Sister Nancy Mathias was honored January 15, 1990, with the Drum Major Award of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries in their program of tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I was a drum major for peace; I was a drum major for righteousness.” This quotation from Dr. King is the source of the annual awards. The award recognized Sister Nancy’s ministry over a twenty-year span in the central city where she served with the Central City Ministry Department and a variety of community and parish organizations as well as being the Principal of St. Teresa School.

Sister Mary Jane Cosentino, chairperson of St.Ursula Acadmey’s science department, received the National Catholic Educational Association’s 1990 award for distinguished service to Catholic education. The award was presented at the annual convention held in Toronto, April 18. In notifying Sister of the award, Michael J. Guera, executive director of the secondary schools department, wrote:

“On behalf of the many people who have been touched by your generosity and your talents, please accept our congratulations and our gratitude for your years of dedicated service.”

For many years Sister Mary Jane had been designated by the Ohio Academy of Science and the Ohio Department of Education as the winner of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Youth Science Opportunities. Sister Mary Jane also received the award as the 1991 Outstanding Science Teacher given by Sigma XI Chapter of the University of Toledo.   (Deceased 2013)

Sister John Francis Moore, Toledo Ursuline on the faculty of Madonna University, was inducted in May 1991 into the Kappa Delta Pi Chapter of that university. Kappa Celta Pi is an international Honor Society in Education founded at the University of Illinois in 1911. With this recognition Sister John Francis entered the ranks of a number of famous people who belonged to the Society: John Dewey, Margaret Mead, Albert Einstein, Eleandor Roosevelt, and Jean Piaget.

(Deceased 2003)