NEWBURGH – Sr. Ann Sakac, OP, president of Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh for over 30 years, was laid to rest on Tuesday, January 30.
Sr. Ann, who passed away on January 24, was 91 years old.
A funeral mass was concelebrated by Fr. Gregoire Fluet, interim president of the college, and the Most Rev. Dominick John Lagonegro.
Sr. Ann began her time at the Mount in 1969 as a professor of English and assistant dean of students.
She spent 32 years as president of the college, first as acting president from 1976 to 1977, then as president from 1977 to 2008.
After her retirement, Sr. Ann remained devoted to the college she loved for the next more than 15 years.
During her leadership years, she developed the college’s first master’s degree program; a new residence hall called Sakac Hall, and renovations to Guzman Hall; the renovation and development of the Mathematics, Science and Technology Center in Aquinas Hall, and the opening of the Elaine and William Kaplan Recreation Center.
Following the mass, Sr. Ann was buried in the Dominican Sisters Cemetery on the Mount campus.
