Submitted by: Dan Rich

Sister Miriam Joseph Rauh CSC

Dec. 17, 1898 – Nov. 11, 1982

South Bend Tribune 11/12/1982

Sister Miriam Joseph CSC, 83, of Saint Mary’s Convent, died at 7:50 p.m. Thursday in the convent after a lengthy illness. She served as a teacher at St. Mary’s from 1931 and was chairman of the English Department from 1947 until retiring in 1969. She was born Agnes Lenore Rauh on Dec. 17, 1898 in Gladoff, Ohio, and entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross at St. Mary’s on Sept. 21, 1919 coming from Ottawa, Ohio. She was received as a novice on Aug. 15, 1920, making her forst profession of vows two years later. She received her bachelor of arts degree in journalism from St. Mary’s in 1923; her Master’s degree in English From the University of Notre Dame in 1927, and her Ph. D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University, New York, in 1945.

She was recipient of an honorary degree from St. Mary’s College in 1969 as part of the 125th anniversary program of the college. She was first assigned to teach at St. Joseph Academy in South Bend from 1923 to 1927 and then taught at the College of St. Mary of Wasatch in Salt Lake City, Utah from 1927 to 1930. She also had taught in Pocatello, Idaho and in Morris, Ill. She authored many publications, among which were; “Orthodoxy in Paradise Lost” and “Shakespeare’s Use of the Arts of Language.” She was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University in 1961 and a visiting professor of English at Catholic University of America in 1962. She participated in the First World Shakespeare Congress in Vancouver, BC in August 1971, and traveled to England in 1964 to commemorate the 400^th anniversary of the birth of Shakespeare.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Our Lady of Loretto Church and burial in Our Lady of Peace Cemetery at St. Mary’s. Friends may call until services in the St. Mary’s Convent Parlors where a wake service will be conducted at 7 p.m. today. She is survived by a brother Walter Rach of Youngstown, Ohio.