Visit www.csbsju.edu/iwl for more information! During the Spring of 2003, CSB students Beth Heinzen and Sarah Sumers met with Vice President of Student Development Mary Geller to discuss the project of beginning a Women's Center. After meetings with the Board of Trustees in November 2003, the Women's Center gains support to move forward and construction of the CSB Women's Center begins in February
2004. The Women's Center officially opened on March 29, 2004 and held its first program, a discussion about feminism titled "The 'F' Word." The Women's Center was dedicated to Dr. Sister Nancy Hynes on September 16, 2007, because of her dedication to the women's movement and her activism concerning women's issues. The center became the Sister Nancy Hynes Center for Women, and is committed to honoring her work and continuing her legacy. In the Fall of 2009, the Sister Nancy Hynes Center for Women became the Sister Nancy Hynes Institute for Women's Leadership. The change in the name indicates the change in the Institute's focus; We now focus primarily on Gender Issues and Women's Leadership. Who was Sister Nancy Hynes? Nancy was born November 19, 1933, to Stanley and Charlotte (Cram) Hynes in Winnebago, Minn. She graduated from the public grade school and Winnebago Public High School. She entered Saint Benedict's Monastery September 12, 1956, and was received into the novitiate June 18, 1957, made her first monastic profession on July 11, 1958, and her perpetual profession on July 11, 1961. degree in English with minors in history, philosophy and secondary education from the College of Saint Benedict, an M.A. degree in English from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis., and a Ph.D. degree in English with an emphasis on rhetoric, literature and linguistics from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Further study and research took her to the University of Southampton in England; Iowa State University; Yale University; Syracuse University; and the University of Minnesota. As an educator, S. Nancy taught English at St. Boniface High School, Cold Spring; Cathedral High School, St. Cloud; Immaculate Conception High School, Stephan, S.D., and Pierz Memorial High School in Pierz, Minn. Nancy's long career at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University began in the Development Office, where she was director of public information. She rose to the rank of full professor in the English department, where she taught for 32 years. During her teaching career, she served as faculty advisor for Studio One, a journal of the arts, and accompanied study groups to Hawaii and England. She was also the first director of the First Year Symposium program from 1984-1989. Nancy was a prolific scholar, the editor of a collection of works by Mariella Gable, OSB, titled Literature of Spiritual Values and Catholic Fiction, and a biography of J. F. Powers. She also regularly lectured on these authors and other topics to community, monastic and school groups. In community life at the monastery, she gave reflections at the Eucharist, sang in the monastic school and led liturgies as cantor."
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