Sacred Heart College - Gradatim Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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Rt. Rev. Vincent George Taylor. O.S.B.. D.D. Present Abbot -Ordinary 1925-

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Most Rev. Leo Haid. O.S.B.. D.D. Firsf Abbot -Ordinary 1888-1924

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Very Rev. Father Felix hintemever. o.s.b.. v.g. Ecclesiastical Superior 1892-102-4 HISTORY Jubilee Year of Sacred Heart Convent and Academy, we salute you! Glorious Golden Year that touches with radiant hue the foundation of our beloved Academy, we greet you! Joyfully, jubilantly, proudly we address our Alma Mater and eagerly request that she tell to us. the graduates of this, her Golden Jubilee Year, something of her glorious past, her joys and sorrows, her strivings and triumphs, through all those happy, fruitful years. Gathered closely around her, we listen attentively the while she gives us this story that has been fifty years in the making, this story whose principal characters are the revered past and the esteemed present teachers of our beloved Alma Mater. It is a story of self-sacrifice, of constant spending of the energies of life that others might tread the higher paths. It is a story of benevolence, sympathy, and zeal. It is a story punctuated by manifold hardships and even impending threats of failure. It is a story of the boundless charity of the Sisters of Mercy of Belmont, North Carolina. My dear Graduates of our Golden Jubilee Year, almost every beginning is replete with obstacles and discouragements, doubly so if the instruments are meager and the natural forces, material and personal, inadequate. Such, in truth, was the beginning of the Community of the Sisters of Mercy who