A special story from the North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC). One of NEMPAC’s private instruction parents, Anne Occhipiati, recently donated Opera scores used by Famous Spanish Opera Singer, Lucrezia Bori. After Bori’s death in 1960, her secretary Grazzini passed the scores to Occhipiati’s grandmother, Ann Gerisch. Gerisch worked for a foundation called the Bagby Foundation Read More…
In the North End story that went national and lingers on (and on), there are two new pieces out. The first is from Old North Church Vicar Stephen T. Ayres in the Boston Herald. Rev. Ayres says he explained to Palin immediately before her now famous comments, “how Revere founded the church’s bell-ringing guild in Read More…
January 15th is the anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston’s North End. The United States Industrial Alcohol Company constructed a faulty 50 foot high steel tank in 1918 on Commercial Street near where Langone Park is located today. Twenty one people were killed and another 150 injured when the tank ruptured Read More…
One Reply to “1954 St. Mary’s School Graduation – Can You Find Yourself?”
I graduated four years later and my class had about fifty students. One long suffering, dedicated nun taught us all.
Why do you suppose there was such a big jump in class size in just four years?
I graduated four years later and my class had about fifty students. One long suffering, dedicated nun taught us all.
Why do you suppose there was such a big jump in class size in just four years?