Description:Chapters: St. Mary's College (Indiana) Faculty, Madeleva Wolff, Leo Podolsky, Bill Slavick, Sister Miriam Joseph, Catherine Ann Cline. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sister M. Madeleva Wolff (1887-1964), CSC, the "lady abbess of nun poets," was the third president of Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. She was born in Cumberland, Wisconsin in 1887, and christened "Mary Evaline Wolff." She decided to become a nun during her first semester attending Saint Mary's College. She was given the name Madeleva upon her acceptance into the Congregation of the Holy Cross in 1908. Sister Madeleva was known for her poetry, her eloquence, and her outspokenness. She was a medieval scholar, whose literary essays won her distinction. She wrote a good deal in defense of Geoffrey Chaucer's character "The Prioress." In all, she authored more than twenty books. She studied at numerous universities, including the University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford. When she completed her M.A. degree in English at The University of Notre Dame, she had been one of only four sisters to pursue graduate work there. In 1925, she earned a Doctorate in English from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She served as teacher and principal of Sacred Heart Academy in Ogden, Utah and as President of St. Mary-of-the-Wasatch College in Salt Lake City. She later became the head of the English department at Saint Mary's College. The tenure of Sister Madeleva Wolff as President of Saint Mary's College began in 1934. She told leaders that the essence of our college is not its buildings, its endowment fund, its enrollment, or even its faculty; the essence is the teaching of truth. Some of her most tangible contributions included the establishment of the School of ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=497070We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with St. Mary's College (Indiana): St. Mary's College (Indiana) Faculty, Madeleva Wolff, Leo Podolsky, Bill Slavick, Sister Miriam Joseph. To get started finding St. Mary's College (Indiana): St. Mary's College (Indiana) Faculty, Madeleva Wolff, Leo Podolsky, Bill Slavick, Sister Miriam Joseph, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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St. Mary's College (Indiana): St. Mary's College (Indiana) Faculty, Madeleva Wolff, Leo Podolsky, Bill Slavick, Sister Miriam Joseph
Description: Chapters: St. Mary's College (Indiana) Faculty, Madeleva Wolff, Leo Podolsky, Bill Slavick, Sister Miriam Joseph, Catherine Ann Cline. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sister M. Madeleva Wolff (1887-1964), CSC, the "lady abbess of nun poets," was the third president of Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. She was born in Cumberland, Wisconsin in 1887, and christened "Mary Evaline Wolff." She decided to become a nun during her first semester attending Saint Mary's College. She was given the name Madeleva upon her acceptance into the Congregation of the Holy Cross in 1908. Sister Madeleva was known for her poetry, her eloquence, and her outspokenness. She was a medieval scholar, whose literary essays won her distinction. She wrote a good deal in defense of Geoffrey Chaucer's character "The Prioress." In all, she authored more than twenty books. She studied at numerous universities, including the University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford. When she completed her M.A. degree in English at The University of Notre Dame, she had been one of only four sisters to pursue graduate work there. In 1925, she earned a Doctorate in English from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She served as teacher and principal of Sacred Heart Academy in Ogden, Utah and as President of St. Mary-of-the-Wasatch College in Salt Lake City. She later became the head of the English department at Saint Mary's College. The tenure of Sister Madeleva Wolff as President of Saint Mary's College began in 1934. She told leaders that the essence of our college is not its buildings, its endowment fund, its enrollment, or even its faculty; the essence is the teaching of truth. Some of her most tangible contributions included the establishment of the School of ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=497070We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with St. Mary's College (Indiana): St. Mary's College (Indiana) Faculty, Madeleva Wolff, Leo Podolsky, Bill Slavick, Sister Miriam Joseph. To get started finding St. Mary's College (Indiana): St. Mary's College (Indiana) Faculty, Madeleva Wolff, Leo Podolsky, Bill Slavick, Sister Miriam Joseph, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.