Manufacturer: Shenango China
User: Saint Mary's School – Raleigh, North Carolina
Date of cup: August 1921

Smedes Hall - front entrance to Saint Mary's School

Saint Mary's Chapel, built in 1856, is a National Historic Site

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Notes: From Wikipedia: "Founded in 1842 by the Rev. Aldert Smedes, an Episcopal priest, Saint Mary's School has operated continuously on the same site ever since.

"With the support of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, Smedes founded Saint Mary's as a school for young ladies "designed to furnish a thorough and excellent education equal to the best that can be obtained in the city of New York, or in any Northern school." The school was founded on the site of the Episcopal School of North Carolina, a short-lived school for boys in the 1830s. Three of the present school buildings—East Rock, West Rock and Smedes Hall—formed the original campus. East Rock and West Rock, the first two buildings, were constructed with remnant stones from the construction of the North Carolina State Capitol.

"During the Civil War, Saint Mary's became a safe haven for relatives of both Union and Confederate officers, including General Robert E. Lee's daughter, Mildred Childe Lee. Smedes kept the school operating throughout the war. In 1865, General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union troops camped in The Grove on front campus, and Sherman visited Smedes in the main building. From 1906-1908 President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor Wilson attended Saint Mary's.

"In 1900, Alpha Kappa Psi sorority was founded at Saint Mary's. In 1932, an alumna of the school, Margaret Mordecai Jones Cruikshank, was appointed as the seventh president of the school, making her the first woman president at Saint Mary's.

"The school was racially integrated in the 1970s, when the first African student was admitted. That first African student, a college student from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, graduated in 1973, and the first African American student graduated in 1981. International students from nations including Japan and Denmark were enrolled in the 1950s.

"Today, Saint Mary's School functions as an independent, Episcopal, college-preparatory, boarding and day school for girls in grades 9–12. The historic core of the school's 23-acre campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a stop on the North Carolina Civil War Trails. The Saint Mary's Chapel, designed by Richard Upjohn, is a National Historic Site, and five of the school's 25 buildings are Raleigh Historic Properties."

White body cup with a thin dark green band and dark green pinstripe around the top. On the cup's left side is the school's logo in dark green and white. The logo is a shield with a cross at its base and three drawings above. The drawings are of an artist's palette, an open book, and a musical harp. The shield is within an elongated oval with the words "St. Mary's Junior College" wrapped along the border and the date "1842" directly under the shield. Under the oval is a ribbon containing the words "Raliegh, North Carolina."

Source:
Wikipedia – history and photos of the school
Main Building photo by Nicholas Oren Rawlings
Chapel photo by Mvswain

Contributors:
Susan Phillips: cup photos
Ed Phillips: author