In Memoriam

Former faculty member Sister Martha Gleason ’54,O.S.U.

1937–2021

Sister Martha Gleason ’54, O.S.U., a proud graduate of Ursuline Academy’s Arlington Street campus and a longtime faculty member, passed away peacefully on February 1, 2021 at Andrus on Hudson, Hastings on Hudson, New York.

After high school, Martha attended the College of New Rochelle, the Catholic University of America, and the Weston School of Theology. By 1961, Sr. Martha was teaching Latin at Ursuline Academy in Springfield, MA. With the exception of one year spent teaching at the Academy of Mount St. Ursula, Martha spent the next 28 years teaching in Ursuline’s Northeast Province. Her teaching took her to Dedham and Springfield, Massachusetts, to Lewiston and Sanford, Maine, and back to Dedham.

During this time she served as director of Maine’s Diocesan Office for Women Religious, as Provincial of the Northeast Province, and as co-chair of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in the Boston Archdiocese. On coming to the Eastern Province in 2014, Martha worked as Co-Director of Peer Ministry for several years at The Ursuline School in New Rochelle.

Alumnae fondly recall Sister Martha’s ability to remember the name of every student in the school. Her genuine warmth, wit, and caring nature will be truly missed by all who knew her.

Alumnae

Ellen Gallagher Bowen ’70 | April 23, 2019 Carol Newman Mahoney ’51 | November 22, 2020 Helen Hartmann Black ’62 | September 5, 2020 Kathleen Molloy Signoriello ’66 | December 13, 2018

Relatives and Friends

Joseph Abate | husband of Maureen Corkery Abate ’58 | December 19, 2020 Clinton James ‘Jim’ Bowley | father of staff member Cindy Harrington and grandfather of Meghan Harrington Murray ’07 and Mary Kate Harrington Adams ’10 | July 12, 2020 Thomas Broderick | brother of staff member, Ann Buccelli | December 11, 2020 Constance Lynch Feely | former faculty member and mother of Mary Feely Moriarty ’80, Alice Feely Wilson ’81, Jane Feely Marinella ’83, and Consie Feely Giguere ’86 | grandmother of Rachel Marinella ’18 | August 17, 2020 (See story page 8.) Rita Fiumaro | mother of Natalie Fiumaro ’77 | December 19, 2020

Arthur Gearty | grandfather of Mae O’Neill ’21 | September 14, 2020 Mary M. Gorman | mother of Mary Jo Gorman Keaney ’82 | August 28, 2020 Jack Kaster | grandfather of Liz Kaster ’16 and Joanie Kaster ’18 | September 8, 2020 Edward Krippendorf | brother of Angela Krippendorf ’59, O.S.U. | October 11, 2020 Mary Kutrubes | mother of Kathy Kutrubes ’67 and Linda Kutrubes ’77 | January 25, 2021 Paul Maloney | father of Maryellen Maloney Hoban ’90 | January 6, 2021 Jennie Martin | mother of Diane Martin ’73 | October 15, 2020 Edward J. McCormick III | father of Jacqueline McCormick Stillman ’07 and Julia McCormick ’09 | November 25, 2020 Leah O’Leary | mother of faculty member Katharine Plato | December 17, 2020 Geraldine Saccone | grandmother of Kelly Saccone ’08 and Kate Saccone ’11 | October 26, 2020 Salvatore Simeone | father of Fran Simeone ’77, Ann SimeonePace ’78, Lisa Simeone Ewanouski ’80, and Michelle Simeone Abrecht ’84 | August 18, 2020 Albert Tosone | grandfather of Nichole Keough ’16, Kristen Keough ’19, and Becca Keough ’22 | October 6, 2020