Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THOROUGH INVESTIGATION INCLUDING CONFERENCE WITH MRS. CRONIN SHOWS HER COMPLAINTS LARGELY RESULT MISUNDERSTANDING ST. PHILIP NERI SCHOOL POLICIES AND PRACTICES. EXAMPLES...
...MRS. CRONIN WELL INTENTIONED, SINCERE, WRITING PROVOCATIVE ARTICLE. IN LETTER TO PARENTS SCHOOL INVITED PARENTS TO DISCUSS IN PERSON ANY COMPLAINTS OR GRIEVANCES. OFFER STILL STANDS...
After spending nine years in Catholic schools under four orders of nuns in three states, I don't feel that those grievances exist in most parochial schools. Regarding spending $26.40 for the school play, Mrs. Cronin got off easy. When I was in public high school, my next-door neighbors spent a minimum of $30 a year on costumes alone so that their daughter could appear in our annual band concert...
...Mrs. James Cronin's insistence upon the primacy of parental authority in the education of children deserves praise by parents everywhere-both Catholic and otherwise. For a schoolteacher to ask the child itself to evaluate its home training in terms of "too strict" or "too lenient" is an absurdity whose only really efficacious result would be to suggest to the child that it had the wisdom and experience to veto its parents' home program. Both America and TIME have acted commendably in bringing to the public scrutiny this undermining of the rights of parents...
...many a disgruntled used-car buyer around the country, Mrs. Marcella Norman of Houston last week became the woman of the year. Mrs. Norman, a comely, 31-year-old divorced waitress who supports her four children, went to Houston's Metro Lincoln-Mercury Motor Co. a month ago to trade in her 1955 Ford for a newer car. She bought a 1957 blue Chevrolet sedan, thought she had signed a contract to pay $57.10 a month for 18 months. But when she checked the contract a few days later, she discovered that she would have...