Sister Pat Marie Buranosky — then known as Sister Mark — teaches a typing class at Mount Assisi Academy in 1966.
The ‘Type’ of Teacher She Needed
mary ann mueser petkervich | mount assisi academy 1965
Throughout Women’s History Month, our alumnae are honoring members of the School Sisters of St. Francis
who touched their lives back then and who they consider to have been especially influential in who they are now.
then
“Sister Mark (Pat Marie Buranosky) was my business teacher ... typing and shorthand. She was tough, but so very kind. Thanks to Sister Mark, I was hired as a secretary in 1967 at Wright-Patterson Airforce Base in Dayton, Ohio. That hiring launched me into an exciting career as a program manager for Foreign Military Sales. I spent a 35-year career traveling the world and making friends all over the globe … all because of my beloved Sister Mark.”
NOW
Widowed since 1990, Mary Ann lives in Fairborn, Ohio, near Dayton. She has one son, George, age 53. “I am now happily retired and enjoying so many blessings,” she says.
Following her teaching days at Mount Assisi Academy, Sister Mark — who returned to her baptismal name, Sister Pat Marie, decades ago — went on to serve in various campus and parish ministry roles and, for many years, with Pittsburgh’s Catholic Cemeteries Association. She retired in 2017 and lives at Mt. Assisi Place (the former convent and high school).
Sister Pat Marie today
Mary Ann in 1965
Mary Ann and her son, George, in a recent vacation photo.
Sister Mark in the school library in 1966
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