October 7, 2010 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • Religious Jubilarians 19 Setting Is Perfect for ‘Women & Spirit’ o matter where you turned on the open- ing tour of the “Women & Spirit: Catholic NSisters in America” exhibit on Ellis Island, an exciting piece of history waited to be explored. This story of women religious in the United States fitted neatly into a vibrant 2,500-square- foot display, brimming with some 70 artifacts shared by religious congregations across America. Look there and see the wicker cradle from the doorway of the New York Foundling, where infants whose mothers could not care for them found the caring hands of the Sisters of Charity of New York. Or over there, where a copy of Robert Louis Stevenson’s verse sent to Mother Mari- anne Cope of the Sisters of St. Francis, who cared for those suffering from Hansen’s disease, or leprosy, on Kalaupapa, Hawaii. Or at the case containing the begging bell of the Dominican Sisters of Ami- tyville that once chimed a call to almsgiving. It isn’t just the sights, which included video in- stallations and photographs, but also the text that told the story on curved maple panels. Near the top were words such as charism, postulant and apostolic communities, along with their defini- tions, which will be familiar to those in religious life and to their Catholic school students of many generations. The exhibit, sponsored by the Leadership Con- ference of Women Religious (LCWR), has already been mounted in several venues across the coun- try, including the Smithsonian Institute in Wash- ington, D.C. The local committee in New York is headed by Sister Carol Barnes, S.C., director of mission integration at the New York Foundling. Sister Mary Hughes, O.P., LCWR president, said at the opening reception Sept. 22 that the display could not have found a more appropriate setting than the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, which will host it until Jan. 22. “We stand in the company of the spirits of thousands and thousands of immi- grants who entered the United States through this building,” she said. As the immigrants settled in America they were often assisted by women religious who passed Chris Sheridan through Ellis Island as immigrants, arriving with in need. “You have your ear close to the heartbeat THEIR STORY—Top, sign above entrance welcomes little but willing to share all of themselves in of the Church, and this exhibit shows that,” he said. visitors to gallery of Ellis Island Immigration Mu- service to others, according to the needs of their Before joining a number of religious sisters in seum, the setting for “Women & Spirit: Catholic time, Sister Mary said. cutting the ribbon to officially open the exhibit, Sisters in America” exhibit. Above left, women reli- Archbishop Dolan, in remarks to the sisters the archbishop promised the crowd gathered at gious from the New York area enjoy an opening day before they toured the exhibit, said that a “unique the opening reception that they were in for a treat. tour Sept. 22. Above right, panel tells of American charism” of women religious is that they seem to Catholic sisters who were killed while serving out- possess an “in-built radar” to find and help people (Continued on Page 29) side the United States.

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Marist Brothers Sisters Servants 50 Years care and resident priest at Terence Car- Brother Edward Breslin, F.M.S., dinal Cooke Health Care Center in Man- of Mary 60 Years taught at Our Lady of Lourdes High hattan, 1994-2009. He earlier had been a Brother Hugh Andrew, F.M.S., has School, Poughkeepsie, and St. Agnes missioner in Kenya, serving as pastor of served as director of admissions at St. Boys’ High School, Manhattan, and was two parishes there before returning to the 60 Years Agnes Boys High School, Manhattan. He school treasurer at Mount St. Michael United States in 1991 to do development Sister Elizabeth Rivera, S. de. M., has was assistant principal and a teacher Academy, the Bronx. He also served work. He studied for the priesthood at been serving in the Bronx for the past 21 at Archbishop Molloy High School, Bri- as assistant superintendent of schools Maryknoll Seminary in Ossining and was years where she lives the congregation’s arwood, Queens, and also served as a for the Archdiocese of Newark, and in ordained in 1985. motto, “I was sick and you visited me.” principal in Miami, Fla., and a teacher teaching and administrative positions She has also been assigned to serve at in Kobe, Japan. He resides at the Marist at Marist schools in Florida. He resides convents in California and New Orleans. community in Roselle, N.J. at Marist community in Miami. Order of Friars She completed her novitiate in Medellin, Brother Robert James, F.M.S., taught Brother Bartholomew Boscia, F.M.S., Minor, Holy Name Colombia. at Mount St. Michael Academy, the taught at Archbishop Molloy High Sister Herminia Lugo, S. de. M., en- Bronx, and was a principal, assistant School, Briarwood, and was director of Province tered religious life in Mayaguez in her na- principal and teacher at Marist schools religious education at St. Paul the Apos- tive Puerto Rico. She trained as a nurse in New Jersey. He resides at the Marist tle parish in Queens. He resides at the 50 Years in Kansas and began to care for the sick community at Mount St. Michael. Marist community at Archbishop Molloy Father John Alderson, O.F.M., campus and dying in their homes there. She later Brother Augustine Landry, F.M.S., High School. minister at a high school in Buffalo. served in Los Angeles before coming to supervised construction at Marist Col- Brother Rene Roy, F.M.S., was a Father Anthony Carrozzo, O.F.M., a the Bronx in 1996. She continues to visit lege, Poughkeepsie, and taught at St. principal and teacher at Marist schools spiritual director at the Franciscan Center the sick and provide physical and spiritu- Agnes Boys High School, Manhattan, in Wheeling, W.Va., and has served for Spirituality and Spiritual Direction in al care to those who are ill or near death. and Cardinal Hayes High School, the as co-director of the Marist Novitiate Manhattan. Bronx. From 1968 to 2003 he was direc- and president of Central Catholic High Father William DeBiase, O.F.M., serves tor, board chairman and teacher at the School in Lawrence, Mass., where he at province’s soup kitchen in Philadelphia. Marist Brothers International School, serves as vice president for mission ef- Brother Fintan Duffy, O.F.M., retired at Sisters of the Kobe, Japan. He resides at the Marist fectiveness. He also served for many Holy Name Friary, Ringwood, N.J. community at Mount St. Michael. Resurrection, years at Our Lady of the Sioux Church, Bishop Capistran Heim, O.F.M., has Brother William Lavigne, F.M.S., Pine Ridge, S.D., and at Marist Brothers served as bishop of the Prelacy of Itaituba, Castleton-on-Hudson taught at John S. Coleman High School, School in Rwanda. He resides at a Marist Brazil, for 22 years. Kingston, and at Marist High School, community in Lawrence. Father Joseph Hertel, O.F.M., director of Bayonne, N.J. He has been a pastoral as- St. Anthony’s Guild, East Rutherford, N.J. 60 years sociate at parishes in New Jersey and in 70 Years Father Richard Husted, O.F.M., St. Bo- Mother Dolores Stepien, C.R., is the West Virginia. He is director of a Marist Brother Paul Urban Phillipp, F.M.S. naventure parish, Allegany mother general of the Sisters of the Res- Brothers retirement house in Miami. Brother Norbert Rodrigue, F.M.S. Father John Kull, O.F.M., St. Anthony urrection. She has served for the last Brother Robert Leclerc, F.M.S., Brother Victor Serna, F.M.S. Friary, Butler, N.J. 24 years at the sisters’ motherhouse in taught at Cardinal Hayes High School Father Miguel Loredo, O.F.M., St. An- Rome, Italy, first as the assistant supe- and Mount St. Michael Academy, the thony’s Friary, St. Petersburg, Fla. rior general for six years, and then as the Bronx, and Our Lady of Lourdes High Maryknoll Fathers, Father Ronald Stark, O.F.M., Holy Name superior general for past 18 years. She School, Poughkeepsie. He resides at the College, Silver Spring, Md. also served as provincial superior of the Marist community at Mount St. Michael Ossining New York Province of St. Joseph; and di- Academy. 25 Years rectress of postulants and directress of Brother Donald Richard, F.M.S., was 50 Years Father John Heffernan, O.F.M., St. Fran- novices for the province. a teacher and athletic director at Marist Father Alan J. Ryan, M.M., a native of cis parish, Triangle, Va. Sister Antoinette Nowiesielskie, High School, Bayonne, N.J., and Christ the Bronx who was reared in Brooklyn, Brother Joseph Kotula, O.F.M., Mt. Ire- C.R., is stationed in New Jersey. She the King High School, Queens. He was studied for the priesthood at Maryknoll naeus retreat center, West Clarksville taught at St. Joseph’s School in Pough- principal and a guidance counselor at College in Glen Ellyn, Ill., and Maryknoll Father Kenneth Paulli, O.F.M., chief of keepsie, as well as other schools in the St. Mary’s High School, Manhasset, and Seminary in Ossining and was ordained staff, Siena College, Loudonville archdiocese. She also taught in the Dio- also taught in Massachusetts. He is the for the Maryknoll Fathers in 1960. He first Father Francis Pompei, O.F.M., found- cese of Albany and the Diocese of Tren- finance officer and a teacher at Roselle served as a missioner in Peru, doing pas- er of Franciscan Mystery Players, a youth ton in New Jersey. Catholic High School, Roselle, N.J., and toral work and serving as a teacher at a ministry now operating in more than 10 resides at the Marist community there. parish in Puno, 1963-1970. Beginning in cities. 50 Years Brother Kenneth Robert, F.M.S., is 1971 he did development work for Mary- Sister Joan Walsh, C.R., a Yonkers na- a teacher, guidance counselor and ath- knoll in Buffalo and later was director of tive, was the principal of Maria Regina letic director at St. Mary’s High School, the society’s development house in Hous- Redemptoristine High School in Hartsdale, 1967-1986, and Manhasset. He served for many years ton. Over the next two decades he sup- also was a teacher there, 1967-1971. She as director of Camp Marist in Center ported Maryknoll’s development work in Nuns, Esopus more recently served briefly as director Ossipee, N.H., where he is director of several cities, including New York, and of the school’s alumnae association. She counselors in training. He resides at the worked in the mission promotion depart- 60 Years was the provincial superior of the Eastern Marist community in Manhasset. ment in the Northeast region, 1998-2002. Sister Mary Anne Reed, O.Ss.R., has Province of St. Joseph, 1986-1992. She Brother Martin Ruane, F.M.S., taught Now retired, he continues to serve in de- served at the cloistered Mother of Per- also taught at St. Clemens Mary School at Mount St. Michael Academy, the velopment and at the Maryknoll House of petual Help Monastery in Esopus since it in Manhattan and St. Francis School in Bronx; Archbishop Molloy High School, Prayer in Lourdes, France. was founded in 1957. She was one of six Newburgh, where she later was an of- Briarwood; and at Marist high schools sisters sent to establish it as the order’s fice assistant. She was administrator in New Jersey. He also spent 10 years 25 Years first monastery in the United States. The and chief executive officer of Resurrec- at the Marist Brothers missions in Libe- Father Ronald L. Green, M.M., serves monastery is located on the property of tion Nursing Home, 1992-2000. In 2004, ria and in Cameroon. He resides at the as administrator of a parish in Worcester the Redemptorist Fathers’ Mount St. Al- she returned to the Provincial Home at Marist community in Roselle, N.J. in the Diocese of Albany. In the archdio- phonsus. Previously she had been sta- Mount St. Joseph, Castleton-on-Hudson, cese, he was assistant director of pastoral tioned at monasteries in Ontario. where she continues to serve. October 7, 2010 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • Religious Jubilarians 21

Dominican Sisters Move Forward and Never Look Back Of Sparkill ish, Manhattan, of which she was a co- founder. She was a patient advocate for By Sister Maryann Summa, O.P. Dominican Sisters Family Health Services, 50 Years 1976-1977, and a teacher in the Bronx at eeks flow into months, months turn into Sister Mary Burke, O.P., formerly Sister Msgr. Scanlan High School, 1973-1976; years and before you know it, you find your- Thomas Catherine, is the director of the Cathedral High School Annex, 1970-1973; self wondering how 50 years could pass by Adult Learning Center in New Rochelle. Aquinas High School, 1966-1969; and St. W so quickly. When I look back on all that transpired She was the director of St. Rita Center at Martin of Tours, 1964-1966. She taught at Roosevelt High School, the Bronx, 1989- St. Gregory Barbarigo, Garnerville, 1963- since becoming a Dominican Sister of Sparkill, I rec- 2003, and did retreat and youth work in 1964, and St. Agnes, Sparkill, 1962-1963. ognize that the seeds of my religious vocation were Brooklyn, 1975-1988. She was a teacher Sister Patricia Keating, O.P., formerly nurtured through the example of my parents. Expres- at Msgr. Scanlan High School, the Bronx, Sister Kevin Michael, is a former president sions of faith were part of my parents’ daily life. Both 1972-1975; Thorpe Secretarial School, attended Mass each morning and would end the day of the congregation. She has served in Sister Maryann Manhattan, 1964-1966; and St. Gregory Charleston, S.C., since 1997 and is the di- saying the Rosary together. Their example of faith was Summa, O.P. Barbarigo, Garnerville, 1963-1964. rector of Neighborhood House there. She always there before us. Sister Rose Marie Duchesne, O.P., for- was congregation president from 1988 to When I started school in St. Brendan’s in the Bronx, I merly Sister Francis Miriam, is a teacher at 1996, and served on the executive team had the example of the Dominican Sisters who were wonderful teachers. We Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx. from 1984 to 1988. She was a teacher were well prepared for the sacraments, learned to diagram the most complex She served at St. Helena Commercial High at St. Anthony’s, Nanuet, 1962-1965, and sentences and were pros at mental arithmetic. But above all we witnessed the School as principal, 1996-2001, and as a also served in St. Louis. uniqueness of the sisters’ lives. They were deeply joyful; a certain peace and teacher, 1978-1996. She was a teacher Sister Elizabeth McLaughlin, O.P., for- happiness radiated from them. Their example continued when I attended at Msgr. Scanlan High School, 1973-1978, merly Sister Grace Edward, is a parish min- Aquinas High School in the Bronx. The sisters were an important part of our and St. John Chrysostom School, 1962- ister at St. Benedict’s in the Bronx. She was student life and it was here at Aquinas that I first considered religious life. 1973, both in the Bronx. a pastoral minister in Harlem, 2000-2002, Since saying yes to that calling, I have been blessed with many experi- Sister Jane Carmel Dwyer, O.P., is a and a teacher at Aquinas High School, the ences and have encountered many fine people who shaped the person I resident of Siena Hall Infirmary in Sparkill Bronx, 1976-2000 and 2002-2004; Alber- am today. As with many of our sisters, my ministry experience began as a and assists with local community service. tus Magnus High School, Bardonia, 1968- teacher. To this day many of my students, now adults with families of their From 2003 to 2007, she was a staff mem- 1976; and St. Anthony’s, Nanuet, 1962- own, remain in contact with me. It is a blessing to know that I played a ber of the Spirit Alive Program at Domini- 1964. She also taught in Brooklyn. small part in their lives. The ministry of teaching led me to the ministry of can Convent, Sparkill. She was a teacher Sister Ellen Joseph Moore, O.P., is school administration, which I found enriching and challenging. at St. Anthony’s, Nanuet, 1984-2003; Most serving as a hospital chaplain in the Dio- Precious Blood, Walden, 1969-1971; and St. cese of Rockville Centre, where she pre- After 26 years in education, I was elected to our leadership team first as John Chrysostom, the Bronx, 1962-1965. viously served as a pastoral minister and treasurer and then later as president. This ministry allowed me to directly Sister Marilyn Fallert, O.P., formerly Sis- a teacher. She was a pastoral associate serve our sisters and be a part of their daily lives. I was able to work with ter Teresa Rose, is serving in the Archdio- at St. John the Evangelist, Centerville/ other communities in collaborative efforts which hopefully fostered a bet- cese of St. Louis, where she served through Saugerties, 1980-1982. She was principal ter understanding of the wonderful works that religious are involved in. most of her ministry except for 1962-1967, of St. Columba’s School, Chester, 1973- This ministry, coming to an end at the time of this writing, has brought when she taught at Cardinal McCloskey 1980; assistant principal of Our Lady of many blessings once again in the form of people. As I prepare to move on Home and School in White Plains. Grace, the Bronx, 1972-1973; and a teacher to a new ministry at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, I do so with Sister Kathleen Gallagher, O.P., former- from 1962 to 1972 at St. Vito’s, Mamaron- a sense of gratitude and peace for all that has been and with prayerful an- ly Sister Patrick Edwin, is a psychologist eck; Sacred Heart, Suffern; St. Anthony’s, ticipation of what is yet to come. Each experience has been an opportunity in private practice. She was a psycholo- Yonkers; and St. Brendan’s, the Bronx. to learn and to grow and I thank God for the blessings I have received over gist for the archdiocesan ADAPP program, Sister Catherine Naughton, O.P., for- the years. These past 50 years have been blessings that bring with them the 1974-1990, and was a psychiatric aide at merly Sister Mary James, is director of strength to continue to move forward, never looking back. New York Hospital in Manhattan and Polly the senior outreach programs at St. Bren- Sister Maryann Summa, O.P., is celebrating her golden jubilee with the Do- Miller Day Care Center, the Bronx, 1972- dan’s parish, the Bronx. She was a staff minican Sisters of Sparkill. 1974. She taught at St. Joseph’s, the Bronx, member of Dowling Gardens, Sparkill, 1969-1972; St. Christopher’s, Red Hook, 1995-2002. She was a parish minister 1965-1967; and St. Rose of Lima, Manhat- at St. Philip Neri, the Bronx, 1972-1975; a Sister Bridget Edward, is presently a pas- tant to the vice president for administra- tan, 1963-1965, and did child care work at teacher at St. Rose of Lima, Manhattan, toral minister in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, tion and finances at St. Thomas Aquinas St. Agnes Home, Sparkill, 1962-1963. 1968-1972, and St. Anthony’s, the Bronx, where she has served in various minis- College, Sparkill. She served as congre- Sister Elizabeth Graham, O.P., formerly 1963-1965; and did child care work at St. tries since 1974. Earlier, she was a teacher gation president from 2000 to 2010, and Sister Matthew Ann, is an administrative Agnes Home, Sparkill, 1962-1963. She also in St. Louis, in Brooklyn, and at St. Rita’s, from 1988 to 1996 she was on the execu- assistant at St. Brigid School, Manhattan, served in Brooklyn. the Bronx, 1962-1965. tive team. She was business manager for after serving for many years at Cathedral Sister Bernadette Nonnon, O.P., for- Sister Margaret Riordan, O. P. , former- the Ursuline Provincialate, 1996-2000. High School, Manhattan. She was prin- merly Sr. Bernadette Marie, is a registered ly Sister Rose Patrick, is coordinator of the She also was the principal of St. Antho- cipal of Cathedral, 1999-2008, assistant nurse who is the coordinator of health supply room at Aquinas High School, the ny’s, Nanuet, 1974-1988, and a teacher principal, 1986-1999, and she also taught services for the congregation. She served Bronx. She was a teacher at Visitation, there, 1971-1974, and at St. Helena’s, the there from 1971 until she left the school as a nurse at Aquinas High School, the the Bronx, 1995-1996; Holy Name, New Bronx, 1962-1966. in 2008. She also taught at Thorpe Secre- Bronx, 2000-2001; at Siena Hall Infirma- Rochelle, 1988-1995; St. Vito’s, Mamaron- Sister Phan Vu, O.P., formerly Sister tarial School, Manhattan, 1967-1971; Most ry, Sparkill, where she was the director, eck, 1974-1986; St. Paul’s, Valley Cottage, Jeanne D’Arc, is presently living at the Precious Blood, Walden, 1966-1967; and 1988-1999; Calvary Hospital, the Bronx, 1967-1971 and 1973-1974; St. Catherine Dominican Convent in Sparkill. She pre- Sacred Heart, Suffern, 1963-1966, and 1984-1988; and Albert Einstein Hospital, Laboure, Lake Katrine, 1971-1973; and St. viously served the Vietnamese people in did child care work at St. Agnes Home, the Bronx, 1983-1984. She was a teacher Helena’s, the Bronx, 1962-1965. She was a various posts in the United States as an Sparkill, 1962-1963. at St. John Chrysostom, the Bronx, 1974- teacher’s aide at Central School Children’s interpreter, bilingual teacher, and social Sister Elizabeth Hasselt, O.P., for- 1981; Most Precious Blood, Walden, 1971- Center in Purchase, 1986-1988. worker and did resettlement work in Man- merly Sister Lawrence Marie, has served 1972; St. Columba’s, Chester, 1965-1970; Sister Maryann Summa, O.P., formerly hattan, 1981-1986. She was a Catholic since 1977 as executive director of Encore and Sacred Heart, Suffern, 1962-1965. Sister William Edith, is a former president school teacher in Saigon, Viet Nam, 1962- Community Services at St. Malachy’s par- Sister Maureen O’Toole, O.P., formerly of the congregation. She is now the assis- 1975, before coming to the United States. 22 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • Religious Jubilarians October 7, 2010

Maryknoll Sisters helped start a vocational rehabilitation assigned to Tanzania, where in 1975 she Daughters of training center for physically challenged joined other Maryknoll Sisters in start- Divine Charity 50 Years adults. In 1991 she returned as a nursing ing a pilot project in education with the Sister Luise Ahrens, M.M., is a former assistant at Maryknoll Nursing Home for goal of fostering self-reliance. She also 70 Years president of the Maryknoll Sisters. Elect- four years then served 12 years in south- was involved in women’s development Sister M. Concepta Petresky, F.D.C., ed to the post in 1984, she served for six ern California. She returned to ministry in and basic Christian communities. Now taught in Manhattan at St. Stephen of years. She holds a doctorate from Ford- Taiwan in 2008. part of the Emusoi Center in Arusha, she Hungary School and on Staten Island at St. ham University and received the universi- Sister Maura Flaherty, M.M., served teaches oral English to Maasai girls pre- Joseph Hill Academy Elementary School. ty’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1985. in Guatemala where she taught at a paring for secondary school. She served on the staff of St. Mary’s Resi- She was a teacher in Maui, Hawaii, and Maryknoll middle school for girls and Sister Joseph Lourdes Nubla, M.M., dence in Manhattan. The native of Beth- then was assigned to Indonesia in 1973 did catechetical work. She worked with was assigned to Hong Kong where she lehem, Pa., also taught in Michigan, New where she was a professor at the Provin- Guatemalan refugees in Concordia, Kan., worked at Maryknoll Hospital as super- Jersey, Indiana and Connecticut. cial University of West Java. Assigned to in 1985, and then served in various offic- visor of the purchasing department and Cambodia in 1991, she helped re-estab- es at Maryknoll. She is a companion for director of fund-raising. She also served 50 Years lish the Royal University of Phnom Penh, medical trips at the Maryknoll Center. as secretary for the Archbishop of Hong Sister M. Josita DiVita, F.D.C., a na- and continues to assist the English lan- Sister Margarita Jamias, M.M., was Kong and for the PIME Fathers. Currently tive of New York City, taught in New Jer- guage program and the university library assigned to Nicaragua in 1974 where she she volunteers at the Mission for Filipino sey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania before and collaborates in planning reform of did pastoral work with basic ecclesial Migrant Workers which helps empower joining the faculty of St. Joseph Hill Acad- the national higher education system. communities. She also has served in the migrant workers faced with various kinds emy on Staten Island in 1969. She served Sister Patricia Ann Arathuzik, M.M., Development Department at Maryknoll. of abuses. She interprets and accompa- in various positions of community leader- was assigned to South Korea in 1969 and She returned to her native Philippines in nies them to immigration and labor of- ship, including provincial superior, and is served there for 16 years in child health 2001 and now serves at the Sisters Eco- fices or to court. now on the staff of the community’s re- programs, a public health clinic office logical Center in Baguio City. She also is Sister Rae Ann O’Neill, M.M., was as- tirement facility on Staten Island. and in a home visiting program. As- chairwoman of the Association of Wom- signed to Shinyanga, Tanzania, where she signed to Cambodia in 1993, she assisted en Religious for Baguio-Benguet. taught in a commercial institute for eight in medical work and taught English. She Sister Anne Marie Kiley, M.M., has years. From 1974 to 1978 she served in 25 Years was secretariat supervisor at Maryknoll, served in Bolivia since 1966. She was the office of the Permanent Observer Sister Almaisa Brito, F.D.C., is adminis- 1994-2000, and coordinator of the Mary- first a primary teacher and also su- Mission for the Holy See at the United trator of St. Mary’s Residence in Manhat- knoll Retirement Community in Monro- pervised religious education. Next she Nations in Manhattan. She worked with tan. Born in Brazil, she served as a teacher via, Calif., 2002-2007. She is again secre- worked with Quechua indigenous people Basic Christian Communities in Mexico and principal in schools staffed by the tariat supervisor at Maryknoll. at high altitudes for nine years, then in an City and then in the Maryknoll Communi- Daughters of Divine Charity there. She Sister Susan Baldus, M.M., was as- urban setting in Santa Cruz. Since 2001 cations Office, 1982-89. Since 1990, Sis- served as a volunteer at St. Joseph Prov- signed in 1964 to South Korea, where she has been doing pastoral work in Rib- ter Rae Ann has been in Guatemala and ince on Staten Island and served on the she helped set up an occupational ther- eralta, Beni. now serves as part of a team dedicated staff of St. Joseph Hill Academy there. apy department at Maryknoll Hospital Sister Julia Kubista, M.M., served in to the development of women’s work in in Pusan. She also helped to establish Tanzania as a secondary school math the Diocese of San Marcos. a center to assist physically challenged teacher for seven years and then as a Sister Michelle Reynolds, M.M., was Ursuline Nuns, young women. She served on the congre- member of a pastoral team among the a first-grade teacher at Transfiguration gational orientation team for new mem- Maasai people until 1970. She did par- School in Manhattan’s Chinatown, 1968- New Rochelle bers and as coordinator of the Eden Com- ish work in West Concord, Minn., in the 1972. She was assigned to Hong Kong munity of elderly and ill sisters. She is a 1980s and now serves in Kansas City, where she has served as parish admin- 75 Years coordinator of the Rogers Community at Mo., where she is helping establish a pri- istrator and has worked with the elderly Sister Kathryn Fitz-Gerald, O.S.U., Maryknoll. vate association of the faithful to evan- and done pastoral work in various par- taught French at The Ursuline School Sister Martha Bourne, M.M., was an gelize in Vladivostok, Russia. ishes. She is presently the supervisor of in New Rochelle from 1935 to 1977. She elementary school teacher in Chicago’s Sister Eugenia Lorio, M.M., was as- a Catholic school in the New Territories. holds a bachelor’s degree in French from Chinatown before being assigned in 1967 signed to Guatemala in 1969, where she Sister Eileen Schwenk, M.M., earned the College of New Rochelle and a mas- to Hong Kong, where she taught in pri- was part of a diocesan leadership train- a master’s degree in pastoral counseling ter’s in French from Fordham, with a mary schools for eight years. She then ing team for women in Huehuetenango. at Iona College. Assigned to the Philip- certificate in theology from Providence served six years as manager of the Mary- In the Diocese of San Marcos she taught pines, she worked as a nurse supervisor College and a certificate in oral French knoll Sisters Communications office in natural medicine to health promoters. at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Manapla, Ne- from the Institut Catholique in Paris. She New York. She returned to Hong Kong Recently she finished a term as co-coor- gros Oriental. She also served as teacher also was a volunteer teacher at Blessed and worked with the Union of Catholic dinator of the Rogers community at the for Indochinese refugees in the Philip- Sacrament School in New Rochelle, 1972- Asian News for five years and also helped Maryknoll Center. She is a medical mas- pines, and as a hospital chaplain. She 1974. She resides at Andrus on Hudson. Vietnamese asylum seekers in detention sage practitioner at Maryknoll. currently conducts training workshops in centers. She serves as the coordinator Sister Lelia Mattingly, M.M., who has therapeutic touch, an alternative healing of government entitlement benefits pro- a nursing degree from Cornell University, method, for the sisters. grams for the Maryknoll Sisters at Mary- was assigned to Bolivia in 1971 where Sister Nenita Tapia, M.M., taught Presentation of the knoll. she trained health promoters in the chemistry and supervised a religion pro- Blessed Virgin Mary, Sister Anastasia Marie Connor, M.M., jungle settlements of Cobija. Next she gram in Cochabamba, Bolivia. She was known as Sister Nancy, was assigned worked with the Aymara peoples in the assigned to Bandung, Indonesia, in 1975 Staten Island to Bolivia in 1967 where she ministered high mountains. She also did health and where she taught and headed the sci- to factory workers. She later became a pastoral ministry in La Paz in the 1990s. ence/chemistry department at Catholic 60 Years nurse’s assistant in the rural highlands She later worked in a Latino community University in West Kupang. Returning to Sister Rosemary Ward, P.B.V.M., is of the Bolivia-Peru-Chile frontier. Since in Kentucky, and for the last four years her native Philippines, she served as a the congregation leader of the Presenta- 1984, she has lived and worked in a neigh- has been working on immigration issues campus minister. Besides serving in sev- tion Sisters of Staten Island. She served borhood founded around basic Christian with Borderlinks, an organization based eral congregational positions at Mary- as treasurer, 1982-2006. She also was communities in the city of La Paz. in Tucson, Ariz., and Nogales, Sonora, knoll, she has been active in vocation a principal on Staten Island at Our Lady Sister Louise Elling, M.M., was as- Mexico. work in the Philippines where she now Queen of Peace School, 1969-1986, and signed to Taiwan in 1968, where she Sister Maureen Meyer, M.M., was resides. St. Clare’s, 1986-2004. October 7, 2010 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • Religious Jubilarians 23

Sisters of the Divine worked there as an English teacher, 1983- School, Tuckahoe, and also does volun- Parish Visitors of 1986. Before that, she worked with children teer projects for the school and parish. Mary Immaculate, Compassion, at St. Dominic’s Home in the Bronx. Since She taught at St. Clare’s Academy, Mount 1987, she has been at the Academy of Our Hope; Mount Loretto, Staten Island; St. Monroe White Plains Lady of Good Counsel High School, serving Joseph’s School, New Rochelle; and St. in various capacities as an English teacher, Catharine’s, Pelham. 60 Years 60 years a counselor and as head of the Guidance Sister Mary Cepha, P.V.M.I., served Sister Celesta Kelley, R.D.C., has been Department before becoming principal. 50 Years in the archdiocese as coordinator of re- an office assistant at John F. Kennedy Sister M. Rose Jerome Kenlon, O.S.F., ligious education at Blessed Sacrament Catholic High School, Somers, since 2003. 70 years is minister for the East Coast Region of parish, the Bronx, 1977-1979. She did She was a teacher at Our Lady of Mount Sister Freda Burns, R.D.C. the congregation. She was assistant prin- family visitation and religious education Carmel, Elmsford, 1953-1959, and at St. cipal of Holy Name School, New Rochelle, at a parish in Rome, N.Y., from 1987 to Joseph’s, Croton Falls, 1956-1959. She was 1995-2009, and a teacher there, 1983- 2006 where she also served from 1966 a science teacher at Preston High School, 1995. Earlier, she taught at St. Elizabeth’s to 1970. She performed similar service at the Bronx, 1959-1968, and at Pace Univer- Sisters of St. Francis and St. Aloysius schools at Mount Loretto, a parish in West Haven, Conn., 1979-1986 sity, 1968-2003. of the Neumann Staten Island. She resides in Tuckahoe. and 1954-1963. During the earlier tenure Sister Margaret Elizabeth Keogan, Sister Mary Imelda Nolan, O.S.F., is she served the Archdiocese of Hartford R.D.C., has been a teacher of grades seven Communities, sacristan at the Immaculate Conception as religious education coordinator and and eight at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Hastings-on-Hudson Convent in Hastings-on-Hudson. After as a television producer. She was supe- School in Elmsford since 1962. She taught retiring from teaching in 1987, she did of- rior of a convent and religious education at St. Bernard’s in White Plains, 1953-1962. fice work for the Salesian Mission Office coordinator in Raritan, N.J., and also did 60 Years in New Rochelle. She served as assistant family visitation and religious education 50 years Sister M. Rosaire Miraglia, O.S.F., a to the general secretary, switchboard op- at a parish in Scranton, Pa. She retired in Sister Janet Meehan, R.D.C., formerly former general minister of the commu- erator and assistant to the moderator. She 2006 and now resides at Marycrest Con- Sister Mary Leonard, is chairman of the nity, 1983-1986, serves at Holy Trinity par- was a teacher at St. Catharine’s, Pelham; vent in Monroe. Art Department and a teacher at John F. ish, Poughkeepsie, as the Caring Program Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pelham Man- Sister Marian Corinne, P.V.M.I., has Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers, coordinator. She taught at St. Catharine’s or; and Our Lady Star of the Sea, Staten cared for infirm sisters at Marycrest Con- where she has served since 1967. She also School, Pelham, and Our Lady of Perpetual Island. vent, Monroe, since 1976. Before that, has served as coach of the Kennedy girls’ Help, Pelham Manor, 1952-1957. She then Sister Rose Marie Mullen, O.S.F., who she provided religious education at St. track team. In 1990, Sister Janet received went to St. Elizabeth’s at Mount Loretto, is a nurse, is the historian at St. Francis Anastasia’s parish, Harriman, 1975-1976, the Gannett Westchester Coach of the Staten Island, where she became child Hospital and Health Center, Poughkeep- and Sacred Heart, Monroe, 1974-1975, Year Award; she has also received the Lac- care director, director of the girls’ division sie, where she had previously served for where she was sacristan, 1971-1974. ey Award from the Rhode Island School of and then superior. In 1979 she transferred many years as a nurse. Her positions in- She did family visitation at Holy Trinity, Design. Her first assignment was teaching to St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, cluded operating room supervisor and di- Poughkeepsie, 1974-1975. She also did math and art at Preston High School, the where she was named to its advisory rector of materials management, and she religious education and family visitation Bronx, 1965-1967. committee on aging, and later did pasto- did pastoral care and chaplaincy service. at Holy Family, New Rochelle, 1965-1966, Sister Mary Ruth Murphy, R.D.C., ral care work. Earlier, she served in the Boys’ Infirmary and St. John’s, the Bronx, 1963-1965, and has been a teacher at Our Lady of Mount Sister Mary Robert Bernet, O.S.F., is a at Mount Loretto, Staten Island. She also at parishes in Brooklyn, Rome, N.Y., West Carmel School, Elmsford, since 1991. She volunteer at St. Teresa of Avila parish in has served her community in various ca- Haven, Conn., and Exeter, Pa. was a first- and second-grade teacher at Sleepy Hollow. Earlier, she taught at St. pacities including moderator, vice presi- St. Mary’s Elementary School in Katonah, Clare Academy, Mount Hope; Immacu- dent and member of Nazareth Nursery, 1965-1969, and taught at St. Frances de late Conception, Tuckahoe; Our Lady and as member of the General Council. Chantal School in the Bronx, 1969-1991. of Perpetual Help, Pelham Manor; Holy Sisters of the Sister Patricia Sheridan, R.D.C., has Name, New Rochelle; and St. Elizabeth’s been director of the RDC Center for Coun- at Mount Loretto, Staten Island. She also Catholic Apostolate seling and Human Development in White taught religion at St. Joseph by-the-Sea Franciscan Sisters (Pallottine Sisters), Plains since 2008, while also serving as High School, Staten Island. She taught at of the Atonement— Monroe administrator and health services coordi- Christ the King, Yonkers, 1991-1992, and nator at Good Counsel Convent. She taught then at St. Catharine Academy, the Bronx, Graymoor, Garrison at St. Anthony of Padua in West Harrison, and at Archbishop Stepinac High School, 75 Years 1965-1966, then taught elementary grades White Plains. 75 Years Sister M. Ermelinda D’Agostini, at the Academy of Our Lady of Good Coun- Sister Ann Murtagh, O.S.F., is a volun- Sister Jerome Kelliher, S.A. C.S.A.C., arrived in the United States in sel Elementary School, White Plains, 1966- teer at the Clove Lake Healthcare and Re- Sister Brendan Rooney, S.A. 1936 and, after professing final vows, 1970. She served at Our Lady of Sorrows hab Center on Staten Island and an active she was assigned to St. Patrick’s Villa Elementary School, White Plains, first as a fund-raiser for breast cancer research. She 50 Years in Monroe, where she spent many years teacher, 1970-1976, then as principal, 1976- taught elementary school at St. Clare Acad- Sister Denis Marie Koi, S.A. of active ministry in service to the other 1985. She went on to be coordinator of the emy, Mount Hope; St. Catharine’s, Pelham; Sister Paul Marie Gouthro, S.A. sisters and guests of the villa. In her free Career Options and Education program at St. Eugene’s, Yonkers; Immaculate Concep- Sister Alessandra Sciaboletta, S.A. time, she crocheted sweaters, hats and Calvary Hospital, the Bronx, 1985-1989; tion, Tuckahoe; and Our Lady of Loretto, other items for babies and children. a social worker at St. Agatha’s Hospital, Cold Spring, where she also was principal 25 Years Sister M. Victoria Capaldo, C.S.A.C., White Plains, 1989-1992; and a clinical so- for one year. From 1977 to 1990 she was a Sister Denise Robillard, S.A. was a teacher for 38 years until 1975, cial worker at White Plains Hospital, 1992- principal in Pennsylvania. She then began when she became principal of St. Pat- 2000. volunteer service at the Mission of the Im- rick’s Academy in Harriman, a position maculate Virgin, Staten Island. In 1996, she she held until 1988. She then served as 25 years joined the administrative staff of Commu- School Sisters of St. librarian and moderator at a school in Sister Carol Peterson, R.D.C., who is nity Resources on Staten Island and held a Francis, Milwaukee New Jersey before retiring in 1995. currently principal of the Academy of Our series of posts working with the develop- Lady of Good Counsel High School, White mentally disabled. 70 Years Plains, is a 1978 graduate of John F. Kenne- Sister Mary Aileen Popoli, O.S.F., 70 Years Sister M. Johanna Mancuso, C.S.A.C. dy Catholic High School in Somers and later teaches at Immaculate Conception Sister Madeline Mary Greiner, S.S.S.F. 24 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • Religious Jubilarians October 7, 2010

Sisters of Charity Heart, Staten Island. St. Agnes and St. Ignatius Loyola schools, Holy Name School in Manhattan, and also of New York Sister Mary Thérèse Hannaway, S.C., Manhattan; St. Joachim, Beacon; Our Lady taught at St. John the Evangelist, White formerly Sister Marian John, served at St. Star of the Sea, Staten Island; St. Denis, Plains, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scars- 60 Years Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan before Yonkers, and SS. Peter and Paul and and dale; and Immaculate Conception, Man- Sister Jeanne Atkinson, S.C., formerly beginning more than 50 years as an edu- Visitation, the Bronx, where she also served hattan. She then served as principal at St. Sister Maria Jeanne, is a tutor at St. John cator. She was principal of St. Joachim’s for a year as principal. Mary of the Snow School in Saugerties, Chrysostom School, the Bronx. She was a School, Beacon, and St. Lucy’s, the Bronx, Sister Maria Patrice Murphy, S.C., held 1969-1996. She completed her teaching teacher in the archdiocese at St. Gabriel and assistant principal at St. Peter’s, Stat- nursing and administrative positions at St. ministry in Yonkers, at St. Denis and Sacred and St. Athanasius, both in the Bronx, and en Island. She was a teacher at St. Fran- Vincent’s hospitals in Manhattan and on Heart Schools. at St. John the Evangelist, Manhattan. She cis Xavier, Manhattan; SS. Peter and Paul, Staten Island, including evening supervi- Sister T. Marie Tolle, S.C., formerly was librarian at St. Paul’s School, East Har- St. Barnabas and Blessed Sacrament, the sor of psychiatry, assistant instructor of Sister Marie Eucharia, has been serving lem; St. John Chrysostom and the College Bronx; St. Mary of the Snow, Saugerties; psychiatry, head nurse, director of nursing, in Guatemala since 1981 as a catechetical of Mount St. Vincent, the Bronx; Blessed Resurrection, Rye; and SS. John and Paul, hospice coordinator and department chair educator. She also did mission work in the Sacrament/St. Gabriel High School, New Larchmont. of the School of Nursing. She also was the 1970s in Santiago, Chile, and in Guatemala. Rochelle; and Elizabeth Seton College, Yon- Sister Mary A. Jordan, S.C., formerly director of nursing at Mary the Queen Con- She also has taught in the archdiocese at kers. She also was director of the medical Sister Mary Alexander, began her religious vent, Yonkers; was director of development St. Gregory the Great School, Harrison; library at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Cen- ministry at St. Agatha’s Home, Nanuet, for the Sisters of Charity; and did volunteer Holy Trinity, St. Francis Xavier, Most Holy ter, the Bronx. where she held a number of positions in- nursing at St. Patrick’s Villa, Nanuet. Redeemer and Grace Institute Outreach, all Sister Mildred Azevedo, S.C., formerly cluding social worker, group mother, child- Sister Rita Nowatzki, S.C., formerly Manhattan; SS. Peter and Paul and Cardinal Sister Maria Assumpta, has been a teacher, care supervisor and assistant director. Sister Miriam Rita, was director of public Spellman High School, both the Bronx; and guidance counselor, principal, and academic Between 1972 and her retirement in 2004, relations and advocacy for the New York St. Sylvia’s, Tivoli. adviser. She served at St. Stephen’s School, she was a social worker in the Washington, Foundling, Manhattan, after nearly 20 Sister Kathleen Marie Tracey, S.C., Manhattan; the Academy of Mount St. Vin- D.C., area. years in the archdiocesan Superintendent serves as associate vice president for ad- cent, Tuxedo Park; St. Raymond Academy, Sister Aileen Kelly, S.C., formerly Sis- of Schools Office. There, her positions in- vancement at the College of Mount St. Vin- the Bronx; St. Gabriel High School, New ter Mary Aileen, is retired and volunteers cluded associate superintendent for staff cent in the Bronx, where she has served in Rochelle; St. Patrick’s Villa, Nanuet; Eliza- at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Harrison, where development, 1981-1990, and director of administrative capacities since 1984. She beth Seton College, Yonkers; Iona College, she served as chief executive officer, 1986- the archdiocesan Educational Center for was coordinator of the cooperative pro- New Rochelle; and the College of Mount St. 1991, and as assistant administrator, 1982- teacher training, 1972-1990. In 1988, she gram between Mount St. Vincent and Man- Vincent, the Bronx. She also was a regional 1986. She also was director of mission was elected president of the Catholic Edu- hattan College for nearly 20 years. She also coordinator for the Sisters of Charity for services at the hospital and health care cational Leadership Development Center, is a professor of biology at the college, and two terms and a volunteer at the Sisters of coordinator for the Sisters of Charity, and which worked toward improving Catholic has also taught biology at Fordham Univer- Charity Multi-Service Center, also known as she held nursing and administrative posi- education in the New York area. She was sity and St. John the Evangelist School in Casa de Esperanza, Yonkers. tions at St. Vincent’s hospitals in Manhat- principal of St. Athanasius School, the White Plains. Sister Jeanne Delaney, S.C., formerly tan and on Staten Island. After attending Bronx, 1967-1972, and a teacher there, Sister Alice Ward, S.C., formerly Sister Sister Maureen James, was principal of St. Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, 1958-1960, and was principal of Our Lady Maria Alice, was a teacher for 22 years in Peter’s School, Yonkers, for 15 years after Mass., in 1992 she served as a canonical of Good Counsel School, 1966-1967. She Manhattan at Epiphany, Ascension, Im- teaching there for eight years. She also consultant with the Metropolitan Tribunal also taught at Ascension School, Man- maculate Conception, St. Francis Xavier taught at Sacred Heart School, Staten Is- and an administrator with the Interdioc- hattan; St. Peter’s, Poughkeepsie; and St. elementary schools and St. Jean Baptiste land. For the past 28 years, she has served esan Tribunal. Mary’s, Wappingers Falls. and Cathedral high schools, and at St. in Briarcliff Manor, including 21 years teach- Sister Marion Kelly, S.C., is a volunteer Sister Mary O’Brien, S.C., formerly Sis- Barnabas School, Bronx. She then was a ing at St. Theresa’s School and, since 2003, at Our Lady of Hope School in Middle Vil- ter Maria Bernard, handles medical ben- school librarian/media specialist for 14 at Todd Elementary School, where she is a lage, Queens, where she has taught since efits at Mount St. Vincent Convent in the years at La Salle Academy, Manhattan, in teacher’s assistant. 1982. She began her teaching career at Bronx, where she also served as assistant Brooklyn. For the next 20 years, she served Sister Mary Donagher, S.C., formerly Holy Trinity School, Manhattan, and also to the administrator. Earlier, she taught as a nursing assistant in Manhattan at St. Sister Peter Mary, is academic adviser taught at St. Anthony’s, the Bronx, and St. at St. Joseph’s School, Our Lady of Good Clare’s, St. Vincent’s and Cabrini hospitals at the College of Mount St. Vincent, the Elizabeth Ann Seton, Shrub Oak. She was Counsel and Incarnation, all Manhattan, and at the New York Foundling. Bronx. She was a teacher at Immaculate principal of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and and at St. Barnabas, Our Lady of Angels, Heart of Mary, Scarsdale, and St. Barna- Mary in Southampton from 1967 to 1981. and St. Margaret of Cortona, the Bronx. 50 Years bas High School, the Bronx, where she also Sister Mary M. Kilmartin, S.C., formerly She also served in the Bahamas. Sister Maureen Dunn, S.C., formerly served as assistant principal. She taught Sister Grace Michael, served from 1967 to Sister Rosemary Petrucelli, S.C., for- Sister Marita Michael, is a volunteer at adults and was the education coordina- 1999 at Cathedral High School in Manhat- merly Sister Marietta, began as a nurse’s Mary the Queen Convent in Yonkers. She tor at Siena House, the Bronx. Sister Mary tan as principal, dean of students, dean of aide at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Manhattan, was principal of Incarnation School, Man- also did pastoral care work in Manhattan studies and teacher. She then served for then went on to serve in nursing, faculty hattan, after serving as assistant adminis- at Bellevue Hospital, and St. Joseph’s and 10 years as assistant superintendent of and administrative positions at medical fa- trator and teacher. She also taught at St. St. Paul’s parishes. She served the congre- schools for the archdiocese for curricu- cilities in the archdiocese, including St. Jo- Joseph’s School, Yonkers, and Lincoln Hall, gation as a regional coordinator for eight lum/secondary education. In 2004, she seph’s Medical Center and Elizabeth Seton Lincolndale, and was an administrator of years, and was a teacher in the Bahamas. was honored by the archdiocese with its College, Yonkers. She also worked for the St. Peter’s School, Yonkers. She served for Sister Miriam Eugene Fenton, S.C., is Elizabeth Ann Seton Compassionate Edu- New York City Department of Health, the three years as mission effectiveness coor- the library assistant at Our Lady of Lourdes cator Award. She earlier taught at St. Denis New York State Department of Health, the dinator at the Sisters of Charity Center in High School, Poughkeepsie. For more than School, Yonkers; St. Athanasius, the Bronx; New York Association of Homes and Ser- the Bronx. Her first post was secretary at 20 years, she served as regional director Blessed Sacrament High School, Manhat- vices for the Aging, and MEA Health Care St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan. of catechetical offices in the archdiocese, tan; and Academy of the Resurrection, Services. She served AIDS patients for 15 Sister Eileen Fagan, S.C., formerly Sis- including Dutchess, Putnam and Rockland Rye. She is a volunteer ESL teacher in Rego years as a nurse-clinician and clinical co- ter Maureen Michael, is an assistant pro- counties. She also served as religious edu- Park, Queens ordinator at Albert Einstein College/Fam- fessor of religious studies at the College of cation coordinator at St. Mary of the Snow Sister Anita Miriam Lavelle, S.C., ily Immunology Clinic of Medicine and at Mount St. Vincent in the Bronx. She served in Saugerties. She was principal of St. Jo- served more than 20 years as a kindergar- Montefiore Medical Center, the Bronx. as the assistant director of Iona College’s seph’s School, Yonkers, 1971-1978, and ten teacher at St. Theresa’s School, Briar- Sister Margaret Taylor, S.C., formerly Bridge Program, New Rochelle; and was taught at St. Barnabas School, the Bronx; cliff Manor, before retiring to St. Patrick’s Sister Edwin Regina, dedicated her en- St. Bernard’s, Manhattan; and Sacred Villa in Nanuet. She previously taught at tire career to education. She began at (Continued at right) October 7, 2010 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • Religious Jubilarians 25

(Continued from left) 1974-1991, where she also was a pastoral Florida. She also taught in the Bronx at St. Dominicans Sisters care associate and held many nursing posi- Gabriel’s School, St. Barnabas and Nativity Of Sinsinawa, Wis. director of the High School and College tions, including head nurse. She also was a of Our Blessed Lady. She also hosts a Sat- Transition Program at Elizabeth Seton pediatric nurse at Montefiore Hospital, the urday morning radio program on WTBQ- College/Iona College program in Yonkers. Bronx. AM on which students from area schools 60 Years She was a teacher at Sacred Heart and St. Sister Terese A. McElroy, S.C., formerly discuss a children’s story she has read on Sister Joan O’Shea, O.P., formerly Sis- Mary’s schools, Staten Island; Archbishop Sister Brendan Maureen, is co-director of air. ter Deirdre, taught in the archdiocese at Stepinac High School, White Plains; Maria the Sisters of Charity Multi-Service Center, Sister Carol Ann Ruf, S.C., is a teacher Our Lady of Refuge School in the Bronx, Regina High School, Hartsdale; and in the also known as Casa de Esperanza, in Yon- at SS. Peter and Paul School, the Bronx, 1950-1958. She was provincial for the Bronx at Cardinal Spellman High School kers, where she also was director of special where she has served since 1997. She pre- Sinsinawa Eastern Province, 1988-1992. and St. Barnabas High School, where she projects. She has served in the Sisters of viously taught in Manhattan at Holy Name, She is now serving as a volunteer and also served as an administrator. Charity archives and was director of Grace Our Lady of Mount Carmel, St. Patrick’s Old in spirituality education in Chicago. She Sister Maria Iglesias, S.C., formerly Institute Outreach, the Bronx, and taught Cathedral, Sacred Heart, and Blessed Sac- taught in Chicago and in Green Bay, Sister Teresita Maria, serves as vocation GED classes there. She was a teacher at rament; and at Visitation in the Bronx and Wis., and was principal and taught in director of the Sisters of Charity, Nanuet. St. Barnabas and St. Dominic’s T.O.R.C.H. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Shrub Oak. Madison, Wis. She taught at St. Brigid’s School, Manhat- therapeutic preschool, the Bronx; Elizabeth Sister Virginia Searing, S.C., is direc- tan; Our Lady Star of the Sea, Staten Island; Seton Academy and St. Joseph’s, Yonkers; tor of the commission of the Sister Bar- 50 Years and SS. Peter and Paul, the Bronx. She also and Sacred Heart and Incarnation, Manhat- bara Ford Peace Building Center in Quiche, Sister Mary Therese Dolan, O.P., for- was a pastoral worker at St. Athanasius tan. She also served as co-director of the Guatemala. She has served in Guatemala merly Sister Mary Coletta, taught in the parish in the Bronx; national coordinator SKIP program for chronically ill children since 1995, when she was appointed co- archdiocese at Corpus Christi School, for Les Hermanas; assistant director of the and a teacher for the Homeless Services coordinator of the program of community Manhattan, 1978-1980, and Our Lady archdiocesesan Hispanic Apostolate Of- Network, both in Yonkers. mental health in the Diocese of Quiche. of Refuge, the Bronx, 1982-1986. She fice; and director of volunteers at Lincoln Sister Marie Morris, S.C., formerly Sis- She also served as coordinator of peace/ also taught in schools and in religious Hospital and administrator of the Family ter Bernadette Maria, a former archdioc- reconciliation there. While in New York, education programs and served as the Care Center, Segundo Ruiz Beluis, both in esan assistant schools superintendent for she taught at St. Barnabas and Nativity of director of faith formation in Madison, the Bronx. She served in New Jersey from special education, is executive director of Our Blessed Lady schools, the Bronx. She Wis., and was a principal and teacher in 1988 to 2007. the John Cardinal O’Connor School in Ir- also was a teacher and religious education Peoria, Ill. She also served in New Jersey Sister Frances T. Keegan, S.C., formerly vington, which serves learning-disabled coordinator at St. Joseph’s in Florida, N.Y., and Vermont. Sister Marie Charles, is a teacher and cat- children. She also has served as principal 1981-1995. echist at Visitation School, the Bronx. She of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pelham Sister Mary Tommasino, S.C., who also has been a catechist for the last 25 Manor; has taught at Manhattan College served in early childhood education for 40 years at St. Joseph’s, Yonkers, where she and the College of Mount St. Vincent, the years, is currently ministering at St. Eliza- Dominican Sisters had served as youth minister. She was the Bronx, and at several elementary schools beth Seton House of Prayer in Scarsdale. Of Hawthorne director of academic advisement at the in the archdiocese; and has served on She previously served for more than 15 College of Mount St. Vincent, 1991-2007, the board of the John A. Coleman School, years with Head Start in the archdiocese, and dean of students and teacher at St. White Plains. She was honored for her ser- first as a consultant for eight years and 70 Years Barnabas High School, 1981-1991, both in vice with the archdiocesan Elizabeth Ann then returned as deputy director for educa- Sister Mary Dominic Moan, O.P., re- the Bronx. Earlier teaching assignments Seton Compassionate Educator Award. tion for eight years until December 2009. sides at Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne. included St. John the Evangelist, White Sister Patricia Noone, S.C., formerly Sis- She also was principal of the Ark and Dove Born in Brooklyn, she entered the Do- Plains; and Blessed Sacrament and St. Brig- ter Maura Catherine, is a professor of Eng- Preschool, Hopewell Junction, and taught minican Sisters of Hawthorne in 1939 id’s in Manhattan, where she also served in lish at the College of Mount St. Vincent, the in the preschool program at Sacred Heart, and professed first vows in 1940. She youth ministry. Sister Frances also served Bronx, where she has taught since 1964. Hartsdale. Her early service included as- served at St. Rose’s Home in Manhattan, as president of the Sisters Council of the She also has served for several terms as sistant to the housemother at the College 1957-1962, and returned there to serve archdiocese, 1987-1989. chairman of the English department. She of Mount St. Vincent, the Bronx; assistant as superior, 1970-1976. She was novice Sister Nancy Kellar, S.C., formerly Sis- served as director of communications for to the superior at St. Joseph by-the-Sea mistress at Rosary Hill Home in 1962. ter Miriam Elizabeth, has served in spiri- the Sisters of Charity for several years and High School, Staten Island; and a child care She served her community on the coun- tual renewal work for nearly 40 years. She is the author of “Mary for Today,” pub- worker at the New York Foundling Hospital, cil and was administrator of Rosary Hill was a founding member of St. Elizabeth lished in 1977 by Thomas More Press. Manhattan. Home from 1977 until 1998. Seton House of Prayer in Scarsdale in 1975; Sister Margaret M. O’Brien, S.C., for- served as coordinator of Charismatic Re- merly Sister Mary Elizabeth, has been a 65 Years 50 Years newal in the archdiocese; and was vice- regional coordinator of the Sisters of Char- Sister Rose Maureen Dormer, S.C. Sister Mary Magdalen Cline, O.P., lives chairman of the Ecumenical Charismatic ity Center since 2003. She also served as Sister Margaret Farrara, S.C. (formerly at Rosary Hill Home. Born in New York City, Committee of North America. In 1996, she senior vice president of mission for the Sis- Sister Marguerite Marie) she is a licensed practical nurse (LPN). became the first woman elected director ters of Charity Healthcare, Staten Island. Sister Eileen Regina Leonard, S.C. She served at Rosary Hill Home from 1976 of International Catholic Charismatic Re- She began her ministry as a teacher at Sister Ellen Marie Quirke, S.C. to 1984. She served at St. Rose’s Home in newal Services in Rome. She has visited 62 Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Scars- Sister Mary Richard Rowley, S.C. Manhattan, 1991 to 2009. countries in connection with her ministry dale. In education, she was principal of St. Sister Joanne Ward, S.C. (formerly Sis- Sister Mary Dorothy Korbelak, O.P., and has authored a book, “There’s Always Paul’s School, Manhattan; an administrator ter Mary Joanne) lives at Rosary Hill Home. Born in Bay- More,” which is in its fourth printing and at St. Joseph’s School, Yonkers; a teacher onne, N.J., she spent most of her apostol- has been translated into other languages. at Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scarsdale; 70 Years ic years serving as an LPN in the Domini- She began her career as a teacher at St. and a teacher and librarian at St. Brigid’s, Sister Thomas Marie Callahan, S.C. can Sisters Homes in other states. She Anthony’s School, the Bronx; Resurrection, Manhattan. She studied and served in the Sister Agnes Connolly, S.C. (formerly returned to Rosary Hill Home in 1997. Rye; and Cathedral High School, Manhat- Diocese of Oakland, Calif., 1987-1999. Sister Agnes Miriam) tan. Sister Anna Roche, S.C., formerly Sister Sister Helen R. Jarczynski, S.C. (for- 25 Years Sister Florence Mallon, S.C., formerly Dolores John, is director and a teacher at merly Sister Maria Francis) Sister Louis Marie Scherer, O.P., has Sister Dolores Catherine, has been the Garden of the Child, a children’s services Sister Regina Regan, S.C. (formerly been serving at Rosary Hill Home since associate chaplain at Lawrence Hospital, program she founded in Monroe. She has Sister Regina de Lourdes) 2008. Born in St. Paul, Minn., she served Bronxville, for 10 years. She was chaplain served in Orange County for 30 years, be- Sister Maria Thérèse Ruckel, S.C. at St. Rose’s Home as an LPN from 1994 at St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Yonkers, ginning as a teacher at St. Joseph’s School, Sister Angelica Marie Troy, S.C. to 2000. 26 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • Religious Jubilarians October 7, 2010

Dominican Sisters Sister Ann Marie Colvin, O.P., formerly 1964-1969; St. Benedict’s, the Bronx, 1969 Sister Mary Malone, O.P., has been Of Blauvelt Sister Bernarda, taught at St. Mary, Star -1971 and 1973-1976; St. Martin de Porres, president of the congregation since 2005. of the Sea on City Island, 1979-1983, and Poughkeepsie, 1972-1973; and St. John She holds a bachelor’s in education from 80 Years at Christ the King School in Yonkers, 1985- Chrysostom, the Bronx, 1999-2000. She Dominican College, a master’s in adult ed- Sister Anne Cecile Merrill, O.P., served 2002. She served at St. Dominic’s Infir- also taught in Florida, New Jersey and Ja- ucation from City College, and a master’s as a teacher and librarian at Dominican mary diet kitchen, 1952-1954, and at the maica. She holds a bachelor’s in education in social work from Fordham University. College in Blauvelt from 1965 until her Catholic Center, Manhattan, 1954-1961. from Dominican College and a master’s in She was a teacher at St. Luke’s the Bronx, retirement in 2000. She served at the She was food services supervisor at St. education from Xavier University. 1969-1971, and in Florida and on Long Is- following schools: St. Luke’s, the Bronx, Dominic’s Convent, Blauvelt, 1961-1965, Sister Cecelia Byrnes, O.P., has been land. She was principal at St. Nicholas of 1932-1936; Our Lady of the Blessed Sacra- and was a teacher, food services supervi- assistant director at Siena House in the Tolentine, 1974-1977, and St. Benedict’s, ment, Goshen, 1936-1939 and 1954-1960; sor, and housemother at Lavelle School Bronx since 2000. She served at Holy 1981-1984, both in the Bronx. She was di- Our Saviour, the Bronx, 1939-1943; St. for the Blind, the Bronx, 1965-1978. She Cross, Manhattan, 1967-1969; St. Nicholas rector of adult education for the archdio- Dominic’s, Blauvelt, 1950-1951 and 1965- also taught in Rhode Island and was a of Tolentine, the Bronx, 1969-1971; Christ cese, 1971-1974, and a pastoral associate 1971; St. Benedict’s, the Bronx, 1951-54; teaching assistant in New Jersey. She re- the King, the Bronx, 1971-1973; and St. at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Manhat- and St. Anselm’s, the Bronx, 1960-1965. tired in 2005 and lives in the St. Dominic’s Nicholas of Tolentine High School, 1978- tan, 1984-1988. She served at St. Domi- She also served at a school in Florida. She Community in Blauvelt. 1983. She served the congregation as nic’s Home in the Bronx as a social worker, holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Sister Katherine Downing, O.P., for- motherhouse administrator, 1983-1988. 1988-1997, and as supervisor of residen- Manhattan College and a master’s in li- merly Sister Mary Laboure, served the She also served in Florida, Massachusetts tial services, 1997-1999. She served her brary science from St. John’s University, congregation as director of supportive and on Long Island. She holds a bachelor’s congregation as formation director and as and a professional diploma in curriculum services, 1990-2000, assistant adminis- in education from Dominican College, a a councilor on the leadership team. and teaching from Teachers College. She trator of the motherhouse, 2000-2004, master’s in religion from Providence Col- Sister Marjorie Mullen, O.P., formerly resides in St. Martin de Porres Infirmary. and in volunteer service, 2004-2005. lege, and a master’s in social work from known as Sister John Terence, has served She taught in the following schools: St. Fordham University. as a special education teaching assistant 75 Years Anselm’s, the Bronx, 1953-1959; St. Pe- Sister Maureen Gibbons, O.P., served at Felix Festa Middle School in West Ny- Sister Jean Marie Rathgaber, O.P., ter’s, Liberty, 1959-1964; Our Lady of the as secretary and bookkeeper at Our Lady ack since 2002. She ministered at Holy served as director of development for the Assumption, the Bronx, 1964-1970; Holy of Mount Carmel Church in the Bronx, Spirit School, 1964-1969, and St. Bene- New York State Agricultural Child Care Spirit, the Bronx, 1970-1973; St. Mary Star 2002-2009. She ministered at St. Mary dict’s School, 1969-1970, in the Bronx. She Program, 1987-2004, and as a volunteer of the Sea, City Island, 1973-1983; and Our Star of the Sea School, City Island, 1964- was director of personnel, St. Dominic’s in the AGRI Business Child Development Lady of the Sacred Heart, Tappan, 1983- 1965; Holy Spirit, the Bronx, 1972-1979; Home, 1970-1974; assistant administra- Program, 2004-2005. She served at the 1990. She holds a bachelor’s degree in and Annunciation in Manhattan, 1979- tor, St. Dominic’s Home, 1974-1986; assis- following schools: St. Dominic’s, Blauvelt, education from Fordham University. She 1982. She was director of the St. Anthony tant business manager, Albertus Magnus 1936-1940; Holy Spirit, the Bronx, 1940- retired in 2005 and lives in the St. Domi- Soup Kitchen in Manhattan, 1982-1986. High School, Bardonia, 1986-1999, and 1946; St. Luke’s, the Bronx, 1946-1948; nic’s Community in Blauvelt. At St. Malachy’s parish, Manhattan she teaching assistant, New City Elementary and Lavelle School for the Blind, the Bronx, Sister Virginia Kissack, O.P., formerly served as administrative assistant, 1987- School, 1999-2002. 1948-1965. She was academic dean at Do- Sister Walter Marie, served the congre- 1999, and parish manager, 1999-2002. Sister Joan Smith, O.P., has served as minican College, 1965-1972, and was direc- gation as treasurer, 1979-1987 and as She also served in New Jersey. She holds director of communications for the Do- tor of House on the Hill, Goshen 1972-1987. motherhouse administrator, 1993-1997. a bachelor’s in education from Dominican minican Sisters of Sparkill since 1997. She She holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts From 1987 to 1993, she was treasurer for College and a master’s in elementary edu- served as director of communications for from Manhattan College, a master’s in sa- the Dominican Sisters of the Sick Poor in cation from City College of New York. the congregation, 1989-1997. She min- cred science from St. Bonaventure, and a Ossining. Sister taught in the following Sister Alice Kirk, O.P., has served as di- istered at St. Dominic’s, Blauvelt, 1970- Ph.D. in education from Fordham Univer- schools: SS. Philip and James, the Bronx, rector of staff development in technology 1973 and 1977-1981, and Christ the King, sity. She retired in 2005 and resides in the 1953-1957; Our Saviour, the Bronx, 1964- for the archdiocese’s Department of Edu- the Bronx, 1973-1977. From 1981-1985 St. Martin de Porres Infirmary. 1971, and at a school in Florida. She was cation since 1998. She holds a bachelor’s she taught art in the following schools: director of the Dominican College library, degree in education from Dominican Col- Holy Trinity and St. Vito’s, Mamaroneck, 60 Years 1971-1979. She holds a bachelor’s in educa- lege, a master’s in curriculum and teach- St. Mary’s and St. Ann’s, the Bronx; Holy Sister Vincent Cirelli, O.P., served the tion from Fordham University, a master’s ing and a certificate in administration Cross, Manhattan; and St. Paul’s and congregation as director of development, in library science from St. John’s Univer- from Fordham University, and a master’s Christ the King, Yonkers. She also served 1991-1995, and as manager of the gift sity, a master’s in elementary curriculum in computer education from Iona College. in New Jersey and Connecticut. shop, 1995-2002. She was principal of from Hunter College and a master’s in She has served at the following schools: Sister Bridget Mary Troy, O.P., man- Holy Spirit School, the Bronx, 1977-1981, finance from Long Island University. She Holy Cross, Manhattan, 1964-1969; St. ages the Charisma Gift Shop in Blauvelt. and taught in the following schools: St. now serves as sacristan for the congre- Philip and James, the Bronx, 1970-1971, Her ministry includes serving as a group Anselm’s, the Bronx, 1953-1954; St. Mar- gation and lives at Sammon Residence at and on Long Island. She was an instructor mother at St. Dominic’s Home in Blauvelt, garet’s, Pearl River, 1954-1959; Our Lady the motherhouse in Blauvelt. in education at Dominican College, 1971- 1962-1974, and unit supervisor, 1974-1975, of Victory, the Bronx, 1959-1961; St. Jo- Sister Madeleine McGill, O.P., is a li- 1981, and a principal at St. Catharine’s and group home supervisor, 1975-1978. seph’s, Millbrook, 1961-1969; and was a brary clerk at Dominican College, Blauvelt. School in Blauvelt, 1981-1997. She served at St. Pius V School in the volunteer at Maria Regina High School, She also served there as assistant to the Sister Jane McDermott, O.P., has Bronx, 1978-1983, and St. John Chrysos- Hartsdale, 2002-2007. She also served at registrar. She previously was an elementa- served as secretary general of the con- tom School, the Bronx, in 1995. She also a school in New Jersey. Sister Vincent was ry school teacher in New York, Florida and gregation since 2005. She holds a bach- served in New Jersey. She was director of the Dutchess /Putnam regional director of Rhode Island. At St. Dominic’s Home, Blau- elor’s degree from Dominican College personnel at St. Dominic’s Convent, 1987- religious education, 1969-1972; director of velt, she assisted in the care of children. and a master’s from State University of 1994. A native of Tipperary, Ireland, she religious education at St. Elizabeth’s par- She holds a bachelor’s degree in education New York, New Paltz, both in education. was director of the Blue Grass Project— ish, Shrub Oak, 1972-1974; regional direc- from Dominican College and a master’s in She ministered in the following schools: The Family Learning Center in Derry, Ire- tor of the Bergen County, N.J., CCD office, reading from Rhode Island College. St. Catharine’s, Blauvelt, 1963-1969; Our land. She also served as administrator of 1974-1977; and was a pastoral assistant in Saviour, the Bronx, 1969-1970; Holy Rosa- the St. Martin de Porres Infirmary, 2001- Albany, 1981-1988. She holds a bachelor’s 50 Years ry, Yonkers, 1970-1972; and St. Martin de 2004, and as sacristan, 2005-2009. in education from Dominican College and Sister Bernadette Burke, O.P., assists Porres, Poughkeepsie, 1972-1981. She also a master’s in theology from LaSalle Col- in the academic dean’s office at Domini- taught in New Jersey. She was an instruc- 70 Years lege. She retired in 2002 and lives at Mar- can College in Orangeburg. She taught in tor in teacher education at Dominican Sister Jean Beagan, O.P., formerly Sis- ian Woods in Hartsdale. the archdiocese at St. Luke’s, the Bronx, College, 1990-2005. ter Jean Miriam. October 7, 2010 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • Religious Jubilarians 27

Franciscan Sisters Sister Patricia McDermott, F.S.P., for- of Peace, Haverstraw merly Sister M. Eucharia, has been pasto- ral associate at St. John’s parish, Leonia, N.J., since 1998. She served as assistant 50 Years congregation minister for the Franciscan Sister Jeanne Marie Gilligan, F.S.P., Sisters of Peace, 1995-1997, and coun- formerly Sister Marita James, is serving cilor, 1991-1995, as well as director of as congregation minister of the Francis- formation, 1988–1995. She also served can Sisters of Peace in Haverstraw. Her as director of ministry and as assistant BLESSINGS­— previous ministries include: associate provincial. Her other ministries include A Mass of vice president for academic affairs at St. director of religious education, St. Antho- thanksgiving for Peter’s College, Jersey City, N.J., 1995- ny’s parish, Passaic, N.J., and Assumption the jubilarians of 2005; executive assistant to the presi- parish, Morristown, N.J., and elementary the Franciscan dent for college initiatives at the College school teacher in several parish schools Handmaids of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.J., in New York and New Jersey. of Mary was 1994-1995, and academic vice president Sister Charlotte Koch, F.S.P., formerly offered July 17 there, 1981-1994; and registrar at the Sister M. Germaine, has been an elemen- in St. Aloysius College of Mount St. Vincent, Riverdale, tary school teacher since 1962 in several Church in Harlem. the Bronx, 2006-2007. She was dean of parish schools in New York and New Jer- The jubilarians academics at Ladycliff College, Highland sey. She currently ministers at St. John’s included Falls, 1971-1980. She earlier was an el- School, Leonia, N.J. Her New York as- 100-year-old ementary and high school teacher. signments included Assumption School, Sister Mary Sister Irene Freely, F.S.P., formerly Sis- Peekskill, and Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Magdalen ter James Marian, has been a pastoral as- School and St. Joseph’s School, both in Barnes, F.H.M., sociate at Tolentine-Zeiser Center in the Manhattan. foreground, who Bronx since 1997. She served as pastoral Sister Kathryn King, F.S.P., formerly is marking 80 minister at a parish in Cabanas, Zacapa, Sister Bernard Mary, has been minister- years of religious Guatemala, 1987-1989; a social worker ing as pastoral associate at St. Ignatius of life; Sister Marie with the Newburgh Ministry, 1983-1989; Loyola parish in Manhattan since 2004. Annunciata Dominican Sisters Family Health Service, She was an adjunct faculty member in Boucree, F.H.M., 1977-1983; “Under 21 Project,” 1976-1977, Fordham University’s School of Religion 60 years; Sister and Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Home, the and Religious Education, 1997-2008. Maria Goretti Bronx, 1965-1974. Prior ministries include: associate novice Mannix, F.H.M., Sister Mary Landon, F.S.P., formerly minister of the Eastern Franciscan Com- 60 years; and Sister Mary Claude, has been director of mon Novitiate (EFCN), 1998-1999; novice Sister Vincent religious education at Sacred Heart par- minister of EFCN, 1999-2004; program Marie Wilson, ish, Hartsdale, since 1983. She was direc- director, Mariandale, Ossining, 1988- F.H.M., 50 years. tor of religious education at St. John’s par- 1997; administrator of Franciscan Sisters ish, Beacon, 1980-1983; dean of student of Peace, 1985-1987; provincial superior life and instructor at Ladycliff College, of Franciscan Missionaries of the Sacred Highland Falls, 1974-1980, and teacher at Heart, Peekskill, 1981-1985. Her earlier Franciscan High School, Mohegan Lake, ministries include campus ministry, New- Maria R. Bastone 1972-1974. She also taught in New Jersey. man Center, Newark, N.J. 1977-1981; in- Sister Patricia Glynn, F.S.P., formerly structor at Ladycliff College, 1969-1976, Sister Mary Terence, has been a middle and elementary school teacher in parish ligious, and was director of development school teacher on Indian reservations schools in New York. and vocation director for the Franciscan Medical Mission and missions since 1980 serving at St. Sister Rene Donohue, F.S.P., has min- Sisters of Peace. She also held numerous Michael’s Mission, Ariz.; St. Michael’s istered as an elementary school princi- positions in social services. Sisters School, Porcupine, S.D.; Pine Ridge, S.D.; pal since 1965 in the following parishes Sister Georgeanne Farrell, F.S.P., Billings, Mont.; Zuni, Cuba and Lumberton, in New Jersey: Sacred Heart, Rockaway; served on the administrative staff of St. N.Mex.; Pueblo, Colo.; and Vrendenburgh, Visitation Academy, Paramus; St. Phil- John’s Mission Office in New York City; Sister Jane Burns, M.M.S., a New York Ala. She was also an elementary school ip’s, Clifton, and St. John’s, Fairview. In Iona College, New Rochelle; and Ladycliff City native, founded the Medical Mission teacher in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. her earlier years she was an elementary College, Highland Falls. She also taught Sisters’ Peace Hermitage Ministry in She taught at Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Home, school teacher in Pennsylvania and New at several schools in New York. Philadelphia in the 1980s where she of- Bronx, 1966-1969, and St. Joseph’s Home/ Jersey. Sister Marie DeCurtis, F.S.P., formerly fers spiritual journeys to guests. Earlier, School, Peekskill, 1969-1971. Sister Mary Raymond, has primarily min- she taught in the sisters’ novitiates in Sister Carolyn Nicolai, F.S.P., formerly 60 Years istered as both an elementary and high Philadelphia and in Osterly, England. She Sister John Vianney, has been diocesan Sister Benedict Paonessa, F.S.P., school teacher, most recently serving as also served overseas in the Philippines, director of pastoral ministry to nursing most recently was the assistant to the guidance secretary and computer room India, Pakistan, Africa, Latin America and homes in Tucson, Ariz., since 2007. Prior director of Nazareth Life Center in Garri- secretary at Maria Regina High School, Europe. ministries include pastoral ministry co- son. Her primary ministry was that of an Hartsdale. She also was principal of Fran- Sister Anna Mae Doran, M.M.S., a ordinator, Catholic Community Services, elementary school teacher in many par- ciscan High School, Mohegan Lake, and registered nurse, began the Middle Flint Tucson, 1994-2007; and pastoral associ- ish schools, mainly in New York. St. Joseph’s Elementary School, West Cooperative Perinatal Project to help re- ate in parishes in Tucson and Winslow, Sister Constance Gaynor, F.S.P., for- New York, N.J. duce infant mortality rates in Americus, Ariz., and Passaic, N.J. She was adminis- merly Sister Joan, presently serves as Ga. She served in the health care field trator of residences for elderly religious community archivist for the Franciscan 65 Years in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and laity in Mount Vernon and in Wayne, Sisters of Peace. She has served at St. Ri- Sister Maureen FitzPatrick, F.S.P. and served in the Pinellas County Public N.J. For several years she was an elemen- ta’s Center for Refugees and Immigrants Heath Department in St. Petersburg, Fla. tary school teacher in New Jersey and at in the Bronx, was executive secretary for 40 Years She earlier served in India. She resides in St. Patrick’s School in Yorktown. the Archdiocesan Council of Women Re- Sister Christina Schoen, F.S.P. Philadelphia. 28 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • Religious Jubilarians October 7, 2010

Sisters of Mercy Mary, the Bronx, 1996-1999, and assis- tors of St. Catharine Academy, the Bronx, 50 Years tant treasurer at Congregation of Notre and Our Lady of Victory Academy, Dobbs Sister James Skane, M.S.C., while 50 Years Dame, Ridgefield, Conn., 1999-2004. Ferry. She taught at Our Lady of Victory serving in New York, was coordinator of Sister Mary Gallagher, R.S.M., for- Sister Eileen Walsh, R.S.M., has since Academy, 1953-1954, and St. Catharine Cabrini Medical Center’s Outreach Pro- merly Sister Mary Thomasina, taught 1996 been office manager for Brenner, Academy, 1958-1959. She founded the gram for the Elderly, executive director of high school math and physics at Our Lady McDonagh & Tortolani Inc. in Elmsford, Mercy Community Annual Sock Collec- Cabrini Resident Project and director of a of Victory Academy, Dobbs Ferry, 1965- which manages benefits packages for re- tion, which provides hundreds of pairs of domestic violence shelter. She served in 1967; and at St. Catharine Academy, the ligious organizations. She previously was socks to shelters for the homeless each administration at Columbus Hospital in Bronx, 1967-1973, where she was prin- a dietitian for many years in Ohio, Mary- Christmas. After several years of volun- Chicago and St. Cabrini Hospital in Seattle cipal, 1983-1987. At St. Gabriel’s School, land and upstate New York and at Mount teer service at Casa Esperanza, Yonkers, and later taught pre-kindergarten and kin- New Rochelle, she taught math and was Mercy, Dobbs Ferry, 1974-1980. She was and Mercy Center, the Bronx, she now re- dergarten in Philadelphia. She now volun- assistant principal, 1973-1983. Sister the dietitian at Somers Manor, Somers, sides in Merion, Pa. teers at Veterans Hospital in Manhattan. Mary was a member of the Mercy Execu- 1980-1984, and at Sprain Brook Manor, tive Team, 1980-1984. She also served as Scarsdale, 1984-1988. She then was fi- 65 YEARS 65 Years assistant procurator at St. Joseph’s Semi- nance assistant and Finance Office man- Sister Margaret Ann Brown, R.S.M. Sister Xavier Hayden, M.S.C. nary, Dunwoodie, 1987-1988, and worked ager at Mercy Administrative Offices, Sister Della Mae Quinn, R.S.M., for- in the office at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Dobbs Ferry. merly Sister Marie Bernarde 70 Years Hawthorne, 1989-1992, and was office Sister Helen Marie Scannell, R.S.M., Sister Cleta Penyak, M.S.C. manager, 1992-1998. In 1999 she was 60 Years formerly Sister Mary Timothy the director of religious education at Sister Mary Joyce Kavanagh, R.S.M., Sister Mary Terence Sherer, R.S.M. Good Shepherd parish, Manhattan, and serves as a visitor to the homebound Religious of the in 2000 at St. Francis Xavier, the Bronx. at Our Lady of the Assumption parish, 70 YEARS She was a staff member at Our Lady of Tuckahoe. She taught at Commander Sister Mary Jude O’Leary, R.S.M. Sacred Heart of Victory Academy, 2001-2008, and now Shea School, Manhattan, 1956-1964; St. Mary, Tarrytown serves at Mercy Center Outreach Service, Catherine of Genoa, Manhattan, 1965- the Bronx. 1967; Transfiguration, Tarrytown, 1967- Sister Anna Jarkowsky, R.S.M., for- 1969; and Sacred Heart, 1969-1975, and Society of St. Ursula, 75 Years merly Sister Mary John Bosco, has been a St. Francis Xavier, 1976-1978, both in the Rhinebeck Sister Julianne Armstrong, R.S.H.M., guidance counselor at Our Lady of Victo- Bronx. She was also a religious education born in Ireland, spent her novitiate at ry Academy, Dobbs Ferry, since 1995. She coordinator at several Bronx parishes: the motherhouse in Béziers, France, and was a teacher there, 1971-1974. She also Holy Cross, 1978-1981; Our Lady of Sol- 70 Years made her first profession in Tarrytown in taught at St. Cecilia’s School, Manhattan, ace, 1982; and St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sister Irene Mary Breslin, S.U. 1935. Subsequently, she served on the 1965, and St. Simon Stock High School, 1985-1986. She worked with Adult Edu- Sister Mary Dorothy Robinson, S.U. staff of an academy in Rolling Meadows, the Bronx, 1966-1970. She was a member cation/Literacy Services at Inwood Com- Ill.; and Marymount Academy and Mary- of the House of Prayer, Convent Station, munity Services, 1987-2000. mount Convent, both in Tarrytown. She N.J., 1974-1975, and Mount Mercy, Dobbs Sister Caroline Laiso, R.S.M., formerly is now retired and resides at Marymount Ferry, 1975-1976. She was campus min- Sister Maria Goretti, tutors math students Missionary Sisters Convent. ister at Westchester Community College, in Hartsdale. From 1999 to 2002, she was Of the Sacred Sister Camille Pereira, R.S.H.M., en- 1977, and taught French at Cardinal Spell- the bookkeeper at St. Margaret Mary par- tered the Religious of the Sacred Heart man High School, the Bronx, 1978-1984. ish, the Bronx. She was a teacher at Com- Heart of Jesus of Mary in her native Portugal where she She was a member of the Mercy Forma- mander Shea School, Manhattan, 1955- made her first profession. Since 1937, she tion Team, 1985-1987, and a teacher and 1958, and St. Margaret Mary, the Bronx, 60 Years has lived and ministered at Marymount, counselor at Academy of the Resurrec- 1958-1959. She taught high school at Sister Regina Casey, M.S.C., a native of Paris, where she also celebrated her jubi- tion, Rye, 1987-1990. From 1991 to 1994 St. Catharine Academy, the Bronx, 1959- the Bronx, taught elementary school and lee. she worked in the office of Gate of Heav- 1960 and 1964-1972; St. Simon Stock, the served in administration in Philadelphia, en Cemetery, Hawthorne. Bronx, 1960-1961; and Our Lady of Victo- Scranton and Conshohocken, all in Penn- 60 Years Sister Georgiana Sanders, R.S.M., for- ry Academy, Dobbs Ferry, 1963-1964. She sylvania; Kearney, N.J.; and Burbank, Calif. Sister Thecla Aguilar, R.S.H.M., a merly Sister Mary Christopher, has been was administrator of the Sisters of Mercy In 1967 she was appointed assistant gener- native of Colombia, has served in Tar- business manager of Thorpe Family Resi- Motherhouse, Dobbs Ferry, 1972-1974, al. While in this position she also served as rytown, the Bronx, Long Island, Virginia, dence, the Bronx, since 2005. She was a and served as a councilor at the Mercy president of Cabrini College in Radnor, Pa., Paris, Rome and London. She is doing teacher at St. Joseph’s School, Spring Val- Generalate, Bethesda, Md., 1974-1977. from 1969 until 1972, when she was elected parish outreach work at St. Catharine of ley, 1965-1966: St. Catherine of Genoa, She was a Mercy Community executive superior general of the Missionary Sisters Alexandria in Brooklyn. Manhattan, 1966-1972; and Sacred Heart, team member and director of ministry, of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She served as Sister Rita Arthur, R.S.H.M., is cur- the Bronx, 1972-1974 and 1981-1983. She 1977-1982, and also worked with parish president of the International Union of Su- rently the NGO representative at the was assistant principal at St. Simon Stock councils in the Newark Archdiocese and periors General in Rome. She later taught United Nations for the international In- School, the Bronx, and also served as par- was executive director of Rockville Cen- in New Orleans and provided pastoral care stitute of Religious of the Sacred Heart ish minister, 1974-1980. She was a pasto- tre Consultation Services. at St. Cabrini Nursing Home in Dobbs Ferry of Mary. Educated at the University of ral team member at Our Lady of Victory Sister Agnes O’Grady, R.S.M., for- and in Melbourne, Australia. Rennes, France, and New York University, parish, the Bronx, 1980-1981. In 1983, she merly Sister Mary Joel, was treasurer of Sister Melba Russo, M.S.C., became she taught French at the secondary and was attendance officer at Cathedral Prep, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, 1963-1970, a registered nurse and served at Colum- college level and served as dean of stu- Manhattan, and then had bookkeeping and assistant director of finance at Rock- bus Hospital in Chicago and the Cabrini dents at Marymount College, Tarrytown, and finance posts at Our Lady of Victory land Community College, 1970-1972. She Dispensary in Diriamba, Nicaragua. She and dean of women/vice-president of Academy, Dobbs Ferry, and St. Catharine was a professor at Mercy College, 1973- worked in the admitting offices at Co- Marymount Manhattan College. Academy, the Bronx, until 1986. She 1984. She was a member of the com- lumbus Hospital in Chicago and Colum- Sister Patricia Fahey, R.S.H.M., holds served in the Finance Office of the Sisters munity leadership team, 1971-1974 and bus Hospital in New York City. Then for degrees in library science and school ad- of Mercy, 1986-1992, and was director of 1984-1992, and also was director of min- 23 years she served in Mother Cabrini ministration, and served as teacher and finance at Sacred Heart parish, Yonkers, istry. From 1993 to 1999, she was the fund League in Chicago. She is retired at St. principal at Marymount School of New 1992-1996. Sister Georgiana was princi- service officer for Leviticus Fund Inc., and Cabrini Nursing Home in Dobbs Ferry. pal bookkeeper at Franciscan Mission of served as chairman of the board of direc- (Continued at right) October 7, 2010 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • Religious Jubilarians 29

(Continued from left) in Sag Harbor, Rolling Meadows, Ill., and izes in representing Catholic religious St. Louis. She also served in religious edu- congregations and their sponsored min- Franciscan York and schools in Brooklyn and Garden cation and, for the past 25 years, in pas- istries in all aspects of civil law. City. She also served on the Provincial toral care in New York and Pennsylvania. Sister Jacqueline Porter, R.S.H.M., Handmaids Of Mary, Executive Board, and has done religious She is now staff chaplain at St. Mary’s with degrees in English, French and theol- Harlem education and adult education in Long Is- Hospital of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, ogy, has taught at Marymount schools in land and New Jersey. Minn. California, and Marymount School of New Sister Teresita Fay, R.S.H.M., has spent Sister Agnes Carillo, R.S.H.M., born in York, where she was also lower school 80 Years her life in education. With a doctorate in Bogota, Colombia, entered the congrega- principal. For the past 20 years, she has Sister Mary Magdalen Barnes, F.H.M., English and also fluent in Portuguese, she tion in Tarrytown. She has served in Tarry- taught at Marymount University, Arling- taught at St. Benedict’s Day Nursery, taught in Portugal as well as at Mary- town and Sag Harbor, and in Mexico and ton, Va., where she is an associate profes- where she also served as administrator, mount School of New York, Marymount now at Marymount International School sor of theology and religious studies. and also at St. Aloysius School in Har- Manhattan College, and an academy in in Paris. lem. She was administrator of Camp St. Rolling Meadows, Ill. She also did corpo- Sister Breda Galavan, R.S.H.M., who 25 Years Edward on Staten Island and served as rate education working for Arthur Ander- holds degrees in mathematics and edu- Sister Susan Gardella, R.S.H.M. has novice mistress for the order. She taught sen Company. She now serves on several cational computing, has taught on the el- ministered in social work for youth and in North Carolina and South Carolina. She boards and works as a consultant. ementary and secondary levels at RSHM family services in the Bronx and emergen- also led Girl Scout troops and gave piano Sister Bianca Haglich, R.S.H.M., born schools in Richmond, Va., and Rolling cy shelters on Long Island. For the past 12 lessons. After retiring as an educator, she in Italy, studied art and sculpture there Meadows, Ill., as well as at Marymount years, she has been director of the RSHM served as a receptionist at the mother- and in Finland and at the University of International Schools in Paris and London. LIFE Center in Sleepy Hollow, which pro- house. Notre Dame. After teaching for 20 years She has also worked in technology re- vides a variety of educational and social at Marymount College, Tarrytown, she sources for the archdiocese and Bestweb services to more than 500 members of 50 Years established and continues to direct the Corporation. Most recently she served at the local community, most of them im- Sister Vincent Marie Wilson, F.H.M., is Weaving Center in Tarrytown. She also Archbishop Stepinac High School, White migrants from Latin America. She holds the executive director of St. Edward Food serves the community on both the prov- Plains. degrees in art history and counseling. Pantry on Staten Island. She also over- ince and international levels as one of the Sister Bernadette Kenny, R.S.H.M., sees altar bread distribution to various congregation’s artists in residence. has served in various ministries includ- 70 Years parishes of the archdiocese and is admin- Sister Michelle Phelan, R.S.H.M., has ing secondary education as a teacher at Sister Margaret Finnan, R.S.H.M. istrator for the FHM Associates; general spent her life in education at St. Thomas Sacred Heart of Mary High School in New Sister Teresa Martin, R.S.H.M. co-chair of the annual St. Benedict’s Day Aquinas, Bronx, and at schools in Long York City, work for Paulist Press and, for Sister Maire McQuillan, R.S.H.M. Nursery Concert; and former administra- Island City and Garden City. She has also more than 25 years, legal services. As an Sister Nancy O’Brien, R.S.H.M. tor of Camp St. Edward, all ministries of taught on the international level at Mary- attorney in private practice, she special- Sister Vianney Stewart, R.S.H.M. the Franciscan Handmaids of Mary. mount Schools in Medellin, Colombia, Paris, Rome and, most recently, London where she continues to serve. She holds degrees in library science and school ad- Women... ministration. (Continued from Page 19) Sister Joan Ronayne, R.S.H.M., has spent her religious life in education at He was right on the mark, as evi- Marymount Schools in London and Tar- denced by the reactions of the wom- rytown, and as an assistant professor at en religious as they stepped inside. Marymount Manhattan College. She is Some sisters toured the exhibit in now retired and resides at Marymount small groups and others made their Convent, Tarrytown. own way. More than once, friendly Sister Helene Louise Zimmerman, introductions were overheard as R.S.H.M., one of the congregation’s mu- the nuns met fellow sisters for the sicians, has her master’s degrees in musi- cology from Columbia University and her first time. A common stopping point doctorate from The Catholic University were the panels devoted to listing of America. She taught at Marymount each congregation of women reli- College, Tarrytown, throughout her re- gious in the United States, as the ligious life, and has served as organist, sisters checked to make sure their choir director and music director for own congregation was included. choral groups and for the Eastern Ameri- How the exhibit came together un- can Province. She also served for several der the design and production teams, years as a provincial councillor. with a big assist from the LCWR history committee, is a story in and 50 Years of itself. What they accomplished Sister Alice Alter, R.S.H.M., taught together is very much worth the Chris Sheridan at Christ the King, Yonkers, in the 1980s ferry trip to Ellis Island for Catholic JUBILATION—Excitement is in the air as Archbishop Dolan, joined by women re- and 2002-2003, and in Brooklyn, Queens groups and individuals of all ages. It ligious, cuts the ribbon opening the exhibit. With the archbishop, from left, are and Garden City. In recent years, she has will be a shame if this exhibit is not been engaged in pastoral care, and she Sister Mary Hughes, O.P., president of Leadership Conference of Women Religious; experienced by many visitors. Sister Helen Maher Garvey, B.V.M., chairman of the LCWR history committee; and currently serves at the Calvary Hospital Sister Nancy Richter, O.P., who satellite at Lutheran Hospital in Brooklyn members of the local committee: Sister Carol Barnes, S.C., chairman; Sister Rosa- is in vocations ministry for several mond Blanchet, R.S.H.M.; and Sister Maureen Shaughnessy, S.C. and at Westchester Medical Center in Dominican congregations and is Valhalla. a member of the exhibit’s public to see that the story of religious sis- stand us more,” said Sister Nancy, Sister Eileen Buckley, R.S.H.M., has relations committee, is hoping that ters in America is still being written. “and to know we are still here and ministered in schools of the congregation “Women & Spirit” will help others “I hope it helps people to under- ready to serve.”