Caritas Newsletter/Index

Spring 2008
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~ University of Great Falls celebrates 75^th anniversary
~ Some of the Sisters who served
~ Editor’s note: correcting number of Sojourner Place directors
~ Thank you to donors
~ Two sisters retire from hospital ministry – Srs. Mary Clare Boland and Dorothy Klingele
~ Briefs

Historical exhibit in Missoula
Knitting team raises funds
Kudos for Deacon Emile Adams from black Catholics
SOA watchers keep vigil
Deacon Jim Barrow, PA, elected to Walla Walla City Council
SPs cited as Partners in Hope by St. Joseph Family Center
Spokane staff retreat
Katherine Abarca, 4, El Salvador, is healed
Moving the moving date

~ Join Yakima PAs in prayer
~ Vocation ad
~ Emilie Gamelin Mission Fund donations 2007
~ Obits

Rose Lulay, SP
Anne Bouffard, SP
Eliane Emily Dufault, PA
Donna S. Reece, PA

~ School of Divinity taught by Sr. Barbara Schiller

Winter 2007
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~ Seasons Greetings
~ Karen Bell, Hospice pioneer, receives 2007 Mother Joseph Award
~ Ministry Spotlight: Sr. Jessica Taylor
~ Sojourner Place
~ Sacred Heart Providence Wisdom Keepers
~ Briefs

Re-blessing at Providence Emilie House
Mission Day Events
Renewing Vows
New Office
New Citizen
Award Nominee
Blessing Her Namesake
Symphony Spotlight

Fall 2007
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~ Vocation Team answers questions about religious life
~ Sr. Jessica renews vows
~ "Busy Person's Retreat"
~ Sr. Margarita Hernandez makes first vows
~ Two sisters transfer vows
~ General Chapter notes
~ Provincial Chapter notes
~ St. Joseph Residence
~ Briefs

PA receives Seattle Police Department Award
 Birthday celebration in Spokane
 Donor dedicates symphony performance to Sisters of Providence
 SP volunteers for Habitat for Humanity
 Time capsule preserves mementoes of Providence Services

~ Earth Charter workshop
~ Ministry profile: Sr. Dianne Crawford
~ Providence Health International visits Cuba
~ Briefs

Cemetery renamed in Vancouver
 SP offices to move to Renton
 MJ Day at PH&S
 Philippines becomes vice-province
 MJ Day in Spokane
 Cheryl Sjoblom retires
 Providence Vincent House remodel
 PHS gala in Burbank
 New PAs in Alaska, Seattle and Walla Walla

Spring 2007
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~ Baby Margarita’s heart surgery
~ MJ Award – Jenny Rosales
~ 150th anniversary year ends
~ Alaine Qualls retires; Karen Lauby becomes provincial secretary
~ Thank you to donors
~ Compassionate Service Experience
~ Come and See weekend promo
~ Vietnamese women Come and See (Sen and Hong Nga)
~ Spotlight on Sr. Suzette Bautista
~ Providence Pariseau Corp. board
~ Briefs

 Hope House honors Sr. Loretta Marie
 Farewell to Jack Marceau
 Sr. Teresa White graduates
 Fairbanks photo exhibit
 New PAs in Spokane and Los Angeles
 Celebration for Sr. Anna Loan in Bainbridge

~ Obits – Srs. Claudia McMillan and Blanche Dufault
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Remembering Melanie (by Becky Ward, PA)

Winter 2006
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~ Christmas greeting from Leadership Team
~ Vancouver celebrates 150th
~ Brief history of SPs in West by Sr. Margaret
~ Thanks to 150th sponsors
~ Middle-aged sisters gathering
~ MJ profile
~ Mini-profiles of four other foundresses in West
~ Vocation Team invites to three events
~ Briefs

 Sr. Germaine leaves Portland
 Sr. Dolores receives ministry award in Idaho
 Sr. Pat receives honors for alcohol treatment and education in Yakima
 Footsteps of MJ in Vancouver
 Vincent House saves energy
 PA commitment renewals in Seattle; Walla Walla
 Ritual of remembering and transition at Benefis, Great Falls
 Miryam’s House celebrates 20 years
 Sr. Peter Claver Award nominees (3 PAs – Patricia Connell, Becky Ward, Vivian Wendt)
 St. Finbar’s honors Sr. Rose Byrne

~ A Cause to Dine For benefits Providence Hospitality House and Sojourner Place
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Obits – Srs.  Marie Emmeline Ladd and Agnes Rohr
~ Sr. Vilma professes first vows

Summer 2006
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~ Seattle celebrates 150th
~ Holy Hour in Spokane
~ PSVCM reflects on mission
~ Wash/Mont leadership hosts events
~ Premier of DVD from PH&S as sesqui gift to sisters
~ Jubilarians (1st half)
~ Feature on El Salvador novices Srs. Vilma and Margarita (by Brenda Velasco)
~ New PA region in Georgia
~ Providence Connection reunion of current and former SPs
~ Come and See weekend promo
~ Obit – Sr. Rose Estelle Harvey
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Briefs

 150th Jubilee of Catholic schools
 Promotion for Sr. Lang Tran
 AHA inducts Rich Umbdenstock
 Providence Child Care donation honors Sr. Jeanette

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Fall 2006
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~ Spokane celebrates 150th
~ Thanks to 150th sponsors
~ Province Heritage Tour
~ Jubilarians (2nd half)
~ Provincial Chapter group photo
~ Sr. Paula teaches ESL (by Brenda Velasco)
~ Providence Elizabeth House dedication, Seattle
~ Vocation ad
~ Come and See weekend photo
~ Obits – Srs. Simonne Begin, Florida Hinse, Therese Eugenie Belisle, Margaret Higgins
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Briefs

 MJ Service Award winners at Blanchet High School, Seattle
 SHMC celebrates 120th with historical display
 Bi-province new members gather

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Spring 2006
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~ Sr. Karin goes to New Orleans to help Katrina victims
~ 150th anniversary year kickoff (photo page of events)
~ March on Washington for Peace with Sr. Charlene
~ Thank you to donors
~ Briefs

 New chapel art in Yakima
 Chinese New Year in Seattle and Spokane
 Four principals at PHS in Burbank (photo)

~ Obits – Srs. Mary Audrey McCoy, Ellen Elizabeth Kelly, Therese Leonie Beaupre
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Vocation Team ad

Winter 2005
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~ Christmas greetings from Leadership Team to begin 150th anniversary year
~ MJ Award to Bill Bouten
~ 150th list of events
~ 150th calendar promo
~ Alternative Associations Task Force
~ SNJMs honor Providence (SPs and Rich and Barb Umbdenstock)
~ Friends: Srs. Susanne Hartung and Marta Alvear
~ Christina Wong comes to Spokane for novitiate
~ Vocation ad
~ Briefs

 Relic of Blessed Emilie at St. Joseph’s Church, Yakima
 Permanent historical exhibit at Yakima Regional Medical Center
 Mary Butler, PA, receives Sr. Peter Claver Award
 New PA in Seattle
 Heart Follies 2006 (Sr. Lillian and Bill Bouten, PA)

~ Obit – Sr. Anne Kovis
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Providence aids Guatemala and El Salvador

~ Sr. Karin Dufault leads Supportive Care of the Dying
~ Jubilarians
~ Briefs

 Sr. Alexis receives St. Catherine Alumnae Award
 Sr. Bea receives service award from Seattle U
 Sr. Michelle receives first Woman of Providence award
 PHS alumni, Burbank, honor Srs. Mary and Lucille
 MJ statue repaired at Riverfront Park, Spokane
 Sr. Lang Tran graduates
 Sr. Jessica renews vows
 SP window from Providence Seattle finds new home at Providence Medford

~ Vocation ad
~ Obits – Srs. Lucille Tremblay and Louisa Hageman, and Alexis Greshom, PA
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Sisters fight trafficking of humans through UNANIMA

Summer 2005
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~ Sr. Roberta revisits Africa (with Mark Koenig)
~ Providence International Missions in partnerships in Uganda, Kenya and Cameroon
~ Sr. Margarita enters community
~ Sr. Elizabeth joins GU ministry office
~ Sr. Lucille retires as principal of Providence High School, Burbank
~ The amazingly talented Sr. Felma
~ Sr. Jane celebrates 100th birthday
~ Briefs

 Archives volunteer Heather Trescases wins award
 Sr. Pam White retires as director for PAs, continues preserving SP legacy
 New PAs in Seattle
 NW Catholic Women’s Convocation, Seattle

~ Summer vocation retreat planned
~ Everett centennial celebration (Sr. Dorothy)
~ Ministries bid farewell to Sr. Dona (WomanSpirit), Sr. Bea (Providence Hospitality House)
~ Obits – Sr. Catherine Palmatier, Jim Nibler, PA
~ Vocation ad
~ Sr. Jacqueline’s grandfather honored in Victoria, BC

Spring 2005
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~ El Salvador mission celebrates 10th anniversary
~ Appointments: Alaine Qualls, provincial secretary; Sr. Anita Butler, provincial treasurer
~ 2005-09 Leadership Team installed
~ HUD funds Providence Vincent House renovation and rent subsidies
~ Sr. Anna Loan returns to Vietnam to teach
~ Province welcomes Sr. Silvia
~ Vocation ad
~ Thank you to donors
~ Briefs

 Tsunami relief from Providence
 Anti-SOA demonstration
 Retirement party for Roberta Sample, PA
 Dedication of MEG statue at Emilie Court
 Sr. Peter Claver Award nominees (Bill Bouten, Mary Butler, Jay Staebell, PAs)
 Vancouver/ Portland PAs thank sisters
 Seattle mayor proclaims Mt. St. Vincent Day

~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Sisters introduce website with new features

Winter 2004 
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~ Christmas greetings from Leadership Team
~ MJ Province marks 5th birthday
~ Leadership Team portrait (4 members)
~ Profiles of 2005-09 Leadership Team (4 members)
~ MJ Award to Cheryle Earnheart and Mary Anne Sladich-Lantz
~ St. Joseph Residence remodel
~ Sr. Vilma enters novititate
~ Briefs

 Zonta Club honors Sr. Lucille
 MJ statue presented to Bouten Construction
 New PAs in Seattle, Portland and Spokane

~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Ministry profile: Sr. Nancy MacLean on Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana

Fall 2004
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~ Providence Hospitality House celebrates 25 years
~ Discernment for 2006-09 leadership – 4 members chosen
~ Volunteers extend the sisters’ reach – Christine Silva, Whitney and Terry Higgins, Geni  Iderstine, Christina Howard, Margaret Kowalsky, Heather Trescases
~ Women of Providence 25-year anniversary (Sr. Michelle)
~ Sr. Karen professes final vows
~ Vocation ad
~ Vocation retreat, Spokane
~ Twilight retreats planned
~ Sr. Gabrielle begins transfer process
~ Briefs

 New PA in Seattle (Jeanne Bouten)
 Sr. Anna Loan goes to Vietnam to reach
 Srs. Georgette and Dorothy become bikers for Hospice
 Deacon Emile Adams, PA, is ordained in Los Angeles
 Srs. Lang and Gabrielle make eggrolls for Provincial Chapter
 Sr. Karin is chair-elect of CHA
 Gift of wood carving of Mother Bernarda
 Sr. Louis celebrates 100th
 Sr. Fe nominated for unsung hero award in Yakima
 Stained glass window donated to church in Worley, Idaho

~ Obits – Srs. Rachel Hofmeister, Elizabeth Sandmeyer and Florence Mary Gaetz
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ General conference in Chile (photo of sisters in formation and Formation Team members)

Summer 2004
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~ New home for Providence Regina House, Seattle
~ Transitions purchases new home in Spokane
~ Jubilarians
~ Briefs

 Sr. Mary Kaye Nealen honored by YWCA, Great Falls
 Sr. Lucille honored at PHS gala, Burbank
 Sisters and Associates answer phones for KSPS, Spokane
 Painting at Holy Family Hospital depicts SP history

~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Obits – Frank Weidinger and Melvin Tamberg, PAs
~ Sr. Gabrielle gets to know the SPs
~ Summer vocation retreat promo
~ Vocation ad

Spring 2004
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~ Providence mission continues in K-12 education

PHS, Burbank
St. Joseph School, Yakima

~ Sr. Pauline teaches ESL
~ Official visit from Montreal
~ Thank you to donors
~ NW Coalition for Responsible Investment works for social justice
~ Briefs

 Oregonian honors Sr. Rita
 Sr. Alice honored for formation ministry
 Tri-Council meets in Spokane
 Providence Centralia Hospital dedicates (Sr.) Carolyn’s Café
 SPs honor the late Msgr. Doogan with liturgy and scholarships

~ Obits – Srs. Virginia Cosner and Dixie Lee Mulvaney
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Sr. Catherine Chan comes to novitiate house

~ Christmas greeting from Leadership Team
~ MJ Award to Chuck Hawley and Betty Harrington
~ Srs. Lang and AnnMary complete transfer process with Seattle Mass
~ Sr. Ana Dolores begins transfer process with Yakima ceremony
~ Sr. Jessica at Women’s Drop-In Center, Spokane
~ Briefs

 Sr. Karen is certified as counselor, Great Falls
 Ken Spiering creates portrait of Sr. Bernadette for Bernadette Place
 New MJ sculpture outside Spokeman Review production building, Spokane
 Moose visits The Mount, Spokane
 Children’s hospital dedicated in Spokane

~ Pilgrimage to Montreal by PHS and PS
~ Obits – Srs. Margaret Beaulieu and Louise Lebel
~ PAs in Great Falls operate Angel Room
~ Hospitals sold in Toppenish and Yakima (photo)
~ Please Remember in Prayer 

Fall 2003
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~ Sr. Joan “retires” as vocation director
~ New vocation team (5 members)
~ Vocation/Communications Group formed to tell sisters’ stories
~ Sr. Jessica professes first vows
~ Transitions into religious life
~ Jubilarians
~ El Salvador update on relief efforts
~ Sr. Brenda Velasco visits El Salvador
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Obit – Sr. Margaret Anne Vosen
~ Briefs

 LA mayor recognizes Deacon Emile Adams and Lillian Rouzan, PAs
 New associates in Great Falls
 Vocation retreat in Spokane
 Provincial Administration staff gathers in Seattle
 St. Joseph’s Care Center opens (Sr.) Loretta’s Cupboard
 Providence Event held in Spokane

~ Sr. Maureen is released from prison after three months for SOA protest
~ 150 anniversary celebration in Chile

Summer 2003
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~ Spokane PAs offer retreats for street women
~ WomanSpirit in spotlight
~ Sr. Maureen begins prison term for SOA protest
~ Sr. Mary Kaye Nealen translates book on sisters’ missions
~ Sojourner Place alumna T.C. Dumas receives Ph.D.
~ Anchorage welcomes new PAs
~ Briefs

 Sr. Lina becomes a citizen
 PHS gala, Burbank
 Sr. Rita Mudd receives posthumous award in Missoula
 Providence St. Peter Hospital, Olympia, names building in honor of Emilie Gamelin

~ Upper Room, Centralia, hosts reunion (Srs. Elizabeth and Virginia)
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Obit – Betty Lynn Ehrenberg, PA
~ Sr. Ana Dolores returns to El Salvador

Spring 2003
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~ Health care delegation visits Guatemala and El Salvador (Sr. Roberta)
~ Sisters and Lay People Collaborate to Meet Global Needs (by Sr. Roberta)
~ Sr. Maureen risks her freedom to raise awareness at SOA protest
~ New Providence Associates in Seattle, Great Falls, Portland, Burbank and Spokane
~ General Council visits Washington; regional conference in Spokane
~ Thank you to donors
~ University of Great Falls celebrates 70 years
~ SPs celebrate 25 years in Haiti
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Obits – Srs. Mary Stephen O’Brien, Sedonia Doyon and Reda Perrault
~ Briefs

 Sr. Karen graduates from UGF
 Sr. Brenda wins essay contest
 Providence Chapel to close in Seattle
 Sisters invite women to summer retreat
 Providence Event 2003 to be in Spokane

~ Providence Child Center honors SPs with Heart of Gold Award
~ Come and See weekend in Yakima (photo)

Winter 2002
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~ Christmas greeting from Leadership Team
~ MJ Province speaks out against acts of aggression or war against Iraq
~ LCWR speaks out on clerical abuse allegations
~ MJ Award – Dr. Ken Kapstafer and Mitzi VandeWege
~ New faces in the province

Trang Vo “Tina,” Yakima; Vilma Franco-Calles and Margarita Hernandez Alfaro, El Salvador, candidates; Maggie St. John, Holy Angels Province, novice; Catherine Chan, Holy Angels Province, candidate
Candidates’ medal

~ Lay people help keep the mission alive

 Sojourner Place; Providence Hospitality House; Providence Vincent House boards

~ PHS employees model the mission for nine non-profits through Emilie Gamelin Awards
~ Briefs

 Sr. Kathryn leaves for Montreal
 Sr. Myrta receives citizenship
 Missoula memorial service remembers Sr. Rita Mudd

~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Mother Gamelin Center, Spokane, rededicated and renamed

Fall 2002
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~ Mother Joseph Build for Habitat for Humanity, Spokane
~ Sr. Kathryn “Kitsy” Rutan to become General Superior

 Discernment process leads to selection

~ Sisters in formation at General Chapter (photo)
~ Sprague celebrates 100th anniversary of Mary Queen of Heaven Church
~ Nome celebration of centennial of SP service
~ The Power of One:  Sr. Simonne Begin in North Carolina ministry
~ Jubilarians
~ Summer weekend retreats in Seattle and Spokane
~ Briefs

 Sr. Lang becomes U.S. citizen
 Network Lobby Day in Washington, D.C. (Sr. Peggy and Sr. Margaret)
 Catholic Foundation of Spokane Diocese honors Sr. Myrta

~ Sr. Fidela returns to the West
~ Hospice honors Sr. Georgette
~ El Salvador update – computers and help from Socorro Garcia
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Obits – Srs. Germaine Drogue, Bernadine Ginder, Rita Mudd, Eugenia O’Brien and Eleanor Tuma

Summer 2002
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~ Alaska celebrates 100 years of caring
~ Stories from Alaska
~ General Chapter to be held in July in Edmonton and will include women in formation
~ “Connections” is theme of Provincial Chapter to be held in Spokane
~ Spotlight on Sr. Dixie Mulvaney, Spokane, and Sr. Judi Roberts, Portland
~ SPs honor longtime development director Sr. Loretta Marie
~ Obits – Srs. Mary Maxine Berghoff, Eileen Mary Flood, Anne Marcelle Lemay, Ignatia ~ ~ Marie Lindekugel and Francis Ignatius MacDowell, and PAs Harriet Desmarais and Helen Margaret Holland
~ Briefs

Sr. Simonne wins honors at Celebrate Life Pageant, Spokane
Vancouver museum hosts MJ exhibit
 Women religious join to pray for peace
  Prayer for Decade of Nonviolence
 MJ Award nominations sought

~ Four summer retreats for women planned
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ Montreal celebrates life of Mother Emilie Gamelin

Spring 2002
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~ New life – three women in novitiate in Spokane and two pre-postulants in El Salvador
~ My Journey in the Desert – by Brenda Velasco
~ Education funds sought
~ Mini-profiles of three novices – Anne, Jessica, Brenda
~ SPs open pre-postulant house and host international meeting in El Salvador
~ Sr. Clarella Fink returns from the Philippines
~ Sisters and Friends

 New activity center at PHS, Burbank
 SOA protest
 Dedication of St. Thomas South, Great Falls

~ Women religious intensify fight against trafficking
~ Briefs

 Sr. Karin recognized by Seattle U alumni
 Sr. Peter Claver inducted into 2002 Business Hall of Fame, Spokane

~ Obits – Srs. Ann Ellen Bailey and Stella Marie Kramer, and PAs Dolores Foy and John Patrick Shanahan
~ Please Remember in Prayer
~ SPs dedicate 2002 to MJ Year

Winter 2001
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~ Providence Pilgrims Travel to Rome to Witness the Beatification of Emilie Gamelin
~ Special keepsake edition
   Insert:

Please Remember in Prayer
Obits – Srs. Conrad Mary Bomer, Rosalie Dionne, Esther Dufault, Julian Moran and Rose Dolores Reisenauer, and PA Jo Marie Einen

~ Briefs

Anchorage honors SPs with Gold Pan Award
Sr. Rebecca Berghoff named 2001 Woman of Achievement

~ Providence Associates build homes and relationships in El Salvador – by Kate Smith
~ Just who are these Providence Associates anyway? – Roberta Sample, Bill Bouten, Becky Ward, Phyllis Silva-Keith, and Anibal and Transito Castro
~ Sr. Karen Hawkins,  from PA to SP
~ Ministry spotlight: Hope House
~ Sisters and Friends

International pilgrimage with Fr. Mbock Mbock, of Cameroon (photo)
PHS graduation, Burbank
Jubilee group photos – Spokane and Seattle
Sr. Christopher’s jubilee party at the zoo

~ More than 800 pilgrims head for Rome for beatification of MEG
~ Explanation of cause of beatification
~ Briefs

Sr. Marie Emmeline given national honors as nurse-midwife
Three candidates enter novitiate
Sr. Blanca makes final vows
Leadership Team honored for Native American support
Sr. Jean Schultz attends WUCWO meeting in Rome

~ Obits – Sr. Margaret Jane Carroll, Mary Hoiland, Rosemary Kistner, Margaret Joan Long and Mary Lois Rochester
~ Please Remember in Prayer 

Spring 2001
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~ Delegation travels to El Salvador to commemorate martyred religious women
~ Website address
~ Earthquake in El Salvador brings another challenge
~ Foundress to be beatified in Rome on October 7
~ SPs and Daughters of Mary meet for the first time on Ugandan soil in 40-year reunion
~ A Ugandan sister says thank you (Sr. Mary Lourdes Nabaggala)
~ Sr. Anna Loan transfers vows
~ Philippine Sector chooses leadership
~ Briefs

 Sr. Lucille receives University of Oregon Distinguished Alumna Award
 Sr. Charlotte named to board of Women’s Intercommunity AIDS Resource, Portland
 Sr. Mary Ann given alumni recognition award from UGF
 Sr. Jacqueline named to three-year term on Archdiocesan Pastoral Council
 Sr. Joan appointed to two-year term on board of National Religious Vocation Conference
 Sr. JoAnn on board of Religious Formation Conference

~ Sr. Mary Clare Boland is distinguished grad of Holy Family School, Seattle
~ JR hired as communications director
~ Obits – Srs. Bernadette Botch, Pauline Marn, Lawrence Crowley and Emmanuel Ferron
~ Please Remember in Prayer