Sister Mary Teresa Morris, OSB, RN '77
A Kansas City, Kansas native, Sister Mary Teresa Morris graduated from Wyandotte High School and attended St. Margaret’s School of Nursing and Donnelly College before earning her Bachelor of Science in nursing from Northwest Missouri State and a Master of Public Health from St. Louis University.
A nurse since 1972 and a Benedictine Sister since 1978, Sister Mary Teresa has served in hospitals, long-term care facilities and home health settings. She specialized in caring for the poor, the homebound and high-risk infants and children with special needs. During the pandemic, she served as the director of infectious diseases at the Dooley Center, the licensed care facility for the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica.
Sister Mary Teresa has also given back to Donnelly in many ways: teaching in Donnelly’s allied health program, serving as interim director of the nursing program, and serving as a board member. In the words of her nominator, “Sister approaches everything she does with precision, intelligence, and, most importantly, compassion. She treats the people she serves as she would Christ Himself.”