A Cute Old Place

ID: 1760 ~ Source: Olenbush, Adrienne Wilkes, interviewed by Susan Monaghan, October 29, 1975, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
This file appears in: Academy of the Sacred Heart

Adrienne Wilkes Olenbush describes the features and curriculum of the Academy of the Sacred Heart in the 1920s.

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…