Loretto Heritage Center Staff Hang Together Through Thick and Thin!
Posted on May 1, 2019, by Eleanor Craig SL
Photo courtesy of Eleanor Craig
Curator Susanna Pyatt, Archivist Ayla Toussaint and I laugh as we inspect the space beneath our building; above the crawl space, Heritage Center Assistant Marcia Mohin enjoys the less dusty pleasures of relocating boxes on our new movable shelves.
Welcoming new team members
Photo courtesy of Eleanor Craig
We welcomed Ayla to our team in early March. She just completed a master’s degree in archival studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She did an internship at the FDR Archives in Hyde Park, N.Y., where she worked on Eleanor Roosevelt’s papers and handled Eleanor’s own copy of the Declaration of Human Rights! Ayla’s undergrad fields were history, religious studies and anthropology. When Ayla was born, her grandmother drew her name from the pages of The Clan of the Cave Bear.
Susanna joined the Heritage Center in June 2018. Many Loretto members had a chance to meet her at the July Assembly in Shepherdsville, Ky. Susanna has been very busy thoroughly cataloguing every object in the Heritage Center. She also has garnered grant funds for the redesign of several museum exhibits.
Marcia is in her 13th year on the Archives staff. She is the only staff person who has been on hand since before the relocation and opening of the Heritage Center. We depend on her to be the “institutional memory” of this center of Loretto’s past.
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