HART SISTER REGINA CLARE, CSJ
95, died Saturday, August 8, 2009 in her 80th year as a Sister of St. Joseph. The daughter of the late Peter and Alicia Maher Hart. Sister Regina Clare entered the Congregation from Sacred Heart Parish, Conemaugh, PA. For more than 70 years Sister ministered in the field of education. She taught in many elementary and secondary schools in the Pittsburgh, Altoona-Johnstown, Greensburg, and Detroit, MI Dioceses. She served as principal and teacher at the former St. Mary School, New Castle 1956-57. At St. Joseph High School, Natrona, Sister Regina Clare was teacher from 1968-78 and principal from 1978-84. Later she returned to St. Joseph High School and ministered as Dean of Students and Mentor from 1993-2002. Sister also shared her gifts as an excellent educator while serving as Coordinator of Teacher Development at St. Mary, Kittanning, and St. Thomas More, Bethel Park. From 1986-1993 Sister Regina Clare was the Curriculum Coordinator and Teacher Mentor for the Sisters of St. Joseph. Her wisdom, understanding, and insight touched the lives of students and teachers alike. Sister is survived by nieces, including St. Joseph Sister Natalie Lann, nephews, grand nieces and nephews, great grand nieces and nephews, and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden. Friends will be received Monday from 1-8 p.m. and Tuesday from 11:00-3:30 p.m. at the Sisters' Motherhouse in Baden. Mass of Christian Burial Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. in the Motherhouse Chapel. Burial will follow in the Sisters' cemetery on the Motherhouse grounds

This article about Sr. Regina Clare Hart appeared on the CSJ Baden website in Aug2009:

 Regina Clare Hart, CSJ
80th Jubilee

Regarded as a "revolutionary" teacher in the 1940s and 50s, Sister Regina Clare Hart practiced "cooperative" and "hands-on" learning techniques in the classroom long before educators formalized these teaching strategies. She placed students in small circles, encouraged them to share ideas and inspired them to learn by doing.

Sister Regina Clare taught at all grade levels in the Dioceses of Pittsburgh, Greensburg and Altoona-Johnstown. Her longest ministry (1968–1984) was at St. Joseph High School in Natrona where she was a teacher and principal. She demonstrated leadership in training teachers and developing curriculum for other schools before returning in 1993 to St. Joseph as a mentor, librarian and Dean of Students.

After retiring from seven decades in education, Sister Regina Clare said, "Education has been part of my life for so long. I just can’t imagine not being around the children.God has truly blessed me with a heaven here on earth."