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Junior Ring Ceremony - In May, juniors receive their class rings, inscribed with the school crest (a cross encircled by the Latin motto “Via, Veritas et Vita,” meaning the Way, the Truth, and the Life”) and a shank on both sides featuring a rising sun with the open Bible among the rays. The rings, blessed at the Mass, are a sign of their ...
The school was founded in 1908 as a girls' school known as The Shippen School for Girls, the result of a merger between Lancaster College and Miss Stahr's School. [5] In 1943, with the closing of nearby Franklin and Marshall Academy for Boys, the Shippen School changed its charter to become coeducational and adopted its current name.
Foxcroft School, founded in 1914 by Charlotte Haxall Noland, is a college-preparatory boarding and day school for girls in grades 9-12 & PG, located near Middleburg, Virginia, United States. [1] Foxcroft’s mission is to help every girl explore her unique voice and to develop the skills, confidence, and courage to share it with the world.
An 1888 cabinet card of Sarah Porter, the founder of Miss Porter's School. Miss Porter's School was established in 1843 by education reformer Sarah Porter. [3] She was insistent that the school's curriculum include chemistry, physiology, botany, geology, and astronomy in addition to the more traditional subjects taught in girls' schools.
Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart (Woodlands, WA, or WASH) is a private, Roman Catholic girls' high school in Lake Forest, Illinois, north of Chicago. Founded by the Society of the Sacred Heart , it is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago but is run by lay staff with several Sisters sitting on the Board of Trustees.
Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart (/ dj uː ˈ ʃ ɛ n / dew-SHEN) [1] is a combined primary and secondary independent girls' school located at 10202 Memorial Drive in Houston, Texas. A member of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools , it offers a college preparatory curriculum for girls.
Karol G‘s Con Cora Foundation has partnered with Geek Girls LatAm, a Colombian-based entity focused on encouraging women to progress their education in science and technology, to launch the ...
In 1997, House Bill 2154 was signed into law by Governor Mike Foster; this bill created TOPS, which was then known as the Tuition Opportunity Program for Students. The bill also eliminated all previous scholarship programs. The first students to receive grants from TOPS started their freshman year of college in the fall of 1998.