Current Ministry Location: Maryknoll Sisters Center-Maryknoll, NY      

Sister Sue (Susan), is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  She earned a BS in Occupational Therapy in 1958 from Mount Mary College, now Mount Mary University, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and worked as an occupational therapist for two years.  She entered Maryknoll on October 18, 1960.

Sister Sue was assigned to the Land of the Morning Calm, Korea, in 1964, and she considers that her second home, having lived there for thirty-six years.  She did varied works in Korea, but always centered on helping her neighbors.

Sister Sue taught English at Dae Gun Boys Middle and High School in Inchon.  After serving on the Mission Awareness and Promotion team in the U.S. for several years, she returned to Korea and became the first occupational therapist at the Maryknoll Hospital in Pusan. There, she helped develop a full-scale Rehabilitation Department. She was also the English secretary for the Korean hospital administrator.  She assisted the doctors in rotating to the USA for experience in an American hospital.

Sister Sue noticed there was a need to help young physicallychallenged women gain their independence, so she began the Jisan Self-Reliance Center.  There, women lived and worked together outside their homes.  Together they developed a sewing business, which enabled the women to gain some financial independence.  Sister Sue also helped the women learn social skills and develop good personal relationships.  After six years, she turned over direction of the Center to the Korean Benedictine Sisters.

Sister Sue then went to Seoul, where she had a variety of roles: she visited young men living with AIDS; she did rehabilitation work at a free clinic for the homeless, and she helped young Korean women discern their life vocation.

Sister Sue returned to Maryknoll in 2003 and became Coordinator of the Eden Community of the Maryknoll Residential Care.  Over the years, she has served in many different capacities.  She was on the Central Orientation Team for candidates preparing for First Profession of Vows and mission. She was on the logistic team that prepared for the 2008 General Assembly of Maryknoll Sisters. In 2010, Sister Sue was elected Co-Coordinator of the Rogers Community at Maryknoll. Sister Sue worked in the Treasury Department for 13 years, until December 31, 2025. Sister was also a member of the Incorporation Re-Design Committee and the Healing and Reconciliation Committee at the Maryknoll Center. On January 1, 2021, Sister Sue asked to transfer to the Chi-Rho Community. Sister Sue now has more time for prayer and loving service to her Sisters and neighbors.