Sister Jean retires from Loyola

[Dawgg]

She just turned 106!

For those that don’t know, she was a long time chaplain for the Loyola Chicago men’s basketball team and was heavily featured during Loyola’s NCAA tournament runs over the past few years.

She actually started at Mundelein College back in 1961 then Mundelein merged with Loyola in 1991, so she wasn’t technically part of the “Game of Change”, but still cool that she was involved in athletics that long.

 

[HomeBoyDawg]

Thanks for posting!

 

[HailStout]

106? Good lord the stuff she has seen. Born in 1919. She saw the Great Depression, WW2, Vietnam, the moon landing, the beginning and end of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall falling, the invention of tv, the invention of color tv, the invention of cell phones, the creation of the internet, and Mississippi state being ranked #1 in football.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

I didnt realize she had an actual position, I thought it was just an accommodating reference to a retiree. Wow, quite the run.

 

[Dawgg]

I didnt realize she had an actual position, I thought it was just an accommodating reference to a retiree. Wow, quite the run.

Yeah, she announced her retirement in 1994 at the age of 74, but the school offered her a role as an academic and eligibility advisor (“Booster Shooter”) for the basketball teams, which they expanded to the chaplain role as kind of a semi-retirement role. She’s kept it for over 31 years.

 

[Dawgg]

106? Good lord the stuff she has seen. Born in 1919. She saw the Great Depression, WW2, Vietnam, the moon landing, the beginning and end of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall falling, the invention of tv, the invention of color tv, the invention of cell phones, the creation of the internet, and Mississippi state being ranked #1 in football.

Yeah, she has a pretty great story if you ever read anything about her. When she started getting prominence during those Loyola NCAA runs, there were a lot of stories about her. Kind of an incredible life.

 

[Perd Hapley]

Paging @ClintonInHelen…

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

Paging @ClintonInHelen…

***He would hit it***

 

[BreckyBratt]

106? Good lord the stuff she has seen. Born in 1919. She saw the Great Depression, WW2, Vietnam, the moon landing, the beginning and end of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall falling, the invention of tv, the invention of color tv, the invention of cell phones, the creation of the internet, and Mississippi state being ranked #1 in football.

Don't forget the beginning of AI,

and the return to earth of BAMA football*

 

[Dawgg]

Sister Jean has passed.

 

[dawgman42]

Sister Jean has passed.

 

[ClintonInHelen]

Would not hit…

 

[BoDawg.sixpack]

Would not hit…

That's good to know. Thanks.

 

[TilloDwg]

Sister Jean, beloved chaplain of Loyola Ramblers basketball team, dies at 106

 

[Perd Hapley]

Would not hit…

What about yesterday, though?

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Wow. Timing is everything. They got her out before it became an Osha recordable.**

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Sister Jean, beloved chaplain of Loyola Ramblers basketball team, dies at 106

Gone too soon

 

[The Peeper]

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106? Good lord the stuff she has seen. Born in 1919. She saw the Great Depression, WW2, Vietnam, the moon landing, the beginning and end of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall falling, the invention of tv, the invention of color tv, the invention of cell phones, the creation of the internet, and Mississippi state being ranked #1 in football.

Umm, I'm only 64 and saw 8 of those things. Remember watching Walter Cronkite every night with my dad and hearing about this Viet Nam place and something called "Hamburger Hill" there. Remember watching the helicopters and planes leaving with way too many refugees hanging on to them. I watched Neil Armstrongs moon walk. Watched the citizens breaking up the Berlin Wall with whatever they could find to bust up pieces of it. My kids laugh because I got my first cell phone when I was 28 years old, but I was one of the first to get one. Came home in the 7th grade and my folks had bought a color tv. Damn I'm getting old, so how about y'all stay off my lawn so I won't get upset