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Overheard by screaming kids; Authoritative sounds. Teaching us all discipline For when we’re college bound. Explaining to us learning guides, Correcting all our tests. Remaining calm when answered wrong, Always giving it your best. Not giving up on anyone, Finding the good with the bad. Listening when we have a joke Or when there’s something sad. You help us make it in this world By giving us a cause. For all of this and much, much more, We give you our applause. D.D. 6
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r , S - nnw ersary 1984 marks OLA’s 40th birthday. In 1932, a small group of Felician Sisters acquired the 32-Vi acre Mifflin property on Enfield St., known as Longview estate. From its beginning the religious com¬ munity had always undertaken as part of its mission the education of children. So as soon as they were able the sisters established a girls’ academy. The Felicians opened their school on September 6, 1944 with 11 students and 7 faculty members. Since negotiations for the Graham Estate, located at 1370 Enfield St., were incomplete, classes were held in Our Lady of the Angels provincial house buildings across the street. On November 21, 1944, Fr. Maximilian Soltysek, chaplain of the sisters, and Fr. Paul Bartlewski, pastor of St. Adalbert’s parish in Thompsonville, blessed the new academy quarters, an heirloom built by the Rev. Nehemiah Prudden and renovated to serve as a school. The first year culminated with the graduation of three seniors. Financial resources were meager, but the school was richly “endowed’’ by the sisters, who contributed their teaching and administrative services. Bit by bit the school grew. Day students from Thompsonville, Ha- zardville, Somers, Suffield, Windsor Locks and sur¬ rounding areas continued to register. Enrollment in¬ creased and necessitated additional classrooms. In 1948 Felician Hall was readied and provided three rooms for the commercial department which began in 1949. An annex was built to Felician Hall in 1951. This addition included two large classrooms, the principal’s office and the first-aid room. When the provincial house was no longer adequate for the sisters, a new provincial house, a three story brick building, was errected on the north side of the old convent. This building was completed in 1957, and the former convent was renovated to serve as the acade¬ my’s new quarters. That year also marked the acade¬ my’s first accrediation by the New England Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. 1984 saw OLA receive its third accreditation by this association. Principal Sr. Constance Marie observes that “the quality of education at OLA, small classes, personal attention and the emphasis on Christian values attract students to the school. I believe that what makes for OLA’s unchanged heart is that which was at the root of its founding and is today that to which everyone of us here is committed: growth as a whole person in accor¬ dance with the Gospel message of love and peace. Without that as the root and core of OLA’S being, there could be no OLA.’’
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