Cedar Grove Academy - Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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In 1862. Mother Margaret. shortly after the celebration of her Golden Jubilee fcharm- ingly described by Sister Mary Agnes in 'lMother Seton's Daughtersub. had returned to the Grove. an invalid. She was' not idle. however: her brilliant. cultivated mind was undimmed and Sister Antoinette tells with what youthful enthusiasm she taught the novices French. What is now the breakfast room was assigned to her use and many and varied were the visitors who wore its threshold. Thither would the Sisters come. as evening fell. to receive on their lcnees. the blessing of their venerated Mother. She lingered until November 11. 1868. Her death tool: place on Thursday evening. On Saturday morning. priests and students from the Seminary assembled in the Cedar Grove chapel to chant the Office for the Dead. Dr. Richter offered the Requiem Mass. and the Reverend Richard Gilmour. a friend of many years. delivered the sermon. The mourning nuns themselves. carried the body on a bier to the graveyard. Following the Sisters were the girls in black dresses and white veils. when the Sisters came to Cedar Grove. the community numbered about fifty. It had now grown to almost two hundred. and the novitiate was yearly increasing. Moreover. the number of pupils seelcing admission into the Academy could not be accommodated. The need of more commodious quarters was imperative. There was tall: of building at the Grove. but meanwhile the city was expanding and the fifty-six acres surrounding the Academy was coveted. Regretfully the Sisters parted with some of their cherished property and bought a tract of land in Delhi. There the new Mother House. Mount St. Joseph. was begun and thither the novitiate was removed September 29. 1869. . The proximity of Cedar Grove to Mount St. Mary Seminary had enabled the Sisters to study under the direction of its Professors. particularly Bishop Richter and Bishop Byrne. and when the novitiate was removed to Mount St. Joseph. the latter. defying inconvenience and real hardship. continued his lectures at this place. During the next three decades. the increasing population of the hill had created a demand for a day school which could not be ignored. and in 1906. the resident pupils were transferred to the newly-opened Academy of Mount St. Joseph-on-the-Ohio. and Cedar Grove became a day Academy exclusively. It is also the Community House for the Sisters teaching in the neighboring Parochial Schools. 1n the heart of Price Hill. A. still stands. the pride of her children. a possession dear to the Daughters of Mother Seton. Twenty-three Graduates will leave its historic roof this June and in the heart of every one is a twinge of regret and a yearning to return. In all sincerity the Class of '24 can say to its Alma Mater: Nsemper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt. - .. quae me cumque vocant terrae .................... ROSEMARY OLBERDING. '24. CATHERINE FOKEN. '24, Page Thirly-Iwo

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on Seton Avenue. Before this Professors from Mount St. Mary Seminary had attended to the spiritual needs of Cedar Grove. The Community now owned the spacious grounds from Glenway to St. Lawrence Avenue and from Gilsey to the Plymouth Church. where stood originally the gates of Cedar Grove. Among its household now are two venerated memhers who entered the novitiate here in the early '60's and have enalaled the present writers to visualize the Cedar Grove of those far-off days. A That section of Price Hill now Beech and St. Lawrence. was then a picturesque pond. girdled hy masses of wild roses. This the Sisters widened into St. Mary's Lake. enclosing Regina lslandu. and placed near hy shrines in Willow Glen and The Muses' Retreatu. Between Seton Cottage and this enchanting spot was the deer park. the gentle occupants of which were petted alike hy Sisters and girls. The eighty odd hoarding pupils spent many a pleasant evening strolling to Nst. Josephls Well.. whose crystal water huhhled up beneath the somber. towering cedars where Iliff and Glenway now meet. Still more attractive was the broad lane. now Academy Avenue. that led beneath the outspread branches of thick growing ever-greens. to the tiny. beautiful graveyard. at the corner of Academy and St. Lawrence. In October of 1858. Bishop Bayley. of Newark. NJ.. sent five young women to Cedar Grove to he trained in the religious life lay Mother Margaret. Their novitiate over. they returned to New Jersey. the nucleus of the Mother Seton Sisters of Charity in that state. After the election in July. 1859. Mother Margaret having been transferred to the charge of the Orphanage at Cumminsville. Sister Regina Mattingly was appointed directress at Cedar Grove Academy. On the first day of June. 1861. Cedar Grove sent forth the first hand of her angels of the lzaattle-fieldu. They were Sisters Anthony. Sophia. Bernadine. Alphonsa. Lawrence and Magdalen. As the pitiahle need increased others followed. until over twenty had left their posts in school. orphanage and hospital for na military career . as one of their numher facetiously expressed it. Owing to the reduction in its faculty no closing exercises were held at the Grove. The year the war closed. came another call to Cedar Grove for help on a mission at that time no less difficult and hazardous. Bishop Lamy. of Santa Fe. asked for Sisters to open a hospital. asylum and school in his episcopal city. In compliance with this request. four Sisters left Cedar Grove in August. 1865. and reached their destination without serious mishap. Not without hardship. however. as from Omaha on. a distance of a thousand miles and more. the journey was made hy stage. But the two Sisters who followed in 1867 encountered hoth Indians and cholera on the way. News of their capture lay the Red Man reached the Grove and loving hearts were wrung with anguish at the thought of their Sisters' fate. The sun shone again when word was received that the travelers had reached Santa Fe. wayworn hut otherwise unharmed. on August 15th. They had left Cedar Grove on May 10th. some years later. tithe Western Sistersn sent a unique gift to the Grove. lt was heralded as na Rocky Mountain canary . and great was the disgust of the Grove's handy man. Mr. Moore. on finding it to he na common. ordinary donkey... Page Thirty-one

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EEEWEMEW Jfaretnell tu Qlehar Grohe QQQMQQQQ Cedar Grove. I've loved you dearly. Loved your every stately tree Stretching out in tender fashion Arms that ever welcomed me. Iqve loved your scarlet holly, Bedeclted in winter's lace: Each tiny violet in the spring That lifts to me her smiling face. Your roses lush in June time Incense the fragrant air. They will fade. but I shall lceep Their memory fresh and fair! Your pelnlbled. winding. paths rve loved. Theyive eler been stepping stones for And on them I have traced the way That leads to opportunity. Cedar Grove. you've been a beacon To guide me on the sea of life: Your unfailing light has shown me The hidden roclcs of woe and strife. As I leave your friendly portals. Hear your ceclars softly sigh. Then I know your lips are trying In their way to say Good-bye . Your tender farewell message You have said in your own way. To a graduate who leaves you- Ah. mel I fain would stay! IHC. Q CATHERINE FALLON. '24, Page Thirty-three