Foundresses Week (Week V)

Foundresses week consisted of learning about many little known facts about Notre Dame de Namur through a campus tour led by one of NDNU's sisters. As a class we went through the campus analyzing a couple of buildings that have some significance in them. We started off at the chapel where one of the sisters explained to us the glass stained windows. What really caught my attention was that each held an important testimony of the bible. Not only that but the position of each window had a meaning. After the chapel we went to the SJ building where I learned many incredible facts about not only what the building had to offer but how the university came to be. I learned that SJ's lounge held three crests, one of which was the universities emblem. I learned that the univeristy first started in San Jose were it was an all girls campus. The most interesting fact that I learned that day in SJ was the adversity that two sisters had to go through to get here, the bay. After SJ we went down to the mansion where we learned the conditions of the university when it was purchased. We heard Ralston's story of how he became this wealthy man through out the Gold Rush and how he passed in a unfortunate set of events. Our campus tour ended with a statue next to what used to be Ralston's horse stable. A place hidden significantly from plain sight. I say this because of all the times I've gone down by the building and have never noticed it. The tour was no longer than the class period but it did its job in acknowledging our campus and its past history.