MOTHER STEPHANIE MOHUN, O.P.

Dominican Sisters, St. Mary of the Springs It is often stated that Catholic schools in the US were built on the foundation of the poverty of vowed women religious. Dozens of communities fit this description, none more so than the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs. Sister Stephanie Mohun’s service as mother general spanned a peri-od of tremendous growth in Catholic education at every level. Seeing to the ongoing education and professional preparation of the sisters, Mother Stephanie founded colleges, staffed schools, established missions, and pro-vided leadership for Catholic education that continues to have an enduring legacy today. If prudence is the virtue most closely associated with cautious progress, Stephanie Mohun, O.P., was deficient. She was a courageous risk-taker; her 24-year tenure as leader of the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs was marked by a succession of educational and missionary ventures that defied conventional wisdom. The defining quality of her own character wa