Ursulines Alive Winter 2018

Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph

Winter 2018

Proclaiming Jesus through Education and Christian Formation

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Issue No. 47

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Memories of St. Romuald School in Hardinsburg New Center Assistant Director Thank You, Donors!

Ursuline Sister Leads Catholic Schools in Shreveport, Louisiana

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From our Congregational Leader Dear Family and Friends of the Ursuline Sisters, Celebrating Thanksgiving with all the wonderful E OF food and family gatherings helps us realize how much A NOT our freedom to celebrate means to us. We have so much to be thankful for these days. Most of all, we thank God for you.

In this edition of Ursulines Alive, you will see a listing of all the people who have supported us during the past year. You have shared your time, talent and your treasure with us. We can never thank you enough for the gifts you have shared with us. We pray for you every day and hope that you continue to be blessed with good health and peace.

We also share the memorials and honors that you have shared as you have given donations in memory of your loved ones who have died or in honor of your friends, parents or family. This is a wonderful way to remember those we love today and when they go to heaven.

Your gifts of support help us continue our mission of education and Christian formation here in Kentucky and in all the other states where our sisters serve. Your donations also help support Casa Ursulina in Chillán, Chile, where Sister Mimi Ballard works with women each day. We are teaching in many ways. We have served many years in classrooms in Catholic schools. We may not all be in schools anymore since many of our sisters are retired, but every ministry we have teaches people about themselves and the goodness of God. Our retired sisters are a gift to all of us because they pray for us and you every day.

They offer their prayers and their time of waiting for us and you. We are so blessed to have such a powerhouse supporting everything we do.

So, during the coming Christmas season, know that you are in our thoughts and Sister Amelia Stenger and prayers. We ask you to pray for us as well.

Sister Carol Shively pose during God bless you and those you love, their jubilee celebration in July Sister Amelia Stenger, OSU

2018. The two became friends in the 1980s through their interest in education.

COVER: Sister Carol Shively, OSU, visits with two happy first-graders during recess at St. John Berchmans School in Shreveport, La. She has been the superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Diocese of Shreveport for almost 20 years.

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EDITORS: Director of Mission Advancement/Communications...... Dan Heckel, OSUA

Communications Specialist/Graphic Design.................... Jennifer Kaminski, OSUA MISSION ADVANCEMENT STAFF:

Communications and Development Specialist............... Maggie Matsko

Coordinator of Ursuline Partnerships............................. Marian Bennett, OSUA

Mission Advancement Assistant..................................... Sister Mary McDermott, OSU

Mission Advancement Assistant..................................... Sister Marcella Schrant, OSU

Contributing Writer......................................................... Sister Ruth Gehres, OSU

Contributing Writer......................................................... Sister Marietta Wethington, OSU 2

Superintendent in Shreveport............... 3-6 Sister Spotlight.......................................... 6 Nuns on the Bus........................................ 7 Vocations................................................... 7 St. Romuald School................................ 8-9 Retreat Center.................................... 10-12 Obituaries................................................ 12 Soli Deo Gloria......................................... 13 Powerhouse of Prayer............................. 14 Donor Names...................................... 15-19 Donor Spotlight....................................... 19 Upcoming Events..................................... 20

OUR MISSION We, the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, sustained by prayer and vowed life in community, proclaim Jesus through education and Christian formation in the spirit of our founder, Saint Angela Merici.

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Sister Carol Shively builds a family in Louisiana schools

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Sister Carol has worked with Father Rothell Price in the Diocese of Shreveport since 1999.

By Dan Heckel, Mount Saint Joseph Staff

I know how it n the first 13 years that the Diocese of Shreveport, changes lives.”

La., existed, a half dozen superintendents served the Sister Catholic Schools. In 1999, Ursuline Sister Carol Shively Carol says her arrived and ended the instability. main jobs are “I try to create a community of family in the schools,” to support said Sister Carol, who is celebrating 40 years as an parents in Ursuline this year, and 20 years as superintendent in raising their children and to make the principals in the six 2019. “The schools were very independent when I came, Catholic Schools in the diocese look good. One of those very competitive with each other for students and funds.” principals is Susan Belanger, who retired after 11 years of While southern Louisiana – New Orleans, Lafayette leading St. Joseph Elementary School in Shreveport but – is primarily Catholic, Shreveport is in northwest returned this year.

Louisiana, a heavily Protestant area. Sister Carol has 2,000 “When I was a new principal I could pick up the students in her diocese, while the Diocese of Lafayette has phone and bounce ideas off her,” Belanger said. “Sister 30,000, she said.

Carol is very professional, she is able to tell me other “In our evangelical, Protestant neck of the woods, alternatives. She did an awful lot to bring all the schools Sister Carol has maintained our Catholic identity,” said together. The mentoring system and support system is Father Rothell Price, who leads the daily operations of the critical. She provides excellent professional development diocese as Moderator of the Curia. “Most of the movers for all of us.” and shakers in Shreveport came through the Having a sister leading the Catholic Catholic school system. Probably 60 to 70 schools is critical, Belanger said. When Sister Carol percent of our students are not Catholic.

Sister Carol arrived in Shreveport, six of the brings a generous seven dioceses in Louisiana had sisters as Protestants know they are putting their kids in a Catholic school, and that they aren’t superintendents. Now, Sister Carol is the only Christian joy going to be exempt from Catholic things.” one left. Sister Carol’s longtime friend Sister to her role as “Sister Carol brings a generous Christian Ann Middlebrooks, a Sister of the Eucharistic superintendent joy to her role as superintendent,” Father Covenant, is associate superintendent, but Price said. “She brings energy, an enthusiasm there are no women religious teaching in the for the Gospel. Everything about her exudes her belief in schools in Shreveport.

Catholic education.”

“Sister Carol represents us from an academic “Passion” and “compassion” are the words that are standpoint and as a true example of Christ,” Belanger most often used to describe Sister Carol, a high-energy said. “She and Sister Ann are very real people, who are extrovert who is usually smiling. Her devotion to Catholic very in touch with the world and their community. education is more than a sales pitch.

Children can tell if someone is real or not.”

“I believe in my heart and soul that Catholic education Elaine Gallion has been executive assistant to the can change the world,” she said. “I like passing on what bishop of Shreveport since 1993. Her children attended was passed the Shreveport Catholic schools, but she believes the on to me.

Catholic identity has improved during Sister Carol’s I’ve never tenure, including the addition of a weekly Mass. felt called to “Sister Carol encouraged different priests to say anything else.

Mass,” Gallion said. “If the bishop was scheduled to be at a school, she made a point to be there. You can Susan Belanger, ask students, they probably know who Sister Carol is. I right, returned wouldn’t have known my superintendent when I was in this school year as principal of St. school.”

Joseph Elementary Sister Carol has a big heart for the students and School in parents, Gallion said.

Shreveport, after “My grandson graduated from kindergarten last year, previously serving

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Whenever Sister Carol needs to see the bishop, Elaine Gallion, right, makes sure to get her in. She has served as the bishop’s administrative assistant since 1993. Shreveport is awaiting the installation of its third bishop this winter.

guess who came with me? Sister Carol,” Gallion said. “If she is invited, she will come.”

The Shreveport Diocese has two elementary schools and one high school in Shreveport and the same structure 90 minutes away in Monroe. Sister Carol is on the road often between the two cities. She likes the opportunity to work with so many cultures in the diocese.

“We have African-Americans, Creole culture, Vietnamese culture, lots of Hispanics. It’s been a great experience for me,” she said. “Every culture has its own sense of time. Mine is ‘be on time.’ When you live a life of poverty, and all you can give is who you are, I feel I should respect people’s time. It’s important that people me a sense of pride. She empowers me to take classes know how important they are to me.” for professional development, problem solving and The diocesan schools have a mixture of those paying technology.” high tuition and others who can only attend with the help Sister Carol invited her to come to the Motherhouse in of vouchers. Making it possible for all students to attend 2012 and was surprised when Gully accepted. is a constant goal for Sister Carol.

“It was an awesome experience,” Gully said. “I wasn’t “Catholic schools can’t be just for the elite,” she said. expecting to feel so at home. Meeting the sisters, I felt like “Catholic education should be available to all who want I knew them all. Sister talks about them all the time. Even it. The challenge is, ‘I can afford it today, but can I afford though she is a nun, when you first meet her, you feel it in five years?’ It’s the main reason parents don’t choose like you’ve known her all your life. We’re from different us.” worlds, but she’s made me feel like part of her family.”

Jessica Rinaudo is the editor of The Catholic Ursuline Anchors Connection, the diocesan newspaper. She and her Shreveport is a 10-hour drive from Maple Mount, husband have four children in Catholic schools, and they so feeling a part of the Ursuline community can be a wondered if they could afford it. challenge for Sister Carol.

“Sister Carol has been my biggest advocate,” “I connect with Facetime and respond to Perseverance Rinaudo said. “This is more than just a school, emails.

It’s very intentional,” she said. She serves is what it’s a family. Faith is an element of everything we as co-chairwoman of the Ursuline Government (my Dad) do. When she walks into the classroom, everyone Committee. stands up and says, ‘Good morning Sister taught me “When I’m at the Mount, I’m present, I’m Carol.’” not distracted by my work here,” she said. “I’m a Mary Gully has been Sister Carol’s Kentucky girl, those are my roots. Ursulines were always administrative assistant for 11 years. As a Baptist, she my anchor.” wasn’t sure what to expect when she began.

Sister Carol is from Marion County in central “I thought, ‘I’m going to be working with a nun?’ It Kentucky, an area so heavily Catholic it’s known as the was so much different than I expected,” Gully said. “We “Kentucky Holy Land.” She met the Ursuline Sisters became an office family. It’s been like that ever since.” when they taught her in second grade, which was also the With Sister Carol traveling often, Gully has much to year her parents divorced. She and her younger sister lived keep up with. with their father.

“She has so much confidence in me, she allows me “The sisters were more than teachers, they were friends to attend and parents,” she said. some of her Being a child of divorce makes Sister Carol sensitive meetings in to the children who have experienced that. “No one can her place,” feel your brokenness,” she said. Her dad remarried when Gully said.

Sister Carol was 9, and she and her father had many good “It gives years together until his death in 2014.

“Perseverance is what he taught me,” she said. “Don’t Mary Gully, give up on people, they’re doing the best they can. Step left, has been out of your comfort zone, be there for others.”

Sister Carol’s When she decided to join the Ursulines – whose administrative assistant for 11 Motherhouse was several hours away – her dad said, years. She visited “We have the Sisters of Charity here, the Dominican Maple Mount in Sisters here, why do we have to go all the way there?”

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when Sister Carol was teaching there, and Sister Carol had her students sing her “Happy Birthday.”

“I could see what a good connection she had with her students, they were very engaged,” Sister Amelia said. “I encouraged her to start looking into a principalship. We But there was could share a lot about education, it’s what brought us never another together.” community she In 1987, Sister Carol became principal and teacher considered. for the 7th and 8th grade at St. Teresa School in That was Glennonville, Mo. It’s a small community of mostly because of the cotton farmers, and for years, a hotbed of future Ursuline Ursulines who Sisters. influenced “It was awesome. There was a richness about it,” her, including Sister Carol said. “The people there were hard workers, Sister Mary Celine Weidenbenner, Sister Sara Marie committed to their school. Ada Bader (an Ursuline Gomez and Sister Nancy Murphy. They were elementary Associate who died earlier this year) was my mother, she school teachers in Marion County while Sister Carol was straightened me out plenty. I go back every year.” in high school.

She agreed to become principal at Immaculate “I’d go talk to them and they acted like I was the Conception School in New Madrid, Mo., from 1990-94, smartest person in the world,” Sister Carol said. “They but she refused to leave St. Teresa. She served as principal were really devoted to their mission.” of both schools, then did the same from 1994-96, serving Sister Mary Celine, who is still a classroom teacher in at St. Teresa and Sacred Heart School in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Kentucky, said she was teaching third grade when Sister Sister Mary Matthias Ward was superior of the Carol would stop by after school, on Saturday morning or community in 1996 and told Sister Carol it was time to before Mass on Sunday. find a new ministry.

“She just started talking about her life and I listened.

“I am sure I saw Carol’s gifts and potential and knew She was very inspiring, she had such dreams,” she needed to stretch,” Sister Mary Matthias Sister Mary Celine said. “I took an interest She still has that said. “It gets very comfortable in a small in her. She still has that same enthusiasm she same enthusiasm country school and believe me, she worked. had in high school.”

She did marvelous work in Missouri.” she had in high During Sister Carol’s junior year, Sister A job opened for a development director school Jane Miriam Hancock said she was going for the Diocese of Beaumont, Texas, and to an open house at the Motherhouse and Sister Carol was chosen.

Five months later, she became invited Sister Carol to come. “It was her invitation that superintendent of schools there. got me thinking about becoming an Ursuline,” Sister “I didn’t have a clue about being a superintendent,” Carol said. “The sisters were very joyful people in public, she said. “It was a turbulent time in Beaumont. Three that’s what attracts people.” years was enough.”

Entering religious life in the post-Vatican II days of the What helped Sister Carol during those three years was 1970s was chaotic, Sister Carol said. her friendship with Sister Ann Middlebrooks, who was a “A person would be here one day and gone the next,” principal in Beaumont. The two met 25 years ago while Sister Carol said. “I wondered ‘What does she know that I Sister Ann was attending Christian Brothers University don’t?’ In our classes, we were being taught about Vatican in Memphis, Tenn. Their paths kept crossing, and Sister II, and those teachers were learning it with us. It was Continued on page 6 constant stress. We were being taught to be educators, but Jessica Rinaudo, so many sisters were leaving the classroom.” left, editor of The Catholic Every sister she knew was a teacher, so Sister Carol was Connection, not surprised when she and her classmate Sister Dianna the diocesan Ortiz were trained to be elementary teachers. newspaper for Her first teaching assignments were at two of the the Diocese of Shreveport, smallest schools in the Diocese of Owensboro: St. poses with Sister Romuald in Hardinsburg, where she taught fifth grade Carol Shively. in 1982-83, and St. Paul School in Leitchfield, where she Rinaudo has taught 7th and 8th grade from 1983-85. In 1985 she moved four children to Owensboro to teach at the larger St. Pius X School in the Catholic schools and until 1987, while she prepared to make her final vows. says Sister Carol Sister Amelia Stenger, then superintendent of schools is her biggest for the Diocese of Owensboro, visited St. Paul School advocate.

Sister Carol visits with this sixthgrader at St. John Berchmans School in Shreveport.

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Sister Carol, right, stops by to see Sister Ann Middlebrooks, SEC, in her office in the Catholic Center.

Sister Ann has been an Ursuline Associate since 1992.

Ann spent a year at Maple Mount in 1992 in spiritual formation.

When an opening as superintendent came in Shreveport, Sister Carol was selected. The next year, the bishop of Shreveport asked Sister Ann to lead a new school, but that school never got built. Instead she has served as associate superintendent, which includes overseeing the children’s nutrition program.

Their friendship was further forged in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina caused the mass evacuation of the Gulf Coast. Catholics sought Catholic schools in Houston, Dallas – and Shreveport.

“The families needed to get their kids in a routine, and schools were that way,” Sister Carol said. “They were on the interstate, they had to go somewhere. We went from 2,000 kids in our schools to almost 3,000 in 24 hours.

They came to us with nothing.”

There weren’t enough desks or supplies to handle all the students, Sister Carol said. The weekend of the hurricane, the bishop said they might need to run two shifts of school.

“They wanted prayer cards, rosaries, anything they could have to hold onto their faith,” Sister Carol said.

“We knew we needed help.”

Some of that help came from Ursuline communities.

Mount Saint Joseph Sisters sponsored a teacher and provided tuition assistance. The Ursulines of Paola, Kan. – who would merge with Mount Saint Joseph three years later – sent an 18-wheeler Sister Carol visits with eighth-grade boys at St. John Berchmans School in Shreveport. The middle schoolers are reigning Science Olympiad winners.

of supplies.

“The sisters were amazing,” Sister Carol said. She and Sister Ann spent their evenings at the shelters helping those in need. Sister Carol credits Sister Ann with keeping her grounded.

“I went from my dad’s house to the convent. She gives me a sense of normalcy, reality,” Sister Carol said. “I didn’t know how to open a checking account, how to turn on electricity. She reminds me who I am.”

Sister Ann, a Louisiana native, said she and Sister Carol are opposite enough to make their friendship work well. “She says she got an education so she wouldn’t have to do manual labor. I love to be out in the yard,” Sister Ann said. “She is an avid movie lover. ‘The Waltons’ is her favorite show. TV is not my thing. She’s connected to her phone. I only have one because I have to,” Sister Ann said. “She loves going to Best Buy. I love Home Depot.”

The Future

An unofficial Ursuline motto is “work yourself out of a job,” but only seven sisters are serving in their current ministries longer than Sister Carol. She just wants to continue contributing in whatever she is called to do next.

Sister Carol serves on the board of Brescia University in Owensboro, which the Ursuline Sisters began in 1950.

She believes Brescia will play a vital part in the future of the Ursuline community.

“The daughter always takes care of the mother,” Sister Carol said. “Brescia is our daughter. Brescia holds the same light that we Ursulines do. If our light continues, it will be through education.”n

Sister Spotlight: Sister Susanne Bauer Meet Sister Susanne – Nature Lover and Crossword Puzzle Master Z Favorite Place: Louisburg, Kansas. “I grew up in Louisburg, so it is always nice to go back

home to visit my nieces and nephews.”

Z Favorite Flower? Sunflower. “The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas and I love how they blossom all along the roads there.”

Z Person she Admired Most: Her cousin, Sister Mercedes. “I admired her not only because she was spiritual, but also because she was very down to earth, and she was very accepting of other people.”

Z Favorite Holiday: Easter. “I love that time of year because there are all kinds of new life outside and spring has sprung.”

Z First Job: Helping on the family farm. “I held various jobs on the farm, such as getting the cows every morning and mowing the grass on the tractor.”

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Sister Michele joins the Nuns on the Bus!

Sister Michele Morek, far right in the front row, helps make chocolate chip cookies at Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles.

NETWORK Lobby’s Nuns on the Bus hit the road again – for the first time in two years – to hold elected officials accountable for their votes on the 2017 tax law (that gave handouts to the wealthiest in our nation) and attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The Nuns on the Bus “Tax Justice Truth Tour” began in Los Sister Michele, left, and Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, show off their Angeles on Oct. 8, red shirts from Culinary Workers and Ursuline Sister Union Local 226 they wore for vote Michele Morek canvassing in Las Vegas on Oct. 10. was on the bus!

Their first stop was Homeboy Industries, one of the site visits the sisters made “to listen to people all across the United States — from Los Angeles to West Palm Beach, Fla. — to see how U.S. tax policies are affecting them,” Sister Michele wrote in a blog post about the trip.

The bus went to 21 states in 27 days. Sister Michele was on the bus the first and then the last week, where it made its final stop at the Fiesta for the Common Good at Mar-aLago in Florida. “It is the faces we will remember,” she wrote.

You can see all of their stops at networklobby.org/bus2018/ Sister Michele met Janet, blog. Sister Michele is Global a former client but now Sisters Report’s liaison to sisters a certified social worker at Homeboy Industries. in North America.

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We can all accompany young people in religious life “Mentors should not lead young people as passive followers, but walk alongside them, allowing them to be active participants in the journey. They should respect the freedom that comes with a young person’s process of discernment and equip them with tools to do so well.

“A mentor should believe wholeheartedly in a young person’s ability to participate in the life of the Church.

A mentor should nurture the seeds of faith in young people, without expecting to immediately see the fruits of the work of the Holy Spirit.

“This role is not and cannot be limited to priests and consecrated life, but the laity should also be empowered to take on such a role. All such mentors should benefit from being well-formed and engage in ongoing formation.”

This quote comes from the March 2018 “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment” Pre-Synodal Meeting Final Document. They are words from young people around the world. As the quote indicates, the role of accompaniment cannot be carried out by priests and religious alone. It calls for the entire Church, laity included, to be active in promoting holy vocations of ordained life, consecrated life, married life and single life. YOU are invited to walk with the young Church! To read the entire document visit this website: http://www.synod2018.va/content/ synod2018/en/news/final-document-from-the-presynodal-meeting.html Thank you for supporting our vocation efforts!

Sister Monica Seaton, Director of Vocations P.S. Here are some future dates to keep in mind to

celebrate and promote religious vocations: • February 2, 2018, World Day for Consecrated Life • March 8-14, 2018, National Catholic Sisters Week • Adoration to Pray for Vocations: The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph invite the public to join them for Eucharistic Adoration to pray especially for vocations on the second Sunday of each month from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., at the Motherhouse Chapel (located 12 miles west of Owensboro on Hwy. 56). Adoration concludes with evening prayer.

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St. Romuald School remains a happy memory for many sisters

The late Sister Helen Ann Stuart with 1st graders c. 1985

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hances are, many of today’s supporters of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph met a sister when she lived in their community and served in a school or parish away from Maple Mount.

For the first 26 years of their existence in Maple Mount, the Ursuline Sisters served only at Mount Saint Joseph Academy or in support of the community. In 1900, two sisters began serving at St. Raphael School a few miles from the Mount, but they returned to the convent each evening.

It wasn’t until 1908 – 110 years ago this year – that the Ursuline Sisters in Maple Mount moved to another city to serve. That was the year they began running St. Romuald School in the small town of Hardinsburg, Ky. – and where an Ursuline continued to serve every year until 1989. The school is still open today, boasting an enrollment of 261 students in preschool through middle school, according to its website. Hardinsburg has fewer than 2,500 residents.

A dozen current Ursuline Sisters served at St. Romuald and remember their time fondly.

“It’s a very Catholic area and a Catholic education is very important to the people,” Sister Pat Rhoten said. “The Sister Pat

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parents wanted their kids to better absorb their Catholic education than they did. It’s why the parish is so old and why the school is still going.”

Sister Pat taught 8th grade algebra and Old Testament in 1980-81, then the next two years served as principal.

“I found the people in the community so helpful,” Sister Pat said. “I taught the son of the organist in the parish. When I got to my classroom I had a little chalkboard.

I said, ‘If I’m going to teach algebra, I need a wall.’ And he (the organist) made me a wall of chalkboard in 24 hours.”

St. Romuald was the second mission for Sister Mary Matthias Ward, who taught there from 1958-63.

“I loved Hardinsburg,” she said. “At my first registration day for the opening of school, at the end of the day a Sister Mary tall male walks in and Matthias I am thinking ‘some father is going to register.’ He said to me, ‘I saw your name and I said, ‘another old nun.’ Why I bet you aren’t more than 36.’ I said that’s right. I was 23 and he had come to register himself as an 8th grader. I loved Joe Lee Bennett who went on to operate an outstanding backhoe industry.”

The people in the community

were loving and progressive, Sister Mary Matthias said. She has stayed in contact with former students through the years.

“The students usually wanted to do whatever I asked them,” she said.

“One night the lady from the local drug store called me laughing. One of my students had stopped in and asked about buying elbow grease.

I had told this girl she just needed more elbow grease.”

The first Ursuline from Mount Saint Joseph actually went to St. Romuald in 1904, when Sister Mary Magdalene Barrett (then at Maple Mount) was asked by the Ursuline Sisters in Louisville, who were staffing the school, to replace a novice who left. She served the next two years with the Ursulines of Louisville, until the school closed for a year, apparently over a dispute between the pastor and mother superior. When the school reopened in 1908, four MSJ Ursulines staffed the school, although Mount Saint Joseph did not become independent of Louisville until 1912.

St. Romuald High School began in 1910, with Sister Robertus Wethington serving as principal.

The high school closed in 1930 but was restarted in 1952 with Sister

Jamesina Spain as principal. The Students came from all parishes in high school closed for good in 1991.

Breckinridge County, but also some The first St. Romuald Church parishes in Meade County, which was built in 1812 by the legendary is in a different time zone, Sister Father Charles Nerinckx, who Michael Marie said. named it in honor of the cathedral “The parents sacrificed to get of Mechlin in his native Belgium. their children there, and there was A second church was built in no doubt they valued Catholic 1841, and the existing church was education,” she said. “The sisters completed in 1900. often received a lot of garden The parish was fertile ground vegetables. The families were very for Ursuline Sisters, with 14 sisters good to us.” entering from St. Romuald. The Sister Michael Ann first was Sister Mary Josephine Monaghan taught Pate in 1911, and included sixth grade from Sister Immaculata O’Reilly, the 1983-86, and said she community superior from 1947enjoyed the closeness 51. The last remaining sister from of the faculty, which the parish is Sister Mary Angela was made up of sisters Sister Matthews, who had the chance and lay staff.

Michael Ann to return as principal of the high “I liked working school from 1974-78. with the kiddos there, it was more of “I was scared at a rural setting, they were very down first, I’d never been to earth,” Sister Michael Ann said. principal of a high “They were really into learning. We school,” she said. did projects together, I remember “It was a farming one we did on the industrial community. I knew revolution. We did a Passion Play what it was like when Sister Mary during Lent. They were into any the boys had to stay extracurricular things.”

Angela home and cut tobacco.

Other current sisters who I could understand what they were served at St. Romuald are Sisters going through. I felt supported by Marie Carol Cecil (1964-70), the people.”

Cecelia Joseph Olinger (1966-73), When the parish celebrated its Catherine Marie Lauterwasser 200th anniversary in 2012, Sister (1971-73), Cheryl Clemons (1973Mary Angela carried a picture of 75), Maureen O’Neill (1974-75), Father Charles Nerinckx in the Carol Shively (1982-83) and Melissa procession.

Tipmore (1982-83).n Sister Michael Marie Friedman succeeded Sister Mary Angela as principal of the high school.

“I loved my years at St. Romuald High School,” she said. “The students were super and always willing Sister Marie to get involved St. Romuald faculty stand in front of the school in Michael in activities. We 1959 or 1960. Pictured, left to right: Sister Regina were small, but mighty, not Boone, Sister Paul Joseph Mattingly, Sister Lucita only in academics, but we did Greenwell, Sister Mary Matthias Ward, Anna Katherine (now Ursuline Associate Therese) Fraize well in basketball as well.”

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New Development Director begins in 2019 We’re thrilled to announce that Carol Braden-Clarke will begin as Director of Development for the Ursuline Sisters in Carol January 2019.

Carol brings a wealth of experience to her new role, serving the past 27 years in leadership with the United Way in Evansville, Ind., and Lima, Ohio. She has been president of the United Way in Lima since 2015 and served in a similar role in Evansville from 1999-2015. She was the first full-time campaign director for the United Way of Southwestern Indiana from 1991-1999.

Carol has had success in growing fundraising efforts wherever she’s served, and she looks forward to meeting many of our wonderful supporters in the coming year.

Join us for silence during Lent

The sisters and staff of the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center invite the public to a Lenten Day of Quiet.

On Friday, March 29 and Friday, April 12, 2019, the Center will offer a sacred space of silence with silence at meals and during the workday as much as possible. Come enjoy a day of prayer and silence to be with the Lord. The chapel will be open, lunch will be served, and the peace of the grounds are always available to enjoy. Please register in advance at retreatcenter@maplemount. org. The cost is $25.

and Sister Joseph Mary Millar.

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MISSION: Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center offers and hosts programs in a rural environment of tranquility for people of all ages and faiths to nurture spiritual and personal growth, advance the arts and promote lifelong learning.

Maryann Joyce wants to create sacred space for Center visitors

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hen it was time for Maryann Joyce to start high school, the public-school teachers in her hometown of Coventry, R.I., were on strike.

To ensure a quality education, she was able to travel 45 minutes each way to attend The Prout School, a Catholic school run by the Sisters of the Cross and Passion.

“I was raised Catholic, but it was not a very spirit-filled home,” she said. Her spirituality was awakened at Prout, just one of many instances of God’s providence in her life.

Looking back, Maryann can see the handprints of God throughout her journey. The latest step brought her to the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center on Aug. 16, the day she began as the assistant director.

“I believe God has uniquely shaped me for what’s needed now,” she said.

Sister Mary Matthias Ward has been director of the Center since 2016 but recognized earlier this year that it was time to groom her successor. Maryann is a high-energy woman who is used to balancing multiple ministries and is already making her mark on programming for the coming year.

“Leading a retreat is something that sings in my soul when I do it,” she said. “I like creating that sacred space, a deeper level of sharing. We live such busy, distracted lives.

It feels like such a gift to create a sacred space for people.

It’s a gift that people really need.”

Maryann’s route from Massachusetts to the Mount took many turns, but she has learned something everywhere she’s been that has prepared her for her current ministry.

While she was in college in 1980, her parents moved to Evansville, Ind., so her father could buy a small business. Twelve years later, Maryann, her husband and two young sons moved to Evansville also.

“I worked for the United Methodist Youth Home in communications and development,” she said. “Next I was director of Mental Health America, which advocates for people with mental illness. I learned some management skills that help me now.”

While there she completed the spiritual direction program run by the Diocese of Evansville and the Benedictine Sisters in Ferdinand, Ind. “I really felt called toward one-on-one ministry,” she said. She left her job to offer spiritual direction, then was hired by Hospice as their bereavement coordinator.

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Maryann Joyce is the new assistant director of Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center.

“I also have certification in a program called Growing Through Loss,” she said. “I worked with at-risk kids who had suffered loss.”

Her next career change was as coordinator of religious education at Sts. Mary and John Parish in Evansville. She led sacramental preparation, youth ministry and some adult faith formation.

“That has made me comfortable reaching out to parishes here,” she said.

She continued offering spiritual direction while at the parish and also connected with a Daughter of Charity who introduced her to “formative spirituality,” which looks at the formation and spirituality of the human being, beyond a specific religion.

After five years in parish work, she went back to Hospice as a chaplain and volunteer coordinator.

“During that time, I built my confidence as a retreat leader and started putting on my own retreats,” Maryann said. “It made me realize this is what I want to do. God puts our deepest desires in our heart. I have a strong sense that I was sent here.”

One of the retreats she led in Evansville she is bringing in January to the Retreat Center, “Crossing the Threshold of the New Year.” She uses images, music, creative arts and guided reflection to help participants think intentionally about the way they want to spend the next year.

“We focus on what needs to be forgiven, what needs to be celebrated, and intentionally look ahead,” she said. The retreat is Saturday, Jan. 26, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The cost is $25, which includes lunch.

Active listening is also an important part of Maryann’s spirituality. In 2016 she started an Evansville chapter of Just Listening, which serves the poor by listening with compassion and without judgment. She was trained

by Sharon Browning, who founded Just Listening in Philadelphia.

That emphasis led to another retreat she is bringing in September 2019, “Engaged Leadership: Listening and Leading with Purpose, Meaning and Joy.” The speaker is Diane Millis, an acclaimed author and professor who helps individuals and organizations communicate more authentically.

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From the Director...

Are we creating peace in our own hearts?

Dear Friends of the Retreat Center, Doesn’t it seem that all areas of life are in turmoil? It is on the news. It is in the daily papers. It is the talk of the town. The scandals of the church, the dividedness of politics, the defamation of character, the floods and hurricanes that are destroying a huge part of our countryside, the accidents taking the lives of so many … all this Sister Mary should bring us to our knees. Prayer is Matthias such a need and isn’t that what our Retreat Center should be about?

No, Jesus did not go to a retreat center to pray. But he often withdrew to pray. Do we take this opportunity to withdraw? To be alone for a time? To enter into silence? To know that our God is truly looking after us?

I look at all the chaos and I ponder, and I wonder.

Then I remember that we read in the book of Genesis at the beginning there was chaos and out of chaos there came creation. We are God’s co-creators.

What are we creating? Is it peaceful times in our own hearts? Is it holding others in prayer as we realize their suffering, their pain? Is it refraining from gossip? Are we really loving God and our neighbor? Are we creating hope, love and joy?

Seasons come and go. We seem to have moved from summer into winter. The leaves will turn into an array of color once we have a frost. They will fall to the ground to be raked, burned or mulched. This is how the seasons of our lives come and go. Take some time and decide what season it is for you. Is it a time to let go and let God? Let God be the God of our lives.

As director of the Center, I invite you, I encourage you to come walk our grounds, watch the lake, see the sunset and the sunrise. And as you enter into that time alone, that time of silence hear God say to you, “Come, rest with me and know that I am your God.” Blessings of Saint Angela to you,

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The 22 members of Smockers and Stitchers worked on their projects in the Saint Angela Conference Room on Aug. 24.

They came from California, Texas, Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Mississippi and Missouri. This was the first time their annual weekly gathering was held at the Center.

Members of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest Choir Camp, from the St. Francis DeSales Oratory in St. Louis, returned to the Center the week of Aug. 6-10 for their ninth year of music camp. On Aug. 9, the members performed for the Ursuline Sisters in Saint Joseph Villa.

Sister Mary Matthias Ward OSU, Director

Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center

Join our new 2019 “Focus on Faith” class!

Bishop Robert Barron DVD series The Mass Thursdays • 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Jan. 10 • Feb. 14 • March 14 • April 4 • May 9 June 13 • Aug. 8 • Sept. 12 • Oct. 10 • Nov. 14 • Dec. 12 Led by Sister Ann McGrew • $20 per class includes lunch

Please register: 270-229-0206 • retreatcenter@maplemount.org

The Center honored military veterans on Nov. 14 with a free program led by Brigadier General Father Patrick J. Dolan, the Army National Guard Assistant to the Chief of Chaplains. Father Dolan has been deployed around the world as a chaplain, including four trips to Iraq. He is pastor of St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Fairdale, Ky. Ursuline Sister George Mary Hagan (present but not pictured) met Dolan when she was director of religous education at Fort Knox.

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MARYANN

From page 10

“I want to grow the programs we offer, increase the variety and reach new audiences,” Maryann said.

She hopes to increase participation to the Evansville area.

“I want people to know they can come to the country and have the full support of our hospitality to take that sacred time with God.” Maryann wants to hear from people who use the Center and those who haven’t used it yet, to know what needs the Center can serve. She quotes Father Richard Rohr, the esteemed Franciscan friar, who says that great love or great suffering bring us to the reality of God being God. “We go through our life putting God on the sidelines,” she said. “It’s not until we face the great mysteries of life that we need to reflect on ‘What does this mean about who God is? What am I here for?’”

She wants to know what would motivate people to take time out of their life and come to the Center.

“Retreats are stepping into a bit of the unknown,” she said. “We want to offer programs that resonate with people’s real life needs and desires.”

Maryann wants to hear from you. She can be reached at 270-229-4103, ext. 801, or maryann.joyce@maplemount.org.n

Crossing the Threshold of Faith into the New Year

Saturday, Jan. 26 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

“Imagine that we could walk through the New Year always listening to a voice saying to us: I have a gift for you and can’t wait for you to see it.”- Henri Nouwen Join us for a day of soulful and creative reflection to enter into the New Year honoring our deepest joys and intentions.

Participants have an opportunity to reflect on what needs to be left behind from 2018, what needs to be celebrated, and what dreams and desires need to be born in 2019.

Facilitated by Maryann Joyce

Spiritual Director, Retreat Leader and Assistant Director of Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center

The $25 fee includes lunch.

To register, call 270-229-0206 retreatcenter@maplemount.org or sign up online:

ursulinesmsj.org /conference-retreat-center/retreats-and-programs

In the joy of eternal life SISTER RUTH MATTINGLY, 83, died Nov. 1 at Mount Saint Joseph in her 62nd year of religious life. She was a native of Loretto, Ky. Her former religious name was Sister Walter Ann Mattingly.

Sister Ruth was a loyal friend who loved being of service to others, first as a teacher, then in health care and parish ministry. In recent years she enjoyed making baby quilts. She taught in Kentucky, Missouri and New Mexico. She ministered in personal and pastoral care in the Motherhouse infirmary (1984-91) and was coordinator of the Guest House (1993-96) at Maple Mount. She was a parish minister at St. Joseph Parish, Leitchfield, Ky., (1996-2005). Survivors include the sisters of her religious community; her sister, Esther Kraft, of Louisville; two brothers, Walter Mattingly of Louisville and John Mattingly of Lexington; and nieces and nephews. The funeral Mass was Nov. 5 at Mount Saint Joseph, with burial in the convent cemetery.

SISTER JOSEPH ANGELA BOONE, 90, died Nov. 11 at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 71st year of religious life. She was a native of New Haven, Ky. Sister Joseph Angela was a teacher for 19 years, serving in Louisville and Owensboro, including seven years as a math professor at Brescia College, where she was named a Distinguished Alumna in 2009. She was most known for her brilliance with financial matters. She served as treasurer and business administrator for the Ursuline Sisters from 1970-89, which included starting the retirement fund and the Mount Saint Joseph Picnic. She then served as chancellor and director of administration for the Diocese of Owensboro from 1989-2011.

She also served on the Ursuline Leadership Council from 1972-76, as well as numerous nonprofit boards. In August 2014, Boone Lodge at the Gasper River Catholic Youth Camp & Retreat Center near Bowling Green, Ky., was named in her honor. Survivors include the sisters of her religious community; three siblings, Teresa Marie Thompson of New Haven, Anna Catherine Keene of Louisville and Mary Josephine Dworzan of Orange, Calif.; and nieces and nephews. The funeral Mass was Nov. 15 at Mount Saint Joseph, with burial in the convent cemetery.

Memorials to an Ursuline Sister may take the form of donations to the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, 8001 Cummings Road, Maple Mount, KY 42356.

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rejoice in the gifts of our sisters, Gloria: We given for the kingdom of God

Sister Martha Keller became the first woman to receive the community service award from the Knights of Columbus chapter in Fancy Farm, Ky. During the Aug. 13 meeting of Council 1418, Sister Martha was honored with a plaque for “Dedicated Catholic Service to St. Jerome Parish and the Fancy Farm community.” “I was surprised and humbled,” Sister Martha said. Sister Martha has served as pastoral associate at St. Jerome Parish since 2012. She has reinvigorated the Social Concerns committee at the parish, including leading members on a mission trip to Mandeville, Jamaica.

Sister Larraine Lauter was honored with two awards for her work as a cofounder of Water With Blessings, which provides filters and training so impoverished countries can have clean drinking water. She received the Muhammad Ali Kentucky Humanitarian Award at a ceremony on Sept.

20 at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky. The awards were created in 2013 as a way to publicly recognize and celebrate the greatness of people from around the world. This annual fundraising gala honors “seasoned humanitarians” who are making significant contributions toward securing peace, social justice, human rights, and/or social capital in their communities and on a global basis.Sister Larraine said she accepted the award on behalf of the 74,000 Water Women and the entire community of Water With Blessings. “It was a uniquely uplifting and powerful event, thanks to the hard work of the Muhammad Ali Center staff and board,” Sister Larraine said. “Our award was presented by Captain Niloofar Rahmani, a great honor in itself.” Capt.

Niloofar is the first female fixed-wing Air Force aviator in Afghanistan’s history and the first female pilot in the Afghan military since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

Sister Larraine also received an “Art of Social Innovation” Pyramid Award on behalf of Water With Blessings on Oct. 9, 2018, presented by Louisville’s

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Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNPE). The Pyramid Awards are designed to recognize the essential value of the region’s nonprofit sector. CNPE recognizes and celebrates contributions by nonprofits in six areas: Collaboration, Governance, Inclusion, Leadership, Social Innovation and Vision.

Sister Larraine has been executive director of Water With Blessings, headquartered in Louisville, since 2012.

The late Sister Martina Rockers was honored by the theater in Kansas City, Mo., where she volunteered for 12 years. A nameplate to honor Sister Martina will be placed on a Starlight Theatre seat in section Terrace 7, Row BB, so that any guest attending a show can see it, according to Madi Fritts, operations coordinator of the theatre and the Ambassador Liaison.

“Sister Martina was a wonderful Ambassador for many years and we are truly blessed she was able to join us for some time,” Fritts said. Sister Martina died June 5.

When the Diocese of Owensboro held its 20th Sophia Award celebration on Sept. 9, two Ursuline Sisters, three Ursuline Associates and a Mount Saint Joseph Academy graduate were among the honorees.

Sister Vivian Bowles (pictured at left with Bishop William Medley) was the St. Alphonsus, Owensboro, Ky., honoree, while Sister Mary Celine Weidenbenner was chosen from St. William, Knottsville, Ky. Associate winners were Deacon Don Adams and his wife, Bonnie, of St. Joseph, Central City, Ky., and Norma Jean Witten of St. Paul, Leitchfield, Ky. The alum was Debby Stallings Glenn A’68 of Our Lady of Lourdes, Owensboro. Those eligible for awards are ages 65 or older and embrace stewardship in their parish – giving of their time, talent and treasure. Ten other Ursuline Sisters have received this award in past years (see complete list at ursulinesmsj.org).

Photos courtesy of the Diocese of Owensboro Communications Office.

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Powerhouse of Prayer

By Dan Heckel, Mount Saint Joseph Staff

Sister Catherine Barber shares “essential prayer” This feature highlights the efforts of those Ursuline Sisters who minister in the “Powerhouse of Prayer” and lift up those who ask for prayers throughout the year.

June, Mother led us in the litanies treat them like a sailboat – see it, of the Blessed Mother and Sacred but don’t engage it. The aim is to Heart,” she said. “We had two large be transformed. We must never try pictures of Jesus and Mary hanging to measure our progress in prayer. in our living room, where I sat That’s for God to do.” before these pictures drawn into Sister Catherine joins a group meditation. At the time I didn’t of sisters for centering prayer in know what meditation was but have the Saint Joseph Villa chapel on since learned.”

Monday, Wednesday and Thursday After 65 years as an Ursuline, for a half hour. She enjoys praying serving as an educator, in health morning and evening prayer with the care and in ministries at the sisters in the Motherhouse Chapel, as Motherhouse, Sister Catherine quilts well as praying in her room with two and crochets for the community, and pictures on her wall, Jesus and Our focuses on the prayer that has always Lady of Perpetual Help. She prays been so important to her. the rosary every morning at 6:30 on “Being transformed in Christ EWTN. requires dying to oneself,” she said.

Sister Catherine constantly “I can only do that by praying. examines whether she is living in the Sister Catherine Barber has a portrait of Praying is essential, more than Spirit. There are hints, even gifts, Jesus in her room at the Motherhouse. breathing.”

She said her family also had one in their that characterize such a person, she There are many ways to pray, house when she was growing up. said. and Sister Catherine urges people “Paul calls these gifts the fruits of hen Sister Catherine to pick one that moves them to be the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, Barber joined the Ursuline transformed. For her, that’s centering Sisters in 1952, she was generosity, faithfulness, gentleness prayer, a method of silent prayer. no stranger to prayer. and self-control,” she said.

“Our minds are so bombarded “Going to church was our main Sister Catherine enjoys these with thoughts all the time with social event as well as being a place lines from a favorite song titled something other than Christ,” she to seek spiritual nourishment,” she “Transfiguration,”

by Carey Landry: said. “In centering prayer, you’ll have said. One of 14 children growing “…and O how God’s beauty a lot of thoughts. You will want to up in the highly Catholic area of transforms us, come to a place of peace and quiet.

Springfield, Ky., Sister Catherine The wonder of presence abiding, Choose a mantra, such as ‘Jesus’ or learned prayers at home, reciting the Transparent hearts give reflection ‘Love.’ Simply rest in God. It takes a rosary daily.

Of Tabors light within, long time in your lifetime to achieve “During the months of May and real quiet. When you have thoughts, Of Tabors light within.” n

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Director of Archives Heidi Taylor-Caudill on Oct. 11 at Mount Saint Joseph.

In 1916, Sister Antoinette was sent on her first mission to be a housekeeper to sisters teaching at St. Columba School in Louisville, Ky. By 1918, she and Sisters Jerome Cooper and Agatha Beaven became three of 88 women religious in Kentucky to volunteer as nurses at Camp Zachary Taylor during the flu epidemic that killed 50 million people worldwide. At the time, Sister Antoinette Heidi Taylor-Caudill presents “Her Story” about Sister Antoinette on Oct. 11. was 22 and an untrained nurse. The sisters were responsible for tending to 125-130 soldiers in 12-hour shifts, using “aspirin and whiskey,” she Sister Antoinette said in an interview. She recorded the events of that mission shortly before she died in 1980.

SAVE THE DATE. April 27, 2019

We want to thank you for all your wonderful support during the past year. With your help, more than 400 beautiful trees were planted in your honor. Your support of the Ursuline Sisters made a tremendous difference for all we serve. Thank you for helping to support our mission of education and Christian formation. Again this year, you have the opportunity to “Be a New Creation” and both support the sisters and give back to the Earth. When you give $100 or more by Jan. 27, 2019, the feast day of our founder, Saint Angela Merici, a tree will be planted in your honor at our Owensboro Community Arbor Day event on April 27, 2019.

Members of a Girl Scout troop help plant trees at the Arbor Day community tree planting in April at Yellow Creek Park near Owensboro, Ky.

Donor Recognition. The Ursuline Sisters believe we are all called to “Be a New Creation” through our service to others. Your support and generosity are instrumental in the sisters’ mission. Below are the names of those who gave gifts over the past fiscal year (July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018). We want to thank you for being our partners in faith. You make a difference, and we want to say THANK YOU! We are very sorry if we have not included everyone in this list. If any information is incorrect, God bless each of you, please call 270-229-2009 or email maggie.matsko@maplemount.org.

Sister Amelia Stenger, Congregational Leader FOUNDERS...............$25,000+ Anonymous Evelyn V. Bowles Sister Vivian Marie Bowles, OSU, A’57 Rev. Delma Clemons Mary VentimigliaU Willard O. Vetter

BENEFACTORS...$10,000-24,999 Sister Marie Goretti Browning, OSU, A‘50 Sister Clarita Browning, OSU, A‘47 Sister Rebecca White, OSU Col. (RET.) George and Sharon Barber Genevieve Stelmach Edward and Beth Hayden Michael E. Horn

PATRONS..............$5,000-9,999 Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Patrick Nash Rev. Aloysius Powers Suzanne E. Reiss James Struna Frank White

INVESTORS..........$2,500-4,999 Rev. Bernard Leo Craycroft Mary Fiorini Thomas and Jo Anne Fiorini Rev. J. Raymond Goetz Honorable Romano L. Mazzoli Jeffrey Riney

PROVIDERS..........$1,000-2,499 Barbara Jean Allen and Tom Sheehan Donald and Janice Arth Lena R. Aull Richard G. Blond Richard and Beverly Boeckmann A‘58 David and Maggie Bollone Charles and Katherine Brown Beverly Clemens Rebecca Jean Donahue Kevin A. Dunn George and Jayne Flynn Steve and Tricia Frey Jane FultonU Trust Jacinta C. Garinger, A‘47 John and LaVerne Genetti Leonard Golembiewski Patricia Hackman Bill R. Hampton Thomas and Jane Hancock Bernard and Catherine Hayden Sister Marie Michael Hayden, OSUU Rose M. Hayden

HughU and ThereseU Higdon Joan Horan Kenneth and Michaelanne James Gregory and Colleen Lang Sarah Jane Lynch Sylvia Goetz McCauley, A‘66 Eugene and Mary Meyer James and Joan Meyer David K. Mudd James Nalley, M.D. Francis OlingerU Joseph and Jeanne Passantino John M. Pfannes Saint Joseph Parish William and June Salsman Serra Club of Kansas City, Mo. Mick and Linda Seuferling Gregory A. Shondell Eric A. Shrader Maxine Ann StaleyU Fund Michael J. Sullivan Mary Catherine Thompson, A‘61 Bertrand and Barbara Trompeter Marilyn Weber David and Sue Zimmerman

SPONSORS................$500-999 Evelyn K. Ambrose Robert and Marilyn Beam Dr. George and Barbara Beard Lawrence and Mary Bland Marvin and Josephine Boling George and Faye Briel Carl and Mary Buchman Thomas and Denise Buckman Karie S. Cecil Lillian A. Cloughley Winifred Riney Cohron, A‘69 Michael and Doretha Corbett Rev Michael Crump Joe and Annette Cruz William and Joyce Dougherty Jeffrey and Margaret Ebelhar James and Rebecca Edmiston James and Molly Egger Vince and Joan Frey Robert and Suzanne Gibbons Thomas and Karen Goebel Gerald and Deborah Gonsoski Dan and Pat Haake Ray and Mary Hart Dr. Christopher and Mary Havelda Dan and Sherri Heckel Gerald and Mary Hubbs Donna M. Jordan Camille and Peter Kalmey Frank and Jean Koehler Sarah Jane Kranz, A‘72 Robert and Margy McGlynn Bishop William F. Medley Rosemary Milton-Miano Robert and April Mitchell Michael and Mary Monaghan

Elizabeth Moody Gia Mudd Gerald and Betty Oakes Steven and Rita Patti, A‘82 Benjamin L. Peine Sam and Christa Pennington Yvonne Plier Merwin and Julieanne Ray Rev. W. Jerry Riney David Rowell Sr. Dr. Michael and Janice Scherm Sister Marcella Schrant, OSU Mary Schueler Ernest and Shirley Taliaferro Amy Tanner George Sullivan and Dorothy Turek Delores Turnage Ursuline Sisters Leadership Team William and Shannon Wright Sarah A. Ye Harold and Kathy Young, A‘70 Ron and Pam Ziegler

SUPPORTERS.............$250-499 Herman AllesU Jerry and Arnida Altman, A‘63 James P. Alvey Cathy A. Audley Sister Susanne Bauer, OSU Mary Kay Bell Donald Bittel Ron and Lucinda Bornander Edwin and Phyllis Bresnik, A’66 James E. Burke James J. Casaert Tom Cecil Dwayne Clemons Mary M. Costello, A‘65 Betty C. Culver Frank and Molly Devocelle Charles P. Easley William and Jocelyn Foushee Gary and Judy Freeman Vicki Frey and David Thompson Dolores Furtado Karen Garrity Robert George Rev. Joseph T. Graffis Mary Elaine Grant Larry and Paula Gray, A‘73 Donna Hager Victor and Barbara Hagman Phil and Kimberly Haire Gerald and Mary Harris Donald A. Hayden Don Hazlett William D. Heinzig Raymond E. Hiersche Sr. Dr. Carroll Howard Eloise Hughes Philip and Mary Hurley Dennis and Margaret Johnson Neil and Margaret Kallman

James and Suzanne Kee Harry J. Lavigne James and Katherine Likens Timothy B. Mahoney Brooklyn Maple John and Helen Mattingly Michelle Maxwell James P. Maxwell Sr. Willard and Patty Miller Michael and Jacqueline Mize Stephen and Rebecca Morris, A’71 Rev. Clive Otieno Beverly Owen Stephen G. Pello Matthew David Pike M. Pauline Posey Matthew Rehrauer Greg L. Reis Leo and Helen Rieke Marianna Willett Robinson, A‘60 Brian and Rosemary Rosendale Susan F. Ryan W. Dan and Pamela Shepherd, A‘66 Thomas P. Shortell, D.D.S. Daniel and Debbie Smith Thomas and Vicki Smith Stephen and Nancy Summers Edward and Margaret Tasaka, A‘66 Ann Mary Teaff Robert Todd William and Betty Ulrich Otis and Mary Vance Stephanie J. Warren, A‘73 Vance and Debra Webb Charles and Barbara Whelan Mary E. Ziegler

CONTRIBUTORS........$100-249 Detlef and Martha Alle John and Therese Allen Amazon Smile Dan and Claudia Anderson Mary-Otis Antoinettee Cecilia Arbuckle Donald and Janice Arth Rev Chet Artysiewicz Paul R. Bachi Janet M. Baker Richard and Carol Baldwin Sharon Barber Dr. Joseph and Dorothy Barnthouse Tom Barrett Jackie Bauer Robert and Laurie Bauer Robert F. Bauer Carolyn Graves Beam, A‘70 Harold and Barbara Berger David and Jacquelyn Bergman Susan K. Bernica Stephen and Jean Berry Jerry and Alice Biscopink, A’68 Francis Doreen Boisvert Betty A. Booker

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Saint Angela Merici Heritage Society We are deeply grateful to these persons who, in life or in death, have named our community as the recipient of a planned gift. These generous benefactors of bequests, annuities or estate gifts are signs of faithful stewardship, providing for our mission into the future. Saint Angela Merici, bless them with prayers, as we pledge our own.

Billy and Karla Mattingly Anonymous (8) Rev. Carl McCarthy Joe PaulU and Kay Buckman Robert Mace Rev. Bernard Leo Craycroft Romano Mazzoli Rev. John Deatrick Jeanne Meeks Velma and John Dees Ruth Metschuleit Catherine Barbara EdelenU Rev. Joe Mills Louise Fowler Gaddie, A’45 CletusU and Dee Oberst Jacinta Garinger, A’47 Rose Olinger Wayne and Suzanne Gibbons Carol O’Keefe José GomezU Susan J. Scott Carl and Mollie Greenwell Karen Siciliano Msgr. George H. Hancock Mary Ann Smith Don Harmon Mary C. Thompson, A’61 Ann Hayes Barbara and Bertrand Trompeter Melba Hightower-Smith Mary Ziegler Barbara Houk Deborah Pitts Joyce BEQUESTS Mary Ann Kallross Jane Fulton Trust | Jane FultonU Harry Lavigne Phillip Hruska Estate | Phillip HruskaU Helen and FreddieU LeBlanc Maxine Ann Staley Fund | BennettU and Mary Sue Ligon Maxine Ann StaleyU Dr. Francis Lonsway Mary VentimigliaU Rev. Joseph A. Lyon Sharon Boone Jeanie Bosley-Heath John and Mary Bouvier Sarah M. Bowling Harry and Sharon Boyle John and Janet Brandon Phyllis Ann Bresnik, A‘66 James and Mary Brey Ronald and Mary Briney Robert and Rebecca Brown Linda A. Browning Phyllis E. Burgan Robert and Karen Burk Michael and Paula Burke Katharyn Byrne Benson W. Campbell, III Robert and Jan Carlton Robert and Barbara Carper Carolyn Sue Cecil, A‘73 Melody Cecil Margaret Cimeley Anthony F. Cindrich Tony and Carolyn Clark Tim D. Clarke Don Clements Matteo and Kathy Coco Marie Ann Collins, A‘75 Nancy S. Collins Robert and Helen Cooper Louise Coshan Carol A. Coyle Rev. J. Kenneth Criqui Caroline Cummings Mary T. Danhauer, A’71 Michael and Mary Dearing Frances DeJarnett Dorothy Denniston, A‘65 Diane DiTucci Mike and Sharon Dowdall Mary Margaret Drury, A‘66 Joni Dugan Michael Dunnivan Lawrence and Geraldine Durbin Bobbie Edds Roger and Michelle Edelbrock Vince and Teresa Edwards Dr. Susan J. Effertz Mary Rita EnglertU Janet Sue Evans Clara Mae Evrard Quentin and Patricia Fannin Sister Jeannette Fennewald Patricia A. Ferguson John and Agnes Filburn Sylvester and Barbara Fischer Margaret Fitzgerald John and Linda Fitzpatrick

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Frederic and Sally Floberg Rodney and Charlotte Ford Laura Ford Martha H. Ford Mary Jean Frank Esperanza Freund Joseph and Mary Fries Victor and Lynn Fromm Martha Bickett Frost, A‘66 Louise Fowler Gaddie, A‘45 Robert and Maria Galles John Joseph Gallo Jr. Mary E. Garcia Larry G. Gepfrey Judith K. Gerling Karen O’Daniel Gerstle, A‘69 Shirley Hayden Gililland, A‘55 Robert and Mildred Gilles John and Margaret Gladbach Gene and Elaine Glenn, A’66 Tony and Nancy Goetz Jeffrey and Diane Goffinet Mary Sue Goodlett, A‘58 Susanna Gough Robert and Jennifer Grabill Dale and Susie Gray Larry and Paula Gray Carl and Maureen Greenwell Lawrence and Lisa Guenther John R. Guffey Violet Hamilton, A‘54 Jack D. Hamilton Ann Kirk Hardman Paul and Brenda Hargrove Mary Jo Harmon Robert and Debra Harris Dennis and Sandra Harris Marlene Hatfield Karen Hayden, A‘69 Mary Louise Hayden William and Martha Hayden Robert and Patricia Hayes Charlotte Hedges Mary E. Heininger Joseph and Pam Higdon, A’77 Anthony and Mary Higdon Gerald and Judy Higdon James and Joyce Higginbotham Joseph and Yolanda Hobbs Edward Hodskins Emily H. Holloway Joseph and Dorothy Hood Thomas Hosty Michael and Vicki Howard Henry Huckeby John C. Hudnall Robert and Lorene Hughes

A’year or C’year: Mount Saint Joseph Academy/College graduate

Jane Hummel Craig and Marjorie Humphrey Janet Hyde Dennis and Regina Jacobs Esther P. Jansing Benita Payne Jolly, A‘52 Hal and Lynn Jones Anthony Kaelin Carol E. Kane Joanne Kannapel Kim Keenan Frank and Catherine Keene Mary Cecelia Keith Julia Keller Thomas and Donna Kellerman Mark and Diane Kemper Fred and Frances Kirchhoff Knights of Columbus Council #4270 Robert and Pamela Knudson Mary Ann Kollros Nicholas S. Kramerich Clifford and Jean Kreifels Raymond J. Kress Earl Kropp John and Bobbie Laker Joseph and Bernadine Lawler Troy and Mary Legel Glenn and Margaret Leintz George and Rosaline Long Joe Malone James D. Martin Jim and Judith Martin Anna Catherine Mattingly, A‘66 Allen and Sylvia Mattingly David and Mary Kay McCall Rebecca Henderson McCarty, A‘70 Frank and Juanita McCarty John and Carolyn McCarty, A’71 Mark and Karen McCarty, A’74 Frank and Sandra McGrath Robert and Diane McGrew Joseph A. McLiney John and Mary Medley Rev. Joseph T. Merkt John and Cynthia Mesnier Rev. Joseph Mills Kenneth and Phyllis Minton Bernadette Ebelhar Monday, A‘77 Margaret Moorman Jaye Moseley Ursuline Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse Paul and Charlotte Mudd Michael and Linda Munsterman Jeffrey and Edna Murphey Kevin and Donna Murphy, A‘79 James and Clara Nall Patrick and Cecilia Nally Thomas and Lucy Neal William and Cheryl Noel Joseph and Mary Nugent Christopher and Della Oberst Mary Lou O’Brien Raymond E. O’Connor R. and Doris O’Daniel, A‘49 Aloysius F. O’Dell Stephen Odenwald Larry and Melanie Odom-Groh Joe and Larraine O’Donoghue Mary Allison Ogden Carol A. O’Keefe Ernie and Laurine O’Neal Sammy and Sherry Orange David and Vickie Osborne Carl J. Pace Raymond and Laura Paul Linda W. Pennington Debra Petree Thuy V. Pham Kenneth and Maggie Pierson Joe Pimple Michael and Elizabeth Pontarolo, A‘66 William and Joanne Powell Robert D. Purdy Irene L. Quigley Richard Chenard and Lynn Radovich Charles Abert Reid John and Debbie Reiss David and Julie Renshaw Charles E. Reteneller Jeff and Tammy Rice William B. Riney Cleo Roberson

Keith O. Rodolph Aggie Jolly Roehrig Garrick and Frances Rollert Joe F. Roop Jack and Janice Ruopp Saint Agnes Catholic Parish James and Elaine Sanders H. Gary and Patricia Satterwhite Anthony Scaduto Paul A. Scaglione Mark and Eileen Schmelzel Rosa Palazzo Schmidt, A‘51 Joseph and Marilyn Schneller Sara Scully John and Mary Silady Dr. Valentino S. Simpao Martha and T. Mark Sims Donald and Dianna Skeeters Betty J. Skimehorn Mary Paula Skrivan Barbara A. Smiley Richard E. Soenen John and Marie Spies Lloyd and Barbara St. John Gary and Catherine Staton Robert and Lyda Steiert Dr. Roberta Steinbacher Sister Amelia Stenger, OSU, A’67 Bernard Stenger Tom Stewart Robert and Mary Storm Thomas and Sabina Streng Susan Ann Struna, A‘66U Carl Edward Stukenholtz James P. Sullivan Ronald and Cissy Sullivan Richard and Elizabeth Szucs Sister Grace Swift, OSU Rev. Thomas G. Tank Paul and Carolyn Tapp Robert and Lois Tashjian Saralyn and Roger Pierce Taylor Joan Teder William and Marilyn Terry Daniel and Sandra Thomas Mike and Cloa Thompson Mary Ann Thompson Francis and Dolores Thomson, C’50 Mary Ann Thrasher Frances Kay Tichenor, A‘62 Phyllis Thomas Troutman, A‘63 Dorothy Turek Richard and Susan Ubert James and Nadie Vance Owen Vessels Elizabeth A. Vrabac Dorothy R. Walker Elizabeth A. Walker Michele Walsh Dr. W. Dean and Nina Walton Dr. Drew and Jeannette Ward Tom and Rose Mary Wargel Mary Jo Wathen Donald K. Watkins John and Lois Weaver Teresa A. Weaver Robert West Beverly Weyer Thomas and Karen Wheatley Mary Jean Whitledge Carrie Wieder Florence C. Wieder Mitzi Wiesner Debra Wilder William and Ida Willhaus Peter and Sharon Wilson Gene and Pauline Wink Rita Winkelmann Alice and William Moyes Wondra Kathleen M. Wood Patricia Wren John and Kathy Wright Lester and Barbara Wuertz Mary C. Yaeger Agnes M. Yates Joseph R. Young Art and Rosemary Zimola William and Julie Zink Therese Zink Magdalene M. Zybko

FRIENDS.........................$1-99 Anthony and Leah Abang Gary W. Allen Jim Allen George and Della Alleven Monica Armstrong and Donald Kapa John and Patricia Arnett Ruben and Caroline Avila Kenneth and Joan Aylor Kenneth E. Aylor James and Lois Ballard Keith and Martha Baughman Harry and Charlene Baumgarten Kim and Rita Beckman Elizabeth M. Belcher Max and Carol Bell, A’60 Thelma Deloriea Bell Walter and Beverly Beltz Mary M. Benkeser Todd and Christa Bennett Don and Marian Bennett Herman and Elizabeth Berton Evelyn Bertram Barbara Bickerstaff Betty Joyce Bickett, A’49 Ronald and Dr. Beverly Bisig Patricia Bland Claudette E. Borchers Nancy W. Bosler John and Ann Bossing Christel G. Bouldin Eileen M. Bowling Mary Ann Bowling John and Margaret Braun James M. Brennan Marlinda Brown Gerald Browning Bernadette Bryan Lawrence and Joan Buccero Jerome L. Buckley Roy and Barbara Buckman William and Sally Buford, A’64 Sister Elaine Burke, OSU, A’49 Juanita Ann Burke, A’50 Jesse and Brenda Busick Francis and Beatrice Butel William and Betty Byrne, A’69 Carole M. Cada Imogene Caldwell Michael and Virginia Camp Michael and Regina Caplice Jean Carrico, A’65 John and Patricia Carrico Gregory and Vicki Cash Andrea Castellanes Sister Mary Irene Cecil, OSU, A’45 John and Davena Cecil Patricia Centner Justifa A. Chase-Jones Robert and Sue Christian William and Kathy Clements Mike Coakley Edna Mae Cogswell Daniel E. Coleman Lowell and Karen Collard George and Pamela Collignon Ellen Mary Condry James and M. Conrad Larry and Mary Beth Conrad Virginia Lee Corley, A’56 Isabel Crenshaw Timothy and Carolyn Curran Elaine Currier Judith Curtsinger Charles and Kathleen Daugherty Mary Dearing Robert and Brenda Deibel, A’59 Paul and Mary Dentiste John and Lyndia Dew Gerald and Mary Dickerson Therese Dickert Brother Craig A. Digmann David and Charlene Diver Leon and Youko Dowling Ronald and Anne Dugan Debra A. Dugger Donna M. Effinger Michael and Patricia Egan Shirley L. Egan Edmund and Pamela Eglinski

Betty Ellis Craig and Kathryn Elson William and Phyllis Emmick A’68 Kathleen Mattingly Evans Leslie M. Fansler Joe and Dora Farmer Donna Favors and James Coomes Bryan Ferguson Mike Ferguson Sister Angela Fitzpatrick, OSU Rev. Robert B. Flannery Ronald and Karen Flynn Ronald E. Franzen Gary and Jennifer Frey Gertrude M. Frey Thomas Furgason Pat Gallagher Elizabeth Ann Gibbs Vickie Ann Gibson-Groce, A’74 Kathleen M. Gillen Ronald and Nancy Gillespie J. and Mary Gipson Gerald and Margarita Gladbach Penny Goddin Donna Marie Goetz Dale and Debbie Goins Mary H. Gossett Thomas and Virginia Green Jeff and Karen Greenstreet George Leo Greenwell Richard and Kristin Greenwell Bernice M. Gregorio Katrina Greub Vincent and Deborah Grisanti Constance Grossman Josephine A. Guerrant Anthony and Rose Guilfoyle Raymond Hagan Ramona Haire William and Mary Hamilton Louis and Barbara Harbsmeier Kathryn Harding Thomas and Carole Haxton Sue Haycraft Henry and Bernadette Hayden, A’62 David and Emmalene Hayden Andrew and Barbara Haynes Mary E. Hazzard Clinton and Mary Heberlie Nancy D. Hendricks Ed and Dolores Hendrickson Thomas and Valerie Hewlett Denise Heying Beatrice Hickert Laurie A. Hicks Robert and Francil Higdon, A’60 William Higdon Stephen and Barbara Hines John and Susan Hines Robert and Linda Hinton Clorinda Hite Richard Hite David and Patricia Hock, A’69 Jim and Rose Hodgkins John and R. Hoeck William W. Holtz George and Lorna Horishny Marylou Hoskins Martha House Michael Houtchen Charles Howard Phyllis C. Huggins Aurelia A. Inkret James and Dorothy Jackson, A’45 Thomas and Joyce Janssen Raymond and Virginia Jarsulic Todd and Mary Johnson Marie Martain Joseph William and Rose Joyce Bogdan and Jaimie Kaczmarek Anthony and Angela Kaelin Chris and Jennifer Kaminski Risë Danielle Karr Rita McAnarney Keating William Leslie Keene Jr. Herschel and Margaret Keitel Sister Martha Keller, OSU Donald and Mary Jo Kirby, A’63 Edward and Virginia Klein John C. Klein Charles and Virginia Knight Robert and Jeanne Kobler

Ingrid E. Kokinda Chris and Joyce Kormelink Esther Kraft Kroger James and Deborah Kuebler Jim and Mary Kueny Kenneth A. Kure Lorinda K. Lampe Ann Landini George and WaNell Lanham, A’71 John and Mary Jo Lattus Timothy and Pam Lavigne Robert and Mary Leach, A’53 Tina Leslie Thomas and Patricia Lewis Wayne and Katherine Locke Mary Magner Michael J. Maher Jr. Kris Mango William and Rose Mann, A’73 Pedro and Martha Marin M. Katherine Martinovich “Thank You” from Sister Visitor Joseph and Geraldine Masterson Center, an emergency assistance Eugene and Shirley Matney program, in Louisville, Ky. Richard and Carla Matthews Mildred Mattingly Ursuline Sister Maureen O’Neill, Patricia Maupin center, is a caseworker and Sam Mauro Ursuline Sister Michele Ann Wayne and Susan McAllister Jerry and Beverly McCandless Intravia, right, is the director.

Robert and Peggy McCarthy, A’56 Mildred McCarthy Clay and Shirlene Quinn Ralph and Kathleen McCarty Rose Ann Radzelovage Ron and Cecilia McEldowney, A’66 Jared Randolph Joe and Dorris McGrew Madelyn Raska Virginia R. McKeel Jan C. Rasmussen Marjorie A. McLaughlin Justin and April Ray Robert B. McMillen Jr. William E. Rayne John and C. S. McVoy Joseph and Colleen Ressler Donald Oswald and Delores Miller Joseph and Catherine Reynolds Mary Ellen Miller Mike Reynolds Maureen Miller David R. Richardson Patricia Miller Denise Robey Mark and Beth Minotti Rosaline Roby Anthony and Rhonda Mischel, A’73 Sister Martina Rockers, OSUU Thomas and Susan Moloney Lawrence A. Rockers Patrick and Nancy Moran Thomas and Rosalie Rockers Sister Michele Morek, OSU Margie Byrne Rode, A’58 Dorothy Weaver Morrison, A’55 Mike and Elizabeth Rogers, A’70 Jack and Colette Morrissey Barbara A. Rogers Joan Morse Ronald and Sandra Rollheiser Robert Moyer Joe Russell Leon J. Mueller Christopher and Barbara Ryan Gregory Mullican Sacred Heart Church of Hickman, Ky. Mary Amelia Munsterman Mary E. Salmon Mary Nave William and Carole Sanders, A’68 William and Elaine Newkirk Charles and Gail Saunders Diana Newton George and Mary Sawyer James T. Nixon Ernest and Connie Scherman Donald and Joanna Norrenberns Edward and Connie Schickel Don and Donna Oberhausen Mari Schieber Daly J. O’Brien Elaine P. Schmidtberger Edward and Pat O’Connor Joe Schmitt Raymond and Ann O’Daniel Mark Schmitt Sister Cecelia Joseph Olinger, OSU, A’58 Ralph A. Schneider Thomas and Sylvia O’Reilly, A’53 William and Joyce Schneider Rev. Robert E. Osborne Stan and Aurea Schnell Donald D. Oswald Dr. Gregory and Linda Schnose John Owdziej David and Susan Schwerdtfeger Michael and Denise Paul Robert L. Scully Bettye Paulin Diane Selph Darrell and Mary Lou Payne, A’66 Pam Shelton David and Connie Peake Teva Shirley G. Alvin and Helen Peters Patrick and Renee Shoemaker, A’76 Sharon Phillips J. Robert Shrine Charles and Deborah Plummer James and Camilla Shumaker Eugene G. Podrebarac Angela Silberschlag Rosemary Podrebarac Theodore and Mary Sils, A’69 Dean and Carol Portman Meredith Sims Marty and Margaret Ann Posey Robert Slack D. Wayne and Mary-Anne Powers, A’75 Keldon and Anne Smelley Rev. Richard Powers James and Louanne Smith Gabriel Quave

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HONORS

Director of Archives Heidi TaylorCaudill, back row in the center, is joined by some of the Ursulines who have helped in archives.

Jimmy and Tina Smith Mary F. Smith Norbert and Helen Smith Robert H. Sparks Steve and Sandy Stahl Donald F. Steppig John and Annette Stoerman Albert and Sharon Strayhall Margaret Stuart John and Kathleen Swinkowski Phillip and Nancy Tatum James and Mary Ann Taylor Mary Teder John E. Thimesch J.B. Thomas Gary and Joanne Thompson John F. Thompson Maurice and Ursula Thompson Rick and Lizann Thompson Thrivent Foundation Peter Tighe Frances Tomashavich Harold Travis Sr. Kristen Trottier Stephen J. Troutman John E. Underwood Marie T. Underwood Gilbert and Anna Urban, A’65 Amy Vaughn Jon and Angela Verlinde Mary Vetterl Joseph and Susan Vogliardo Mark and Victoria Vukcevich Mary Ford Vuncannon, A’55 Terry and Jeanie Wahl Gary and Linda Wahl Denise Walker Mark and Amanda Walz Frank and Patricia Wanat Gary Warren Sharon Warren John and Doreen Wathen Michael and Martha Wathen Patricia Wathen Steven Siebert and Valerie Webb George and Betty Webster Sister Mary Celine Weidenbenner, OSU, A’62 Larry and JoAnn Weidmann John Russell Weitzel Jeffrey Wernert Susie Westerfield John and Clara Wheatley Joseph Drew Wheeler William and Margaret White Diane Wible Rita M. Wich Henry and Constance Williams Jim and Agnes Williams Albert L. WilsonU Richard and Ruth Wiseman John and Ann Wissman Irene Wittman Clarence A. Woodall III Linda Woosley W. Michael Word Judy Wright Michael and Susan Wright Richard and Eileen Zeitler Stephen and Mary Ziller Mary Joan Zink

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Sister Mimi Ballard, OSU James and Lois Ballard William Leslie Keene Jr. Sister Catherine Barber, OSU Fred and Frances Kirchhoff Sister Mary Timothy Bland, OSU Lawrence and Mary Bland Sister Marie William Blyth, OSU Michael Koechner Nicholas S. Kramerich Sister Joseph Angela Boone, OSUU Dennis and Regina Jacobs Sister Marie Goretti Browning, OSU John and Janet Brandon Thomas and Karen Wheatley Sister Clarita Browning, OSU, A‘47 John and Janet Brandon Thomas and Karen Wheatley Sister Elaine Burke, OSU, A‘49 Juanita Ann Burke, A‘50 Sister Marie Carol Cecil, OSU Michael and Patricia Egan Sister Mary Jude Cecil, OSU, A‘50 Margaret Cimeley Marie Collins Angela Silberschlag Sister Mary Durr, OSUU Suzanne Reiss

Jacob Elder and Family Amy Vaughn Sister Angela Fitzpatrick, OSU Thomas and Donna Kellerman Sister Michael Marie Friedman, OSU, A‘64 Robert and Lois Tashjian Sister Ruth Gehres, OSU, A‘51 Joseph and Geraldine Masterson Sister George Mary Hagan, OSU Robert and Helen Cooper Thomas Hancock Beverly Owen Sister Jane Miriam Hancock, OSU U Suzanne Reiss Sister Julia Marie Head, OSU, A‘60 Joseph and Pam A‘77 Higdon Sister Catherine Kaufman, OSU Walter and Beverly Beltz Sister Mary Elizabeth Krampe, OSU Anoymous Anthony and Angela Kaelin Norbert and Helen Smith Sister Nancy Liddy, OSU Lawrence and Geraldine Durbin Anna Mattingly Patricia Wren Sister Ruth Mattingly, OSUU Robert and Marilyn Beam Mary M. McGlynn Robert and Margy McGlynn Sister Pam Mueller, OSU, A‘68 Mary Lou O’Brien Sister Marilyn Mueth, OSU David and Maggie Bollone Sister Maureen O’Neill, OSU, A‘66 Marie Underwood Val J. Putzier Gary and Joanne Thompson Sister Joan Mary Riedley, OSU, A‘63 James and Clara Nall Sister Teresa Riley, OSU Joseph and Bernadine Lawler Sister Judith Nell Riney, OSU Joseph and Pam Higdon, A‘77 Sister Martina Rockers, OSUU Thomas and Donna Kellerman Saint Agnes Catholic Parish Elaine P. Schmidtberger Sister Grace Simpson, OSU Gia Mudd Sister Suzanne Sims, A’66, OSU Donna Favors and James Coomes Vince and Teresa Edwards Gary and Jennifer Frey Gertrude M. Frey Vicki Frey and David Thompson Jared Randolph T. Mark and Martha Sims Meredith Sims

Delores Turnage

Sister Amelia Stenger, OSU, A’67 Robert and Marilyn Beam Sister Grace Swift, OSU James and Suzanne Kee Rev. John Thomas Steve and Sandy Stahl Mary Teresa Toone Maurice and Ursula Thompson Sister Mary Mathias Ward, OSU Robert and Marilyn Beam In Honor of the Paola Sisters Richard and Carol Baldwin Michael Dunnivan Gary and Judy Freeman 2018 Jubilarians Honorable Romano L. Mazzoli 50th Year Jubilarians Ron and Cecilia McEldowney, A’66 2017 Jubilarians Honorable Romano L. Mazzoli Kansas Sister Jubilarians Mick and Linda Seuferling

MEMORIALS

Jo Ann AaronU Diane Wible Sister Margaret Joseph AullU Robert and Marilyn Beam Daniel and Debbie Smith Sister BartholeneU W. Michael Word Sister Mary BerthrandU Benjamin L. Peine Sister Martin BertruorU Dr. George and Barbara Beard Margaret BickettU Anonymous Max and Carol Bell, A‘60 Tina Leslie Jaye Moseley Gregory Mullican Sharon Phillips Gabriel Quave Sister Marie Bernadette BlandfordU Robert and Marilyn Beam Michael and Doretha Corbett Sister Mary Denise BrownU Robert and Rebecca Brown Rev. Robert E. Osborne Amy BuckmanU Sister Martha Keller, OSU Sister Elaine Byrne, OSU, A'64U Kim Keenan Matthew David Pike Ella Mae CashU Sister Martha Keller, OSU Sister Kathleen CondryU Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Debra Petree Anthony Scaduto Elizabeth A. Vrabac Teresa CrumpU Henry and Bernadette Hayden, A’62 Sister Mary DanielU Mary Ann Thrasher Sister Raymond DieckmanU Frank and Molly Devocelle Elizabeth A. Vrabac Sister DorthyU George and Faye Briel Bart ElderU Sister Martha Keller, OSU Mary Ruth ElderU Amy Vaughn Mary EnglertU Mary Rita Englert Sister Mary EthelU W. Michael Word Sister Mary FidesU John and Clara Wheatly Sister Anita Flaugher, OSUU Don and Donna Oberhausen Mary L. GilbertU Martha H. Ford Sister Jane Irvin HancockU Bobbie Edds Thomas and Jane Hancock Sister Jane Miriam HancockU Thomas and Jane Hancock

Sister Marie Michael HaydenU Jim Allen Charles Howard Anthony and Angela Kaelin Charles and Deborah Plummer Denise Robey Mary Joan Zink Sister Charles Irene HaydenU Carole Cada Sister Mary Sheila HigdonU Mary Ann Bowling Anthony and Mary Higdon Gerald and Judy Higdon HughU and ThereseU Higdon Martha House Mary Nave Kenneth and Maggie Pierson Matthew Rehrauer Pam Shelton Margaret Stuart James and Mary Ann Taylor Mary Jean Whitledge Rita M. Wich Peggy HowardU Dr. Carroll Howard Sister Agnes IreneU Robert and Helen Cooper Ron JohnsonU Michael and Paula Burke Sister KarenU Mary E. Heininger Betty KarlU Dale and Debbie Goins Lorene KremerU Sister Angela Fitzpatrick, OSU Sister Rita LavigneU Harry J. Lavigne Rita Lorraine LukenU Joe Russell Michael J. Sullivan SarahU Ronald and Beverly Bisig SHAU Barbara Bickerstaff Sister Bertha MarieU Patrick and Cecilia Nally Sister Rose MarieU John and Clara Wheatly Sister Merici MattinglyU Dr. George and Barbara Beard Sister Pauletta McCartyU Rev. Michael Crump Mary H. Gossett Victor and Barbara Hagman Louis and Barbara Harbsmeier Philip and Mary Hurley Robert and Mary Leach, A‘53 Frank and Juanita McCarty John and Carolyn McCarty, A’71 Ralph and Kathleen McCarty Mildred McCarthy Keldon and Anne Smelley Dora Ann McCartyU Wayne McCarty Sister Mary McDonaghU Rev. Robert B. Flannery Mary Mcgee MonaghanU Frederic and Sally Floberg Patricia Hackman Diane Selph Francis OlingerU Virginia R. McKeel Sister Mary Judith OsthoffU Barbara Jean Allen and Tom Sheehan David and Jacquelyn Bergman Robert and Karen Burk Bryan Ferguson Mike Ferguson Patricia A. Ferguson Beatrice Hickert Michael Koechner Saralyn Taylor and Robert Pierce Richard Chenard and Lynn Radovich Susan F. Ryan Denise Walker Deceased Sisters of Paola, Kan.U Gary and Judy Freeman Blanche G. PaulU Raymond and Laura Paul Sister Mary Cecilia PayneU Mary Paula Skrivan

Sister Jean Madeline PeakeU Bettye Paulin David and Connie Peake Sister James Marie PfefferU Henry and Constance Williams Rose PoeU Debra Wilder Sister Rose Marian PowersU Jerry and Beverly McCandless Charles Abert Reid Barbara A. Rogers Carrie Wieder Mae Jean RayneU William Rayne Joe and Sue RineyU Donald and Mary Jo Kirby, A‘63 Kelly and Hughleen RineyU Jeffrey Riney Norma C. Robinette, A'54U Rev. Delma Clemons Sister Martina RockersU Anonymous Gerald and Margarita Gladbach Katrina Greub Janet Hyde William and Rose Joyce Donald Oswald and Delores Miller Daly J. O’Brien Carol A. O’Keefe Joseph and Jeanne Passantino Irene L. Quigley Thomas and Rosalie Rockers Ronald and Sandra Rollheiser Thomas and Vicki Smith Gary and Catherine Staton Albert and Sharon Strayhall Gary and Joanne Thompson Elizabeth A. Vrabac Sarah A. Ye Mary E. Ziegler Richard and Eileen Zeitler Sister Joseph Adrian RussellU Michael Egan Debbie A. Smith Sister Mary Henry RussellU Daniel and Debbie Smith Frank Schadler Jr.U Jeffrey Wernert Joseph Schmitt Jr.U Joe Schmitt Joy SchmittU Joe Schmitt Carolyn and Bernard SeitterU Sister Angela Fitzpatrick, OSU Patsy Keller SheltonU Sister Martha Keller, OSU Marjorie Weaver Slack A'53U Robert Slack Sister Francis Xavier SmithU Norbert and Helen Smith Sister Mary Lois SpeaksU Leon J. Mueller Mary Jo Wathen Rev. Jerry SpencerU Anonymous Gary and Joanne Thompson Susan StrunaU James Struna Sister Rosalin ThienemanU Troy and Mary Legel Ron VermillionU Sister Martha Keller, OSU Doris VetterU Willard O. Vetter Sister Joan WalzU John and Therese Allen Patricia Bland Michael and Virginia Camp Victor and Barbara Hagman Kathryn Harding Sue Haycraft James and Dorthy Jackson, A’45 Robert and Pamela Knudson Mildred Mattingly Honorable Romano L. Mazzoli John and Carolyn McCarty, A’71 Paul and Charlotte Mudd Sacred Heart Catholic Church Mark and Amanda Walz Robert West

Judy Wright Rev. Francis WendlingU Sister Angela Fitzpatrick, OSU Sister Mary WhelanU George and Faye Briel Sister Dorothy Marie WillettU W. Michael Word Sister Gabrial Helen WuckonitschU Eileen Bowling Sophia YankoU Sister Angela Fitzpatrick, OSU Robert Harold YatesU Agnes M. Yates

Memorial gift cards are available in our office.

IN-KIND GIFTS Maureen Adams Sister Luisa Bickett, OSU Margaret Boarman Sister Eva Boone, OSU Helen Brown Megan Brown Abby Brown Michele Brown Chris Buskill Janet Carrico Gary Cecil Mary Ruth Clark Becky Clark Conference and Retreat Center Ursuline Sisters Of MSJ Michael and Mary Sue Doran DOMTAR Elizabeth Fitzgerald Margaret Fitzgerald Sally Fitzgerald Mary E. Garcia Rev. J. Raymond Goetz Elaine Grant Sheila Gravely Donna Hager Sister Julia Marie Head, OSU, A‘60 Dan and Sherri Heckel Raymond and Carol Hill Gwen Hromada Ann Jacobs Amanda Jacobs Faye Kirtley Mari Lynn Korte Betty Krapf Merline Long Ellen Marquart Wayne McCarty Laura Mery Sister Cecelia Joseph Olinger, OSU, A’58 Carin Oliver Catherine Payne Merry Peake Jean Person Teresa Reale Bill and Kathy Reid Suzanne Reiss Zella A. Rowe Carolyn Salsman Genevieve Siebert Sister Rosanne Spalding Francis and Jean Steffen Joan Teder Mary Teder William and Marilyn Terry Vance and Debra Webb Cindy Wilson

God Bless You!!!

Why I’m a Friend Who Supports the Sisters...

In this issue in which we honor our supporters from the previous fiscal year, we recognize that some of our dear friends wish to remain anonymous. The stories behind their donations are important to tell as well, so here’s why this “anonymous friend” supports the Ursuline Sisters.

“The Ursuline Sisters were my first exposure to sisters, having attended St. Joseph and Paul Grade School in Owensboro for grades 1 through 5 until my family moved to Bowling Green, Ky.,” he said. He also lived near the Passionist Nuns convent in Owensboro where he was often called on for various tasks, and in Bowling Green he was taught by Sisters of Charity.

He found his way back to Owensboro to attend Brescia College (now University) while his great aunt taught music there.

“I was never much at music, so our paths did not cross much, but as my grandmother’s sister, I suppose she kept an eye on me,” he said. “When she retired to the Mount, I visited her often over the years. She was always so interested in my family and wrote such wonderful letters (which I still have) and was always so appreciative of even the smallest gesture. For instance, she once asked me for postage stamps so as not to burden the convent with her family correspondence.”

Now as an adult and living far away from the Ursuline Sisters of his youth, his relationship with the Ursuline Sisters remains kindled by those sisters who touched his life.

“I can still remember the names and faces of those five teachers in grades 1-5,” he said. When he attended Brescia, two sisters served as mentors to him, the late Sister Martha Ann Cargile, and Sister Joseph Angela Boone, who just died Nov. 11.

“They meant everything to me. They made me feel so ‘special.’ I never wanted to let them down,” he said. There were many other sisters along the way who are important to him, including three presidents of Brescia – Sister Ruth Gehres, Sister Vivian Bowles and the late Sister Joan Marie Lechner.

“I have always tried to find a deserving organization in Owensboro to get the benefit of my donation budget,” he said. “I felt that community meant a lot to my development and it is my way of paying back.”

While he shares his success with Brescia, the Passionist Nuns and the Diocese of Owensboro, supporting the Ursuline Sisters is always close to his heart.

“The key element is that someone who is there touched my life in such a positive way,” he said. “With the exception of the Passionist Nuns, that person was Sister Joseph Angela.”

Would you like to leave a legacy by supporting the Ursuline Sisters? There are many ways to remember the Ursuline Sisters in your estate planning. If you would like to know more, please contact Sister Amelia Stenger at amelia.stenger@maplemount.org.

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“Lord, Teach Us to Pray” topic of Spring Women’s Retreat Sister Cheryl Clemons brings her always popular women’s retreat to the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center on March 15-17, 2019, with “Lord, Teach us to Pray: The Bible and Prayer.” In the gospels, Jesus’ disciples ask that he teach them how to pray. Jesus responds by giving them – and us – the Our Father, described in Matthew 6:5-15 and Luke 11:1-13. However, various biblical stories teach us many other things about prayer. During this weekend, retreatants will reflect on elements of prayer and seek guidance from Scripture and one another. Retreatants will be invited into varied experiences of prayer as well as group sharing, and opportunities for Reconciliation and Eucharist. Thus, the weekend is an invitation to “Come apart and rest awhile” (Mark 6:31) as well as a time to learn more about prayer, all with the goal of improving our communication with the God who longs for loving communion with us. To register, call 270-229-0206 or email retreatcenter@maplemount.org. A brochure can be found at ursulinesmsj.org under Conference & Retreat Center.

Join us for a Contemplative Weekend

Slow down…Catch your breath…Find your calm. The weekend of Feb. 8-10, 2019, Sister Mary Matthias Ward will meet with you, and you will have lots of personal time to journey with God and with self. Spiritual direction is available for those who wish it. Relax and spend time at Mount Saint Joseph. The $180 fee includes meals and accommodations. Call 270-2290206 or email retreatcenter@maplemount.org.

Oh Holy Night...

Merry Christmas from the Ursuline Sisters

Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center is offering a new monthly dinner program in 2019 that will be presented by a priest or a deacon. Relax after your day at work and join us for a meal and a presentation on a spiritual theme. It’s a time to learn...It’s a time to pray... All are welcome!

Wednesday, Jan. 9 Father Ray Goetz will present

Abandonment and Presence in the Gospel of Mark Dinner: 6 p.m.

Followed by presentation which will end about 7:30 p.m.

Cost: $20

To register, call 270-229-0206 retreatcenter@maplemount.org Want to register online?

ursulinesmsj.org /conference-retreat-center/ retreats-and-programs Save these Dates (Second Wednesday) • Jan. 9 • Feb. 13 • March 13 • April 10 • May 8 • June 12 • Aug. 14 • Sept. 11 • Oct. 9 • Nov. 13 • Dec. 11

Office of Spiritual Life for the Diocese of Owensboro