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Rosemary Borntrager
Sister Rosemary, formerly Sister Rose Cecile, was born in 1932 at Garfield Park Hospital in Chicago. She entered the Congregation on July 22, 1950. She professed first and final vows on January 23, 1953 and 1958, respectively. Of her ministries, Sister Rosemary served mainly in education. From 1953 to 1993, she taught at elementary schools and high schools or ministered as an assistant principal or principal. She also ministered in the Diocese of Joliet Schools Office as the Assistant Superintendent...
Carolyn Kessler
...including serving as a teacher at Evansville Reitz Memorial High School from 1964 to 1967. Sister Carolyn Kessler (formerly Sister Ann Carolyn) Complete Ministry In Illinois: Teacher, Marywood, Evanston (1957-64). In Indiana: Teacher, Reitz Memorial High School, Evansville (1964-67); Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (1971-72); Consultant, Floyd Knobs area (2004-06). In Italy: Fulbright Lecturer, University of Rome (1967-68). In Washington, D.C.: University Fellow, Georgetown University (1968-71); Linguistics, Director of ESL Program, Immaculata College (1973-75); Adjunct Lecturer, Trinity College...
Rita Clare Gerardot
...in 1947 and final vows in 1952. Sister Rita Clare said she spent 30 years in teaching and administration at the elementary school level, as well as 12 years in pastoral care (in parishes and Sisters of Providence health care). She also ministered for three years as a receptionist at Mother Theodore Guerin High School. Her final ministry was in prayer at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Of the students she taught, Sister Rita Clare said, “I still keep in touch with some...
The Sisters of Providence go to St. Patrick School
Sister Mary Montgomery explains the meaning behind a cross to students at St. Patrick School. “Today was fun.” That was how Sister Mary Montgomery expressed a recent trip to St. Patrick School. Sister Mary, along with Sisters Paula Damiano, Mary Ryan, Barbara Battista and Janice Smith, all traveled east through Terre Haute to St. Patrick School on Monday, Feb. 1, to discuss vocations with the school’s female students. The visit coincided with National Catholic Schools Week. The five sisters agreed...
Sister Gertrude Marian Bauer
...Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in guidance from Xavier University. Sister Gertrude Marian commenced teaching at St. Mel School in Chicago in 1930. Her teaching and administrative ministries included St. Leo School, Our Lady of Sorrows School, Our Lady of Mercy School, St. Genevieve School, St. Mel-Holy Ghost School, Maternity BVM School, Chicago; Holy Trinity School, Evansville; St. Rita School, Holy Cross School, Indianapolis; Sacred Heart School, Malden, Mass.; St. Mary School, Lafayette, Ind.; Sacred Heart School, Whiting,...
Honoring all teachers during National Teacher Appreciation Week
...School in Bloomington, Indiana. Sister Gloria Memering going over a final rehearsal with students for the program “Tales of Wonder,” during the 150th celebration of the Sisters of Providence ministering in the city of Jasper, Indiana. Sister Jane Iannaccone instructing her students at Ascension School in Evansville, Indiana, in 1987. Sister Mary Ann Stewart with her students at Cathedral High School in 1983. Sister Brigid Mary Hurley (RIP) instructing her students at Cheverus School in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1993. Sister...
Sister Cordelia Moran (formerly Sister Ann de Sales)
...for school newspapers and news magazines – including The Marywood Life of Marywood High School, Evanston, Ill.; the Twin Towers of Providence High School, Chicago; the Woods Magazine of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College; and the Pioneer Press of Our Lady of Providence High School, Clarksville, Ind. Many of those young authors were inspired to careers of their own as journalists, wordsmiths and communications specialists. But in the beginning, they learned to love words. As teacher as well as advisor to all...
My life with the Violin
Editor’s Note: This blog coincides with National Violin Day, December 13 I started taking violin in the seventh grade at St. Joseph Academy in my hometown of Galesburg, Illinois. My first teacher was Sister Miriam Cecile, who made sure I practiced by having me do it during the noon hour. When I moved on to Corpus Christi High School, Sister Mary Huberta joined the faculty there. She was a violinist herself, and in this tiny high school (150 students), she...
Sister Carolyn Kessler (formerly Sister Ann Carolyn)
...experiences. And so, upon graduation, she followed her high school call and joined the Sisters of Providence on July 22, 1954. She was given the name Sister Ann Carolyn. She professed first vows on Jan. 23, 1957, and final vows on Jan. 23, 1962. She began her many years of “bearing fruit,” teaching seven years at Marywood High School in Evanston, Illinois, and three years at Reitz Memorial High School in Evansville, Indiana. From the beginning, she was an excellent...
Sister Laurette Bellamy
...Washington, D.C. Even though the new incoming freshmen class was full, my parents talked the principal into taking me. The first day of class I rode the military bus with high-school age dependents (children) from Fort Myers, Virginia, to Woodrow Wilson High School which was about a block and a half from Immaculata. The driver stopped at Immaculata and let me out on the street. I went to the only door I saw on the imposing building up a hill...
A sister remembers working to racially integrate schools
...realize what it was to feel that I just didn’t belong – we didn’t belong with the white people.” After a few years of operating St. Ann’s as an integrated school, the sisters decided to integrate St. Patrick’s School as well. It started without fanfare, said Sister Joann Quinkert (formerly Sister Joan Margaret), who worked at both schools at various times in this period. St. Patrick’s just started accepting African American students who applied to the school. What success looked...
Sister Frances Maureen McGrory
...this school immediately.’ ‘Yes, Sister.’ Fifteen minutes later the boy appeared in the office. Sister Frances Maureen laughed so hard telling us the story at dinner. “Sister Frances Maureen knew the circumstances of the families in the school. I recently had a graduate of St. Angela who went on to Mother Guerin High School tell me she came from a large family that had two children in high school and five at St. Angela when her father died suddenly. She...