Institute of Notre Dame - Clarissian Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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v '1'l,. 1 , M -ff S'I f5',:?-Xfgiif ' .'.' on 1. 4 ' Q . ',' 24,425 .yn .fgmefica Ahfn Ott ilwfffecl Q . , V 1 I 'V Institute of Notre Dame 1 Baltimore, Maryland fuly 31, 1947 ' Dear Mother Teresa, Do you remember one hundred years a today? You 'were on board the Washin g ton as it entered the New 'Yorh Harbor. It was bri ' ngzng you and yive of your Sisters to, America. You were enthusiastically looking forward to openingfschools' for the pioneer families in the New Worldz 1' ' It is now the year 1947 and all over America your Sisters are celebrating Centen- ary Yea A r. s you look down over the vast expanse of the nation, you can see convents and schools dotting the great m l ap of the United States. You will find in the Notre Da h ' me sc ools the children of the Tropics boys and girls in lflie great crowded cities, children of rural sections, Indianlchildren, negro children, 150,000 children N from kindergarten tots to college students s ' d Acattere A from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Gulf ' of Mexico across the Canadian border. ' ' 4 w ff' ' H

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During the Napoleonic era, the convonls of the Congregation of Notre Dame were suppressed. Wlirvii conditions in Europe lie- uanic favorable, Mother Teresa, who had lvccn il pupil of the Notre llama Congregation. rc- cslalvlislied the community in lla- vuria. l'ndcr the lille, School Sisters of Notre Dame. the order spread rapidly and only fourteen years after its rcluirlli in 1833, the Sisters were asked to opcn schools in America. MOTHER MARY CAROLINE First Conzniissflry-Ceneral of the Sisters of Notre Danze in A Ill eriva MOTHER MARY TERESA OF JESUS Foundrcss of the School Sisters of Notre Dame After Mother Teresa returned to Europe, the American community was placed un- der the care of Mother Caroline. During her period of ofiice, the Main Motherhouse of the Sisters of Notre Dame was moved to Milwaukee. wr Kdifcfren jaw!!

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E Y' 5 s dt cmfigina l Found - ation in A mt'fil'a of ' . lsters of Nl Hr- .. r Dame, Pxrst Nlollwflml B '59, altinm 'X V l 1 ht by your Among all of the schools taug Sisters, we students of the Institute of Notre Dame feel that we have the first right to celebrate the Centenary. It was here at the Baltimore Motherhouse that you made the first permanent foundation in America. Here on the site of the tiny convent which you established, the Eastern Motherhouse has grown. We feel proud that we attend one of the oldest educational institutions founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame in America. In our Centenary Yearbook, the H1947 CLAR- 1SsxAN,H we want to show you, dear Mother, just what our school is like one hundred years after you were here. We want to show you how the school has grown and how the faculty has increased. We want you to see how the buildings were enlarged, from time to time, as more and more students applied r Notre Dame Institute. fo r entrance to ou ,tx W, 1847 A L