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Sacred Heart High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in East Grand Forks, Minnesota. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Crookston. Sacred Heart was established in 1911 and is the only Catholic high school in northwest Minnesota and also serves northeast North Dakota.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=School Fact Sheet )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=School History )〕 The School has gone through 3 buildings, losing 1 to time, and another to flood. The current school was built in mid-1999 and serves around 150 students. * Sacred Heart Schools is located at 117 Fourth Street Northwest (elementary program) and 126 3rd Street Northwest (secondary program 7-12). Sacred Heart is the only Catholic High School remaining in northwestern Minnesota and northeastern North Dakota. ==Background, Founding and establishment== The first attempt to have a Catholic school in East Grand Forks began in 1895 when the Sisters of St. Benedict, Duluth, Minnesota, started a school and hospital. Father Hendrick, the first pastor of Sacred Heart, requested the Sisters start a mission at East Grand Forks. Mother Scholastica purchased a three-story wooden building called the Acme House to be used as a school, hospital, and convent. The building was located at the present southern intersection of Business Highway 2 East and 220 North. The second and third floors of the building housed the hospital. The school was organized immediately afterward, opening in the fall of 1895. Staffing the school in 1895 were Sister James and Sister Gertrude as teachers and Sister Josephine as the first music teacher. The name of the school is unclear by different accounts, being called either Sacred Heart School or St. Joseph’s School (same name as the hospital). The school appeared to have had a full capacity considering the small size of the East Grand Forks community at that time. During the first year of operation of the school, the newly built church of Sacred Heart was destroyed by fire on December 1, 1895. Rev. Hendrick immediately began to raise funds to rebuild the church. Sister Josephine recounted the following story: “Soon after Christmas, Mother Scholastica came to the mission at East Grand Forks and the next evening, Father Hendrick paid a courtesy visit to the convent. The conversation turned upon the burning of his church and the campaign he was conducting to raise building funds. “When one of the sisters casually proposed a St. Patrick’s Day program by the children and the private music class as a moneymaking project for the church, everyone including Reverend Mother, agreed to the proposal. “Accordingly a month or so before the 17th of March, practicing was in order, every evening after school and on Saturdays. The year 1895 was in the pre-radio, pre-movie, pre-television age when parish-school entertainment was a big event. “The sisters prepared a program of choruses, fancy drills, players, individual readings, and other features so that every pupil of the school might have a part. The parish sewing circle made a galaxy of costumes; the pastor had the tickets printed free-of-charge and the men sold them. “Not only were the children and the teachers busy, the whole parish was agog. The sale of tickets was so large that no hall in East Grand Forks could accommodate the crowd which was expected. Father Hendrick rented the Opera House in Grand Forks, agreeing that the management should have 30% of the sales, the remainder was to be given to the church fund. “Just before the time to raise the curtain, Father Hendrick, very pale, came upon the platform, a letter in his hand and announced to the audience that the entertainment had to be postponed, that it would be presented in East Grand Forks free-of-charge before vacation, and that the admission fee would be refunded at the door when the audience was going out. “Only one person wanted a refund. The free entertainment took place in the basement of the new church, which was completed the second week of June. Apparently some mistake in clerical or parish etiquette has occurred, and the pastor of the other parish had objected.” It seems from another account that Father Hendrick had failed to notify the Grand Forks Catholic pastor who protested to his Bishop (Grand Forks being in another diocese than East Grand Forks). In turn, the Bishop of Duluth was contacted and Father Hendrick was prohibited from following through with the music program in Grand Forks. The school continued in the hospital building until March 1898 or 1899 when it was moved to the basement of the rebuilt church. Sister Seraphica Karp’s diary revealed what her first mission was like: “The next two days were spent in getting the schoolrooms ready for use. The school is extremely poor for a 19th century school. There are two large rooms in the basement of the church with the furnace room between. The rafters of the church floor from the ceiling and the walls are bare brick walls, whitewashed. The windows are low, the whole a dirty, damp and misty place. It was the most dreary-looking schoolroom I had ever seen. But we had it all looking clean and nice within a day, as it could be made without any expense. Wednesday, September 2, dawned bright and clear. We ha() mass at the church at 8 a.m. I went to school and some of the children were there already, looking as bright and happy as could be! Sister knew them all, and I tried to remember their names but did not succeed, as there were too many new things all at once to be remembered. “The first day I had about 20 children from five to 10-years-old, and among them were two Chinese boys with their hair braided from the middle of the back of the head. The older was about seven and the younger about five or six. They had never been to school, but were as bright as new dollars. What amused me so much was that they invariably made figures and letters back to front.” Students who attended this school and recalled their memories in the “Echoes of 25 Years,” were Eulalia Forkey, Nellie Racine, Bessie Mongoven, Nora Tessier, Nellie Liston, Mary Liston, Flora Jackson, Ida Greenwood, Barbara Martin, Clara Martin, Bernie McGrave, Wallace Forkey, John Greenwood, Mike Liston, Ernie Sullivan, Art Keller, Irene Floidy, Etta Sullivan, Lillian Sullivan, Jack Mongoven, Henry Mongoven, Mary Sullivan, Mary Ryan, Harriet McGuire, Ruby Coons, Nellie Donovan, Laura Sullivan, Josephine Sullivan, Barbara Koch, Jennie Liston, Clara Sullivan, Mary Rider, Minnie Steinbar, William Steinbar, Ella Forkey, Leo Dunlevy, Marie Dunlevy, Sophie Tessier, Tref Tessier, Lila Craig, Earl Lynch, Earl Racine, and Fredie Enright. Other students attended the school but no records exist other than what names were recalled at the 25th Reunion of Sacred Heart in 1937. One of the students, Eulalia Forkey, later became Rev. Mother M. Monica, O.S.B., prioress of the Sisters of St. Benedict, Crookston, Minn. Her father was a lumberman in the French settlement south of East Grand Forks. The family moved to East Grand Forks so that Eulalia could continue her education. She entered the eighth grade about 1897. She recalled that Sister Josephine taught dramatics and was the idol of the young girls. “Lily got a trouncing for commenting under her breath to a girlfriend that, ‘Sister Josephine should have been an actress.’” The parochial school was established in the basement of the church. It consisted of three sunny rooms. The sisters, meanwhile lived in the little hospital then in the town.” (The Woman of the Strong Heart by Theresa Scholand, page 7). Sacred Heart School was closed after the 1900 school year. The Sisters of Duluth decided to withdraw their mission from East Grand Forks. Although support was strong from the pastors and parish to build a Catholic school, it would take 12 years before it would happen. When Father William Klinkhammer was appointed pastor in 1911, he immediately planned the building of the new Sacred Heart School. Construction started in the fall of 1911 and was completed for the first classes in the fall of 1912. The three-story, dark brown brick building stood between the auditorium and convent on Third Street N.W. Frank Wurzbacher, a member of the first graduating class, distinctly recalled his pride in having helped place the Sacred Heart statue in its niche above the porch balcony. The school at first consisted of grades one through eight. The teaching staff was provided once again by the Sisters of St. Benedict from Duluth. Sister M. Hyacinthe, O.S.B. was principal for the first year but was replaced by Sister Aquina due to failing health. Sister Josepha replaced her and remained until 1918. Sister Josepha first began the high school department, which for a few years consisted of only a two-year course. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sacred Heart High School (East Grand Forks, Minnesota)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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