Visitation School history

Another alumna, Harriet Monroe, class of 1879, wrote and delivered the dedicatory ode at the Columbian Exposition’s opening ceremonies.

In 1883, a new church was built and named Our Lady of the Visitation.

A published historian, Sister Mary Baptista Linton, authored, in 1885, an award-winning educational system for teaching history, called the Linton Century Charts.

In Janary 1891, Sister Mary Anthony, Sister Mary Margarite, and a postulant Anna Rotzinger, who became Sister Mary Vincent, became fhe first Sisters of Saint Mary of Verboort.

In 1893, as President of the Board of Lady Managers for the Chicago World Columbian Exposition, she created the Women’s Building, which was dedicated to displaying the accomplishments of women around the world and the problems they still had to overcome.

She had become a prominent writer and poet who established the literary magazine, Poetry, which she edited until her death in 1912.

And perhaps it is this regular contest that transformed into the tradition of Marshmallow Roast, which can be documented as early as 1913.

In 1917, the school restructured to accommodate four grammar school classes and four at the high school level, along with two post-academic years being offered to graduates.

In 1918, the Benevolent School was absorbed by Holy Trinity Parish to create a co-educational elementary school.

Junior College students boarded in a building that, in 1921, J.H. Fennessy had funded originally to be an infirmary, although it was never used for that purpose.

Check out our new Alumni website! SCHOOL History Visitation BVM School began in 1954 with the establishment of the Parish by the founding pastor, Monsignor John Larkin.

The first science fair was held in 1965.

The Salesian Network was started in 1988, which was a way of naming and explaining Visitation charism, which the Sisters had always shared by example.

The two buildings were completed in October 1998 and dedicated at a kickoff celebration for the bicentennial, with many events during that academic year to acknowledge Visitation’s two hundredth anniversary.

In 2005, a renovation project was completed with the addition of nine more classrooms in the Junior High Wing and the renovation of current rooms to include a state-of-the-art Library and Media Center and a Technology Lab.

These donations also funded two new buildings in 2019.