Mother Mary Landeline Ptasienski

Mother Mary Landeline Ptasienski took the reins as provincial minister from 1970 to 1976 and was elected for another term from 1982 to 1988. Economic volatility and harsh financial burdens, coupled with a historic financial trauma, would test the leadership mettle of Mother Mary Landeline. 

She first sustained and guided the sisters still experiencing the sweeping changes brought by the historic Vatican II Council.
 
Mother Landeline continued to guide the province through unsettling times, especially the closure of Longview College, the province's institute of higher education. The sisters tried to stave off terminating the school, but ultimately were unable to stem rising operational costs amid steep declines in enrollment.
 
She then steered the province through its decidedly most traumatic and devastating financial event. The sisters had begun construction of the Longview Health Care Center, a new nursing home with outpatient rehabilitation facilities, but the project ran into cost overruns that spiraled out of control.
 
Contractors halted work while the sisters explored taking on another loan. Within months, a contract suit was brought against the province, encumbering provincial property. Our Lady of the Angels Province teetered on bankruptcy.
 
With the help of the Archdiocese of Hartford, Mother Landeline guided the transfer of ownership rights to the Little Sisters of the Poor, who renamed the new ministry Saint Joseph Residence for the Elderly.
 
Thanks to the skillful leadership of Mother Landeline and her administration, the province ultimately weathered the financial storm and preserved the financial integrity of Our Lady of the Angels Province.