Name/Title
Academy of the Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, Missouri BrochureEntry/Object ID
AM2002.24.540Scope and Content
Academy of the Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, Missouri Brochure, undated. Prospectus and advertising brochure profiling this Catholic girls school in St. Joseph. Details the scope and aim, describes the two division--Junior (under 12) and Senio, course of study, and outline of subjects taught. Includes photographs of interior rooms of the school to include--Study Hall, Parlor, Library and Chapel. There is a view of the front steps, exterior.
Inserted into the brochure is an undated news clipping:
Aged Nun Leaves City:
Sister Mary Ann Had Lived Here thirty-Nine years.
Member of the Family of the Sacred Heart Convent Was Not Out of the City in All That Time--Mother Pappan and Mother Mc Guire Also Leave.
Describes the closing of Sacred Heart and the departure of Sister Mary Ann, Mother Pappan and Mother McGuire from Union Station, upon being transferred to Chicago. 17 nuns had already been transferred and 14 yet remained at the campus at 12th & Messanie, expected to leave by August 1.
Sister Mary Ann's short biography is included, born to a wealthy Chicago family as Mary Doran. At the time of the article she was 72. During her 39 years in St. Joseph she never left the Convent except to visit at the Cathedral Convent at 11th & Isadore. Before going to the train station she was treated to a motor car ride about the city she had never seen.
The fate of the convent is discussed, with the possibility of the Christian Brothers taking over the school and then razing their college at 13th & Henry. Streets.Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
BrochureNomenclature Class
Advertising MediaNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
SchoolsSearch Terms
Sacred Heart Convent, Closing of Sacred Heart Convent, Sacred Heart Sisters, High School, Catholic, Sacred Heart Academy, Girls SchoolsRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Mother PappanPerson or Organization
Mother McGuirePerson or Organization
Sister Mary AnnPerson or Organization
Mary Doran