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The parish renamed a renovated former school building in her honor and recognized the order’s broader community work, from wartime sewing and pandemic caregiving to education across changing school locations. 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The parish honored her by renaming a renovated former school building as the Sister Margaret Bauer Evangelization Center.","Answer",{"name":116,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":117},"What roles did Sister Margaret Bauer hold during her time in Frederick?",{"text":118,"@type":114},"She taught elementary school for 17 years and later took over the parish’s health care ministry to nursing homes and the local hospital, a role she still held at the time of the story.",{"name":120,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":121},"How did the School Sisters contribute to the Frederick community beyond classroom teaching?",{"text":122,"@type":114},"Their students sewed clothes for soldiers during World War I, and during the 1919 influenza epidemic they cared for the sick, including students at the nearby Maryland School for the Deaf.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":125,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":127,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":129,"site_id":62},199340,1788505687,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":132},{"doc_id":129,"user_id":133,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":134,"doc_module":4,"category_id":52,"category_name":53,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":135,"file_id":136,"file_url":137,"file_type":138,"file_size":139,"view_count":105,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":14,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":130,"read_time":81},687207412472,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","Frederick’s last SSND says sisters’legacy lives on with lay people  \nBy Maria Wiering  \n[mail@CatholicReview.org](mail@CatholicReview.org)  \nFREDERICK – In 1976, the School Sister of Notre Dame’s Baltimore province allowed, for the first time, sisters to request their placements. Sister Margaret Bauer’s first choice was to teach in Frederick at St. John the Evangelist’s elementary school. Her wish was granted.  \nAfter teaching third grade for 17 years at what is now St. John Regional Catholic School, she took over the parish’s health care ministry to nursing homes and the local hospital, a position she still holds.  \nTwo years later, in 1995, the remaining teaching sister retired. Sister Margaret is the only remaining member of her order in Frederick County.  \nOn Sept. 21, the parish celebrated her order’s contributions – and Sister Margaret’s unique status – by renaming its renovated former school building the Sister Margaret Bauer Evangelization Center.  \n“It really wasn’t about me,” Sister Margaret said.“The whole thing was in honor of the school sisters of Notre Dame for their leadership and service. I was just the lucky one here.”  \nSister Margaret grew up in New Jersey and entered the School Sisters in 1938. In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, she taught at St. Andrew, Blessed Sacrament and St. Matthew in Baltimore, and was principal at St. Joseph in Midland. She also taught elsewhere in Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania.  \nIn Frederick, she lived with as many as a dozen other sisters in a building that now holds parish offices. The Evangelization Center has a plaque with about 85 names commemorating School Sisters, now deceased, who’ve taught in Frederick.  \nThe first five School Sisters came at the request of St. John’s pastor in 1915. The Jesuits had founded a boys’ school there in 1829 but left in 1902, when the order transferred parish responsibility to archdiocesan priests. Lay teachers then staffed the school, which became co-educational, until the School Sisters arrived.  \nNext door, the all-girls Visitation Academy, founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1824, was flourishing under the Visitation Sisters, but the pastor requested that all girls who were St. John parishioners transfer to the parish school to ensure its viability.  \nThe high school – St. John’s Literary Institution, now St. John’s Catholic Prep in  \nBuckeystown – moved outside the city in 1958, and the School Sisters taught there until 1972. The elementary school remained on the downtown campus until moving to northern Frederick in 2001.  \nAccording to a written history of the sisters’ work in Frederick, their contributions extended beyond the classroom. During World War I, their students sewed clothes for soldiers, and when 1919 influenza epidemic struck the city, they cared for the sick, including students at the nearby Maryland School for the Deaf.  \nOn Sept. 21, several School Sisters were among the crowd gathered for the parish Evangelization Center’s naming. Father J. Kevin Farmer, St. John’s pastor, called Sister Margaret tenacious and “an evangelist” – “one who still seeks to bring to those she encounters a personal relationship with the risen Christ.”  \nBeing Frederick’s last School Sister is sad, Sister Margaret acknowledged, but she is looking forward to 2015, which marks a century since her order’s arrival in Frederick. The School Sisters have formed generations of Frederick Catholics, she said, and lay people continue the order’s work.  \n“That’s really the philosophy of the religious orders, and the religious priests – to train the laity, to get them to do it, and then go on to the next thing,” she said.“That’s how the church keeps on evangelizing.”  \nAlso see:  \nAn uncertain homecoming: When child suffers stroke, Esperanza Center steps in Train gardens capture wonder of Christmas","cbCaidJ1PjYaaFqf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidJ1PjYaaFqf","pdf",50044,"English","# Sister Margaret Bauer’s legacy in Frederick\n## Renaming the Evangelization Center\n## Service in education and health care\n## Historical roots and community impact","[{\"question\":\"Who is Sister Margaret Bauer in Frederick, and why is she notable?\",\"answer\":\"Sister Margaret Bauer is the last remaining member of her order in Frederick County. The parish honored her by renaming a renovated former school building as the Sister Margaret Bauer Evangelization Center.\"},{\"question\":\"What roles did Sister Margaret Bauer hold during her time in Frederick?\",\"answer\":\"She taught elementary school for 17 years and later took over the parish’s health care ministry to nursing homes and the local hospital, a role she still held at the time of the story.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the School Sisters contribute to the Frederick community beyond classroom teaching?\",\"answer\":\"Their students sewed clothes for soldiers during World War I, and during the 1919 influenza epidemic they cared for the sick, including students at the nearby Maryland School for the Deaf.\"}]","Frederick’s Last SSND Says Sisters’ Legacy Lives On with Lay People | PDF"]