Distinguished Commitment to Her Vocation and to Education Earn Recognition

Sister Michelle Germanson OP ’62 has been president of Trinity High School in River Forest, Illinois, since 1992. When she arrived there the all-girls school was facing closure, but the Board agreed to try some new initiatives to increase enrollment, including implementing the International Baccalaureate academic program, providing transportation for students who were coming from all parts of Chicago and dozens of suburbs, and building up Trinity’s co-curricular programs. Now, the school that was on the verge of closing has an enrollment of more than 500 students and improvements continue to be made.

Edgewood High School recognized Sr. Michelle with a Mazzuchelli Award for Service to Christian Education in 1998 and Trinity High School presented her the Trinitarian Award in 2012. In 2003, a new athletic facility bearing her name was built next to the school and in 2011 a new health center opened at the school.

Sr. Michell has been featured in a number of articles, most recently in a Chicago Tribune profile piece earlier this February, that both recognized her service to Trinity and her Golden Jubilee as a Sinsinawa Dominican this year. Congratulations, Sr. Michelle, on living out the Sinsinawa Dominican mission to preach and teach!