Staff

Sister Janice Bader, CPPS
Acting Interim Director

Brother Henry M. Sammon, FMS, JCL
Associate Director

Mrs. Monica Glover
Database Administrator

Mrs. Jean Smith
Staff Assistant

Andree Fries

In Memoriam
Sister Andrée Fries

The NRRO staff was deeply saddened in 2007 by the unexpected death of Executive Director Sister Andrée Fries, CPPS, whose inexhaustible energy, deep faith, and good humor were a model and an inspiration to those involved in the NRRO mission. Sister Fries had led the NRRO since 2000, after two years as project director and four years as associate director of the Tri-Conference Retirement Office.

Born Sharon Ann Fries in Quincy, Illinois, Sister Fries entered the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood in O'Fallon, Missouri at 18 and professed her final vows in 1967. Sister Fries was a past president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, a board member of the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators, and one of three elected U.S. representatives to the International Union of Superiors General in Rome. She was appointed deputy to the general secretary of the Conference of Catholic Bishops to deal with the bishops' response to the sexual abuse issues in the church.

"She believed that her role in life was to gather people together, to facilitate community, build bridges, to bring opposites together, to heal even the most broken hearted. The spirit that was core to her being taught her that the blood of Christ ransomed everyone and was a free gift."

From the eulogy by Father Cletus Kiley President, The Faith & Politics Institute