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Remembering Providence High
Providence High School Last year, many alumna were presented a short questionnaire asking about their experiences with the sisters. On this questionnaire were some questions recalling experiences students had while in school. The following reflection recalls Madelynne Wavak-Wayne’s time at Providence High School with the Sisters of Providence. Madelynne graduated from the school in 1962. What connected me to the Sisters of Providence? I was sent to Providence because my mother, Phyllis Tanny Wavak, graduated from Providence and I was...
Sister Mary Catherine Guiler
...school, the Academy was no longer a feasible option for me. Coincidentally (read: Providentially) when I was ready for high school, Immaculata, a college preparatory school conducted by the Sisters of Providence in Washington, D.C., was dedicating some new buildings on a Sunday afternoon. My father had seen the notice in the archdiocesan newspaper and asked me if I wanted to attend. I agreed, and as a result, I fell in love with the campus. Subsequently, I decided to apply...
Sister Helen Vinton (formerly Sister Helen Jean)
...of Nebraska claimed her through her elementary and high school years, attending elementary school, North Valley Rural in Gordon, and then St. Mary High School in O’Neill, Nebraska, graduating in 1952. Somehow, no one seems to know exactly how, she heard of the Sisters of Providence in Indiana and entered our college here in 1953. She was received into the novitiate a year later, in 1954, making her first profession of vows in 1956 and her perpetual profession of vows...
Sister Catherine White
...West Chester, graduating in 1965. She then went on to East Whiteland, Pennsylvania, to earn a bachelor’s degree in biology from Immaculata University, graduating in 1969. It was after this that she was invited to relocate to Oklahoma, where she became the principal of St. Joseph School in Muskogee. It was her longtime friend, now Msgr. Greg Gier, who asked her to come and help save the Catholic School there. That school continues to exist today. She certainly made her...
Sister educators reminisce about Sisters of Providence Schools
...who they are and who they are becoming — for growth is always ongoing.” “One of my favorite parts of ministering as an English teacher was discussing literature with the girls. Many life lessons could be incorporated,” recalls Sister Mary Catherine Guiler (formerly Sister Martha Patrick) of her years at Immaculata High School in Washington, D.C., and other high schools. Legacy of a saint Then and now: Sister Marie Grace Molloy “Our goal always was to carry on the legacy...
Sister Anne Krause (formerly Sister Marie Robert)
...spent as an elementary and high school teacher and an elementary principal primarily in Indiana and Illinois, with a year in Massachusetts. Switching gears from education, she ministered as finance officer for three years at Providence High School, adding the task of treasurer in St. Joseph Province in 1969, which became a full-time position the following year, a post she had until 1980 when she was given a sabbatical. Sister Anne Krause (formerly Sister Marie Robert) Teacher and Principal for...
Sister Alice Clare Kuper
...ministered at all grade levels, including high school where she taught a variety of subjects but concentrated mainly in math and business classes. She began teaching in 1938 at Holy Trinity, New Albany, Ind. Her other Indiana classrooms included St. Catherine and Chartrand and Roncalli high schools, Indianapolis; St. Rose, Vincennes; Washington Catholic High School, Washington; and Schulte High School, Terre Haute. In Illinois, she ministered at Our Lady of Sorrows and St. Andrew, Chicago, and Mother Theodore Guerin High...
Sister Eileen Clare Goetzen
...down students that they called her Dick Tracy. She wrote that she always tried to be compassionate to the parents and all students. Sister Eileen Clare Goetzen Teacher for 40 years in schools in Indiana, Texas, Washington, D.C., and Illinois In Indiana: Aspirancy, Motherhouse (1961-62); St. Agnes Academy, Indianapolis (1961-66). In Illinois: St. Columbkille, Chicago (1955-57); Providence High School, Joliet (1958-61); Providence High School, Chicago (1966-69); Our Lady of Sorrows, Chicago (1969-83); Mother Theodore Guerin High School, River Grove (1983-2005)....
Sister Agnes Eugene Cordak
...Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2001-05); Residential Services/Volunteer, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (2005-2011); Prayer (2011-2021). In Illinois: Teacher, St. Joseph, Galesburg (1944-46); Teacher, St. Angela, Chicago (1956-58); Teacher, St. Leo, Chicago (1958-62); Teacher, St. Andrew, Chicago (1962-66); Teacher, St. Francis Xavier, Wilmette (1966-68); Bookstore Supervisor/Manager, Mother Theodore Guerin High School, River Grove (1977-80); Teacher, St. Dennis, Lockport (1980-81); Teacher, Cathedral High School, Chicago (1987-90); Substitute Teacher, Cathedral High School, Chicago (1990-91). In Washington, D.C.: Teacher, St. Ann (1948-50). In Massachusetts: Teacher, St. Rose, Chelsea (1952-54)....
Sister Agnes Maureen Badura
...Providence for 75 years. Theresa Badura was born on April 3, 1930, in Chicago, the youngest child of Mary Mutansky Badura and Mathew Badura. Her sisters Evelyn, Agnes, Ann and Mary Ann and her brother Stephen preceded her in death. She attended Saints Cyril and Methodius Grade School and Providence High School. When she graduated in 1947, she was a member of the national honor society and recipient of a medal for the highest average in three years of science....
Sister Luke Crawford
...Providence and was received into the Novitiate on Jan. 23, 1949. Her first profession was Jan. 23, 1951, and her final profession was Jan. 23, 1956. Sister Luke’s early years in the congregation were spent in high school teaching. In 1956, she taught eighth-grade at St. Philip Neri, Indianapolis, but immediately moved back to teaching high school. She taught at Our Lady of Providence, Clarksville; Washington Catholic, Washington; Central Catholic High School, Fort Wayne, and then moved to Washington, D.C.,...
Sister Joan Matthews (formerly Sister Ignatius)
...as Cor Unum. That ministry, as well as serving in a high school for girls, most of whom were African American, from 1984-89 significantly impacted Sister Joan’s life. Of the teaching experience she said: “It showed me how much I needed to grow to begin to understand the African American picture. This became more real as I shared in the efforts to keep the hierarchy from demolishing our school and merging us with a distant high school. Sadly, we lost...