Notre Dame Cathedral Latin School - Yearbook (Chardon, OH)

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ffffd . j - l - - ----I - - - F 4 A A A ii .- l 7. g nu 1 N 39 ' ' RR ing, marvelous growth and extraordinary achievement. After thirty years of labor a climax in the material development of the institution was reached and l9l5 witnessed the entrance of the academy to its present location, the beautiful structure on Ansel Road overlooking Rockefeller Boulevard. The success attendant upon this venture was spontaneous and unanticipated. VVithin a single decade the graduating class of the high school had increased from five students to eighty. Today, the high school of Notre Dame, accredited by the Ohio State Department of Education, as a first grade institution, has an enroll- ment of five hundred thirteen students, of which two hundred are Freshmen. Three courses are offeredg the academic, a college pre- paratoryg the technical, which prepares students for vocational work, and the commercial, a business preparatory department. Besides these, the students are afforded excellent opportunities for advance- ment in cultural subjects at the adjoining schools of music and art. The ever-increasing spirit of loyalty, of friendship and patient ser- vice, the systematic and steady advancement and perfection of coursesg and the continual growth in enrollment augur well for the future of Notre Dame Academy. 1 1 1 Page Fifteen I 1 4 ,. LY, S ik . 'ii fs o 4 ' , D 24' hifi: lllgg 3,5 --4 'Z f ik., 4 3 .. r' ii' 'N

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T U . - f ' ' . . , ... u ll gilg gi- ui f ' 9 .ills - 1 i 1 inn l Q4 ifigi 8 . ' THE GROWTH OF NUTRE DAME .-sg 4 . 'ii Q i v HEN the din of Civil VVar had been ultimately silenced LR- and the period of reconstruction emphatically begun, 'eq Q young America turned with the entire wealth of her ardent spirit to the education of her citizens. Institu- tions both public and private sprang up in all states. -A Catholicism and Protestantism vied with each other in establishing gi: schools, academies and colleges. In those days of activity and .. ' progress the various religious 'orders answered the summons to edu- s cation as they had, at an earlier date, heeded the call to the battlefield. if, 4 It was just about this time, too, that the Congregation of Notre ' Dame began its secondary training in the United States. A sultry T summer's day of 1874 marked the arrival of the Sisters in New York. Through the din of a Fourth of July celebration they made their way from New York to Cleveland whither Bishop Gilmour had called them. I'n the early days of settlement many difficulties confronted the sisters, but, never daunted, they met and conquered each obstacle as it came. God was ever with them and blessed the services so gener- ously offered up for His glory. Within four years of their arrival two hundred sisters had been transferred to missions in Ohio and - Kentucky. In 1878 a convent .and academy was erected on Superior Avenue. Many an able business man and woman of Cleveland today T see in retrospect the work of those days by the Sisters of Notre Dame and proudly assert their connections with the institution. The subsequent task of forming a body for that spirit born of a - missionary's desire to ennoble the youth of America is the history 8 of the following years. The next two decades were clouded years u of hardship, it is true, but at the same time a story of spiritual bless- Page Fourteen

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