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After graduation from high school, Louise chose to follow in the
footsteps of the women who had taught her for twelve years. On
September 2, 1944, she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wichita
and was given the name Rosamond. After Vatican II she chose to
return to her baptismal name Louise. Sister Louise spent the first
years of her religious life teaching in various elementary schools.
One of her happiest experiences was teaching and living with Sister
Perpetua, whom she found to be a real joy to live with.
After graduating from St. Mary of the Plains College with a major in mathematics and English, Sister Louise taught in several high schools in the diocese. Later, after having earned a masters degree in Latin American history, she began a seventeen-year teaching career at St. Mary of the Plains College teaching history and government.
In May of 1986, Sister Louise left SMPC to care for her ailing mother. During the next five years, she did some part-time teaching at Newman University and in the nursing programs from SMPC rounding out a twenty-year college teaching career. After her mother moved to the Catholic Care Center in 1991, Sister Louise moved to the Mount where she
spent five years as the congregational
archivist. Now in her retirement years,
Sister Louise volunteers in a variety of
ways at the Motherhouse Complex.
Louise Hune grew up in Salina, Kansas and attended Sacred Heart Elementary and High School in Salina, both of which were taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Concordia, Kansas. In 1951, the Hune family moved to Wichita, and Louise completed her high school education at
Cathedral High in Wichita, which was also taught by the Sisters of
St. Joseph. It was some time before Louise became aware that her
teachers in Salina and those in Wichita were from two different CSJ
congregations.
Those who know Sister Louise well have learned not to expect her to join in a morning conversation about the storms that ripped through the area the night before. Sister Louise can and does sleep through lightening, thunder, high winds, and torrential rains no matter what. When she sleeps, she sleeps.
60 Years
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