Ursulines Alive Winter 2020

Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph Proclaiming Jesus through Education and Christian Formation

Answering questions about Ursuline Sisters Sisters who are sisters!

Sister Cheryl joins Retreat Center staff Bless You, Donors

Winter 2020

Issue No. 53

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From our Congregational Leader Dear Friends, In this issue of Ursulines Alive you will get some information about our history of Mount Saint Joseph.

In four years, we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of Mount Saint Joseph. So many people have been involved in the Mount over the years beginning with Father Paul Joseph Volk and the first five Sisters who came here in 1874. They accomplished some Sister Amelia marvelous things during those times.

Mother Aloysius Willett became the first superior of the new autonomous community in 1912. Those first years were filled with many difficulties including the flu epidemic of 1918.

They made it through the difficult times and our Sisters traveled to many states to educate and spread the Gospel. We are still serving in many of those ministries.

Today we are facing the Covid-19 virus just over 100 years after the flu epidemic. It is causing much concern for all of us. We pray every day for you and your families and friends. Some of you have lost loved ones to the virus. We know that these days are very hard for you. Let us all pray for those who have died and also pray for those who Mother Aloysius in 1882 are trying to find vaccines and drugs that will help those who contract the disease. Let us remember that God is with us.

May God bless you and all you love, Sister Amelia Stenger, OSU, Congregational Leader COVER: The shrine of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux on campus is captured on a cold winter day in January 2018. The plaque above her reads: “This shrine was erected by the Class of 1932 – Mary Callista Murphy - Mary Alice Tinker – Mary Catherine Hardesty – Beatrice Russell – Nora Spalding in fulfillment of a promise made to the Little Flower of Jesus for the recovery of Mother M. Agnes O’Flynn. Dedicated on the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, July 18, 1932.” Mother Mary Agnes died in 1947.

SISTERS: Several Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph gathered in the Motherhouse Chapel during the 2019 Jubilee celebration. Four were celebrating their 40th year of religious life: Sister Larraine Lauter, Sister Alicia Coomes, Sister Rebecca White, and Sister Mary McDermott. The Sisters pictured are, left to right: Sister Larraine, Sister Martha Keller, Sister Alicia, Sister Michele Ann Intravia, Sister Rebecca, Sister Stephany Nelson, Sister Mary, Sister Dianna Ortiz, Sister Carol Shively, and Sister Monica Seaton.

Ursulines Alive is published by the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, Maple Mount, Ky. Three issues are published each calendar year.

EDITORS: Director of Mission Advancement/Communications...... Dan Heckel, OSUA

Communications Specialist/Graphic Design.................... Jennifer Kaminski, OSUA MISSION ADVANCEMENT STAFF:

Communications and Development Specialist............... Maggie Hatfield

Coordinator of Ursuline Partnerships............................. Doreen Abbott, OSUA

Director of Development................................................ Carol Braden-Clarke

Mission Advancement Assistant..................................... Sister Mary McDermott, OSU

Contributing Writer......................................................... Sister Ruth Gehres, OSU

Contributing Writer......................................................... Sister Marietta Wethington, OSU 2

INDEX Answers to Ursuline questions.............. 3-5 Sisters who are Sisters............................ 6-7 Soli deo Gloria........................................... 8 Obituaries.................................................. 8 Powerhouse of Prayer............................... 9 Sister Jacinta in Mexico...................... 10-11 Answers to Vocation questions.............. 11 Sister Spotlight........................................ 11 Sister Cheryl coming to Center............... 12 Retreat Center......................................... 13 Donor Spotlight....................................... 14 Thank you, Donors............................. 15-19 Mother Aloysius Remembrance ............ 20

OUR MISSION We, the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, sustained by prayer and vowed life in community, proclaim Jesus through education and Christian formation in the spirit of our founder, Saint Angela Merici.

OUR CORE VALUES • • • • •

Prayer Service Empowerment Justice Contemplative Presence ...In the spirit of Saint Angela Merici

CONTACT US Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph 8001 Cummings Road Maple Mount, Kentucky 42356 270-229-4103 Fax: 270-229-4953 info.msj@maplemount.org www.ursulinesmsj.org

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Answering questions you may have about the Ursuline Sisters

By Dan Heckel, Mount Saint Joseph Staff

The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph got their start in Maple Mount 146 years ago, but to those who don’t interact with the Sisters often, their lives can still seem to be a bit of a mystery. This article attempts to answer some common questions people often have about the Ursuline Sisters.

I’ve met an Ursuline Sister, is she Q. Ifsomeone who calls Maple Mount home?

Perhaps, but not always. Only the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph call Maple A. Mount their home. They are one of seven independent Ursuline communities in the United States. The others are in Louisville and five locations in Ohio – Cincinnati, Brown County, Toledo, Youngstown and Cleveland. There are other Ursuline communities in the United States that are part of the Roman Union, which are organized with more centralized leadership in various provinces around the country.

These communities of Sisters – along with Sisters in Canada and Mexico – are members of the North American Ursuline Leadership Conference. They gather every three years for an Ursuline Convocation to share prayer and educate each other on how their ministries serve the kingdom of God. The Ursuline Sisters began in Brescia, Italy, and there are still many Ursuline communities across the globe.

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Are all the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph retired? Do they all live in Maple Mount?

not. One-third of the community A. Definitely is missioned in active ministry away from

the Motherhouse. Another 16 Sisters have full-time ministries at the Motherhouse, and of the remaining Sisters, all those who are able assist in various ways in Maple Mount to help the community in its daily needs.

The Sisters gather for morning and evening prayers, and attend Mass every day except Saturday, so there is always a need for Sisters to help coordinate the liturgy. The Sisters serve as health care surrogates for each other, offer transportation when needed, decorate the chapel for special days and serve on various committees to help further their mission.

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Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph gather around one of the display tables at the 2019 North American Ursuline Convocation in St. Louis. The books on the table were about Ursulines serving in China. Every three years, Ursuline communities from the United States, Canada and Mexico gather for fellowship and prayer. From left are Sisters Pam Mueller, Elaine Burke, Nancy Murphy, Ruth Gehres, Marcella Schrant and Mary Henning.

Q. Since becoming an independent community 108 years ago, the Ursuline Sisters have served A. in 15 states, plus Washington, D.C., and in Chile,

Do Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph just serve in Kentucky?

South America. The Sisters served 100 years in New Mexico, and 86 years in Nebraska. Next year will be 100 years of service in Missouri.

Today, the Sisters serve in Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, Washington, D.C., and in Mexico and Chile.

does it mean to be an “independent” Q. What community?

The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph A. arrived in what is now Maple Mount in 1874. They were members of the Ursuline Sisters

of Louisville, but as their numbers grew in western Kentucky, they eventually received approval from Rome in 1912 to become their own community. Being an independent community means that the Sisters make their decisions locally at the Motherhouse – they elect their own leadership, are responsible for supporting themselves and do not need to seek outside permissions for most decisions. The vows the Sisters profess do involve permissions from Rome, but most decisions are made locally.

Sister Mimi Ballard, left, assists with a weaving class at Casa Ursulina in Chile. The women attend classes and are taught skills to become more selfsufficient.

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Ursuline Sisters who are graduates of Mount Saint Joseph Academy reunite with lay alumnae each year during Alumnae Weekend. These are the musicians for Mass at the 2018 Weekend.

From left are Jennifer Speaks McGee, A70, Sister Rosemary Keough, A56, Tina Weber Smith, A74, and Carolyn Sue Cecil, A73.

Q. Isnun?there a difference between a sister and a Yes. The Ursulines are sisters, not nuns. “A A. Nun’s Life” Ministry explains the difference this way:

“A Catholic nun is a woman who lives a contemplative life in a monastery which is usually cloistered or semi-cloistered. Her ministry and prayer life are centered within and around the monastery for the good of the world. She professes the perpetual solemn vows living a life according to the evangelical counsels of poverty, celibacy, and obedience.” In Daviess County, the Passionists are an example of nuns.

“A Catholic sister is a woman who lives, ministers and prays within the world. A sister’s life is often called ‘active’ or ‘apostolic’ because she is engaged in the works of mercy and other ministries that take the Gospel to others where they are. She professes perpetual simple vows living a life according to the evangelical counsels of poverty, celibacy, and obedience.”

Q. Why do most Sisters not wear the habit?

Religious habits were created to illustrate A. the simplicity of women religious and their departure from the secular world. They also reflected

the times when they were initiated. In the 1950s, Pope Pius XII urged religious communities to update their habits to reflect their ministries. In the early 1960s, the Ursuline Sisters stopped wearing a headdress that made it difficult to see children in the classroom, or even safely cross the street.

The results of the Second Vatican Council called on women religious to update their constitutions and to return to their founders’ intentions for the community.

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Ursuline Sisters joined with Brescia University students on March 17, 2019, to make 10 no-sew fleece blankets that were donated to Burmese families and Crossroads of Hope, an emergency shelter for women and children in Owensboro, Ky. Pictured are Sister Sharon Sullivan, left, a special education professor at Brescia; Sister Mary Timothy Bland, third from left; and Sister Judith Nell Riney, center, who is serving in her 40th year as the director of the library at Brescia.

Vatican II also required, “Where valid reasons of their apostolate call for it, Religious, in conformity with the norms of their Institute, may also dress in a simple and modest manner, with an appropriate symbol, in such a way that their consecration is recognizable.”

The Ursuline founder, Saint Angela Merici, never wore a habit. She dressed simply like the ordinary women of her community whom she served. The Constitutions of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph specify, “In witness to the vowed life, our clothing is simple, modest, becoming and appropriate to the circumstances of time, place and ministry.”

The Sisters all wear a pin that signifies they are vowed Ursuline Sisters, or they may wear a modified veil and habit.

Q. Do women still become Ursuline Sisters?

Yes. In fact, Sister Stephany Nelson became A. the newest vowed member in July 2018. Sister Monica Seaton is the director of Vocation Ministry for

the Ursuline Sisters and is always happy to talk with young women and help them learn whether God is calling them to a life as women religious. If you would like to learn more, contact Sister Monica at monica. seaton@maplemount.org or 270-229-0601. (See her answers to common vocation questions on page 11.)

are the Ursuline Sisters connected to Q. How Brescia University? to assist in providing more education A. Infor1925, the Sisters who were missioned as teachers,

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Ursuline Sister Larraine Lauter, director of Water With Blessings in Louisville, with Jim Wilhite, one of the most dedicated volunteers.

Ursuline Associate Renee Schultz shares her thoughts with Ursuline Sister Mary Matthias Ward, second from left, Ursuline Sister Emma Anne Munsterman and Associate Jean Simpson during Associates and Sisters Day 2019.

the Ursuline Sisters opened the Mount Saint Joseph Junior College in Maple Mount. The college also afforded an opportunity for two years of college for lay women. In the 1940s, the Sisters began offering some college classes at St. Mary Hall, an Ursuline-owned house on West Seventh Street in Owensboro. Following passage of the GI bill at the end of World War II, Sister Mary Michael Barrow – the original dean of the Junior College Sister Mary – voiced her opinion that returning Michael Barrow servicemen would use the GI Bill to attend college, and if there were no college for them in Owensboro, they would find one elsewhere. After several years of work, the Junior College was moved to Owensboro as a four-year, coed college and renamed “Brescia,” after the Italian city where Saint Angela Merici founded the Ursuline Sisters. In the 1960s, the school added a Board of Trustees. In 1998, Brescia College became Brescia University. An Ursuline Sister served as president until 2007, and Sisters continue to serve as faculty and staff at Brescia today.

happened to Mount Saint Joseph Q. What Academy?

Opened in 1874 by the pioneer Ursulines A. in Maple Mount, the Academy served more than 1,600 graduates by the time it closed its doors

in 1983. Dwindling numbers of students and fewer Sisters to teach there led to the difficult decision to close the school. However, just a few months after it closed, the Academy was reborn as the Mount Saint Joseph Retreat Center (now the Conference and Retreat Center), which continues to serve the spiritual needs of the Diocese of Owensboro today.

Q. What is a feast day?

Every Ursuline Sister has a feast day, but there A. are as many reasons for their choices as there are saints. From the early days of the Catholic Church, men and women who entered religious life were given new names, almost always of saints. This change signified a new way of life, the way Saul’s life changed when he became Paul. A feast day is the day a Sister’s namesake saint is honored.

Q. Who are Ursuline Associates?

An Ursuline Associate is a person who wants A. to be affiliated with the mission and the spirit of the Ursuline community. He or she wants to share

in the community’s goals, ideals and challenges and also wishes to carry gospel living, as exemplified in the life of Saint Angela Merici, into his or her daily life.

Associates share prayer, celebration and hospitality with the Ursuline Community, while spreading the spirit of Saint Angela in their workplaces and environment.

you have a question about the Ursuline Q. Do Sisters? Would you like more information

about becoming a Sister or an Associate?

Perhaps you want to know how you can contribute to the mission of the Sisters?

our website at ursulinesmsj.org to learn A. Visit more. You can select “Contact us” and someone

will get back to you. You can reach us by email at info. msj@maplemount.org or phone at 270-229-4103. We post something new every day on our Facebook page: facebook.com/ursulinesmsj. Click the Subscribe link on our website to sign up for the monthly Pilgrimage emails, Prayer Requests, or the New Mount (alumnae).

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is an Ursuline tradition

By Dan Heckel, Mount Saint Joseph Staff

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hen Ursuline Sister Laurita Spalding became a novice in 1964, she entered into a strong Ursuline tradition – having a sister in the community. Her older sibling Sister Rosanne Spalding had joined three years earlier.

She knew that Sisters with siblings in the community must have come from very faith-filled families. “We were poor, but we were rich together,” Sister Laurita said of the nine Spalding children “Sister” Sisters Richard, Robertus, and Augustine Wethington sometime between 19101912.

who grew up on a farm in Springfield, Ky. “We are still close knit.” All but one of the Spalding siblings are still living.

“We prayed the rosary together every night,” Sister Rosanne said. “When the church was open, we were there.”

Since the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph became an independent community in 1912, there have always been siblings among the members. That first year, the “Sisters who are sisters” included Sisters Bernard and Columba Montgomery (aunts of current Sister Sister Mary Patrick McDonagh, left, cuts a cake along with her sister, Sister Frances McDonagh, who died in 2011. They are from Ireland and were both Ursuline Sisters of Belleville, Ill., before the merger with Mount Saint Joseph.

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Marie Montgomery), Sisters Diomede and Teresa Thomas, Sisters Clement and Celestine Cecil, and Sisters Augustine, Robertus and Mary Richard Wethington.

Today, the Spaldings are among three sets of Ursuline siblings. The others are Sisters Clarita and Marie Goretti Browning, and Sisters Paul Marie and Margaret Marie Greenwell. There are six living Sisters who had siblings in the community who have since gone to heaven.

The Spalding sisters were born 21 months apart, and were close growing up, with Sister Laurita joking that they “fought really well together.”

Despite being raised in central Kentucky with the influence of the Dominican Sisters, Sisters of Charity and Sisters of Loretto, the Spaldings both decided to join the Ursulines.

“I remember Daddy asking me on the way to the Mount, ‘Why did you choose the one so far away?’” Sister Rosanne said. “I said, ‘I guess it’s where the Lord wants me.’”

Dominican Sisters taught them in elementary school, but Ursuline Sisters taught them in high school.

They were both greatly influenced by one of their teachers, Sister Consolata Stallings.

“Sister Consolata sent me out to plant some seeds one day,” Sister Rosanne said. “She asked me if I’d ever considered becoming a Sister. I said I’d thought about it. She said, “you’re going to go on this retreat at the Mount in January.”

Sister Laurita said having a sister in the Ursulines is not what prompted her to join.

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“I knew from an early age that I wanted to be a Sister.”

The rules in Sister those days did Clarita not allow young Browning, Sisters to talk left, and Sister Marie with professed Goretti Sisters, so their Browning communication have both was limited to been Ursulines perhaps seeing for at least each other once 70 years. a month. They have never been missioned together.

Sister Rosanne was a teacher or Sister Paul principal for 21 Marie Greenwell, years and has left, and spent the past 34 Sister years as a director Margaret of religious Marie Greenwell education, with gather the last 22 years during a at Precious Christmas Blood Parish in party in 2016.

Owensboro, Ky. Sister Laurita has been a teacher for 52 years, and is now a resource teacher at Holy Name School in Henderson, Ky., where she has served since 2000.

When visiting family was allowed, having a Sister sister in the community Laurita helped with the travel Spalding, left, and plans, they said. The Sister only downside of having Rosanne a sibling in religious Spalding life is forging one’s own outside the chapel in identity.

September “People would 2020. say, ‘Oh, you’re Sister Rosanne’s sister,’” Sister Laurita said. “I’d say, ‘No, I’m Sister Laurita.’”

The Browning sisters have been carving their own identities for seven decades. Sister Clarita has been an Ursuline for 72 years and her younger sibling Sister Marie Goretti celebrated 70 years this year. They both live in Saint Joseph Villa, the long-term care facility in Maple Mount.

“I don’t know what I would do without her,” Sister Marie Goretti said. “It’s like having a friend who is a helper.”

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Sister Clarita said being able to assist her sister as her health suffered has taught her many lessons.

“I could be more selfish and less aware of people’s needs,” she said. “This keeps me aware of other people’s needs, even though I can’t do much.”

They grew up with five other siblings in Calvary, a small central Kentucky town where the Ursuline Sisters taught. Sister Clarita attended Mount Saint Joseph Academy all four years, but Sister Marie Goretti came only for her senior year. By the time Sister Marie Goretti entered the community, Sister Clarita was already on her first teaching mission.

The two never ministered together. Sister Clarita Sister Rose Theresa Johnson, left, who died in 2012, did pastoral ministry in Muhlenberg County, Ky., along with her sister, Sister Rose Karen Johnson.

They also had another sister in the community, Sister David Marie, who died in a car accident in 1977.

was a classroom teacher and then served as an instructor in the Education department at Brescia College for 22 years. Sister Marie Goretti was a teacher, but with a degree in psychology, she served as director of novices from 1970-80.

“I was at Brescia, sometimes I’d come visit for the weekend,” Sister Clarita said. “That was special. We couldn’t go home, but we had a contact with our family. We were a support to each other. We both had our difficulties at times.

We felt free to talk to each other.”

Sister Marie Goretti asked her sister to help on a trip with the novices, which offered a special insight.

“I got to know the Continued on page 9

Sister Laurita Spalding, left, and Sister Rosanne Spalding pose outside the chapel in 1964, the year Sister Laurita became a novice.

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Soli Deo Gloria

We rejoice in the gifts of our sisters, given for the kingdom of God

Sister Ruth Gehres served as a judge for this year’s first-ever achievement awards for the Communicators for Women Religious. The awards were established to recognize the important role of communicators in advancing the understanding and mission of women religious. Sister Ruth and two other judges spent time in August rating the 27 award entries to choose a winner in three categories: Electronic, Print, and Integrated Campaign. The awards were presented online on Oct. 1. CWR is an international network of more than 200 communicators representing more than 140 congregations in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Italy and Ireland. “It was an honor to be a judge for the CWR member awards program,” Sister Ruth said. “I was impressed by the excellence and enthusiasm in presentations, all of which spoke so clearly of the dedication of women religious to their life and ministries – a source of hope for women religious and the Church throughout the world!”

In the joy of eternal life SISTER ANNE MICHELLE MUDD, 79, died Aug. 11 in Leitchfield, Ky., in her 60th year of religious life. She was a native of Peonia, Ky., and a lifelong fan of Elvis Presley. She had a “can do” spirit, which served her well during 56 years as an educator. Other than Nebraska, she taught in Kentucky in Central City, Flaherty, Owensboro, and Waverly as well as St. Paul School, Leitchfield (1977-85). She taught in Knottsville and then returned to St. Paul as principal and teacher (19972013). She was serving as religion teacher at St. Paul at the time of her death. Survivors include the members of her religious community; siblings Ralph D. Mudd of Philpot, Ky., Sondra L. Gavieres of Elizabethtown, Ky., John E. Mudd and Martha Hill, both of Clarkson, Ky; and nieces and nephews. She is buried at St. Augustine Catholic Church Cemetery in Grayson Springs, Ky. SISTER DOROTHY HELBLING, 92, died Nov. 1 at the Mount Saint Joseph Motherhouse.

She was in her 73rd year of religious life. A native of St. Anthony, N.D., she was an Ursuline Sister of Belleville, Ill., before the merger of that community with Mount Saint Joseph in 2005. Sister Dorothy always had a welcoming smile for all she met. From 1975-83, she served as provincial superior of the Ursuline Sisters of Belleville. She was general superior of the community from 1983-89 and 1995-2005. Sister Dorothy taught in Illinois and in North Dakota. She was a retreat director at King’s House Retreat and Renewal Center, Belleville, 1978-86, and was on the staff of Liguori Publications in Liguori, Mo., 1993-2003. Survivors include the members of her religious community and nieces and nephews. The funeral was Nov. 4, with burial in the convent cemetery.

SISTER FRAN WILHELM, 91, died Nov. 5 at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 73rd year of religious life. She was a native of Waterflow, N.M. Ever joyful and untiring, Sister Fran began as a music teacher in New Mexico and Kentucky, then became a missionary in South America and a leader of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement in California. She was the first director of the Ursuline Associate program (1983-92) and an elected member of the Ursuline Council (1984-92). In 1993, she founded Centro Latino in Daviess County, Ky., a Hispanic ministry in which she served as director until retiring in 2018. Survivors include the members of her religious community; a sister, Lee Andriakos, of Warwick, Pa., and nieces and nephews. The funeral was Nov. 9, with burial in the convent cemetery.

SISTER HELEN LEO EBELHAR, 87, , died Nov. 10 at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 68th year of religious life. She was a native of Sorgho, Ky. Sister Helen Leo was a devoted teacher, but best known for her compassion shown to family members and her Ursuline Sisters. Sister Helen Leo was a teacher, then a principal at nine schools in Kentucky. She was sacristan at the Motherhouse (198291) and served in family ministry from 1991-2011. Survivors include the members of her religious community; five siblings, Beverly Ebelhar of Owensboro, Helen Reinstedler of Louisville, Barbara Powers (George) of Bowling Green, Patricia Mearkle (Walt) of Windsor, Conn., and Doug Ebelhar (J.J.) of Hendersonville, Tenn.; a sister-in-law, Sydney Riney Ebelhar of Owensboro; nieces and nephews. The funeral was Nov. 13 at the Motherhouse, with burial in the convent cemetery.

Memorials for Ursuline Sisters may take the form of donations to the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, 8001 Cummings Road, Maple Mount, KY 42356. Thank you.

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Sister Sara Marie uses every day to get closer to God

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here’s a shelf in Sister Sara Marie Gomez’s room at Maple Mount that features various religious items she’s received through the years.

It’s labeled “From the Land of Enchantment to the Bluegrass of Kentucky,” a reference to the New Mexico native who returned to Maple Mount in 2019.

There’s an egg from Russia that a friend gave her. There’s pottery from her sister and a statue of Jesus as the Good Shepherd.

“I’ve always liked the good shepherd, when I was growing up my dad raised sheep,” she said. Other gifts came from the children she taught during her 58 years as an Ursuline Sister.

During her prayer time, she enjoys looking at the items in her room and remembering the people who gave them to her.

Sister Sara Marie was a special education teacher in Kentucky for many years, with some years as a classroom teacher interspersed in New Mexico. In 1990, she began serving in Aztec and Farmington, N.M., as a pastoral minister, director of religious education and a religion teacher. She was the last Ursuline Sister to serve in New Mexico, where the Ursulines served for 100 years, 1919-2019.

“I think I’ve grown a lot since I’ve been here,” Sister Sara Marie

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Sister Sara Marie Gomez poses in front of religious treasures she keeps in her room at Mount Saint Joseph.

said. “God has given me another chance. I’ll try to get closer to Him. We have to take it a day at a time to work toward our eternal reward.”

Being retired at the Mount allows Sister Sara Marie to devote her time to the Powerhouse of Prayer. Having that opportunity to devote time to prayer and meditation has helped make God seem even more real to her, she said.

“The reality of who God is, what He has done for us and what He does every day,” she said. “When I’m doing too much, I don’t get in my prayers.

I feel a little down and out that I considered other things more

important than prayer and taking care of my spiritual life.”

She lived alone for many of the last years she was in New Mexico, although she had family nearby.

Now she is surrounded by other Sisters to pray with and is more apt to meditate.

“I especially enjoy Centering Prayer and Father Ray Goetz’s daily sermons. It just brings the reality of God,” she said.

“I love the Divine Mercy Chaplet a lot. God is giving us another chance at his mercy. The wording that we repeat over and over is so meaningful. I also love the mysteries of the rosary. I try to say rosaries with the people on EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network).”

She has long been inspired by the rock formations of New Mexico – Shiprock and Monument Valley – as well as the beauty of sunsets. At Maple Mount she may go outside to listen to the birds sing and feel the breeze to help feel closer to God. “I realize how much you really need to pray and to pray for those who have gone before us,” she said. “I thank God for being in the religious community I am.”

Friends can write to Sister Sara Marie at 8001 Cummings Road, Maple Mount, KY 42356.n

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Sisters and I got to see her in her ministry,” Sister Clarita said. “It was impressive to me that she was modeling religious life to them.”

Having sisters in the community is a family tradition for the Brownings – three of their mother’s sisters were Ursulines: Sister Mary Lawrence, Sister Mary Otho and Sister Ann Vincentia Abell. Despite that, both of the Brownings felt a need to carve their own path.

“We pray together and go to Mass together,” Sister Clarita said. “But sometimes we go half a day without

seeing each other. She has her life and I have mine.

Some sisters have been really connected. Sister Charles Asa and Sister Agnes Catherine Williams were always together. I don’t see us as that way.”

All of the other Browning siblings have gone to heaven, so Sister Clarita knows it is important for her and Sister Marie Goretti to stick together. She also realizes that other people may view them as a set.

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Ursuline Sister Jacinta Powers expected to spend the first six months of 2020 serving migrants at the Mexican border. Her year – like everyone else’s in 2020 – took an unexpected turn.

Sister Jacinta continues to serve in Matamoros, Mexico, with Global Response Management, where she expects to remain at least through December.

“I was contacted by Sister Amelia (Stenger, congregational leader) who informed me that the Leadership team was offering to allow me to stay another six months if my gifts were still needed in the camp with Global Response Management,” Sister Jacinta said.

“When I asked my jefe (‘boss’ in Spanish) he immediately assured me that I was needed.”

She travels daily from Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, where she uses her nursing skills in a mobile medical clinic to aid asylum-

Sister Jacinta puts a mask on a child. The staff supplied masks for the children during a celebration in the camp.

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seekers who are required to remain in Mexico while awaiting their hearing.

At one point, there were between 2,500 to 3,000 people in the makeshift camp, but that number has dropped significantly. The U.S. government closed immigration courts on March 18 due to Covid-19 concerns, and no hearings have happened since.

Sister Jacinta Powers, left, with another Global Response Management employee, a journalist “It is estimated to be down from England. to 650 people due to some of the people bonding together “We have the antibody tests and getting an apartment in the which indicates that if positive, the city or going to another shelter person has had the virus and has in the city, or perhaps going to a developed antibodies,” she said. different country,” Sister Jacinta “We have numerous people showing said on Oct. 27. “Plus, as people positive for these, but no severe come into Matamoros from the symptoms. Praise God! We have south of Mexico or other Central masks that we distribute to adults American countries with the desire and children and encourage all to to seek asylum in the U.S., Mexican wear them, not only at the clinic, Immigration will not allow them but any gathering. The virus is also to take shelter in the camp. In fact, present in the city of Matamoros they have placed a 10-foot wire where, like many cities in the U.S., fence topped with razor wire around the death toll is climbing.” the camp to prevent people from Sister Jacinta said her experience entering without permission. The in Matamoros at times leaves her at new asylum-seekers are forced to a loss for words, but she is happy to live on the streets or take refuge in a shanty town south of Matamoros. So that makes the number of people we are seeing in the camp and the clinic less and less as the weeks go by.”

Sister Jacinta said it has been a blessing – perhaps a miracle – that no one in the camp has gotten extremely sick from Covid despite living Sister Jacinta, fourth from the left, with staff situations where no social members of Global Response Management, some from the U.S. and others who are asylum seekers. distancing can occur.

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Sister Monica answers common questions about vocations

By Sister Monica Seaton, Director of Vocations

When the rain comes unexpectedly along the border, the staff of Global Response Management improvise with trash bags as raincoats. Sister Jacinta, back left, is joined by women who are part of the staff at the clinic who are also asylum seekers.

be serving the poor.

“As all experiences should, I pray this one transforms my heart and soul to be a more sensitive person to people who live on the fringe of society,” she said. “No matter where I will be, to go to the ‘fringe’ will be my hope! Hopefully, I have been able to help in some lives with a Band-Aid, a smile, a few more poorly pronounced words of Spanish and many prayers. I pray that I will not forget!”n

Annually, the Catholic Church devotes the first full week of November to celebrating and promoting vocations to the priesthood and consecrated religious life. It is known as National Vocation Awareness Week. One way of bringing about awareness of vocations is by answering questions. In my ministry as director of Vocations, I talk about the call to religious life with groups and individuals of all ages – from kindergarten to adult – and they all have questions concerning this way of life. Those questions come in a wide range. For example, children may ask: Do you have to go to bed at a certain time? Can you have a cell phone? Many people ask these questions: What does a Sister do all day? How do I know God is calling me?

So, let us look at the last two questions: v What does a Sister do all day? Certainly, the day begins with prayer – both personal and communal. Since the Eucharist is central to our lives, we try to attend Mass daily as our schedules allow. Our time throughout the day is spent in ministry serving the people of God in various ways such as in the classroom, in a parish, and in healthcare, to name a few. When our ministry responsibilities are finished for the day, we take time for evening prayer and activities to enjoy community life with one another. One day may be different from another but those main components of prayer and community are constants. v How do I know God is calling me? The word vocation comes from the Latin word “vocare” meaning “to call.” To hear God’s voice, we listen with our heart. It would be great if God would send us a personalized text message telling us the specific path that we are to take. Instead, we must develop and deepen a relationship with God through prayer. God also puts people in our lives who can help us to discern. A parish priest, a religious sister or brother, parents and friends are perhaps some of those people who can accompany a discerner on the journey. Every call is unique and taking these first steps can lead the person to know if God is calling them to religious life.

Do you have questions? Contact Sister Monica at 270-229-0601 or email monica.seaton@maplemount.org.

Sister Spotlight: Sister Mary Agnes VonderHaar Meet Sister Mary Agnes - A math fan who wants to walk where Jesus did Z Favorite spot at the Mount: The Chapel. “When I visit the chapel, I can go in, sit down

and be with Jesus without having to say a word.”

Z Favorite subject in school: Math. “I loved learning math because you were either right or wrong, there was no argument. I guess that’s why I ended up being a math teacher for about 20 years.”

Z What she does in her free time: She likes to play card games. “Right now, I am addicted to playing FreeCell and Solitaire on the computer.”

Z One place she would like to visit: The Holy Land. “I would love to walk where Jesus walked, to visit the places he went and to see the body of water where Jesus was baptized.”

Z Favorite holiday: Easter. “I love this day because we can rejoice in Jesus’ victory of saving each of us from eternal unrest.”

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Give Peace, Quiet and Prayer a Chance A Ministry of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph

Our mission is to offer and host programs in a rural environment of tranquility for people of all ages and faiths to nurture spiritual and personal growth, advance the arts, and promote lifelong learning.

Sister Cheryl to help bring Retreat Center to the people Ursuline Sister Cheryl Offering spiritual formation Clemons first arrived in Maple programs at the Retreat Center Mount in the summer of 1965 is a natural fit for her next to begin high school at Mount ministry.

Saint Joseph Academy. Ten “When I walk around and years later she returned to the see my (spirituality) books, I Mount as a liturgist, musician think, ‘I could do something on and a teacher at the Academy. that!’” she said. “I’d like to help Over the past few decades, people spend time with spiritual she’s led the popular annual giants.” women’s retreat at the Center The details of her role at the Sister Cheryl Clemons leads the Ursuline Motherhouse while performing her full-time Center are still being defined, retreat on “Finding God in Everything” on March 10 in ministry, usually in education. but she’ll join Maryann Joyce, the Saint Ursula Community Room.

As she begins her 51st year as a the Center director, as part of Sister in January, she will join the Center staff part time the “Mount on the Road” effort to bring programming to share her years of experience to help others grow in to the people, either in person or virtually. their inner life with God. “To have Sister Cheryl join us now is a serendipity of “I’m excited to be a part of the Center,” she said. “I the Spirit,” Joyce said. “Last January I began planning like when parts of my life come full circle.” for ‘Mount on the Road.’ I was exploring how we could Sister Cheryl has a master’s degree in serve as more of a resource for our diocese. We want theological studies from the University to be a source of spiritual formation. Sister Cheryl of Dayton and a doctorate in historical has the gifts and the skills that we need. I’m excited to theology-systematics – which deals with work together with her to create spiritual formation the doctrine of the Catholic Church programs.”

– from The Catholic University of Joyce led the first “Mount on the Road” program America. She began her career as a high earlier this year at St. Stephen Cathedral in Owensboro Sister Cheryl school teacher, then as a professor at with “12 Keys to Spirituality Vitality.” The size of that Brescia University in Owensboro – as well as some time class had to be modified due to coronavirus safety working in social justice ministry. concerns, but the pandemic has opened new avenues of Even when she was a classroom teacher, she was thinking on how the Center can serve, Joyce said. Several leading bible studies in her spare time. When she was virtual programs have been held this year, and the Center a newly professed Sister in her late 20s, Sister Marie is committed to continue online programming after the Goretti Browning, the novice director for the Ursulines, pandemic ends, she said. asked her to teach a class on the bible to the novices.

“We’ve already got a lot of programs we want to “I’ve been blessed to have so many spiritual formation develop,” Joyce said. “We want to create webinars that opportunities,” she said. “To make that accessible to individuals and parishes can purchase at affordable Catholics is something I’ve wanted to do since the prices. These would be available online 24/7 to watch 1970s.” when it is convenient. Parishes may also come to us for After nine years as academic dean and vice president a custom program. We will provide both live online of Academic Affairs at Brescia, Sister Cheryl left the programs and small group in-person programming when college in December 2019 for a sabbatical and to that becomes safe to do.” complete spiritual direction training at The West Sister Cheryl led a program on the Caryll Virginia Institute for Spirituality. She continues to work Houselander book “The Reed of God” at her parish in on completing the third and final volume of the Ursuline 2019 and has many ideas she wants to pursue.

Book of Prayer, which she expects to finish in 2021.

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From the Center Director...

What is your source of hope?

Has your hope been tested these days? I have certainly had my hope tested this year, so I was grateful to welcome Sister Melannie Svodoba to a virtual retreat based on her recent book, “Hanging onto Hope.” About 25 of us spent the better part of a weekend in early October reflecting on hope; how we can better understand it and increase this virtue in our lives.

I always thought that hope was treated with the least respect and attention when it came to the three key theological virtues of faith, hope and love. It was the one I least focused on developing, but this fall, it is one I may need the most!

Hope is the desire for good – in the future. Ultimately our hope is in God and for God, but I understand it as including all the goodness of life this side of heaven too. Sister Melannie told us that hope is not blind. It is not just optimism – it sees reality in the challenges and suffering of the times.

This got me thinking about what it is I have hope in and for.

I am grateful for these opportunities to grow and learn as I host and lead retreats. I think hope has been active in my life for a long time, I just do not think I was very aware of it.

The Retreat Center is still closed as of this writing, but I am hopeful the Center can remain a vital part of the region’s spiritual growth and vitality through the many new virtual programs we offer as well as the programs that will be ready to go on the road to your parish in 2021.

I am full of hope in a God who has the last word and takes the ashes of disasters, pandemics, disruptions, and death and creates something new and wonderful.

I have hope in God’s patience when we are selfish and divisive and nasty – for God gives us many chances to learn and repent and live in loving care with one another.

I have hope in the goodness of God’s creation and as we awaken to the essential holiness of all created things, we might live in harmony with the earth and one another.

I have hope that my grandchildren may create and live in a more equitable, just and peaceful world for all people.

I have renewed hope in a medical community working for the common good to create treatments and a vaccine for Covid-19.

I have hope that the spring will come again after what may be a long dark and scary winter; trees will turn green and flowers will bloom and we will find new ways to live humbly, justly and lovingly – with or without a pandemic.

How about you? The Ursuline Sisters and the staff here would like to hear what gives you hope? You can write to me at maryann.joyce@maplemount.org.

Maryann Joyce, Director Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center

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Maryann Joyce, Retreat Center director, welcomes participants to the second session of a Group Spiritual Direction online class in her office at the Center on Oct. 14.

She shared a prayer on her computer screen as participants tuned in from California, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Online retreats have become a new normal for the Center, which has been closed since March due to the pandemic. Some programs were rescheduled or switched to a virtual version. “Saint Angela said to respond to the signs of the time,” said Joyce. “These are new times, so we need to reach people in new ways.”

The Oct. 2-3 “Holding onto Hope” Zoom retreat brought people together from 10 different states for a presentation

by Sister Melannie Svoboda, SND, a national speaker and author of books and a blog. Three Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph and an Ursuline Associate were among those attending.

“Belonging to Love: Conversations on Living Prayer in the Spirit of Saint Angela” Thursday, Jan. 14 6:30 p.m. CST Online Zoom - No charge

Led by Sister Larraine Lauter, Director of Water with Blessings

This is a series of programs and offerings exploring ways to live in God’s abiding presence.

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Powerhouse SISTER CHERYL of Prayer From page 10

“I could do something on gestures and symbols of the Mass,” she said. “I want to integrate theology and spirituality. We can have evenings of reflection, days of spiritual direction, adult education. Anything related to the bible, women mystics and prayer. People want to pray well, but they don’t know how to move beyond traditional Catholic ways. I want to help people reclaim traditional devotions and update them.”

Taking programs to the parishes or virtually is the best way to develop new audiences for the Retreat Center, Sister Cheryl said.

“You have to build the thirst in people.

An evening of reflection, then a day, then a weekend at the parish,” she said. “When they like what you do, they can see the value of stepping away for a weekend at the Mount.”

Joyce has experience working in a parish and knows faith formation leaders are often looking for resources, which she thinks may be especially true in these challenging times.

“We think local parishes will want to come to a trusted, local and affordable resource,” she said. She shared the plan and some proposed programs with Tom Lilly, chancellor of the Diocese of Owensboro, and with Jeff Andrini, director of Evangelization and Discipleship.

Joyce is also preparing a survey for the directors of religious education in the diocese to learn what sort of programs they would like.

The proposed programming includes: • Living Mary’s “Yes” • Praying with the Saints • Life Reflections – based on Ignatian practice • How to Get to Know Jesus • Why Do Catholics Do What They Do? • Lord Teach us to Pray: Deepening Your Prayer • Women in the Bible • Meet a Mystic Series • Why the Trinity Matters • Catholics and Contemplative Prayer “Sister Cheryl and I both enjoy facilitating small-group programs,” Joyce said. “We’re open to what the parishes want and need. We will have more information for the parishes in early 2021, but any parish priest or staff member can contact me anytime about what they are interested in.”

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Academy grad gives back to Sisters

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athy Medley Hannah was looking forward to her junior year at Owensboro’s Apollo High School when her mother had other ideas.

“My mother made me come to the Mount after my sophomore year,” Hannah said. “I thought, ‘please don’t make me go to school without boys.’”

Cathy Medley It turned out her mother, Norma Jean Hannah, A’79 Fulkerson, knew what was best. She was a 1955 graduate of Mount Saint Joseph Academy and wanted her daughters to receive the same influence that the Sisters had on her. Cathy came for her junior and senior years, graduating in 1979. Her sister Juanita came her senior year, graduating in 1978. Her sister Shelly – who began playing basketball for the Academy when she was in the eighth grade – came all four years and graduated in 1982.

Cathy still gets emotional thinking about what Mount Saint Joseph and the Ursuline Sisters mean to her. She has supported the community financially for the past 18 years but made her biggest splash this September when she was the top bidder on eight of the 30 quilts the Ursuline Sisters auctioned off as part of “Escape to the Mount Weekend.”

“I’m locking them up as family heirlooms,” she said. “I’m just tickled to have any of them.”

She is a prime example of how deep connections with the Ursuline Sisters last a lifetime.

“We grew up in the shadow of the Academy. My grandfather worked at the Mount for a while – John F. ‘Rat’ Fulkerson,” she said.

Her family lived just a stone’s throw away in a house that eventually caught fire, Cathy said. The family spent four years renting space in the back of the St. Joseph Post Office until her dad built a house on Possum Trot Road. Both of her parents are deceased and are buried in the St. Alphonsus cemetery across the road from the Mount.

Sister Ruth Helen Flaherty was her most memorable teacher at the Academy. She taught drama and Latin.

“She had white hair when she taught me, but she also taught my mom, and she said Sister Ruth Helen had fiery red hair,” Cathy said. “She was feisty.” Sister Ruth Helen died in Sister Ruth 1989.

Helen Another favorite was Sister Jane Irvin Hancock, who served as a dorm mother for the girls in the Academy. Cathy wasn’t a boarding student, but to assist with her tuition, in the summer she helped clean up after the Music at Maple Mount camp. Sister Sister Jane Jane Irvin supervised her work.

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n my years of working in development, I have found it is during difficult times when people let their light shine through the darkness. That has been true this year. The generosity of people continues to amaze me.

T he light shines in the I have talked to many donors over these past months who darkness and the darkness have shared their experiences with the Ursuline Sisters and how the Sisters have affected their lives. We have experienced people has not overcome it.– increasing their gift or people giving who have not given in a few years. People -John 1:5 have shared that they bought more raffle tickets or bid more on a quilt because they know times are hard. In the conversations or the notes that accompanied gifts, there is the light that shines through that lets us all know we will get through and better days are ahead.

Thank you to everyone who believes in the mission of the Ursuline Sisters and who has generously donated to ensure the mission continues. Our work would not be possible without your support. In these difficult times we need each other, and we thank you!

Carol Braden-Clarke, Director of Development, Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph

Below are the names of our generous donors who gave gifts over the past fiscal year from July 1, 2019–June 30, 2020.

We apologize in advance if we left anyone out. Please send corrections to carol.braden-clarke@maplemount.org or call 270-229-2008.

FOUNDERS...............$25,000+ Col. (RET.) George and Sharon Barber Quentin and Patricia Fannin (Estate of Dorothy JacksonV) Sister Vivian Marie Bowles, OSU, A‘57

BENEFACTORS...$10,000-24,999 Anonymous Evelyn V. Bowles Michael E. Horn Sister Francis Louise Johnson, OSU Kevin and Cassie Stelmach Francis Dean Wayne

PATRONS..............$5,000-9,999 Timothy R. Aull Rev. J. Raymond Goetz Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Sister Clara Reid, OSUV John and Virginia Stelmach Glenn and Rachael Taylor

INVESTORS..........$2,500-4,999 David and Maggie Bollone John and Helen Cornell Thomas and Jo Anne Fiorini Robert and Mildred Gilles Joan Horan Gregory and Colleen Lang Steven and Rita Alice Patti, A’82 Saint Joseph Parish Rev. Terry Bradshaw Maxine Ann StaleyV Fund

PROVIDERS..........$1,000-2,499 Lena R. Aull Richard G. Blond Richard and Beverly Greenwell Boeckmann, A’58 Michael and Anna Boone Charles and Katherine Brown Carl and Mary Buchman Thomas and Denise Buckman Thomas F. Burns Robert J. Caspar Beverly Clemens Rebecca Collins Morris, A’71 Rev. John Deatrick Rebecca Jean Donahue Kevin A. Dunn Mary FioriniV George And Jayne Flynn Steve and Tricia Frey Vince and Joan Frey

Jacinta C. Garinger, A’47 John Genetti Joyce Lee Godfrey, A‘60 Bill R. Hampton Dr. Christopher and Mary Havelda Bernard and Catherine Thompson Hayden, A’62 Meichele Foster and Rose Hayden Kenneth and Michaelanne James Catherine Keene Carolyn Larocco Sarah Jane Lynch Joseph Trapani and Paula Matrullo Sylvia Goetz McCauley, A’66 Suzy Meinzenbach Eugene and Mary Meyer David K. Mudd James Nalley, M.D. Patrick Nash Benjamin and Sharon L. Peine Stephen G. Pello Larry and Dorothy Rainosek Brad Rives and Mary Klarer Rives David and CariAnn Rowell Carolyn Salsman Mick Seuferling Dr. Gregory A. Shondell Eric and Jo Lynn A.V Shrader James and Louanne Smith Mary Catherine Thompson, A‘61 Bertrand and Barbara Trompeter Rev. John Vaughan, Immaculate Parish Rosann Whiting John and Mary Wick John and Alma Wimsatt

SPONSORS................$500-999 Detlef and Martha Alle John and Therese Allen Jerry and Arnida Altman, A‘63 James and Margaret Alvey Evelyn K. Ambrose Donald Kapa and Monica Armstrong Patricia Baca Paul R. Bachi Catherine Imelda Beam Robert and Marilyn Beam Keith Thompson and Amy Bird Alice Ann Biscopink, A’68 Robert and Mary Braun George and Faye Briel Philip and Karie Cecil Marsha A. Coffey CRS OneSource, Steve Frey Joe and Annette Cruz, Star Paving Co. William and Joyce Dougherty Jeffrey and Margaret Ebelhar Jane FultonV Trust Dolores Furtado John and Margaret Gladbach Jacqueline Addington Glover

Leonard Golembiewski Gerald and Deborah Gonsoski Harry Groth II Dan and Pat Haake Joseph and Marie Hancock Mary Jo Harmon Joseph and Dorothy Hood Gerald and Mary Hubbs Eloise Hughes Dennis and Margaret Johnson Donna M. Jordan Marjorie Kiloh CampbellV Trust Sarah Jane Kranz, A’72 Charlie and Sue Martin Honorable Romano Mazzoli Robert and Margy McGlynn Robert and April Mitchell Judy Moeder Motherhouse Community, Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph Rev. Dan O’Sullivan, Sacred Heart Church Jim and Hallie Otto Joseph and Jeanne Passantino Joseph and Felicity Polio Thomas and Mary Riney Rev. W. Jerry Riney Brian and Rosemary Rosendale Dr. Michael and Janice Scherm Mary Schueler Pamela Payne Shepherd, A‘66 Serra Club of Kansas City, Mo. Thomas P. Shortell D.D.S. Annette K. Stoerman James P. Sullivan Ernest and Shirley Taliaferro Ann Mary Teaff Mary Lu B. Tuthill William and Betty Ulrich Thomas and Sharon Waris Christine Wolken Harold and Kathy Ford Young, A’70 Ron and Pam Ziegler

SUPPORTERS.............$250-499 Cathy Audley Rev. Tom Barrett Sister Susanne Bauer, OSU Stephen and Jean Berry Teresa Weaver and Mary A. Best Donald Bittel Edwin and Phyllis Ann Bresnik, A‘66 Russell and Connie Brooks Sister Marie Goretti Browning, OSU, A‘50 Sister Clarita Browning, OSU, A’47 Faye Carol Bruce, A‘77 Tom and Martha Bullock James J. Casaert Ed and Gloria Cecil Tom Cecil Joanne Drury Cecil, A‘67 Carolyn Sue Cecil, A‘73

Dwayne Clemons Winifred Riney Cohron, A‘69 Michael and Nancy Collins Marie Ann Collins, A‘75 Ellen Mary Condry Betty C. Culver Michael and Mary Dearing Frank and Molly Devocelle John and Lyndia Dew William and Paula S. Donahoo Mary Margaret Drury, A‘66 Richard and Isabelle Ebelhar Bobbie Edds James and Molly Egger Gary and Judy Freeman Martha Bickett Frost, A‘67 John Joseph Gallo Jr. Tony and Nancy Goetz Ross and Dianne Gomez Robert and Jennifer Grabill Rev. Robert B. Gray Carl and Maureen Greenwell Donna Hager Philip and Kimberly Ann Haire, A‘79 Jack D. Hamilton Dan and Sherri Heckel William D. Heinzig Joseph and Pam Riney Higdon, A’77 Shirley M. Hill Rev. Francis Hund Tony Koenig and Jennifer James Neil and Margaret Kallman James and Barbara Kavanagh Paul W. Keene Mary Cecilia Keith Thomas and Ann Knox Frank and Jean Koehler John and Mari Lynn Korte Judith Ann Kranz-Donley, A‘65 Harry J. Lavigne David Lechner James and Katherine Likens Anna Catherine Mattingly, A‘66 David and Mary Kay McCall Charles and Mary Jane Metzmeier Jeffrey and Madeline D. Meyer Neil and Dianne Manias Lola Marie Miles Rosemary Milton-Miano Arnold and Bettye Moody Joe and Maggie O’Bryan Larry and Melanie Odom-Groh Raymond and Laura Paul Linda W. Pennington Thuy V. Pham Kenneth and Maria Pierson Queen of the Holy Rosary Church-Wea Helman and Darlene Reid Leo and Helen Rieke Michael and Dorothy Marie Riggs, A‘72 Joe F. Roop and Anne Federlein Mary Paula Skrivan

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Saint Angela Merici Heritage Society We are deeply grateful to these persons who, in life or in death, have named our community as the recipient of a planned gift.

These generous benefactors of bequests, annuities or estate gifts are signs of faithful stewardship, providing for our mission into the future. Saint Angela Merici, bless them with prayers, as we pledge our own.

Anonymous (8) Evelyn Bowles Rev. Bernard Leo Craycroft Rev. John Deatrick Velma and John Dees Louise Fowler Gaddie, A’45 Jacinta Garinger, A’47 Wayne and Suzanne Gibbons Carl and Mollie Greenwell Msgr. George H. Hancock Don Harmon Ann Hayes Barbara Houk Deborah Pitts Joyce Mary Ann Kallross Harry Lavigne Helen and FreddieV LeBlanc BennettV and Mary Sue Ligon

Thomas and Vicki Smith Catherine Spraley James Struna Ronald and CissyV Sullivan Stephen and Nancy Summers Mary Teder Frances Kay Tichenor, A’62 James and Karen Verney Tom Wahoski Frank and Patricia Wanat Kay Whitt-Fecher Gene and Pauline Wink Alice Wondra Mary E. Ziegler

CONTRIBUTORS........$100-249 Charles and Mary Lucy Adams, A‘56 Barbara Jean Allen Dan and Claudia Anderson Phillip and Paula Annin Donald and Janice Arth Joe and Colleen Bachmeier Marlene G. Bachrach Michael G. Bansley, Brescia & Company, P.C. Marcella Bartley Dr. George and Barbara Beard William and Judy Beaven Thomas and Valerie Neel Beckert Elizabeth M. Belcher, A’65 Mary Kay Bell, Kappa Delta Phi, Gamma Sigma Chapter Mary Rita Bland, A‘67 Sharon Boone Bryan and Myrna Borders Betty Boren Eileen M. Bowling William Collins and Sarah Bowling Rev. Edward Bradley Rose Brandenburg, A’64 John and Janet Brandon Rev. Albert Bremer James and Mary Brey Miki Brierty Rick and Michele Brigham Alexandria Brockwell Joseph and Marilyn Brookman Donald and Iris Brown Robert and Rebecca Brown Margaret Knott Brown, A‘59 Ann M. Browning Alan and Linda Brugman Edward and Bernadette Bryan Bill and Sally Ann Buford, A‘64 Michael and Paula Burke Carole M. Cada Benson W. Campbell III Tim and Melody Cecil William Cecil David and Eloise Chandler

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Dr. Francis Lonsway Billy and Karla Mattingly Rev. Carl McCarthy Robert Mace Honorable Romano Mazzoli Jeanne Meeks Ruth Metschuleit CletusV and Dee Oberst Carol O’Keefe Susan J. Scott Karen Siciliano Mary Ann Smith Mary C. Thompson, A’61 Barbara and Bertrand Trompeter Mary Ziegler

BEQUESTS

Jane FultonV Trust Maxine Ann StaleyV Fund

Margaret Cimeley Joseph and Rose Clark Susan Clark Tony and Carolyn Clark Carol and Aubrey Clarke Matteo and Kathy Coco Martin Conrey Mary M. Costello, A‘65 Carol A. Coyle Rev. Joseph Kenneth Criqui Anne Flynn and Ava Crow Asuncion and Dirck Curry Barry and Sharon Curry Gerald Dalton Anita M. Davis Brenda Greenwell Deibel, A‘59 Larry and Jane Denton Clemens and Ione Deken Donald and Ruth Dickens Mary J. Dickenson, A’71 Therese Dickert Joseph and Peggy Dieterle Diane DiTucci Carolyn Downs Eddie J. Dugas Jr. Lawrence and Geraldine Durbin Dr. Susan Effertz Dr. Rosemary Emmick Catherine J. Evans Janet Sue Evans Clara Mae Evrard Sylvester and Barbara Fischer Elizabeth and Sally Fitzgerald John and Linda Fitzpatrick Frederic and Sally Floberg Ronald and Karen Flynn Billy and Patty Folk William and Jocelyn Foushee Ronald E. Franzen Theodore V. Freese Esperanza Freund Barry and Stephanie Frey George and Margaret Frey Louise Fowler Gaddie, A‘45 Robert and Maria Galles Tom and Mary Garbach Mary E. Garcia Michael and Nancy Gavin Larry G. Gepfrey Ann Elizabeth Gibbs, A’55 Shirley Hayden Gililland, A‘55 Suzanne Gochenouer Paul and Wilma Goebel William and Marcia Goetz Elaine A. Gokey Sister Sara Marie Gomez, OSU Susanna Gough Rev. Joseph T. Graffis Mary Elaine Grant Dale and Susie Gray Roger and Mary Jane Greenwell

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John A. Gregory Janet L. Griffin, A’56 Sue A. Grosdidier Josephine A. Guerrant George and Andrea Hagan Raymond Hagan Victor and Barbara Hagman William and Mary Hamilton Louis and Barbara Harbsmeier Ann Kirk Hardman, A’52 Joseph and Kim Hartlauf Matthew and Brandi Hayden D. Karen Hayden, A‘69 Richard Hayden William Hayden Rose Haynes Mary E. Heininger Dr. John and Patsy Anne Hendricks Dale and Linda Hermreck Raymond E. Hiersche Sr. Penelope Livers Hiestand, A‘61 Marvin and Monica Hildebrand Raymond and Carol Hill Wendell and Shirley Hill Leona Himmelspach Ralph and Jeanne Hines Joseph and Yolanda Hobbs Rose Hodgkins Dan and Wendy Homra George and Lorna Horishny Thomas Hosty Roy and Rebecca Houston Melvin and Beverly Howard Paul and Lois Howe Craig and Marjorie Humphrey James Hundley Philip and Mary Hurley Amanda Jacobs Ann Jacobs Joyce Janssen Raymond and Virginia Jarsulic Mark and Ann Johnson Benita Payne Jolly, A’52 Wydell and Rita Jones Anthony and Angela Kaelin Carol E. Kane Rïse Danielle Karr Julia Keller Thomas and Donna Kellerman Michele A. Kessler Paul and Beverly Keyser Fred and Frances Kirchhoff Larry and Faye Klee Joanne Klonowski Gregory and Mary M. Kratofil Dr. Arnold and June Krause Clifford and Jean Kreifels Helen Krivan Bruce and Christine Krurka Kenneth and Debbie J. Lanham Joseph and Bernadine Lawler Rose Leary Wanda Libs Mary Wempe Ligon Raymond and Shirley Lindle John and Pam J. Lombardo George and Rosaline Long Charles Easley and Louise Clarke Elden and Florence Lyon Larry and Gene Lyon Richard and Mary Lyon Joe Malone, Malone Staffing Jack and Deborah Mason Allen and Sylvia Mattingly Lu Ann Mattingly Timothy and Suzanne Mattingly Joyce Mayeresky Jerry and Paula Mayes Robert and Diane McGrew Virginia R. McKeel Kathryn McSorley Charlie and Gloria Mendoza Larry and Sue Menke Gary and Serafina Mesnier John and Cynthia Mesnier Willard and Patty Miller Beth and Mark Minotti Johnny and Mary Ann Montoya Philip and Carol Morris Gregory and Kimberly Mullican John and Barbara Muncy Alan and Linda Murphy

Donna Jean Murphy, A‘79 Mark and Roberta Musick Patrick and Cecilia Nally Jack and Mary Neal Thomas and Lucy Neal Victor and Joyce Nettle James T. Nixon William and Cheryl Noel Mary Nolan Joseph and Mary Nugent Paul and Marianne O’Connell Carol A. O’Keefe Carin Goerke Oliver Rev. Robert E. Osborne Rev. Clive Otieno James Parker Joan Zink and Jim Parker Robert and Theresa Phelps Joe and Joyce Pimple Michael and Elizabeth L. Pontarolo, A’66 Marty and Margaret Posey William and Joanne Powell Robert D. Purdy Timothy and Kathy Quigley Maria Ransdell, A’71 Joseph and Patricia Raphael Diane Ray Donald and Velma Reese Christopher and Janet Reid Greg and Lisa L. Reis John and Debbie Reiss Hal and Eleanor Renshaw Irene Rich, Peak Bros. Bar-B-Q Marcus Rivas Marianna Willett Robinson, A’60 Lawrence A. Rockers Mary Ann Rockers Keith O. Rodolph Dana and Aggie Jolly Roehrig Robert and Rosemary Runnebaum Roman Catholic Church of the Diocese of Gallup Bishop James Sean Wall Thomas and Terrence Rosner Robert and Rosemary Runnebaum Jack and Janice Ruopp John and Nancy Russo Barbara Jane Ryan Michael and Mary Sallee H. and Patricia Satterwhite Joann Sattler Edward and Connie Schickel Brenda Schinzel Mark and Eileen Schmelzel Joseph and Sandra Schmitt Joseph and Marilyn Schneller Edward C. Schnur Renee Schultz Bonnie R. Segers Bryan and Katy Sei Steve and Pam Shoulta Rev. Martin J. Siebenaler Mark and Martha Sims Paul and Julia Sims Philip and Annette Skees Donald and Dianna Skeeters Betty J. Skimehorn Robert Slack Barbara A. Smiley Bart Smith Brian and Janice Smith, Diamond Lake Resort Inc. Daniel and Debbie Smith Richard E. Soenen George and Geraldine Sohn Jacqueline M. Sommers John and Marie Spies Terry and Mary Rose Stephenson John and Phyllis Stevens Vicki M. Stogsdill Sam Story Jr. Jane Strehl Sabrina Streng Bruton Stroube Carl Edward Stukenholtz Commercial Service of Perry, Inc. Anne and William Swinford Richard and Elizabeth Szucs Paul and Carolyn Tapp Robert and Lois Tashjian Joan Teder Clifford J. Thieneman Sr. Grover and Cathy Grover Thomas

John and Rebecca Thomas Robert and Karen Thomas John Thomas IV Albert and Cloa Thompson Mary Ann Thompson Teresa B. Thompson Monica L. Thompson, A’71 Peter and Jennifer Tighe Russ and Paulette Tinder Michael and Andrea Townsend John and Pamela Tyndall Richard and Susan Ubert Ursulines of Brown County, Sister Patricia Homan Leslie and Patsy Van Meter John and Evelyn VanGoethem Rev. Darrell Venters Roger and Kelli Verzak Sylvia Viglietti Judith Virtue Donald and Laura Vohs Darryl Wallace Dr. W. Dean and Nina Walton George and Nancy Clark Walz, A’55 Theresa J. Warner Stephanie J. Warren, A’73 John and Lois Weaver Barbara A. Weidenbenner Norbert and Lorena Weidenbenner Robert C. West Thomas and Karen Wheatley Charles and Barbara Whelan Florence and Carrie Wieder Joseph and Mary Ann Payne Willett, A’72 William and Ida Willhaus Dwight and Toni Williams Michael and Patricia Wilson John and Elaine Wood John and Kathy Wright William and Shannon Wright Lester and Barbara Wuertz Mary C. Yaeger Sarah A. Ye Joseph R. Young Kathleen Young David and Sue Zimmerman Claire Zimmers Mary Rose J. Zink

FRIENDS.........................$1-99 Joseph E. Abel Charles and Marvel Adamson Gary W. Allen Jean Claire Allen, A’55 George and Della Alleven Berdette Anderson Patricia Arnett, A’72 Robert and Jennifer Atwell Betty Sue Aubin, A’44 Kenneth and Joan Aylor Charlene Bakker Louis and Betty S. Barber John and Nichola Barton Craig and Carol Bauer Laura Coomes Baughn, A‘54 Harry and Charlene Baumgarten Nels and Grace Becker Dennis and Janet Belew Lois Bell Marian Bennett Michael and Margaret Bennett Liz Elizabeth Berger, A’55 Ray and Nelda Best Barbara Bickerstaff Ronald and Beverly Bisig, A‘62 Robert and Diane Black Judy Bland Joseph and Claudine Blandford Kenneth and Virginia Blandford Carolyn Blanford David and Ann Blanford Marian E. Boone Christel G. Bouldin Diane Bowers, A’79 Joseph Bradshaw Mary Breneman James M. Brennan John and Betty Brown Robert and Phyllis Brown Steve and Shirley Reardon Brown, A’69 Lawrence and Joan Buccero

Leigh Buford Martin Bumm Joan Burke Sister Elaine Burke, OSU, A’49 Beatrice Butel Joan Fulkerson Byrne, A‘64 John and Janice Calhoun Joy E. Carlson Robert and Jan Carlton Mary Ann Clements Carr, A’72 John and Patricia Carrico Clare Carter Sharron Y. Castelan, A’68 Donald and Charlotte Cecil John and Davena Cecil Troy and Ruth Christian Denise Cimeley Joseph and Theresa A. Clark Patrick and Beth Clark Theresa Louise Mattingly Clark, A’72 George and Rose Clary Mike Coakley Edna Mae Cogswell Dave and Debbie Cole Daniel E. Coleman Lowell and Karen Collard Lawrence and Mary Conrad William Coomes Mary Ann Cox Julia F. Crago Janet Cress Marilyn Cullen Caroline Cummings Elaine Currier Emmeline Dahlem Mary T. Danhauer, A’71 Clay and Nicole Daugherty Joe and Kathleen Davis Delores E. Day Paul and Mary Dentiste Wanda DeSpain Gerald and Mary Dickerson Brother Craig A. Digmann David and Charlene Diver Siebrand and Wanda Dooper Mike and Sharon Dowdall John M. Dugan Thomas and Deborah Durbin, Hines Precision Inc Dr. James David Earnest Robert L. Eberenz Rose Mary Edlin Michael and Patricia Egan Pamela Eglinski Donald Elder Andy and Helen Elliott Helen Enright Jesse and Louella Evans Charles and Mary Fackler Albert and Carole Faltermeier Leslie M. Fansler James Coomes and Donna Favors Frank Feast Virginia Filbert John and Agnes Filburn Nelda Horn Flahardy Robert and Mary Flanagan Melvin Fleischmann, A’47 Rodney and Charlotte Ford Mike Freels Gertrude Frey John and Liz Froehlich Anna E. Gabriel Pat Gallagher Garden Villas of Lenexa Clara A. George Judith K. Gerling Kathleen Gillen Pat Gillen Margaret Goffinski Dale and Debbie Goins Scott and Leisa Gordon Roger and Anita Gossett Paul and Paula Graf Leo and Joe Ann Gray Paula Chandler Gray, A’73 Jeff and Karen Greenstreet George and Barbara Greenwell Bernice M. Gregorio Marvin and Patricia Gretencord Eugene and Jean Gruenenfelder Joseph and Mary Hall

Mary Catherine Hannah, A’79 Bill and Liz Hansen Phillip and Cecilia Harnden Robert and Debra Harris Bob and Fran Hawley Thomas and Carole Haxton David and Emmalene Hayden Gary and Macushla Hayden George and Emma Hayden James and Pamela Hayes Mark and Rita Heinz Stephen and Juliana Hellebusch Wendy Hendrickson George and Mary Kay Hengen Kevin and Michelle Hermreck Mary Beth Hill Thomas and Millie Hines Andrew and Brenda Hinton Clora Hixon Stephen and Susan Hobbs Terri and Staci Horn Fred and Jean Hornback Robert and Marylou Hoskins Kay Howa Ita Belle Howard Bobby Hughes Norbert and Jane Hummel Margaret B. Huston Jerry L. Jackson Kenneth and Judith Jackson Kevin Jackson Linda Jackson Craig and Linda Johanson Mark and Joanne Johnson John Johnston John and Maryann Joyce Bogdan and Jaimie Kaczmarek Margaret Kaiser Chris and Jennifer Kaminski Clyde and Jane D. Katzer Damian and Barbara Katzer Larry and Karen Katzer Erin Keating Kim Keenan Stephen and Linda Keene William Leslie Keene Jr. Brenda Robinson Keller, A’59 Sister Martha Keller, OSU Mary Carmelita Kelly, A’54 Carol J. Kirby Joseph and Janet Kolich Mary Ann Kollros Chris and Joyce Kormelink Clarence Richards and Marian Krausz Earl and Linda Kropp James and Deborah Kuebler Jim and Mary Kueny Tony Kuppe Mary Ann Kurz William and Judith Lawrence Barbara Lechner Troy and Mary Legel Perry and Colleen Lewis Joseph and Patsy Logsdon Rev. James Ludwikoski William and Bertha Lutz Gerald and Maria Magliano Nace and Mary Magner Richard and Patricia Maguire Salvatore and Annunciata Mantia Pedro and Martha Marin M. Katherine Martinovich Joseph and Geraldine Masterson Cindy Mattingly Eddie and Tammy Mattingly Mildred Mattingly John and Janice McCarthy Peggy McCarthy, A’56 John and Carolyn Drury McCarty, A’71 Rose McDaniel Aquino, A’59 Robert and Shirley McGeary Jerry and Linda McGrew Robert B. McMillen Jr. Timothy and Kathleen McNeary, A’67 Constance McVoy

Here I am, Lord.

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Patricia Sherron Ringswald, A’44 John B. Roark Sr. Roberta Sue Robert Mike and Elizabeth M. Rogers, A’70 Christopher and Barbara Ryan Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Rev. Robert Drury Mary E. Salmon William and Carole Caummisar Sanders, A’68 Mary Jane Sattazahn Charles and Gail Saunders George and Mary Sawyer Paul and Mari Schieber Ralph A. Schneider Dr. Gregory and Linda Schnose Elizabeth A. Schoeberle Robert and Diane Schuler Dolores Schwinghamer Robert L. Scully Robert and Diane Sheffer James and Camilla Shumaker James and Sheila Sills Brent Rowe and Elizabeth Simon Larry and Cwen Sims Philip and Annette Skees Keldon and Anne Smelley Mary F. Smith Norbert and Helen Smith Richard Smith Laurida Sobba Brother James Spooner, CSC Steve and Sandy Stahl Brett and Julie Stallings Betty Jean Stone Louis Szemethy Jr. William and Marilyn Terry Larry and Jorene Thoeming Joanne Marie Thomas, A’69 Rick and Lizann Thompson Thomas and Carolyn Thorpe Martha Tichenor Michael and Joann Toler Van Hung Tran Phyllis Thomas Troutman, A’63 Stephen J. Troutman Lina Trujillo, C’50 Cara Tuohey Linus and Deborah Tupman Patricia Turner Danney Ursery Elsie Valazquez Charlene Carl Vandeven Thomas and Kathryn Verkamp Tammy Vernon Owen and Veronica Vessels Mai P. Vu-Ha Mark and Victoria Vukcevich Gary and Linda Wahl Terry and Jeanie Wahl Joseph and Sara Wathen Francis and Ethel Watrous Tom and Jo Ann Wedbush Lucille Weidenbenner Vince and Janet Weiss John and Zena Weist John Russell Weitzel Mary Alice Wethington Sister Marietta Wethington, OSU, A’55 John and Clara Wheatley Joseph Drew Wheeler Dennis and Karen Whitaker Daniel and Susan White William and Margaret White John and Amelia Wiesner Veronica Wilhelm Carl and Katherine Williams Peggy Williams Robert Williams Mary Dell Wimsatt Edwin J. Wittman Chris and Jo Wittry James and Rita Wobker Arthur Wondra Clarence Woodall III J. Michael Word Michael and Susan Wright Agnes M. Yates Burl and Dot Youngblood Stephen and Mary Ziller Magdalene M. Zybko

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HONORS 2019 Jubilarians Honorable Romano Mazzoli 2020 Jubilarians Honorable Romano Mazzoli Vicki Stogsdill 70th Year Jubilarians Sister Elaine Burke, OSU, A’49 Sister Mimi Ballard, OSU, A’66 William Keene Jr. Sister Mary Timothy Bland, OSU Mary Bland, A’67 Arnold Borders Bryan and Myrna Borders Sister Vivian Marie Bowles, OSU, A’57 Joseph and Marilyn Brookman Joe Roop and Anne Federlein Jacqueline Glover Father J. E. Bradley Troy and Ruth Christian Sister Clarita Browning, OSU, A’47 Michael and Mary Sallee Sister Clarita Browning, OSU, A’47, and Sister Marie Goretti Browning, OSU John and Janet Brandon Sister Elaine Burke, OSU, A’49 Catherine Imelda Beam Steve and Shirley Brown, A’69 Sister Elaine Burke, OSU, A’49, and Sister Michele Intravia Larry and Melanie Odom-Groh Tommy Cecil John and Davena Cecil Mary Danhauer

Betty Culver The Evrard Family Gerald and Mary Hubbs Sandra Feast Frank Feast Sister Marie Julie Fecher, OSU Mary Kollros Kay Whitt-Fecher Sister Angela Fitzpatrick, OSU Marjorie Kiloh CampbellV Trust Sister Ruth Gehres, OSU, A’51 Louis and Shirley Palmer Sister George Mary Hagan, OSU Earl and Linda Kropp Dan O’Sullivan Marty and Margaret Posey Sister Julia Head, OSU, and Sister Judith Nell Riney, OSU Philip and Carol Morris Sister Dorothy Helbling, OSU Mark and Eileen Schmelzel Sister Martha Keller, OSU Andy and Helen Elliott Sister Marilyn Mueth, OSU David and Maggie Bollone Sister Wendelin Milton, OSUV Rosemary Milton-Miano Sister Pam Mueller, OSU, A’68 Alice Biscopink, A’68 Siebrand and Wanda Dooper Sister Pat Rhoten, OSU Leslie Fansler Sister Marcella Schrant, OSU Emmeline Dahlem John and Margaret Gladbach Sister Rita Scott, OSU Julia Crago Sister Suzanne Sims, OSU, A’66 Philip and Mary Hurley Sister Suzanne Sims, OSU, A’66, Deborah Turnage and Teresa Edwards Gertrude Frey Sister Amelia Stenger, OSU, A’67 Brother James Spooner, CSC Steve and Sandy Stahl Sister Amelia Stenger, OSU, A’67, and Sister Margaret Ann Aull, OSU Daniel and Debbie Smith Sister Mary Fides (Thompson), OSUV John and Clara Wheatley Sister Mary Agnes VonderHaar, OSU Tony Koenig and Jennifer James

MEMORIALS Sister Martha (Ament), OSU, of Paola, KansasV Greg and Lisa Reis Jean BallardV Sister Martha Keller, OSU Mollie BissmeyerV Byron and Lucy Rhoades Sister Aloise Boone, OSUV Sister Regina Boone, OSUV and Sister Joseph Angela Boone, OSUV Catherine Keene Sister Joseph Angela Boone, OSUV and Sister Rose Marita O’Bryan, OSU, A’60V Philip and Kimberly Haire, A’79 Sister Marie Theresa BremlowV John Deatrick Christine Heady BrooksV Russell and Connie Brooks Sister Mary Denise Brown, OSUV Robert and Rebecca Brown Marvin and Monica Hildebrand William BrowningV Ann Browning Pamela Cooper BurnsV Thomas Burns Sister Emma Cecilia Busam, OSUV Louis Szemethy Jr. Sister Elaine Byrne, OSUV Kim Keenan Edwin “Ned” CallahanV Bruton Stroube Carl and Katherine Williams Ann Jenkins CasparV Robert Caspar Sister Mary Jude Cecil, OSU, A’50V Charles and Mary Adams, A‘56 Alice Biscopink, A‘68 William Collins and Sarah Bowling William Cecil Denise Cimeley Margaret Cimeley Michael and Nancy Collins Betty Culver Mike Freels Clora Hixon Marta Susan Piper Steve and Pam Shoulta Robert and Diana Schuler James and Camilla Shumaker Sylvia Viglietti John and Elaine Wood Sister Mary Jude Cecil, OSU, A’50V and Sister Francis Joseph Porter, OSUV Miki Brierty Sister Mary Jude Cecil, OSU, A’50V and Sister Clara Reid, OSUV John and Therese Allen Erma Palango CoffeyV Mary Lu Tuthill Sister Kathleen Condry, OSUV Robert and Rosemary Runnebaum Sister Katherine CordellV Roy and Rebecca Houston Sister Philomena Cox, OSUV and Louis TaylorV Mary Nolan Deceased members of the Coyle and Reischman FamiliesV Carol Coyle Sister Vickie (Cravens), OSUV and Sister Renee (Monaghan), OSUV Jim and Mary Kueny Sister Darlene Denton, OSUV Robert and Debra Harris Sister Raymond (Dieckman), OSUV Frank and Molly Devocelle Sister Mary Evelyn Duvall, OSUV Leslie Fansler Marita EckhartV John and Therese Allen Paul and Paula Graf Stephen and Juliana Hellebusch Troy and Mary Legel Eric and Sara Miller Issa and Mary Pirouznia Clifford J. Thieneman Sr.

THANK YOU, DONORS! Each of you is a shining light for our Ursuline Sisters!

Kay EdwardsV John Johnston Clement Francis EggerV Clare Carter James and Molly Egger Garden Villas of Lenexa Leo and Joe Ann Gray Margaret Goffinski Wendy Hendrickson Dale and Linda Hermreck John and Pam Lombardo Thomas North Valerie Pagano Mark and Lana Petersen Marcus Rivas John and Rebecca Thomas Robert and Karen Thomas Linus and Deborah Tupman Danney Ursery Tom and Jo Ann Wedbush Robert Williams Stella FogleV Bobbie Edds Bill HaasV Teresa Weaver and Mary Best Sister Jane Hancock, OSUV Bobbie Edds Sister Jane Irvin Hancock, OSUV and Sister Jane Miriam Hancock, OSUV Marie Collins, A’75 Barbara HarbsmeierV Louis and Barbara Harbsmeier CharlesV and Pauline HaydenV Dr. Karen Hayden, A’69 Sister Charles Irene Hayden, OSUV Carole Cada Wanda DeSpain Sister Mary Sheila Higdon, OSUV Sister Frances Miriam Spalding, OSUV Sister Rose Theresa Johnson, OSUV Sister Jamesetta Knott, OSUV and Sister Mary Ethel Sims, OSUV Kenneth and Maria Pierson Bernard and Wilma HobbsV, Eddie PerdellV, Carol CurtsingerV Sister Martha Keller, OSU Wilma HobbsV Sister Martha Keller, OSU Sister Mary Bertrand (Hochstatter), OSUV Charles and Gail Saunders J. D. HollandV Sister Martha Keller, OSU Rita JacksonV Charles and Marvel Adamson Eileen Bowling Robert and Phylis Brown Virginia Filbert Jerry L. Jackson Kenneth and Judith Jackson Kevin Jackson Damian and Barbara Katzer Larry and Karen Katzer Vincent and Loretta Nastasio Laurida Sobba Theresa Warner Sister Clara Johnson, OSUV Phillip and Cecilia Harnden Wanda JonesV Sister Martha Keller, OSU Mary A. KevilV and Charlene DavisV George and Sharon Barber

Sister Mary Rudina (Rita) Klarer, OSUV Brad Rives and Mary Klarer Rives Sister Mary Mercedes Knott, OSUV and Sister Jamesetta Knott, OSUV Ronald and Karen Flynn Sister Rita Lavigne, OSUV Harry Lavigne Sister Dee Long, OSUV Gerald Dalton Judy Moeder John and Phyllis Stevens Cara Tuohey Sister Imelda Lyvers, OSUV, Sister Genevieve Pike, OSUV and Sister Mildred Barr, OSUV Theresa Warner Sister Mary Angela Matthews, OSUV George and Mary Kay Hengen Johnny and Mary Ann Montoya Steven and Rita Patti, A’82 Russ and Paulette Tinder Sister Carmelita Mattingly, OSUV and Sister Nazaria Mattingly, OSUV Catherine Imelda Beam Mary McMillenV Robert McMillen Jr. John MontgomeryV Lizzy Millay Teresa L. MorganV Kathleen Young Sister Rose Marita O’Bryan, OSU, A’60V David and Ann Blanford Richard and Beverly Boeckmann, A’58 Sacred Heart Catholic Church Joseph and Rose Clark William and Paula Donahoo Frank Feast Barbara Lechner James and Dianne Newcomb Donnie and Mary Oberst David and Trafta O’Bryan John and Mary Pickrell Rose Radzelovage Marianna Robinson, A’60 Richard Smith Francis and Ethel Watrous Ray O’Daniel Sr.V Raymond and Ann O’Daniel Sister Carolyn Marie O’Harrow, OSUV William and Marilyn Terry Rose OlingerV Virginia McKeel Dolores Schwinghamer Sister Jean Madeline Peake, OSUV Bobby Hughes Cecilia Kerperien (Peters)V Victor and Joyce Nettle John Francis “Frank” PowersV Dorothy Powers Sister Clara Reid, OSUV Anonymous Marcella Bartley Carolyn Blanford Edward and Bernadette Bryan Rose Mary Edlin Joseph and Mary Hall Fred and Jean Hornback Chris and Joyce Kormelink Richard and Patricia Maguire Larry and Dorothy Rainosek Helman and Darlene Reid Carolyn Salsman Edward and Connie Schickel Bryan and Katy Sei Martha Tichenor Judith Virtue Sister Mary Leon Riney, OSUV Thomas and Mary Riney Sister Martina Rockers, OSUV Steve and Sharon Mohler Sister Joseph Adrian Russell, OSUV and Sister Mary Russell, OSUV Daniel and Debbie Smith Sister Joseph Adrian Russell, OSUV, Sister Mary Henry Russell, OSUV and Sister Margaret Ann Aull, OSU Nicholas Angeli Anthony SaundersV Charles and Gail Saunders

Sister Magdalene Schammel, OSUV Mary Cox Joe SchmittV and Joe Schmitt Jr.V Joseph and Sandra Schmitt Olora SchneiderV Ralph Schneider Sister Helen Smith, OSUV Detlef and Martha Alle Mary Breneman Tammy Vernon Brown Edna Cogswell Ellen Condry Clara George William and Judith Lawrence David Lechner Suzy Meinzenbach Ashley Miller Sherry Newton Queen of the Holy Rosary Church- Wea, Kansas Mick Seuferling Larry and Cwen Sims James and Louanne Smith Catherine Spraley Chris and Jo Wittry James and Rita Wobker David and Sue Zimmerman StanislausV and Genevieve StelmachV John and Virginia Stelmach Marsha SullivanV James Sullivan Louis TaylorV Terry and Staci Horn Wanda Libs Sister Rosalin Thieneman, OSUV Troy and Mary Legel Greg ThomasV Maria Ransdell, A’71 Keith ToonV Sister Martha Keller, OSU Ann VaughanV Sister Martha Keller, OSU Sister VictoriaV Robert and Mary Braun Sister Joan of Arc Walz, OSUV Tony Koenig and Jennifer James Ann Denise WardV Thomas and Millie Hines Sister Dorothy Ann Whelan, OSUV and Sister Mary Emily Whelan, OSUV George and Faye Briel Geneva WhiteV Anonymous Sister Martha Keller, OSU Sister Emerentia Wiesner, OSUV Clara George Marvin and Patricia Gretencord Kevin and Michelle Hermreck Craig and Marjorie Humphrey Chris and Joyce Kormelink Elden and Florence Lyon Richard and Mary Lyon Donald and Velma Reese Mick Seuferling John and Amelia Wiesner Sister Helen WuckowitschV Eileen Bowling Bernard YatesV, Mickey YatesV and Norva LarkV Agnes Yates

CATHY

Jane Irvin was right next to her showing her how to do it.

“She expected 100 percent from you,” Cathy said. Sister Jane Irvin died in 2017.

Among the living Sisters, Cathy Sister fondly remembers Sister Catherine Marie Catherine Lauterwasser.

Marie “She was my driver’s education teacher,” she said. “She would correct me saying that and tell me it is ‘driver education.’ She went to school with my mother. She never took any (grief ) off of me. I loved her for that.”

There were 22 graduates in Cathy’s class, including several girls from foreign countries. “They were fascinating people,” she said. Her best friend was Suzanne Knott Blandford, who is married to Mark Blandford, the Mount farm manager.

Cathy’s older brother, Keith Medley, is in the music business, working for Gibson Guitar in Nashville.

Cathy followed him there when she was 21, and got a job working in a law firm for 13 years. For the past 20 years she has operated her own business, selling electrical supplies out of her home in Springfield, Tenn., about 10 miles south of the Kentucky border. Her husband, John, works in that field. They have two children, daughter Tory and son John Jr. Supporting the Ursuline Sisters comes naturally to Cathy. As thrilled as she was to buy the quilts, she was even more happy to be supporting the Sisters.

“I just love the Sisters,” she said. “This place is a part of me.”n By joining the Quilt Club, you can be a part of our mission and possibly win a quilt! With a $20 ticket, you will have 12 chances to win a handmade quilt starting April 1, 2021.

Drawings are held the first Friday of the month. Watch for a letter in the mail or watch for details on our website: ursulinesmsj.org

Ask us for memorial gift cards. Donna Hager

IN-KIND GIFTS Michael G. Bansley John and Ann Bossing Gary and Imelda Warren Cecil Celeste Cantrell Joe and Kathleen Davis Marilyn Day Domtar Paper Company, LLC Mary Ruth Clark Sister Jane Falke, OSU Tom and Joann Fiorini Elizabeth Fitzgerald Margaret Fitzgerald Sally Fitzgerald Steve and Tricia Frey Mary Garcia Rev. J. Raymond Goetz Sheila Hopkins Gravely

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Betty Hamilton B. Jay and Maggie Hatfield Sister Julia Marie Head, OSU, A‘60 Mary Heberle Raymond and Carol Hill Holy Name School Beverly Howell Amanda Jacobs Ann Jacobs Linda Jones Kimberly-Clark Faye Kirtley Mari Lynn Korte Betty Krapf Merline Long Houston and Bonnie L. Marks Ellen M. Marquart Laura Merz Sister Cecelia Joseph Olinger, OSU, A’58 Carin Goerke Oliver

Wava Oser Jo Anna Pearson Jean Person Bill and Kathy Reid Irene Reising Suzanne E. Reiss Zella A. Rowe Carolyn Salsman Brenda Schinzel Genevieve Siebert Sister Laurita Spalding, OSU Sister Rosanne Spalding, OSU Specialty Foods Group, LLC Richard and Elizabeth Szucs Joan Teder Mary Teder Cindy Thompson Kelli Verzak Sister Mary Celine Weidenbenner, OSU, A’ 62 Suzanne Cecil White Cindy Wilson

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Sisters commemorate 100th Anniversary of Mother Aloysius’ death

The Ursuline Sisters celebrated the life of Mother Aloysius (Leona) Willett on Oct. 1, the 100th anniversary of the death of their co-founder (along with Father Paul Joseph Volk) and first mother superior. Mother Aloysius led the community from 1905 until her death in 1920. She was elected the first superior following the independence of Mount Saint Joseph in 1912. She greatly expanded where the Ursulines served as teachers across Kentucky, then Indiana, Nebraska, New Mexico and Missouri. The Sisters celebrated a special Mass, with music focused on Native Americans since Mother Aloysius sent Sisters to New Mexico to open schools. The Sisters served in New Mexico for 100 years. Four of them – Sisters Marie Montgomery, Michael Ann Monaghan, Elaine Burke and Sara Marie Gomez – presented gifts at Mass.

TOP ROW: 1) The Sisters gathered in the Mother Aloysius Room to watch a virtual presentation about Water With Blessings by Sister Larraine Lauter. “When you turn on a water tap, say a prayer for the Navajo people,” she said.

2) A Mother Aloysius photo was present in the Chapel for Mass. 3) Sisters George Mary Hagan, left, Cecelia Joseph Olinger, center, and Elaine Burke enjoy treats in the Lourdes Community Room. MIDDLE ROW: 1) Sister Larraine speaks via Zoom to the Sisters.

She has been working to bring clean water to the Navajo nation since Covid-19 struck. The Navajo people are under strict quarantine. Between 30-40 percent of their 57,000 households have no running water, and some water is contaminated.

2) Mother Aloysius Items from the museum are on display outside the Archives offices. 3) Sister Nancy Liddy, left, Edward Wilson, director of Archives, and Sister Alicia Coomes, director of Local Community Life, look over the display.

BOTTOM ROW: 1) This painting by the late Sister Mary Jean Cotter hangs in the Mother Aloysius Room. Sister Mary Jean taught art at Mount Saint Joseph Academy and Junior College and Brescia College, where she chaired the art department until 1969.

Christ is born! Merry Christmas from the Ursuline Sisters