Loretto Magazine - Spring 2014

Loretto

Special Mission Edition

M A G A Z I N E Spring 2014

Volume 56, No. 1

More on Loretto mission work at home and abroad, pp. 4-16

El Paso Villa Maria provides safety, shelter, skill-building for homeless women on a path toward a better life

About this issue . . .

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For the Spring edition our readers will hopefully notice two important things. First, with this issue forward, Loretto Magazine is printed in full color. Second, and most important, this is our Special Mission Edition filled with in-depth stories about the daily work of the Loretto Community. The editors always strive to cover current Loretto works.

With this edition, however, an in-depth exploration of the mission projects here and abroad may come as a revelation. It certainly did to us.

It has been our privilege to seek out and interview those Community members involved in missions not often publicized. From Loretto’s Sisters in the Pakistan mission, to the extraordinary accomplishments of the migrant workers and Mexican-American community in Central Florida, to the tale of one Sister who knew teaching children was her true mission in life, the stories reveal the deep sense of Loretto values put into action in ways that are bound to capture your imagination. Yet, these missions are not imaginary ... they’re real, as you will see!

Contents Loretto’s Mission Coordinator shares perspectives......... 4 Farmworker Ministry, Inc., Auburndale, Fla................6 El Paso Villa Maria homeless shelter for women.......8 A teacher with a ‘mission’ for a lifetime.....................10 Poor children, adults learn eagerly in Pakistan..............12 The Special Needs Fund helps in amazing ways.......... 14 Remembrances...............................................................17 Memorials & Tributes of Honor.......................................18

On the Cover: Photo by Victor Calzada, photographer for the El Paso Times.

El Paso Villa Maria is a temporary shelter for women without children to address the root causes of their homelessness and to heal to wholeness. The mission, begun by Sisters of Loretto, has served the El Paso, Texas, community for seven years. In that time more than 375 women have moved from homelessness to self-sustaining lives. From left, Mary Margaret Murphy SL, case manager; Cristina Delgado administrative assistant and volunteer coordinator; and Helen Santamaria SL, Villa Maria founder and now board of directors chairperson.

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LORETTO COMMUNITY Sisters of Loretto • Co-members of Loretto

We work for justice and act for peace because the Gospel urges us.

Loretto Community members teach, nurse, care for the elderly, lobby, minister in hospitals, provide spiritual direction and counseling, resettle refugees, staff parishes, try to stop this country’s nuclear weapons build-up, work with the rural poor, and minister to handicapped, alcoholic, and mentally ill adults.

Our ministries are diverse.

The Loretto Community, founded in 1812 as the Sisters of Loretto, is a congregation of Catholic vowed Siisters and lay Co-members. Loretto Co-members are those who, by mutual commitment, belong to the Community through a sharing of spirit and values and participating in activities that further our mission.

For more information contact: Loretto Community Membership Staff 4000 So. Wadsworth Blvd.

Littleton, CO 80123-1308 Phone: 303-783-0450 Fax: 303-783-0611 Web: www.lorettocommunity.org Loretto Magazine is published three times a year by the Loretto Development Office: Development Director: Denise Ann Clifford SL Communications Director: Jean M. Schildz Data Systems Mgr./Event Coordinator: Kelly Marie Darby Editing, Layout, and Production: Carolyn Dunbar Financial Accountant: Chris Molina Special Development Projects: Lydia Peña SL

Advisory Panel: Denise Ann Clifford SL Jean M. Schildz Rebecca Sallee-Hanson Katie Jones Editorial Office: Loretto Central Office 4000 So. Wadsworth Blvd.

Littleton, CO 80123-1308 303-783-0450, ext. 1718 Circulation Office: Loretto Staff Office 590 E. Lockwood Ave. Webster Groves, MO 63119 314-962-8112

Dear Loretto Friends,

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hrist has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again,” we recite at every Eucharist. As we participate in this Easter season, we are reminded that, “the whole of Christianity rests in the death and resurrection of Christ.” We ponder seriously what this resurrection from the dead can mean. For us Christians, our life task is to act as Jesus would. Just as we hope to be mindful of Jesus in ourselves and in each other, may we also be mindful that “Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. ...Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which He is to bless men [sic] now” (attributed to Theresa of Avila). In our imitation of Jesus, we make real the Pascal mystery.

Pearl McGivney SL Loretto President

In this issue of Loretto Magazine, I am particularly drawn to the “sidebar” that tells the story of Jeannette Marie Donnelly SL who died recently. The story reminds me not only of the fidelity, dedication, wisdom, and good humor that were the hallmarks of Jeannette’s life, but also of the many other remarkable Loretto members who are no longer with us. We miss them, just as we’re sure you miss your favorite Loretto teacher, mentor, counselor, friend, colleague or advocate. While they are no longer with us physically, their spirits live on in us, and we take comfort in our memories of them.

We are grateful for your companionship on Loretto’s journey, and we pray for continued blessings for you and for those whom you love.

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e have completed our Lenten journey and joyfully celebrate Jesus’ victory over death! For those who have remained faithful to their Lenten resolutions, following Jesus’ example and imitating His love and service of others, we indeed have reason to celebrate! We sing our ALLELUIA songs and renew our promise to continue to be Christ’s presence to others. This is our mission as disciples in today’s world.

The features in this issue of Loretto Magazine recount some of the ways that Loretto members have responded to mission — called and sent to spend themselves in the service of others.

Through our members, Loretto has a presence in 31 of our states and eight foreign countries.

We bring ...

... the healing presence of Christ to those in pain and suffering;

... the comforting presence of Christ to those who are dying;

... the enlightening presence of Christ to those seeking knowledge;

... the loving presence of Christ to the poor and disadvantaged;

... the embracing presence of Christ to the homeless, disenfranchised;

... the joyful presence of Christ to all who need a smile or friendly greeting;

... the gentle presence of Christ to those hurting and seeking forgiveness.

Denise Ann Clifford SL Loretto Development Director

This is everyone’s call, everyone’s mission — to be Christ-bearers to one another — family members, friends, neighbors, our brothers and sisters throughout the world, those who love us and those who don’t. This is our call, our challenge: to love one another as Christ has loved us. We are called, we are missioned. Are we up to the task?

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Loretto’s transforming missions serve the people ... first, last and always

By Eileen Harrington CoL

The new Mission Activities Team Coordinator takes stock of what’s happening now in Loretto’s long tradition of serving the poor and disadvantaged in ‘mission fields’ near and far.

Photo courtesy of Farmworker Ministry, Inc.

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he Loretto Community exists for mission, and our mission is to be for others. The Loretto Constitutions, I Am the Way, says this about mission:

“As we stand with Mary at the foot of the cross, we strive to bring the healing Spirit of God into our world and we commit ourselves to improving the conditions of those who suffer from injustice, oppression, and deprivation of dignity. In this way, we participate in the church’s mission of proclaiming the transforming love of God. ...

We work for justice and act for peace because the gospel urges us.”

In earlier times, Loretto’s mission focused on our work educating young people in schools. Following Vatican II, Sisters of Loretto were no longer assigned to teach in specific schools, but instead discerned their missions in a wide range of fields including, but not limited to, classroom education. Over the ensuing decades, Sisters and Co-members lived and worked in Catholic Worker Houses; were lawyers, social workers, health care providers, community organizers, journalists, psychotherapists, spiritual directors, hermits ... and continued to teach in schools, colleges, and universities. The list of works is as long as the list of the Community’s members. The common thread running through all of these works is that all of it represents how we are for others.

Today, the Loretto Community and all communities like it are aging, and fewer of our members are engaged in full-time mission work of the type described above. Regardless of age, employment, and “retirement” status, however, our Loretto Community is for mission. Lorettos everywhere can be found living the familiar cycle of prayer and reflection, study and education, engagement and action. For some, the full-time work continues. For others, prayer and reflection are their primary mission work. Many write letters to elected officials, sign petitions, and lend voices to the larger efforts for peace and justice. Whether through committees and networks, as an entire community, acting individually, or in collaboration with others, Loretto is for mission.

Loretto Co-member Alicia Zapata RSM works with a client seeking information on finding work and a place to live near Farmworker Ministry, Inc., headquartered in Auburndale, Fla.

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Personal and communal prayer and meditation are at the core of our commitment to mission. To bring “the healing Spirit of God” to our world, Lorettos draw on our spiritual practices to heal ourselves and set our intentions for the healing of the world.

During the recent Lenten season, for example, the Loretto Peace Committee offered the Community a daily reflection on peace

Injustice . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . Justice

. . . . . . Freedom

Oppression . . . . . . . .

Deprivation . . . . .

Indignity . . . .

Ignorance .

combined with a weekly action for peace. Prayer, reflection, study, and action: The seamless cycle of mission work.

The Motherhouse Community’s work to stop construction of the Bluegrass Pipeline exemplifies Loretto’s mission work.

Opposition to the pipeline is rooted in the Loretto “Land Ethic,” which expresses our belief that land is a gift from the Divine, to be cherished and cared for responsibly. From this sense of the sacred, the Loretto Motherhouse Community has joined with people and communities across Kentucky to oppose planned construction of a pipeline carrying dangerous natural gas liquids from Pennsylvania fracking fields to Gulf Coast refineries.

Motherhouse Community members pray for the preservation of our, and all, Kentucky lands; study and help educate neighbors near and far about pipeline risks; write letters to Kentucky legislators and attend hearings at the state capitol in Frankfort; and protest. All efforts — prayer, education, advocacy, and protest — are a piece of the whole. We are for others by acting to protect the Kentucky environment for present and future generations of humans, animals, and plants.

Loretto does much of its communal mission work through committees and networks. These include the Peace, Racial Justice, Latin America/Caribbean, Ad Hoc Papal Bulls Committee, and the Loretto Earth and Loretto Women’s Networks. Often using discernment practices, committees and networks prioritize issues and, on Loretto’s behalf, work in collaboration with other organizations and movements that share our concerns.

. . . . . . . Abundance . . . . . . . . . . Dignity . . . . . . . . . . . Knowledge peace among others and in the world. The Peace Committee has helped Lorettos study gun violence and the need for background checks and other enhanced legislation; the importance of U.S. ratification of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty; and led the Community’s observance of the International Day for Peace (Sept. 21). The Peace Committee, along with the LACC, the Guatemala Committee, Loretto Volunteers, and others join many other organizations at the annual vigil calling for closure of the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly the School of the Americas.

Other committees and networks are similarly engaged in mission work. Calling for repeal of specific ancient Papal Bulls that support the oppression of indigenous peoples; studying and speaking out against fracking, mountaintop removal mining, and other methods of extraction mining that pollute water, threaten species, and ruin natural environments and habitats; collaborating with our Guatemalan Sister Community to oppose U.S. aid to Guatemala’s military, mining in Guatemala by U.S. concerns, continuing anti-racism work in our community ... these are examples of Loretto mission work undertaken by our committees and networks.

Through the work of the Loretto Investment Committee, our mission work takes us into the corporate world. The Investment Committee, often in collaboration with other committees or networks, strategizes ways to use shareholder status and rights to raise concerns about corporate behavior and politics.

The Loretto Latin America/Caribbean Committee (LACC) organizes an annual trip to the U.S./Mexican border for Community members and friends to bear witness to the suffering of, and be of service to, people whose attempts to enter the United States end in detention and deportation. The LACC represents the Loretto Community in national coalitions working for immigration reform, educates Loretto on the issue, leads our public advocacy through billboards, letters and emails to Congress, and participates in vigils and demonstrations.

Through our consultative status at the United Nations, the Loretto Community Non-Governmental Organization works to connect the local with the global. Loretto at the UN advocates for our values to be reflected in the global policy arena, and brings global concerns to Loretto members.

The Peace Committee recently sponsored a daylong Peace Retreat in St. Louis for Community members, emphasizing the connection between our inner peace work and our work for

More information about the mission work of Loretto’s committees and networks may be found on our website, www.lorettocommunity.org.

When Lorettos gather, we often recite Charles Nerinckx’s exhortation: “Let Loretto Be Loretto Forever.” A corollary could be: “Let Loretto exist for mission forever.”

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Loretto members and devoted staff walk alongside Florida’s migrant workers in mission and ministry

By Carolyn Dunbar

Photo courtesy of Farmworker Ministry, Inc.

Farmworker Ministry, Inc., in its 30th year and going strong

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n March 31 Loretto Co-member Alicia Zapata RSM had been waiting for a letter. Finally it arrived moments before our scheduled phone interview began. Alicia’s voice sounded excited. She had been working with a young migrant worker in Auburndale, Fla., who had applied and now received permission to work and get a driver’s license. “I can’t wait to call her and tell her,” she said. “It means such freedom and the ability to walk out of her door and not have to wonder if this is going to be the day she’s going to walk back in or the day she will be arrested and not know who will take care of her children.” It was a good day.

Alicia, a native New Yorker and member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy, has been working with Florida’s migrant farmworker community for 30 years. Her heart lies with the migrant workers and their families, with all their struggles, poverty, injustice and heartbreak. A day like March 31, when good news came, was rare and had the power to uplift and sustain her when difficult challenges are the daily norm. “You do the work one day at a time and keep from despairing by celebrating even the slightest accomplishment. That’s what makes this worth doing,” Alicia said.

The mission

Photo by Eileen Harrington CoL

Above: A couple from the Mexican-American community works with a volunteer from the Farmworker Ministry, Inc. (FMI), Auburndale, Fla. Below: Alicia Zapata RSM, left, with lifelong friend Pearl McGivney SL. Pearl and the migrant workers established FMI in central Florida 30 years ago to address the urgent needs of the community.They were soon joined by Alicia.

Opposite: FMI Director Alicia (just right of the sign) and her able staff members provide support to the farmworkers and the wider Mexican-American community.

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For most of her three decades of service with the Farmworker Ministry, Inc., (FMI) in Florida, Alicia has served alongside her lifelong friend and fellow native New Yorker Pearl McGivney SL. The pair served as co-directors from 1984 to 2012.

The Florida farmworkers with Pearl originally founded the grassroots organization to act on the ever-present problems and needs of this population.

“These are the people who pick the fruit, the food we eat,” Alicia emphasized. “The purpose has been to serve the farmworkers in whatever they need according to them, not according to someone else’s estimation of what they need,” she said.

That distinction is key. “We actually do anything the farmworker community needs. We have a community-based organizer who persuades doctors and attorneys to work free or provide reduced-rate services. The people have organized themselves

mission

Photo courtesy of Farmworker Ministry, Inc.

on all kinds of levels. To do anything and everything is our purpose.”

According to Alicia, the most important thing is to always listen to what the people want. “They know what they need.

Always be in that listening stance and respectful. It may not be what I think will be helpful. I have always worked with the Hispanic community — in New York, Panama and Argentina.

They know best.” In fact, Alicia’s work with the migrants has extended to the wider Florida Mexican-American community, especially for immigration services.

In 2013, Pearl began service as Loretto Community President for a six-year term. Alicia became FMI director at that time.

“Such a tiny organization that does an incredible amount of work has 12 people on staff; four are full time and the others part time,” Alicia said. She added, “We serve thousands. Comember Dorothy Ortner came to do some grant writing for us, and we figured the number of people in the thousands.

What happens is one family member signs in, but we could be working on any number of family members.”

Although Alicia and her staff are vital conduits to services for immediate and ongoing needs, the migrants themselves are the community’s prime movers. The workers have developed their own committees and decision-making processes in significant areas of concern like housing, health care, employment, human rights, legal and other services.

Their gathering point is Centro Campesino, or Farmworker Center, on the Farmworker Ministry property in Auburndale.

The small inland town lies between Tampa and Orlando in Florida’s Central Highlands region.

For the first 15 years of ministering to them, Alicia and Pearl would close up shop in the summer and follow the migrants from place to place. At the end of the season they would find a new place to live and work. “We always lived among the people and did a whole lot of work,” said Alicia. “Now I live

right here in Auburndale, and it’s 15 years since we moved around.” At first only a small house sat on the property. “It used to be a ceramics place where they covered over what would have been the carport. That is our office,” she said.

Over the years other buildings were constructed, including a large room that sees constant use. All community and committee meetings happen there. Young people learn traditional Mexican folk dancing. Classes are held in domestic violence prevention, GED studies, even sewing.

For example, in late April two women from Polk County government were set to address the migrant community about bullying and domestic violence. “In this county eight-year-olds are pregnant,” said Alicia. “We want girls and boys and their parents to know they can say NO. We want the boys to know what NO means. The purpose is to gather them so they can all hear the same things. Mothers with daughters. Fathers with sons. Mothers who only have sons. Fathers who only have daughters. When a young girl says NO she means it, and she has the right to say it.”

Since 1986 and the advent of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, immigration services have been Alicia’s main focus with the Mexican-American community. She labors with the people for whom new comprehensive legislation is long overdue, and she has no intention of stopping. Alicia and her colleagues see the tragic results of piecemeal, inadequate legislation up close and personal every day.

On the positive side, Alicia enjoys being with the community in social situations, getting invited to their homes for all kinds of celebrations. “I enjoy watching the people when they’re dancing. In social settings the men and women tend to gather separately. I have fun sitting around with the women visiting and sharing stories, whether they’re fun or not fun,” she said. “The joy is in building relationships.”

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Homeless women find steadfast love,

new confidence at El Paso Villa Maria

By Carolyn Dunbar

“Villa Maria is a temporary home where women, homeless and without children, heal to wholeness.”

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hat’s the matter-of-fact banner on El Paso Villa Maria’s web home page, www.villamariaep.org. It sums up the mission and ultimate goal. The real work, of course, is in the details. And on any day, it usually starts with case manager Mary Margaret Murphy SL. Begun in 2007 by Helen Santamaria SL and Father Rafael Garcia SJ of Sacred Heart Parish in El Paso, Texas, the shelter for women accommodates 22 residents. “The women are all homeless,” said Mary Margaret. “As case manager, I do an interview of each applicant before she comes ... to make sure her needs are those we are able to meet here and to help her heal from what brought her to homelessness.”

Desperate women come from situations of domestic violence, from jail or prison, or drug and alcohol addiction. “But they have to be on their path. We don’t take them when they’re still drinking. Each woman is equally important to us. We have to protect the women we already have who are committed to their paths of recovery,” Mary Margaret said.

Professional case management is perhaps the crucial element in a program of “healing to wholeness,” said Mary Margaret.

She and all Villa Maria staff members combine service resourcing with attention to the emotional well-being of every woman. Counseling, psychological evaluations, and classes in life skills, self-esteem and forgiveness are offered.

Those accepted into Villa Maria are expected to abide by the rules, stay free of drugs and alcohol, remain active in their own case management, save income for rent and to furnish permanent housing, respect the safety and comfort of other residents, and share in household chores.

Villa Maria receives referrals from many agencies, public and private. They could be social workers, other shelters, mental health agencies, drug and alcohol treatment programs, hospitals, law enforcement, the Center Against Family Violence, and many more. In turn, Mary Margaret works with those agencies to find appropriate services for residents working toward independent living. These include a little 8 • Loretto Magazine

bit of everything, she says, like immigration services, job searches, health care information and referrals, help with the disabled benefit process, money management, budgeting, housing ... the needs run the gambit.

Although not a Loretto project per se, Villa Maria received initial start-up funds from the Loretto Community. The mission applies annually for a small grant from Loretto’s Special Needs and Hunger funds. Mary Margaret explained that the facility required a round-the-clock, seven-days-a-week staff led by a director and case manager. Villa Maria opened without salaries for either Helen or Mary Margaret. “Unless the top two positions were funded, we didn’t have a viable project. Loretto leadership at that point was aware and really supported our starting. Gradually we got the funds,” she said.

A key link between Villa Maria and Loretto Academy in El Paso is invaluable, said Mary Margaret, and illustrates the strong local support the project enjoys. For example, the students have organized a toilet-paper drive on Loretto’s Foundation Day, April 25. “It’s a huge help for us. Some of the classes have done their service learning at Villa Maria, including Academy fifth graders who decorated the house for Halloween and Christmas and brought Christmas gifts, cookies for Valentine’s Day and Easter treats,” she said.

Often parents of Academy students who are professionals — doctors, dentists, and others — will provide pro bono work for Villa Maria residents who may need special services.

The results? Since opening seven years ago, Villa Maria has helped 375 women move from homelessness to self-sustaining living. Villa Maria’s outcomes exceed the normal average for people who suffer from addiction, mental health problems and domestic violence.

How is success measured? Again, Mary Margaret: “Someone is released successfully if they have come to a level of healing within themselves and really have a sustainable income and are able to move into housing of some kind.”

What is the value? “I want to say we really do provide hope, letting people know that we believe in them, we believe that they CAN DO it. We will walk with them to the ‘nth’ degree as long as they’re willing to walk. It’s a team effort. If they want their lives to be different, we will do whatever we can here at Villa Maria to make that happen,” Mary Margaret said.

Villa Maria homeless shelter in El Paso, Texas, began seven years ago under the direction of Helen Santamaria SL, right. Mary Margaret Murphy SL, center, came on board shortly after that.

Cristina Delgado, left, was initially a resident of the program. She has long since “graduated” and become a valued member of the staff as volunteer coordinator and administrative assistant.

Photo by Victor Calzada

By Helen Santamaria SL

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he dear Lord waited until I was in my 60s to call me to this mission. Having received permission to donate my services full time to furnish and renovate a building into a homeless shelter, recruit volunteers, hire staff and raise operational funds, one night I woke up suddenly and sat straight up in my bed and cried out: “Dear Lord, what in the world makes you think I can do this?” And God answered clearly: “Helen, what in the world makes you think you’re doing it?” Sitting there in the dark and in my bed, I laughed aloud!

You see I’ve lived a very blessed life. I come from a beautiful family, the eldest of nine children; was educated at Loretto Academy here in El Paso, Texas; went straight to the Loretto Motherhouse following high school graduation; became a Spanish teacher and school principal at Nerinx Hall High School; president at Loretto Academy and eventually, vice chancellor of the El Paso Diocese. All along I had thought that I’d done a decent job for the greater honor and glory of God. Turns out I wasn’t doing it at all! God patiently waited until I was in my 60s and thought: “She just might get it now.”

A beautiful ministry Villa Maria is a beautiful opportunity, a beautiful ministry.

Our privileged service is to provide a safe environment where women in need feel loved and empowered. It is all about helping homeless women realize how beautiful and gifted they are and to help them recognize that those gifts are truly God given, not to be selfishly hoarded but generously shared with all. We advocate compassion, forgiveness, and

kindness with one another at all times. Believe me, 22 women under the same roof does not always translate into a peaceful, tranquil setting, but we do our best to help them experience what God’s kingdom on earth might be like. A real challenge for all of us united in this blessed ministry.

It’s a real privilege to work with women at this stage in their lives. The older ones, having lived long, hard lives, really buckle down and have a good success ratio.

The younger ones sometimes are quick to walk out without accomplishing their goals, but we find that they often return. We hope they always have an opportunity to recognize and bring forth all the goodness that God has given them. Villa Maria is a miracle place. There are miracles that happen in our facility every day.

Anybody who works in this facility would also endorse having experienced these miracles.

I want Loretto friends and supporters to know that today, Villa Maria is graced with a new, young and dynamic executive director, Linda Velarde, who was chosen from among 140 applicants because of her demonstrated experience and passion for working with the homeless population. Mary Margaret Murphy SL continues in her capacity as case manager “superb” along with Cristina Delgado, volunteer coordinator, and four residential aides. Responding to the Gospel message and to our whole Loretto “mantra” of working for justice and acting for peace, we lovingly place our trust in those called to continue God’s work at El Paso Villa Maria.

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Teaching was her life’s mission:

Jeannette Marie Donnelly SL

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By Carolyn Dunbar oretto has many missions today where good work and generous support help people in large, small and often astonishing ways. In this edition of Loretto Magazine Co-member Eileen Harrington’s lead piece is focused on mission and outreach. With it we are providing stories of Loretto mission in action. The story of the Sister whose true mission in life was teaching children to read is a pleasure to include.

The Loretto Community turned 202 years old April 25. It’s original charter, or mission, was to educate the children of rural Kentucky. From its early founding in 1812, Loretto has been a teaching order, building and running schools, supplying teaching Sisters for specific needs, and traveling through the wilds of the Western frontier to provide education for young minds. From those early days until the 1970s, Loretto was a teaching order.

At that time choices began to open for members who wanted to work in fields other than education. Now Loretto serves God by serving the people in unique ways. Jeannette Marie Donnelly SL did not see a reason to move away from her primary mission. One

Photo by Peg Jacobs CoL wonderful teacher took to heart the mission to teach the children and made it her own for seven decades.

Her life began in 1922 in South Dakota just after the first World War. When they were children, she and her two sisters had been invited via family members living in New Mexico to attend Loretto Academy of the Visitation in Las Cruces, to board there and receive their elementary and secondary educations with the Sisters of Loretto. The Donnelly sisters loved the nuns, and the desire to become one of them was strong within Jeannette.

She entered the Sisters of Loretto novitiate at age 17 with her father’s permission. In 1942 at only 20 she boarded a train in the company of another young Sister headed west from Kentucky to Denver for their first teaching assignment at St. Philomena’s School.

“I presumed when I got to the Community that I would be a teacher,” and Jeannette was right. Parochial education in the United States was at its zenith in the 1930s and ’40s, and Loretto, a large teaching community, became a significant player in the movement that welcomed many religious orders and thousands of nuns and priests to build schools and educate the nation’s children.

And yet for Jeannette, teaching was not simply an avocation or occupation or a job. To her it was always a sacred calling, her true mission in life. For all of her days she actively pursued the mission that indelibly shaped her life and that of her many young students. “I like to teach reading,” she told Loretto Archivist Eleanor Craig SL in a lengthy interview before Christmas.

“I consider that missionary work — to teach them how to read and to love reading.”

And she meant it with great conviction and energy that belied her nonagenarian status. “And right now, you know, I’m tutoring that little boy,” Jeannette told Eleanor. (See photo at left.) “And I just love it. I

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love it, you know. Because he needs to be taught slowly, and go over it and over it a lot. And he’s been absent a couple of times on vacation, and when he comes back, he’s forgotten a lot, you know. But we’ll just hang in there, and he will learn to read.”

She quickly grew close to her latest charge as he visited for evening tutoring sessions throughout 2013 at the Motherhouse, Nerinx, Ky. “Well,” said Jeannette, “Sister Kay Carlew taught him last summer, and she must have served him cookies because the first time he came I asked his mother to stay, please, so he could get used to me. And he kept mumbling to her all the time. So when I finished I asked her what was the trouble. Oh, he wanted some cookies. So the next time I brought him some cookies. But I thought, well, that’s just all sweets, and the next time I had the kitchen fix him a bowl of sliced apples and some oranges. Oh, right away he started eating those.

“Well, children can read, and learn anything they want to learn. And teach others to read, and learn to help their own children, you know. That was my mission, I think, really, teaching children to read. It’s what I loved the most. It means so much to me when they walk out in May or June and they can really read, when they didn’t know anything about reading when they came,” she said.

With a strong, lively voice and sparkling eyes Jeannette recounted many teaching moments from her early days.

She taught and served as principal in Loretto schools and locations with slightly exotic names like St. Mary Star of the Sea in Freeport, Texas. So many of those schools have been swept away with time, though the one who lived there still remembered them as though a sea breeze sharpened her “mind pictures” into perfect focus.

Mary Charles Ward SL, who served with Jeannette in her first assignment at St. Philomena’s School in Denver in 1942, showed her how to teach reading and present religion to little children, getting them ready for first Holy Communion. “I remember one thing I did to impress upon the children that it was the real presence of our Lord that they were going to receive. And He said to them, ‘The bread I will give you is my flesh for the life of the world.’

They had to kind of get used to that idea — that they were really receiving a ‘live’ Christ.

“So I had a desk ... and there was a space to put your feet.

I got down under there and hid, and I said to them, ‘Can you see me?’ And they said no. ‘Well, am I here?’ Yeah, you’re here. And I got out from under there and said, ‘Well, you know, that’s how it is with Holy Communion. Jesus is hiding in the bread, and don’t ever forget that, now. Those children really believed it. ... Our Lord helped them, I’m sure, to see it ... that he really was there.”

If events as recent as a few months ago are any testimony, Jeannette’s students remember the lessons and remember her, too. At the time of Eleanor’s interview in midDecember, Jeannette was visited at the Motherhouse by three grown men who had been students of hers in Texas.

“They left this morning,” she told Eleanor, and it was just wonderful to see them because I hadn’t seen them since 1960! Actually after graduating high school, I don’t think they saw each other anymore. Walter Sullivan got this together because he keeps track of me. At every holiday and in between he writes me a card or a letter, and I appreciate that. And he got the other two. One is now in Austin, one’s in South Carolina, and Walter is in San Antonio. And they’re all wonderful, wonderful men. I really appreciate that they would drive this far to see me and to get together.”

Eleanor asked Jeannette what it means that students she had so long ago still keep track of her. At first she said she didn’t know, then after a moment, “Well, one of them from South Carolina, he said, ‘I’m an engineer, and I’m an engineer because you got me on the road to understanding math. You taught me after you’d pick me up after school, and I’d go to the convent, and you worked with me on Saturday, and I got straightened out, and I learned to love math, and I became an engineer.’ And that really thrilled me. That thrilled me. Because you never know when you do a little extra how good that’s going to be.”

Two women who were Jeannette’s students in those early days at another school were coming to visit her on Dec. 20, she said with anticipation. To anyone who could hear her confident voice, the reason for the visit would be obvious.

Her students keep a special place in their hearts for the teachings, and especially for the teacher.

Jeannette had been suffering a long illness and had been taken to the hospital in late March. That very evening her young pupil came to the convent for his tutoring lesson only to find that his beloved teacher was not there. The next day, his mother saw him kneeling in the field near their house and couldn’t coax him inside. As darkness fell she sent her husband to bring him home. His father found him inconsolable. He knelt beside him and they both cried and prayed for Sister’s swift healing. Indeed, she was released from the hospital to return to the Motherhouse where she came down to enjoy meals in the dining room with her friends.

Not long before her 92nd birthday, Jeannette died peacefully April 9 at Loretto Motherhouse. This fall she would have celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, or 75th year as a Sister of Loretto. It has been said that God blesses missionaries who serve the people. May God’s blessings follow you always, Sister Jeannette!

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Loretto Mission in Pakistan: Update

By Cathy Mueller SL St. Albert School, Faisalabad, Pakistan In 2011, the Bishop of Faisalabad asked us to take over St. Albert School, a primary to 10th grade school in a very poor area that was in need of leadership and training for the teachers to better the education provided. At present the school has 14 teachers and nearly 350 students. Our Sisters administer the school, provide ongoing training for the teachers, and work with the students, families and their many needs.

Loretto Centers — Sewing Circles for Women Through the diocesan Catholic Women’s Office our Sisters have helped to form five sewing circles. The goal is to teach the women sewing skills — including knitting, embroidery, handwork and machine sewing — so that they can get jobs or start their own business. The circles are also a place where the women can talk about their lives, learning from one another and from the teachers and Sisters. Our Sisters train the teachers and coordinate the circles.

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Many Loretto members have travele official founding in 2009. Elaine Satt recent visitor and is back in Denver

Solar Panel Installation When in the United States, Maria Daniel SL and Samina Iqbal SL were clear they wanted to learn skills to help the people of Pakistan who have little or no access to electricity or clean water. They have started installing solar panels on schools, motherhouses, retreat centers and hospitals. Their dream is to install panels in the villages so each family can have a light and a fan in their home.

Community Outreach Nasreen Daniel SL brings her knowledge and training through giving workshops for catechists, deacons, teachers, as well as teaching in the diocesan seminary. She coordinates the Justice and Peace Committee in the Faisalabad Diocese.

Besides these large projects, the Sisters respond to the many needs of people that are presented to them on a daily basis.

They also tend their garden and now are raising chickens.

They rely on our prayers and support.

Having a reliable source of income each year from a designated endowment fund will create financial sustainability.

The Loretto Community has a responsibility to our Sisters in Pakistan. The endowment will help ensure their future.

All gifts to the Sisters of Loretto are tax deductible. Bequests and Gifts of Stock are encouraged and valued as we move toward our goal of a $1 million Pakistan Endowment Fund, with $614,000 more needed to make goal. We appreciate the $355,000 given in the last five months of 2013 and those gifts given in 2014. For further information please call Lydia M. Peña SL, 303-783-0450, ext. 1725.

To give online go to www.lorettocommunity.org, or make your check payable to:

Sisters of Loretto

send to Pearl McGivney SL, President, Loretto Central Office Pakistan Endowment 4000 So.Wadsworth Blvd., Littleton CO 80123 12 • Loretto Magazine

Elaine Satterwhite SL, center, is flanked on each side by students at St. shawl are the traditional dress for nuns in this region. The women of any

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ed to the Pakistan mission since its terwhite SL is the Community’s most r with fascinating stories to tell.

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laine Satterwhite SL has spent months in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in two separate stints within the last year. While there, she assisted in teaching the children and the teachers at St. Albert School in an impoverished corner of the sprawling city of Faisalabad.

The Diocese of Faisalabad, the third largest city in Pakistan, covers a wide physical area of 35,300 square miles, and a population of 38.2 million. Of these people, just 150,000 are Catholics. The city itself bursts with 3.5 million people this year. The monthly salary for families who send children to St. Albert School, owned by the diocese, is from 2,000 to 5,000 rupees, which translates to $20 to $50 dollars. Tuition for one student is 100 rupees per month, or $1. Families struggle to pay that, though they pay as they can, according to Nasreen Daniel SL, principal at St. Albert.

Her fellow Loretto Sisters, Samina Iqbal and Maria Daniel, teach at the school, too. In a letter to the Loretto Community shortly after her arrival in February 2013 Elaine wrote, “Most families live below the poverty level, and money is needed for food, electricity, water, clothes, medical bills, etc. Often their food is inadequate, and clothes are bought at a thrift store.” The school only recently acquired a few desks and chairs for the young students. Elaine continues, “Any support at all that friends of Loretto can give to Pakistan mission — moral support or financial support — helps sustain us in our efforts to prepare the children, their families and the wider community for a better life.”

In addition to their work at the school, the Pakistani Sisters have five sewing centers for the local women to help them learn a skill from which they could support themselves and their children. The Sisters also respond to individual needs of the local community and spread their knowledge of English to Catholic seminarians, deacons, catechists and other teachers. They raise a garden and maintain the convent property. The days are long and the work challenging; still, they arise and do it again every day because the need is so pressing.

Solar energy is also a large part of Loretto’s missionary work in Pakistan. During their years in the United States, Sisters Maria and Samina devoted considerable time to learning about solar technology and how to build and use it in homes, schools and religious establishments in their native country. Where there is little electricity or clean water, the need is great. In Spring 2013 Maria installed solar panels — ordered from Germany — in the Jesuit compound in Lahore.

Photo by Nasreen Daniel SL

Albert School in the Faisalabad Diocese, Pakistan. Her white sari and y age wear the gorgeous colors and patterns of their country.

Elaine said, “I wanted to go to support the mission and to help with teaching the teachers at St. Albert School and the seminarians at the St. Thomas the Apostle Minor Seminary in Faisalabad. It was wonderful to be reunited with the Pakistani Sisters in their mission there.”

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Every year Loretto finds creative ways to help those near and far in real need

By Carolyn Dunbar

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rom its start as a tiny group of devoutly Catholic teachers who wished to serve God and educate the children of rural Kentuckians, the Loretto Community grew strong in its founding charism to teach and minister to those in need.

Over the last 41 years, the Loretto Community has developed a highly creative way “to improve the conditions of those who suffer from injustice, oppression, and deprivation of dignity” from Loretto’s Constitutions, Article 33, I Am the Way. The Special Needs Fund is one expression of Loretto mission enabling the Community “to meet its farther neighbors in their human needs and aspirations” (IATW Article 35).

Religious communities are required to share what they have, according to Sue Rogers SL staff liaison on the Loretto Special Needs Committee. They cannot exist only for themselves but must impart a portion of their abundance to those in need. “We do it not because we feel like we have a huge overabundance of money. We do it because we have an obligation — a Gospel mandate — to share what we have, regardless of how much that is. ... That’s what Pope Francis is challenging religious communities to do, and that’s been a part of our heritage since the very beginning.

Sue said, “The Special Needs Fund lets us stand with organizations and groups all over the world who struggle to build a culture and climate of peace, joy, and hope. That’s Loretto at its best. Loretto living mission. It’s why we invite people to share with us in doing.”

for its own sustenance, it should increase its charity, not its standard of living. Sue said, “We increase our charity because the Gospel calls us to recognize the very serious needs of the world, be attuned to it and respond to it. And we are committed to live simply in solidarity with the human family.

“When you do the math, we in Loretto have been extremely generous. Sometimes we don’t recognize that. If you add all the things that Loretto puts money into, time and talent and energy, it’s a considerable amount. That’s what we invite our benefactors to share in,” she said.

Sharing the ministry

“It’s a very creative way where we put our money where our mouth is — you do that by engaging others to share ministry with you. It’s the call of the Gospel. You don’t do it alone. You do it in solidarity with others. Special Needs is unique in that regard. It has always called us to that sense. I Am the Way calls us to collaboration in ministry and mission. You can’t work alone, because the Gospel mandates that we work together,” said Sue. “Mission is about encounter, building human communion, dismantling separation. I find that very, very exciting. That piece of the Gospel, I think, is just a wonderful invitation at this point in our lives. It’s a critical need in our world.”

Loretto’s Special Needs Fund began in 1973 to benefit people in need. It started out as a 1 percent “Fund for the Disadvantaged,” its original name, Rogers said, and soon grew to 2 percent fund, gradually working its way up to a 10 percent tithing fund, and then climbing to 15 percent. The Community uses this percentage of its annual unrestricted operating income to provide grants to non-profit organizations and emergency financial assistance to individuals and families.

The Special Needs committee asks a big question: How do we enact our values? “That’s what we do,” Sue said. “We look for projects that really reflect Loretto values and concerns. In Loretto we tend to work outside of Loretto-owned-and-operated ministries, always trying to extend Loretto’s boundaries.” Every year 75 percent of the funds support social change projects.

The other 25 percent is an emergency fund that allows any Community member to contact Special Needs when they encounter a person who is economically disadvantaged and experiencing an emergency. As Sue said, the fund has buried the dead, freed the prisoner, provided disaster relief, and helped people with a huge variety of needs they could not manage in overwhelming times.

“When Special Needs started we had very generous donors, highly educated Sisters in a variety of ministries, and Loretto was questioning. “What can we do with our abundance?” In the first rule, preserved in the Loretto Archives in his own hand, Father Charles Nerinckx challenged a poor and fledgling community, saying that, should the society ever have more than was needed

An ambitious project in the Congo is a great example. Sue said it was a pastoral agricultural program begun in the Congo to raise food to feed AIDS orphans in the early days of the epidemic in Africa. “It was a project of the Amani Society for Justice and Charity, based in Chicago. Amani’s President Stephane Kalonji was a friend of Helen Dobell, a Sister of Loretto at that time, and

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The Special Needs grants operate on a spring and fall schedule. Social-change grant proposals are accepted Mar. 15 and again Oct. 15. The Spring 2014 grants were awarded to these non-profit organizations: Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Program, El Paso, Texas Assists battered immigrant women and addresses their legal issues.

CrossRoads Ministry, Louisville, Ky. Offers urban retreats for youth, education about homelessness, and ways to work and serve the inner-city neighborhood.

Isaiah House of El Paso, El Paso, Texas A residential program serving men leaving prison.

Newton at Home, West Newton, Mass.

A neighborhood health care initiative with local volunteers to cooperatively share resources to assist older people to stay in their own homes.

North Grand Community Services, St. Louis Hires young workers, often single mothers, from the poorest sections of St. Louis to learn baking skills and increase their commitment to education and professional development.

Plowshares Farm Center for Education and Spirituality, Buffalo, Ky. Provides hands-on education and earth spirituality programs for all ages.

Uplift Help International, Ishiagu, Nigeria Supports an effort to build a basic health care program and clinic in an area without medical services.

El Paso Villa Maria, El Paso, Texas Provides shelter and support to homeless women as they address personal issues, develop skills, seek employment and become stable enough to move to places of their own.

we funded this program,” Sue recalled. “Over time their farm was successful enough that they moved from simply feeding AIDS orphans to being able teach sustainable farming to local workers. And it moved from just doing that to being able to provide medication for the orphans. And moved further over time so that some of the people who were initially recipients of the training program were able to earn enough through the farm to purchase their own land and run their own small farms.”

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Spring 2014 Special Needs Grant Awards

Kalonji, who initially ran the Congo project, was also a part of the Peace and Reconciliation Project in Burundi following their civil war, said Sue. “While he was there he met a group of Burundi Sisters who were working with a village where only a small group women and children had survived the genocide. The Burundi Sisters faced the challenge by asking the village women what they would need for peace to prevail. They identified their primary need as being able to feed their children. “So the Sisters dreamed up a plan where the women villagers would raise goats, trees, and plants. The sticking point: they had no money to get the plan off the ground. Through a grant from Loretto Special Needs they could buy two goats for each woman. The women would share in the goat-keeping duties, and the children could assist,” she said.

The results? “The first year they planted peanuts and pineapple plants purchased from Special Needs funds. The next year they added to the goatherd. They anticipated using goats for meat and milk to supplement their diet. We would get a report every year that the peanuts and pineapple were growing and the goatherd beginning to increase. Then we bought fruits trees —five different kinds. Each woman got trees. They planted them in orchards; all the orange trees were planted together, for example.

Over time, now they have fruit. Burundi was severely deforested during the revolution. In this single project, Loretto has addressed deforestation, care of the earth, peacemaking, and has provided for the care, need, and nurture of women and children.

The women have begun a journey of healing, learning to trust one another and build community in the village again. We have empowered a group of indigenous sisters to empower their own people. This is a really embodiment of Loretto values — we don’t go in and take over,” Sue said.

“We don’t accept donations simply to give it away. It’s in order to expand mission, to actively create a future for the Gospel in the world. The Special Needs Fund supports projects like the Corporate Accountability International in doing a project on the sustainability of a public water supply around the world,” Sue said. “We use the money to expand the common good; to expand the possibility of the human communities creating a better world together.”

See more about activities at the the Plowshares Farm Center and CrossRoads Ministry, page 16.

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Photo courtesy of Bob Ernst

Above: Bob Ernst capitivates elementary students at Plowshares Farm Center for Education and Spirituality, a 75-acre farm in Buffalo, Ky., belonging to Bob and his wife Sharon. They are co-founders of the Plowshares Center where people of all ages learn from “hands-on” interaction with animals on a real farm and respect for the earth that sustains them. Below: A close partner of Plowshares Farm Center, CrossRoads Ministry, Louisville, Ky., provides retreats for young people and opportunities for them to experience and serve inner-city neighborhoods. The raised-bed gardens were built with a grant from Loretto Special Needs, plus a lot of elbow grease.

Photo courtesy of CrossRoads Ministry

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loretto community members to remember Please see complete remembrances at www.lorettocommunity.org, select News tab.

Jeannette Marie Donnelly SL

April 27, 1992 — April 9, 2014 Sr. Jeannette was 91 at the time of her death and in her 74th year as a Sister of Loretto. Born Catherine Jeannette in Springfield, S.D., she moved with her family to Florida and attended parochial schools there. She and her sisters boarded at Loretto Academy in Las Cruces, N.M., for several years. She was received into the Sisters of Loretto in 1939, taking the name Jeannette Marie, and taught for 50 years in Colorado, Alabama, Los Angeles, Texas, Missouri and back to California. Jeannette considered teaching to be a sacred “mission.” See story pp. 10-11.

Jane Marie [formerly Mary Jane) Richardson SL

June 2, 1928 — March 10, 2014 Sr. Jane Marie was 85 at the time of her death and in her 67th year as a Sister of Loretto. Born in Louisville, Ky., and educated in Loretto schools, she was received into Loretto in 1947. She earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from Webster College, a master’s in musicology from Eastman in Rochester, N.Y., and a master’s degree in theology at Regina Mundi in Rome.

Jane Marie taught in many Loretto schools from Colorado to Missouri and back to Louisville, Ky., retiring in 2001.

Virginia Vobejda CoL

April 29, 1920 — Jan. 31, 2014 Virginia was 93 at the time of her death and in her 18th year as a Loretto Co-member. She was born in South Dakota but moved permanently to Colorado when she married Bill Vobejda, an engineer for the aeospace firm Martin-Marietta. She earned degrees in education from the University of Colorado and a certification in family therapy from the University of Denver. She taught and was principal at St. Louis Catholic School in Englewood, Colo., for 25 years. She also taught conflict resolution to students, faculties, congregations and organizations.

Charles Maureen Walker SL

Oct. 11, 1919 — March 14, 2014 Sr. Charles Maureen was 94 at the time of her death and in her 74th year as a Sister of Loretto.

She was born in Loretto, Ky., and baptized Virginia Walker. In 1939 she was received into Loretto, taking the religious name Charles Maureen. She earned a bachelor’s degree in French, English and philosophy from Webster College and later earned a master’s degree in education from St. Louis University. She enjoyed teaching elementary students and taught or served as principal in many Loretto schools in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky.

Ann Richard White SL

Nov. 11, 1925 — Feb. 16, 2014 Sr. Ann was 88 at the time of her death and in her 69th year as a Sister of Loretto. She was born Mary Inez White in Louisville, Ky., and was received into Loretto in 1945. Her first teaching assignment was at St. Pius V School, St. Louis, then at Bishop Toolen High School in Mobile, Ala. She studied for three years in Rome, earning a doctorate of theology, then returned to Kentucky to teach theology at the Motherhouse Novitiate. In 1965 she traveled again to Rome with Mary Luke Tobin SL to attend the fourth session of the Second Vatican Council. Later she chaired the Religion Department at Webster College and held many other top-level academic positions.

Marita Michenfelder Woodruff CoL

Dec. 7, 1927 — Feb. 17, 2014 Marita was 86 at the time of her death and in her 43rd year as a Loretto Co-member. Ann Ruth Michenfelder was born in St. Louis. After graduating from Webster College in 1949, she applied to the Sisters of Loretto and was received on April 25, 1950, taking the name Sister Marita. She taught in Loretto schools in Santa Fe, N.M., Kansas City, then joined the faculty at Webster College. She completed a master’s degree in theater at St. Louis University in 1959 and was appointed chair of Webster’s Theatre Arts Dept. Her decision to leave vowed membership in 1971 was quickly followed by joining as a co-member. In 1973 she married Dr. Robert Woodruff.

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Memorials and Tributes of Honor December 2013 — March 2014

Throughout this list of Memorials and Tributes, an asterisk ( *) following a name identifies that person as a Loretto Co-member.

In Memory of: Requested by: Leon Albin

Gail Albin

Sylvester Bowling SL

Lucille Jaworowski

Ann Carita Corbett SL

Mary Lee Meyers Corbett

Julia Dooling SL

Rev. Msgr. Leo Horrigan

Kay & Bernie Ambre

Mary & Joseph Highland

Kevin Bradt SJ

Margaret & Henry Ferraioli

Sophie & Anthony Dostal

Kitty & Tom Dostal

Marian Anderson

Madonna Newburg

Mary Padien Brady

Rita Brady Kiefer &

Jerry Kiefer

Adrian Corley SL

Frances Finnegan

Maria Emelda Valadez

Earl Bach

Judy & Robert Allan Lewis Barbato

Mary & Henry Concha Mary Bell

Peggy & Michael Dunn Martha Bickett

Jennifer & Joseph Hummel Mary Boland*

Sally K. Brown Edwardine Boone SL

Rose Mary &

Thomas Wargel Grace Boone SL

Rose Mary &

Thomas Wargel

Felicia Corrigan SL

Mary Joan Kenny

Cecil Brann

Maria Brann*

Mary Corrigan

Ann Corrigan

Ancilla Marie Burke SL

Mary & Michael Burke

Catherine & David Scherer

Nellie B. Coskrey

James Baker & Melissa

Schroeder

Mary & Albert Brackin

Louise Buckley

Father Seelos Center

Pamela & Joseph Johnson

Rozanne Lancaster

Judy & George Moore

Frances & James

Oberkirch

Tony Taravella

Rebecca Watson

Mary Rhodes Buckler SL

Joan & Arthur Kidnay

Katrina O’Leary

Mary Frances Palumbo Maura Campbell SL

Dorothy & Richard

Campbell Michael Candlin

Frances Candlin Charles R. Carpenter

Virginia Carpenter

Mary Grace Boone SL

Mary & Jim Rogers

John & Marie Carroll

Joan Palazzotto

Rosita Boone SL

Rose Mary &

Thomas Wargel

Jean Carmel Cavanaugh SL

Barbara Buettner

Anna Croom

The Loretto Community Donald Cyrier

Ruth Cyrier Aline Dalton SL

Dorothy & Bill McAuliffe Millie Dampf

Donald Dampf

Geraldine Boschert

Alicia Butler

Constance & Joseph Clifford

Bernie & Patrick Clifford

Kitty & Tom Dostal

Florence Bowdoin

Barbara Rancour

Ethel & Michael Cloonan

Margaret Cloonan

Maureen DeCourcey

Barbara Rancour

Eunice Bowling

Phyllis Bowling

Jane Winburn Close

Mary Jane & Charles

McCarthy

Mary Ellen Dintelmann

Ann Dintelmann

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Margaret Lynn Datz

Mary & Michael Burke

Margaret J. Driscoll

Margaret L. Driscoll Janice Dunbar

Joe & Jan Crea

Julie Dunbar Lynn Dunphy

The Loretto Community Robert Leona Edelen SL

Wanda & James Edge John Edmonson

Marian Pfeiffer Mary Ely SL

Mary Ann Sullivan Teresa Bruegenhagen Emnett

The Loretto Community Thomas C. Evans

Twila Evans Agnes Helen Ewing SL

Bruce Normile Mary Elizabeth Byrnes Felton

Joan & James Costello Virginia Fetters SL

Sally Smith Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Finnegan

Eleanor Warzoha Rosemary Fiori SL

Kathy & Tim Farrell

Wilma & Robert Fiori

Camilla Kryzsko

gifts Gondina Greenwell SL

Elizabeth & William

Mariner

Mary Jane Hummel SL

Ann Hummel

Jane & Norbert Hummel

Bernadette Mary Fischer SL

Wanda & James Edge

Helen Grennan*

Joan & Charles Grennan

Walter Imhoff

The Loretto Community

Joseph C. Fitzgerald

Bonnie Frost Fitzgerald

Matthew Marie Grennan SL

Joan & Charles Grennan

John Francis Ivancic

Christine & David Wagner

Margaret Therriault Foster

Gay DeMars

Paul Mary Grennan SL

Martha Joan Bennett

Joan & Charles Grennan

Robert Ivancic

Jean Ivancic

Michele & Michael Markham Mary McAuliffe SL

Ruth Tomlinson Fox

Ruthann Fox-Hines Anabel Madsen Fraass

Frank Fraass Philibert Fuite SL

Mary Martinez Jody Ritter Gates

George I. Gates, Jr. Ann Francis Gleason SL

Martha Joan Bennett

Margaret M. Cole

Justine & James Douglas

Carol & Greg Harris

Margaret Hayes

Helen Ryan Kindler

The Loretto Community

Loretto High School

Alumnae Association,

Louisville, Ky.

Carol Mattingly

Harriet Peake Mays

Maureen Quinn

Dee Dee Stone

Nancy & John Sunkel

Vicky & Charles Ullrich

Eleanor Warzoha

Mary Joe Zeillmann

Joseph Griggs

Consuelo Thomas John & Sophie Guest

Ellen Guest Isabelle Hamilton

Ann Mudd Barbara Hand

Theresa Cannon Helen & Ted Hansen

Janet & John O’Connor Georgeann Hanson SL

Linda Quintero Roberta Hardesty SL

Lynn Fischer Catherine Hart

Kay & LeRoy Ellgass Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Haydon, Jr

Haydon Oil of

Springfield Inc. Marie Noël Hebert SL

James Hebert

Edith Ann Jaeger SL

Darlene Doering Lucy Marie Janes SL

Katie & Patrick Mahoney Joan Jarrell

The Loretto Community Mr. & Mrs. K. R. Jensen

Joy Jensen SL Marina Trujillo Johnson

Richard Johnson Teresa Leahey Johnson

Marian Pfeiffer Kan Mr. & Mrs. N. K. Kan

Juliana & Peter Kan Mildred Josephine O’Leary Katemopoulos

Kristine Kimura Margaret & James Keane

Margaret E. Keane Rosemary Keegan SL

Margie & Allen Keegan

Viola Golden

Dorothy Rae Archer

Eileen Marie Heckman SL

Virginia & Patrick McGrail

Eileen Kelly SL

Michael Curtis

Rita Kennedy Hill

John Golla

Helen Teter

Rose Henry Higdon SL

Thomas Freeman &

Douglas Klocke

Francis Eileen Kelly SL

Michael Curtis

Rita Kennedy Hill

Clare & Earl Highland

Mary & Joseph Highland

Rose Denise Kelly SL

Patricia & Larry Lanners

Marie Patrice Hoare SL

Mary Gail & Thomas

Horan

Marita Kenney

The Loretto Community

Frances & J.A. Gomez

Sylvia Gomez Sexton Yolanda Graham

The Loretto Community Annie Green

Catherine Green

Loretta Holcomb

Ronald Gutzwiller

Rob Klingen

Rita Klingen

John (Jack) Knapp

Betty Knapp Gene Kratschmer

Patricia Kratschmer Keith Krause

Kelly Darby Margaret A. Lally

Martin Lally Abby Marie Lanners

Larry Patricia Lanners Lawler & Keenan Families

Rose Mary Keenan Edmond & Winifred Leach

Carol A. Selig Gilbert L. Lederhos

Thelma May Lederhos Mary Leibman*

Francis Hopp Teresa Li

Juliana & Peter Kan Rose Annette Liddell SL

Janel Crumb OSF*

Gerry Prus Paschalita Linehan SL

Louise Berezny

Katherine Carley

Mary C. Cernicek

Kathy & Tim Farrell

Julie McGrenera-Morley

Karen & Stanley Walton Alma Linnebur

Beth Ann Linnebur All deceased members of Class of 1950, Loretto Academy, El Paso, Texas

Gloria Tabacchi All the Sisters of Loretto who taught me

Verlene D. Rogalin All the Sisters of Loretto who taught me at Webster College, St. Louis

Margaret Hayes

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The beautiful Sisters of Loretto who taught at Loretto Heights College, Denver

Ellen Fassbender For all the Sisters of Loretto who have gone before us

Jo Ann* & Larry* Purcell For the wonderful and beautiful nuns from Santa Fe, N.M.

Marion Cusack Vonnegut,

Class of 1948 Loretto Academy, Kansas City, 1964 Classmates

Diane Boos Sisters of Loretto who taught at St. Ann’s in Arlington, Va.

Kathy & Charles Titterton Sisters of Loretto who taught at St. Augustine School, Lebanon, Ky.

Frances Pauline Mattingly Sisters of Loretto who taught in Sterling, Ill.

Catherine & David Rock The Sisters of Loretto who taught me at St. Peter’s School, Rockford, Ill., 1949-1954

David D. Gill Alice Ann Love*

Joy & Roman Gales Mary Thadeus Luepke SL

Margaret & Louis Luepke Eddie Lujan

Esther Lujan Vigil Dorothy Lusser

Rene Lusser Karen Madden SL

Rosemary Leberer

Ruth Marie Wicks Loretto Ann Madden

Rosemary Leberer Theresa Madden SL

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Mary Mangan SL

Richard Fox

Dorothy Hitt

Marie Markowski Ann Manganaro SL

Mary Ann Phillips Marasco, Newton & Teter Families

Helen Teter

Robert Morris

Patricia Morris Ann Mueller SL

Linda & Bob Mueller Jane Frances Mueller SL

Linda & Bob Mueller Charles Mulhall

Alice Mulhall

Josephine Orlando Marino

Susan & Vincent Marino

Consuelo Rael Murphy

Maria Rael

Quino Martinez

Mary Martinez

Marie Clyde Murphy SL

Katie & Patrick Mahoney

Mary Marjorie McDonald

Mary & Jerry Shimel

Albina Martowlos SL, and all her heavenly cats

Nancy Luger H. B. Mattingly

Sandra McClure Helen Mazzoli

Colette Hughes Dumstorf Susan & Gerald McAuliffe

Mary McAuliffe SL Edwin Mary McBride SL

Susan & Christopher

Congalton

Margaret Couvillon

Veronica Ann Murphy*

Dolores A. Ferrell Margaret Nockels

Sherry & Dave Nockels Robert F. Noe

Vicki Noe & John Chikow Lois Elliott O’Connor

James O’Connor

Jo Anne Rickard Genevieve & Howard O’Hara

Ann & Michael O’Hara

Sally McCabe

Peggy & Michael Dunn

Timothy P. O’Leary

Katrina O’Leary

Sheila Marie McCormick SL

Mary Uhlenbrock

Thomas O’Malley, brother to Kathleen O’Malley SL

The Loretto Community

Vic L. Mendoza

Cecilia & Armando Mata Howard & Ozella Meredith

Theresa & Dennis Vertrees Bill Minelli

Sally Minelli Jane Fitzsimmons Molgaard

Allan Molgaard Mary Ellen Blank Molgaard

Allan Molgaard Virginia H. Moran

Mary Moran Collier

Naomi O’Meara SL

Judy & Robert Allan Mary K. O’Nan

Betty Carol & Louis Barber

Rita & Rick Greenwell

Thomas Hamilton

June Schlesinger

Peggy & Paul Schlesinger Ruth Mary Olszewski SL

Cece & Bob Holt

Edward Olszewski Linda Lupario Olwell

Grainne M. Beary

Anna & Delphine Bertolotti

Thomas L. Braje

Joan & John Camisa Maria & Frances Camisa Linda & Ralph Catalano Marguerite M. Corcoran Pamela & Ronald Crampton Jean & Paul Flanagan Gail & Paul Fraser The Galioto Family Nancy & David Gallagher John Glang Patricia & Greg Hagey Judith & Gary Hellman Jerry & Peter Hurtabise Catherine Huston Janet Jones & Family Mary Helen Kane Barbara & Thomas Keefer Patricia Kellogg Nora & John Kelly Peter J. Lupario Louise & Richard Nelson Marilyn Norton Rosemary & Ralph Osterling Yvonne & Tae Paik Helene & John Quilici The Russo Family Marian & Werner Schmidt Dave & Ann Marie Smith Karen & Don Stangel Lisa & Michael Stead Teresa & Brenton Sumrall The Tedone Family Barbara & Victor Varesco Harriet Weissman

Hilda & Victor Orsinger

Mary Orsinger Hall Aurelia Ottersbach SL

Carol Mattingly

Mary Kay Ottersbach Mary Ethelbert Owens SL

Julia Gonzales Joseph B. Pawley

Barbara Clark Pawley Lucille H. Phelan

Thomas Phelan Anna Marie Plowman SL

Sally Smith Agnes Marie Plumb SL

Edwina Gartner Pam Potter

Peggy & Michael Dunn

gifts

Victoria Quatmann SL

Aidea & Robert Sluyter

Toni Walters John C. Radovich

Carol Radovich Jean Louise Rafferty SL

Sandra & Galen Graham

Sarah & Antonio Jimenez Frances Ratermann and the deceased members of Class of 1950, Loretto Academy, El Paso, Texas

Gloria Tabacchi Lucy Ruth Rawe SL

Doris Beuttenmuller Pauline & Johnie Reed

Pat Reed Jane Reich

Peggy & Michael Dunn Anne Ferras Remedios

Vincent Remedios Ellen Thomas Reynolds SL

Loretto & William Peterson Leo Marie Reynolds SL

Loretto & William Peterson Jane Marie Richardson SL

The Loretto Community

Helen Walsh*

Wanda Walters Mary Hauber Rieger

Frank Rieger Albertina Riordan SL

Marguerite Allan Alma & Maruis Risley

Christine & David Wagner Francis Louise Ritter SL

Alison Chen

Caroline Hasegawa

Lilly Huppert

Claire & Jerome Nix

Betty & Francis Southall Betty & Ruben Rodriquez, my parents who sent me to Loretto schools

Heloise Murray

Bernard Rogers

Vernell Rogers

Jim S. Stokman

Jane Fassel

Maria Tong

Juliana & Peter Kan

Margaret & Carl Rogers

Mary Ann & Gayle Rogers

Donnie Stortz

Hilda Stortz

Mr. & Mrs. S. S. Tong

Juliana & Peter Kan

Antonia Roig

Maria Codinach

Martha R. Stump

Lenore Martinez Alarid

Emmanuel Tonne SL

Sue Fenwick

Ida Romero

Bernadette & Roger Seick

Richard & Gloria Sullivan

Anonymous

Mary Troutman

Angela & Jerome Booth

Melissa Rourke SL

Bruce Normile

Eloise Summers

Mary Frances & Robert

Tapscot

Rosina Trujillo

Barbara Lopez Martin

Ann Lucille Ryan SL

Joan & Paul Sheffer Richard Salsbury

Estela Salsbury Leonora Mary Schierman SL

Rene Lusser Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Schmidt

Regina Schmidt Rosemary McBride Schwartz

The Loretto Community Roque & Martina Sedillo

Jeanette & Orlando Sedillo Ann Rita Sheahen SL

Kay & LeRoy Ellgass Charles Shelton SJ

The Loretto Community Lola May Shirley

Rose & Larry Bradley Mary Silva

Janet Gross Magdalen Mary Skees SL

Sheila O’Donnell-Schuster Helen & George Smith

Sally Minelli Rose Cecily St. Clair SL

Bruce Normile Dick Standiford

Betty Standiford Doris & Frotscher Steckler

Marie Lourde Steckler SL

Ann Woodward Sushinski

Nadine & Peter Kuhns Susan Swain SL

Charles & Theresa Arbogast

Kathy & Tim Farrell Marjorie Hanson Sweeney

Francis X. Sweeney Mary Jean Tenhaeff SL

Nancy Wilkins Jeanne Sward Thebado

Charlotte Kilpatrick Delphine Marie Thomas SL

Rosanne Gordon Regina Ann Thomas SL

Joseph Hafner Ruby Thomas

Betty & Ray Decker

Aileen Van Der Beck, Loretto Academy, St. Louis, Class of 1950

Ann E. Mullally Samuel Vandover

James & Sueann Billimack

Steven & Victoria Billimack

Central Dupage Hospital

Medical Staff

Marilyn & Joseph Chambers

County Beverage Co.,Inc.

Nancy & David Danis

Tim Deutschmann,

Tom Doyle, Jeff Welker

and the Region 5 Office

of Anheuser-Busch

Michael Heidenry

Melissa & Jacob Houston

Mary & John Klos

The Loretto Community

Pediatric Health

Associates, Ltd.

Cricket & John Vandover

Christine Thompson SL

Rev. Msgr. Leo Horrigan

Maruela & Manuel Vasquez

Mary Lou & Joseph

Vasquez

Lucy Thompson SL

Betty Knapp

Virginia Vobejda*

The Loretto Community

Alice Eugene Tighe SL

Phyllis & Phillip Fellin

Paula & Alfred Frey

Elizabeth & William

Mariner

Gwendolyn Peiper

Linda & Charles Winston

Walter Voga

Alyssa laia & John Carr

Mary Luke Tobin SL

Ann Wall Richards

Lucia Guzman

Ruth Marie Wicks

Harry W. Vogler

Teresa Vogler Bernie Voss

Marianne Burnes Ann Patrice Wagner SL

Ann Stoddard

Spring 2014 • 21

gifts

Memorials continued from p. 21

Andrew Walker

Denise Ann Clifford SL Austin Walker

Denise Ann Clifford SL Charles Maureen Walker SL

The Loretto Community Ann Patrick Ware SL

Kathleen & Patrick Jordan Jacqueline Grennan-Wexler*

Sue Brock

Rita Burrows

Joan & Charles Grennan

Mary Uhlenbrock Wheatley Family Members

Mary Myers Ann White SL

Melissa & William Gunter

Rose Marie Hayden

The Loretto Community

Kimberly Osborne

Bertha M. Timmel

Helen Walsh*

Dave & Inez White George G. White

Janyce White Angel Elizabeth Wiehe

Madelaine & Henry Kelly Jane Wilcox SL

Laura Henderson Rosemary Wilcox SL

Mary & Jim Bruce Georgia Williams SL

Patsy & Woods Martin Marita Woodruff*

Dolores A. Ferrell

Barbara & John Finch

The Loretto Community

Joan Metro Martha Wright

The Loretto Community Trinidad, Joseph, Lolita & Desiderio Ybarra

Mary & John Ybarra

22 • Loretto Magazine

In Honor of: Requested by: Pauline Albin SL

Ann Mary Mehling

Shirley & Norbert Logsdon Martha Alderson*

Maureen Flanigan* &

Brad Buckner Marianne Alpers

Patrick Alpers Lupe Arciniega SL

Carol & Joe Mattingly Sandra Ardoyno SL

William McAtee

Emily O’Neill Imelda E. Baca

Luciano R. Baca Judith Baenen*

Maureen Flanigan* &

Brad Buckner Barbara Ann Barbato SL

Doris Beuttenmuller

Richard Fox Adeena Bila

Steve Sheridan, grand father Amara Bila

Steve Sheridan, grand father Binghamton Plastic Surgery

Cecilia & Armando Mata Mary Beth Boesen SL

Rita Don Mary Kay Brannan SL

Maureen Flanigan* &

Brad Buckner

Debra & Richard Angell Mary Peter Bruce SL

Joan Boyle Rita Bruegenhagen SL

Yolanda & Charles Butler Frances A. Candlin

Kathleen Whitson Denise Ann Clifford SL

Margaret Andrasko

Emily and Trey Burke

Maureen Flanigan* &

Brad Buckner

Meredith & Michael Rice

Nina & Terry Roberts Elizabeth Ann Compton SL

Diane Nelson Lee Connolly SL

Susan Murray &

Michael Telvin

Dottie Wilcox

Mary Helen Coughlin

Peggy & Michael Dunn Mary Ann Coyle SL

Dorothy & Richard

Campbell Eleanor Craig SL

Mary Hargadon Martha Crawley*

Maureen Flanigan* &

Brad Buckner

Theresa Kinealy*

Jeanne Orrben*

Jo Ann* & Larry* Purcell Mary Ann Cunningham SL

Sue Anderson

Sally Smith Beth Ketterer Daniele

Sheila O’Brien Micah Daniels & Family

Sally Minelli Chad Darby

Kelly Darby Debra Darby

Kelly Darby Everett Darby

Kelly Darby Jack Darby

Kelly Darby Sarah Darby

Kelly Darby Donna Day SL

Dorothy Rae Archer

Susan & Dennis Cuddihee Antoinette Doyle SL

Susan & Christopher

Congalton

Barbara Gene Fitzpatrick

Cathi A. Kraus Jeanne Dueber SL

JoAnne & William Fogarty Marie Ego SL

Nancy & John Colvin

Cornelia R. Dietz

Jean Ivancic

Tess Malumphy

Argentina Parker

Joan Risley &

James Douthit

Ann Salter Jason Elder & Family

Sally Minelli Maureen Fiedler SL

Eileen Burgess

Irene J. Fitch

Kenneth Fitch &

Lee Giacoletto Maureen Flanigan*

Jo Ann* & Larry* Purcell

Jeanne Orrben* Mary & Ethan Fonte

Virginia & Patrick McGrail Ann Gohl SL

Mary & Patrick Peebles Marietta Goy SL

Mark Hinueber

Amy & Susan McCarthy Jeannine Gramick SL

Frank DeBernardo

Rosemary &

James Jepson

Joan O’Neill

Ryan Ignatius Pratt

Merton Preston

Mary Beth & Richard Rock Mary Katherine Hammett SL

Lois & John Hammett

Marilyn Montenegro Marjorie Crews Hausman

Jane & Norbert Hummel Gloria F. Herrera

The Loretto Community Gabriel Mary Hoare SL

Barbara Buettner

Mary Gail & Thomas

Horan Margaret Ann Hummel SL

Ann Hummel

Jennifer & Joseph P.

Hummel Patricia Hummel SL

Ann Hummel

Jane & Norbert Hummel

Jennifer & Joseph P.

Hummel Cecily Jones SL

Mary & Joseph Highland

Helen A. Jones

Emily O’Neill

Betty Standiford

Ruth Marie Wicks Sharon Kassing SL

Nina Bryans Eileen Kersgieter SL

Regina & Steve Hermann

gifts

Beatrice Klebba SL

Irene Bugdalski

Justine & James Douglas Kim Klein*

Sherry Simmons,

Northern California

Community Loan Fund Alan Klingen

Rita Klingen Margaret Rose Knoll SL

Janet Ballard Anna Koop SL

Arthur Carbonell, Jr. Jane Kosters*

Karen & Tom Gross All the Sisters of Loretto

Consuelo Thomas All the Sisters of Loretto who taught me

Verlene D. Rogalin All the Sisters of Loretto who taught me at Webster College

Margaret Hayes The beautiful Sisters of Loretto who taught at Loretto Heights College, Denver.

Ellen Fassbender The Sisters of Loretto

Bronwyn C. Young The Sisters of Loretto, Nerinx, Ky.

Judith Cooke &

Michael Sewell The Sisters of Loretto at St. Mary’s Academy

Linda Beaven The Sisters of Loretto who taught at St. Ann’s in Arlington, Va.

Kathy & Charles Titterton The Sisters of Loretto who taught at St. Augustine School, Lebanon, Ky.

Frances Pauline Mattingly The Sisters of Loretto who taught in Sterling, Ill.

Catherine & David Rock

Tom Sullivan

Mary Frances Lottes SL

Elizabeth Lottes Barry

& Arthur Lottes Patricia Jean Manion SL

Theora Lechner Evans

Rosemary Mason

Patricia Owen

Rae Marie Taylor Imelda Therese Marquez SL

Cecilia Hernandez

Linda & William Spollen Gabriel Mason SL

Frances Candlin

Rosemarie Voelker Marian McAvoy SL

Sue & Louis McAvoy

Rosemarie Voelker Maureen McCormack SL

Fran & John Lewis

Kathy & Michael Riordan

Maureen Flanigan*

& Brad Buckner Patricia McCormick SL

Marilyn Sue Morris

Mary Uhlenbrock Stormy Hausman McDonald

Fran & John Lewis Mary Ellen McElroy SL

Maureen Flanigan*

& Brad Buckner

Patrick McElroy Dinah McMichael

Theresa Cannon Elizabeth McWilliams SL

Amanda Scholz Heather & Mary Jo Moana

Mary & Joseph Highland Allan Molgaard

The Loretto Community Kathleen Mortensen

Kelly Darby Mary Louise Murphy*

Mary Louise Tidwell Angela Murphy SL

Mary Ann &

Walt Schaecher

Rozella Niehaus

Patricia Hughes* The Nockels Family

Sherry & Save Nockels Robert Nugen

Ryan Ignatius Pratt Maureen O’Connell SL

Mary Hargadon Rosalie Marie Phillips SL

Mary & Thomas Stauder

Ray Stevison & Family Ryan Ignatius Pratt

The Loretto Community Elaine Prevallet SL

Dale Coski & Alice Fritz

Patricia Owen

Rae Marie Taylor Daria Profaizer & Family

Emma & George Steen Elfi & Sandro Profaizer & Family

Emma & George Steen Mary Catherine Rabbitt SL

Dennis Rabbitt Alicia Ramirez SL

Therese & John Frey Marie Joann Rekart SL

Maryjo & John Pritz

Maureen Flanigan* &

Brad Buckner Helen Ann Reynolds SL

James O’Connor Lisa Reynolds*

Maureen Flanigan* &

Brad Buckner Ruth Routten*

Maureen Flanigan* &

Brad Buckner

Jeanne Orrben*

Jo Ann* & Larry* Purcell

Theresa Kinealy* Anthony Mary Sartorius SL

Virginia St-Cyr Ryan & Christopher Schiavo

Debra & Paul Schiavo Barbara Schulte SL

Natalie Blecher

Lynn & Nick Davis

Agnes Ann Schum SL

Eleanor Begley

Dugan McGinley Janis Sedillo

Jeanette & Orlando

Sedillo Sylvia Sedillo SL

Jeanette & Orlando

Sedillo Cathy Smith SL

Sally Smith Joan Spero SL

Maureen Flanigan* &

Brad Buckner Marlene Spero SL

Natalie Blecher

Lynn & Nick Davis

Maureen Flanigan* &

Brad Buckner Denise & Jason Steckler

Marie Lourde Steckler SL Judy & Sandy Steckler

Marie Lourde Steckler SL Mary Swain SL

Thomas Freeman &

Douglas Klocke Mary Concetta Torrillo SL, 90th Birthday

Marie & George Wehrle Trinity Catholic High School

Dolores A. Ferrell Karla & Allen Tye

Marie Lourde Steckler SL United Nation’s Mission

Patricia McCormick SL Mary Louise Vandover SL

Dana & John Vandover Lucy D. Walsh*

Sarah Walsh Barbara Wander*

Dr. & Mrs. Charles Fischer Ann White SL

Inez & John David White Mary Ann Zgiet

Victor Zgiet

Spring 2014 • 23

Loretto Magazine

NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID ST. LOUIS, MO PERMIT NO. 2816

590 E. Lockwood St. Louis, MO 63119-3279

Address Service Requested

The Sisters of Loretto 19th Annual Golf Tournament In memory of Tournament Founder Sister Aline Dalton SL

Saturday, August 23, 2014 Arrowhead Golf Club at Roxorough Park 10850 W. Sundown Trail, Littleton, CO 80125

We are looking for golfers, sponsors, donors & volunteers!

You don’t need to live in Colorado to participate!

NEW THIS YEAR! Consider sponsoring a golf hole in Memory of or to Honor a Sister of Loretto.

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