News - May 2019

Though not an academic institution, our parish lives by an academic calendar. As schools and students and parents look to the end of this year, so do we. And like most families and institutions at this time of the year, we have our share of changes and goodbyes.

Mother’s Day, 1965, I was in kindergarten. Mrs. Downing asked each member of the class to bring to school some fresh flowers from our home gardens the Friday before the holiday; we were going to make flower baskets for our mothers.