Mourning the Loss of Sister Joan Geannelis, CSJ, Longtime College Employee

We are sad to share that Sister Joan Geannelis, CSJ (Sister Joseph Paul), who served Saint Rose for 27 years in various capacities, passed away on February 1 at St. Joseph’s Provincial House in Latham. She was 94.
 
During her 27 years at the College, she worked as director of development, dean of students, account clerk, business office manager, administrative assistant to the financial aid director, and acquisitions and accounts assistant. She had been a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet for the past 71 years. In addition to her time at Saint Rose, she served the Sisters of St. Joseph as director of development, driver and coordinator of transportation, and staff member in the Communications Office.
 
Geannelis earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Rose, and a master’s degree in student personnel from Indiana University in Bloomington.
 
The obituary published by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet described her as a “dedicated, prayerful woman who liked to balance her contemplative side with an optimal round of golf and a hearty, guilt-inducing meal. … From wherever her gifts came, Sister Joan was an engaging, delightful, faith-filled woman, and she will be dearly missed.”

Read Geannelis’ memorial story on the CSJ Albany website.