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Sister Barbara Doherty (formerly Sister Vincent Ferrer)
Barbara Ann Doherty was born in Chicago to Martin and Margaret Noe Doherty on December 2, 1931. Sister Barbara Doherty She attended St. Mel Elementary School in Chicago and Ascension School in Oak Park. She was a Provite, always proud to be an alumna of Providence High School in the class of 1949. Two years later, on Feb. 2, 1951, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence. She received the religious name Sister Vincent Ferrer, a renowned preacher...
Donna Stites: wanting to be seen as somebody
...proved to be the beginning of her downward spiral into a life of drugs, crime and prostitution. Her mother introduced her to drugs and by the age of 12 she was “shooting up” and selling them. “I was pretty much a street person. I was hustling out on the street. I was doing any and all type of crimes,” said Donna. The little time she was in high school was mainly spent at Reitz Memorial High School, Evansville, Ind. By...
Sister Agnes Joan Li
...Marywood, Anaheim, Calif.; Our Lady of Providence High School, Clarksville, Ind.; Washington Catholic High School, Washington, Ind.; and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. From 1972 to 1980, Sister Agnes Joan returned to Taiwan to Providence College, Taichung, where she taught calculus and was head of the math department and a councilor. After a year-long mission furlough at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, she returned to Providence University, now in Shalu, and served in a variety of capacities until 1991. She returned to the Woods in...
Ministering on the frontlines
Sister of Providence Arrianne Whittaker: A ministry of healing Born in 1986 in Indianapolis, Sister of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, Arrianne Whittaker’s life journey took her and her family to many different areas in the United States and, by the time she was 5, the family settled in Germantown, Wisconsin, where she graduated from high school in 2005. “I tell people I am a Hoosier by birth, but a ‘Cheesehead’ by choice,” Sister Arrianne said. Sister Arrianne Whittaker After...
A Note from Providence Associates Jane Fischer and Pearlette Springer, September 11, 2024
...educated in a Catholic grade school and didn’t get to know any ‘protestants’ until high school. I didn’t know their faith until I was in college. Then I was so eager to learn! When I picked up the book White Fragility this year, I didn’t begin to think of the following quote from Kenneth B. Clark in Robin Diangelo’s book White Fragility could apply to me: “Remarkably, a sense of white superiority and knowledge of racial power codes appear to...
Sister Dorothy Marie Ahern
...who spent 66 years in schools, mostly as a teacher, with a few years as vice principal and principal. She taught every elementary grade, 1-8. She taught high school and she taught adult education. Except for three years in Oklahoma and seven years in Illinois, she was in California for 56 years, where she was assigned to every school we had in the Los Angeles area, eight in all, said Sister Ann Casper in her commentary for Sister Dorothy Marie...
Sister Joanna Valentino (formerly Sister Marie Dominic)
...assistant at Resurrection grade school where she grieved and witnessed what she described as much injustice within the hierarchy of the church. Also in Chicago, at Notre Dame High School through the school’s scholarship program, she became devoted to the students, their families and the principal as she loved inner city ministry. Having a penchant to work with older adults, she took classes in the study of aging and helped many older Sisters of Providence living in Chicago when they...
Celebrating American Education Week
...the work of all educators while emphasizing the need for a quality education. While many Sisters of Providence no longer teach in the classroom, some in fact do and many still provide a component of education in their ministry. For example, Sister Mary Ann Stewart is a social studies educator at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis. She has been with the school since 1980. Sister Anne Therese Falkenstein, who currently ministers as a General Officer, began her teaching career at...
Sisters share memories of the ‘Greatest Spectacle in Racing’
...at Costa High School, in Galesburg, Illinois, she secured tickets for the entire junior class from Tony Hulman to attend the race. “The school was closing and students would be transferring to another school,” she said. “It was their ‘senior class trip,’ which they wouldn’t be having the next year. “My dad met us at the track and gave everyone a royal tour with the guys getting to go into the garage area. It was a great day for all!”...
Sister Miriam Clare Stoll
...Sometime after Margaret Mary graduated from high school, the principal from the parish school called on Margaret Mary to help with the class of a teacher who was out sick. After the teacher came back, the principal asked Margaret Mary if she had ever thought that she might become a sister. She replied, “Not since I was a little girl.” The principal then told her, “I think you should; go home and tell your mother.” After a couple of days,...
Sister John Mary Rifner
...years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 66 years. Sister Ann continued: Cecilia Ann, as did Mary (Martha Ann) and her deceased siblings, John and Aggie, attended Weir Public School and New Castle Senior High School, from which she graduated in 1947. She and Mary got to know the Sisters of Providence when their father drove three sisters from Richmond every Sunday to teach afternoon catechism, followed by benediction. After St. Anne School opened in 1951, the...
Sister Mary Terence Haag
...which is near Loogootee. She attended public grade schools and St. Peter’s School in Montgomery, and public high school and high school here at the Woods. Mary Terence’s great-grandmother was a Guthneck. She had two or three sisters who were among the early Sisters of Providence. Mary Terence herself entered community in 1935 and made her final profession in 1944. She would tell the story about how one summer when she came home, someone in the office of the home...