Loretto Magazine - Spring 2016

Loretto M A G A Z I N E Spring 2016

Volume 58, No. 1

The artists of Loretto

Inside: Casa Materna, a lifelong journey of service to the rural poor of Nicaragua

About this issue . . .

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he coming of springtime signifies renewal in many ways. Birth, resurrection, hope, warmth and the transformation of winter-drab into freshness, color and new growth. It’s the perfect time to bring you our two main feature stories about Casa Materna in Nicaragua and the fine artists of Loretto.

Loretto Co-member Catherine “Kitty” Madden tells the story of her 30-year walk with the rural poor in Nicaragua. She and her colleagues staff Casa Materna (which just celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2015) to give mothers with high-risk pregnancies the care they need but would not otherwise receive. They come to the Casa for a time before, during and after delivery. Because of this program and the many similar programs that have now spread across the country, Nicaragua has seen a significant decrease in infant mortality, page 4.

Color abounds in our feature on Loretto’s fine artists. From our beautiful cover to the personal stories of eight artists in the Loretto Community, spring is definitely in the air. Each artist has written her own story, and readers may be surprised and inspired by what they share. And each of them has provided samples of their work for our readers to enjoy, pages 8-16.

Contents Casa Materna helps the poor rural women of Nicaragua ........... 4 The Fine Artists of Loretto ............................................................8 Remembrances .......................................................................... 17 Memorials & Tributes of Honor ................................................... 18

Front Cover: Featuring “Spring Blooms,” a watercolor by Vicki Schwartz SL. Photo of cover artwork by Nicole Martinez.

Back Cover: Photo by Ruth Routten CoL.

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LORETTO COMMUNITY Sisters of Loretto • Co-members of Loretto

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

Loretto Community members teach, nurse, care for the elderly, lobby, minister in hospitals, provide spiritual direction and counseling, resettle refugees, staff parishes, try to stop this country’s nuclear weapons buildup, 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 S. 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 Mary Swain SL Editorial Office: Loretto Central Office 4000 S. 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

Lent should be more than a time of fasting.

It should also be a joyous season of feasting.

Lent is a time to fast from certain things and to feast on other things.

Whatever limits us or keeps us from expressing our highest and best self, determine to release it now. Let us monitor our thoughts; replacing the negative ones with positive, healthy, constructive ones. Observe our actions that they might be in accord with our highest vision and expectations of ourselves as daughters and sons of God. Let us rededicate ourselves — our thoughts, our words, our actions — to the expression of the principles of Jesus.

Make this Lenten season a time of deep, satisfying growth and accomplishment.

Fast from judging others; feast on Jesus’ presence within each person.

Fast from focusing on differences; feast on the unity of all life.

Fast from discontent; feast on gratitude.

Fast from anger; feast on patience.

Fast from worry; feast on divine providence.

Fast from complaining; feast on appreciation.

Fast from negatives; feast on positives.

Fast from unrelenting pressures; feast on unceasing prayer.

Fast from hostility; feast on nonresistance.

Fast from bitterness; feast on forgiveness.

Fast from self-concern; feast on compassion for others.

Fast from personal anxiety; feast on eternal truth.

Fast from discouragement; feast on hope.

Fast from facts that depress; feast on truths that uplift.

Fast from lethargy; feast on enthusiasm.

Fast from suspicion; feast on trust.

Fast from shadows of sorrow; feast on the sunlight of serenity.

Fast from idle gossip; feast on purposeful silence.

Long have I waited to share this Lenten reflection with you — a lifelong process of spiritual gardening.

Denise Ann Clifford SL Loretto Development Director

Your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

— Matthew 6:6

During this Lenten springtime, let us “dig and weed out” the traits from which we want to “fast”; cultivating and bringing to fruition the gifts of Easter “feasting” — a taste of eternal life with our Risen Christ!

ALLELUIA!

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My long walk with the Nicaraguan people

By Catherine “Kitty” Madden CoL Photos by Kitty Madden and Susan Lambert

Excerpts from “My Life as a Bridge,” originally published in a 2002 edition Mary’s Pence reflections booklet, are reprinted here with permission from Mary’s Pence Executive Director Katherine Wojtan, St. Paul, Minn.

Mary’s Pence is an organization providing grants to women’s groups across the Americas by funding community initiatives and fostering collaborations to create social change.

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ridges stretch from one piece of land to another. They can connect people from differing communities and political ideologies.

Often they connect peoples from diverse cultures, as well. Thus, I often think of my life as a “bridge.”

Little did I know in late January 1986, that my eight-month volunteer commitment to “walk with the people of Nicaragua” would turn into the journey of my lifetime.

But then, I guess, that’s what happens whenever one falls in love. As a middleaged social worker/teacher on sabbatical, I had come to Nicaragua to experience the development of a “new society” aimed, among other things, at providing adequate resources for all the people. In the end, it was not the political experiment, however,

but the people themselves who captured my heart. And it is for them that I have stayed on these past 30 years.

Called to accompany

It was from the Maryknoll Sisters that I first learned of the concept of accompaniment, of “walking with the people.” Their Sisters Maura Clark and Ita Ford, together with Sisters Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan from Cleveland had been assassinated in El Salvador in 1980.

A poster published on the anniversary of their death spoke about this concept of acompañamiento, accompaniment. This, I thought, is the ministry to which I am being called here in Nicaragua.

Initially my walk was with the campesinas/os, the farmworkers of the

Opposite: Loretto Co-member Kitty Madden, right, admires a newborn with the mother, one of many who come to Casa Materna in Matagalpa, a town in western Nicaragua. Rural women with high-risk pregnancies find birthing care there.

Top right: Casa Materna exterior.

Right center: Residents at Casa Materna celebrate the organization’s 25th anniversary in 2015.

Below right: Casa Materna graced by a rainbow.

state coffee farm of La Fundadora, in the magnificent mountains of the Matagalpa region in western Nicaragua. Then, in 1990, I began to accompany women from the city who were developing a service for their pregnant sisters from the campo.

Rural women with high-risk pregnancies needed to birth in the regional hospital in Matagalpa rather than in their home communities, and thus the Casa Materna was developed. The Casa provides food, shelter, medical care, education, and transportation to and from the hospital.

In addition, outreach work includes the training of midwives, health workers and Casa promoters, and follow-up with mothers in their home communities.

Even now, as I walk in the morning with the pregnant mothers of the Casa, I see my main ministry as that of “accompaniment.”

It’s not so much the “doing” (which is so valued in the north) as the “being with” that is important. And this “being with” most often takes the form of active listening.

Life in solidarity

Life lived in solidarity with people here in Nicaragua is first and foremost a “bridging” work, calling me to be a “boundary person.” Thus, I am still deeply connected with friends and family in the north who so willingly share both material and spiritual resources with their brothers and sisters here in Nicaragua.

As part of my work with the Casa Materna, I am also able to share with those in the north the beauty of the people here. While bereft of material resources and often living on the edge physically, people here have a spiritual

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depth that allows them to value the importance of people over things, something that often gets lost in more consumer-oriented societies. Over and over again, when visiting in very humble homes in rural communities, I find people offering me an egg or fresh fruit or a cherished tortilla, when I know how little they have to eat. I am reminded of the story of the widow’s mite. “She gave all that she had.”

Walking with the mothers in the morning, I am so lovingly “taught” by them. With often as many as 20 in our group, we are quite a sight. Some days they point out the medicinal plants used for various ailments. At other times they introduce me to new birds as we catch their songs over head. I am touched by the ways they invite me into their lives, sharing their hopes and dreams for their children. And, yes, there are also stories of abuse and abandonment, stories that only come after much trust has been built.

Daily, they teach me to “find God in all things and in each other.”

A part of my ministry is fundraising. It means that my life is also lived in a spirit of “thanksgiving.” Most often this work takes the form of letter writing. Yet my yearly visits to the north also allow me special times of “walking with” friends and family there, and at times I feel that our sharing reaches a greater depth and sense of intimacy because of the limited time we have together.

A place of loneliness

Theologian Paul Tillich, in his autobiography “On the Boundary,” points out that “life on the boundary often entails great loneliness, as the boundary person can never be totally at home on either side.” It is, I think, a part of the price one pays for having the vantage point of the boundary. Put another way, bridges are made for being “walked upon.” Being a bridge is not without some pain.

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mothers and newborns return to their homes, and we all call out “Que te vayas bien!” May you go well!

I know that I am deeply loved by my sisters and brothers here in Nicaragua. Yet, in some sense, I will always be “la chela” or “la gringa” or “la extranjera” — the blue-eyed, fair-skinned foreigner. At the same time, in the U.S., I will most always be considered the “visitor,” the one living out of a backpack or a suitcase, the one always “catching up” with the important things that have happened in the past months or year. And, constantly, my life involves “leave-taking,” the saying of “good-byes.” Here in the Casa Materna, this “leave-taking” is a daily ritual as

After returning from my first eight months in Nicaragua in 1986, I was asked by my anthropologist friend Linda, “And what is it, Kitty, that you learned about yourself during those months in Nicaragua?”

My immediate answer surprised us both. ”I think I learned to … love myself.” My time in Nicaragua was my first experience of not being surrounded by family and friends, on whom I had always counted for affirmation. And, truthfully, my Spanish was at such a level that I would not have known if people here were affirming me or not. This sense of being loved by self was definitely a gift from God, a God I have come to know as Mother.

I think that this sense of both loving myself and being deeply loved by the Mother were indeed the first gifts that I received from Nicaragua. Without this sense of being loved, I would never have had the courage to be that “boundary person,” that “bridge” I know I have been called to become.

The needs are still pressing today; risk factors rise

By Catherine “Kitty” Madden CoL My Loretto Community connection originally came through Cedars of Peace, a retreat center on the Motherhouse property in Nerinx, Ky., where I have made extended springtime retreats every year since 2001. I am now a Loretto Comember. Loretto’s Special Needs Fund has provided biannual support for the Casa Materna’s follow-up program with 400 former Casa mothers organized in 12 Nicaraguan rural communities.

A little background

From early childhood, growing up in a biracial neighborhood in Lansing, Mich., I have been committed to working for social justice and peace. My journey continued with 12 years in a religious community that had missions in Japan. Later I worked as an alcoholism therapist in employeeassistance and outpatient hospital programs. Later, while teaching social work in an interdisciplinary Human Services program at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Mich., (1975-1986), I helped to found a Peace Group — “1,000 Cranes” — and also a volunteer hospice program.

While on educational leave in Nicaragua in 1986, I decided to “throw in my lot” with the people here who had so lovingly taught me and befriended me, even in the midst of their own suffering related to the U.S.-supported Contra war. An initial commitment of a few years has, indeed, become a lifetime commitment!

In 1990, with a group of women from Nicaragua, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Holland, I was privileged to help found the “Casa Materna Mary Ann Jackman” to provide services for high-risk pregnant women from rural communities in the northern Matagalpa region of Nicaragua.

Here I continue to work as a volunteer in social work and international outreach.

maternal death every minute of every day somewhere in the world. It was called the “silent epidemic” as the daily death rate of 1,440 mothers made no headlines, nor was it mentioned on the nightly news. In Nicaragua the reported rate was 190 death per 100,000 live births, and in some parts of the mountainous Matagalpa region, the rate was as high as 375. Often women died because they had no voice, and they didn’t count in a country recovering from a violent counter-revolution.

In 1986 it was Mary Ann Jackman, a young Nicaraguan sociologist, who gathered together the group of women out of which later emerged the proposal for a Casa Materna to serve rural mothers with highrisk pregnancies. Mary Ann was just 27 years old when she and her unborn child died following a tragic accident. When the dream of the Casa Materna became a reality in 1990, it was named in Mary Ann’s memory.

Casa Materna Mary Ann Jackman (MAJ) was the second Casa Materna in Nicaragua. We have now welcomed more than 17,510 mothers in the Casa Materna MAJ, and of that number, there have been two maternal deaths, neither of them at the Casa itself.

In the past 15 years, Nicaragua’s Ministry of Health, encouraged by the U.N. Millennium goals and the availability of international monetary loans, has made a strong commitment to identifying and caring for rural mothers at risk, thus providing improved prenatal and postnatal services. There are now more than 160 Casa Maternas in Nicaragua serving

women with lower risks, while our Casa continues to serve mothers with higher risks. We are grateful for the part we have been able to play in promoting the Casa Materna movement, and grateful, too, for the support provided by the Loretto Community.

The newest high-risk factor

The outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Latin America is raising the issue of possible links of the virus to microcephaly (babies born with heads too small) and the Guillain-Barré Syndrome (an autoimmune disease that can lead to muscle weakness, paralysis or death).

These are presently being researched by various world-health organizations.

With 1.5 million people infected in Brazil, more than 20,000 in Columbia and 11,000 in Honduras, Nicaragua — with 65 confirmed cases in mid-February — seems to be in a better place. We know, however, that only one in five of those infected has visible symptoms.

Zika has no cure, and no preventive vaccine has been developed. Mosquitocontrol measures and access to family planning methods are seen as a primary form of prevention, according to Tewodros Melesse, director general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. He said, “Those at highest risk are poor women and those living in rural areas who are most likely to be exposed to the virus and least likely to have access to reproductive health services.”

For detailed information on the Zika virus, visit en.hesperian.org.

Little did we know that our Casa Materna would be a vital spark lighting the way for widespread systemic change in maternal health care in Nicaragua — a revolutionary change for women that was accomplished by peaceful means.

The silent epidemic

Now in our 25th year of service, we remember that, in 1990, there was a

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The fine artists of Loretto Among any given human population, particular talents will surface. Over time, the Loretto Community has enjoyed the exceptional talents of its members in the field of fine arts. Their works are handmade using various methods in different media: wood, stone, paint, clay, metal, plaster, polymer compounds, and so on.

Loretto Magazine openly requested submissions from the Community, and we are proud to bring you their unique works and fascinating stories.

Jeanne Dueber SL

By Jeanne Dueber SL with Carolyn Dunbar

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t 78 years old, the diminutive Sister of Loretto Jeanne Dueber — all of 4 feet 9 inches tall — can’t wait to get her skilled hands on the next project. This time it will be sculpted from wood, and she’s already made a clay model of it. “It’s a very difficult thing to do, and I need to get to work as soon as I get home. The piece will be difficult because it has a lot of angles,” said Jeanne, who has resided for nearly 40 years at Loretto Motherhouse, Nerinx, Ky., and spent Christmas 2015 in Denver among her fellow Lorettos, affording an opportunity for Loretto Magazine to interview her in person.

Jeanne is a multimedia artist working in bronze, steel, wood, clay, plaster and other media. Jeanne does most of the heavy work herself, asking for help when she needs a piece or components of a piece to be moved. Her studio is in Rhodes Hall, an historic building on the Motherhouse grounds. Rhodes Hall’s second floor is a formal gallery displaying more than 200 of her works, many of them for sale. She has exhibited her art in more than 100 shows across America, many of them her own exhibitions, and also has sold pieces in England and Canada.

Why does this septuagenarian undertake such heavy work and not head for the rocking chair instead? “It’s just part of me,” she said.

“Finishing a piece gives me a sense of satisfaction. It’s what I do, and I’m compelled to do it.”

The second of 10 children born to parents Clarence and Dorothy Dueber of Webster Groves, Mo., Jeanne began working with her hands as a young girl helping her father. “I was the first ‘boy’ to help my dad. He needed a helper, and a little brother didn’t come along until 12 years later. Dad had to fix things in the house, so Jeanne’s original sculpture transformed a 20-foot oak tree stump near the entrance of Loretto Motherhouse grounds.

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I used to go along with him and carry his tools. That’s how I learned to use all of these things,” she said.

A tale of two trees

Fourteen years ago Jeanne had an artistic idea to make a sculpture out of a 20-foot oak tree trunk that stood near the Loretto Motherhouse entrance. She hired Gerald Wilson, chainsaw artist from Kings Mountain, Ky., near the Motherhouse. He would help her carve 10 human figures into the trunk. Jeanne had to paint lines on it before Wilson could apply his saw. “I used a 12foot aluminum pole as a paintbrush,” said Jeanne. “I had to keep pulling out hunks of wood, throwing them on piles and raking sawdust! I had to keep changing my design because of rotten places. We started out with a scaffold, which we used two weeks before to strip the bark, but it needed to be higher. The rest of our scaffold was over at Maker’s Mark Distillery, so Gerald found the cherry picker!

“I came back in March 2014 to proceed, but again the steel company was too busy with their own projects. I was ready to give up when my brother Tom and his wife Cheri offered to come to the Motherhouse and help me put the sculpture together. I had all the steel transported from Kansas City to the Motherhouse, which was quite an operation.

“When Tom and Cheri came here, Cheri had boxes of stainless steel bolts, nuts and washers. They hired Dwane Steward from Lebanon Machine Shop to do the welding. We did this on Rhodes Hall porch. When it was complete, our men moved it off the porch and stood it up in front of the maple tree. It had to wait for installation until the ground dried up, as we’ve had so much rain.

The 18-foot-high sculpture is now at the top of the hill by the AIDS Garden with evergreens behind it,” Jeanne said.

“I egged him on, and he really got into it. We really got along! He was 25 years younger than I was. He said, ‘She’s (meaning me) wearing me out.’ Well, I said, ‘He’s wearing me out!’

“My design is a group of 10 human figures over which I designed and built a dove — representing the Holy Spirit to protect the Community — out of a wood framework covered with copper sheeting. After the carving was completed in 2003, we also hired William and Clement Brutto of Gravel Switch, Ky., to help me on weekends construct the bird section out of treated lumber, which we covered with copper. Since we built the bird on the Rhodes Hall porch, it took all our men at the Motherhouse to transport it and attach it to the stump. It was quite a production!” said Jeanne.

Ten years later Jeanne noticed considerable rotting of the stump and realized it wouldn’t last. “I removed the wood and copper Holy Spirit, which was put in my backyard to be fixed for sale.

The weight of that piece would have made the stump rot faster,” she said.

“A Loretto Co-member, Rae Ann De Vargas, who owns a steel company in Kansas City, Mo., with her husband Carlos Setien, suggested I make a new piece with the same theme out of stainless steel. With my model and stencils for size of the piece, I went to Kansas City in September 2013 where I purchased the stainless steel. Ronson Manufacturing Company laser-cut the seven figures and two pieces of the bird for me without charge.

I took these to the steel company where Rae Ann had threequarter-inch square, 23-feet length steel to be used as support and structure for the stainless steel pieces. I spent two days cleaning the oil off the steel with alcohol. Carlos had one of his men start welding the framework and drilling holes for the galvanized process. The steel company was too tied up with their own projects, so I was only there a week.

As the original stump started to decay, Jeanne remade “Protected Community” in steel. It was finished and set upon a hill in 2015.

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Mary Denis Bruck SL

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started painting in my eighties. Today I’m 98 years old. At the time I shared a condo in San Diego with Sister Patrick Marie Sharpe. For awhile we had to be out of our place because they were fixing the elevators and Patrick could not go up and down the stairs. She saw an ad in the local newspaper about a Japanese art professor, Takashi Ijichi, offering adult education classes to seniors through San Diego Community College, where he taught. Patrick said, “Go check it out,” so I did. We took his initial class in the Sumi-e form of Japanese painting. We went every Friday and painted, and I continued to study with him for the next four years.

The ancient Sumi-e art form was introduced from China to Japan in the 15th century. You’re supposed to contemplate the spiritual aspect of the object you’re looking at. You only paint one item; that one form. With this technique, the natural world is depicted in black ink on white paper, and as part of the process you make your own ink. At first you paint only in blacks to grays. After you develop your own form of expression, you could go to colors. It’s a deeply spiritual process.

“A Summer’s Day,” black ink on paper

Class was very stimulating. Mr. Ijichi would demonstrate an item he was painting. Then the class would work for two hours.

At the end of that time you put up what you had developed, then he critiqued it. It was very enjoyable and amazing. One day I put something out, and he said, “Sister that looks like Grandma Moses!” He was good at constructive criticism, and everybody in class encouraged everybody else. It was wonderful.

Top left: Wearing traditional Japanese dress, professor Takashi Ijichi demonstrates Sumi-e ink painting to a group of adult students, including Mary Denis (circa 2000, San Diego).

Below left: Mr. Ijichi announces an award Mary Denis won at an exhibition of the class members’ work.

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“Long Shadows,” color ink on paper

Gabriel Mary Hoare SL

By Leann Detherage

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hen Sister Gabriel Mary Hoare (Gabe) was first told about the article for the Loretto Magazine featuring artists, she beamed and questioned, “You want to interview me?” She was humbled and gracious as she talked about her art form.

She recalled that she was introduced to Sister Corita Kent during her first mission at Immaculate Heart in California and admired her so much. She introduced Gabe to serigraphy, or silk-screen printing, which she described as “a very painterly art” in which she would paint on a screen. Because one color was printed at a time, several screens were needed to produce the design. Due to the physical nature of this art, having to pull large screens out with her arms, she later switched to painting with water colors.

A good friend in Missouri, Carol Colligan CoL, describes Gabe as someone destined for the arts, given that her mother was a music teacher, and the family enjoyed singing and playing the piano. She believes that Gabriel was gifted. Gabe went on to major in fine arts and subsequently taught in the art department at Nerinx Hall High School and Webster University, Webster Groves, Mo., for 33 years.

Sister Gabriel Mary Hoare in silkscreen class, 1988.

Both Carol and Gabriel fondly recall vacations at Cape Cod in which Gabe would be inspired just by looking out a window or door and painting the vision before her. This was captured in a painting of a white wicker chair that so beautifully made the viewer “feel” the experience, as if they were getting ready to sit down and enjoy the day.

When asked about what the work has meant to her, Gabriel explained that being able to share the “personal gift of yourself” has been a great joy. Many have voiced that they have been a recipient of her work as a “thank you” or for a special occasion and have treasured her talent.

“Summer Afternoon at Garden House,” watercolor

Background canvas by Kerstin Frank

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Roberta Hudlow SL “There is so much out there

to make the heart sing.”

“Carousel”

Sister Roberta Hudlow works in a wide variety of media. Above is an example of Roberta’s oil painting on canvas. Below, a partial view of her oak bas relief carving on display at Mount Loretto, a housing development built next to Colorado Heights University in Denver.

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hey say that my first word was “see” accompanied by a small digit pointing at something. If the story isn’t so, it still makes a great myth — a myth defining a life of looking and seeing, hunting and exploring, looking at everything and beyond everything, looking for what is hidden behind the surface, “seeing,” taking things in.

people ask for sculpture or graphics. On my own, I do drawings and sometimes paintings.

In my childhood, I drew and drew, but Rudi Torrini at Webster taught me to reinterpret the forms I saw into shapes on the page.

I learned to see line, a line moving through space, defining shape, suggesting form, movement. Hank Knickmeyer introduced me to sketching with wax to produce small bronzes.

Sister Mary Ann McGivern, with whom I share a home in St. Louis, has told me that I have introduced her to seeing more.

Once a friend and I stood in a parking lot and watched a cumulus cloud climb up and up until the anvil formed on top. I feel sorry for those who don’t look up and see the matrix of constantly changing sky, who don’t see the birds, the different shades of green around us, the constantly changing scene. There is so much out there to make the heart sing.

Photography is also a way of saying “see.” I love to grab my camera and take off on a daytrip of hunting and seeing. I have photographed Tower Grove Park in St. Louis for more than 20 years. I now see things in the park that I didn’t see, even five years ago.

Because I spend so much time in construction, painting, repair and wiring in the Hartford house, I really don’t do much art. I do, however, “see” a lot.

I have spent much of my life teaching various sized students, and spent most of my creative juices trying to capture their imaginations, to help them to see and make. My poor, shocked principal glanced into my fourth-floor art room to see the entire class pressed at the windows as I had them look at the perspective of the houses. The houses seemed to get smaller and move up the window panes as they strung out farther and farther away from us. A few children caught on and used what they saw in compositions about their neighborhood that were to go to our sister city in Africa.

When someone calls for something to be done, I usually say “yes” and begin thinking. Sometimes I can get the project going quickly, sometimes not. The first part, however, is the rumination moving toward the physical construction. The rumination part travels with me throughout my days, and little “aha” moments lead me to solving the problems of the construction. Mostly, 12 • Loretto Magazine

“Mount Loretto.” Animals native to Colorado are called out. Can you find them on the original?

Lydia Peña SL

Top right: Silk screen print, “Corporate Vision 1970,” inspired during Sister Helen Sander’s Loretto presidency.

Below: Painting incorporating wire screen, “Mountain Series 1982.”

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resh out of Loretto Heights College (LHC) in Denver with my bachelor’s degree in dietetics, I entered the Loretto novitiate in 1955 at the Motherhouse in Nerinx, Ky. Sister Luke Tobin recruited me for a calligraphy class she was teaching. My reluctant “yes” soon had me doing calligraphy as gifts for her friend Thomas Merton renowned Catholic writer and mystic, and Trappist monk who lived nearby at Gethsemane Abbey. That was the beginning of my art career.

Sister Gabriel Mary Hoare made many trips to Kentucky to teach me drawing, design and silk screening. Later, during summer breaks from teaching at St. Mary’s Academy in Denver, I took art classes at Webster College in Webster Groves, Mo. While teaching at LHC in 1968, I earned an M.A. in art history at the University of Denver. That September, I left for a sabbatical in Spain where I studied, interviewed the artists about whom I’d written my thesis, and became immersed in the art world.

After the academic year, I spent three months hopping on trains making sure that my eyes were seeing every major Western European museum. Both my teaching and my creation of art came alive. In 1977, after a year at the Smithsonian American Art Museum working on my dissertation, I returned to LHC as teacher and director of the new Beaumont Art Gallery. My mission was to promote young Colorado artists.

My own creation of art intensified. I drew, painted, sculpted, made prints (serigraphy, etching, woodcuts), and ceramics and jewelry. As my art evolved, I submitted work for juried exhibitions and exhibited in art galleries in Denver. In 1981

Elaine Horwitch Galleries in Santa Fe became interested in my “Mountain Series.” My experimentation of spray painting through “wire screen” to create mountain ranges had not worked.

Disappointed, I inadvertently placed a piece of glass on the wire screen itself: Aha! I incorporated the wire screen itself in the painting. Those paintings were well received by galleries and the general public. Because I couldn’t keep up with the creation of individual paintings, I made several editions of silkscreen prints.

In 1988, with the closing of LHC and an invitation from the City and County of Denver to participate in the selection of public art in the city and later for the new Denver International Airport, my life changed. After a couple decades of teaching and being immersed in making art, my “public life” began with invitations from non-profit boards. In retrospect, I realize that while teaching art history and studio art, my experimenting with different art techniques enabled me to better explain them, and motivate my students.

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“Descending the Mountain,” watercolor.

Vicki Schwartz SL

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y earliest memory of artistic expression included getting scolded in third grade, because I wrote 1492 UNDER Plymouth Rock instead of ON it! Hence followed many artless years. I rediscovered my interest in art while taking art education as a senior at Webster College in Webster Groves, Mo. I “dabbled” here and there over the years that followed. In 1990 I began participating in monthly sessions of Art Play in Berkeley, Calif. The purpose of Art Play is to rediscover creativity in a relaxed, safe and playful environment. Self-expression, selfdiscovery and pleasure are the goals. Play helps us be real, spontaneous and alive. It was through that work that I became drawn to watercolor and began taking lessons.

Over the course of the last 25 years, my relationship with watercolor continues to expand. Painting provides a healthy balance with the other side of my brain. While by nature, or perhaps training, I operate primarily “in my head.” Watercolor takes me to a deeper, less predictable and occasionally awe-filled space. While the “product” doesn’t always feel successful, this interior process is very important to me.

Subjects that draw my attention are primarily found in nature, especially flowers, trees, animals, landscapes and waterscapes.

Most of my pieces are representational; however, some are fanciful and intended to capture a feeling (see cover). Work in watercolor has helped me become much more observant of details and nuances. Other lessons watercolor continues to teach 14 • Loretto Magazine

“Bimini at Dusk,” watercolor.

me: let go of assumed outcomes and expectations; go with the flow (literally); learn from mistakes; appreciate the surprises; laugh at yourself; enjoy the journey.

Lastly, I continue to be profoundly grateful for the wisdom and insights of my teacher, Nancy Backstrom, with whom I worked in California from 1990 until her death in 2008. On many occasions, when I walked to the trash can with a piece I had done that I hated, she’d stop me and say, “Wait, Vicki, let me see.” Then she would study it and draw my attention to a portion (usually small) and say something encouraging, such as, “Look how beautifully those colors merge and flow”! She wasn’t embellishing. I just hadn’t noticed.

Bernice Strawn CoL Photos by Mel Strawn

“Hovering”

I

majored in art at the University of California, Berkeley, at the height of the abstract expressionist painting movement.

I learned that abstraction conveys meaning and expression. I married Mel Strawn, a painter and print maker and college art professor. Mel has always been very supportive of my creative work. I continued to paint, draw and do wood structures as well as teaching in public schools, in recreation and adult education settings. The last 27 years we have been retired in Salida, Colo., but I prefer to call it our “renaissance” because we both work on our art.

For the past 40 years I have constructed sculptures from wood, metal and acrylic paint. I break this into the following phases: After becoming acquainted with the ancient art of the South West Indians (pictographs and petroglyphs), I made many tall wood “Spirit Figures.” Later these became an exploration of doors evoking the mystery of what is within.

Because of my Catholic background and love of Christian art — early, Romanesque, Gothic and very contemporary — I have always been attracted to formal structures like altars and church architecture. I have made pieces that I call altars or shrines that are wall-hung or freestanding.

“Eagle Dancer”

and use thin strips to curve around the sides. These became lightweight three-dimensional sculptures. Hanging over head they have a calming effect. I call them “Spirit Boats” because the Spirit flows through them. You can see some in the three story high lobby of the Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center in Salida or in the lobby of the flagship REI sporting goods store in Denver.

The next step was to make wing shapes that curve outward from the boats like sails. That began a transition to making wings from layered strips of wood which has led to some new forms including mounting three dimensional sculptures on painted panel backgrounds. Please see photos “Hovering,” and “Eagle Dancer.”

Fans are my latest theme, reflecting my great love of oriental art.

I started with some wedge-shaped pieces of wood and enjoyed their flaring gesture. In all these years of working I have found that gesture in a piece gives it presence. I work very selectivity for a simplicity that will take your breath away.

I started using cast-off barrel staves for curved elements of mandala shapes. Jeanne Dueber SL kindly shipped many of them from her barrel-rich distillery neighborhood in Kentucky.

Eventually I saw these as boat shapes and began a long exploration of boats. When I ran out of barrel staves, I found ways to laminate curves from lighter wood, make keels, ribs

“Burned Fan”

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Frances Weber SL

Photos by Nicole Martinez and Carolyn Dunbar

M

y journey into the making of ornaments began in the early 1980s.

I had been looking for an art medium that I could do at home without a lot of equipment. My first medium was salt dough. Even after baking, however, the ornaments would gather moisture from the air and would crumble.

Later, my mother said, “Why not try bread dough?” She gave me the recipe. Thus, my second endeavor was bread dough, which was labor-intensive. You had to tear the bread in tiny pieces and mix it with glue to make the dough. Then you had to add color. I used the bread dough for several years, but eventually it proved unsatisfactory in moist, humid climates.

Then one day I was leafing through a craft magazine and saw an article about polymer clay. I found a distributor, and “Small Delights” was born! The polymer clay ornaments are very durable and very colorful. I named the ornaments “Small Delights” because they give me great joy in making them and using my creativity.

They also “delight” and bring smiles to my customers and gift recipients. They just smile when they see them.

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loretto community members to remember Mary Pope Clute CoL

March 7, 1924 — Nov. 24, 2015

Mary Pope was born in Harlan, Ky., to Charles Pope and Louise Arrowwood Pope. One of seven siblings, Mary attended elementary school and high school in Harlan. In 1945 Mary met and married Sargent Edward Clute of the Army Corps of Engineers. She converted to his Catholic faith two years later. They had three children.

Mary was an activist, volunteer and a trained dental assistant. In 2000, when she and Ed settled in Berea, Ky., they became acquainted with the Loretto Community through their parish. Mary became a co-member in 2003. She was 91 years old and in her 13th year of Loretto co-membership at the time of her death at Loretto Motherhouse.

Clute

Fred P. Harris CoL

Feb. 14, 1928 — Dec. 12, 2015

Complete remembrances are found on the Loretto website,

www.lorettocommunity.org

Fred Harris was born in Flint, Mich., and raised as an only child by devout Catholic parents who sent him to Catholic high school and college. He joined the U.S. Air Force as a young man and afterward graduated from the University of Detroit. He also received a business administration degree from the College of Great Falls, Mont., and moved to Denver in 1955. He and his wife Jane were married in 1972 and had two daughters. He met the Loretto Community when he was employed as comptroller at Loretto Heights College from 1960 to 1967. Fred and Jane became co-members in 1987. He was 87 years old at time of death and in his 29th year as a Loretto co-member.

Rosalie Marie Malec CoL Harris

(formerly known as Mary Demetria SL and Rosalie Marie SL) Jan. 6, 1925 — Feb. 14, 2016

Rosalie Malec was born in Detroit, the youngest of three daughters, with two older brothers. She completed grade and high school in Detroit, graduating in 1942. She worked for several years as a secretary stenographer.

Rosalie was received into the Loretto Novitiate in 1949. She taught elementary and middle school children in Illinois, Colorado, New Mexico. After a deep inner search, Rosalie asked to be dispensed from her vows, which took place in 1969. She soon relocated to California where she became an activist and also cultivated a deep interest in literature and art. She was 91 at the time of her death in Santa Rosa, Calif.

Barbara Ann Shultz SL Malec

Shultz

Swift

Dec. 19, 1920 — Dec. 7, 2015

Sara Barbara was the youngest of four children born to Cleveland and Helen Shultz of Olney, Ill., where she grew to adulthood. She was educated in parochial schools, and with two years at Le Clerc College in Belleville, she transferred to Webster College, Webster Groves, Mo. She graduated in 1942 with a bachelor’s degree in music education and a minor in piano. She entered Loretto that fall, taking the name Sister Barbara Ann. After making final vows in 1948, she went into the classroom teaching music in Missouri, Colorado, New Mexico and Illinois. In 1984 she moved to the Motherhouse where she worked until failing health necessitated a move to the Infirmary. Barbara Ann died just days before her 96th birthday and in her 73rd year as a Sister of Loretto.

Jeannine Swift CoL

March 5, 1935 — Dec. 13, 2015

Jeanne Carolyn was born one of seven children to William and Loretto Swift in Springfield, Mo. She attended both elementary and high school at St. Agnes Parish where Sisters of Loretto had been teaching since 1906.

She entered Loretto in 1953, taking the name Sister Mary Jeannine, and in 1958 finished her undergraduate degree in elementary education and social studies at Webster College, Webster Groves, Mo. Jeannine began graduate studies at St. Louis University in 1963 and completed her master’s in economics at Boston College in 1965. She went on to earn her doctorate in economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969.

Jeannine was one of the first five Sisters to apply for co-membership when it was approved in 1970. She had a long career at Hofsta University as an ecomonics and geography professor and university administrator.

She married Don Solar and helped parent his two daughters, living on Long Island, N.Y., for more than 44 years. Jeannine was 80 years old at the time of her death and in her 62nd year of her Loretto life.

Concetta Torrillo SL

Feb. 25, 1924 — Feb 1, 2016

Torrillo

Maria Maddalena Addolorata Torrillo was born in Granite City, Ill., to Guiseppe and Concetta Torrillo. She had three older brothers and was the youngest child and only girl in the family. Her father died when she was eight months old, and her mother then moved the family to St. Louis. Maria attended first through eighth grade at Immaculate Conception in the City, taught by the Sisters of Loretto. She entered Loretto in 1944 and took her mother’s name, Sister Concetta. She wore a full Loretto habit for the rest of her life as a teacher in many states but for 32 years in St. Louis. In 2013 she moved to the Motherhouse Infirmary in Kentucky. Concetta was 92 years old at the time of her death and in her 72nd year as a Sister of Loretto.

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gifts

Memorials and Tributes of Honor September — December 2015

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

In Memory of: Requested by: Agnes Albin SL

Mahala & Pat Mattingly Leon J. Albin

Gail Albin Robert Alsmeyer

The Clifford Families

The Dennis Walker Family Engelbert Anaya SL

Viola & Clifford Farfan Vincent Andrasko

Margaret Andrasko Mary & John Antoine

Valerie & Albert J. Antoine Sandra Ardoyno SL

Carolyn Luckett Denning

Susan Evans

Marianna Finch

Rose Marie Hayden

Pat & Bill King

The Loretto Community

Sheila Ardoyno Maurin

Harriet Peake Mays

William McAtee

Wayne Merritt

McGill-Toolen Catholic

High School

Michele Minnis &

Edgar Boles

Emily O’Neill

Barbara Rancour

Therese Stawowy* Earl Bach

Judy & Rob Allan Ellen Barry Ballard

Mary Ann Wyrsch Virginia Bailey Barlow

Barbara Kreader Bartolone Family

Dorothy & Frank Bartolone Bob Beckett

Kathleen Beckett Martha Belke SL

Julie & Kevin Dicken Anna & Charles Berzin

Valerie & Albert J. Antoine Mary Louise Beutner SL

Mary Elmira Smith Wilkey

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Peg Blissman

Beth Blissman* Barrett Boesen

The Loretto Community Gary Bohn

The Loretto Community Mary Boland*

Rev. Sally K. Brown Edwardine Boone SL

Rose Mary & Thomas

Wargel Mary Grace Boone SL

Mary & Jim Rogers

Rose Mary & Thomas

Wargel Rosita Boone SL

Rose Mary & Thomas

Wargel Bowdin Florence

Barbara Rancour Rev. Kevin Bradt SJ

Frances Entwistle

Margaret Ferraioli Mary Roger Brennan SL

Karen Erickson Carol Ann Brinkworth

Colette & Terance Purcell Lorraine Brown SL

Nancy Luger Mary Judith Brown SL

John & Marianne Hoffmiller Mary Rhodes Buckler SL

Warren Buckler

Joan Kidnay

Mary Frances Palumbo

Margaret & John Veatch Ancilla Marie Burke SL

Catherine & David Scherer Mary Ellen Burke

Joseph K. Burke Amy Earthman Cardwell

The Loretto Community Alda Collaco Carr

Theresa DaSilva John & Marie Carroll

Joan Palazzotto

Frances Lenzen Cassilly

Patricia & Dallas Edwards Chester & Diana, Frank, Buddy, Mary & Carole (no last name given)

Eleanor Rapier Neysa* & Jim Chouteau

Martha Alderson* Mary Louise Clute*

Gail Clute

The Loretto Community

Jeanne Orrben* Mary & Ed Clute

Virginia & Tim Goss Mary Ann Coffey

John McGillis Mary Pat Coughlin

Mary Cusack Cathy Crowley

Karen & Tom Gross Virginia Golden Curtis

The Loretto Community Aline Dalton SL

Dorothy & Bill McAuliffe Everett E. Darby, Jr.

Kelly Marie Darby Jane M. Davis

James M. Davis Our son, Terry Dearing

Alice & John Dearing Deceased members of the DeCourcey Family

Maureen DeCourcey Maria Ann Dillon SL

Barbara Rancour Mary Ellen Dintelmann

Ann Dintelmann Jeannette Marie Donnelly SL

Mary & Jim Bruce Dorothy Dorlac

Carol & Clay Chapman Raymond Twomey Ducan

The Loretto Community Martha Dyer SL

Jane Barry-Davis

Robert Leona Edelen SL

Wanda & James Edge Rocky Eldridge

Maureen Flanigan*

The Loretto Community Margaret Grace Elsey SL

Mary Jean & Rodney L.

Brod Mary Ely SL

Mary Ann Sullivan Winifred & John Ferris

Mary Ferris Corinne Filbin

Constance & Richard

Baldrini Rosemary Fiori SL

Robert & Wilma Fiori

Camilla Kryzsko Lorraine Sabatka Firley

The Loretto Community Bernadette Mary Fischer SL

Wanda & James Edge Joseph Fitzgerald

Bonnie Frost Fitzgerald Mary & Ethan Fonte

Virginia & Patrick McGrail Carlotta Lubeck Fugazzi

Ronald Fugazzi Philibert Fuite SL

Mary Martinez Rose Mestas Gallegos

Bridget Gallegos Jody Ritter Gates

George Gates, Jr. Ann Francis Gleason SL

Martha Joan Bennett

Carol & Greg Harris

Carol Mattingly

Barbara Sigler

Mary Joe Zeillmann Mary Lou Goetz

Joan & Gene Deges Esther Marie Goodrow SL

Sophie Sweetman

McConnell

gifts

Deceased members of the Grawer Family

Rosemary Grawer SL Gondina Greenwell SL

Elizabeth & William

Mariner Helen Grennan*

Joan & Charles Grennan Matthew Marie Grennan SL

Joan & Charles Grennan Paul Mary Grennan SL

Martha Joan Bennett

Joan & Charles Grennan

Mary Joe Zeillmann Hazel & Charlie Grewe

Patricia & Francis Kapper Antonella Marie Gutterres SL

Betty & Bill Samaritano Rita Hafner

Joseph Hafner Francis Therese Halloran SL

Marie Chaney Royal Brian Hammond*

Kathleen Hughes Elenora & George Hanafee

Nancy & John Vincent Fred Harris*

The Loretto Community Eunice & Bill Heavrin

Marilyn & Michael Byrne Marie Nöel Hebert SL

James Hebert Eileen Marie Heckman SL

Susan & John Reuter John Marco Henderson

Helen Chew Members of the Herman & Schulte Families

Elizabeth Schulte Beatrice Hess, Loretto Academy, St. Louis, Class of 1929

Dorothy Hess Rose Henry Higdon SL

Thomas Freeman &

Douglas Klocke Joseph Highland

Mary Highland Rosemary Howard SL

Betty & Bill Samaritano J. A. “Trey” Hugenberg III

Karen & Joe Hugenberg

Margaret Ann Hummel SL

Jane & Norbert Hummel, Jr.

Jennifer & Joe Hummel Mary Jane Hummel SL

Jane & Norbert Hummel, Jr.

Jennifer & Joe Hummel Margaret White James

Sandra & Thomas Tokarski Eloise Jarvis SL

Patrice Molinarolo Mary Kaiser

Adrienne Matchman Patricia Kaiser

Valorie & Jerry Becker Agnes Mae & Gilbert Kapper

Patricia & Francis Kapper Francis Eileen Kelly SL

Joseph Bowlds Jack Knapp

Betty Knapp Margaret Rose Knoll SL

Helen M. Burns

Carol Johnson

Patricia & William Kassul

The Loretto Community Marie Knowles SL

Megan Clifford Emily Marie Kohl SL

Betty Bolt Katherine Therese Kohl SL

Betty Bolt

Edwina Garten Margaret Lally

Martin Lally Abby Marie Lanners

Patricia & Larry Lanners Gilbert Lederhos

Thelma Mae Lederhos Bette Lesch

Edward Lesch Marion Liang*

Alice & Patrick Man Rose Annette Liddell SL

Gerry Prus Catherine, Ray & Patrick Linehan

Alice Jane Linehan Paschalita Linehan SL

Louise Berezny

Mary Catherine Cernicek

Kathleen Mohan

Julie Morley

Shirley Logsdon

Norbert Logsdon All the deceased Sisters who taught me at the Loretto Broadway/Louisville location

Mary Joe Zeillmann The deceased Sisters of Loretto

Rosemary Grawer SL The deceased Sisters who taught me

Caroline Hasegawa The deceased Sisters of Loretto who taught me, my sisters and brothers in El Paso, Texas

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

Cathy & Charles Titterton The Sisters of Loretto who taught in Shanghai, China

Dorothy Parker Alice Ann Love CoL

Joy & Roman Gales Carlos Marie Lubeck SL

Ronald Fugazzi Francene Lum SL

Alice & Patrick Man Braddy Macosko

The Loretto Community Karen Madden SL

Rev. Msgr. Edward

Madden Loretto Anne Madden SL

Rev. Msgr. Edward

Madden Theresa Madden SL

Nancy Levicki

Rev. Msgr. Edward

Madden Mary Mangan SL

Jane Barry-Davis

Richard Fox Ann Manganaro SL

Mary Ann Phillips John Marcolina

Mary Sandoval Rome My husband Marty Martelli

Theresa Martelli

Quino E. Martinez

Mary Martinez Albina Martowlos SL

Barbra Hale Jim Mayer

Helen Hardy Edwin Mary McBride SL

Susan & Christopher

Congalton

Margaret Couvillon

Cynthia Giguere-Unrein

Margaret & John Veatch Mr. & Mrs. G. C. McEvoy

Patricia A. Kabler Larry C. McGinn

Yvonne McGinn Eileen McIntyre SL

Diane Boos Raymond P. McLaughlin

Judy McLaughlin* Rose Clare McWhorter SL

Nancy Levicki Heather Moana

Mary Highland Jane Fitzsimons Molgaard

Allan Molgaard Joe Moran

Rita & Patrick Moran Ann Mueller SL

Mark Currington

Linda and Bob Mueller Jane Frances Mueller SL

Mark Currington

Linda & Bob Mueller Monica Mueller

Robert Mueller A. J. Mullen

Kay Mullen Vron Murphy*

Dolores Ferrell The deceased members of the Nockles, Lottes & Stough Families

Sherry & Dave Nockles Elena & Bill O’Connell

Mary Sandoval Rome

Mary Seematter* Elena Sandoval O’Connell

Ellen & Boniface

Wittenbrink Doloretta Marie O’Connor SL

E. Kaye Smith

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gifts Mary Naomi O’Meara SL

Judy & Rob Allan Ruth Mary Olszewski SL

Edward Olszewski Aurelia Ottersbach SL

Carol Mattingly Louis Pahler, Jr.

Mary Lou & Chuck Legler Michael Pejo

Cecilia & Armando Mata Georgia Peter

Mary Lou Sherman Elizabeth D. Schmidt Pfaff, Loretto Academy, St. Louis 1924 Alumnae

Elizabeth C. Pfaff Anna Philipp

Frederic Schweiger Ann Monica Pierce SL

Carol & Lawrence

McDaniel

Judith & Anthony Piana Marie Catherine Pohndorf SL

Margaret & John Veatch Norma Prior

Eileen & Paul Prior Marija Puc-Remec

Andrej Remec Vicki Quatmann SL Aldea & Robert R. Sluyter

Asherah Cinnamon

Toni Quatmann Walters Charlotte Rabbitt

Peggy & Dennis Rabbitt John Radovich

Carol Radovich Jean Louise Rafferty SL

Sandra & Galen Graham

Sarah & Antonio Jimenez Lucy Ruth Rawe SL

Petersen & Edward

Decker

John Rawe Pauline & Johnie Reed

Pat Reed Ramon Regan

Kathleen & James Regan Margaret Reidy SL

Michael Reidy Marie Joann Rekart SL LaFawn Biddle George, Rita & Jessica Botjer Loretta Dunlap Paula & Brian Gallagher James Lyons Mr. & Mrs. McArthur Dennis Potts Therese Stawowy* Martha Diss Sundby Kirsten & Robert Vignec

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Ann Kane Religa

Catherine Kane Theresa Clare Reynolds SL

Gloria Tabacchi Jane Marie Richardson SL

Carol & Lawrence

McDaniel John Riegel

Leo Riegel Francis Louise Ritter SL

Claire & Jerry Nix Manuel J. Rodriguez

Jean Rodriguez Vernell Rogers

Margaret Andrasko Ida Romero

Bernadette & Roger Seick Charles Joseph Saad

Michele Frechette Saad Anna Sailors

Jane & Don Reiman Anna Barbara Sakurai*

Charles Brady Sue Schiffer Zoe Fischer Ann Graves June Krug Holland Locker Mary Mallet Dorothy Partridge Donna Peerce Joan Sullivan Karen Swift Ramona Tauchar Mary & James Vaughan Anne Roberta Schilling SL

Nancy E. Luger Rosemary Feldcamp Schmeltz

Janice Steck Mr. & Mrs. Paul Schmidt

Regina Schmidt Jim G. Schonbok

Patricia Schonbok-Wilson Celine Schretten

The Loretto Community Leoann Schuler SL

Alma Schuler* Rose Alma Schuler SL

Alma Schuler* George Schumacher

Anita Wathen Schumacher Deceased members of Scofield, Metz,Thomas & Didies families

Joan & James Scofield Miniata Scott SL

Rosemary Scott Costello Olympia Scott SL

Rosemary Scott Costello Martina & Roque Sedillo

Jeanette & Orlando Sedillo

Helen Jean Seidel SL

Jacquelyn & John Dear Ann Rita Sheahen SL

Kay & Roy Ellgass Paul Sheffer

Joan Sheffer

The Loretto Community Lola May Oswald Shirley

Rose & Larry Bradley Barbara Ann Shultz SL

The Loretto Community Magdalen Mary Skees SL

Sheila O’Donnell-Schuster Margaret Michelle Skees SL

J. A. M. Hadcock Helen & George Smith

Sally Minelli Mary Nell Stevens*

Mary Joe Zeillmann Beulah & Keith Studer

Susan Pelz Susan Swain SL

Grace & Bill Carr

Dennis Cook

Nancy & Dalan Jensen Marjorie Hanson Sweeney

Francis Sweeney Jeannine Swift*

The Loretto Community

Helen Werneth Walsh Regina Ann Thomas SL

Joseph Hafner Lucy Thompson SL

Betty Knapp Alice Eugene Tighe SL

Elizabeth & William

Mariner

Stephanie & Youssef

Marzouk

James Tighe

Thomas Tighe &

Margaret Green

Mary Uhlenbrock Ann Virginia Tighe SL

Peggy & Jim Bischof

James Tighe

Thomas Tighe &

Margaret Green Carolyn Mary Tighe SL

James Tighe

Thomas Tighe &

Margaret Green Helen Tighe

James Tighe Mary Lucina Tighe SL

James Tighe

Thomas Tighe &

Margaret Green Mary Luke Tobin SL

Mary Luke Noonan

Ann Wall Richards

Deceased Toolen Family members

Patti Toolen Kratschmer Mary Susan Truitt

Lucy Weiss Lillian & Lupe Trujillo

Mary Lou Trujillo Louise Udovick RGS

Russ Fallon Virginia Kramer Upton

Wade Upton Valerie Usinger SL

Judith & Anthony Piana Alice Jean Vade Bon Coeur SL

Mary Joe Zeillmann Betty, Margaret, Myron Vaga

Alyssa Iaia & John Carr Joan Van Leeuwen SL

Lorene & Leland Klein Aileen VanDerBack

Ann Mullally Manuela & Manuel Vasquez

Mary Lou & Joseph

Vasquez Carina Vetter SL

Janice & Edward Weber Bernice Voss

Marianne Burnes Ann Patrice Wagner SL

Ann Stoddard Andrew & Austin Walker

Denise Ann Clifford SL

Cathy & Dennis Walker Lorraine Walsh

Patricia Buhr Ann Patrick Ware SL

Gloria Robb Wells Emaline Carroll Weese

Barbara Clark Pawley Jacqueline Grennan Wexler*

Rita & Beth Burrows

Joan & Charles Grennan Kathy Whelan

Joan Holzknecht Ann White SL

Kimberly Osborne

Inez & David White Patricia Whyte

Maria Creavin & Bill Plaus Elizabeth Wiehe

Madelaine & Henry Kelly Rosemary Wilcox SL

Mary & Jim Bruce Linda Winston

The Loretto Community Mary Ann Zgiet

Victor Zgiet

gifts

In Memory of: Requested by: Mary Rhodes Buckler SL

Joan Kidnay My parents, Connie & Joe Clifford

Denise Ann Clifford SL Kathleen Crowley

Jane Kosters* Aline Dalton SL

Knights of Columbus,

Ladies Auxiliary 10122

Rita & Ken Werth Julia Dooling SL

Rev. Msgr. Leo Horrigan Margaret Grace Elsey SL

Jean Bradac Rosemary Fiori SL

Kathy & Tim Farrell Margaret Grant *

Becky & Greg Hasting Martha Ann Koch SL

Mountain View Dental Margaret Lally

Martin Lally Betty & Jack Leonard Anonymous Paschalita Linehan SL

Louise Berezny

Kathy & Tim Farrell Mary Louise Lynch SL

Kam Martin Marie Joann Rekart SL

Mary Jo & Vince Boryla

Kathy & Tim Farrell

Ruth Routten*

Lisa Stumm Patricia Sloss

Mary O’Flaherty Susan Swain SL

Kathy & Tim Farrell Christine Thompson SL

Rev. Msgr. Leo Horrigan

Editor’s Note: At the time of the 2015 Annual Golf Tournament last August, financial contributions were given to Loretto in memory of or to honor friends and loved ones. That listing was omitted in error from the Fall-Winter 2015 edition of Loretto Magazine. We offer it here with regrets for the delay.

In Honor of: Requested by: Marian Andrews SL

Sally Maresh Mary E. “Buffy” Boesen SL

Jo Ann & Joseph Furay Regina Drey SL

St. Mary’s Academy, Denver Mary Nelle Gage SL

Donna & Michael Boender

Spirit of Loretto Committee Evelyn Houlihan SL

Raymond Johanson

Jane Kosters* Anna Koop SL

Art Carbonell All the Sisters of Loretto

Sharon & Tom Hernandez

Holy Family High School

McDonald Family Trust

Lisa Reynolds* Patricia Jean “PJ” Manion SL

Karen & Mike Loden Barbara Schulte SL

Joan & George Trembath Sylvia Sedillo SL

LaVerne Brookie Kelly Marie Darby has given a gift to honor the 2015 Jubilarian Sisters of Loretto:

Mary Louise Denny SL

Regina Drey SL

Joy Jensen SL

Mary McAuliffe SL

Cathy Mueller SL

Mary Margaret Murphy SL

Mary Catherine Rabbitt SL

Janet Rabideau SL

Barbara Roche SL Fr. Bernard Meyer has given a gift to honor the Sisters of Loretto in Denver who celebrated their 75th Birthdays in 2015

Denise Ann Clifford SL

Vicki Schwartz SL

Marlene Spero SL

Photo by Nicole Martinez

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gifts

In Honor of: Requested by: Michael Anderson

Mary Sue Anderson Lupe Arciniega SL

Martha & Ted Groene Mary & John Ashe

Rosemary Brent Barbara Ann Barbato SL

Donna Campbell

Richard Fox

Lisa JoAnn Montague

Mary Ann Wyrsch Virginia Bohney

Kenneth Bohney Mary Kay Brannan SL

Karen & Kurt Musgrave Patricia & John Brock, my parents

Trish Brock Mary Peter Bruce SL

Mary Jane Schutzius Claudia Calzetta SL for her kindness

Martha Alderson* Angelus Caron SL

Laura Pitvorec Denise Ann Clifford SL, 75th Birthday

Frances & Tim Arnoult

Janet & Eddie Burke, Jr.

Grace & Bill Carr

Kelly Marie Darby

Nancy & Jacques Leveille

Pasty & Woods Martin

Meredith & Michael Rice Libby Comeaux*

Mr. & Mrs. Roy Comeaux Elizabeth Ann Compton SL

Frances Candlin

Diane Nelson Mary Lee Corbett

Samuel Corbett Mary Ann Coyle SL, 90th Birthday

La Fawn Biddle

Vicki & Jack Box

Frances Candlin

Libby Comeaux*

Deirdre Cryor

Donna & David Dwyer

Frances Fryberger

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Theresa Kinealy*

Anna Koop SL

Joseph Lorenzo

Kathryn McNamee

Deborah Nelson

Jo Ann* & Larry* Purcell

Michele Stimac* &

William Roat*

Mary Catherine Widger SL

Josephine Zamora Eleanor Craig SL

Fernanda Perrone Martha Creek

Kay Cook Mary Ann Cunningham SL

Frances Fryberger

Eva Antone Ross Chad Darby

Kelly Marie Darby Darby family members

Kelly Marie Darby Donna Day SL

Susan & Dennis Cuddihee DeVischer family members

Kelly Marie Darby Marie Luce Dimelow

Susanne & Thomas

Dimelow Antoinette Doyle SL

Susan & Christopher

Congalton

Cynthia Giguere-Unrein

Cathi Kraus Regina Drey SL

Katherine Wayne Jeanne Dueber SL

Lisa JoAnn Montague Marie Ego SL

Nancy & John Colvin

Cornelia Dietz

James Douthit &

Joan Risley

Tess Malumphy

Ann Salter The Fassel Family

Jane Fassel Maureen Fiedler SL

Thomas Bower Irene J. Fitch

Kenneth Fitch

Patricia Frueh SL

Fritz Hitchcock Jr. Mary Nelle Gage SL

Kathleen S. Hibbets JoAnn Gates*

Harriet Peake Mays Gloriann Goodman

Joan & Gene Deges Pauline Baker Goodman

Ruth Aldridge Marietta Goy SL

Amy E. McCarthy Jeannine Gramick SL

Thomas Bower

Rosemary & James

Jepson

Joanna O’Neill

Merton Preston

Rev. Paul Thomas Maura Graven

Nancy & Harold Elliott Mary Katherine Hammett SL

Lois & John Hammett

Marilyn Montenegro Katherine Ann Heinz SL

Catherine Czysz Mary Jo Highland

Mary Highland Gabriel Mary Hoare SL

Grace Horvat Ellen Hummel MMS

Jennifer & Joe Hummel Patricia Hummel SL

Jane & Norbert Hummel, Jr.

Jennifer & Joe Hummel

Kristina & John Hummel Cecily Jones SL

Helen Jones

Emily O’Neill

Anola Pickett Sharon Kassing SL

Nina Bryans My parents, Mary Margaret & James Keane

Margaret E. Keane Dave Kearns

Jo Marie Guastello Mary Ann Kelsey

Margaret & John Veatch

Eileen Kersgieter SL, 85th Birthday

Barbara Fagan

Regina & Steven Hermann Beatrice Klebba SL

Paul Archambault Kay Lane SL

Paula & Alfred Frey

Thomas Tighe &

Margaret Green Loretto 25th Anniversary Celebration for Loretto Volunteers

Claudia Calzetta SL

Kathy Sullivan SL

Emily Thenhaus All of the Sisters & Co-members of Loretto who served in Kansas City, Mo.

Karin & Ron Barrett All the Sisters of Loretto

Tanya Sue Hartman

Linda Jenkins All the Sisters of Loretto at Loretto Academy, Kansas City, Mo.

Sharon Mickelson Loretto High School alumnae, Louisville, Ky.

Nancy Horrell Bash Loretto School, Shanghai, China

Rita L. Klingen The Sisters of Loretto, thanks for my great education, beloved Sisters

Rita Durant The Sisters of Loretto

Bunny Dines

Dolores Ferrell

Verlene Rogalin The Sisters of Loretto who taught at St. Ann’s, Arlington, Va.

Cathy & Charles Titterton To all my Loretto teachers

Patricia Buhr To the Loretto Volunteers of WATER

Diann Neu

gifts

Rosalie Marie Phillips SL

Raymond Stevison, Jr. Elaine Marie Prevallet SL

Dale Coski & Alice Fritz

Dawn Dorsey Mary Catherine Rabbitt SL

Katherine Woodward Patty Rankin

Patrice Blanchard Regina Drey SL

Grace & William Carr Of my son’s return to the Catholic Church

Andrej Remec Lisa Reynolds*

Ann Walls Richards Dean, Daphne & Nicholas Rogers

Mary Ann & Gayle Rogers Stacey & Clay Rogers Family

Mary Ann & Gayle Rogers Anthony Mary Sartorius SL

Shelia Beims

Virginia St-Cyr Barbara Schulte SL

Lynn & Nick Davis Agnes Ann Schum SL

Eleanor Begley

Joanna Duenas &

Susan Geersen Marion Schweiger

Nancy & Frederic

Schweiger Orlando D. Sedillo

Sylvia Sedillo SL Sylvia Sedillo SL

Jeanette & Orlando Sedillo

Rosina Sedillo &

Jack Sena Dawn Dorsey-Smart

John Schultz Jason, Tanya, Brandi & Braden Smith

Sally Minelli Marlene Spero SL

Lynn & Nick Davis

Margaret & John Veatch Linda Steck

Shannon & John Nichols Marie Lourde Steckler SL

Mary Joe Zeillmann

Emma & George Steen, 50th Anniversary

The Steen Family Michele Stimac*

Frances Candlin

Frances Fryberger Kathleen Sullivan SL for her kindness

Martha Alderson* Mary Swain SL

Thomas Freeman &

Douglas Klocke

Geraldine & Patrick Welch Kathleen Tighe SL

Paula & Alfred Frey

James Tighe

Thomas Tighe &

Margaret Green Mary Louise “Billie” Vandover SL

Cricket & John Vandover Adam Joseph Vasquez

Mary Lou & Joseph

Vasquez Kathleen Vonderhaar SL

Yolanda & Charles Butler

Elizabeth & William

Mariner Barbara Wander*

Fischer Family Fund Carolyn Ann Wheat SL

Beverly & Don Lawson

Teresa Vogler Natalie Wing SL

Nancy Suda Ruth Ann Zook

John Zook

Photo by Nicole Martinez

The Mammoser Family

Dorothy & Frank Bartolone Patricia Jean Manion SL

Theora Lechner Evans

Thomas Manion

Rosemary Mason

Ann O’Malley Shake

Rae Marie Taylor Sabrina & Arlo Mata

Cecilia & Arlo Mata Mary McAuliffe SL

Robert & Wilma Fiori Millie McBride

Fran & John Lewis Maureen McCormack SL

Cece & Robert Holt

Kathleen Farrell Riordan Pat McCormick SL

Marilyn Sue Morris Stormy McDonald

Fran & John Lewis Pearl McGivney SL

Bette & Richard Wilbers Katherine Misbauer SL

Mahala & Pat Mattingly Mary Jo Moana

Mary Highland Cathy Mueller SL

Chris & Sal Molina

Viola Sirovatka Barbara Nicholas SL

Helen Ryan Kindler Valerie Ann Novak SL

Nancy Hillhouse Lydia Peña SL

Thomas Bower

The Bridge Community

Frances Fryberger

Gretchen Gagel

Mary Heesacker

Lynda Johnson

The Kahn Family

Barbara Martin

Anna Miller

Mary Kay Murphy

Karen Nicholson

Shirley Perkins Elizabeth Perez SL

Joanna Duenas &

Susan Geersen

Spring 2016 • 23

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