October 4, 2012 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • JUBILARIANS 19 Celebrating Lives of Faith
Franciscans: Brother Octavio Duran, O.F.M.
RELIGIOUS JUBILARIANS—Men and women religious who are marking their jubilees this year are featured in short profiles and personal reflections on the pages of this pullout section. Above, Franciscan friars of the Holy Name Province who are celebrating their 50th and 25th anniversaries of religious life pray in the sanctuary at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Manhat- tan during Jubilee Mass June 21 celebrated by Father John O’Connor, O.F.M., back to camera, provincial minister. At right, Pallottine Sisters marking their 60th and 50th anniversaries of religious life smile during reception May 26 at Queen of Apostles Center in Monroe.
Jude’s School, Manhattan, 1966-1967, and Our Lady of Encore 49 Residence, Manhattan, 1995-1996; and Cal- Sisters of the Presentation Solace, the Bronx, 1969-1976. She also taught in schools vary Hospital, the Bronx, 2001-2011. She served at the and served in administrative capacities in the Diocese congregation’s infirmary, 1977-1981. of Paterson and managed children and youth services Sister Kathleen Harrington, P.B.V.M., formerly Of the Blessed Virgin at a hospital in Paterson, N.J. She also was assistant ad- Sister Mary Julianna, is director of religious education ministrator of a hospital in Georgetown, Guyana. at St. Frances of Rome parish, the Bronx. She served Mary, New Windsor Sister Patricia Reills, P.B.V.M., formerly Sister as novice director, 1976-1983, and was a member of the Mary Sean, taught at Holy Rosary School, the Bronx, congregation’s leadership team, 1997-2009. She taught at 50 Years 1968-1969 and 1970-1974, and Mount St. Joseph Academy, St. Jude’s, 1971-1973, and St. Michael’s High School, 1973- Sister Mary Byrnes, P.B.V.M., formerly Sister New Windsor, 1969-1970. She was director of religious 1976, both in Manhattan; and St. Bartholomew’s, Yon- Mary Esther, serves as councilor on the congregation’s education at St. Rose of Lima parish, Manhattan, 1983- kers, 1983-1986. She served in the Regional Catechetical leadership team and is also director of mission ad- 1984, and program coordinator of human and spiritual Office, New Rochelle, 1986-1997. She also served in sev- vancement. She taught at St. Mary’s School, Kingston, development at New York Foundling Hospital, Manhat- eral capacities in the Diocese of Paterson, N.J. 1966-1970, and St. Bartholomew’s, Yonkers, 1983-1984, tan, 1991-1995. She has been associated with schools, par- and was principal of St. Mary’s, Fishkill, 1976-1980; St. ishes and programs in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, 25 Years Frances of Rome, the Bronx, 1980-1983; and St. Cath- and in the Dioceses of Worcester, Mass., and Brooklyn, Sister Mary Catherine Redmond, P.B.V.M., has erine of Genoa, Manhattan, 1984-1994. She also served where she is serving as a pastoral assistant at Our Lady served as a physician assistant in the emergency room at schools in the Dioceses of Brooklyn and Paterson, of Fatima parish in East Elmhurst, Queens. at North Central Bronx Hospital since 1999. She began N.J., where she was honored in 2010 as Principal of the Sister Theresa Doran, P.B.V.M., formerly Sister her career in medicine before entering the Presenta- Year by the National Catholic Educational Association Mary Denis, is a caseworker at the Dwelling Place, a tion Sisters and then served as audiologist and senior while at St. Mary’s School, Pompton Lakes, N.J. private women’s shelter in Manhattan. She taught at St. audiologist in NYU Medical Center, 1989-1997, before Sister Eileen Matthews, P.B.V.M., formerly Sister Frances of Rome School, the Bronx, 1966-1969, before undertaking studies for her present ministry. Mary Giovanni, served as the congregation’s treasurer, completing nursing studies and serving at St. Clare’s 1997-2000. She is now a senior consultant at Brenner, Hospital, Manhattan, 1969-1977; St. John’s Queens Hos- 70 Years McDonagh and Tortolani, management and financial pital, 1981-1986 and 2000-2001; Mary Immaculate Hos- Sister Mary Gregory West, P.B.V.M. consultants for religious institutes. She taught at St. pital, Queens, as chaplain, 1986-1990 and 1996-2000; Sister Hannah Cox, P.B.V.M. 20 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • JUBILARIANS October 4, 2012
Dominican Sisters of Sparkill sister Margaret Theresa Oetting- Carmel, Middletown, 1966-1969; and St. er, O.P., serves as director of pastoral Christopher’s, Red Hook, 1973-1975. She 50 Years 1965-1967, and in the Archdiocese of St. care at the Hospital for Special Surgery served in religious education in Florida. sister Constance Bauer, O.P., taught Louis. She served in the congregation’s in Manhattan, a position she has held She taught at schools in the dioceses at St. Helena’s Elementary School, the mission in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, as a for 20 years. She taught at St. Agnes, of Brooklyn and Rockville Centre. The Bronx, 1965-1968, and at schools in the teacher and director of adult spiritual- Sparkill, 1964-1965; Sacred Heart, Suf- New York City native was formerly Archdiocese of St. Louis. She served as ity. She was a pastoral minister at Holy fern, 1965-1967; St. Catherine Laboure, known as Sister Patricia Martin. a licensed practical nurse at a pediatric Rosary, the Bronx, 1979-1981, and was Lake Katrine, 1969-1973; and St. John sister rosemary sullivan, O.P., is care center in St. Louis. She currently is co-director and spiritual director of the Chrysostom, the Bronx, 1973-1981. She an English as a Second Language adult receptionist at a parish in St. Louis. She Corazon Program at Villa St. Dominic, also taught in Brooklyn. She served as tutor in St. Louis. She taught at Sacred was formerly known as Sister Leo Peter. Glasco, 1983-2002. The New York City a pastoral minister in the congregation’s Heart, Suffern, 1965-1967. She taught in sister sheila Bowen, O.P., is the di- native was formerly known as Sister mission in Multan, Pakistan. She was di- St. Louis and served there in pastoral rector of guidance at St. Catherine Acad- Marie Bernard. rector of pastoral care at Cornell Medi- ministry at a parish and in Hispanic emy, the Bronx. She taught at St. Agnes sister elizabeth ehlers, O.P., is a cal Center, Manhattan, 1990-1992. She ministry. She taught English as a Sec- School, Sparkill, 1962-1966; St. Catherine consultant for palliative care and be- was born in New York City. ond Language and English for Speak- Laboure, Lake Katrine, 1968-1969; and reavement. She taught at St. Brendan’s sister Patricia saunders, O.P., is ers of Other Languages in Catholic and St. John Chrysostom, the Bronx, 1973- School, 1966-1968, and St. Theresa’s, director of faith formation at a parish public schools in St. Louis. The St. Lou- 1974. She was vocation director for the 1968-1969, both in the Bronx, and St. in Brookville, Fla. She taught at St. Ag- is native was formerly known as Sister congregation, 1974-1976; education di- James, Carmel, 1969-1975. She provided nes, Sparkill, 1962-1964; Our Lady of Mt. William Paul. rector at a child care center in Nyack, pastoral care at parishes and hospitals 1975-1979; volunteer coordinator at St. in the Diocese of Brooklyn. The Queens Helena’s School in the Bronx, 1979-1980, native was formerly known as Sister and director of St. Ignatius Day Nursery, Mary Charles. Dominican Sisters of Peace New York City, 1980-1988. She was a so- sister Mary elizabeth Mooney, cial worker at Einstein Hospital in the O.P., is principal at St. John Chrysostom 50 Years Nairobi, Kenya, and to graduate students Bronx and at the Northside Center for in the Bronx, where she has served the sister Joan Franks, O.P., a native of at the Catholic University of Eastern Af- Child Development in New York City. school community for 38 years. She ear- New York City, served as a faculty mem- rica. She also travels to a monastery of The Bronx native was formerly known lier taught there and served as assistant ber at Fordham University, 1987-1993. Dominican nuns in the area, where she as Sister Robert Patricia. principal. She taught at Sacred Heart She was principal of her alma mater, Do- teaches weekly lessons on the Domini- sister Mary Theresa Dempsey, School, Monroe, 1966-1968, and St. Rose minican Academy in Manhattan, for four can order’s history and charism. O.P., is director of pastoral care at Mar- of Lima, Manhattan, 1968-1974. The New years, beginning in 2005. She now teach- ian Woods in Hartsdale. She taught at York City native was formerly known as es philosophy to seminary students at 65 Years St. Rose of Lima School, New York, Sister John Carmel. the Consolata Institute of Philosophy in Sister Mary Cecil Grandpre, O.P. October 4, 2012 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • JUBILARIANS 21 Sisters of Charity of New York
75 Years ment for her congregation; director of college services cation coordinator. She also taught in Queens. Sister Margaret Rose Curry, S.C., formerly Sister at Elizabeth Seton Junior College, and assistant admin- Sister Margaret M. Smith, S.C., formerly Sister Elizabeth Marietta, taught at St. Francis Xavier and St. istrator at Mary the Queen Convent, both in Yonkers. Frances Maureen, was a teacher for 45 years at a num- Brigid, both in Manhattan; and St. Gabriel and Blessed She also volunteered for 19 years at St. Joseph’s Medi- ber of schools including Sacred Heart and Incarnation, Sacrament, both in the Bronx. She was also headmis- cal Center, Yonkers. Her early years were spent teach- Manhattan, and Blessed Sacrament, Staten Island. She tress at a school in the Bahamas. She began a nursing ing in Brooklyn. also taught in the Bahamas. She retired from Sacred ministry in 1971 at New Rochelle Hospital. She also Heart, Hartsdale, in 2000, but still lives there. She vol- served at the United Home for Aged Hebrews, also 60 Years unteers at White Plains Hospital. in New Rochelle, and St. Patrick’s Villa, Nanuet. She Sister Jean Anderson, S.C., formerly Sister Mary Sister Patricia Ann O’Brien, S.C., formerly Sister served in pastoral ministries at St. Gabriel’s, New Ro- Arthur, served as a teacher and group mother at St. Ag- Andrew Marie, was a principal at St. Joseph’s, Yonkers, chelle, and Mary the Queen Convent, Yonkers. atha’s Home, Nanuet; and as a teacher at St. Mary’s, and also in Florida. She taught at schools including Sister Margaret Hannon, S.C., formerly Sister Staten Island. In 1963, she went to the Bahamas where Blessed Sacrament, Staten Island; St. Emeric’s, Man- Marie Daniel, taught for 60 years at a number of el- she was a teacher and principal, before becoming an hattan; St. Barnabas and Nativity, both in the Bronx. ementary and high schools, including Cathedral High administrator at a center for abused and abandoned She was a personnel director for Mary the Queen Con- School and All Saints High School, both in Manhattan. children. vent, and served in administration for the Presentation She also taught in Brooklyn and Queens. She spent Sister Edith Belmonte, S.C., taught in the elemen- Sisters of New Windsor. her final years as a teacher volunteering at Regis High tary, secondary and college levels before becoming Sister Winifred O’Toole, S.C., formerly Sister Mar- School, Manhattan. She was also a teacher and secre- a registered nurse in 1972. She served as a staff nurse, ian Robert, served as director of the learning center at tary at Adept Associates in Manhattan; and a secretary head nurse and nurse/patient educator at Our Lady of Sacred Heart, Hartsdale, for 10 years. She taught at St. in education for the archdiocese. Mercy Medical Center, Bronx. She then became a visit- John’s, Manhattan; St. Mary’s, Wappingers Falls; St. Ga- Sister Catherine Smith, S.C., formerly Sister Miri- ing nurse, supervisor and quality assurance coordina- briel’s, the Bronx; St. John’s, White Plains; and St. Pat- am Magdalen, became principal of Blessed Sacrament tor at Frances Schervier Home and Hospital, also in the rick’s, Bedford Village. She also taught in Connecticut. High School, Manhattan, in 1961. She then served as di- Bronx. She served as administrator of St. Patrick’s Villa, Sister Charlotte Raftery, S.C., is a state licensed rector of Grace Institute, Manhattan; director of retire- Nanuet, 2003-2009. She now lives in Seton Village. clinical social worker and served in East Harlem for 18 Sister Philip Dolores Cacciatore, S.C., has taught years. Previously, she taught at St. Mary’s, Wappingers for 32 years at Cardinal Spellman High School, the Falls; St. Joseph by-the-Sea High School, Staten Island; Bronx. She also taught in the dioceses of Brooklyn and LaSalle Academy, Manhattan. She served as a forma- Religious of Jesus and Rockville Centre as well as within the Sisters of Char- tion minister and faculty adviser in the Fordham Uni- ity Federation. versity Graduate School of Social Science. Sister Theresa Courtney, S.C., formerly Sister Sister Monica Wood, S.C., formerly Sister Marie Mary Mary Colette, has spent 27 years ministering to bat- Edwardine, served as director of the library at St. Jo- tered women and tutoring women in prisons and shel- seph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, 2001-2012. Previously, 50 Years ters. She also taught at St. Ignatius School and Cathe- she was associate dean of the St. John’s University Li- Sister Patricia Dillon, R.J.M., was born and raised dral High School, both in Manhattan, and St. Barnabas brary, Staten Island campus. She also taught at Cathe- in St. John’s parish, Kingsbridge, the Bronx. She taught High School, the Bronx. dral High School, Manhattan; and at Cardinal Spellman at St. John’s School, Kingsbridge, 1963-1971. From 1974 Sister Teresa Dermody, S.C., formerly Sister Maria High School, and St. Raymond’s Elementary and Boys to 1997 she held various leadership roles with the Josita, spent 20 years as a teacher and campus minister High School, all in the Bronx. Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. at St. Barnabas High School, the Bronx. She taught at Since 1998, she has been serving in Haiti where she has other elementary and secondary schools including St. 50 Years worked in parish ministry and in agroforestry with the Emeric’s, Manhattan, and Visitation, the Bronx. Sister Regina Bechtle, S.C., leads retreats and spir- local farmers. Sister Elizabeth Carmela Englehardt, S.C., served itual programs as charism resource director for her in the offices of the New York Foundling Hospital, 1961- congregation. She co-edited St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s 1992. She also taught at Grace Institute, Manhattan; St. collected writings; and has written and published po- Gabriel’s, New Rochelle; St. Mary’s, Wappingers Falls, etry as well as articles on spirituality, religious life Carmelite Sisters for SS. Peter and Paul, Bronx. She was a group mother at and leadership. She has served at Our Lady of Victory St. Agatha’s Home, Nanuet, and served at St. Patrick’s Academy, Dobbs Ferry; Maryknoll School of Theology, Villa, Nanuet, and at the College of Mount St. Vincent. Ossining; the College of Mount St. Vincent, Riverdale. the Aged and Infirm Sister Geraldine Hanley, S.C., formerly Sister She has served in congregational leadership. Monica Marie, is the canonical treasurer at the Sisters Sister Kathleen Doherty, S.C., is an educator who 75 Years of Charity Center. Before that, she was the controller at has served with the Sisters of St. John the Baptist as Sister M. Frances Michael Lacorazza, O. Carm., Mary the Queen Convent, Yonkers. She was also an ac- well as the Sisters of Charity. She taught at Cardinal a native of New York City, has served since 1995 at St. count specialist at New York Life Insurance Company. Spellman High School and St. Dominic, both in the Patrick’s Home, the Bronx. She also served in the arch- Earlier, she taught at Resurrection School, Rye; and at Bronx; St. John Villa Academy, Staten Island; LaSalle diocese at Carmel Richmond, Staten Island, 1983-1995. Blessed Sacrament, Holy Name and Sacred Heart, all Academy, Manhattan; Iona Prep, New Rochelle. She She was sacristan at St. Teresa’s Motherhouse, Ger- in Manhattan. now tutors students at Abraham House in the Bronx. mantown, 1978-1983. She also served at various houses Sister Elizabeth Judge, S.C., formerly Sister Mari- Sister Arlene K. Ketchum, S.C., started the Eliza- of the congregation, including Carroll Manor in Hyatts- etta Elizabeth, was a teacher at Cathedral High School, beth Seton Women’s Center, Manhattan, in 1996. It now ville, Md., where she opened a new foundation and Manhattan, and St. Gabriel’s High School, New Ro- serves 1600 women each year with spiritual direction served as the superior and administrator, 1957-1978. chelle. She also taught in the dioceses of Brooklyn and and counseling as well as other programs. She taught Rockville Centre; and at St. Augustine’s College, Baha- at St. Barnabas and Nativity, the Bronx; St. Mary’s, Yon- 50 Years mas. She has served in pastoral ministry in Guatemala, kers; and in Florida. Sister M. Teresa Kathleen Dominick, O. Carm., where she currently assists in a medical clinic. Sister Ann Marie Lafferty, S.C., serves as assis- has served since last year at Mary Manning Walsh Sister Marie Kevin MacDonald, S.C., taught for tant director of the financial aid office at the College of Home, Manhattan, where she is the director of pasto- more than 40 years starting at St. Agatha’s Home, Nan- Mount St. Vincent. She also served in the finance office ral care and prioress of the local community. She pre- uet. She was also a teacher at St. Joseph’s, Yonkers; Sa- and as treasurer for the congregation. Previously, she viously served mostly in administrative positions in cred Heart and St. Mary’s, Staten Island; St. Anthony’s taught in the Bronx, first at Visitation, and then for 22 houses of the congregation in the Midwest, although and SS. Peter and Paul, Bronx; and in Manhattan at St. she was stationed in Brooklyn, 1991-1993. Ann’s and St. Paul’s, where she was also religious edu- (Continued on next page) 22 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • JUBILARIANS October 4, 2012
and New Jersey. She now lives in Mount mation director and pastoral associate, Dominican Sisters of Hope, Ossining Vernon. 1983-1994, and as co-director of the Do- Sister Frances Whelan, O.P., has minican novitiate in Manchester, Mo., 75 Years elementary school at schools through- served throughout the archdiocese as 1994-2000. She also taught at schools in Sister Ann Mildred Brown, O.P., out New York and New Jersey from 1954 well as the Diocese of Rockville Centre New York and New Jersey, 1966-1983. taught in elementary and high schools in to 1980. She was a special education in nursing, pastoral care and social work. Sister Margaret Foster, O.P., taught New York and in Massachusetts, where teacher, a teacher of the handicapped, In 1995, she began to minister with the at several schools, 1967-1975. She then she also served in pastoral care and as a and a guidance and vocation counselor Little Sisters of the Assumption Fam- served as a director of religious educa- library assistant. She also served in con- in New Jersey. She continues to minister ily Health Service in East Harlem, and tion until 1986. She has served as pas- gregation administration and as archivist there as a volunteer. also in Newburgh by providing massage toral associate at three parishes in New for the Dominican Sisters in Fall River, Sister Mary Groves, O.P., taught therapy. She lives in New York City. Jersey, currently in Chatham. Mass. She now lives in Mount Vernon. at elementary and secondary schools Sister Dorothy Ann Gensur, O.P., Sister Rosanne O’Rourke, O.P., in New York and New Jersey. She was 50 Years was a teacher at elementary schools in was principal at Annunciation School business teacher and department chair Sister Margaret Anderson, O.P., New York and New Jersey, 1962-1976. in Tuckahoe, 1959-1965. She also taught at Our Lady of Lourdes High School, has been director of guidance at the She was also principal of a school in at Holy Family, New Rochelle; and SS. Poughkeepsie, 1963-1992, and served as Academy of Our Lady of Good Coun- Connecticut, 1976-1979. She has taught John and Paul, Larchmont. She was a part-time secretary to the Marist Broth- sel, White Plains, since 2005. She was in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, since 1979. teacher and then librarian at St. Law- ers, also in Poughkeepsie, 1972-1987. She a teacher at schools in the archdiocese, Sister Mary Ella Morrison, O.P., rence in Lindenwold, N.J., 1972-1997. She also served in Philadelphia. She received 1966-1986, and a principal at schools in taught religion at Our Lady of Lourdes now lives in Mount Vernon. a bachelor’s from Seton Hall University. New York and New Jersey, 1986-1990. High School, Poughkeepsie, 1978-1985. Sister Julie Pintal, O.P., taught at She now lives in Mount Vernon. She was a social worker in New York Before that she taught at schools in New Fall River Diocese and North Country Sister Patricia Lally, O.P., was on City, 1991-1999. She has also served on York and New Jersey, 1966-1978. She schools for more than 30 years. She the staff of the Cardinal Spellman Re- her congregation’s leadership team. served as pastoral associate in Elkins, served on the council of the Dominican treat House in the Bronx for sisters’ Sister Ann Daniel Belmonte, O.P., W.V., 1985-2002, where she was also in- Sisters of Fall River. She volunteered as programs and youth retreats. A certified taught at schools in New York, 1966- volved with hospice care. She now lives a tutor with the Literacy Volunteers of spiritual director, she served on teams 1979. Since then she has served in parish in Swedesboro, N.J. America for several years. She lives in for directed retreats in New York, New ministry and pastoral care in Virginia. Sister Mary Cecilia Murray, O.P., Mount Vernon. Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and She currently lives in Richmond. has taught religion at Mount St. Mary Rhode Island. She was also a formation Sister Anne Marie Bucher, O.P., College, Newburgh, since 1998. Before 60 Years and vocation director for the congrega- serves at Mary Manning Walsh Home, that she taught at secondary schools Sister Patricia Catlett, O.P., min- tion. Previously, she taught in elemen- Manhattan, as a massage therapist and in New York and Connecticut. She was istered in Ossining, 1958-1960. She has tary and secondary schools in New York as healthcare consultant for her congre- historian for the Dominican Sisters of also served in Colorado and Ohio, as and New Jersey. gation. She has also served as a nurse, a Newburgh. She is a contributing writ- well as in Hampton Bays, in the minis- Sister Eileen McCabe, O.P., taught home health aide, a health care coordi- ing for Project OPUS and the author of tries of nursing and social work. She has at St. Patrick’s School, Newburgh, 1955- nator and a public health nurse in the “Other Waters.” served with the blind, and on the hous- 1960. She was also an English teacher at archdiocese. Sister Marianne Watts, O.P., was ing committee for the Archdiocese of a high school in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, Sister Mary Ann Cirillo, O.P., a teacher at schools in New York, New Denver where she currently lives. 1960-1973. She continued to teach Eng- taught at Bishop Dunn Memorial School, Jersey and Connecticut, 1966-1983. She Sister Marie DiCamillo, O.P., taught lish at several high schools in New York Newburgh, 1967-1968; and at SS. John was a regional coordinator for DARE and Paul School, Larchmont, 1968-1969. for the Office of Substance Abuse in She also taught in Passaic, N.J., 1969- the archdiocese, 1983-1987. She was the Sisters of Charity... 1977. She served as a pastoral minister training program administrator for the in New York and New Jersey, 1977-1989, National Council on Alcoholism, White (Continued from previous page) 25 Years and in Oklahoma, 1990-2004. She has Plains, 1987-1993. She was also the Sister Mary Benedict, S.C., has provided alternative health services in founder and administrator of the Max- years at St. Athanasius. spent her entire ministry as a regis- Canton, Okla. train education program at the Maxwell Sister Ellen Rose O’Connell, S.C., tered nurse in the archdiocese and is Sister Nancy Erts, O.P., has served Institute, Tuckahoe. She lives in Asbury is director of pastoral care at Mary currently serving at St. Patrick’s Villa, on the staff of the Mariandale Retreat Park, N.J. the Queen Convent, Yonkers. She also Nanuet. She also served at the Kennedy and Conference Center, Ossining, since served as associate director of the Asso- Center, Manhattan. She was a school 2004, having begun retreat work in 2001. 70 Years ciates of the Sisters of Charity. She was nurse at St. Peter’s Child Care Center, She served her congregation as a for- Sister Mary Lorraine Beckes, O.P. a founder and the executive director of and also served at Mary the Queen the North American Conference of As- Convent, both in Yonkers. sociates and Religious. She also taught at St. Gabriel’s High School, New Ro- 80 Years Franciscan Sisters of Peace, Haverstraw chelle; Holy Trinity, Mamaroneck; and Sister Constance Horan, S.C. Sacred Heart, Hartsdale. 50 Years been the congregation treasurer since Sister Domenica Rocchio, S.C., 70 Years Sister Cecelia Hall, F.S.P., is a psy- 1983. She served on the order’s leader- served for more than 40 years as a high Sister Mary Aquin Flaherty, S.C. chotherapist at Children’s Specialized ship team as councilor, 1987-1991, and school teacher, assistant principal and Sister Marie Paula Holdman, S.C. Hospital, Mountainside, N.J. She is also assistant congregation minister, 2003- principal. She served at St. Barnabas Sister Regina Michael Lowe, S.C. director of formation for her commu- 2007. She served as assistant dean at High School, the Bronx; Academy of Sister Patrick Regina Sullivan, S.C. nity. She served on the order’s leader- Ladycliff College, Highland Falls, 1978- the Resurrection, Rye; Cathedral High ship team, 1987-1991. She taught at St. 1980. She was a childcare worker at St. School, Manhattan; St. Joseph by-the- 65 Years Patrick’s School, Yorktown Heights, Joseph’s Home, Peekskill, 1970-1972. She Sea High School, Staten Island; St. Ga- Sister Georgette Dircks, S.C. 1969-1970, and at Sacred Heart, High- was also an elementary school teacher briel, High School, New Rochelle. She Sister Therese Marie Donnelly, S.C. land Falls, 1967-1969. She was also an el- and principal in New Jersey. She was was also associate superintendent for Sister Margaret Aileen Fennell, S.C. ementary school teacher and principal formerly known as Sister Giles. secondary schools for the archdiocese, Sister Theresa Gravino, S.C. and a high school guidance counselor in before she went to the Archdiocese of Sister Muriel Long, S.C. New Jersey. She was formerly known as 65 Years Newark as secretary for education and Sister Marie T. Murphy, S.C. Sister Mary Lawrence. Sister Regina Miriam McWilliams, F.S.P. superintendent of schools. Sister Theresa Mary O’Connor, S.C. Sister Helen Wacker, F.S.P., has Sister M. Ann Michael Pirich, F.S.P. October 4, 2012 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • JUBILARIANS 23 Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate, Monroe Thanks Be To God! By SISTER DOLORES MARIE POLL, P.V.M.I. 50 Years vocation is such a beautiful gift, a great priv- I wasn’t clear on what I was Sister Dolores Marie Poll, P.V.M.I., has been as- ilege. To be called to give our lives to God searching for. I wrote to sistant general superior since 1997, full- and part-time Aand His people, to be called to be His bride. about 40 (yes, 40!) orders a vocation director since 1970, and assistant treasurer, What can we say except, “Thanks be to God!” very brief request for infor- 1990-1993 and 2000-present. She has also served as A vocation is a great gift but also a mystery. I don’t mation. Responses came in, postulant director, assistant novice director, novice know why God called me, rather than my sister, my and I narrowed the field. director and juniorate director. She was also local su- cousins, my girlfriends, yet He did. God had other I was attracted to the Par- perior in the Bronx. She has done door-to-door parish plans and graces for them, but for me the grace of a ish Visitors of Mary Immaculate because of their evangelization at Holy Family, New Rochelle, 1968 and religious vocation. Thanks be to God! outreach to fallen away Catholics, the “lost sheep,” 1970-1972; Blessed Sacrament, the Bronx, 1970; St. Ray- I was from a normal, happy, churchgoing family. I and their religion classes for public school children. mond’s, the Bronx, 1972-1974 and 1987-1990; and Sacred went to public school and to religion classes once a I knew that this was a really great need. With more Heart, Monroe, 1969 and 2009-2011. week. In childhood and high school the thought of thought and much prayer I came to the conviction entering the convent never occurred to me. How- that this was where God wanted me to love and ever, a year or so later, a few weeks after the death serve Him. Not knowing about other differences in of my father, the thought suddenly occurred: When communities, I concentrated, in my discernment, Society of the I die, what will I have done with my life? Maybe I on the apostolate. God led me not only to the right should be a Sister! apostolate for me but also to a community that is I conveniently brushed it aside and went on with very prayerful, has a happy community life and is Holy Child Jesus my life. I had a good job, I had friends and I was ac- sincere in living the vows and in being faithful to the tive in various Church groups. However, from time to Church. How wonderful God is! Thanks be to God! 60 Years time, God reminded me of that same thought: Maybe To anyone whom God is calling, I say: “Come. It’s Sister Elinor Callanan, S.H.C.J., formerly known I should be a Sister! This became stronger and stron- worth it. It’s worth the struggles of discernment, it’s as Mother Dolores Mary, was born and raised in New ger, until, after much prayer, I knew I wouldn’t be at worth any misunderstanding that families or friends York City. After teaching in the United States for a de- peace with myself if I didn’t go ahead. may have of one’s vocation. You may feel scared to cade, she taught in Nigeria for the next 12 years. Since But, what to do next? I knew almost nothing make the move, but ask God for the courage you returning to America, she has ministered at the con- about Sisters. Then, by accident (but are there any need. As they say, “Come on in, the water’s fine.” gregation’s infirmary in Rosemont, Pa. Her brother, Fa- accidents in God’s providence?), a directory of the And since it’s He who is calling you over the water, ther Joseph Callanan, was a priest of the archdiocese. hundreds of orders in the United States came into who are we to refuse? He loves you. Come! my hands. Sister Dolores Marie Poll, P.V.M.I., is celebrating her 50 Years I knew I didn’t want to be a schoolteacher, I didn’t 50th anniversary with the Parish Visitors of Mary Im- Sister Marlene Brownett, S.H.C.J., the former want to nurse, and I didn’t want cloistered life, but maculate. Mother Mary Magdalen, was a teacher and then prin- cipal at the School of the Holy Child, Suffern, 1962-1971. She served in the administration of her congregation pastoral work in Chicago’s Chinatown, 1972-1979. She Diocese of Musome. She was born in Lipa, Philippines. in Rome, becoming secretary general of the society. currently serves the elderly and does parish work in Sister Mary Ellen Mertens, M.M., worked as She currently works on behalf of the beatification of Hong Kong. She was born in Kung Ch’eng, China. manager of communications at the Maryknoll Sisters her long-time friend, Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sister Maureen Hanahoe, M.M., a native of Center, Ossining, 1983-1988. She served in Hong Kong Sheen. She lives in Marian Woods, Hartsdale. Rosedale, Queens, served as a nurse’s aide in the moth- in catechetics and formation of Christian community Sister Barbara Linen, S.H.C.J., the former Mother erhouse infirmary at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, Os- in Chai Wan and did consciousness-raising among la- Mary Kevin, is an adjunct professor at both Iona Col- sining, 1974-1976, and provided pastoral care to resi- borers in Kwun Tong. She did pastoral work in Hong lege and Felician College. Before that, she served as in- dents of the sisters’ nursing home there in 1997. As a Kong. She assisted Chinese immigrants and detainees structor and theologian in Rosemont, Pa.; Shreveport, missioner in Peru and Chile, she did home visitations, in Los Angeles. She was co-director of orientation for La.; and Lagos, Nigeria. She has also served in the ad- assisted mother’s groups, served as a nurse’s aide and Maryknoll Sisters in Chicago, 2001-2005. She is cur- ministration of her congregation. worked in prison ministry, health education, Chris- rently working in parish ministry in Taiwan. She is a Sister Ann Murray, S.H.C.J., formerly known as tian community formation and nursing. She currently native of Springfield, Ohio. Mother Ann Catherine, is a counselor at Corpus Chris- serves in prison ministry in Peru. Sister Jean Mary Michalec, M.M., is a teacher of ti School, Port Chester. She taught at St. Elizabeth’s, Sister Theresa Kastner, M.M., is co-director of English and environmental issues at Sophia Univer- Manhattan, 1971-1983. After earning a master’s in social orientation for the Maryknoll Sisters in Ossining. She sity in Tokyo, a position she has held since 1994. She work, she served in New York City as a counselor for served in their development and admissions depart- earlier taught, mentored and did research in develop- Catholic Charities, 2001-2011. She now lives in Rye. ments in Ossining, 1980-1984. She was a missioner in mental neurochemistry at the University. A mission- Kaohsiung, Taiwan, doing pastoral work with women, er in Japan, she has worked with prisoners, teaching adult education, Marriage Encounters, women’s self- Japanese and serving in ecumenical and peace activi- development courses and directing retreats. She taught ties, and has worked on environmental issues. She ear- English and sociology, and served as moderator of the lier taught middle school students in Yokkaishi and Maryknoll Sisters Young Christian Workers group in the village of Hsin did parish work in Suzuka. She worked in vocations Chu. She is a native of Stratford, Ontario, Canada. for Maryknoll in San Francisco. She holds a doctorate 50 Years Sister Rosalie LaCorte, M.M., has worked in pro- in biochemistry from Sophia University. She was born Sister Agnes Chou, M.M., served in social work at motion, direct mail and communications for the devel- in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. the Chinatown Health Clinic in Manhattan, 1981-1983, opment department at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, Sister Joan Mury, M.M., serves as coordinator of followed by a year in pastoral ministry and social work Ossining, since 2007. She worked in the promotions offices for the Diocese of LaPaz. She served many years in a refugee assistance program in Brooklyn. She re- department there, 1977-1982. She served in her native in Bolivia with youth and local parishes, and in cam- turned to Manhattan’s Chinatown, where she worked Philippines in educational administration at Catholic pus ministry at colleges and universities. She served in at Chinatown Headstart, 1985-1986, and Asian Family schools, 1965-1977. She served in Tanzania for 26 years, the vocations office for the Diocese of LaPaz. She also Services, 1986-1989. She earlier served as a missioner working in school administration, with youth and AIDS doing catechetical work in Hong Kong. She served in victims, and in the communications department of the (Continued on next page) 24 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • JUBILARIANS October 4, 2012
Maryknoll Sisters... tice and peace commission. She served in Hong Kong as ment and promotions department at the Maryknoll a teacher, catechist and in justice and peace initiatives, Sisters Center, Ossining. From 2005 to 2009, she served (Continued from previous page) becoming involved with a ministry to prostitutes. as co-director of orientation for Maryknoll Sisters. She Sister Daniel Joseph Pardini, M.M., is a regis- was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. provided training in catechetics and leadership to local tered nurse with training in psychology of grief, loss Sister Teresita Rellosa, M.M., who was born in residents there, 1972-1975. She served in Nicaragua and and death and pastoral counseling. She has resided at Panguil, Laguna, Phillippines, has spent most of her El Salvador in catechetical and youth work. She was the Maryknoll Sisters residence in Monrovia, Calif., religious life serving in her home country. She has born in East Orange, N.J. since 2004. She served in Hong Kong at Our Lady of been involved with community and advocacy work in Sister Helene O’Sullivan, M.M., a native of New Maryknoll Hospital, 1966-1979 and 1982-1984, and at Quezon City since 1998. She served in Manila and Ba- York City, served as president of the Maryknoll Sisters, government hospitals, 1984-1987. She worked in the guio City and in Davao. She was a schoolteacher and 1997-2003. She is now serving in Cambodia working with health unit at Maryknoll Sisters Center, Ossining, 1979- administrator and parish worker in Upi and Quezon victims of sex trafficking at the Cambodian Women’s Cri- 1981. She served from 1988 to 1995 at a housing proj- City. She did pastoral work in the rural communities of sis Center in Phnom Penh. She served at the Maryknoll ect in Nanakuli, Hawaii. She also served in Santa Clara Buug and Zamboanga del Sur, 1983-1991. She worked in Sisters Center in Ossining in the Office of Social Con- County, Calif. She was born in San Jose, Calif. the development department and information services cerns, 1980-1985, and in the Office of Justice and Peace, Sister Suzanne Rech, M.M., who lives and works office at Maryknoll Sisters Center, Ossining. 1985-1990. She also served as director of a forum of clergy in Tanzania, where she has served on behalf of women Sister Janet Srebalus, M.M., served for many years and religious based in Rome, and was a member of a jus- and in pastoral ministry. She served in the develop- as a missioner in Tanzania. She currently works in ho- listic education and trains youth and women leaders in Morogoro, Tanzania. She taught in Morogoro and taught and served as a librarian in Dar Es Salaam. She worked with youth as a director of development for The Society for the Archdiocese of Dar Es Salaam, 1973-1978. After THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH serving in the admissions and orientation departments of Maryknoll Sisters Center, Ossining, 1978-1985, she ...all of us committed to the worldwide mission of Jesus returned to Tanzania to work with women in Tarime and Musoma and in pastoral ministry. She served as co-executive director of Maryknoll Affiliates, 2000- 2008. She was born in Chicago Heights. Ill.
It is the Year of Faith 25 Years Sister Shu-Chen Wu, M.M., is co-director of ori- and faith is what we are about! entation at the Maryknoll Sisters facility in Chicago. She served as director of cultural orientation at Mary- World Mission Sunday is October 21 knoll Language School in Cochabamba, 2001-2008. She was born in Feng Yuan, Taiwan. and mission is what we are about!
During the 2012-2013 Year of Faith, and especially in October, World Mission Month, please join the young people of the Archdiocese Dominican Sisters in praying the World Mission Rosary. Of Hawthorne In 1951, Archbishop Sheen created the World Mission Rosary. Each decade represents a different region of the world where missionaries continue to share the Good News of Jesus. 60 Years Sister Mary Martha Baron, O.P., served as a nurse at Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne, 1989-1992, GREEN, the forests and grasslands of Africa 1978-1985 and 1971-1974. She entered the order from BLUE, the ocean surrounding the islands of the Pacifi c Pennsylvania, and now serves at Our Lady of Perpet- RED, the fi re of faith that brought missionaries to the Americas ual Help Home, Atlanta, Ga. YELLOW, the morning light of the East in Asia Sister Mary Jude McKenna, O.P., served at St. WHITE symbolizing the seat of the Holy Father in Europe Rose’s Home, Manhattan, 1979-1992, and was superior for her last six years there. She was on the congregation’s Archbishop Sheen said, “When the World Mission Rosary is completed, general council, 1989-1997. She also served at Rosary Hill one has embraced all continents, all people in prayer.” Home, Hawthorne, 1973-1979, and currently lives there. She entered the congregation from Long Island.
50 Years Sr. Pauline Chirchirillo, PBVM Sister Mary Anthony Castonguay, O.P., served at 10-04-12 St. Rose’s Home, Manhattan, 1963-1968 and 1982-1991, Please send me: Please send this order form nursing patients with cancer. She entered the order ____ adult World Mission Rosary(ies) at $15 each prices from White Plains and is living at Rosary Hill Home with payment to: ____ child World Mission Rosary(ies) at $7 each include I also enclose $______as an extra gift to the missions shipping in Hawthorne. Sr. Pauline Chirchirillo, PBVM Total amount enclosed is $ ______Archdiocesan Director 25 Years Mother Mary Francis Lepore, O.P., has been the THE SOCIETY FOR THE The rosary(ies) should be sent to: Name ______congregation’s superior general since 2008. She was PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH treasurer general, 1997-2008, and served on the general 1011 First Avenue Address ______council, 2005-2008. She entered the congregation from New York, NY 10022 City ______State ______ZIP ______Bethpage and has served at Rosary Hill in Hawthorne since 1987. October 4, 2012 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • JUBILARIANS 25
Sister Monica Masterson, O.P., board operator at St. Dominic’s Convent, Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt taught at St. Benedict’s, 1955-1957, St. 2005-2011. Anselm’s, 1957-1964, and St. Nicholas of Tolentine, 1964-1969, all in the Bronx; 50 Years 80 Years 1954-1955, and as a nurse’s aide there, Christ the King, Yonkers, 1982-1983; Sa- Sister Catherine Patrick Cassidy, Sister Anna Marion Romanisky, 1969-1971 and 1977-1995. She also served cred Heart, Dobbs Ferry, 1983-1988; and O.P., entered from St. Pius V parish, the O.P., entered the congregation from St. as a kitchen aide, student nurse and then St. Mary, Yonkers, 1988-2009. She served Bronx. She served children at St. Domi- Thomas Aquinas parish in the Bronx. nurse in Jamaica, West Indies, 1969-1977. as a psychologist at St. Dominic’s School, nic’s Home, Blauvelt, 1964-1969; at Our She taught and served in parish ministry Since 1995, she has assisted in the con- Blauvelt, 1969-1972; Sacred Heart and St. Lady of the Sacred Heart School, Tap- at St. Pius V, the Bronx, 1934-1940; Holy gregation’s communication office. Joseph schools, Bronxville, 1977-1978; and pan, 1969-1973; St. Dominic’s, Blauvelt, Cross, Manhattan, 1940-1946; Holy Ro- Sister Christine Greene, O.P., en- as a consultant, learning specialist and 1973-1979; St. John’s, Goshen, 1982-2004; sary, Yonkers, 1951-1957; St. Joseph’s, Mill- tered the congregation from St. Luke’s psychologist at Abbot House, Ardsley, Sacred Heart, Suffern, 2004-2007; as well brook, 1957-1961; St. Luke’s, the Bronx, parish, the Bronx. She taught at Holy 1972-1975. She was a religious education as in Mahwah, N.J. She also served at St. 1961-1966. She was principal of Our Lady Spirit, 1955-1967, and Christ the King, instructor at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Martin de Porres Infirmary, 2007-2011. of Victory, the Bronx, 1966-1969. She was 1967-1969, both in the Bronx; St. Colum- Ardsley, 2009-2010. Sister John Agnes Clancy, O.P., en- also a teacher in Providence, R.I., 1946- ba’s, Hopewell Junction, 1969-1970; St. Sister Stephanie Robinson, O.P., tered religious life from Sacred Heart 1951, and Daytona, Fla., 1969-1996. She Catharine’s, Blauvelt, 1976-1977; and at a entered the congregation from St. John’s parish, Dobbs Ferry. She has served at St. now lives at St. Martin de Porres Infir- school in Providence, R.I. She was also parish, Kingsbridge, the Bronx. She Dominic’s School, Blauvelt, 1964-1965; St. mary, Blauvelt. the principal at St. Columba’s, 1978-1985, served at St. Dominic’s Home, Blauvelt, Nicholas of Tolentine, Bronx, 1965-1968; and at a school in Daytona Beach, Fla. as a unit supervisor, dental assistant, St. Dominic’s Home, Blauvelt, 1968-1971; 75 Years She served in pastoral ministry from food service supervisor and secretary, Abbot House, Irvington, 1971-1977; Our Sister Ann Bernadette, O.P., entered 1985 to 1997 at St. Columba’s, Hopewell 1954-1988. She was assistant director of Lady of the Rosary, Yonkers, 1978-1982; the congregation from St. Luke’s parish, Junction; St. Martin de Porres, Pough- food services at St. Dominic’s Convent Christ the King, Yonkers, 1982-1983; Our the Bronx. She taught at schools on the keepsie; Sacred Heart, Suffern; as well and director of household services at St. Lady of Victory Academy, Dobbs Ferry, elementary, secondary and college lev- as with the Senior Citizens of Dutchess Dominic’s Infirmary, 1997-1999. She was 1983-1996; and Sacred Heart High School, els: St. Nicholas of Tolentine, the Bronx, County. She retired to Marian Woods, secretary general for the congregation, Yonkers, 1996-1999. She has taught at 1941-1948 and 1958-1971; St. Anselm’s, Hartsdale, in 1997. 1999-2005. She also served as switch- Maria Regina H.S., Hartsdale, since 1999. the Bronx, 1949-1956; St. Peter’s, Liberty, 1956-1958, and Dominican College, Blau- velt, 1971-1997. She has lived at St. Martin de Porres Infirmary since 2005. Sisters of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottines) Sister Rita Miriam Tucker, O.P., entered the order from St. Nicholas of 60 Years previously taught at another school there. Heart, Suffern. She also taught in New Tolentine parish, the Bronx. She was a Sister Aloysius Palmieri, C.S.A.C., She also served as director of religious Jersey. teacher at Our Lady of the Rosary, Yon- resides at Queen of Apostles Convent, education, 1978-2004, and then served as Sister Theresa Martin, C.S.A.C., is kers, 1940-1944; St. Luke’s, the Bronx, Monroe. She taught in the archdiocese at vocation director, 2004-2008. She earlier a nurse at the Queen of Apostles Center, 1944-1945; St. Dominic’s, Blauvelt, 1945- Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the Bronx, taught at elementary schools. Monroe. She served as a nurse at St. Pat- 1947; Our Lady of the Assumption, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Bene- Sister Patricia Gatti, C.S.A.C., is on rick’s Villa in Monroe, Astor Home for 1947-1951; and Holy Spirit, 1951-1958; St. dicta, Staten Island; and was director of the staff of a school in New Jersey, and Children and Tuxedo Memorial Hospi- Anselm’s, 1958-1964; St. Mary, Star of the religious education at St. Lucy’s, Man- also previously taught in that state. She tal. She also served as a nurse in Canada. Sea, 1971-1973; Christ the King, 1981-1984, hattan. She also taught in Brooklyn and also taught in the archdiocese at Our She was moderator of St. Patrick’s Villa, all the Bronx. She also taught in Provi- in New Jersey and Rhode Island. She was Lady of Mount Carmel, the Bronx; St. 1998-2005, and moderator of Queen of dence, R.I., and was both teacher and an assistant at a camp in Baltimore and Patrick’s Academy, Monroe; and Sacred Apostles Center, 2005-2007. principal at Our Savior, the Bronx, 1964- also served in Puerto Rico. 1971. She also served as the coordinator Sister Hyacinth Serravillo, of the congregation’s central health of- C.S.A.C., served as principal at a school fice, 1984-1996. She lives at St. Martin de in Kearny, N.J. She also taught in elemen- Dominican Sisters of Amityville Porres Infirmary in Blauvelt. tary schools and served as a librarian. Sister Francis McLean, O.P., entered She was a delegate at provincial chap- 60 Years Rico. She holds a doctorate in ministry religious life from Sacred Heart parish, ters. She retired in 2007 and resides at Sister Kevin John Shields, O.P., a na- from Drew University. She was formerly the Bronx. She tended to the education Queen of Apostles Convent. tive of Brooklyn, has served as regional known as Sister Marie Owen. and welfare of children at St. Dominic’s Sister Isabelle McCann, C.S.A.C., catechetical director of Orange and Sul- School and Home, Blauvelt. She taught at served as a principal at a school in livan counties since 1998. In Sullivan the school, 1945-1948; then served at the Brooklyn. She served as Emmaus House County, she was director, 1990-1998, and home as houseparent, 1948-1954; group of Prayer in Long Island. She was direc- assistant director, 1977-1990. She earlier living director, 1969-1972; administrator tor of admissions at Harriman College, taught at Catholic schools in the Dioces- Holy Union Sisters assistant, 1972-1974; and from 1974 until 1965-1970. She also taught at elementary es of Brooklyn and Rockville Centre. the present as special services coordina- schools. She served as a delegate to both 60 Years tor. She also taught at St. Mary, Star of general and provincial chapters. She re- 50 Years Sister Jeanne Stegmann, S.U.S.C., the Sea, 1960-1962, and Holy Spirit High tired in 2005 and resides at Queen of Sister Margaret Murphy, O.P., a na- taught at St. Francis de Sales School, School, 1968-1969, both in the Bronx; and Apostles Convent. tive of Woodside, Queens, has served Manhattan, 1969-1979. She is a native of in Providence, R.I. She was both teacher since 2000 as a professor of religious Astoria where she also served as an el- and principal at Immaculate Conception, 50 Years studies at Mount St. Mary College, ementary school principal. She served Amenia, 1962-1968. Sister Alice Marie D’Onofrio, Newburgh. She also was an addictions a term on the congregation’s provincial C.S.A.C., has served since 1985 as a counselor at Veritas Villa, Monticello, council. 60 Years principal, teacher and now in other ca- and did social work in Orange and Sul- Sister Mary Bridget McGettigan, Sister Roseann Flynn, O.P., came to pacities at a high school in New Jersey. livan counties. She earlier taught in the S.U.S.C., was born in Donegal, Ireland, New York from County Leitrim, Ireland. She served as a delegate to both general archdiocese at Our Lady of Sorrows and came to Manhattan as a child. She Her ministry has been dedicated to the and provincial chapters. School, Manhattan, and St. John the was a school principal on Long Island. care of the sick. She served as a dietary Sister Joan Marie Verdi, C.S.A.C., is Evangelist, Goshen. She also taught in She has ministered to elderly homebound aide at St. Dominic’s Convent, Blauvelt, now serving at a school in New Jersey and the Diocese of Brooklyn and in Puerto parishioners in Queens since 1986. 26 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • JUBILARIANS October 4, 2012
Sisters of Mercy Nursing Home, Staten Island. She also supervised student teachers and was hattan. More recently, she served in pas- served at a children’s hospital in New coordinator of the special education toral care ministry at Mercy Hospital, 60 Years Jersey. Sister has also been a school program. She now resides at Marian Port Jervis, and Uihlein Mercy Center, Sister Mary Kenneth Finnerty, nurse at Our Lady Help of Christians, Woods, Hartsdale. Lake Placid. She now resides at Marian R.S.M., is currently serving as a nurse Staten Island. Sister Mary Jeannette Mendonca, Woods, Hartsdale. at St. Peter’s Boys High School, Stat- Sister Maureen Ann McCarthy, R.S.M., was a longtime educator and en Island. She served at St. Michael’s R.S.M., formerly Sister M. Karen, was guidance counselor and served at St. 50 Years Home, Staten Island, as a group mother, a teacher at St. Michael’s Home, Staten Michael’s Home, Staten Island; Good Sister Kathleen Ballantine, R.S.M., teacher and nurse. Her nursing career Island, and at St. Margaret Mary and St. Shepherd School, Manhattan; Sacred has been an educator, principal and ad- has included assignments at McAuley Francis Xavier, both in the Bronx. She Heart, Mount Vernon, and St. Catharine ministrator. She taught at Our Lady of Center, Dobbs Ferry; St. Vincent’s Hos- also taught in Brasher Falls. For many Academy, the Bronx. She was a guid- the Scapular and St. Cecilia’s, both in pital, Staten Island; New York Found- years she was an assistant professor at ance counselor and assistant principal Manhattan. She also was principal of St. ling Center and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, where she at Mother Cabrini High School, Man- Cecilia’s, 1975–1990, and an administra- tor at St. Catharine Academy, the Bronx. For a number of years she has been as- sistant district computer coordinator of Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Pleasantville School District. Sister Patricia Vetrano, R.S.M., 75 Years members in the mission of nursing the Pennsylvania. Since 2001, she has been now serves as president of the Mid- Sister Marie Cristofani, A.S.C.J., sick and retired sisters. serving at the Clelian Adult Day Center Atlantic Community of the Sisters of taught in the archdiocese at Sacred Heart in Hamden, Conn. She resides at Sacred Mercy and earlier was a member of the Private School, the Bronx, 1938-1940; St. 60 Years Heart Manor in Hamden. leadership team of the New York Re- Joseph’s School, Manhattan, 1969-1973; Sister Madeline Henry, A.S.C.J., gional Community. She was director of Santa Maria, the Bronx, 1974-1975, and formerly known as Sister John Berch- 50 Years formation for the Sisters of Mercy and Our Lady of Pompeii, Greenwich Village, mans, taught in the archdiocese at Sa- Sister Vivian Chiodini, A.S.C.J., guidance counselor at Our Lady of Vic- 1979-1980 and 1981-1982. She also taught cred Heart Private School, 1951-1956, and formerly known as Sister Laura Lou- tory Academy, Dobbs Ferry, where she at elementary schools in California, Santa Maria School, 1956-1959, both the ise, taught in the archdiocese at Sacred also served as principal, 1990–2000. She Connecticut, Florida, Illinois and Penn- Bronx, and at St. Joseph’s, Manhattan, Heart Private School, 1961-1963, 1994- taught at St. Joseph’s, Spring Valley, and sylvania, and served in parish schools of 1959-1961. She also taught at elementary 1996 and 1997-1999, and at Santa Maria St. Ann’s, Ossining. She served in par- religion in Connecticut. She now resides schools in Pennsylvania and California, School, 1997-1999 and 2000-2001, both ish ministry at SS. Philip and James, the at Sacred Heart Manor, Hamden, Conn., and at a high school in Connecticut. She in the Bronx. She also taught in elemen- Bronx, and St. Mary’s, Mount Vernon. where she was one of the founding staff also served in parish social ministry in tary schools in Connecticut, Florida, Il- linois and Pennsylvania. She was direc- 70 YEARS tor of religious education at a parish in Sister Gertrude Moran, R.S.M. New Castle, Pa., and an aide to the sis- ters at Sacred Heart Manor in Hamden, 65 YEARS HEARING Conn. Since 2008, she has been a reli- Sister Patricia Allen, R.S.M. the gion teacher and a tutor at a school for Sister Ruth Ann Seguin, R.S.M. LoRd’s exceptional children in Greensburg, Pa. Sister M. Patrice Weber, R.S.M. Gospel Liturgical Ursuline Nuns, New Rochelle Reflection Booklets 60 Years perior of St. Teresa’s Convent, New Ro- HEARING Sister Mary Dowd, O.S.U., was co- chelle, 1993-1998. She taught at Blessed the director of the Maura Clarke-Ita Ford Sacrament School, New Rochelle, 1955- Gospel’s Center in Brooklyn, 1994-2004. She 1960. 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60 Years taught at St. Mary’s, Katonah; St. Joseph’s, Croton Falls; tist, Yonkers. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Good Sister Joan O’Sullivan, R.D.C., has served since and St. Frances de Chantal and Christ the King, both in Counsel College, a master’s degree in education from 1998 as a psychologist at the R.D.C. Center for Coun- the Bronx. She also taught in New Jersey. St. John’s University. She was formerly Mona Haughey. seling and Human Development in White Plains, a Sister Margaret V. Cannon, R.D.C., serves in a Sister Frances Liston, R.D.C., has been co-director ministry of the Sisters of the Divine Compassion. She ministry of prayer and presence for Project Haiti. From of Mustard Seed Migrant Ministry in Goshen, a min- taught at St. John’s School, Mahopac; St. Joseph’s, Cro- 1978 to 2003, she was a guidance counselor at Good istry of the Sisters of the Divine Compassion, for 22 ton Falls; and Holy Name of Jesus, Valhalla. She served Counsel Academy High School, White Plains, where years. She taught at Ardsley High School and Preston as principal of St. Mary’s, Katonah. She worked as a she taught, 1956-1977. She also taught at St. Frances de High School, the Bronx. She served in parish ministry special education consultant in Yonkers and as a su- Chantal, 1955-1956. in Louisiana, Minnesota and New Hampshire. She was pervisor at BOCES in Yorktown. She served as a learn- formerly known as Sister Edmund Marie. ing disability specialist evaluator at a high school in 50 Years Sister Susan McCarthy, R.D.C., serves as work- Connecticut. She holds a doctorate in psychology from Sister Catherine Halpin, R.D.C., works in Ten- shop and promotions coordinator for Little Rock Scrip- Pace University. She was formerly known as Sister nessee with victims of domestic violence through the ture Study and serves on the board of SHORE/I-CARE Mary Victoire. Family Justice Center and as an advocate for rape sur- in White Plains. She taught in the archdiocese at St. Sister Mary Christine McGee, R.D.C., has been vivors. She taught at St. Anthony’s School, West Har- Mary’s, Katonah; Preston High School, the Bronx; St. serving as a tutor in the IDEA Program at a school rison; St. Lawrence O’Toole, Brewster; and St. Colum- Nicholas of Tolentine, the Bronx; and Good Counsel in Elizabeth, N.J., since 2002. In the archdiocese, she banus, Cortlandt Manor. She is a certified bereavement Academy High School, White Plains. From 1987 to 1999, facilitator and has held positions as a hospice chaplain she served on the pastoral staff at St. Francis Xavier and parish minister in New Hampshire, Louisiana and parish, Manhattan, and Christ the King, the Bronx. She Tennessee. She has served as victim advocate at a cen- was formerly known as Sister Julia Marie. Franciscan Sisters ter for sexual assault victims and as a bereavement Sister Pamela Wagner, R.D.C., has been co-direc- counselor for children, both in Knoxville, Tenn. She tor of Mustard Seed Migrant Ministry in Goshen since Of the Atonement- was formerly known as Sister Mary Paula. 1990. She taught at St. Joseph’s, Croton Falls, and St. Sister Mary Blanche Haughey, R.D.C., served as a Lawrence O’Toole, Brewster, where she was religious teacher and administrator at Pace University, and since education director, 1971-1974. She served in parish min- Graymoor, Garrison 2006, has served at the Pace Literacy Center in White istry in Louisiana, Minnesota and New Hampshire. She Plains. She taught at St. Anthony’s School, West Har- was formerly known as Sister Mary Joseph. 75 Years rison, Sacred Heart, Hartsdale, and St. Bernard’s and Sister Loretta Bezner, S.A., is coordinator of the Good Counsel Academy High School in White Plains, 70 Years eastern region of the Associates of the Franciscan Sis- St. Theresa’s in Briarcliff Manor, and St. John the Bap- Sister Mary Pauline McDermott, R.D.C. ters of the Atonement. She also currently serves in the Diocese of Rockville Centre. She served as a religious education teacher, program coordinator and pastoral care minister. She has spent many years in the Arch- Edmund Rice Christian Brothers, New Rochelle diocese of New York. Sister Gretta Kelleher, S.A., resides at the mother- 75 Years psychologist at the Astor Center for Children and Fam- house at Graymoor in Garrison. She has served as a di- Brother William Denis Wright, C.F.C., a native of ily, the Bronx. He also served in the archdiocese at Rice rector of religious education and a pastoral associate. the Bronx, has served in the archdiocese at Power Me- High School, Manhattan, 1978-1980. He holds a doctor- She served in New Jersey and Connecticut. morial Academy and Sacred Heart Grammar School, ate from Columbia University. Sister Elizabeth Kelliher, S.A., a native of New Manhattan; St. Gabriel’s Scholasticate, St. Joseph’s Ju- Brother John Blaise Brennan, C.F.C., has taught York City, is now serving in Canada. She has served in niorate and Santa Maria Novitiate, all in West Park; at a Catholic high school in Madison, Miss., since 1998. parishes in New York City and in daycare programs for Cardinal Hayes High School and All Hallows High In the archdiocese, he taught at Iona Prep, 1977-1982, the working poor. School, both in the Bronx; and Cardinal Farley Mili- where he also was dean of discipline, and Iona Gram- Sister Agnes Clare Vitale, S.A., a native of New tary Academy, Rhinecliff. Also in Manhattan, he taught mar School, 1966-1968, both New Rochelle. He has also York City, is serving in religious education ministry at and was principal at Rice High School. He served at taught and served as vice-principal and principal at a parish in Amsterdam, N.Y., continuing the service to high schools in Schenectady and Rochester and at an high schools in Rochester; Essex, N.J.; Hendrickson, parish and community that has been the primary focus academy in Antigua, West Indies, where he also was R.I.; and Miami, Fla. of her religious life. principal. Brother Frederick Christopher Burns, C.F.C., a native of Brooklyn, is director of campus ministry at 50 Years 60 Years Tampa Catholic High School in Florida. He taught at Sister Miriam Joseph Boylan, S.A., has spent her Brother Robert Liguori May, C.F.C., has served Iona Preparatory School, New Rochelle, 1973-1980, and religious life serving in both the United States and in at Iona Grammar School, New Rochelle. He has also Cardinal Hayes High School, the Bronx, 1980-1984. Ireland, where she was born in County Leitrim. She taught at schools in Illinois and served as novice mas- Brother Terence Michael Connolly, C.F.C., a na- currently is serving at a retreat house in Washington, ter and province treasurer. tive of New York City, served for 26 years at schools D.C. Brother Henry Sebastian Wright, C.F.C., a native in the archdiocese. He taught at St. Cecilia’s School, Sister Patricia Burke, S.A., a native of the Bronx, of the Bronx, has served in the archdiocese at Blessed Manhattan, 1966-1968; Iona Grammar School, New is the pastoral care minister at Graymoor where she Sacrament High School, New Rochelle; Msgr. Farrell Rochelle, 1968-1973; Cardinal Hayes High School/St. works with the aging and infirm. She served at Mother High School, Staten Island; and Cardinal Farley Mili- Helena’s Annex, the Bronx, 1973-1978. He was princi- Lurana Home in Garrison, the motherhouse infirmary tary Academy, Rhinecliff. He also was assigned to high pal at St. Augustine’s School, Highland, 1989-1996, and at Graymoor and St. Christopher’s Inn, Graymoor. She schools in Newark, N.J., and Warwick, R.I. St. Francis De Sales and St. Lucy Academy, Manhattan, also served in Canada and as a missionary to Japan. 1998-2001. He was president of Rice High School, Man- Sister Hope Marie Fulkco, S.A., a native of Brit- 50 Years hattan, 2001-2005. He is now ministering with the mi- ish Columbia, Canada, is now the coordinator of St. Brother Kevin Thomas Barry, C.F.C., has served grant poor in Bonita Springs, Fla. Joseph’s Home in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She has at Iona College, New Rochelle, since 1980. He taught Brother James Austin Finnegan, C.F.C., served also served in infirmaries at the motherhouse at Gray- undergraduate psychology for 10 years and then in the the province as assistant director of advancement, moor and at Mount Alverno Center, Warwick. She also graduate programs in pastoral counseling and family 2009-2011. From 2001 to 2009, he was delegate of the served at Holy Name Friary, Ringwood, N.J. She has counseling and, currently, the program in marriage and had nursing assignments in several states. family therapy. From 2001 to 2011 he was supervising (Continued on next page) 28 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • JUBILARIANS October 4, 2012 Christian Brothers... ‘Life as a Religious Has Made Me Free’ (Continued from previous page) By DOMINIC GISONDO, F.S.C. provincial to the boards of Christian Brothers schools on the Atlantic Coast. He was associate superintendent uring my sophomore year in high school, my Bronx. After eight years of of schools in the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., 1987- mother sat me down one day after school. teaching in Catholic grade 2000. He was director of guidance at Iona Preparatory DFearful that I had done something wrong, schools, I moved onto high School, New Rochelle, 1973-1984. I was surprised when my mother simply asked me school. Eventually, I served Brother Francis Arthur Gammaro, C.F.C., has what I wanted to do with my life. When I responded in school administration, de- been assigned to a high school in Ocala, Fla., since that I did not know, she suggested, “Be a teacher.” velopment work, and now I 2003. In the archdiocese, he served at Rice High As a teenager, I was all set to resist her suggestion. am on to retirement and tu- School, Manhattan, 1966-1975, and Power Memorial After all, what did my mother, an Italian immigrant, toring students. Academy, 1975-1979, both Manhattan; and Iona Prepa- know about the American culture. But strangely In my earlier years, the ratory School, New Rochelle, 1979-1985. enough, her suggestion made sense and so the early mission of teaching was Brother Robert William Harris, C.F.C., has served seed of my vocation was sown. more important than my at Iona Preparatory School, New Rochelle, since 2004. In my junior year, a Brother vocation recruiter gave community life. In later years, this was reversed. He also served at Msgr. Farrell High School, Staten Is- a talk to the junior and senior classes. Afterwards, Community life became more important. Before land, 1966-1975. my best friend and I joked about our names being Vatican II regularity and fidelity to communal Brother Charles Roger Haynes, C.F.C., served in prefixed by Brother. Later that year, I made a trip to prayer were emphasized; however, after Vatican the archdiocese at St. Jean Baptiste High School, Man- the De La Salle Christian Brothers Juniorate-High II personal prayer became central. Thus, my spiri- hattan, 1996-2002; Power Memorial Academy, New School/Novitiate in Barrytown, some 95 miles north tual journey sought a more personal relationship York, 1967-1975, and Iona Preparatory School, New Ro- of New York City. I liked what I saw that day at Bar- with God in quiet prayer. My life as religious for 60 chelle, 1966-1967. rytown and began considering becoming a Brother. years has gone through many changes. It has been Brother Vincent Gregory McNally, C.F.C., has After high school graduation, I spent the summer a happy and fulfilling journey. I have loved teach- served at schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and with my family of six visiting relatives in Bari in ing young minds and helping them to grow. As a De Chimbote, Peru. More recently, he has served the broth- southern Italy. While there we visited the four ma- La Salle Brother, community has provided me much ers’ province as councilor, 1993-2002; deputy province jor churches in Rome. It was at St. Paul Outside the joy, companionship and support. At the same time, leader, 2002-2003, and treasurer, 2003-2012. Walls that I felt a special grace and peace that the it has taught me to “die to self,” make sacrifices for Brother Brian Marcellus Walsh, C.F.C., has served Brother’s vocation was what God wanted of me. others and to work for the common good. I have as superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Roch- Returning home, my mother resisted my enter- grown so much as a person, met many people, stud- ester, 1986-1991. He served the province as province ing the De La Salle Christian Brothers’ Novitiate, ied in Puerto Rico and Mexico, visited Italy, taken leader, deputy province leader and councilor. Since as she knew nothing about religious brothers. My students to Spain, and obtained higher degrees in 2009 he has been president of Bergen Catholic High brother was drafted for the Korean War, and my education. My life as a religious has made me free School, Oradell, N.J. mother decided she would rather see me safe in even though I have pronounced vows of poverty, Barrytown than fighting in a war. With time, my chastity and obedience. How paradoxical! 70 Years mother came to know the brothers and was proud Imperceptibly, a loving God has been molding Brother Lawrence Alphonsus Killelea, C.F.C. of her son, the Brother. me, guiding me and forming me. To this I say Amen, Brother Eugene Berchmans O’Brien, C.F.C. My novitiate year was difficult as I was homesick “Deo Gracias,” Alleluia! I am grateful for my 60 and struggling to adjust to a new culture. My time years as a Brother. in the scholasticate in Washington, D.C., was a set- Brother Dominic Gisondo, F.S.C., is marking his tling into a life I was beginning to love and enjoy. 60th anniversary as a De La Salle Brother of the My first year teaching was with fifth-graders in the Christian Schools. Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers Correctional Facility for Women and in the Diocese of Ossining, a position he has held since 1991. Since 1999, Bridgeport, Conn. he also has managed Maryknoll’s Pachamama Farm, a cooperative effort that supplies some 10,000 pounds 60 Years 50 Years of food annually to food pantries in Westchester. He Father Joseph W. Halpin, M.M., served in Gua- Father Thomas E. Danaher, M.M., who retired in served in East Africa, and did mission education and temala, with his ministry there including service as a 2010, served in Hong Kong and in Chile. He served as promotion work in Denver, Colo., and Seattle, Wash. pastor, conducting agricultural and health care coop- Maryknoll magazine’s Asian correspondent, 1976-1981. He was born in Pompton Lakes, N.J. eratives, and constructing a rectory and hospice for He also did mission education work in Colorado. He Father Daniel Powers Jensen, M.M., served as di- catechists. He also served a parish in Yoakum, Texas. resides at the Maryknoll residence in Los Altos, Calif. rector of Maryknoll Residence in Los Altos, Calif. He Brother Martin J. Shea, M.M., served in Guate- Father Donald J. Doherty, M.M., a native of the served as assistant editor of Maryknoll magazine, 1992- mala, where he helped displaced Guatemalans return Bronx, served for 20 years in Tanzania and Kenya. He 1997. He worked at Maryknoll’s Center for Mission to their homeland after years of exile due to war. He also did mission education work in Cleveland, San Studies and Office of Justice and Peace at the Mary- was awarded the annual Healer Award from the Na- Francisco and Boston. He served as director of media knoll Mission Center, Ossining, 1982-1985. He served in tional Assembly of Religious Brothers. He also served relations and productions, 1985-1991. In the archdio- Guatemala, Mexico and throughout Latin America. He in Nicaragua. He was the Latin America representative cese, he served at St. Rose of Lima parish in Washing- was born in Greenwich, Conn. to the Maryknoll Brothers’ Executive Board, 1978-1983. ton Heights, 1992-1997. He retired in 2000, but serves Father Robert A. Lilly, M.M., retired in 2002, but He served in Massachusetts. as a part-time chaplain at Beth Abraham Hospital in continues ministry in Heron, Montana. He served in Father Edward M. Wroblewski, M.M., a native of the Bronx. mission education promotion work in Connecticut Brooklyn, served in East Africa helping to establishing Father Joseph H. Hermes, M.M., has served for 30 and San Francisco. He served in Korea. He was born in the mission secondary school at Musoma College. He years in Japan. Since 1998, he has served at a church in Bridgeport, Conn. served at Maryknoll College in Illinois and in mission Tomakoma City and as port chaplain of the Seafarers Father Robert Joseph Lloyd, M.M., who retired in education promotion work in Michigan. From 1977 to Club. He was director of Maryknoll’s mission promo- 2001, resides in Brooklyn. He served at the Maryknoll 1999, he served on the faculty of the homiletics pro- tion efforts in St. Louis, Mo., and Minneapolis, Minn. Mission Center, Ossining, as director of vocations, gram, Maryknoll School of Theology, Ossining. He re- He was born in Alexander, Ill. 1985-1988. His mission service was in Mexico and in tired in 1999 and resides at Maryknoll Mission Center Father John Patrick Hudert, M.M., serves at Mis- in New York. He continues to minister at the Taconic sion St. Teresa’s, Maryknoll’s retirement residence in (Continued at right) October 4, 2012 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • JUBILARIANS 29 Franciscans, Holy Name Province
50 years he served as a missioner to Brazil for 1,000 pairs of sandals for his fellow fri- Pompton Lakes, N.J., since last year. He Father Donald Chin, O.F.M., has nine years. He was an assistant pastor, a ars in the past 30 years. He has twice earlier was pastor of a parish in Provi- served for 40 years as a missioner to teacher, guidance counselor and princi- served at St. Francis of Assisi Church, dence, R.I., and also was guardian and Brazil, where he has been pastor and pal there. In the archdiocese, he has also Manhattan, and also served in Colorado executive director at a chapel in that assistant pastor of several parishes and served as parochial vicar at Holy Name and Washington, D.C., where he cared city. He also served at a parish in Hart- also served for a year as guardian of a of Jesus, Manhattan. He has served the for Holy Name College. ford, Conn. He was assistant director of house of formation. Holy Name Province twice as vicar pro- Father Michael Tyson, O.F.M., who vocations for the Holy Name Province, Father Joseph Ehrhardt, O.F.M., has vincial and was associate vocation di- returned to Holy Name of Jesus par- 1994-1995. served as a missioner to Japan and now rector and director of prenovitiate for- ish in Manhattan last year, also served Father Dennis Wilson, O.F.M., has Kenya for 45 years. After more than 20 mation. there from 2002 to 2008. Also in the served as treasurer of the Franciscans’ years of service at a parish in Kenya, he Father Edwin Robinson, O.F.M., is archdiocese, the New York City native Holy Name Province since 1994. He has spent the past two years at provincial a chaplain and director of pastoral care has served at St. Francis of Assisi, Man- earlier served at the province’s retreat headquarters in Nairobi working justice, at St. Cabrini Nursing Home and Adult hattan, and as pastor of Holy Cross, the center in Rye Beach, N.H., and at St. Bo- peace and integrity of creation issues. Day Center in Dobbs Ferry. A native Bronx. He also served as a pastor in Sil- naventure University in Olean. Father Bonaventure Hayes, O.F.M., of Reading, England, he was professed ver Spring, Md., and had other parish Brother Basil Valente, O.F.M., is a a retired professor of Sacred Scripture in Victoria, Australia, and came to the assignments in New Jersey, Delaware marketing communications professor at Christ the King Seminary in East United States in 1976. He was a cam- and in the Caribbean. He is well known at St. Bonaventure University in Olean Aurora, resides at Holy Name Friary in pus minister in South Carolina and also and respected for his social activism in since 1996. He previously served as as- Ringwood, N.J. He worked at the semi- served at St. Francis of Assisi Church, the parishes in which he has served. sistant to the director of communica- nary for a total of 29 years until 2003 Manhattan, and at a parish in Woo- tions for the Conference of Major Supe- as a professor, librarian, archivist and dridge, N.J. 25 Years riors of Men in Washington, D.C., and guardian of the friar community. Father John Schulmeister, O.F.M., Father Frank Sevola, O.F.M., has earlier held the same position in the Father John McVean, O.F.M., is teaches philosophy at Notre Dame of served as pastor of St. Maryís parish in Holy Name provincial office. program director of St. Francis Friends Mary University of Maryland and also of the Poor, a housing program for the serves as a hospital chaplain and week- chronically mentally ill that he helped to end assistant at a parish in the Arch- found and has worked with for 43 years. diocese of Baltimore. He earlier was an The program houses approximately 250 instructor at St. Bonaventure University Redemptorists, Baltimore Province people in three Manhattan apartment and has served as a chaplain at Notre buildings. Dame of Maryland and at the University 50 Years in Esopus. The community there serves Father Charles Miller, O.F.M., who of Maryland, Baltimore. He was former- Father Carlyle Blake, C.Ss.R., has a large Hispanic population in the area is now serving at parish in Virginia, had ly known as Father Lawrence. been in residence at the Redemptorist and supports the nearby Centro Famil- previously served at St. Francis of Assisi Brother Sebastian Tobin, O.F.M., rectory on the upper East Side in Man- iar Brazos Abiertos. He was rector of parish since 2006, most recently as pa- who serves as shoemaker for the Holy hattan since 2007. He served at par- Mount St. Alphonsus Retreat House in rochial vicar. Early in his religious life, Name Province, has crafted more than ishes in Florida, California and Puerto Esopus, 2002-2010. He served in Puerto Rico and in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Rico and in the Dominican Republic. St. Thomas and St. Croix. From 1982 to 2000, he served in full-time parish mis- 25 Years Maryknoll... Godfrey, Ill., where he celebrates Mass sion preaching throughout the United Father Blas Cáceres, C.Ss.R., served at nearby parishes and in the Ursuline States. in the archdiocese as parochial vicar of (Continued from left) Convent in Alton, Ill. He served in Texas, Father Paul Miller, C.Ss.R., served at St. Cecilia’s, East Harlem, 1999-2008, India and Nepal. He served two terms Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico. parishes in Maryland, Vermont, Ohio and and at Most Holy Redeemer, Manhat- as superior of Maryknoll’s retirement He served in Brazil, Indonesia and the in Alaska and Idaho. He earlier served tan, 2008-2010. He earlier served in community. Philippines. He was born in Alton, Ill. at the Redemptorist mission in Campo Paraguay. He is now parochial vicar at a Brother Andrew E. Marsolek, Brother Donald R. Mirani, M.M., Grande, Brazil. In the archdiocese, he parish in Annapolis, Md. M.M., served on the photography staff served as co-director of Maryknoll’s served at Presentation parish, Port Ewen, Father Paul Borowski, C.Ss.R., is of Maryknoll magazine and Revista New York City House, 1990-1999. In 1991-1999. He now serves at Notre Dame pastor of a parish in Saratoga Springs. He Maryknoll, 1986-2006. He served in Chile, he directed Maryknoll’s Santiago Retreat House in Canandaigua. served 15 years in ministry with men in Maryknoll’s mission promotion depart- Society House, 1974-1990. He retired in Father Francis O’Rourke, C.Ss.R., formation for the Redemptorists at the ment in New York and California to pro- 1999 and resides at the Maryknoll Mis- has been in residence at the Redemp- St. Alphonsus Residence in Whitestone, mote Revista Maryknoll He also served sion Center in New York and serves part torist rectory on the upper East Side in Queens, beginning in 1990. He earlier in Florida and in Mexico. He was born in time in the controller’s office there. He Manhattan since 1999. He has served as served in Maryland and Connecticut. Independence, Wis. was born in Detroit, Mich., and served rector of the community, 1999-2007 and Father John F. Soltis, M.M., served in the U.S. Army before entering reli- from 2011 to the present. He served in 65 Years in Washington, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, gious life. Brooklyn and in Pennsylvania, Mary- Father Raymond McCarthy, C.Ss.R. Alaska, California, Nevada and Hawaii Father William F. Mullan, M.M., land and Delaware. The Brooklyn native Father James Lundy, C.Ss.R. in mission education and promotion served as Maryknoll’s U.S. regional supe- earlier served at the missions in Campo work. He served as director of Mary- rior in Central America, 1991-1997. Since Grande, Brazil. 40 Years knoll’s Denver Development House. He 1998 he has served the Mayan Q’eqchi Father Thomas Travers, C.Ss.R., is Father James Gilmour, C.Ss.R. served in an outreach program for the people in Peten, Guatemala. He was born rector of the Redemptorist community Father Francis Skelly, C.Ss.R. Korean Catholic community in Hawaii in Jersey City, N.J. and at a parish in Hawaii. He was part- time director of the Maryknoll Hawaii 65 Years Society House from 2004 until it closed. Father Joseph S. Pulaski, M.M. This special section can be found on Catholic New York’s The native of Minneapolis now resides website, www.cny.org, by selecting in Woodland, Calif. 40 Years Father Gerald M. Wichenhauser, Father Edward O. Custer, M.M. “Jubilarians” under the Archdiocese News tab. M.M., retired in 2004 and resides in Father Paul R. Masson, M.M. 30 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • JUBILARIANS October 4, 2012 Franciscan Friars of the Atonement-Graymoor, Garrison
60 Years of Jatai, where he worked with youth, organized soc- nance work at New Hope Manor, 1977-1984. He served Father Charles angell, s.a., a native of Brooklyn, cer teams and constructed homes for poor families. He at a parish in Hereford, Texas, 1975-1977, where his du- has served since 1995 as chaplain of St. Christopher’s also served in Cumberland, R.I., and in Washington, ties included visiting the sick in their homes and at the Inn, the friars’ substance abuse treatment center and D.C. He entered the Franciscan Friars of the Atone- local hospital, and serving as a lector and a Eucharistic residence at Graymoor in Garrison. A convert to Ca- ment in 1952 and professed fi nal vows in 1961. minister. Brother Kenney, who entered the Franciscan tholicism, he entered the Franciscan Friars of the Atone- Father Malcolm Martin, s.a., served in Brazil for Friars of the Atonement in 1962, served in several ad- ment in 1952 and was ordained in 1960. He holds a doc- 26 years, fi rst as regional superior from 1963 to 1971 and ministrative and maintenance positions at Graymoor torate of sacred theology from the Pontifi cal University then in the Offi ce of Ecumenism of the Archdiocese of in his early years of religious life. of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, where he later taught Sao Paulo, 1977 to 1995. He also served as guardian of Father Bernard Palka, s.a., now serving as a chap- ecumenical theology. His assignments include teaching St. Paul’s Friary at Graymoor. Before retiring, he served lain to the Department of Corrections in Connecticut, on the seminary level, editing his community’s ecumen- at a chapel in Brockton, Mass. He entered the Francis- served from 2000 to 2010 as the president and CEO of St. ical publications and other ecumenical work. From 1978 can Friars of the Atonement in 1952, professed vows Christopher’s Inn, a substance abuse treatment facility to 1988, he represented the friars in Rome as procurator in 1956 and was ordained in 1962. He served as a staff and residence located at Graymoor in Garrison. He had general to the Holy See, rector of the Church of Sant’ sergeant with the U.S. Army in the Philippines, 1944- served as executive director of St. Christopher’s from Onofrio al Gianicolo and director of the Centro Pro 1946. He now resides at Field Home–Holy Comforter 1993 to 2000, when a lay board of directors was estab- Unione. From 1992 to 1994, he was director of Interreli- in Cortlandt Manor. lished. He earlier was executive director of Hawthorne gious Affairs for the Diocese of Venice, Fla., and served Brother Francis rené Papineau, s.a., served in the House in White Plains and program director of St. Jo- as parochial vicar of a parish in Sarasota. U.S. Navy before entering the Franciscan Friars of the seph’s Rehabilitation Center in Saranac Lake, where he Father David Fitzgerald, s.a., is now serving as Atonement in 1952. He professed vows in 1955 and has led the center’s conversion to a co-educational facility. pastor of a parish in Apex, N.C., and served as pastor been engaged in a variety of ministries within the com- In 1987, he was appointed to the friars’ General Council. in Lumberton, N.C. He also was retreat coordinator at munity, including food service, bookkeeping and main- From 1972 to 1977, he was assigned to the drug rehabilita- Graymoor and has served as moderator of the St. Marga- tenance work. He is retired and living at Graymoor. tion program at New Hope Manor, then at Graymoor. He ret of Scotland Guild and as a member of the Graymoor entered the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement in 1962, Mission Band. He has also served in Brockton, Mass. He 50 Years professed fi rst vows in 1964 and was ordained in 1972. entered the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement in 1952, Brother Charles Kenney, s.a., a native of Brook- professed vows in 1959 and was ordained in 1965. lyn, has served since 1995 at St. Christopher’s Inn, the 25 Years Brother Leo Hall, s.a., was in charge of plant friars’ substance abuse treatment center and residence Father Thomas Orians, s.a., is director of Gray- maintenance at Graymoor in Garrison, where he now at Graymoor in Garrison. From 1984 to 1995, he served moor Spiritual Life Center and associate director of resides, for many years. From 1965 to 1983, he served in in the friars’ pastoral ministries in Jamaica, the West Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute, the friars’ missions in Brazil, principally in the parish Indies. He served in administration and did mainte- where he is coordinator of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. He serves on the National Council of Churches’ committee on local and regional ecumenism and formerly served on the World AIDS Day steering committee of the World Health Organization. He had served as associate campus minister of Felician College in Lodi, N.J.; director of campus ministry at Caldwell College in Caldwell, N.J.; and in pastoral ministry in British Columbia. He entered the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement in 1985, professed vows in 1987 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1992.