On Georgetown Visitation’s 225th anniversary, its class of 2024 hears from Visitation sister who witnessed and made history
As Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, D.C., marks the 225th anniversary of its founding in 1799 as the first Catholic girls’ school in the original 13 states, the 133 young women in its class of 2024 were addressed at their June 4 graduation ceremony by a woman who has witnessed and made history in her nearly eight decades at the school – Visitation Sister Mary Berchmans Hannan.
“There is no one who embodies the charism of Salesian spiritual and the mission of Georgetown Visitation more than Sister,” said Christine McGovern, the school’s dean of faculty, in introducing Sister Berchmans as the graduation speaker.