Summer VISION

For Loveof the GamePage 6 President’s Letter Joan M. Hurley out things as their friends went up to receive middle of the second floor. Today, it is on theirs, just as they had done in the past. the first floor just past the student entrance Taking a tour of the school after the 50- staircase. Now, it is moving again. This time “I am the light of the world. Whoever Year Golden Diploma event, these alumni we are building a chapel. It will be added follows me will not walk in darkness marveled at the changes: the addition of to the front of the school at the student but will have the light of life.” a theater – unheard of in 1965; the iPad entrance. It will eventually have stained glass – John 8:12 technology used in our classrooms, the windows and a bell tower. large gym, the science labs… and no home The building changes. The teachers come Fifty years ago the Class of 1965 economics? Things have definitely changed. and go. The students graduate and move on graduated from Providence High School. In Not only was there no Home Ec room, the to college. One thing that doesn’t change is April they came back to receive their Golden typing class had vanished, Apple TVs were our faith. It is ever-present. It is in all we do. Diploma. Stories of their days here were the norm and blackboards had become As we look forward to beginning another funny, interesting and enlightening. Some white. And, sadly, no more nuns. Oh how we school year, pray for us as we do for you, had not been back in 50 years and didn’t miss them. that the Class of 2065 will look back on recognize the school because it had changed Another change is the location of the our time and know that we kept the light of so much. chapel. Early graduates remember it on the Christ alive and shining bright at Providence. They spoke about the teachers they had second floor opposite Room 200. Some and how they loved one subject or another. remember it in “East Egypt,” as it was In Christ, I remain faithfully, Some talked about a coach who had inspired affectionately labeled, on the far end of them. As they looked at their photos in the the old convent building. Some remember Joan M. Hurley yearbook, they laughed at the hairstyles and it more recently in the “old” library in the talked about the songs that were popular in their era. They joked with each other about their nicknames and what pranks they played. They cheered for each other as they accepted their Golden Diploma and called Principal’s Letter Dr. Mindy (Lankert) Ernstberger ‘74, Ed.D. As I write this, we’ve Deanery schools by the Popcorn Players just celebrated the and Providence Singers, in the fall show commencement Midsummer Jersey, and in the spring musical ceremony for our 61st graduating class. This Seussical. On the field, our student-athletes PROVIDENCE group represents the continuing tradition have won multiple post-season titles, of excellence at Providence. These 113 new including a repeat state championship in alumni earned more than $7.2 million in volleyball, a regional championship in boys’ college scholarships, and 99 percent plan to soccer and girls’ basketball, and a sectional Table of Contents pursue higher education thus far. Seventy-five championship in girls’ soccer and softball. percent of the graduates earned an Indiana Several athletes advanced as individuals into Always a Pioneer .............................................3 Honors Diploma – the highest percentage the state tournament in cross country, boys’ of any school in the area. Even more tennis, girls’ tennis, girls’ golf, track, and For Love of the Game ..............................6-11 meaningful, this group contributed nearly wrestling. It’s been a good year. 10,000 hours in community service during Yet even as we reflect on the Golden Reunion Spotlight: Kathy Kruer .....13 their time here. We expect this Class of 2015 accomplishments of the past year, it’s time to to do great things. prepare for a new one. Our 2015-2016 school Class Notes ....................................................14 Our students as a whole, not just our year will begin in a few short weeks, with seniors, continue to strive to do their best. school beginning on July 29 due to the recent Their efforts – and those of our faculty move to a balanced calendar. We expect and staff – have been rewarded by being more great things out of this new group of designated an Indiana Four-Star School seniors as well as all our returning and new Design/Layout for three years in a row. Outside the students. We continue to improve our House classroom, our students are involved in a Leadership Program, and we continue to ’98 number of extra-curricular activities as well expect the best from each of our students. as community leadership opportunities, We thank our parents, alumni and friends such as Leadership Southern Indiana’s for their continued support of our students, [email protected] NEXGEN program, the Congress of faculty, staff and school, for we could not Future Medical Leaders, the Richard G. be as successful without the help from each Lugar Academy Symposium for Tomorrow’s of them. Finally, we continue to give thanks Managing Editor/Writer Leaders, and Hoosier Girls State. Our Fine to our Blessed Mother Mary, for it is her Arts Department showcased our students’ spirit, blessing, and patronage that is the true Christa (Payne) Hoyland ’84 talent in several concerts and visits to the foundation of our Providence education. [email protected] 2 The Vision | ProVidence Junior-senior high school ALwAys A Pioneer When the first Providence class graduated in 1955, there weren’t as many career options for women. As one alumna put it, a young woman typically had to choose between getting married or going into nursing, teaching or secretarial work. In 1955, a dozen young women chose to pursue a career in the nursing field, and half of them attended Nazareth College (now Spalding University) with training at St. Joseph Infirmary in the three-year diploma program to become registered nurses. Coincidentally, many of them went to work in the medical-surgery department at area hospitals. Others chose the bachelor’s degree track, while some took training in related areas. Here is a look at a few. Margaret (Boesing) Stubblefield Received her three-year diploma from the old St. Anthony Hospital Mary Ann (Weber) Owens Mary Ann (Smith) Sanders and worked as an RN for about 40 years in various hospitals, Died in 1985. Classmates said she including St. Anthony, Jewish (in surgery), St. Louis Veterans Died in 2012. She worked 35 years as married a doctor and moved to an RN at Clark Memorial Hospital. Hospital (in the blood bank) and the old Deaconess Hospital (in Irvington, Ky. the gastroenterology unit). Nursing initially wasn’t her first career choice, but once she started taking classes, she enjoyed it. “I liked the JoAnn (Cottingham) interchange with the patients,” she said. “I like people. They helped Leuthart me as much as I helped them.” Married Jack Leuthart ’55 (dec.) Maria (Berbet) Carney after graduating from Nazareth Received her bachelor’s degree and worked as an RN for 48 in laboratory medicine from years at Clark County (now Nazareth College and later Memorial) Hospital in surgery received her Specialist in Blood and as a nurse manager for her Bank certification from the last 25 years, all while raising American Association of four children: John III ’77 Blood Banks. She worked as (dec.), Robert ’79, Marc ’80 and a laboratory technician for David ’85. She retired from 35 years, most of it at the old full-time work in 2003 but then St. Joseph’s Infirmary (now served as a per diem nurse for Audubon Hospital) as the several years. “I felt like I was blood bank supervisor. “It’s where I was supposed to be,” very challenging work,” she she said. “It was just a feeling said. “You cross match blood of caring for people.” for a person, and you have their life in your hands.” Ruth (Banet) Watson Worked 25 years as an RN at Floyd Memorial Hospital, retiring in Sheila (Best) Payton 1990. She primarily worked part Received her bachelor’s degree in time in the med-surge unit for 25 nursing from Nazareth College. She is years, retiring in 1990. Working a retired nurse and once worked for the part time allowed her to work while old Hospice of Southern Indiana (now raising her family. Hosparus). Nancy (Kraus) Sharrer Janice (Lanham) Niehaus Worked for 30 years as an RN at Died in 1999. She worked as a various places, including the old St. nurse’s aide at Clark Memorial Edward’s in New Albany and the Hospital. old Silvercrest Sanitorium before spending the last 22 years of her career in the med-surge unit at Sharon Zimmerman Methodist Hospital. (She also took Died in 2013. She was a retired a 13-year break to raise her late certified nurse anesthetist living in daughter, Margaret Sharrer ’85) Hartsville, S.C. Originally, she wanted to become a nun but discerned the religious life wasn’t her calling. Nursing was. “I liked taking care of people and see- Nazareth College classmates ing people get well and go home,” (three-year diploma recipients) she said. “I liked the TLC (nurses gave then). It was a wonderful Betty (Davis) Libs: Others in nursing or experience.” Worked as an RN at the old St. Joseph Infirmary for five years and then Floyd Memorial Hospital, retiring in 1997.

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