I hope to start a conversation with women who were sent away to a Catholic boarding school, especially if you attended St. John Villa Academy in Staten Island, NY. Ours was a unique experience. I can still summon myriad feelings of isolation, abandonment, loneliness, fear, etc., even though I was a boarder back in the Sixties. My time there for two years (1967-1969) and at St. Mary’s Academy (1966-67) in Lakewood, NJ, have stayed with me always. I loved attending grammar school, but hated being a boarder. I long dreamed of the day I would become a day student, someone who could go return to a real home every day after school and be greeted with love, not a stern nun, strict regulations and more regimentation.
October 19, 2008
Were you a boarder at a girls’ Catholic boarding school?
Posted by Delia under Uncategorized | Tags: boarding school, Catholic boarding school, girls' catholic boarding school, SJVA, St. John Villa Academy, St. John's Villa Academy, Staten Island |[16] Comments