The Sisters of Notre Dame have always stressed academic excellence in the schools they founded and taught in. They also enjoyed rewarding excellent students with medals. Here are a few examples from the California Province Archives.

Excellence Received by Etta Mary Webb Smith from the College of Notre Dame, San Jose. She attended the school 1905-1908.

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Punctuality Won by Mary Lucick, 1926.

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Christian Doctrine Presented to Eleanor Eaton, 1926. C. D. of A, Watsonville.

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Honors Cross Graduation honors cross, given to Marie Traynor from the College of Notre Dame, San Francisco.