St Stephens Academy - Academician Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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The Portal THE STAFF Editor Robert Ryan Senior Assistant - John Britz Junior Assistant ----- James Love Literary - - William Adamson, Catherine Baumann Quotations - Margaret Kuschel, Anna Maes, Marie Maury Organization - - - Margaret O Brien, Harry Love Social - - Patsy Bowen, Elizabeth Armstrong Music and Dramatics - - - Donald Mulligan - N green Mara - - Joseph Wright - Nicholas Bernard - John Addison - Edward Armstrong Marcus Burleigh, Lawrence Nelson - Robert Kelly Alumni Sports Snapshots Art Assistant Art Typists Jokes Business Manager Senior Assistant Junior Assistant Circulation Donald Gardner Mary Walton Leroy S harrow Ernest Sterosky Page Five

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The Portal TO FATHER McCORMICK Dearest Father , We gather to receive your blessing , As each prepares to continue alone. To our lips thoughts of thanks ice are pressing , Would that our voices had an almighty tone. Our faithful friend , We thank you for your great Merest , And pride you felt in every school affair. The work of each pupil you rewarded, In pleasures always holding a major share. Most steadfast guide. Now as our short time comes to a close. We again thank you for all you have done To make our school life always remembered, Life ' s first great battle ice have most nobly won. Howard Gobeyn, ' 31. TO THE FACULTY Only some blue and white virgins. Untainted, unsought and unknown, Treading the pathway to heaven, Heaping the seeds they have sown. Day after day they have struggled. Day after day they have won. Teaching, correcting and guiding Each parishioner ' s daughter or son. Who are these blur and white virgins? Whose care, future years will not dim. They are only a group of loved Sisters Our Faculty, dear, of the I. . M. Catherine Baumann, 31.

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— The Portal — HISTORY OF ST. STEPHEN SCHOOL The Office The Old Order Cliangeth and Yieldeth Place to New ' once spoke the poet Tennyson. Several times has this quotation successfully shown the foundations and advancing history of various institutions. However no other quotation could possibly illustrate fully the title “St. Steph- ens Old and New.” The first St. Stephen ' s School was built in 1879 under the direction of the Pastor, Rev. Father Edward E. Van Lowe. I hrough his untiring efforts he viewed the results of his labors when in Sep- tember, 1880, he saw St. Stephen’s Catholic School open her portals for the first time to the little ones of his generous Hock. I he school was erected at a cost of $7,000.00, but soon however it became necessary to build an addition to the present structure in order to accommodate four hundred more children. This school was under the guidance of Sisters of Providence from St. Mary’s of Terra Haute, Indiana, and these Sisters conducted a boarding school for vourig ladies known as the Academy of the Sacred Heart. It was the Nelson Roberts home at 809 Park street, that served as the convent and academy for the first few years until 1884, when the present bu ilding was erected. This is a brick veneer 72 ft. by 40 ft. and still serves as a home for the present teachers. Since 1896, the school has been in charge of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary from Monroe. They came to replace the nuns of the Order of Providence, since it was against their rules to teach boys. In August, 1891, Rev. Father Edward E. Van Lowe, after seeing his labors crowned, was taken by death and was immediately succeeded by Rev. J.P. McManus. Steadily the school grew and in the columns of our annual under the heading of Alumni, we will trace the fortune of the many graduates who have passed through her venerable portals. Page Six