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Have you Herd? Reflections with Madison
...so whenever she came to volunteer she would always have her alpaca buddy to interact with. She was able to do this for a very long time in alpaca years as an alpaca’s average life span is between 15-20. A Long and Happy Life Madison took after his mother Brittany in that respect, as well. Both living long and happy lives on the farm. It is never easy losing the animals that we spend so much of our time caring...
Docent of the Moment: Sister Barbara Bluntzer and Her Jubilee Year Ministry
...many pilgrims who were seeing the hallowed grounds of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods for the very first time, among countless others who have been here before. “I’ve enjoyed this ever since I began,” Sister Barbara said. “Some of the pilgrims already know something about Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, but I’ve met with several first-time visitors on their way home from vacation. I try to always be available. I could be notified of a tour group at the last minute.” Sister Barbara said many of...
Sister Patricia Linehan
...many times she would be asked to navigate stormy seas. But, she did return home and eventually Pat graduated from St. Francis School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio, in 1963. She wrote this about her decision to go to the Navy as a nurse, “By the time I’d worked a year as a nurse, after graduating from a Hospital School of Nursing, it was becoming obvious a lot of somebody’s were going to be seriously hurt in a jungle climate...
Oral history: The little things with Sister Lois Ann Stoiber
...the caboose of a train and saw an accident about to happen and jumped. He didn’t make it clear of the crash and was in the hospital for a long time before returning to work. The choice she had to make at the time of the accident was to either go to the hospital then or to wait until he died. She decided to go to the hospital. Of course, when she appeared her father thought sure he must be...
Sister Paula Damiano: Full Circle
...much she needed a time of respite. Retirement also allowed Sister Paula time to travel. Her first adventure was a trip to New Castle, Pennsylvania, where she was born and raised until age 14. There she celebrated her cousin and her husband’s 40th wedding anniversary. Sister Paula enjoyed seeing her extended family in one place at one time. She stayed with her cousin during the trip and enjoyed a special time of sharing and fantastic conversation. The visit provided a...
Sister Kathleen Kelly (formerly Sister Edward Marie)
...Guerin High School in 1969 as a math teacher. This proved to be a time of embarking on a new phase of life adapting to the many changes of the time. What was Kay up to during those years? Forging lifetime friendship: With Sister Gerry Cavenaugh as principal at St. Andrew’s were a whole crew of energetic faculty made up of SPs, including Sister Therese Guerin Sullivan in her first teaching assignment, who told me Kay recruited her mother as...
St. Joseph Lake blessing
...blessing with Father Terry Johnson. St. Joseph’s lake blessing with Father Terry Johnson. Sisters enjoying time together during the St. Joseph’s lake blessing. Sisters enjoying time together during the St. Joseph’s lake blessing. Sisters enjoying time together during the St. Joseph’s lake blessing. Sisters enjoying time together during the St. Joseph’s lake blessing. Sisters enjoying time together during the St. Joseph’s lake blessing. Sisters enjoying time together during the St. Joseph’s lake blessing. Sisters enjoying time together during the St....
Sister Diane Mason
...educator, it had been a great run. Q. Why would a woman today find joining the Sisters of Providence to be an attractive lifestyle opportunity? A. If you really want to make a difference in the world, I feel the journey of being a Sister of Providence is filled with a time of prayer, a time of companionship, a time of opportunities to grow spiritually and academically. Coming home to the Woods in the summer time is so refreshing. It...
Sister Frances Alma McManus
...under her leadership that Mother Theodore Guerin High School in River Grove opened in 1962. “She welcomed Guerin’s 1962 freshman class of 398 to a wing rented from neighboring Holy Cross High School. At the same time she kept a watchful eye on the new Guerin School Building then under construction. Beyond the daily administrative tasks of those first years, there were activities and traditions to initiate. “Of this time, one member of the class of 1966 remembered, ‘I think...
Treasures from Archives: Providence Press
...razed in June.) Four years later, an improved Linotype was purchased. What, exactly, did Providence Press print? Well, there were always exams for the schools, including the old Academy, the predecessor to today’s Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. There were prayers, death notices, place cards, menus and much larger jobs including Les Bois, the college’s annual; Fagots, the college newspaper; the Aurora, the college magazine; Alumnae News; and The Bugle Call, the missionary magazine of the Congregation. Mr. W. H. Niccum was...
From peaches to Poe
For various reasons in my job, I spend a lot of time digging through the Sisters of Providence history. Often I find what I’m looking for and then move on, but occasionally unexpected gems surface! Recently I was digging through the Journals and Letters of Mother Theodore Guerin in search of stories about collaboration (for an upcoming article for HOPE Magazine). Mother Theodore’s journal tells us about how, when Mother Theodore and her companions arrive in New York in 1840,...
Expanding the story of hospitality
Sister Laurine Haley, left, presents Providence Health Care at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods resident Marianne Frey with a watch that had belonged to her late aunt, Sister Marion Celeste Bisch. Sisters and residents in Providence Health Care at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods were assembled for the monthly birthday party. I thought this would be an excellent time to get a photo to accompany my article in HOPE magazine on hospitality which contained resident Marianne Frey’s interview. Marianne did not seem to be the type...