Nuns mark 50th jubilees

Staff report

CANFIELD

The Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown will celebrate as three members of the religious community mark their 50th anniversaries. The sisters, family and friends will attend Mass at 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Luke Parish, 5235 South Ave., Boardman, followed by a celebration in the parish hall. The Rev. Joseph Fata will celebrate Mass.

Sister Pauline Dalpe was born in Woonsocket, R.I., to Marcel and Yvonne Paul Dalpe, now deceased. They moved to Struthers when Sister Pauline was a child. It was at St. Charles and St. Nicholas schools that she encountered the Ursuline Sisters.

Sister Pauline graduated from Cardinal Mooney High School in 1961. She earned a degree in education from Youngstown State University in 1965, a master of science in education/religious education from St. John College in Cleveland in 1975, and a master’s in education/counseling from Youngstown State University in 1991. She also has completed post-graduate work at Walsh College, North Canton and Miami University, Oxford.

On Sept. 10, 1961, she entered the Ursulines; was received into the novitiate Aug. 9, 1962; and made her final profession Aug. 6, 1969.

Sister Pauline’s ministries include teaching in elementary education at St. Rose in Girard; Sacred Heart and Immaculate Conception; Holy Family in Poland; and St. Charles in Boardman.

She also has served on the House of Prayer Core Team, in parish ministry at St. Charles and St Rose, for the Diocese of Youngstown as Marriage Tribunal advocate, at Catholic Charities Regional Agency as counselor and as director of the Ursuline Center from 2008-2010, and in pastoral counseling since 2010.

Sister Patricia McNicholas was born in Youngstown to Paul and Mary Frances Dignan McNicholas, now deceased. She attended St. Dominic School and graduated from Cardinal Mooney High School in 1961.

Sister Patricia earned a baccalaureate in education from YSU in 1965; a master of arts in religious education from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1976; a master of science in administration from the University of Notre Dame in 1988; and a doctorate in ministry from United Theological Seminary of Dayton in 1992.

Sister Patricia entered the Ursulines on Sept. 10, 1961; was received into the novitiate Aug. 9, 1962; and made her final profession Aug. 6, 1969.

Sister Patricia has been an educator at St. Charles, St. Nicholas, Ursuline High School, Cardinal Mooney High School, and taught at Walsh College and Ursuline College in Cleveland, as an adjunct professor.

As an administrator, Sister Patricia worked in the Department of Religious Education for the diocese from 1976-89, serving as director from 1981-89. She was the founding director of the Potter’s Wheel, a program of Beatitude House, which helps disadvantaged women succeed through educational and employment assistance. She has been the executive director of Beatitude House since 2001.

Sister Patricia served on the leadership team of the Ursuline Sisters from 1976-80 and again from 1984-90, and was general superior from 1990-16.

She has been active in the community, serving as a member of the Mahoning Valley Association of Churches from 1993-2000, president of Beatitude House Board from 1990-96, on the Ohio Children’s Trust Fund Board from 1986-92, with the National Conference of Directors of Religious Education from 1981-89, on the advisory committee of the National Directors of Religious Education from 1982-85, with the Chief Administrators of Catholic Education from 1981-89, on the board of Park Vista from 2006-2010, on the Mahoning County Continuum of Care since 1996, on the Trumbull County Housing Collaborative since 2003, and on the Eastern Gateway Community College Board since 2010.

Sister Patricia received the Athena Award from the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber in 2005.

Sister Kathleen Minchin was born in Youngstown to Richard and Grace Pratt Minchin, now deceased. Sister Kathleen attended St. Nicholas School and graduated from Cardinal Mooney High School in 1961.

She earned a baccalaureate degree in education from YSU in 1965, and a master of arts in pastoral theology from St. Mary of the Woods in Terre Haute, Ind., in 1992. She also furthered her professional and academic training in the area of spirituality at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., scripture studies at St. John College in Cleveland, and Walsh College, and in the clinical pastoral education training program at Fairview Hospital, Cleveland.

On Sept. 10, 1961, Sister Kathleen entered the Ursulines; was received into the novitiate Aug. 9, 1962; and made her final profession Aug. 6, 1969.

Sister Kathleen’s ministries include serving as an educator in diocesan schools from 1976-79: St. Patrick, Sacred Heart, Holy Family, St. Rose and St. Charles. She lived and ministered with the Carmelite Sisters of Cleveland from 1979-81. She also served on the House of Prayer core team for the Diocese of Youngstown from 1971-76, as director of the Ursuline Sisters Company of Angela from 1988-90, and on the pastoral care team at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, from 1981-93.

In 1993, Sister Kathleen co-founded the Ursuline Sisters HIV/AIDS Ministry and has served as its executive director since then. The ministry serves primarily low-income children and adults living with HIV/AIDS through a variety of programs, including an adult and pediatric HIV clinic, a food pantry and kitchen, a nonfood pantry for household and personal supplies and child and family support services.

For information on the Ursuline Sisters of Youngs-town, visit www.theursulines.org/our-life-and-ministries.