Word: loretto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Family. The statement was typical of the 43-year-old dynamo who used to be Sister Jacqueline of the order of the Sisters of Loretto. Ten years ago, "Sister J." became president of Webster College, a small Catholic women's school near St. Louis. From that unlikely platform, she crusaded for academic reform and feminism in roughly equal parts. In 1967, she astonished the religious world by getting a papal dispensation that released her from her vows and Rome's approval to secularize the college. Last June she left Webster as Miss Jacqueline Grennan and became vice president...