Alice gave up a career in nursing in order to enter the Society in 1943. In 1969 she was able to return to the work she loved, this time as a public heath nurse with the Department of Human Resources in Washington, DC. She also became a part of the new housing initiative for the poor, Sursum Corda, where she lived for over 25 years. During her years at Sursum Corda she faithfully brought homemade bread and bean soup to a group of homeless men who slept on the grates near the Department of Defense. The Catholic social justice lobbying organization NETWORK was born in discussions around the kitchen table at Sursum Corda, with Alice as an eager participant. In answer to a Province questionnaire Alice wrote: I am responding to the needs of people who have lost hope--to those whom the existing social order does not recognize as being human--the person who is hardly aware that he is one. I am trying to show forth the love of Christ in a non-human world.
Date of Birth:
Thursday, June 10, 1909
Date of Death:
Saturday, February 24, 2001
Relationship to the Society:
RSCJ
Organization or Ministry:
Sursum Corda Village
Duration of ministry:
1969 until Helen McCulloch move out in late 1990's
Type of Ministry:
Corporate Ministry (i.e more than one RSCJ Involved)
Categories of Ministry:
Direct service to those in need
Work for Structural Change
Name of group that took over the ministry:
Diane Roche
City:
Washington
State/Province:
DC
Country:
United States
Names of other RSCJ involved:
Kate McDonnell, Faine McMullen, Grace Butler, Diane Roche, Mavi Coakly, Freddy Cartwright, Julie Cozy, Elizabeth Antisdale, Gertrude Cosenke, Julie Yachtis, Deanna Rose VonBargen and many more!
