Started what became St. Vincent Meals on Wheels with a single pot of stew served to 83 seniors in a church basement near MacArthur Park in Westlake, CA. As executive director of St. Vincent Meals on Wheels, she arose every morning before dawn for an hour of prayer, then got to work overseeing the preparation and delivery of nearly 3,500 meals to the city's homeless, homebound, disabled and terminally ill. A registered dietitian, she had noticed that many low-income, elderly people living in apartments near St. Vincent Medical Center, where she had been assistant dietary director, weren't eating right and determined to do something about it.