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SJH grad recalls days at St. Joseph
BY BETSY GAGNET
Maggie Heitzmann Dambo-rino sat on her front porch swing, watching cars pass and pull into the Bay Catholic Elementary School parking lot to pick up students.
She recalled the days when the school was not yet built and houses lined the streets now occupied by school and church buildings.
?There was a candy store (near the beach) and then house after house after house,? Damborino said. ?I knew them all, all the way down.?
Before Bay Catholic and Our Lady Academy, there was St. Joseph?s Academy, a school Damborino, 92, remembers well.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of her graduation from ?the Academy? which was staffed by Sisters of St. Joseph of Bourg.
?I was 17 when I graduated,? she said. ?We had six regular students and two commercial.?
In those days students taking only such courses as typing and shorthand were considered commercial students, while.the
Damborino
regular students took all the typical high school classes.
Today, Damborino will join alumni of St. Joseph Academy and Our Lady Academy for a special Mass and reception. The class of 1998 graduation ceremony was held Saturday with honored guests from the class of 1948.
According to school officials,
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