April 28, 2016 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • HONORING OUR JUBILARIANS 15 Serving Gladly CENTENNIAL CLOSE-UP—The Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary are marking their 100th anniversary as a religious congregation. The sisters moved to Harlem just seven years after the congregation’s inception in 1916 at the request of Car- dinal Patrick Hayes, the of New York. The Franciscan Handmaids, one of the few orders of black sisters, are well known for their work in education and for feeding the needy. At right, a young student at St. Benedict’s Day Nursery in Harlem gives a high-fi ve to Sister Mary Adenubi, F.H.M. Below, Sister Gertrude Lilly Ihenacho, F.H.M., congregation minister, fourth from right in top row, gathers with fellow Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary.

Pages inside this special section are fi lled with mini-profi les and stories about religious jubilarians marking signifi cant anniversaries this year.

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post office, development and trea- worker among the homeless in Seoul. for refugees in South Korea and Jubilarians sury departments, and in other roles. She also did pastoral work in Nepal. South Sudan, civilians in Vietnam She also served briefly in China and and, most recently, for the congrega- Maryknoll Sisters, Ossining Hawaii. Sister Marjorie Ann Bush, M.M., tion as part of its Wellness Center 80 Years a native of Staten Island, was an staff. Sister Madeline Maria Dorsey, Sister Claire Murphy, M.M., a educator and Basic Christian M.M., a native of Brooklyn, served as native of Cambridge, Mass., served Community developer in China and Sister Margaret M. Donovan, a nurse in Bolivia and nursing super- as an educator in Hawaii and the Taiwan for 28 years. She directed M.M., a native of the Bronx, is direc- visor in Sri Lanka, and was adminis- Marshall Islands, and as a dispensary the religious education and Rite of tor of the Maryknoll Mission Insti- trator of Queen of the World Hospi- worker in Kenya. She did pastoral Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) tute at Maryknoll. A missioner to tal in Kansas City, Mo. She also did work in Cloquet, Minn., and served programs at St. James Church, Tanzania, where she worked in com- nursing in Peru, and pastoral work in in the congregation’s development Manhattan, 1983-1985. She teaches munity development for 40 years, she El Salvador and Mexico. department. English as a Second Language to also served on the Maryknoll Sisters immigrants in Yonkers. Governing Board, 1983-1986. 75 Years Sister Stephanie Nakagawa, M.M., Sister Marie Ann Lipetsky, M.M., of Seattle, is an educator who taught Sister Mary T. Connell, M.M., was Sister Loretta Frank, M.M., a na- a native of Clements, Minn., served in Hawaii for 14 years, and in Japan born in Northern Ireland and gradu- tive of Dickinson, N.D., was a mis- in China for 44 years, during which for 39 years. In 2001, she returned to ated from St. Brendan’s School, the sioner in Japan, where she served she taught religion and music, the Maryknoll Sisters Center, Ossin- Bronx, and St. Jean Baptiste High for 45 years, working as an editor, worked with the elderly and did ing, where she tends to the clothing School in Manhattan. She is on the researcher and instructor of English pastoral work in local parishes. She needs of sisters in the Maryknoll Mission Institute staff at Maryknoll. as a Second Language. She provides also served in the Philippines for Residential Care Unit. She formerly served in socio-eco- congregational services at Maryknoll six years, working as a librarian and nomic development in Korea and Sisters Center, Ossining. music teacher. 60 Years administration at Maryknoll Nursing Sister Bernadette Braun, M.M., a Home, Maryknoll. Sister Georgina Gamarra, M.M., of Sister Veronica Mary Martin, native of St. Gallen-Rossruti, Switzer- Lima, Peru, has taught and worked M.M., a native of Philadelphia, has land, is a social worker. She has spent Sister Marie Crowley, M.M., of with Basic Christian Communities in spent most of her religious life serv- most of her religious life in South Boston, is a registered nurse who Chile. She has worked in counseling ing at the Maryknoll Sisters Center Korea, serving as a caseworker and served in the United States Air Force and led healing retreats in Illinois in Ossining. She has served in its family counselor, as well as a pastoral before entering Maryknoll. She cared and Florida.

So Others May Know the Redeemer’s Love

By SISTER MOIRA QUINN, O.Ss.R Before my profession, I wrote a poem entitled Little did I know that “Yes.” besides praying and Sister Moira Quinn, O.Ss.R., , now the prioress cooking for the com- of her community, was a hairdresser on Long Is- Mary said, “Yes. I am the handmaid of the munity, I would be land before she entered the Redemptoristine Lord, let it be done to me according to prioress, attending in- 25 years ago. Their mission is to pray that all may your word.” ternational Redempto- know the love God has for them in Christ the Re- And God became Incarnate in our Redeeming ristine meetings, facili- deemer. The Redemptoristines live with the Car- Lord. tating our senior sisters melites of Beacon. Celeste said, “Yes” to have been given, into assisted living and “My only begotten Son… to make you divine accompanying sisters y call to be a contemplative began in life… on their final journey while I was a hairdresser on Long Is- to be for the world a Viva Memoria.” to heaven. I discovered M land and had bought a summer house in You, my Sisters, said, “Yes” to “A cross…A kiss… new areas to share my upstate where I enjoyed the peaceful surround- Let your willing be an echo of Mine” creativity, such as writ- ing. There, I was inspired to write a novel about that He might really live in your hearts and His ing reflections for the the life of John the Baptist titled “Here I Am.” works be alive! community and our John’s life stirred in me a desire to give my all to Do you, “Fix your gaze upon Him associates, organizing Sister Moira Quinn, O.Ss.R. follow Jesus. that you might be radiant with joy, community feasts and I caught glimpses of what life as a contempla- so that My creatures might remember My celebrations, and updating our Facebook page. tive monastic would be like when I attended a eternal Love?” Contemplatives touch the whole world in so day program at the monastery in Esopus and met I say, “Yes.” many ways with our life of prayer, praises and Redemptoristines from around the world. Their intercession. Our contemplative monastic lives topic of discussion was the Constitutions and Early in my religious life I took as a motto, echo everyday lives while inviting all people to our Foundress, Blessed Maria Celeste Crosta- “JOY: Jesus, Others, You.” The joy of living in a say “Yes” to deepen their relationship with Je- rosa. The nuns were ordinary women who had community that prays, works and shares leisure sus so as “to be clear and radiant witnesses of given their treasure and talent for the glory of time together has helped me explore dimensions the love God has for each of us in Christ” (OSsR God. They gave me the courage to do the same. in my life I never dreamed of before entering. Constitution 5). April 28, 2016 catholic new york • Honoring Our Jubilarians 17

Sister Marilyn Jean Graf, M.M., of becoming a Maryknoll sister. She did Sister Jeanne Rancourt, M.M., school in Chicago; and in Hong Kong. Lemont, Ill., served as a teacher in social work in Peru and Bolivia, and of Woonsocket, R.I., worked with She did pastoral ministry and taught Guatemala and the Caroline Islands worked at a clinic in Mexico. She is alcoholics and drug addicts in Chile religious education in Fraser, Mich. of the South Pacific, and secretary to an active member of the sisters’ com- for 20 years. A registered nurse, she the bishop of the Udon Thani Dio- munity in Monrovia, Calif. also did community-based health 50 Years cese in Thailand. She also served as care and administered a home Sister Cheryl Allam, M.M., of secretary to the Maryknoll Sisters’ Sister Claudette LaVerdiere, M.M., for abandoned elderly people in Detroit, is the administrator of Congregational Leadership Team. a native of Waterville, Maine, teaches Chile. She served two terms on the Rogers Library at the Maryknoll at Holy Spirit Seminary in Bangla- Maryknoll Sisters’ Congregational Sisters Center at Maryknoll. She Sister Helen Graham, M.M., a na- desh. She also taught in Tanzania, Ke- Leadership Team. worked in Japan for nearly 20 tive of Brooklyn, is a theologian who nya and Myanmar. She served a term years as an editor, and also served taught on the university level in the on the Maryknoll Sisters’ Congrega- Sister Jean Snyder, M.M., of Read- with women’s groups, Alcoholics Philippines for nearly 50 years. She tional Leadership Team. She is author ing, Pa., worked as a medical technol- Anonymous and at a soup kitchen. has worked with barrio people and of “On the Threshold of the Future: ogist at Queen of the World Hospital, She also coordinated missions political detainees. She also con- The Life and Spirituality of Mother Kansas City, Mo., and in the Philip- project funding and development for ducted workshops and seminars in Mary Joseph Rogers.” pines. She did mission research and her congregation. various parts of the world. planning for her congregation, and Sister Teresa Leung, M.M., a native worked at the Spiritual Life Center Sister Aurelia Atencio, M.M., of Sister Mary Grenough, M.M., of Hong Kong, is the alumni relations in Manoa, Hawaii, and as liturgical Tierra Amarilla, N.M., has served of Louisville, Ky., is involved with coordinator for the Maryknoll Sisters director for a parish in Honolulu. primarily in Peru for the 48 years. AIDS education in Myanmar, where and also ministers to inmates at Sing Her work has involved teaching she serves with the Catholic HIV/ Sing Correctional Facility, Ossining. Sister Barbara Ann Walenty, M.M., courses in animal sciences and AIDS Network, an organization she She served in her native country a native of Detroit, is a nurse who improvement of farming methods, as helped to found in 2006. She served for nearly 30 years, working with served at Queen of the World Hospi- well as community organizing among for 43 years in the Philippines, doing refugees and as a counselor, retreat tal in Kansas City, Mo.; at Tufts Medi- the campesinos of the country’s community-based health care and leader, pastoral worker and teacher. cal Center and a clinic in Boston; at a Altiplano region. human rights advocacy work. continued on page 18 Sister Teresa Lilly, M.M., a native Sister Loretta Harriman, M.M., a of Brooklyn, is a nurse who served native of North Conway, N.H., taught in Guatemala and El Salvador. She on the elementary and university also worked with Basic Christian many thanks to our Jubilarians levels in the Philippines for 30 years. Communities and women’s groups She is serving at Catholic Charities in in Guatemala. She provided Boston. administrative support services to her community at the Maryknoll Sister Carol Hassey, M.M., of Co- Sisters Center. SOAR! lumbus, Ohio, is a nurse. She served congratulates in Bolivia for 22 years, and at Queen Sister Phyllis O’Toole, M.M., of St. of the World Hospital in Kansas City, Paul, Minn., is a social worker and the religious Mo., and Maryknoll Sisters Center, pastoral missioner, who helped to Ossining. She served as the congre- develop Basic Christian Communities jubilarians. gation’s renewal director and a coor- in Nicaragua and El Salvador for 30 dinator of its Rogers community. years and served in Thailand for 10 God bless you years. She volunteers at the Catholic Sister Therese Howard, M.M., a Worker Soup Kitchen in Los Angeles. for your service native of Janesville, Wis., is a physi- cian. She served in Hong Kong for Sister Dolores Poelzer, M.M., of to our church. nearly 30 years, caring for the poor, Saskatchewan, works with Latino teaching natural family planning and laborers in Oregon, where she also serving on the board of the Catho- assists doctoral students at the lic Marriage Advisory Council. She University of Oregon with their formerly worked in the Maryknoll theses and is involved with her local Sisters’ communications department parish. She taught in Chile for five for her congregation at Maryknoll. years, and then taught sociology on the university level in California for Sister Dorothea Hudert, M.M., 25 years. a native of Nome, Ark., served as a medical missionary in Tanzania and Sister Isabel Rabbon, M.M., a Namibia. She worked for Maryknoll native of Maui, Hawaii, began as magazine, in alternative health care, a teacher at St. Anthony’s School, as an immigration services coordina- the Bronx. She facilitates a Scrip- tor and in mission education for her ture group for women at a parish in congregation at Maryknoll. Kailua, Hawaii. She worked with par- ish RENEW and Rite of Christian Ini- www.soar-usa.org Sister Moira Hurley, M.M., of tiation of Adult programs in Hawaii. SOAR! raises funds and provides grants to help aging Catholic Toledo, Ohio, taught at Transfigura- She coordinated a parish religious tion School, Manhattan, soon after instruction program in Chile. religious live with dignity. 18 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • HONORING OUR JUBILARIANS April 28, 2016

Sister Norma Valdemoro, M.M., Queens, is a registered nurse who served in social service, mental Jubilarians of the Philippines, is an educator served as a nursing home adminis- health therapy, crisis intervention CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 and pastoral worker who served in trator. She served two consecutive and parish outreach in Seattle. Now Chile for nearly 35 years, teaching terms on the General Council, 1990- retired, she resides at Sacred Heart Sister Geraldine Brake, M.M., a religion and English, working with 2002. She is stationed at St. Patrick’s Convent in Manhattan. native of Wilmington, Del., serves Basic Christian Communities and Home in the Bronx, where she is the senior citizens at Nueva Vida Resi- facilitating women’s support groups. corporate compliance offi cer. Sister Romualda Molon, M.S.C., dence in Balboa, Panama. She has She also served in mission education who was born in Otavio Rocha, been involved in pastoral care and and worked in her congregation’s 50 YEARS Brazil, serves in pastoral care at St. counseling in Panama since 1989, treasury department. Sister Joseph Marie of the Holy Cabrini Nursing Home, Dobbs Ferry. and also did pastoral care and com- Spirit Maloney, O. Carm., was born She served at St. Frances Cabrini munity development in Nicaragua. 70 YEARS in Boston. Since 2009, she has been Shrine, Manhattan, and Casa Cabrini She served as director of Maryknoll Sister Lorraine Beinkafner, M.M. stationed at Carmel Richmond in Baguio City, the Philippines. She Sisters Home Care at Maryknoll. Sister Joan Crevcoure, M.M. Healthcare and Rehabilitation Cen- also served in pastoral care at a Sister Peggy Dawson, M.M. ter on Staten Island assisting with parish in Newark, N.J. She served in Sister Teresa Dagdag, M.M., a Sister Patricia Desaulniers, M.M. the Circle of Life program. She has environmental services at hospitals native of the Philippines, is executive Sister Margaret Fitzgerald, M.M. served the congregation in New York in Chicago, where also did nursing, co-secretary of the Commission Sister Muriel Gallant, M.M. and in New Hampshire, Massachu- and Des Plaines, Ill., and Seattle. for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Sister Rosemary Garrity, M.M. setts, Detroit, Ohio and Connecticut. Creation for the Unions of Superiors Sister Anna Maria Hartman, M.M. Sister Adelaide Pereira, M.S.C., General of Men and Women Sister Rosemary Kane, M.M. 70 YEARS was born in Otavio Rocha, Brazil. She Religious in Rome. She formerly Sister Barbara Masterson, M.M. Sister M. Xavier Frances served in environmental services at worked on leadership training Sister Agnes Mary McLean, M.M. Marchiony, O. Carm. Columbus Hospital in Chicago. She courses in Hong Kong and programs Sister Joanne McMahon, M.M. worked in the dietary department at for women in Hong Kong and the Sister Andree Normandin, M.M. Missionary Sisters of the St. Anthony School and Orphanage in Philippines. Sister Patricia Norton, M.M. Sacred Heart Kearny, N.J., and at St. Cabrini Resi- Sister Mary Reese, M.M. 60 YEARS dence, Philadelphia. She is retired Sister Aida Manlucu, M.M., Sister Elizabeth Roach, M.M. Sister Catherine Garry, M.S.C., a and resides at Sacred Heart Convent, a native of the Philippines, is Sister Kathleen Skenyon, M.M. native of New York City, serves in the Manhattan. national coordinator of Marriage Sister Rose Patrick St. Aubin, M.M. province offi ce for corporate busi- and Family Life for the Namibian Sister Nuncia St. Pierre, M.M. ness and archival matters. She served 50 YEARS Catholic Bishops Conference and Sister Vivian Vallee, M.M. the Institute of the Missionary Sisters Sister Antonina Avitabile, M.S.C., works with women there. She has Sister Cecilia Vandal, M.M. as provincial and provincial coun- a native of Brooklyn, serves on the developed and worked with Basic cilor. She was a teacher at Mother province’s fi nancial council and works Christian Communities in Guatemala Carmelite Sisters for the Cabrini Elementary School, Manhat- in accounting for the Mother Cabrini and Nicaragua. She served on the Aged and Infi rm tan. She also taught in Brooklyn and High School Corporation. She was an congregation’s orientation team for 80 YEARS in Philadelphia, and was a teacher accountant at Cabrini Medical Center new candidates. Sister M. Benigna Consolata Palm- and principal in New Orleans. She and Mother Cabrini High School. She iere, O. Carm., a native of Manhat- was administrator and spiritual direc- worked at Cabrini Health Care Center Sister Regina Pellicore, M.M., of tan, has served her congregation in tor at Cabrini Retreat Center, Des in Manhattan in the following posi- Chicago, is treasurer of Maryknoll various houses. She resides at St. Plaines, Ill. tions: clinic emergency room regis- Sisters. An educator, she fi rst taught Patrick’s Home in the Bronx, where trar, administrative assistant in the at St. Joseph’s School, the Bronx. she has lived since 1995. She looks Sister Mona Hallock, M.S.C., a na- dental department and director of the She also taught in Hawaii and in forward to celebrating her 100th tive of Los Angeles, taught at Mother admitting offi ce. She taught at schools Cambodia, where she did community birthday this year. Cabrini High School, Manhattan, in Brooklyn, and Philadelphia and development work with the poor. and in Scranton, Pa., and in Burbank, Scranton, Pa. She served at Cabrini She taught religious education and 60 YEARS Calif. She served as vice president for College in Radnor, Pa. She served as was involved with liturgical work at a Sister M. Shawn Bernadette Flynn, student affairs and dean of students administrator of St. Cabrini Hospital parish in Kaneohe, Hawaii. O. Carm., a native of Woodside, at Cabrini College, Radnor, Pa. She in Melbourne, Australia.

To Praise, To Love, To Adore Love Invites, Love Challenges, Love Impels for those who do not. For 200 years the Sisters of Charity have Lived Lives of Love CONTACT INFORMATION: How is Sisters of Charity Sr. Marie Aimee, OSS of New York Blessed Sacrament Monastery Contact Sr. Mary Mc Cormick 86 Dromore Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583. Being Revealed Vocation Director (914) 722-1657 • [email protected] [email protected] http://macc.catholic.org/ sacramentine/sacramentine.html www.scny.org 718.549.9200 Ext 302 April 28, 2016 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • HONORING OUR JUBILARIANS 19

Sister Lucy Panettieri, M.S.C., a Sisters of Mercy Mid-Atlantic in 2014. She resides at Marian Woods of Martyrs, Manhattan; Holy Name native of Villaba, Sicily, taught at Community in Hartsdale. of Mary, Croton-on-Hudson; Sacred Mother Cabrini Elementary School in 60 YEARS Heart, Highland Falls; St. Matthew’s, Manhattan. She is novice and junior Sister Elizabeth Marie McCarthy, Franciscan Sisters of Peace, Hastings-on-Hudson; and Sacred directress in West Park and serves as R.S.M., a Manhattan native, was a Haverstraw Heart, Yonkers. She also taught in a provincial councilor. She served as pastoral associate at Sacred Heart 75 YEARS New Jersey. She resides at St. Cabrini regional superior in Central America parish in Mount Vernon, 1984-2013. Sister Justine Marcucci, F.S.P., Nursing Home in Dobbs Ferry. and provincial superior in Argen- She earlier taught at Our Lady of was an elementary school teacher at tina and novice directress in Central Victory Elementary, Tarrytown; St. St. Columbanus School, Cortlandt 70 YEARS America and Argentina. She was Francis Xavier, the Bronx; and Our Manor; St. Patrick’s, Yorktown; and Sister Kathleen Doyle, F.S.P. candidate directress in Ethiopia. She Lady of Lourdes, Manhattan. She St. Matthew’s, Hastings-on-Hudson. worked as a nurse in Seattle and also was director of special education She also taught in New Jersey. She 65 YEARS taught in Philadelphia. at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry. She was general vicaress in Rome, Italy, Sister Francis Goguen, F.S.P. served in social service organizations and held leadership positions in the Sister Mary Daniel Bauer, F.S.P. Sister Arlene Van Dusen, M.S.C., a in Manhattan and Westchester. Now congregation. She was a parish min- Sister Ann Smith, F.S.P. native of Chicago, taught at Mother retired, she resides in Yonkers. ister among the migrant workers in Cabrini Elementary School in Man- Americus, Ga. Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary hattan and at a school in Philadel- Sister Ellen Marie Robarge, She is a volunteer serving the 60 YEARS phia. She serves as a provincial R.S.M., is a native of Worcester, homeless of New York City. She re- Sister Margarita Cardenas, councilor and is in charge of the Mass. In 1994, after 32 years teach- sides at Marian Woods in Hartsdale. R.S.H.M., who was born in Colombia, sisters’ health care. She was director ing in elementary schools in the is a volunteer at Cabrini Immigration of retirement and director of com- Worcester Diocese, she relocated to Sister Sebastian Conlon, F.S.P., Services, Manhattan. She has served munications for the community. She Westchester County. She served as was the administrator of the Lt. in child care at Kennedy Child Care worked at a hospital in Seattle, and the assistant to the president of the Joseph P. Kennedy Home in the Center, the Bronx; ABC Echo Park served as a local superior and provin- Sisters of Mercy and then as the com- Bronx. She taught at St. Jerome’s Early Childhood Center, Manhat- cial councilor there. munity archivist until her retirement School, the Bronx; Our Lady Queen CONTINUED ON PAGE 20

2016 marks the 53rd Anniversary of the World Day of Prayer for Vocations

Come, see for yourself what a joy it is to be a Carmelite Sister for the Aged and Infirm We are consecrated religious dedicated to the service and care of the Aged and Infirm, in the spirit and tradition of the Carmelite Order. We share a vision that love makes a difference. The Marianists In our shared life of prayer, community and ministry, we Province of Meribah strive to make Christ’s healing presence visible in the world.

For more information, contact Sr. Mary O’Donovan, O.Carm., Vocation Director 518-537-5000 | www.carmelitesisters.com 20 catholic new york • Honoring Our Jubilarians April 28, 2016

Sister Michaeline O’Dwyer, Sister Dorothy Golden, O.P., is a Pawtucket and Pascoag, R.I.; North Jubilarians R.S.H.M., is the alumni coordinator New York City native. She served Attleboro and Acushnet, Mass.; and continued from page 19 at Marymount International School as cottage mother at St. Dominic’s New Haven, Conn. She taught in Fall in Rome, where she was previously Home, Blauvelt, 1968-1972, and in River, Mass., 1957-1960. She lives in tan; Incarnation Children’s Center, a teacher and principal. She worked child care at the Cardinal Cooke North Smithfield, R.I. Manhattan, and other facilities. She in development for the Jesuit School Residence, Spring Valley, 1998-1999. resides in Manhattan. of Theology. She served as provincial She taught at Holy Cross School, Sister Barbara Farley, O.P., formerly secretary and councilor for the con- Manhattan, 1972-1984. She also served known as Sister Marie Celeste, taught Sister Brigid Driscoll, R.S.H.M., a gregation in Tarrytown. in New Jersey. She volunteered at the at Holy Rosary School, Hawthorne, native New Yorker, teaches math- gift shop at St. Dominic’s Convent, 1976-1977; Center for Developmental ematics at the Bedford Hills Cor- Sister Rosemary Seibert, R.S.H.M., Blauvelt, 2008-2012. Now retired, she Learning and Reading (Montessori), rectional Facility as part of the spent many years in the health care cares for her sister Marge. Newburgh, 1973-1974; Regina Coeli, Marymount Manhattan College field, including pastoral work at St. Hyde Park, 1966-1973, where she also program. She was a faculty member Cabrini Nursing Home in Dobbs 70 Years taught Montessori instruction, 1974- and president of Marymount Col- Ferry, and in Massachusetts and Sister Louis Marie Baxter, O.P. 1976; St. Augustine, Larchmont, 1965- lege, Tarrytown. She served as the Connecticut. She was involved in Sister Mary Ellen Cameron, O.P., 1966; and Bishop Dunn Memorial congregation’s non-governmental R.S.H.M. schools in Queens and on Sister Victoria Sloane, O.P. School, Newburgh, 1956-1957. She also organization (NGO) representative at Long Island. Now retired, she resides Sister Eileen Tierney, O.P., former- served as a teacher, principal and direc- the United Nations. at Marymount Convent, Tarrytown. ly Sister Justin tor of religious education at schools and parishes in New Jersey. Now re- Sister Ethna Egan, R.S.H.M., who 50 Years Dominican Sisters of Hope tired, she resides in Asbury Park, N.J. was born in Ireland, is teaching at Sister Mary Heyser, R.S.H.M., 60 YEARS Marymount International School serves as the Marymount alumni Sister Marion Michael Beagen, O.P., Sister Barbara Hamilton, O.P., in Paris. She taught at St. Thomas chaplain at Fordham University. She was a specialist in children’s literature taught at Bishop Dunn Memorial Aquinas School, the Bronx. She also was campus minister at Dominican at Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, School, Newburgh, 1968-2009; Holy taught at R.S.H.M. schools on Long College, Blauvelt, and was a provin- from 1988 until she retired in 2014. Family School, New Rochelle, 1967- Island, and in Richmond, Va., and cial councilor. She was involved in She taught religion at Franciscan High 1968; and St. Paul School in Jersey Colombia. She was principal at St. parish work and social outreach in School, Mohegan Lake, 1986-1988, City, N.J., 1958-1967. She was recog- Catharine’s in Brooklyn. Colorado, Virginia and Florida and in and taught religion and was religious nized with the archdiocese’s Eliza- the Zambezi Region in southern Af- education director at St. Ann’s parish, beth Seton Compassionate Educator Sister Maria Mercedes Gomez, rica. She was instrumental in starting Nyack, 1981-1985, and Sacred Heart Award in 1994, the Walmart Teacher R.S.H.M., was born in Colombia. the Florida Community Loan Fund. School, Newburgh, 1971-1979. She also of the Year Award in 1996 and Dis- She served on the support staff at taught in New Jersey. tinguished Alumni Award, Mount St. Marymount Tarrytown and Cormaria 70 Years Mary College, Newburgh, in 2000. Retreat Center, Sag Harbor. She was Sister Christine Marian, R.S.H.M., Sister Lorraine Beauchesne, O.P., She retired in 2009. involved in mission work in Florencia Sister Carolyn Roesel, R.S.H.M., was a member of the St. Anne parish and Cartagena, both in Colombia. choir in Fall River, Mass., 1966-2013, Sister Patricia Jelly, O.P., taught She lives at Marymount Convent in 65 Years and the Bristol interfaith choir, 1993- at Bishop Dunn Memorial School, Tarrytown. Sister Joan Regis Catherwood, 2013. She is a Eucharistic minister, Newburgh, 1965-1969, and Holy Fam- R.S.H.M., lector and leader of song at St. Anne’s. ily, New Rochelle, 1960-1965. She Sister Bridget Mary Lyng, R.S.H.M., Sister Francisca Grace, R.S.H.M., Since retiring, she has served as par- was principal at Our Lady of Fatima, who was born in Ireland, was involved Sister Marjorie Keenan, R.S.H.M., ish secretary and bookkeeper for St. Scarsdale 1973-1977, and St. Augus- in social outreach and parish work in Sister Maeve O’Connor, R.S.H.M., Anne’s, and as a greeter and wake at- tine, Larchmont, 1970-1973. She was the Baltimore area. She taught at the tendant at a local funeral home. prioress in Newburgh, 1983-1991, and Gerard School, and R.S.H.M. schools 40 Years also served in West Virginia and in Illinois, Missouri and Virginia. She Sister Catherine Vincie, R.S.H.M., Sister Eileen Breen, O.P., was a nurse New Jersey. She was president of the resides in Tarrytown. at the Tolentine-Zeiser Community Dominican Leadership Conference, Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt Life Center, the Bronx, 1985-1988, and 1988-1989; Leadership Conference of Sister Gerry McGinn, R.S.H.M., 60 Years the Dominican Sisters Family Health Women Religious National Executive is a volunteer chaplain at Phelps Sister Mary Doris, O.P., formerly Services, Bronx, 1968-1984. She was Committee, 1985-1987; and Chair of Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow. Sister James Dominic, was born in in the congregation’s administration, LCWR, Region 2, 1984-1987. She was a guidance counselor at St. Scotland. In 1990, along with Sis- 1980-1988. She also served in Missis- Barnabas High School, the Bronx. She ter Margaret Mc Dermott, O.P., she sippi, 1991-2014; Washington, 1988-1991; Sister Brigid Kelly, O.P., has been taught at the former Mother Butler opened Siena House, a homeless Hampton Bays, 1964-1968; and Detroit, involved in elementary education for Memorial High School, the Bronx. shelter in the Bronx for pregnant 1960-1964. She retired in 2014. all of her religious life. She taught in She also taught on Long Island. She women and young mothers spon- New Jersey at schools in Parsippany, was a pastoral assistant at parishes in sored by the Tolentine Zeiser Com- Sister Roberta Ann Bucci, O.P., Passaic, Succasunna and Gloucester. Brooklyn and on Long Island. munity Life Center. She taught at taught at Christ the King School, The native of Carrowkeel Clonfan- St. Margaret School, Pearl River, Yonkers, 1974-1978, and St. Mary lough, Ireland, retired in 2007. Sister Virginia McKenna, R.S.H.M., 1962-1968; St. Benedict School, 1968- School, Newburgh, 1969-1970. She was a librarian at Marymount Col- 1969; St. Nicholas of Tolentine High also taught and served as a librarian Sister Barbara Langlois, O.P., taught lege, Tarrytown, and Marymount School, the Bronx, 1969-1975 and in schools in Connecticut and New at schools in Fall River, Mass., and in University, Arlington, Va. She taught 1980-1981; and in Florida. She was vo- Jersey. Now retired, she resides at a Plattsburgh. Since 1998, she has cared at R.S.H.M. schools on Long Island cation director for the congregation. parish in Lawrenceville, N.J. for her elderly parents in Plattsburgh. and in Florida and Illinois. She is on She taught general education classes the staff at Cormaria Retreat Center, at Highbridge Community Life Cen- Sister Mary Martin Delahanty, Sister Ann Victor Mazza, O.P., Sag Harbor. ter, the Bronx. O.P., was a principal at schools in taught at Holy Family School, New April 28, 2016 CATHOLIC NEW YORK • HONORING OUR JUBILARIANS 21

Rochelle, 1973-1975, and St. Thomas Convent, Newburgh, 1989-1994. She Michael Academy, the Bronx. She Teresa, Woodside, Queens. She was a School, Pleasantville, 1971-1972. She also taught and was a director of taught at Blessed Sacrament-St. group mother at Cardinal McCloskey, also taught at several New Jersey religious education at schools and Gabriel High School, New Rochelle, White Plains and a substitute teacher schools and was principal in Passaic, parishes in New Jersey. 1986-1996; Our Lady of Victory at Rosary Academy and a secretary at N.J., 1996-1998. She worked as an oc- School, Mount Vernon, 1973-1986; and St. Thomas Aquinas College, and she cupational therapist in New Jersey. Sister Monica Socinski, O.P., St. Ursula, Mount Vernon, 1968-1973. offered her nursing and secretarial taught at Loyola School, Manhattan, She was dean of freshmen at Rice skills in Siena Hall at Dominican Sister Margaret O’Henley, O.P., 1990-1991; Albertus Magnus High High School, Harlem, 2006-2011; Convent. She resides at Dominican worked in public health nursing for School, Bardonia, 1985-1990; Mount teacher and campus minister at Iona Convent, Sparkill. the Dominican Sisters of the Sick St. Mary Academy, Newburgh, 1973- Preparatory School, New Rochelle, Poor in Manhattan, 1967-1968, and did 1975; and Our Lady of Lourdes High 1996-2002; coordinator of SEARCH 75 YEARS clerical work at Calvary Hospital, the School, Poughkeepsie, 1958-1961 and retreats for young adults in CYO, Sister Helen Catherine Cassidy, Bronx, 1961-1967. She also served in 1962-1973. She also taught in New 1988-1999; and a leader of the Girls O.P., an elementary and high school Detroit and Columbus, Ohio. She re- Jersey. She resides at a convent in Scouts of Westchester-Putnam Coun- teacher for 28 years, served in tired from active ministry in 1995 and Atlantic Highlands, N.J. She is a sub- ties, 1974-1984. Thorpe Secretarial School, Man- has resided at The Villa at Redford, stitute cantor at weekend Masses and hattan, 1951-1971. She also taught in in Redford, Mich., since 2005. a teacher of adult religious education. 70 YEARS Brooklyn and St. Louis. She was a Sister Janice Dionne, O.P. secretary and offi ce assistant to the Sister Arlene Oswald, O.P., former- Sister Mary Rita Sweeney, O.P., Sister Doris McKernan, O.P. congregational leadership team, 1971- ly known as Sister Mary Mark, has taught at Our Lady of Lourdes High Sister Mary Carolyn Meehan, O.P. 2006. Retired since 2006, she resides been a pastoral associate and director School, Poughkeepsie, 1965-1968, and Sister Mary Ellen Wisner, O.P. in Siena Hall, Sparkill. of religious education at Our Lady St. Thomas School, Pleasantville, of Mount Carmel parish in Nutley, 1960-1963. She was the executive Dominican Sisters of Sparkill 60 YEARS N.J., since 1996. She was director of secretary to the Dominican Sisters, 80 YEARS Sister Eileen Barrow, O.P., is as- religious education at the northern Newburgh, 1974-1979. She also taught Sister Mary Angelica Culhane, sistant principal of St. Elizabeth’s region of the Diocese of Syracuse, in New Jersey and Connecticut, and O.P., taught at St. John Chrysostom School, Washington Heights. She 1983-1989; St. Mary parish, Fishkill, served as a principal in Connecticut. School, St. Joseph, St. Ann and St. was principal of St. Rose of Lima, 1975-1981; and Religious Education Anthony, all in the Bronx; St. Agnes, 1977-1986, and assistant principal of St. Center, Newburgh, 1970-1975. She Sister Joan Ruth Whittle, O.P., is Sparkill; and St. Catherine of Siena, Jude’s, 1986-1988, both in Manhattan. was administrator of Mount St. Mary a volunteer librarian at Mount St. Manhattan. She also taught at St. CONTINUED ON PAGE 22

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1971-1979. She taught in the Bronx at St. Martin of Village, 1980-1998, both in Sparkill. She taught at Jubilarians Tours and Our Lady of Grace, and in Hicksville and Msgr. Scanlan High School, the Bronx; St. Rose of continued from page 21 Binghamton. Lima, Manhattan; St. Agnes School, Sparkill; and in Queens and Fulton. From 1988 to 1996, she served on the congregation’s Sister Jeannine DeClue, O.P., is regional represen- executive team. She taught at Most Precious Blood, tative for the congregation in St. Louis. She taught Sister Maureen Foy, O.P., is the congregational Walden; St. Helena, the Bronx; Our Lady of Mount in the Bronx at St. Brendan’s, 1965-1966; Our Lady archivist for the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill. She Carmel, Middletown; St. Anthony, Nanuet; St. Agnes, of Grace, 1961-1962; St. Ann’s, 1959-1961; and St. John served as assistant administrator at Dominican Con- Sparkill; and in the Diocese of Rockville Centre. Chrysostom, 1958-1959. She also taught in Fulton. vent and was property coordinator at Villa St. Joseph, Since 1966, she has served in Missouri as a teacher, Saugerties. She taught at Aquinas High School, 1994- Sister Helen Robert Boyd, O.P., is assistant profes- pastoral associate, director of religious education 1996; St. Anthony’s, Matilda Avenue, 1967-1970; and sor of history at Iona College. She was principal of and campus minister. St. Martin of Tours, 1958-1961, all in the Bronx. She Albertus Magnus High School, Bardonia, 1989-1996; was principal in Brooklyn, Oneonta and Schenectady, St. Thomas of Canterbury School, Cornwall-on- Sister Natale DeNatale, O.P., taught at St. Antho- and also taught in Brooklyn and Hicksville. Hudson, 1979-1989; and St. Augustine’s, New City, ny’s, Nanuet, 1964-1967, and served in child care at St. Rose Settlement, Manhattan, 1963-1964. She served in Sister Carol Kopff, O.P., taught at St. Agnes School, the Diocese of Rockville Centre as a teacher, secre- 1959-1961, and in Fulton. Since 1963, she has served in tary, dental assistant instructor and in mission and Missouri, where she was a teacher, pastoral associate ministry with an ambulance service. She served at a and director of religious education, and served at a boys’ home in Delaware. Now retired, she resides in correctional center. Rockville Centre. Sister Suzanne Laughlin, O.P., taught at St. Rose of Sister Marilyn Dunn, O.P., is a nurse practitioner at Lima in Manhattan, 1958-1961, and in Hicksville and Dominican Convent, Sparkill. She previously served Fulton. Serving in Missouri since 1964, she has been with the Rockland County Department of Health, a principal and teacher. She previously worked in and with health care organizations in Ossining, Rock- volunteer management at a hospital in St. Louis. land, Peekskill, Yonkers and Washington, D.C. She was a nurse supervisor in Haverstraw, a nurse at St. Sister Claire MacDonald, O.P., is chaplain at St. Clare’s Hospital, Manhattan, and head nurse at Ny- Francis Hospital, Roslyn. She also was a chaplain at ack Hospital. She was co-director of Encore Senior St. Cabrini Nursing Home, Dobbs Ferry, 1996-1997, Center at St. Malachy’s in Manhattan. She taught at and in New Jersey. She served in the Bronx as librar- St. Helena’s, the Bronx. ian at St. Helena Commercial High School, 1985-1995, and St. Helena’s School, 1973-1978; principal of St. Sister Mary Dunning, O.P., community histo- Ann’s, 1978-1985; and a teacher at St. Joseph’s, 1958- rian, is writing the next volume of the history of 1961. She taught and was principal at St. Columba’s, the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill. She served on Chester, 1970-1973, and taught at St. Pius X, Scarsdale, the congregation’s executive team, 2000-2004; the 1968-1970, and in Queens and Missouri. convent’s executive board, 1976-1980; and at St. Agnes Residence, Sparkill. She was on the staff of Dowling Sister Maureen Massett, O.P., who is retired, was Gardens in 1999 and was project manager at Thorpe finance manager at Thorpe Village for seniors in

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Sparkill, 1980-2013. She taught at Rosary 50 YEARS 70 YEARS principal and teacher at St. John Villa Academy, 1976-1980, and St. Agnes Sister Dorothy Kelty, O.P., is librarian Sister Katherine Gaffney, O.P. Academy in Santiago. She also served School, 1958-1959, both in Sparkill; at St. Anthony School, Nanuet, and St. Sister Celeste Leger, O.P. her community as regional superior Aquinas High School, 1969-1976, St. Gregory Barbarigo School, Garnerville, Sister Agnes Cunningham, O.P. and directress of formation. Theresa’s, 1967-1969, and St. John Chrys- where she taught 1982-1985. She was a Sister Helen Francis Curnan, O.P. ostom, 1959-1960, all in the Bronx; and teacher at St. Rose of Lima, Manhat- Sister Jeanine Nolan, O.P. 50 YEARS in Fulton. tan, 1980-1982; Most Precious Blood, Sister Jeanne Burns, O.P. Sister John Agnes Barone, C.S.JB., Walden, 1972-1980; and in Brooklyn. Sister Elizabeth David Scannell, O.P. is residing at General House in Sister Margaret McPartland, O.P., Rome, serving her second term is a staff member at Dowling Gar- Sister Mary Murray, O.P., is presi- 65 YEARS as vicar general. She was elected dens, a senior residence. She was a dent of the Dominican Sisters of Sister Margaret Teahan, O.P. vicar councilor on the General parish minister at St. John’s, Pier- Sparkill. She served as an executive Sister Catherine Kinsella, O.P. Government leadership team, moving mont, 1983-1986, and Our Lady of the team member, 2007-2010 and 1996- Sister Margaret Patricia McDer- to Rome in 2007. She was an early Scapular, Manhattan, 1978-1982. She 2000. She was director and teacher mott, O.P. childhood teacher in St. John Villa was coordinator of religious educa- of the preschool program at St. Sister Elizabeth Therese Hurteau, Academy, Staten Island, and an tion at St. Elizabeth’s, Washington Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, O. P. executive officer at Providence Rest Heights. She taught at Albertus 1995-1996; teacher at St. Stephen-St. Sister Alice Madeline Smith, O.P. Day Care, the Bronx. She served Magnus High School, Bardonia; St. Edward School, Warwick, 1986-1995; Sister Eileen Loftus, O.P. two terms as provincial superior, Paul’s School, Valley Cottage; and St. St. Ignatius Day Nursery, Manhattan, Sister Margaret Breslin, O.P. 1999-2007, and also was provincial Brendan’s, the Bronx. 1981-1982; Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Sister Alfred Marie Toole, O.P. secretary and councilor, directress of Middletown, 1973-1981; and St. Rose Sister Carolyn Brambilla, O.P. vocations and local superior. Sister Catherine O’Leary, O.P., is of Lima, Manhattan, 1970-1973. She health coordinator at St. Dominic’s slso served in Great Falls and Bill- Sisters of St. John the Baptist Sister Seline Mary Flores, C.S.JB., Convent, Blauvelt. She served at Fran- ings, Mont., and in Hicksville. 75 YEARS is the chief executive officer of ces Schervier Home and Hospital, now Sister Mary Angelica Malanga, Providence Rest Nursing Home, Schervier Nursing Care Center, in the Sister Margaret Jennings, O.P., is C.S.JB., served as general treasurer Bronx, where she previously served Bronx, 1989-1990; Immaculate Concep- a staff member at Dowling Gardens. at the congregation’s General House as administrator for 15 years. She tion, Amenia and its mission, St. Pat- She taught in the Bronx at St. Athana- in Rome. She was regional superior was provincial councilor, 1993-1997 rick’s, Millerton, 1986-1989; St. Gregory sius, 1995-2007; St. Nicholas of Tolen- of the vice-province of Chile, where and 2007-2015, and local superior of Barbarigo, Garnerville, 1983-1985; and tine, 1992-1993; and St. John Chrysos- she also served as a school principal Mount St. John Convent, Purchase. with the Catholic School Administra- tom, 1974-1979. From 1982 to 1992, she in Ovalle and did mission work in She taught science at St. John Villa tors Association of New York State in was coordinator of the archdiocese’s Santiago. She was a teacher and Academy, Staten Island, 1969-1979, Albany, 1975-1982. She was develop- Separated/Divorced Ministry. She bookkeeper at St. John Villa High and served as an administrator at ment director at Albertus Magnus participated in the Career Options School, Staten Island. She has resided the high school for an additional 10 High School in Bardonia; principal of Program at Calvary Hospital, 1993- at Providence Rest Convent, the years. She resides at Providence Rest St. Christopher’s School, Red Hook; 1994. She was secretary at Hartley Bronx, since 2008. Convent, the Bronx. and taught at Sacred Heart School, House, Manhattan, 1980-1982, and Monroe; St. Vito’s, Mamaroneck; St. also served in Brooklyn, St. Louis and 60 YEARS 25 YEARS Brendan’s, the Bronx; St. Anthony’s, Oakland, Calif. Sister Mary Eucharia Iannuci, Sister Amelia Marie Cueva, C.S.JB., Nanuet; and in Fulton. C.S.JB., was an educator at Dante is the local superior of St. Fortunata Sister Mary Aileen Donovan, O.P., Alighieri High School, Toronto, Convent, Brooklyn, and coordinator Sister Elizabeth Slenker, O.P., is an is executive director of Marian Woods, 1975-1996, and Our Lady of Loreto of religious education at St. Sylvester artist in St. Ann, Mo. She was an asso- Hartsdale. She was pastoral care Convent, New York, 1958-1963. She parish, also in Brooklyn. She was ciate professor at St. Thomas Aquinas director at CenterLight Healthcare, served in New York and Hamilton, director of religious education at St. College, 1975-1994, and an artist and Bronx, 2010-2014, and Holy Family Ontario, ministries, and assisted with Margaret Mary parish, Staten Island, historian at Dominican Convent, Sisters, California, 2007-2010. From parish work while residing at St. 2007-2012, and then held a leadership 1974-1975, both in Sparkill. She taught 1982 to 1993, she was co-director of the Lucy’s Convent in Newark, N.J. Born position in the local community of at Aquinas High School, St. Martin of Corazon Program at Villa St. Dominic, in Italy, she resides at the retirement St. John Villa Convent, Staten Island. Tours School and Our Lady of Grace, Glasco. She served in the Catechist home at Mount St. John Convent, She was assistant principal at St. Roch all in the Bronx, and in Missouri. Formation Program, 1980-1982, and Purchase. School, Staten Island, 2005-2007. She the Bronx Learning Center, 1979-1980, taught at St. Dominic School, the Sister Agnes Bernard Waugh, O.P., and taught at Most Precious Blood, Sister Raphael Marie Spano, Bronx, 1993-1996 and 2003-2005, and St. is secretarial assistant at St. Paul’s Walden, 1972-1979, and Our Lady of C.S.JB., is a high school librarian at Lucy School, Newark, N.J., 1996-2003. School, Valley Cottage. She served at Mount Carmel, Middletown, 1969-1971. St. John Villa Academy, Staten Island, Dowling Gardens, Sparkill, 2001-2011; where she also taught elementary Sister Linett Puramadathil, C.S.JB., Clove Lake Nursing Home, Staten Is- 25 YEARS school. She taught at St. Dominic’s teaches in St. John the Baptist Child land, 1998-2001; and Calvary Hospital, Sister Jeanne Shary, O.P., has been School, the Bronx, and at schools in Day Care, Purchase. She served as the Bronx, 1996-1997. She was prin- recreation therapist for Cardinal Mc- New Jersey and Connecticut. a bookkeeper and teacher in India cipal of Our Lady of Fatima School, Closkey Services, White Plains, since before coming to the United States Scarsdale, 1989-1995; St. Barnabas 1996. She served in this capacity at St. Sister John Marie White, C.S.JB., in 2005 to minister in the American Elementary School, the Bronx, 1981- Dominic’s, Blauvelt, 1995-1996. She is presently the vice-provincial Province. She resides at Mount St. 1986; and St. Christopher’s School, was in pastoral care at Cardinal Mc- superior in Santiago, Chile. In 1996, John Convent, Purchase. Red Hook, 1980-1981. She taught at St. Closkey, 1994-1995, and was a pastoral she began the first of her two terms Matthew’s, Hastings-on-Hudson; St. associate in St. Margaret, Pearl River, as the congregation’s superior 65 YEARS Vito’s, Mamaroneck; St. Anthony’s, 1993-1995. From 1988 to 1992, she was general in Rome. She was assigned Sister Bernadette Baldassano, Nanuet; St. Helena’s, the Bronx; and activity therapy director at St. Vin- to the congregation’s mission in C.S.JB. in Norwich. cent’s Hospital, Manhattan. Santiago in 1959 and served as continued on page 24 24 catholic new york • Honoring Our Jubilarians April 28, 2016

been chaplain at St. Joseph’s Medi- John’s in Goshen; and St. Frances of Redemptoristine Nuns, Beacon Jubilarians cal Center, Yonkers, since 1991. She Rome and Holy Rosary, both in the 25 Years continued from page 23 was the infirmary administrator at Bronx. She also taught at a school in Sister Moira Quinn, O.Ss.R., is the Presentation motherhouse, New Houma, La. prioress of the Redemptoristine Sisters of the Presentation of the Windsor, and director of a career Nuns. Before moving in 2013 to the Blessed Virgin Mary, New Windsor options program at Calvary Hospital, 50 Years Carmelite Monastery of the Incarna- 60 Years the Bronx. She also served in a clini- Sister Patricia Anastasio, P.B.V.M., is tion in Beacon, their monastery of Sister Frances Capich, P.B.V.M., is cal pastoral program in Massachu- serving her second term as president Our Mother of Perpetual Help was in office administrator for the Marist setts. She taught at St. Paul, Yonkers; of the congregation. She was district Esopus. She has also served the com- Brothers insurance office in the Holy Rosary and Our Lady of Solace, superintendent of schools for the arch- munity as vicar and secretary. Bronx. She taught in the archdiocese the Bronx; St. Joseph, New Windsor; diocese and associate superintendent at St. Jude, Manhattan; Our Lady of and at a school in Louisiana. of teacher personnel. She taught at St. Sisters of the Catholic Apostolate Solace, Holy Rosary and Immaculate Bartholomew, Yonkers; St. Jude, Man- (Pallottines) Conception, all in the Bronx; and Sister Helen Raynor, P.B.V.M., min- hattan; Holy Rosary, the Bronx; and in 75 YEARS St. Bartholomew, Yonkers. She also istered to Hispanics for many years, Queens and in New Orleans. Sister Leonore Parlati, S.A.C, served taught in the Diocese of Brooklyn. most recently at St. Patrick’s parish, for 50 years in the archdiocese as a Newburgh, 1999-2013, and before that, Sister Yliana Hernandez, P.B.V.M., teacher and principal in the Bronx, Sister Mary Anne Diehl, P.B.V.M., in Sullivan County and at St. Jude’s is principal of the Nora Cronin Manhattan and on Staten Island, who is retired, was a pastoral assistant parish, Manhattan. She also taught at Presentation Academy in Newburgh. and 14 years in Kearny, N.J. She also at Immaculate Conception parish in a school in Queens. She served in the Hispanic Catholic taught English as a Second Language Queens. She taught at St. Frances of Center in Newburgh. She worked in in the federally funded program. Now Rome and Our Lady of Solace, both Sister Patricia Reilly, P.B.V.M., was evangelization in Sicuani, Peru. She retired, she resides at Queen of the in the Bronx; St. Mary, Kingston; and until recently the assistant adminis- directed the Spanish ministry at a Apostles Convent, Monroe. St. John, Goshen. She also taught in trator at Nagle Hall, the retirement parish in Port Washington, and did Queens and Louisiana. She served on residence for the Presentation Sisters similar ministry at St. Patrick, New- Marist Brothers the archdiocese’s parish mission team of the Blessed Virgin Mary in New burgh. She was the congregational 50 YEARS and directed the Independent Living Windsor. Her teaching career was treasurer. She taught at St. Jude, Man- Brother John Klein, F.M.S., works Program in the Bronx. devoted entirely to the education of hattan, and John S. Burke Catholic and resides in East Harlem as a children in the primary grades and High School, Goshen. member of Comunidad Juan Diego. Sister Dolores Doyle, P.B.V.M., has kindergarten, for many years at St. He was a teacher at St. Helena and Sister Maria Lopez, P.B.V.M., is the Archbishop Molloy high schools, and pastoral care associate for Hospice served as principal of Archbishop at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston. Molloy and president of Marist High She coordinated the International School in Bayonne, N.J. He was pro- Become an augustinian Presentation Association, and mis- vincial of the Marist Brothers in the sion promotion for the Society for United States and served in Rome as Recollect PRiest oR BRotheR! the Propagation of the Faith. She was a General Council member. involved in parish and pastoral min- istry in Queens and in Sicuani, Peru, Brother Sean Sammon, F.M.S., and Caracas, Venezuela. She taught at resides and works at Marist College St. Frances of Rome, the Bronx, and as a scholar in residence. He taught John S. Burke Catholic High School, at St. Agnes High School in Manhat- Goshen, and in Queens. tan. He has served the Marist Broth- ers as provincial in the United States 70 Years as well as vicar general and superior Sister Josephine Ortner, P.B.V.M. general for the congregation in Rome. He earned his doctorate in clinical Sisters of Charity of New York psychology from Fordham University. 75 YEARS Sister Marion Halpin, S.C., formerly Edmund Rice Christian Brothers Sister Marie James, taught at SS. Peter North America and Paul, Bronx, 1962-1963; St. Patrick, 60 YEARS Manhattan, 1955-1958; St. Barnabas, Brother Jake Michael Binkley, C.F.C., Bronx 1943-1953; and St. Agnes, Man- was principal at Power Memorial hattan, 1941-1942. She also worked in Academy, Manhattan, 1978-1984, where the New York Foundling accounting he also taught, 1964-1975. He taught at office, 1953-1955 and 1958-1962; and the All Hallows High School, Bronx, 1959- COME AND SEE! ¡VEN Y VERÁS! College of Mount St. Vincent student 1961. He also taught in Newark, N.J., Order of Augustinian Recollects aid program, 1963-1970. She served as and West Roxbury, Mass. www.augustinianrecollects.us a geriatric social worker for Catholic Charities, Manhattan, 1972-1982. She 50 YEARS Our mission embraces a variety of Provincial Fr. Ramón Gaitán, OAR Fr. John Gruben, OAR praiseworthy apostolates, such as parish Saint Cloud Monastery Saint Augustine Priory Tagaste Monastery served in parish ministry in Pawling, Brother Anthony Patrick Bechner, ministry and retreats, which enrich our 29 Ridgeway Avenue 400 Sherwood Way 220 Lafayette Avenue 1982-1998, before retiring in 1998. C.F.C., was a teacher at All Hallows community and the people of God whom West Orange, NJ Oxnard, CA 93033 Suffern, NY 10901 High School, Bronx, 1991-2015, and we serve through the living out of our 07052-3217 [email protected] 845-357-0067, ext. 32 65 YEARS Power Memorial Academy, Man- Augustinian Recollect charism of “one [email protected] 805-204-8440 mind and one heart intent upon God.” 973-731-0616, ext. 17 805-486-7433, ext. 125 Sister Maria Louis Octavio, S.C. hattan, 1970-1975. He also served in Sister Elizabeth Stelmack, S.C. Rochester and West Roxbury, Mass. April 28, 2016 catholic new york • Honoring Our Jubilarians 25

70 YEARS tor and assistant principal at Bishop 25 YEARS San Juan, Puerto Rico Brother John Stephen O’Keefe, Loughlin High School, Brooklyn, Brother Francis Eells, F.S.C., has Father Ignatius Harding, O.F.M., C.F.C. 1965-1980. He also served in Queens, served as the District of Eastern of La Paz, Bolivia Suffolk County and Chicago; Mas- North America Vocation Director in Brother Vianney Justin, O.F.M., of Brothers of the Christian Schools sachusetts, Rhode Island and New the Bronx since 2013 and the princi- Buffalo 60 YEARS Mexico; and France and Kenya. pal of San Miguel School in Wash- Father Gerard Lee, O.F.M., of Brother Stephen Caplice, F.S.C., ington since 2002. He also taught at Loudonville has been a tutor at St. Peter’s Boys Brother Luke Maher, F.S.C., who West Catholic High School, Phila- Father Daniel Riley, O.F.M., of High School, Staten Island, since retired in 2005, has resided at Man- delphia, 1997-2001, and Carroll High West Clarksville 2011. He taught at La Salle Academy, hattan College since 2012. He served School, Radnor, Pa., 1993-1996, and Brother Alan Thomas, O.F.M., of Manhattan, 2000-2011; Lincoln as assistant superintendent of the was summer session principal at San St. Petersburg, Fla. Hall, Lincolndale, 1976-1979; Good Newark Archdiocese, 1972-1975. He Miguel School in Camden, N.J. Father Kevin Tortorelli, O.F.M., of Shepherd School, Manhattan, 1962- was a teacher or administrator at New York City 1964; and St. Thomas the Apostle, schools in Washington, D.C., and in 70 YEARS Manhattan, 1960-1962. At St. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland Brother John McAndrew, F.S.C. 25 Years Raymond High School, the Bronx, and California. Father Francis Di Spigno, O.F.M., he served as principal, 1981-1983, 40 YEARS of Allegany and vice principal, 1979-1981. He Brother James Wallace, F.S.C., has Brother Michael McLoughlin, F.S.C. Brother Patrick Fereday, O.F.M., also served in Brooklyn and Albany; resided at Manhattan College since of Butler, N.J. Rhode Island, New Jersey and New returning to the United States in 2015. Franciscan Friars, Holy Name Father Lawrence Ford, O.F.M., of Mexico; and Guatemala, El Salvador, He worked at Manhattan College as Province, Manhattan New York City Ethiopia and Mexico. vice president for mission, 2010-2013; 50 Years Father John Leonard, O.F.M., of sub-director, 1992-1996; and professor Father Peter Ahlheim, O.F.M., of Hartford, Conn. Brother Louis Jaeger, F.S.C., who in the School of Education, 1990-1996. Butler, N.J. Father Paul Lostritto, O.F.M., of retired in 2005, has resided on Staten He also served in Buffalo, Syracuse Father Michael Duffy, O.F.M., of New York City Island since 2011. He was a teacher, and Troy, and Kenya, South Africa, Philadelphia department chairman, athletic direc- Ethiopia and Jamaica. Father Alfonso Guzmán, O.F.M., of

Marist Brother Sammon Finds Grace in Saying Yes

By CHRISTIE L. CHICOINE cause to me, that’s what it was about at the very An author of 11 beginning.” books, and two in the arist Brother Seán D. Sammon, F.M.S., Born in Manhattan, he entered the Marist works, Brother Seán is grateful for the generosity of the Brothers in 1965, the year he graduated also speaks French and M Blessed Mother in guiding him through from Marist Prep in Cold Spring, and made final Spanish. five decades of religious life. vows in 1979. A consummate cook, “Our founder always said to the brothers that we He acknowledges “the numbers of lay Marists he savors “The Silver do Mary’s work in the world, and it’s her responsi- and Marist brothers” around the world “doing just Palate Cookbook” and bility for things to come to fruition,” said Brother terrific service work with young people, changing is partial to nouveau Seán, who is 68 and celebrating his 50th jubilee. lives.” cuisine. “I like to ex- Such a sentiment “was very consoling to me, Brother Seán believes the congregation’s found- periment. Sometimes that it was someone else’s work I was about, so er, St. Marcellin Chammpagnat, “would be ab- I have disasters, but the gifts and the skills that I had hopefully could solutely stunned by the resources” of the order. most of the time they be used for the institute and its mission.” “When he started, he had relatively little money. come out very well.” “I couldn’t imagine having spent 50 years any bet- He was a country priest in France with this dream He earned a doctor- ter. If I had to live the same life over, I would,” said of a Marian church and really changing the lives ate in clinical psychol- Brother Seán D. Sammon, F.M.S. Brother Seán, who since 2009 has been a scholar in of young people.” ogy from Fordham residence at Marist College in Poughkeepsie. Today, Marist brothers and lay Marists span 80 University after completing undergraduate “Everything in which I’ve been involved has countries. work at Marist College. That field has been help- been challenging and exciting and life-giving.” The Marist Brothers he first met as a student ful throughout his ministry, he said, in “learning He was superior general of the Marist Broth- at St. Agnes Boys High School in Manhattan— how to listen well, to respect the stories of other ers in Rome, 2001-2009, and vicar general, 1993- where he would later teach psychology and serve people, to hold their lives sacred. It’s always to 2001. He served as president of the Conference as guidance counselor, 1970-1974—piqued his me such a privilege for someone to allow you of Major Superiors of Men in the United States, curiosity about a vocation to religious life and into their life and allow you to walk with them 1989-1991, and as provincial of the Poughkeepsie to that congregation in particular. The commu- on the journey.” Province, 1987-1993. nity’s fraternal nature attracted him, as did the Brother Seán suggests young men discerning a He remembers confreres of other orders once sense of equality among its members. “Whether call to be a Marist Brother consider this: “If you advising, “‘Never, ever say ‘no’ to your congrega- you’re a cook or you’re the superior general, or want to work directly with young people and tion because there will be a grace in that.’ And you’re teaching or running a university, it’s all help them fall in love with Jesus Christ, this is a that’s been true. And I’ve tried to live by that be- equally important,” he said. great way to do it.”