Sacred Heart College - Gradatim Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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Sister M. Agatha Ryan Sister M. Claire Lockfaw Sister M. Catherine Price Sister M. Cecilia Cobb Students of 1892 On September 1 , 1892, Sr. M. Catherine, Superior, and four other Sisters arrived to open the school. The first day of enrollment registered 1 2 boarders and nine day students. Mercedes was erected six years later. The school began primarily as a southern finishing school. The course emphasis was on music, art, literature, and dramatics. SACRED HEART CAMPUS— 1898

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The Sisters arrived on June 27, 1893. We got about noon to our convent of the Sacred Heart, seen by some of us for the first time. I was surprised to see so much accomplished in one year. Already a large handsome building. It has over 90 acres of good land, much of which is under cultivation. This convent and academy promise to be- come a lovely and attractive spot, the source and center of much good. Sister Mary Charles Curtin it 1892 .. . SACRED HEART ACADEMY J5

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Sacred Heart students gathered on the front steps of the Academy with Rev. Felix Hintemeyer O.S.B., who was Chaplain from the beginning of Sacred Heart until his death in 1924. Tennis in a starched blouse and petticoat, it ' s a good thing they played in the shade. Mrs. Alice McKnight Ford attended Sacred Heart in it ' s first year, and her Granddaughter was a member of the last Academy graduating class. 5