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Year of Consecrated Life Open House

The Sisters of the Precious Blood kicked off National Catholic Sisters Week on March 8 by welcoming more than 120 friends, neighbors, first-time visitors, local city officials and clergy to their convent in Dayton for an open house. Photos by Michelle Bodine.
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Sister Arlene Hirsch gives a tour at the Open House
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Sister Arlene Hirsch gives a tour at the Open House

  • Sister Arlene Hirsch gives a tour at the Open House
  • In Grace Hall, Sister Amy Junk distributes vocation materials, while Sister Alice Schoettelkotte grabs pens for the visitors
  • Sister Marla Gipson shows Sister Lou Ann Roof's apartment to visitors
  • Sister Barbara Jean Backs points to an item in a case filled with artifacts of Mother Brunner on the second floor rotunda of Salem Heights
  • Sister Elizabeth Westgerdes shows visitors the library and second floor rotunda
  • In the second floor rotunda, Sisters Elizabeth Westgerdes, Marla Gipson and Rose Helene Wildenhaus act as tour guides
  • In Grace Hall (fourth floor) Sister Madonna Ratermann acted as a tour guide for the open house
  • Sister Joyce Lehman visits with Trotwood Mayor Joyce Sutton Cameron in the dining hall
  • The dining hall is filled with visitors enjoying refreshments after touring Salem Heights
  • Sister Joyce Lehman with descendants of Mother Brunner, the Hartkemeyers
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