tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4934082776237806721.post1417997159153222947..comments2023-06-27T03:43:35.956-04:00Comments on LowellIrish: Looking Over the Convent WallLowellIrishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581828365206969935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4934082776237806721.post-36826510839063810222015-04-28T20:17:59.237-04:002015-04-28T20:17:59.237-04:00Are there records/lists from the 1890s with studen...Are there records/lists from the 1890s with student names?Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13778670012349805937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4934082776237806721.post-23321115356238893632015-04-28T20:00:34.808-04:002015-04-28T20:00:34.808-04:00Grades 1-4 I attended the old St. Patrick School ...Grades 1-4 I attended the old St. Patrick School . I adored the old school with all the beautiful wood and European feel .I really loved the courtyard , it was so cool to go to school inside the wall. It was a secluded but safe feeling ! The school had several floors and I couldn't wait to be old enough to attend the high school classes on the upper floor . I was so excited that being in the fourth grade , that It would be the very next yr. entering the 5th grade , that I would finally have a desk with an inkwell built in it and would get to use a fountain pen . Sadly that was never to be . We were informed that the school was to be torn down and a brand new school was being built. I was very depressed . I entered the new St. Patrick Elementary School as a fifth grader . I had attended the old school since the first grade and the change overwhelmed me. As if entering the new modern school wasn't difficult enough for me , but I also had the very first lay teacher St. Patrick had . Mrs. Beatrice Dalton. I had always been taught by the sisters and this was just too much. I had a very hard time getting into the swing of things and ended up repeating my fifth grade class. Eventually, I made it up to the 8th grade and in 1964 graduated from St. Patrick Elementary School !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com