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In 1921, Sister Mary Columba Hayes, Mary Reardon (Mitchell), and a group of about 12 other Mount graduates formed the idea for an alumnae association. They sent out invitations, and nearly 200 women arrived for the first alumnae meeting in December. After this initial meeting, a formal Alumnae Association was formed in June of 1922, where committees were established to plan future meetings, various chapters were formed, and the constitution and by-laws were drafted and approved. Elections were also held for the association’s officers and Nan O’Mara (Emerson) was elected president. This meeting also established the motto: Fides, Sapientia, Amicitia-Alumnae.

Formal meetings were held at the Mount in October and at Saint Theresa’s Retreat in Halifax during winter months. News of these meetings was also published in Folia Montana, the school’s paper and later yearbook which was designed to keep graduates in touch with each other.

Catherine Sarah McGowan, daughter of J.W. McGowan, attended Mount Saint Vincent Academy and was later a student at Mount Saint Vincent College, Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 1940's. In the summer of 1946 she was given the opportunity to work as a junior dietician in the Convalescent Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. In 1948 McGowan graduated from Mount Saint Vincent College with a Bachelor of Science. In 1949 McGowan was employed at the Department of Agriculture doing demonstration work in foods. Catherine later joined the Sisters of Charity and took the name Sister Catherine Joseph Marie. By 1997 Sr. Catherine was running daycare centres--the Jardin de los Ninos, and Centre Elisabeth Seton, and continues to work in the Dominican Republic.

Mary Dulhanty was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia in 1909, the daughter of Richard and Hannah Dulhanty. She moved with her family to Bridgewater in 1912. Her father died in 1923. Mary had two sisters, Jane (b. 1900) and Margaret (b. 1903), and a brother Frank (b. 1906). Mary graduated from Mount Saint Vincent in June 1927, and emigrated with her mother to New York in 1929. She married William Swift on 11 June 1932, and was divorced in 1936, reconciled, then divorced again in 1938. She followed her sister Jane from California then to Hawaii where she worked for a general contractor. Mary was in Pearl Harbor when it was bombed by the Japanese in 1941. Shortly after she married Alexander Kirkland McKendrick (1916-1968), and they had two children, Mary Elizabeth, called Beth (b. 1942) and James (Jim, b. 1944) and the family spent most of their time in Belmont, California. Mary died 29 April 1999.

Lua Gavin entered as a postulant to the Sisters of Charity at the age of 16. Sister Lua Gavin taught biology at Mount Saint Vincent College and University in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She was also involved with the Alumnae Association. She retired as chairman of the Biology Department in 1979, and in 1982 went to St. Brigid's assisted living in Quebec City, Quebec as a coordinator. Sister Martina Marie was her sister, also in the Mount Saint Vincent community.

Lena Florence Bennett Davison was born in Halifax on April 14th 1903 to Robie, a lumber merchant, and Celina Davison. She was known to all her friends and peers as Blossom, a name her father gave to her because he thought she was pretty like a flower. Likely, this name also helped distinguish herself from her mother Celina who was also known as ‘Lena’, for short. She had a brother named Ronald.

Blossom was a student at Mount Saint Vincent Academy, graduating in the class of 1921. During her time at the school, Blossom was recognized as an accomplished musician. She was the star violinist at the May 1921 Recital, though she also excelled at the piano. Blossom was also a great athlete, and won the top prize at the school’s 1920 tennis tournament.

When Blossom was 18 years of age, census records note that her family sometimes used the last name ‘Davis’.

When Blossom married, she took the last name Agnew.

Margaret McCarthy was born November 8, 1898, to Timothy and Ellen McCarthy of Bantry Bay, Ireland. The McCarthy’s belonged to Saint Patrick’s parish in Halifax, and Margaret attended Saint Patrick’s High School, eventually joining the Sisters of Charity in 1915 where she made her profession of vows in 1918. Sister Francis d’Assisi received a Bachelor of Arts at Mount Saint Vincent College in 1921, and a Master of Arts in History in 1926. In 1932 she received a doctorate degree at Fordham University; her thesis was ‘The changing religious liberty in Nova Scotia, 1604-1827.’ After returning to Nova Scotia, she taught history at Saint Patrick’s High School before becoming Dean at Mount Saint Vincent College in 1938.

Following her tenure as dean, Sister Francis D’Assisi became the President of Mount Saint Vincent College from 1954 to 1965, where she oversaw the school’s expansion, both in campus buildings and enrolment. She was a founding member of the Association of Atlantic Universities (AAU), and maintained Mount Saint Vincent’s membership in the National Conference of Colleges and Universities (NCCU) since 1950. She was also largely responsible for the seal of the college, which first appeared in publications in the mid-fifties.

When she retired as President in 1965, she received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal and became the Congregational Historian (Archivist) for the Sisters of Charity, a position she held until 1978.

Alice Hagen (née Egan) and her daughters Kathleen Hagen (Fay) and Rachel Hagen (Dickinson) were students at Mount Saint Vincent Academy.

Alice, born in 1872, graduated in 1887 and went on to study and teach at the Victoria School of Art and Design. Alice was an artist, specializing in pottery and china painting, and is considered a founder of the studio pottery movement in Nova Scotia. She was given medals in 1913 and 1916 for her involvement in the arts in Kingston, Jamaica. She remained an active potter well into her 90s. She passed away in 1972.

Alice's eldest daughter Rachel was born in 1902 and graduated in 1922 with a degree in Music (violin). Rachel was an accomplished musician and taught violin for many years in Bridgewater, N.S. Like her mother, Rachel also made pottery and promoted her mother's works by ensuring they were preserved in museums in Nova Scotia and Canada. Rachel passed away in 1993.