Immaculata High School - Immaculata Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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r L ' W SISTERS STOPPED SHORT OF A GIRLS' HIGH : I 1 SCHOOL ON LAKE SHORE DRIVE OR A SKY- ' 'I In SCRAPER COLLEGE, FROM T H E I R F I R S T SCHOOLS IN HOLY FAMILY PARISH, ST. ALOY- II SL 4 SIUS ON MAXWELL STREET! AND SAINT wig, IIIIIIIIIWIIIIIIIIIYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII E . . ' I T ' . . . Q lln f A ' no in i I, II IFII- I' I ST. MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL ON HOYNE AVENUE NEAR TAYLOR WAS OPENED IN 1899, MORE THAN TWENTY GRADE SCHOOLS TAUGHT BY THE SISTERS OF CHARITY, B,V.M., TESTIFIED TO THE RAPID GROWTH OF THE COMMUNITY IN CHICAGO. IT WAS NOT UNTIL SEPTEMBER, '2I, THAT THE IMMACULATA BECAME A REALITY. NINE SISTERS OF CHARITY THROUGH A KIND OF SPIRITUAL TELE- VISIONING LOOKED DOWN THE DECADES, SAW YOUR NEEDS, AND WORKED, PLANNED, AND PRAYED TOWARD THIS FULFILLMENT,

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gumgunl S4 A WF 1 v ff 'I ff af ' if wav W AGO WHEN THE FIRST SISTERS OF CHARITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY CAME TO CHICAGO TELE- VISION WAS YET UNDREAMED EVEN THE BRAVEST HOPES OF THE STANISLAUS ON WEST EIGHTEENTH STREET LATER KNOWN AS SACRED HEART SCHOOL THERE WERE NO MAGIC CASEMENTS OPEN ,f ING WIDE UPON FUTURE ASPIRATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS YOU KNOW THE REST THE HUNDREDS OF YOU WHO HAVE COME FROM WEST SIDE NORTH AND SOUTH WHO ARE HERE TODAY AT THE IMMACULATA BECAUSE SEVENTY FIVE YEARS AGO i f III II III III III Ill un III 1 I x 1 I' 1 f C f 4 'f I cf- , . f 7 X I X xx r ' ,N I 5 -Q 1 I ff NT 'x - ll ,, -- M Ill! I EB' S Ill I I, 5 II m I2 A ' A -- 7' - N- I x I

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Remember the day Vve werent unusually awkward treshues e trupped on the starrs and slapped IU the corrrdors were lust and reclaumed the approved number ot times a lnttle dazed but undaunted we returned that second day of our freshman year descended lake an avalanche upon the bookstore bore away spouls an the shape of algebra Latun ancnent hestory text books brought zesttul appetn es to a wlener roast on the campus watched tall burn Itself away a glory ot red flame and gold and saw the serene beauty ot snow settle upon the campus and about the shoulders ot Our Lady above the door way suddenly It was Chrustmas with candles a lnght and carols a Illt scarcely had we recovered trom the breathless beauty ot nt when semester exams clanmed attentnon Retreat a flutter of days and the calendar sand sprung Easter bonnets and tnxuns the whale the sky grew bluer and May altars blossomed unto tanrylnke beauty vacatucn the months began to whurl by sophomore lunuor sensor year all suddenly tncrednbly heart breaknnglv Page S X at an end All the glory of havung arrnved the thrull of the prom of graduatuon nnght knows a wnsttulness that the days and nughts mnght have hurrned by wuth less unstancy that even yet at thus eleventh and a half hour somehow the March of Tame mught be unter cepted the calendar reversed the Clock set back Sllllllllllll