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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...
...fact, regard themselves as dedicated alumnae of their orders. A case in point is Mary Louise Prendergast, who left the Sisters of Loretto last year after 20 years as a nun. Although an unmarried laywoman now, she remains chairman of the science department at the Loretto Sisters' Webster College...
...LINEBACKERS: George Webster, 21, Michigan State, 6 ft. 4 in., 212 Ibs., Bob Matheson, 22, Duke, 6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ibs., and Jim Lynch, 21, Notre Dame, 6 ft. 1 in., 225 Ibs. Michigan State's "monster man" (meaning roving linebacker), Webster, in one scout's opinion, is "the best all-around college athlete in the country. In a pinch, he can even play defensive safety or cornerback." Matheson is also adaptable ("He has the ability to play tight end on offense"), and Lynch is "a real leader who is always conscious of the clock and tries...
...Mount Carroll, Ill., has a 300-seat arena-type theater. The University of Michigan is building a $3,000,000 playhouse with 1,426 seats to serve the university and the off-campus Ann Arbor theater crowd. With $1,500,000 donated by Conrad Hilton, St. Louis' Webster College has put up its new Loretto-Hilton Center...