans, faculty and faculty, deans and deans, administration and faculty, faculty and students, and students and administration. In his spare time Panuska made revisions in the course offerings, core curriculum, academic advisement and many other areas. His main goal was to improve communications between the various sectors of the campus populus and, as he stated in his introductory speech to the faculty in September of 1979, “concentrate on excellence, not survival.” Having completely revamped the archaic and frustrating registration system through computerization, Panuska will be remembered as the Patron Saint of the Registrar. Panuska has also created the University Academic Council in order to increase his exposure to views and ideas from all of the different university groups. The presence of two students on this council demonstrates Panuska’s feeling about student input. Panuska is also responsible for the institution of a new course evaluation form based on the recommendations made by Jason Millman of Cornell University. Millman came to campus last year to gather information on the current evaluation process and submitted an in- depth report to the University Academic Council last spring. In November, Panuska received the recommendations of the council and a new form was agreed upon. Set to one side of the campus on College Road, Panuska has spent his years in Bourneuf House, a beautiful, old, stone Normandy, which houses the Academic Vice-President’s office. From this point a new perspective of campus was gained. From his own unique angle, Panuska has looked out over the University and its greatest resources, its administration, faculty and students, and attempted to make any improvements he could. The University has profited greatly from his presence here and will remember him through his achievements. Rev. Joseph A. Panuska, S.J. 27