As Ursuline Academy celebrates its 40th anniversary this year at our Blue Ash campus, we look back with pride on those years and places where our young women were educated, nurtured, and prepared for life. From their foundation in Italy, Ursuline communities were established all over Europe. They came to the “New World” via Canada in 1639. Ursulines established the very first religious community of women in the United States in New Orleans in 1727. Sister Julia Chatfield became Ohio’s “pioneer nun” whose determination to establish education in the wilderness endures after 165 years. She was inducted into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame on June 5, 2001 in recognition of the accomplishments she achieved:
