Pioneer SlSthS — Lourse Gallant and Edna Pure.

Classes were organized on January 14. Sister St. Mary Eugenia (Louise Gallant) welcomed twenty-five women and young girls who assembled for sew- ing class. From the Mount St. Bernard Home Economics Class, Antigonish, Sister St. Mary Aloysius sent a large carton containing enough material to make a beautiful quilt besides a supply of other material for the sewing class. The following night a second group came together for general classwork. There were nine men and four women all eager to learn again to read and write and to get a general grasp of Arithmetic and Geography, apart from a lesson in Religion. These students were under the direction of Sister St. Catherine of Louvain.

By the end of two months all the good people who had attended these night classes, unlike the students of a younger generation, did not seem at all eager for holidays.

February 24, 1941, was a red letter day in the life at Stella Maris Convent. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was celebrated in the little chapel for the first

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