Sister Elizabeth taught elementary grades at Assumption for three years and at St. Anthony’s for five years. She was a teacher and principal at St. John Nepomuk until 1972 and at St. Michael’s until 1974.  She was then a principal at Red Lake for five years. While living there, she remembers once when the Sisters and monks received barrels of confiscated fish. “We had a fish fry with beer and fresh bread. It was so good.”

After Red Lake, S. Elizabeth worked in the office at Saint Benedict’s, Saint Scholastica’s and Saint Raphael’s. She served as principal at Ss. Peter and Paul for five years and then as executive secretary at Cathedral High School. In 1993, she returned to the monastery as community secretary and then became secretary coordinator. She began work as reception coordinator in 1996. The next year she also became the treasurer and secretary for the Federation of Saint Benedict. During her six years in the position, she traveled to other monasteries, including Saint Martin Monastey in the Bahamas “ … there are many beautiful Sisters no matter where you go.”

S. Elizabeth is now the co-coordinator of reception in addition to managing the telephone system for the Sisters. She loves fresh flowers and began a Sisters’ flower garden in 1996. She transports buckets of flowers in the back of her “Cadillac”–a three-wheel bicycle–and makes bouquets for decorations and for special occasions.