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UrsulinesSummer 2010

Vol. 8, No. 3

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Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint JosephFreeing and Nurturing Women and Children

Special Education Fits Ursuline Mission

Our MissiOn

We, the ursuline sisters of Mount saint Joseph,

sustained by prayer and vowed life in community,

proclaim Jesus through education and Christian formation

in the spirit of our founder, saint Angela Merici.

Our PurPOsEFreeing and Nurturing

Women and Children

Our COrE VALuEs

In this issueSpecial Education .................................3The Ursulines have been involved in special education in various forms for many years

40th Annual Picnic ...............................6Mount Saint Joseph will celebrate its 40th annual picnic on Sept. 12, 2010

Not Really Retired ................................9

Obituary ................................................9

2010 Jubilarians .................................10

Mount Saint Joseph Cookbook .........10

New Center Director ..........................11

Soli Deo Gloria ...................................12We rejoice in the gifts of our sisters, given for the kingdom of God

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Dear Friends, As I sat down to write my last letter for Ursulines Alive, I began thinking about all the news thats gone out between these covers just over the past six years of my leadership term: stories about Ursuline ministry, stories about individual sisters being honored for their work, stories about milestones in the communitys history. And it occurred to me how its not always possible to point your finger at one particular sister and say: There! She was the one who first saw the need for Ursulines to serve special needs childrenthe one who first thought about having a picnic to raise money for the South American Missionswhose idea it was to convert the former girls academy into a retreat center. And thats all right, because all of our new and great ideas ultimately flow from the spirit of one tiny little Italian woman and the company she founded in 1535. The staff and faculty of the Special Education department at Brescia University or Lakemary Center in Kansas, Sister Ann at the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center, Dan Heckel and the Mission Advancement Team who are now the guiding hands behind the picnicthey all know that they stand on the shoulders of giants. We each do our part, we each serve for our little moment in history, to continue the charism of Saint Angela Merici. Thank you, friends, for all you do to make this a better and more beautiful world. God bless you, and in the words of a Navajo blessing may you walk in beauty!

Sister Michele Morek, OSU

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From our Congregational Leader

...in the spirit of saint Angela Merici

Sister Michele

Ursulines Alive is published by the ursuline sisters of Mount saint Joseph, Maple Mount, Ky. three issues are published each calendar year.

EDitOrs: Director of Mission Advancement/Communications ........Dan Heckel, OSUA Communications Specialist/Graphic Design ......................Jennifer KaminskiMissiOn ADVAnCEMEnt stAFF: Director of Mission Effectiveness ......................................Sister Rose Marita OBryan Director of Spiritual Formation .........................................Sister Marietta Wethington Director of Ursuline Partnerships ......................................Marian Bennett, OSUA Administrative Specialist/Web Development ...................Tiffany Orth

COVEr: Above left: Sister Monica Seaton teaches special education students at Daviess County High School in Owensboro, Ky.

Left: Sister Sharon Sullivan talks with Jill Sparks, one of her former students at Brescia University, who was preparing to teach a special education course. Sister Sharon has a doctorate in special education.

Right: Sister Marcella Schrant enjoys talking to Lonnie Burhle, a resident of the Lakemary Center. Lakemary was founded

by the Ursuline Sisters of Paola, Kan., who merged with the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph in 2008.

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in special education today. That sounds imminently Ursuline to me.

The Brescia DifferenceAt least one Ursuline Sister has been involved with

special education since the 1960s, up to Sister Monica Seaton, who teaches special education at Daviess County High School in Owensboro.

Sister Sara Marie Gomez graduated from Brescia with a degree in special education in 1966, when a Franciscan sister was running the program. She taught for nine years in special education at three schools in Lebanon, Ky.

One of my classmates, Sister Leo Mary Boone, was in special ed, she had a brother with Down syndrome she helped take care of, Sister Sara Marie said of her motivation.

She enjoyed the children, but said it was a struggle because the schools werent prepared for special education. Nobody knew what we needed or what to do, Sister Sara Marie said. We just had very minimal books passed on from other grades.

Many people credit Sister George Ann Cecil with vaulting the special education program forward at Brescia when she came in 1967. (She died in 1985).

She traveled all over the state to see what kinds of programs were going on, said Sister Clarita Browning, an associate professor of education at Brescia from 1967-89 who worked closely with Sister George Ann. She wanted it to be the best. She believed if you were going to be a teacher, you had to be the best.

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The Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph and of Paola, Kan., knew little about each other in the mid-1960s, but they were both making strides during those years into a ministry that still defines them today special education.

At Maple Mount, a special education program that began at Brescia College in 1954 became a major in the mid-1960s. Today, that program graduates an average of seven special education teachers a year who are in the highest demand in Owensboro, Ky.

If employers know you are a special ed teacher from Brescia, you are a hot commodity, said Meghan Payne, an Ursuline Associate who teaches special education at the Owensboro 5-6 Center. She and her sister Sarah, also an associate, were both Brescia trained.

Sarah and I were both offered jobs before we graduated, Meghan said.

In Paola, the Ursulines joined with community members in 1969 to start the Lakemary Center, a residential program that continues to offer a safe, nurturing environment for children and adults with developmental disabilities.

The biggest, best thing we did was the Lakemary Center, said Sister Rita Redmond, who spent 26 years ministering at Lakemary as education materials coordinator. She is now retired at Maple Mount.

The Paola community merged with Mount Saint Joseph in 2008, and sisters from both communities believe special education is a natural fit with the Ursuline mission to identify a need, and then see that its met.

There was a great need for services for children with developmental disabilities, said Sister Pat Lynch, who ministered as a speech pathologist and then education coordinator at Lakemary for 13 years. We didnt even have that language. It was a very great need that we could respond to.

I believe it was Saint Irenaeus who said that the glory of God was a human fully alive, said Sister Sharon Sullivan, the outgoing academic dean at Brescia University, and a former head of the special education department. The students for whom special education first began (in 1830s France) were students on whom society had given up ... had assumed they could never be fully alive. Those who worked with special education successfully were driven by the belief that each child (or adult) was a human with the potential to be much more fully alive than they were allowed to be in whatever was their given situation, Sister Sharon said. This passion is still manifestly necessary for those who work

Part-time helpers in special education courses stand by the sign outside their building in 1958.

LEFT: Sister Rita Redmond with one of her students at the Lakemary Center, Giovanni Scott. (From Lakemary: Celebrating 40 years of reaching for the stars)

By Dan Heckel, Mount Saint Joseph Staff

Sister Sharon was a Presbyterian working for the Girl Scouts in 1972 when she met Sister George Ann, whose influence along with her mothers prompted her to change careers and her life to minister in special education. She has a doctorate in special education from Purdue University.

Sister Michele Ann Intravia became interested in special education as a child, because her sisters classmate had a brother with Down syndrome and he was often at their home.

I dont think that I really ever knew anything was wrong with Jimmy until I was older and he was not in the same school or grade that I was in, Sister Michele said. Mom just said that he was special and I guess I never thought anything about that. As I got older and we moved, we had neighbors who had grandchildren that were special needs children. I can always remember my mom bringing this one child up on the porch and working with him with his colors and ABCs. That is when I began thinking more and more that I was going into special education as a teacher.

Before entering the Ursulines, during her freshman year of college she was sent to do a practicum at St.

Marys Special School in St. Louis. She was assigned to a teacher who was the head of a program to initiate special needs children into physical activities.

After the first day of class she asked me if I was ready to teach the class on my own, Sister Michele

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said. So I went home and tried to figure out what I could work on that would be of interest to these students. I loved that experience.

After completing her Ursuline training at Brescia in 1983, her first ministry was as a special education teacher at St. Mary High School in Paducah, Ky.

Ursuline Associate Amy Payne was in the Ursuline community in the late 70s and early 80s before leaving. She has spent 22 years teaching elementary age special education students with emotional and behavioral problems at RiverValley Behavioral Health Hospital in Owensboro.

She said teaching special needs kids goes well with what she knows of Saint Angela Merici. She was a woman who met the needs, Amy said.

She is Meghan and Sarah Paynes mother, and her husband Tom is now chairman of the School of Education at Brescia. All the Payne children, including Will, the youngest who graduated from high school in May, work at Camp MARC in the summer, a residential camp for children and adults with mental or physical challenges. Tom will be on the board of directors this year.

The Payne familys love for special education was sparked by Shawn Riney, Amy said. Shawn, who is now 37, has special needs, and his mother babysat for the Payne children. The kids grew up with Shawn. He certainly has blessed us, Amy said. Now Shawn comes every weekend to hang out with us.

Amy also coordinates a faith and light group with adults with disabilities in Owensboro. We meet once a month, sharing scripture, praying together, and doing a craft activity, she said.

Meghans godmother is Sister Michele, who she said always had a heart for special needs, and she and Sarah both credit Sister Sharon with inspiring them while at Brescia.

Sister Monica was also inspired by Sister Sharon while a student at Brescia. Sister Sharon took her on a tour of places where people with special needs are helped, and that was enough for Sister Monica to know what she wanted to do.

My brother has special needs, I struggled with that, she said in 2009. Id like to help someone else, to let them know they do matter.

Sister Sharon said there are three reasons Brescia stands out in preparing special education teachers:

How quickly and completely the teacher candidates become involved with children and adults with special needs both through classes and in extra-curricular activities, such as faith formation classes for adults, working at summer camps, volunteering in schools and sheltered workshops, in social activities, and with families.

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Sister Monica works with one of her students at her computer in her 10th-grade biology class at Daviess County High School.

Sister Pat Lynch and Bill Ericson, a Lakemary resident, during the 40th anniversary celebration at Lakemary in September 2009. Sister Pat ministered at Lakemary for 13 years, and serves on the Lakemary board.

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health facility, but later refocused on a center for those with special needs, according to a history of the Lakemary Center. Mother Charles was looking for a new ministry that would fulfill the Ursuline mission, and embraced the need head on. She went to Mike Schwartz, a local banker and friend of the Ursulines, who proposed a complex on 35 acres of Ursuline property east of Paola.

After securing $545,000 in federal money, Schwartz proposed that $800,000 in Internal Revenue Bonds written through the city of Paola be issued. It was the first time in Kansas history these bonds had been used for a noncommercial purpose.

Sister Rita Lavigne, who now ministers in the archives at Maple Mount, was the business administrator for Lakemary from 1969-1987. It was a risky thing, she said. We didnt have any hands-on experience. We were one of the first in the Midwest to have a residential program, she said.

It was her responsibility to make sure the payment on the revenue bonds was on time every month. In Letters To My Children, Schwartz wrote, As treasurer of the corporation, I went to Sister Rita and told her we had some real financial problems, but the monthly bond payment had to be made and they could not be late. She said, What if I dont have the money? I said, Dont pay your other bills. As part of the solution, the six or seven Ursulines who taught at Lakemary often endorsed their paychecks and gave them back to Sister Rita to deposit in the Lakemary account. Thus, all payments were made in full and on time. In effect, the Ursuline Sisters spent several hundred thousand dollars in supporting the school when no other funds were available.

Sister Rita Redmond, who began ministering at Lakemary from its inception, said the instruction at Lakemary gave the students the skills that they needed to live the best kind of life they could live, so their handicap didnt handicap them more than necessary, she said. You love them to death, and they love you right back. Theyre just so sweet.

Sister Pat Lynch was in college when Lakemary opened. She was hired as a speech therapy aide in 1971. I hadnt even heard of that field, she said.

After a year, she went back to college to earn a masters in speech pathology, and ministered for the next 13 years at Lakemary. Today, she is a campus minister at Emporia (Kan.) State University, but continues to serve on the board at Lakemary, which serves more than 500 children and adults with special needs.

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know both the real world as well as the theory. From the day potential special education majors

interview, they are encouraged to recognize their own commitments as a mission or a passion, and to acknowledge that they would most likely have to become a full-fledged activist on behalf of their kids.

To be a teacher of children with special needs, you need to enjoy being challenged, Sarah Payne said. I think thats like (Saint) Angela too, her mother said.

Amy Payne said teaching special education is also a call to prayer. It causes you to pray, because many times, thats all you can do for them.

LakemaryA group of parents in the Paola area with special

needs children identified a need for education and training for their children in the 1950s, but there were no such programs. Some of these children participated

in classes in a basement at the Paola convent in 1959, but a more permanent home was the goal.

In 1964, the Paola city manager and a local physician met with Mother Charles McGrath, then the Paola superior, about enlisting the Ursulines in starting a mental

Four members of the Payne family have worked professionally with special education. From left are Amy, Sarah, Tom, Will, and Meghan Payne.

Sister Rita Lavigne and her friend Jenine Brown, during the 40th anniversary celebration at Lakemary in September 2009. Sister Rita ministered at Lakemary for 18 years.

Ursuline Sister Joseph Angela Boone recalls how unprepared the sisters were when they started the first barbecue picnic to support the retired sisters in 1971.

We didnt start thinking about it until August, she said of the September picnic. We were up until 2 in the morning deboning meat. We had to get up at 4 a.m. to get the fires going, she said.

Mount Saint Joseph Academy was open then, so there was a fairly large staff of sisters on hand to help with the picnic. But there were no Ursuline Associates in those days, and no parishes to help. It was mostly bingo and food and a few odds and ends, she said. We made $10,000 on that first picnic. It got bigger every year.

This Sept. 12, the picnic will mark its 40th ruby anniversary, and has grown much larger than could have ever been imagined. It receives help from parishes and volunteers from across the Diocese of Owensboro, and some friends come from other states to work.

We couldnt do it without associates and other lay people, Sister Joseph Angela said.

By Dan Heckel, Mount Saint Joseph Staff This years picnic will feature about 20 booths, a silent auction, bingo, exquisite crafts made by the sisters, activities for kids, a raffle for the prizes of $3,000, $1,000, and a quilt worth $1,000, and of course, plenty of barbecue. Many of the sisters will be on hand to visit.

The original picnic was an offshoot of Loyalty Day that novice sisters held for the South American missions in the 1960s. Sister Victoria Brohm had this dream to have a barbecue picnic, because some of the parishes were having picnics, Sister Joseph Angela said.

These days, planning for the picnic starts just a few months after one ends. The Mission Advancement office at Mount Saint Joseph is responsible for the picnic, aided by a core team of employees and sisters who meet six times throughout the year to consider changes and make sure all is moving smoothly toward the next picnic.

Volunteers come to the Mount throughout the year to donate and price items for the yard sale, mystery booth, and silent auction. The week of the picnic there is a mixture of youth groups cleaning pots and

Sister Mary Evelyn Duvall with a Smile, God Loves

You banner - 1971

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Sister Jamesetta Knott unloading supply truck - 1975

Sister Marita Greenwell, center, Sister Rosalin

Thieneman, right - 1982

Sisters Helen Ann Stuart, left, Nazaria Mattingly, seated,

and Agnese Coomes cutting tomatoes - 1982

Sister Frances Miriam Spalding brings treats to

sisters and volunteers - 1985

Sisters Helena Fischer andJane Miriam Hancock sell

chances on Sammy Bear - 2002

Sister Grace Simpson in the plant sale booth - 2007

Sister Betsy Moyer, right, with Kim Jones at the yard

sale booth - 2007

Sister Catherine Barber (with her face painted) at the quilt

club booth - 2008

Sister Mary Jude Cecil at the goody jars booth - 2008

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pans, and senior sisters cutting cabbage for slaw and potatoes for salad.

In the months leading up to the picnic, parishes throughout the diocese and the Archdiocese of Louisville are likely to see a sister after Mass with a $2 chance in her hand for sale. The raffle is the largest moneymaker at the picnic.

Sister Helena Fischer, the registrar at Brescia University, doubled as chairwoman of the picnic from 1991-2000, and now works the Information booth each year.

The Mount Saint Joseph picnic has evolved into many of the same volunteers keeping track of the date for the picnic and making their plans to return to the same post year after year, Sister Helena said. It is their faithfulness in returning and knowing what to do that has made our picnic a continued success. I could go to each booth and tell you how the volunteers have continued to return or pass their job on to another family or parish member, she said. It is always a

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delight for me when a volunteer waves to me in the Information booth to show me that they are back.

Bishop Emeritus John McRaith long said the Mount picnic is important for the parishes coming together to work for a common goal supporting the retirement fund of the Ursuline Sisters who taught in the Diocesan schools for so many years with meager salaries and no retirement, Sister Helena said.

It was estimated that the 2009 picnic brought the largest crowd ever. That success also means more volunteer help is needed, because many of the sisters who helped in the past are not physically able to do so, said Dan Heckel, picnic chairman.

We want the picnic to be about the sisters and what their spirit continues to bring to the people and communities where they have and continue to serve, Heckel said. (To volunteer to work on the picnic, please contact Marian Bennett at (270) 229-2006, or marian.bennett@maplemount.org).

Aside from the need to raise money for the retired sisters, the picnic is also a lot of fun. As my mother always said, You can see everybody at the Mount picnic, Sister Helena said.

Sister Frances Miriam Spalding brings treats to

sisters and volunteers - 1985

Sisters Marie Michael Friedman and Renee Monaghan, future

sister Vickie Cravens - 1990

Sister Laurita Spalding and Sister Rose Jean Powers in

pillow booth - 1990

Sister Pauletta McCarty in Lucky 7 booth - 1990

Sister Michele Intravia preparing cabbage that will be added to burgoo - 2002

Sister Mary Jude Cecil at the goody jars booth - 2008

Sister Pam Mueller with a customer in the mystery

booth - 2008

Sister Elaine Burke takes a break with an ice cream cone

- 2008

A large crowd is always on hand for the annual picnic in the park (pictured in 2009)

Sisters Joseph Angela Boone, center, and Clarita Browning in the quilt club booth - 2009

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Sister Margaret Ann Aull, center, attended the April 9 Henderson/Union County Ursuline Associates meeting and spoke with Bobby Joe Christian, left, and Wanda Gibson.

Sisters Angela Fitzpatrick, left, and Martina Rockers were among the walkers in a Blisters for Sisters May 1 vocations awareness event for the Kansas City, Kan., area.

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Sister Pam Mueller, left, Brescia University campus minister, hands a $1,095.32 check to Becky Ivy with Global Outreach International Feb. 23. The money was raised by a Hot Dogs for Haiti fundraiser.

Photo by John Caulfield

BELOW: Sisters Mary Matthias Ward, Pam Mueller, and Amelia Stenger enjoy a light moment during the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Centers April 24 annual fundraising dinner and auction, which had a Hawaiian luau theme.

LEFT: Sisters Joan Walz and Mary Agnes VonderHaar accept blessed oils from Bishop William Medley for their parish in McQuady, Ky., during the March 30 Chrism Mass at the Owensboro Sportscenter.

Sister Julia Head, right, prays with seminarians from St. Meinrad School of Theology during their March 19-26 retreat at Maple Mount.

the generosity of the schools that make up the Shreveport, La., Catholic School System brought a touch more spring to Maple Mount this year. Pictures from the devastating ice storm of Jan. 27, 2009 that resulted in the damage of many trees at Maple Mount had an affect on the students, teachers, and principals in Shreveport and Monroe, La., where Ursuline Sister Carol Shively is superintendent. Six of the seven schools decided for their Lenten project to raise

money to replant trees at Maple Mount. Theres a great presence of the Spirit here, Sister Carol said at the time. The schools raised $3,301, and the trees (pink and white dogwoods, eastern redbuds, white pines, maple red sunsets) were purchased and planted in April. The schools in the Shreveport system feel a special kinship with the Ursuline Sisters, who showed support to them following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

A maple red sunset tree was planted at Maple Mount in honor of Sister Pat Rhoten, at the request of St. John Berchmans School in Shreveport, La., where she taught from 2005-2009.

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Sister Eva Boone, chair of the Social Justice committee, poses with an Earthcake served at the April 22 Earth Day showing of a film on coal mining.

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Katherine Byers of Springfield, Mo., and Kendra Grupe of Jackson, Minn., students from Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Mo., visit the shrines at the Mount on their spring break March 20-24. A third student, Bailey Buchman of Paola, Kan., also visited. They spent time helping the sisters.

Sister Suzanne Sims, principal of St. Mary of the Woods Elementary School in Whitesville, Ky., cheers on the students during Feb. 1-5 Catholic Schools Week.

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CHRISM MASS

ItsfittingthatSisterAnnalitaLancasterspendsherretirementministeringinthecommunitysarchives.ShespracticallyawalkingarchiveofUrsulinehistory.

Ipersonallykneweverymothersuperiorafter1912,otherthan(thefirst)MotherAloysius

(Willett),andIknowthesistersandtheirhistories,SisterAnnalitasaid.ItsarichnessImhappytosharewitheverybody.

Shehasspenther67yearsasanUrsulineSisterbeingatrendsetterservingtwotermsasmajorsuperior,spending10yearsasthecommunitysfirstdirectorofmissioneffectiveness,andservingfouryearseachasdirectorofadmissionsatBresciaCollegeandassociatedirectoroftheMountSaintJosephConferenceandRetreatCenter.

Shelovedher22yearsintheclassroom,butgetsasparkleinhereyewhenshetalksofthesevenyearsshespentaspastoralassociateatSt.JudeParishinClinton,Ky.

IwasworkingwithadultswhoweresothirstytoknowmoreaboutwhattheCatholicChurchtaught,SisterAnnalitasaid.ThatareahadnothadanythingbutSundayMassfor40years.IstartedRCIA,andmanywhocamewerepracticingCatholicswhowantedtolearn.Wehadsixto10peopleinterestedinbecomingCatholicseveryyearIwasthere.

ShestilllovesteachingothersaboutwhatGodcando.OnMay8,SisterAnnalitatraveledtoBrandenburg,Ky.,toleadaretreatfor75womenfromtheUnitedMethodistChurch.ThetopicwasdevelopingadeeperrelationshipwithGod.

SisterAnnalitagrewupinFlaherty,Ky.,andfirstmettheUrsulineSistersinthesixthgrade.AmongherfavoriteteacherswereSisterMaryThomasWimsattandSisterJamesinaSpain,whoencouragedhertoattendMountSaintJosephJuniorCollege.

SheearnedascholarshiptothejuniorcollegeandwasenchantedbyMapleMountwhenshearrived.WewenttoMasseverydaywiththe(MountSaintJoseph)Academygirls,andeverybodylookedhappy,SisterAnnalitasaid.IknewIwantedtobeateacher,mymotherwasateacher.IthoughtIcouldbeoneofthem.

Sister Annalita is the Mounts woman of historynot really retired...

SiSter Mary regina Boone, 92, died april 29 at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 73rd year of religious life. the new Haven, Ky., native was an educator for 47 years, noted for instilling a love for math in her students. She was an avid reader, enjoyed saying the rosary, loved her family, and was always grateful for any kindness shown to her. She taught in schools in the Diocese of owensboro, in Louisville, and in nebraska City, neb. She taught at both Mount Saint Joseph academy, Maple Mount (1979-83), and Brescia College (1983-88). From 1983-93, she served as director of hospitality at the Mount Saint Joseph guest House. Survivors include seven sisters, Sister Joseph angela Boone, oSU, owensboro; Margie Johnson, Bardstown; Cecilia Johnson, Mary Jean Hagan, and teresa thompson, all of new Haven; Josephine Dworzan, orange, Calif.; and Catherine Keene, Louisville; nieces and nephews and the members of her religious community.

Gifts in memory of Sister Mary Regina Boone may take the form of donations to the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, 8001 Cummings Road, Maple Mount, KY 42356.

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Shespent22yearsasateacherorprincipalinKentuckyandNebraska,thenthreeyearsasasupervisorofCatholicSchoolsinLouisville,andtwoyearsasdirectoroftheSaintAngelaEducationCenterinLouisville.AfterayearasdirectorofeducationatMapleMount,shewaselectedasmajorsuperiorin1972.

HerproudestachievementassuperiorwaskeepingupthesistersmoraleastheystruggledwiththemanychangesoftheSecondVaticanCouncil.Tohelpthattransition,shebroughtinaBenedictineordertoleadlessonsonscripture,canonlaw,andthedocumentsofVaticanII.Ithelpedthesisterstounderstandthatthiswasahealthythingforthechurch,shesaid.

Oneoftheblessingsofhertimeassuperiorwasgettingtoknowthenearly400sisters,shesaid.

Asdirectorofmissioneffectivenessfrom1995-2005,herministrywastoinstillinlayemployeestheteachingsandcharismofSaintAngelaMerici.

Sheretiredin2005,butworkssixhoursadayinarchives,enteringdocumentsintothecomputer,archivingthedailyannals,andupdatingeachsistersministrylist.

Shesawomanofgreatwisdomandhistory,saidSisterVickieCravens,archivistforthecommunity.

FriendscanwritetoSisterAnnalitaat8001CummingsRoad,MapleMount,KY42356.n

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Ursuline Sisters celebrate Jubilees of religious profession

Sister Robert Ann Wheatley

Sister Frances Miriam Spalding

Sister Agnes Cecilia Speak

Sister Anne Michelle Mudd

Eighteen Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph who are celebrating jubilees this year have dedicated 1,050 years of service to Gods people. Motherhouse jubilarians were honored April 11, and all others will be honored during community days on July 17.

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FansofcookingwhomayalsohaveaconnectiontoMountSaintJosephcanblendbothinterestswiththenewMountSaintJosephcookbook.FoodfortheSoul,MemoriesfortheHeartcontainsover400recipessubmittedbyUrsulineSistersofMountSaintJoseph,UrsulineAssociates,and

facultyandalumnaeoftheformerMountSaintJosephAcademyandJuniorCollege.Alongwithrecipes,therearememoriesandtriviafromtheMount.

Itsabeautifulexampleofacookbook,saidNancyMills,a1972Academygraduatewhocochairedtheproject.Ilikethefactithasthememoriesinit,andtheMountfacts,andtheoldpictures.

TheMountSaintJosephAcademyAlumnaeAssociationcompiled,typed,andpreparedthecookbookforpublication.AlongwithMills,othercommitteememberswereCarolynSueCecilA73,

new Mount saint Joseph Cookbook AvailablePaulaChandlerGrayA73,MaryFordVuncannonA55,andKathyFordYoungA70.

Thecookbookisavailableforasuggesteddonationof$15.IthasahardbackcoverwithaphotooftheoriginalAcademybuildingonthefront,andthepagesarecontainedinathree-ringbinder.

ThefirstMountSaintJosephcookbook,WatermelonandButtermilk,waspublishedin1996.ItstitlecamefromthefirstmealservedtotheUrsulineSisterswhotraveledfromLouisville,Ky.,byflatboatin1874tobeginMountSaintJosephAcademyforGirls.Itwasapopularcookbook,andcopiesbecamescarceovertheyears.Thebookcouldnotbereprintedbecausethepublisherwasnolongerinbusiness.

ThecommitteedecidedtoselectsomerecipesfromWatermelonforuseinanewbook.About40percentoftherecipesinthe2010bookarenew,Millssaid.

Proceedswillbenefitthealumnaeassociation.Torecieveyourcookbook,contactMarianBennettattheOfficeofUrsulinePartnershipsat270-229-2006.

TheUrsulineSistersofMountSaintJosephsharetheirpassiontoservetheLordinfourcategoriesofministry.Yourdollarssupportministriesinsocialoutreachandjusticeadvocacy;ecclesialorchurchministry;education;andthosedealingwithbody,mind,andspirit.

TofindouthowyoucanhelptheUrsulineSistersontheirjourney,contactDanHeckel,directorofMissionAdvancement,at(270)229-2007,ordan.heckel@maplemount.org,orvisitwww.ursulinesmsj.org.

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Sister Ann McGrew,servinginher45thyearasanUrsulineSisterofMountSaintJoseph,willbecomethedirectoroftheMountSaintJosephConferenceandRetreatCenterthissummer. Aseven-membersearchcommitteerecommendedSisterAnnfortheposition,andtheLeadershipCouncilunanimouslyapprovedherselection.SisterAnnconcludeshertermontheLeadershipCouncilthisJuly,andwilltakeoverasdirectorofthe

CenteronJuly1.ShereplacesSisterAmeliaStenger,whowillbecomethedevelopmentdirectorfortheUrsulinecommunityonAug.1. SisterAnnisanativeofSt.Paul,Ky.,inGraysonCounty,andhasministeredasateacher,thedirectorofnovicesandformationforthecommunity,asdirectoroftheNewmanHouseatMurrayStateUniversity,andassupervisoroftheWomensDiscernmentHouseandministryformationprogramatBresciaUniversity.Hergreatloveisinparishministry,inwhichshesservedinseveralKentuckyparishes:St.LeoinMurray,St.StepheninOwensboro,St.AnthonyinBrownsValley,andrecentlySt.MartinParishinRome,wheresheledRCIAandpreparedchildrentoreceivethesacraments. RCIAismyfavoriteministry,SisterAnnsaid.Participantsreallywanttolearnabouttheirfaith,and

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DonationstotheUrsulineSistersofMountSaintJosephcomeinmanyways,buttheonetraittheyhaveincommonisthattheyservetheneedsofthesistersorthosewhothesistersareinministrytoserve.

Earlierthisyear,manysupporterstooktheopportunitytohelpthepeopleofChilefollowingtheirFeb.27earthquake.SistersMimiBallardandRuthGehres,whoministeratCasaUrsulinainChillan,Chile,askedforhelptodirectlydeliveraidtothosearoundthemwhohadlosttheirhomes,schools,andpossessions.Asalways,friendsoftheUrsulineSistersresponded.Throughmid-May,almost$13,800wasdonatedforthesisterstouseinChillanandthesurroundingarea.(Toseephotos,visitwww.casaursulina.org).

ThisisjustoneexampleofhowthesupportersoftheUrsulineSistersmakeadifferencewiththeirgenerosity.Thesistersaresogratefulforthehelptheyreceivefromtheirfriends.ThatgivingspirittohelpotherscertainlyfulfillswhatSaintAngelaMericisaidinherTenthLegacy,AndtherewillbenoothersignthatyouareinthegraceoftheLordthanthatyouloveoneanotherandareunitedtogether.

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arelationshipwithGod.Thatsthemostexcitingpart. SisterAnnisoneofthreeUrsulineSisterswhocoordinatetheSpiritualDirectionInstituteattheCenter,atwo-yearprogramthatattractspeoplefromacrossthecountrywhoareseekingcertificationtobecomespiritualdirectors.ShealsoservedasprogramfacilitatorattheCenterin2006-07.ShehasamastersdegreeinreligiousstudiesfromLoyolaUniversity,Chicago,andamastersinelementaryeducationandprincipalcertificationfromWesternKentuckyUniversity. Ihopetobeabletotakeprogramsouttotheparishes,aswellasofferretreatshere,SisterAnnsaid.AnAdvisoryBoardwillbeputinplacetogiveinputwithplanningandresearchingpossibilitiesforprogramsintheparishesandintheMountSaintJosephConferenceandRetreatCenter. AsanUrsulineSisterofMountSaintJoseph,Ivebeengivenopportunitiestodevelopmyspirituallife,shesaid.ThoseexperiencesgavemetheskillsIllneedforthetaskofdirector.ItsariskbecauseIveneverdoneitbefore,butImexcitedaboutit. SisterAnnwillalsoserveasdirectoroftheOfficeofSpiritualLifefortheDioceseofOwensboro. TheConferenceandRetreatCenteropenedin1983,andoffersandhostsprogramsinaruralenvironmentoftranquilityforpeopleofallagesandfaithstonurturespiritualityandpersonalgrowth,advancethearts,andpromotelifelonglearning.Itservesmorethan5,000peopleayear.

Above: Earthquake damage in Chile. Right: Sisters Ruth Gehres and Mimi Ballard helped donate supplies to area families.

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Sister Cheryl Clemons will become academic dean and vice president of academic affairs at Brescia University in July. She will succeed Sister Sharon Sullivan, who will leave that post this summer to become the communitys congregational leader. The academic dean is responsible for the entire academic

purview of the university. Since 2004, Sister Cheryl has been assistant congregational leader for the Ursuline Sisters. Also during that time shes been an adjunct professor at the Hesburgh Center, Catholic Theological Union, in Chicago. Before being elected, Sister Cheryl was an associate professor of religious studies at Brescia.

Sister Sharon Sullivan was surprised by an announcement at a May 13 reception at Brescia University that an endowed scholarship had been set up in her honor, In recognition of her dedication and service in the field of education on a local, state, and national level. The reception was held in the Curriculum Resource Center in the School of Education, a place where students gather to study or relax. The CRC is to be renamed for Sister Sharon, who has ministered at Brescia since 1984. She became chair of the School of Education in 2004 and academic dean and vice president of academic affairs in 2007. She will leave Brescia to become congregational leader of the Ursuline Sisters on July 18.

Sister Marie Goretti Browning received a Citation of Appreciation from the Kentucky House of Representatives on April 10. Rep. Tommy Thompson, D-Owensboro, recommended her for the humble and loving way she has served several communities throughout this Commonwealth for the past 60 years, the citation reads. For the staunchness of her faith, the strength of her labor, the breadth of her charity, and the goodness of her heart, the members of this august body express deep appreciation to this devoted lady for her many years of service, and for the generous and loving deeds she has done on behalf of the members in her community and this Commonwealth.

Sister Amelia Stenger has a guest editorial in the April/May edition of Momentum, the Official Journal of the National Catholic Educational Association. It is titled, Stewardship and the Environment: Sharing Our Gifts for Gods Work. Sister Amelia has made environmental education a focus during

her years as director of Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center. She takes over as the communitys development director Aug. 1

Sister Betsy Moyer began her ministry April 26 as a licensed practical nurse at Saint Francis Hospital and Health Services, a hospital/medical clinic in Maryville, Mo. It is owned by the Franciscan Sisters of Saint Mary, and has won a National Quality Award. Sister Betsy called the opportunity a dream come true, to work with a team of nurses and doctors for the good of people in a rural community as well as other small rural communities in the area. An added blessing is that she is now just 79 miles from her family home in Nebraska, where her mother lives. Sister Vivian Bowles begins as the

director of the St. Mary School System in Paducah, Ky., on July 1. She accepted the position on a one-year interim basis, and will spend three days a week in Paducah overseeing the principals and teachers of the elementary, middle, and high schools. Ursuline Sisters Martha Keller

and Mary Jude Cecil are also in Paducah. Sister Vivian taught at the former St. Thomas More School there (1966-71). She was president of Brescia College/University (1995-2007). She has been in family ministry since 2007.