75th Anniversary Celebration Begins with Founders Day Mass
Founders Week Mass at St. Augustine Church in Waikiki begins with a procession of Maryknoll School’s class banners.
The annual Founders Week celebration marked the official beginning of the yearlong celebration of Maryknoll School’s 75th anniversary. The week’s activities included Mass for grades 5 through 7 at Sacred Heart Church, and Mass at St. Augustine Church for grades 8 through 12, which was followed by a luncheon at Seafood Village for alumni and special guests of Maryknoll School. On campus, the students were served ice cream – a contemporary tradition that has become a part of campus celebrations, as ice cream was a favorite treat of the Maryknoll Sisters. Founders Week is celebrated each year to commemorate the February 14, 1920 date when Mary Joseph “Mollie” Rogers and the Teresians received canonical recognition as The Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic – later changed to the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic.
The homily by Fr. Gary Secor ’69 challenged students (“the shoots”) to honor and learn from alumni (“the roots”) so that someday they can themselves give back (“bear fruit”) to Maryknoll and the greater community.
Agnes Sills Cordeiro ’37 and Lucile Smith Mistysyn ’37 were among the special guests at the luncheon during Founders Week.
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A special 75th anniversary banner was created to hang in Sacred Heart Church during the middle school’s Founders Week Mass.
