Angie Connolly (center), current Salt editor, is surrounded by decades of wisdom from previous editors BVMs Mira Mosle (l.) and Teri Hadro. The Third Article of a Three-Part Series by BVMs Teri Hadro and Mira Mosle As sisters changed, so…
Published in Salt 1980 by Mary A. Healey, BVM Not every anniversary is happy. The one that BVMs commemorate as they look back twenty-five years this summer is not entirely sad. Mother Mary Josita summed up their feelings when she…
Left: ACTION director Helen Kelly and Sister Mary agree that federally funded programs for the elderly are necessary since private community organizations are frequently limited financially or lack organizational ex-pertise. Right: In between visits to RSVP centers, Sister Mary checks…
Kay Fennell (second from right), group coordinator, guided (I. to r.) BVMs Rose Mary Meyer, Carolyn Farrell and Carol Cook through the intricacies of Chinese travel. Republished in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Fourth United Nations Conference…
They come from Canada and Cuba—Trinidad and Thailand. From Italy, Iran, and India. They come from Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia; from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo. They come from 29 foreign countries. They are, for the most part,…
Mary Donahey, BVM rides a rickshaw. by Mary Donahey, BVM Published in Salt, Spring 1977 Having spent six weeks in India (thanks in part to a Mundelein College grant from the Lilly Foundation), I will try here to corral…
By Mary Blake Published in Salt magazine, Spring 1976 Clarke College students and faculty have been helping Dubuque’s resident population of Vietnamese in many different ways since the refugees began arriving in the city last summer. Sponsored by various Dubuque…
by Carol Frances Jegen, BVM Published in Salt magazine, Winter 1975 BVM involvement in the current farmworker struggle for justice has been steadily gaining momentum since the summer of 1973. In July of that yar when several Sisters were invited…
by Kathryn Lawlor, BVM Published in Salt magazine, September, 1974 When the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregation unlawful in 1954, I was teaching in an all-black school in the South one of my students shouted the news to his classmates…
Published in Salt magazine, September, 1974 by Teri Hadro, BVM and Rita Benz, BVM From VISTA of the fifties and sixties to SALT of the mid-seventies is a move from a view of the times to a savoring of life…