Threshold - Winter 2005

News Notes

• Sister Mary Collins received the Fidelis award from Maur Hill-Mount Academy. The honor is given each year to a woman who has given outstanding service to the school.

• Sisters Rosann Eckart and JoAnn Fellin attended the summer monastic renewal program in Rome. The study and travel program for Benedictine women of English-speaking countries is directed by Sister Marcia Ziska. For the summer of 2006, Sisters Dorothy Wolters and Sylvia Kenkel have been chosen to attend.

• Sister Diane Couture, SSJ, designer of a stained glass window in New York honoring the 9/11 rescue workers, gave a presentation for the sisters on her studio and her art. She was in Atchison as this year’s Fellin lecturer at Benedictine College. Another presentation for the sisters this fall was given by Bob and Judith Mann, of Bridging the Gap, on ecological sustainability.

• Fifty-five Benedictine College students are participating in this year’s Partners in Prayer program which pairs students and sisters to participate in monastic prayer and other activities.

• Sister Esther Fangman, president of the Federation of St. Scholastica, attended the international meeting of abbesses and prioresses (CIB) in Poland.

• Sister Mary Irene Nowell was elected vice-president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America.

• Sister Judith Sutera was chosen for the national board of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, which works with a pontifical council for dialogue with non-Christians. Sister Barbara McCracken is ending a term on the board.



Stephanie Soldana, recently returned from teaching in Damascus, spoke to the sisters about Muslim-Christian relations in the Middle East. She greets Sisters Regina Hansen, Laura Haug, and Paula Howard, who have all taught at Bethlehem University.



Members of the Benedictine College men's basketball team, whith their coaches and chaplain, came to visit the Mount and enjoy supper with them. With fans too numerous to identify by name, the basketball players are the tall ones in the back.

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