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I am so grateful for the wonderful education I received at Mount Assisi Academy from September 1961 to May 1965 and, most especially, for the wonderful Sisters who were my role models.

I was in awe of how Sister Therese (Sedlock) could coax the most beautiful harmony from our Glee Club and how she opened our hearts to the beauty and power of Holy Mass. She was my inspiration when I was assigned to teach music at the junior high level. 

Sister Magdalene (Lovrich), who was always serene, opened my mind to geometry, which became the subject I most loved to teach as a high school math teacher. 

Sister Bonaventure (Melichar) convinced me to join Speech and Debate, which gave me the confidence I needed later in life. 

And it was Sister Agnes’ dynamic personality that Sunday afternoon of Open House that made me know this was the high school for me. Sister Agnes (Chvala) was the most amazing English teacher, and through Mrs. Macy’s suggestion my freshman year, Sister Agnes took me under her wing as reporter and, then, as editor of our school newspaper, all four years. 

In order to meet the ever-looming deadlines, she and I would work after school mocking up the galley. Because of her guidance, I majored in English literature, hoping to get my master’s in journalism. But, along the way, I fell in love with teaching.

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