Abstract
(First paragraph) Some thirty nine years ago, a small group of Poor Sisters of St. Francis Seraph of the Perpetual Adoration came into the southwest territory of New Mexico to conduct a Public School at the villa of Peña Blanca. In the course of a few years other groups of those same Sisters came to conduct schools both parochial and public in other towns of New Mexico. Today, there are some sixty of these Sisters engaged exclusively in teaching the children of the Stat of New Mexico in eight localities. From the time of the first group's admittance to the State's educational system unto the present time these Sisters have formed a notable part of the New Mexico State educational system. What they have contributed in the way of education to the State of New Mexico, this thesis in a simple manner portrays.