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Carmelite sisters name leader for Villa Teresa January 20, 1984 |
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Sister Joseph Marie, well-known to
Catholics here and to those associated with St. Charles Borromeo in
northwest Oklahoma City, has been elected leader of the Carmelite Mother
House. The Mother House, Villa Teresa, is at 1300 Classen Drive in Oklahoma City. The Carmelites, nuns who devote their energies mainly to teaching and education, have lived there and operated a nursery and preschool at that address since the 1930s. Sister Joseph Marie moved to Villa Teresa last week to assume her new duties. Her previous home was the convent at St. John's Catholic Church, 600 S 11th. She had lived there the past 2 1/2 years and taught fifth and sixth-graders in the parish school. She was chosen leader in December, to succeed Sister Teresa Ranallo, who held the leadership position for 12 years. A new council, whose members assist the leader, was also elected. Named were Sister Diann Pauline of Villa Teresa, Sister Joan Mary Levesque of McAlester and Sisters Mary Mark McQuire and Marcianne Kappes, both of St. Charles Borromeo. Sister Joseph Marie is originally from South Bend, Ind. She earned her bachelor's degree from St. Mary's College and her master's from Notre Dame. She taught briefly in Indiana after her graduation, then in 1959 moved to Oklahoma City to enter the convent. Since becoming a Carmelite, she has taught throughout Oklahoma and in California. Her teaching jobs here have included six years as principal for the school at St. Charles Borromeo and 4 1/4 years with St. John's. Two of the years she spent with St. John's were in the 1960s, just after the school moved to S 11 Street. © The Oklahoma Publishing Co. and its
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