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To recognize and congratulate St. Mary of the Springs Academy for their Bicentennial Marker dedication honoring Anne O'Hare McCormick on Sunday, September 7, 2003.
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WHEREAS, St. Mary of the Springs Academy opened in Columbus on this day, September 7, in 1868, after having been in operation in Somerset, Ohio since 1830; and
WHEREAS, The Academy responded to the needs of Ohio's frontier children, both Catholics and non-Catholics alike; and
WHEREAS, the distinguished journalist Anne O'Hare McCormick was an 1898 graduate of the Academy, with it being the sole institution of her formal education; and
WHEREAS, Ms. McCormick was the first foreign affairs journalist for the New York Times, the first woman to be selected for the New York Times Editorial Board, and the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer prize for foreign correspondence, and
WHEREAS, St. Mary of the Springs Academy and its illustrious alumna Anne O'Hare McCormick have been chosen to be commemorated by an historical marker on the grounds of St. Mary of the Springs, and
WHEREAS, The Dominican Sisters and the alumnae of the Academy have gathered this day, Sunday, September 7, 2003, to dedicate the bicentennial plaque and honor the Academy's faculty and alumnae, living and deceased, and their outstanding fellow alumna Ms. McCormick, now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
That this Council does hereby commend the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs for their dedicated and unselfish contribution to education in the City of Columbus and State of Ohio and congratulates them on their Bicentennial Celebration Marker honoring their distinguished alumnae, including an outstanding woman of Ohio, Anne O'Hare McCormick.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this Resolution be presented to St. Mary of the Springs with our esteem.