PRESENTATION DO ORWAYS offering hospitality to the world
Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Associates | Dubuque, Iowa | Summer 2013 COMMITTEEThe
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY by the Sisters of the Presentation 2360 Carter Road Dubuque, Iowa 52001-2997 USA Phone: 563-588-2008 Fax: 563-588-4463 Email: [email protected] Web site: www.dubuquepresentations.org
PUBLISHER Julianne Brockamp, PBVM
EDITOR/DESIGNER A Look Inside Jane Buse CONTENTS DOORWAYS COMMITTEE Sisters of the Presentation | Summer 2013 | Volume 56 • Number 2 Francine Quillin, PBVM; Colleen Venter, Associate; Leanne Welch, PBVM
The congregation is a member of Sisters United 4 A True Missionary News (SUN) of the Upper Mississippi Valley, After many years of ministering as a missionary in Guatemala National Communicators Network for Women and Bolivia, Sister Rita Menart welcomes a new ministry as Religious and the American Advertising Federation counselor and director of hispanic ministry for the Archdiocese of Dubuque. of Dubuque.
6 Installation of New Leadership Team Your With great joy, the Presentation community celebrates the T H O U G H T S installation of a new leadership team during a prayer service on June 15, 2013. & COMMENTS We want your input. Please send or email 10 New Hispanic Ministry: La Luz Hispana photos, stories and information about our On March 27, La Luz Hispana officially opened in Hampton, sisters, associates, former members, family Iowa. The center creates a space where Hispanics can come and friends, or any ideas which relate to the together to celebrate their cultural strengths and personal gifts. aim of this publication. Submit to: 12 Exceptional Individuals Honored Editor, Presentation Doorways Presentation Sisters initiated two scholarships and two awards 2360 Carter Road to further Foundress Nano Nagle’s legacy of education and her Dubuque, Iowa 52001-2997 desire to serve. Read about the well-deserved recipients. [email protected] 20 Where in the World is... After many years of teaching, Sister Donna Determan enjoys a ministry of community prayer and service at Mount Loretto, PHOTOSCover and a little ping pong, too. The doorways represented on the cover are 23 Keeping Her Name Alive snapshots of significant doors in the Presentation We remember Sisters Maria Goretti Dullard, Jocile Moes and history: (left to right) doorway of the current Ruth Ann Takes. motherhouse at 2360 Carter Road; doorway of St. Vincent’s Academy (now St. Columbkille) 27 Mount Loretto & Beyond in Dubuque in 1879; doorway of Sacred Heart We share with you special times in the lives of Dubuque Chapel at the current motherhouse; doorway of Presentation Sisters, near and far. the former motherhouse at 1229 Mount Loretta
Avenue which was built in 1909; and doorway by which Mother Vincent Hennessy left Mooncoin, Ireland, to begin the Dubuque foundation in 1874. On May 11, Sister Raeleen Sweeney received the first-ever-awarded Patricia Blunt Koldyke Lifetime Achievement Award for her years of service to the Golden Apple PHOTOCover Scholars Program. Sister Raeleen (right) accepts the award from Patricia Blunt Koldyke, co-founder of Golden Apple. Read more on page 8.
Contents photos: Top photo: Sister Rita Menart; Middle photo: Sister Carmen Hernandez; Bottom photo: Sister Donna Determan. a MessageOpenings from Leadership
As this article is being written, headlines flash across computer screens and are spoken on the evening news: Death toll from the collapse of the garment factory in Bangladesh exceeds 1,127... An Our enormous category E-5 tornado hits Moore, Oklahoma, flattening the city’s Plaza Towers Elementary PURPOSE School ... Syrian refugees endure crowded, lawless camps ... Wild fires threaten 1,000 homes in The purpose of Presentation California ... Missouri River flooding damages Iowa corn and soybean acres, impacting food prices. Doorways is to further the Gospel mission of the Sisters of Following the seven weeks of the Easter Season, we, as Ch