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50 years ago — Jan. 3, 1969
BABY
Ethel Kennedy, widow of assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York, is shown leaving Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. with her 7-day-old daughter, her eleventh child. The new baby is named Rory Elizabeth Katherine. (NC Photos)
25 years ago — Jan. 14, 1994
Help wanted
By Kathleen T. Choi
Haven’t seen “Sister Act 2” and probably won’t. I found the first one patronizing to women religious. I’m also annoyed that Catholics don’t complain more. Why pray for vocations and then allow derogatory stereotypes to pass unchallenged.
I’m fighting back with a book, tentatively entitled “Nuns Without Rulers.” I’d like to demonstrate that most women religious are bright competent women, doing important work.
10 years ago — Jan. 9, 2009
Chaminade’s ‘Sue’ Wesselkamper dies
Dr. Mary Civille “Sue” Wesselkamper, whose 13 years of buoyant, engaging leadership as president of Chaminade University of Honolulu brought the school unprecedented growth and recognition, died in the early morning of Jan. 3 in her home in Kahala with family and friends by her side.
Wesselkamper was Chaminade University’s eighth and longest serving president, the first woman to preside over a university in Hawaii and the first woman to head a Marianist university. She was 66.