[4] Although Xavier was a Jesuit college for men, she and other sisters from a number of regional congregations were allowed to attend special classes at nights and on weekends.
She was in residence in Washington off and on, sometimes both studying and teaching at the Teachers' College of the Athenaeum of Ohio.
Her dissertation was Self-Symmetric Quadrilaterals In-and-Circumscribed to the Plane Rational Quartic Curve with a Line of Symmetry, directed by Dr. Aubrey E. Landry.
[5] Their inclusion at the opening of the thesis makes it clear she thought of their work as interconnected, and this could form the basis of more research on these sister-mathematicians.
During the last eight years of her life she taught at Mother of Mercy High School (Cincinnati, Ohio).