DOME - Winter 2022

URSULINE

Continuing the Legacy of Spirituality and Service

Branching Out

A PUBLICATION OF THE URSULINE SISTERS OF LOUISVILLE • WINTER 2022

THANKFUL FOR OUR DONORS The Teaching Ministry of The Ursuline Sisters of Louisville From 1938–1965

On the cover One of our Angeline Award recipients, Carmen de la Cuba Laurel (see back cover), presented the community with a gift of this wooden Nativity scene, called a “retablo” in Peru. A retablo is an intricate wooden diorama, often a devotional painting on wood with doors that open to give a further dimension to the scene that is depicted inside. Frequently the painting is of a gospel scene or message: the Nativity, the Crucifixion, the Last Supper, or a scene from the life of a popular saint. Retablos also depict the cultural events of the area in which they are created. This retablo is from the city of Ayacucho in Peru, which is known for its folk handicrafts, including retablos, and lively Easter Week celebrations.

The embroidered cloth the retablo is sitting on is also from Ayacucho. The colors are bright, and reflective of the flowers in the area, even though the general geography of Ayacucho is very barren for a large part of the year.

About this issue In this issue you will read part two of the history about the teaching ministry of the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville from 1938 through 1965. The Sisters continued to “branch out” with their mission of education through trying times, which included the Great Flood, the Great Depression, and World War II, while founding Ursuline College, a four-year institution of higher learning for women in 1938. They responded to seismic shifts in the culture around them, including the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the Church opening its windows to the world with Vatican II. They benefitted from the gifts and talents of both the Ursulines of Columbia, South Carolina, and the Ursulines of Pittsburgh, who joined them, and the academies those two communities founded came under the Ursulines of Louisville sponsorship.

At home, the Sisters expanded their teaching methods to include children with special needs, learning disabilities, the deaf, and those with sight issues. In 1958, the year of the 100th anniversary of their founding, the Ursulines built Angela Merici High School to serve girls in south Louisville.

They went south—to Camden, Mississippi, to serve the children of poor Black sharecroppers at Sacred Heart Mission School, and then in 1964, further south— to Latin America, to serve in Peru.

The Ursuline Sisters of Louisville changed with the times, always remaining true to the words of their foundress, Angela Merici: “Build community wherever you go.”

—Kathy Williams, editor

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On The Cover/About This Issue

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From the Leadership Circle

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By The Numbers

16-17 Peruvian Journal: Branching Out 18-19 AMC Spirituality: Be A Christmas Tree 20-27 Thank You to Our Donors 2022 Angeline Award 28 DONOR/ALUMNI RELATIONS

KIM BRADLEY Manager, Donor/Alumni Relations COMMUNICATIONS/PR OFFICE

KATHY WILLIAMS

Director, Communications/Public Relations DOME Editor, Art Direction and Design DOME CONTRIBUTORS

KATHY WILLIAMS GINNY SCHAEFFER SISTER SUE SCHARFENBERGER LAUREL WILSON Archivist

KAREN HEILERS Proofreader

DONATION INFORMATION The Ursuline Sisters of Louisville appreciate the support of those who share their financial resources with us.

We make every effort to ensure that you receive the maximum tax credit allowed by law. When making a donation, make your check payable to the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, and mail it to Donor Relations Office, Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, 3115 Lexington Road, Louisville, KY 40206, or use the enclosed remittance envelope.

The check must be processed through the Donor Relations Office for the Ursuline Sisters to generate the proper documentation you will need for your tax-deductible donation.

Ursuline Society and Academy of Education (USAE) is the corporate title under which the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville do business. USAE does not include gifts received for the other corporation, Sacred Heart Schools (SHS), Inc. Gifts for Sacred Heart Academy and other campus schools are received by the SHS Office of Development and used exclusively for the schools and their programs. ___________________________________________________________________ Correction to our 2022 summer DOME “Rooted and Reaching” story: Sister Rose Ann Dorn was the last Ursuline Sister to leave Cumberland, Maryland, in 2015.

Branching Out When given the task of writing for this edition of the DOME with the theme being “Branching Out,” the scriptural passage that came to mind immediately was: “I am the vine, you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” Jn 15:5 This got me to thinking about where I came from, my family “vine” if you will. My mother, an Atcher, grew up in West Point, Kentucky, my father in Kosmosdale, me and my siblings in Valley Station. The common denominator is Dixie Highway. I have been thinking of Dixie Highway as the “vine” and these places as “branches” of the highway. The Wigginton and Atcher vines have produced many branches and borne much fruit. There are more places along this highway, many of them with family connections, as well as connections to Ursuline Sisters.

My West Point grandmother, back before they owned a car (their first car was a 1947 black Dodge which my grandmother drove well into the ’70s), would hitch the horses to a buggy and the family of ten would cross the Salt River on a ferry and then ride down Dixie Highway (31W) to St. Helen’s Church for Sunday Mass. Mass in West Point was only once a month.

Grandmother would go the distance to receive Eucharist weekly. Her faith was strong. The horse and buggy trips would have been in the ’20s and ’30s. Most of the property along the way would have been farmland. These farmlands gave way to subdivisions and businesses all up and down Dixie Highway as the population boomed after World War II. The branches produced much fruit

along the way.

And the Ursuline Sisters became a part of the vine and branches reaching out in service. Starting at St. Helen’s in 1902, Sisters Matthew Nicklas and De Chantal Schlagheck lived at St. Anthony’s Convent and commuted via train every day and later, via streetcar from St. Vincent de Paul Convent. The Ursulines branched out in service in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and into the ’80s at schools all along this vine of Dixie Highway—St. Clement, St. Timothy, Our Lady Help of Christians, and of course, Angela Merici High School. And this was just one part of Louisville! The “branching out” occurred throughout Louisville and beyond, into other states as well as Peru in South America.

The Sisters went where there was a need, and they endured the hardships as well as the joys of serving God’s people in the name of Jesus, who is the Vine, as His branches. I certainly was affected, as were many others, by my Ursuline teachers at St. Clement and Angela Merici High School.

Then in the ’60s and ’70s, the Sisters did a lot more branching out because of a request from Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council. Up until then the Ursulines of Louisville were primarily kindergarten through college classroom teachers. A significant branching out occurred when we sent Sisters to minister in Peru.

One of the outcomes of Vatican II was that Catholic Sisters worldwide were asked to go back

in time to study and discover who their founders/foundresses were and what their charism was. When we did that, we found out that St. Angela was not a classroom teacher.

She certainly taught, but not in the way we thought. She went wherever there was a need. She taught by how she lived the gospel. So, in the ’70s we responded by branching out into other ministries within the church and beyond, such as social services and various parish ministries like directors of religious education, liturgy coordinators and pastoral associates. And in my case, a ministry with persons who were either deaf or blind or both deaf-blind.

Because we have remained in Him and He in us we have borne much fruit and continue to do so!

We have been blessed.

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Flooded Shelby Street next to the old Motherhouse chapel during the Ohio River Flood in 1937

The late 1930s were a time of challenges and change. The country was in the midst of the Great Depression (1929-1939) when the Ohio River flooded in January 1937—stretching from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, leaving one million homeless. 250,000 of Louisville’s 350,000 inhabitants were forced to leave their homes and find safety on higher ground. The Ursulines took refugees in and housed them on the Lexington Road campus for two weeks. The Ursulines survived these terrible events while continuing their mission of education.

In 1938, the Ursuline Sisters of Columbia, South Carolina, joined the Louisville Ursulines. Having survived General Sherman’s attack on Columbia during the Civil War, whereby he burned their Academy to the ground leaving them homeless, this small group of Ursulines then moved several times, eventually building a new convent in the city.

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Ursuline High band members on the steps of St. Peter’s in Columbia,1940.

In 1957, Ursuline High was renamed Catholic High School of Columbia.

In 1858, they established Ursuline High School for girls, however, by 1933, due to their small number (13), the lack of vocations, and increasing age of the Columbia Ursulines, the future of the girls’ high

In 1938, Ursuline College was founded by the Ursuline Sisters as a four-year program to expand and continue the programs of Sacred Heart Junior College. Founded in 1921 through the leadership

...in November 1936, Bishop Walsh “appealed to us as the only hope of preserving the Ursuline traditions in South Carolina.” By joining with Louisville, their founded school remained open, coming under the leadership of the Ursulines of Louisville. school they had founded, Ursuline High School, was very much in question. According to a historical record of the Louisville Ursulines, in November 1936, Bishop Walsh “appealed to us as the only hope of preserving the Ursuline traditions in South Carolina.”

By joining with Louisville, their founded school remained open, coming under the leadership of the Ursulines of Louisville.

of Mother Theodore Guethoff, with Sister Dominica Hettinger as the first academic dean, Sacred Heart Junior College provided an avenue for secondary education for the Ursuline Sisters and other young women at a time when the opportunity for a college degree for most women was very limited.

Ursuline College became well regarded for its education and science programs.

Ursuline High School, Columbia, South Carolina, 1941, Craycraft Card Company.

Digital Collection: “Postcards” of South Caroliniana Library, Columbia, SC 29208.

Also in 1938, the bonds between the Louisville Ursuline Community and their founding motherhouse in Germany were reestablished with the arrival of Sisters Caecilia Staemmer and Seraphina Winkler who, as many religious from Germany did, found it necessary to leave their homeland during WWII. Sister Caecilia taught German at the college, and Sister Seraphina worked at St. Joseph Home and taught German to the other Sisters on Saturdays.

The years they spent with the Louisville Ursulines restored the

friendship and connection between the two groups.1 Over the next several years, with Mother Roberta Zehe as superior, several new buildings, including Brescia Hall, a science building for the college, were constructed. This expansion was not without financial stress.

Many prayers and sacrifices were made to pay off debts and the community entered the 1940s on a hopeful note.

In 1944, the Louisville Ursulines extended their mission work to the deep south, in Camden, Mississippi, teaching summer school there. In 1946, Mother Rosalin Schaeffer received a request from Monsignor J.B. Brunini, chancellor of the Diocese of Natchez, for teachers to staff Sacred Heart Mission School, which served the children of poor, Black sharecroppers of the area. Mother Rosalin sent Sisters Angelina Geis, Dolorosa Gough and Margaret Mary Pittmon to Camden to teach at the school, which included grades

kindergarten through high school.

Additional Ursulines were sent there to teach catechism at various parishes throughout the area during the summer months. A report from June 1946 states: “This mission is for colored [sic] children and the Community is happy to take the Mission as a mission project.

It will be taken care of by the Community.”2

First graduating class of Ursuline College, 1939

In 1946, Sister Raymond Carter wrote in an article in The Record, “Sacred Heart Mission School is not to be just another school for the Negro. It has a specific, unique goal which is in accord with the purpose of the cooperative village.

No education is too good for this village, but it must savor of the soil.”3 A total of 41 Louisville Ursulines served at Sacred Heart Mission School from 1946 to 1992, 46 years.

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up in a coal-mining camp in West Virginia, and attended public school. Mary (her birth name) recalled encountering the Ursuline Sisters in 1932, at age 5, for summer catechism lessons. She recalled, “I had never seen nuns before. I told my mother that’s what I want to be…I thought they were dropped from Heaven.”4

Sister Regina Bevelacqua (1935-2021), born to an Italian immigrant family, credited her younger brother, Anthony, with her parents’ decision to switch from public schools to St. Francis de Sales Catholic School in Morgantown, West Virginia. He said, “I want to go where the ladies wear long dresses.” Her relationships

I had never seen nuns before. I told my mother that’s what I want to be…I thought they were dropped from Heaven.

—Sister Donata Kokot

Sister Yvonne Moran with Sacred Heart Mission School students in Camden, Mississippi, circa 1950s.

with the Ursuline Sisters led to her later joining the community.5

According to the Community’s Annals for 1947, in addition to teaching 9,705 pupils in grade schools, 1,349 in high schools, and 273 in Ursuline College, the Ursulines were also sponsoring 19 vacation programs, 15 religion programs for public school children, and one orphanage that cared for 140 children.6

The 1950s saw changes made by religious communities in the formation of their novitiates and an enhancement in their professional development as teachers. This decade also saw an increasing number of lay teachers joining the staffs of parish schools and the schools founded by the Ursulines. The unwritten Dates Served mandate of a Sister in every classroom disappeared, 1938-1944 and the Ursulines changed with the times. They also 1944-1950 accepted positions at the new schools of St.1950-1956 Raphael 1956-1962 and Our Lady of Lourdes parishes in Louisville and 1962-1968 St. Aloysius in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. In South

1938-1965: Ursuline Sisters of Louisville Timeline

South Carolina Ursulines join with Louisville.

1938

Sacred Heart Junior College expands to a four-year college for women renamed Ursuline College under the leadership of Mother Roberta Zehe.

1938 Straubing Ursulines Caecilia Staemmer and Seraphina Winkler live with the Louisville Ursulines during WWII.

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1939 Brescia Hall built on the Ursuline campus.

Sisters begin teaching in Mississippi under the leadership of Mother Roberta Zehe.

1944

1951 Sisters begin teaching children with intellectual and physical disabilities.

Sacred Heart Model School and Marian Hall built on the Ursuline campus.

1955

1956 Ursuline Speech Clinic opens.

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Carolina, the Ursulines went to St. Joseph School.

Sister Maria Goretti Lovett was the last Ursuline there, where she taught for 41 years.

Seeing the need for special classes for those with intellectual disabilities, the Archdiocese of Louisville started a special class in 1949 within the Catholic school system. In 1951, Monsignor Felix N. Pitt asked Mother Columba Ishanski to provide a Sister to teach the “Opportunity Class,” as it was called, at St. Patrick School. The Opportunity Class moved around to various parishes, but from 1951 to 1965, Sister Mary Vincent Strittmatter was a consistent presence.

Sister Regina Bevelacqua succeeded Sister Mary Vincent as director in 1967. A March 1958 St. Patrick PTA newsletter article on the program stated, “Recently a fourteen-year-old beamed at his teacher and exclaimed incredulously, ‘Sister, I can read!’ ”

e Age er Roberta Zehe 50 er Rosalin 1. St. Ishanski Raphael School,50 circa 1950, L to R: Sisters Norberta Rickert, Theodora er Columba Breighner, Annunciata Muth and Ruth Ann Campion with Father Leo J. Sheeran er Cosma Coponi 63 2. Sister Rosaire Miltenberger with students at the Ursuline Speech Clinic er Agnes3.Marie Long Maier 61with grades 6 and 7, St. Mary School, Jackson, MS, 1957 Sister Johanna

There was also a class for children with vision impairments, called the “Sight Saving Class,” that was directed by Sister Mary Lavinia Lesousky from 1951 to 1968. In 1956, the Ursuline Speech Clinic was opened on campus. Later, in 1964, the Ursuline Special Education Learning Center was established as a laboratory school for Ursuline College students majoring in special education.

This was the realization of a dream of one of the early deans of Ursuline College, Sister Raymond Carter. Generous donors, including the WHASTV Crusade for Children, made the funding of this department possible.7

1938-1965: Ursuline Sisters of Louisville Timeline Ursuline Sisters of Pittsburgh join Ursuline Sisters of Louisville under the leadership of Mother Cosma Coponi.

1958 1958

Ursuline Academy in Pittsburgh comes under Louisville leadership.

Pope John XXIII opens the Vatican II council in Rome.

1962 1959

Angela Merici High School for girls opens in southwest Louisville.

Ursuline Special Education Learning Center was established.

1964

1963

Sister Anna Marie (Bernadette) Trance was the first Sister to teach at Bellarmine College.

Santa Angela Merici School opens in Carmen de la Legua, Peru, founded by the Ursulines

1965

1964 First Louisville Ursuline missionaries arrive in Peru, South America, sent by Mother Agnes Marie Long.

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1955 brought about two new buildings on campus: Sacred Heart Model School and Marian Hall. Marian Hall was built as a dormitory, dining facility, library and chapel for students attending Ursuline College. The new buildings were bittersweet sights for some of the Ursuline Sisters as the beloved St. Angela Hall, the original mansion on the property that was over 100 years old, was torn down to make room for the new Marian Hall building.

Founded in 1924, the Model School was named for its innovative approach as a model teaching environment for students majoring in education at Ursuline College.

In 1957, the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville were preparing to celebrate their centennial the following year when they received word that the Ursuline Sisters of Pittsburgh wished to explore the

option of joining them. The Pittsburgh Ursulines had been founded in 1870 by a group of French and English Ursulines who started Ursuline Academy in Pittsburgh in 1872.

The number of Sisters in the Pittsburgh convent was always small, and in the mid 1950s they were 22 in number. Bishop John F. Dearden informed the Sisters that they could not remain any longer as an independent community, citing the small number of Sisters, decreased enrollment at Ursuline Academy and lack of new vocations.

The Louisville Ursulines considered it providential that they should help the Pittsburgh Ursulines in any way possible as an act of thanksgiving to God for graces they had received in their one hundred years as a community.

Mother De Sales Neyman and her class at Ursuline Academy, Pittsburgh, 1950

Sacred Heart Model School, 1955

On July 22, 1958, the Vatican gave permission for the union of the Ursuline Sisters of Pittsburgh and the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville.8

The community’s annals ( June 1954 to December 1962) stated, “Twenty-two professed Sisters [from Pittsburgh] have been added to the Community making a total of 596 professed and 21 novices.”

With this merger, another Ursuline Academy came under the leadership of the Louisville Ursulines—Ursuline Academy of Pittsburgh. Louisville Ursulines began to staff other schools in Pittsburgh as well.

Even before the official merger, in September 1957, two Louisville

Sister Annalita Fox (L) and Sister Assumpta Devine (R) upon their arrival to teach at Ursuline Academy in Pittsburgh in 1957. Sister Anna Marie (Bernadette) Trance, a Pittsburgh Ursuline, is in the center.

The Louisville Ursulines considered it providential that they should help the Pittsburgh Ursulines in any way possible as an act of thanksgiving to God for graces they had received in their one hundred years as a community. On July 22, 1958, the Vatican gave permission for the union of the Ursuline Sisters of Pittsburgh and the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville.

Ursulines, Assumpta Devine and Annalita Fox, went to live and minister with the Pittsburgh Ursulines. The two wrote to their Louisville community that, “The distance away may be great, but the spirit is the same. The Sisters are so congenial and eager to make us feel at home. Simplicity and charity are outstanding among these Ursulines.”9 A total of 122 Ursuline Sisters of Louisville served in Pittsburgh from 1957 to 2006.

Although small in number, the Pittsburgh Ursulines brought many gifts to the community’s teaching mission. Sister De Chantal Mulligan, who joined the Pittsburgh Ursulines in 1909, was instrumental in getting all women religious in Pittsburgh certified as teachers and founded the Sisters’ Alumnae Association of Duquesne University.

When she died at age 109 on March 31, 1997, at Marian Home on the Ursuline campus, it was determined that she had been the oldest woman religious in the United States!

Several Pittsburgh Ursulines enriched Louisville with their teaching ministries. Sisters Mary Catherine Vukmanic and MarieAline (Antonia Marie) Massicotte taught at Ursuline College, and Sister Mary Catherine went on to earn a doctorate in theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Sister Mary Catherine also taught at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh in the 1950s, and at St. Mary’s Seminary-College of Theology and St. Catharine College, both in Kentucky.

at Bellarmine College when she joined their education faculty in 1963. One previously skeptical student said after a semester in Sister Anna Marie’s class, “Sisters make very capable college teachers.

I’d like to see Bellarmine have more of them.”10

Another Pittsburgh Ursuline, Sister Anna Marie (Bernadette) Trance was the first Sister to teach

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1958 saw the centennial celebration of the Ursulines’ arrival in Louisville, and much fanfare and pageantry. School plays, lectures, and liturgical celebrations marked the occasion. The community had achieved much during the 100 years from its humble beginnings on Chestnut Street.

That same year, the Ursulines received permission to build a third Ursuline high school for girls in Louisville which would be in the south end, near Shively. The Ursulines viewed building the school, Angela Merici High School, as a significant milestone to usher in the next century of their ministry in the United States. 11

By the late 1950s, the Ursuline Sisters had staffed, or were staffing, 23 parochial schools in the Louisville area, as well as schools in other states. In Louisville, they owned and operated Ursuline College, Ursuline Academy, Sacred Heart Academy, Sacred Heart Model School, Angela Merici High School, and the Ursuline Speech Clinic.

Top: Angela Merici High School cornerstone laying with sister and priests, 1959 Bottom: Angela Merici High School cornerstone laying with students, 1959

Schools that Ursulines served between 1858–1965* Name of School City State Years served St. Martin of Tours School Louisville KY— 1858—1967 Ursuline Academy Louisville KY— 1859—1972 St. Mary School Louisville KY— 1861—1871 Newport KY— 1864—1900 Corpus Christi School St. Aloysius School Covington KY— 1866—1867 St. Joseph School Louisville KY— 1867—1872** St. Peter School Louisville KY— 1868—1967 SS Peter & Paul School East Liberty PA— 1869—1874 St. Boniface School Lafayette IN— 1868—1877 St. Charles Borromeo School Peru IN— 1870—1874 St. Joseph School Logansport IN— 1870—1874 St. Anthony School Jeffersonville IN— 1870—1892 SS. Peter & Paul School Cumberland MD—1870—1981 St. Mary School Madison IN— 1872—1954 Mascoutah IL— 1872—1888 Holy Childhood of Jesus St. Boniface School Germantown IL— 1873—1877 KY— 1873—1901 St. Francis of Assisi School Dayton St. Joseph Academy St. Joseph KY— 1874—1912 Immaculate Conception Columbia IL— 1875—1890 Sacred Heart Academy Louisville KY— 1877—— St. Mary School Bloomington IL— 1877—1883

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St. Boniface School Edwardsville IL— 1878—1880 St. Mary School Metamora IL— 1878—1894 St. Mary School Lincoln IL— 1878—1882 Lincoln IL— 1878—1882 St. Patrick School St. Mary School El Paso IL— 1879—1882 SS Peter & Paul School Haubstadt IN— 1879—1881 St. Celestine School Celestine IN— 1880—1885 St. Vincent de Paul School Louisville KY— 1880—1979 St. Mary School Memphis TN— 1881—1890 Pekin IL— 1881—1888 Sacred Heart School St. Patrick School Minonk IL— 1881—1882 St. Boniface School/Westside Catholic Consolidated Evansville IN— 1881—1980 Huberta Academy/St. Joseph School Owensboro KY— 1881—1919 St. Francis of Assisi School Ottawa IL— 1882—1887 St. Louis MO—1883—1893 Holy Ghost School St. James School St. James IN— 1884—1890 Holy Trinity School Louisville KY— 1885—1979 St. Alphonsus School St. Joseph KY— 1885—1888 St. Bernard School St. Louis MO—1886—1899

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The community had achieved much during the 100 years from its humble beginnings on Chestnut Street. That same year, the Ursulines received permission to build a third Ursuline high school for girls in Louisville which would be in the south end, in Shively. The Ursulines viewed building the school, Angela Merici High School, as a significant milestone to usher in the next century of their ministry in the United States.

The 1960s arrived in a wave of revolutions: cultural, economic, and political. The Vietnam War cast a long shadow over the country, and the civil rights movement brought to light many injustices that had long been a part of our country’s history. Priests and religious found themselves drawn into social justice concerns as never before. And within the Catholic Church, Vatican II was the revolution.

AMHS Math class with Sr. Georgine Grabenstein, Carol Brennenstuhl, Ann Garns and Peggy Molloy, 1962

Opened in 1962 by Pope John XXIII, and closed in 1965, this twenty-first ecumenical council of the Catholic Church sought to connect the Church with the modern world—to open its windows and present its teachings in a manner that was relevant and understandable to the laity.

Just prior to Vatican II, in 1961, Pope John XXIII asked religious communities to send 10 percent of

Schools that Ursulines served between 1858-1965* Name of School City State Years served St. Mary School St. Henry IL— 1886—1887 St. Joseph School Memphis TN— 1887—1888 St. Louis MO—1889—1893 St. Henry School St. Michael School Frostburg MD—1891—1899 SS Peter & Paul Ursuline Academy Cumberland MD—1892—1966 St. Patrick School Mount Savage MD—1896—1899 St. Joseph Orphange Louisville KY— 1897—2010 St. Boniface School Louisville KY— 1898—1967 St. Anthony School Louisville KY— 1899—1971 St. George School Louisville KY— 1899—1976 St. Helen School Louisville KY— 1902—1998 St. Sylvester School Ottenheim KY— 1903—1904 St. Romuald School Hardinsburg KY— 1903—1912 St. Mary School Cumberland MD—1903—1989 St. Elizabeth of Hungary Louisville KY— 1906—1982 St. Leo the Great School Louisville KY— 1906—1974 St. Therese School Louisville KY— 1907—1987 St. Ann School Louisville KY— 1907—1985 St. Peter Claver School Louisville KY— 1908—1967

Cumberland MD—1910—1959 St. Mary High School St. Francis of Assisi School Louisville KY— 1911—1989 Rome KY— 1912—1916 St. Martin School St. Augustine School New Straitsville OH— 1915—1955 St. Francis de Sales Morgantown WV— 1915—1987 Sacred Heart School/Conemaugh Catholic Conemaugh PA— 1915—1979 St. Patrick Academy Sidney NE— 1916—1989 St. Mary School Rushville NE— 1916—1933 St. Patrick School North Platte NE— 1916—1975 St. Aloysius School Louisville KY— 1916—1916 St. Ambrose School Seymour IN— 1917—1929 St. Joseph School Diamond IN— 1918—1923 St. Mary School Washington IN— 1918—1928 St. Michael School South Sioux City NE— 1918—1923 St. Michael/St. Therese School Omaha NE— 1918—1941 St. Bartholomew School Columbus IN— 1919—1929 Blessed Sacrament School Omaha NE— 1920—1990 Sacred Heart Junior College/Ursuline College/Bellarmine Louisville KY— 1921—1996

*Dates are the first period of service according to recorded dates in the Ursuline archives.

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their members to serve in Latin America. So, in November 1961, Sister Cosma Coponi, then Mother Superior, wrote to her Sisters: “May we ask the Sisters who are interested in working in Latin America for a period of at least five years to inform us of their willingness to do so?”12 Twenty sisters volunteered.

In February 1964, the next superior, Mother Agnes Marie Long, received a letter from the Apostolic Nuncio in Peru requesting Sisters to teach in a high school for girls.

Mother Agnes Marie and Sister Delia Lynch traveled to Lima in March of that year to determine where the Louisville Ursulines could best serve. Father Thomas Garrity visited Mother Agnes Marie, seeking religious to come to Carmen de la

Legua in Callao outside of Lima, then a slum area of impoverished families who had migrated there from the Andes Mountains.

The Brothers of St. Gabriel from Montreal, Canada, also asked Mother Agnes Marie for Sisters to teach English in the Liceo Naval Almirante Guise, the Peruvian Navy School for children of Navy

personnel. Mother Agnes Marie accepted responsibility for the school, as that arrangement would help fund the missionary work in Carmen de la Legua.13

Much like the small group of Ursulines who left Bavaria to start the community in Louisville, four Louisville Ursulines left for Peru in July 1964, knowing very little about

Schools that Ursulines served between 1858–1965* Name of School

City

State Years served

St. Michael School Madison IN— 1922—1954 Sacred Heart Model School Louisville KY— 1924— St. Rita School Louisville KY— 1928—1982 Louisville KY— 1932—1984 Catholic Schools Office Ursuline High School/Columbia Catholic/Cardinal Newman Columbia SC— 1936—1998 St. Peter School Columbia SC— 1936—1972 St. Joseph Academy O’Connor NE— 1937—1951 Holy Spirit School Louisville KY— 1937—1978 Our Mother of Sorrows Louisville KY— 1937—1991 Sacred Heart School Camden MS— 1946—1992 Archdiocesan Reading Clinic Louisville KY— 1947—1969 St. Raphael the Archangel Louisville KY— 1948—1996 St. Mary School Jackson MS— 1949—1990 Our Lady of Lourdes School Louisville KY— 1950—1988 Archdiocesan Opportunity Class/Special Education Class/ Msgr. Pitt Learning Center Louisville KY— 1951—1971 Archdiocesan Sight Saving Class Louisville KY— 1951—1968 Shawe Memorial High School Madison IN— 1952—1999 St. Mary-Michael School/Pope John XXIII School—

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Madison IN— 1954—1984 St. Aloysius School Shepherdsville KY— 1954—1991 St. Joseph School Columbia SC— 1954—2016 Louisville KY— 1956—1996 Ursuline Speech Clinic St. Clement School Louisville KY— 1957—1986 Ursuline Academy Pittsburgh PA— 1957—1981 Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament School Pittsburgh PA— 1958—1979 Angela Merici High School Louisville KY— 1959—1984 Our Lady Help of Christians Louisville KY— 1959—1972 Incarnate Word College San Antonio TX— 1959—1960 Ursuline Tutoring Program/Tutoring Center Louisville KY— 1960—1995 St. Joseph School Pittsburgh PA— 1961—1984 Ursuline Special Education Learning Center Louisville KY— 1964—1981 St. Timothy School Louisville KY— 1964—1988 Liceo Naval Almirante Guise Lima Peru — 1964—1971 Santa Angela Merici School Callao Peru— 1964——

*Dates are the first period of service according to recorded dates in the Ursuline archives.

I felt so zealous until I saw our mission, Carmen de la Legua, which was a slum area of 10,000 poor families that lived along a dried-up bed of the Rimac River in straw huts and spoke another language.

Oh, my Jesus, guide and keep me.

—Sister Lee Kirchner

the people or the missionary work that awaited them. Sisters Helen Margaret (Aquinas) Schweri and Mary Xavier Smith joined the staff of the Peruvian Navy School and Sisters Lelia “Lee” (Placidus) Kirchner and Mary Martha ( Joseph Marie) Staarman began working in the barriada of Carmen de la Legua, in Callao.

After a three-month crash course in Spanish, Sister Lee and Sister Mary Martha set about their monumental task to start a school in the barriada. Sister Lee recalls, “I felt so zealous until I saw our mission, Carmen de la Legua, which was a slum area of 10,000 poor families that lived along a dried-up bed of the Rimac River in straw huts and spoke another language. Oh, my Jesus, guide and keep me.”

They had no electricity, running water, sewers, basic medical care or transportation. The area had a lot of mosquitos, scorpions and vermin, and disease was rampant. In 1965, after a lot of red tape, they were able to open Santa Angela Merici School. They started it with 75 children in two first grade rooms, one box of chalk and two erasers! Enrollment quickly grew as it was the only Catholic school in the area.14

For over a hundred years, the Ursulines of Louisville had reached out to many communities in faith, both in the United States and Peru. They had changed to meet the needs of the people and were challenged by the words of their foundress, St. Angela Merici: “If, according to times and circumstances, the need arises to make new rules or to do something differently, do it prudently and with good advice.”

Sweeping changes within the Church in the late 1960s and the decade that followed awaited the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville.

They met those changes in faith, hope, and with a return to their roots, examining their charism and the very structure of their community life.

Top: Mother Agnes Marie Long (L) and Sister Delia Lynch (second from R) visiting a school in Lima, Peru, run by Roman Union Ursulines while on a fact-finding trip in 1964, prior to sending Louisville Ursulines to Peru. The sister in a white habit is Sister Stephanie, a Roman Union Ursuline, March 1964.

Bottom: The first four Sisters missioned to Peru in 1964 (L-R): Mother Xavier Smith, Sister Lee (Placidus) Kirchner, Sister Mary Martha (Joseph Marie) Staarman, and Sister Helen (Aquinas) Schweri.

Footnotes are on page 15. Special thanks to Laurel Wilson for research for this article.

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Branching Out: 1938–1965 Ursuline Sisters of Louisville Ministry Arrival Dates by State and Country

(through 1965)

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Mother Superiors, 1938-1968

Dates Served Name Age 1938-1944 Mother Roberta Zehe 50 1944-1950 Mother Rosalin Schaeffer 47 Membership Trends 1950-1956 Mother Columba Ishanski 50 1938 1948 1953 1965 1956-1962 Mother Cosma Coponi 63 PerpetualMother 419 498 Long46461 590 1962-1968 Agnes Marie Professed

Temporary Professed

Novices

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BY THE NUMBERS

Louisville Ursulines By the Numbers 9 of 27

One third of Mother Superiors/ Presidents came from missions outside of Kentucky

Membership Trends 1938

1948

1953

1965

Perpetual Professed

419

498

464

590

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29

48

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27

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109

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66 54

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South Carolina

Nebraska

West Virginia

Illinois

Maryland

Pennsylvania

Indiana

0

2 Peru

6

Ohio

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Missouri

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Novices

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6. Under His Mighty Power, p. 87 7. Under His Mighty Power, p. 95 8., 9. Traveling Through Time, issue 21, February 2002 10. Under His Mighty Power, p. 95

11. The Catholic Northwest Progress, Volume 61, No. 47, 21 November 1958 12. Under His Mighty Power, p.106 13. DOME, spring 2018 14. DOME, summer/fall 2014 DOME | WINTER 2022

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Branching Out Who would have thought that “branching out” for the Ursulines would have meant crossing borders: Kentucky borders, southern and western borders of the country.

Every branching out meant learning new faces, new people, their customs, and traditions.

In the United States, maybe we were used to thinking of ourselves as a “melting pot.” Nothing was further from the truth. Our differences did

School Mass at the Parish of Santa Angela Merici

not melt together. Sometimes they didn’t even meet or mix.

In Louisville, as in any big city, one could find an Irish parish two blocks from the German parish or the Italian one. We could not even think of worshipping together. In some families, “mixed marriages” were considered marriages between different nationalities.

So, branching out to Peru and crossing cultures brought about a particularly unique challenge.

Learning a new language was only the first step. More than that was a

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strong injection of values, learning what was important to others. And that happened in very small ways: in meetings, encounters, sharing a cup of coffee or tea. And it is a process that is still happening for me. It takes time and a tested openness. It is not an idyllic “now I’ve been there, now I know.”

Once you’ve been there and you know that you don’t know, you begin searching other contexts,

Merici School, and the entire year, but especially this quarter, was focused on coming to know the richness of the indigenous cultures in Peru. It was more than their food, their music, their dances that we encountered. The challenges of Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti have invited us into their cosmovisions, trying to understand and integrate their cultural values into our western framework. All of us were

57th anniversary celebration for Santa Angela Merici School

other opportunities, exploring other options, wanting to come up close, feeling, touching, sensing that there are cultural treasures all around that invite a daring immersion.

Such was our experience in going to San Miguel, Cajamarca; Huancayo; Junin and even Huamanga, Ayacucho. On a personal level, I can say I’ve come a long way.

On a deeper level, I know in my heart the pains and challenges of interculturality.

Early in October, we celebrated the 57th anniversary of Santa Angela

surprised with the richness of what we discovered in learning how their value system pre-dated—yet echoed—Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti.

Recently, and in keeping with the Church’s Season of Creation, we participated with the Associates of another congregation, along with friends from the area, in a water ritual to save the Rimac River. (The Rimac River is probably beyond saving at this point.) The river carries pollution for miles, from the Andes to coastal populations and irrigated

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The village of Nitisuyo, just outside of San Miguel, Peru, in the Andes Mountains, had experienced heavy rains which washed out the system they used to provide water for their crops. Sister Sue Scharfenberger learned of their need for an updated system to include permanent pipes. Our leadership and Sister Sue coordinated the funding for

the pipes from the Peru Fund (from our donors’ generosity), and the villagers came together to install the pipes as volunteer labor. Juan Jhony Ruiz Peña wrote, “Dear Sister Sue, The community is very grateful for this valuable support, and they were also very happy.”

Thank you, donors to the Peru Fund, these are your gifts in action!

Who would have thought that “branching out” for the Ursulines would have meant crossing borders: Kentucky borders, southern and western borders of the country. Every branching out meant learning new faces, new people, their customs, and traditions. fields. But still, the river is a source of water for the city of Lima.

Similarly, in San Miguel in Cajamarca, the support we are able to give to some of the poorest of villages So, we gathered in prayer, asking to renew their irrigation systems is a forgiveness and recommitting ourselves to honor and respect water testimony to the Ursulines and our donors’ commitment to give thanks and the indigenous communities for the gifts of creation and to own from where it flows. Some of our students and Associates joined in the our responsibility for caring for the ritual. A small token, some would say. earth and its life-giving sources.

Yes! But a necessary reminder of our Our branching out has taught us commitment to care for the earth, so much. And what we learn, we try our common home. to share and cultivate with the circles

of children, youth, men, and women who are a part of our lives and part of the intercultural circles that are life-giving and life-sustaining.

As with many of you, the pandemic has created new connections reaching out beyond borders to cities and communities around the world. The challenges of virtual meetings have been met with the blessings of making our worlds smaller, because we can more easily connect with communities previously distant to us.

May the act of reaching out always remind us of how blessed we are with the many communities that are a part of our lives to challenge our perception and understanding of what is truly important in life.

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Be A Christmas Tree

BY GINNY SCHAEFFER

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree How lovely are thy branches.

—A Traditional Christmas Carol As the story goes, a young woman is preparing her first Christmas ham for the oven. As she does so, her husband watches in astonishment as she cuts the end off and puts it aside. Quite surprised, he asks his wife, “Why?” Without skipping a beat, she answers that that is what she always saw her mother do.

With her curiosity piqued, she later calls her mother and asks the same question. Her mother’s response, “It wouldn’t fit in my pan otherwise.”

Rituals and traditions are important parts of our lives.

Without giving them much thought, we repeat rituals passed down to us through the generations, the purpose of them long forgotten.

Nothing could be truer than how we celebrate Christmas. From what we eat, what we sing and wear, to the greetings that come out of our mouths, we adhere to traditions that have been ingrained in our memories, hearts, and souls.

In Christmas services around the world, we will hear the hope-filled words from the Gospel of John, “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.” ( Jn 1:5)

The branches of that tree reach out and invite us into both the glory and commonality of Christmas. It is a human story after all, the story of a family. A child is born. Yes, the circumstances are less than ideal. He is born in a stable, and a feeding trough becomes his bed because there was no room at the inn for them. Imagine giving birth in a barn, away from family, in the middle of a cold night in a strange town. Yet, it gets worse.

Warned in a dream that Herod is so threatened by this newborn child that he is seeking him out to kill him, Joseph takes his small family even further away from the only home he and Mary have ever known, into a foreign land. Just a few days old, Jesus and his parents become refugees, seeking safety in another country.

With this kind of beginning, and his experience of living under a foreign, oppressive regime, Jesus’ message could easily have become one of retribution and revenge. Instead, he teaches and shows us that we are to love one another, not just those nearest and dearest to us, but the stranger, the misfit, and even our enemies. No small task. No easy message. Yet, this is what we are called to do, “To love one another as I have loved you.” ( Jn 15:12)

One of the most bizarre of these, if you take time to step back and ponder it for a moment, is also one of the most pervasive. In some shape, form, or fashion we will During the upcoming Christmas season, I hope that bring a tree into our house or up from the basement, you will have time to sit quietly in a room lit by the string it with lights and fill its branches with ornaments, lights on the tree and open your heart to the message of both old and new.

Christmas—that Love came into the world and sparked The oft time frustration of stringing lights and a light that darkness could never extinguish. Then, gathering everyone around to decorate it soon gives way when the Christmas season comes to an end, may each to feelings of wonder. The memories of that small child one of us be like that tree and stretch our arms out like within us, seeing a Christmas tree decked out in all its branches filled with the light of Love. finery, giving a soft hue to a darkened room still leaves Merry Christmas to you and all those you love. us with a sense of awe and joy.

The star or angel that we use to top the tree reminds us that even in the darkness we have reason to hope.

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During the upcoming Christmas season, I hope that you will have time to sit quietly in a room lit by the lights on the tree and open your heart to the message of Christmas—that Love came into the world and sparked a light that darkness could never extinguish. Then, when the Christmas season comes to an end, may each one of us be like that tree and stretch our arms out like branches filled with the light of Love.

There is a Season For everything there is a season…

a time to hold on, and a time to let go.

—Eccl 3:1, 6b

How apropos that the announcements came during the fall of the year—a season of letting go. First came the announcement of my decision to retire as the director of the Angela Merici Center for Spirituality effective December 31, 2022—“for everything there is a season.”

Then came the announcement of the decision, made some time ago, to close the Angela Merici Center whenever I chose to retire. Not because I am irreplaceable, but because the Ursuline Sisters are also in a season of letting go.

Both decisions came because of changing times and circumstances, and were made slowly, deliberately, in consultation with others and in prayer. Yet, no matter how good the process, there still is loss, disappointment, sadness—grief.

There is also much for which to be grateful.

Personally, I owe a debt of gratitude to the Ursuline Sisters for allowing me the privilege of serving as the director of the Angela Merici Center for twenty-one years. Their trust in me to care for and nurture this ministry has been profoundly humbling. They have

encouraged and challenged me. They gave me a place to use my gifts and talents. Most of all, they shared themselves with me. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

I am also grateful to all of you who have participated in the Angela Merici Center in some way over the years, whether by moving chairs, making coffee, bringing food, serving on the advisory board, facilitating or participating in programs. Your presence and generosity of self has enriched the lives of all those touched by the Center.

Of course, I do not know how any of this would have been possible without the vision and desire of Sister Martha Buser, to share both the spirit of St. Angela and the charism of the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville with as many as possible. Her enthusiasm and passion for this ministry brought it to life and helped to sustain it over the years.

As the old saying goes, “All good things must come to an end.”

Goodbye and thank you, Soli Deo Gloria

Ginny Schaeffer Director, Angela Merici Center for Spirituality DOME | WINTER 2022

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“Sister Marilyn Jennewein and Sister Laura Duerr were two Ursulines who taught me at St. Mary Catholic School. They were both instrumental in helping me to pursue a career as a librarian at the Allegany County Public Library. Sister Veronica Wheeler and Sister Clement Norton taught my children also at St. Mary Catholic School.

All three of the children took advantage of the education they received from these two Ursuline Sisters to not only excel in high school, but to also graduate from college and have very successful careers of their own.”

— Mary Ernestine Lohr, Ursuline Associate Mary is a lifetime (94 years and counting) member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Cumberland, Maryland— which is now part of Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Parish. She attended St. Mary Catholic School, as did her three children Dave, Mary Kay (Crowley) and Pat (Mills).

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St. Joseph Parish School, early 1940s. (L-R): Sister Mary Raphael Wills, Sister Blandina Weis, Sister Mary Alvin Hafenbreidel, Sister Berchmans Schueler, Sister Alodia Thomas, Sister Ancilla Lynch, Sister Cleopha Hutmacher, and Sister Consolata Bramer.

“It was 1958 and my second year teaching. I was assigned to St. Joseph in Butchertown.

For some reason—I guess because the Ursuline leadership said that there were no more Sisters to assign to that parish and there were no lay teachers at that time—I was given a double grade to teach. I had a full seventh grade and all the sixth grade boys. Sister Sienna Spaeth had a full fifth grade and all the sixth grade girls. This meant that there were 58 kids in my class, most of whom were boys.

The classroom could barely hold that number.

While there were large blackboards down the side of the room, we could not use those since desks were flush against the blackboard to get all of those big kids in that little room.

This also meant double preparation for me in all the subjects because this pre-dated any departmental teaching. I spent long hours planning ‘seatwork’ for whatever grade I was not teaching at the moment. Needless to say, that was a challenge for a new teacher.

The next year, I only had seventh grade and it was nice not to have to double plan. However, I did survive that first year there, and once in a while I still see some of those students and we reminisce about that year.”

— Sister Janet Marie Peterworth

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“In 1957 at St Leo School in Louisville, my fourth grade classroom had two doors—one in front and one in the back of the room— with glass panes in the top half of the doors.

When I wrote on the blackboard, I could look in the windowpanes to see what kind of activity was happening behind me. I could say ‘Paul, remain in your seat and turn to page 15,’ while I continued to write on the blackboard. Students would ask, ‘Sister, do you have eyes in the back of your head?’

“In 1959 at St. Peter Claver School in Louisville, third and fourth grade AfricanAmerican children were eager to learn. They loved to sing, have math (table) races and spelling bees. Four of us Ursuline Sisters taught at the school. We lived at St. Boniface Convent. Since we didn’t have cars to drive, we either walked or depended on others to transport us.”

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Gifts In Memory Of July 1, 2021 — June 30, 2022 MY TEACHERS AT ANGELA MERICI HIGH SCHOOL 1959–1963 Diana R. Scott HENRICA J. (RICA) ANTOINE Sue and Bob Becker DOROTHY AUBREY Mary Carman JUDY BALINT Raymond Balint JERRY BEACHMAN Joseph D. Maroon LILLIE V. BEACHMAN Joseph D. Maroon RICHARD BEACHMAN Joseph D. Maroon SISTER REGINA MARIE BEVELACQUA Mary Ann Daunhauer Barbara L. Fedikovich Mary Jo Payne BARBARA M. BOGOVICH Paul P. Bogovich SISTER MARY JOACHIM BOGOVICH Paul P. Bogovich SISTER HILDA BOHR Jo Ann Burke Mary Lou Dawson DEBBY BOLLINGER Joan M. Echsner MARIE BOONE Marilyn and Bob Beam SISTER BERNITA BOSSE Dennis and Rebecca Bosse SISTER MARY ALBAN BOSSE Dennis and Rebecca Bosse CATHERINE O. BOWRON Patricia Bowron MADELINE BOYLE Rose M. Boyle RUTH BOYLE Rose M. Boyle SISTER MARY MICHAEL BOYLE Kate McCormick SISTER MARY CONSOLATA BRAMER Marilyn and Bob Beam RONALD BRITT Sherron Jolicoeur and Family SISTER LILLIAN ANN BROWN Elsie Boyd Andrea Marion Mary Jane Smith

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HORACE AND JULIA BRYAN C. F. and Barbara Bryan SISTER MARJORIE BURGE Dr. John Spalding Gatton SISTER MARY LAURANA BURKE Michael Dorn SISTER ANDREA CALLAHAN Mary Anne Hess CAROLE CALVERT Yvonne Mueller SISTER MARY SAMUEL CARTER Jerry and Katherine Bean SISTER RAYMOND CARTER Sheila Frierson Jacqueline Herde SISTER MARY BRENDAN CONLON Rose M. Boyle John and Jeanette Buege Betty and Perry Carney Patricia A. Casillo Catholic Committee of Appalachia, Inc James Corrado Sandy Crabtree Patrick and Jane Cyphert Dorothy Danak Michael Dorn Saundra and Bob Grunkemeyer Judy and Tony Heitzman Constance Herth Patricia Hughes Ruth D. Kelly Mary Julia Kuhn Mary Ann Larkin Lucille C. McIntyre Eithne McMullen Fred and Carol Meirose Carolyn Miller Elizabeth and Guy Montgomery Mary Carmel Owen Phyllis Passafiume Sue Pile Ann Ransdell Mary Raleigh Ridge Maryanne Riggs Delia Schadt Barbara and Bud Simmons Beth and Pete Staley Margaret Tassi Lynda Toombs Patricia Turner Maureen Underhill Joan V. Winkler

The five Boyle children, L to R, Charlie, David, Patricia, Ruth, and Rose

“World War II was over, and I was thrilled with the parades of soldiers passing by our house, just a block from the school and across the street from the church. I entered Sacred Heart School in September 1946 at the ripe old age of five.

I was so excited; I skipped and ran from classroom to classroom after my mother had released my hand. She captured me in the hallway and, tugging on my shirt collar, introduced me to Sister Ivo Burch who became my first grade teacher, my spiritual guide, and my friend.

She was young, wholesome, warm and magnificent in that black habit trimmed in white. I knew right off that she loved me. She loved all of us first graders, and you could feel it, sense it, and taste it. “ — Charles J. Boyle Charles Boyle grew up in Conemaugh, Pennsylvania, and attended Sacred Heart School and Parish, starting kindergarten in 1946. He says his memories of school and the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville are “among the fondest recollections of my youth.”

DONOR GIFTS Patricia and Ron Yates SISTER JULIANA CORBY Ida Palmer Ball MARY COUDEN Ronald and Suzanne Bona-Hatem Joseph D. Maroon SISTER ERNESTINE DAVIS Suzanne Hodes Burns Frances G. Coady Dave and Diane Lohr Mary Ernestine Lohr EILEEN DAY Sharon Albert Anonymous Leroy and Rose Berryman Elizabeth Bonifer Mary Bowman Alma Jean Campbell The Caroline Christian Foundation, Inc. Denise A. Coons David and Sharon Copler David and Elaine Day Steve and Joy Day Linda Freiberger Kaye Gettelfinger Lisa Gilland Maria Jones Steve and Christy Laduke Leland and Jeanine Lang Todd and Deborah Marshall Timothy and Cynthia Martin Our Lady of Perpetual Help Paula Robinson Katherine Sears Jeff Shelton Mary Sifferlen Virginia and Dale Winchell Carl and Mary Catherine Wolford DECEASED CLASSMATES OF URSULINE ACADEMY ‘56, Joan M. Echsner DECEASED MEMBERS OF UA CUMBERLAND CLASS OF 1959 Mary Lou Dawson MOTHER MARY DECHANTEL Suzanne F. Fox SISTER JAMESETTA DEFELICE Susan Moriarty SISTER VERA DEL GRANDE Colleen Freeman Bruce and Linda Otto SISTER ASSUMPTA DEVINE Patricia A. Casillo Jerrold and Carla Rosen SISTER MARY CORDULA DEWIG Ruth Ann Miller

SISTER VIVIAN DREISBACH Suzanne Hodes Burns SISTER GEORGIANNA EISENBACK G. Kenneth and Elise Eisenback SISTER REBECCA EISENBACK G. Kenneth and Elise Eisenback HATTIE ELLIS Gerry Ellis EDWARD ERNST JR. Patricia Andres JOSEPH FERENCE A. Charles Thomas SISTER CLARISSA FITZMAYER Karen Dant SISTER DOROTHY FRANKRONE Patricia Andres Harry Rothgerber DR. WILLIAM FREEMAN Colleen Freeman SISTER ODILIA GADLAGE Harry Rothgerber Patricia Wilkison MARY ROSE GARTNER Central Bank Kimberlee Przybysz SISTER ESTELLE GATHOF Richard Barrett SISTERS OF ST. GEORGE R. Beatrice Muraski SISTER MARY JOYCE GEORGEL Barbara Collins Malcolm and Karleen Robertson Jr. SISTER GENEVIEVE GIPPERICH Joe Birkenmeyer DR. LOUIS “DOC” GIULIANI Shirley Giuliani JOANNE GONZALEZ Jeanette Saddler Taylor MY TEACHERS AT GOOD SHEPHERD R. Beatrice Muraski SISTER GEORGINE GRABENSTEIN Rita Crabtree Ronald and Betty Grabenstein J.C. GRAMIG Carol Lyle MARIAN GRAMIG Carol Lyle SISTER MARY CARMELITA GRANTZ Mary Lou Mangold SISTER ALFREDA GURTIS Sarah Gurtis SISTER ALMARITA GURTIS Sarah Gurtis ROSE AND DAN HAGAN Barbara and Bud Simmons

SISTER MARGARET ANN HAGAN Marilyn and Bob Beam THE EUNICE HATEM FAMILY Joseph D. Maroon THE FUDUAH HATEM FAMILY Joseph D. Maroon ANNA HATEM Joseph D. Maroon FREDERICKA HATEM Joseph D. Maroon JOSEPH A. HATEM Ronald and Suzanne Bona-Hatem MARY HATEM Joseph D. Maroon MICHAEL HATEM Joseph D. Maroon PAUL HATEM Joseph D. Maroon PETER HATEM Joseph D. Maroon SISTER CECILIA HATEM Joseph D. Maroon SISTER GEMMA HATEM Ronald and Suzanne Bona=Hatem Joseph D. Maroon SISTER JOVITA HATEM Ronald and Suzanne Bona-Hatem Joseph D. Maroon Harry Rothgerber FOSTER HAUNZ Mark and Donna Sinkhorn SISTER MARY DAVID HAWKINS Mary Anne Kuehn SISTER KEVIN HAYDEN Patricia Andres CAROL HECKMAN Donna J. Burton SISTER ANDREW HEESACKER William Zapp SISTER JUSTINA HEINTZMAN Mark and Donna Sinkhorn SUZANNE HIGGINS Mary Elizabeth Marcellino ANTHONY HILDENBRAND JR. Linda Walker SISTER JOSEPHINE HILDENBRAND Linda Walker SISTER MARY HILDENBRAND Linda Walker CAROLINE HOYER Charlene Hoyer SISTER DOLORES HUDSON Suzanne Hodes Burns Lucille C. McIntyre Sue Pile Delia Schadt

Jo Ann Walker Mary Margaret Wilhelm SISTER CARL MARIE HULSEWEDE Carl and Donna Hulsewede III JOSEPHINE HUMPHREY Brother Larry Humphrey, FSC JACK, JOE, JAMIE AND PAUL Patricia Bernardi Miller BETTY JANSING Charlene Distler CHARLES JANSING Charlene Distler LEAH JOHNSON The Haunz Family SUE KAUFMANN Ron Kaufman SISTER MARY RUTH KELLY Antionette Corey SISTER DELORES KEMPER Bruce and Linda Otto GEMMA KESSEL Joseph D. Maroon BOBBIE MAE KESSLER John Kessler SISTER ANGELA KILLMEIER Tim and Ellen Gibler Louis and Mildred Killmeier SISTER BRIGID KIM Diana R. Scott SISTER CARMELA KING Ronald and Patricia Robeson SISTER ROSEMARY KING Ronald and Patricia Robeson FRANK KIST Ann Kist SISTER MARY WILLIAM KLIPSCH Pam Klipsch ANN AND FRANK KOHUT Mark Kohut SISTER COLETTE KRAEMER Thomas and Marcia Heil Ron Kaufman Cheryle and Kevin Kuntz Elizabeth and Guy Montgomery Judy and Mick O’Neil Sue Pile Felicia Ray SISTER FRIEDA KREMER Barbara Clark SISTER GEORGIA JEAN KRUML Marilyn and Bob Beam Sue Pile Deborah and Stan Stevens AMANDA KRUSE Frances Ann Tompkins

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Gifts In Memory Of July 1, 2021 — June 30, 2022 SISTER WILLETTA KRUSE Judith Kruse MOTHER KATHERINE KUEBERT, OCD John Kessler SISTER MARY ISABEL LEHMENKULER Maureen Underhill SISTER CHRISTINE LESOUSKY Louise and Richard Eiswirth SISTER MARY LAVINIA LESOUSKY Louise and Richard Eiswirth SISTER AGNES MARIE LONG Eithne McMullen SISTER GEORGE MARIE LONG Eithne McMullen SISTER PATRICIA LOWMAN Gail Meyer Bob and Joyce Pfaadt Katherine Sniegon Jim Wilberding SISTER MARY DOLORITA LUTSIE Norman and Nancy Ferrari Kathryn Jacobi Mary Ann Larkin Our Lady of Providence High School Sue Pile SISTER LORRAINE MAGINOT Kathleen Maginot Linda Walker PATRICIA A. MAGUIRE A. Louise Strehle GIL C. MANGOLD Mary Lou Mangold SISTER MERRY MARCOTTE, SP Jacqueline Marcotte ABRAHAM MAROON Joseph D. Maroon ROSE M. MAROON Joseph D. Maroon MSGR. REV. WILLIAM MAROON Joseph D. Maroon EDWARD MATTINGLY Kathryn Mattingly MARY THERESE MATTINGLY Kathryn Mattingly HELEN MAZZOLI Rosanne Dillon JOHN AND HELEN MCCLORY Kathleen Foster SISTER MARY PATRICK MCGINNIS Pat Hahn

BARBARA MCMAHON The Family of Barbara McMahon SISTER ANTON MEICK Harry Rothgerber CHRISTOPHER MENDEZ Jesse Mendez BEN MERCER Barbara and Ron Mercer BRUCE MILLER Louise Miller SISTER HERMINA MILTENBERGER Charlie and Jane Beard SISTER ROSAIRE MILTENBERGER Charlie and Jane Beard TODD FRANCIS MOORE Betty and Daniel Moore JAMES MORESCHI JR. Nellie Moreschi SISTERS WHO TAUGHT AT MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT, PITTSBURGH Kathleen and Joe Cenci ELEANOR MUELLER John Kessler IRENE MUELLER Terese Bennett SISTER LILLIAN MULLER Evelyn Siemens MOTHER MARY DE CHANTAL MULLIGAN Don Earl SISTER ANNUNCIATA MUTH Ronald and Suzanne Bona-Hatem Lisa Orr James and Jane Redmon MY TEACHERS AT URSULINE ACADEMY Mary Marlene Wolf SISTER MARY PERPETUA NAUERT Ann M. Nauert KENNETH NEWMAN Shirley Lazrovitch ANNE NOE Diane Jones MARIE NOONAN Brigid Noonan SISTER MARLENE OETKEN Bruce and Linda Otto Maureen and Mike Vandevelde SISTER FRANCETTA OLGES Naomi and Jim Olges SISTER RITA OLGES Naomi and Jim Olges

SISTER RAYMUNDA ORTH Sue Pile CHARLOTTE PASSAFIUME Mary Virginia Scott SISTER MARY SEBASTIAN PASSAFIUME Mary Lee Broyles SISTER STELLA MARIE PAYNE Marian Gosling DORIS PETERWORTH Mary Virginia Scott SISTER CLETA PFAADT Bob and Joyce Pfaadt JAMES E. PILE Sue Pile MONSIGNOR FELIX N. PITT Pitt Thome DONALD J. PLATNER Eileen Platner JANET RUTH POWERS Kathleen Powers CAROL ANN RAPPA Doris Ray ELIZABETH R. ROBERTS John and Dolores Roberts SISTER MARY DENISE ROBERTS John and Dolores Roberts SISTER MILDRED MAE RUEFF John and Yvonne Held Jr. ROSE RUSSO Marie Russo SISTER ANNETTE RUTLEDGE Peter Rutledge James Thomas HILDA RALEY SADDLER Jeanette Saddler Taylor SISTER FRANCES SCHAF Betsy Covell COL. EUGENE D. SCHALTENBRAND, USAF RET Stephanie Brooks SISTER BERNADINE SCHENE Elayne Roose SISTER SYLVIA SCHLEGEL Joe Birkenmeyer Harold Schlegel MR. AND MRS. PAUL SCHMIDT Regina H. Schmidt CLAIRE SCHMITT Mary Anne Kuehn JOYCE BROWN SCHMITT John Brown

To view our annual report, please visit: https://ursulinesisterslouisville.org/annual-report/

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SISTER MARY TERENCE SCHMITT Gail Meyer SISTER MARY MARGARET SCHMOLL Mary Louise Fischer Rose Marie Grenewald GRETCHEN SCHMUCKIE Rosemary Schmuckie JAMES MAURICE SCHMUCKIE SR. Rosemary Schmuckie SISTER DOMINIC SCHULER Karen M. Medley SISTER JULIA SCHULER Karen M. Medley SISTER GERTRUNELLA SCHUTTE Marilyn and Bob Beam CLARENCE AND DOROTHY SCHWEINHART Clarissa Duvall SISTER LEO SCHWIERMAN Dorothy Bearden SISTER ANGELICE SEIBERT Sheila Frierson CORINE SHAUGHNESSY Sister Angie Shaughnessy, SCN SISTER THECLA SHIEL John and Betty Bentz JACK SIEMERS Catherine Siemers SISTER MARY DONALD SINKHORN Mark and Donna Sinkhorn SISTER CHARLESETTA SMITH Ida Palmer Ball Frances G. Coady MERRY M. SPARANO Peter Sparano THE GOOD SISTERS WHO TAUGHT AT ST. MARY’S, CUMBERLAND, MD Patrick and Pamela Buzzerd THE SISTERS WHO TAUGHT AT ST. MARY’S, CUMBERLAND, MD Patrick and Pamela Buzzerd SISTERS OF ST. PATRICK’S, NORTH PLATTE, NE John Marquette DONALD STAUBLE Deborah Armbruster GERRY STAUBLE Deborah Armbruster SISTER SARAH STAUBLE Linda Barry Terese Bennett Martha Blair

DONOR GIFTS Rose M. Boyle Sharon Clayton Kathryn Mattingly Elizabeth and Guy Montgomery Judy and Mick O’Neil Marsha Pierce Sue Pile Becky Spalding Mary Elaine Stauble and Bruce Tasch Patricia Turner Maureen Underhill Jo Ann Walker Ken and Patrice Wickerham EDWARD STEINMETZ JR. Mary Steinmetz KENNETH STEPHENSON Martha Stephenson SISTER MARY ALOYSE STOCKER John and Mary Stocker GEORGE STODDARD Darlene Stoddard WILLIAM STONE Rita Stone BERNARD STREHLE A. Louise Strehle SERENA SUMMERS Mr. and Mrs. T. Dade Luckett III PAT TEMPLEMEYER Don Templemeyer FRANCES ELIZABETH BERRY THACKER Mary Ellen Tucker THE JOHN TIMMEL FAMILY Bertha Mae Timmel SISTER PATRICIA ANN THOMPSON Marilyn and Bob Beam Suzanne Hodes Burns Dan Wentworth THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US Geneva Meehan

DOROTHY TREINEN Eileen Gran Rick and Rhonda Walker LILLIAN TURNER Mary Louise Turner URSULINE ACADEMY, CUMBERLAND ‘59 Mary Lou Dawson DECEASED CLASSMATES OF URSULINE ACADEMY 1950 Katherine L. Manger DECEASED CLASSMATES OF URSULINE ACADEMY ‘72 Mary Nichter ALL OF MY TEACHERS AT URSULINE ACADEMY AND ST. GEORGE Alice Harris URSULINE ACADEMY CLASS OF ‘55 Patricia Peters SISTERS WHO TAUGHT AT URSULINE ACADEMY, PITTSBURGH Kathleen and Joe Cenci GERALD VOWELS Mary Kathryn Vowels MILDRED M. VOWELS Darlene Stoddard SISTER MARY CATHERINE VUKMANIC Faith Thomas HARRY WALKER Linda Walker SISTER CONCETTA WALLER Marilyn and Bob Beam SISTER VICTOR WALLER Marilyn and Bob Beam Maureen and Mike Vandevelde SISTER ANTHONY WARGEL Paul and Patsy DeBorde Jerry and Nancy Kleier Cesar and Nene Macatangay Larry and Mary Belle Newby Gerry and Carol O’Farrell

Motherhouse Chapel Update

Please note: the Motherhouse Chapel will be closed from November 2022 to July 2023 for painting and repairs.

Allan Smyth Jetta Svaranowic EUGENE WEBER Mary and Charles French Joan Lachowicz James Reardon Peggy and Stephen Vallery NANCY WEICKEL Martha Stephenson PAT WERNERT Mary Ann Smith SISTER JOSEPHA WESSELS Louis and Mildred Killmeier BROTHER ANTHONY WIEDEMER, CM Rita Stone H. JEAN WILL

Diane Jones SISTER LOUISE MARIE WILLENBRINK Jean Perrone ANN C. WILLIAMS Mary Lou Mangold SISTER MARY JEANINE WOLFF Ann Kupper SISTER ROSALITA WUERSCH Sharon Holliday Stephen and Theresa Pallardy SISTER THEOPHANE WUERSCH Stephen and Theresa Pallardy SISTER VINCENTIA YARNALL Delia Schadt Eugene and Rosemary Turano

“Living directly across from the monastery wall on Cumberland Street in Cumberland, Maryland, brings back many memories of the Ursulines. One delightful memory of my younger brother, John, and his second grade teacher, Sister Lee (Placidus) Kirchner, makes me smile when I think of it. The Sisters would often take a walk around the monastery wall after their supper. Johnny was playing with his good friend, who also lived on Cumberland Street. They loved to pile up leaves and jump into the mound. They were so occupied that they did not see Sister Lee cross the street.

She winked at us and said, ‘Boo!’ to Johnny. He laughed, and we all laughed. They still keep in touch!”

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Our Mission Teaching Christian living is the corporate mission of the Ursuline Sisters. This ministry, cutting across socio-economic, racial and national boundaries, assists women, men and children to live more fully and to develop a personal relationship with God.

Angeline Award presented to Joy Green and Carmen de la Cuba Laurel, October 23, 2022

Joy Green, left, an Ursuline Associate from Cumberland Maryland, ministers to residents at Allegany Health Nursing and Rehabilitation, and assists neighbors and others in need.

As one of her nominators, Jody Walker, said of her, “Our spiritual discoveries may sometimes be on mountaintops, but nine times out of ten, they are made while being helped to put a puzzle together, to bake cookies or to paint a rose.

This active praying spreads ripples of kindness outward in all directions. While Joy doesn’t think consciously of any of this, it’s an intrinsic part of who she is. It has been an honor to have known Joy, this mystic of the fabric store and the all-night diner. She is the prophet waiting in the drive-thru to get someone’s coffee. The charism of Angela is all around us and Joy Green’s life is solid proof of that love.”

Carmen de la Cuba Laurel, right, met Sisters Lee Kirchner and Mary Martha Staarman in 1966, when Sister Lee hired her to teach at Santa Angela Merici School in Carmen de la Legua. Since that time, Carmen had dedicated herself to the school and to the education of young people, supporting them in friendship and love.

Sister Sue Scharfenberger said in her nomination, “Carmen has taken her commitment even beyond the school. As an active Associate, she continues to gather other women to share the spirit of Angela. Considered to be a leader among the Associates, she has taken initiatives in offering her time and talents in projects that support and affirm other women.”

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