The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-13
Children OF Mary Of Saint vinssat's
Academy Have Gala Occasion
Which is Big Success
in Every Way.
ORIGINAL SONG IS SUNG
Program Includes Address BY Very
Rev. James w. gillespie, Much
Good Music, Renedietion
and Reception.

"If only we had known we were
organizing a society which would
come to its golden jubilee we would
nave paid special attention to the
events of that day" said Miss Julia
Ward, one of the charter members OF
the society of the Children Of Mary
which celebrated it's fiftieth anniyer-
.sary on Sunday.
More than three hundred women
and girls united in the celebration
which was held at ST. V%incent's
academy. Four of the charter mem
bers, Miss Anna Brerton, Miss Julia
Ward, Mrs. Patrick H. Finnerty and
Mrs. Jennie Holman Voovart, of Val
ley Junction, Iowa. were present and
were shown special honors.
The golden anniversary was cele-
brated in the same building in which
the society was organized in 1858.
The first sisters who came to st.
Vincent's were clustered nuns who
came direct from France to Keokuk.
Many little girls. now mature women.
went to school to those nuns, who
kept always within the walls of the
convent.
In 1867, the Sisters of Charity of
the order of ST. Vincent de Paul came
to st. Vincent's school and the nuns
were taken elsewhere. There are now
eleven sisters in the academy. A
year after the Sisters of Charity
came, the society of the Children OF
Mary was formed.
Worthy of the Occasion.
The reception rooms at st. Vim
cents where the guests were re-
ceived yesterday, were handsomely
decorated with streamers and gar
lands OF yellow pale blue. the
yellow for the golden jubilee and the
blue as the color of the society of
the Children of Mary.
All members who came. registered
and were given as a souvenir a NINA
ture medallion tied with a blue satin
bow.
In the dining room upstairs re-
Ifreshments were served during the
| afternoon by young girls of the
school. Delicious home made cake,
coffee and minis were served. The
dining table was very attractive with
ferns laid fiat on the cloth and ropes
of smilax draped from the corners of
the table.
In the chapel where solemn bene-
diction was pronounced at 5 o'clock.
there were on the altar many Hlacs
and other white flowers.
At 8 o'clock in the evening a pro-
gram was given in st. Vincent's hall
which had een specially decorated
for the occasion. In the windows
were streamers of crepe paper in vel
low. and elsewhere about the room
appeared pale blue, the colors of the
society.
An Enjoyable Program.
The program was much enjoyed by
the audience which filled the hall to
the doors. 1t was as follows:
"For Aud Lang Syne". Chorus
Greetings to the Children of
Mary......... Miss Marie Hayes
MY Garden of Love-. Albert Gumble
Violin, Miss Adelia Vogt; cornet.
Miss Madeline vogt; piano, Miss
Marie Vogt.
A Tribute to Alma Mater. ......
.........M Mrs. Robert S. Walker
Piano Solo. Miss Moreno Farraher
(a) Rigoletto .............. Liszt
(b) Hunting SONG. Mendelssohn
Reading. silver and Blue
Miss Katherine Hayes.
Vocal olo.....M Miss Celestine Dickey
(a) Until the Dawn Arthur F. Tate
(b) A Disappointment. Victor Harris
Address-very Rev. J.. w. Gillespie, !
". F.
Vocal olo...Mr Joseph M. Furlong
Gems from Memory's Casket.-..
..........M Mrs. James Breheny
Vocal solo.... Mrs. Robert s. Walker
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