The female students were allocated a room on the top floor of the Cass Building as a study hall. There they met to study, to socialize and, in Kathleen’s case, to pursue one of her favourite pass times: bridge. She regularly played with other students like Lorraine McNeely, Ethel Trainor and Phyllis Hessian.

During the winter months, the girls in residence would go over to the rink on campus for a skate after supper. The rink was a far cry from the ponds that most had experienced during their childhood years. The skate lasted from 6:15 to 7:15, and after that it would be back across to the residence for study until about 10:00 pm.

Mass was conducted daily at the chapel in the orphanage. Every day at 7:30 p.m., Kathleen would attend the mass and

Kathleen (right) andber perhaps once a week on Sunday, the girls WdAli“ M‘Clo-‘key in residence would go across the street for skiing near Saint Dunstans

University in 1948. mass at the chapel on campus. The chaplin was a kindly priest named Father Sullivan, who lived on campus. The children at the orphanage attended the daily mass, and the girls in residence got to know many of the children.

There were a lot of babies in the orphanage due to the growing numbers of unwed mothers, and they would be baptized before given out for adoption. The girls in residence were sometimes called upon to become godmothers; Kathleen was one of those who became godmother to one of those babies, and was given the opportunity to pick the name for the little girl. She named her Shannon Marie: Shannon after a river in Ireland and Marie after a patron saint. When Shannon Marie was baptized, the priest remarked that Shannon was not a real name for a girl, but christened her

with the name regardless.

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