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Sister Rose Patricia Clark, O.P.

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Sister Rose Patricia Clark, O.P., a principal and teacher, died Sept. 24 in the infirmary of the Dominican Sisters of Hope in Newburgh. She was 95. She was principal and a teacher at Annunciation School, Crestwood, 1953-1959, and taught at St. Augustine's, Larchmont, 1941-1944; St. Thomas of Canterbury, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 1938-1941; and St. Thomas, Pleasantville, 1933-1938. She was an assistant principal in New Jersey. In Newburgh, she was a teacher assistant at Bishop Dunn Memorial School, 1976-1978, and served at the Center for Developmental Learning and Reading, 1971-1976. She was elected to the congregation's general council in 1965 and served until 1971; at the same time she was administrator of Mount St. Mary complex in Newburgh. She was postulant mistress, 1960-1965. She assisted in the congregation's development office, 1991-1995, and finance office, 1978-1991. In 1996 she moved to the infirmary. Born in Poughkeepsie, she entered the Dominican Sisters of Newburgh in 1930 and professed final vows in 1938. She held a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Villanova University and a master's in religion and guidance from Providence College. A Funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. 28 at the Center of Hope in Newburgh, with burial in the sisters' cemetery.

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