Sacred Heart College - Gradatim Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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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

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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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Sacred Heart . . . 1947 .... Surrounded by farmland and dusty roads. Sacred was still there, awaiting the building of the Mother House, McAuley, Doyle and McCarthy Library. ' ' ' ' ' .«ie, ? . -» ' . 1 i H J9 « c5l| K H i w Jm H H That good old horseless carriage.