Elementary students from the Ursuline Academy in St. Ignace in April 1947. The Ursuline Academy, at one time, educated students through high school, then became an elementary school before it closed in 1972. The building is now the Mission Heights condominium. Pictured are (front, from left) Don Olmstead, Ruth Goudreau, Abbie Case, Nancy McLeod, Carol Washburn, Patsy Martin, Carol LaLonde, Robert Utter; (second) Katherine Osmond, Hugh Leveille, Ron Walker, Gary Alkire, Don McLeod, Jim Droskie, Alice Goudreau; (third) Rena Vallier, Shirley Thibeault, Sandra Prokop, Gail Vallier, Aquita McGraw, Jim Luepnitz, David Walker, Bob LaJoice; (back) Art Wagner, Nora Gallagher, Mary Fitzpatrick, Lois Lambert, Louise Rapin, Gerald Leveille, Gerald Wixon, George Aslin, and David Paquin. Missing from the photograph is Patty (nee Goudreau) Boynton. (Photograph courtesy of Arthur Wagner) 115 Years Ago

The St. Ignace News

Saturday, December 24, 1892

A most distressing accident happened in the switch yards at Mackinaw City, at about 5 o'clock last Tuesday afternoon. Theodore Dormer, an aged man working on the section, was run over by a train and almost instantly killed. He died about 20 minutes from the time of the accident.

Good skating on the bay.

The operator at the dock burned his hand quite badly while sealing a package Wednesday.

The children of W.E. Smythe were taken down with scarlet fever this week, but are improving.

Grades 4th and 5th of LaSalle school presented their teacher, Miss Lennon, with a gold pen as a Christmas present.

90 Years Ago

The St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, December 27, 1917

John Kolar Jr. spent Christmas at home, returning in the evening to take up his work with the telephone company at Rexton.

George Densmore has taken his old position as 2nd engineer on the Chief.

The Red Cross drive will continue until New Year's. Reports from the county are very favorable and it

now predicted that the quota assigned to the county will be nearly reached.

George Whitcomb of Curtis drove to Newberry a day last week with a load of beef.

Mr. Browning of Rexton is operating his new camp, but is handicapped by lack of men.

Judge Charles Brown, once a prominent attorney of St. Ignace, died suddenly last week while on the train enroute from his home in Niles to visit his son, court stenographer Will Brown of Cheboygan. He was 81 years old.

Capt. Frank McCarty, who is government inspector of hulls at Cleveland, Ohio, arrived Sunday on Mackinac Island to spend Christmas.

50 Years Ago

The Republican-News

& St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, December 26 1957

"There is a possibility that St. Ignace will have an opportunity to obtain two of the state ferry docks here," said Mayor A.G. Phillips on Tuesday. "The state highway department is considering plans to utilize Dock No. 3 at the Point for its own use."

Phillips, who last week spent a day in Lansing and was a member of a panel of mayors which discussed municipal problems with Gov. Williams, referred to a letter from Sidney Wooner, deputy state highway commissioner.

Construction of a new roadway on M-129 for six miles from Cedarville north to Rock View has been started.

Father Joseph Ling of Mackinac Island celebrated his 60th anniversary as a priest on Wednesday.

Old Fort Mackinac again has its unique and guiding decorations high above Fort Mackinac, Santa and his reindeers, the Cross, and Christmas tree.

John Monville of St. Ignace was recently commissioned a regular second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

35 Years Ago

The Republican-News

& St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, December 28, 1972

The general condition of all the fish stocks in the Great Lakes have been most seriously depleted from over-fishing, lamprey invasion, adverse development practices, pollution, and expansion of competing foreign fish stocks was the answer to an inquiry on the status of the fish stocks in Moran Bay, Lake Huron, recently requested by St. Ignace City Manager Steven Walters to the Department of Natural Resources.

With a few exceptions, 1972 was an average year for the Mackinac Bridge, according to Prentiss M. Brown, chairman of the Mackinac Bridge Authority.

Les Cheneaux's 21 members of the Head Start classes were dismissed for their vacation on Wednesday. Their classroom was beautifully decorated with a tall jack pine tree donated by Donald Crawfis of Five Mile Block.

The St. Ignace Saints boys basketball team and the Petoskey Northmen entered last Friday night's contest tied for first place in the conference. When the dust had cleared, Coach Gene Shank had suffered his third straight defeat to the Saints since leaving St. Ignace, as the Saints won 56-53.

15 Years Ago

The St. Ignace News Thursday, December 24, 1992

On Three-Mile Road in Hessel, just a short distance from the intersection of St. Ignace Road, sounds of construction fill the air as a 4,500-square-foot building takes shape, which will be the Hessel community center of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The St. Ignace News is seeking original prints or reprints of old photographs depicting areas in the Eastern Upper Peninsula to be scanned into the archives and for the Looking Back column. Photographs to be loaned or donated to the Michilimackinac Historical Society can also be dropped off at The St. Ignace News.