College of New Rochelle - Annales Yearbook (New Rochelle, NY)

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' 03 ANNALH3 a In ' g ' niUililii of tin- (EbilJimi of iflunt Louise Schleich, ’18 President Esma Bsharah, ’19 . Vice-President Emily Hannon, ’19 Treasurer Agnes Murphy, ’20 ........ Secretary § rmur ffimntfirUarfi Jane Mahoney, ’18 Helen McCann, ’18 Gertrude A. Fleming, ’18 3 lmt tor (EmutflHlara Pauline Keyes, ’19 Julia Murphy, ’19 Isabel Kelly, ’19 g 0pljum0rr (EomtarUora Elizabeth Hurst, ’20 Alice Burnes, ’20 The Sodality of the Children of Mary was organized and affiliated with the Sodality at Rome in 1905. The late Rev. Thomas P. McLoughlin was its first mod- erator. Miss Anna McLaughlin, now Sister Cephas, held the Presidency. Two days of each scholastic year are set apart as Sodality Days. The first is December 8th, on which day, after a Solemn High Mass in the college chapel, the new r aspirants are received into the Sodality. In the evening the Sodality Ball is held in Maura Hall. The second day comes early in Commencement Week and on that day comes the reward, in the form of a gold cross, to those Seniors who have faithfully attended Mass on the required number of w r eek days during four years and who have lived up to the rest of the Sodality rules. This custom originated in 1908 wdien Miss Dorothy Brosmith, ’ll (now r Mrs. William McEvoy), was President. The Sodality is the most flourishing organization in college and is the means of inculcating in the students those virtuous daily habits wdiich in after life mark our graduates as true Catholic w r omen and as w T orthy representatives of N. R. C. 1 7