Picnic for the Nuns

ID: 1755 ~ Source: Horne, Dora, interviewed by Patricia Wallace, May 23, 1983, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Dora Horne remembers a picnic that was prepared for the Sacred Heart Academy nuns.

This file appears in: Academy of the Sacred Heart

By Geoff Hunt
On the corner of Eighth Street and Washington Avenue once stood a Catholic school and convent that taught thousands of students during its years of operation from 1874 to 1946. The Academy of the Sacred Heart received its name partially because the…