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Dr. Anita Marie Caspary was born on November 4, 1915 in North Dakota. She took her vows in 1936 as Sister Humiliata in the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary order. She received her Ph.d from Stanford University in 1948. Caspary was president of Immaculate Heart College from 1958-63 and was elected Mother General of the Immaculate Heart Sisters in 1963. She became increasingly at-odds with Cardinal James McIntyre, Archbishop of Los Angeles, in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. In December 1969 more than 300 sisters at an Immaculate Heart community meeting voted to become a non-canonical community, freeing themselves of Cardinal McIntyre's jurisdiction. Some fifty of these continued to operate with diocesan recognition but approximately 250 sisters ceased teaching in the archdiocese's Catholic schools. She later went on to teach at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and served on the staff of the Peace and Justice Center of Southern California. Caspary was featured on the cover of Time Magazine on February 23, 1970. She died on October 5, 2011 in Los Angeles.; Immaculate Heart College was a private, Catholic college located on North Western Avenue in Los Angeles, California. The college offered various courses including art and religious education studies. The campus was owned and operated by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, who had founded Immaculate Heart Convent and High School on their 13-acre property in 1905. Its leaders in the 1950s and 60s included Dr. Anita Marie Caspary and renowned artist Corita Kent who led a much publicized rebellion against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 1969. The college closed in 1981 due to financial difficulties but the all-girl high school continues to operate on the original site. Photograph caption dated July 3, 1959 reads "Julia Nicholson, second from left, and Karen Lipski, students at Corvallis High School in Studio City, receive trophies in Immaculate Heart College's creative writing contest from Sister M. Humiliata, IHM, president of Immaculate Heart. Dr. Fallon Evans, acting chairman of English department, is on left. Approximately 250 student writers from more than 20 schools attended the writing session and buffet supper."
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