tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63181269037158443612024-03-05T03:04:21.333-08:00The Mount Archives blogHistory blog of the Mount Saint Mary's University community 2008-2021Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comBlogger217125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-55846021347428613962021-03-09T14:48:00.019-08:002021-03-10T14:21:37.569-08:00The mother of all banned book lists<p><b>WRITING DEVELOPED </b>about 3500 B.C. and soon after people started banning it. </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7w5ssuwbEOQSTD0gxoQEtG3iMKQ0hUo8cKT700se1CPpTND5l9o_NH6f0fdv-S6cPqGVZ14DuxJGA4uGgueUjxj7l2uhn5gmwUWFOSw-xg94eC0p1yG-fCc4eZRNlnZtxcK6tjFimlI/s2048/BookBurn-Engraving_Page_2.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1212" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7w5ssuwbEOQSTD0gxoQEtG3iMKQ0hUo8cKT700se1CPpTND5l9o_NH6f0fdv-S6cPqGVZ14DuxJGA4uGgueUjxj7l2uhn5gmwUWFOSw-xg94eC0p1yG-fCc4eZRNlnZtxcK6tjFimlI/w236-h400/BookBurn-Engraving_Page_2.jpg" width="236" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Index during the reign of<br />Pope Benedict XIV in 1758.</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>We're still banning it, trying to hide it, delete it, flame the writers and cancel them from the public square. The thing that's different now is you don't need a chisel as you did a few millennia ago. In the 21st Century, it only takes the swipe of a screen to eradicate a controversial, dangerous, or offensive idea. <br /><p></p><p>Banning books can be controversial, dangerous or offensive to a lot of people (and we're among them). But reasonable arguments can be made for suppressing some literature. Throughout history writing has been banned in the name of protecting unformed minds from confusing information, like religious heresy or pornography or historic racism. <br /></p><p><b>Let's take a moment</b> to examine <i>banning </i>and note that it doesn't mean <i>burning</i><i>. </i>The American Library Assn. maintains a list of titles that are most often under attack at America's schools and libraries. According to the ALA website,</p><blockquote><p><i>The list includes books challenged for a variety of reasons: LGBTQIA+
content, sexual references, religious viewpoints, content that addresses
racism and police brutality, and profanity. </i><br /></p></blockquote><p>It's sometimes the case that opposing groups will have opposite grievance against the same book. In other words, the reasons for outrage are as varied as we are as Americans. While some people would happily go for book burning, reasonable people, fortunately, still champion free expression. ALA annually celebrates the First Amendment and the right to read with Banned Books Week in September. (Take a look at <b><a href="http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2019" rel="nofollow">Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019</a></b> to see what was highlighted last year.) Almost all are still available in libraries and online. <br /></p><p><b>Mount students </b>of an earlier era (up to 1966, to be exact) were aware of something known simply as the Index, a list of books proscribed by the Catholic Church for being heretical, immoral, published without a bishop's imprimatur, or insulting to the faith. The Index was shorthand for <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum" target="_blank">Index Librorum Prohibitorum</a></b>, </i>List of Prohibited Books, and it existed for centuries – the mother of all lists of banned books. </p><p></p>The Index, promulgated after the Council of Trent (1545-1563), was intended to steer faithful Catholics away from the explosion of "heretical" Protestant publishing made possible by the invention of the printing press in 1450. The motivation wasn't primarily to punish the publishers but to protect those Catholics who weren't intellectually prepared to interpret what they were reading (if they could read). The rationale was utterly paternalistic and comparable to civil authorities protecting the populace, as Jesuit theologian Joseph Hilgers, S.J., wrote in 1908 on <b><a href="https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03519d.htm" target="_blank">book censorship in the Catholic Church</a></b>:<p></p><blockquote><p><i>Natural law empowers the father to keep away from his child bad and corrupt companions; the highest public authorities are bound to protect by stern measures, if necessary, their communities from epidemics and infectious maladies; state and police rightly allow the selling of poison and the like only under strict supervision. </i> <br /></p></blockquote><p><b>The content of the Index</b> evolved over the centuries; Galileo, Copernicus and Victor Hugo were on it but eventually fell off. René Descartes, Blaise Pascal and most of the philosophers of the Enlightenment landed on it early and stayed, as did later writers Jean-Paul Sartre André Gide. The final entry was feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir in 1958. </p><p>And although it didn't call for burning books, some very old editions of the Index were illustrated with engravings of a that very thing.<br /></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixP571iCknT-RuehtKa5mgqLlgpjsdJEaa4OmUN2fyWR1fOavP3SAOLTEtJzA4AwYPGxSl8Uf24vVfILm21N3_4gfCUTLDSZtNmAk8Ze_L1MvQ85D4CMtyp9PchW-_aWeNXKLdRXu6am4/s2048/BookBurn-Engraving_Page_1.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1224" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixP571iCknT-RuehtKa5mgqLlgpjsdJEaa4OmUN2fyWR1fOavP3SAOLTEtJzA4AwYPGxSl8Uf24vVfILm21N3_4gfCUTLDSZtNmAk8Ze_L1MvQ85D4CMtyp9PchW-_aWeNXKLdRXu6am4/w239-h400/BookBurn-Engraving_Page_1.jpg" width="239" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>An old edition depicts the burning<br />of sorcery books in Acts 19:19.</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Many if not most of the important books on the Index – including those pesky Enlightenment philosophers – were on the shelves of the Mount libraries or could be obtained by inter-library loan. The only clue a student would have had that the book was problematic was a tiny rubber-stamped "Index" on the book's entry in the card catalog. Church rules required students to have the written permission of a faculty member to check out the book, but in practice Mount faculty trusted their students to have the critical reasoning to understand a work in the context of accepted Catholic pedagogy. The intent was not to ban a book, but to make sure the reader was intellectually equipped to get the most from it.<p></p><p>The Index came to a sudden end on June 14, 1966. Pope Paul VI issued a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motu_proprio"><i><b>motu proprio</b></i></a>, a unilateral decree by the Roman Pontiff that can't be overturned by any governing body. It was a few months after the close of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), which seemed to change nearly everything about the Catholic Church, from fish on Fridays to liturgies in English. The Index seemed archaic. While still directing bishops to be mindful of what their flocks were reading and watching, the Pope wrote, "The Church trusts in the mature conscience of the faithful." (For the final iteration of the Index, see the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_and_works_on_the_Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum" target="_blank">list of authors and works on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum</a>.</b>) <br /></p><p><b>Like the ideas they represent</b>, troublesome books will always be with us, and we should be glad. They are essential to our humanity. What does change over the decades, or millennia, is what triggers us. For example, the images of people and animals in 1st Century mosaics were chiseled away by Muslim iconoclasts for whom any depiction of nature was a heresy. Two centuries before them Christian iconoclasts destroyed murals and statues of saints and biblical characters for the same reason. </p><p>Today, images and texts in decades-old children's books and films are suddenly being challenged by newer iconoclasts and may be suppressed by some libraries fearful of offending patrons. (This is <a href="https://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?p=17268" target="_blank"><b>not without controversy</b></a>.) Meanwhile, books on controversial topics are disappearing from the web pages of Amazon and its subsidiary Audible. Our question at MSMU is, are 21st Century students equipped to handle problematic books? </p><p>We're on the side of Pope Paul, our revered CSJ faculty of yesteryear, our faculty of today, and our unstoppable students. For some, it will always be a dangerous idea, that notion "mature conscience." But like uncomfortable ideas, it's essential to our humanity.<br /></p>Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-23462892187194379732021-02-01T00:00:00.002-08:002021-02-02T15:37:13.125-08:00CSJs in slave-state Missouri<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b></b></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqHbS4Prm8UsXJG0xdRuxrXdjK3BxbIqyoclw4JxKhM08drbbta6NWlx_gwmiQWr8z4fxNXNZWr2RXCgz-yt06b-xjo6clFS4IzTId9xkCPYDstTYKNCPDujhlcTF97XppWjQ3mc0VCDE/s1844/stlouismap-2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Map of St. Louis and waterfront in 1840." border="0" data-original-height="1384" data-original-width="1844" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqHbS4Prm8UsXJG0xdRuxrXdjK3BxbIqyoclw4JxKhM08drbbta6NWlx_gwmiQWr8z4fxNXNZWr2RXCgz-yt06b-xjo6clFS4IzTId9xkCPYDstTYKNCPDujhlcTF97XppWjQ3mc0VCDE/w400-h300/stlouismap-2.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>St. Louis in 1840 showing location of St. Joseph School for<br />Negro Girls and proximity to Mississippi River.</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b> </b></span></span><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PQZ0iOIJuycVOAtu1-Zs4E6IetPhYHKcln9le6VPHtCENOwnG9BCkw2Zw4J3er9GjjZpRUm7_ymNn4MMTrO___FlXZ8bp7DNJR8BGG3XNPIBuGf8cgYVmyPOmTFQnkuc3a93OI7U1Dc/s2048/fournier.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Portrait of Sister St. John Fournier, CSJ" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1560" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PQZ0iOIJuycVOAtu1-Zs4E6IetPhYHKcln9le6VPHtCENOwnG9BCkw2Zw4J3er9GjjZpRUm7_ymNn4MMTrO___FlXZ8bp7DNJR8BGG3XNPIBuGf8cgYVmyPOmTFQnkuc3a93OI7U1Dc/w153-h200/fournier.jpg" width="153" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sr. St. John Fournier</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b>AFTER EIGHT YEARS AND TWO MINISTRIES</b> in the little village of </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b><a href="http://www.carondelethistory.org/" target="_blank">Carondelet, Missouri</a></b>,
the small band of CSJ sisters was ready to take on a new mission in the
bustling riverfront city of St. Louis.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span> </span>
</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>The
project, near and dear to the heart of Bishop Peter Richard Kenrick, was to be
a school for the children of Black Catholics. But for the three sisters who
made the short trip to St. Louis, the new mission – and their own <a href="https://cssjfed.org/resources/spirituality" target="_blank"><b>charism</b></a> to
“serve the dear neighbor without distinction” – would soon put them in danger.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>The
Civil War was still two decades away, but St. Louis in the 1840s was already
the epicenter of conflict and controversy over slavery. Slavery was
legal, thanks to the infamous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise" target="_blank"><b>Missouri Compromise</b></a> of 1820, but the white
population was a volatile mixture of new organized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism" target="_blank"><b>abolitionist</b></a> groups and old
slave-owning French and American families. Violence was not uncommon.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b>Freedmen
outnumbered slaves</b> in the large Black population, and agricultural plantations
were relatively few. That made St. Louis the scene of a stark and poignant
situation – slaves toiling side-by-side with free Black workers in the city’s
docks and shipping businesses. Along with that daily reminder of their
enslavement, freedom was tantalizingly visible just half a mile away across the
Mississippi River. Any slave who could cross it was free the moment he set foot in Illinois. <span class="apple-converted-space"></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1nmubgigGEdqBqru3k_xBSzyu2xe9uZF42f7hzeyEmqGxQQ8Hvyg7PUP6NScJW_XKm6uGypK-38ZABfltZ4Ub_WjbyRO22Su9NtdHsCoO7NLfHoAvIqKdi293aa_oUwje-YYMTqlos0/s721/protais.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Portrait of Sister Protais Deboille" border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="596" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1nmubgigGEdqBqru3k_xBSzyu2xe9uZF42f7hzeyEmqGxQQ8Hvyg7PUP6NScJW_XKm6uGypK-38ZABfltZ4Ub_WjbyRO22Su9NtdHsCoO7NLfHoAvIqKdi293aa_oUwje-YYMTqlos0/w165-h200/protais.jpg" width="165" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sr. Protais Deboille</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>In this
tense milieu, Sisters St. John Fournier, Protais Deboille and Antoinette
Kincaid opened the doors of the St. Joseph School for Negro Girls on Ash
Wednesday (February 5), 1845. According to various CSJ histories, enrollment
was between 80 and 100 girls from free families, “all good and well behaved,”
and possibly a handful of slave daughters whose more open-minded masters paid for
them to attend. The girls were taught reading, writing, arithmetic and other elementary subjects, French (widely
spoken in the city) and embroidery – an echo of the CSJs’ lace-making ministry
back in France. At no cost, catechism was taught to the rest of the Catholic
slave children (including boys) on Saturdays and Sundays.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b>The
school thrived</b> for more than a year, according to a letter Sister St. John
wrote in 1873. But it had reawakened simmering anti-Catholic sentiment in St.
Louis and infuriated the slave owners. The slaves’ illiteracy kept then from
reading abolitionist pamphlets and newspapers and causing trouble.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Many
white Protestants objected to providing slave children and their parents with
religious education. According to Sister St. John,</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>We
also prepared slaves for the reception of the sacraments, and this displeased
the whites very much. After some time, they threatened to have us put out by
force. The threats were repeated every day.</span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>It all
came to a crisis one day in 1846.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLoEe1fdJnpCOr6dlX8AHl7seExy6XU3OZKiZxjjOe2OOuodJjPNx4raU1XqA0OiqzCuiCfJlMOGt25jXteYlJPzYdy5EOBUf2cG-BuK1svcaGvqQyK-otBJeX8oLErUijX9Y1-2N64Pk/s318/immaculate_conception_chaplet_517a__10397.1395509605.380.380.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Closeup of Miraculous Medal - Mary side" border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLoEe1fdJnpCOr6dlX8AHl7seExy6XU3OZKiZxjjOe2OOuodJjPNx4raU1XqA0OiqzCuiCfJlMOGt25jXteYlJPzYdy5EOBUf2cG-BuK1svcaGvqQyK-otBJeX8oLErUijX9Y1-2N64Pk/w126-h200/immaculate_conception_chaplet_517a__10397.1395509605.380.380.jpg" width="126" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Miraculous<br />Medal</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>One
morning as I was leaving the church, several people called out to me and told
me that they were coming that night to put us out of the house. I said nothing
to the sisters, and was not afraid, so great confidence had I in the Blessed
Virgin! I put some <a href="https://www.amm.org/AboutAMM/Miraculous%20Medal%20Story.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Miraculous Medals</b></a> on the entrance gate and on the fences (we
already had them on all doors and windows of the house).</span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>
</i></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><i>At
eleven o'clock, the sisters woke with a start when they heard a loud noise. Out
in the street was a crowd of people crying out and cursing. We recited together
the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorare" target="_blank"><b>Memorare</b></a> and other prayers. Suddenly, the police patrol came and scattered
those villains who were trying to break open the door. They returned three
times that same night, but [the Blessed Virgin] protected us and they were not
able to open the door from the outside nor to break it down... The day after
our adventure, the Mayor of St. Louis advised Bishop Kenrick to close that
school for a time and he did so.</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br /></p><p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b>The
school never reopened, </b>doomed a few months later when the Missouri Legislature
passed law a making it illegal to provide any Black person with instruction in
reading and writing. An exorbitant $500 </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>fine was attached, equivalent to tens
of thousands of dollars today. Nevertheless, the sisters quietly continued to
give religious instruction to Black children.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Although
they opened many other schools, that was the end of the St. Louis sisters’
teaching apostolate among American Blacks for almost 100 years, a century of
agony that witnessed the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and segregated
schools. But during the Great Depression, true to their charism of recognizing
a need and doing something about it, the sisters started offering a
high-quality Catholic education to Black elementary and high school students in
the city. It is impressive, but not surprising, that these schools were
desegregated (by combining with the sisters’ white schools) years ahead of the
Supreme Court’s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education" target="_blank"><b>Brown v. Board of Education</b></a> </i>decision in 1954.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Even
after they were forced to close St. Joseph’s School, we like to imagine that
the sisters continued to minister secretly among the Blacks of St. Louis in
defiance of the authorities, going wherever the needs of the people drew them.
Perhaps more than one Black child or adult learned to read and write through
their help and love. We’ll never know, because the official records don’t tell
these stories. But that would be the unstoppable CSJ way.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b></b></span></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTaVzqigwg7hEW7ZlBPK8grZ2ma14irRGHY0XKInkUZ4ffnqS8FRc6SKlG0R-e7SMk7EFW6axVvO15ogTBf3VCeg41p5Amqg2ZXmbPYIkCMjzD5LbEee1FfIXXCry0LZnU1t4Sr1yP3X0/s1586/1848-StLouisMap.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Decorative map of St. Louis in 1845 showing drawings of the waterfront and prominent buildings." border="0" data-original-height="1241" data-original-width="1586" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTaVzqigwg7hEW7ZlBPK8grZ2ma14irRGHY0XKInkUZ4ffnqS8FRc6SKlG0R-e7SMk7EFW6axVvO15ogTBf3VCeg41p5Amqg2ZXmbPYIkCMjzD5LbEee1FfIXXCry0LZnU1t4Sr1yP3X0/w400-h313/1848-StLouisMap.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>St. Louis in 1845. Maps from University<br />of Missouri St. Louis Mercantile Library.</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> </i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><i>The Mount Archives Blog owes a debt of gratitude to the the late Sister Jane Behlman, CSJ, archivist of the St. Louis Province, for writing about the school in her blog </i>Jewels from Jane <i>in 2008. </i><br /></span></span></p><p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span>Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comSt. Louis, MO, USA38.6270025 -90.19940419999998910.316768663821158 -125.35565419999999 66.937236336178842 -55.043154199999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-80897437147155102882020-11-02T16:44:00.066-08:002020-11-04T10:20:31.480-08:00Giving their lives<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVUbYv4ZdYlDS-_KlTe0qKiw74_8CRbrin128HE3ewsg17uwfpaxMHyaIGpKqKWFEeRTcPIhHgENKfB5UDH-fKjK38ZX5q276ezQ5k-YVqDOo4DgeaY4trY3Xrc1MIU1js5yXRS8Vdc6M/s499/HolyHope.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Holy Hope Cemetery in Tucson" border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="499" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVUbYv4ZdYlDS-_KlTe0qKiw74_8CRbrin128HE3ewsg17uwfpaxMHyaIGpKqKWFEeRTcPIhHgENKfB5UDH-fKjK38ZX5q276ezQ5k-YVqDOo4DgeaY4trY3Xrc1MIU1js5yXRS8Vdc6M/w400-h266/HolyHope.jpg" title="Holy Hope Cemetery, where the Tucson victims of the 1918 flu are buried." width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Holy Hope Cemetery in Tucson, final resting place of<br /> two CSJs who died in the 1918 pandemic.</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br />AS WE REMEMBER<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIYFaHoHNMmDrb9gjzxMnjuFtwupXiOkx8uC_2bJWMAugDqziYdnZcPNQ99GBP_Xmerv57NezKWSox-02F6Qe7HiJGG4wgDBFZrJ555E53_bmq2ncNA_G7JEx4BIXrB7PpW5W1qO029dE/s2048/MEvangelista.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Portrait of Sister Mary Evangelista Wark, CSJ" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1151" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIYFaHoHNMmDrb9gjzxMnjuFtwupXiOkx8uC_2bJWMAugDqziYdnZcPNQ99GBP_Xmerv57NezKWSox-02F6Qe7HiJGG4wgDBFZrJ555E53_bmq2ncNA_G7JEx4BIXrB7PpW5W1qO029dE/w113-h200/MEvangelista.jpeg" width="113" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sister M. Evangelista<br />Wark, CSJ, d. 1918.</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></b> our beloved dead during the month of November, let us hold in our hearts eight (perhaps nine) Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet whose names are recorded in the archives of the Los Angeles Province. They are listed by location in the order of the day they died, with their age: <br /></span><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lewiston, Idaho</span></h4><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">March 30, 1918 – Sister Mary Rose Fee, age 32.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">October 23, 1918 – Sister Mary Evangelista Wark, age about 32.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">November 26, 1918 – Sister Mary Clement, age 24.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">January 3, 1919 – Sister Angelica Heenan, age about 30.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">January 10, 1919 – Sister Mary Joseph Godsell, age about 32.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nov. 27, 1919 – Sister Mary James Vanderpool,* age 17½ .</span></li></ul><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tucson, Arizona</span></h4><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">January 16, 1919 – Sister Mechtilde Smith, Tucson, age 36.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">January 21, 1919 – Sister Mary Irene Bertonneau, age 32. </span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">If we look closely, what do we notice?<br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of the deaths occurred in a 10-month period.<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Four died within three weeks of each other.<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The sisters were young and in their prime – the prime of their lives and the prime of their religious vocations.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></li></ul><br /><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Eerily, in these dates, </b>locations and ages of the sisters are the arc of a pandemic – the 1918, or Spanish, Flu. As we mentioned <b><a href="https://mountarchives.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-mount-csjs-and-epidemics.html" target="_blank">last time we visited this subject,</a></b> it was the last major contagion to sweep the United States before the current Covid-19 outbreak and a far more devastating plague. It killed more than 50 million people around the world.<br /></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMoz-LJcZGaOsLdR3Fi8gdHj4YQL2uj_nBv_uZ7Q3VNcBNJeir-c3GmYJaLTU4QPisRQ2Akf1nFdek1HsoDOrHAJKfoYnWU69Cansg_hEtk2Y7zUR_yo002Y2kEryqwdEW6j4-63HtJaA/s2048/fee.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMoz-LJcZGaOsLdR3Fi8gdHj4YQL2uj_nBv_uZ7Q3VNcBNJeir-c3GmYJaLTU4QPisRQ2Akf1nFdek1HsoDOrHAJKfoYnWU69Cansg_hEtk2Y7zUR_yo002Y2kEryqwdEW6j4-63HtJaA/w200-h150/fee.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sister Mary Rose Fee, CSJ, <br />was the first of the Carondelet <br />sisters to die in the pandemic.</i> <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The disease (of the strain H1N1) probably started in the American military and came back the same way with the soldiers returning from World War I. As far as we know, the sisters who died were all nurses who contracted it from their patients and died in their own CSJ hospitals, St. Joseph’s of Lewiston and St. Joseph’s of Tucson.<br /></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The pandemic tore through the country in three or four waves between 1918 and 1920. The first sister, Mary Rose Fee, died in the first and mildest onset in early spring of 1918. Six more perished in the much deadlier second wave, which arrived in the fall of 1918 and is still notorious for killing young adults in their 20s and 30s. Finally, in an era when girls often joined the convent in their mid-teens, Sister Mary James Vanderpool had already been a sister for two years when she died in the late fall of 1919, not even 18 years old. <br /><br /><b>We sometimes forget</b> that the Carondelet sisters of a hundred years ago lived difficult lives of inadequate food, austere living conditions, exhausting work – especially during a pandemic – and constant exposure to the sick. In their hospitals the sisters provided the best medical care the early 1900s could provide, but it was a world without ventilators, vaccinations, antibiotics, and treatments we take for granted today. <br /><br />Requiescant in pace, all the sisters who sacrificed everything to care for the dear neighbor.<br /><br />* The Vanderpool family lost a second daughter a year and a half after the first when Sister Mary Alphonsus Vanderpool, CSJ, died in Lewiston on June 11, 1921, at age 19. Although technically not within the period of the pandemic, she may also have been a victim of the Spanish Flu toward the end of the fourth wave. The cause of death for both sisters is listen as “pulmonary tuberculosis,” but Sister Mary James is considered to have died of the flu. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlxrLcaF_B0gKuhrOGzUVdiLHYjRNB_By3ZsA2_RFXncdOQdLnqZdvU5HxYm11uqtz3cf-APcZR0jsk0rvCmfFQPsEQ3RrphhRGIybOEZqyP42bM5gO1ChEq0Dq9ZyT_MPQvG9CNduuA/s2048/DeathCerts.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlxrLcaF_B0gKuhrOGzUVdiLHYjRNB_By3ZsA2_RFXncdOQdLnqZdvU5HxYm11uqtz3cf-APcZR0jsk0rvCmfFQPsEQ3RrphhRGIybOEZqyP42bM5gO1ChEq0Dq9ZyT_MPQvG9CNduuA/w400-h226/DeathCerts.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Death certificates for the Vanderpool sisters, Mary James <br />and Mary Alphonsus, who died about 18 months apart. <br />The superior at St. Joseph Hospital in Lewiston, <br />Mother M. Adelaide, has signed both.</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqQ4xERTRxjp5390yyqPPlZdicQv3k8QtU2PRQLscsZWRd3PhivObMks6TN34VKKO_JtSFb3xoeFIySsPXnGt3-zD7VyCp4HHK917q0Nzj_KPE4LclpEaGthLprSBRrahoNvOxi6ZwLA/s1514/smLewiston%252C_Idaho-1905-St._Josephs_Hospital_Lewiston-Bru%25CC%2588ck_%2526_Sohn_Kunstverlag+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1514" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqQ4xERTRxjp5390yyqPPlZdicQv3k8QtU2PRQLscsZWRd3PhivObMks6TN34VKKO_JtSFb3xoeFIySsPXnGt3-zD7VyCp4HHK917q0Nzj_KPE4LclpEaGthLprSBRrahoNvOxi6ZwLA/w400-h264/smLewiston%252C_Idaho-1905-St._Josephs_Hospital_Lewiston-Bru%25CC%2588ck_%2526_Sohn_Kunstverlag+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>St. Joseph Hospital in Lewiston in 1905. </i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Sources:
Necrologies of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Los Angeles
Province; Find a Grave, St. Joseph Medical Center (Lewiston).</i></span>Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-1335853064865785992020-10-09T00:00:00.032-07:002021-03-09T15:51:16.038-08:00The Mount's hidden saint<p><b>ONCE UPON A TIME, </b>the name <b><a href="https://youtu.be/AoChOhQ0Z1E" target="_blank">John Henry Newman</a></b> was a familiar one on the campus of a Catholic college or university – a building, a club, a center. For much of its history, this was true at the Mount, too. The Newman Seminar Room was part of the original architecture of the Charles Willard Coe Memorial library in 1947 until it disappeared in the renovations of 1994-1996. The legacy continues to this day as the Newman Collection of rare books, papers and letters, which occupy an entire wall in Special Collections on the library’s first floor.<br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVeOWNp-5FuJat81ZD5C0GMYNLDYa9-ScQowB1Hanh5jhkngqteKUVe59tFpsVKAajswV1rK3S8RFc8R9AzHhZPeqGLIYoadwEpktZ1pYwMfpGQ3Vjc-MWxW-1GRnW2ffeXu08hQt6q3o/s462/JHNewman-SpyCover.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="276" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVeOWNp-5FuJat81ZD5C0GMYNLDYa9-ScQowB1Hanh5jhkngqteKUVe59tFpsVKAajswV1rK3S8RFc8R9AzHhZPeqGLIYoadwEpktZ1pYwMfpGQ3Vjc-MWxW-1GRnW2ffeXu08hQt6q3o/w191-h320/JHNewman-SpyCover.jpg" title="Spy Magazine cover from MSMU Special Collections" width="191" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Caricature of Newman in<br /></i>Spy Magazine<i> in 1877 (MSMU<br />Special Collections)</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br />Today, October 9, we celebrate the memorial of Newman as<i> Saint John Henry Newman</i>, canonized October 13, 2019, by Pope Francis. That his feast day is observed in the early fall of the academic semester is key to knowing who St. John Henry was. Among other things, he was a gifted essayist, novelist, and poet and a prolific one as well. But the work we care about is here is his 1852 <a href="http://www.newmanreader.org/works/idea/" target="_blank"><b><i>The Idea of a University</i></b></a>, which influenced the course of Catholic higher education and the liberal arts for the 20th Century and after.<br /><br />Newman was a gigantic and hugely contentious political figure in 19th Century England. He was a renowned scholar, philosopher and cleric in the Church of England and popular professor at Oxford University. But while still a young man he began to harbor doubts about Anglican theology and starting publishing his questions in a series of pamphlets, or "tracts," sparking an uproar that lasted the rest of the century. <br /><br /><b>His eventual and very public conversion </b>to Roman Catholicism in 1845 cost him and his followers their families, friends, homes and livelihoods. England was deeply anti-Catholic at the time, with a shocking bigotry that almost mirrors the racial ferment of 21st Century America, so it was no minor thing for Newman to change churches. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1846 and resettled in Ireland to preach and teach in comparative poverty, and continued to write, often focusing on the problems of <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=9510" target="_blank"><b>moral relativism</b></a>, which he saw writ large in the Church of England. Not unlike Rev. Martin Luther King, his efforts and sacrifices over decades improved the lot of Catholics in England and he was able to return after 32 years, settling in the industrial city of Birmingham. He was made a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1879 and died in Birmingham in 1890. <br /><br />The careful reasoning and logic that led him to the Catholic Church made him a hero of Catholics in the United States, who were very much second-class citizens in the early 20th Century (and, believe it or not, regular targets of the Ku Klux Klan). Shut out of other elite schools, Catholics redoubled efforts to build their own colleges on Newman’s model, and further did him homage by forming Newman Clubs on almost every college campus in the country, religious or secular. <br /> </p><p>Newman was a big deal at Mount Saint Mary’s College. The 100th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood fell on October 27, 1946, and was celebrated with an all-day symposium that included a dramatization of his long poem <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_Gerontius_(poem)" target="_blank"><b>Dream of Gerontius</b></a>, lectures by notable Hollywood Catholics and writers, a panel discussion, and choral performances of original compositions by the music faculty setting Newman’s prayers and poems to music. <br /><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgew2-QpHLb0jHxtfsBqpBKySTQxlxD4Huk2Amd3EpEmGej9oFU0JNpTpKJaL0SwjYIrnunyGhzeKFbj23ZNPl4NLZ7upBG47TIdRO5VhPfFipdDbEb1i_Twcyn7rj3OuTNVR_CVOpIS4Y/s817/NewmanClub.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="817" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgew2-QpHLb0jHxtfsBqpBKySTQxlxD4Huk2Amd3EpEmGej9oFU0JNpTpKJaL0SwjYIrnunyGhzeKFbj23ZNPl4NLZ7upBG47TIdRO5VhPfFipdDbEb1i_Twcyn7rj3OuTNVR_CVOpIS4Y/w400-h284/NewmanClub.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Members of the Newman Club gather in Brady Hall in 1953.</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>Newman’s biggest fan</b> at the Mount was Sister Catherine Anita Fitzgerald, CSJ, ’44, the leader who built Coe Memorial Library in 1947. It was she who insisted on the inclusion of the Newman Seminar Room in the blueprints and the one who filled it with books, art and antiques during her many years as head librarian and faculty member. In the 1950s she formed the Friends of the Library, whose first major fundraising effort was the purchase, at a Sotheby’s auction in 1960, of a large collection of Newman’s books, among them many rare first editions. To the Mount’s Newman Collection, over the ensuing decades, were added newer books as scholarship in Newman’s thought and influence grew and flourished. (Sister Catherine Anita herself wrote articles for scholarly journals and contributed an <b><a href="http://stmary2.sdlhost.com/#/item/000000059002186/view/34" target="_blank">article about Newman</a></b> for the Mount journal <i>Inter-Nos</i>.) </p><p></p><p>Other Newman scholars in Los Angeles have occasionally made the
pilgrimage to Chalon to use the collection, and it is still mentioned in
the Mount catalog as an important library asset. St. John Henry,
however, hasn’t been part of Mount life since the 1960s – either
in the classroom or at shared events with the Newman groups at USC,
UCLA, Loyola and Marymount. In some places, including MSMU, his
teachings on liberal arts and Catholic orthodoxy gradually fell out of
fashion after the Second Vatican Council in favor of more feminist or social
justice-oriented theologies. Sister Catherine Anita, Newman’s on-campus
champion, died in 1996 not long after the Newman Seminar Room ceased to
exist. <br /><br /><b>But we hold the collection in trust</b> for the
future, because truth never goes out of style – a favorite principle of Newman himself. If you want to
commune with a genuine saint – after the Covid-19 pandemic, of course – come to the
first floor of the library at Chalon where you will be welcome to
browse his books. In the meantime, we have <a href="https://msmcarchives.omeka.net/items/show/59"><b>digitized some of his handwritten letters</b></a> from our collection (by the way, these are officially <b><a href="https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/church-teaching-on-relics.html" target="_blank">second class relics</a></b> since he became a saint). The PDF will download to your computer. NB: You’ll need to be able to read tiny 19th Century cursive. <br /><br />Our Lady of the Mount, pray for us. St. John Henry Newman, pray for us! Happy feast day!<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlWVcCxp0g_z6YpUIriTTf02mstjjnBDV_Lmx_xw5PWkDS9hL2BKIxNIkwc-53qMhMhGheLQhaI55tFZO_vHqt2wA-Gofb6yn-JiIWci-Ekm_XVUPDJGP5torXxQUUp3BFAQl0MyzeAOo/s1830/NewmanHandwriting.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1830" data-original-width="1493" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlWVcCxp0g_z6YpUIriTTf02mstjjnBDV_Lmx_xw5PWkDS9hL2BKIxNIkwc-53qMhMhGheLQhaI55tFZO_vHqt2wA-Gofb6yn-JiIWci-Ekm_XVUPDJGP5torXxQUUp3BFAQl0MyzeAOo/s320/NewmanHandwriting.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A second-class relic with Newman's cursive, from 1831 letter to James Bliss. <br />(MSMU Special Collections)</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p><br />Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-27015822693199996382020-03-25T18:22:00.003-07:002021-03-05T09:36:52.047-08:00The Mount, the CSJs, and epidemics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>WITH THE MOUNT CLOSED </b>due to the COVID-19 pandemic and all of us hunkering down at home, we have been thinking about past epidemics that raced through the United States, all of which impacted the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet -- and later Mount Saint Mary's -- in different ways. Here are some historic highlights from our sources in the University Archives & Special Collections.<br />
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<b>Having an epidemic? Build a hospital</b><br />
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<b>One of the scourges</b> of the 19th Century was cholera, a water-borne disease spread by human waste and primitive sanitation. It was extremely contagious and often fatal. Those stricken would be healthy one day and dead the next. Germ theory hadn't yet been proposed, so diseases were thought to be transmitted by forms of "bad air" called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory" target="_blank"><b>miasmas</b></a>, which the steamy Mississippi River next to the CSJs' early settlements seemed to produce. Creeping up the river from New Orleans, cholera struck St. Paul, Minn., in the summer of 1854, less than three years after the the nuns had arrived and before they'd been able to build the town's first hospital. With funding from local citizens and doctors, they started taking cholera victims into an old log cabin. Patients who could afford it paid a dollar a day. At the same time the sisters sped up their plans for a permanent hospital, which became <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Joseph%27s_Hospital_(St._Paul,_Minnesota)" target="_blank"><b>St. Joseph's</b></a>.<br />
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A similar story was repeated by the CSJs in Eureka, Calif., who had barely unpacked their trunks when they were faced with patients suffering from the devastating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu" target="_blank"><b>Spanish Influenza in 1918</b></a>, a virus that killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. In Pasco, Wash., CSJs took in flu patients at their tiny Our Lady of Lourdes hospital, just two years old. The sisters in Indianapolis couldn't offer a hospital, but they responded to the pandemic by opening the campus of Sacred Heart High School for outdoor "field" masses on Sundays. Parishioners could practice some "social distancing" and still receive the sacraments.<br />
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In the end, the Spanish Flu took a terrible toll on the CSJ community, <b><a href="https://mountarchives.blogspot.com/2020/11/giving-their-lives.html" target="_blank">claiming at least eight</a></b> mostly young and healthy Carondelet sisters between 1918 and 1921.<br />
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<b>Measles at the Mount </b><br />
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<b>High on a hill in Brentwood</b>, Mount students were isolated in a unique way, but they weren't immune from virus outbreaks. The "Mountain Ear," a weekly gossip column in the <i>The View </i>newspaper (mountaineer -- get it?) reported humorously on March 20, 1957, that a local epidemic of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles" target="_blank"><b>measles</b></a> had infected four students and possibly six in Brady Hall, including the editor. If a gossip column sounds unserious, it's because in the decades before the measles vaccine it was a very common childhood disease, and most Americans, including Mount students, had developed the immunity. There's no evidence the measles spread. Over the decades, <i>The View</i> reported an occasional student with an embarrassing case, and no one gave it a second thought. It wouldn't be until 2015 when parents' failure to vaccinate their kids led to a dangerous global outbreak, that everyone started paying attention. The warnings show up in recent <b><a href="http://stmary2.sdlhost.com/#search/c:Student%20newsletters/" target="_blank">student newsletters</a></b>.<br />
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<b>The polio scourge</b><br />
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<b>A childhood case </b>of measles is one thing, but another childhood disease caused absolute terror in mid-20th Century. Although there were many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio" target="_blank"><b>polio</b></a> outbreaks in the 20th century, the epidemic after World War II was the most terrifying. Starting around 1947 in California, it wasn't stopped until 1955 and the release of the the Salk vaccine. The worst year was 1952, one of the largest outbreaks in U.S. history. Cases that year of poliomyelitis, also known by its starker name infantile paralysis, numbered almost 60,000 in the U.S. Three-thousand children and young adults died, and more than 20,000 were left with permanent mild to severe muscle and nerve damage, including paralysis. <br />
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Up on the Brentwood hilltop Mount student were relatively safe. Science and nursing majors studied the disease intently, receiving advice in the columns of <i>The View </i>about what scientific articles to read. Recruited by ads in the paper, many students responded with regular blood donations for the Red Cross after it was discovered that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_globulin" target="_blank"><b>gamma globulin</b></a>, a blood component, boosted the immune system and was effective in reducing the symptoms of polio and and other serious diseases.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Adelaide Spuhler Mealey '49</i></td></tr>
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Students at a a Family Day event in 1954 heard a talk from an alumna about day-to-day living after surviving polio. Adelaide Spuhler Mealey, '49 contracted polio after her marriage but was able to care for her two toddlers from her wheelchair.<br />
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<b>Virus research</b><br />
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No blog on viruses and MSMU can fail to mention our <b><a href="https://mountarchives.blogspot.com/2013/05/sr.html" target="_blank">famous CSJ biologist, Sister Mary Gerald Leahy</a>,</b> whose pioneering research in the 1960s on mosquito reproduction was surfaced anew during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_virus" target="_blank"><b>Zika virus</b></a> epidemic in 2016. Rampant in South America, the Zika virus is spread by <i>aedes aegypti </i>mosquitoes -- which Sister Gerald actually raised in St. Joseph Hall -- and can cause serious birth defects if the mother contracts it during her pregnancy. The epidemic struck at the time of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janiero, foreshadowing the current debate over canceling the 2020 Summer Olympics. The Rio Games went on as planned, but because of Covid-19 the Toyko Olympics have been postponed. <br />
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<b>Coronavirus</b><br />
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Wildfire, epidemics -- never has the Mount been entirely closed in its history until now. The wonderful benefits of transportation and travel mean that the safety and isolation of the mid-century Mount and earlier is almost a dream. But the students of the early 1950s, sweating out the polio epidemic, didn't have smartphones, online classes, Zoom or digital article databases. The common thread is that we live with uncertainty and sometimes fear, but life always manages to go on.<br />
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And while all of Los Angeles is on lockdown, maybe we will have a little more time for this blog! Stay safe, stay healthy. <br />
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<b>Sources</b><br />
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We have access to so much wonderful stuff. Check out <b><a href="http://stmary2.sdlhost.com/#/item/000000203000160/view" target="_blank">Sister Mary Agnes Rossiter, CSJ, A Sketch of Her Life</a></b> by Sister Lucinda Savage, CSJ (1947), which mentions the Spanish Flu. The CSJs' early hospitals and cholera epidemics are mentioned in <b><a href="http://stmary2.sdlhost.com/#/item/000000203000169/view" target="_blank">The Century's Harvest 1836-1936</a></b>, also by Sister Lucinda. Digital copies of <i>The View </i>and all our digital collections can be viewed at <b><a href="http://stmary2.sdlhost.com/">http://stmary2.sdlhost.com</a></b>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>An advertisement from </i>The View<i> on February 16, 1957, urges students<br />to donate blood to create gamma globulin to fight polio and other diseases.</i></td></tr>
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<b> </b>Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-30049409772231235772019-02-20T16:09:00.001-08:002021-03-10T10:07:37.757-08:00Another hall of learning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Home of William and Blanche Hinman Garland, ca. 1901.</i></td></tr>
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<b>A COLLEAGUE RESEARCHING</b> the original St. James Park in the West Adams historic district came across a mention of Garland Hall, a graceful mansion that originally occupied the lot on the northwest corner of West Adams Boulevard and South St. James Place. Garland Hall, we were surprised to learn, was briefly part of the original Downtown Campus of Mount St. Mary's.<br />
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The house at 815 W. Adams Blvd. was built by real estate developer William "Billy" Garland around 1901 and occupied by Garland (who died in 1948) and his widow until her death in 1958.<br />
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<b>It was never part</b> of the Doheny compound next door on Chester Place, and its Mount connection lasted only a few years. When Blanche Garland died in 1958 she deeded the property to the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, which in turn sold it to the Catholic Archdiocese. Thus it was literally in the neighborhood and available when the Mount opened Downtown in the fall of 1962. <br />
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An old Admissions brochure from 1963-1964 lists Garland Hall with the other buildings and their original names:<br />
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<b>–Fontbonne Hall </b>(known now as Building 10) - administrative offices, chapel, bookstore and classrooms<br />
<b>–Médaille Hall</b> (Building 2) - library and study rooms<br />
<b>–Faculty-Student Center</b> (Building 1) - informal lounges, meeting rooms, student body offices and counseling services<br />
<b>–Carondelet Center</b> (Building 8-1/2) - Home Economics center<br />
<b>–Garland Hall </b>(815 W. Adams Blvd.) - fine arts gallery and studios<br />
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The Catholic Archdiocese sold the building and it was demolished in 1972, to be replaced with nondescript apartments, something that was happening to stately homes all over the area. But for a almost a decade it was home to art exhibits, music performances and aspiring young artists.<br />
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<b>Discovering the existence</b> of Garland Hall might also solve a little mystery that has intrigued us for years. During a cleaning up operation a few years ago, a number of paintings turned up in storage in the Doheny Mansion. Some were by prominent Los Angeles artists, including Mount benefactor José Drudis-Biada, complete with exhibit information and price tags. But they had been jammed rather haphazardly into two closets in the basement and left there for the next 45 years. Perhaps they once graced the gallery in Garland Hall. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A writeup for an exhibit in </i>The View<i>, October 15, 1964.</i></td></tr>
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Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-53316418727746543622018-09-07T15:09:00.001-07:002018-09-07T15:13:06.331-07:00Poem for a feast day<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b>THE SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH OF CARONDELET,</b> our university's founders, count many poets among their members. As an archival reflection for the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_of_Mary" target="_blank">Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin</a></b> (also known as Jesus' mother), September 8, we offer these short lines from Sister St. Catherine Beavers, CSJ. We invite you to consider how she poses the smallness of a human mother and her baby daughter with a hint of the the supernatural — and in so few words.<br />
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<i>Nativity of our Blessed Mother (1931)<br /><br />A tiny crib – a sacred place<br />A tiny place where angels trod.<br />A tiny babe – a child of the earth<br />A mother of a God.</i></blockquote>
Sister St. Catherine – aka Mother St. Catherine (d. 1945) – was the Provincial Superior (1917-1923) right ahead of our founding president, Mother Margaret Mary Brady. <br />
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When the Mount was founded in 1925, Sister St. Catherine was included as a special “councilor” to the new college, although she was also missioned as the head of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Academy_of_Our_Lady_of_Peace" target="_blank"><b>Our Lady of Peace</b></a>. When she stepped down as provincial, the University of Southern California honored her with a master of arts degree <i>pro merito.</i><br />
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We have copies of her volume of poetry published in 1931, <i>A Thought at Christmastide and other Poems</i>, at the CSJ Institute Library on the Doheny Campus and here in Chalon Special Collections.Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-48531423560923187082018-07-31T16:50:00.004-07:002021-03-10T10:07:20.127-08:00Mary Chapel's Stations of the Cross<br />
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<b>WE BLOGGED THE OTHER DAY</b> about some of the treasures that have surfaced this summer in storage in the Mary Chapel Sacristy, and now we're going to dig into a little more history about one of them.<br />
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A framed document in Latin is dated 1932, which would be within a year or two of when the Mount community finally moved up the hill to the new Brentwood campus (the future Chalon) from temporary quarters at St. Mary's Academy in Inglewood.<br />
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<b>Brady Hall was the one and only</b> structure until 1939 when Mary Chapel was built. It was a beautiful, multipurpose building into which were crammed the CSJs' convent, student dorms, dining facilities, classrooms, science labs, library, infirmary and <a href="https://mountarchives.blogspot.com/2011/06/found-brady-hall-chapel.html" target="_blank"><b>of course a chapel</b></a>. Mass was mandatory and celebrated daily in two converted dorm rooms with the dividing wall removed.<br />
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Every Catholic church is entitled to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stations_of_the_Cross" target="_blank"><b>Stations of the Cross</b></a>, or Way of the Cross, an ancient devotion that relives Jesus' passion and death in 14 "stations," usually around the walls of the nave. The Latin is <i>Via Crucis</i>, and this document kept in the Sacristy is formal, written permission to stage them in the chapel at the new Mount campus.<br />
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<b>These days, the Stations</b> in Mary Chapel are barely noticeable, owing to their small size and decades of grime. In the tiny Brady Hall chapel, there was room for only 14 small pictures, but when the new Mary Chapel was consecrated in 1940, the old Stations were incorporated into the new architecture. The originals were photographed and enlarged, and then hand tinted by one of the Art Department faculty, Sister Ignatia Cordis, CSJ. The covering varnish has darkened and muted the original colors, but when you looks at them now, you are seeing part of the Mount's first chapel in 1932. (What became of the originals is unknown.)<br />
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Out of curiosity, we looked into why the Catholic Church had to give formal permission for the Stations. If a devoted Catholic reverently "walks" the Stations using the appropriate prayers, he or she is entitled to have sins wiped away, called an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence" target="_blank"><b>indulgence</b></a>. From medieval times, pilgrims following Jesus' final footsteps in Jerusalem -- the real Stations of the Cross -- were granted a variety of indulgences, good for clearing one or two or a lifetime of sins. The popularity of the pilgrimage led it eventually to be extended to local parishes. A penitent praying the <i>Via Crucis</i> in her home church is essentially making a little pilgrimage and can discharge her sins without having to go all the way to the Holy Land. This approach was popularized in the 1600s by the Franciscans, who since 1217 have been the custodians of the original Way of the Cross through the ancient streets of Jerusalem.<br />
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It is the opportunity to receive an indulgence that explains why any installation of the Stations of the Cross has to be blessed by the local prelate; they have to be done in the proper form according to Church norms. (We have an artist's concept of the Stations in the J. Thomas
McCarthy Library on the Doheny Campus, but they're not "licensed," so no indulgences.)<br />
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The Mount's <i>Documenta Pro Erectione S. Viae Crucis</i> -- "evidence for the building of the holy Way of the Cross" -- is signed in Latin by Sister Margaret Brady, CSJ (<i>Soror Margarita Maria)</i>, the Mount's founding president; Father Ermin Vitry, OSB, a Benedictine monk who was Mount chaplain and a music professor; and Most Rev. John (<i>Joannes) </i>J. Cantwell, archbishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles (<i>Angelorum</i>) and San Diego (<i>Sti. Didaci</i>).<br />
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The Franciscans' 800-year-old custodianship of the Holy Land explains why it is also signed by two Franciscans. Head (<i>guardian</i>) of the Franciscan province at Mission Santa Barbara, Father Dominic (<i>Dominicus</i>) Gallardo, OFM, authorized as his local delegate Father John (<i>Joannes</i>) Otterstedt, OFM, to make sure everything was on the up and up.<br />
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Since the old Stations were incorporated into the new chapel, there was no need of a new <i>Documentum </i>in 1939. Those Stations and their <i>Documentum</i> are all that remains of the original chapel except a couple of fuzzy photographs. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The first Mount Chapel right before its final liturgy in mid-December 1939. <br />After that, Mass was celebrated in Mary Chapel. The room is opposite<br />the elevators on the second floor of Brady Hall, now a lounge.</i></td></tr>
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<br />Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-24924970633517226952018-07-31T12:51:00.001-07:002021-03-10T10:06:50.285-08:00Hidden treasures of the chapel<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>L.A. Archbishop John J. Cantwell and a cadre of other priests preside at<br />the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benediction_of_the_Blessed_Sacrament" target="_blank"><b>Benediction </b></a>liturgy dedicating Mary Chapel on May 2, 1940.</i></td></tr>
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<b>SUMMERTIME AND EVERYONE's </b>cleaning out their desks. Or in the case of Campus Ministry at Chalon, the sacristy in Mary Chapel.<br />
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If one had the honor of being an altar server as a school kid, one will know what this means. Sacristy, from the Latin word for holy or sacred, is where the priest suits up before mass, known as vesting. It is a little liturgy in its own rite (sorry, that's a pun) with its own prayers. Other sacred objects are kept there for use during various celebrations in the church.<br />
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Since Mass is no longer celebrated daily at the Mount, the Mary Chapel sacristy has also evolved into something of a storage closet. From a historical standpoint, we're glad! One of the Campus Ministry student workers, nursing senior Chris Lorenzo '19, volunteered to clean it out. We helped with identification and in the process picked up some Mount history along the way. Check out the photos and captions below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A set of candlesticks in two sizes, which originally number<br />six of each size. The complete array is visible on the<br />altar behind Cantwell in the picture at the top.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The picture above also shows Archbishop<br />Cantwell holding this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrance" target="_blank"><b>monstrance </b></a>at the dedication<br />of Mary Chapel in 1940. It's missing the </i>luna<i>,<br />the part that holds the sacred Host.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Detail of the 1940 monstrance showing St. Peter carved<br />in ivory. Its size and weight suggest it might have been<br />intended for a permanent location in a side chapel.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A lighter monstrance of classic sunburst design shows<br />up in photos starting in the 1940s and was probably<br />used for regular Benediction liturgies.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The sacristy revealed a number of old altar cloths, like this one made<br />of linen with a handmade lace border.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Priest's </i>amice<i>, a small cloth wrapped around the shoulders beneath the white </i>alb <i>and secured with ties around the chest. This one probably hasn't </i><i><i>been worn </i>in more than 50 years.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Official church permission to have a Stations of the Cross in Mary<br />Chapel, signed by Archbishop Cantwell, the president and chaplain<br />of the Mount, and members of the Franciscan Order in 1932. It<br />actually pertains to <a href="https://mountarchives.blogspot.com/2011/06/found-brady-hall-chapel.html" target="_blank"><b>the original tiny chapel in Brady Hall</b></a>.</i></td></tr>
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<br />Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-83321106035063494602018-06-21T12:55:00.005-07:002021-08-05T15:57:54.110-07:00Before Athena, there was ... the goat<div class="MsoNormal">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Circa 1950, the mountain goat served as MSMU's mascot. We have one<br />in the Archives thanks to Sister Rose Adrian Peukert, CSJ '54.</i></td></tr>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>WELCOME ATHENIANS! </b>A large sign on the proscenium in front of Mary Chapel today welcomes our incoming students to Chalon </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Orientation and the start of Fall 2018 two months from now. (Yikes!)</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In another era, the sign might have said, "Welcome Mountain Goats." All we can say is, thank goodness <i>that </i>mascot didn't stick!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>1956: The collective name for Mount<br />teams and students alike was Mountie.</i></td></tr>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Colleges and universities</b> with big sports programs usually have well-known mascots, like the Bruin or Tommy Trojan. For a very long time at the Mount, decades, there was no actual mascot. The university (then a college) fielded
plenty of competitive tennis teams, runners and swimmers, even equestrians, but Mount students collectively were known simply as "the Mounties," a name that stuck until the late 1960s.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For a few years in the early 1950s, there was a genuine cute and fuzzy mascot. One arrived in the archives in person the other day, a little
stuffed animal of faded purple wool felt, with floppy ears and horns and MSMC appliquéd
in orangey-gold on both sides.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>The mascot was donated</b> to us by Sister Rose Adrian Peukert,
CSJ, '54. She was a Mountie herself for three years until entering the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1951. With that time frame, we consulted our yearbooks and newspapers to see if there were any mentions of stuffed goats.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Our friendly Mountie Goat inspects an art <br />book in the Porch at Chalon library.</i></td></tr>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to the 1950 and 1951 yearbooks, the Women's Recreation Assn., a campus athletic club, was responsible for selling athletic gear in the bookstore. The yearbooks mention the "W.R.A. store -- <i>goats</i>, sweatshirts, tennis balls..." That must be our mascot.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>When you think about it, </b>the Mountie Goat was an obvious choice of mascot for the intrepid women who had to make the climb from the bus stop on Sunset Boulevard to the college, back in the days when regular shuttles didn't exist and few students had their own cars.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beyond the 1950s, the little Mountie Goat didn’t catch on. Once the Doheny Campus became part of
the MSMU in 1962, the mountain-oriented mascot didn't work for everyone. In the 1980s,
when the Mount started promoting competitive sports, Athena was
finally adopted as mascot. The Greek embodiment of bold, intelligent woman truly captured the
spirit of the school.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On
the other hand, <a href="https://www.outdoorproject.com/blog-news/best-hikes-see-mountain-goats" target="_blank"><b>mountain goats</b></a> are known to have that
special grit we call {<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4p-P9tX9TQ" target="_blank"><b>Unstoppable</b></a>}, and this little critter is pretty cute. Think about mountain goats and our Mountie Goat next time you have to
hike from Chalon Road up to the Circle.</span></div>
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<![endif]-->Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-11708508601822143222018-06-13T12:55:00.001-07:002018-07-31T14:02:50.427-07:00Book find : More quack tracking<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>One remedy, primarily alcoholic, promises to relieve seizures.</i></td></tr>
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<b>WE ARE WEEDING</b> some out-of-date nursing and medical books, an otherwise dispiriting task that is occasionally saved by the fun find. <br />
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<i>Nostrums and Quackery, Vol. II </i>landed on our desk for review this week, giving this blog <a href="http://mountarchives.blogspot.com/2018/06/book-find-quack-tracking.html" target="_blank">another installment</a> in the long-running (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos" target="_blank">and ongoing!</a>) story of medical fakery.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Death of a diabetic who was <br />treating himself with a patent medicine<br />made by the John J. Fulton Co. of<br />San Francisco.</i></td></tr>
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<i>Nostrums</i>, published in 1921 by the American Medial Assn., dates from the Golden age of patent medicines and dubious remedies. In the early years of the 20th Century, with its promises of scientific breakthroughs, alarmed physicians found their patients had stopped heeding their advice and instead were placing their trust in hucksters. Promising to cure everything from tuberculosis to nicotine addiction, patent medicines could be purchased from street vendors, reputable pharmacies, through the mail and from prestigious-sounding medical "institutes."<br />
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<b>The AMA collected hundreds</b> of reports in three volumes, reproducing some of the advertisements and providing verbatim accounts from the doctors. As evidence, several doctors included death certificates for patients who had succumbed to disease despite the claims of whatever quack cure they were ingesting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Wine of Cardui came to the attention of the federal Office of Indian Affairs. <br />The label gradually changes as false claims are eliminated.</i></td></tr>
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Preying on the sick and suffering, patent medicine salesmen also targeted vulnerable groups like Native Americans. Concerned teachers at an Indian School in Arizona wrote to the U.S. government about something called Wine of Cardui that was suddenly flooding the reservation. It was advertised, with testimonials, as a "women's tonic" for relief of menopausal symptoms, prolapsed uteruses, decreased libido and menstrual cramps. Like most of these remedies, the main and only effective ingredient was pure alcohol.<br />
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<b>For an AMA medical text,</b> <i>Nostrums and Quackery</i> is highly entertaining, with plenty of detail and outraged comments from doctors, patients, victims and the local newspapers. Browse it below, or stop by Special Collections at Chalon to enjoy the real thing.<br />
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<br />Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-41997294106217161142018-06-11T13:33:00.002-07:002018-08-17T12:55:08.765-07:00Book find : Quack tracking<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Alma Levant Hayden, shown in her lab at the National Institutes of <br />Health. She later worked for the FDA.<i> (NIH photo.)</i></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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<b>WOMEN SCIENTISTS WERE A RARITY</b> in the middle of the last century. We were happy to run across an interesting article in the <i>Washington Post</i> from last summer about Alma Levant Hayden, a researcher in the 1950s and 1960s for the Food and Drug Administration. She was a rarity in a number of ways in the world of federal scientists back then : a woman and an African American in the rarefied world of cancer research. And it leads us to some scientific women at MSMU in the 1940s and 1950s doing the same thing.<br />
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The <i>Post</i> article is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-doctor-said-it-could-cure-cancer-the-federal-chemist-proved-that-it-couldnt/2017/08/26/62e72986-88d0-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.52d948b052b9" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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An old book on our library bookshelves turned up last week called<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/george-d-stoddard/krebiozen-the-great-cancer-mystery/" target="_blank"><i> 'Krebiozen' : The Great Cancer Mystery</i></a> and we thought we'd find out what we could about it. Google led us to Hayden, who is known for having unmasked in 1963 this cancer "cure" that despite its developers' credentials proved to be a much more mundane substance. The 1955 book tells the story of a scientific debate that led to congressional hearings, Wall Street investigations and, ultimately, which brought down a university president.<br />
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<b>Strangely, the book</b> has a place in Mount history, which circles us back to pioneering women scientists.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowP4zxbHbqFtQVNHYKg06BHEJ_vDCEtStR1cmcGRpqMlUDjFVb7FTKqXzycQX5YBDPii0TI-HC5Yeth2Kn_uLbQnky3Kz56McEaJ4_NY2MiYB99AwfaoVvUBJufjkWTkAue42P6VBQp0/s1600/Cancer-students.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="931" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowP4zxbHbqFtQVNHYKg06BHEJ_vDCEtStR1cmcGRpqMlUDjFVb7FTKqXzycQX5YBDPii0TI-HC5Yeth2Kn_uLbQnky3Kz56McEaJ4_NY2MiYB99AwfaoVvUBJufjkWTkAue42P6VBQp0/s320/Cancer-students.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>MSMC's Cancer Department students in 1949, from left:<br />Mildred Lerch, Clara Wong, Estelle Zehngebot, Barbara<br />Golen, Kathleen Regan, Pauline Chang, Dolores Bowler <br />and Virginia Debley. (MSMU Archives photo.)<br /> </i></td></tr>
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In the late 1940s and early 1950s the Mount was home to a groundbreaking research department dedicated to the study of cancer, which was becoming a national priority. Not just unusual because all the students were women (and diverse), the Cancer Department was considered at the time to be the first in the world. You can read about the department's work <a href="http://stmary2.sdlhost.com/#search/q:%22boyer%20foundation%22/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<b>Furthermore, the Mount</b> had already made history in the 1940s by graduating highly trained women lab technicians at a time of a serious shortage of expertise caused by World War II. So sought after were the Mount's science graduates that the federal government allowed scarce building materials to be deployed to construct St. Joseph Hall in 1944, because it would expand the number of science labs and thus the number of graduates.<br />
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We love how one little book<b> </b>can evoke an interesting era in the history of scientific research and women in science. It's a chance, too, to remember their unsung role in the 75-year (and counting) battle against what remains a dreaded disease.Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-14076598921983451052018-03-01T13:44:00.001-08:002021-03-10T09:28:55.039-08:00Prophecy on the Mount<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Abigail McCarthy, right, is greeted by Sister Magdalen Coughlin, CSJ, left, <br />during a visit by McCarthy to the Mount in 1968. Looking on are CSJ faculty <br />members Sisters Eleanor Francis Powers and Catherine Therese Knoop. <br />Sister Magdalen, later MSMU President, was on the faculty at the time. <br />She and McCarthy were fellow alumnae of St. Kate's University.</i></td></tr>
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<b>THE MISSION STATEMENT </b>of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet mentions "prophetic witness."<br />
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Well, have we got some prophecy for you.<br />
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Forty years ago – a biblical number to be sure – a prominent woman in public life delivered some predictions during a visit to MSMU that are so startling in their accuracy that we thought we would share them to kick off Women's History Month.<br />
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<b>In 1978, Abigail McCarthy</b> was the estranged wife of Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) and a decade past his historic, divisive run at the presidency of the United States. An outspoken writer and opinion-maker in her own right who had visited the Mount in 1968, she was invited to deliver the Siena Day (academic symposium) keynote in February (reported in <b><a href="http://stmary2.sdlhost.com/#/item/000000059001835/view/14" target="_blank"><i>The View</i></a></b>), titled "Christian Woman: Towards a 21st Century." <br />
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She predicted:<br />
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<li>Fewer women will be married in the 21st Century, and of those who are half will be [single] heads of households. And this: "There will be no such thing as permanent commitments in the 21st Century."</li>
<li> There will be a larger number of independent nations, but fewer democratic republics.</li>
<li>"The [Catholic] Church will become a remnant in society" but the pope will be a symbol of unity.</li>
<li>There will be "less privacy and independence in small matters because computers are making our lives available to others."</li>
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<b>Think about it:</b> How did she foresee the startling decline in the rate of formal marriage and rise in single motherhood? The crumbling of the Soviet Union more than 10 years before it happened and the worldwide struggles for democracy? The shrinking population of practicing Catholics and the global popularity of Pope Francis?<br />
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Number 4 is the one that really gets us. In an era before personal computers and smartphones, how in the world did she ever anticipate the effects of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the digital privacy issues we contend with today?<br />
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We think the answer lies in the fact that Abigail McCarthy was a woman educated and formed by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. At a women's college she learned to lead. She learned to think as a prophetic witness, to read the signs of the times and act on them.<br />
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<b>McCarthy received her B.A.</b> at the College of St. Catherine (now known as St. Kate's University) in St. Paul, Minn., the CSJ school that educated so many members of the Mount's own religious community, including two presidents.<br />
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After college, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_McCarthy" target="_blank"><b>Abigail Quigley</b></a> met her future husband, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy" target="_blank"><b>a former Benedictine monk</b></a>, at the small rural school in North Dakota where they were teachers<b>. </b>Both devout Catholics, they spent their first years of married life on a social justice mission, a Catholic farm commune in Minnesota. "Gene" McCarthy went on to be a Farm Labor Party and Democratic congressional representative from Minnesota and was elected to the Senate in 1958.<br />
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<b>He is best remembered</b> as the presidential candidate who challenged Lyndon B. Johnson and the Vietnam War in 1968 (playing a role not unlike Bernie Sanders') in that notorious election year. An Archives picture records Abigail's first visit to the Mount during a campaign swing through Los Angeles, probably around the time of the California Primary Election in June 1968 (photo above).<br />
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The very next year, after losing the election, Gene left Abigail and their five children for his long-time mistress, a television news reporter. But as Catholics the McCarthys never divorced.<br />
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Abigail McCarthy, who died in 2001, went on to build a successful career as a writer and commentator, an articulate voice for the place of women in the Church, in politics, in social justice, in everyday life.<br />
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I<b>n other words, hers was a life </b>of prophetic witness in the CSJ sense. But as a prophet, Abigail McCarthy gave it a whole new meaning. <br />
<br />Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-60704964279844386352018-01-12T17:00:00.000-08:002018-02-09T11:18:19.545-08:00Pick a date... or a name<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Inaugural newsletter welcomes the "pioneer<br />class" of Weekend College, Sept. 12, 1992.</i></td></tr>
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<b>OUR WONDERFULLY SUCCESSFUL</b> Weekend College program celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2017.<br />
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No, wait -- maybe 2017 was the 37th anniversary.<br />
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Well, if you want to get technical, it was really the 61st. Or maybe even the 79th.<br />
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Which one is right?<br />
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The choice of start dates for the "weekend program" regularly causes a certain amount of confusion, because Mount Saint Mary's University (and before that, College) has been offering classes on weekend days and weekday evenings for a very long time. In fact, every time we delve into the topic, we end up pushing back the date another decade or two.<br />
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The question came up again today so we dug in and rolled back the clock again. The solution lies in knowing that although the program name has changed and its scope expanded, the weekend offerings definitely began not long after the Mount's founding in 1925.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The graduate school catalog from 1960 shows<br />Saturday and late afternoon <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">classes</span>.</i></td></tr>
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<b>The classes on Saturdays</b>, in the spirit of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet, have always been about recognizing a need and filling it. This began as a way to accommodate a particular category of working students: schoolteachers. Nuns teaching in Catholic schools and laywomen in public schools could attend only on Saturdays, late afternoons and early evenings, so the Mount adjusted certain curricula to fit their schedules.<br />
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The first Saturday class we can find is the fall of 1938, a philosophy class taught by Father Patrick J. Dignan (who went on to teach at the Mount for decades). In the next several years, Saturday classes were added as a need arose.<br />
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<b>The weekend program starts</b> to look more like today's Weekend College in the fall of 1957. As explained by our wonderful historian of MSMU's first 50 years, Sister Mary Germaine McNeil, CSJ, of blessed memory,<br />
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<i>The purpose of this conveniently located center at No. 2 Chester Place ... was to make adult-education classes more available for in-service teachers and other religious and secular students in the metropolitan areas at a distance from the main [Chalon] campus. Courses in education, psychology, and theology were offered in the late afternoon and on Saturday. The adult-education program registered 157 students during the first year.</i></blockquote>
Under the direction of Sister Regina Clare Salazar, CSJ, courses in English, history, math, and Spanish soon followed. Keep in mind that this promising start occurred a full <i>five years</i> before the Mount opened its Doheny Campus in September 1962. Being virtually invisible, however, the adult-education program continued throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s with hardly a glance by the rest of the Mount.<br />
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But in 1980 the next step toward a formal program emerged.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Announcement of new program in November 1979.</i></td></tr>
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<b>"Spend your evenings earning</b> a degree or enjoying enrichment courses at MSMC," read the front page announcement in <i>The View </i>in November 1979. The following spring semester new students were able to enroll in degree-granting programs ranging from associate to graduate school.<br />
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By 1980, a different need had been perceived by the CSJ administrators. The number of already-working teachers requiring bachelor's degrees and credentials had dwindled, but a recession economy was sending new types of students back into the classroom.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Evening College was the program for working adults begun in 1980.</i></td></tr>
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"This program is aimed at three groups," said Sister Paulette Gladis, CSJ, Evening College's new director. "Re-entry students [women returning to the workforce after raising families], students being retrained in a certain area of study [usually after being laid off from a job], and students interested simply in enriching themselves."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sr. Paulette Gladis, CSJ,<br />first head of Evening College.</i></td></tr>
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Evening College at first was only for women, who attended classes one evening a week at one or the other campus. It continued in this form for more than a decade until the fall of 1992, which is when Weekend College finally took its current shape.<br />
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<b>The inaugural class was 94</b> women earning a baccalaureate degree in business or liberal arts. Classes were held every two or three weekends on the Chalon Campus.<br />
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Evening College, meanwhile, continued to meet at Doheny and evolved into a new entity called the Evening/Weekend Division. Associate degrees and certificates were offered to women in various healthcare-related fields.<br />
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By 1996 Weekend College had absorbed the Evening division, opened admissions to men and conferred graduate degrees. In 2006 the rapidly expanding program moved to the Doheny Campus.<br />
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<b>So what anniversary date </b>sounds most appealing? Personally, we like Father Dignan's philosophy class way back in 1938. That means in Fall 2018 we can celebrate 80 years of meeting the educational needs of working adults, always responding to change but holding true to the Mount's essential mission. And by the way, the name changed again. As of 2014, it's Weekend and Evening College, and we're not sure how long that one will last.<br />
<br />Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-69347651616530582082018-01-10T16:46:00.006-08:002018-01-11T09:15:26.239-08:00A new treasure<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This handwritten document begins with a decorated rendering of<br />the name of Pope Alexander VI. </i></td></tr>
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<b>WE ARE PUTTING ON OUR RARE BOOKS HAT </b>to thank the librarians of Western State College of Law in San Diego for their donation of a special book to the MSMU Libraries. Its unpromising title is <i>The earliest diplomatic Documents on America, the papal bulls of 1493 and the treaty of Tordesillas reproduced and translated</i>, but it nevertheless sheds light on an extraordinary chapter in the history of the Americas.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Alexander VI was one of the<br />so-called Borgia or Borja popes.</i></td></tr>
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<b>These famous, or infamous, </b>proclamations (known as "bulls") by Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503) handed Spain political "ownership" of all the newly found countries in the Western Hemisphere, from North Pole to South Pole and everything in between.<br />
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Coming just a year after Columbus' voyage to the Americas, the bulls by this Spanish-born pope have been condemned by many modern scholars for spreading colonialism, subjugating native peoples and even condoning slavery. But regardless of their tragic outcome, the documents are an important part of the legal legacy of the New World, affecting global diplomacy and maritime law for centuries.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Even today, papal proclamations<br />are made in Latin.</i></td></tr>
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<b>Separate from the contents, </b>the book is interesting in its own right. The early to middle 20th Century saw a number of high-end reproductions of famous books and documents aimed in limited press runs at discerning book collectors.<br />
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Nowadays we take such things as photocopying and scanning for granted, but the technology for accurate reproduction of a printed or handwritten page was still in its infancy in the 1920s. Only 172 copies of this book were printed in Berlin in 1927 (translated and published by Paul Gottschalk).<br />
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Besides the documents, the book also has lots of amazing maps along with explanatory text.<br />
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<b>We have a few other important facsimiles</b> here in Archives and Special Collections at Chalon. In the 1950s, Countess Estelle Doheny gave to the Mount library the first-ever reproductions of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells" target="_blank">Book of Kells</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne_Gospels" target="_blank">Lindisfarne Gospels </a>(both treasured manuscripts from ancient Ireland) and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_bible" target="_blank">Gutenberg Bible</a>.<br />
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A famous book collector herself, Mrs. Doheny recognized that these works were part of the fabric of Western Civilization and therefore worthy of inclusion in a good liberal arts library. In the same vein, we are now proud to add Alexander VI's landmark documents to the collection.Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-14853383060867618372018-01-09T11:24:00.000-08:002021-03-10T10:00:21.050-08:00Behind the modern exterior<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Seniors bide their time on the Porch of Coe Library before the start<br />of Commencement exercises at Chalon, undated photo from 1950s.</i></td></tr>
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<b>DOWN IN THE BASEMENT OF COE LIBRARY</b> is one of the nicest spaces on the Chalon Campus, in our opinion. We refer to it as the Porch -- which we'll explain in a minute -- but for students it's simply a quiet space to study. Silence is enforced by signs and an occasional warning <i>shush </i>from a librarian. When you think about it, how many places can you find around here where people aren't chatting, talking on the phone, or watching a video?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Porch today is a quiet study area.</i></td></tr>
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One wall of the long room is windows looking out onto ocean views, hillside landscapes and treetops. On the wall opposite are children's literature, music and art books giving the space a warm library ambiance. On this rainy morning, several students are alone at their tables, poring over their books and assignments. It's so quiet you could hear a mouse sneeze, if we had any mice (which we are pretty sure we don't).<br />
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<b>You'd never know</b> that you're looking at what was once a ballroom designed for elegant parties. It was our own founder, Mother Margaret Mary Brady, CSJ, who suggested the inclusion of a "social hall" when the plans for the new Charles Willard Coe Memorial Library were drawn up in 1945.<br />
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Perhaps Mother Margaret Mary knew that her students' boyfriends and fiancés would soon be returning home from World War II and would be ready to start living a normal life again. In those days, too, Loyola University (decades before Marymount came along) was considered the Mount's "brother school," and there were regular mixers and galas at local hotel ballrooms and social clubs that included dancing to the fabulous Big Band music of the 1940s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mount girls at the Senior Prom with their boyfriends, <br />most in uniform, during the closing days of World War II. <br />This 1945 event was held at a local social club.</i></td></tr>
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<b>As a result of Mother's suggestion,</b> the bottom floor of Coe Library was designed with its own, separate entrance. Guests entered via an open "colonnade" with an ocean view that extended the length of the library building. French doors opened onto the 160-foot-long ballroom. The dance floor was made of dense, highly polished maplewood, the same material used for basketball courts. Other features included a small room for checking coats and wraps, a small kitchen and an orchestra pit for live music.<br />
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Sadly, the only "souvenir" of that gracious space is the Porch study area of today. When the library was renovated in 1995 the colonnade was enclosed and carpeted. The book stacks stop at the load-bearing wall because the architecture of the porch wasn't strong enough to support them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mother Margaret Mary Brady</i></td></tr>
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<b>But not surprisingly, a dedicated ballroom </b>didn't survive very long anyway. A fast-growing college, the Mount needed that space over the ensuing years for many other purposes -- as a dormitory for CSJ Sisters and later for students; storage, classrooms, offices, library books. A full-fledged social hall was too much of a luxury by the time the 1950s rolled around.<br />
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But if you use your imagination, there is still the ocean view. Sit at one of the last two tables on the south end of the Porch on a clear day and you can see the Pacific Ocean sparkling beyond Santa Monica. Imagine yourself all dressed up in a formal or tuxedo, ready to show off your waltz or fox trot on the gleaming maple floor.Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-49975567269255273962017-01-18T14:22:00.000-08:002017-01-18T14:58:08.434-08:00It's 'typical'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Postcard of Doheny Mansion recently acquired by the Archives.</i></td></tr>
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<b>'TYPICAL' ISN'T A WORD</b> often associated with No. 8 Chester Place, but this picture postcard with a December, 1910, postmark doesn't even identify it as the opulent home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Doheny. It's just a "California Home, according to the printed caption," with grounds "typical of California yards," writes sender "C.W.B."</div>
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Here's the text of the note to Miss Grace Baker of Guide Rock, Nebraska, population 690 in 1910. </div>
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<i>How is the Picture business coming, or have you stopped for the winter? It is like summer here and the oranges are ripening. This picture is typical of Calif. yards. Have learned to drive an auto a little and went up into Sierra Madre Mts. without a mishap Sunday. We like it fine here. Regards to your father. C.W.B. </i>[<i>G?</i>]<i> Del.</i></blockquote>
<b>We wonder where CWB</b> was living that gave him the idea that the Dohenys' home was just another L.A. abode. Maybe he was dazzled by all the palm trees. And what's this about the Picture business? Were people making movies in turn-of-the-century Nebraska?<br />
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In any event, if we were Miss Baker, we'd be packing our bags before the next Nebraska blizzard and on the train to the real movie capital of the world.<br />
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<b>We have lots</b> of other historic postcards of the anything-but-typical Chester Place on view on our repository site. Just go to<b> <a href="http://stmary2.sdlhost.com/" target="_blank">http://stmary2.sdlhost.com/</a></b> and click on the Postcards box. Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-46785754429312757252016-10-27T12:01:00.007-07:002021-03-05T09:26:25.652-08:00Those fashionable nurses<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A Mount student in the complete nursing ensemble leads<br />the Class of 1955 from their Capping Ceremony in Mary Chapel.</i></td></tr>
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<b>FANS OF THE BRITISH SERIES</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_the_Midwife" target="_blank"><i><b>Call the Midwife</b></i></a> love the nurses' immaculate light-blue uniforms with maroon caps, matching sweaters, and a jaunty a secret-agent-style gray trench coat.<br />
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That era, the late 1950s and early 1960s, must have been the Golden Age of nursing fashion, because Mount students in the same decade had their own unique outfits – a crisp grey shirtwaist dress with thin white stripes, covered by a starchy white pinafore and topped off by the official MSMC nurses' cap, presented during the annual capping ceremony in Mary Chapel. <br />
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<b>But the most wonderful part,</b> the <i>pièce de résistance</i>, had to be the dashing thigh-length navy cape with bright red lining.<br />
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These were made of a heavy wool (think Navy peacoat) and had a standup collar with M.S.M.C. embroidered in shiny gold. A chain at the back allowed it to be hung on a hook without damaging the fabric.<br />
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<b>Unlike the midwives </b>of Nonnatus House, Mount nurses probably never made their speedy rounds on bicycles in their capes, and if they had they would have roasted in the heavy wool. But what an impressive sight they would have made!<br />
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Thanks to Alanna Madrid '15 in the Alumnae Relations Office, we recently acquired for the Archives a cape in perfect condition that was worn by a member of the Class of 1953 -- only the second baccalaureate nursing class in California history. Another alumna donated her dress, pinafore and cap several years ago, so we now have the complete ensemble from the first years of MSMU's nursing department. Stop by for a visit – there's more to archives than papers and photos!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Publicity shot of Grace Mathews Scherrer in the early 1950s. </i></td></tr>
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<b>WE HOPE YOU DON'T MIND</b> the <b><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheesecake" target="_blank">cheesecake photograph</a></b>, but we are illustrating a situation in which archivists find themselves from time to time.<br />
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The 8" by 10" black and white glossy turned up in a large cardboard box filled with similar photos, playbills, clippings, postcards and even a box of professional-size <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_(photography)#Flashbulbs" target="_blank">flash bulbs</a>.</b> </div>
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<b>The box itself </b>has been stored for years in a shed behind St. Joseph Hall on the Chalon Campus. Dr. Jennifer Chotiner, chair of the biological sciences faculty, was cleaning out the shed and found the box. Why was it stored with science department stuff? What is its connection to the Mount? </div>
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Answers are: (1) Don't Know and (2) No Idea.<br />
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Quite a bit of stuff (archival term) comes through here that is initially hard to identify. But fairly quickly we can search our digitized publications for names and dates and come up with an MSMU connection. If that doesn't work, we contact the Provincial Archives at Carondelet Center and see if the name shows up in the CSJs' database of current and former Sisters.</div>
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<b>This stuff eluded us. </b>Our assistant archivist Nancy Steinmann spent some time going through the contents of the box and was able to establish a few things about the family. We then had a better idea of who this stuff belonged to and could start a search for current family members.<br />
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But we still had no idea how it ended up in storage here. </div>
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The beautiful young lady above is Grace Matthews Scherrer, a half-Filipina actress and dancer who enjoyed a movie career in the 1950s, playing one of Yul Brynner's wives in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_I_(1956_film)" target="_blank">"The King and I."</a></b> She also worked as a dancer and cigarette girl in Las Vegas in the 1950s.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE6T8lpxoSnFjtps3ze85ch_3gdHYFSS1cMzuXIHqYRBQBWP7eIxjsxzh5VutAEhFxcqawbS74c5l87idHeKNTcAyE3E5CKpWzDCS9v-7C3iAGft1PnV48aTZF42o06mDjrqdBjBUrM7w/s1600/20160628_GraceMathews-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE6T8lpxoSnFjtps3ze85ch_3gdHYFSS1cMzuXIHqYRBQBWP7eIxjsxzh5VutAEhFxcqawbS74c5l87idHeKNTcAyE3E5CKpWzDCS9v-7C3iAGft1PnV48aTZF42o06mDjrqdBjBUrM7w/s320/20160628_GraceMathews-2.jpg" width="264" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Grace, center, with fellow troupers. She traveled<br />with the 'China Doll Revue' for 6 months.</i></td></tr>
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<b>Her Filipina mother was Trinidad</b> “Trina” Escoda Gardner Matthews, evidently a beauty in her own right. Trina was a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II and later married James Matthews, Jr., a U.S. Army photographer. They had five kids, including Grace. Following in Dad's footsteps was Grace's brother Billy – which explains the flash bulbs.</div>
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Amid the clippings in the box is the interesting fact that Trina and Grace set a cultural record of sorts by both being chosen as <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_for_a_Day" target="_blank">"Queen for a Day"</a></b> within a week of each other. (This popular game show was the model for later big-prize giveaway programs.)</div>
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<b>The box had many other bits and pieces</b> of memorabilia that enabled Nancy to compile a list of a couple dozen friends, relatives and others who came in and out of Grace's and her family's lives. </div>
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But what's the connection to the Mount? We're getting close – literally. Fortunately, we've been able to make contact with a representative of the Scherrer family who tells us that Grace herself, at 83, is alive and well and living right down the hill on Grace (!) Lane across the street from Carondelet Center. Doris Tan is picking up the box tomorrow to restore it to the family, and maybe then we'll find out how it ended up in the hands of Dr. Chotiner.</div>
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<b>Oh – the Word of the Day</b>, <i>replevin. </i> This is a French legal and archival term adopted into English, and it basically means to return something to its rightful owner. Archives occasionally end up with family records, church registries, and so on that are transferred at some point but are considered <i>alienated</i> (another archival term) just a generation or two later because no one remembers why they were moved. </div>
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This is a replevin story with a happy ending. If we hadn't heard back from Doris Tan, our next stop was going to be the <b><a href="http://www.fanhsla.org/" target="_blank">L.A. Chapter of the Filipino American Historical Society</a></b>. But this wonderful scrapbook-in-a-box is going home.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfgWm5X_fPpNd_cfpCQEIdVra7Z1a9W0faQxuB_Iy6sLVBjTJ2NLeqpNvpvk56kSblue_lBYq6frHN8r_DWHI1toNazFaqnD8B8M8qG_wW_WcYGh2WgF_yiIFGDacaKyo19AQ1V4qmVJo/s1600/20160628_GraceMathews-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfgWm5X_fPpNd_cfpCQEIdVra7Z1a9W0faQxuB_Iy6sLVBjTJ2NLeqpNvpvk56kSblue_lBYq6frHN8r_DWHI1toNazFaqnD8B8M8qG_wW_WcYGh2WgF_yiIFGDacaKyo19AQ1V4qmVJo/s400/20160628_GraceMathews-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas where Grace worked in the 1950s.</i></td></tr>
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Postscript</h3>
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July 25, 2016</h4>
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<b>WE WROTE THE FOREGOING</b> a month ago, and since then the box has been replevin'd to Grace Matthews Scherrer. We just returned from lunch in Brentwood with her and her son, John.</div>
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The family didn't know of the box's existence, but when they got a chance to explore the contents, Grace concluded it had belonged to Grace's mother, Trinidad. She realized that a particular album of photos taken decades ago in the Philippines was missing, leading Grace to conclude that there has to be another box. No second box has [yet] presented itself, and Grace was as mystified as we are about the circumstances that brought the box to the Mount. The mystery continues.</div>
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<b>One mystery is solved, </b>though, the eponymous Grace Lane, 90049. A savvy real estate investory, Grace purchased 11 acres below Chalon Road and subdivided them in the late 1970s. She named the street for herself. </div>
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Grace Scherrer is worthy of having a street named after her. Her life adventures would make a book. The box gave us a chance to get to know her a little, and meeting her in person left us astonished -- Amazing Grace, as I'm starting to think of her. </div>
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And it all started with the unannounced arrival of a plain cardboard box.</div>
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Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-7766212504601747342016-05-06T17:43:00.005-07:002022-01-26T12:32:43.056-08:00Breaking another barrier <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz5wNls_FVbmktWmhT7ckOxYNYvbA8dh3ZRReyUzwqw2-cir7_q1SXsv-NT84Ihk4vCTSy9yLEiVt2vVM4uTA1gSntGC2sva2YdTLNoUKlf-9L3K19AOgonecKKTp8Gjb_iR2ovCeAKbU/s1600/1950s_nursing-phone.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz5wNls_FVbmktWmhT7ckOxYNYvbA8dh3ZRReyUzwqw2-cir7_q1SXsv-NT84Ihk4vCTSy9yLEiVt2vVM4uTA1gSntGC2sva2YdTLNoUKlf-9L3K19AOgonecKKTp8Gjb_iR2ovCeAKbU/s400/1950s_nursing-phone.jpg" width="346" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mrs. Betty Smith Williams of the nursing faculty takes a<br />phone call with colleagues Sister Albert Mary, Miss Eloise<br />King, and Sister John Bernard, in 1959 or 1960.</i></td></tr>
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<b>SKIMMING THROUGH THE 1957 YEARBOOK, </b>we noticed that among the 10 smiling members of the Nursing Department faculty was a black woman identified as Mrs. Betty Williams. We wondered whether that was unusual -- how many faculties at California colleges and universities had black faculty in those days? <br />
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It didn't take Google long to produce an answer: Our Betty Smith Williams was the first black professor in California -- male or female, in any subject, anywhere in higher education. It says so <b><a href="http://www.associates-degree-in-nursing.org/10-african-american-nurses-who-changed-the-course-of-history/" target="_blank">right here</a></b>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Betty Williams, center, with nursing colleagues Marjorie <br />Cogan and Sister Richard Joseph in 1958. </i></td></tr>
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<b>Should we be surprised?</b> After all, the Mount graduated a young black woman, Vivian Burgess '52, from its first-in-California bachelor's in nursing program. The brilliant Sister who made that happen, Rebecca Doan, CSJ, was still chair of Nursing in the fall of 1956 when Betty Williams broke the color barrier and joined the faculty.<br />
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Williams herself had already broken that same barrier when she became only the second African-American to earn a master's in nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio in 1954.<br />
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She taught at the Mount for 13 years, moving to the faculty at UCLA and many more firsts. You can read about them here: <a href="http://bit.ly/1Tt95d4"><b>http://bit.ly/1Tt95d4</b></a><br />
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<b>Now 82, Dr. Betty Smith Williams</b> remains actively engaged in issues of ethnic and racial diversity in nursing and nursing education, and continues to speak to the importance of cultural competency among nursing professionals.<br />
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In 2010, she received the prestigious designation <b><a href="http://www.aannet.org/living-legends" target="_blank">Living Legend</a></b> of the American Academy of Nursing, the second member of the Mount community to reach that pinnacle after <b><a href="https://www.bc.edu/schools/son/faculty/featured/theorist.html" target="_blank">Sister Callista Roy, CSJ</a></b> (2007).<br />
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<b>Dr. Williams' amazing academic career</b> got its start because our {Unstoppable} founding Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet weren't afraid to be bold -- nor were they interested in holding to the conventions of the day. <br />
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To the women and men of the Class of 2016 who will soon receive their diplomas, congratulations! In the footsteps of Sister Rebecca, Vivian Burgess, Dr. Williams and all the other remarkable people of the Mount who have gone before you, be {Unstoppable}. Be a first.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Betty Williams, seated at the end of the table, joins the rest of the<br />nursing faculty in a humorous moment during a meeting, 1956-1957.</i></td></tr>
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</p><p>[updated 1/25/2022]<br /></p>Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-51212337271511932592016-03-16T11:10:00.003-07:002016-03-16T11:37:13.840-07:00385 Years of Service<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>One of our favorite photos in the MSMU Archives: Sister Regina Clare<br />receiving her PhD in Education in 1972, which turned out to be USC's 100th in<br />that department. She was dean of graduate and undergraduate programs<br />at the time based at the newly renamed Doheny Campus. She is celebrating<br />seven decades as a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet.</i></td></tr>
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<b>SIX OF THE MOUNT'S SISTERS</b> are celebrating Jubilees this week during the festivities surrounding the feast of the CSJs' patron, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Joseph%27s_Day" target="_blank">St. Joseph</a></b>. Together, they've given an astounding 385 years of their lives to the CSJ mission: to do all of which woman is capable (in the words of their guiding light, Father Jean Pierre Medaille, S.J.) in serving the dear neighbor.<br />
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Three hundred and eighty-five years: That is an average of 64.16666667 years apiece. That number is skewed upward a bit by the tremendous vocation of Sister Constance Fitzgerald, 102, celebrating 85 years as a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet. </div>
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<b>Many of these Sisters' vocations </b>were lived out at Mount Saint Mary's University. Three of the six are alumnae, and all of them taught and/or performed administrative duties. Many had second and third careers after the Mount; as long as there were works of mercy to be done in the world, they were there to do them, continuing to help even in retirement.</div>
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<li><b>Sister Judy Diaz Molosky, 50 years - </b>Founded the Center for Urban Partnership on the Doheny Campus, coordinating service learning activities for MSMU students at downtown social service organizations. Mount alumna with B.A. in Mathematics.</li>
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<li><b>Sister Sandra Williams, 50 years - </b>Current Mount Trustee and member of the CSJ Leadership Team. She is a Mount alumna with a B.A. in Spanish.</li>
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<li><b>Sister Joan Henehan, 60 years - </b>Former Mount Trustee, formerly chair of the Religious Studies faculty, associate director of the Spiritual Life Program on the Doheny Campus. Mount alumna. </li>
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<li><b>Sister Cecile Therese Beresford, 70 years - </b>Chair of the Home Economics faculty at MSMU and former member of the CSJ Congregation Leadership in St. Louis.</li>
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<li><b>Sister Regina Clare Salazar, 70 years - </b>Member of the Education Faculty at MSMU and founder of the Mount’s first evening and weekend program at Chester Place in the 1950s. Became one of the early administrators of the new Doheny Campus starting in the 1960s. After MSMU became President and CEO of Daniel Freeman Hospital and now oversees the care of retired Sisters at Carondelet Center.</li>
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<li><b>Sister Mary Constance Fitzgerald, 85 years - </b>Longtime Doheny Campus resident and an alumna of Mount Saint Mary’s. She taught creative writing and child development during summer sessions at MSMU and volunteered in the Learning Resource Center. </li>
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We've put some pictures up on Facebook showing recent pictures of the Jubilarians along with some from yesteryear:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sister Constance Fitzgerald shown tutoring a student at Doheny in 1999 when she was<br /> a mere 85 years old. Now 102, she is celebrating 85 years of service as a CSJ.</i></td></tr>
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Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-30545581267785271702016-01-05T13:53:00.004-08:002016-01-05T14:27:38.702-08:00Deluges past<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Mount under construction in 1930 or 1931. Much of the work on the building <br />coincided with an El Niño condition and lots of rain.</i></td></tr>
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<b>AS WE ADMIRE THE RAIN</b> cascading onto the Chalon Campus, we find ourselves wondering about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">El Niños</a> (Los Niños?) of the olden days, and we recall reading about some problems in the early 1930s when the new college campus was under construction.<br />
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Although the groundbreaking was held during Commencement on June 16, 1929 (a day that began with a downpour), work on the foundation of the new campus' first and only building didn't get going until late in the year and early in 1930. According to the <b><a href="http://www.el-nino.com/" target="_blank">El-Niño.com</a></b> website, 1930-1931 was an El Niño year. That meant trouble.<br />
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<b>Here's how Sister Germaine McNeil</b> describes what happened next in her 1986 book, <i>History of Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, 1925-1975:</i><br />
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<i>When the excavation for the piers of the foundation got underway, it was discovered that they would have to be much deeper than first estimated to reach solid bedrock. Then, when rains seeped into the exposed Monterey Shale of the soil, several landslides occurred. </i>(p. 9)</blockquote>
Further investigation revealed that the cost of construction had more than doubled, but the superintending architect, I. E. Loveless, refused to halt construction. The provincial leadership of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet had no alternative but to fire him, and the brought in the original campus architect, <b><a href="http://mountarchives.blogspot.com/2010/10/for-architecture-tour-i-gave-during.html" target="_blank">Mark Daniels,</a> </b>to finish the job.<br />
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<b>Daniels could not have been surprised. </b>He had earlier warned in an essay in <i>The Tidings</i> of potential problems with the steep hillside and "soils." His revision of the plans entailed shifting the main load-bearing part of the structure several feet to the east, i.e., further up and into the hill. Since part of the building was already in place, Daniels had to incorporate some existing walls. The result of this alteration is clearly manifest in the long corridor between the cafeteria and bookstore entrance on the ground floor of Brady Hall.The width of the hallway is the precise distance Daniels had to move the foundation.<br />
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Construction continued as planned, and faculty and students were able to move into the finished campus in mid-April, 1931. But El Niño was still making its presence felt.The college's first concert was scheduled for a Sunday a couple of weeks after the move. The venerable journal of Sister Dolorosa Mannix, CSJ, picks up the story in McNeil's book:<br />
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<i>Invitations for the recital were sent out and all was in readiness. On the preceding night rain fell in torrents, washing watery streams of clay across the normally good shale road. The road was not paved. We had no money for paving... Later, Mrs. E. L. Doheny's generosity helped pave the road. </i>(15)</blockquote>
<b>The dedicated concertgoers</b> made their way up the treacherously slick road anyway -- only one accident is recorded -- and the performance went on.<br />
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But that wasn't quite all the 1930-31 El Niño had up its (his?) sleeve.<br />
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Once, more, Sister Dolorosa:<br />
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<i>About a month after the opening of the college</i><i>, several of us noticed in the night a faint sound as of grains of sand blown against the window by a windstorm. ... No one seemed to have paid much attention until, rising at 5 the next morning and drawing back our curtains, we found the tiles white with snow and the ground a wonderful white sheet. It was 3 inches deep and lasted for several days. </i>(14)</blockquote>
<b>Never a dull moment</b> during an El Niño, even if it just seems like more rain than usual. Will Mount students at Chalon or Doheny be treated to snow this coming May? We can cross our fingers and hope. And we're pretty sure that students in the 2015-16 El Niño won't be too different from their foremothers in 1930-1931:<br />
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<i>Great excitement reigned. Some of the girls had never seen snow at close range, so classes were deferred for an hour after [shuttle] arrival, while students climbed the hill ... to view the charming winter scene in May. Others played snowball and made a 4-foot snowman which, placed in a sheltered corner, remained with us for several days. True to life, some students, ignoring the winter sports, huddled around the radiator. </i>(Ibid.)</blockquote>
Happy New Year, and here's to a safe, warm and memorable (but not <i>too</i> memorable) El Niño of '15-'16!Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-43163787872986989392015-12-23T12:23:00.003-08:002016-02-03T13:14:56.315-08:00An {Unstoppable} CSJ Christmas <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Religious faculty celebrates Christmas in Brady Hall, 1961.<br />At right learning on an elbow is Sr. Aline Marie Gerber.</i></span></td></tr>
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<b>EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY. </b>One tiny image in our "Sisters in Traditional Habits" file shows the Mount's Sisters enjoying each other's company in Brady Hall.<br />
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At first glance, it's a not-very-interesting Christmas snapshot. But if you know some Mount history, there's a story behind the setting: the old Lecture Hall, now Brady Lounge.</div>
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According to the back of the photo the year is 1961. Scores of holiday greeting cards are pinned to the stage curtain in the shape of a row of Christmas trees. A real tree, off to the right, is festooned with tinsel and more cards. What appears to be a pile of newly unwrapped presents -- mostly books -- is beneath the tree.</div>
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<b>Christmas, 1961: </b>Just six weeks before this photo was taken, the notorious <b><a href="http://bit.ly/1QXrRvA" target="_blank">Bel Air Fire</a></b> swept through Brentwood Heights, damaging or destroying about a fifth of the Chalon Campus and doing serious damage at Carondelet Center. Burned to the ground, with everything in it, was the Faculty Residence (Rossiter Hall). Mercifully, no one was hurt, but many of the Sisters lost all they had.</div>
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But soon it would be time for the holidays! Although the campus was still grimy with smoke and the air reeked of burned wood, we can be sure Christmas would proceed as planned in a new location.</div>
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<b>Other details are </b>only hinted at in this 54-year-old picture. Were there more cards than usual that Christmas? Were the donations tucked inside extra-generous after the fire? Did that load of new books under the tree replace some of the faculty's lost teaching materials? We can be fairly sure the answer to all of those questions is yes.</div>
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After the party, the Sisters would scatter to their temporary homes -- other CSJ convents, hospitals, or the Mount's dorms where they would spend the next year. There was a new semester to prepare for, and reconstruction on damaged buildings was already under way. Funds had to be raised for new buildings. The Mount and the CSJs' community life had to keep moving forward, fire or no fire. </div>
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<b>But Christmas </b>in 1961, as it is in 2015, was a special time at the Mount. For an afternoon, at least, our {Unstoppable} Sisters could relax and enjoy some Christmas cheer in familiar, if makeshift, surroundings.</div>
Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-48899656457524006612015-12-18T11:28:00.002-08:002015-12-18T11:34:48.488-08:00Christmas poem, 1939<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A Mount student's block print graces </i>The Queen's Page<br />
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<b>THE MOUNT IS BLESSED</b> to have in Special Collections a beautiful volume in red leather with <i>The Queen's Page, 1937-1941, </i>stamped in gold<i>. </i>It's a compilation of the quarterly literary magazine of the Sodality Union, an organization of Catholic high school and college students in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles dedicated to honoring the Mother of God.<br />
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For Christmas, we thought we'd share a poem by Mount senior Peggy Mahoney '39, a regular contributor to the <i>Queen's Page </i>and the Mount's own literary quarterly <i>Inter-Nos. </i>It appeared on page 8 of the December 1938 issue, and we like it because it evokes a cold, starlit night in the pitch-dark heights of Brentwood.<br />
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<i>THE VIGIL</i><br />
<i>Broad hills that raise black breasts</i><br />
<i>To midnight skies</i><br />
<i>And watch while man and child and</i><br />
<i>Lapping waters sleep–</i><br />
<i>Caught in the craggy chambers of</i><br />
<i>Your heart, you keep the secret</i><br />
<i>That lies locked in Virgin Eyes.</i><br />
<i>Jet sky, poise low your velvet heart</i><br />
<i>And bide the perfect hour when </i><br />
<i>The chorus thrums the golden joy afar,</i><br />
<i>And angel feet will bruise each burning star, </i><br />
<i>And Christ will lie on straw, at Bethlehem.</i><br />
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A year later, Wanda May Corlett '42 of the Mount provided the woodblock print that graces the cover of the <i>Queen's Page </i>for December 1939. City Hall looms over La Placita Church near Olvera Street. Almost hidden at the bottom is the newborn Jesus in his manger. To us, it speaks clearly that the Mount is engaged deeply in the world around it.<br />
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This Christmas season, may Our Lady of the Mount continue to bless her daughters and sons at the university named for her, in the city that bears her name. Pray for us,<i> Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>Vicky the Archivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134584967446101685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6318126903715844361.post-76269907983359928532015-11-30T10:12:00.001-08:002015-11-30T10:45:18.212-08:00Genealogical secrets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>This is a guest blog by MSMU Archives Asst. Nancy L. Steinmann, MLIS. Nancy has been working on a project to prepare some of MSMU's oldest books for formal cataloging. </i></blockquote>
<b>A HIDDEN TREASURE </b>surfaced in the Mount Archives last week during some routine assessment of special collections volumes. The rare 1878 Bible in Dutch revealed family genealogical information written on the flyleaves and on inserted loose leaves in the volume.<br />
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The entries for the families DeGries and Hoverleden document births and deaths ranging from 1843 to 1940. Few clues for the origin of the Bible exist except for a small note tucked inside the leaves saying that it was donated by “Sister St. Michael.” She later went by Sr. Michael Flaherty, CSJ, of the Los Angeles Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 86.<br />
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<b>The Bible was in a very poor state</b> of preservation, with the pages crumbling due to natural acids (lignin) in the wood-pulp paper. While rare, it had little monetary value due to its condition. However, the family information preserved in the context of the volume provides priceless evidence for genealogical research. But first it must be made available to potential users.<br />
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In accordance with our deaccession policy, the MSMU Archives searched for a repository with similar materials to house the volume. A centralized national repository would allow the materials and their historic information to be easily located. The National Genealogical Society (NGS) in Arlington, Va., happily responded.<br />
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<b>Organized in 1903, </b>the NGS exists to provide education and training to the genealogical community, promoting access to and preservation of genealogical records. The organization will scan the family information and add the names to their extensive database of Bible records The volume itself will be stored in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library in Washington, D.C., with the rest of the NGS Bible collection.<br />
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In its new home, this rare Bible will add to the growing treasure of genealogical information available to online users, connecting families to their past, and preserving the gracious donation of Sister St. Michael for future generations.<br />
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For further information about these genealogical resources, please see:<br />
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<li>National Genealogical Society: <b><a href="http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/home" target="_blank">http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/home</a></b></li>
<li>DAR Genealogy:<b><a href="http://www.dar.org/national-society/genealogy" target="_blank"> http://www.dar.org/national-society/genealogy</a></b> </li>
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