Loretto Magazine - Spring 2015

Loretto M A G A Z I N E Spring 2015

Volume 57, No. 1

Loretto Community in El Paso assists families fleeing extreme violence south of the border

The original Nazareth Hall Nursing Center, El Paso, Texas, now a temporary shelter for refugees, displays dozens of colorful drawings made by children of immigrating families

From left: Chaplain Elisa Rodriguez SL, Administrator Joy Martinez and Volunteer Mary Peter Bruce SL

About this issue . . .

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ur Spring 2015 edition covers several remarkable anniversaries both within and without the Loretto Community. Webster University, Webster Groves, Mo., enjoys its 100th anniversary year with many events and celebrations during 2014-2015. The Sisters of Loretto founded the school as Loretto College in 1914.

The name later changed, and the facility and student body grew until it now has campuses in countries throughout the world, page 6.

After 40 years, the Loretto Hunger Fund continues to raise funds and distribute them to organizations and projects nationally and internationally that feed the hungry. Cecily Jones SL has served the Hunger Fund since its inception and tells its inspiring history, page 8.

One-hundred fifty years ago one of the worst incidents in the American Indian wars occurred on Colorado’s eastern plains. Loretto volunteers participated in commemorating the 150th Sand Creek Massacre anniversary. With funds from University of Denver, Loretto members shopped for, transported and served refreshments for nearly 2,000 members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes and other supporters at a weekend full of solemn ceremonies in three different locations, page 10.

And finally, the violence and terror south of the U.S. border does not stop, and the influx of families fleeing for their lives continues in El Paso, Texas. Find out how Loretto has been able to respond to this ongoing need, page 12.

Contents Notes & News..................................................................................4 Webster University reaches 100th anniversary...............................6 Loretto Hunger Fund strong after 40 years.....................................8 Loretto participates in tribal commemoration of Sand Creek Massacre 150 years later............................. 10 Families fleeing violence still coming through El Paso.................. 12 Remembrances............................................................................. 16 Memorials & Tributes of Honor...................................................... 17 On the front cover: Loretto Sisters Elisa Rodriguez (left) and Mary Peter Bruce flank Nazareth Living Care Center’s CEO Joy Martinez next to a wall of colored drawings made by children of families fleeing violence south of the border. Loretto’s original Nazareth Hall is now used to house these families on an emergency basis as they contact their relatives already here in the United States.

On the back cover: College students from Kentucky have recently volunteered to work at Nazareth Hall as part of their experiences in a border community.

Photos by: Michelle Waller, Michelle Waller Photography, El Paso, Texas.

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LORETTO COMMUNITY Sisters of Loretto • Co-members of Loretto

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

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

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

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

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

Advisory Panel: Denise Ann Clifford SL Jean M. Schildz Carolyn Dunbar Rebecca Sallee-Hanson 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

Lo, the winter is past, rains are over and gone.

The flowers appear on the earth …

And the song of the dove is heard in our land.

Song of Songs, 2:11-12

I am reflecting on this scripture

passage as I write this message to you, our Loretto friends, from the snowcovered fields and winter scenery of our Motherhouse in Nerinx, Ky. There is a quieting beauty to winter with its pastures and buildings under a deep blanket of snow. But I am ready for the fresh newness of springtime!

We are halfway through our Lenten journey — the Church’s springtime. We renew our efforts to follow Jesus’ example and leadership. We devote time to prayer, Denise Ann Clifford SL the practice of penance and self-denial, Loretto Development Director reaching out to those in need in imitation of Jesus’ servant ministry to others. We recall and renew our commitment to continue His work in our world. We willingly bear our personal crosses that we may one day share Jesus’ Easter resurrection and glory.

The Loretto Community has undertaken an extensive process of review and renewal. We are discerning our future by examining our current demographics, coping with the realization, acceptance and pain of diminishment, measuring our material resources in light of future needs, exploring new membership forms that are emerging. These are some of the challenges that we face and hopefully will foster new life within Loretto and each Loretto member.

So I sing the song of springtime: a song of hope, new life, new beginnings, new energy. And I wish the same for all of you as we celebrate this Easter season! May you experience the fullness of Easter Peace and Joy! May all your days be ALLELUIA-glorious!

Photo by Nicole Martinez

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Terrible events in Selma 50 years ago remembered; Sisters of Loretto marched after ‘Bloody Sunday’

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ifty years ago on March 7, 1965, Rev. Hosea Williams and John Lewis walked from Brown Chapel AME Church, Selma, Ala., leading a group of 600 people toward Montgomery to secure voting rights for African-Americans. After just six blocks, when they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River, Sheriff Jimmy Clark’s deputies and state troopers dispatched

by Alabama Gov. George Wallace attacked the group with nightsticks and tear gas, leaving dozens injured and 50 hospitalized. The event became known as “Bloody Sunday.” The violence stopped the marchers’ first attempt, but they refused to be silent or still.

Photo by John F. Phillips, Baldwin Street Gallery.

Printed with permission.

During that time Loretto Community members Judith Baenen, Christine Nava, Maureen Smith and Therese Stawowy were Sisters of Loretto and took part in the Selma marches.

Baenen, then Sister Judith Mary Dillon, said in a recent interview, “I left from Kansas City, where I was teaching school. ... A lot of other priests, nuns and ministers came as well. We marched to the bridge on Saturday, March 13. ... It was a dangerous time because troopers were still guarding the bridge and did not want us there. We left on Sunday. The next week, March 21, Martin Luther King got the permit and a whole crowd of people marched from Selma to Montgomery.

In August, President [Lyndon] Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.” Stawowy, then Sister Anne Christopher, said, “For me, it was very important that I stand and represent a presence, to put myself forward to stand up for injustice and ask for human dignity and the right for all to vote.”

On the Loretto Community website, www.lorettocommunity.org, readers will find a package of new interviews, videos and commentaries from these Loretto members giving insights into their experiences then and their perspectives today.

Stories originally published in 1965 also are included.

St. Mary’s Academy plans 150th anniversary Mass

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Mass celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of St. Mary’s Academy (SMA), Cherry Hills Village, Colo., is planned for Sunday, April 19, from 2 to 3 p.m., 4 • Loretto Magazine

at the academy. The school was founded in 1864 by the Sisters of Loretto, who had arrived in Denver from Santa Fe, N.M., to teach the children of settlers pouring into

Colorado after the Gold Rush. SMA doors have been open since 1864.

It has grown exponentially and has since become one of the top academies in the Western U.S.

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Letter to the Editor I enjoyed your article about Loretto Community nurses and caregivers (Loretto Magazine FallWinter 2014). I think Marie Lourde surely deserves all the attention you gave her. She has been my role model. However, I was disturbed that very little attention was given to those who served at the St. Louis Loretto Center, Lafayette and Nazareth Hall, El Paso, Texas.

Many Sisters worked as nurses, aides, sacristans, etc., at Nazareth Hall either full time or on a volunteer basis, including Sisters Louis Marie Kroeger, Mary Cosmas (Virginia Ann) Driscoll, Monica Marie Ziemba, Theresa Ann Reardon, Aldea (Margaret Frances) Caron, Frances Weber, Barbara Nicholas, Mary Pauline Quayhagen, Elisa Rodriguez, Anndavid Naeger, Jean (Christopher) and Sarah Marie Gillespie, Mark Therese Martelle, Lois Dunphy, Lilliosa Kelly, Bernice (Henry Marie) Juen, Frances Ratermann, and Mary Belle Tucker. I worked there part time for a year-and-a-half, then full time from 1970 to 1985 as the Director of Nursing Services.

My most treasured years!

— Carol Ann Ptacek SL Editor’s Note: Readers are encouraged to write to Loretto Magazine. Your letters are welcome!

Molly Butler named Loretto Volunteer Coordinator

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fter two years as an active Loretto Volunteer, Molly Butler, of Washington, D.C., has been named Coordinator of the Loretto Volunteer Program. In this capacity, Butler will manage and guide a group of volunteers who are chosen to work for a year in a variety of mission assignments in the United States. Butler herself has worked at a program for homeless children in the nation’s capital, and in New York with Sally Dunne CoL at the Loretto at the UN NGO Office at the United Nations.

Pakistan Endowment nears funding goal of $1 million

By Lydia Peña SL

Dear past and future donors, because of you and your generosity, the Pakistan Endowment that will support our Sisters of Loretto in Pakistan in perpetuity, has grown beyond $800,000. Thank you very much!

With less than $200,000 to go, I am counting on past and future donors to use the envelope with this magazine. Please check the last square, Other Project or Ministry, and write in Pakistan Endowment. Every gift matters, regardless of size. Bequests and gifts of stock are encouraged and valued as we move toward our goal of $1 million.

For further information please contact me at 303-783-0450, ext. 1725, or visit the Loretto Community website, www.lorettocommunity.org, and select Supporting Loretto along the top menu bar.

Nasreen Daniel SL, far right, with school children in Faisalabad, Pakistan. Photo by Maria Daniel SL.

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Webster University reaches century mark

By Annie Stevens SL

In Webster Groves, Mo., the Sisters of Loretto founded Loretto College in 1915 with five students.

One hundred years later, Webster University, as it is now known, enrolls 20,000 students across the world and graduates 7,000 students a year.

“Be part of what’s next” — the Webster University centennial theme — reflects the deep roots and wide branches of Loretto, recalling the visionary women who founded the college in 1915 with only five students. As a Sister of Loretto teaching at Webster today, I am grateful for these innovative educators as I continue to develop and teach interdisciplinary courses in human rights, religious and gender studies, and the global citizenship program.

Through experiential learning, my students and I have engaged in community service projects and conducted online interviews with people in other parts of the world.

Next spring, I am planning an online global gender rights class whose students will participate in the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women conference in New York.

Loretto in Missouri

Learning from those to whom we are sent and responding to the needs of the time have been part of Loretto mission from the beginning. The Loretto story in Missouri began in 1823, when Sisters established a school for girls in Perryville. The next year, Father Charles Nerinckx came to visit, a reunion cut short by his death on Aug. 12, 1824.

Inspired by their founder to instruct and assist all who came to their door, the Sisters of Loretto opened more schools in Missouri. In 1847, they came to Florissant, their first school in the St. Louis area. By the late 19th century, Loretto teachers staffed more than a dozen St. Louis parochial schools and two academies.

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Photos courtesy of Webster University

In 1897, the Sisters of Loretto bought the Benjamin Webster estate in Webster Groves, a growing western suburb, and conducted a school for girls until a fire in 1905 destroyed the house. Within a decade, Mother Praxedes Carty and her council responded to the growing demand for higher education for women, many of whom had graduated from Loretto academies. Despite the threat of war and economic depression in 1915, they decided to build on the old Webster Seminary site the new Loretto College, one of the first Catholic women’s colleges west of the Mississippi.

First year classes were held at Loretto Academy in Kansas City, Mo., while building progressed in Webster Groves.

On Nov. 1, 1915, the cornerstone of what is now Webster Hall was dedicated. The following September, Loretto College opened in Webster Groves with an enrollment of 35 students — five in the college and 30 in the grade and high school departments. By 1924, the name was changed to Webster College to avoid confusion with Loretto Academy on Lafayette in the city of St. Louis. Another change required for North Central Association accreditation led to separation of the college from the high school department, which moved down the street to Lockwood House and became Nerinx Hall.

As the college expanded, professional development among the faculty drew public attention. Mary Joseph Scherer SL, one of the first Sisters of Loretto to earn a doctorate, established The Gallery of Living Catholic Authors in

1932, with a board of literary scholars from around the world. With her radio class, Mary Louise Buetner SL directed a weekly broadcast in four languages, and Aloyse Ellington SL became the first Catholic Sister to publish original research in a scientific journal.

Webster’s Silver Anniversary in 1940 included greetings from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who recognized the “all-around training of heart and mind, with due emphasis on spiritual values, which must be at the very foundation of all real education.”

After World War II, novitiates and classrooms were overflowing. Webster College Summer School enrolled hundreds of Catholic Sisters in response to the Sister Formation Movement goal of a bachelor’s degree for every teaching Sister. In 1954, the Loretto House of Studies was established for young Sisters to study full time at Webster. By the 1960s, Francetta Barberis SL admitted male students, built the Loretto Hilton Theater, and established the first graduate program, a master of arts in teaching. In 1965, Sisters from Webster marched in Selma with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Further innovations followed with Jacqueline Grennan (Wexler) SL, who oversaw the transfer of ownership of Webster to a lay board in 1967.

Today, Loretto values of justice and respect continue at Webster’s worldwide campuses, particularly in programs for global citizenship, human rights and environmental studies. Professors Ed Sakurai CoL, Kathy Sullivan SL and I continue teaching at Webster, looking forward to “being part of what’s next” in centennial celebrations and community service.

Centennial year kickoff

On Nov. 1, 2014, the first day of the centennial year, Webster celebrated the vision of her founders, women of faith and scholarship who set out to change the future, one student at a time, from the original five to the 20,000 today. The evening revolved around a progressive dinner theme with each course accompanied by video interviews done at the Loretto Motherhouse. Nine proud Webster women — Cecily Jones SL, Mary Fran Lottes SL, Carol Dunphy SL, Gabriel Mason SL, Mary Martha (Sister Carl Marie) Mueller SL, Kay DeMarea SL, Mary Swain SL, Billie Vandover SL, and Eleanor Craig SL — discuss their Webster stories, recall significant people and express hopes for Webster’s future. Complete interviews may be viewed online at www.webster.edu/centennial/media/videos.html.

There’s more to come. The celebration of Webster’s centennial will continue throughout 2015. At the May commencement, Barbara Ann Barbato SL will receive an honorary Doctor of Pedagogy degree for her lifelong

Webster University Centennial Planning Committee spruced up the 100 years sculpture (lying flat) for the Centennial celebration kickoff at the Gateway Campus in downtown St. Louis.

work as a Webster educator; she is quick to note, “The honor really goes to all the Sisters who served at Webster throughout our history — teachers like Felicia Corrigan SL, who taught a generation of students to live Catholic social justice.” At the Loretto Assembly in July, Webster President Beth Stroble will be a dinner speaker. Last summer, she and her family spent a day at Motherhouse, Nerinx, Ky., in the Loretto Heritage Center reading letters from Louise Wise SL, who would become the first academic dean of Loretto College a century ago. On Nov. 1, 2015, to mark the historic occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of Webster Hall, Loretto invites everyone to an interfaith service of thanksgiving, which will include readings and music in the languages of Webster’s worldwide campuses on four continents.

“The 70th anniversary of my 1945 graduation coincides with Webster’s centenary,” notes Cecily Jones SL. “I celebrate with great gratitude for the past and with deep trust in Webster’s future.”

About the Author: Annie Stevens SL teaches at Webster University and Maryville University, both in St. Louis, and previously taught English in Nashville, Tenn. A Sister of Loretto since 2004, she serves on the Nerinx Hall Board of Directors and conducts research on Loretto history, which she has presented at professional meetings of the American Catholic Historical Association and Conference on the History of Women Religious. She is on the editorial committee of a forthcoming book researched by the late Joan Campbell SL, “Loretto: An Early American Congregation in the Antebellum South.”

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Loretto Hunger

World Hunger Facts

Source: United Nations World Food Programme 2014

About 842 million people in the world do not eat enough to be healthy; that is, one in every eight people on Earth goes to bed hungry each night.

The number of people living with chronic hunger has fallen by 17 percent since 19901992. It is possible to make a difference.

Most of the world’s undernourished people are still to be found in Southern Asia, closely followed by sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Asia.

A third of all deaths in children under the age of 5 in developing countries are linked to undernutrition.

In the developing world one child in four is stunted, meaning that their physical growth and mental well-being are impaired because of inadequate nutrition.

The first 1,000 days of a child’s life, from pregnancy through age 2, are critical. A proper diet in this period can protect children from the mental and physical stunting that can result from malnutrition.

If women farmers had the same access to resources as men, the number of hungry in the world could be reduced by up to 150 million.

It costs just 25 cents per day to provide a child with all of the vitamins and nutrients he or she needs to grow up healthy.

By 2050, climate change and erratic weather patterns could push another 24 million children into hunger. Almost half of these children would be in sub-Saharan Africa.

Hunger can be eliminated in our lifetimes.

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By Cecily Jones SL

young woman and her infant, fleeing from violence in Guatemala, arrive at Nazareth Hall in El Paso, Texas, the weary mother carrying her dehydrated child. Pedialyte provides quick relief for the baby. The Loretto Hunger Fund had sent money for this crucial infant supplement.

A homeless man joins the food line at Jeff Street Baptist Community, Louisville, Ky., on the edge of the poorest section of the city. For several years the Loretto Hunger Fund has helped this outreach program where 65 to 80 people are served a hot breakfast daily.

A couple, jobless and near eviction, pick up bag lunches at St. Vincent de Paul Church in the Soulard section of St. Louis, a parish that offers a meals program, a lunch window and a food pantry. The Loretto Hunger Fund for many years has contributed to this outreach service.

A tiny girl with a disability is fed a nourishing meal at Melissa’s Hope Orphanage in Port au Prince, Haiti, a home for special needs children. Since 2010, the Loretto Hunger Fund has assisted in this program.

This litany could include 14 other entries to describe the various ways in which this Loretto fund, through its 2014 distribution, helped an array of groups carry out their mission of feeding the hungry.

Since the Loretto Community initiated the Hunger Fund 40 years ago last year, Community members and friends have used this special means to channel their concern for the poor.

At the Community’s national assembly in 1974, one preoccupation surfaced: the crisis of hunger in many parts of the world. Loretto’s immediate response, because of “good management and good fortune during the past few years,” meant that a sizable grant went at once to the Childin-Need project of Catholic Relief Services, focused on the famine in parts of India. However, establishing the Loretto Hunger Fund opened the way for ongoing personal efforts to alleviate starvation.

Creativity and generosity have resulted in myriad methods of contributing, ranging from bake sales, yard sales, card

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sales, pottery sales to earnings from housesitting, pet care, recycling, election judging, and including gifts to honor jubilees, birthdays or deceased loved ones. Francis Jane O’Toole SL, an enthusiastic early promoter of the fund, often stressed “sacrifice money,” such as donating the cost of a dinner out or movie fee. Friends and Loretto members have faithfully supported the fund. And each fall, the total contributions from the year are allotted among the various groups who apply for help.

Hunger Fund grants have helped people in 30 countries: nine Latin American/Caribbean, nine African, seven Asian, three Middle Eastern, and two European. Groups in 22 states and one U.S. territory have benefited from the fund.

Through its 40-year history, the fund has dispensed a total of $681,062.

Touching messages from thank you letters illustrate the impact of the Loretto Hunger Fund:

Maria Engracia Robles (right), a Missionary Sister of the Eucharist, was presented with a $500 Hunger Fund check from Alicia Ramirez SL (center) and Carolyn Jaramillo CoL (left). The Missionary Sisters serve meals to migrants at a center near the Nogales, Mexico, border. The Loretto Hunger Fund has donated to them in 2010, 2011 and again last fall.

“Your contribution helped enable more than 150 children to receive lunch. For some of them, this is their only meal during the day,” from a center in Nogales, Ariz.

“If not for your support, we would not be able to make a difference in the lives of the women and children who come into our shelter,” from the director of a shelter for those fleeing domestic violence in Lebanon, Ky. “Your great generosity will put food on the tables of many pueblo families,” from an organization helping the poor on an Indian reservation near Jemez Springs, N.M. Back in 1974, a Community letter from then President Helen Sanders SL remarking about the newly established Hunger Fund stated that during the current crisis of hunger in the world, “we, … living in a land of plenty, must do something significant to alleviate it.”

As it has worked for the last 40 years to respond to that challenge, the Loretto Community will continue to contribute in its own way to fulfill the Gospel mandate to “feed the hungry.” Loretto’s many friends are invited to join in the effort.

Illustration of the Jeff Street Baptist Community homeless shelter, Louisville, Ky., by Charlie Merrill. Reprinted with permission.

To make a charitable contribution to the Hunger Fund, please use the envelope included in this magazine or visit www.lorettocommunity.org and select Supporting Loretto along the top menu bar. Be sure to designate your donation for the Hunger Fund.

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Sand Creek Massacre . . . commemorated 150 years later

By Carolyn Dunbar

Photos by Ruth Routten CoL and Mary Nelle Gage SL

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The Loretto Community’s history parallels this period.

The Sisters arrived in Denver the same year to serve and educate the territorial settlers. St. Mary’s Academy was founded that year and has marked its 150th anniversary.

At the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, you will have stepped onto the killing fields, finding them exactly as they were 150 years ago, except the blood has long since washed away. The stark act of massacre, however, the shock and collective memories remain. It was one of the worst, most shameful incidents in the sad chapter of the American Indian wars.

In 2014 Mary Nelle Gage SL happened to hear a radio interview with a member of the commission to plan the 150th commemoration of the Sand Creek Massacre. She contacted that person and asked to serve as liaison for Loretto among the groups represented on the commission.

Gage and Co-member Ruth Routten volunteered the Denver Loretto Community to provide breakfast for those gathered Nov. 28 and 29 at the Sand Creek site for the commemoration ceremonies (about 1,800 people) as well as the snacks and beverages for the three-day healing run from Sand Creek to Denver. The University of Denver provided the funds for the meals and refreshments. Mary Helen Sandoval CoL, Libby Comeaux CoL and Anna Koop SL gathered additional donations and joined the serving lines at the Denver events.

he vast emptiness strikes you first. The vault of sky rests on the hard-scrabble prairie, and the only living thing standing between them is you. It was to this unforgiving spot with little water, no crops, sparse local game and no natural shelter that the Plains Indians from the Arapaho and Cheyenne Tribes had been offered safe refuge by Colorado Territorial Gov. John Evans in 1864. Yet in a terrible turn of events just weeks after the Indians had made their encampment at Sand Creek 180 miles southeast of Denver, Col. John Chivington brought his cavalry down to slaughter them, killing 200 mostly tribeswomen and children in a surprise attack at dawn.

“To see those young people be so encouraged and fostered in the knowledge of their history, appreciation for their culture and celebration of their identity is really so inspiring,” said Gage. “It was tremendously moving,” said Routten.

Colorado’s current Gov. John Hickenlooper took the podium. “I want to thank the representatives from the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana, the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma (shown above right). I’d like to thank and recognize the representatives from the Sand Creek Massacre Descendent Committee and the descendents that are joining us today (shown above left), as well as representatives from the Governor’s Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration Commission,” he said.

“When the attack began and the shots rang out, Black Kettle exited his tent. He raised a pole with an American flag. The flag had been presented to him by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. So there could be no misunderstanding, Chief Black Kettle also raised a white flag. But the bullets kept coming,” said Hickenlooper. “Of the Native American victims, about three-fourths were women and children.”

Capt. Silas Soule refused to allow the men under his command to participate in the slaughter. For this he was honored at Riverside Cemetery. Young Cheyenne and Arapaho long-distance runners had stopped at the cemetery on their 180-mile trek to Denver to join hundreds of their tribespeople for official ceremonies at Soule’s grave.

Gov. Hickenlooper had noted their extraordinary run in remembrance of their ancestors.

“On ... Nov. 29, 1864, over 600 heavily armed U.S. Cavalry approached a bend in a dry riverbed,” said Hickenlooper. “Their commanding officer was Colonel John Chivington. At dawn they arrived at Sand Creek, an isolated, open space on the wind-swept plains. In the riverbed below the U.S. forces was an encampment of From left: Ruth Routten CoL and Mary 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho.

Nelle Gage SL with a National Park

“Today we gather here to fully acknowledge what happened: the massacre of Sand Creek. There is no rationalizing; there should be no sugar-coating history. We should not Ranger at Loretto’s breakfast buffet, Sand be afraid to criticize and condemn Creek Massacre National Historic Site.

“Weeks earlier, Chief Black Kettle that which is inexcusable. So I am had met with Gov. John Evans here here to offer something that has been in Denver. ... Black Kettle agreed to a too long in coming. On behalf of the truce and had been assured — or so he thought — that his State of Colorado, I want to apologize. And I don’t make people would have safe refuge at Sand Creek. A month that apology lightly. I talked to all of the living former later, when Chivington and his men arrived at Sand Creek, governors of Colorado going back for the past 40 years, most of the tribes’ young warriors were off hunting the and each one of them agrees and in spirit is standing here buffalo they would need to survive the winter. ... beside me.”

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‘If this were Jesus at your front door, would you turn Him away?’

— Joy Martinez

By Carolyn Dunbar

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oon a year will have passed since families and sometimes unaccompanied children flooded into the United States trying to escape the appalling violence in Central America. Many thousands of them arrived in El Paso, Texas, by plane, train, car or on foot. Today they still come, although the number of families is fewer than last summer. And the worst of the violence has now shifted back to Mexico, including Ciudad Juárez, which adjoins El Paso. Below, Juárez lies at the center of the photo, stretching onto the foothills. El Paso is shown in the foreground. The two cities, the two nations, are physically separated by a tall border fence. That’s all. Yet in every other important way, a gulf lies between them.

Photos by Michelle Waller

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Photo courtesy of Nazareth Living Care Center The old and the new — the original Nazareth Hall and chapel, left, and the new Nazareth Living Care Center, right. Both are located on the Loretto Academy campus, El Paso, Texas.

Opposite: Volunteers Patricia and Fred Malcolm on duty last summer at Nazareth Hall with items to be organized for the refugees.

Photo by Michelle Waller

The human needs are no less great than they were a year ago, and the citizens of El Paso, relief agencies — including the Loretto Community, Nazareth Living Care Center, local parishes, other Catholic Sisters and Annunciation House — continue responding to those needs.

Mary Peter Bruce SL, who relocated to El Paso five years ago, volunteers with the immigrant families who are housed temporarily at the original Nazareth Hall Nursing Center on the Loretto Academy and El Convento property.

The building, erected in 1963 and traditionally known as Nazareth Hall, was used as a retirement center for as many as 55 Sisters of Loretto who had worked in schools in and around El Paso. It also had offered skilled nursing care to these Sisters as they “aged in place” and to other low-income people in need of skilled care.

Months before the extreme border situation began in summer 2014, the old Nazareth Hall had been closed by the state for use as a skilled nursing facility. New laws and regulations would have required a total refit for fire sprinklers in every patient room and closet. A project like that would have cost upward of $1 million, an expense the Nazareth Board could not take on. “For me it was almost like the building had died. It was abandoned and dark,” said Bruce.

Buffy Boesen SL, who is president of Loretto Academy in El Paso, a Nazareth Board member, and serves on the Loretto Community Executive Committee, explained that hundreds of immigrants a day were arriving at the border from Central America. These people, who were escaping the violence in their home countries, arrived with only the clothes on their backs. Most were either unaccompanied 14 • Loretto Magazine

minors or single parents with children. Both Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) went through their processes, which included determining if the immigrants had a place to go in the United States and someone who would receive them. After verifying that and scheduling a deportation hearing in the place where the immigrants had family or friends, ICE had no way to facilitate the immigrants’ movement to their final destinations, Boesen said.

“In June 2014, ICE asked Ruben Garcia if he could find a way to aid the immigrants in their relocation,” Bruce said.

Garcia, as director of Annunciation House, has made his life’s work and mission serving those coming into the United States needing food and shelter. The number of immigrants needing services was much larger than Annunciation House could accommodate. Garcia approached Boesen, Joy Martinez, CEO of Nazareth Living Care Center (NLCC), and Elisa Rodriguez SL, the center’s chaplain, about the availability of Nazareth’s old wing. All agreed it would work. Meals could be prepared in Loretto’s kitchen across the alley. This allowed Nazareth to carry on its mission of feeding the immigrants.

Garcia and his volunteer staff coordinated many resources in El Paso, said Bruce, including other agencies, parishes and volunteer organizations, to provide families and individuals with the physical and legal assistance they need to rejoin their relatives in this country. As it happened, Nazareth Hall could provide a temporary shelter without breaking any regulations that pertained to the elderly in long-term care.

The Loretto Community was overjoyed to see Nazareth Hall serving such a pressing need, said Bruce. “Families

were registered and interviewed in one room and then went on to another room to ‘shop’ for clothing and toiletries. ...

“It was a perfect example of what it says in the scriptures — come and buy without money, the Bible says. People would come to the store, and the people of El Paso had donated the clothing and items they would need. After that they took a bath, then they had another interview with people who were helping with transportation. They got in touch with relatives. Most of them were people the children had not seen in years. To me it was just such a joy seeing the people of El Paso and Loretto being able to do something,” she said.

According to Bruce, Ruben Garcia reported that 5,000 volunteers last summer had donated food and clothing, and quite a few helped with transportation.

Martinez, who has been actively involved in repurposing the old Nazareth Hall, spoke eloquently about the Loretto values under which both facilities are run. “Part of our mission is serving those who are less fortunate. We are truly following the Gospel. If this were Jesus at your front door, would you turn him away? We have to see the face of Jesus in all those men, women and children escaping the violence in Mexico and Central America,” she said.

“It’s the right thing to do because it’s our mission. We are founded on the Gospel values of the Sisters. To turn our backs on these families would go against what the Sisters of Loretto stand for. While there is a need, we’re going to serve,” Martinez said.

Alicia Ramírez SL, who responded last summer to the call for El Paso volunteers, left her home at Loretto Motherhouse, Nerinx, Ky., to spend five weeks at Nazareth Hall primarily cleaning and preparing rooms for the incoming families. “Joy Martinez knows the mission we have to offer hospitality to those in need. What we’re doing is receiving the people, trying to make them feel at home and facilitating their contact with family and friends in the U.S. to see if they can arrange for travel,” said Ramírez.

“The volunteers in El Paso have been absolutely wonderful.

They sort clothing and arrange it according to size and gender. I cannot say enough about the people of El Paso,” she said.

whose dad was killed by the cartel and whose family was threatened. The best thing they know how to do is to go to the international bridge, surrender to the border police and ask for asylum. The drug cartels or other gangs in Juárez act like mafia, extorting money from business owners.

Either they pay it or the gangs will kill someone in their family. In this case they killed the father. The family was left with no income, no breadwinner, nothing,” Rodriguez said.

Bruce gave more examples of horrific situations, including that of a 35-year-old man in Chihuahua, Mexico, who owned a successful bakery. The drug lords began extorting him for $100 a week, and he paid, and paid and paid ... until he stopped doing it. “The next week he was playing football in the park,” said Bruce, “and two men came in an SUV, took the baker away and cut off both his feet.”

She added, “Families don’t want to keep their children down there. They cannot attend school, and their young ones are in danger of being conscripted into the armies.”

Rodriguez said, “We offer them a place to rest their heads, shower and eat a good meal — whatever they need — in a safe environment. The need will continue until the desire for drugs in the United States diminishes. Mexico was such a lovely, peacful country. Once the consumption of drugs went high in the U.S., and the poverty continued to worsen, the drug trade just went wild.”

Perhaps Martinez has put it best in her thank you letter to contributors. “Because of unusual circumstances, we are able to extend aid to those who are most in need. We help our neighbors as much as we can, and in these terrible days of violence in Latin America, we have extended aid to those fleeing from harm, especially to children and mothers. Your contribution will have a positive and lasting effect on the physical, mental, spiritual and social wellbeing of those we serve.”

Photo by Carina Sanchez

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Why do they still come?

Rodriguez said they have three, sometimes five, families in Nazareth Hall these days. “We have continued to have people now not so much from El Savador or Nicaragua or other places in Central America, but right here from the valley of Juárez,” she said. “We just had a family Spring 2015 • 15

loretto community members to remember Barbara Croghan SL

Jan. 22, 1919 — Jan. 16, 2015

Readers are encouraged to view complete remembrances on the Loretto website:

www.lorettocommunity.org

Mary Barbara Croghan was born in Denver Jan. 22, 1919, the first of three children of John and Barbara Stroh Croghan. Baptized Dorothy Ellen, she took the name Sister Barbara Marion at her reception into Loretto in 1935. Barbara’s family moved from Colorado when she was little more than a year old, and she had always claimed California as her home. She attended Holy Name School, Los Angeles, for five years under the Sisters of Loretto and later wrote that the happiness of the Sisters had sparked her desire to enter religious life. Barbara applied to enter the novitiate when she was just 15 years old. She taught for 30 years, beginning at Blessed Sacrament in Denver; continuing at Douglas, Ariz.; Divine Savior in Los Angeles; St. James in Highwood, Ill.; and St. Joseph in Rawlins, Wyo. Except for an interim time at All Souls in Denver, Barbara taught the remainder of her years in Illinois at Rock Falls, Highland Park and Sterling. She returned to the Loretto Center in Denver from 1971 to 1990, tutoring for the Rhodes Tutoring Center and volunteering at the Center and in the city. She was awarded a Certificate of Merit from Arapahoe County, Colo., for her service as a commodity distribution volunteer in the mid-1980s. She was a member of Church Women United, serving as the local Denver treasurer and receiving their Valiant Woman Award. In 1990 Barbara retired to the Loretto Motherhouse, Nerinx, Ky., pleased to return to the place where she had been so happy as a young novice. Sister Barbara was 95 years old at the time of her death and in her 80th year as a Sister of Loretto.

Carol Dunphy SL (formerly Sister Peter Michael) March 12, 1922 — Feb. 19, 2015

Carol Mae Dunphy was born March 12, 1922, in Eastlake, Colo., the first of four children of Arthur John Dunphy and Edith Louise Molholm Dunphy. Carol attended Holy Family High School in northwest Denver where the Sisters of Loretto taught. Graduating in 1940, she completed two years of business college, and gained secretarial experience in a law office. By then the Second World War was underway and the WAVES was just being organized as a division of the U.S. Navy. Carol joined them in 1943 and was trained in the Navy’s system of correspondence. Discharged in 1945, she decided to use the G.I. Bill toward her college degree, attending Webster College, Webster Groves, Mo., through her junior year. She then entered the Sisters of Loretto and was received in 1949, taking the name Sister Peter Michael, a name she used until 1966. After making first vows in 1951, Carol return to Webster College to complete her degree in English with a minor in Spanish. She then taught at Nerinx Hall High School near the college. In 1957 she was transferred to teach at Loretto Heights College, Denver. Three years later she volunteered to go to South America with Eva Marie Salas SL and Mary Peter Bruce SL to establish Loretto’s first mission there. Carol returned to the United States in 1967 and taught at Loretto High School in Louisville, Ky.; she became principal in 1971. In 1975 she moved to Denver to work in a program of Catholic Charities for the resettlement of Vietnamese refugees and as secretary to Sister Loretto Anne Madden with the Colorado Social Legislation Committee. In 1980 Carol became a member of the Loretto staff, working 20 years assisting three Loretto presidents. Sister Carol was 92 years old at the time of her death and in her 66th year as a Sister of Loretto.

Margaret Drury CoL

Sept. 28, 1929 — Feb. 18, 2015

Margaret Cotillion Powell was born Sept. 28, 1929, at home in Loretto, Ky. Margaret’s father, Robert Powell, was killed at the railroad tracks in Loretto before she was born. Her mother, Jane Elizabeth Miles Powell, raised Margaret and her eight brothers and sisters through the Depression years. Margaret began working at a very young age, missing the opportunity to go to school. She worked at Loretto Distillery and in several people’s homes before marrying Joseph Henry Drury on April 26, 1947. They had four children, Ronnie who was killed in an accident, Joyce, Billy and Timmy. Margaret had seven grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. She worked at the Loretto Motherhouse from 1962 until she retired in 1989. Sienna Jansing SL, Loretto Infirmary’s first director, originally hired Margaret for just three weeks to help with cleaning the facility. Margaret stayed on for 27 years, performing housekeeping duties and supervising the big laundry at the Motherhouse. An avid seamstress and quilter, she became a Loretto Co-member in 1979 and expressed the desire “to help other people the way the Sisters do.” After helping so many people, Margaret made her home at the Motherhouse Infirmary, where she died surrounded by family and her beloved Loretto Sisters.

Margaret was 85 years old at the time of her death and in her 36th year as a Loretto Co-member.

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loretto community members to remember R. Brian Hammond CoL

Nov. 2, 1943 — March 1, 2015

Brian Hammond was born Nov. 2, 1943, in Syracuse, N.Y. In 1975 he married Barbara Mecker CoL, and they had two children, Michelle and Anne. Brian had two children from an earlier marriage, Aimee and Brad. In 1982 he earned his bachelor’s degree at Syracuse University and completed graduate courses in business and public administration. In 1983 he attended classes at Webster University, Webster Groves, Mo. During his career, Brian worked as a sales representative for several companies and for 10 years as a program director for Catholic Charities of Syracuse, and as Training Department Supervisor for The National Youth Community Service Demonstration Project, also in Syracuse. He specialized in information systems management, and later served for 11 years as information technology manager for Daughters of Charity National Health System and as director of Ascension Health, St. Louis, from which he retired in 2010. Brian made his commitment to Loretto Co-membership in 1998. He served on the Loretto Community Forum for six years and on the Loretto Investment Committee for 15 years. Brian was 71 years old at the time of his death and in his 17th year as a Loretto Co-member.

Donald E. McCloskey CoL

Oct. 21, 1937 — Jan. 13, 2015

Adapted from a remembrance written by Libby Comeaux CoL

Don McCloskey was born Oct. 21, 1937, and grew up in Denver. He was active in St. Joseph’s parish and made an early commitment to a spiritual quest he followed throughout his life. Don attended high school in Kirkwood, Mo.; earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and theology at Oconomowoc College in Wisconsin; studied counseling at Loyola University and DePaul University, both in Chicago; and earned a master’s degree in organizational leadership at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash. A former Redemptorist priest, Don met and married Magdalena (Gilmary) Chevalier, a former Sister of Loretto.

The couple were among the first to make a Co-membership commitment to the Loretto Community on Jan. 1, 1973, signed by Loretto President Helen Sanders SL. Don was an experienced mediator and served as co-coordinator of the West Central Conflict Resolution Team, Spokane. He and his wife helped design the APPLE school, a parent-involvement program in public education, also in Spokane. Moving to Denver in 2000, the McCloskeys welcomed their son Mitch and daughter Gia and their families, who had all relocated to Denver. Don and Magdalena were regular participants in the Denver Gospel Group for many years and participated in the Kairos worship community, also. He and Magdalena were active in the Denver Loretto Community. Don was 77 years old at the time of his death and in his 42nd year as a Loretto Co-member.

Charlotte Marie Schwartz SL April 26, 1911 — Jan. 20, 2015

Charlotte Marie Schwartz was born in St. Louis April 26, 1911, baptized as Mary Melinda, the only child of Edward and Charlotte McDough Schwartz. She began elementary school in 1917 at St. James the Greater School, but soon transferred to Immaculate Conception School in Maplewood, Mo., where her Loretto education began. Her eighth grade teacher, Fredric Glassmeyer SL, first gave her the idea of joining the Sisters of Loretto. She attended Nerinx Hall High School, Webster Groves, Mo., starting in 1925, and four years later enrolled at Webster College, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in English and history in 1933. Melinda Schwartz was received into the Loretto Community as Sister Charlotte Marie in 1934. Although she had no training as a teacher she began schooling 60 primary-grade children in Loretto, Ky. Charlotte was assigned to teach high school at St. Mary’s in Colorado Springs., Colo., and then transferred to Loretto Academy (Broadway) in Louisville, Ky. After six years at Broadway, Charlotte went on to teach for 32 years in 10 Loretto high schools across the country. She enrolled in a master’s program in library science at the University of Indiana in Bloomington. In 1971 she started as a librarian in the Louisville public school system. Six years later Charlotte moved to Denver to work for the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center, then briefly for the Loretto staff, as a clerk at St. Mary’s Academy and as a driver for the Loretto Community. In the mid-1980s she moved to El Paso, Texas, as a volunteer driver for five years, retiring in Denver in 1988. At 101 years old she presided as Grand Marshal of the first Christmas parade of the Kentucky town of Loretto. Charlotte Marie was just three months from her 104th birthday when she died peacefully at the Motherhouse in her 81st year as a Sister of Loretto.

Special thanks are given to Loretto Archivist Eleanor Craig SL and her Archives Team — Donna Mattingly SL, Janet Rabideau SL and Marcia Mohin — from whose research and writing these remembrances have been adapted.

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Memorials and Tributes of Honor October 2014 — January 2015 In Memory of: Requested by: Dorothy Abell-Nally Frances Pauline Mattingly Peggy McCormick Akins Mary McManus Leon Albin Gail Albin Julia Amidei Lawrence Amidei Marian Anderson Madonna Newburg Vincent Andrasko Margaret Andrasko Mary & John Antoine Valerie & Albert Antoine Paul Arbogast Theresa & Charlie Arbogast Ann Cecilia Baca SL Mary Young Earl Back Judith & Robert Allan May & Henry Batherus Arlene Palshikar Mary Louise Beutner SL Elmira Smith Wilkey Anna & Charles Berzin Valerie & Albert Antoine Charlotte and Bernard Blommer The Blommer Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John Vander Bloomen & Family Velma & Edward Gembra Mary Boland* Rev. Sally K. Brown Edwardine Boone SL Rose Mary & Tom Wargel Mary Grace Boone SL Mary & Jim Rogers Rose Mary & Tom Wargel Rosita Boone SL Rose Mary & Tom Wargel Gerry Boschert Alicia Butler Rev. Kevin Bradt SJ Frances Entwistle Margaret & Henry Ferraioli Mary Roger Brennan SL Karen Erickson

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Mary Rhodes Buckler SL Warren Buckler Joan Kidney Katrina O’Leary Mary Frances Palumbo Margaret & John Veatch Frances Buetenbach SL Donald Tiffany Alexius Burgess Eileen Burgess Mary Elizabeth Byrnes Joan & James Costello Katherine L. Carley The Loretto Community Marie & John Carroll Joan Palazzotto Edward J. Cassilly Patricia & Dallas Edwards Constance & Joseph Clifford Kathleen & Thomas Dostal Deceased members of the Clifford/Novak Families Bernadette & Patrick Clifford Jane Winburn Close Mary Jane & Charles McCarthy Helen Cocker Constance & Richard Baldrini Mariella Collins SL Joan & Walter Burtelow Thomas Comer Helen Comer Dick Compton Kate & Joseph Hakala The Loretto Community Felicia Corrigan SL Mary Joan Kenny Jimmy Crawford Angela & Jerome Booth Barbara Croghan SL The Loretto Community Theresa Kinealy* Kathy Crowley Karen & Tom Gross Nancy Lee Spaulding Crowley Mary Sue Anderson Jeanne Cushing SL Donald Tiffany

Aline Dalton SL Betty Vassari Dorothy & William McAuliffe My wife, Millie Dampf Donald Dampf Our son, Terry Dearing Alice & John Dearing Deceased members of the DeCourcey Family Maureen DeCourcey Mary Ellen Dintelmann Ann Dintelmann Marian Disch SL Joan Donnelly Barbara & Richard Cross Daria & Joseph Conran William T. Diss The Loretto Community Rita Don, M.D. The Loretto Community Jeanette Marie Donnelly SL Mary & Jim Bruce Arlene Hagen Julia Dooling SL Rev. Msgr. Leo Horrigan Sophie & Anthony Dostal Kathleen & Thomas Dostal The deceased Driscoll Family members Margaret Driscoll Mary & John Dulla Yvonne Harding Beth Ann & Bob Dusselier Geraldine F. Dusselier Mary Albertius Goessling Dwyer Mary Alice Dobbin Antonella Marie Gutterres SL Betty & Bill Samaritano Elizabeth Burt Eatough The Loretto Community Robert Leona Edelen SL Wanda & James Edge Margaret Grace Elsey SL Ruth Billings Luckey Jack Evans Theora Lechner Evans Rosemary Fiori SL Dolores & Charles Carr

Camilla Kryzsko Michele & Michael Markham Mary McAuliffe SL Bernadette Mary Fischer SL Wanda & James Edge Margaret Fitzgerald SL Martha Alderson* Frances Candlin Mary & Ethan Fonte Virginia & Patrick McGrail Anabel Madsen Fraass Frank Fraass Philibert Fuite SL Mary Martinez Lorene M. Gardetto Gail Campanella Mrs. Morris T. Gallegos Dolores Florez My father, Manuel Garibaldi Manuel Garibaldi Mary Catherine Geitl The Loretto Community Mary & Edward Geitl Priscilla & Michael O’Leary Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Gembra & Family Velma & Edward Gembra Ann Francis Gleason SL Carol & Greg Harris Helen Ryan Kindler Carol Mattingly Elizabeth & John Starkey Nancy & John Sunkel Mary Joe Zeillmann Margaret Sophia Goessling Mary Alice Dobbin MaryLou Goetz Denise Ann Clifford SL Joan & Gene Deges Frances & J. A. Gomez Sylvia & Harold Sexton Ishaq Gouri The Loretto Community Alvera Grawer SL Manuel Garibaldi Gondina Greenwell SL Elizabeth & William Mariner Helen Grennan* Joan & Charles Grennan

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

Mathew Marie Grennan SL Joan & Charles Grennan Paul Mary Grennan SL Joan & Charles Grennan Mary Joe Zeillmann Frances Therese Halloran SL Marie Chaney Royal Isabelle Hamilton Ann Mudd Barbara Hand Theresa Cannon Theodore Hansen Janet & John O’Connor Catherine Hart Catherine & LeRoy Ellgass John Marco Henderson Helen Chew &

Mark Henderson Marie Noël Herbert SL James C. Herbert Antonio Hernandez Denise Ann Clifford SL Judith Hernandez Denise Ann Clifford SL Rose Henry Higdon SL Tom Freedman &

Doug Klocke Joseph D. Highland Mary Highland JoAnn Slater Loretta Holcomb Ronald Gutzwiller Trey Hugenberg Karen & Joe Hugenberg Margaret Ann Hummel SL Anonymous Jane & Norbert Hummel Mary Kwan Florence Lormans Rosie Noe The Noe Family Mary Jean Hummel SL Jane & Norbert Hummel Robert Ivancic Jean Ivancic James P. Jagger Emma Jagger Eloise Jarvis SL Doris Beuttenmuller

Mary Bickel Bernice Juen SL Ruth Billings Luckey Patrice Molinarolo Mary Young Mary Kaiser Adrienne Matcham Mary & Gene Kaiser Colette & Terance Purcell Patricia Kaiser Valorie & Gerald Becker Margaret & Jim Keane Margaret E. Keane Rosemary Keegan SL Margie & Allen Keegan Eileen Kelly SL Rita Kennedy Hill Francis Eileen Kelly SL Rita Kennedy Hill Mary Ann Kelsey Margaret & John Veatch Rev. Paul Kersgieter Eileen Kersgieter SL Robert Klinger Rita Klinger Margaret Lottes Knockles Sherry & Dave Knockles Madeleine Marie Koch SL Catherine Czysz Martha Ann Koch SL Catherine Czysz Charlotte Koenig Denise Ann Clifford SL Eileen & Jeffrey Fostey William Kranz Eileen Kranz Corrine C. Kuester Sandra L. Kuester George Lambert Irene Fitch Abby Marie Lanners Patricia & Larry Lanners Margaret Knecht Lee Mary Frances &

Donald Schroeder Winifred & Edmond Leach Carol Selig Gilbert Lederhos Thelma Mae Lederhos

Mary Leibman* Rose Marie Hayden Rose Annette Liddell SL Gerry Prus Paschalita Linehan SL Louise W. Berezny Mary Catherine Cernicek Julie McGrenera-Morley Karen & Stanley Walton III All my Loretto teachers at Webster College Melanie De Porter All my teachers grades 1–12 Madeleine Jenne All Sisters of Loretto who taught me Verlene D. Rogalin All the Sisters of Loretto who taught or worked with me at Loretto Heights College from 1947 to 1950 Leonida & Conrad Bodner All the wonderful Sisters of Loretto Patricia & John Brock The deceased Sisters of Loretto Marinna Finch Loretto Academy, El Paso, Texas Maria Emelda Valadez My Loretto teachers Gloria Tabacchi My school days in Shanghai, China Theresa M. DaSilva The Sisters of Loretto who taught at Immaculate Conception School, Morovia, Calif.

Grace Pino The Sisters of Loretto who taught at Machebeuf High School (1960-1964) Anne Kelly The Sisters of Loretto who taught in Shanghai, China Dorothy Parker

The Sisters of Loretto who taught me LaVerne Saxbury Alice Ann Love* Joy & Roman Gales Margaret Mary Lucka Patricia Lucka Aaron Luoma The Loretto Community Angela Lynn SL Mary Burke Margaret Rose Lynn Mary Burke Mary Mangan SL Richard Fox Ann Manganaro SL Helen & Bud Hensgen Josephine Marino Virginia Tubbs Joan Markely SL Dolores Sharp Quino E. Martinez Mary Martinez Susan C. & Gerald E. McAuliffe Mary McAuliffe SL Edwin Mary McBride SL Susan & Christopher Congalton Margaret Couvillon Cynthia Giguere-Unrein Mary McManus Margaret & John Veatch Susan McCarthy Amy McCarthy Don McCloskey* The Loretto Community Deceased members of the McDonald/Lottes families John F. McDonald Mr. & Mrs. G.C. McEvoy Patricia Kabler May Ann (Coffey) McGillis John McGillis Larry McGinn Yvonne McGinn R. Mary & Richard McManus Mary McManus Rose Clare McWhorter SL Maria Emelda Valadez Spring 2015 • 19

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In Memory of: Requested by:

Mike Miles Deborah & James Knost Joe Miller Ursula Miller Bill Minelli Sally Minelli Jane (Fitzsimons) Molgaard Allan Molgaard Rev. Edward T. Moore Carole J. Moore James “Jim” Moseley Denise Ann Clifford SL Ann Mueller SL Linda & Robert Mueller Jane Frances Mueller SL Linda & Robert Mueller Monica Mueller Robert Mueller Marie Clyde Murphy SL Mary & Jerry Shimel Emile Nerinckx The Loretto Community Genevieve & Edward Nichols Mary Ann & Gayle Rogers Robert F. Noe Viki (Noe) & John Chikow Frances Ann O’Bryan SL Doris J. Pittman Doloretta Marie O’Connor SL Emma Kaye Smith Genevieve & Howard O’Hara Ann & Michael O’Hara Tim O’Leary Katrina O’Leary Kathleen Mary O’Malley SL Emily O’Neill Naomi O’Meara SL Judith & Robert Allan Ruth Mary Olszewski SL Edward Olszewski Regina Opfer Kevin O’Brien Anna Ortiz Loretta Felderhoff Ethelbert Owens SL Julia Gonzales Lilliana Owens SL Doris & Ken Owens Philip Payne Georgia Payne Georgia Peter Mary Lou Sherman Anna M. Philipp Nancy & Fred Schweiger Ruth Pickett The Loretto Community Ann Monica Pierce SL Carol & Lawrence McDaniel

Judith & Anthony Piana Marie Catherine Pohndorf SL Margaret & John Veatch Jerry Pollack & Family Mary Sandoval Rome Ines Profaizer Emma & George Steen Mary & Bill Purcell Colette & Terance Purcell Victoria Quatmann SL Asherah Cinnamon Aidea & Robert Sluyter John C. Radovich Carol Radovich Jean Louise Rafferty SL Sandra & Galen Graham Sarah & Antonio Jimenez My mother, Eileen Coffeey Rasmussen, who attended St. Mary’s Academy & Loretto Heights College in the 1930s Judy Schuenemeyer Frances Ratermann SL Rosa Maria Gonzalez Lucy Ruth Rawe SL Doris Beuttenmuller Margaret Reidy SL Marybeth Moorhead Jean & Michael Reidy Ann Ferras Remedios Vincent Remedios Joseph J. Reuter Susan & John Reuter Ellen Thomas Reynolds SL Loretto & Bill Peterson Helen Ann Reynolds SL Patricia & Joseph Dimario Marie & John Kodadek Helen Lowes & Family Loretto & Bill Peterson Sara Reynolds Leo Marie Reynolds SL Loretto & Bill Peterson Jane Marie Richardson SL Melanie De Porter Andrea Macmillan Carol & Lawrence McDaniel Agnes E. Richardson Joan Riegel Leo Riegel Mary A. Hauber Rieger Frank Rieger M. Albertina Riordan SL Marguerite Allan Bud Ritter Angela & Jerome Booth

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Francis Louise Ritter SL Claire & Jerry Nix Manuel J. Rodriguez Jean Rodriguez Bernard Rogers Vernell Rogers Margaret & Carol Rogers Mary Ann & Gayle Rogers Agnes M. Romanek Molly & Joseph Romanek Ann Lucille Ryan SL Joan & Paul Sheffer Elda Saccone Joseph Saccone Anna Barbara Sakurai* Charles Brady Leonora Mary Schierman SL Rene Lusser Jim Schumacher* The Loretto Community Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Schmidt Regina H. Schmidt Patricia Clancy Schuerger Thomas Schuerger Charlotte Marie Schwartz SL The Loretto Community Marion Schweiger Nancy & Fred Schweiger Ann Rita Sheahen SL Catherine & LeRoy Ellgass Don Sherman Mary Lou Sherman Lola & Charles Shirley Rose & Larry Bradley Magdalen Mary Skees SL Shelia O’Donnell-Schuster Margaret Michelle Skees SL J. A. M. Hadcock Rev. John Spalding, who introduced me to Loretto Jo Ann Testa Christina Stuart SL Maura & Clyde Graven Charlotte Word Studenka Martha & William Benningfield Keith, Beulah, Sally & Luke Studer Susan Pelz Susan Swain SL Robert Flynn & Kathy Walsh Marjorie Hanson Sweeney Francis Sweeney Mary Jean Tenhaeff SL Pat & Jack Sliemers Nancy Wilkins Jeanne Sward Thebado Charlotte Kilpatrick

Christine Thompson SL Rev. Msgr. Leo Horrigan Alice Eugene Tighe SL Mary Bickel Elizabeth & William Mariner Doris J. Pittman Thomas Tighe Ann Virginia Tighe SL Thomas Tighe Carolyn Mary Tighe SL Thomas Tighe Margaret Tighe Thomas Tighe Mr. & Mrs. Richard Timperman Mary Helen & Emil Peter III Mary Luke Tobin SL Lou & William Kelly Ann Wall Richards Pat & Jack Sliemers Patricia Toner SL Eliza Young Emmanuel Tonne SL Sue Fenwick Beverly Troudt Shelly & Dan Clem Lillian & Lupe Trujillo Mary Lou Trujillo Louise Udovick RGS Russell Fallon Virginia “Ginger” Upton Janet & Eddie Burke, Jr. Denise Ann Clifford SL Katherine & Ken DeLorenzo Chris Utz Margaret Utz Garry Utz Margaret Utz Walter Vaga, Sr. Alyssa Iaia & John Carr Aileen Van Der Beck Ann Mullally Lolita & Desiderio Vargas Mary & John Ybarra Manuel & Manuela Vasquez Mary Lou & Joseph Vasquez Carina Vetter SL Martha Alderson* Kathleen & Charles Titterton Janice & Ed Weber William Vetterlein Theresa & Charlie Arbogast Ann Patrice Wagner SL Ann Stoddard Dean Wake Lawrence Amidei Philomena Wake Lawrence Amidei

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Austin & Andrew Walker Cathy & Dennis Walker My parents, Marcell & Leo Walter Loretto Walter Seltzer Rose Vincent Wander SL Clarence Zacher Ann Patrick Ware SL Linda Jenkins Melanie De Porter My aunt, Ida Marie Weakland SL Mary Lou Weakland My parents, Midge & Joe Westerhaus Nancy Baxter Jacqueline Grennan Wexler* Mary Sue Brock

Rita Burrows Melanie De Porter Deceased members of the Wheatley Family Mary Myers Ann White SL Regina & Tim Durbin Melissa & William Gunter Betsy Newton Kimberly Osborne Inez & John David White George Gillette White, Sr. Janyce White Angel Elizabeth Wiehe Hajnalka Kelly Madelaine & Henry Kelly Rosemary Wilcox SL Mary & Jim Bruce

Berneice Williams* Mary Young Patricia Williams SL Mary Young Mary Josepha Wiseman SL Mary Wiseman Roscoe Trinidad & Joseph Ybarra Mary & John Ybarra Gregoria Zapata The Loretto Community Monica Marie Ziemba SL Rev. Joseph Graffis Rev. Eugene Zoeller Patricia Ann Geier Frances Zoghby SL Mabel Elias Emily Hamra Patricia & Charles Hyland

Melanie & John Joseph Barbara Kahalley Charles Kahalley Linda, Lucy & Anthony Kahalley Patricia & Charles Kahalley Georgia Karam The Loretto Community Doris Ola Charlotte Zoghby Owsianny & Family Hannah Thomas Lois Williams Theresa Kahalley Williams & Family Cecilia Zoghby Mary S. Zoghby

Lee Connolly SL Susan Murray & Michael

Tevlin Mary Helen Coughlin Barbara Cummings Mary Ann Coyle SL Deborah Nelson Cathy Darnell* Elissa Augello Donna Day SL Susan & Dennis Cuddihee Joan Deges Gene Deges Janice DeVischer Kelly Marie Darby Antoinette Doyle SL Susan & Christopher

Congalton Cynthia Giguere-Unrein Jeanne Dueber SL Loretto Academy, Kansas City, Class of 1964 †Carol Dunphy SL Jackie Crawford Lois Dunphy SL Jackie Crawford Marie Ego SL Nancy & John Colvin Cornelia Dietz Jean Ivancic Tess Malumphy

Ann Salter Denise & Ed Elder Sally Minelli Martha Francis Elliott Ruth Aldridge Sandra Fedele Emma & George Steen Maureen Fiedler SL Thomas W. Bower Lorraine & William D’Antonio Patricia Mary Frueh SL Fritz Hitchcock My mother, Jessie Garibaldi Manuel Garibaldi Troy Garrison* Shelia Smith JoAnn Gates* Harriet Peake Mays Mary Ann Gleason SL Asherah Cinnamon Marietta Goy SL Mark Hinueber Jeannine Gramick SL Thomas W. Bower Lorraine & William D’Antonio Ruthann Fox-Hines Rosemary & James Jepson Joan O’Neill Ryan Ignatius Pratt Mary Beth & Richard Rock

Rev. Paul K. Thomas Mary Katherine Hammett SL Lois & John Hammett Marilyn Montenegro Eileen Harrington* Donald Tiffany Barbara Hennigar’s Retirement Charles Allen Paula Cholmondeley Phyllis Kay Dryden Barbara Jacobs Noelle & Keith Karlawish Carol Kosel Douglas Kridler Lydia & Michael Marshall Gabriel Mary Hoare SL Carol Colligan Patricia Hummel SL Jane & Norbert Hummel Peggy James Janyce White Angel Carolyn Jaramillo* Mary Ann Johnson Donna Johannessen Arlene Palshikar Cecily Jones SL Jackie Crawford Emily O’Neill Pat & Jack Sliemers

In Honor of: Requested by: Pauline Albin SL Eliza Young Marianne Alpers & daughter Patrick Alpers Sandra Ardoyno SL Patricia & William King Emily O’Neill Jackson Baker Colette & Terry Purcell Barbara Ann Barbato SL Mary Bickel Richard Fox Katherine R. Woodward Kay Carlew SL Michael Sewell & Judith Cooke John & Ronald Carr Alyssa Iaia & John Carr Denise Ann Clifford SL Frances & Tim Arnoult Emily & Trey Burke Grace & Bill Carr Patricia M. Henderson Karen & Joe Hugenberg Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians Nancy & Jacques Leveille Rev. Bernard Meyer Meredith & Michael Rice Elizabeth Ann Compton SL Catherine Hakala

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In Honor of: Requested by:

E. B. Kaldenhoven Marcia* & Joop Kaldenhoven Sharon Kassing SL Nina Bryans Mary Beth Keaney Barbara Cummings Eileen Kersgieter SL Regina & Steve Hermann Beatrice Klebba SL Irene Bugdalski Margaret Rose Knoll SL, 100th Birthday Mary Ann Knoll Anna Koop SL Arthur Carbonell Camilla Kryzsko Kay Lane SL Paula & Alfred Frey Margaret Green & Tom Tighe All retired Sisters of Loretto Rev. Msgr. Edward Madden All Sisters of Loretto who taught in Sterling, Ill. Tom Sullivan All the Sisters of Loretto Annamae Gallegos All the Sisters of Loretto who taught me Leonard Hall Verlene D. Rogalin All of the wonderful Sisters who taught our children Viola Sirovatka The Loretto Community Donna Hamburg The Sisters of Loretto for their courage in the face of unjust Papal Positions Maureen & John Hutchinson The Sisters of Loretto who taught at Immaculate Conception School, Morovia, Calif.

Grace Pino The Sisters of Loretto who taught at Machebeuf High School, Denver, Colo., (1960-1964) Anne Kelly Sisters of Loretto, for all your guidance which still rings in our lives!

Leilani Chu

Mary Frances Lottes SL Susan & Gary Johnson Mary C. Lottes Mary & Thomas Morrison Patricia Jean Manion SL Melissa J. Brechon Theora Lechner Evans Mary C. Ferris Elinor Greenberg Rosemary Mason Patricia Owen Gabriel Mason SL Frances Candlin Patricia Wiedower My mother, Susan McCarthy Amy McCarthy Maureen McCormack SL Kathy & Michael Riordan Patricia McCormick SL Marilyn Sue Morris Stormy McDonald Fran Marcus Lewis Susan Carol McDonald SL Martha Alderson* Cabrini Bartolo SL Eileen Kersgieter SL Mary Ellen McElroy SL Patrick McElroy Mary Ann McGivern SL Mary Bickel Celestia Gaudreanlt Pearl McGivney SL Chris & Sal Molina Dinah McMichael Theresa Cannon Mary Jo Moana Mary Highland Mary Louise (Lea) Murphy Laura & William Knox Robert Nail Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Nail Barbara Nicholas SL Judy McLaughlin Valerie Ann Novak SL Nancy Hillhouse Orphaned Children in Haiti Elena & Eduardo Garcia Lydia Peña SL, 80th Birthday Lois Buckley Antoneilli Colleen Belisle Dora Elizabeth Cash Lorraine Castro Peggy & Donald R. Danborn Kelly Marie Darby

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Gretchen & Frank Delaney Andrea Dukakis Anne Farrar Mary Faulkner Jennifer Alter Fischer Kathleen & Inge Fretheim Francis Fryberger Cece & Robert Holt Frances Hopp Karen & Michael Loden Kam & Michael Martin Katherine & Denis McInerny Joann & John McTasney Neyeska & Stephen Mut Margaret Mylet Lisa Neikirk Maria Peek Theresa Perkins Vickie Schmidt Patti & James Schoeninger Linda Schumacher Ruth Silver Mary & George Sissel St. Mary’s Academy,

Class of 1964 Melissa Steins Jo Lynne Whiting Rosalie Marie Phillips SL Barbara McCarville Elaine Prevallet SL Dale Coski & Alice Fritz Patricia Owen Veronica Price Ruth Aldridge Gail Pugh Chris & Sal Molina Rosemary Reu Nancy & John Vincent Charis Riegel Leo Riegel Helen Santamaria SL Julie & Stephen Sheridan Anthony Mary Sartorius SL Sheila Beims Virginia St-Cyr Barbara Schulte SL Lynn & Nicholas Davis Agnes Ann Schum SL, 60th Jubilee Eleanor Jean Begley Barbara & Bill Clark Debby & Dave Clark Mary Fisher Kathy & Randy Hansen

Donna & Steve Ross Mary & Tim Schum Peggy & Fred Schum Victoria & Dick Shanahan Susie & Don Ward Victoria Schwartz SL Patricia M. Henderson Macrina Scott OSF, Interfaith Group Marilyn Kopelman Janice Sedillo Jeanette & Orlando Sedillo Sylvia Sedillo SL Jeanette & Orlando Sedillo Ceciliana Skees SL Sandra & Thomas Tokarski Maureen Smith* Loretto Academy, Kansas

City, Class of 1964 La Quae Smyth Kelly Marie Darby Marlene Spero SL Lynn & Nicholas Davis Patricia M. Henderson Margaret & John Veatch St. Mary’s Academy, 150th Anniversary Karen N. Hill Marie Lourde Steckler SL Mary Joe Zeillman Mary Swain SL Tom Freedman Doug Klocke Bryan, Sara, Casey & Tyler Thompson Nancy Boswell Kathleen Tighe SL Mary Bickel Paula & Alfred Frey Margaret Green & Tom Tighe Loretto Academy, Kansas

City, Class of 1964 Adam Vasquez Mary Lou & Joseph Vasquez The Vennard/Laurie Family Dorothy Lamm Kathleen Vonderhaar SL Elizabeth & William Mariner Lucy D. Walsh* Sarah Walsh Mary Catherine Widger SL Theresa Taylor

Save the Date!

20th Annual

Sister Aline Dalton SL Memorial Golf Tournament Benefiting the Sisters of Loretto Retirement Fund

Saturday, August 22, 2015 We are looking for Golfers, Sponsors, Donors and Volunteers

For more information or to receive registration material, please contact:

Kelly Marie Darby

Event Coordinator Call 303-783-0450, ext. 1712 or email kdarby@lorettocommunity.org

Arrowhead Golf Club at Roxborough Park 10850 W. Sundown Trail, Littleton, CO 80125

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Students from Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Ky., volunteered at Nazareth Hall this spring as part of a Border Awareness Experience organized and hosted by Annunciation House, El Paso, Texas.