Mem-bits This column by S. Benedicta Mahoney offers brief glimpses of the past, tiny bits of memories. Do you remember? Were you there? Did you know? Aug. 15, 1929 – Five Sisters of the Pious Union from St. Rita School for the Deaf began their year of novitiate as Sisters of Charity, thus beginning the merger of the Pious Union with the Sisters of Charity. The merger was completed by 1934. July 1936 – Two Sisters of Charity were enrolled in the recently founded Institutum Divi Thomae, a unit of the Athenaeum of Ohio. The Institute “did theoretical research and instruction” under the direction of Dr. George Sperti. Six Sisters of Charity were eventually associated with the program, but the one who served the longest was S. Ann Gertrude Cronin, 1939 to 1951. Sept. 25, 1959 – On this day all of the patients of Glockner Sanitarium were transferred from their old building to the new Glockner-Penrose Hospital. The entire operation took place between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. S. Cyril Mahrt was the administrator.
S. Cyril Mahrt
Dec. 24, 1959 – For the first time, luminarios lined the Front Avenue of the Motherhouse to the Grotto. The project had been planned by Sisters Alice Elizabeth Streit and Agnes Rita McDonough and carried out by the Junior Sisters.
Elizabeth Seton High School in South Holland, Ill., now sponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago, was rededicated as Seton Academy in 1987.
August 1963 – Two all-girl high schools – one in a southeast suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and the other in the southeast suburb of Chicago, Ill. – had similar histories. Lumen Cordium High School in Bedford, Ohio, was opened by the Vincentian Sisters of Charity in 1963. Elizabeth Seton High School was opened by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati in 1963. Both schools remained in operation for 24 years, closing in 1987.
In Memoriam Please visit “In Memoriam” at www.srcharitycinti.org for biographical information and reflections on the Sisters of Charity and Associates who have died. May our Sisters and Associates enjoy the fruits of their labor as well as peace with their God. S. Marie Helen Ankenbrandt June 28, 2012 S. Rose Elizabeth Bumgarner June 26, 2012 S. Mary Imelda Sekerak June 16, 2012 S. Mary Jean Fields June 7, 2012 S. Grace Graber May 28, 2012 S. Martha Seton Tsai May 18, 2012 S. Ann Mojzisik May 9, 2012 S. Rosemary Schmid May 5, 2012 S. Geraldine O’Hagan May 4, 2012
Lumen Cordium High School in Bedford, Ohio, opened in 1963. S ummer 2 0 1 2
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