Ministry, 1959-1990

This collection contains 1 hanging file of biographical and personal data, as well as 1 box of personal papers arranged into three series entitled Community life, Correspondence, Academic papers, and Ministry. The three series housed in Box 1 contain materials related to Sr. Joan Gannon’s life in community, including letters she sent to the community from St. Paul’s University in Ottawa, Canada where she studied pastoral ministry. There are several graduate papers, including her Mundelein College masters’ thesis "Parish Ministry in the Black Community" (1981) which presents a plan she put in practice once she was at work in Chicago parishes, including Our Lady of Lourdes on South Keeler. A collection of her resumes and notes on the process she followed, and her contracts with the Archdiocese of Chicago give insight into seeking work now that jobs were no longer assigned by the prioress.