Loretto Academy - Laurel Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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For seventy-six students reaping the rewards of the Loretto Leadership Camp, it was a time for love and maturity. It was a summer Our Lody of the Rockies Comp situated in a tree-filled volley surrounded by blue sky and mountains. .Ibove the droning chatter of a busload packed with lively teen-agers, a few breathless phrases catch your ear. Hi! What's your name? Gruzilda?—You're kidding! Where are you from? Kansas City, uh. Hey! Isn't that in Illinois? From New Mexico, Kentucky, Alabama, and Illinois, Loret- tine students gathered to take part in the loretto Leader- ship Workshop. Kathy Mitchell, Kris e fer' 1 Stipctich, Peggy Wolski, Jessica Ward, and Dede De Soto represented Kansas City's Loretto at the camp. Along with seventy other student leaders, these girls hoped to form new friendships and exchange school ideas in this training session. Rolling toward Our Lady of the Rockies the bus vibrated with the laughing, roaring strains of If 1 Had a For oneweek, the camp's white frame church resounded with early morning Prime and Eucharistic hymns. For the Loretto Sisters attending the workshop, it was a reunion. Sister Mary Venard re-met many of her former music stu- dents from St. Louis, while Sister Joan Clare greeted South- ern belles from Mobile. , „ It took a few days to adjust to the workshops rustic atmosphere ; the dribbling water faucets, snoring bunk mates the 40° August evenings. Terry Miller, a Denverite, weathered through the freezing nights with a pair of pajamas, robe, two pairs of socks, night cap and a shaggy bear coat. After the bundled up delegates slid into bed, the i;Uo r.Kint «-hoed with midnight cab sessions. Clanging bells summoned us to our morning class. Colorado, here we ore! With suitcases bulging, student leaders like Peggy and Kris congregated in rustic otmosphere of the Colorado highlands. ''Jjfoiir ideal is Christ and you must have union with your ideal insisted Father Greenslade, the chaplain at Loretto Heights College. Father spoke frankly about our bond with Mary, our exemplar, Mary was not a mother goddess, she was human and lived as a person of her time. With his •The workshop site, encircled by mountains, nestles in a valley 30 miles from Denver. 4 the laurelette

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 lolh Vol. 31, No. 1 Fall, 1963 Table of Contents Candid Comments. . . . Kathy Harvey, Sharon Tuveson So As to Love .................. . . . Kirstine Schaeffer Harvest ......................... . . . Delores DeSoto Backboard Battles . .. Lee Hudson Elephants Arise . . . Bobbie Junior Snack Shop Superb . . . Ann Lillis Today's Better World . . Mary Kelly Newwords . Bobbie Junior, editor Perspective Peeks Kathy Lockwtxxl, Paula Harris To Be Informed ... Pat Graham Reader Rampant . . . Liz Dewey, Sherry Ralston Everything and Then Some Too Good to Keep ... Pam Copulos News .......... . . . Sally Kieffaber 12 13 15 16 18 19 20 .21 32 PRESS CLUB MEMBERS Editor: Kirstine Schaeffer Art Editor: Poni Miller- artists: Rosemary Hole, Monlyn Schaeffer, Diane Tockett Business Manager: Carol Stipetich; staff: Sharon Copulos, Judy Junior, Roberta Raynor Circulation: Chorlotte Pinter Exchange: Rhonda Ray Focus: Ellen Welch Literary Editor: Bobbie Junior Make-up Editor: Maraarette Grant; page plan- ners Jane Allen. Gwen Geroths, Mory Otto. Morilyn Schaeffer, Diane Tackett, Ellen Welch, Cathy Weiss Morgue: Judy Junior News Editor: Sally Kieffaber Photography Editor: Stephanie Peake; photog- raphers: Sara Copowycz, Linda Genova, Lindo Sophy, Peggy Wolski Writers: Pam Copulos, Delores DeSoto Liz Dewev Groce Donaldson, Pot Grahom, Paula Horris, Lee Hudson, Mary Kelly, Ann Lillis, Kathy Lockwood. Laura Nixon, Eleanor Schaeffer, Pot Todd. Moderator: Sister Judith Mary, S.L- The lourelette is published four times a year by the Loretto Press Club. Address all corre- spondence to the lourelette, Loretto Acodemy, 1101 West 39th Street. Konsos City 11, Mis- souri. Subscriptions ore $1.50 per year. So ad L oue 7 ie first Loretto-ite was sunbonnetted and taught young Kentucky children under open skies and in floorless cabins. She had discovered a need for teachers in the far-from-Maryland-and-convent-schools farmland and went to Fr. Ner- inckx offering to do what she could. 1963 Loretto is still striving to extend herself to those around her—to the people who need her talents. Our vocation (like hers) is acting in terms of otherness — whether these others are the near-by-us-timid-in-a-noon-hour-gab- session girls or the farther-from-us freedom marchers. TO e need to know people—to get acquainted with them—so our conversations are not limited to the weather or the World Series. We’re trying to help you in this issue by introducing you to some people—through our theme for the year, People to People.” There is a herd” of 95 juniors to contend with. (We challenge you to say that you know all their names.) You can find them either struggling (but alas, in vain) against the seniors in the laurelette drive or planning the November Dance even before school has begun. We introduced you to three of them in particular. We’ve told you about the Loretto that went out to rough it at Leadership Camp (not too unlike Mary Rhodes, who found her first accommodations rather rustic also)—but returned, surprisingly enough, not with pneumonia, but with new ideas and attitudes—and how to lead from love. There were those 200 high school students who came to a Loretto Youth Day seeking to find out how they themselves could make a better world. Sister Gabriel told them that our self concept—what we think of ourselves—should be good. We are children of God. We are loved.” This self concept gives us freedom and strength to go out to make a better world—freedom from selfness and strength to be receptive and objective. Who is better able to love and understand than the Christian who knows he is loved?” Whether in homeroom or history or at a Student Faculty Institute we've heard more about the Better World Movement from Sister David Maureen. She's telling us what Fr. Kusman told the sisters on retreat this summer: The Church has the formula—its doctrines were firmly declared at the Council of Trent— but we have lost the Catholic culture. The early Christians had it in their com- munity living and the pagans could recognize it—'See how those Christians love one another.’ ” he laurelette’s purpose is to mirror the school. But Loretto does not extend only from west-campus freshmen orientation parties to the mad battles in its gym. The first Loretto went out of herself and we went to do the same. Pat Graham, interviewed Mr. Hoyt, chairman of the Catholic Interracial Council, who told us that we have a responsibility to be informed. We exchanged ideas with a Mobilean editor who told us Northerners that we, too, have to watch ourselves, because we are just as guilty of prejudice as Southerners—the only difference is whom we're prejudiced against. Another Confederate (from Drama Club) gave us a better understanding of prejudice by telling what it is and how we get it. So why have I spent seven inches of two-column type telling you what you will read in the following twenty-some pages? This issue says people—it fea- tures them, photographs them, laughs with them, listens to what they have to say. And that's what I am saying—people. Talk to them, watch them, learn about them, love them. Because if we are acquainted with people then no one has to point out what we can do for them. We know. « oretto's first stream at Hardin's Creek is now overflowing into South America. Kansas City's Loretto is learning that the trickles of ideas and talents it has gained in classes and clubs and discussion can be used to flood the world around it with love. Fall 1963 3

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distinct British accent. Father Greensiade expounded on the modern Catholic problems and student spirituality. Through these meetings, the representatives, like har- vesters, reaped much fresh thought. Another faculty member from the Heights, Sister Mary Gabriel, a psychology professor, edified her class with such terms as self concept and freedom from self. (Visiting Kansas City for a week-end, Sister Gabriel spoke at the Sodality Day, September 29.) 7he need of the world today is universal love,” empha- sized Mr. and Mrs. Loui, as they proclaimed the urgency for Catholics to practice Christian love. During the school months, Mr. Loui is a member of the Drama Department at Webster College in St. Louis while Mrs. Loui, along with taking care of their four vivacious children, is Press moder- Short Interlude. Pausing before entering his chapel classroom, Father Greensiade recounts with the L.A. delegates his three years in Europe. ator at Webster. Spying bearded Mr. Loui, you re first im- pression is, as Mr. Loui rightly guessed, Hey! what beatnik colony did he escape from? The Louis conducted an in- formal class with the couple sharing equal time discussing married life and the dignity and worth of the individual. Go out and think, Mr. Loui tells his kids, and, amazingly, they do. The Loui children, all under age ten, are treated like adults. There's no baby talk for them. The conflict today is the struggle between conviction and convention. Most people say to hell with conviction; conform. As Kathy Mitchell expressed it, They really talk from their convictions; what they advise, they've been through. Bearded Dromotist. The rickety table, the two stools and the beige coffee mugs achieved the informal and inspiring atmosphere of Mr. Loui and his wife s Tuck conference. 7rying to get as much out of camp advantages as possible, many girls divided into buzz groups and discussed their school goals and situations. During one of the buzz talks, Jessica marveled, The friendly and unified workshop spirit here is really inspiring. Chimed in Peggy, You just ask for a sweater, and about seven girls offer you one—you have a choice. Special conferences for student government officers, spiritual club representatives, and publication editors gave each group time to talk over their particular problems. Sister Marian Joseph, chief workshop planner, conducted a general round-up at the close of the day so everyone could comment on any of the day’s classes. Refresh up with o Coke. Sister Marian Joseph, the camp's general planner, seems to soy as she reloxes with some of the representatives after a class. Fall 1963 5