St Marys Academy - Illuminatio Yearbook (Inglewood, CA)

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PHUBHESS The year l89l saw Two girls graduaTe Trom The Then new SainT Mary's Academy. This year, I939. eighTy-Tive girls will wallc up The sTeps oT SainT Mary's To receive Their diplomas, The reward Tor Tour years oT sTudy. SainT lv1ary's has grown Trom a graduaTing class'oT Two To one oT eighTy-Tive. This can surely be called prog- ress. Progress, Too. Trom The TirsT siTe oT SainT Mary's Academy on Grand Avenue To The presenT locaTion aT Slauson and Crenshaw, The beauTiTul campus where The SisTers oT ST. Joseph oT CarondeleT are The Teachers and The inspiraTion oT every girl wiTh whom They come in conTacT. BuT There is a progress deeper and Tiner Than maTerial progress. A young girl, iusT Tinishing eighT years oT elemenTary Training, sTands on The Threshold oT a new, a diTTerenT liTe. She comes To SainT Mary's wiTh her hearT Tull oT hope. Tull oT desire To be worThy oT her chosen Alma MaTer. She works Tour years, sTudying The academic subiecTs ThaT are required. l-lowever, she learns ThaT These subiecTs are noT The mosT viTal Things in her liTe. She is TaughT more imporTanT maTTers, noT Trom a TexTboolc. buT Trom precepT and example. She is TaughT religion, The love oT God. She enTers a child: she graduaTes a woman. The Training she has received during These Tour years cannoT be expressed in words, buT iT is evidenT in her acTions: acTions ThaT con- vey To Those who come in conTacT wiTh her ThaT she has received a CaTholic educaTion. AT The end oT her Tour years, if This young girl has made use oT The opporTuniTies given her. she is qualiTied in soul and mind Tor whaTever paTh in liTe God has des- Tined her. Thus we see progress-progress oT a school during TiTTy years: buT. more Than ThaT, The progress oT souls. which is The naTural consequence oT CaTholic educaTion. Peggy Jean KieTTer '39

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THE SISTERS UE ST. JUSEPH UE EAHUNUELET In I836, lvloTher ST. John FonTlaonne, Superior Gen- eral oT The SisTers oT ST. Joseph. esTablished in I65O aT Le Puy, France, senT six SisTers To The UniTed STaTes, aT The requesT oT Bishop RosaTi. C.M.. oT ST. Louis, Missouri. Two schools were opened ThaT year, one aT Caholcia and The oTher aT CarondeleT, where also The American lvloTher House was esTablished. Under The guidance oT ST. Joseph, who, being The TosTer-TaTher oT The greaTesT Teacher oT all Time, can so eTTicaciously invoke The aid oT The Divine Child, The SisTers oT ST. Joseph prospered in Their worlc Tor souls. Today we Tind houses oT The CongregaTion ThroughouT The UniTed STaTes. The inTeresT oT The SisTers is noT conTined To The Teaching Tield, however, buT includes also various chariTable worlcs. . Margery WaTers '39

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PAHUCHIAL SCHUULS During The years since Their arrival in Los Angeles, The SisTers oT ST. Joseph oT CarondeleT have exTended Their educaTional endeavors beyond The conTines oT The Acad- emy and The College. ln The ciTy oT Los Angeles alone The SisTers oT ST. Joseph conducT schools in The Tollowing parishes: ST. PaTriclc's, l-loly Cross, ST. VincenT's, ST. Ce- cilia's. ST. Brigid's. ST. Anselm's, TransTiguraTion. and ST. John's. ln numerous parishes which are unable To mainTain parochial schools The SisTers provide caTecheTical insTruc- Tions during The scholasTic year, and vacaTion schools dur- ing The summer monThs. The TiTTy years which have passed since The SisTers oT ST. Joseph opened The new ST. Mary's Academy have seen a sTeady growTh in The number OT graduaTes. The Two young girls who proudly received Their high school di- plomas in l89l have given place To an ever increasing number. unTil Today eighTy-Tive girls receive The reward oT Tour years' sTudy. We. The Class oT ThirTy-nine, are privileged To lcnow ThaT we Too have our place in The hisTory oT The growTh oT CaTholic educaTion. ThaT we have as our Teachers The SisTers of ST. Joseph, who. Tor nearly Three hundred years have so meTiculously carried ouT The insTrucTion oT Bishop Maupas, when, on The occasion oT The proTession in Le Puy, France, he said To Those TirsT SisTers oT ST. Joseph: LeT The Cross be your oriTlamme To vicTory. . . . The sound oT echoing bells grows TainT. yeT Their memory and The ThoughT oT whaT They symbolize-daunT- less courage and sTeady TaiTh-does noT die. God's guiding hand has maniTesTly blessed in The pasT. May His benedicTion be as consTanT in The years To come! Carolin Ann Carlson '39 MarTha FenTon '39