The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-05-23
School Attended BY More Than 200
Boarding and Day Pupils

offering classes from the third
grade through high school, the
school is attended by more than
200 pupils, 80 OF whom are boarding
students. The tuition for boarding
students is only $40 monthly and
includes dormitory accommodations
and three meals daily.
During the school year, Miss
Strauther stated, absolut. silence is
observed. Conversation allowed only
during recreation periods. This law
is observed, the youthful candidate
explained, because it is believed
that too much conversation will de-
tract the minds OF the postulsnts
from their work. Recreation periods
have been indicated in the afore-
mentioned daily schedule.
Objective Living Key To All Nun
Activities
Summarizing the philosophy by
which the nun lives, Miss Strauther
said with quiet conviction, 1T is
objective living which makes the
change in worlds quite beautiful
1t is the assurance that in giving
oneself 10 the world, like the 'sr-
row shot into the air which
fell to earth. | know not where we
are sure that long, long after our
simple tasks have been completed
we will see from one end of the
world TO the other, in the we'll spent
lives of those we have touched,
evidences of tasks well done"
so must all of America begin 10
live effectively" Ellen .sverred. not
alone during times of war but
during times of peace. 1t is this OBJ
jeetivity which will free us from
ourselves, from the binding desire
10 impose upon others our will. II
is this objectivity which will lend
to life in the new America not q
brittle but a gentle, abiding beauty"
Third Negro Girl From Detroit To
Enter Convent
Miss Strauther, a graduate OF
Northwestern high school and popu-
lar in Detroit's younger set was the
third Negro girl ever 10 go to con-
vent from the city of Detroit. She
is member Of st. Benedict the
Moor located at Begole and Cobb
streets on the West side of the city
Fl Timothy Murphy, priest. Ellen
left Detroit in July, 1910, and re-
turned to the city in December
l94l, due 10 illness. She will re-
enter st. Frances in the fall.
st. Frances First Race Order To Be
Formed
st. Frances Convent represents
the first Negro convent to be formed
and is liz years old. Much prejudice
was encountered. The convent his
tory tells us that the first Negro
sisters who appeared upon the
streets Of old Baltimore were stoned
but as Rosario dePaul, ssh. state:
lin his article Our Colored Nuns
printed in the May-June edition Of
the Catholic publication The Col
ored Harvest, )the heights OF Ca
tholicism rose msjestically above
the depths OF prejudice as those in
spired nuns walked serenely, il no
securely over the obstacles inter
posed by ignoble human passions.
Today the article further explain.
there are other communities of Ne
gro nuns in the United States in lsd
dition TO ST. Frances. They are the
Sisters OF the Holy Family with
headquarters at New Orleans, La,
the landmarks OF the Most PURE
Heart OF Mary at New York City.
Miss Strauther lives at 1851 Hud
son street. She has three sisters
Katherine, Joan and Alice and ont
brother, John, who live at the abovt
] address with their mother