Our Lady of Wisdom Academy - Olwa Yearbook (Ozone Park, NY)

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mfr I i l .Xl KV: ir. 1 Wing: l l I e i l D I GATT ON Few of us know to whom we are indebted for our beloved Halls of Wisdom. Let us introduce her to you. She is Mother Marie of the Immaculate Concep- tion. In this, the year of her golden jubilee, we, the gr duating class of 1955, wish to dedicate our year- b k to her as a tribute of gratitude. Go has Mered His blessings on Mother r M ie's ork years ago Wisdom consisted of p esent convent building. There were b first graduating class. The only in the biology laboratory were and a chart. The was but a In spite of this Mother e orts ere f it is ot the it s the t acher, and With the growing expansion, until ed registration n Yes, Mother Marie may able pride over her years as a Daughter of Wisdom. Not only was she the Foundress and first teacher of our school, but its principal for twenty-five years, before her nomination as Superior. Perhaps there is no more unequivocal sign of God's blessing upon a Catholic school than an ef- florescence of religious vocations among its grad- uates. God has not withheld this sign of His bene- diction from the school Mother Marie founded. The number of vocations among Wisdom's graduates warranted the erection in 1949 of an American pro- vince of the Daughters of Wisdom, of which Mother Marie was fittingly named the first Provincial. It is in this capacity that, with motherly interest, she con- tinues to watch over her dear Halls of Wisdom. Ad multos annosl 2

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The Q A o 1, w Y' I Z Cur Lady of Wisdom Academy Ozone Park, New York

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