Interview with Sister Fabian Ryan, C.S.J., September 18, 1979, Tape 1, Side 1
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0039-t1s1
"Interview with Sister Fabian Ryan, C.S.J., September 18, 1979; October 4, 1979" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Interview with Sister Fabian Ryan, C.S.J., September 18, 1979; October 4, 1979
Subject
St. Joseph's Hospital (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, Ryan, Fabian, Catholics, Nuns--Religious life, Teaching, Depressions--1929, Family life
Description
[t1s1]Sister Fabian Ryan talks about her aunt Mother Genevieve Ryan. She talks about her family and youth in New Castle in the late 1800s, early 1900s: Irish heritage; attending St. Mary School with the Sisters of St. Joseph as teachers. She discusses becoming a Sister of St. Joseph; St. Joseph’s Hospital; Sister Clarissa Stattmiller’s death as a missionary in China in 1927. [t2s1]Sister Fabian Ryan talks about teaching in the schools in the first half of the 1900s, including at St. Bernard in Mt. Lebanon (1920s and 1930s); effects of the Depression and the two World Wars on the sisters; working at St. Joseph’s Hospital (1950s).
Contributor
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden (depositor), Ryan, Fabian (interviewee), Witt, Sally (interviewer), Dixon, Sarah (interviewer)
Date
1979-09-18/1979-10-04
Type
oral histories (literary genre)
Format
cassette tape, 71 minutes
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0039
Language
eng
Relation
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden Oral History Collection
Coverage
New Castle (Pa.)
Rights
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