The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-07-18

From St Patrlck's School This Year
Splendid Work Accomplished I'm.
der Superintendency Of Rev.
Joseph ODwyre.

Unannounced to the general public,
and without general public record Of
Its happening, the st. Patrick schools
Of this city at the end Of the school
year quietly closed graduating from
the Eighth grade the following pupils:
Elizabeth Purdon, Margaret Alice Tolle
Martina Tierney, Margarete Lynch, An.
drew Clooney, Cleon Brown, Albert
Dooley, Thomas Richardson, Albert
Fritsch and Emmett Seitz.
Step by step these pupils have been
educated throughout the eight years
of their school life, without a cent Of
public money, but at no little expendi-
ture of money, jealous, loving, efficient
effort, founded in motives higher than
things material, until now they are
prepared to enter our High Schools,
without examination, for according to
rule enacted by the school board Of
the Public School of the city of Mays
Vile and printed In the Year Book Of
the Public Schools. pupils graduated
from schools Of standing equal to the
local public district schools are ad-
mitted into the High School without
examination. 1t will hardly be doubt
ed that equal in standing with the To-
cal public district schools is that
school which has earned the title,
Cradle Of Honor Pupils" as has the
st. Patrick school, for year after year
the graduates from the grades in the
st. Patrick schools are to be found
among the honor pupils of the Public
High School Of this city,
The patrons of st. Patrick Schools
are Justly proud of their educational
institution, for 1t Is creature of their
love, monument to their self sacri-
ficing fidelity to principle. The efflc-
iency Of the able corps of teachers, the
Franciscan Sisters, under the capable
direction of Sister Mary Rose, speaks
in the general student body more un-
mistakably than words. II the axiom,
passing current among authorities on
the science Of teaching be true, that
"The Teacher makes the School," then
the st. Patrick Schools of this city
are unsurpassed by the best.
The general public owes debt to
the patrons of the st. Patrick Schools
since by their operation there is each
year saved to the public thousands Of
dollars for educational purposes. The
amount which Is thus saved may be
easily estimated when it is known that
each of the pupils in the St Patrick
Schools, If placed in the Public
Schools, would annually cost the pub
lie treasury about $4,000 each, and that
there are between $50 and 200 pupils
each year in attendance at the st. Pat
rick parochial schools
This year the gold medalists were
the following: Gold medal in Chris.
tian Doctrine in fifth and sixth grades
Gertrude Mcnamara; Gold medal in
Arithmetic in Seventh grade, George
Purdon; Gold medal for general scho.
larship in eighth grade, Elizabeth Pur.
don.
The donor OF the gold medals Is
Rev. Joseph O'Dwyre, Superintendent
of the st. Patrick schools, whose wide
awake activities in behalf of educa'
ton are we'll known and far famed
even beyond Kentucky, and whose wist
superintendency in the St. Patricl
Schools is potent factor in the higf
standing which they have attained
and for number Of years have sus
tained.