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Hunger Fund Distributions for 2018

By Loretto Community / February 1, 2019 /

The Hunger Fund, established in 1974, is a fund to which Community members and friends make contributions. These contributions often consist of small donations gleaned from recycling cans, dog or…

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Welcome New Co-member Molly Kammien

By Loretto Community / February 1, 2019 /

Welcome to our newest co-member, Molly Kammien! Molly, daughter of Ann Kammien, was accepted as a co-member Dec. 8, 2018. She lives in New York where she practices law. She…

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Displaying Loretto at the Chicago World’s Fair

By Loretto Community / January 31, 2019 /

By Susanna Pyatt Visitors to the Loretto Heritage Center may recall a display in the museum about the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. The deep display case is designed to mimic…

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Loretto at the UN to Launch New Curriculum

By Loretto Community / January 25, 2019 /

Click here to read about Loretto at the UN’s launching of a new curriculum.

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Remembrance of the Life of Sister Bernice (formerly Sister Mary Alacoque) Hys SL

By Loretto Community / January 10, 2019 /

Sister Bernice Hys was born in St. Louis in 1930. Her parents, Andrew John Hys and Sophia Diminszyk Hys, were Polish émigrés who had settled on St. Louis’ near Northside not…

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Paulette Peterson CoL

By Loretto Community / January 1, 2019 /

I grew up in a small town outside Chicago: Lemont, Ill. My mother was Roman Catholic and my father was Protestant. My sister, Elaine, is 10 years younger. I attended…

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Mary Helen Sandoval CoL

By Loretto Community / January 1, 2019 /

I was born in Brainerd, Minn., the youngest of six children. In 1961, I went to Loretto Heights College. After graduating with a degree in math, with minors in education…

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Sonja Earthman Novo CoL

By Loretto Community / January 1, 2019 /

I look back on my life and know that You were with me all the way. When the time came for my birth, daddy did not have money to pay…

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Susan Kenney CoL

By Loretto Community / January 1, 2019 /

I am blessed to have grown up in a small Wisconsin town surrounded by a loving family and neighbors. I attended Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, and upon graduating began…

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Jane German CoL

By Loretto Community / January 1, 2019 /

I grew up in a small town in rural Illinois, one of two children of older parents and grandparents. My father’s family were Catholics. All his family siblings married non-Catholics.…

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Vicki Schwartz SL

By Loretto Community / January 1, 2019 /

St. Louis is my hometown, and I frequently return there to spend time with my nieces and their families. After attending elementary school at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and…

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Mary Catherine Rabbitt SL

By Loretto Community / January 1, 2019 /

I was born in St. Louis in 1946, the third of four children born to Dan and Charlotte Rabbitt – and the only girl. I attended Immaculate Conception Grade School…

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