(left to right) President S. Virginia Bobrowski, S. Vitoline Wolf, and Principal Jennifer Moran

Fifty years ago, Sister Vitoline received her obedience to teach at the Academy of the Holy Angels.  Little did she know that for the next 40 years she would not only teach religion, math and biology, but she would lead us from the static block schedule common to all high schools in 1970, to the flexibility and creativity of modular scheduling, before the computer had been invented.  Single-handedly, S. Vitoline developed modular scheduling with a deck of punch cards, a knitting needle and an intelligence that thrived on the challenge and complexity this task demanded.

In 1997, Sister Vitoline left AHA to live at Villa Notre Dame in Wilton, CT.  Having worked for 40 years at Holy Angels, everyone presumed that she would now enjoy retirement. But that word does not exist in Sister Vitoline’s vocabulary or mind.  As soon as she arrived in Wilton, she found ways to help the sisters.  Even now, after 70 years of vowed living, despite difficulty with walking, Sister rides over to the Lourdes Health Care Center every day on her motorized scooter, to sew for the sisters.

To thank her, to honor her, and to remember her with love for all she has given so freely to Holy Angels, we will dedicate the registrar’s office in her name, because that was her office, and hang her picture on the wall.  We will also have several punch cards and a knitting needle attractively framed and hung in “her” office to remind us of her labor of love on behalf of every student at AHA.

S. Virginia Bobrowski, President, Academy of the Holy Angels.

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