Mary Klaus Ziegler:  

Life Greetings to my former students. If you are interested, read on, and I will bring you up to date. After presiding over four graduations at Annunciation, I was transferred to Our Lady of Victory in Mt. Vernon where I became principal for four years. It was a great experience. Unfortunately, in 1974 I made a sad decision I had to make, which was to depart from the Sisters of St. Dominic. It was either leave and find myself, or fall into a dangerous depression. By the grace of God, I am now content and happy at age 71. I taught for one year at St. Angela Merici in the Bronx, and then moved to Philadelphia where I secured a job teaching reading at a junior high school. It was difficult, but after 11 years, I was able to teach in the Title I program. I taught for 8 more years in a trailer in the schoolyard of Sacred heart School in Philadelphia. In 1995 I retired after 40 full years of teaching. I loved teaching, and I miss it. Back in 1987 I returned to my parents house. I took care of each of them until God called them home. It was difficult, but rewarding. In 1994 I married Guenter Ziegler. He was born in Germany, and came over here in 1956. I have traveled with him to see his sisters and brother in Dessau, Germany about 75 miles south of Berlin. In 2005 we went from Germany to Paris, and then to England where we sailed on the Queen Mary II back to New York. Now I spend my time doing as much volunteer work as possible. I am a Eucharist Minister. I like bringing communion to the sick and visiting the elderly. Also, I volunteer at the South Jersey Port Corporation in Camden, New Jersey. Ships come up the Delaware River to this port carrying fruit from Costa Rica, cocoa beans, and plywood. I have met Filipinos, Russians, Croatian...Expand for more