Includes photographs by Vivian Hansbrough."Mother is not staying at home with her knitting. Instead, she is attending the University with her son or daughter. After being absent from the classroom for a score of years, she finds the going rough at times, with reading lists, laboratory periods, term papers, and objective tests."--Page 

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Mother Is a Coed Mother is not staying at home with her knitting. In-stead, she is attending the University with her son or daughter. After being absent from the classroom for a score of years, she finds the going rough at times, with reading lists, laboratory periods, term papers, and objective tests. On the other hand, her background experience, perseverance, and seriousness of purpose give her an atlvantage over immature class-mates. Household duties and perhaps a part-time or full-time job may limit her to a [ew hours of class-work each week. She takes the comses that appeal to her, either for personal satisfaction or as prepara tion for a career. Five examples o( the hack-in-school mother are cited here. Mrs. Margery McKinney started as a freshman in 1952, alongside daughter Megan, B.A. '56. By carry-ing nine hours each semester and attending summer sessions, she will finish her Bachelor of .-\rts require-ments next spring. Recently she sold to Redhook Magazine a short story which she had written as a class assignment. Son Kent is a sophomore this year, majoring in English. Husbaml Fred teaches psychol-ogy at the University and conducts the program ''Not in Our Stars" over KOMU-TV. Mrs. Una Rice Thomas~ G.N. ' 28, B.S. '31, an in-Both lvla1gery McJ,;.i1111 ey (Nfrs. Fred) a11d son Kent are majoring in English and creath•e writing. By VIVIAN HANSBROUGH structor 111 the School of Nursing, is taking t_wo courses this semester, working toward a Master o( Science in Rural Social Welfare. Daughter Kay '58, is majoring in speech therapy. Mrs. Lois Klemme is a special student, taking lit-erature and art courses . Daughter Martha will be graduated in Jllne with a Bachelor o[ .JoL1rnalism degree. Husband Arnold is assistant director of the University's Agricultural Experiment Station. Mrs. Frieda Ingenthron, a newpaperwornan from Forsyth, Mo., is completing requirements for a Mas-ter of Arts in Journalism degree in June. Son Bill , B . .-\.. '5fi, is a student in the,. University's Law School. In the Lee famil y, there are four in the Univei·-sity at present-Mrs. Esther, Robert, Margaret, and Owen. Mrs. Lee, B.S. '53, takes a course in guidance after her day's duty as teacher at Nashville, a rural school in Boone County. Robert, a jllnior in Physical Education, is a varsity tackle . Margaret, a junior jn Nursing, is president of the Student NL1rse Associa-tion. Owen is a freshman in Engineering. Three older Lee children also attended the University, and the youngest, a sophomore in high school, will keep up the family tradition . Husband James is night-watchman at the new University Medical Center. Mrs. Un,, Rice Thomas and daughter Kay have .related interests-nursing and sj1eech. therapy . 8 / MISSOURI ALUMNUS / MAY '57 Seven depa rtm.ents are represen led 011 this page. Above, Bill Ingenthron is a Law student , and his mother, Frieda, is in Journalism .. Top right includes Martha Klemme, in Journalism, and her mother, Lois, in Arts and Science. Lower right shows four members of the Lee family: Robert , Physical Education; Margaret, Nursing; Owen, Engineering; and their mother Esther (Mrs. James), Education. Photographs by Vivian Hansbrough 9 / MISSOURI ALUMNUS / MAY '57 

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