Mary Aline Cyr Sr.

Dearest memories of you with prayers Martha Coury Patterson

Sister Aline was the Registrar at the College of Our Lady of Mercy (now Saint Joseph's of Maine) when I arrived as a freshman in 1949. In addition, she taught typing and shorthand. There was merely a handful of students in those classes. If I recall correctly, our entire freshman class numbered 27, and only about four of those were in the secretarial field. She taught me well, and I went on to a rewarding career in the Federal government. I always told Sister Aline that I owed my...

Sr. Aline, a long-time chum of my mother, Bernice Thibodeau, from Fort Kent, ME, sort of "replaced" my mother at the convent. Aline went to visit Mom in Portland while Mom was a novice trying to figure out if religious life was her calling. After all, her older sister, Sr. Paulina Thibodeau, was a Sister of Mercy and was very happy about her chosen vocation. When her friend, Aline, went to visit her a few months later, Mom said she had decided to leave because she felt her calling was to...