Academy of Our Lady of Peace - Villa Montemar Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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I-HSTCDRY CDF TI-IE ACADEMY The Sisters of St. Joseph of Car- ondelet arrived in San Diego on Ap- ril 18, 1882, at the request ol Father Antonio Uhach, beloved pioneer- priest of San Diego, who had made urgent visits to Carondelet pleading for Sisters to open a school and to teach the Mission Indians. The little community oi four Sis- ters opened school on May 10, 1882, in a small frame house on a terrace overloolcing the hay, registering on that day twenty-eight girls and two hoys. On June I5 the first Mass was celebrated in the small chapel of the convent which was dedicated to Our Lady of Peace. ln 1887 the Academy assumed large proportions with the completion of a fully equipped huilding on Third and A Streets. The Academy on that site was for thirty-eight years an in- timate part of the moral and physical growth of San Diego. The purchase of beautiful Villa Montemar was the next step of prog- ress for the Sisters. This twenty acre estate with its seven huildings devot- ed to the finest in educational advan- tages is a compendium of heauty, a monument to the sixty-four years of tireless laloors which the Sisters of St. Joseph have devoted to Catholic education in San Diego.

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