The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-06
z. G. Simmons Gymnasium and Dor
mitory at Kemper Hall Dedi-
Gated Monday.
BISHOP NICHOLSON PREsIDES
Feast of the Publication and the Anniver
sary of Founding of Sisterhood Cele-
brated at the Same Time.

Monday was great day at Kemper
Hall, it being the day set apart for the
dedicat ton of the new gymnasium
building recently presented to the
school by z. G. Simmons and other
friends of the school.
In honor of the event large num-
Der of the former students and friends
of Kemper Hall gathered to attend the
exercises marking the opening. In
addition to this the Sisters held their
annual celebration of the ''Feast of the
Publication" which has double sig
nificance as it is the birthday of the
Sisterhood of St. Mary.
The exercises of the day were of
very impressive nature, and many
clergymen from different parts of Illi-
nois and Wisconsin were here to assist
Bishop Nicholson, of Milwaukee, In
carving out the different celebrat tons
of the day. In honor of the event the
hall was decorated with annunciation
| lilies, the flower of the Sisterhood, and
white hyacinths.
The first service of the day was held
at st. Peters Chapel at ten o'clock in
the morning, when Bishop Nicholson
received class of seven young ladies'
into the Guild of the Holy Child. Fol-
lowing this annual service the Bishop
preached a stroug sermon bringing out
| the beauties of the Feast of the Purifi-
cation.
| Following the service at the chapel
the annual luncheon was served at the
dining room of the hall, covers being
laid for nearly two hundred people.
More than forty guests, mostly visit
ing clergy and Associate Sisters of
st. Mary from all parts of the country
attended the luncheon.
After the luncheon was over a very
pretty ceremony was held in the new
gym asium, when the young ladies
more than a hundred in number. all
dressed in white, marched around the
rooms of the new building singing
anthems of praise. At the close of the
march Bishop Nicholson made the BEN
ediction prayer consecrating the new
building to the uses of the school.
The celebration of the day ended
! WIFI d IGCCPlIOu All TIC CNCuInSS at
which Sister Margaret Claire, assisted
by the other Sisters of the Hall, re-
ceived some two hundred guests A
program was rendered by the young
ladies al the school, while Miss Gull
bau1t, of Denver, rendered a number of
pretty vocal solos.
The new building is probably the
finest gymnasium for ladies in the
state of Wisconsin. The first two
floors of the building are given over to
the gymnasium proper. This portion
of the building was built and equipped
| by z. G.. Simmons at cost of ten
thousand dollars. It has every modern
appointm known to physical cu1-
ture, and is a model building in every
way.
The other floors of the large new
building, which were built with money
secured by Sister Margaret Claire, are
used for dormitories. Several of the
rooms have been set aside for the use
of the different societies of the school
one for the members of the Guild of
the Holy Child; another for the use of
the A1umnae, and third for the use
the students as reading room. The
total cost of the new building was
$4,000.