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Today's Featured Biography
Mary Elizabeth (Marilyn/Mele) WELTE §.Reunion=NO
1/2019
aka my name at SVHS, Marilyn, tho born Mary Elizabeth,
as a nun Sr. Carolyn
Just in case you wondered how Mele evolved!!!
(“Mele” a new name given to me in 1992 at a Hawaiian school where I was teaching, in Hawaiian it means: Poem or 🎶song or happy, 🤙seemed to fit well!)
5/2008
HOW DID MY PATH END UP HERE?
I live in East Honolulu, a block from Sandy Beach and the magnificent Ka Iwi coastal drive
I have been living on this island of O'ahu for over 24 years now, in three different stays. I am retired from professional life, but still doing a variety of projects -- writing, poetry, consulting, and enjoying life.
I was a high school teacher at a private school for Hawaiians until I left to do my own consulting work, and then to finish my doctoral studies in consciousness evolution a few years ago.
Before that, I taught in Palm Desert CA and coached girl's tennis. Before that, I worked in corporations, climbing the corporate ladder in Human Resource Mgmt doing Mgmt Training and Development, and Organizational Change consulting.
I moved from a consulting group to IH to GTE and eventually to Honolulu as a base of operations.
During my tenure as a corporate manager and director, I traveled around the world doing consulting and training programs, from Singapore and Indonesia to Iran, Greece, and London.
During one of my trips, I was on an Air France plane that was brought down by hijackers in Afghanistan. Fortunately, they got what they wanted, and we were let go to continue on to Teheran.
Before I worked in corporate human resource management and development, I was a high school teacher in both San Diego and Huntington Beach CA after finishing my MA and CA lifetime teaching credential studies at Cal State U at Long Beach.
I moved to Long Beach from Erie after completing my BA degree in Social Sciences at Gannon in 1967. While teaching at St Benedicts Academy in Erie, and working at Gannon, I finished my last two years of undergrad studies at Gannon after completing my earlier undergraduate studies in philosophy and theology at Loyola of Maryland and Notre Dame College of Maryland as a nun in a community of sisters who trained teachers and did leadership training and development in many different states.
The experience of living the monastic life was challenging and rewarding, as was becoming a writer and a teacher/facilitator. But, since I questioned everything, it did not seem like the place I should spend my whole life. During the six years I spent in the convent, I was sent to work and study in three different places, including Pittsburgh, Richmond VA, and Washington DC. Upon leaving the convent in 1964, I lived in DC and enjoyed dating and falling in, and painfully, out of love!
I have lived in 50 different places in my life. The greatest trauma I faced was my brother and his brain tumor, and how it affected our family, and then my folks dying only five weeks apart in Erie in 1981; they were only 67.
I lost 18 members of my family in the 1980s. I have one sister, Carol, whom I have not seen since my brother Jack died in 1987 at 40.
After graduating from SVHS, I spent the summer taking some classes at Gannon and getting ready to enter the convent in November of 1958.
My new family is Sarah Keahi, a past teacher colleague, our little darling parrot SweetPea (whom I rescued 7 years ago), and my family of friends in Hawaii and California.
Life has been one exciting and glorious adventure, with lots of twists and turns in the road, but my roots are strong, deeply spiritual, and integral.
I am happy to be alive and living in a beautiful place with so much for which to be grateful. Thus is a digest of my path to where I now am today.
7/2010 From Facebook
Basic Info
Birthday: November 12
Current City: Honolulu, Hawaii
Political Views: Humanitarian
Religious Views: Integral Spirituality - Compassionate Living
Bio: Amazing journey this far! Great Adventures! Wonderful Friends! Opportunities galore! Always growing and expanding....always evolving in consciousness.......in becoming all and the best I can be......compassionate giving-living.....IMUA! Onward!
Favorite Quotations: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. I have miles to go before I sleep...
No matter what name we give It, the God we have is the one we are capable of having...The concept of God is only the foreground of our experience;
Work and Education:
Grad School
California State University, Long Beach '71 Lifetime CA Creden./ MA Educ
Ed Sec CA cred./Ed Soc Foundations
Emerson Institute '03: DRS - Doctor of Religious Studies
Comparative Religions/Consciousness Studies
Emerson Theological Institute '03 Rev.Dr. Honorary Intern Minister
Practitioner & Ministerial Studies
College:
Gannon College '67
BA Social Sciences
+ 3 yr. Theo/Phil. Studies at Loyola and Notre Dame of Maryland
High School: Strong Vincent High School '58
Contact Info
Email: [email protected]
Address: Hawai'i Kai - East Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
AIM: Mele/Mary Elizabeth/Marilyn
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