Saint Mary's College - Stage Coach Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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The Rectory The Main Building The Rector The Chapel Senior Hall

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Alma Mater Tune — Believe me if all those endearing young charms. ' St. Mary ' H! wherever thy daughters may be, They love thy high praises to sing, And tell of thy beauties of campus and tree Around which sweet memories cling; They may wander afar, out of reach of thy name, Afar, out of sight of thy grove, But the thought of St. Mary ' s aye kindles a flame Of sweet recollections and love. Beloved St. Mary ' s! how great is our debt! Thou hast cared for thy daughters full well; They can never thy happy instructions forget, Nor fail of thy virtues to tell. The love that they feel is a heritage pure; An experience wholesome and sweet. Through fast rolling years it will grow and endure; Be a lamp and a guide to their feet. May the future unite all the good of thy past With the best that new knowledge can bring. Ever onward and upward thy course! To the last Be thou steadfast in every good thing. Generations to come may thy fair daughters still Fondly think on thy halls and thy grove And carry thy teachings — o ' er woodland and hill — Of earnestness, wisdom, and love. H. E. H., 1905.

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Bishop Cheshire and St. Mary ' s This volume of the Annual Muse marks the passing of the seventieth year of St. Mary ' s, and the fourteenth of the School as the property of the Church. From the ac- quisition of St. Mary ' s by the Church, in 1897, the Bishop of North Carolina has been the President of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Executive Committee, and St. Mary ' s has had no better friend. The depths of his faith in the School and his estimate of it were never more clearly shown than in his Annual Address to the Diocesan Conven- tion delivered in Durham, May 8th, 1912. Bishop Cheshire on that occasion said : This is by far the most important institution of the Church in our Diocese and in our State. Next after the University of the South at Sewanee it is the most important church institution in the South. It may not be generally known by our own people even, but it is one of the most important church institutions in our whole country. It is our largest church boarding school for girls in the United States, and on the whole I believe it is the best. It is important for what it has been, for what it has done, for the characters it has formed, for the noble and ennobling lives which have gone out from it to bless the Church and the community. It is important for what it is, and for what it is doing, in continuing that supply of cultivated, refined, devoted, godly young women who every year go out from it to enrich our home life, and sometimes to pass on the light to other lands. It is important in the mere material value of the property and appliances there accumulated for carrying on that highest and noblest of all work — the nurture and training of God ' s children in truth and holiness. If God should spare my life until the 15th day of October, 1913, just about eighteen months from this time, I shall have completed twenty years since my consecration as your Bishop. The greatest work done in this Diocese within my day has been the estab-. lishment of St. Mary ' s School as an institution of the Church. I should like to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of my consecration by seeing the debt on St. Mary ' s School fully paid, or provided for, and one hundred thousand dollars raised as the beginning of an endowment. With the help of the Diocese, and with the sympathetic cooperation of this Convention, I should like to devote myself and my endeavors for the next eighteen months primarily to this work. I believe it can be done. Will this Convention join me in an earnest endeavor to do it? Jos. Blount Cheshire.