Presenter announced for 2004 Bishop Lucker Lecture

Sr. Donna J. Markham,O.P. will be the presenter at the Bishop Lucker Lecture to be held Thursday, March 18, 2004, 7:30 p.m. at the Redwood Falls Performing Arts Center, Redwood Falls.

Sr. Donna holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and is currently the President of The Southdown Institute, Aurora, Ontario, Canada. In July, she will become the Director for Leadership Initiatives and Special Assistant to the President at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. Sister Donna has been active in her Dominican congregation and served as President of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the United States, from 1991 to 1993. Her presentation will address the relationship between mental health and a healthy spirituality.

Sister Donna has spoken to audiences throughout the world and published over 100 journal articles in English, Spanish, and French. Her book, Spiritlinking Leadership: Working through Resistance to Organizational Change, was published in 1999 by Paulist Press.

Three hundred and fifty people attended the 1st Annual Bishop Lucker Lecture held last March to listen to presenter Bishop Robert F. Morneau, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay, WI, who spoke on Salt, Leaven and Light: A Vatican II Spirituality.

The Bishop Lucker Lectures were implemented by the late Bishop Raymond A. Lucker who encouraged all adult Catholics to learn and study the Church’s tradition so that their faith would be full, conscious, and active. Since there are no Catholic institutions of higher learning in the Diocese of New Ulm, Bishop Lucker established with an initial gift the Bishop Lucker Lecture Fund which is to be used to offer people of the New Ulm diocese an opportunity to be enlightened and challenged by leaders, teachers, and practitioners of the Catholic faith.

The Bishop Lucker Lecture Fund is an endowment fund. Monetary contributions, no matter how small or large, will continue to give to the present and future generations of Catholics of the New Ulm diocese. If you would like to consider making a contribution to the Fund, please contact Mark Kemmeter, Coordinator of Staff, Diocese of New Ulm, (507) 359- 2966; mkemmeter@dnu.org.