From the Archives: Sisters of Charity in radio communication

Sr. Regina Cordis, S.C., became the first nun in the region and the sixth in the country to obtain an official ham radio operator license in 1958. As a science and history teacher at Holy Trinity School in Westfield, she moderated the school’s radio club. Her students encouraged her to obtain her license and helped her study the necessary Morse code.

(Photographer: Archdiocese of Newark Archives, Catholic Advocate collection)  

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