Mary Louis Academy
| The Mary Louis Academy | |
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176-21 Wexford Terrace Mother Mary Louis Way (Jamaica Estates, Queens), New York 11432 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°42′45″N 73°47′15″W / 40.71250°N 73.78750°WCoordinates: 40°42′45″N 73°47′15″W / 40.71250°N 73.78750°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Private, Day, College-prep |
| Motto | Fidem Servavi (I Have Kept the Faith) |
| Religious affiliation(s) |
Roman Catholic (Sisters of St. Joseph) |
| Patron saint(s) |
Louis IX of France Blessed Mother |
| Established | 1936 |
| Founder | Mother Mary Louis |
| School district | Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn |
| School code | 016 |
| Dean | Kathleen Christman Dean of Seniors Marie Whelan Dean of Juniors Loriann Murphy '89 Dean of Sophomores Danielle McCormack Dean of Freshwomen |
| Principal | Kathleen McKinney, CSJ, Ed.D. |
| Faculty | approx 100 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Enrollment | approx 900 (2016) |
| Average class size | 25 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13:1 |
| Campus | Main Building The Wing Mary Louis Convent Art Cottage Advancement Cottage White Cottage Formation Cottage St. Joseph House Edgerton Courtyard McKinney Garden Senior Lawn Butterfly Garden Marian Shrine Ecology Garden |
| Campus size | 5 acres (20,000 m2) |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Columbia Blue and Gold |
| Slogan | TMLA+ |
| Song | "Crusaders" |
| Athletics conference | CHSAA |
| Mascot | Penguin |
| Nickname | Mary Louis / TMLA |
| Team name | Hilltoppers |
| Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Publication | "Spring"(literary mag.) |
| Newspaper | Mariel |
| Yearbook | Crusader |
| Alumni | Over 20,000 |
| Alumnae Magazine | Mariel-After |
| Director of Athletics | Joseph Lewinger |
| CSJ Sister Schools |
Sacred Heart Academy (New York) Fontbonne Hall Academy Academia Maria Reina Bishop Kearney High School (New York City) St. Joseph High School (Brooklyn) |
| Affiliated colleges |
St. John's University (New York) Saint Joseph's College (New York) |
| Website | www.tmla.org |
The Mary Louis Academy, also known as TMLA, is a private Catholic college preparatory academy, restricting admission solely to young women, located in Jamaica Estates, Queens, New York City. TMLA's 5-acre (20,000 m2) campus encompasses 8 separate buildings situated on private grounds, crowning the top of one of the highest hills in Queens, hence TMLA's interscholastic nickname "The Hilltoppers."
The Mary Louis Academy was founded in 1936, by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, New York, as the fruition of their late General Superior, Mother Mary Louis's, dream to found an academy for young women in Queens. Archbishop Thomas Edmund Molloy had a hand in the birth of TMLA due to his strong personal conviction that the girls of the Diocese of Brooklyn deserved an academy all their own which would foster all of their individual talents and guide them to success.
For over 80 years, the Academy's tall, brick and limestone Collegiate Gothic main building on Wexford Terrace has been a distinctive part of the Queens skyline. Despite the increasing number of buildings, it is an architectural landmark that can be seen clearly from the Long Island Railroad. This is fitting because it was while traveling on the Long Island Railroad in early 1932 that, Mother Mary Louis, General Superior of the Sisters of St. Joseph, first gazed upon a beautiful hilltop in the countryside of Jamaica Estates and selected it as her ideal site for an academy. Although Mother Mary Louis died suddenly on May 22, 1932, her dream of establishing this academy for young women in the urban enclave of Jamaica Estates lived on among her congregation of sisters.
When Mother Mary Louis's plans to build this academy for girls in Queens were set in motion, the Sisters of St. Joseph came upon an obstacle, that hilltop, the Fox/Adikes estate "Rose Crest", had already been purchased by the Passionist priests of the neighboring Immaculate Conception Monastery, with the intent to build a high school seminary for boys at that location. Archbishop Thomas Molloy intervened and convinced the Passionists to sell the estate to the Josephites, for exactly what they had paid for it themselves.
In 1935 the Sisters of St. Joseph officially acquired the hilltop Rose Crest estate, a landmark of turn of the century Queens, and the Mediterranean Revival white stucco mansion became the convent for the Sisters who were to staff this "Private School for Girls." Mother Mary Louis had intended the new academy to be named Mother Fontbonne Academy, in memory of Jeanne Fontbonne, the foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Le Puy, France. Archbishop Molloy suggested that the Academy be named in memory of Mother Mary Louis herself, as she had been such a driving force for education in New York and had personally chosen this property. Sister Mary Angelica Clarkin CSJ, Ph.D., the founding principal, applied to the New York Department of Education for the official Academy charter in the name "Mother Mary Louis Academy." When the charter was delivered, it arrived with the first two letters, as well as the last, in the word "Mother" missing, thus the word "The" was permanently affixed to the name of The Mary Louis Academy.
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