Cedar Grove Academy - Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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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

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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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fx tiff' U-rffqw I J l dd J ' 4J'+UV E 1 R, X it-4',4..e'f2 W v Q1 AN 'fflvifvfa The Art Department. one of the oldest at Cedar Grove. was opened in 1875. when the Academy was exclusively a hoarding school. The studio. located first at Seton Cottage... now occupies the second floor of the nAlderson mansion... the original ncedarsu. Here are displayed studies from life in oil- painting and worlc in china and Water-colors. eloquent of the gifts of the artist in charge. a pupil of the late portrait painter. Mr. Duveneclc. of the Cincinnati Art Academy. The object of the Art Department is to develop love for the heautiful. to train the eye in its discernment. and to teach the obedient figures to reproduce it in form and color. The hours in the studio pass only too quickly for those possessed of artistic talent. The progress of the earnest pupil cannot he lout rapid. A and while she may not hope to wield the magic brush of a Raphael or a Michael Angelo. she will at least refine her own hafufe. PATRICIA SHARKEY. '24. gc 'lyhirtvrluur