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Sister Jacqueline Grennan, 40, president of Missouri's Webster College, has a nationwide reputation as a nunly innovator. She is the only woman member of the President's educational advisory council, and under her direction Webster has done pioneering research in the development of school curricula. Last week Sister Jacqueline joined the growing number of U.S. nuns (TIME, Jan. 13) who have abandoned the convent. With the approval of St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter, she is leaving the Sisters of Loretto after 18 years. At their request, however, she will remain president of Webster-which, if Rome...
More startling than Jacqueline Grennan's decision to become a laywoman is her proposal to laicize Webster. Legally, the college is owned by a Missouri corporation, whose board of trustees is the general council of the Loretto Sisters. Pending approval from the Vatican's Congregation of Religious, the Sisters have agreed to turn over the control of Webster to a board of laymen. "It is my personal conviction," said ex-Sister Jacqueline, "that the very nature of higher education is opposed to juridical control by the church...
Sister Jacqueline Grennan, L.H.D., president of Webster College. She asks for an educational environment of free inquiry where no subject is protected by what she calls "intellectual closure...
...only woman and the only Roman Catholic educator on President Kennedy's advisory panel on research and development in education is a pert, blue-eyed nun addressed with affectionate informality by her fellow panelists as "Sister J." She is Sister Jacqueline Grennan, S.L., 36, vice president of Missouri's Webster College, and her place on the panel is no concession to her sex or religion. She belongs in the trail-blazing company she keeps, an experimental elite-educators of educators-that includes M.I.T. Physicist Jerrold Zacharias, Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner and U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel...
...beyond beautiful Chagrin Valley, long-hunted country of the Fifth City's riders, past homes of Ambassador Herrick, newly-appointed Air Secretary David Ingalls etc. Among Aintree-of-Cleveland members are Railroaders Frank and C. Farrand Taplin, President E. J. Kulas of Otis Steel Co., K. L. Grennan of cake and cooky fame, Robert Calfee of the Peerless Motor Car Co. and A. C. Ernst of Ernst and Ernst. Head riding master is Joe Glenday, Scotch as the heather, small of stature, lover of horses. New-Aintree also has a junior polo team, winner of local tilts...