Listen as current Nazareth Academy faculty, staff and students bring words from our Nazareth family to life!
“The alumnae have been changed to alumni, but any alum (and here’s one) worth her salt fondly remembers four-point collar uniform blouses, rolled skirts, and the haze of forbidden hairspray in the washrooms at three o’clock. The dances were always held in the crepe paper festooned gymnasium, and who can forget walking through the makeshift tunnel to drink warm punch in Mary Hall? Teachers hiked up their habits and wore white bobby socks and black sneakers over black nylons and always whistled slow runners into more laps around the gym floor. Despite (perhaps, more likely because) of the rules and regulations, the education was first rate and proved a solid foundation for a college experience. Things change, yet remain the same. The physical plant at Nazareth is moved, the boys are a new twist, but the philosophy and level of education are still high. The Academy has changed, survived and appears as strong as ever as it receives congratulations in the year of its 80th birthday.”
– from The Western Springs Sun, 1980
Read aloud by Sister Terry Middendorf ’60
Featuring “Sock Hop (ISRC USUAN1100495)”
by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under CC BY 3.0.