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Marilyn Craig was a Business major and graduated from Mundelein in 1984. She was part of the Weekend College, so she describes her experience of being on campus Friday through Sunday. On her weekends at Mundelein, she slept with ten other women in the Northland apartments. It took her 13 years and 8 schools to earn her Bachelor’s degree, so Marilyn is very proud to have been part of Mundelein’s Weekend College, which earned her several promotions at her full-time job. Marilyn characterizes herself at this time in her life as setting herself apart from everyone else—at work and at school—she always had her nose in a book. She regrets not being able to fully participate in all that Mundelein had to offer and not getting to know her fellow Weekend Collegers as well, but she did what she had to do to succeed.
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Sister Susan Coler, an administrator and teacher at Mundelein and attorney, discusses her associations with Catholic justice organizations and her work as a Catholic social reformer throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Sister Susan discusses the work of several Catholic organizations such as the Council of Catholic Women (CCW) and the National Catholic Conference (NCCIJ) within the context of “War on Poverty” federal programs. Sister Susan also mentions her working relationships with Father Jack Egan and Father Jack MacNamara.
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Dr. Moylan discusses with Tim Lacy her involvement with the Weekend College program at Mundelein College starting in the 1970s. She describes how the program was oriented towards adult students who had time on the weekend to attend school. Mundelein College faculty had to volunteer to be involved with Weekend College. Moylan utilized Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book to have students analyze Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents. Adult learning is now a staple at other institutions of higher learning in the Chicago region.
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Dr. Moylan explains how she grew up in Northwest Indiana, joining the BVMs in 1959. The BVMs first sent her to Mundelein College from 1962-1964, then Guadalupe College in Los Gatos, California from 1964 to 1966 where she received her masters of arts at Stanford University, and became involved in the farmworker struggle with Cesar Chavez. She returned to Mundelein from 1966 to 1969. Moylan completed her doctorate at the University of Illinois. She returned in 1975, continuing to teach at Mundelein and later Loyola University. Moylan believes that the vision of Mundelein carries on through particular institutions on campus.
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An instructor at Mundelein College, David Orr recalls his time teaching there. He grew up in Illinois, went to college in Iowa, and graduate school in Ohio. Orr started off as an activist-minded instructor, working for Upward Bound at Mundelein, and later teaching there full time. He was one of several progressive faculty, involved in Conference on the Curriculum, Experimental College, and Weekend College. Orr was an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, partaking in activism alongside students. In the 1970s, he left teaching for politics, becoming an alderman. Orr finishes, wishing that he could balance politics with teaching.
