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Sister Mary Aileen Minta
...Heart, Malden, Mass. In Indiana, she ministered at St. Francis Xavier, Vincennes; St. Patrick and Central Catholic High School, Fort Wayne; Holy Trinity, New Albany; Our Lady of Providence High School, Clarksville; Our Lady of Greenwood School, Greenwood; St. Joan of Arc and Roncalli High School, Indianapolis. She provided 16 years of service to Roncalli students. In 1994, she retired and returned to the Woods. “Sister Mary Aileen is remembered as a good teacher, who was especially interested in helping...
Sister Mary Anselm Coppersmith
...and a master’s degree in education from Indiana University. She professed first and perpetual vows Aug. 15, 1939, and 1945, respectively. Sister Mary Anselm commenced teaching in 1939 at St. Philip Neri, Indianapolis. In Indiana, she taught elementary or junior high or served as a principal at Holy Trinity and Holy Family, New Albany; St. Rose, Vincennes; Our Lady of the Greenwood, Greenwood; St. Joseph, Hammond; St. Patrick, Terre Haute; and St. Joan of Arc, Indianapolis. In Chicago, she ministered...
Sister Annette Marie Bruce
...education from St. Louis University. Sister Annette Marie professed first and perpetual vows Aug. 15, 1938, and 1944, respectively. Sister Annette Marie began teaching in 1938 at St. Joseph, Galesburg, Ill. In Illinois, she also taught at Immaculate Conception, Norwood Park, and St. Mark, Chicago. She spent five years at St. Clement, Lansdowne, Md. Her Indiana classrooms included St. Mary, Lafayette; St. Joan of Arc and St. Andrew, Indianapolis; St. Jude, Fort Wayne; and Our Lady of the Greenwood, Greenwood....
Sister Louise (Jerome) Leary
...teaching in 1942 at St. Therese in Wilson, N.C. Her other elementary classrooms included Ascension, Halethorpe, and St. Clement, Lansdowne, Md.; St. Joseph, Terre Haute, and Our Lady of the Greenwood, Greenwood, Ind.; St. Mel-Holy Ghost, Chicago; and Lady Isle, Portsmouth, N.H. In Massachusetts, she ministered at St. Rose, Chelsea; St. Polycarp, Somerville; St. Patrick, Stoneham; and Cheverus, Malden. After nearly four decades of teaching primary students, Sister Louise “began a ministry not only wholeheartedly but with a heartfelt joy...
Sister Barbara Marie Stritt
...respectively. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in education from Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. Sister Barbara Marie’s first classroom was at St. Mel, Chicago, in 1938. In Chicago, she also taught at St. Andrew. Her Indiana assignments included St. Catherine, St. Andrew, St. Philip Neri and St. Joan of Arc, Indianapolis; St. John the Baptist, Newburgh; Our Lady of the Greenwood, Greenwood; St. Mary Cathedral, Lafayette; and Sacred Heart, Whiting....
Honoring Sister James Michael Kesterson
...U.S. Department of Education. “My blessing was to be with the children all those years — to help them, to teach them, to see them grow,” says Sister James Michael, who also served as principal of Our Lady of the Greenwood School in Greenwood and as a teacher at the former St. Andrew the Apostle School in Indianapolis. Read more about the award recipients in The Criterion’s September article ‘Doing the right thing’ guides award recipients. Congratulations, Sister James Michael!...
Casa San Juan Bosco in Florida now a full community
...home is equipped with Energy Star appliances. It is the largest “green community” for farm families in the state of Florida. A fund-raising effort is under way to gain enough money to add a kitchen onto the Community Center so that an after-school hot meal can be offered to approximately 150 children who are living in the community. Families also benefit from on-sight services such as day care, Head Start programs, health care, English as a Second Language training, immigration...
Elections and papal visit in Sri Lanka
...an idea of some of the color. I went to the big event on Jan. 14, a papal Mass at Galle Face Green, an expanse of beach often used for such gatherings. The pope celebrated Mass and also canonized Joseph Vaz. Father Vaz was a priest from Goa, India who came to Sri Lanka under cover during the Dutch persecution of Catholics here. Again, rather than tell you the whole story, here is a link if you want to read...
Giving thanks to the ash trees on Arbor Day
...for a green ash and 260 years for a white ash, these ash trees have been working hard for a long time to keep Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and our bioregion green, and, therefore, safe. Treepeople.org lists 22 of the best reasons to plant and care for trees or defend a tree’s standing. Among them: Trees clean the air by absorbing odors and pollutant gases (nitrogen, oxides, ammonia, sulfur dioxide and ozone) and filter particulates out of the air by trapping them...
Sister Marceline looks back on the richness of 84 years as a woman religious
...mysteries of the body always fascinated my high school students. They loved anatomy and physiology. The subject of evolution as part of God’s creation was especially interesting to them and I hope it led them to a greater knowledge of God’s love. Sister Marceline Mattingly is still going strong at 101 years old. Last week she visited and spoke with students at Our Lady of Greenwood Catholic School in Greenwood, Indiana, on their 101st day of school. I am mostly...
Sister Richard Bussing
...green plant for food.’ And it was so. God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.” — Genesis 1:24-31 The word of God Sister Richard Bussing Teacher for 35 years in schools in North Carolina, Illinois, Texas and California In North Carolina: St. Patrick, Fayetteville (1942-44). In Illinois: St. Andrew, Chicago (1944-48); St. Sylvester, Chicago (1951-55); St. Mel, Chicago (1965-66). In Texas: St. John, Robstown (1955-59 and 1966-68). In California: St. Joseph, Hawthorne (1948-51); St....
Sister Mary Ann Leahy, (formerly Sister Marie Anita)
...Of her childhood, Mary Ann said that “one of my great joys was joining with my parents, my sisters and brother, in the care of our own ‘green field,’ our yard and vegetable garden. Mary was such a precocious child that her mother put her in first grade at Our Lady of Sorrows Elementary School when she was only 5 years old. She was an excellent student, and her sister Sheila remembers that Mary “would take me to the public...