In the following pages, the Catholic New World honors men and women who have devoted their lives to God. In this, the second of two annual sections devoted to men and women religious who are celebrating special anniversaries, we especially honor those who entered their communities or committed to their religious vocations 25 and 50 years ago. If you happen to see a former teacher of yours, or a coworker, listed, please offer them your congratulations, along with ours. Men Religious Alexian Brothers 70 YEARS BROTHER VALENTINO BIANCO serves as the facilities designer and director of the Alexian Brothers Associate program at their residence in Elk Grove Village. Augustinians 50 YEARS FATHER ROLAND F. FOLLMANN, from St. Philomena Parish, he has been a teacher, guidance counselor and administrator. He served at Mendel High School; St. Rita High School; Carmel High School, Mundelein; in New Lenox, Ill.; and in Arizona and Oklahoma, where he now serves as a counselor at Cascia Hall School, Tulsa. FATHER DONALD J. BATES has done parish ministry, retreat work, teaching and work as a chaplain and artist. He served at Mendel High School; Tolentine College, Olympia Fields; St. James Hospital, Chicago Heights; Christ Hospital, Oak Lawn; Marian Village, Homer Glen; and in Michigan. He now is the associate pastor, St. Jude Parish, New Lenox, Ill. 25 YEARS FATHER JOHN J. SOTAK, an Evergreen Park native from St. Bronislava Parish, has been a teacher and campus minister. He served in Kankakee, Ill., and Oklahoma and now teaches at Providence High School, New Lenox, Ill. Carmelites 50 YEARS FATHER DONALD BUGGERT, a Harvey native, is a university teacher who now serves as a professor at Washington Theological Union, Washington, D.C. FATHER DANIEL CARROLL, a Chicago native, was a high school and college teacher and counselor. He served at Holy Cross Junior College and St. Francis De Sales High School. He lives in retirement at St. Patrick Residence, Naperville, Ill. FATHER STEPHEN COOLEY, a Chicagoan, has been a parish minister and high school teacher. He now serves at Crespi Carmelite High School, Encino, Calif. 25 YEARS FATHER CARL MARKELZ has been a high school teacher and principal. He served in California and now is the principal of Mount Carmel High School. FATHER MICHAEL SGARIOTO, a Chicago native, has done parish ministry and missionary work. He now serves as pastor, Parroquia Nuestra Senora del Carmen in Miraflores, Lima, Peru. FATHER LAMBERT ZULKIE, a Chicago native, served in parishes in Darien, Ill., and in Massachusetts, Ontario, New Jersey and Kansas. He lives in retirement at Carmelite Carefree Village, Darien. De La Salle Christian Brothers 50 YEARS BROTHER JAMES GAFFNEY is a Chicago native who has worked in higher education, administration and provincial leadership. He now serves as president, Lewis University, Romeoville, Ill. Brothers of the Christian Schools 50 YEARS BROTHER CHRISTOPHER BUCK, from Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, has been a teacher, administrator, data processor, business coordinator and a volunteer. He served at St. Joseph High School, Westchester; Sts. Faith, Hope and Charity, Winnetka; De La Salle Institute; and the Benilde Community and was a volunteer and former board member of the Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Ill., and the Central Electric Railfans Association. He now is the director of the Benilde Community, Chicago. BROTHER KEVIN FITZGERALD taught religion in Chicago Catholic schools for 45 years. He served at St. Paul High School, St. Patrick High School and De La Salle Institute. He lives in retirement at Chicago’s De La Salle community and does volunteer work. BROTHER RICHARD PASZKIET taught at St. Joseph, Westchester, and in schools in Addison and Lombard. He lives in retirement in Westmont and does volunteer work. BROTHER EDWARD STASZAK was a high school teacher, coach, counselor and residential youth care worker. He served at St. Joseph High School; Mercy Boys Home; Gordon Technical High School and De La Salle Institute, and in Addison, Ill. He lives in retirement in Chicago. Society of the Divine Word 50 YEARS BISHOP DOMINIC CARMON was a pastoral minister, administrator, chaplain and consultor. He served at St. Anselm, St. Elizabeth, Our Lady of the Gardens, and Malcolm X College; was president of the Chicago Conference on Religion and Race Board of Delegates, co-chair of the cultural diversity subcommittee of the planning committee for the 1979 visit of Pope John Paul II to Chicago, consultor to archbishops of Chicago, New Orleans auxiliary bishop and missionary in New Guinea. He now lives in retirement at the Divine Word Residence, Techny. FATHER EDWARD HERBERGER has done congregation administration, formation work and missionary work. He served his community as director of brother formation and national vocation director and was a missionary in the Caribbean. He now is a chaplain at the Techny Towers Conference and Retreat Center. FATHER LAWRENCE NEMER (NIEMIEROWICZ), a Chicago native whose home parishes were St. Francis Xavier and St. James (Fullerton & Menard), worked in education and administration and was an author. He served at St. Mary’s Seminary, Techny, and Catholic Theological Union; was president of the Missionary Institute, London, and president of the Australian Association for Mission Studies. He now is a lecturer, Yarra Theological Union, Melbourne, and lecturer and dean of studies, Dorish Maru College, Victoria, Australia. FATHER DONALD O’CONNOR, a Lake Forest native whose home parish was Holy Cross, Deerfield, was a missionary in Papua New Guinea and now is a retreat master and mission secretary for the Society of the Divine Word Western Province at its Riverside, Calif., residence. FATHER ROBERT RIEMER, from St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, has been an educator, administrator and missionary in Japan. He also worked in Iowa and was a vice-postulator for the cause of the canonization of St. Joseph Freinademetz. He now is a professor emeritus at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. FATHER JOHN RODNEY, from St. Elizabeth Parish, worked in pastoral ministry, education and as a hospital chaplain. He served at St. Anselm, Our Lady of the Gardens and in Washington, D.C. He lives in retirement in Brooklyn, Md. Franciscan Friars Assumption BVM Province 50 YEARS FATHER ANTHONY CHOJNACKI, from Holy Innocents Parish, was a missionary and health care administrator. He now does internal services at his congregation’s Assumpton BVM Friary, Pulaski, Wis. FATHER CAMILLUS JANAS did parish ministry, formation and adult education. He now serves as associate pastor at St. Isaac Jogues Parish, Niles and lives at the Holy Name Friary, Chicago. FATHER BERNARD KENNEDY did pastoral ministry, teaching, formation work and campus ministry. He served at Notre Dame High School for Girls and Holy Cross High School and Guerin College Prep, River Grove. He now serves at St. Joseph Friary (Hyde Park) as director of formation and studies, is an instructor in theology for the permanent diaconate program and serves at St. Isaac Jogues, Niles. FATHER VIANNEY SIPULSKI, from St. Mary Magdalene Parish, worked as a parish minister and taught high school. He lives in retirement at the Queen of Peace Friary, Burlington, Wis. BROTHER THEODORE TOKARZ, from St. John of God Parish, taught high school. He now is a receptionist for provincial administration, Franklin, Wis. FATHER FINIAN ZAUCHA, from Holy Innocents Parish, has worked in education, bi-ritual parish ministry and as a chaplain for the Franciscan Sisters of Charity, Manitowoc, Wis. Croatian Franciscan Custody 25 YEARS FATHER STEVE BEDENIKOVIC is pastor of Sacred Heart Croatian Church. Congregation of Holy Cross 50 YEARS BROTHER DONALD KUCHENMEISTER has taught and done social and missionary work. He served at Holy Trinity High School, in Michigan and in Santiago, Chile, where he now is the coordinator of social action. BROTHER PATRICK LYNCH worked in education and administration. He served at Notre Dame High School for Boys, Niles, and now is a steward for the Holy Cross Community at Stonehill College, North Easton, Mass. BROTHER JAMES NEWBERRY, an Oak Park native whose home parish was St. Bride, worked as a teacher, school principal, campus minister, counselor and administrator. He served at Holy Cross High School, River Grove, and in Indiana, South Dakota, Georgia, California and Liberia. He lives in retirement at Columba Hall, Notre Dame, Ind. BROTHER CHARLES SMITH has been a teacher and school and provincial administrator. He served at Holy Cross High School, River Grove; Holy Trinity High School; Prologue Alternative High School; and City Colleges of Chicago and in Ohio and Indiana. He now is the coordinator of physical plant, Gilmour Academy, Gates Mills, Ohio. BROTHER DONALD STABROWSKI has been a teacher and high school and college administrator. He served as principal of Holy Trinity High School and in Indiana, Ohio and Portland, Ore., where he now is provost, University of Portland. BROTHER GREGORY TEODECKI did maintenance work and coordination. He served at Holy Trinity High School and in Ohio and Notre Dame, Ind., where he lives in retirement at Columba Hall. Marist Brothers 50 YEARS BROTHER EDWARD BRESLIN served at Marist High School, was the Archdiocese of Newark’s superintendent of schools and worked in Florida, where he now lives in retirement in Miami. BROTHER RENE ROY dedicated his religious life to education and as a missionary. He was province vocation director in Chicago and served in West Virginia, Rwanda and in Lawrence, Mass., where he now works at Central Catholic High School. BROTHER CHRISTOPHER P. SHANNON has been a teacher and missionary. He served in Massachusetts, New York, American Samoa and Chicago, where he now lives. Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers 25 YEARS FATHER THOMAS E. PESARESI, a Chicago native, did missionary work in Kenya and Thailand. He now serves as a military chaplain in a Veterans Administration Health Facility in Albuquerque, N.M. Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate 50 YEARS FATHER MICHAEL HUSSEY, a Chicago native, worked as a vocation director, prison and hospital chaplain and preached retreats. He served in Chicago and in South Carolina. He lives at St. Henry’s Oblate Residence, Belleville, Ill. FATHER GEORGE KNAB has done parish ministry, preaching and work as a chaplain. He served in South Carolina, Florida, Massachusetts and Louisiana. He now does parish missions, preaches and is in residence at St. Malachy Parish. Passionists 50 YEARS FATHER DONALD SENIOR is president of Catholic Theological Union where he also serves as professor of New Testament and was founding director of the school’s overseas Israel study program. He lectures and conducts workshops throughout the United States and abroad. Society of the Precious Blood 25 YEARS FATHER MARK PERES is a Hammond, Ind., native has done administration and formation work. He lives in Chicago and is the director of advanced formation for it’s congregation’s Cincinnati Province. Resurrectionists 50 YEARS BROTHER EDWARD THEODORE JASZKOWSKI, from St. Hyacinth Parish, has worked as an audio-visual coordinator and done building and grounds maintenance work. He served at Archbishop Joseph Weber High School and Gordon Tech High School, where he is the maintenance manager. Missionaries of the Sacred Heart 50 YEARS FATHER PETER CAMPBELL, from St. Rita Parish, worked in retreat and renewal ministry. He was the program director, Retreat House in Youngstown, Ohio, and founder of Life’s Healing Journey. He lives in retirement in Aurora. Servites 50 YEARS FATHER CONRAD M. BORNTRAGER, from Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, has worked as a province archivist, historian and seminary teacher and done parochial duties. He was associate pastor at Our Lady of Sorrows and taught at Mundelein Seminary and Catholic Theological Union. He is the province archivist and historian at Annunciata Priory, Chicago. FATHER THOMAS M. CROTTY, whose home parishes are Holy Ghost and Our Lady of Sorrows, has done parish ministry, retreat and prayer center work and teaching. He served at St. Philip High School; Stonebridge Priory, Lake Bluff; Senario Priory, Oak Park; Our Lady of Sorrows Church and Monastery; and in Missouri and Florida. He is semi-retired and serves as chaplain at Servite High School, Anaheim, Calif. 25 YEARS FATHER ROBERT M. WARSEY, a Berwyn native whose home parish was St. Domitilla, Hillside, served in parish ministry, formation, and administration. He now serves as director, Marian Service Center, Our Lady of Sorrows Monastery; director, National Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows; and parochial vicar, Our Lady of Sorrows Parish. He was province formation director, Our Lady of Sorrows Monastery and worked in New Jersey and Missouri. Congregation of the Holy Spirit 25 YEARS FATHER CLEMENT UCHENDU has been a parish minister. He served at St. Joseph, Our Lady of Mount Carmel and in Nigeria. He now is the associate pastor at St. Mary Magdalene and St. Ambrose. Clerics of St. Viator 50 YEARS FATHER DONALD J. FITZSIMMONS worked in secondary education and counseling. He served at St. Viator High School, Arlington Heights; Lutheran General Recovery Center, Vernon Hills; Keys to Recovery, Holy Family Hospital, Des Plaines; and in Peoria, Ill., and Washington, D.C. He now lives in retirement at the Viatorian Province Center, Arlington Heights. FATHER THOMAS G. LANGENFELD worked in secondary education, community administration and parish ministry. He served at St. Viator High School, Arlington Heights; the Viatorian Formation House; in Kankakee and Peoria, Ill.; and in Nevada and Washington, D.C. He lives in retirement in Las Vegas. FATHER JAMES E. MICHALETZ, a Chicago native from Our Lady of the Mount Parish, Cicero, has ministered in secondary education and parish ministry. He served as the assistant superintendent of schools and director of planning for the Archdiocese of Chicago’s school board; at St. Benedict High School; St. Viator High School and the Viatorian Province Center, Arlington Heights; Sacred Heart of Mary High School, Rolling Meadows; DePaul University; Viatorian Formation House; and Rosary College/Dominican University, River Forest; in Bourbonnais and Springfield, Ill.; and in Indiana. He now serves at the Maternity BVM Church, Bourbonnais, Ill. FATHER DANIEL J. MIRABELLI, from Holy Trinity Parish, has served in secondary education at St. Benedict High School; St. Viator High School, Arlington Heights; and in Peoria, Ill. He now works at Alleman Catholic High School, Rock Island, Ill. FATHER JOHN N. PEETERS, from St. Viator Parish, has done parish ministry, missionary work and congregation leadership. He served in Rome; Colombia and Belize; and in Bourbonnais and Kankakee, Ill., where he now is pastor at St. Patrick Church. FATHER PATRICK W. RENDER has served in secondary education, community administration and parish ministry. He served at St. Viator High School and the Viatorian Province Center, Arlington Heights, and in Springfield, Ill. He now is pastor, St. Thomas More Catholic Community, Henderson, Nev. FATHER JOHN E. VAN WIEL has worked in secondary education and administration and community service. He served in Kankakee, Rock Island and Springfield, Ill.; and at the Viatorian Province Center and St. Viator High School, Arlington Heights, where he now teaches. 25 YEARS FATHER RICHARD J. PIGHINI, a Chicago native from St. John Brebeuf Parish, Niles, has worked in Springfield, Kankakee and Bourbonnais, Ill., where he now is pastor of Maternity BVM Parish. Women Religious Benedictine Sisters of Chicago 50 YEARS SISTER PATRICIA CROWLEY, whose home parishes were St. Gertrude and St. Joseph, Wilmette, has worked in teaching, administration and community leadership. She served at St. Lambert, Skokie; Queen of All Saints; St. Scholastica Academy; was executive director of the Howard Area Community Center, Deborah’s Place and Chicago Continuum of Care; and had a Chicago Community Trust Community Service Fellowship. She now ministers as the prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago. Congregation of Mother of Carmel 25 YEARS SISTER GEENA GRACE devoted her religious ministry to teaching. She now serves at St. Sabina. Sisters of St. Casimir 60 YEARS SISTER OF SALVATORE CIUCKYTE entered the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Casimir in Lithuania, a separate congregation, but was forced to flee her homeland because of the Soviet occupation. She eventually came to Chicago and entered the Sisters of St. Casimir here. She has been a teacher and principal in California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida. She now is a minister of care at Holy Cross Hospital and extraordinary minister of Community at Immaculate Conception and Nativity BVM parishes and visits the sick in their homes and nursing homes. 50 YEARS SISTER JOYCE ANN DOPKIN taught at Maria High School and has served in Argentina for more than 40 years. Cenacle Sisters 50 YEARS SISTER ROSE JUZKIEWICZ ministered in retreat work, hospitality and served as treasurer. She is retired but still does hospitality at her community’s Chicago Cenacle. S ISTER MARY SHARON RILEY has done congregation service, administration, spiritual direction and retreat work. She served as a local superior, general councilor, coordinator of ministry and director of a spiritual direction training program. She now is provincial councilor/provincial secretary in Chicago. SISTER ANN WYLDER has done congregation administration, spiritual direction and retreat work. She served as provincial, mistress of novices and coordinator of ministry. She now works at the Cenacle, Metaire, La. 25 YEARS SISTER ANN GILLIAN (JILL) DEARMER has served the older sisters and done spiritual direction and retreat work. She served as director of prayer enrollment and at the Chicago Cenacle now does spiritual direction, retreat work and is the liaison for sisters in care facilities. SISTER MARY PETERS did retreat work and spiritual direction and served as provincial. She now is on sabbatical in Houston. Daughters of Divine Love 25 YEARS SISTER MARY ROSITA IGWEM has been a psychiatry technician. She now does social work at Maryville Academy Scott Nolan Center. Congregation of the Divine Spirit 50 YEARS SISTER RITA OUSKA, from St. Mary of Celle Parish, Berwyn, has been a teacher and religious educator and has cared for the aged in the Youngstown, Ohio and Erie, Pa. dioceses. She now teaches at St. James School in Erie, Pa. Adrian Dominicans 50 YEARS SISTER MAURINE BARZANTNI, from St. Clara Parish, has been a coordinator of health and educational services. She served at Ascension, Harvey; Aquinas High School; St. Agatha; and St. James, Maywood. She now is the co-director of the Centro Espiritu Santo, Matanzas, Dominican Republic. SISTER PATRICIA BENSON, an Evergreen Park native whose home parish was Our Lady of Peace, has been a teacher and spiritual director. She served in Michigan, Indiana and California. She now is a member of the faculty of the Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Detroit. SISTER ANITA CHIAPPETTA, from Our Lady of Peace Parish, serves with the Dominican Midwest Chapter Office of Adrian in Oak Lawn. SISTER MARY KAY (MARK CHRISTINE) HOMAN was a teacher and school administrator and has done congregational service. She served at St. Ailbe, St. Clare of Montefalco, St. Rita of Cascia and Regina Dominican High School, Wilmette; and in Michigan, Massachusetts and West Virginia. She also worked in her community’s development office as the planned giving officer. She now is a member of the General Council of the Adrian Dominican Sisters, Adrian, Mich. SISTER MARLENE (ANTHONY IRENE) KUHNLEIN, a Chicago native from Ascension Parish, Harvey, ministered in education and social work and as a hospice chaplain and caregiver to home-bound Burbank; Queen of Apostles, Riverdale; St. Laurence; St. James, Maywood; Regina Dominican High School, Wilmette; and in Florida, Arizona and New Mexico. She lives in retirement at the Adrian, Mich., motherhouse and does volunteer work. Sinsinawa Dominicans 50 YEARS SISTER CECILIA (ELIANNE) DAVIS worked in elementary education and administration. She served at St. Vincent Ferrer, River Forest; St. Giles, Oak Park; St. Eulalia, Maywood; Mary Seat of Wisdom, Park Ridge; and St. Domitilla, Hillside and in Wisconsin and Minnesota. She now ministers as a managerial caregiver in River Forest. SISTER ROSEMARY (TOBIA) HUDDLESTON, from St. John Fisher Parish, served in formation, parish ministry and missionary work and, since 1988, has been the international mission coordinator for the Milwaukee Archdiocese. She also served in other Illinois cities, Washington, D.C., and in Bolivia. SISTER BERNADINE (MARIE BARBARA) KARGE ministered in legal advocacy, social work and education. She served at Immaculate Conception and with the Archdiocesan Latin American Committee at Catholic Charities, at the Chicago Legal Clinic and in Washington, D.C.. SISTER ANTONETTA MARTINKA, from St. Philip Benizi Parish, worked in teaching and business and as a parish volunteer and tutor. She served at St. Luke and Trinity, River Forest; St. Zachary, Des Plaines; St. Giles, Oak Park; and Divine Providence Convent, Des Plaines; in Geneseo and Ottawa, Ill.; and in Wisconsin. SISTER ANN (MARI) MCCULLOUGH worked in education, school administration and congregation leadership. She served at Trinity High School, River Forest, and in Wisconsin and Wyoming. SISTER WINIFRED (ARMOUL) MORGAN, from Our Lady Help of Christians Parish, taught in Freeport, Ill., and in Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Texas. SISTER MARY ELLEN (MARY CELESTINE) O’DEA, from St. Cajetan Parish, has been a teacher, parish minister, chaplain, university minister, spiritual coordinator and itinerant preacher. She served at St. Thomas the Apostle; Illinois House of Corrections; Sacred Heart, Palos Hills; Calvert House, University of Chicago; De Paul University; and Wright Hall, Loyola Lakefront Campus; and in Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado. She now serves as a retreat director throughout the United States. SISTER JOYCE (PIERRE) POESCHL taught at St. Philip Benizi; Immaculate Conception; Epiphany; and St. Giles, Oak Park; and in Wyoming and California. Felician Sisters 50 YEARS SISTER MARY VERONA SCHULTZ, from St. Cecilia Parish, has been a teacher, pastoral minister and chaplain. She served at St. Bruno; St. Bronislawa; St. Linus, Oak Lawn; Our Lady of Ransom, Niles; St. Helen; St. James; and Incarnation, Palos Heights. She now serves as minister of care, Queen of Peace Parish, Milwaukee. SISTER MARY CLARETTE STRYZEWSKI has been a teacher, social worker and administrator. She served at Good Counsel High School and Our Lady of the Gardens and currently is president and CEO of Felician Services Incorporated and lives in Milwaukee. Congregation of the Third Order St. Francis of Mary Immaculate RS 75 YEARS SISTER M. MARTIN HORNAK, from Sacred Heart Parish, was a teacher, school administrator, religious educator and extraordinary minister of Communion. She served at Assumption, was coordinator of arts and crafts at St. Pascal’s Senior Center and worked in many other Illinois cities and in Ohio. She lives in retirement at Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home, Joliet, Ill. SISTER MARIE (M. CORADINE) SCHRAMKO has been a teacher and school administrator. She served at St. Francis de Sales High School and St. Procopius High School, in Ohio and in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where she co-founded Cardinal Gibbons High School. She taught there last year and still ministers as assistant principal. SISTER LORETTA (MIRIAM EDWARD) WAGNER, from St. Pascal Parish, was a nurse, administrator and congregation leader. She served at Resurrection Hospital and in Joliet, Ill. She now ministers to her family and congregation. 60 YEARS SISTER AGNES (M. ALCANTARA) GOODE was a teacher and pastoral minister. She served at Sacred Heart (Englewood), Sts. Peter and Paul High School and St. Francis de Sales High School; in Joliet, Ill.; and in Ohio. She now lives at Mohun Hall Health Care Center, Columbus, Ohio. SISTER JACQUELINE (ELLEN MARIE) HIRSCH, from St. John the Baptist Parish, has ministered in education, parish hunger programs and elder care. She served at Sacred Heart, Winnetka, and in Ohio and Florida, where she ministers in Boca Raton in the senior care and literacy programs. SISTER DAVID ANN HOY was an educator, Catholic Charities case worker, congregation administrator and pastoral care worker. She served at Sacred Heart (Englewood); St. Alphonsus, Lemont; Sts. Faith, Hope and Charity, Winnetka; in Joliet, Ill.; and in Ohio and Alabama. She now ministers as a volunteer at the Upper Room Crisis Hotline and as a driver for sisters. SISTER MARY FRANCES (M. KATHERINE ANN) SEELEY was a teacher, administrator, congregation leader, columnist and crisis line volunteer. She served at St. Pascal, and St. Francis de Sales; at Lewis University, Romeoville, and in Joliet, Ill.; and many other cities in Illinois, Ohio, Alabama, Florida and in Ukraine. She started Crisis Line of Will County and served as president and executive director of Crisis Line International. She is a hotline specialist and suicidologist who organized the Upper Room Crisis Hotline. SISTER BERNADETTE SIFFERLIN was a teacher and congregation leader. She served at St. Mary, Des Plaines; St. Ann, Lansing; and St. Jude, Lemont; in Joliet, Ill.; and in Ohio. She now ministers at Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home, Joliet, where she provides community service to residents. SISTER M. NICHOLAS TOSSENG, from Annunciata Parish, worked in education and parish ministry at St. Francis of Assisi, St. Francis de Sales, Assumption, St. Ludmilla, the Cook County Jail chapel and in Joliet, Streator, Elgin and Aurora, Ill. She worked as parish secretary and bookkeeper at St. Tarcissus and is now retired, but still serves the parish as an extraordinary minister of Communion, visits the sick, sews the baptismal bibs and does other duties. She collects unused Christmas cards and calendars for the incarcerated at Kolbe House. SISTER VIVIAN (MICHELYN) WHITEHEAD, from St. Dorothy Parish, has worked in teaching, family literacy, congregation leadership and jail ministry. She served in Joliet, Ill., Applachia and Ohio and founded the Center for Correctional Concerns focused on the Will County Jail. Since 1999 she has ministered to incarcerated women in the Will County Adult Detention Center and serves on the board of directors for Guardian Angel Community Services. SISTER M. KARLA ZDENEK was a teacher who worked with the mentally challenged and on social justice issues. She served at St. Clement; Sts. Cyril and Methodius; St. Mary, Des Plaines; in Aurora, Ill.; and in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. She was involved in women’s renewals and now provides service to the sisters in her community at Guardian Angel Home, Joliet, Ill. 50 YEARS SISTER MARY ANN CLARK, from Sacred Heart Parish (Englewood), was a teacher, school administrator and business manager. She served at St. Procopius High School and Divine Savior, Norridge, and in Downers Grove, Ill. She now is the treasurer at Our Lady of Angels, Joliet, Ill.; and provides other services to the sisters there. SISTER ELAINE MURPHY, from Sacred Heart Parish (Englewood), was a teacher, administrator, congregation leader, missionary and parish minister. She served at St. Pascal and in Joliet, Ill.; Iowa; and Brazil. She now lives at Our Lady of Angels Villa, Joliet, Ill,; and does community service and prayer ministry. SISTER GERALDINE PODOBNIK has been a teacher, nurse and administrator. She served at St. Mary, Des Plaines, and Mercy Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, Homewood; in Joliet, Ill.; and in Ohio. She now serves as the director of nursing at Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home, Joliet, Ill. SISTER RITA VAHLING has worked in education, pastoral ministry, congregation leadership, holistic health, massage therapy and spirituality. She served at Sts. Cyril and Methodius and St. James, Maywood; in Downers Grove; and in many other Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin and Minnesota cities. She now is the director of pastoral care at Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home, Joliet, Ill. SISTER ROSEMARY (M. VITA) WINTER worked in education and school administration. She served at St. Clement, Sts. Peter and Paul and in Aurora and Joliet, Ill., where she now ministers as a caregiver at Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home. 25 YEARS SISTER MARY ANN HARNER has worked in education, administration and congregation leadership. She taught at Sacred Heart (Englewood), where she also was the Learning Center coordinator and bookkeeper for the parish. She served as administrative assistant for the National Vocation Office in Chicago. She now is the assistant financial administrator for the Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel of the Augustinian Order at Tolentine Center, Olympia Fields, and lives at the congregation’s novitiate house at Assumption Parish. Franciscan Sisters of Chicago 50 YEARS SISTER M. BERNADETTE BAJUSCIK has worked in education, administration, health care management and development and community leadership. She served at St. Louise de Marillac and Guardian Angel Day Care Center and in Crown Point and in Gary, Ind. She now is the general vicar and director of religious associates for the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago, Lemont. SISTER JEANNE MARIE TORISKIE has been a teacher, school administrator and community leader. She served at Madonna High School, Five Holy Martyrs, St. Florian, Olive Harvey Junior College and St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr. She serves as a general councilor for her congregation and is an adjunct professor at St. Xavier University’s School of Education. Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart 50 YEARS SISTER JEANETTE PIERCE has served in nursing, administration and health and pastoral care. She served at St. Anthony Hospital; St. Therese Medical Center, Waukegan; and in Freeport, Ill. She now works at Condell Medical Center, Libertyville. School Sisters of St. Francis of Christ the King 50 YEARS SISTER M. ANN BARBARA PLAVAC has been a teacher, school administrator, provincial leader, lector and extraordinary minister of Communion. She served at Mount Assisi Academy, Lemont; Sacred Heart School (East 96th Street); in Joliet, Ill.; Ohio; and in Rome as a general councilor and general treasurer. She now is director of Franciscan Services at Mount Assisi Academy, Lemont. SISTER M. RENEE PFEIFFER, from St. Symphorosa Parish, has been a teacher, school administrator, director of religious education, lector and extraordinary minister of Communion. She served at Sacred Heart (E. 96th St.); Holy Trinity (S. Throop St.); in Bolingbrook and Joliet, Ill.; and in Wisconsin, California and Pennsylvania. She now ministers as the house vicaress and assistant at St. Joseph Infirmary, assisting infirm sisters with their spiritual and material needs, and lives at Alvernia Manor, Lemont. SISTER M. ANNETTE SHIRCCEL has been a teacher, administrator, child care worker, youth counselor, extraordinary minister of Communion and lector. She served at St. George (95th & Ewing); Sacred Heart (East 96th Street); St. Alphonosus/St. Patrick, Lemont; in Bolingbrook, Ill.; and in Indiana, California, Wisconsin and Kansas. She now ministers as house administrator at Mount Assisi Convent, Lemont. SISTER M. KATHLEEN VUGRINOIVICH, a Chicago native, has been a teacher and administrator. She served as the administrator at Alvernia Manor, Lemont, and now teaches at Mount Assisi Academy there. School Sisters of St. Francis 50 YEARS SISTER MARY CARROLL, a Chicago native, has served in education, vocation work, campus ministry and spiritual direction. She served at the Newman Center of Western Illinois University, Macomb, Ill., and in various Wisconsin cities including Milwaukee, where she now works as associate director of field education. SISTER BARBARA KRAEMER, a Chicago native, has been an educator and administrator. She served at St. Clara, Alvernia High School, St. Augustine College and DePaul University; was a social studies coordinator for four parish schools; directed the Center for the Study of Religious Life in Chicago; and was an education director for the School Sisters of St. Francis. She now is the provincial of the U.S. province of her congregation and lives in Milwaukee. SISTER CATHERINE (JORITA) MAUGE, a Chicago native, has ministered as a musician and religious education coordinator. She served as St. Bernardine, Forest Park, and Holy Angels, in other Illinois cities and in Mississippi and California. She now lives in Oak Park. 25 YEARS SISTER MARY ANN MEYER has been a campus minister and administrator. She served at Alvernia High School and Trinity High School, River Forest, and was director of new membership for the U.S. province of her congregation. She now teaches and is a campus minister at Resurrection High School. Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi 50 YEARS SISTER GABRIELLE KOWALSKI, from St. Constance Parish, has been a teacher, administrator and professor of special education. She served at St. Coletta’s of Illinois, Palos Park. She now is a professor of the special education department, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, and also is the executive director of the Association of Franciscan Colleges & Universities. Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Family 50 YEARS SISTER ANNE MARIE SMITH has been an educator and parish minister. She served at St. Christopher, Midlothian, and St. John Brebeuf, Niles. She now works as a pastoral associate Church of the Resurrection, Tempe, Ariz. Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis 50 YEARS SISTER MARY PHYLLIS CHRUSCIEL, from St. Salomea Parish, ministered as a homemaker, teacher and group care worker. She served at Lourdes Convent and High School; Transfiguration; Our Lady of the Snows; Immaculata Convent, Bartlett; Queen of the Universe; St. Barbara; St. Bruno; Teddy Bear III; Maria High School; Curie High School; De LaSalle Institute and Clare Oaks, Bartlett, where she now lives in retirement. SISTER JUDITH (ELLEN MARIE) DAVID, from St. Agnes Parish, has been a teacher, pastoral minister, provincial administrator and director of religious education. She served at Queen of the Universe; Immaculate Conception; Lourdes High School; Immaculata Convent, Bartlett; St. Bartholomew; and St. Frances of Rome, Cicero, and has served as the pastoral associate at Immaculate Conception (Talcott Avenue) since 2000. SISTER ALEXANNE OSINSKI, from St. Bruno Parish, was a teacher, occupational therapist, pastoral and spiritual minister and administrator. She served at Lourdes High School; Normandy Terrace Convalescent Home; Children’s Institute for the Developmentally Disabled; Misericordia Home; Edgewater Rehabilitation Association; Resurrection Life Center, Park Ridge; Chicago National College of Naprapathy; Resurrection Hospital; and Immaculata Congregational Home and Clare Oaks, Bartlett. She now is on a sabbatical. Society of Helpers 50 YEARS SISTER TERESA COLE was a nurse and provincial leadership. She served in Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco, where she did home care for the sick and elderly and was the provincial secretary and treasurer. She now lives in retirement at Marian Village, Homer Glen. SISTER VICTORIA DI BRIZZI served in health care. She served in Chicago and St. Louis and also did internal service for her community. She lives in retirement at Marian Village, Homer Glen. Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters 50 YEARS SISTER PRISCILLA BURKE, from St. Gertrude Parish, Franklin Park, has been an educator in several states and congregational leader. She now serves as provincial treasurer and lives at the community’s convent in Techny. SISTER JUDITH VALLIMONT worked in education and school administration and as an organist. She served in the Archdiocese of Chicago at the Center for Development in Ministry, Mundelein, taught at schools in many states, was U.S. provincial for her community and was elected to the congregational leadership team in Rome, where she now lives. Congregation of St. Joseph 50 YEARS SISTER MARIANNE RACE, from St. Eulalia Parish, Maywood, was an educator and administrator. She served at Nazareth Academy, LaGrange Park, the Office of Catholic Education and Catholic Theological Union. She now does pastoral services and lives in Brookfield. SISTER CELINE SWEZINSKI, from Mater Christi Parish, North Riverside, has worked in education and administrative services. She served at the Alexine Learning Center, LaGrange; Montessori Teaching & Administration and administrative service for the Archdiocese of Chicago, where she currently is the secretary to the Cardinal. Medical Missionaries of Mary 50 YEARS SISTER MARY ANDREW (HELEN) PHILLIPS did mission work and administration. In Chicago she was the director of mission awareness for the United States, obtaining support for her community’s work in Africa, Latin America and Appalachia. She served in Kenya and now lives at the Resurrection Life Center. Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters 50 YEARS SISTER ROSE ANN KAISER did mission work in Massachusetts, Michigan, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Utah, Texas and California. She served as a catechist, pastoral associate and director of religious education. She now ministers in Chicago, where she works at the Julia Center, a welcoming center for immigrants, and is an advocate for social justice representing her congregation at the 8th Day Center for Justice. Sisters of Charity BVM 50 YEARS SISTER CAROL MARIE (JOSEPH LOUIS) BAUM was an educator and administrator and did congregational service. She served at Our Lady of Lourdes, Annunciation and St. Jerome; in Maywood; and in Iowa and California. She now is on a sabbatical. SISTER KATHLEEN (RICHARD MARIE) CONWAY was an educator, hospital and hospice chaplain and has done pastoral ministry and congregational service. She served at Cathedral High School; Mundelein College; Wright Hall; Loyola Medical Center, Maywood; and in Minnesota and Iowa. She now does congregational work in Brookfield. SISTER JACQUELYN (JOHN KATHLEEN) CRAMER, from Our Lady of Mercy Parish, has been an educator, counselor and volunteer. She served in Iowa, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and in Ghana. She now does congregational service and is a campaign writer in Memphis. SISTER JUDITH (JOHN MARIE) DEWELL has ministered in music, education and congregational service. She served at Mundelein College and Loyola University and in Iowa, where she now is a member of the adjunct faculty at Clarke College, Dubuque. SISTER MARY (THOMAS DANIEL) DONAHEY has been an educator. She served at Mundelein College, Loyola University and Wright Hall, where she now does congregational service. SISTER DOROTHY M. DWIGHT has ministered in education and music. She served at Immaculata High School, Mundelein College and Loyola University and did congregational service. She now volunteers at Wright Hall and as a liturgical musician and SPRED (special religious education) catechist at Loyola University and St. Nicholas Parish, Evanston. SISTER BETTE (ESTHER MARY) GAMBONINI was an educator and administrator and did music, parish and formation ministry and congregational service. She served at Wright Hall and in California and Iowa. She now is on a sabbatical in California. SISTER MARGARET (ST. CABRINI) GERAGHTY, from St. Andrew Parish, was an educator and administrator. She served at St. Mary High School; Carmel High School, Mundelein; St. Benedict High School; and Dominican University, River Forest; and in Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, Arizona and Wisconsin. She now works in Chicago as a congregational representative and employee. SISTER C. JEAN HAYEN has been an educator, administrator, pastoral minister and volunteer. She served at Mary Queen of Heaven, in East Moline, Ill., and in Iowa. She now does congregational service as a member of the BVM retirement house staff in Dubuque, Iowa. SISTER NANCY (JOSEPHINE) McCARTHY worked in education: special, deaf and ESL. She also did parish ministry and congregational service. She served at Carmel High School, Mundelein; Holy Trinity and Children of Peace schools; Malcolm X College; Adult Learning Center; and Blessed Sacrament and in Iowa. She now is an associate coordinator and lives in Oak Park. SISTER MARY FRANCES (VIRGINIA) McLAUGHLIN, an Evanston native whose home parish was St. Joseph, Wilmette, ministered in teaching, administration and congregational service. She worked at Loyola University; was president of Carmel High School, Mundelein; was development officer at Christ the King Jesuit College Prep; and worked in Rock Island, Ill., Iowa and Missouri. She now works as a development officer in Chicago. SISTER PATRICIA (ANN CAROL) NOONEY has been a nurse and served at St. Francis Hospital, Evanston. She now serves as a desk nurse at St. Francis Rehab Center. SISTER CAROL ANN (ANN CARLA) worked in education and conflict resolution ministry. She served at Carmel High School, Mundelein, and in Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota. She now serves as a congregational representative in Chicago. 25 YEARS SISTER THERESE FASSNACHT has been an educator and music director. She served at St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Pius School, St. Francis Xavier and in Indiana and California, where she now works as director of music, UCLA Catholic Center, Los Angeles. Little Company of Mary Sisters 50 YEARS SISTER KATHLEEN SCOTT has done hospital and health ministry and parish and pastoral ministry. She served at Little Company of Mary Hospital, Evergreen Park; St. Clare of Montefalco, and in Ohio. She now does parish ministry at St. Joseph, Homewood. Sisters of Mercy 50 YEARS SISTER CATHLEEN CAHILL, from St. Justin Martyr Parish, has ministered in education, school administration and pastoral care. She served at Academy of Our Lady; St. Ethelreda; Resurrection; Little Flower; Mary Seat of Wisdom, Park Ridge; Mother McAuley High School; St. Mary, Lake Forest; and St. Xavier University, where she is administrative director of the Pastoral Ministry Institute. SISTER FRANCES CREAN has been an educator at Mother McAuley High School; St. Patrick, Des Plaines; St. Malachy; and St. Xavier University, where she is associate professor of chemistry. SISTER JAYNE DALY, a Chicago native, has worked in education and school administration. She served at St. James and Resurrection and now is the assistant principal at St. Malachy. SISTER JUDITH HERMANN has worked in education, school administration and pastoral care. She served as the associate vocation director in the archdiocese’s Vocation Office; St. Columba, St. Raymond, Mount Prospect; and in DeKalb, Rochelle, DeKalb and Sycamore, Ill. She now is the director of Mercy Associates-Chicago. SISTER MARY CATHERINE MCDONAGH, from St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, has worked in education and administration. She served at Columbus Maryville and St. James; in Ottawa, Ill., and Wisconsin; and was a member of the provincial team at the community’s Province Center; She now is the evening supervisor at McAuley Residence, Misericordia North. SISTER JANE SCHLOSSER, from St. Clotilde Parish, has worked in adult religious education, spiritual direction and theology. She served at St. Damian, Oak Forest; St. Edna; Mary Seat of Wisdom, Park Ridge; and at her congregation’s Province Center, where she was the director of formation. She now is the retreat director at the Carmelite Spiritual Center, Darien, Ill. Congregation of Notre Dame 50 YEARS SISTER MARGARITA CASTANEDA taught at St. Jude the Apostle, South Holland, and now is the pastoral assistant and director of religious education at St. Mary of the Assumption, Staten Island, N.Y. SISTER ANNE WALSH served at St. Jude the Apostle, South Holland, and now teaches at Mercy High School, Middletown, Conn. 25 YEARS SISTER MARYANN CALABRESE has been a teacher and campus minister. She served at Elizabeth Seton High School, South Holland, and in Joliet, Ill. She now does pastoral care at Cabrini Nursing Home, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur 60 YEARS SISTER MARY (MARGARET MICHELE) MOTZ has been an educator, often in Montessori schools. She served in Ohio and Wisconsin and for the past 15 years has been a teacher/coordinator of the Midwest Teacher Training Center, Evanston. SISTER JANE (MARY CATHERINE) MUDD has been an educator and has served at St. Robert Bellarmine, St. Francis Cabrini, at the Cabrini Green housing project and in Arizona and Ohio, where she now is a volunteer tutor at St. Nicholas Academy, Cincinnati. 50 YEARS SISTER COLETTE (MARY CECILIA) DIDIER has been a teacher, administrator and in several positions within her congregation. She served at St. Robert Bellarmine, St. Peter Canisius and in Ohio, where she now is a member of the province leadership team in Cincinnati. SISTER COLETTE MARIE QUINN has been a teacher, nurse and missionary. She served at St. Alexander, St. Robert Bellarmine, at several Chicago hospitals, in Brookfield, Ill., and in Ohio and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She now is an administrator at her congregation’s center in Belgium. SISTER RITA (RITA ANGELA) STURWOLD has been an educator, principal and administrator. She served at Notre Dame High School, St. Peter Canisius and in Ohio. She now is president of Mount Notre Dame High School, Cincinnati. SISTER TERESITA WEIND has been a director of liturgical formation, pastoral associate spiritual director and province leader. She served at St. Catherine of Siena- St. Lucy, Oak Park, and in Michigan and Ohio. She now is the international congregational leader for her community in Rome. Little Sisters of the Poor 50 YEARS SISTER MARGUERITE MARIE DE LOURDES MCCARTHY served in homes of the Little Sisters of the Poor in California, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin and now is the superior at St. Joseph’s Home for the Elderly, Palatine. SISTER MARY EVAN NAHORNIAK served at Chicago’s St. Mary’s Home and now works at St. Joseph’s Home for the Elderly, Palatine. Resurrection Sisters 50 YEARS SISTER MARILYN GRABARCZYK, from St. Casimir Parish, has been an educator, day care worker and pastoral care provider. She served at St. Casimir, St. Mary of the Angels, Resurrection High School, St. Thecla, Resurrection Day Care, Resurrection Medical Center and in Indiana and Nebraska. She now ministers at Resurrection High School as the study hall supervisor. SISTER KATHRYN WOJCIK, from St. Casimir Parish, was an educator, school administrator and pastoral care provider. She served at St. Casimir, St. Mary of the Angels, Our Lady of Tepeyac High School, St. Bede, Queen of the Rosary, Resurrection High School and in Florida and Ohio. She now provides spiritual services at St. Andrew Life Center, Niles. Servants of Mary 50 YEARS SISTER SEAN FOX, whose home parishes were St. Angela and St. Domitilla, Hillside, taught at Annuciata, St. Felicitas and Our Lady Gate of Heaven. She now does legal services in Oak Brook for the elderly, bereaved and parents of disabled adult children. She also is a member of the Servants of Mary Leadership team. SISTER JEANNINE PERCY, from St. Domitilla Parish, Hillside, has worked in health care, health system leadership, diocesan ministry and education. She served in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Colorado, and California. She now works with the Health System Governance Consultation Services, where her primary client is Hospital Sisters Health System and lives in Sun City Center, Fla.