Learning her letters from the Sisters of Mercy in Mobile, Ala., Helen Amos found the roots of a lifetime of commitment and service she continues today at the helm of Mercy Medical Center.

She came to Baltimore in the 1950s to get a teaching degree and enter the novitiate. Today Sister Amos sits on the board?s of numerous charities, including Mercy Ridge, Loyola College, St. Mary?s Seminary and two Georgia Sisters of Mercy hospitals, and is chairwoman of Mercy Medical Center and the Downtown Partnership.