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Show ST. MARY'S ACADEMY NOTES. Auspicious Opening; of the Scholastic j Year at St. 3Iary's Academy. Not less bright than the sunshine that flowed in through open doors and windows were the happy faces that1 filled the study hall and the classrooms class-rooms throughout the house at an early ear-ly hour Tuesday forenoon. There were many newcomers among the rest, but all alike received a cordial greeting greet-ing from the sisters, and an air of happiness hap-piness seems to prevail in every section. sec-tion. The first days of school were unusually busy ones for the officers and the instructors, yet from the initial ini-tial exercises on every one seemed to fall into place so easily and naturally that ona would think the wheels of school work had not been stopped at all as. however. they undoubtedly were for the past two months. Those, quiet weeks of vacation brought changes not a few to the personnel per-sonnel of the academy, of wltich the kindly and frequent notices in the papers of Sail Lake have already-given already-given full information. . t'liaitfjlns' Superiors. It only remains to state that while loving regrets and grateful memories follow those who have been called to other missions, it was with equally cordial feelings that their successors were welcomed, and in particular those who knew the academy in Salt Lake as their home in former years. Sister Alexis has taken up anew the lines of superiorship where she laid them down six years ago. which ac- counts largely for the smoothness with which all parts of the institution are I running. Witli characteristic regard ! for the cherished traditions of the school, she has arranged that the formal for-mal opening of the scholastic year will take place Thursday morning, the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, when high mass will be celebrated cele-brated in the convent chapel, attended attend-ed by all the members of the community commu-nity at St. Mary's and the entire student stu-dent body day scholars and boarders. The many and various interests of the school and its pupils, botli spiritual and temporal, will thus be dedicated to the supreme purpose of God's greater great-er honor and glory, while the divine blessing will be invoked unon all through the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar Al-tar under the patronage of heaven's all-powerful Queen. While an aspect of serious activity is observable in every study section of the house, there is also a very perceptible per-ceptible atmosphere of confidence and content, no single case of homesickness homesick-ness having thus far developed; on the contrary, every one, from the most j dignified graduate to the wee small minim, appears to feel prefectly happy hap-py and at home. Looking over the campus at any recess re-cess period, one is charmed by the scene of gaiety and color that greets the eye; and among the most attractive attract-ive are the bright and lively little folks that swarm about the play grounds of the minim department. Among the points of favor enjoyed by these little misses and appreciated by their parents par-ents is the pretty apartment which they occupy on the first floor of the music hall building, and affording them such convenient entrance and exit to their own specious section of the play grounds. Electing Officers. The first action of importance in all the classes was an election of officers of-ficers for the first term. After a brief discussion of the capacity required and the various obligations and duties entailed by the several official appointments, ap-pointments, the voting proceeded and resulted as follows: Graduating class President, Miss Catherine Chipman; vice president, Miss Virginia Shannon; secretary, Miss Estelle Kane; assistant secretary, Miss Catherine Curley; librarian. Miss Lillian Lil-lian Davis; treasurer, Miss Mary Hall. Third, academic class President, Miss Sylvia Griffin; vice president. Miss T'nice Burton; secretary. Miss Josephine Cunningham; librarian, Mis.s Anna Egan. Second academic class President, Mis.s Phyllis Ford:: secretary. Miss Helen Hughes; librarian, Miss Nellie Fitzmaurice. First academic class President, Miss Oleta Kelley; vice president, Miss Alice Hughes; secretary. Miss Dorothy Barrett; treasurer. Miss Dollie Dunham. Dun-ham. Fourth preparatory class President, Presi-dent, Miss Marie Gleason; vice presi dent. Genevieve Giles; secretary. Miss Ina Jeffery; treasurer. Miss Viola Daniels; Dan-iels; librarian. Miss Alice Coleman. Third preparatory class President. Miss Gladys Coxe; vice president. Miss Myrtle Coxe; secretary. Miss Kathleen Homer. Second preparatory President, Miss Mary Mylryan: vice president and secretary, sec-retary, Mis.s Marguerite Kelly. First preparatory President. Miss Marguerite Lecuyer; vice president. Miss Margaret Lindsley; secretary. Miss Gertrude O'Brien . Fourth primary President. Miss Palsy Spencer; vice president. Miss Mary Dillon; secretary, Miss Erma Kuster. The secretary of the under graduating graduat-ing classes is charged with collecting and reporting to the secretary' of the graduating class whatever affairs of their respective rooms they wish to have published in the Intermountain Catholic or other Salt Lake papers. |