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Matrilineal Monday: Arise, ye faithful Aquinites

Joan Joyce (Schiavon) Huesca: (1928 – 1987) Joan Schiavon, about 15 years old, Aquinas High School, Chicago The 8th grade graduating class of Dixon Elementary School signed their names and declared their ambitions for adulthood in the centerfold pages of the June 1942 edition of the Dixon Beacon.  My mother signed her name, Schiavon, Joan,  in … Continue reading "Matrilineal Monday: Arise, ye faithful Aquinites"

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