Three-campus tour celebrates legacy of St. Joseph’s Academy

Apr 28, 2016 at 12:28 pm

Dave Luecking | daveluecking@archstl.org

St. Joseph’s Academy juniors Julia Rowan, Riley Durham and Rose Garr worked on a power-point presentation in world religions class. St. Joseph’s Academy is celebrating 175 years with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and their mission to provide Catholic education for young women in an environment that challenges them to grow in faith, knowledge and respect for self and others.

Allison Thomas contemplated the question for a moment:

What would it have been like to be a student in the first year of St. Joseph's Academy, then called Madame Celestine's School, way back in 1840?

"It'd definitely be different," the St. Joseph's junior said, noting that the original log-cabin school doubled as home for the founding Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. "It'd be a lot smaller. There'd be more intimate classes; it'd be more personal (between) the teachers and students."

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