WEBSTER GROVES, Mo.—Sister Jacqueline Grennan, president
of Webster College, wears civilian dress after she requested, and
received, dispensation from her vows to better “fulfill my commit
ment in the public sector.” If the Vatican approves, she will continue
as head of the college after its ownership is transferred to a lay
board of trustees.
Interdenominational University
EDMONTON, Alta. — (NC)
— The Alberta provincial cab
inet and representatives of five
Christian churches have reached
initial agreement on a proposed
interdenominational university
to be built with government
funds and operated by the
churches.
The provincial government
and the churches — Roman
Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, Lu
theran and United — must now
give final approval to the pro
posal.
It is favored by Father
Clement Kinderwater, O.M.I., ex
ecutive director of the Alberta
Catholic School Trustees Associa
tion and Catholic representative
on the study committee.
“The churches,” Father Kin
derwater said, “must accept the
government’s proposal if they
want to have a presence on the
new university campus. It is the
only opportunity in western
Canada for the churches to dup
licate the constituent colleges
which exist at eastern Canadian
universities.”
Laity Predominate
On Diocesan Board
PITTSBURGH — (RNS) —
Lay people now outnumber Re
ligious on the school board of
the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Pittsburgh for the first time in
its history.
Appointment of two more lay
members brought the number of
laity to eight. Remainder of the
board comprises four priests, a
nun and two ex-officio bishop
members — Bishop John J.
Wright, head of the diocese, and
his vicar for education, Auxiliary
Bishop John B. McDowell.
The new lay members are
Clayton Sweeney, a Pittsburgh at
torney, and Mrs. Carmen Capone,
housewife active in Church and
civic matters.
Baptists Set ‘Race
Relations Sunday’
Feb. 12 has been designated
“Race Relations Sunday” in
North Carolina and across the
Southern Baptist Convention.
Corbin Cooper, secretary of
the Department of Interracial
Cooperation of the Baptist State
Convention, has urged every
church to participate in the ob
servance.
“We are still faced with the
shocking reality that about 98
percent of all Southern Baptist
churches refuse to accept brown
skin Christians into their fellow
ship,” Cooper said. As long as
“such feelings exist there is a
need for Race Relations Sunday.”
The proposal agreed upon
calls for:
—Establishment of a Chris
tian university to serve all qual
ified students without religion
tests.
—Control of the university by
a board of governors whose
members would be nominated by
the churches and appointed by
the government.
—Provision for other denom
inations to join the sponsors at
a later time.
—Establishment of colleges
and residences on the campus
by the participating denomina
tions to teach religion and phil
osophy.
—Affiliation of existing
schools of colleges of the par
ticipating churches if they meet
academic standards of the uni
versity.
Target date for the start of
classes is 1972 with a projected
enrollment of 10,000 by 1975.
Detroit University
DETROIT —(NC)— The president of the Uni
versity of Detroit said here that total ownership
and control of the university will be given to a
new board of trustees, half of whose members will
be laymen and half Jesuit priests.
Father Malcolm Carron, S.J., said the new 16
member board will replace the university’s present
seven-member Jesuit board in about twc months.
The change is part of a general revision of the
university’s charter which will soon be submitted
for approval to the State of Michigan. The univer
sity received its charter from the state. It has an
enrollment of 12,000 -tudents.
Loyola — Chicago
CHICAGO —(RNS)— One of the largest
Jesuit universities in the world announced here
that laymen would be added to the governing
board for the first time in its 97-year-history.
Father James F. Maguire, S.J., president of
Loyola University of Chicago, announced that the
university would add laymen to its board “in the
near future.”
Loyola is Chicago’s oldest university. It has
a 40-member, 35-year-old advisory board of lay
trustees, but is governed by a board of 10 Jesuits.
Father Maguire said the move has been under
consideration for a year and a half. Only 63 of
the 410 full time faculty members are priests.
University enrollment is 12,242.
A trend to greater lay involvement in guiding
the affairs of Catholic colleges is the reflection
of Vatican II pronouncements.
John Carroll University
CLEVELAND —(NC)— Father Hugh E.
Dunn, S.J., president of John Carroll University,
said that laymen of several religions may be named
to the university’s governing board of trustees
within six months.
“The Second Vatican Council's concept of more
widespread sharing of responsibility and authority
is the basis of a definite trend in Catholic colleges
and universities toward governing boards which
include laymen and other non-members of reli
gious communities operating the schools,” Father
Dunn said.
“John Carroll University is in the forefront of
this trend. Exploratory steps are now being taken
which probably will lead to such a setup here,”
he stated.
The present board of trustees comprises seven
Jesuit priests. There is a 26-member advisory
board composed of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
laymen, but power rests with the trustees.
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Notre uame
NOTRE DAME, Ind. _(NC)— The president
of the University of Notre Dame said here that
the time has come for laymen to share with Holy
Cross priests the responsibility for governing the
university.
Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., said
it is “unrealistic” to expect the current six-member
clerical board of trustees to continue to guide the
university. He added that he regards a proposed
reorganization of the board of trustees as an “in
evitable development.”
Father Hesburgh stressed, however, that
Notre Dame will not become a secular university.
It will continue to be the “exalted mission” of the
Holy Cross Fathers to insure the Catholic character
of Notre Dame, he said.
Catholic University
WASHINGTON, D.C. —(RNS)— Bishop Wil
liam J. McDonald, rector of the Catholic University
of America said here that while new policy mak
ing committees will reflect a stronger voice for
laymen in university affairs, “at no time has any
member of the board of trustees or any group of
bishops proposed that the bishops relinquish their
role in the university.”
Bishop McDonald said naming of the policy
making committee is designed to give the laity
and the bishops greater opportunity for coopera
tion. Some of the policy-making and the adminis
tration has been in the hands o' the laity, in con
junction with the bishops, for some time.
De Paul University
CHICAGO —(NC)— Father Comerford J.
O’Malley, C.M., chancellor of De Paul University,
said here that the school has been studying for
more than a year the possibility of increasing the
number of lay members of its board of directors.
Since the founding of the university in 1907,
one-third of the members have been laymen and
two-thirds have been Vincentian Fathers. The 15
member board of directors has effective power
and control over the administration of the uni
versity, Father O’Malley said. Under consideration
is a plan which would enlarge the board by the
addition of more lay members.
Marymount — California
PALOS VERDES, Calif. —(NC)— Sister Ray
mond McKay, president of Marymount College,
said here the college will soon add five laymen to
its board of trustees. Marymount is a liberal arts
college for women.
In May, Marymount’s present board of five
Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mary will be re
placed by an 11-member board including five lay
men. All members of the new board will have equal
standing.