Providing educational services for outpatients

I am completing my fifth year as a volunteer teacher at Psychiatric Day Center, St. Luke's Hospital, teaching adult outpatients everything from pre-kindergarten math concepts to GED, college composition, cost accounting and preparation for Graduate Record Exams," says Sister Mary Elizabeth, CHS (Elizabeth R. Seymour).

"I am teaching Methods of Teaching Social Studies at Barnard College. I am trying to organize, conserve and put bibliographic information in our community archival records onto a database. I hope eventually to write a history of the founding of our community."

Sister Mary Elizabeth received her B.A. in 1946 and M.A. in 1949 at UB. In 1962 she earned a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.

She taught public high school, was assistant professor of history at Southwest Texas State College, a lecturer at American University, then entered the Community of the Holy Spirit (Episcopalian) in 1961. After prep school teaching assignments and serving as headmistress at the Melrose School, she retired from teaching because of impaired hearing.

Among her memories of UB: "running for the bus across snowy fields after the library closed at night; Selig Adler's New Viewpoints Class the year Dr. Pratt was on leave; eating lunch in the basement of Hayes Hall because the Air Force had taken over the student union."