Catholic School History
October 31, 1986 began like every other day in the 30 year history of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic School — besides the two enormous wolves perfectly camouflaged in the woods across the street, that was definitely different — but other than that, October 31, 1986 began like every other day in the history of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic School: The students congregated in the parking lot behind the church and school, recapping their favorite moments from the World Series (“Can you believe it went right through Buckner’s wickets?!”) or singing the wrong lyrics to You Give Love a Bad Name (“I play my haaarp and you plaaay your game…” There was no internet at this time so the students were doomed to sing these wrong words
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Unlike the other teachers, Sister Mary did not smell of Wind Song; her chosen perfume was moth balls and it usually preceded her arrival by a few precious seconds, giving misbehaving students a brief window of time to hide their misdeeds before she came around the corner; a rare and cherished tactical lapse on her part. Sister Mary was also one of the few teachers at OLPH that did not smoke. Though, to be fair, since she naturally breathed fire, smoking would have been redundant.
Rumor had it that at one time Sister Mary was young, perhaps even a child, but no photo evidence exists to substantiate that claim. Pictures from the earliest days of OLPH’s history showed the now elderly priests and parishioners as young whippersnappers, full of energy as they sought salvation through coffee hours and card parties, but whether due to some sort of anti-miracle or just the effects of wearing a full habit in the era of Elvis Presley, Sister Mary looked exactly the same in 1956 as she did in 1986 (and not in the good …show more content…
They had been replaced with lay teachers who, while well versed in the language of guilt, never really had the same fluency as the native speaking nuns. Besides Sister Mary of the Joyful Sorrows, the only other nun left at Our Lady of Perpetual Help was Sister Margaret Mary, or Sister M&M as the children called her, the school’s principal. She and Sister Mary shared the convent across the street and while children lived in constant fear of crossing Sister Mary, Sister M&M had gone batty a few years back and the children loved her for
Unlike the other teachers, Sister Mary did not smell of Wind Song; her chosen perfume was moth balls and it usually preceded her arrival by a few precious seconds, giving misbehaving students a brief window of time to hide their misdeeds before she came around the corner; a rare and cherished tactical lapse on her part. Sister Mary was also one of the few teachers at OLPH that did not smoke. Though, to be fair, since she naturally breathed fire, smoking would have been redundant.
Rumor had it that at one time Sister Mary was young, perhaps even a child, but no photo evidence exists to substantiate that claim. Pictures from the earliest days of OLPH’s history showed the now elderly priests and parishioners as young whippersnappers, full of energy as they sought salvation through coffee hours and card parties, but whether due to some sort of anti-miracle or just the effects of wearing a full habit in the era of Elvis Presley, Sister Mary looked exactly the same in 1956 as she did in 1986 (and not in the good …show more content…
They had been replaced with lay teachers who, while well versed in the language of guilt, never really had the same fluency as the native speaking nuns. Besides Sister Mary of the Joyful Sorrows, the only other nun left at Our Lady of Perpetual Help was Sister Margaret Mary, or Sister M&M as the children called her, the school’s principal. She and Sister Mary shared the convent across the street and while children lived in constant fear of crossing Sister Mary, Sister M&M had gone batty a few years back and the children loved her for