Voices for Peace

This week's edition of Throwback Thursday features an SSND photo from a 1983 peace march in Washington! Sister Justine Nutz, SSND, who designed the banner and participated in the march 32 years ago, said that while she was singing “Blowin' in the Wind,” during the climate march in New York in 2014 “memories of other SSND marches in New York and Washington came back to me.” This banner, which says “Blessed are the Peacemakers - Daughters and Sons of God - School Sisters of Notre Dame,” features a dove carrying an olive branch, bursting through a nuclear warhead, surrounded by seven flames of the then seven SSND U.S. and Canadian provinces. Pictured are (holding the banner in front) Sisters Kathleen Wahl, Charitas Maloney, Margaret Kenyon and Justine Nutz. Behind them on the far right are Sisters Christella Sheehan and Eileen McKeever. About 30 sisters from Wilton, Connecticut, went to Washington for that peace march.