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Article: Allen: Holy Names High's rich history in Oakland
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- Oakland Tribune
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- August 24, 2008
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HOLY NAMES HIGH SCHOOL -- one of the first high schools in
Oakland -- began educating girls in the 1860s at the school's first
location, the marshy shores of Lake Merritt.
This year, the high school and its sister institution, Holy Names
University in the Oakland hills, are commemorating 140 years of
education in the East Bay.
Known then as the Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the
school was founded by a contingent of young nuns from Montreal, the
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. After an arduous and
lengthy journey that included a trek across the jungle isthmus of
Panama and a difficult ocean voyage, the six sisters arrived in San
Francisco on May 10, 1868, and were met ...