tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737982242587548616.post2829805380849785014..comments2023-04-03T05:03:41.014-07:00Comments on Reflections of '64 HS Grad Home of Good Shep MN: Reflections of 1964 High School Graduate from Home of Good Shepherd, St. Paul, MinnesotaMary Elizabeth Rothwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13227634259983250092noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737982242587548616.post-1871661442863826222013-05-09T13:50:11.087-07:002013-05-09T13:50:11.087-07:00God Bless the Home of Good Shepherd Girls from Oma...God Bless the Home of Good Shepherd Girls from Omaha, Nebraska. It's attitudes like yours that's more healing than all the money and apologies in the world!<br /><br />Mary Elizabeth<br />maryrothwell600@msn.com<br />Mary Elizabeth Rothwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13227634259983250092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737982242587548616.post-37928918481432151142013-05-09T13:46:15.496-07:002013-05-09T13:46:15.496-07:00To Home of Good Shepherd Girls reading my blog:
...To Home of Good Shepherd Girls reading my blog: <br /><br />I was contacted by the two people within this blog string. SEE above: Rosemarie Jacobsohn & Jerome Elam, a Journalist. <br /><br />Please be careful if these two make contact with you. Their intentions may be pure, but I've had a very negative experience with both of them!<br /><br />I will refrain writing what I experienced but my husband kept the proof via copies of emails strings which are now being kept safe with our family attorneys.<br /><br />All seemed innocent at first. After initial social exchanges, I was told to call their lawyer who told me Jerome writes columns & submits them to the Washington Times on-line newspaper.<br /><br />Jerome's efforts seemed seemed pure enough since he was an abused child himself. Therefore spear-heading a class action suit against Homes of Good Shepherd for damages done to girls incarcerated in the United States didn't seem to strange at first.<br /><br />Rosemarie hasn't vetted as well.<br /><br />When I was contacted, they had perhaps 3 at most HGS girls; I was to be the 4th or so. Certainly not enough for a class action lawsuit. I was to find more girls for them to contact. I had none. Except those from Omaha, Nebraska who loved their Home of Good Shepherd experiences, the Nuns, etc. and still do.<br /><br />When I was first contacted via email, I was neither asked to phone them nor they me. No conference call was coordinated. No one asked to meet me in person nor did they offer for me to meet them in order to introduce themselves. This fact alone made me feel very, very uncomfortable. I was to hire their attorney sight unseen? I was to cooperate with them sight unseen? No meetings. No clarifications. Nothing?<br /><br />I do not know how to use Facebook nor use the internet to any great extent. I am not computer or internet savvy. The full extent of their proposal and answers to my questions was via emails to me. In hindsight it appears they all only rely on the use of the social media facility called Facebook. I don't know how to use Facebook, so I don't.<br /><br />I was given Rosemarie's home phone. My attorney told me not to call her until he could determine who she was and what she was all about.<br /><br />And I was to trust them 100% No rights to ask questions without suffering their ire? Or insulting accusations? Or twisting my words? Hmmmm. Very suspicious.<br /><br />My experiences in the Home of Good Shepherd taught me many, many things. All of which served me well during my life. First, take nothing at face value. Due diligence and research is the basis of knowledge & truths. Jerome should recognize that! <br /><br />Second, never trust anyone, face value or otherwise. Everyone has a private agenda. There's always a back-story to any situation. Find out what it is. Certainly, never trust anyone from the internet, out of the blue, claiming to want to 'help you pursue vindication' & money. Never be fueled by money.<br /><br />Be strong enough to ask direct, straight forward questions over and over. If a response is anger, defensive, threatening, insulting, or your words have been twisted, etc. watch out. Seek advice immediately. This is a huge red flag! Something is terribly wrong.<br /><br />All 'do-gooders' have motives. Some pure. Some not so pure. I refused to become part of someone's 15 minutes of fame. Or the pursuit of a Pulitzer!<br /><br />God Bless all. Empty apologies are not what they are cracked up to be. Ask the Irish.<br /><br />Mary Elizabeth<br />maryrothwell600@msn.com<br /> Mary Elizabeth Rothwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13227634259983250092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737982242587548616.post-54354520308719726272013-04-10T15:15:19.622-07:002013-04-10T15:15:19.622-07:00and Jerome Elan, our journalist,extraordinaire!!and Jerome Elan, our journalist,extraordinaire!!rosJacob89https://www.blogger.com/profile/16900452537143938372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737982242587548616.post-16124849591798835922013-04-09T21:33:12.831-07:002013-04-09T21:33:12.831-07:00I just found my blog with a little of my story on ...I just found my blog with a little of my story on Google B. I am not computer literate but give it a good try. Rose and Diana, thanks for your help and for contacting me via email. sorry I'm so late on the uptake!Mary Elizabeth Rothwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13227634259983250092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737982242587548616.post-76993061039447612012013-04-09T21:18:01.625-07:002013-04-09T21:18:01.625-07:00I'm really late in answering as I just found t...I'm really late in answering as I just found this Blog again. Had totally forgotten about it. I was in St. Paul. The nuns called the Home of Good Shepherd where we were prisoners and locked up. The phony name they gave our High School was Mount Saint Mary's but the education was non-existant. It was a joke!Mary Elizabeth Rothwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13227634259983250092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737982242587548616.post-72712649922977622142013-04-08T09:06:45.056-07:002013-04-08T09:06:45.056-07:00Hi Mary E... Please visit our website on Facebook...Hi Mary E... Please visit our website on Facebook...we are a group of 'survivors" of Good Shepherd 'homes' institutions... we started this website in an effort to contact other victims/survivors, and to begin the process of receiving not only an apology, official, but reparations... <br />Myself and Diana O'Hara started it one year ago..if you see the wbsite..you will see others stories similar to yourself. and the Journalist above, Jerome Elam, has been working, un-selfishly to get our stories out there! PLEASE come view: Survivors of Good Shepherd/Magdalene Laundries in North America ( on Facebook)<br />BEST.. Rosemarie jacobsohn NYC and Diana O'Hara <br />https://www.facebook.com/pages/Survivors-of-Good-ShepherdMagdalene-Laundries-in-North-America/439696446112013?fref=tsrosJacob89https://www.blogger.com/profile/16900452537143938372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737982242587548616.post-38209466258217317602012-07-09T09:41:43.322-07:002012-07-09T09:41:43.322-07:00Mary Elizabeth, I have set up a FREE facebook page...Mary Elizabeth, I have set up a FREE facebook page for ALL Good Shepherd Girls from ALL Good Shepherd Homes to reunitewith old friends, make new friends, and share memories. Please come visit our page. While you're there, please don't forget to "Like" our page. The link is right under the big pic of our school on the right. Hope to see you there soon! Here is the link to our page. <br /><br />http://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Josephs-Academy-Omaha-Nebraska/129517273767578?success=1sassycalamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07624156865980538748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1737982242587548616.post-8602906748535833022012-07-09T06:49:37.361-07:002012-07-09T06:49:37.361-07:00Hi Mary Elizabeth,
I am a former student at the H...Hi Mary Elizabeth,<br /><br />I am a former student at the Home of the Good Shepherd in Omaha, Nebraska. The name of the school was St. Joseph's Academy. You say on your blog that you were at the Home of the Good Shepherd in St. Paul, Minnesota but the name of the high school was Mount Saint Mary's. It is my understanding that there was a St. Mary's of the Mount/Home of the Good Shepherd in Helena, Montana. Were you in Helena or St. Paul?sassycalamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07624156865980538748noreply@blogger.com