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Sister Maureen Loonam
...and professed first and perpetual vows Aug. 15, 1936, and 1941, respectively. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in education administration from Purdue University. Sister Maureen commenced teaching upper elementary classes in 1936 at Sacred Heart, Evansville, Ind. In the Hoosier state, she either taught or served as principal at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Lafayette; St. Joseph, Jasper; and St. Simon, Indianapolis. She also spent six years at St. Agnes, Chicago. “Sister...
Sister Joyce Brophy
...the need became evident for quality day care for the children of employees on both sides of the campus at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. When the Montessori School at Saint Mary-of-the- Woods College closed, the opportunity to use that area enabled this day care idea to become reality. Sister Barbara Doherty, then the college’s president, was very open to this plan. The college provided the space and the Congregation assumed sponsorship of the corporation. Many of our retired sisters have given time...
Sister Lisa Stallings
...Providence? A: I was taught by the Sisters of Providence in high school and in college, particularly at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. I was inspired by individuals whom I knew who were strong women and women devoted to prayer. I thought about religious life and I thought about the Sisters of Providence. I didn’t even really consider any other congregation. Q: What prompted you to think about religious life? A: That’s a mystery to me. It was a sense that I...
Sister Margaret Ellen O’Connor
...and St. John, Whiting; St. Simon, Washington; and St. Joan of Arc, St. Agnes and St. Andrew, Indianapolis. She also taught at St. Ann, Washington, D.C., and Holy Redeemer, College Park, Md. In 1972, she began serving as a librarian at Immaculate Conception, Chicago. She ministered in other libraries including Mother Theodore Guerin High School, River Grove, Ill., and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. She retired in 1992 and provided volunteer service in many areas. “I found it interesting as I talked...
Newsnotes from summer 2022 HOPE magazine
...tuned. … Final resting place in the Woods To date, 110 individuals have reserved niches for cremains burial in Providence Community Cemetery at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Small plaques reserved were recently placed on the reserved niches. Learn more about availability and pricing at CommunityCemetery.SistersofProvidence.org Cook County Board of Commissioners honors Congregation, Guerin College Prep High School The Cook County, Illinois, Board of Commissioners recently approved a resolution honoring the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and Guerin College Prep High...
Sister Helen Vinton
...Mary-of-the-Woods College. She learned about scholarships the college had to offer, filed an application, and received the award. “I went to my parents and said I wanted to go to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Having the scholarship was an incentive for them to say yes,” she said. “So I packed up after high school and thought I was going ‘way East’ for college life,” she remembered. As Providence would have it, she soon made friends with some of the sisters. “Their life...
A Note from Providence Associates Jane Fischer and Pearlette Springer, September 11, 2024
...grade. It was then that we began to sing Negro Spirituals at school and in church. I was in high school when I saw a Black priest for the first time. I lived in a mixed-religious community among Protestants, Muslims, and Black Israelites. Using terms such as non-Catholic was not a part of the vocabulary spoken in the community. Everybody was who they were – Baptist, Missionary Baptist, Southern Baptist, Church of God, Church of God in Christ, Muslim, Jewish,...
Sister Maureen Fallon: supported by the Ministry Fund
...services and arranges collaborations for dual credit classes with near-by Kankakee Community College. “Thanks to these collaborations, as well as the Advanced Placement classes we offer at BMCS, two-thirds of our school’s graduates arrive at college with 8-13 credits in subjects like math, psychology, chemistry and general college studies,” she said. Students come to BMCS from Kankakee and 22 surrounding cities and towns. Many are second and third generation students at the school. The school is becoming more diverse as...
Sister Jean Karier
...1940, respectively. She earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in special education from St. Louis University. Sister Jean commenced teaching in 1934 at St. Philip Neri, Indianapolis. Her other Indiana classrooms included Sacred Heart and Assumption, Evansville; St. Anthony and Immaculate Heart, Indianapolis; and St. John, Loogootee. She also spent two years at Our Lady of Mercy, Chicago. In 1957, the Congregation was asked to provide sisters to work with mentally challenged...
A Sister Edith Pfau Evangelist
...Henrietta Pfau on July 1, 1915, in Jasper, Ind. She joined the Sisters of Providence in 1933 and professed her perpetual vows in 1941. She got a degree in art from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in 1941, then a master’s from Indiana State University in 1951, then a doctorate in art education from Ball State in 1971. She taught art all over the place, from high schools to colleges, as near as Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and as far away as Providence...
A gadget-happy Sister
This article is reprinted from the summer 2011 issue of HOPE. Sister Joanne Golding loves being plugged into all sorts of technology. Sister Joanne Golding is a self-proclaimed computer nut. So, she seems to be well connected in ministry as director of academic computing at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, even though she plans to retire at the end of the current semester. A lover of mathematics, she jumped at the opportunity when Indiana State University allowed doctoral students to switch from...
Providence Cristo Rey honors Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp
...School in New Lenox, Illinois, as well as at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and Providence-St. Mel in Chicago. She also ministered as the principal at Mother Theodore Guerin High School in Chicago. Currently, she is a member of the Congregation’s Leadership Team. “She is a tremendous leader and humanitarian who earns the utmost respect from all fortunate enough to know her,” Kellison continued. “We are all better – students, staff, faculty and the community – for the blessing of Sister Jeanne.”...