Sister Lauren Weinandt

Sister Lauren Weinandt turns 100 on Monday, Aug. 2. To the good Sister, Mayo's longest continuously serving staff member, it all seems divinely ordered and[...]

By In the Loop • July 28, 2021

A birthday concert in honor of Sister Lauren Weinandt's 97th birthday was a special coda ahead of a major restoration and refurbishing of the carillon[...]

By In the Loop • July 31, 2018

In honor of her 96th birthday, a favorite story and a few additional thoughts about Sister Lauren Weinandt. In honor of the 96th birthday of[...]

By In the Loop • August 3, 2017

As someone famous famously wrote, the course of true love never did run smooth. The same can be said of history, Chris Boes, M.D., tells[...]

By In the Loop • April 4, 2017

The Teletype machine whirred to life the other day at In the Loop world headquarters (a cubicle in a building that backs up to the[...]

By In the Loop • January 19, 2017

Last week, Sister Lauren Weinandt, friend of In the Loop (which we hope brings us special dispensation), turned 95. She and her fellow Sisters, along[...]

By In the Loop • August 9, 2016

They say all good things must come to an end. And for the past 48 years, the "two to three" rummage sales and bazaars that[...]

By In the Loop • March 3, 2016

It's the sort of story that's surprising yet pretty much what you've come to expect from Mayo Clinic and the Sisters of Saint Francis. The[...]

By In the Loop • September 30, 2014

Mayo's second-longest-serving employee (57.97 years and counting), Sister Lauren Weinandt, turned 93 on Saturday, and her 58th service anniversary is coming up on Aug. 16.[...]

By In the Loop • August 7, 2014

On an unremarkable day in 1917, a down-on-his-luck Wisconsin man climbed the steps of Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester. He'd come to town looking for[...]

By Elizabeth Harty • December 19, 2013