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October 17, 2005 
VOL.
43, NO. 18Oakland,
CA
Dominican Sister receives two national honors
for leadership
When Mission
San Jose Dominican Sister Mary Peter Traviss retires in December as director
of the Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership (ICEL) School of
Education at the University of San Francisco, she will be leaving with
two major national awards as mementoes of her long career.
The National Catholic Education Association (NCEA) honored the Bay Area
educator on Oct. 3 and two days later the Center for Applied Research
for the Apostolate (CARA) honored her as well. Both events took place
in Washington, D.C.
NCEA presented the nun with the Seton Award, a newly initiated achievement
honor which salutes individuals who have dedicated their lives to Catholic
education.
CARA awarded Sister Travis its Archbishop Richard Cushing medal for her
support of research on Catholic schools in the United States.
Since completing her Ph.D. studies at Stanford University in 1973, Sister
Travis has lectured and written extensively on the moral development of
children in Catholic schools, focusing on how teachers can facilitate
that development.
Since 1989, as ICEL’s director, she has also chaired a committee
for Ph.D. dissertations at USF.
Prior to the ICEL position, Sister Traviss was an adjunct professor at
USF for 10 years.
She also taught at St. Boniface and St. Anthony schools in San Francisco,
served as director of education for the Dominican Sisters of Mission San
Jose, and worked as an educational supervisor for the Oakland Diocese
from 1962-65, during Bishop Floyd Begin’s first three years here.
Sister Traviss said she plans to spend the first year of her retirement
catching up on all the things she didn’t have time for during her
busy career.
At the top of her list is a visit to Blackfrairs College at Oxford University
in England, where she took a year’s sabbatical in 1995.
Sister Mary Peter Traviss, OP
