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... for the Class of 1963 through the years. Those marked with (†) are now deceased. Information regarding the religious has been made available courtesy of the Chardon Province Archivist, Sisters of Notre Dame.

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Sister Alindis collapsed on the grounds of Gesu Catholic Church in University Heights on her way to early mass. She taught at Gesu School. She had suffered from a heart ailment for several years, but was able to teach.

She was the former Elizabeth Romerscheidt, a native of Solingen, Germany. She entered the order in Germany in 1913, coming here as a novice the following year. She was professed in 1916:

An intermediate teacher for more than 40 years, Sister Alindis had been teaching the fourth grade at Gesu the last two years. She had taught for 12 years at St. Francis School, Cleveland and had also been at St. Peter and St. Benedict schools, Cleveland, and at schools in Amherst and Massillon.

While at St. Francis School, Cleveland, she was also a demonstration teacher at the Notre Dame Normal School at 1325 Ansel Road before the establishment of the former Sisters College.

She had also been principal of three schools, St. Andrew and Holy Redeemer, Cleveland and St, Joseph in Randolph, Portage County.

The former Anna Mayleben was born in Covington, Kentucky. She entered the Sisters of Notre Dame in Cleveland in 1904 and was professed in 1906. She taught in primary and intermediate grades from 1906 until her retirement in 1959.

She taught in the Cleveland area at Our Lady of Lourdes School, Notre Dame Academy, when it had its grade school, St. Mary, Elyria, and Gesu. She also taught at St. Peter and St. John, Canton; St. Mary, Massillon, and Notre Dame Academy, Toledo. She was mistress of aspirants at the convent from 1935 to 1941. Her last assignment was teaching the third and fourth grades at Gesu School from 1950 to 1959.

As Eva Zimmerman, she entered the Sisters of Notre Dame from St. Paul parish in Norwalk in 1924 and graduated from Notre Dame Academy in Cleveland the same year. She made her first vows in 1926 and final vows in 1932.

She earned a bachelor of science degree in education from former St. John College in 1934 and a master's degree from St. Louis University in 1942. She taught primary and intermediate grades for 33 years.

From 1949 to 1955, she was principal at the Campus School of Catholic University in Washington, D.C. The following 10 years, she taught at St. Stephen in Cleveland, then was principal six years at Gesu School in University Heights from 1955 to 1961.

She was also a teacher and administrator at St. Ann School in Arlington, Va. (1964-1970); St. Peter in North, Ridgeville, St. Michael in Cleveland, Sacred Heart Academy in Winchester, Va., St. Jude in Elyria and St. Paschal Baylon in Highland Heights.

Sister Eugenius, 80, died October 18, 1985 at Geauga Community Hospital in Chardon.

Agnes Elizabeth, the fourth of eleven children of John and Veronica (nee Kline) Wohlwend was born in Suffield, Ohio. She grew up in this loving family and as an active member of St. Joseph Parish, Randolph, Ohio. After graduation from the parish elementary school in 1924, she attended Notre Dame Academy in Cleveland. She became a postulant in February, 1928, graduated from high school in June, and was invested as a Sister of Notre Dame in August of the same year. Sister pronounced her first profession of vows in 1930.

Besides her Bachelor of Arts degree from Notre Dame College of Ohio (1932) she earned a Master of Arts (1940) and a Ph.D.(1968) from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. During her 70 years in active ministry Sister taught elementary and high school, was a principal, college instructor and Head of the Education Department at Notre Dame College, educational consultant and tutor.

Sister Verone taught at Notre Dame Academy and St. Stephen in Cleveland, and St Mary in Elyria. She was principal at Campus School in Washington, DC, St. Gregory the Great in South Euclid, and Gesu School in University Heights. From there she went back to Washington, DC as instructor at Catholic University of America. Sister served at Notre Dame College from 1968 to 1981.

Since she was such an unassuming person, others never knew or often forgot that she had a Ph.D. Sister Mary Verone was a principal with a sense of humor but always professional to her finger tips. As an educator Sister was excellence personified. Because she loved the children, many of her former students continue to cherish memories of her as a treasured teacher.

Sister was well read not only in her field of education but also in the daily happenings in the world. There was no substitute for her intelligence in analyzing the benefits or the woes of any given policy being presented. Notre Dame College exists today in a good part because of Sister Mary Verone and others on the board and staff who worked together with fierce tenacity and courageous involvement in the complex struggles to protect Catholic higher education and Notre Dame College's place in it. In these state-wide circles of professional colleagues, Sister Mary Verone was highly respected for her knowledge and skills.

Florence Volzer, 102, schoolteacher The Plain Dealer, Sunday, December 28, 2003 Rena A. Koontz, Plain Dealer Reporter

Years after she retired from the classroom, students remembered Florence Volzer, who died Wednesday of pneumonia.

She was 102.

She influenced hundreds of students who passed through the Cleveland parochial school system between 1945 and 1970 with a kind, but stern manner. Her son-in-law, Alfonso D'Emilia, often teased that her German heritage helped her rule the classroom.

Perhaps it was all those years of talking in front of the kids that caused her to stop sommunicating in the last two years of her life, D'Emilia speculates. Nevertheless, her mind remained sharp, he said.

Born in 1901 in Canton, Volzer received her teaching certificate in 1920 from Kent State Normal School, predecessor of Kent State University.

She taught for three years until Cupid changed the course of her life and she met her husband, Melville.

Volzer spent the next 20 years raising her four children and making a home for her husband, who was a chemical engineer. He traveled frequently, and on one of his trips in 1944 he suffered a fatal heart attack.

Left to her own resources, Volzer focused her energy on what she knew best - children. She returned to teaching. Volzer taught six years at St. Ann School in Cleveland Heights, and then 18 years at Gesu School in University Heights.

After retiring, Volzer went back to get a real-estate license and spent the next five years in that field.

She lived with her son-in-law and her daughter, Mary D'Emilia, until four years ago when she became a resident of St. Augustine Health Campus in Cleveland. She died there.

Volzer is survived by daughters, Ruth Egan of Pittsburgh; Mary D'Emilia of Cleveland Heights; son, Bruce of Cleveland Heights; 14 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. Her son John died in 1981.

Services will be 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Ann Church, Cleveland Heights. Burial will be ar Calvary Cemetery, Massilon.