Brescia University Alumni Association president, Sagan Storm, left, presents the Outstanding Alumnus Award to Sr. Helena Fischer, OSU, during the Alumni Homecoming and Family Weekend on Sept. 30. COURTESY OF RACHEL WHELAN
Sr. Helena Fischer receives Outstanding Alumnus Award
BY MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH STAFF
On Sept. 30, Brescia University Alumni Association’s president, Sagan Storm, presented the Outstanding Alumnus Award to Sr. Helena Fischer, OSU, during the Alumni Homecoming and Family Weekend.
Sr. Helena is serving in her 62nd year as an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph. She is a 1965 Brescia graduate, and spent 22 years as a teacher or principal, before returning to minister at Brescia in 1987 as director of institutional research (1987-97), assistant registrar (1987-90), and registrar (1990-present). She embodies St. Angela Merici’s message to adapt to the signs of the times, constantly changing to meet the needs of college students for the past 36 years.
Her 33 years as registrar is the second longest tenure in the same ministry of the current Ursuline Sisters, behind only Sr. Judith Nell Riney’s 43 years as director of library services at Brescia.
