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Sister Winifred Mary Sullivan
...caring and never missed a funeral. Winifred attended Saint Ann Grade School and Saint Patrick High School. She writes that she had always loved the Woods from the time she was a little girl and her mother would bring her daughters to Saint Mary’s on Sunday afternoons to visit her Sister friends. Winnie graduated in 1945 and entered the community in July of 1945. Her mother was reluctant for her to leave, perhaps because at that time, six of her...
Oral History: Sister Carol Nolan
...teaching music and second grade. For the next 15 years she taught music in elementary and high schools in Indianapolis, Chicago and River Grove, Illinois. She taught music at Mother Theodore Guerin High School in River Grove. While there, she and the late Sister Mary Catherine Keene studied with George Perlman, a prominent violinist and composer in Chicago. Sister Carol gave several recitals there, and at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College during her summers. Following her time at Guerin, Carol went to...
Nancy Vandenbergh-Kremer, Chicago, IL: “Friendship and love”
...soon adopted as our “aunts” as we already had an aunt a member of the Cenacle order. Later in 1969 I would enroll at Mother Guerin High School and meet and become friends with other great SPs: Sisters Marie Cyril, Kay Kelly, Florence Fertig, Rosemary Mackey and Jean Margaret Kaindle as well many other Sisters who taught in the school and lived at the convent. What a great surprise as I entered SMWC the Fall of 1973 to discover the...
Sister Laurine Haley
...her birth. Her sisters Jeanne and Ruth as well as her other brothers, Walter and Thomas, have preceded her in death. She is survived by nieces (Laurine and Gertrude) a nephew (Bobby), niece-in-law (Sue) and several grand-nieces and grand-nephews. Catherine was baptized at Sacred Hearts Parish in Malden, attended Cheverus, the parish school for both elementary and high school, graduating in June 1945. On July 22, 1945, she entered the Postulancy, which at the time was in Rockville, Maryland, followed...
Sister Patricia Fillenwarth (formerly Sister Joseph Monica)
...a principal in this way: Organized and an organizer; someone who related to teachers in ways that led to their success. Early on in her years at Maternity BVM, Patty recognized that students needed support outside of school time. She began the After School Club. Willing students stayed after school and received help with homework and benefited by learning in a more casual atmosphere than a classroom and by one-on-one time with a teacher. Snacks probably made the After School...
Sister Therese Whitsett
...middle child of nine, the family would often visit first one then two older sisters who had joined the Sisters of Providence. Changes It was with great excitement and visions of being a missionary and going to far-away places to be of service that right after high school Therese too joined the Sisters of Providence. The year was 1962, and two months later the Second Vatican Council would begin. With it would come many changes in the life and routine...
Sister Maureen Fallon: supported by the Ministry Fund
Sister Maureen Fallon, at left, in her ministry as assistant principal at Bishop McNamara Catholic School in Kankakee, Illinois. Donors to the Sisters of Providence are making Catholic education more accessible in Kankakee, Illinois. Because a grant from the donor-funded Ministry Fund of the Sisters of Providence covers a portion of Sister Maureen Fallon’s salary as assistant principal at Bishop McNamara Catholic School in Kankakee, this financial savings to the school allows some 15 students who otherwise would not be...
Sister Leona (Mary Charlene) Walsh
...of Providence High School, Clarksville, Ind. In Chicago, she ministered at St. Sylvester and St. Mel. From 1963 to 1976, she taught and/or served as a librarian at Ladywood High School, which was later known as Ladywood-St. Agnes, in Indianapolis. “One student, who had been a boarder during those years, commented: ‘I don’t know when Sister Mary Charlene ever slept. She had her teaching duties and preparations, she was sacristan and was on duty most of the time as our...
Newsnotes: the latest from the Sisters of Providence
...Providence. We made a lot of new friends and gathered hundreds of prayer requests which were brought back to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods for the sisters to pray. We look forward to our return in 2021. Final Providence High School reunion More than 470 alumnae attended the final Providence High School homecoming luncheon, which took place near Chicago on Saturday, Oct. 26. “You are and have been pretty amazing,” Sisters of Providence General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski said to the attendees. She...
Sisters of Providence celebrating Jubilees
...from Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. Her ministries include: Teacher, Providence Cristo Rey High School, Indianapolis (2008-09), Teacher/Mission Program Coordinator, Guerin College Preparatory High School, River Grove, Ill., St. Therese Chinese Catholic Church, Chicago, (2012-13) Teacher, Guerin College Preparatory High School (2013-16), and Teacher, Oldenburg Academy of the Immaculate Conception, Oldenburg, Ind. (2016-21). Sister Susan Paweski was born in Chicago. Currently, she ministers as the Co-Director of Providence Associates for the Congregation and resides in Brookfield, Ill. Sister Susan entered...
Sister Joyce Brophy
...Saint Mary-of-the-Woods? It is home. What the world needs now… What we profess in peace, justice, mercy and love. Q. Why did you choose the Sisters of Providence? A. Although two of my Providence High School classmates were entering the local Sisters of St. Francis, I chose the Sisters of Providence. These sisters had been my teachers in elementary and high school. I felt comfortable with them and admired them. I wanted to emulate Sister Rose Scecina, my first-grade teacher,...
Sister Marsha Speth
Current ministry: General Officer Years in the Congregation: 46 years My best friend says: If you’re around her at all, you know she has an inner strength about her; go camping and backpacking with her and you’ll find she’s a tough lady in that world as well. With the Sisters of Providence as my teachers in both grade and high school you could say that I sort of imbibed the spirit or charism of the Congregation without ever knowing it....