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OUR FIRST YEAR

“Always more,

always better,

always with love.”

- Mother Maria Kaupas

Cutting the ribbon at the dedication ceremony were, from left, Herman Weimer, chairman of the advisory board; Sis-ters Theresa Dabulis, Margaret Zalot, Immacula Wendt and Regina Dubickas, of the Sisters of Saint Casimir leadership team; Bishop Ronald Gainer of the Diocese of Harrisburg, and Father Martin Moran, pastor of Divine Redeemer Church, Mount Carmel.

MOTHER MARIA KAUPAS CENTER, MOUNT CARMEL, PA APRIL 15, 2016

DEDICATION DAY: April 12, 2015

Bucknell University in-

terns Erin Frey and Adam

Bishop, Bucknell Profes-

sor Carl Milofsky, intern

Jessi Scheimreif, Profes-

sor Jen Silva and the

Rev. Martin Moran stand

outside the Center in the

summer of 2015.

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MOTHER MARIA KAUPAS CENTER

These college students from the Mount Carmel-Kulpmont area, representing four Catholic churches, performed service for their parishes and the community in a pro-gram held over Christmas holiday break at the Mother Maria Kaupas Center. From left are, front, Jennifer Bolick, Jordan Winhofer, Sydney Casey and Bryan McFadden; back, Father Martin Moran, Angelina Duda, Lee Amarose, Zachary Wasilewski, Luke Holleran, Lucas Amarose, Tyler Holleran, Bryce Fiamoncini and Kassondra Martz.

SERVING

GOD’S

PEOPLE

4 Catholic Campus

Ministry groups

Young adult

prayer group from

the Archdiocese of

Philadelphia

Local college

students’ service

program during

Christmas break

A group from the Millersville University College Campus

Ministry made a weekend visit to the Mother Maria Kaupas

Center in October 2015 to perform community service.

From left are Joseph Gonzalez, Michael DeCaria, Kathleen

Newcamp, Nancy Lapkiewicz, Alicia Spelfogel (associate

minister) and the Rev. Brian J. Wayne, chaplain.

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Members of the Catholic Campus

Ministry groups from Elizabethtown

and Franklin and Marshall colleges

who performed service at the Moth-

er Maria Kaupas Center in January

2016 are, left to right, kneeling, Kel-

sea Davis, Karen Bruskewicz (lay

minister) and Sarah Frazer, and

standing, Lauren Hayducek, Rose

Ousey, Megan Donohue, Claire

Charpentier, Amy Largacha and

Ivanna Hernandez.

A Bucknell University Cath-

olic Campus Ministry group

arrives at the Mount Car-

mel Area Public Library in

Mount Carmel, PA to per-

form community service in

February 2016. From left to

right, Jae Young Lee, Aus-

tin Smith, Suzanne

Domzalski, Corrine Smith,

Sabrina Malagori, Emily

Fricke and David Truluck.

Members of the Guided by

Christ young adult prayer

group from the Archdiocese

of Philadelphia visited the

Center in November for a

service weekend. From left

are Ron McIntire, Katie McIn-

tire, Emily Ruzicka, Bridget

McNeela, Chelsea Natarian,

Michael Rakszawski, George

Fernandez and Father Martin

Moran.

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“Love of God made visible in

love for one

another.”

- Mother Maria

Kaupas

Sisters of Saint Casimir from Chicago visited the Mother Maria Kaupas Center in

September 2015. From left are Father Martin Moran, Sister Deborah Romanuski, Sis-

ter Elizabeth Ann Yocius, Sister Rita Marie Kerdock, Sister Janine Golubickas and

Sister Margaret Petcavage.

Visiting the Center in November

2015 for a day of prayer and reflec-

tion was the staff of the Diocese of

Harrisburg’s Secretariat for Catholic

Life and Evangelization, from left,

Kate Neri, April Reifer, Rob Wil-

liams, Ginny Duncan, Virginia Perei-

ra and Dominic Lombardi.

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Catholic Campus Ministers from throughout the Diocese of Harrisburg met at the

Mother Maria Kaupas Center in September 2015. Later in the day, they visited the

Saint Pauline Visintainer Center in Kulpmont.

Father Martin Moran,

left, welcomes Bennett

Smith, center, and Mi-

chael Metzger, seminar-

ians who worked during

previous summers at

Divine Redeemer

Church, Mount Carmel,

to the Center in January

2016. The seminarians

joined local college stu-

dents in outreach to

senior citizens.

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“Whether or

not we are

aware of

Him, He is

acting in our

lives, ever

touching us.

He remains

always

among us

and is ever-

disposed to

help us,

waiting only

for us to

touch Him.”

- Mother

Maria

Kaupas

Michael DeCaria and Joseph Gonzalez,

students from Millersville University

Catholic Campus Ministry, paint a sen-

ior citizen’s porch in Mount Carmel in

October 2015.

Bucknell University Catholic Campus

Ministry students worked together to

clean a storage room at the Mount

Carmel Area (PA) Public Library. From

left to right are Corrine Smith, Austin

Smith, Sabrina Malagori and Emily

Fricke.

College students Lee Ama-

rose and Tyler Holleran do

cleanup work at a Mount Car-

mel apartment building for

senior citizens as part of a

holiday service program.

Katie McIntire and Emily

Ruzicka, members of the

Guided by Christ prayer

group, paint a room in the

Center in November 2015.

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Students from Elizabethtown College Catholic

Campus Ministry visited with Mount Carmel resi-

dent Thelma Pieri in January 2016. In front is Kel-

sea Davis, and standing are Rose Ousey, Laurie

Hayducek and Megan Donohue.

College students participating in a holiday break

service program unload boxes of canned goods

at the Mount Carmel food pantry.

ADVISORY BOARD

Herman Weimer, chairman

Sister Fran Fasolka, IHM

Wendy Boland George

Brandn Green

Jonathan Herndon

Walt Kozlowski

Charles J. Lucas IV

Carl Milofsky

Karin Morin-Olivetti

Christopher Raia

Ex-officio members

Rev. Martin O. Moran III

Jake Betz

Honorary members

Sister Regina Dubickas,

SCC

Sister Margaret

Petcavage, SCC

The Most Rev. Ronald

Gainer, D.D., J.C.L.,

Bishop of the Diocese

of Harrisburg

The Mother Maria Kaupas

Center thanks Divine

Redeemer Parish, Our

Sunday Visitor Inc. and

the Sisters of Saint

Casimir for their support.

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Bucknell students visited a working strip mine operation near Trevorton March 30

where Vince Guarna, left, mine owner, conducted them on a tour. Students are en-

rolled in an interdisciplinary course called Susquehanna Country which is taught

by Alf Siewers, a professor of English, and Katie Faull, a professor of German and

humanities who is director of the Program in Comparative Humanities. The tour

was arranged by the Mother Maria Kaupas Center.

Place Studies

Program

Bucknell University

Center for

Sustainability and

the Environment

Director:

Shaunna

Barnhart

Phone:

570-577-1724

Shaunna Barnhart, left, director of the Place Studies Program at

Bucknell University, and Vanessa Massaro, second from left, of

Bucknell’s geography department, met with Lynn Kufta and Ju-

dy Polites of Mount Carmel Downtown Inc. at the Kaupas Center

to discuss a class research project in Mount Carmel.

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PARTNERS

Bucknell

University

Mt. Carmel Area

School District

Mount Carmel

Borough

Mount Carmel

Downtown Inc.

Mount Carmel

Public Library

Mount Carmel

Ministerium

The Bucknell University Student Athlete Advisory Committee

(SAAC) sponsored a drive in which athletes at Bucknell donated

canned food items for needy or homebound people to be distrib-

uted through the Mother Maria Kaupas Center in Mount Carmel.

From left, Kelly Pastuszek and Terrie Grieb, of Bucknell’s athlet-

ics department, and Matt Wyman, a senior on Bucknell’s track

team who is SAAC president, delivered 13 boxes of assorted

canned food items to the Center.

Sixty-two members

of the Bucknell

University swim

team helped local

children improve

their swimming

techniques at a

free clinic Jan. 13,

2016, at the Mount

Carmel Area High

School pool spon-

sored by the

Kaupas Center/

Bucknell Field Sta-

tion.

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