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 Sr.
Camilla Mullay, OP
May 29, 1927– July 14, 2003
I will dwell in the house of the Lord as long as I shall live.
Psalm 23
On Monday, July 14, 2003, Sr. Camilla Mullay died at Mt. Carmel East
Medical Center. Sr. Camilla was born in Columbus on May 29, 1927. Her
parents, Maurice and Eulalia (Cox) Mullay raised Camilla and her sister
Ann in Columbus Immaculate Conception Parish. Sister is survived by her
sister Ann and brother-in-law Don Seelbach, and many nieces and nephews.
She will be greatly missed by her family, friends and members of her congregation,
the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs. Sr. Camilla entered
the Dominican Novitiate in Columbus in 1945 and pronounced her vows in
1947.
Sr. Camilla attended both St. Mary of the Springs Academy and St. Mary
of the Springs College (now Ohio Dominican University). She received both
her M.A. and Ph.D. in the social sciences from the Catholic University
of America, Washington, D.C.
Sr. Camilla taught at St. Peter School in the Diocese of Steubenville
and at Mary Immaculate School in Ossining, New York. Most of her academic
career was spent here in the Diocese of Columbus at St. Mary School in
Lancaster, Holy Name and St. Thomas Schools in Columbus, and at St. Mary
of the Springs Academy. Sr. Camilla was a professor in and later chair
of the Departments of History, Political Science and Criminal Justice
at the present Ohio Dominican University. Her time at ODU was interrupted
to serve in leadership roles for the Dominican Sisters, first on the General
Council from1968 to 1974, and then as Mother General from 1974 to 1982.
Sr. Camilla's many honors included invitations to attend the International
Conference on Religious Liberty at the State Department in 1985, and to
speak at the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Washington Conference in
1987. She received an honorary doctorate from Albertus Magnus College
in New Haven, CT, in 1982, and was awarded the Lavelle Chair in Social
Sciences at Ohio Dominican in 1991. Sister co-authored a book, The
Barren Fig Tree, and had been working on a history of the Columbus
Dominican Sisters.
Memorial gifts in Sister Camilla's honor may be
sent to Dominican Sisters, St. Mary of the Springs, 2320 Airport Drive,
Columbus, OH 43219. |
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