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Subject: Re: [CASANFRA] Notre Dame School-Mission Dolores Boys School
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:10:07 -0700 (PDT)

My mother graduated from Notre Dame de Namur High School in 1924 and her sister in 1926. The building is still there, but is now senior housing apartments. It is a registered historic building in SF. I just picked up and gave to my 98-year-old mother some material that the manager of the senior housing has on the high school. The large building across from Mission Dolores was apparently both the convent and the high school, with a separate building around the corner that was the grammar school.

According to the material (as I recall), the building was destroyed in 1906 in anticipation of the fire path and to protect Mission Dolores. All that remaind was the outer "grand staircase" which is still there and the entrance. I just took some digital photos of the building a couple of weeks ago and would be willing to forward one or two to those who might be interested.

I'm also going to be scanning some of the 1929 yearbook (the second yearbook that was published) for the center's archive. My mother doesn't recall how she ended up with a '29 yearbook, but she thinks it might have come from a neighbor or friend.

Margaret
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Subject: [CASANFRA] Notre Dame School-Mission Dolores Boys School

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> Hi List,
I am trying to date an old school photo of my Aunt Mary's. Mother always
told me that both she and her older sister, Mary, had attended the Notre
Dame deNamur girl's school in the Mission Dolores Parish. There was also
a boy's school run by the parish, Mission Dolores Boy's School, which
was across the street behind the church. In reading the book Denial of
Disaster, by Hanson and Condon, they state that <...the adobe Mission
structure at 16th and Dolores was not damaged, but the adjacent parish
church was destroyed. The National Guard dynamited the large wooden
Notre Dame Academy across the street....> Indeed I have a photo of my
Aunt Mary at her First Communion posed with another girl in front of the
Mission. You can see a crack in the foundation of the mission, and some
of the rubble of the church next to the Mission. It is dated June 10,
1906. In 1906 my Aunt would have been twelve at the time of the
earthquake. (Yes, I know 12 seems old for First Communion, but the
family followed the European custom of waiting until age 12 when
children made First Communion and were Confirmed.) The other girl in the
photo was Liola QUINN, and appears to be 8 or 9. I have a photo of a
girl's school class which appears to be taken in the same place as the
photos of the boy's school that my uncles attended, which was Mission
Dolores Boy's School. (Same building wall in background.) The girls are
not wearing uniforms.

What this is all about, is this. I think that because the girls school
had been destroyed, that the girls classes shared the building with the
boy's school. I am trying to date the photo of the girl's class, and if
this scenario is correct, then it would have been taken in late 1906 or
in 1907. Does anyone know anything about the history of these schools
during that time?

Thanks for any help.
"rwalker"


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