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2-SEA COAST ECHO-SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1978
Holy Family alumni association honors Bay’s Mother Rose Hazeui
. Bay St. Louis native Mother Rose de Lima Hazeur was special guest of honor at this summer’s homecoming festivities of the Congregation of The Sisters of The Holy Family, in New Orleans. ■
Completing her second four-year term as Mother Superior of the Congregation, she was also ';ted for her role as fount ,r "f the Holy Family Alumi.. Association.
Mother Rose received plaques of appreciation for “dedicated and outstanding” service from alumni association chapters in New Orleans, Los Angeles and Opelousas, La., and a special gift from the 1962 class of Holy Rosary Institute.
Some 500 persons attended the event June 25 at the Grand Hotel, New Orleans.
Mother Rose is a graduate of the old St. Rose de Lima Elementary and High Schools in Bay St. Louis. She holds a degree from St. Theresa’s College, Winona, Minn., an MA in administration from Catholic University of America, and has completed post graduate work at Loyola University of Los Angeles.
•She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clement Hazeur of Bay St. Louis.
Prior to her election as superior general, she served as a teacher in Apalachicola, Fla.; GrandCoteau, Lafayette and Donaldsonville, La. She was principal of St. Francis Xavier School in Baton Rouge, La. for some 10 years and later principal of Regina Coeli High School, Compton, Calif.
MOTHER ROSE HAZEUR
Through her years as an educator, she has served as music teacher, choir director, glee club moderator, sodality ■moderator and student council advisor.
Mother Rose has held membership on the Sisters Vocation Council in Lost Angeles; Advisory Board for
Special Projects in Compton; visiting team of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges; and served as a delegate to the General Assembly of the Sisters of The Holy Family in 1964, 1968 and 1970.
She founded the alumni association in 1964, and upon assuming duties as superior general, named Sister Bertille Hazeur, her sister, as national alumni director.
Since becoming superior general, she has been a member of the Archbishop’s Board of Regents in New Orleans and for the past four years has served on the executive board of the Louisiana Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
New Orleans Archbishop Phillip Hannan has cited Mother Rose for her work on the Horizon Program for the aged.
She holds certificates of merit from the mayors of Los Angeles, New Orleans and Opelousas, and is listed in Who’s Who in Religion.
In addition, she is a member of the administrative council of the consortium Perfectae Caritatis.
During her current administration as superior
general of the Congregation, the Lafon Nursing Home in New Orleans was built and the debt amortized. A new wing has since been added to the building.	}
She was instrumental ir organizing a three-week congress of the Nationwide Congregation at the Motherhouse in New Orleans in 1976.
Among those attending the homecoming ceremonies ir addition to her parents anc Sister Bertille were Mothei Rose’s brother and sister-ini law, Dr. and Mrs. C. S' Hazeur, Jr. of Mobile, Ala. and their- daughter Camille brother and sister-in-law Mr and Mrs. Emile Hazeur of Ba; St. Louis and their daughter: Ellen, Marie and Yvette; am brother August Hazeur o Wilmington, Del., and daughter Michelle.
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