Marywood Academy - Veritas Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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5 .e X In R I I .X :A Soon other missions were opened, some of the earliest being in Bay City and Adrian. As the number of Sisters engaged in missionary work in Michigan increased it became more convenient and desirable that they should be organized as a separate province. Accordingly in 1885, the Saint Joseph Province of Dominican Sisters in Michigan was officially established with its Priory at Traverse City. Nine years later the Sisters of Saint Dominic of the Diocese of Grand Rapids were canonically organized as a separate community, known as the Congregation of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. For many years Saint John's Home was the Motherhouse of the community. The Sisters realized, however, that their increasing numbers would soon require a larger separate building. In 1917 they purchased the present Marywood site on the outskirts of the city, where by 1922 they had completed the fine, large, modern structure which is the Motherhouse of the community, and also their College and Academy for girls. The signal growth of the community may be estimated from the fact that whereas fifty years ago they had but five Sisters and an initial enrollment of ten students, the Congregation of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart has now almost five hundred members who are teaching about ten thousand children in the sixty-two schools which the Sisters conduct in Michigaii, Wisconsin, and New Mexico. May the past be prophetic of a future even more abundantly blessed by Divine Providence! LTHE STAFF. 'N M other to each, A lways sincere, R eady to teach Y ear after yearg When we are gone O ff far away, O ften we'll think of thee, D ear S. H. A. -TH ERESA MILLER, '28. 1 V , l .

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Vl'ZRI'1'ASumm FACULTY THE RIGHT REVEREND ANTHONY VOELKERT, D. D. Professor of Philosophy . -ll' il' -BIS THE REVEREND JOSEPH J. VoGL Instructor in Religion ik- il? -lk' THE SISTERS OF ST. DoM1Nxc A Instructors in Religion, Languages, Literature, History, Science, Commerce, Mathematics, Art, Music, Home Economics, Expression if if if Mas. B. W. COURTRIGHT Instructor in Play Production il' JK' ik' MR. ALBIN PREUSSE Head of Violin Department and Director of the String Ensemble . iii- JK- -ill- MR. ARTHUR V. W. ELTINGE Master of Piano Department 'll' -K' 'lk' Miss DAPHNE HAYES Instructor in Aesthetic and Ball Room Dancing . -Ill' -li -lk' Miss ELOISE BARRETT Primary Instructor J 7