Johnstown Central Catholic High School - Memories Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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SISTER MARY FRANCIS Latin SISTER M. GREGORY Science One hundred and two Sisters, including these on the staff at present, have taught in Catholic High School since its opening. The little group of four pioneers has now expanded to twenty, in keeping with the increase in enrollment from 127 in 1922, to 700 in 1947. On our staff we have a semblance of what might be called representative gov- ernment. There is an Advisory Board, made up of four Sisters, one from each Com- munity. This Board meets once a month to consider the state of the union and to devise ways and means of perfecting the organization. After the meetings they sub- mit written suggestions to the Office. The members of the Board at present are: Sister Mary Francis, Sister Mary Gregory, ranking staff member, who is now com- pleting her 22nd year on this mission,- Sister Mary de Lourdes, and Sister Mary Vincentia. SISTER M. JUDE THADDEUS Spanish SISTER M. PATRICE English and Earth Science

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SISTER M. DEMETRIUS Social Studies SISTER M. DEO CORA English and Math youngest in years, as well as, in religious life. She was the last to leave our staff and the first to enter Paradise. In June, 1942, she completed 20 years teaching in Catholic High and 25 years in religion. Late in the summer she was reappointed to Johnstown, and was resting at the Mother House, preparatory to returning, when, on the night of August 18, the Angel of Death came and ushered her into eternal life, after a warning of only thirty minutes. Five other Sisters, who spent varying numbers of years on our staff, have been called to their eternal reward: Sister Mary Fabian, Sisters of Charity, September 5, 1931; Sister Mary Crescentia, Sisters of St. Francis (Joliet), February 25, 1934,- Sister Mary Paul Francis, Sisters of St. Joseph, August 4, 1944; Sister Mary Callista, Sisters of St. Joseph, June 18, 1946; Sister Mary Antoinette, Sisters of St. Francis (Millvale), May 2, 1947. SISTER M. ESTHER Mathematics SISTER M. EUGENIA Social Studies

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Working for so many years on the same staff with women religious has been a unique privilege for me. For one thing, but this is only incidental, the experience has given me an extensive knowledge of feminine psychology. The Sisters have impressed me deeply by their excellent cooperative spirit and their unselfish devotion to duty. They have greatly edifed me by their refinement and culture. They have blessed me by their genuine piety and solid virtue. And they have inspired me by their singleness of purpose in struggling day after day to advance along the road to perfection, so as to be less and less unworthy of the infinite love of their Divine Spouse. Their professional knowledge and skills and efficiency have al- ways been on a high plane. Stu- dents in their care have been ex- ceptionally well prepared for the temporalities of life, but by far the most important lessons they learned have come from the rare beauty of soul of these religious women and the quiet example of their consecrated lives. Indeed, they have been most representa- tive members of that large group of whom it has so fittingly been said: As this magnificent army moves forward, fighting battles of the soul, they do not march to martial music; no blare of trumpet or beat of drum times their steps. They are not urged onward by SISTER M. PAULINA French SISTER M. ROSALIA Commercial SISTER M. THOMAS Commercial