Loretto Magazine - Fall 2013

Fall 2013

Volume 55, No. 2

2013-2014 Volunteers begin their year of service living Loretto values in the wider community

LORETTO COMMUNITY

About this issue . . .

Sisters of Loretto • Co-members of Loretto

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erhaps because of Loretto’s 200th Jubilee Year in 2012 or because of longstanding efforts to “discern” how the community is changing and growing into its third century, certain questions pop up nearly every day from all quarters. “Who are we as a community today, and where are we going?”

The editorial staff at Loretto Magazine is deeply engaged in those questions and in communicating clearly the many facets of life in Loretto. Our Loretto Volunteer Program Coordinator Katie Jones, Washington, D.C., has written an excellent lead feature, page 12, that reveals a dynamic part of the organization, and one that embodies community values, vision, and mission.

The Volunteer Program brings in young, enthusiastic, committed volunteers to engage in the vital outreach work of the community. If you, our readers, want to know who and what Loretto is these days, this is a terrific place to start. Katie Jones and Claudia Calzetta SL organized Volunteer Orientation, which is a week of study and preparation at the Motherhouse. Meet the new crop of volunteers and learn about what they will be doing for the next year.

You may be surprised!

In this issue you’ll get to know Loretto’s 2013 Silver Jubilarians, who all happen to be co-members, page 7. Also you’ll learn the good news from Marie Ego SL and Pauline Albin SL on successes at the school in Akokoamong, Ghana, West Africa, that Loretto donors helped fund, page 16.

Contents Notes & News ...................................................................4 2013 Loretto Silver Jubilarians..........................................7 Loretto Volunteer Program for 2013-2014.......................12 Ghana’s Trinity Leadership Academy Update.................16 Remembrances...............................................................19 Memorials & Tributes of Honor...................................... 20 Report: Loretto’s 18th Annual Golf Fundraiser.............. 22

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.

Founded in 1812, Loretto includes 215 sisters and 214 co-members.

Co-members are those who, by mutual commitment, belong to the Loretto 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 Coordinator: Denise Ann Clifford SL Communications Director: Jean M. Schildz Editing, Layout, and Production: Carolyn Dunbar Financial Accountant: Chris Molina Special Development Projects: Lydia Peña SL Advisory Panel: Denise Ann Clifford SL Jean Schildz Rebecca Sallee-Hanson Katie Jones

On the Cover: Photo by Peg Jacobs.

Please see page 12 for specific identifications.

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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

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easonal change, with all of nature’s beauty speaking within us, echoes and reflects our own inner dynamism as we journey through life. The earth is reminding us of the changing reality in which we live. “Life’s ceaseless dynamic of change offers hope and caution simultaneously. Everything changes.” (Margaret Wheatley, “Perseverance,” p. 49) Yet as everything changes, what remains constant is the loving connection we maintain with each other and the deep sense of gratitude we feel for those who have journeyed with us so faithfully.

“Loretto Volunteers: Young Adults Living Loretto Values,” as featured in this issue of Loretto Magazine, engenders hope for the continual rebirth of the Gospel-motivated life seeded by the Loretto Community. The deep participation and contribution of benefactors to our mission activity remind us of the rhythm that enables us to reach out in ever-new ways. “Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.” (Clarissa Pinkola Estes, “Perseverance,” p. 12) As the seasoned members of the Loretto Community look to an unknown future, we invite you to continue to accompany us so that Loretto’s reach will extend further and deeper into the pain of our world. Herein lies the caution offered by that ceaseless dynamic of our life of change — we are impelled by the Gospel to “work for justice and act for peace.” (Loretto’s Constitutions, “I Am the Way,” Article 36) That constant call lies at the heart of our life’s journey in Christ.

Pearl McGivney SL Loretto President

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lthough I left my education ministry 17 years ago, the end of summer signals my body clock that a new school year is beginning. I am lured to office supply stores, mesmerized by the school supply aisles with their array of pristine planners, organizers, clever sticky notes, and new gadgets. I confess that upon finding something novel, I have to purchase it, convinced it will be the solution to my ongoing quest to get organized and be more efficient. Some things never change!

BUT . . . we live in a technological world that is constantly changing! We struggle to keep pace with the latest tech tools guaranteed to make our lives easier, do our jobs more efficiently, and keep us connected with each other instantaneously! While I am in awe and admiration of the many wonders of technology, there are some things that I hope will remain constant . . . . . . the enduring love and support of family and friends who have accompanied us on our life journey, sharing our joys, achievements, sorrows, frustrations, successes, disappointments; . . . the comforting presence of others in time of personal loss, illness, periods of loneliness; . . . the support and encouragement of trusted confidants when facing difficult decisions and major life changes; and most importantly . . . . . . the ever-present and enduring love and mercy of our God who loves us unconditionally and accepts us as we are — with our strengths and weaknesses!

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Two Sisters of Loretto and an LHC alumna receive awards for outstanding achievement

Story and photos by Carolyn Dunbar DENVER — Two Sisters of Loretto and a Loretto Heights College (LHC) graduate were honored for outstanding service and lifetime achievement July 20 at the LHC Reunion Mass and Luncheon. The awards were granted by the Spirit of Loretto (SOL) Committee, founded by another LHC alumna and faculty member, Lydia Peña SL, during her tenure with Regis University. The purpose of SOL is to keep the spirit of Loretto Heights alive at Regis.

Patricia Jean (PJ) Manion SL and Gabriel Mason SL received the Lumen Christi Award for Outstanding Faculty. Betsy H. Boyle received the Distinguished Alumna Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement and Significant Contributions to the Community.

“The Spirit of Loretto Awards, given every year since 2004, spotlight outstanding LHC alumni and former faculty and staff

in recognition of personal achievement, substantial contribution of service to others, and a commitment to the promotion of social justice consistent with the traditions and mission of the Sisters of Loretto,” said Jeannie Lambert Courchene, LHC Class of 1968, chair of the Spirit of Loretto Committee, and mistress of ceremonies during the reunion weekend.

The reunion also honored the Golden Alumni Class of 1963 and was held on the former LHC campus. The property is now owned by Colorado Heights University, a private school with a broad curriculum and 500+ students.

Patricia Jean “PJ” Manion SL

Jana Meyer and Martha Crowley, long-time friends of PJ Manion, gave tributes and told stories of her years as the ninth President of Loretto Heights College (1967-1972). During those years Manion restructured the governance of the college and her own advisory board to include both faculty and students.

Accepting the Lumen Christi Award on behalf of PJ Manion SL, who was unable to attend the ceremony, was Martha Crowley (right). She gave a tribute to PJ as did Jana Meyer (left). Spirit of Loretto Chair Jeannie Courchene (center) displays the plaque, which reads, “Let there be light, and there was light.”

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Before her presidency at Loretto Heights, she had spent a year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She worked with Antioch’s president Jim Dixon, M.D., and Dr. Sam Baskin, organizer of the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities. There she studied the concept of University Without Walls, which became a

Gabriel Mason SL.

landmark educational experience at LHC during her presidency.

PJ was born in St. Louis and educated by the Sisters of Loretto, joining the community in 1946. She earned her B.A. at Webster College, a master’s degree from Marquette University, and a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Denver. While in the novitiate, she began to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming an author.

She focused on Mother Praxedes Carty for her first book, “Only One Heart,” published in 1962. It was written during her 13 years teaching elementary and high school in Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Illinois. She has also published “Naming Our Truth,” “Beyond the Adobe Wall,” and “Venture into the Unknown: Loretto in China 1923-1998.” Last year “A Century of Change 1912-2013, Loretto’s Second Century” was initiated by PJ for Loretto’s 200th anniversary, April 25, 2012.

Jeannie Courchene said, “Sister Patricia Jean inspired us by her brilliant radical ideas and her challenges to ‘risk’ being our best selves. She was a beacon of light during her time at LHC, leading us to a greater understanding of ourselves as women and what we could accomplish in our lives while always calling us to remain conscious of the dignity of every person.”

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Betsy H. Boyle

Gabriel Mason SL (center) accepts the Lumen Christi Award from presenter Jan Waldroop (right) with mistress of ceremonies Jeannie Courchene (left).

Gabriel Mason SL

Jan Waldroop, LHC Class of 1968, introduced Gabriel Mason as a recipient of the Lumens Christi Outstanding Faculty Award with many stories of her years at the college. Mason served as an LHC faculty member in general and educational psychology from 1960 through 1969.

She lived in Pancratia Hall and became a positive influence to the hundreds of young women who lived there, according to the Spirit of Loretto Committee.

Her role as counselor began there and continued throughout her life. One former

student and counselee recently wrote to her, “I hope you know what a magnificent and incredible difference you made in my life and still do!”

Growing up as one of seven children in Webster Groves, Mo., she attended Nerinx Hall High School and Webster College.

After World War II she worked at a Jewish hospital and clinic for displaced Jewish European families. She then entered the Sisters of Loretto, and subsequently earned a master’s degree in psychology at St. Louis University.

Mason worked with several poverty programs during the 1970s, began a new teaching program for Montview School for Girls, and taught GED prep courses to adults at the Community College of Denver.

After retirement, she studied astronomy and physics in an extensive course offered by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, later serving as docent at the Space Odyssey Exhibit.

Betsy Boyle (right) accepts the Distinguished Alumni Award from Jeannie Courchene in the form of a beautiful Our Lady of Loretto plaque.

Mason responded to her tribute with several stories of her own about the “goings on” at Pancratia Hall, to the delight of her audience. She said the faculty had even more fun than the students in those classic days of the 1960s.

Jeannie Courchene introduced Betsy Boyle, LHC Class of 1968, as the 2013 winner of the Distinguished Alumni Award. As student body president in 1968, Courchene knew her classmate very well. “Betsy H. Boyle was a leader from the beginning of our freshman year . . . and through the rest of our years at LHC in both class and dorm positions of leadership,” she said. “In those days, Betsy chose the supporting roles, always doing more than her share of work to make things happen. Lots of people get on the bandwagon early; few stick around to see the project through. Betsy did!”

That ability to follow through was a key asset in Boyle’s 34 years working in the Archdiocese of Denver as a teacher, coach, Principal, Associate Superintendent, and Superintendent and Secretary for Catholic Schools. When Boyle retired from the Archdiocese in 2003, she went to work for Catholic Education Consulting Services, LLC (CECS), a company she helped found in 1995. She now serves as CECS president and consultant specializing in governance, law, personnel, policy development and board/council formation for diocese and Catholic schools across the U.S. She is a frequent presenter on legal and personnel issues in Catholic schools and a speaker at the Private School Law Symposium in Louisville, Ky. Boyle was among the original members of Catholic Urban educators and has been a respected member of the Chief Administrators of Catholic Education Division of the NCEA (National Catholic Education Association) for 30 years, according to the Spirit of Loretto Committee.

Courchene said, “Betsy will tell you that her greatest accomplishment is her recent work in the Diocese of Bismarck, N.D., where she and her colleague, Mary Catherine Keating, created and developed a new governance structure for Catholic schools of that Diocese that can be replicated on a bigger scale in other Dioceses. This structure could well be a model for sustaining Catholic schools in the future.”

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Photo by Jean Schildz

Loretto Community welcomes new Nerinx Hall High School President

Photo by Annie Stevens SL

John Gabriel and Barbara Roche SL discuss Nerinx Hall High School. She is the outgoing president of 27 years.

He is the new president starting with the fall term.

Above: Nerinx Hall High School exterior. Below: Joy Jenson SL, left, and Barbara Ann Barbato SL make their introductions.

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ohn Gabriel has begun his new position as president of Nerinx Hall High School in Webster Groves, Mo., succeeding Barbara Roche SL who after serving as president for 27 years retired at the end of the 2012-2013 school year. The local Loretto Community welcomed him at an afternoon reception July 8 at the Loretto Center, St. Louis.

Gabriel is only the third lay president to head the all-girls independent Catholic high school. He is a graduate of St. Louis University and New York University, and has spent the last 27 years in Catholic education in middle schools and high schools in Louisiana. Most recently he served as principal of Ursuline Academy in New Orleans.

The Loretto Community founded Nerinx Hall in 1924 and “began educating young women in the Lockwood family home in Webster Groves, graduating its first class in 1925,” according to the Nerinx Hall website www.nerinxhs.org. The school will be 90 years old next year.

During those years, the school has significantly expanded its facilities and student body, now educating around 580 students every year, according to Annie Stevens SL, a member of the Nerinx Hall Board of Directors.

Roche announces new appointment Barbara Roche has announced her appointment as interim president of Marian Middle School, St. Louis. In a message to the Loretto Community on Aug. 21, she wrote that current Marian Middle School president Maureen Hermann accepted a new position as director of Institutional Advancement at Chaminade College Preparatory School.

The Marian Board of Directors asked Roche to serve as interim president while they search for a permanent replacement for Hermann.

Roche started work the last week of August to coincide with the new school term.

During her 10 years as president, Hermann led the effort to find a permanent home for Marian Middle School, which now occupies the former Holy Family School in the Grand-Oak Hill neighborhood of St. Louis.

Photo by Jean Schildz

Marian Middle School began 14 years ago as the “brainchild” of Nancy Wittwer SL. Roche, Marian McAvoy SL, and Mary Louise Denny SL were involved with Wittwer in the initial organizing committee. The school is now sponsored by seven communities of religious women, including Loretto, who collaborated to found the school.

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The school has grown to educate 80 students a year in grades 5 through 8; 150 girls have graduated since the school began.

Six Co-members enjoy their Silver Jubilee marking 25 years in the Loretto Community Catherine Bevanda CoL

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am always on the go. Lately I’ve been organizing transportation needs for seniors in my community by serving as liaison between West Marin Senior Services and Whistlestop, a weekly bus service for those who cannot take other modes of transit in and around Marin County. I’ve been involved with this for 25 years.

I’m on the board of Tomales Regional History Center and volunteer as a docent there on a regular schedule. When time allows I enjoy traveling, and I’ve had the opportunity to make connections with some of my traveling partners through the Loretto community. Family is also important to me, and I was able to combine interests during a trip I made last year to visit faraway relatives in Croatia and Bosnia. I’m home most evenings with my two lovely feline companions, “the Metallic Sisters” Silver and Gold, curled up by the fire, as nights on the California coast can be chilly.

Catherine Bevanda CoL, right, her mother, center, and a friend attend a family wedding.

I first became aware of the Loretto community as a freshman in college, when I attended Loretto Heights College, Colorado, in 1962 and realized their commitment to community was similar to my own. I took part in community outreach programs such as emergency housing, a soup kitchen, and the Peace Theater, and committed civil disobedience at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. My introduction to “Begin the Beguine” (a community without vows) was with Sisters for Christian community, www.sfccglobal.org/home, in 1972, and I remained an active member for many years.

I formalized my co-membership with Loretto in 1987. Elizabeth Dyer was my contact person, and the Northern California group was comprised of the Tighe sisters, Kay Lane SL, and Therese Stawowy CoL, to name a few. My dual commitment to friendship and social justice have thrived, thanks to my involvement in the Loretto Community.

I can sum up my allegiance in the following words by Corita Kent, “To understand is to stand under, which is to look up to, which is a good way to understand.”

Whistlestop Bus, from left, Dolores Brubeck, Elsie Roberts, Mary Elizabeth Meyers, Elizabeth Farrell (in bus), Catherine Bevanda CoL, Maxine Bitano, Doris Towers, and bus driver Milton Mason.

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Silver Jubilee 25 Years

Theresa Kubasack CoL

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halan wah sahahlan! This greeting of welcome in Arabic still rings in my ears. I spent seven years in Damascus, Syria, and totally fell in love with the language, culture and people of the Middle East. I miss the sound of the call to prayer, the scent of tea with cardamom, the sight of long-tendriled jasmine.

My husband Gabe Huck and I founded the Iraqi Student Project (ISP) to serve Iraqi refugees who were displaced by the 2003 U.S. invasion. For five years we worked with small groups in a year-long academic setting, preparing them for applications and acceptance to U.S. colleges.

Our love for the Middle East goes back to 1999 when we took our first of four trips to Iraq with Voices in the Wilderness, a group founded by founded by former Catholic Worker Kathy Kelly to oppose U.S. sanctions against Iraq.

Loretto has been with us all along, from a start-up grant for ISP, to providing housing at Loretto Center St. Louis for our student Sarah, to forming a support group for our student Riyam at Regis University in Denver. In fact, I first came to know and love Loretto in Denver. Former Loretto president Mary Luke Tobin SL and historian and poet Cecily Jones SL were talking with me outside St. Theresa’s Church. (I was holding my baby son Thomas with my daughter Annie at my hem) when Luke invited me, “Why don’t you come and join Loretto?”

Because I was a teacher for 30 years, my time on Loretto’s Education Committee gave me a way to serve. Now as a coordinator for Loretto Women’s Network I continue to be immersed in our community, my spiritual home.

I invite everyone to read “House of Wisdom” by Jonathan Lyons as an introduction to the Middle East I have come to

call home.

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Theresa Kubasack enjoys dinner in New York with two of her Iraqi students: Taif, far right, a graduate of Union College currently volunteering for an NGO at the United Nations, and Raed, a graduate of Bard College recently hired at Cornell University Medical Research Center.

Barbara Mecker CoL (top far left) with her children and grandchildren at home in St. Louis. Husband Brian Hammond is seated on the bottom stair center.

Barbara Mecker CoL

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lthough I am celebrating my 25th anniversary as a Loretto co-member this year, my affiliation with Loretto really dates back to my freshman year at Nerinx Hall High School! I knew by junior year that I wanted nothing more than to be a Sister of Loretto. Of course, it helped that all my best friends wanted to be sisters as well. I believe that 12 of us entered Loretto from the Nerinx Hall class of 1964!

Barb Mecker with her husband Brian Hammond, also a Loretto co-member.

When I left vowed life in 1970, I was determined to maintain the Loretto spirit in my life. I moved to Syracuse, N.Y., to get my master’s degree in special education. I joined the Syracuse Peace Council, the Syracuse Women’s Information Center (an alternative liturgy group), and became a war-tax resister. I never hid the fact that I had been a Sister of Loretto. In fact, I guess I kind of bragged about it!

While I was teaching at the Syracuse University lab school, I met Aimee and Brad — and eventually their dad, who was raising them alone. We married and had two more children, Michelle and Anne. In 1981 we moved to St. Louis. Aimee attended Nerinx Hall, I began renewing my relationship with Loretto, and my family had an opportunity to get to know Loretto.

I had no idea how far this connection would go. Brian Hammond, my husband, is not only a co-member, but is serving his second term as a member of the Loretto Forum. My three daughters graduated from Nerinx as well as my three oldest granddaughters. We have held a family reunion at the Loretto Motherhouse, and various members of our extended family have joined us at our formal protests of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the U.S. Army School of the Americas. And when I retired from teaching I had the opportunity to coordinate the Loretto Volunteer Program for more than eight years. I loved sharing Loretto with young folks and feel privileged that I could end my official work life with this position.

I am so grateful to have had Loretto in my life — and that I have been able to share Loretto with my family, friends, co-workers, and volunteers. As I stated in so many ways during my celebration, Loretto has truly been an enduring circle in my life.

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Silver Jubilee

25 Years Elena Remedios CoL

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lways Loretto is calling, and always her girls are true.”

These words are from the Shanghai Loretto School Song. Yes, as a once-vowed member and present-day co-member, I still cherish those words.

When the California Loretto Community Group got together, I would often host the group at my home.

I have been busy taking care of the sick and elderly, namely my mother, brother and husband . . . all of whom have passed away.

At present I am gradually clearing the clutter from my home in order that I may live a more simple life. I have tutored children at no cost to them — this being done in the spirit of Loretto. Right now I support the farm workers’ rights in California. Co-member Carolyn Jaramillo inspires us.

God has blessed me with a wonderful son and two — soon to be three — grandchildren.

I became acquainted with Loretto because I was taught by them. Co-membership attracted me because Loretto’s values in life were also my values. The Loretto Community spoke of “peace and justice.” I, too, was very attracted to peace and justice. So, “let there be peace on earth,” and let it begin with Loretto and me.

Elena Remedios CoL with her husband Ed.

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Bill Roat CoL and Michele Stimac CoL

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is a banner year for us. We are celebrating our 25th year as Loretto co-members and our 35th year as a married couple.

It was at Dillon Beach, Calif., on May 29, 1988, under the guidance of Kathleen Tighe SL, that we made our comembership commitment to Loretto. In our commitment statement we said we would share our joys and sorrows, our love, our climbing and descending, our relationship with one another, our faith and our doubts, our dreams, our attempt at largesse and our smallness, our spirit, our strength and our weakness, our pursuits, our achievements and failures, our desires, our families and friends, our future. We said we were eager then and we are even more eager now to share Loretto’s commitment to peace and justice. Have we lived up to the commitments we made? Every day, we ask ourselves that question. With the support of the Loretto Community, our family and our friends, we move forward in an unpredictable world and renew our commitments.

On Aug. 5, 1978, in Crested Butte, Colo., we pronounced our marriage vows in All Saints Catholic Church with Father Kiernan officiating. Although Bill’s mother, Lena Roat, was not able to attend, Michele’s mother, Veronika Stimac, was there representing both mothers and blessing us as we pronounced our sacred vows. After 35 years, those vows are as enduring and endearing as ever. Marriage, of course, expanded our families. Bill gained a second brother and two sisters along with 13 nieces and nephews. Michele gained another brother and most important of all, four grown stepchildren and a grandson.

Our association with Loretto began when Michele spent 22 years as a vowed member, teaching in Loretto schools. It was in listening to the Spirit that she made the decision to leave the Loretto vowed life. Three years later in Boston, she met Bill Roat who quickly became enamored with Michele’s background in Loretto. He appreciated the Loretto Spirit and commitment to peace and justice. His immersion into science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his years in the military during World War II only convinced him that there was a life of the Spirit not only that of science.

We moved to Los Angeles where both could find gainful employment. Bill worked as an electronics engineer at Hughes Aircraft and taught math at Southwest Community College until he retired. Michele worked at Pepperdine University as a professor and an associate dean during the 22 years in L.A., and then continued teaching long distance and chairing dissertations once they moved to Denver in 1997. Michele is now a Professor Emerita after 35 years of service at Pepperdine.

Concordia on the Lake in Littleton, Colo., is the retirement community we moved to in 2008. We are happy that it is only three miles south of the Denver Loretto Center, which means we can spend a great deal of time with the Loretto Community there. Sometimes we feel like we live in two places: Concordia and the Loretto Center. We share Liturgy with the Community at the Center weekly and on all special occasions. Bill grins and half facetiously likes to say, “They even let me take a turn reading at Liturgy.” Over the years we have attended most Loretto functions and we are proud to claim that we have missed only two Loretto Assemblies in all of our 25 years as co-members. That alone should indicate how important Loretto is to us. In our retirement we spend a great deal of time reading and writing, trying to expand our thinking in conversation and recreation with others at Concordia and especially with members of the Loretto Community.

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Loretto Volunteers:

Young Adults Living Loretto Values

By Katie Jones, Loretto Volunteer Coordinator

Loretto 2013-2014 volunteers gather at the Motherhouse, Nerinx, Ky., for an orientation program led

by Loretto Volunteer Coordinator Katie Jones and Assistant Coordinator Claudia Calzetta SL. Front row, from left: Cecilie Kern, Teresa Blumenstein, Caroline Reibeling, Ariana Sanchez.

Middle row, from left: Molly Butler, Cathy Jaskey.

Back row, from left: Katie Jones, Catherine Roberts, Matthew GuiffrĂŠ, Claudia Calzetta. (Not pictured, Alexis Maguina).

Photo by Peg Jacobs CoL. Background photo of Loretto Motherhouse by Donna Mattingly SL.

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Photo by Donna Mattingly SL

Seated: Volunteer Ariana Sanchez offers ‘Computer 101’ tutoring to Co-member Alma Schuler at Loretto Motherhouse, Nerinx, Ky.

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aroline Riebeling spends the day teaching math and social studies classes to adults. These are adults of all ages who never graduated from high school and are now working toward passing a high school equivalency test. In the span of just one class period, Caroline congratulates a student who has finally mastered long division, and goes on to diplomatically ask another adult learn to stop “texting” in class. It is a fun, tiring day. After work Caroline bikes home to help housemates prepare a simple vegetarian dinner. Then, the community gathers in the living room for a reflection and a meeting to divide house chores for the week. This is a day in the life of a Loretto volunteer.

Working for justice . . .

The Loretto Community sponsors this program to encourage a new generation of social justice advocates to live Loretto’s mission in the world, and the work they do is vital. Caroline helps adults work toward passing high school equivalency tests — a key step toward economic stability for many adults. Another volunteer assists in the classroom at a middle school for girls from low-income families. Another volunteer helps produce a weekly public radio program abut religion and spirituality.

They serve in legal clinics, health centers and the United Nations. Each is doing important work, following in the footsteps of Loretto Community members who have been doing similar ministries for decades.

Caroline is one of nine young adults who agreed to serve for a year in the Loretto Community’s mission to “work for justice and act for peace” as set forth in the Loretto Constitutions, “I Am the Way,” Article 36. These talented young people work full-time in a range of social justice ministries while living simply on a modest stipend. They live in community houses with other volunteers and seek out opportunities to learn from the wise Loretto members who live nearby. In both work and home life, they commit to living in accordance with four core values: social justice, simple living, spirituality and community.

The work they do during their volunteer year is important – but their commitment to justice does not end after 12 months with Loretto. Many of our program alumnae use the experience to begin professional lives of service. Ashley Steimer-King is a great example. In 2009, she served in our United Nations office, where she addressed issues of global girls’ education and rights. She now works for Girls Learn International — an organization that connects U.S. high school girls with girls from countries with less educational equality. “My Loretto Volunteer year set me on a path to discovering what I cared about most: girls’ human rights,” she says. “You gave me

the experience I needed to get a job in the field!” . . . Acting for peace And work is only half the story. Our Loretto Volunteers also live in community together — supporting each other through the joys and challenges of their year. More than just “roommates,” they share food, gather for weekly community discussions, and hold each other accountable to exploring the core values. In community, volunteers seek comfort after a hard day at work, problem-solve the challenges they face with supervisors or clients, and remind each other to laugh. The comfort they receive from each other sustains their work — warding off the burnout that can arise from full-time service with people who have urgent, basic needs.

But authentic community living is not easy. Volunteers have different expectations around cleanliness; one wants daily prayer before dinner and another does not; one wants organic vegetables, another thinks they are too expensive; dishes pile up.

The task of authentic community is not to avoid these disagreements but to address them with honesty and compassion. This level of mature communication pushes volunteers to learn to be both assertive and gentle — a worthy combination. Many volunteers leave their Loretto year telling Fall 2013 • 13

Photo by Peg Jacobs CoL

Loretto Volunteer Placements for 2013-2014 The program is always seeking new relationships with placements.

If you work with an organization in Washington, D.C., or St. Louis that could be a good fit, please contact Katie Jones at kjones@lorettocommunity.org

Washington, D.C.

Academy of Hope — Teach all subjects of adult education courses and assist in writing new curricula.

Bread for the City — Coordinate a legal clinic that supports people with disabilities.

Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) — Serve as a paralegal providing immigration legal services.

Interfaith Voices — Help produce a public

radio show about faith, heard on 66 public and community radio stations around the country.

Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) — Assist in all aspects of the operation of this small feminist nonprofit.

St. Louis

Family Care Health Centers — Plan and

implement programs to improve patient access to preventive healthcare for the Centers’ uninsured and under-insured patients.

Justice and Peace Shares — Work with this

coalition of small nonprofits to produce a new community radio show about local social justice issues.

Nerinx Hall High School — Coordinate and

assist with campus ministry and community service opportunities at this Loretto-founded school.

New York

Loretto at the UN — Assist in educating the Loretto Community on global human rights issues and advocate at the United Nations for Loretto priority issues.

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Cecily Jones SL and Loretto Volunteer Matthew Guiffré share a lively exchange after a commissioning prayer service at the Loretto Motherhouse.

us that the experience of community living changed them as much as their work did.

Mutual inspiration In both work and community life, the volunteer program model takes its inspiration directly from the Loretto Community, whose sisters have been living in community and doing good work for 200 years. The volunteers are encouraged throughout their year to seek out friendship and connection with Loretto members. The volunteers love to hear the stories and insights of the spunky sisters and co-members.

“As a Loretto Volunteer, I gained the unexpected but precious opportunity of intergenerational mentoring,” says Kathleen Stephan ’12. “My year was shaped by the framework of caring support from this accomplished and respected group of women.”

And likewise, Loretto members are heartened and inspired by the young volunteers, who bring new life and vision to the work they have done for so long.

The Loretto members offer wisdom and perspective; the volunteers offer hope for the future.

Through this volunteer program, the Loretto Community offers meaningful work, authentic community, and intergenerational companionship — all of which help shape participants’ values at a formative moment in their lives. The Loretto Community has always been a teaching order, and here the education is not happening in a classroom, but rather around the dinner table and on the job.

Photo by Peg Jacobs CoL

Loretto Volunteers at a Glance!

Loretto Volunteer Cecilie Kern (left) talks with Mary Swain SL during orientation week at the Motherhouse for 2013-14 volunteers.

WHO? WHAT? WHERE?

Photo by Peg Jacobs CoL

WHEN?

A formative year of full-time service

St. Louis, Washington, D.C., and New York City

One year, August to July

WHY?

An opportunity to live Loretto’s mission to “work for justice and act for peace” and begin lives of public service.

HOW?

Volunteers can find out more about the program and apply by visiting www.lorettovolunteers.org

Lois Dunphy SL (right) chats with Teresa Blumenstein, a 2013-14 Loretto volunteer, at Wednesday Night Sharing at the Motherhouse.

This August, we welcomed a new group of volunteers at orientation at the Loretto Motherhouse. Please join me, Assistant Coordinator Claudia Calzetta SL, and the whole Loretto Community in blessing this talented new group as they begin a yearlong journey of “working for justice and acting for peace.”

Nine young adults from different backgrounds and faiths

Photo by Katie Jones

The Loretto Volunteer Program is funded in part by our placement organizations, but they cannot cover the full operating costs.

Please consider making a gift to support this important work.

Donate online at www.lorettovolunteers.org/support

__________________________________ About the Author

Katie Jones has coordinated the Loretto Volunteer Program since 2010. She served as a Loretto Volunteer herself, working with Maureen Fiedler SL at “Interfaith Voices,” a public radio show about religion, based in Maryland. She is consistently awed by Loretto members’ creative approaches to spirituality and social justice work, and has learned her love of trees, solitude, and poetry through the ample time she has spent with Loretto women at their Motherhouse.

From left: Loretto Volunteers Molly Butler, Wendy Mallette, and Caroline Riebeling at a climate rally in Washington, D.C., spring 2013.

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Photos by Marie Ego SL

still challenged by ongoing needs

Ghana school flourishes;

Photos by Marie Ego SL

By Carolyn Dunbar Photos by Marie Ego SL

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or six weeks in February and March, Loretto Sisters Pauline Albin and Marie Ego returned to Ghana, West Africa, to provide teacher training and visit the dear friends they made over the 18 years they lived and served in Ghana.

Both Marie and Pauline are now retired and live at Loretto Motherhouse, Nerinx, Ky. During their years in Ghana, however, a sister-community relationship developed between the Loretto Community and the Daughters of the Most Blessed Trinity (known as the FST Community).

A native Ghanaian religious community, the FSTs were founded in 1984 to minister to the poor. Both communities talked about the need for quality education in this povertystricken area, and the idea for a Catholic school in Akokoamong began. The FST and Loretto communities began to raise funds to build a school. Significant donations were raised by the FST sisters and through the Loretto Development Office and special-projects fundraiser Lydia Peña SL. The new school became a reality in September 2009. The Blessed Trinity Leadership Academy (BTLA) opened its doors to 25 elementary school students. The next year enrollment climbed to 71 students. In 2011, the school taught more than 110 students. “Today enrollment is 299 students,” said Marie. “They will add Primary 5 this fall, and one more class each year.”

The needs are still many

The situation in Ghana is generally peaceful these days, although the people continue to struggle with economic deprivation and related problems, according to Pauline and Marie, who have recently observed conditions first-

Left: Students at Blessed Trinity Leadership Academy (BTLA) in Akokoamong, Ghana, West Africa, say their morning prayers before school begins.

Top right: Two school friends pose for the camera. All students at the school wear uniforms and cropped hair.

Bottom right: BTLA faculty, including Paige Regan, second from left, a former St. Mary’s Academy student in Denver turned teacher, now teaches at the Ghana School.

hand. “What I find encouraging is that parents are trying to take ownership of the needs of the school,” said Pauline. They have organized into something like the PTA in America. Marie added, “They are trying to be supportive by raising money for another school bus. I looked at five children sitting in the bus on a seat that’s made for two people. It’s certainly not ideal.”

In the past two years, the Loretto Community raised money from generous donors . . . enough to underwrite the $87,000 purchase of a new school bus. It’s modern, strong, safe, and built to negotiate Ghana’s deeply rutted dirt roads. Marie said, “What they also have are two older buses. We could see that every week — once or twice a week — they were broken down. The mechanic had parts sitting around, and always reported, “We were fixing things, Sister.”

The second wing of the school needs to be finished to accommodate the expanding student body. The area is roofed, which protects it, Marie said, but the rest of the school is not anywhere near finished.

The Akokoamong people are proud of BTLA. “I would like readers to know that the school is well built,” said Marie. “We had a couple of examples of that because down the road was another school and church. We were there in Akokoamong during the first part of the rainy season when it storms pretty violently. The school down the road lost half of its roof. The same thing happened with the church.” Without a roof, those students were sitting in the direct sun in 100-degree weather. “For awhile they weren’t even in school,” she said.

Marie spoke of the need for BTLA to finish its school building.

“We are very grateful that the FSTs worked so hard to get a wellconstructed building there. Quite a bit of work needs to be done to finish it, and they can’t just finish it off quickly — it has to be done properly. They need funding. Their families are working on it, the local people are working on it. They really want to get the school finished,” she said.

Pauline said, “I remember how pleased Archbishop Sarpong was.

He could see how well the school was built. Thanks be to God that they and we were able to construct a building that will last. I attribute a lot of this quality to FST Sister Emily Owusu-Ansah, who is also a Loretto co-member. And the contractors are proud of that school; proud to be connected with it in every way.”

American Loretto students made a difference

Marie and Pauline want to ensure the student volunteers who came from Loretto high schools in America to Ghana a few years

ago realize what a “big hit” are the alphabet letters and other drawings they painted on BTLA’s classroom walls. “The students use them every day,” they said.

Top: Children file into school. Center: Pauline Albin SL leads students in a song, complete with accompanying hand motions.

Bottom: Students depart the new school bus purchased with significant help from the Loretto Community and donors. Cameo: Marie Ego SL shares a sweet moment with an eager student.

Marie said, “Paige Regan is a very enthusiastic young woman who graduated from St. Mary’s Academy in Denver and went on to get her teaching degree. As a graduate with her teaching degree, she went to Ghana to teach at BTLA. She managed to get a donation of 30 laptop computers from a Loretto school. The local people say they have more computers at BTLA than at the university. It’s amazing that every child can go in and sit down at a computer.” There is tremendous gratitude for the support that Loretto and our donors have given. The Ghanaian people are very grateful for the help and aware of our role in it,” said Marie.

Neither sister could fail to observe the children’s happiness. “I was delighted with the joyfulness at the school — how happy the children are and how they relate to one another. They love to come to school,” Pauline recalled. “They’re happy and they’re learning,” said Marie.

“One word they use in Ghana is ‘learning.’ The children never say, ‘I am studying.’ They say, ‘I am learning, Sister. I learn hard,’” Pauline said. “The children were so welcoming. They would come up and take our hands, show us something they were doing or learning. . . . Every teacher welcomed us into the classroom and made us feel very important. The children were responding to what they saw from their teachers. The main reason we were there was to show support and affirmation; they know we are there by our prayers and our interest.”

Pauline said she is excited that the students will graduate as trilingual speakers. BTLA teaches Ashanti Twi, English, and French. “The children are so delighted to learn French,” she said.

“What’s interesting is that their French teacher is a Ghanaian man who studied in another country. One of their own is teaching them French, and he’s very good!”

Loretto Sisters and Co-members thank all the individual donors and foundations that made the dream of Blessed Trinity Leadership Academy possible.

To continue support of this excellent school, please visit www.lorettocommunity.org/supporting-loretto/ or write your check to Sisters of Loretto/Ghana.

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Marie and Pauline came away from their visit pleased with the quality of teaching, the atmosphere of learning, and the relationship among the FST teachers and all they are doing. “That quality reflects the attitude of the teachers and sisters and reflects the quality of the education there,” Marie said.

Pauline said, “A spirit of joy is truly prevalent at Blessed Trinity Leadership Academy.”

loretto community members to remember

Agnes Marie Plumb SL,

formerly John Ellen Plumb SL Nov. 11, 1921 — Aug.11, 2013 Sr. Agnes Marie was 91 years old at the time of her death. She was in her 74th year as a Sister of Loretto.

Agnes Marie Plumb SL

Readers are encouraged to see detailed remembrances at www.lorettocommunity.org, select News.

Our grateful thanks are given to Loretto Archivist Eleanor Craig SL and the Archives staff for preparing these remembrances. We also thank Lisa Reynolds CoL and other Loretto Community members for their additional contributions.

Frances Ratermann SL,

formerly Mary Xavier Ratermann SL April 28, 1932 — Sept. 10, 2013 Sr. Frances was 81 years old at the time of her death and in her 63rd year as a Sister of Loretto.

Loretto Volunteer Program wins award

By Katie Jones, Volunteer Coordinator

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his November, the Loretto Volunteer Program will be honored with the Call to Action Leadership Award, conferred annually to an organization that embodies leadership for justice in the church and world.

Frances Ratermann SL

Alice Eugene Tighe SL April 13, 1915 — Aug. 29, 2013 Sr. Alice Eugene was 98 years old at the time of her death and in her 80th year as a Sister of Loretto.

We are grateful that this small but mighty program is receiving recognition for the contributions to faith-based social justice movements. The award will be given at the annual “Call to Action” Conference in Milwaukee.

Alice EugeneTighe SL

Photo not available

Last year’s recipient was the Leadership Conference of Women Religious; in 1992, the award was given to Mary Luke Tobin SL.

Mary Ann Weidinger CoL, formerly Mary Raymond SL

Oct. 19, 1926 — Nov. 24, 2012 Mary Ann was 86 years old at the time of her death after 21 years as a Sister of Loretto and 18 years as a Loretto Co-member.

About Call to Action A Chicago-based organization formed in 1976, Call to Action “educates, inspires and activates Catholics to act for justice and build inclusive communities through a lense of anti-racism and antioppression principles,” according to its website www.cta-usa.org.

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gifts

Memorials and Tributes of Honor March - August 2013 In Memory of: Requested by: Kay & Bernie Ambre Mary & Joseph Highland Anna Ayera The Clifford Family Linda Carrocci Blackburn Denise Ann Clifford SL Geraldine Boschert The Loretto Community Domitilla Brown SL Rev. Robert Osborne Stella Mary Bru SL Louise Bartek Eugene Calzetta Barbara A. Light* The Loretto Community Edmund D. Carpenter, Jr. The Loretto Community Thea Christofferson SL Catherine Reeves Connie & Joe Clifford Denise Ann Clifford SL Saint Columba Kathleen & James Haiker Mary Margaret Conter SL Sharlene Piper Hower Paul J. Cornell, Jr. Ann Corrigan Nellie Coskrey Louise Bartek Betty & Jack Costanza Jackie Koroshetz Millie Dampf Donald Dampf The Loretto Community Julia Dooling SL Rev. Msgr. Leo Horrigan Pat Winterer Dressler* The Loretto Community Rosalie Elliott SL Jo Anne Rickard Peter Fagan Barbara A. Light* Christopher John Fuchs Richard Fuchs Marilyn Fuchs Richard Fuchs Carlotte L. Fugazzi Ronald Fugazzi Virginia Ruth Gabriel Kenneth Fitch &

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

Lucy Maurice Galvin SL

Janice Dunbar Edward Gietl, Sr.

Priscilla & Mike O’Leary Ted Hansen

Janet & John O’Connor Georgeann Hanson SL

Kathy Boland

Mary & Robert Braun

The Christman Family

Joan Deimeke

Irene Easterday

Kelly & Michael Fallon

Bob Friend

Elsie & Bill Hanson

James Hawkins

Cindy & Ty Holler

Patricia & Larry Lanners

The Loretto Community

Patricia McDermott

Faith Schaan

Mary & Joseph Schulte

Ann C. Siemer

Lyle & Emmaleeta Skredsvig

Dorothy & Louis Vinyard Marie Noël Hebert SL

James Hebert Clare & Earl Highland

Mary & Joseph Highland Leo Hinger

Audrey & George Hinger Chuck Jamail

Kathy & Jim Jamail Ann Johnson SL

Alice Mattingly Mr. & Mrs. N. K. Kan

Juliana & Peter Kan Martha Ann Koch SL

Dennis Gallagher Jim Kosters

The Loretto Community Abby Marie Lanners

Patricia & Larry Lanners

Patty & Ty Wernet Pat & Anna Lease

Carol Lease Teresa Li

Juliana & Peter Kan Rose Annette Liddell SL

Janel Crumb, OSF*

Loretto Academy, St. Louis, 1951

Florence McLean

Holtgrave Sisters of Loretto, Reception Class of 1958

Marilyn Koncen Sisters of Loretto who taught me and my siblings, St. Peter Grade School, Rockford, Ill., in the 1950s

David Gill Carlos Marie Lubeck SL

Carol & Mike Delaney

Ronald Fugazzi George Luis

The Loretto Community Francene Lum SL

Monica Chew Lynn Lucile Lynn

Paula Palotay Mary Mangan SL

Jane & James Duffy

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Havira Bill Minelli

Sally Minelli Frances Ann O’Bryan SL

The Loretto Community

Mary Louise Murphy*

Kathleen & Cliff O’Bryan

Doris Pittman

Mary Roberts*

Alice & Peter Sargent Aurelia Ottersbach SL

Kay Ottersbach Ethelbert Owens SL

Julia Gonzales Danny Peters and Harry K. Peters

Karen & Kurt Musgrave Victoria Quatmann SL

Aidea & Robert Sluyter Anne Ferras Remedios

Vincent Remedios Francis Louise Ritter SL

Alison Chen Eleanor Bath Robison

Gay* & Jim* Lenox Anne Roberta Schilling SL Nancy Luger

The Bernard N. Schulte Family Elizabeth Schulte Mrs. Lillie M. Scruggs Fannie Fiddmont Helen Jean Seidel SL Jubilee Class of 1962 Luella Shanahan

Eleanor Begley

The Loretto Community Allan Sheridan M.D., and Steve W. Sheridan

Steve Sheridan Magdalen Mary Skees SL

Sheila O’Donnell-Schuster Mary Kay Connor Spieler

Barbara A. Light* Gene Sponny Steffan

Mr. & Mrs. Sunkel Mrs. Helen Sullivan

Barbara A. Light* Susan Swain SL

Margaret McMahon, J.D.

Nancy McMahon, Psy.D. Teter, Newton, Marasco Family Members

Helen Teter Rose Marie Hummel Thomas

Sarah & Daniel Corrigan

Ellen & Dominic Grisanti

Anne Hummel

Jane & Norb Hummel

Janice & David Hummel

Jennifer & Joe Hummel

Kristina & John Hummel

Mary & Joseph Boone

Hummel, III Christine Thompson SL

Rev. Msgr. Leo Horrigan Dick Tillis

Mary Rome Marie Tong

Juliana & Peter Kan Mr. & Mrs. S. S. Tong

Juliana & Peter Kan Donna Wamhoff

The Loretto Community Ann Patrick Ware SL

Martha Alderson*

Patricia & Dallas Edwards

Carol & Frederick Hodes

Kathleen & Patrick Jordan

Florence & Dave Rahubka

Marita Woodruff* Roger Weakland

The Loretto Community Mary Ann Weidinger*

The Loretto Community

gifts

In Honor of: Requested by: Pauline Albin SL

Dr. Eliza Young Mary Denis Bruck SL, 70th Anniversary

Ann Francis Gleason SL Claudia Calzetta SL, Golden Jubilee

Barbara A. Light*

Loretto Community,

St. Louis

Carol Ann Ptacek SL Denise Ann Clifford SL

Hattie & Bill Kvinta

Priscilla & Mike O’Leary Eleanor Craig SL, Golden Jubilee

Mary Bundy*

Barbara Nicholas SL

Carol Ann Ptacek SL

Margaret Quayhagen SL

Mary Quayhagen SL Donna Day SL

Susan & Dennis Cuddihee Jeanne Dueber SL, Birthday

Joanne & William Fogarty Marie Ego SL, Birthday

Jane Kosters*

Patricia and William Lewis The Elder & Daniels Families

Sally Minelli Benedicta Feeney SL

Mary Jane Clabots Maureen Fiedler SL

Carol Ann Ptacek SL Frances Finnegan

Mary (Judy Griffin) Murphy Ann Francis Gleason SL, Birthday & 70th Anniversary

Martha Bennett 2013 Golden Jubilarians:

Claudia Calzetta SL Eleanor Craig SL Maureen O’Connell SL Maureen Fiedler SL

Antoinette Doyle SL

Jeannine Gramick SL

Michael Myers &

Peter Cerra

Joan O’Neill

Ryan Ignatius Pratt

Mert Preston In solidarity with the people of Guatemala

The Loretto Community Mary Gutzwiller SL

Carol Ann Ptacek SL Mary Katherine Hammett SL, for her 88th Birthday and for Loretto’s 200th Anniv.

Mr. & Mrs. John Hammett

Marilyn Montenegro Joseph Highland

Mary & Joseph Highland Dolores Kelledy SL

Alice Mattingly Knights of Columbus, Bishop Evans Council 10122, Aurora, Colo.

Denise Ann Clifford SL Anna Koop SL

Dennis Gallagher Ladies Auxiliary, Bishop Evans Council 10122, Aurora, Colo.

Denise Ann Clifford SL Mary Ken Lewis SL, 70th Anniversary

Ann Francis Gleason SL

Pam & Clifford Orr Sisters of Loretto, Reception Class of 1958

Marilyn Koncen All classmates from 1951

Florence McLean

Holtgrave All Sisters of Loretto who taught me

Verlene Rogalin Sisters of Loretto Faculty, Loretto Heights College, Class of 1968

Dawn Dorsey-Smart

Sisters of Loretto, Loretto Heights College

Lucretia Seitz McCarthy Sisters of Loretto who taught me and my siblings at St. Peter Grade School in Rockford, Ill., in the 1950s

David Gill Mary Frances Lottes SL

The Lottes Charitable

Trust Luis Family

The Loretto Community Virginia MacKay and Family

The Loretto Community MacKay Special Intentions

Virginia MacKay Barbara Mecker, Silver Jubilee

Carol J. Colligan*

Elizabeth A. Connor*

Gabriel Mary Hoare SL

Carina Vetter SL Rev. Bernard Meyer

Priscilla & Mike O’Leary Mary Jo & Heather Moana

Mary & Joseph Highland Those working to stop mountain top removal

Barrie Ryan Kathleen Mratinich

The Loretto Community Maureen O’Connell SL, Golden Jubilee

Mary Bundy*

Barbara Nicholas SL

Carol Ann Ptacek SL

Mary Quayhagen SL

Margaret Quayhagen SL Jeanne Orrben*

Maureen Flanigan* &

Brad Buckner For Peace in the World

Virginia MacKay Marcia Pezzella’s Birthday

Carol Jossis

Higinia Pu’s mother who is seriously ill

The Loretto Community Alicia Ramirez SL

Alice Jane Linehan Barbara Roche SL, President, Nerinx Hall High School, 27 years

Martha Alderson* Barbara Schulte SL

Natalie Blecher Agnes Ann Schum SL

Eleanor Begley The Serra Club

Sisters of Loretto Barbara Ann Shultz SL, 70th Anniversary

Ann Francis Gleason SL Cathy Smith SL

Carol Ann Ptacek SL Marlene Spero SL

Natalie Blecher Mary Swain SL, for 50 years of service to the Loretto Community

Martha Alderson*

Betsy Clute

Mary Clute*

Margaret L. (Peg) Jacobs*

Barbara Mueller † Alice Eugene Tighe SL

Betty & Bill Mariner

For any questions, comments, or corrections, please contact Denise Ann Clifford SL at the Loretto Development Office 303-783-0450, ext. 1724 or deniseann@ lorettocommunity.org

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notes and news

Loretto’s 18th Annual Golf Tournament succeeds on every level

Colorado golfers enjoy day at Arrowhead; raise funds for Retired Sisters of Loretto

By Denise Ann Clifford SL

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he Loretto Development Office thanks our Loretto friends and community members who worked to make the 18th Annual Loretto Golf Tournament a success!

We enjoyed a picture-perfect day on Denver’s most beautiful golf course, Arrowhead Golf Club, which we shared with the resident elk herd!

The results are in, and we are pleased to announce that we cleared $9,500 for the Loretto Retirement Fund. All participants and workers had a wonderful time interacting with the staff,

Photos by Donna Mattingly SL golfers, and enjoying the friendships that have evolved through the years.

Golfers who have played in several tournaments were awarded degrees from the Loretto University of Golfology, presented by our own Loretto Vice President Vicki Schwartz SL, attired in full academic regalia.

You know the event was a success when your guests promise to return next year for Tournament 19!

It’s tough being a volunteer! Father Ben Meyer, left, with professional photographer Lannie Adelmann.

Both are major sponsors of our tournament. Adelmann takes photos of the event, including every Loretto team on the play list.

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Left: Mary Nelle Gage SL and Lydia Peña SL staff one of the betting holes out on the Arrowhead Course.

Right: Loretto Vice President Vicki Schwartz SL presents loyal participant Betty Murphy with her honorary degree from the “Loretto University of Golfology.”

Kim and Eddie Clem, owners of Sunset Printing, Inc., Sheridan, Colo., with Denise Ann Clifford SL, right. The Clems are longtime supporters of the Loretto tournament and donate all of our beautiful color printing for the occasion.

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