When Sister Judy Lund started her first teaching job in Milwaukee 70 years ago, she had to leave after two weeks thanks to a polio outbreak.

Then, when she started her next job in Rockford, Illinois, a tornado hit town on her first day.

Fast forward a few years down the line, and Lund was teaching at a high school in Dallas, Texas, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated there.

Now, for more than 30 years, the Dominican nun has served as a matriarch for educators and students alike at St. Matthew’s Catholic School in Kalispell. While she hasn’t donned a nun’s habit since 1962, Dr. Susy Peterson, the school’s principal, described Lund as the school’s “spiritual leader.” Lund teaches the school’s religion courses for fifth and sixth graders.

“If I weren’t a teacher, I don’t know

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