Sister Jean, Loyola's 'international celebrity,' adjusts to burgeoning popularity
On a sunny day between opening-round games of the NCAA men's basketball tournament in Dallas, Loyola's 98-year-old team chaplain, Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, planned to go for a simple lunch down the street.
"We couldn't do it - everybody knows her," said Tom Hitcho, the university's longtime senior associate athletic director for operations, who has been pushing Sister Jean's wheelchair during the tournament.
They were stopped so frequently by adoring fans on the sidewalk, it was nearly impossible to make it more than a few steps before another one
