Sister Jean
DEAD AT 106
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Loyola-Chicago legend Sister Jean — who grew to become a nationwide sensation because the chaplain and superfan of the college’s males’s basketball crew — has died.
Loyola College Chicago introduced in an announcement Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt handed away on Thursday.
Mark C. Reed — the college’s president — says, “In lots of roles at Loyola over the course of greater than 60 years, Sister Jean was a useful supply of knowledge and charm for generations of scholars, school, and employees.”
He continues … ““Whereas we really feel grief and a way of loss, there’s nice pleasure in her legacy. Her presence was a profound blessing for our whole neighborhood and her spirit abides in 1000’s of lives. In her honor, we will aspire to share with others the love and compassion Sister Jean shared with us.”
The college additionally says visitation and funeral preparations will likely be introduced quickly.
Sister Jean grew to become a family identify throughout Loyola-Chicago’s inconceivable run to the Closing 4 in 2018 — capturing nationwide consideration all through the event. The Ramblers’ Cinderella story in the end got here to an finish with a loss to Michigan.
Simply final month, SJ retired from her longtime position as the college’s minister and males’s basketball chaplain. She confronted well being points earlier this 12 months, which saved her from attending the Ramblers’ NIT recreation towards Chattanooga.
Sister Jean started her educating profession at Mundelein School in 1961 … and joined Loyola-Chicago when the 2 colleges merged in 1991. She took on a task with the lads’s basketball crew just a few years later.
She was 106.
RIP
