Academy of Notre Dame - Memories Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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Children educated under Catholic auspices should be an antidote against the poison of secularism and materialism that rules so many so-called Christian homes . . . Catholic éducation brings changes in the mind and heart of the child and must enable him to live the life of a true Catholic when his dependency upon others no longer exists. The aim, there- fore, of our teaching efforts, in the words of Plus XI, ’is to enable our pupils to cooperate with divine grâce in forming Christ. ’ HI8 EXCELLENCY, THE M08T REVEREND ALBERT R. ZUROWESTE, D. D. BISHOP OF BELLEVILLE 6 H

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ion •t ' In 1859, on October 6, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, from Milwaukee, Wis¬ consin, opened to seventy-five girls, the doors of the Institute of the Immaculate Con¬ ception, located at Third and Harrison Streeis, in Belleville, Illinois. Between that happy day in October and today are strung one hundred golden years of loving service to the young girls of the Diocèses of Alton and Belleville and the neighboring archdiocese and diocese. These years are replete with joys and successes, disappointments and failures, hopes and plans. The struggle has been constant, finances often inadéquate, disasters not lacking, but the blessing of God has been perpétuai, success encouraging, and results rewarding. Notre Dame’s Centennial Memories of 1959” is dedicated to the hundreds of cap¬ able young women who hâve gone forth from her protecting halls to take their places in the work of the world as nurses, nuns, teachers, secretaries, joumalists, pharmacists, medical technicians, and a h ost of vocations too numerous to mention; to the splendid wives and mothers, faithful to God and to home and family; ail of them women who hâve held aloft the torch of virtue and knowledge, and hâve lived out the principles of truth and fidelity instilled into their young hearts by the daughters of Our Lady, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. To these, and to the nuns who gave of their best, their lives and their energies to teach and train the young, our yearbook of the centenary is fittingly dedicated. AD MULTOS ANNOS! 5

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N. D. A. CATECHISTS Rt. Rev. Monsignor Leonard A. Bauer Chancellor of Belleville Diocese Chaplain of the Academy of Notre Dame Junior instructor Rev. Al Burak O.M.I Assistant St. Henry ' s Parish Junior instructor Rev. James Calhoun Assistant St. Luke ' s Parish Freshman instructor Rev. Joseph Callahan Assistant Blessed Sacrament Parish Freshman and Sophomore instructor Rev. Jerome Hartlein Assistant St. Albert the Great ' s Parish Freshman instructor Rev. Edwin Kastner Assistant St. Clare ' s Parish Senior instructor Rev. Arthur Niemeyer, Director St. John s Orphanage Sophomore instructor Rev. Harry Schumacher Assistant St. Mary ' s Parish Sophomore and Junior instructor