Mary Manse College - Brescian Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Ellen Louise Halpin, '47, is shown doing research on vitamins at the Abbott Pharma- ceutical Laboratory in North Chicago, Illinois. ' Science is another field in which our alumnae have shown their ability. Besides teachers in the field, we find some of the girls doing research in major industries in Milwaukee, Cleveland, Grand Rapids, Chicago, and Toledo. There are Mary Manse girls Working in hospitals and research labora- tories as doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, and chemists. Mary Manse graduates have also found social work very interesting. Many of them have been or are now associated with the Toledo Catholic Charitiesg others have responsible positions in other cities. Personnel work and employment in the business world are also represented by Mary Manse graduates. Again some of the girls have found enviable positions in downtown offices here in Toledo. V We are gratified, indeed, to find that for some of the alumnae the love of learning did not end with their gradua- tion. Fifty-five girls have received higher degrees and ten of the girls are now working for higher advancement, some of them serving on fellowships at universities. Library science is a noteworthy field in which many girls are now employed and in which others are doing advanced work. Joanne Hurley, '46, instructor in the Training Department at Lasalle's, Toledo, is preparing a training manual for use in the department. 89

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Mary Conlin, '36 fthird from leftj, is pictured planning the program for the Catholic Marriage Forum. Mary is a supervisor ol case workers at the Catholic Charities. The real test of the achievement of a college lies in the character of its alumnae and in the quality of their work after college days are over. The responsibility of a college graduate to carry on the ideals of her college has certainly been well illustrated by our Mary Manse alumnae who down through the ages have tried to sound loud the name of our beloved Mary Manse. Judging from the helds of occupation in which the alumnae are employed, we know that Mary Manse has done well in preparing her students for life after college. Mary Manse graduates are represented in almost every field of activity. They are living in twenty-nine different states in the United States and in China, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Panama, Hawaii, Korea, and Berlin. Mary Manse has sent from its portals four hundred eighty graduates, twenty-six of whom have entered the religious life and one hundred eighty of Whom are married and are the mothers of over r four hundred children. Teaching is one of the most common professions which Mary Manse girls have entered. At the present time there are fifty-four alumnae teaching in the elementary schools and forty-four teaching in high schools. Some of them are teaching in small communities in this vicin- ity, but a large number of them can be found in classrooms in our city. Fifteen are college teachers live of whom are teaching right here at Mary Manse. lvlargaret Sweeney, '46 fsecond from leftj, teacher of art at St. Ursula Academy, Toledo, Ohio. supervises the production of a puppet show. 88

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435 ffm Left to right: Jeanne Keogh, '46, Alice Miller Harper, '46, and Elizabeth Savage, '46. display some of the valuable and useful articles of clothing collected for the Relief Drive. The Mary Manse Alumnae Association has been kept actively alive by the members and officers of the organization and by the publication of the ALUMNAE NEWS. The association as a whole has done much to uphold Christian and cultural life in the city. It is one of the most active Catholic women's organizations in Toledo, having as one of its outstanding activities the Mary Manse Alumnae Lecture Series for which they have had such speakers as Monsignor Fulton fl. Sheen, Father Daniel A. Lord, SJ., and the English poet, Alfred Noyes. In November a relief drive was conducted at which a special committee gathered and wrapped food and clothing and sent it overseas to needy European families. 'In March the alumnae took part in their annual Day of Rf-collection, especially enjoyable this year because of its being conducted by the distinguished Father James Keller, M.M., of New York City, who is head of the Christopher movement in America. The June banquet is also an en- joyable occasion. At this time members of the graduating class of the past year are taken into the Alumnae Association. The undergraduates of Mary Manse are proud of and happy over achievements which the alumnae have made in their fields of endeavor. We only hope that by following their example we too will Hdown through the ages sound loud her name -Mary Manse College. Cervaise Lemke, 234, and Flora W'-ang, '41, exchange stories of exe periences abroad. Cervaise is stationed in Berlin with the United States Army under Civil Service, and Flora is on leave from the Catholic Uni- versity of Peking, China, at present working for her master's at DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. 90