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St Stanislaus, Oldest Local Institution
Saint Stanislaus, among the older of Southern schools, was founded in 1854 by the Brothers of Sacred Heart at the earnest solicitation of Rev-Stanislaus Buteux, Pastor of Our Lady of the Grif Church, Bay St. Louis, Miss.
Having arrived at the Bay, the Brothers took temporary lodging in the presbytery, and taught classes Ae frame building directly behind the church, re-:he Pastor of teaching, since the Christian Srrcberi had left because of the yellow fever in 1853.
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m frntaten were Brothers Ba-TwnMf. Joseph, Biemer and Late	in October
Athanasius, one of the of the Province, was >im D»rctor and brought from ; :*her Lucius Ramond, a chanic, to supervise the i	f a new St. Stanislaus.
» ta i an of $2,000 from Fath-«•	the	Brothers were able
» j.-- -titr 108 feet of Gulf-shore t* ■■ ^ -	adjoining	Bookter St.
W By 1896, the property feto- f\ti-:ided to Union St.
cvitilc the school had be-*»»•• »r.; known along the Gulf i-i one stressing character *5 well as mental and *m-i.	elopment.
the	Civil	War forced
iuconunuance of the board-o* 6f^«n.T.ent, access to Louis-wa tsd New Orleans was jnade ■i.‘>' f through the good offices id Federal Commandant at Pvke.	located	at the en-
•■nr* to Lake Pontchartrain.
A	to New Orleans always
by boat, required from Ifcree days.
to maintain the board-tnt, Brother Athana-two houses on Touro
Street, New Orleans—one to be used as living quarters for the boarding students from the Louisiana plantations, the other for classrooms. These were also for the New Orleans boys who had been boarding at the Bay.
Meanwhile, Brother Florimond and three older Brothers maintained a day school at Saint Stanislaus all during the War.
When Peace was proclaimed, the boarders returned to Bay St. Louis, and the following year the school opened with 120 boarders and 75 day students.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad helped considerably in the transportation problem after
1869,	in which year it had completed the line from Mobile to New Orleans.
Both Bay St. Louis and Saint Stanislaus have had to contend with obstacles that continually threatened their existence. The worst was the dread “yellow fever,” which first hit St. Stanislaus in 1867 and revisited the scene in
1870,	1897, and again in 1905, despite the discoveries made by
the United States Army medical As each epidemic necessitated men in Cuba.	closing the school for several
The 1869 visitation took the Di- weeks, the boarders had to be rector, Brother Odon; that of 1870 sent home by the most expedi-took the lives of three Brothers in tious manner. On one occasion, their early thirties.	Brother Isidore chartered a train
to take the Louisiana boys home via Nashville and Memphis.
Then there is the perennial hurricane threat—the storm that whips in from the Caribbean into the Gulf, and then makes up its whimsical mind as to where to strike.
These storms hit with devastating force, and winds of gale velocity, up to 120 and 130 miles per hour, are not unusual. Such storms hit the Bay region -fe 1888-’93, 1915 and 1947. Various portions of the college usually left damaged with the storm.
Ordinary cypress pilings were used by all, including the Brothers, as a windbreaker. But in 1915 Brother Isidore refused to upplace them, and designed and built a model of his own. Although “inadequate” according to the engineers, it withstood the baby hurricane of 1924, and survived without damage the terrific pounding received from the gales of 1947-
Meanwhile, the “engineered”1 walls lay crumbling all around.
An Administrator who left a. deep impression on the school was Brother Stanislaus. He served three terms: 1881-1883; 1888-1898; and 1904-1913.
The enrollment was very poor when he first arrived. He used the daily papers to bring the school to the attention of prospective students. He had a brochure printed that described in detail the activities, the curriculum and the disciplinary rules at St. Stanislaus.
During the vacation period, the teachers visited the old and prospective students. They visited from Texas to Florida, and Stanislaus
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We, THE OLEN DEPARTMENT STORES, want to take this opportunity to offer our warm thanks to the people of Bay St. Louis and Hancock County, who have made our establishment a complete success. THE OLEN DEPARTMENT STORES feel proud to be a part of a fine community that is growing with such untiring effort and determination.
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