This Lenten series features a different person each week. Nothing in particular connects these people, other than my desire to ask them a few questions. They may not be the questions you would have asked, but I hope you might appreciate their answers nonetheless.  TL

Autumn Hensel graduated in May from UW-Stevens Point and joined Jesuit Volunteer Corps in August. She is working in Anchorage, which has been far snowier this winter than her hometown, Sartell, in northern Minnesota. Autumn was an excellent reader at Mass and was involved in many other activities at Newman, including our January 2006 trip to Haiti.

Sister Ann Willits is a member of the Sinsinawa, Wis., Dominican community and has served in various mission and leadership roles in her community.  She is an author, poet, storyteller, preacher and was a high school teacher and principal for many years.

Father Jim Marchionda is part of the Chicago Dominican province and has composed more than 200 sacred music compositions, including "I Was Hungry" which was sung at the funeral of Mother Theresa of Calcutta.  Dominicans embrace a charism of preaching, which Fr. Jim complements

Before graduating in May from UW-Stevens Point, Paul Logan studied philosophy and was Newman’s student liturgy coordinator.  He also participated in Newman trips to Haiti and Kentucky, among other things.  He's  originally from Milwaukee.  Since August, Paul has been working with Jesuit Volunteer Corps at University of Detroit Mercy, a Jesuit college.
 

Sister Joan Weigel was the principal and sixth-grade teacher at St. Anthony Elementary School in Loyal during the 1960s and 70s. One of her students was a kid named Tom Lindner, who is now Newman's pastor. Sr. Joan belongs to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration and is now retired at the community’s motherhouse in La Crosse.