Alma Mater & Seal
Alma Mater
Dearest Ramona, we're singing today, our love for you most dear. List' to the song we will voice all the way, through every passing year. And when we leave you we want you to know that wherever we go We'll always be true dear school to you so we all gladly sing: Hail to thee, hail to thee, fairest in all the land. Honor to thee and loyalty, for loving and guiding you stand. Gold and white, emblems of right, and right you'll always be; We'll hold for you a love that's true - Alma Mater fair, Alma Mater fair.Seal
The Ramona Seal graphically weaves significant religious and historical themes associated with the school's heritage. Ramona Convent's earlier environment in the once agriculturally rich San Gabriel Valley is represented by the two recumbent sheep on the Seal. The two gentle animals seem to guard the lily-encircled cross which is taken from the community seal of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. The French-Canadian Congregation chose as the patroness of Ramona the courageous savior of the French monarchy and nation. This peasant girl, Saint Joan of Arc, led the armies of France under the banner she devised: gold fleur de lis of the kings of France on a field of white. The names of her patrons, Jesus et Marie, were emblazoned on it. Ramona's shield fittingly honors those Holy Names. Her sword and the crown of Charles VII, the dauphin who ascended the throne through her military victories against the British, decorate the seal.