 In December 1979 St. Mary's Academy Inc. was incorporated in the Province of Manitoba and a Board of Directors, whose members included parents, alumnae, friends of the Academy and Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, assumed responsibility for the school.By the 1980s most Sisters had been replaced by lay teachers, many of whom were themselves alumnae.In 1985 the director/principal administration model was adopted and the first director and lay principal were named.