Words from Those Who Knew Her

"She taught me how to look at what you don't see and listen to what you don't hear, and that is a life lesson in professional and personal relationships."

"We used to have a lot of fun with her as our teacher. I'd be waiting for class and she'd be running past us and down the hall to her own classes with rollers still in her hair! I had to stop her and help her get them out before she started her lessons!"

"When she took you under her wing, you were really under her wing. She followed you and helped you with what she perceived you needed. And what she thought you needed, you usually did need."

- Terri Lumberger, a student of Sister Rosalie at Seton Hill University

"I became a school principal years after I graduated from Sister Rosalie's radio school, and a lot of the lessons I got from her I ended up using during my own career."

"She was very much like a movie star. She was in the right place wherever she was going, and she was even very close to Charlton Heston."

"She had a natural way of helping students develop. She understood both the boys and girls she taught so well."

"I really felt terrible when they transferred her away from my high school at St. John's to Sacred Heart."

"I love the way she taught, because she was always entertaining us at the same time."

"Whenever you needed to get another topic or speech in her classes, she knew what else to tell you to look for or what to put in your hands."

-Sister Marian Grace, a student of Sister Rosalie from St. John's Catholic High School.

"I remember at her Television School, I had to recite poetry. She was so full of praise and so positive and she made me feel like I did a great job, and I was just a kid reading a poem! There was just that positivity about her, she raised your self-esteem."

"She liked to drive! She would come and pick me up and take me with her to places. I remember one time she took me to Seton Hill all the way from Pittsburgh for the day."

"She just made me feel special. Every child needs that, to have somebody who treats them like they're special. Because they are special."

"There were scenes that I wasn't involved in, but she brought me along to a lot of the scenes anyway. I guess she just liked my company!"

"She was a truly vivacious person, so full of life. She was very energetic; always smiling, happy, encouraging, and a very positive person overall. If I could summarize her in just one word, I think 'dynamic' would be best."

"She was a woman who was producing and directing a movie! In the 60s that was completely unheard of. She was very confident, and took pride in doing things that were progressive back in her time."

-Nancy J. Kennedy, an actress in the documentary-film about the life of Mother Seton, produced by Sister Rosalie, and a student at her Radio and Television School at the Pittsburgh Diocese.