HOGAN, CATHERINE MARY (1881-1964)

HOGAN, CATHERINE MARY, Sister St Mary Daniel of the Congregation of Notre Dame; music teacher, and superior at Newcastle, 1949-52; b. Newcastle, 14 Dec 1881, d/o Daniel Hogan and Bridget Sweeney; entered religious life, 1903; d. Montreal, 1 May 1964.

C. Mary Hogan attended St Mary's Academy to age fifteen, when she left to take a job as a bookkeeper with the J. D. Creaghan Co. In 1902, after making a decision to enter religious life, she went back to St Mary's for a year as a boarding student. She then entered the novitiate of the Congregation of Notre Dame in Montreal.

Being an accomplished pianist and organist, Hogan was first assigned to teach music at the CND school at St Albans, Vermont. In 1907 she became music teacher at the convent school at Antigonish, N.S. Appointment followed appointment at schools in all three Maritime provinces, including an assignment as teacher of music at Newcastle from 1934 to 1941. During the course of her career she taught music and singing for thirty-six years.

In 1941 Hogan was appointed superior at Tignish, P.E.I.; in 1947 at Sydney, N.S.; and in 1949 in her hometown of Newcastle, where she remained as head of the convent for three years. She then devoted herself to missions at other CND locations until forced to retire in 1957. In her last years she was confined to the infirmary at the mother house in Montreal.