1988

Sister Margaret Ann Landry, R.S.H.M., died in October 2016 at the age of 84. In addition to receiving a certificate from the Institute for Spirituality and Worship at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University in 1988, Sister Landry received a bachelor’s degree in French from Marymount College in Tarrytown and a master’s in American history from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She entered the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary in 1951 and made final vows in 1958. Landry taught at Marymount School in Tarrytown, 1966-1967. She also taught in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and at high schools in Illinois and Virginia. Beginning in 1967, she served as assistant director of admissions at Marymount Manhattan College. In 1988, she became chaplain of the Catholic Campus Ministry and Interfaith Center at Stony Brook University on Long Island. In 2003, she received the university’s first Lifetime Achievement Advisor Award, which is named for her. She retired in 2010.

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