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This photograph depicts Cumberland's Ursuline Academy Class of 1963.
Depicted in the back row on the far right is Angela Washington, a straight "A" honor roll student the entire time she attended Ursuline. In the second row, sixth from the left is Cheryl Cooper. Other African-American girls in this class, not depicted or visible in this photograph, were Pat Lee and Juanita Redman.
Angela Washington passed away in 2005. An older sister, Therese Washington, was in the Ursuline Class of 1957 and the only African-American in that class. Ursuline graduate
Patricia (Lee) Largent was born in 1944 and passed away in 2022.
Photograph and text courtesy Herman J. Washington
Ursuline Academy closed in 1966 and merged into the newly opened Bishop Walsh Middle-High School.