St Marys High School - Blue Mantle Yearbook (Milford, MA)

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St. Mary’s in 1904 TIME MARCHES ON AS WE . . . and in 1954 FACULTY 1904 1954 Sr. M. Irene, Supr. Sr. M. Nativity, Supr. Sr. Chas. Borromeo Sr. M. Dorothea Sr. M. Visitation Sr. St. Coletta Sr. St. Teresa Sr. M. Maurice Sr. M. Martina Sr. Rose Concepta Sr. M. Pauline Sr. Cecelia Joseph Sr. M. Philip Sr. William James Sr. Rose Benigna Sr. Mary James Sr. M. Imelda Sr. John Gertrude Sr. Imelda Joseph Sr. Rose Agatha Sr. Lawrence Joseph Sr. John Elizabeth Sr. Daniel Maria Sr. Rose Helen Sr. Joseph Anne Sr. Miriam Patrice Sr. Edward Maria Sr. Francis Anna Sr. Catherine Jerome Sr. Rose Peter Sr. Maria Assumpta

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. . . OF OUR SISTERS Bishop Wright presides at the reception for the Sisters and people after the Jubilee Mass . . . Father Durkin, Father Faron, and Father Pitroff contribute to the cordiality of the ban¬ quet . . . Bishop Wright accompanied by a body-guard of Fourth Degree Knights leaves the Church after the Jubilee Mass . . . The head table reading from left to right: Father Faron, Sister Rose Benigna, Sister Charles Borromeo, Reverend Mother Mary Borgia, Father Pitroff, Sister M. Nativity, Superior, Sister M. Imelda, Sister St. Berchmans and Father Foley . . . The Sisters, including native Milfordians, leave the Convent for the Jubilee Mass.

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. . . MAKE PROGRESS THROUGH THE YEARS AT SAINT MARY’S On the morning of August 30, 1880, the doors of St. Mary’s opened for the first time to admit twenty- four girl students who w ' ere to begin a new era of learning in Milford. Classes were first held in a remodeled stable on the Erskin Cook Estate until 1892 when the present gran¬ ite Grammar School was built and 1924 when the present High School was built. The first faculty, the Sisters of Notre Dame, con¬ sisted of nine nuns with Sister Philomena as Superior. In addition to the regular curriculum, the girls were taught many domestic duties such as sewing, knitting, crocheting, and embroidering. From 1886 to 1904 when the last class was gradu¬ ated under the Sisters of Notre Dame, fifty-five young women received diplomas. It was then that the Sisters of St. Joseph were brought here on August 18, 1904, to open the doors to co-education. The first Superior was the late Sister Irene, who saw an enrollment of more than three hundred boys and girls. Besides many additions to the faculty, school curri¬ culum and social activities, two new rooms are being added at present to the school itself. Today the school has grown to an enrollment of eight hundred and six in the combined schools, and this past summer the school became St. Mary’s Central Catholic High School serving fourteen parishes in the Milford area.