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‘Against All Odds’ – Sister Clare Mitchell, SP
...missions, but for her this was the fulfillment of a long-held desire to serve in a foreign land. Indeed, travel had marked her from birth. Rather than presenting a baptismal certificate at her entrance, she had a sworn statement that she was born in Caruthursville, Missouri, on February 9, 1878 and baptized in Spotsville, Kentucky, then confirmed at age 12 at St. Ann in Terre Haute. Had her parents, Isabel and Joseph, been making a hasty trip through the Mississippi/Ohio...
Sister Charles Van Hoy awarded the Edward N. Howard Literacy Award
Sister Charles Van Hoy was awarded the Edward N. Howard Literacy Award by the Wabash Valley Literacy Coalition on April 23. Sister Charles currently ministers at Educational/Family Services in West Terre Haute as an office volunteer and tutor. The Edward N. Howard Literacy Award has been presented annually since 1991 to a group, organization or individual that has significantly contributed to literacy efforts in the Wabash Valley. Some of the criteria on which the selection committee based their decision included:...
Sister Alice Louise Potts
...Haute, Ind., in 1945. In Indiana, her classrooms were also located at St. John the Baptist, Whiting; St. Joseph and Immaculate Heart, Indianapolis; St. Leonard, West Terre Haute; and St. John the Baptist, Newburgh. In Chicago, she taught at Maternity BVM and Our Lady of Sorrows. “Her next assignment, in 1968, was a new kind of assignment for a Sister of Providence. We had never been organized into provinces in the past, but we had decided at that time to...
Giving new life to plastic shopping bags
Retired Sisters of Providence in the Lourdes Hall Assisted Living Residence of Providence Health Care are transforming plastic grocery and shopping bags into warm sleeping mats. Homeless residents of the Terre Haute area can use these to stretch out and sleep on at night. Sister Grace Marie Meehan shows off the plastic yarn (plarn) the sisters have cut and tied. Currently involved in this ministry are Sisters of Providence Betty Koressel, Marilyn Trobaugh, Grace Marie Meehan, Mary Lou Ruck, Maria...
ISU Human Rights Day set for March 19
The Indiana State University (ISU) Human Rights Day Committee has scheduled the 2025 Terre Haute Human Rights Day for 9 a.m.-2:50 p.m., on Wednesday, March 19. This year, Terre Haute Mayor Brandon Sakbun will serve as the keynote speaker and will conduct a “fireside chat” with area high school students and others in the ISU Sycamore Banquet Center in the Hulman Memorial Student Union. Sister Emily TeKolste During the “fireside chat,” Mayor Sakbun will share his insights on civic leadership,...
Sister Angela Garlat
...College. Sister Angela began teaching in 1929 at St. Margaret Mary, Terre Haute, Ind. Her other Indiana classrooms included St. John Grade School and St. Joan of Arc, Indianapolis; St. Ignatius, Lafayette; and St. Ann, Terre Haute. The rest of her teaching days were spent in Illinois at Marywood and St. Athanasius, Evanston; St. Joseph, Immaculate Heart, and Costa Catholic, Galesburg; St. Andrew, Chicago; and St. Alexander, Palos Heights. She retired and returned to the Woods in 1984. “Sister Angela...
Sister Claudia Lewis
...friend, Sister Elizabeth Ann Flori (RIP), Sister Claudia attended Camp Bluebird for those diagnosed with cancer. She received an award on her 94th birthday when she was honored as the longest-living cancer survivor in the state of Indiana.” Sister Claudia began teaching in 1928 at St. Ann, Terre Haute. Her other Indiana classrooms included St. Joseph and St. Benedict, Terre Haute; St. Joseph, Hammond; Holy Trinity, New Albany; St. John the Baptist, Whiting; and St. Anthony, Indianapolis. In Illinois, she...
Sister Catherine Marie Qualters
...and perpetual vows Aug. 15, 1952, and 1957, respectively. She earned bachelor’s degrees in music and education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a bachelor’s degree in music (organ) from the American Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Sister Catherine Marie’s early ministries were in music. She commenced this ministry in 1952 at St. Benedict, St. Ann and St. Joseph in Terre Haute, Ind. Her other Indiana music rooms included Central Catholic High School, Fort Wayne; St. Margaret Mary, Terre Haute; St. Joseph...
Allowing for God’s presence: Sisters of Providence hospital chaplains
...able to exhibit an open presence to the other.” Sister Betty Hopf, SP, at right, says the patients she ministers with as chaplain at Hux Cancer Center in Terre Haute teach her about love and patience. (Image courtesy of wtwo TV) Hux Cancer Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, is Sister Betty Hopf’s ministry site. On being a chaplain, Sister Betty said, “I don’t preach; I just DO … trying to do what Jesus would do, that is BE a pastoral...
Sister Donna Marie Fu
...Haute (1956-57); Teacher, St. Ann School, Terre Haute (1972). In Washington, D.C.: Academic Dean/Director of Continuing Education, Immaculata College (1976-78); College Closure, Immaculata Collage (1978-79). In Taiwan: Director of Novices/Teacher/Dean of Students Personnel/Dean of Studies, Providence College (1968-72); Director of Public Relations/Guidance and Counseling/Psychology, Fu Jen Catholic University, Hsin-Chuang (1979-89); Professor/Director of Public Relations, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taishan (1989-92); Vocation Promoter for Asia/Residential Services, Taishan (2019-22). In China: Professor, SW Normal University, Chongqing (1993-96); Professor, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou...
Sister Charles Van Hoy
...contemporary liturgical music. I think it was from Sister Charles that I learned that the Church also embodied compassion, and that many of its members and groups not only have stood for human rights, but fought for them as well.” Sister Charles Van Hoy practices math facts using a deck of cards with the child she tutored after school at Educational/Family Services in West Terre Haute. When she returned to the Woods in 1994, having already ministered for 43 years,...
Sister Betty Smigla joins Guerin Outreach Ministries board
...and family services to people in need. It exists to extend God’s loving Providence to those most in need by providing programs and services to enhance the quality of life and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities through works of love, mercy and justice. This ministry is carried out in three site locations: Providence Family Services in Chicago; Educational/Family Services in West Terre Haute, Ind.; and Providence in the Desert in Coachella, Calif. Other members of Guerin Outreach Ministries Board...