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Where Hope Is: Stories of Benedictine Influence

Where Hope Is Podcast

Listen to independent interviews with SBA Alumnae conducted by Jenn Bokoch Gillett as part of the Where Hope Is Oral Stories project. You can also subscribe to the Where Hope Is substack if you would like an email when a new interview is posted. Click here. View the June 2024 performance here.

Mary Hoffman '70...I was going to go to St. Ben's come hell or high water

Ann Michalski, '81...I walked away from St. Ben's with that.

Carolyn Gorny-Kopkowski '58...Right away I knew it was the Benedictines.

Mary Dreisbach Olowin '66... I did not want to be surrounded by only people my age.

Judith Lorei '78 ...I learned to be "really steadfast in my beliefs"

Donna Sowieralski Heaps '73...she opened up my eyes

Sister Annette Marshall '61...and the closing of St. Benedict Academy, Erie, PA