For the first time in its 50-year history, the Marian Center School and Services marked an anniversary without the presence of its founding executive director, Sister Lucia Ceccotti. The 50th anniversary Mass, celebrated by Archbishop Thomas Wenski, brought together all of the Marian Center's students, their teachers, including the Sisters of St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo who have staffed it since its foundation, their parents and families and benefactors who have raised funds for its operations since its opening in September 1963.