#WeddingWednesday Volney William Foster and Adair Orr were married on June 23, 1942 in San Gabriel, California, where Ensign Foster was on sea duty. It was a wartime wedding, with family and and a few close friends in attendance. Volney William Foster, the son of Albert Volney Foster and Margaret Baxter Foster (the founder of what is today the The Lake Forest Shop), had first met Adair Orr at a party in Lake Forest, at the age of 16 (she was 13). In WWII, he served as an ensign and then as a lieutenant in the naval reserve. Later in the war, he commanded an LST, or Landing Ship, Tank, in the Mediterranean. | |
#SchoolDaysPast The Academy of the Sacred Heart came to Lake Forest from Chicago in 1901 to find a more isolated location and a larger campus site. The Academy settled on 43 wooded acres in south Lake Forest. In 1904, the first school opened for girls of elementary and high school age. Initially a boarding school, day students were admitted in 1931. The program also expanded to include a two-year junior college program and in 1918, Barat College was established as a four-year institution for women. In 1961, the Academy and Barat College created separate campuses with new buildings for secondary school, renamed Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart. | |
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