Sacred Heart College - Gradatim Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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Sacred Heart might endure. Passing before her today are those revered Religious whose names are most closely associated with the earliest years in Belmont: Bishop Leo Haid. Father Felix. Mother M. Augustine. Mother M. Teresa. Sister M. Catherine, and Sister M. Agatha. Then follow other Community Superiors: Mother M. Cecilia, Mother M. Scholastica. Mother M. Bride. Mother M. Raphael, and the present Mother Superior. Reverend Mother M. Maura. Sacred Heart is mindful too of the self-sacrificing service of her several Directresses: Sister M. Agatha. Sister M. Cecilia. Sister M. Gen- evieve. Sister M. de Sales. Sister M. Angela. Sister M. Helen. Sister M. Stan- islaus. Sister M. Columba. and the present Directress. Sister M. Hildegarde. Gratefully she acknowledges her indebtedness for spiritual guidance to the zealous Benedictine Fathers who served as Chaplains: Father Felix. Father Alphonsus. Father Charles, and the present Chaplain. Father Sebastian. And today, in this the Golden Jubilee Year of its foundation, from out the peace of her halls. Alma Mater. Sacred Heart, sheds her benedictions on all her cherished ones: on loyal graduates, past and present: on revered Chaplains: on devoted Sisters and Superiors, on all those who have had the privilege of sharing with her at one time or another the joys, the triumphs, the manifold blessings of her fifty years. And humbly mindful of the sources of all these blessings, she turns to the Divine Giver and with deeply grateful heart intones that jubilant hymn of praise — Te Deum Laudamus.

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the cultural rather than on the commercial and scientific phases of education. Yet the curriculum as formulated for the Academy in those early days carried the student further than does the four-year high school of today. Besides Music and Art, Literature and Dramatics in which students strove to excel, excellent advanced courses in Latin, Philosophy, and Evidences of Christianity were given. In due time the Academy became fully accredited by the North Carolina State Department of Education. Later it was admitted as a member school of the Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. Then in August, 1935, came the announcement that the Sisters at Sacred Heart were prepared to extend their field of education. They were ready to supply needed academic, physical, and moral training of young high school graduates in two-year standard college courses. The Sisters proposed to give their stu- dents either of two courses: the classical course leading to the bachelor ' s degree, or a cultural secretarial course in preparation for a business career. Thus with the passing of the years, Sacred Heart has been richly endowed with temporal blessings that have brought forth in abundance spirit- ual fruit in the lives of those intrusted to her care. And looking back over a stretch of fifty years. Alma Mater is deeply grateful for the blessings that have been hers. Lovingly she fingers her rosary of golden memories as she muses, and from out the past she recalls cherished names of those who through all the years have given generously of their time and talents that i ' • ■ : ' ' U ■ ; n

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A GLANCE Top Picture: FIRST STUDENT AT SACRED HEART