Pioneer Sisters — Louise Gallant and Edna Pitre . 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 . 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 47