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Show Gym-Auditorium Dedicated At St. Mary's College One of the finest women's athletic ath-letic plants in the West was recently re-cently dedicated in ceremonies on the campus of the College of St. Mary's of the Wasatch. Augusta Hall, a combination gymnasium -auditorium, was blessed by Most i Reverend Duane G. Hunt, D.D., ! bishop of the Catholic diocese of j Salt Lake City. j ine aeaicauon was nigniigniea by Bishop Hunt's address to the students and guests. He emphasized empha-sized the importance of Catholic colleges as "channels through which ideals must be communicated. communi-cated. Without these channels, perfect truth the very basis of morals and ideals 'will be destroyed." He completed his talk Holy Cross, who conduct the school, for their 80 years of work in Utah, and commented that Augusta Hall will greatly strengthen the school's facilities in educating women. f Assisting in the dedication ceremonies cere-monies were the Most Reverend Joseph Lennox Federal, D.D., auxiliary aux-iliary bishop of Salt Lake City, Rev. Ernest Schneider, S.T.D., chaplain for the school, Mother M. Hilary, western provincial for the Holy Cross sisters, and Sister Marie de Lourdes, president of the college. Student Body President Joann Brusatto, a senior from Magna, Utah, introduced Bishop Hunt to the audience. The dual purpose building was dedicated in honor of Mother Augusta, the first American by thanking the Sisters of the Mother General of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. She spent the years 1875-1878 in building and later directing the old St. Mary's Academy, located on 1st West between 1st and 2nd South near downtown Salt Lake City. Later she began work on this city's Holy Cross Hospital. At the end of her three year stint in Utah, she was recalled to St. Mary's of Notre Dame College, Notre Dame, Ind., and spent many years directing the growth of that college. |