Nun adjusts to Naismith and KU
By PHYLLIS JONES
Kansan Staff Writer
Some students would watch her warily as if they expected her to kneel in prayer at any moment. Others would just stare curiously.
This is the initial reaction Sister Mary Graham, Burlington, Vt., graduate student, received when she moved into Naismith Hall, a coed residence hall.
"At the first of the year, I noticed kids staring at me," Sister Mary said, "but, after a
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while, they got used to seeing me around."
When the new residents moved in second semester, the process was repeated.
"I could tell by the stares who the new residents were," Sister Mary said laughingly. "They looked at me like what's she doing here?"
Teaching fellowship
Sister Mary is attending KU on the Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program in geography.
Prof to speak
"The Social Geography of Detroit: A Blast at White Racists," a lecture by William Bunge, former professor of geography at Wayne State University, Detroit, will be at 3:30 p.m. Friday in 426 Lindley Hall.
Bunge left his position at Wayne State to work with community development programs in Detroit.
Under this program, teachers return to school to work on their masters degree.
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The only nun of the 20 teachers involved, Sister Mary also is the only teacher living in a residence hall. She explained that she didn't want to wait until she came to Kansas last August to look for a place to live.
Typically female, she said, "I wanted to know there would be a roof over my head before I got here."
After learning there was no room in the St. Johns' Convent, she applied to live in Naismith.
"It is really convenient because I can take 'he bus to class,' she said. "I don't have a car or driver's license."
Ready for residence hall
Sister Mary said she was "prepared for the dorm," because she lived in a residence hall while attending a summer institute at Western Illinois University.
The only disadvantage she encounters with living in Naismith is finding a place to stay during vacation periods.
"I either have to pay a lot of money to go home, or a lot of money to stay in a motel. Thanksgiving in a motel wasn't too excelling."
Sister Mary will earn her M.A. this August. She attended Trinity College at Burlington, majoring in education, and did post graduate work at the University of Vermont.
Studies and teaches
Having taught junior high school for 19 years, Sister Mary attended summer school at the same time.
"By studying along with teaching," she said, "a teacher never has a chance to forget what it's like on the other side of the desk."
She obviously hasn't forgotten, for she is just as excited about going home for spring break as any other student.
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