St. Joseph’s Academy rings in new school year with resurrection of decades-old chapel bell

Dave Luecking | daveluecking@archstl.org | twitter: @stlreviewscribe

Frontenac mayor Keith Krieg read a proclamation at a celebration marking the beginning of the school year at St. Joseph's Academy. The all-girls school, sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, marked its 175th anniversary by ringing the school chapel bell, which hasn't sounded since the 1960s.

St. Joseph's Academy officially rang in the school year on a Friday morning in late August.

"Literally," as student council president Marcy Hannick said.

At precisely 8:46 a.m., Aug. 28, as students counted down from 10 seconds, Sister Carol Gerondale, CSJ, did the honors, ringing the chapel bell that hadn't sounded in more than 50 years, since the early 1960s.

Boooonnnnngg.

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