WOW!! This has a direct family connection; My grandmother (born 1895 in County Galway, Ireland) came to Buffalo at around age 8, to attend Nardin Academy. It was,in the early 1900's, run by her aunt, Elizabeth, ("Aunt Lizzie") who was her mother's sister. She was supposed to eventually join the order of nuns , who operated the Nardin Academy. Somewhere along the line, she met my grandfather, and so ended her vocation as a nun. Thanks, for the ancestoral reminder!! John Carleton