Immaculate Conception High School - Yearbook (Montclair, NJ)

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XVhen Mother Xavier founded the Sisters of Charity in Newark, she established under one roof a school, a hospital, and an orphanage. To this day, one hundred years later, these are the three principal activities of the Sisters. They number seven hospitals, in three states, among their institutions. During two crucial periods in United States his- tory the Sisters of Charity have been cited by the government for their service to the sick: during the Civil XVar some of the first Sisters cared for the wounded at an improvised hospital in Newark, and the 1918 flu epidemic found the Sisters leaving their classrooms and going into the homes of the sick and dying families in the vicinity. Our principal, Sister Ethna, tells stories of ministering to entire families in Salem, Massachusetts, where she was then stationed, she would bring all the members of the family down to the first floor of the house in order to care for them more expediently. St. Vincent's Hospital, here in Montclair, estab- lished in 1875, is perhaps the most familiar of the Sisters' hospitals to Immaculatans, although perhaps many of their sisters and friends have received their nurse's training in St. Ioseph's, in Paterson. St. Vin- cent's was originally a hospital for foundlings exclu- sively. In the picture on this page two Immaculate juniors, Peggy Ford and Patty Reilly are assisting Sister Clare Dolores, administrator of the hospital, in feeding some of the babies in the Halloran Pavilion. They, with ten other ICHS girls, as Red Cross Vol- unteers, work at the hospital on Tuesday afternoons and help the Sisters in many ways. They distribute trays, read to patients, change water pitchers, and make themselves generally useful. XVorking with the Sisters of Charity at St. Mary's Orphanage, Newark, other girls, as a phase of their Sodality work, do sewing and ironing for the orphans one day a week after school. Right here in our own school members of the Future Teachers of America frequently aid the Sisters in our elementary school by covering classes in case of illness or other emergency. It would delight Mother Mary Xavier to see our students participating in these works so dear to her heart. CT ITIE

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