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Nuns End Era of Teaching in Delaware County Schools
The Immaculate Heart of Mary sisters bid farewell as 23 nuns leave three Delaware County archdiocesan schools St Eugene Primos St Madeline St Rose Ridley Park and St Anastasia Newtown Square after decades of service. Many are reassigned to Philadelphia area schools while a few remain in the county. The departure follows a 25 year decline in new vocations affecting staffing and school morale. Students hosted farewells and gifts as the nuns move on carrying memories of long devotion to their teaching mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Mount
St. Anastasia
Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Delaware County
Archdiocesan
St. Eugene School
Primos
St. Madeline-St. Rose
Ridley Park
Newtown Square
Holy Saviour
St. John Fisher
Lower Chichester
St. Thomas the Apostle
Chester Heights
Marie Kelly
Kelly
Sisters of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary
Marie Genevieve Lawler
Immaculate Heart Order
United States
South America
Mother Marie
Immaculate Heart Sisters
Philadelphia
Laura Kropiewnicki