Sacred Heart Academy - Reminiscor Yearbook (Fargo, ND)

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1-5 Remzmscmg ' At all times but especially at the time of an anniversary celebration our Yearbook Title REMINISCOR CI recall to mind! IS most appropriate This year we are reminding everybody that Just ten years ago REMINISCOR had its begin ning But looking back to earlier horizons we search into the beginnings of the school we love so well There we discover that in the days when Dakota was a Territory The Right Reverend Martin Marty OSB its first Bishop invited the Presentation Sisters of Georges H111 Convent Dublin Ireland to take charge of an Indian School near Yankton South Dakota Mother M St John was the first to volunteer Sisters from other Presentation Convents including her own sister Mother M Agnes soon Jolned her They reached Yankton 1n 1880 and spent two years there trying to cope with unfavorable circumstances In 1882 the Sisters accepted an invitation to come to Fargo and airived here July 22 1882 Father Stephan had secured a house for them close to the Church As soon as possible the Sisters built a Convent at the site of the present St John s Orphanage and dedicated it to Saint Joseph Here the Sisters continued to teach until 1897. In May of that year the Sisters purchased the Yerxa residence on North Broadway' this was the beginning of Sacred Heart Academy. Then St. Josephs Convent changed its title to St. John s Orphanage. In 1903 the Sisters introduced the four-year high school course. The en- rollment continued to increase and at intervals new buildings appeared. Foremost in the educational work of those days was Mother M. Baptista. With the introduction of high school work began such worries as credits and classification-the problems that cause us so much anxiety these days. 'How- ever we are proud of the standards the Academy maintains-Class A rating from the State Accrediting Board Membership in the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and affiliation with the Catholic University of America. To those who carry on, to REMINISCOR, and to our Alma Mater, we say: 'AAD MULTOS ANNOSV'

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edzmtzon To the Memory of Mother M Agnes Hughes and Mother M St John Hughes Co Foundresses of the Presentatlon S1sters 1n the Dakotas Mother M Baptxsta Bow en Outstandmg IH the educatlonal work of the S1sters The Sxsters and Students Who have made the hlstory of Sacred Heart Academy durmg the past f1fty years We gratefully dedlcate this number of REMINISCOR Although yestelday IS gone 1ts memo1y IS st1ll w1th us The dleams of tomorrow ale an chored not only 1n the w1s1on of those Slsters who founded Sacled Heart Academy but also m the v1s1on of Nano Nagle who founded the Presenta t1on Order to promote Gods Kmgdom m the hearts of youth The Faculty and Students of today have ac cepted th1S challenge and know that succeedlng groups Wlll l1k0W1SC contubute then best efforts to this noble cause -X