The Dominicans of Racine, Wisconsin

About the Book

A Time to Grow, the third volume of the history of the Racine Dominican Sisters, tells the congregation’s story from 1901 to 1964. After briefly recapturing the tumultuous development of the community while headed by Mother Hyacintha Oberbrunner from after the death of Mother Thomasina Ginker until the election of Sister Emily Acker in 1901, the book chronicles the period leading up to the Second Vatican Council and the changes already being set in motion before the congregational elections of 1964. Illustrations depict the lives of ordinary sisters as they struggled to observe the many regulations and customs handed down from a previous monastic era while carrying out their teaching ministry.

About the Author

Dolores Enderle, O.P., is a member of the Dominicans of Racine, Wisconsin, and holds a doctorate in English from Ball State University. She has served as teacher and administrator in Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Mississippi. While teaching at Dominican College in Racine, she headed the Career Opportunity Program and supervised student teachers locally and overseas. She taught at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and at Siena Heights University before her term as president of St. Catharine College in Springfield, Kentucky from 1983 until 1990. She served as vice-president of her congregation from 1990 until 1994. For the next eight years she worked with Sacred Heart Southern Missions in northern Mississippi, coordinating the student financial aid program and writing grants for the ministries staffed there by the Priests of the Sacred Heart. She is currently working on community projects in Racine.