Interview with Mary Alma Sullivan, 2000

Interview with Mary Alma Sullivan, 2000

Transcription: "First of all, the obvious one, it was buttressing the Roman Catholic tradition, you could say that whether your father was a judge or whether your father was a bricklayer. Everybody there with few exceptions…But in the main it was pretty Roman Catholic and I think the parents, our parents, my parents certainly sent me there because it would buttress my family orientation, my education to date and mature that…The other part of my assertion though is that underneath that overtly Catholic orientation was another one that was really never articulated in any direct way. And I think it was one that gave us a sense of woman, of the role of women in the world, of social justice… So I think if you had to say was there anything clearly articulated in the mission statement or anything which said, now you’re a woman you’re equal you’re free you have a responsibility to the world, to the community."

Mundelein College Oral History Collection