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Thank you for the recent section, “Remembering World War II” (CR, May 24). All those who served in that war deserve our gratitude. Sadly, there are two groups whose time in uniform during that war has been often unrecognized: women and racial minorities.

Wow! I opened the paper when it arrived today to read about the Catholic high school girls who made the IAAM All Stars.

HONG KONG – One of two Chinese priests jailed for “illegal exit” after a trip abroad was released provisionally for medical treatment in mid-May, about one and a half months before the end of his sentence.

The Maryland Chamber of Commerce inducted Sister Helen Amos, R.S.M., executive chair, board of trustees for Mercy Health Services, into the Maryland Business Hall of Fame May 10.

During the 109th annual Knights of Columbus Convention Awards Ceremony on May 19 Michael Sallese, state program director, welcomed all to the awards program and invited State Chaplain Monsignor Jeremiah Kenney, KCHS, to say the opening prayer. “The awards to be presented today are based on a set of criteria that councils must meet to be honored,” said Mr. Sallese to the large group of Knights who attended the convention.

Sister Mary Lanahan, S.N.D. de N., died at Peninsula Medical Center in Salisbury May 23 from congestive heart failure. Sr. Mary was 73 years of age and had lived 55 of her years in the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. Memorial services will be held at a later date.

WILMINGTON, Del. – The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington contains chapels representing many Catholic ethnic groups in the United States – with one big exception. “Where is the Italian chapel?” Wilmington Bishop Michael A. Saltarelli has often asked. That very omission is why he, a cardinal and three other bishops of Italian descent are leading a campaign to build an Italian chapel in honor of Our Lady of Pompeii. Italian-Americans are “as strong as any other ethnic community,” Bishop Saltarelli said, noting that the lack of an Italian chapel at the national shrine seemed curious at first to a group of bishops including Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, retired archbishop of Philadelphia; Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington, Va.; Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio; and New York Auxiliary Bishop Robert A. Brucato.

St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, announced that Ann Stromberg, R.N., is the hospital’s 2007 Nurse of the Year. Ms. Stromberg was chosen from a number of nominees who exhibit excellence in the application of evidence-based practice, initiative, advocacy, team support and in projecting a positive image of nursing.

A funeral Mass for Sister Mary Magdalita Ginty, O.P., was offered May 22 in the Queen of the Rosary Chapel at Sinsinawa, Wis. She was 88.

When Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Homeland, parishioner Albert “Skip” Counselman was awarded a lifetime achievement award from a Hartford, Conn.-based insurance firm, it was St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore that took the big-cash reward. Travelers – the nation’s second-largest writer of property and casualty insurance – gave the Caton Avenue hospital a $10,000 check, because Mr. Counselman serves as its chairman of the board and it was his charity of choice, said Jay Fishman, chairman and chief executive officer of Travelers. The 59-year-old Cockeysville resident is the president and CEO of Riggs, Counselman, Michaels & Downes, Inc., one of the leading 100 insurance and risk management agency/brokerage firms in the U.S. and headquartered in Baltimore.

It happened during a retreat at St. Joseph Church.