[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 186 (Tuesday, December 6, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2190]
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 HONORING THE MEMORY OF SISTER CATHERINE (MARY ISAAC) COLBY, DOMINICAN 
                            SISTER OF PEACE

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                         HON. PATRICK J. TIBERI

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, December 6, 2011

  Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to and honor the 
memory of Sister Catherine (Mary Isaac) Colby, O.P., Ed.D., of the 
Dominican Sisters of Peace in Columbus, Ohio, who passed away suddenly 
on December 2, 2011.
  Sister Catherine Colby was a native New Yorker, and a graduate of St. 
Helena's Elementary School in the Bronx and Dominican Academy in 
Manhattan. She entered the Novitiate of the former Dominican Sisters of 
St. Mary of the Springs in 1960 and made her Profession of Vows in 
1963. Sister Catherine earned a Doctorate in Education from Nova 
Southeastern University of Florida; an M.Ed. in Educational 
Administration from Xavier University of Cincinnati; an M.A. in 
Pastoral Ministry from St. Joseph's College of Connecticut; and a 
bachelor's degree in Education from the former College of St. Mary of 
the Springs, now Ohio Dominican University, in Columbus.
  A lifelong educator, Sister Catherine was an outstanding 
administrator and a compassionate and perceptive preacher--the 
principle charism of the Dominican Order--as well as a division chair, 
faculty member, school principal and teacher in New York, Ohio, 
Pennsylvania and New Mexico. Additionally, she had been Vocation 
Director and Director of Candidates for her Dominican Congregation.
  Sister Catherine was an Associate Professor of Education at Ohio 
Dominican for twenty-three years, and for seven of those she served as 
Chair of the Division of Education. The founder of the Center for 
Dominican Studies at ODU, Sister Catherine was also the University's 
first Vice President for Mission and Identity. In that capacity, she 
coordinated and facilitated the university-wide process of sustaining, 
enhancing, and promoting its distinct mission as a Catholic and 
Dominican university.
  Her passing is a great loss not only for the Colby family, but for 
the Dominican Sisters of Peace, the entire campus community, the 
twelfth Congressional District of Ohio, and for Catholic education 
across this country.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to extend my deepest condolences to Sister 
Catherine's family, including her godson, John Colby, who serves with 
us here as a United States Capitol Police Officer, as well as to her 
Congregation, Ohio Dominican University, the Dominican Order, and her 
friends and colleagues during this most difficult time. Her legacy will 
stand as an exemplar for all Catholic educators and women religious, 
and she will be dearly missed.

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