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The ALUMNATORSt. Scholastica Alumnae Association Fall 2013 P.O. Box 493 • Fort Smith, Arkansas 72902

Dear Scho Girls,The 2013 reunion is now history. September

seemed to be a great time for our gathering. The outgoing officers did a fantastic job putting together the events of the three days. THANK YOU, Dorothy Worner Sullivan and crew!! Spe-cial memories were shared!!

In early September, after agreeing to be nominated for the office of Alumnae president, my husband and I joined a pilgrimage led by Abbot Jerome from Subiaco Abbey. Our lodging was in Rome and we were thrilled to experience seeing Pope Francis two times. It was estimat-ed that there were over 130,000 people in St. Peter’s Square the day we were there to hear him speak. We returned on Sunday and waited, in pouring rain, until the Pope came to his win-dow high above the crowd to lead the Angelus and offer a blessing. I have never seen so many umbrellas! But nobody wanted to miss seeing/hearing the Pope. Small children in the crowd were shouting, “Viva Papa!”

We traveled outside Rome to Subiaco. All the history that had been learned years ago came back as we saw the place where St. Bene-dict lived. We had lunch at the St. Scholastica Monastery nearby. It was a perfect way for me to prepare for the upcoming reunion.

This was the first reunion that the Monastery was the location of lunch on Saturday, the Gen-eral Meeting and the Brunch on Sunday. The Sisters joined us as we took over their dining room. There were tours on Saturday morning for those who wanted to see how the Monas-tery might have changed. Following the General Meeting in the Chapter Room (gym), many of us checked out the swimming pool - it looked bigger than I remember and it was very inviting.

During the General Meeting, members voted to pay for the refurbishing of two signs on Mon-

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From the ModeratorDear Scho Girls,

My heart is filled with gratitude for so much, for so many people and events. As we near the Thanksgiving feast the new officers hope to get this ALUMNATOR out before the end of the month. The last weekend of September 2013 we finished a great Alumnae Reunion. At the ‘evaluation of the reunion’ meeting Oct. 30 at the monastery with some of the outgoing and some incoming officers who didn’t have other meetings and/or previous commitments that evening all comments were a very positive assessment. No one had heard anything negative from any Scho Girls. This was the first year since the reorganization of the Association that we scheduled some activities at the monastery because another organization had booked that weekend at the Retreat Center before the Scho Girls did. If you have a 2016 calendar, mark the dates of Sept. 23-25, 2016, for the next three-year Reunion. The 2016 honorees will be the graduates of 1964, 1965, and 1966 for their 50th anniversary; the grads of 1954, 1955, and 1956 for their 60th, and the 1944, 1945, and 1946 classes for their 70th.

We all owe a great debt of gratitude to the outgoing officers for their faithful service for nine years and three reunions in strengthening the bonds between the Benedictine Sisters of Fort Smith and the Scho Girls. Those Scho Girls who served the last three reunions are Dorothy Worner Sullivan ‘60, president; Jean Ann Bercher Roddy ‘60, vice-president; Virginia Rinke Ricketts ‘66, secretary; Annette Vogelpohl ‘62, treasurer; and Doris Geels Koch ‘60, historian. And also a note of gratitude to Julie Robben Lineberry ‘66, who sets up the ALUMNATOR and readies it for printing from her office in Virginia. The new team of officers are Barbara Hug Anhalt ‘59, president; Jane Berry Sanders ‘61, vice-president; Mary Kennedy Burns ‘64, secretary; Nancy Fritz Ciulla

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astery property, one at the corner of Free Ferry/Albert Pike and the other at the corner of Rog-ers/Albert Pike.

We have set the dates for our next reunion - September 23-25, 2016. The way time flies, it will be here before we know it!

The Monastery bake sale will be held at the Center (Trinity) building on December 14 and 15th. We need your donations of baked and canned goods as well as your time, either in setting up or working the days of the sale. In the past, Scho Girls have been very generous with donations and their time. If you can help, please phone me at 479-461-1197 or email anhltb@aol.com.

I hope each of you and your families enjoy a special Thanksgiving celebration and a blessed Advent and Christmas!

Thank you for all you do for the Monastery,Barbara Hug Anhalt ’59, Alumnae President

‘58, treasurer; and Emily Geels Soller ‘64, historian. I look forward to working with you.

Some of you have inquired about your former teachers. So I thought I’d list those Sisters connected with the Academy in the 1950s and 1960s. S. Jeanne Heiman died May 17, 1992; S. Charles Marie Foster, July 10, 1993; S. Benedict Marie Borgerding, Aug. 27, 1995; S. Scholastica Vogelpohl, May 22, 1996; S. Roberta Hyland, Aug. 7, 1997; S. Josella Birkenfeld, June 30, 1998; S. Carmen Beshoner, July 1, 1998; S. Jane Frances Brockman, Aug. 14, 2000; S. Benita Wewers, Apr. 12, 2001; S. Concetta Mazzanti, Dec. 7, 2001; S. Florence Yutterman, May 5, 2003; S. Irene (Maxine) Verkamp, Oct. 6, 2003; S. Marie (Joanita) Huber, Oct. 30, 2003; S. Stella Stephens, July 4, 2004; S. Bede Eckart, Sept. 22, 2004; S. Norbert Hoelting, Mar. 6, 2009; S. Cordelia Lange, Aug. 10, 2010; S. Consuella Bauer, Jan. 3, 2011; S. Mary Linus Oberkoetter, Jan. 1, 2012; S. Gabriel Brandt, Apr. 4, 2013; S. Valeria Moellers, Oct. 17, 2013. If I’ve missed any you have asked about,

just send me an e-mail at cabrini@stscho.org and I’ll find that information for you.

Sisters who were on the Faculty at some point and are still among the living are Sisters Rosarita Huber, music; Jeremy Molett, business; Anne Michele Raley, business; Rosalie Ruesewald, science; and Cabrini Schmitz, religion, English, French, and journalism. Wow! I didn’t realize we faculty survivors are so few. If you haven’t done so already, go to www.stscho.org, our website. You will see that a lot is going on in this monastery and retreat center. And also at Hesychia House of Prayer at New Blaine, Arkansas.

Thanks also to the Scho Girls who serve on our various boards, to those who volunteer to help Sister Madeline Bariola with meals at the Retreat Center, and who help me at the monastery with the switchboard/front door on recollection days, retreat week, and our chapter meetings. And an abundance of thanks to all of for all your donations over the years. I combed through the old ALUMNATORS and discovered that the Scho Girls, since the revitalization of the organization, have given more than $140,000 for equipment, remodeling, landscaping, and especially the Aviary, which is the main attraction for the Infirmary Sisters. You also donated many dollars for the Retreats and the Spirituality Program. Our Bishop Anthony Taylor has dubbed the Scho Girls as ‘Show Girls’ because, he said, “they always ‘show up’ to help the Sisters for special functions.” You continue to be so special to us.

I’m struck by how many widows we have in the Alumnae organization. When we know someone has died, we post a note on the prayer board in the mailroom for Sisters to pray for your loved ones. At times that board gets crowded with requests for prayers from Facebook, our web site, phone calls, e-mails, and personal letters.

May God continue to bless you until we meet again in 2016.

Love, Sister Cabrini Schmitz ‘49, Moderator

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A Message from the past President

The past nine years of my presidency have passed so quickly. I am grateful to those who served with me, sharing so much time and talent. You willingly made all of our endeavors possible. I know we all will con-tinue to work with our new officers toward our mission of helping the Sisters when and where we are needed.

Dorothy Worner Sullivan ‘60

Some Scho Girls Messages to the Sisters and/or Sister Cabrini

From letter dated January 2012–Delores (Sissi An-halt Bennett ‘61: Hello: I am always late but will get this in this year!

We still live in Hot Springs Village on our 40th year now! We finally grew into this retirement community.

I am practically retired, just doing a couple of web sites for our businesses–Bennett Brothers Stone and Village Self-Storage–but I enjoy that and it’s not like ‘work’. I also still stay as busy as I can with volun-teer work, too. Keeps me involved and busy. Our only daughter, Audrey, lives in Nashville, TN. No, not a country music fan, but a SCIENTIST. We love to visit there!

Luckily, I keep in touch with many of my ‘61 class-mates–thanks to the internet and e-mail. Sorry I missed the 50th Reunion of the class of ‘61, but just was not quite ready after my car accident last May (2011). Thanks to all of those who prayed and to my sister who stayed with me in the hospital so many, many nights and days!

I’m looking forward to the next reunion and am praying hard for many who have loved ones sick, or have lost dear ones. It is so hard to accept the fact we are ‘getting’ old–but isn’t 70 the new 50?

Love hearing from the Sisters, but sad that we have lost so many of them, too! Just really grateful for the fabulous education they gave us during our days at St. Scho! Priceless! Love to all!

Undated note from Gerry White McFarland ‘43 I have recently sold my house after 22 years and

moved to an apartment. I remember with fondness my years at St. Scho and look forward to news from Fort Smith where I spent my childhood. My aunt, Sis-ter Celestine (Uptmoor) is buried there as is my for-mer voice teacher, Sister Stephen (Smreker), and other dear teachers.

Margaret Erman Price ‘55 To all our Alumnae Officers: thank you so much for

keeping the Alumnator coming to us. My years at St.

Scho were the best ones of my childhood. It was my ‘safe haven’ at the time and I loved it, hard work and all.

I’m keeping busy home schooling my granddaugh-ter Lori, for our 6th year (K-4-4th). She is so smart and a joy to teach. I too have to study to keep up with her. That is how I spend Saturday mornings studying.

Would love to see letters from the class of ‘55 in the Alumnator. Thank you again for all your work for us. Since becoming a widow I don’t get to Fort Smith anymore.

Marilyn Sax Boyd ‘62, 18 Royale Drive, Van Buren, AR 72956 (Dated Dec. 5, 2011)

I am looking forward to our fifty year graduation. Fellow classmates, please plan on attending and join-ing us in celebrating this milestone. It doesn’t seem possible that it has been that long.

Walt and I traveled to Europe this past (2011) fall. We cruised down the Elba River and then extended our stay with stops at Berlin, Helmstedt and Munich. Helmstedt is where Walt was stationed when he was in the military during the early sixties. He has wanted to revisit it ever since we’ve married. We are both retired from teaching and finally had the time to take this trip.

We have six grandchildren ranging in age from twenty-one to one and a half years. We also have one great granddaughter aged 18 months.

Mary Cecilia Bonifield ‘66 (from Facebook). Hers is a very long letter addressed to me and which I’ve shortened up; some of her classmates mentioned may want to communicate with her.) –Sister Cabrini

I am so happy to learn that you are at St. Scho-lastica Monastery. I haven’t been to Fort Smith since about 1985 (or was it 1974?). I didn’t see anyone at all that I knew; it was summer and maybe that was my bad luck. I want to thank you for that first year in French. It was so ingrained in me by your teach-ing (and my love of the language) that I still knew enough French in graduate school to make it one of the two required languages for the doctorate -- the other was Greek. The Greek is not much with me, but the French has lasted. Who knows? I may end up tutoring some high-school or college students. While I was at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire, from 1990 to 2009, I did administer reading tests to our seniors so that they could claim some slight knowledge of the language. But it is not how I’ve used French directly (say, in my three long visits to France!) but how it affected my life of learning. I’m out of work right now and at age 65, I’m not too happy about being on the streets, looking for a job for the first time since 1985. The saddest things in my life have been the collapse and destruction or diminish-ment of the great institutions where I’ve been privi-leged to work and make a difference, as they say now.

I don’t quite grasp how it is that St. Scholastica’s seems to have survived the ravages of the ‘60’s and entered into a new phase.

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Financial ReportsFINANCIAL REPORT 2012

St. Scholastica Alumnae AssociationSeptember 1, 2012 – August 31, 2013

Beginning Balance (9-01-12) $15,156.03

INCOME: Donations $5,540.00 Dues $1,300.00 Reunion2013 $9,317.00 $16,157.00

TOTAL INCOME: $31,313.03

EXPENSES: Alumnator2012 $1,049.99 BakeSale $110.66 P.O.AnnualRental $58.00 ContinuingCare $100.00 LivingDesign,Inc.(Aviary) $1,599.48 ReunionRegistration/Mailing $655.28 Reunion Wine $78.47 $3,651.88BALANCE OF AUGUST 31, 2013 $27,661.15

Respectfully Submitted: Annette C. Vogelpohl Knittig ‘62

“Once a Scho Girl.... Always a Scho Girl”A warm greeting the Alumnae to the September

2013 Reunion!!

The Reunion Friday evening reception a time to reconnect !!

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Dues and Donations

Sept. 1, 2012 – Aug. 31, 2013BettyAhlertHooverRosemaryAhlertLelemsisJaneAnhaltCalvertBerniceArdemagniMcCauleyAliciaAustinSusanBaltzSchmitzConstanceBartschEckelhoffDeborahBeckThompsonJeanBeckerHolmanJoyceBeecherTaylorGloriaBeecherStandifirdDoloresBergupMahoneyBerniceBergupGildaBergupMacksamMarcellaBergupGeissJaneBerrySandersBarbaraBerryFlynnJeanetteBeshonerKellyMarthaBiltlMageeCarolAnnBinzBlaschkeTheresaBockCarleOrmaleneBrockmanArthoWilmaBussLensingPatriciaCaseyWanslowMaryFrancesCliftonGottsponerCathyCorrottoLorenzMaryElizabethDanielsAshworthMaryJeanDennisEdwardsHelenDuerrHaysCharlotteEckartWard/TencleveRoselynEckartLayesCarolynEckartLensingLindaEckartStarlingMaryJoElserWilsonLaVerneElskenMargaretErmannPriceBettyJ.EtzkornPhyllisEwingMargaretMaryFrantzBarbaraFrigaBerniceFurstenbergGristMaryEllenFurstenberg

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The Reunion Sunday Mass in he Monastery Chapel

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I would dearly like to know about all the nuns that I knew. Just recently Barbara Jo Musholt Lightfoot and Peggy Cox found me on Facebook, but they don’t seem to be able to tell me the history or very much about what has become of so many of the nuns that were so great a part of my life and education. I heard a few things from Barbara Eisterhold in 1969, a year after I left St. Scholastica’s at the close of my year as a pos-tulant. That’s the last I heard from Barbara Eisterhold. She did tell me that Joanne Eisterhold had married Fa-ther Daniel. My younger brother had Sister Maxine (Irene) in math for a couple of years at Alamo High in Amarillo. Tom holds a Ph.D. in physics from Rice University and is a fellow and physicist at Texas Instru-ments in Dallas; Tom adored Sr. Maxine (Irene) and credits her for setting him up for his double major in math and physics at the University of Dallas (-- I have an M.A. and B.A. and unfinished doctoral work from University of Dallas and have worked in administration, publishing, and teaching literature. And Sister Carmen? Sister Luke (Rosalie)? Sister Scholastica? I would be astonished if Mother Jane Frances were still alive -- she was a figure of wisdom in my life and a good Latin teacher.

Have I mentioned that I’m grateful to you? to my education at St. Scholastica’s, to the example of “love of learning and the desire for God” that eventually took root in me. And I owe a great deal to Sister Norbert from that one year that I was in the convent as a pos-tulant. Is she still alive? And what did she do?

Oh - I just remembered my four years in “Press Bowl” - all of us with our heads in all those magazines. I’m glad to see that America magazine is still going strong - what a wonderful and substantial interview with Pope Francis last month! Well. I’ve sure boasted about the Press Bowl enough to make some of my col-leagues roll their eyes a bit -- but mostly they have loved my tales of St. Scholastica, the “order of the day” alone!

Please keep me in your prayers, and do let me hear from you, if you have the chance. I Thank you, again. Perhaps I’ll go to Fort Smith again in the next year or two -- two of my sisters live in Tulsa -- and I can catch up with you then. Mary Cecilia Bonifield

Mary Anne Elsken Burford ‘57 Sorry I could not make the reunion this year. I keep hoping my sched-ule changes one of these years so I can come “home” for a visit.

In the year 2000 I had the opportunity to tour Italy. One of our stops was at Monte Casino where St Benedict and St Scholastica are supposed to be buried under the main altar. As we were getting off the bus the tour guide said, “Anyone who has a Benedictine Education has the best education in the whole world.” Yes I have been deeply blessed in that I received 17

years of Benedictine Education, kindergarten through college degree.

This past Mother’s Day,May 12, I got to “Walk” and receive my BALEM from St Joseph’s College in Rens-selear, IN. This is a degree program that the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana has set up for Lay Ecclesial Minsters. Our bishop requires that anyone teaching high school and adult religion should have a deep knowledge of Theology. (I am beginning my 34th year working in RCIA) Not everyone pursues the degree but the program is a three and a half year study with ten theological courses, twelve pastoral skills work-shops, and three spiritual classes. If you want to pur-sue the degree, then you must write papers on the subject matter as directed by the instructors who are college professors for St Joe’s. Prior college courses of related matter can be added to the classes for degree consideration. In the summers more classes are offered which study the Doctors and Fathers of the Church, and their individual writings. We also did a two year program covering all the Documents of the Second Vatican Council. It was this class that gave me a better look at the education I received as a teenager as this was before the Council was called.

A year ago Sr Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB came to my area to do a retreat and a day of reflection. I got to attend both and we got to steal some time to just visit. It was really special to have a well-known classmate share her talents with my friends and colleagues.

I retired from the Clinical Laboratory five years ago and worked four years as the Coordinator of Religious Formation at my parish. Now I am completing my first year as a Sales Associate for Macy’s here in Muncie. I spend most of my working hours in Juniors having first been in Fine Jewelry. (My eight year old grandson thought it was terrible that Macy’s locked Grandma in a cage.) When Sr. Macrina was here I shared three prayers with her that came from my life in Ft. Smith.

God bless all of you, Mary Anne Elsken Burford, BS, MT(ASCP), MS, BALEM

Gertrude Post Vaught ’49 I want to get this death notice of my cousin, Fran-

ces Post Eide ’49, to you. Frances and I were together through grades 1-12 and stayed in touch. She died in a one car accident so it was a real shock to all of her family and us here in Altus. She was 81 years old.

I enjoyed the reunion—nice to come back. My sister Trenna Post Kremers was good to take care of me. I am by myself but have two daughters close. I stay busy. I quilt with the ladies at St. Mary’s and also here at home. We auction our quilts at the Thanksgiving Day dinner at St. Mary’s. We have 10 large (Queen to King) and 10 baby quilts. Of course, the money goes to St. Mary’s.

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2014 JUBILARIANS60 YEARS

Sister Madeline Bariola Sister Stephanie Schroeder Sister Rosalie Ruesewald

DEATHS OF ALUMNAE AND SISTERS

(If we have missed any deaths during Fall 2012-2013, please send us the information to be included in the 2014 issue of the Alumnator.)

You will notice some death dates are either not there or are already several years old before word comes to us that the person has died. If you know of other alumnae who have died, please let us know.

Jubilees & Deaths

Mary Jane Schwartz Becker ‘60 Nov. 10, 2000Edith Lange Irlbeck ‘38 Sept. 07, 2009Irene Sharum Steiert ‘43 Oct. 10, 2009Magdalene Barbara Heim Elsken ‘37 Dec. 30, 2012Murilene Snow Call ‘45 Jan. 08, 2013Sister Anne Heim Jan. 13, 2013Lucy Cook Holmes ‘46 Jan. 22, 2013Elizabeth Koch Patty Lemke ‘’54 Mar. 17, 2013Frances Post Eide ’49 Mar. 29, 2013Dorothy Albracht Doherty ‘57 Mar. 30, 2013Sister Frances Anne Braddock Apr. 03, 2013Sister Gabriel Brandt Apr. 04, 2013Clara Lehnen Czach ‘39 Apr. 04, 2013Sister Irma Twenter Apr. 05, 2013Rosalie Borengasser Walsh ’38 Apr. 07, 2013Delores Sax Spyres ‘66 Apr. 27, 2013Mary Ann Siebenmorgen Weisenfels ‘52 May 29, 2013Bette Kay Huck Cowie ‘60 June 10, 2013Sister Jovita Stengel July 04, 2013Rita Donberger Spahn ‘60 Aug. 02, 2013Ella Frances Canady Byrd ‘38 Aug.06, 2013Patricia Donberger Hall ‘45 Aug. 07, 2013Sister Corinne Lange ‘38 Aug. 07, 2013Phyllis Strobel Mayo ‘64 Aug. 09, 2013Mary Lynn McKenzie Flocks ‘66 Sept. 09, 2013Mildred Lucille Smith Manuel ‘37 Oct. 06, 2013Sister Valeria Moellers ‘33 Oct. 17, 2013Sister Annella Reginelli ‘36 Oct. 18, 2013

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I have 20 grandchildren and my goal is to give each a quilt. I am getting there, then I start on my own children.

FROM Signing the Guest Book at www.stschoalumnae.org:

Martha Netzer Verfurth Wednesday, 11/13/13, 6:44 AM Would like to learn information from class of 1955. Thanks Henderson, NV Email: marti4444@cox.net

Susan Roach Reed ‘66 Thursday, 10/3/13, 4:46 PM Hi, all - I cannot believe I just missed the reunion. Too bad for me. I very much would loved to have seen Virginia and Julie. Headed to Facebook now to find the alumnae page. Chattanooga TN Email: twosusie2@gmail.com

Julie Robben Lineberry ‘66 Wednesday, 10/2/13, 6:42 AM Kudos to the officers on a very very nice Reunion. Only complaint is that I “won” too many items at the silent auction table!! lol We missed all of you who could not make it this year. Class of ‘66 had only moi and Virginia Rinke Ricketts! Virginia planned, even prepared, some of the meals! Check the Facebook page for photos or send them and I will post them. Alexandria, VA jr.lineberry@verizon.net

Theresa M. Wewers Boekholder, 56 Tuesday, 10/1/13, 7:02 AM A huge thank you to the past officers and all those that helped to make the re-union last weekend a success. It was very enjoyable, for those who missed the event missed out on a great event. Those of us from the class of 56 encourage the rest to start making plans to come to our 60th in three years, would be fun to see everyone as there are some that have never been to a reunion. So ladies start mak-ing your plans. See you in 2016. Wishing you good health and God’s blessings. Mountain Home, AR Email: biltes@suddenlink.net

Glenda (Becker) Barnett Monday, 8/19/13, 5:37 PM Hello to all of the Class of 1967 - miss all the friends from the last class to gradu-ate from St. Scho... Woodbridge, Virginia Email: glen-da_brntt@yahoo.com

Bernice (Ardie) Ardemagni McCauley Saturday, 7/13/13, 12:49 PM Looking forward to see-ing classmates and acquaintances at the ‘13 reunion. Hope we have a good number from the class of ‘56. Just realized as I type this, graduated in ‘56 and mar-ried for 56 years last month. Oh, my!!!! Life is good! Ardie, now Bernie. TontitownAR. now Southlake, TX

Email: bernicemccauley@msn.com

Mary Risse Devaney class of 1963 Thursday, 5/2/13, 10:15 AM Hoping to see many of the class of 1963. Can’t believe that it has been 50 years. St Louis, MO/St Paul, MN. Email: 1959mary1963@gmail.com

Lynda Walker Adams ‘64 Friday, 3/8/13, 1:38 PM Hello everyone and a special thank you to all who keep us up to date. Hard to be-lieve it’s our turn to celebrate our upcoming fiftieth year. My husband and I will also celebrate our fiftieth anniversary in July 2014. We’ve raised three great chil-dren and have ten grandchildren. We went to Rome in November and received a Papal blessing, so special. My life since St.Scho has been alot of traveling being an Army wife and the bookkeeper for our business. I’m looking forward to visting with everyone in September.

Edgewater, Florida Email: ladams46@gmail.com

Pat (Fox)Pendleton Friday, 10/12/12, 4:08 PM Fort Smith, AR

Email: jimpatpendleton@gmail.com

Monica Jane Drake Merdian Friday, 9/21/12, 6:19 AM So very, very pleased to discover a gathering point for SSA alums. Kingwood, TX Email: mjane1990@gmail.com

Mary Jean Schluterman Kiene Thursday, 9/20/12, 3:42 PM Please add my email address. Thanks for your work on this and enjoyed the facebook photos. Thanks, again. From: Lavaca, Arkansas Email: kiene@pinncom.com

Shirley Williams Jones Monday, 8/20/12, 7:17 AM Graduated in 1955. Attend-ed reunion in 2007. Retired. Live in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Wanted to find out who else uses the net. Originally from Fort Smith. Email: sharlies@2020comm.net

RenionBanquet - YUM!

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PLEASE Check IN I get SOOOOO many questions: Have your heard from...? or What happened to ....?As much pleasure as I know that you get from reading about your classmates - they want to hear about you too!!Two ways to share.

1. Go to <www.Stschoalumnae.org> on the web. View the Guest Book to read messages from and to leave messages for your classmates, look at photos and the Alumnator. AND THEN SIGN-IN and LEAVE A MESSAGE remember to include your name when we knew you and your class year.

2. Facebook It’s free! Join and become a Fan “LIKE” the page (not just a comment or photo!)- You control who can access your own page.So don’t worry about old boyfriends finding you!

Search for: St Scholastica Alumnae Association FSA You control who can access your own page. Simply do not “Friend” anyone!!! Just LIKE us!

IF all this is still too confusing - search for me - “friend “ Julie Robben Lineberry, I will then sent an invite to the page and a link to the web page.

OR Ask a grandchild: or call me - I will walk you through the process, if you need extra help. (703-548-7663) Julie Robben Lineberry ‘66 julie.lineberry@verizon.net

Scho “Girls” Reunion 2013

Fom the Newsleter Editor

<<<< Annual Meeting New Officer introduced

Golden Girls - Class of 1963 >>>>>>>

<<<<<Golden Wanabees!! Class of ‘65

Longtime friends, classmates and relatives - all in one! >>>!

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Reunion Homily by Abbott Jerome Kodell OSB

Sometimes we get the feeling that nothing can change. The world is in a hopeless rut and, if anything, getting deeper into that rut.

Today we hear the cry from the prophet Amos: “Woe to the complacent in Zion! Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall!” Meanwhile the rich man is ignor-ing the poor man at his door.

We might experience that desperate sense in several ways: in our Church, in our own location or situation, or in our own lives. This world is go-ing to hell in a handbasket and going down with it. This more or less seemed to be the feeling on March 13, 2013, right before the papal election. What could really change? The Church has been rocked by one scandal after another, while mean-while we seem to be concentrating on dealing with relatively minor details of organization and liturgical texts, and being more and more ignored by the world. The coming papal election didn’t hold out much hope for change.

Then the mood suddenly did change, and dra-matically. With a few simple gestures, Pope Fran-cis captured the imagination of the world. Last fall Abbot Martin Werlen of the Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln in Switzerland wrote a booklet about the Church today entitled Embers Underneath the Ashes. He said the fire is still smoldering; it just needs a chance to be ignited. Pope Francis has ignited it.

In one of his early gestures Pope Francis cut through the selfish debate about immigration by making his first visit outside Rome as pope to the tiny island of Lampedusa where thousands of im-migrants have drowned. He dropped a wreath in the water. Immigrants today, he indicated, are like the poor man at the door of society. Every-one is walking by. He spoke of a “globalization of indifference” toward immigrants.

The reason you are here today is because of the fire underneath the ashes. You didn’t learn indifference here. Your life has been different because a fire has been burning in your hearts all these years, and you realize that you owe so much of that blessing to your time at St. Scholas-tica Academy. The school has been closed for 45

years and still you are coming back! Why are you coming back? To visit your back-

ground. Let me explain. So many of the problems people have in the world today come from being dominated by their foreground. Our foreground is what is in the range of our awareness. Because of the technology of modern communication, we have the largest foreground in history. Events happening all over the world are communicated to us immediately. In earlier times we would not have known of most of those events, or by the time we heard of them many alarming issues would have been resolved.

This immediate information has a good side, but it also has a bad side. The endless parade of often unsettling and violent images can keep us rattled and fearful, afraid that the world – our world – is falling apart. If we are dominated by the foreground, all of this can keep us off bal-ance, nervous, fearful, and vulnerable to every ill wind. At its worst, it may cause us to forget that there is a meaning to it all and that there is Some-one in charge.

We must live rather from our background, which is our foundation in the faith, in prayer, in charity. Nothing that shows up in the foreground can shake the background that you were given here at St. Scholastica. That foundation has stood you in good stead for the rest of your lives. That is why you have come back. You are here to revisit and reaffirm your background. The words from 1 Timothy tell of what surrounded you and seeped into you during your high school days at St. Scholastica Academy: “righteousness, devo-tion, faith, love, patience, gentleness.” These are not just concepts to you, but living examples in your memory, an honor role of Sisters who were your teachers and mentors, many of them gone from this earth, but all of them still alive in the real sense and still willing to help you wherever you are in your life.

Just as the mood of the world was lifted by the election of Pope Francis, your own hope is renewed when you come back to St. Scho and stir up the embers that are still burning in you and still burning here for you.

St. Scholastica Alumnae Reunion, 26th Sunday of the Year, Sept. 29, 2013

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Monastery News

On the Worldwide Web!St. Scholastica Monastery is on the internet with web pages, blogs & Facebook fans.Find out about : News, Events, Retreat schedules, Sr. Macrina’s blog, inspirational stories & photos. Go to : http://www.stscho.org/

OBLATES by Sister Hilary Decker

The Oblate program at St. Scholastica is doing well. The program is under the direction of Sister Rose Maria Birkenfeld and Sister Hilary Decker (Co-Direcctors). The program for the rest of 2013 is to continue the study of Sister Joan Chittister’s book “Monastery of the Heart”. On November 17, Sister Rose Maria will give a retreat in lieu of the monthly meeting. The December meeting date was changed because it conflicted with the an-nual Bake sale which will be December 11-13. We will combine the meet-ing with a Christmas Party on December 8. We are always seeking persons who wish to seek God with us as Oblates. If you or anyone you know may be interested in the Oblate Program, please have them contact Sister Rose Maria or Sister Hilary Decker at 479-783-4147 or hilarye1@juno.com. Blessing to all. Love and prayers.

PresidentBarbara Hug Anhalt ‘59934 South 68th LaneFort Smith, AR 72903479-452-3210 (home)479-461-1197 (cell)anhltb@aol.com

Vice PresidentJane Berry Sanders ‘617008 Milan WayFort Smith, AR 72916479-484-1151 (home)479-806-8026 (cell)jbsanders@sbcglobal.net

SecretaryMary Kennedy Burns ‘645109 Fresno StreetFort Smith, AR 72903479-783-0739 (home)479-420-6470 (cell)johnmarybu@yahoo.com

TreasurerNancy Fritz Ciulla ‘582020 South 70th StreetFort Smith, AR 72903479-452-4380 (home)479-806-1501 (cell)nrciulla@gmail.com

HistorianEmily Geels Soller ‘643817 Barry AvenueFort Smith, AR 72903479-785-1708 (home)479-629-2375 (cell)emsoller@yahoo.com

Alumnae ModeratorSr. Cabrini Schmitz, OSB ‘49PO Box 3489Fort Smith, AR 72913479-783-4147cabrini@stscho.org

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The Monastery bake sale will be held at the Center (Trinity) building December 14 and 15th. (Saturday 8 to 2 and Sunday 11 to 1)Your donations of baked goods and time are needed. Items can be dropped off at the Re-treat Center on Friday. Both items and volun-teers are most welcome! You have been very generous in the past and if you can help please call Barbara Anhalt. (479)461-1197

Annual Bake Sale!!

ST. SCHOLASTICA ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION 2013 - 2014 Annual Dues

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Mark Your CalendarsSt Scholastica AcademyTriennial Reunion 2016Everyone who attended is a part of the Alumnae!Please try to come!

Call your classmates, twist some arms..... cajole, plead, bribe just get yourself and them back for this reunion!

September23-25, 2016