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July 9, 2009
By JUDY=20 MASTERSON JMASTERSON@SCN1.COM

It was a very bad math teacher who persuaded Mother = Mary=20 Clarice to become a very good math teacher.

"I was studying for my master's at the University = of=20 Detroit that summer and I had two teachers," said now = Sister=20 Loretta Tiernan, who served in Waukegan for 30 years = before=20 retiring last year. "One was the best I ever had and = one was=20 the worst I ever had.

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Sister Loretta Tiernan

"I was already teaching math but I said 'When I go = back to=20 the classroom, I'm going to help kids more, present = things in=20 a more understandable way," she said. "When they don't = get it,=20 I'll stay after school and teach it again. I'll play = games=20 with them to help them understand.'"

Tiernan, 70, recently celebrated her Golden Jubilee = -- 50=20 years as a professed religious with the Society of the = Holy=20 Child Jesus. She joined the order immediately after = graduating=20 from Waukegan's Holy Child High School in 1956.

"I was only 17," said Tiernan. "My parents (the = late Frank=20 and Clara Tiernan) thought I was too young. But I went = ahead=20 and they supported me."

Tiernan and her older sister, Mary Ann Grazier of=20 Wadsworth, were the only students with an Irish last = name at=20 the former all-Polish Holy Rosary School in North = Chicago.=20 Their mother was Polish.

"I wanted to go to college and I wanted to get = married and=20 have a family, but then God stepped in and said 'I = want you,'"=20 recalled Tiernan. "I gave up much for the opportunity = to do=20 God's will, but I gained quite a bit more."

As a young nun, Tiernan taught at Holy Child = schools in=20 Chicago, Oregon and California before returning to = Waukegan to=20 teach at St. Anastasia Catholic School in 1978. She = took on=20 pastoral ministry at the former St. Joseph Parish in = Waukegan,=20 now Most Blessed Trinity Parish, in 1980.

For the next 28 years, she visited the sick, = brought=20 communion to the elderly and conducted classes in = religious=20 formation. She learned Spanish to better serve the = many new=20 immigrants who needed her.

Tiernan's life as a religious has come full circle. = Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, she is now = receiving=20 medical treatment at Holy Child Center in Rosemont, = Pa., on=20 the same campus where she underwent her novitiate more = than 50=20 years ago.

"It's been frustrating, gradually experiencing this = inability to get around," said Tiernan, who relies on = a walker=20 and a wheelchair. "It's a hard thing to understand. = But the=20 bottom line is you have to accept what's happening and = try to=20 make the best of it -- and hope."

Sister Tiernan welcomes correspondence, which = should be=20 sent in her name to: 1341 Montgomery Ave., Rosemont, = Pa.=20 19010.




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