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SISTER NANCY MORRIS
Sister Morris, a native Californian, was born in
Piedmont, California, a residential area near Oak
land, California. She graduated from Piedmont
High School in 1945, and later from the University
of California where she majored in English. She was
a member of Kappa Gamma Sorority at the Univer
sity of California at Berkeley.
She entered the novitiate of the Religious of the
Sacred Heart, then in Albany, New York, in 1951.
She taught at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at
San Francisco and in Menlow Park,' California. Her
final Profession was made in Rome, Italy, in1959.
Sister Morris received her M.A. in English at the
San Francisco College for Women in 1962 and has
done graduate work at Stanford University and at
the University of San Francisco in the Theology
Program. She was the Principal of the Convent of
the Sacred Heart in San Francisco for five years,
and assumed the office of President at the Univ
ersity of San Diego, College for Women, in 1966.
Sister Morris has been pursuing an M.A. in Theology
at U.S.F., interrupted by her appointment as Pres
ident of S.D.C.W.
Sister Morris was chosen one of the "Women of
Valor" for the year 1967, an outstanding profession
al woman. She is now an Urban League Board mem
ber for the County of San Diego.
She was the only woman among some twenty
"outstanding Alumni" to speak at the Centennial
Celebration at U.C. Berkeley in March of this year.
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