Jane German CoL

Jane has been a Loretto Co-member since 1990. She currently serves on the Loretto Community Forum and was re-elected in 2024 to a new four-year term. Jane retired at the end of the school year in 2021 after serving 18 years as elementary school principal for Loretto Academy, El Paso, Texas.
A collage of four photos. Three of which are folks doing laundry at a laundry mat, the fourth photo is a woman moving laundry out of a trunk of a car.

The Wash and Dry Ministry

Migrants are arriving in El Paso after weeks of traveling on foot across Central America and Mexico. Many stay overnight or for a few days in hospitality shelters run by the diocese, Annunciation House, Sacred Heart parish, the Rescue Mission and the city of El Paso.…

Buffy Boesen SL sits back in a chair with hands clasped holding a phone. She's wearing a blue shirt and glasses.

Buffy’s Retirement on the Horizon

As the 2021-2022 school year at Loretto Academy in El Paso ends, Mary Beth (Buffy) Boesen is retir­ing as president. She came for the 2000-2001 school year as interim president, fell in love with the El Paso/Juarez Loretto Academy extended…