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But always to [Mother Antonia] St. Catherine’s had been a great college. Even when it was only a dream. Never just a building on a hill, it was a growing family of buildings... All of these she planned, built, and peopled in her mind long before the architects were ever summoned... It is that vision for the future, that aspiration for excellence and the creative power to convert vision into reality that has distinguished Mother Antonia’s work in the entire field of education. –Alice Promer ’38 June 1936 Ariston
Mother Antonia McHugh, CSJ (1873–1944) St. Catherine University’s first dean from 1914 to 1929 and first president from 1929 to 1937
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ST. CATHERINE UNIVERSITY • SPRING 2020
