Biography
Sister Mary Grondin, a Sister of Providence, participated with Shelley Douglass and Karol Schulkin in the February 16, 1983 Ash Wednesday protest at the Bangor Trident submarine base. They walked the railroad tracks and placed photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims before their arrest. The original Nuclear Resister reports a trespass conviction on May 23 and sentencing July 6, 1983: Grondin received ten days suspended and one year of unsupervised probation. Unlike Douglass and Schulkin, she is not reported as entering jail to serve the sentence. Her exact initial detention and release endpoints remain unresolved.
Individual conviction and suspended sentence
The June 6, 1983 Nuclear Resister, printed page 5, names Grondin, Schulkin and Douglass, dates their base entry to February 16 and reports conviction May 23. Its July 6 sentencing date was initially a forecast. The July 7 issue, printed page 5, confirms sentencing actually occurred July 6 and distinguishes their outcomes: Grondin's ten days were suspended with one year of unsupervised probation; the two companions, not Grondin, were taken to jail.
Providence's institutional history, independently identifies Sister Mary Grondin with the same Ash Wednesday protest. Her congregation's Winter 2019 memorial, printed page 7, contains an explicitly identified portrait. Capture date, photographer and reuse permission remain unverified, so no image is copied into the database in this batch. Initial detention and actual release dates remain unknown; sentence suspension and a companion's jail release are not substituted for them.
