Academy of the Holy Angels - Angelus Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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THE 11932 ANCELUS THE MOTHER SERAPHINE MEMORIAL HALL Assembly Eleven o'clock on Thursdays at our New School registers many pleasant memories. It was then that we assembled in our beautiful Auditorium, the Mother Seraphine Memorial Hall, to listen to noted lecturers. His Excellency. Archbishop Murray, gave us great joy when he honored us by his first visit. When his coming was announced, the Faculty and the whole student body became suddenly charged with joyous expectation. We had heard that he walked right into the hearts of every one everywhere he went. And so it was with us. His whole-souled appreciation of our songs and words of greeting, his cheerful, inspiring message to us as a body, but above all. his meeting and speaking to each one of us individually, from the seniors down to the little ones, was an honor not soon to be forgotten. After the Student Reception, he visited the sisters in their Community Room. Then he went to every part of the building, chatting pleasantly with all whom he met. The sisters served a five-o'clock dinner in his honor, and invited the Minneapolis Pastors and their Assistants. And so February fifth, the day of our new Archbishop's first visit, marks a memorable date in the annals of the Academy. C 13 3

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TJlI 1932 ANCELUS The Chapel was dedicated, and the building blessed on September twenty-ninth. the feast of St. Michael, the archangel. The Right Reverend Monsignor Byrne, then Administrator of the Archdiocese, presided at the ceremonies, and celebrated the first solemn high Mass said in the Chapel. He was assisted by Reverend Peter Schmitz. Reverend Francis J. Schenk. Assistant Chancellor, and Reverend Leo Gleason, the Academy Chaplain. The exercises were attended by a large number of visiting sisters, who remained for dinner, and were guided through the house. The Academy of Holy Angels is one of the most attractive buildings in the city. English Gothic in style, it is a scries of six buildings, unified by corridors. set in the center of a twenty-acre plot of rolling campus. The light, airy classrooms in each of which a loud-speaker is installed, represent the latest research in school equipment. Oil heating, univent and fan system of ventilating, keep the rooms fresh and comfortable. The water is supplied by an artesian well located on the grounds. Rubber tile flooring eliminates the sound of passing crowds. So stands our Academy Beautiful in solemn dignity, out where God’s country begins. On May second we received the announcement that the University ot Minnesota had placed our Academy on the accredited list. C 12]

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.THE 11932 ANCELUS FATHER Reardon gave the first lecture at our New School. He welcomed us to the Holy Angels Academy in warmest terms, and congratulated us as the pioneer students. He briefly outlined the history and labors of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the Northwest. Thus he inspired us to appreciate our teachers, and to co-operate with them for the success of the New Holy Angels. Father Cullen came on the second Thursday. His theme was “The Little Flower, the most beloved woman in the whole world. His message to us was to become worth-while women, of whom Holy Church, and Holy Angels may be proud. As usual, he sent us rejoicing on our way amid applause and laughter. Father Lawrence Ryan gave us a splendid talk on Character Building. His pleasing delivery, his easy flow of words, made his lecture deeply interesting. At a later date Father spoke to us on Christian Art. in which he convinced us that the works of the old masters will live on forever, while impressionistic art has no future. Father Schmitz gave a series of most instructive talks on his experience as a missionary in Ceylon, where he spent some fifteen years of his young priesthood, as a college professor. Besides the account of the flora, fauna, climate, and peculiar customs, we learned that the Ceylonese students are industrious and intelligent. Father GillIC'.AN'S excellent lecture on Washington was the most interesting part of our Bicentennial celebration. Father Gilligan knows his Washington, and he succeeded in making him known to us. We saw him vividly as a boy. as a youth, as a man. A man strong, earnest, ambitious, in whose soul was a resistless will. We shall ever know and revere our great hero better for having heard Father Gilligan s lecture. [ H ]