Category: Our Stories

                          On Sunday April 10, 2022, 19 members of Branch 24 attended a performance of the Tamburitzans at Breen Auditorium on the campus of St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, OH. The Tamburitzans are a multicultural song and dance company headquartered in Pittsburgh, … Continued

Soltis and Bosak Acknowledgement to Jillian Washco, Scholarship Winner Thomas E. Soltis, residing in Parma, OH, and a lifelong member of the FCSU in the Frank T. Holly, Jr. District 9, wishes to congratulate Jillian Washco on proudly earning the Soltis and Bosak Family Nursing Scholarship, as highlighted in the wonderful article in the Jednota … Continued

 AND WINNER OF THE SOLTIS & BOSAK FAMILY NURSING SCHOLARSHIP At the Annual Meeting of Branch 55 held on January 2, 2022, the Officers paid tribute to its most outstanding young member, Jillian Washco, the winner of the prestigious Soltis & Bosak Family Nursing Scholarship.  With the threat of the DELTA virus and CDC restrictions, … Continued

Anthony Angotti, grandson of FCSU Executive Secretary Kenneth Arendt and Branch 228 Member, won the Nevada State Title with his club soccer team (the Downtown Las Vegas Soccer Club). Anthony is a freshman at Liberty High School in Henderson, Nevada and aspires to play at the collegiate level while studying mechanical engineering.  As stated in … Continued

Cara Zemelman, a third-grade student from Woodbridge, VA, and member of Branch 2, has been honored as one of the brightest students in the world by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY). Cara, a student at Cardinal Montessori School, was honored for her exceptional performance on the SCAT, an exam taken as part of … Continued

Over 100 million Americans are the descendants of 17 million immigrants who were processed through Ellis Island in New York harbor. I have done not only a study of immigrant Sisters who were members of the SSCM’s, but also of the many Sisters whose blood sisters joined the congregation.    According to my count, twenty-eight pairs … Continued

Branch 743’s Victoria Kovac was one of two students from Warren Consolidated Schools’ Macomb Mathematics Science and Technology Center (MMSTC) named a 2020 Stamps Scholar. Victoria, who graduated in 2020 from MMSTC, is currently attending the University of Michigan tuition-free because of the Stamps Scholarship. [It] covers up to the total estimated cost of attendance … Continued

It is no secret that immigrants have provided our nation with a strong and blessed support.  Our Sisters who emigrated from central Europe have contributed mightily not only by their spiritual presence but also by the works they have performed in convents, parishes, schools, hospitals, homes for the elderly and by their very presence which … Continued

Michael Porter, a Branch 764 member,  achieved Greatest Golfer  status this summer  by winning a prestigious  golf tournament, the Youngstown Joe Dickey Electric Junior Championships, as described in the Tribune Chronicle July 19 Edition: A par on the final hole helped lift Michael Porter to a one-stroke victory over Jake Sylak in the 2020 Greatest … Continued

It is no secret that immigrants have provided our nation with a strong and blessed support.  Our Sisters who emigrated from central Europe have contributed mightily not only by their spiritual presence but also by the works they have performed in convents, parishes, schools, hospitals, homes for the elderly and by their very presence which … Continued

It is no secret that immigrants have provided our nation with a strong and blessed support.  Our Sisters who emigrated from central Europe have contributed mightily not only by their spiritual presence but also by the works they have performed in convents, parishes, schools, hospitals, homes for the elderly and by their very presence which … Continued

It is no secret that immigrants have provided our nation with a strong and blessed support. Our Sisters who emigrated from central Europe have contributed mightily not only by their spiritual presence but also by the works they have performed in convents, parishes, schools, hospitals, homes for the elderly and by their very presence which … Continued