Sister Mary McCormick

50 Years of Service to Catholic School Education

When the new school year began at the end of August, Sister Mary Ellen Dean was getting ready for her 50th year of service to Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Youngstown.  Most of those years - 44, including this year – have been spent at Ursuline High School.  Sister Mary Ellen has also taught at [...]

Nun as Construction Site Coordinator

When Sister Betty Schuster went to college, she pursued a career in education.  After a decade in Catholic Schools , the school in Long Island where she was teaching closed in the early 1990s.  Betty then decided to spend a year in volunteer service in Youngstown, OH.  Part of her volunteer time was spent in Catholic schools.  But she [...]

Sister Bridget Nolan

Sister Bridget Nolan is the daughter of the late Donald and Lucille Barton Nolan.  She entered the Ursuline Sisters from St. Paul the Apostle Parish, New Middletown, after graduating from Cardinal Mooney High School.  She earned a B.S. in Education from Youngstown State University and an M.A. in Education from Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois. She [...]

Sister Dorothy Kundracik

Sister Dorothy Kundracik is the daugher of the late Michael and Margaret Martinko Kundracik.  She entered the Ursuline Sisters from      St. Patrick Parish after graduating from Ursuline High School.  She earned a B.S. in Education from Youngstown State University and an M. Ed. from Indiana University in Pennsylvania.  She has taught at    St. John, Campbell,    [...]

Sister Elizabeth Anne Freidhoff

Sister Elizabeth Anne Freidhoff is the daughter of the late John and Elizabeth Calpin Freidhoff.  She entered the Ursuline Sisters from St. Patrick Parish after graduating from Ursuline HighSchool.   She earned a B.S. in Education from Youngstown State University, an M.A. in Education  from the University of Dayton and pursued further graduate studies at Ursuline College, [...]