Mother Kai Hsia left the mainland during the communist takeover. She came to Taiwan in 1948 and set up a supplementary English school, which she ran for the next six years. In 1954 she established the Providence Technical College, and taught English there for five years.
民國卅七年，大陸淪陷，蓋夏率數位修女，隨政府播遷來台，先在台中自由路開辦英語補習學校，於民國四十三年遷到復興路上，正式成立靜宜女子英語專科學校。