Ten years into this new century, the Sisters of Loretto pause to honor two of its members who joined the order 75 years ago in 1935, and who are enjoying life today. In anyone’s book this is a lifetime of service to God. Sisters Mary Barbara Croghan and Carolyn Mary Tighe are Loretto’s 2010 Diamond Jubilarians. In addition, six sisters are celebrating their Golden Jubilees this year, having reached 50 years in the community. They are Sisters Mary Kay Brannan, Mary Ann McGivern, Pearl McGivney, Roseanne Thornton, Frances Weber, and Mary Catherine Widger. Each of their lifetime journeys is unique, and each sister speaks beautifully about Loretto’s deep personal meaning. Seven Loretto co-members will attain their Silver Jubilee in 2010, or 25 years with the com-munity. They are Jan Marie Belle, Janel Crumb OSF, Severin Duehren OSF, Gordie Albi, Jean East, Joan Wislinsky, and Ethel Mae Siegwald. Their stories will be featured in the upcoming summer edition of Loretto Magazine.

Mary Barbara Croghan SLReceived April 25, 1935 “I was born in Denver on Jan. 22, 1919. At a very early age we moved to Casper, Wyo., and from there to Los Angeles. By this time there were three girls, my father and mother. We were enrolled in the public school system and we were not happy. My parents transferred us to Nativity School in L.A., taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph. At that time I decided that I wanted to be a nun when I became older. But the Sisters of St. Joseph were transferred, and the Sisters of Loretto took over Nativity School. The Sisters of Loretto seemed so happy. We were very poor, and there were so good to us. I graduated from Nativity School, and knew I’d be a Sister of Loretto some day. I completed my secondary education at Loretto Motherhouse Normal, Loretto Heights College, one summer at Creighton University, and many Saturdays at Immaculate Heart College in L.A. Right now I am retired at our Infirmary at the Kentucky Motherhouse doing various and sundry little volunteer jobs that are always around. I have never had the desire to leave, even when teaching became very dif-ficult and changes occurred in Loretto. I believe the only reason I stayed was the power and grace of God, no power of mine. I love Loretto, and that love will, I believe, hold me here.”

Carolyn Mary Tighe SLReceived Dec. 8, 1935 In the 1920s, Carolyn Mary Tighe’s parents obtained 160 acres in Elizabeth, Colo., through a government land-grant program. They moved from their Chicago home to farm this land and raise their children out west. “I was the fourth of eight children. Six girls and two boys. All six girls became nuns,” said Tighe. “We had magnificent parents. We’re anxious to see them in heaven!”

Born in Chicago in December 1917, Carolyn Mary Tighe was 17 when she entered Loretto and 21 years old when she began teaching school, which she did

for 75 years in various assignments from Kentucky to El Paso to St. Louis; Pueblo, Colo.; Kansas City; Bisbee, Ariz.; Los Angeles; and Colorado Springs. She became a

music teacher and choir director. “I did choir for 35 years, and was never without my pitch pipe. I had the kids singing all the time,” she said. Now at age 92, she lives in Colorado Springs, is in fragile health, but praises God every day. “I’m grateful that I got to live with Holy Mass and Holy Communion all my life. God is good. When Jesus says at Holy Mass this is my body and this is my blood, I believe that thoroughly; that it never leaves our body, if we live from him. ‘I am the vine,

and you are the branch.’” From her many years teaching in El Paso, Texas, Carolyn Mary has a favorite saying. “Three words in Spanish: Vaya con Dios (Go with God). Every time I’m on a phone conversation, I like to end it with those words,” she said.

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75th Sisters celebrate a lifetime in LorettoDiamond Jubilee

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50thSisters celebrate a lifetime in LorettoGolden Jubilee

Mary Kay Brannan SLReceived May 31, 1960 Sister Mary Kay Brannan’s lifetime of learning began down home on a 10-acre farm in Topeka, Kansas. “We had pigs and chickens and vegetables. Mother did the farming. Dad was a butter-maker for Meadow Gold. We also grew strawberries,” she said. Growing up on the farm brought her close to her only sibling, her brother, Bob Brannan. They remain best of friends today. “I fell in love with nature when I lived on the farm. We had a pond where we could swim in summer and skate in winter,” she said. “We did chores before we did anything else. I cleaned the house, took phone messages, and then I would cook dinner because my mother and brother were out in the strawberry patch.” Mary Kay met the Sisters of Loretto when her family left the farm and moved to Denver. She attended school at St. Vincent de Paul where the sisters taught at that time. She graduated from Loretto Heights College in Denver and later joined the community. Over the years she taught school in St. Louis and Kentucky, directed a battered women’s project in New Mexico, became a licensed CNA in Denver, and worked for the Loretto Development Office and as a nurse’s assistant at the Denver Loretto Center. “Now I’m in vocational outreach, which is a religious call.” Mary Kay said, “I don’t know what I would have done if I’d not been a Sister of Loretto. Every day has been meaningful. In the novitiate, I heard this little passage that God loves me for nothing, that God’s love is unconditional. I don’t have to prove myself; it doesn’t matter what I do or don’t do. And God is always present, and that if God accepts me like that, then I know that I can accept others as infi-nitely lovable no matter what they appear to be or how they act. In Loretto I have learned who I am as a person, as a human being. And the vows. . . .” She paused, her voice filling with emotion. “It’s just a great life.”

Mary Ann McGivern SLReceived May 31, 1960

“We moved around a lot when I was a child — Chicago, Connecticut, Indiana, Minneapolis. I met the Sisters of Loretto when I was in the eighth grade in Kankakee, Ill. Then, after my freshman year, we moved to Minne-apolis. When I finished high school I decided to enter Loretto. I’m the oldest of seven children. On the day I left for Kentucky it was a school day, Sept. 15, but the whole family drove me to the airport and saw me off to Louisville. Then they went to McDonald’s for breakfast. It was 1959, McDonald’s was very new, and missing a morning of school was extraordinary. So for my siblings it was a very special day. For me, too!

“I began my working life as a teacher in Highland Park, then Denver and Kansas City. In Denver in 1965 I began working with farm workers and saw real poverty for the first time. I moved to St. Louis and worked for the Institute for Peace and Justice. I went to a United Farm Workers Organiz-ing Committee meeting and promised to picket for the grape boycott the next Saturday, but I didn’t show up. Nonetheless, the local organizer asked me to represent the Catholic Church at a press conference. Although I explained that

Sisters Mary Kay Brannan (left) and Marietta Goy visit the Tetons in Wyoming.

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sisters don’t represent the Catholic Church, and I’d only been in St. Louis a month, the organizer couldn’t get anyone else. So I agreed to speak, got press coverage, and lots of recognition. I was deeply embarrassed because I knew I had not even shown up to picket a grocery store. So I promised myself I would show up, I would picket. I was there at Schnuck’s or the 911 Liquor Store protesting Gallo Wines almost every Saturday for four years. That’s where I learned nonviolence, on those picket lines. It’s where I got arrested the first time, too. “Then, in 1977, I was one of seven women who opened the Karen House Catholic Worker (Ann Manganaro was another), and with two other women started the St. Louis Economic Conversion Project. For 28 years I lived at the Catholic Worker and went out to my day job calling for an end to military spending and, for a couple of years, working on the Loretto staff. Most recently I’ve been working with men and women released from prison and meeting with state legislators to tell them about the ways some of their legislation hinders reentry from prison into the community, and, in fact, sets up people with felony convictions for failure. “Loretto is home. I joined this community when I was 17, and my life as an adult has been formed here. The sisters and co-members are my family. We share spirituality, a sense of mission and life together.”

Pearl McGivney SLReceived by the Sisters of St. Joseph, May 31, 1960 Sister Pearl McGivney was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., and educated in Catholic schools, earning a degree in education at Brentwood College and a master’s degree in theology at Manhattan College. She joined the Sisters of St. Joseph in Brentwood, N.Y., in September 1959, and became an elementary and high school teacher. Pearl first met the Sisters of Loretto through Loretto Co-member Mary Jean Friel in January 1972, working with United Farm Workers in California. “In the summer of 1973 thousands of farm workers were on strike in fields of California grapevines,” Pearl said. “From April through August, we moved with the workers from Calexico on the border to Fresno mid-state. When we finally arrived at the harvest in Fresno, Mary Jean and a few young women workers stayed behind in Lamont to finish up work after the strike activities there. I received a phone call that they had been arrested — a dangerous situation since there was a great animosity among police, jail officials, court workers, etc., because of recent strike arrests of multitudes of farm workers.

I called to tell Loretto — Luke [Mary Luke Tobin SL] and Helen [Helen Sanders SL] came to the phone — the community was in Assembly. “Next thing I knew, the Assembly had sent Sisters Cathy Mueller and Ann Pat Ware to California. Mary Jean returned to the Assembly with Cathy and told the farm workers’ story, and Ann Pat said, ‘How can I help . . . anything you want me to do, I’m here and available.’ Next, Sister Penny McMullen arrived on the Greyhound bus and made the same offer. Ann Pat sat for hours day and night communicating our plight throughout the country by phone and helped us break the press blackout we were experiencing. I can still see Penny’s very dry, cracked lips as she participated daily in the hot sun in the fast being undertaken inside the jail and outside by supporters. I thrilled at Loretto Community in action, both at the Assembly and on the strike line in California." In 1982 Sister Pearl transferred from the Sisters of St. Joseph to the Sisters of Loretto. Since 1984 Pearl has been co-director of the Farm Worker Ministry, Inc., in Florida. “In the [intervening years], the spirit moved me . . . from New York to California, to Denver, to Loretto, to Haiti, to El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala . . . always learning more of the presence of God with, in, and through the poor. Loretto as a community became a challenge for me to rediscover the possibility of living faithfully together in community and responding communally to the needs of the times. Loretto gatherings . . . are eucharistic for me and make my community life most meaningful,” she said. “I continue to be overwhelmed by the breadth of commitment and fidelity within the community; and believe we do embody the ‘creative spirit of God, whose grace . . . continues to work in the community as a whole and in each of its members.’ (I Am the Way). Therefore, I embrace the journeying of the future with great expectation.”

Roseanne Thornton SLReceived May 31, 1960 In 1939 Roseanne Thornton was born the oldest of five children and raised in Denver. She attended Blessed Sacrament Grade School and St. Mary’s Academy, later graduating from Webster College in St. Louis. “I became aware of the Sisters of Loretto because I went to Loretto schools all my life,” she said. “I wanted to take care of children. It was just natural. They were a teaching order, so I presumed that was what I would do.” After her novitiate at the Kentucky Motherhouse, Roseanne taught first-graders in different assignments in Ft. Collins, Colo., Highwood, Ill., Kentucky, and again in Denver. Thirty-four years ago she relocated to the St. Louis Center. “I enjoyed coming to this house. I feel like it’s my home,” Roseanne said. In an interview for her Jubilee, Sister Roseanne talked about what her life in Loretto means to her. “I feel like I want to get to know Jesus as well as I can. I want to learn more and more and more. That’s the main thing that keeps me going. I want readers to understand that this whole thing is because of God, and love, because I could never stay at anything like this for 50 years . . . I just want them to know that it’s not me who did it!”

Pearl McGivney SL (left) with volunteers Alicia Hernandez and Marco Fernandez at the Farm Worker Ministry, Inc., Auburndale, Fla.

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Frances Weber SLReceived May 31, 1960 Sister Frances Weber, a native Texan, first came to know the Sisters of Loretto when her mother enrolled her in St. Mary’s Star of the Sea, a K-8 school in Freeport, Texas, run in the 1950s by Loretto. Frances remembers every one of the sisters by name who taught her from third through eighth grade. “My heart was broken when I didn’t get to graduate with my St. Mary’s class because my father was transferred to Thibodaux, La. In Louisiana she attended high school at Our Lady of Mount Carmel. “I wasn’t drawn to the Carmelite sisters,” she said. “They did not have the joy and free spirit of the Lorettos. That love of Loretto never left me.” Frances graduated from high school in May 1959 and entered Loretto in September that year. Frances says the highlight of her religious life was her 25th Jubilee. “There was a celebration in El Paso. For that my parents and sister came down; it was a real milestone. I was in El Paso in 1967

and taught at both Guardian Angel and St. Patrick’s. I decided I’d like to go to art school at the University of Texas at El Paso. I got a degree in teaching of art. Afterward I got a bachelor's degree from the UT School of Nursing.” Her fellow sisters encouraged Frances in her art teaching and nursing. These skills later enabled her to care for her aging parents. Sister Frances is also skilled at creating little clay ornaments she calls “small delights.” These have sold successfully at art shows over the years. In fact, with a year of preparation and the help of her friend from El Paso, Sister Guadalupe, Frances’ first show netted $6,000 in one weekend, she said. “Sister Guadalupe was from Flagstaff, and she was very quiet and shy,” Frances recalled. “One day she said, ‘I can’t believe you’re my friend.’ And I said, what do you mean by that? ‘In the beginning a lot of times I wasn’t accepted because I was Mexican.’ I said I didn’t care if she was purple. The point of the story is that when my parents got sick, Sister Guadalupe chose to move down to help me take care of them. She touched me in a very unique way.” Sister Guadalupe passed away in 2003. Frances said, “The things that have meant most to me about being a Sister of Loretto are the support and love the sisters have given me. And they helped me develop talents I don’t know if I would have recognized if I’d not been in the convent. I think of the friendships I’ve formed — even if we don’t see each other for awhile. When I get together with them, it’s like we never left. Being in Loretto is like being home.”

Mary Catherine Widger SLReceived May 31, 1960 Golden Jubilarian Sister Mary Catherine Widger celebrates her 50th year as a Loretto sister along with members of her class. For Mary Kay, 46 of those years have been spent in religious education working with developmentally disabled children and adults. She came to know the Sisters of Loretto early on. Born in Evanston, Ill., Mary Kay and her sister JoAnn moved with their parents to Denver when the girls were toddlers, and for most of their early education they attended St. John’s Catholic School where the Sisters of Loretto taught. “I decided to ‘join’ Loretto in the fourth grade because I loved the sisters. I thought they always looked like they were having fun, and they all seemed to like each other . . . and I wanted to help God ‘take care of the church,’” said Mary Kay. “I couldn’t get to Loretto fast enough. I wanted to go in eighth grade. Dad said we’d talk about it again in four years.” Mary Kay’s family moved back to Illinois when she was 11 years old, and she graduated from Marywood Catholic High School in Evanston. She entered Loretto in September 1959 at the Kentucky Motherhouse. From 1962 to 1964 she lived in the House of Studies under the tutelage of Antoinette Doyle SL. “Sister Antoinette has always been a tremendous model to me of patient, serene faithfulness,” she said. “She has always been one of those people who is a symbol of what Loretto is to me.” Mary Kay graduated from Webster College in St. Louis and later earned her master’s degree at Cardinal Stritch College in Milwaukee in educating special-needs children. Her first assignment brought her to Denver in 1964 where she taught at All Souls and at Blessed Sacrament. In 1976 she joined the Denver Archdiocese in its program of religious education and nurturing of people with developmental disabilities at all levels. “The SRE program for the archdiocese involves setting up religious education programs in parishes, and tutoring and working with severely disabled people at the Wheat Ridge Regional Center, a state-run facility,” she said. In 1983 she, Sister Sue Rogers and Father Larry Freeman, a diocesan priest active in the Denver SRE, made plans to start a group home for disabled adult women, which opened in 1985. After Father Larry’s death, his twin brother, Father Roland Freeman, asked to assume his brother’s ministry, which he was able to do. Today the Bridge Community operates at full capacity as a permanent residence for eight women. Mary Kay has lived there since 1983. Sister Lydia Peña is also in residence at Bridge. “I am most grateful that Loretto educated me and allowed me to go into special education. There is always somebody to talk to and encourage you. I see the marking of my Golden Jubilee as a celebration of God's care and fidelity. It is not so much about me as it is about God's generosity. Loretto has always been and still is a gift to the Church. I thank God and my community for gifting me with such a wonderful, blessed life.”

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On the road to Jubilee 2012

Loretto moves West from 1830 to 1900, founding 99 schools in territories that were soon to become 13 individual states

By Carolyn Dunbar, Editor

As the Sisters of Loretto answered many calls to provide schools and teachers during the 19th century, their travels into the western territories coincided with — and were an integral part of — the prime force, or “manifest destiny,” that drove this extraordinary period in American history.

The call to educate children defined the Sisters of Loretto from their origins as a Catholic order of religious women in 1812 until the Second Vatican Council sparked significant change from 1965 to the present.

In the 70 years from 1830 until 1900, Loretto’s many teaching missions left a lasting legacy, but how does that legacy influence the Loretto Community today when teaching is no longer its sole focus?

In this edition of Loretto Magazine, you'll read several first-hand accounts from our 2010 Diamond and Golden Jubilarians of their Loretto schooling and its direct effect on their lives, pages 12-14. Also, the Sisters of Loretto have worked with their West African sister community, the Daughters of the Blessed Trinity, to open a new primary school for poor children in Ghana, pages 10-11. A brand-new Loretto home (foundation) has just opened in Faisalabad, Pakistan, which is likely to involve a teaching

mission to the poor, pages 5-7. Current activites of Loretto at the United Nations have purposely engaged children and young students from Loretto academies and colleges in attending conferences to learn about the plight of people in developing countries. Loretto's effort to expose students to difficulties suffered in other parts of the world has opened their eyes, expanded their educational horizons, and given them new tools to spark their future interest in and activism on behalf of others less fortunate, pages 8-9. Today, many donors continue to support Loretto in honor and memory of the sisters who taught them, pages 20-23.

The wide-open frontierIn 1830 the country was still in its infancy, just 47 years after the great War for Independence. And it had been only 24 years since the Lewis and Clark Expedition had returned to St. Louis from its singular journey to the Pacific Ocean. The possibilities for this new nation were wide open, as vast as the western frontier, limited only by the imagination, stamina, and courage of the young Americans who pushed westward. Many families were eager to discover what this new land would hold for them, and what their strong hands and God-fearing hearts could make of it.

Mary Matilda Barrett SL, in her unfinished manuscript One Hundred and Fifty Years, described the daunting emptiness of the American West, alluding to the courage and faith it must have taken for the sisters to brave the unknown, intent on teaching the new pioneers. “The Osage Mission, founded [in 1847] seven years before territorial status was given to the region that is now the state of Kansas, lost in a sea of distance, also knew poverty, the poverty of the frontier, which was outweighed only by the loneliness and the appalling stillness of the boundless prairie, far from all human aid, with no recourse but Divine Providence.”

Appalling stillness. How we, driven by our 21st century stress, may often long for that stillness today — but only given our paved roads, motorized transportation, instant communication, plentiful food, clothing, and shelter . . . or with the knowledge that these are never far from reach. Without these comforts, we, too, might face with fear and trepidation an unbroken sea of grass stretching far beyond an unfamiliar horizon. Would we have been brave enough to walk in the company of hardship, sacrifice, and even death to blaze a new trail and push onward until our mission was accomplished?

Tales from the Osage MissionThe Sisters of Loretto who were living in St. Genevieve, Mo., at the time responded to the call to establish the first “Indian Mission of the Congregation” in St. Paul, Kansas. Mother Generose Mattingly named Sisters Concordia Henning, Bridget Hayden, Mary Petronilla Van Prater, and Vincentia McCool to undertake the frontier mission. The year was 1847, and these women too often found their mission standing inconveniently between the Osage Indians and U.S. soldiers in a fight for territorial dominance. Courtesy of Loretto Archivist Katherine Misbauer SL, the following is information taken from the files of Osage Mission. These are the recollections of Bridget Hayden SL.

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1633 —1812Catholics Settle in America,

Loretto Story Begins

1812 — 1830Loretto Foundation and Early Days;

Moving Beyond Kentucky

1900 —1960Education Efforts Diversify;

First Loretto Infirmary Opens1923: Loretto in China

1960 — 1970Decade of Renewal;

Loretto Studies Guidelines, Governance1960: Loretto in Latin America

1970 —1990New Government Structure;

Loretto Works for Justice/Peace1989: Loretto in Ghana

1990 —2000Co-membership Continues to Flourish;

Loretto and Ecological Awareness

2000 —2012Loretto Leadership Expands;Sister Communities Embrace

2009: Loretto in Pakistan

2012Loretto Celebrates 200th Jubilee!

1830 — 1900Education Mission Expands;

Loretto Pushes Westward

After getting to know her, the Osage Indians at Osage Mission called Mother Bridget Hayden “Medicine Woman.” She established “the Job Room,” a room in the convent set apart for the purpose of taking care of the sick or those affected in any physical way. The Indians frequently suffered from boils and sores of all kinds.

Every morning regularly two or more sisters would spend some hours in the Job Room. They washed and dressed innumerable boils and sores. In addition, Jesuit Father Schoenmakers’ knowledge was invaluable to the community. With his aid, small pox, malaria, and many other physical ills were combated.

A company of soldiers came to rob the Mission. They began to go through the convent building when one of the leaders said to his companions, “Come away, there is nothing here but poverty.” It was true that poverty was apparent everywhere. Within the humble walls of the convent, however, were $7,000 dollars worth of various goods needed to care for all at the Mission. The soldiers did not notice anything.

The sisters has been told by the Jesuit Priests never to show fear either to the Indians or the soldiers. So well did the Sisters observe the counsel, that the Indians were often heard to say, “The sisters are braves.” It was a high compliment to the sisters.

Many new foundationsToday the sisters speak of their foundresses — Mary Rhodes, Christina Stuart, and Ann Havern — who began by teaching the children in Kentucky settlements in the early 1800s. They soon wished to form a new religious community, and with the help of Father Charles Nerinckx, began The Little Society of the Friends of Mary under the Cross of Jesus.

Their purpose was 1) devotion to God and to the honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 2) perpetual contemplation and remembrance of Jesus, and 3) “the propagation of our holy religion by instructing youth and by paying any spiritual or corporal service compatible with the spirit of the institute.” (I Am the Way)

During the 70 years from 1830 to 1900, the Sisters of Loretto were intent on achieving their threefold purpose, carrying out the third purpose with vigor. The impact of their efforts is clearly told at the commemoration of their first 100 years as a religious community. Archivist Kate Misbauer provided this excerpt from the address of Reverend Celestine Brey, AM, STB, delivered on occasion of Loretto’s Centennial Celebration, April 25, 1912. He told the crowd:

As early as February 1832, a colony of six sisters under the leadership of Mother Agnes Hart was sent from Loretto to Long Lick, Breckenridge County, Kentucky, where Father Robert Abell had built for them a new house, which they called Mt. Carmel and where they labored heroically for seven years.

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While today this house is in a dilapidated condition, “Monastery Farm” and “Monastery Ford” and a faithful Catholic people are still there to remind the newcomer of the great blessings that were showered upon Breckenridge County in the balmy days of its early history by the Sisters of Loretto.

To establish a new school, academy, mission home, or convent is to “make a foundation.” Remarkably, the Little Society made nine foundations in the 18 years between 1812 and 1830. Eight of these were in Kentucky, and one in LaFourche, La., which lasted only three years. Between 1830 and 1900 — the period that concerns this article — the sisters founded 99 schools in territories that would become 13 different states. Twenty-five of these were additional schools in Kentucky. Thirty-two schools opened in Missouri, 12 in New Mexico, nine in Colorado, five in Illinois, four in Alabama, three each in Arkansas and Texas, two in Kansas, and one each in Arizona, California, Nebraska, and Ohio.

Each of the 99 foundations had its own unique history of the manner, time, and unique circumstances in which it came into being. Much has been written about these individual foundations, and is worth study. So how do we determine their impact on the people settling the American West? We can start with the numbers. The Loretto Archives in Nerinx, Ky., keeps a record of every Loretto foundation started in 1812 to the present day. Of the 99 schools opened between 1830 and 1900, many lasted for decades, and some more than 100 years. A few of them are going strong today. Some of them did not succeed and closed after a year or two. If you total the years each school was open until the sisters “withdrew,” in the parlance of the Archives, and then add them together, the number of years these schools matriculated students comes to an amazing 4,509. This is a matter of record.

To determine exactly how many students graduated every year from every school is more difficult. Some records exist, others did not survive. We can still get an idea of the impact or influence these schools had, however, by applying some conservative guesses. Suppose, for example, we apply a low estimate to the accumulated 4,509 years the 99 schools were open for business. Say on average, five students graduated from each school for each year it was open. By multiplying five graduates by 4,509 years, an estimate of the total number of students graduating from Loretto schools started between 1830 and 1900 is 22,145. If 10

students graduated from each school for each year it remained open, that’s 45,090 graduates over the 70-year period. Fifteen students per year makes 67,635 graduates, and so on. Most graduates would grow up to raise their own families and develop their own circles of acquaintance, where the influence of their Loretto education would be likely to spread.

These figures are conservative, but one can begin to grasp the number of people educated and influenced for life by the Sisters of Loretto. Moreover, the heyday of Loretto’s educational leadership and strength in the United States was not to reach its zenith until the 1960s.

Sister Mary Lilliana Owens, Ph.D., wrote in “Loretto in Missouri” [1965, B. Herder Book Co., St. Louis] of Loretto's call to teach:

Providence raised the Sisters of Loretto up for the cause of religious education, and placed them in the class and lecture room — one of the most glorious, the most useful, the most important works that God’s providence has ever assigned to any society of women.

Interestingly, this book came out in 1965, the year in which profound changes would rock the Catholic Church and many religious orders, including the Sisters of Loretto — ultimately opening their mission and vision beyond the walls of the classroom to serve the poor and needy and promote peace and justice in many new and different ways. A look at this important time and the changes it brought about will be the subject of a future article in our series Journey to Jubilee 1812-2012.

Loretto Academy in Las Cruces, N.M., was founded in 1879 and educated students for 73 years until it closed in 1943. Illustration by Edith Ann Jaeger SL.

Founded in 1864, St. Mary's Academy has been a top school on the Denver scene ever since. 2010 marks the 146th year SMA has been educating students.This illustration by Pat Patterson depicts the school's third Denver location, which opened in 1951.

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loretto community members to remember

Alma Riggs SL (formerly Mary Eucharia Riggs SL), Dec. 11, 1915 — Nov. 21, 2009On Dec. 11, 1915, Sister Alma Riggs was born Alma Elizabeth to James and Mary Helen Riggs in the tiny town of Chicago, Ky., now Loretto, Ky. She was the sixth of nine children. She entered the Sisters of Loretto on June 24, 1933, taking the religious name Sister Mary Eucharia, which she later changed to her baptismal name, Sister Alma. She made first vows on Dec. 8, 1935, and four years later her final vows. Her 45-year professional career was devoted to teaching elementary school children in St. Louis and Kentucky. Alma died Nov. 21 at the Loretto Motherhouse in Nerinx, Ky., at age 93 and in her 76th year as a Sister of Loretto.

Neysa Chouteau CoL, Nov. 5, 1927 — Nov. 29, 2009Neysa Carol Morrel was born in Macomb, Okla. She graduated from Oklahoma A&M College (now Oklahoma State University) in 1949. There she met Jim Chouteau; they were married in June that year. They lived first in Topeka, Kan., and came to live in St. Louis in 1951. Neysa worked for eight years at American Investment Company and in 1959 began a long career in editing for Webster Publishing Co., which became a division of McGraw-Hill Book Co. After taking early retirement, she and Martha Alderson started a freelance writing and editing business, which they continued for about 10 years. Neysa was editor of Loretto Magazine for 20 years. She became a Loretto co-member in 1984. She had suffered a serious illness for the last three years and died just short of her 25th Jubilee as a co-member on Nov. 29. She was 82 years old.

Sarah Maureen (Maude) Concannon SL, June 6, 1919 — Dec. 16, 2009Sarah Maureen Concannon was born Mary Margaret on June 6, 1919, to John and Sarah Concannon in St. Louis. She was the fifth of seven children. She joined Loretto in 1951 at age 32. In 1952 she received the habit taking the name Sister Sarah Maureen. She soon became known as Sarah Maude, a name that “stuck” throughout her life. Her teaching assignments took her to Houston, Kansas City, Kankakee, Denver, Elizabethtown, and Louisville. In 2003 she moved to the Motherhouse Infirmary where she continued to pray and take action to improve ecological conditions whenever she could until her death at age 90 in her 58th year as a Sister of Loretto.

Betsy Wolf CoL, Mar. 10, 1917 — Dec. 25, 2009A Colorado Springs native, Betsy Wolf lived a long life of devotion and service to the church, especially to St. James Parish in Denver, and to the interfaith group Church Women United. She married William Wolf in the 1940s, and the couple had five children. William died in 1968. Betsy became acquainted with the Sisters of Loretto when her children attended Machebeuf High School in Denver. She and Machebeuf Principal Rosemary Wilcox SL became colleagues and lifelong friends. A co-member for 38 years, she participated in community activities, joining community groups when they were formed and hosting Loretto meetings in her home. Betsy Wolf was 92 years old when she died on Christmas Day 2009.

Mary Jane Sweeney SL (formerly Mary Leontine SL), Oct. 28, 1918 — Jan. 7, 2010Mary Jane Sweeney was born in St. Louis to Martin and Anne Sweeney. She entered the Sisters of Loretto in 1945 at age 27 and took the name Sister Mary Leontine. She made final vows in 1951. Later she returned to her baptismal name. A teacher for 35 years, Jane taught math and business courses in Missouri, Alabama, Illinois, New Mexico, Texas, and for three years in Ethiopia with the Peace Corps. Also, she served as librarian in four Loretto schools and used her administrative skills for the Loretto Staff Office in Colorado and the Loretto Center in Missouri. At the time of her death at the Loretto Motherhouse, Jane was 91 years old.

Robert Leona Edelen SL, Aug. 7, 1913 — Feb. 4, 2010Mary Leona was born in Bardstown, Ky., to Robert and Leona Edelen. She entered Loretto in 1930 at age 17, making first vows in 1932 and final vows in 1935. To honor her parents she took the religious name Sister Robert Leona. Her lifelong career as a music educator, organist, and band director took her to many school and parish assignments in Kentucky, Colorado, California, Illinois, and Missouri. In 1985 she retired from the classroom and choir responsibilities to assist at the Loretto Motherhouse, Nerinx, Ky. She was soon enlisted to form a band with 20 other sisters, performing on feast days and special occasions. At the time of her death at the Motherhouse Infirmary, Sister Robert Leona was 96 years old in her 79th year as a Sister of Loretto.

Margaret Ann “Mimi” Jones SL, May 16, 1916 — Feb. 14, 2010Denver native Margaret Ann Jones was born Amelia Louise to F. Tuvant and Victoria Piquette Tuvant. At age 7, her mother remarried Robert Jones, and the two gave her a loving home. In 1939 at age 23, Amelia entered the Sisters of Loretto, taking first vows in 1941 and final vows in 1945. She took the name Sister Mary Margaret Ann Jones, and became known as “Mimi.” Her teaching career began in El Paso in 1942 and for many years she went back and forth between assignments in Denver and New Mexico. Her latest ministry was teaching at Havern School and living in the Denver Loretto Center for 14 years. In 1989 at age 73, Mimi moved to the Loretto Motherhouse, Nerinx, Ky., and worked in Residence Services as an aide and driver for the Infirmary. She had just celebrated her 70th Jubilee when she died at age 93.

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Anne & Francis AlbinAnne M. VrbickyKathryn & Bernard AmbreMary & Joseph HighlandVincent M. Andrasko Margaret AndraskoDr. Earl BachJudy & Robert AllanAgnes Therese Ballard SLSaundra & Nicholas WinterbergThomas Emerson BallardMargaret Mary & Tom Ballard, Jr.Ellen Barry BallardMary Ann WyrschBenny BallardDeborah A. BallardMary & Bob BanckMary Ann & John H. MillerDeacon Lewis BarbatoMary & Henry ConchaAll deceased members of the Barrett FamilyAnn Barrett SLMarian BayersRaymond L. BayersTheresa BiavaDoris L. BiavaAurore & Philip BoisvertRoland BoisvertMary Boland*Rev. Sally K. BrownMary Grace Boone SLMary & James RogersRev. John Bowe CRCathey S. OttSylvester Bowling SLLucille JaworowskiRev. Kevin M. Bradt SJFrances D. EntwistleMary Roger Brennan SLCatherine & John LinehanShirley Ann BrianAngela & Jerome Booth The Loretto CommunityDomitilla Brown SLRev. Robert E. OsborneRosalie & Bill BrownSharon A. HenryFr. William J. BurchEarnestine Nall

Elizabeth & John FinneganFrances FinneganJohn V. Finnegan Frances FinneganSimeon FinneganFrances FinneganMargaret Ann Finnie SLRobin & Dan WaldMary & Joseph FioriRosemary Fiori SLBernadette Mary Fischer SLWanda & James EdgeE. Ruth Flebbe*Imogene Anspach*Mary & Ethan FonteVirginia & Patrick McGrailAnabel FraassFrank W. FraassMarilyn J. FuchsRichard FuchsCarlotta Lubeck FugazziRonald FugazziPhilibert Fuite SLMary G. MartinezCletus A. GassonDorothy J. GassonJody GatesGeorge GatesMarian Gibbs SLAlice & David CoatsCarol GibsonThomas E. GibsonJosephine Mueller GilbertGermaine G. KnappJean Patrice Golden SLJill & John HillGloriann GoodmanJoan & Eugene DegesMildred GrantDavid GrantAnnie GreenCatherine GreenGondina Greenwell SLElizabeth & William MarinerMatthew Marie Grennan SLFlorence & Lawrence HoranJoan & Charles GrennanPaul Mary Grennan SLJoan & Charles GrennanMargaret GriederGustave GriederBen GutierrezTeresa A. SweetmanJerome GutzwillerLoretto G. Holcomb

Ella & Urban DanielVerlene D. RogalinJennifer Lynn Shields DavisThe Loretto CommunityJim DavisJoan LaurieApolinario H. De Leon, MDCecilia & Armando MataViolet Kathy De NicolaHenry J. De NicolaMichael Mary Dea SLLenore & Nicholas BurckelMary & Keller DearingSharon & James DearingCeline Marie DeSmet SLBarbara & J. D. RippyMary Ellen DintelmannAnn DintelmannNell & John DobrottJean & Edward HurleyMr. & Mrs. Julian Dow, Sr.Sara DowDr. Antonio DowSara DowGeorge DowSara DowA. Yates Dowell, Jr.Marie WarnockVirginia Ann Driscoll SLDrs. Catherine Rock & David RockMary & John DullaYvonne D. HardingJoseph Wayne DunbarJanice N. DunbarChristopher DuvallFrances Pauline MattinglyThomas Walsh EalyAnn E. LawrenceCharlotte Ann Ell SLLenore & Nicholas BurckelJames W. Lynch Carolyn & James RussellMary & James RussellRosalie Elliott SLElena & Bill O’ConnellMargaret Grace Elsey SLRuth T. BillingsMary Ely SLMary Ann SullivanRose Anne Farman SLAnne L. ChandlerHonore RoatMy FatherMary Van Becelaere

Mary Elizabeth (Betty) ByrnesJoan & James CostelloJoan Campbell SLDawn Dorsey-SmartClarice Carlson SLDrs. Catherine Rock & David RockCharles R. Carpenter Virginia A. CarpenterCharles R. Carpenter, Jr.Virginia A. CarpenterJosefa Marie Casares SLMary G. MartinezGertrude CaseyThe Loretto CommunityEdward J. CassillyPatricia & Dallas EdwardsChamberlain parents, sister, brother and all deceased family membersCarl ChamberlainChristina Cheng SLHelen Walsh*Josephine ChewDr. Helen Chew & Dr. Mark HendersonChiaraDr. Clare D. Heyne Neysa Chouteau*Patricia BarrettBetty Connor*Jane CutlerJeanne & Robert FranklinBarbara Light*The Loretto CommunityBetty Obal SLMarita Woodruff*Deceased members of class of 1964, Loretto Academy, Kansas CityDiane BoosJane Winburn CloseMary Jane & Charles McCarthySarah Maureen Concannon SLBetty & Robert Concannon Karen A. JarboeJean CryorRosemary Fiori SL The Loretto CommunityMary McAuliffe SL

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Memorials and Tributes of Honor

October 2009 — January 2010

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Throughout this list of Memorials and Tributes, an asterisk ( *) following a name indicates that person is a Loretto co-member.

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Clarence GutzwillerLoretto G. HolcombHenry HaganMaria J. CodinachLarry HaganKaren Cassidy* The Loretto CommunityGeorgianna HamiltonMary & David HamiltonHammett & Nathe FamiliesMr. & Mrs. John F. HammettBarbara HandTheresa CannonWalter HarperKaren Cassidy* The Loretto CommunityCatherine HartCatherine & Leroy EllgassIrene & Charles HaskellSue & Russell HaskellJoyce Voss HeckHenry W. HeckMarian Alberta Hensgen SLMarianna D. FinchStephen HerrmannDian P. WildingWard HolcombLoretta G. HolcombAlban House SLDeanna M. LargerLarry JonesThe Loretto CommunityBernard V. JonesFaye JonesRichard A. KaneMarie L. KaneNina & Milt KassingNina K. BryansMichael A. CurtsEileen Kelly SLMichael A. Curtis Rita Kennedy HillFrancis Eileen Kelly SLMichael A. CurtisRita Kennedy HillKienstra & Glick FamiliesMary & John GlickVictoria & Michael KlebbaIrene BugdalskiMadeleine Marie Koch SLCatherine & Paul CzyszKatherine Therese Kohl SLPhyllis Lapee FellinWilliam W. Kranz Eileen KranzVictor B. KroegerJean ClaryRuth & Kenneth FraserDonna & Richard HorreeIBM CorporationCo-workers of Alan KroegerLoraine & Michael LaveryGene Miller & Cheryl VanaErin & Clay NapierMargaret A. LallyMartin LallySally LangThe Loretto CommunityEstelle Le Mire Molly Markert

Winifred & Edmond LeachCarol A. SeligFr. Larry LeePatsy & Woods MartinWallace LeeOlga LeeMargaret LegettSarah M. LegettBette LeschEdward D. LeschPaschalita Linehan SLLouise BereznyElizabeth & Dennis BoesenMary & Jim BruceKatherine L. CarleyTim & Kathy FarrellElla & Edmund HeilmeierAlice Jane LinehanGenevieve A. MastalerMarjorie* & Robert* RiggsHelen Clare SillstropKaren & Stanley WaltonEleonore WinecoffHarry B. LittellRebecca M. LittellLoretto: All Sisters of Loretto who taught in Sterling, Ill.Tom SullivanLoretto: All deceased members of the Sisters of LorettoMonica & Daniel O’SheaLoretto: All of the sisters who taught meTerri & Richard MeredithLoretto: The sisters from Loretto Academy, Kansas City, Mo.Sharon A. BlockLoretto: Sisters who taught at Loretto High School, Louisville, Ky.Doris & Joseph WalshLoretto: Deceased members of Loretto Heights College, class of 1943Frances FinneganAlice Ann Love*Joy & Roman GalesMary & Ed MaddenJohn J. ErgerLoretto Anne Madden SLRosemary A. LebererTheresa Madden SLRosemary A. LebererMary Mangan SLEmma Lee ChiltonRichard FoxMary Joan KennyMarie & Robert MarkowskiFrank ManganaroThe Loretto CommunitySister MargaretMary C. CusackJoan Markley SLCynthia A. MartinQuino E. MartinezMary G. MartinezMary Joanne Butler MarxAnn Mary MehlingJ.R. Mattingly FamilyJoan & Joseph Burke

Wanda M. MaximilienThe Loretto CommunityJerome Francis MayerJudith & J. Terry McIntireKathleen L. McAteeH. William McAteeEdwin Mary McBride SLCynthia L. Giguere-UnreinMargaret G. CouvillonSusan & Christopher CongaltonMillie Forster McBrideFrances & John LewisMarguerite & Bob McCormackRoberta McCormack HardingMr. & Mrs. Gerard McEvoyPatricia A. KablerFrances de Sales McGarry SLM. Virginia MayJohn McGuireRichard H. DoranFrances De Chantal McLeese SLCorrine KuesterOzella MeredithTheresa & Dennis VertreesJoAnne MeyerJanice N. DunbarMarguerite R. MilfordMarguerite AllanAlicejane & Reg MillerMary Ann & John H. MillerAlbert MillerMrs. Albert H. MillerBill MinelliSally MinelliLarry MitchellPatricia MatteJane Fitzsimons MolgaardMary Ellen & Allan MolgaardPat MollDr. Dick MollYancey C. MooreJohn O. Moore, Sr.Dolorine Morrison SLCarl ChamberlainAnn Mueller SLLinda & Robert MuellerMonica MuellerRobert J. MuellerCharles MulhallAlice O. MulhallJohn MurphyThe Loretto CommunityRose Catherine Murray SLBeth & James DoranRichard L. NallEarnestine NallLoretto NemethRichard D. ClarkDeceased members of the Newton FamilyHelen C. TeterGenevieve & Edward NicholsMary Ann & Gayle RogersRobert F. NoeViki Noe & John ChikowTimothy P. O’LearyKatrina O’LearyMary Naomi O’Meara SLJudy & Robert Allan

Francis Jane O’Toole SLMarian BrennanBetty Wilson ScheenRuth Mary Olszewski SLEdward W. OlszewskiThomas B. OsborneViola F. OsborneMary Ethelbert Owens SLJulia C. GonzalesAll deceased members of the Hazel Padgett & Carl Nett FamiliesLaurel & Phillip PadgettJoseph F. PentonyCarole G. PentonyGeorgia PeterMary Lou ShermanAnna & Robert PhilippNancy & Fred SchweigerAnn Monica Pierce SLCarol & Lawrence McDanielJudith & Anthony PianaKaelin & William RybakMarguerite & Leo PolaccoLeanne A. PolaccoRoberta Marie Pospischil SLDorothy J. SigmanMary Pinckney PowellMargaret Ann Hummel, SLPatricia Hummell, SLStephen PurcellTheodore A. Borrillo Marion & Robert BudzMary Ann & Eugene BurdickPatricia & James DolanMaureen Flanigan & Bradley BucknerMarie & Joseph Gamarano, Jr.Jean, Carol Jacques & FamilyThe Loretto CommunitySally & Thomas MayJean & Joe McDonaldCarolynn & John MilekMarianne & Paul O’ConnellJo Ann* & Larry PurcellDorothy & Roland SauveMary Katherine & Peter SavarieDiane & Harry SchreiberHelen & Gary SmithLinda Kay TolandVicki Quatmann SLAsherah CinnamonSandra Smith QuinnThe Loretto CommunityToni WaltersRita M. QuistDonald QuistHelen RabideauAlice L. KnutsonJean Louise Rafferty SLMr. & Mrs. Galen Graham Sarah & Antonio JimenezMargaret Reidy SLJean & Michael ReidyJoseph J. ReuterSusan & John ReuterLael RichardsLarry M. O’ShaughnessyHattie RichterHeloise R. Murray

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Aggie RiegerFrank A. RiegerAlma Riggs SLSondra T. SimmsFrancis Louise Ritter SLClaire & Jerome NixMichael Ryan Helen Ryan KindlerAnn Lucille Ryan SLLynn Crowley Joan & Paul ShefferAnna & Harry SailorsJane & Donald ReimanHelen Sanders SL Helen W. Walsh*Elva SantopietroThe Loretto CommunityPatricia SatterwhiteAnn Francis Gleason SL The Loretto CommunityLarry ScheopnerThe Loretto CommunityLouis F. SchlicherJane M. SchlicherPatricia Clancy SchuergerThomas R. SchuergerMarian & Fred SchweigerNancy & Fred SchweigerJennie Filippone SeditaJennie & Philip LemanJim ShanahanThe Loretto CommunitySam J. Sharpe, Jr.Gertrude M. SharpeJoan SharpenCarolyn Jaramillo*Ann Rita Sheahen SLCatherine & Leroy EllgassDr. Loren Sigman IIDorothy J. SigmanMagdalen Mary Skees SLMary M. HargadonJayne Miller Joseph P. MulrooneyJane & Bud SmithAlice Jane LinehanNorma Carmen SouzaEduardo SouzaMichael J. StaceyMarilyn L. StaceyMary Ellen StilesJeanie & Matthew Stiles

Bernadette SubironsBronwyn C. YoungGloria SullivanLoretta FelderhoffEloise SummersMary & Robert TapscottSusan SummersThe Clifford, Dostal & Walker FamiliesJane Sweeney SLVirginia & Henry BredeckJosephine M. TabacchiGloria W. TabacchiCarl R. TannerKathryn G. TannerLucy Thompson SLBetty & John KnappAnn Virginia Tighe SLMargaret & James BischofMary Luke Tobin SLKay MullenMary L. NoonanCarol & John RadovichCora & Orville TrainorJane TrainorGeralda Trainor SLJane TrainorMary Susan TruittLucy A. WeissBryce Curtis TurnerSuzanne D. AlleyMary Daniel Turner SNDThe Loretto CommunityValerie Usinger SLJudith & Anthony PianaAileen VanDerBeck Ann E. MullallyAnn Patrice Wagner SL Dr. Ann StoddardFlaget Waller SLMary Jamboretz Mr. & Mrs. Samuel K. WasaffMargaret & Dan CarpenterHelen & George WhatleySharon & James DearingBill WheatThe Loretto CommunityDeceased members of the Wheatley FamilyMary W. MyersVirginia Williams SL Emma Lee ChiltonJoan R. WilliamsGlenn D. WilliamsJosepha Wiseman SLMary Wiseman RoscoeBetsy Wolf*Evelyn Houlihan SL Jane Kosters*The Loretto CommunityTrinidad C. YbarraMary & John YbarraDr. Mark Young Luciana & Arthur YoungMary Ann ZgietVictor J. ZgietRobert ZoellerThe Loretto Community

Pauline Albin SLKaelin & William RybakSandra, Josephine, Lucy, Marianne and Patrick Alpers, and his parentsMarianne & Patrick AlpersMichael C. AndersonMary Sue AndersonLupe Arciniega SLMirta & Julio RamirezSandra Ardoyno SLH. William McAteeBarbara Ann Barbato SLRichard FoxAll living members of the Barrett FamilyAnn Barrett SLAll our patients, especially M. Becker & A. MullerCecilia & Armando MataMary Beth Boesen SLDr. Rita L. DonDr. Jeffrey E. & Janice Purcell Brower, Eleanor R. and Lucy C. BrowerJo Ann* & Larry PurcellMitsuka BudeVernell RogersMary Rhodes Buckler SLWarren BucklerEdwin T. RichardMargaret & John VeatchCarol Nemeth ClarkRichard D. ClarkDenise Ann Clifford SLFrances & Tim Arnoult Priscilla & Michael O’Leary Rosemary & Jack OliverToni WaltersDenise Ann Clifford SL, for her birthdayMargaret Rose Knoll SLRosemary & Jack Oliver† Alice Cochran*Madonna McGrathMichaela Collins SLJoan SchlueterElizabeth Ann Compton SLDiane D. NelsonBetty Connor*Regina SmithBarbara & Richard CookJoan & Mark ParrisAbby, Lionell & Leo Jr. CruzElenita & Leonard CruzPatricia Cullen SLElizabeth & Leon BachmanDonna Day SLAngeline KinnamanEugene DegesJoan M. DegesMarian Disch SLJoan K. DonnellyAntoinette Doyle SLSusan & Christopher Congalton Cynthia L. Giguere-UnreinCarol Dunphy SLJackie Crawford

Lois Dunphy SLJackie Crawford† Robert Leona Edelen SLMary C. CusackWanda & James EdgeBarbara & Joseph Pawley Marie Ego SLNancy & John Colvin Tess MalumphyAnn B. SalterMargaret EgoAnn B. SalterDenise L. ElderSally MinelliTodd G. & Laura Purcell Ellis, Luke M. EllisJo Ann* & Larry PurcellValerie De Nicola EnglehardtHenry J. De NicolaVirginia Fetters SLMargaret C. ShieldsPeggy FisherkellerJoEllen FisherkellerIrene J. FitchLee Giacolletto & Kenneth FitchFr. John Gibbons Frances FinneganAnnie GleasonAsherah CinnamonMarietta Goy SLMary & Glen Goy Mark A. HinueberJeannine Gramick SLEileen E. BurgessMary Alice CroninVincent GiegerichThomas J. MonteleoneChristine V. NusseRyan Ignatius PrattEllen & Harry RaddayRichard R. RivardMary & Richard Rock Mary & James RussellDolores M. ZygowiczElizabeth GreeneLaurie & Charles PetersonMary Katherine Hammett SLMr. & Mrs. John F. HammettJoseph D. HighlandMary A. HighlandRita Maureen Hurtt SLCeleste & Richard VoylesJean Johnson SLCynthia A. MartinCecily Jones SL Jackie CrawfordBetty StandifordKienstra & Glick FamiliesMary & John GlickRobert Kirchner, Jr.Mary Ann & Leo KirchnerBeatrice Klebba SLJustine & James DouglasThe Klingen FamilyRita L. KlingenAnna Koop SLArthur Carbonell, Jr.Kay Lane SLClaudette LoPorto SL

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time between the date the donation was received and publication of this edition.

Jennie Sedita LemanPhilip LemanLoretto: All Sisters of Loretto for their devotion and dedicationRita Kennedy HillLoretto: All Sisters of Loretto who taught in Sterling, Ill.Tom SullivanLoretto: In thanksgiving for the years the sisters taught meVerlene D. RogalinLoretto: All living members of the Sisters of LorettoMonica & Daniel O’SheaLoretto: The sisters from Loretto Academy, Kansas City, Mo.Sharon A. BlockLoretto: All the sisters who taught meTerri & Richard MeredithLoretto: The sisters in Nerinx, Ky.Jeanne & Christopher BarnesLoretto: Sisters at the Denver Loretto CenterMinnie & William DissLoretto: Loretto Heights, class of 1966Beatrice & Jeffrey HahnKaren Madden SLKathleen & Thomas HansenRosemary A. LebererPatricia Jean Manion SLJana L. ClarkKathryn Fischbach Rae Marie TaylorMarian McAvoy SLRosemarie & John VoelkerMary Ellen McElroy SLElizabeth & William MarinerCarole & James MooreMary McNellis SL (formerly Sr. Mary Cornelius)Laverne & William SaxburyThe R. Q. Metzler, Jr. FamilyKatherine & Denis McInernyKevin MillsBill RobertsonCathy Mueller SLMrs. Germaine G. KnappJane Frances Mueller SLLinda & Robert MuellerRobert J. MuellerRobert J. MuellerVeronica M. Murphy*Clara Ellen StoneLiving members of the Newton FamilyHelen C. TeterAlva NicholasBeatrice SennMolly O’ShaughnessyLarry M. O’ShaughnessyRosie Orblom & Drew Strickland WeddingMarie Joann Rekart SLFamily & friends of Laurel & Phillip PadgettLaurel & Phillip PadgettLiz Perez SLSusan Geersen & Joanna Duenas

Rosalie Marie Phillips SL Barbara J. McCarvilleElaine Prevallet SL† Wanda M. MaximilienCarol Ann Ptacek SLCynthia A. MartinVincent P. & Bettina M. Purcell, Nicholas M. PurcellJo Ann* & Larry PurcellCharlotte RabbittPeggy & Dennis RabbittMarie Joann Rekart SLCarol & Donald Brunnett Mae McFarrenMaryjo & John PritzJane Marie Richardson SLBillie Chandler Diana SnellRonald SandsLinda Sands JenkinsAnthony Mary Sartorius SLCynthia A. MartinVirginia St-CyrBarbara Schulte SLLynn & Nicholas DavisAgnes Ann Schum SLEleanor & Trevor BegleySusan Geersen & Joanna DuenasNancy & Fred SchweigerNancy & Fred SchweigerDr. Greg A. & Patrice Purcell Secora, Ryan N., Conner J. and Molly K. SecoraJo Ann* & Larry PurcellJeffrey A. & Denise Purcell Smith, Tyler J., Courtney E. and Claire M. SmithJo Ann* & Larry PurcellJoan Spero SLCarole & James Moore Marlene Spero SL Lynn & Nicholas DavisMargaret & John VeatchMary Swain SLMargaret & Alan MillerAlice Eugene Tighe SLElizabeth & William MarinerLinda & Charles Winston Kathleen Tighe SLClaudette Lo Porto SLPatricia Toner SLElizabeth & William MarinerKathleen Vonderhaar SLElizabeth & William MarinerLucy D. Walsh*Sarah WalshBeverly S. WarnockMarie WarnockIda Marie Weakland SLMary Lou WeaklandLiving members of the Wheatley FamilyMary W. MyersAnn White SLMelissa & William GunterInez & J. David WhiteMargaret & George WhiteSandra & Thomas TokarskiRosemary Wilcox SLMadonna M. LaneRuth Ann ZookJohn M. Zook

In Memory of:Requested by:Neysa Chouteau*Cabrini Bartolo SLMary Elizabeth Bundy*Elizabeth Ann Compton SLAngela Mary Murphy SLVeronica M. Murphy*Vera E. ThomasNancy Wittwer SLIrngard MahlingCarol J. Colligan*Steve PurcellThe Thomas Merton Group

In Honor of:Requested by: Terri BreenGabriel Mary Hoare SL Helen CameronTherese A. Stawowy*Kay Carlew SLPatty Frohlichstein Marie Patrice Hoare SLGabriel Mary Hoare SL Tom HoranGabriel Mary Hoare SL Tom JonesTherese A. Stawowy*Joan McRobbieTherese A. Stawowy*Motherhouse CommunitySusan Classen* JoAnn Gates*Lou ReimersTherese A. Stawowy*In gratitude of the work of Sisters of LorettoThomas M. RauchMarie Lourde Steckler SLPatty Frohlichstein Patrick VanderTuinCarol J. Colligan*Carina Vetter SLDoris J. Pittman Barbara Wander*Therese A. Stawowy*Ann WatsonTherese A. Stawowy*

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