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Friday, December 4, 1992
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
There are nun like her
By Kay Hawes Special to the Kansan
You won't find her driving an expensive car, mucking a six-figure salary or living in a mansion. She cruises campus in a tired Toyota. She gives away all the money she makes, and she lives in a small, two-room apartment.
Still, she is the kind of person some KU students say they want to be like some day. She is a nun.
Sister Pat Lynch doesn't look like a nun. She wears jeans and Reeboks, eats take-out Chinese food and has a passion for chocolate.
This year Lynch is serving as the vice president of KU Religious Advisors, and she is celebrating her 25th anniversary as an Ursula Sister.
Which has been the director of Outreach Ministries at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center since 1887. She has a variety of responsibilities, including teaching KU students have come to see her as a role model.
Lynch prefers the term mentor to role model.
"She's not a follower, she's a leader," said Jennifer Ryan, Van Nuys, Calif., sophomore. "She shows students that women can be strong and that women can have just as much importance in the word as
"There are a lot of good mentors on campus," she said. "I see my ministry as more of a presence. People can come here and talk to me or ask questions as they develop their faith and a sense of who they
It is surprising that she has time to talk to anyone. She supervises three part-time student Outreach ministers who organize all types of social activities, service opportunities, prayer groups and retreats.
Lynch is a member of a religious order that has done a lot for removing stereotypes about muns. She is one of 49 Ursuline Sisters of Paola, an order with a 450-year tradition of working among ordinary people, educating young women and responding to change in society.
The Ursuline Sisters made national headlines in 1966, around the time Lynch was planning to enter the order. Ursuline Sisters on assignment in Oklahoma had begun experimenting with changing their traditional dress, or habit. News of the nuns, who were wearing "secanaloid" black skirts and sleeves, established nationwide and served as the catalyst for other religious communities to consider halt changes.
Lynch can empathize with students who are experiencing the stress of college. After she entered the Ursulines, she earned a bachelor's degree in English from Avila College and a master's degree in speech pathology from KU. Before coming to KU, Lynch worked at Paola's Lakemary Center, a residential and day school for children with physical disabilities. When she left, she was the education coordinator.
She has been altering students' opinions of nuns ever since she came to KU.
"I had these stereotypical ideas of what religious people should be like," Ryan said. "She has removed those ideas and showed me how it really is."
Christine McFarland / KANSAN
Although the Ursulines might have been considered radical for a while, they are still a traditional order in many ways. Lynch took ows of poverty, chastity and obedience. She will not marry, she does not own property, and her small stipend from St. Lawrence goes to the Ursuline community at Paola. St. Lawrence provides her with housing and a car. Lynch does not feel she is giving up anything.
"The vow of poverty frees us to live a life of simplicity in solidarity with the poor," she said. "Obedience includes being faithful to God's direction in your life."
Lynch is not sure what changes lie ahead. "We are in a transition now," she said. "We don't know what religious life will be like in the future."
Sister Pat Lynch gives KU students a new perspective on campus religious life.
KU students, like Ryan, may be a part of the
future. She is considering the option of religious life. Talking with Lynch helped Ryan sort out her priorities and define her talents. It also made religious life seem like a realistic option for a college student.
"Our society looks at people who have a call to religious life as abnormal," Ryan said. "She makes it feel normal and comfortable. She puts it all in perspective, whether you are interested in religious life or not."
Vespers to warm the Yuletide season
By Tiffany Lasha Hurt Kansan staff writer
The 68th annual Vespers will present more than the traditional KU choirs and symphony orchestra. For the first time, the holiday concert will feature a choir from the Lawrence community.
Janeal Krehbiel, director of the Lawrence Children's Choir, said this would be the group's fourth concert since it formed 18 months ago. The choir comprises Lawrence students from fourth through seventh grade.
Vespers will be at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Allen Field House. The children's
venerable reverence.
with the University choirs, and one selection alone. Vespers will feature students from the KU choirs and orchestra.
Presented by KU's department of music and dance, Vespers was created in 1923 by Donald Swarthout, former dean of the department, to celebrate the holiday season by displaying the talents of different musical organizations.
James Ralston, chorale director, said Vespers was an ancient concert term for a musical service. In the 1920s and 30s, the term was used for about four concerts a year at KU — one for every holiday season.
This is the second year the concert
will be at the field house since fir burned Vespers' traditional site, Hoch Auditorium, in June 1991.
Ralston said the move to the field house had its advantages and disadvantages. In the past, the concert opened with a 30-minute candlelight processional of choir members dressed in satin robes.
"That was a wonderful part of Vespers," he said. But the robes burned in the Hoch fire. "Without the robes a processional doesn't make any sense."
Charia Jenkins, director of public relations for music and dance, said about 3,400 people usually attended Vespers in Hoch. Last year more than 7,000 attended the event in the field house. The same size crowd is anticipated Sunday.
Although the field house does not provide the space for the choirs to stroll in, it does provide the space for a larger audience.
"A lot depends on the weather," she said.
Sunday night's forecast calls for a chance of snow and a high in the upper 20s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
A $1 admission will be collected at the door to pay some of the production costs and support the Vespers Scholarship Fund.
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