To the Editor:
The Museum of Work & Culture, located in Woonsocket, RI, needs your help to Snap Up the Past for its Catholic Schools Archive.
Within the museum is a Catholic School exhibit vividly portraying a 1929 Catholic school classroom. A very popular feature of the exhibit is the archive on Catholic education that is depicted within 66 volumes. The museum would like to expand its archive and seeks your help.
If you, family members, friends or relatives attend or attended Catholic schools anywhere in the world, or taught in Catholic schools, we very much would like you to share with us any or all of the following:
• Individual pictures, class pictures, group pictures, snapshots, yearbook pictures, pictures with Nuns and Brothers (our binders can accommodate up to 8 1/2x11 materials).
• Baptismal, First Communion, Confirmation and Wedding pictures.
• Memorabilia of your days in Catholic school.
• A one-page composition recalling your school days.
• Pictures of you and your family depicting later periods of your life such as snapshots of your days in the military (especially with family members or buddies), snapshots depicting your work in life, home settings, etc. anything that captures and preserves the past.
• Mount St. Charles Academy yearbooks dated 1936, 37, 38, 39, 41, 45, 50, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 73, 75, 76, 79, 83, 92, 93, 2003, 04, 05, 06, 07, and 08.
• St. Clare High School yearbooks all years are needed except 1934, 39, 45, 46, 47, 51, 52, 60, 61, 62 and 64.
Please submit any pictures and written materials with proper identification to:
Eugene A. Peloquin
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street
Woonsocket, RI 02895
or you may e-mail your scanned material to Irene Blais at iblais@rihs.org.
All material submitted to the Museum of Work & Culture becomes the property of the museum and cannot be returned.
If you have any questions, please call the Museum of Work & Culture at 401-769-9675.
Eugene Peloquin and Albert Brunelle are the Museum volunteers who are developing the Catholic Schools Archive and are most appreciative of your help in expanding the collection.
The Catholic Schools Archive exhibit was designed by Bernard Fontaine, a staff member, and crafted by Henri Berthiaume, museum volunteer.
Irene C. Blais
Museum of Work & Culture
