Donahoe Cup

We look forward to welcoming you to our fifteenth Donahoe Cup!

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THE DONAHOE FAMILY

The Donahoe Family has a long association with Sacred Heart School of Halifax. Richard and Eileen (Boyd) Donahoe’s four daughters, Cathleen Niedermayer, Sheila Donahoe, Nora Strapps and Ellen Feehan attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart (as it was known before 1985) and continue to be active as Board Members, Alumnae, and one as a former teacher. Richard and Eileen’s sons, Arthur and Terry, were both educated at College St. School where they were taught by the Sacred Heart nuns.

Richard Donahoe, a close friend of the school, was in political life in Nova Scotia for over 50 years. His reputation for public discourse and debate grew as his career took him from his service as Mayor of Halifax in the 1950’s, to his election to the Legislature of Nova Scotia where he served as Attorney General and Minister of Health, and ultimately to his time as a member of the Canadian Senate. Following their father’s example, Arthur and Terry both spent many years in public life in Nova Scotia and developed reputations as fair, diligent, and skilled legislators and debaters. Arthur served as Speaker of the Nova Scotia Legislature and Terry served as Minister of Education and in several other portfolios. In 1985, Terry introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the Legislature which resulted in the incorporation of Sacred Heart School of Halifax.

The association of the Donahoe family with Sacred Heart School goes back to its earliest days in Halifax – on both the maternal and paternal sides of the family. On the maternal side, the register of accounts shows that three Misses Power attended in 1851, just two years after the school opened. One of those young ladies, Mary Power, was Eileen Donahoe’s grandmother. Mary’s sisters, Catherine and Ellen Power, became Religious of the Sacred Heart. Eileen’s mother, Katherine (McIsaac) Boyd, and her aunts, Mary McIsaac, Ellen Philip, and Agnes McIsaac were students at the Convent in the early 1900’s.

On the paternal side, Richard Donahoe’s mother, Rebecca Duggan, was a boarder as a very young girl. His sisters, Mary Miller, Agnes Donahoe, Margaret Hanrahan, Geraldine Curran, and Edith Power attended the school in the early 1900’s, and Agnes became a Religious of the Sacred Heart. Richard and his brothers Edward, Robert, and Frank benefited from the training of the Sacred Heart nuns at College Street School. Numerous cousins are also graduates of the school.

It is with great pride that the Donahoe Family lends its name and heritage to this debating tournament.