The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-12-05
COLLEGE OF ST. TERESA
REUNION OF ALUMNAE LAST
WEEk-PRlNcIPAL ADDRESS BY
DR.. MARY A. MoLLoY, DEAN OF
THE COLLEGE FACULTY.

A notable event of last week was
the reunion of alumnae and ex-students
at the College of Saint Teresa, Wi
mona, MINI. 1t opened with formal
reception Friday evening when the
resident students were presented to
the visiting guests.
AT the business meeting on Satur-
day resolutions were drafted in refer
ence to the amendment of the postal
laws that such laws may no longer be
a dead letter in the matter of per-
hitting free use of the mails to sour
rilous and obscene publications. A
copy of the resolutions will be sent to
the local congressman and letter to
the postmaster-general.
The association dinner was given
Saturday evening at the Hotel Winona.
Three of the faculty members of the
College of Saint Teresa attended as
patronesses. Instead of the tradi-
tional toasts, set speeches were given
by several of the guests.
Miss Edith Renchin, class of 1911,
secretary of the association, intro
duced the various speakers, and
among the subjects discussed were
Catholic Education" Colleges for
Women versus Co-education," ''Plans
for Raising the Scholarship Fund.-
Association Chapters" and the "Ne-
cessity of Being Wide-awake.'
Doctor Mary A. Molloy, dean of the
College of Saint Teresa, gave the final
speech of the evening. Miss Molloy
spoke in part as follows: "If word
were added to supplement the earnest,
loyal speeches made tonight, that
word would connote the duty crys-
talized in the aphorism 'noblesse
oblige. For the woman educated in
a Catholic school, her rank imposes
on her the obligation to use every
effort to spread about her the sweet
and powerful influences that entered
into the shaping of her womanhood.
Women educated in Catholic schools
are by every right queens in the in
telleCtual aristocracy. a..
"The queens of the intellectual
is derived from training based on a
philosophy of education as permanent
and basic as the immutable eternities
The foundation of such a woman's
training is the recognition of her
three-fold duty to God, to her neighbor
and to herself. The superstructure
of her training is the development of
the patterns of an individual life mod
eled after the beauty ever ancient,
ever new of the Christian ideal No
ephemeral isms distract her energies !;
no superficial fads are necessary for
her to master in order that she may
become useful as a moral force in
her generation. She is not deceived
by makeshift social remedies that in
reality stimulate moral weakness in
stead of eradicating moral evil. Her
duty is clear in every issue because
for her the glory of God is the ulti-
mate determinant of her every action.
The effect of such a philosophy of
life cannot be doubted. All who come
within the circle of the influence of
such women feel the power and beauty
of the sources of their inspiration.
THE women educated in Catholic
schools are and will be a bulwark
against the invasion of social vice and
more especially against what may be
called intellectual vice for all varieties
of social wickedness would never exist
if the God-given intellects of men and
women were not atrophied or out
ragged by false doctrines in education
Our students are given an infallible
standard by which to gauge the merit
or the worthlessness of the civiliza-
ton around them. They will know
how to interpret the significance of
the eddies in the social, commercial
educational and political whirlpool
around them. They will give others
the gracious benefit of their intel
lectual prestige as opponents of all
that is most worthy.
knowing the worth and beauty oil
your experience as students of a Cath
Ollie college, greet you bearing the
sceptre of authority and the light OF
learning and the bread of ministra
ton to all-that. all may see in you
exemplars of the great Christian idea
in education and morality."N
The singing of the alma Mater
brought the most memorable meeting
of the alumnae to close.