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Annunciation parishioner recognizes SSND aunt in archival photo December 4, 2008 Media outlets enjoy feedback – especially when it sheds light on a subject. In the Oct. 23 issue of The Catholic Review, a tribute to the School Sisters of Notre Dame included a photo of an unidentified member of the order. |
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Sister Mary Salome Kreft was unidentified in an Oct. 23 tribute in the Catholic Review to the School Sisters of Notre Dame, but not for long, as a Parkville reader immediately recognized his late aunt. |
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“My wife was reading the Review last night,” he wrote. “I glanced over and saw the picture of a nun on the bottom left of page 16. I recognized it as our aunt, Sister Mary Salome.”
Rachel Scherer, associate director for communications for the School Sisters, promptly supplied the obituary that followed Sister Mary Salome Kreft’s death in 1991, along with a two page biography she typed in 1930, when she professed her vows.
Born in Suttons Bay, Mich., in 1907, she grew up in Maryland’s Charles County and attended St. Mary’s in Bryantown. “ One of my most memorable days,” she wrote, “was May 28, 1916, the day of my First Holy Communion and confirmation.”
She attended the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, earned a bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s in library science from The Catholic University of America, then put her skills to use in a number of schools from Florida to New Jersey.
In Baltimore, she taught at the Institute of Notre Dame, St. Joseph Monastery and parish schools at St. Ann, Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Our Lady of Good Counsel and St. Michael.