Keeler, Virginia M. (Virginia Mary), 1932-2004.

Virginia "Ginny" Mary Keeler was born in 1932. She began working as secretary to the president of Georgetown University in 1953, the year she graduated from Chestnut Hill College in Pennsylvania. In 1968 she was appointed Assistant Secretary of the University, and, in 1974, Secretary of the University, a position she held until her retirement in 1997. Keeler received the Georgetown Vicennial Medal in 1973 and the Patrick Healy Award in 1984. She earned a master's degree in liberal studies in 1990. Virginia Keeler died on March 16, 2004 and was survived by a brother, William Cardinal Keeler, Archbishop of Baltimore, and a sister, Julia.

Brother Francis C. Schroen, S.J., was born in Bavaria, Germany in 1857. When he was one year old his family emigrated to the United States and settled in Baltimore, Md. From an early age Schroen was drawn to the art of painting, which was to become his lifelong career and passion. In 1878 he married Mary Meldick and together the couple had three daughters, two of whom, Margaret and Mary, were taken by diphtheria as young children. Their third daughter, Margaret Mary, was born in 1888. Tragedy struck again in 1890 when Schroen's wife Mary died. In 1898 he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Frederick, Md., and the following year was invited by Georgetown University to decorate the interiors of Healy Hall, which was finally nearing completion after 20 years of construction. Schroen took his final vows as a Jesuit lay brother in 1909 and for the remainder of his life worked on decorative painting projects in the U.S. and abroad, including assignments in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Kingston, Jamaica. Brother Schroen died at Georgetown University Hospital on Aug. 9, 1924.

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