Black and white image of a group of young people standing in a gymnasium. The girls wear light-colored dresses, small hats or other head coverings, and short white gloves. The boys are all in suits, while a priest in a black robe stands to the image left. Above the students, a basketball backboard bears the words 'Music Exalts Life' with a musical note as additional decoration. St Matthew school was built in 1914, and museum records date this image to 1960.
Black and white image of a group of students, boys seated on a bench and girls standing behind them, all wearing corsages and bearing rolled up documents in their hands. All of the girls wear hats. A banner in the middle of the row of girls reads 'St. Francis School, Roy, Oregon.' Behind the students stained glass windows with clerestory openings can be seen in the outer wall of a building. St. Francis was the second parish church built at Roy, constructed in 1921 when the community's population had outgrown the original mission church.
Colorized image of a large institutional building in the American Stick style architecture. Dormer windows indicate a fourth floor underneath the gabled roof, and an octagonal bell tower sits prominently in the middle front of the building. The middle portion of the building was the original motherhouse constructed for the Sisters, completed in 1894. The wings were constructed in the early 1900s, adding a chapel and room for a boarding school. St. Mary's was begun as an orphanage for wayward children in the Beaverton area in 1889, the Sisters arriving in 1891 to take over care of the children and provide religious instruction. In 1902 English was mandated as the convent's primary language, though many of the Sisters' first language was German. Agnes Morressey grew up in Cornelius, Oregon and entered the convent in 1904, at the age of sixteen, eventually taking the name Sister Mary Clare. As a postulant, she was infamous in the community for her inability to keep her postulant's sailor hat in place over her long, thick hair, mostly because she frequently misplaced her hatpin. An accomplished musician, Sister Mary Clare taught music and other subjects in area parochial schools. She died in 1922 of leukemia.
Black and white image of a group of boys and girls of various ages. The girls are attired as brides in white and wearing veils; the boys all wear suits.
Black and white image of a large group of children of various ages, from young elementary aged children to older teens, with a few adult chaperones. Most of the girls and women wear white, if nothing else white tops, and the boys almost all have white shirts. Note, too, that most of the women do not have hats, though they could have been removed for the photograph.
