In the 1970s, changes in the living arrangements in the Society of the Sacred Heart required the establishment of a separate home for elderly and infirm members. Josephine Danz, RSCJ, was a registered nurse with a healer's instinct, and a former college president with a command of the impossible and considerable experience of human relations in leadership positions. She was fitted for the task of creating a home where the care given to the religious would replicate what they had enjoyed in traditional communities.

This biography traces her journey from the academic world to that of eldercare. Oakwood, the retirement home she built, endures as a testimony to her creativity and foresight.