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Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, LL.D., president, Hunter College...
...needs to before taking a test on the matter. "So it takes 20 weeks instead of 15 for a student to master the material," says Mary Dolciani, chairman of the math department. "But who said that it had to be covered in 15 weeks?" Hunter President Jacqueline Grennan Wexler points out that "if we make Open Admissions work, it will be beneficial to our most able students as well as our disadvantaged students." For example, the math genius who needs help with English composition or the freshman poet who lags behind in biology can now get help that was never...
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY William D. Revelli, D.Mus., bandmaster at the University of Michigan. Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, LL.D., president of Hunter College...
...university. Next month the ranks of former nuns will be joined by 315 members of Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart Community, including its president and former Mother General, Sister Anita Caspary (see box, page 55). Five years ago, the nation's most publicized advocates of convent renewal were Sister Jacqueline Grennan of Missouri's Webster College and Sister Charles Borromeo Muckinhern of St. Mary's College, Notre Dame. Both have since left the religious life. Sister Jacqueline is now Mrs. Paul Wexler and the new president of Manhattan's Hunter College...
...that unlikely platform, she crusaded for academic reform and feminism in roughly equal parts. In 1967, she astonished the religious world by getting a papal dispensation that released her from her vows and Rome's approval to secularize the college. Last June she left Webster as Miss Jacqueline Grennan and became vice president of New York's Academy for Educational Development, where she studied ways to expand independent study in U.S. colleges. She also married Paul J. Wexler, the Jewish president of a mail-order recording company, in a Catholic ceremony at which a rabbi assisted...