St Margarets Academy - Dayseye Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION AND FACULTY STUDENT BODY CLASSES Classes began with an enrollment of fourteen pupils on November 10, 1851 in the first school of the Sisters of St. Joseph in St. Paul. The school building was the former Cathedral, a simple log structure forty-five by eighteen feet. ACTIVITIES CONTENTS

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DEDICATION One hundred years ago, on October 23, 1851, four Sisters of St. Joseph, Sister St. John Fournier, Sister Philomene Vil-aine, Sister Scholastica Vasques, and Sister Francis Joseph Ivory, left the shelter of their convent at Carondelet, Missouri, and boarded a steamboat headed for the unknown wilds of what is now the State of Minnesota. Like their Patron, Saint Joseph, as he traveled far into the vast stretches of Egypt with Mary and her Infant Son, they too were setting out on a journey that would take them into the midst of strangers, many of them pagans; for the St. Paul of those days had been described to them as a wild frontier town where Indians in gay blankets stalked the streets and scalping was still known. The history of the hundred years that followed tells the story of an increase in numbers from the original four to the one-thousand ninety-two Sisters of today. Their many schools, hospitals, and orphanages throughout the Northwest are proofs of the success of their efforts as they share with St. Joseph the apostolate of instructing youth and aiding the weak and unprotected. To the Sisters of St. Joseph, we, the Seniors of 1951, gratefully dedicate our DAYESYE, with the prayerful hope that God will continue to bless their efforts as they enter upon the unknown stretches of a new century.

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VI MOTHER CARMENA, Principal Religion, English M.A., University of Minnesota SISTER ALISSA MARIE, Assistant Principal English M.A., Catholic University of America SISTER AGNELLA English B.A., College of St. Catherine SISTER ANGELINE Bookkeeper SISTER BASIL Religion, History M.A., University of Minnesota SISTER CATHERINE Religion, Mathematics M.A., University of Minnesota SISTER JOHN ANGELA Religion, Business B.A., College of St. Catherine SISTER JOSEPHINA Sciences, Mathematics B.A., College of St. Catherine SISTER JULIE Religion, English B.A., College of St. Catherine ADMINISTRATION i SISTER MARY JOHN Religion, Physics M.S., University of Chicago SISTER MARY RUTH Business, Dramatics B.A., College of St. Catherine SISTER MARY THERESE Library Science M.A., University of Minnesota SISTER ODILE Religion, History, Choral B.A., College of St. Catherine SISTER ST. CECELIA, Directress of Music Music, Glee Club B.A., College of St. Catherine SISTER ST. AGATHA Music, Choral Diploma, St. Agatha's Conservatory SISTER ST. KEVIN Cafeteria St. Joseph's Training School SISTER ST. TERESA Chemistry, Spanish M.A., University of Minnesota SISTER VINCENT de PAUL Latin M.A., University of Minnesota