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

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Mr dear Girls, In the fall of 1859, the School Sisters of Notre Dame began their efforts for the éducation of the girls of the Belleville and Southern Illinois areas. During the century, alumnae of the old Immaculate Conception Academy and of the présent Academy of Notre Dame hâve been among the finest Catholic leaders of the Diocese. You, dear Graduâtes of 1959, round out the century. May you, in whatever field of endeavor you find yourselves, carry on the high ideals and traditions of Notre Dame. Our Blessed Mother will be with her girls in the second century as she was in the first. Her humility, purity, sincerity, prudence, and love for God and her fellowmen should always be reflected in her daughters. The faculty will count on you. You know what is expected of our fine Catholic leaders; and our country, the Church, and God Himself are looking to you for ail that is best in Catholic American womanhood. May God love you and Mary keep you until the final commence¬ ment day. Yours in Notre Dame, 10

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PA8T - Academy of Notre Dame traces her history back to 1859,’when at the re- quest of Bishop Baltes, of Alton, the School Sisters of Notre Dame opened Immaculate Conception Academy, for girls, at Third and Harrison St s., with an enrollment of seventy-five. Immaculate Conception Academy, erected in 1884, replacing the first structure destroyed by fire in January, 1884, with the loss of the lives of four nuns and twenty-two girls, as it stands today. Forty years later, cold but confident friends and well-wishers cleared a path through the snow to share with His Excellency, Bishop Althoff, the joy of breaking ground for the new Academy of Notre Dame on West Main Street. 1925, and an enlarged, modem, beau- tiful Academy of Notre Dame faces on West Main, the ol d Rock Road, at 6400.