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of the Lake College and High School took an active part in this movement in training students for catechctical work and sponsoring their activities. Our Lady of the Lake College continued to strengthen its total educa- tional work. New Buildings were erected to house this growth; separate college residence halls, classroom buildings, science, home economics, physical education, library, and fine arts buildings, and demonstration elementary school for practice teaching, were built. A Social Service School, the first in the State of Texas, was begun (The State University has since opened a Social Service School) ; a Summer School branch of the Catholic University of Washington was procured so that a large number of their own Sisters, as well as Sisters of other Orders in this section of the country, could more readily obtain their higher degrees. This last was to serve until such time as Our Lady of the Lake was prepared to offer full-time graduate courses, which it began in Sep- tember, 1949. Hospital work, always included in the European program, was begun by the Sisters of Divine Providence, San Antonio, when St. Ann's Hos- pital, Abilene, Texas, was opened in 1940. Four years later Madonna Hos- pital was opened in Denison. An outstanding achievement of Mother Philothea's life was the build- ing of St. Joseph's Hall, for here is located the Perpetual Adoration Chapel, where, day and night, the Blessed Eucharist is exposed and two adorers continuously represent the whole Congregation; here, too, is the home for the retired, and the infirmary for the sick Sisters. Here Mother Philothea spent her last weeks, fighting that dread disease, cancer. Mother Angelique Ayres, the present and fourth Mother General of the Congregation and first American serving in this capacity, has been associated with the general workings of the Congregation from the be- ginning of her religious life, working as assistant secretary, Mistress of Studies for the Congregation, Dean of the College, Superior of the Col- lege and Academy, and finally as First Councillor of the Mother General. It is her endeavor to continue and advance, under Divine Providence, the work begun and carried on with undaunted faith and unfailing spirit of sacrifice by the three European Mother Generals who were so eminently filled with the spirit of the Venerable Founder, Father Moye, who spared no effort, however difficult, to shape his spiritual daughters in Texas in his spirit of Faith, and devotion to the interest of God in souls. Sisters of Cl,arity of tlee Incarnate Word, z866. The Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word was founded in Galveston,
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