Walsh, Sr. M. Rosaline

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Sister M. Rosaline Walsh

An oral history of Sister M. Rosaline Walsh, a Sister of Charity of Seton Hill from 1935 until 2005. The interview was conducted by Sister Marie Corona Miller on July 8, 1987.

Sister M. Rosaline Walsh was born on February 16th, 1917 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Daughter of John Joseph Walsh and Teresa Agnes Fallon, Rosaline Anne Walsh entered the community on September 8th, 1935 at the age of 18 as Sister M. Rosaline Walsh with her Reception of Habit on January 1st, 1936 and her Temporary Profession on January 1st, 1938. 
Sister M. Rosaline was an educator for the deaf and taught at DePaul School for Hearing and Speech from 1943 to 1951 and 1954 to 1956. She was a principal at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Scottsdale, Arizona from 1959 to 1965. Then, from 1966 to 1970, she worked at Sacred Heart in Pittsburgh. Receiving her B.A. in Psychology and minor in English from the University of Pittsburgh in 1946, Sister M. Rosaline pursued her M. Ed. in Special Education at the University of Buffalo in 1954. 

Sister M. Rosaline Walsh passed on January 9th, 2005 at the age of 87.

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