Mullen, Sr. Mary Eustace
An oral history of Sister Mary Eustace Mullen, a Sister of Charity of Seton Hill from 1912 until 1983. The interview was conducted by Sister Jean Ann Wilburn on May 12, 1982.
Sister Mary Eustace Mullen - born Mary Catherine Mullen on October 23, 1894 - entered the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill in September of 1912. Sister Mary Eustace received a bachelor's degree in education from Duquesne University in 1936. She served as a teacher at St. Joseph School in Sharpsburg, St. James Elementary School in Wilkinsburg, and at the House of Mary in Pittsburgh's Hill District for brief periods of time in the forties and fifties. She also served as a Sister Servant at Holy Cross School in Youngwood from 1945-1950. In the mid-fifties, she travelled west to Arizona where she taught at SS. Peter & Paul School in Tucson from 1953-1956 and at St. Mary-Basha Elementary School in Chandler from 1956-1957. Back east, she taught at St. Regis School in Trafford from 1957-1962 and was in residence at St. John the Evangelist in Pittsburgh from 1962-1970. Sister Mary Eustace died on May 30, 1983.
An oral history of Sister Mary Ellen McAvoy, a Sister of Charity of Seton Hill from 1926 until 1997. The interview was conducted by Sister Brigid Marie Grandey on November 1, 1986.
Sister Mary Ellen McAvoy was born on October 27, 1903 in Frostburg, Md. Daughter of Thomas P. McAvoy and Ellen C. Cunningham, Mary Rose McAvoy entered the community on September 8, 1926 as Sister Mary Ellen McAvoy.
Sister Mary Ellen worked for six years as a secretary before entering the community. She ministered as a secondary education teacher in schools throughout the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Altoona, and Tucson, Az. Among the schools she taught at were St. Anselm, West End, Cathedral, Holy Innocents, Sacred Heart, Salpointe, and St. Mary in Chandler, Az. She also served as principal of Holy Innocents from 1950 to 1953. She later served at Seton Hill College, first as a secretary from 1972 to 1978, and later in supportive services from 1978 to 1984.
Sister Mary Ellen earned her B.Ed. in History and English from Duquesne University in 1945 and earned her M.A. in Religion from Providence College in 1956.
Sister Mary Ellen McAvoy passed away on July 11, 1991 at the age of 87.
Sister Spotlights
- Interviews A-C
- Adams, Sister Mary Timothy
- Beam, Sister M. Alexine
- Beasley, Sister Robert Mary
- Beckel, Sister Inez Mary
- Beckel, Sister Stella Marie
- Blatt, Sister Mary Frederick
- Boggs, Sister Rose Irene
- Boyer, Sister M. Sylvester
- Brandt, Sister Mary Giles
- Burns, Sister Marie Cecelia
- Carey, Sister Mary Agnes
- Coleman, Sister Francis Mary
- Collins, Sister Margaret Clare
- Connelly, Sister Helen Louise
- Cunningham, Sister Rose Angela
- Curren, Sister Boniface
- Curren, Sister John Baptist
- Interviews D-G
- Interviews H-J
- Hanley, Sister Margaret Anne
- Helwig, Sister Germaine
- Henry, Sister Teresa Martin
- Hensler, Sister Mary Estelle
- Hensler, Sister Mary Estelle and Sister Mary Francis Irvin
- Hickey, Sister Miriam Leah
- Honeychuck, Sister Francis Louise
- Irvin, Sr. Mary Francis
- Jablonski, Sister M. Pancratius
- Jablonski, Sister Marie Stephen
- Interviews K-M
- Interviews Mc
- Interviews O-R
- Interview S-W