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Sister Louise Magdalene Installed

Diocesan Press Service. August 24, 1973 [73202]

GLENDALE, Ohio -- Sister Louise Magdalene was installed as the seventh Mother Superior of the Episcopal Community of the Transfiguration, Glendale, Ohio, on August 6.

She succeeds the Rev. Mother Esther Mary, who completed two five-year terms as superior.

Since the death of the community's Mother Foundress, the Rev. Mother Eva Mary in 1928, the order has had a rule that a mother superior may serve two consecutive terms but cannot be elected for a third.

Installation took place during a Eucharist celebrating the Feast of the Transfiguration, the founding date of the community 75 years ago.

The Rev. Anthony Damron of St. Gregory's Priory, chaplain general of the community, presided at the installation.

Sister Alice Lorraine, Novice Director previously, was named Assistant Superior and Sister Monica Mary became Novice Director.

Mother Louise Magdalene entered the Community of the Transfiguration in 1930 and was professed in 1934.

Soon thereafter she went to China where she was in charge of the community's branch house until 1949.

She was later assigned to the branch house in Puerto Rico for a year and then went to the branch house in Painesville, Ohio where she was in charge of St. John's Home for girls.

Mother Louise Magdalene was a secretary at the University of Cincinnati prior to joining the order.

Sister Esther Mary, the former mother superior, was professed in 1935 and is a native of Wisconsin.

She spent 15 years working with youth in Lincoln Heights, a Black community located near the Glendale convent.

In 1945 she was one of four sisters to go to Puerto Rico after the branch house was established there.

She devoted most of her time to the program of St. Michael's House for boys after it opened there in 1952. She plans to return to Puerto Rico in December.

The Community of the Transfiguration is observing its 75th anniversary this year with several special events.

A Solemn Eucharist commemorating the founding of the community was celebrated on March 3 in connection with a special open house at the Glendale facilities which includes Bethany School, a grade school for day and boarding students.

The community hosted the International Children's Village, a program of 10 and 11-year-old children from eleven countries, in July and will host a triennial meeting of representatives of Episcopal orders from both the United States and Canada in September.

Originally located in downtown Cincinnati, the Community of the Transfiguration was founded to work with children.

The convent moved to Glendale in 1898 and there formed Bethany Home for Girls, operated today as a co-educational day and boarding school for grades one through eight.

Branch houses are located in Painesville, Ohio; McKinney, Texas and Ponce, Puerto Rico.

The community has 42 life professed and junior professed members and there are six women in the novitiate.