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chum, Margaret Thomson, that Kay met her future
husband, Charles. An initial attraction to one another
grew into a union of love that would mock the bindings
of mortality.
Kay also worked as an assistant society editor
of the Wheeling News-Register. One 1935 column
published in the society pages was long-remembered
by the Visitation nuns at the Mount. Kay’s cohort in
this well-kept secret, Regina Slater, nervously warned
her that we could get excommunicated for this or
worse. Cross your heart and hope to die you will never
tell anyone we did this. In that column each
consecrated, semi-cloistered teaching nun had been
paired with a male guest attending the annual spring
ball. Regina, a friend to Kay for life, went on to
become a Visitation nun and eventually the Mother
Superior of that Wheeling Monastery.