St Bernards High School - Bernardian Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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SBHS was the high school of our choice fot many and varied reasons. It was not because it was the newest and most modern of all the high schools in the area, for the cornerstone was laid before any of us were born, back in 1926. The main building is a sturdy structure of thirteen rooms with audito- rium and gym, built to take care of the needs of St. Bernard’s parish only. Pa wore Od fee rataee ‘oly aes te a

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k 4 ‘ i] 5 i t MOST REVEREND BERNARD J. FLANAGAN, D.D. Installed as Dishop of the Diocese of Worcester, Septem ber 24, 1959.

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When it was converted into a central or regional high school, the school was not enlarged; instead, portables were built from year to year, until now there are eight, accommodating about 350 pupils. In 1953 a large garage on the campus was converted into a Home Economics Laboratory so that over one hundred girls take advantage of the homemaking course offered, each year. During the past few years, the school has assumed a new look interiorly with many major renovations, especially that of the new lavatories; the complete redecorating of the auditorium with new seats and window drapes; and the painting of the corridors. Facing Summer Street are the two convents of our sister-faculty, the Sisters of the Presentation, ac- commodating the twenty-two sisters connected with SBHS. The first Presentation sisters came to Fitch- burg in 1886 from New York City. Today they form the teaching faculty not only of our high school but also of four grammar schools in this city and of Regina Coeli College on the motherhouse grounds on South Street. st leimelenisile LLittitilites gaze ve