ABOVE: Father Stephan Kappler (left), parochial administrator of St. Joseph the Worker Parish, and Father Jayson Landeza, a graduate of St. Joseph the Worker School and pastor of St. Columba Parish, give flowers as a token of appreciation to Frances Landeza and others who taught and worked at the school.

AT RIGHT: Alexis Angulo, a former student of St. Joseph the Worker School, and Presentation Sister Denise Bourdet carry a lantern during the entrance procession of a Sept. 15 liturgy marking the close of the school after 130 years in Berkeley. Declining enrollment and financial problems led to the closure in June. Sister Denise has been a teacher at the school for 34 years and received a special commendation during the closing liturgy.

AT LEFT: Jim Ryken holds a photograph of his 1931 eighth-grade graduation class prior to the Sept. 15 Mass. He believes he is the oldest living graduate of St. Joseph the Worker School.

AT RIGHT: A portrait of Nano Nagle, foundress of the Presentation Sisters, sits below a lantern, a reminder of the one Nagle used in Ireland and a symbol of all Presentation Sisters. The Sisters founded a Berkeley convent in 1878 and later established the elementary school and Presentation High School, which closed 19 ago. During the liturgy, candles were lit from the lantern and given to former students, who will help carry on the Sisters’ mission of bringing light to the world.