St.
Elizabeth alumni make us proud in a wide variety of professions and industries.
In this issue we highlight two published authors among the ranks.
Bill Jaenike ‘52 recently published Black Robes
in Paraguay, The Success of the Guaraní Missions Hastened the Abolition of the
Jesuits.
This is a true story about events in Europe and the Vatican
which resulted in the total abolition of the Jesuit order by Pope Clement XIV in
1773, and how the Jesuits were reestablished by Pope Pius VII.
Mr. Jaenike has generously offered to donate the author’s
commission of $9.00 for each copy of his book purchased by alumni. For more
information go to our website at www.steliznyc.org.
Maureen Murphy Nutting ‘52, visited the school while
in New York in May to speak with the eighth grade students about her work as a
historian and on an upcoming book, Becoming Historians.
Becoming Historians is a collection of autobiographical
essays by ten well-known historians, due out in early 2009. Dr. Nutting has
written about St. Elizabeth School and the Heights in her chapter. She is
History Chair at North Seattle Community College and on the Council of the
American Historical Association.
Dr. Nutting credits St. Elizabeth School with greatly influencing her
interest in history, naming "Bishop Furlong who was our pastor and also
author of our history textbooks; Msgr. Harrington, who saw to it that we had an
incredibly good school library; and Mother Gregory, whose reading of a biography
of Harriet Tubman still resonates in my soul. St. Elizabeth School was a most
interesting place."
