A trio of nuns , all members of the faculty at the Mount Mary College in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , looking over one of the models at the showing of the autumn and winter collection of designers Ronald Amey and Joseph Burke . The nuns , who are of the order of School sisters of Notre Dame , are (left to right) Sister Mary Remy , head of the college's art department ; Sister Mary John francis , President of the College , and Sister Mary Aloyse , co-ordinator of the school's design course. Sister Mary Aloyse had a special interest in the showing - she helped with some of the stitching , cutting and designing that went into the new collection . 14 June 1966