St. Mary's Convent Inter College, Prayagraj

St. Mary's Convent Inter College
St. Mary's Convent Inter College
Location
	32 Thornhill Road Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh; India
Information
Motto	Spe Labor Levis; (Hope Lightens Work)
Religious affiliation(s)	Catholic Church or Roman Catholic
Established	January 15, 1866;158 years ago
Founder	Mary Ward
School board	CISCE
Principal	Sr. Jyoti CJ
Hours in school day	6
Campus type	Urban
Houses	Yellow, Blue, Red, Green
Acronym	SMC

Last updated October 17, 2024

St. Mary's Convent Inter College, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, is a girls school run by the Sisters of the Congregation of Jesus in collaboration with a lay staff members. It was founded in 1866 by Mother Mary Ward for the education of girls. The Delhi and the Lucknow campuses are co-educational.

History

The history of St. Mary's Convent Inter College, Prayagraj, rests on the foundation of the Congregation of Jesus by venerable Mary Ward (nun) who founded the Institute in 1609, to cater to the education of girls, with the special emphasis on moral and spiritual foundation. Inspired by her zeal and enthusiasm, the CJ sisters came to India at an invitation from Bishop Anastasius Hartmann, to the then Superior General of the CJ sisters, Mother Catherine de Graccho, in Nymphenburg Germany. The pioneers to India, a group of five young sisters from Germany set out in 1853 across the oceans to the unknown strange land of India. After reaching Bombay (present-day Mumbai) by ship, they embarked upon a perilous journey across the vast peninsula of India in a bullock cart and reached Patna, where they founded the first house and school in India, St. Joseph's Convent High School, Patna. In the years that followed, these brave women and others who followed them worked whole heartedly to spread God'sKingdom in the Indian subcontinent, establishing new convents and reaching out to the poor and needy in the northern parts of India through the ministries of education, health care, care of youth and orphans. In the year 1866, Bishop Anastasius Hartmann intended to open a new Convent of the IBMV (Sisters of Loreto) in Allahabad and appealed to Mother General for more sisters. By the time the 8th Party of sisters arrived in India, the Convent and Boarding school at Phaphamau was almost ready. The sisters moved into the convent of January 1ih,^{[ clarification needed ]} 1866.

On January 15, 1866, the boarding school was opened with two pupils, Mary Elise and Nina Frizzone. Though the number of students increased gradually, since the sisters had to face endless problems in Phaphamau, they first shifted to Elgin Road in Allahabad, then temporarily to Lowther Castle and finally in February 1888 (or 1886), to 32 Thornhill Road (Maharishi Dayanand Road), where the school is situated today. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Allahabad had offered a piece of leased land, within the campus of St. Joseph's Cathedral, Allahabad to the sisters to build their school, where a spacious red - brick building had been erected. The original building exists to this day, and is considered one of the heritage buildings of the city on account of its unique architectural style. Around it many other structures have been constructed in the course of years to accommodate the ever increasing number of students. DELVING INTO THE PAST St. Mary's Convent is a name synonymous with education, values, culture and sense of responsibility.

Notable alumni

Throughout its history a sizable number of alumni have become notable in various fields.

Indira Gandhi, a key 20th-century stateswoman, a central figure of the Indian National Congress party, and to date the only female Prime Minister of India intermittently attended this premier institution until her matriculation in 1934.
Shubha Mudgal, singer of Hindustani classical music.
Dr.Deepali Pant Joshi, executive director of Reserve Bank of India.
Neelum Saran Gour, author, translator, academic and chronicler of various facets of Allahabad city.
Shahnaz Husain entrepreneur
Leema Dhar, novelist and poet
Dr. Shuchi Grover, learning scientist and computer science education researcher
Nidhi Singh, television and film actor.
Rita Bahuguna Joshi, politician and ex-cabinet minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
Aradhana Mishra also known as Mona Misra, politician and member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
Geetanjali Shree is the first Hindi novelist to receive International Booker Prize in 2022.

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Lucknow

Another branch of St. Mary's is in RDSO Colony, Manak Nagar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The principal of the school is Sr. Lissy CJ and the manager is Sr. Mariette CJ. The motto of the school is "Efforts Spell Success". Unlike the Prayagraj branch, this branch happens to be a co-educational institute. The office bearers in this branch include the Head Boy, Head Girl, House captains, Games captains, and class monitors. The class monitors of year 12 acts as the prefects of the college.

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References

↑ Ananya; Parthasarthi, Nitya; Singh, Sameer (2019). "GenderQuant: Quantifying Mention-Level Genderedness". Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics: 2959–2969. doi:10.18653/v1/n19-1303. S2CID 174800820.

External links

Official website | [official website Lucknow|http://smccjlko.org]http://www.cjsmciclko.org/principal.php

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[1] Ananya; Parthasarthi, Nitya; Singh, Sameer (2019). "GenderQuant: Quantifying Mention-Level Genderedness". Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics: 2959–2969. doi:10.18653/v1/n19-1303. S2CID 174800820.

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