Sister Louise Rausch, SDS, to Celebrate 60th Jubilee

Called and Blessed will be the 2009 jubilee theme of Salvatorian Sisters in the North American Province making their jubilees. A Mass of Thanksgiving will be offered at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 27, at Sacred Heart School of Theology, Hales Corners, Wisconsin. A reception and dinner will follow the liturgy. Sister Louise Rausch, SDS, will be celebrating her 60th jubilee of religious profession.

Sister Louise, of Milwaukee, today is a volunteer at St. Anne’s Salvatorian Campus and the Salvatorian Sisters Residence, both in Milwaukee.

She was one of ten children and grew up in southern Idaho. Four of her siblings also became religious two of whom were Salvatorians, Sister Rosalie and Brother Fidelis, both deceased as is Sister Helen, RSM. Abbot Conrad, OSB, Lawrence, Joseph and Dorothy are her living siblings.

She earned an Education degree from Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

As an educator, she spent several decades teaching in elementary schools in Maryland, Minnesota, Alabama and Wisconsin, including the La Crosse Diocese.. In addition, she ministered as a house parent with Native American children in South Dakota, in children’s foster care in Idaho and a hospital clerk/typist, and a provincial archives assistant. Also she worked as a tutor at Milwaukee Achiever Services for 14 years, mainly teaching ESL. In the 1970s, she became a registered cosmetologist in the State of Wisconsin and worked at St. Mary’s Nursing and still volunteers at St. Anne’s Salvatorian Campus and Salvatorian Sisters Residence.

‘I enjoyed working with people and helping them feel better about themselves. It was a pleasure to tutor especially when a light goes on and the person knows they have accomplished something,” Sister Louise said.