Building on a friendship that has flourished for centuries between the Sisters of the Visitation and the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), Wheeling Jesuit University is establishing the "Mount de Chantal Conservatory of Music at Wheeling Jesuit University." With this addition to its campus, the University will honor the legacy of the Sisters and continue their education mission by providing a central space for music performance, practice and instruction. Construction of the Conservatory will take place in the summer of 2013, with dedication of the space in late fall.

Former Wheeling Jesuit University President Rick Beyer and Sr. Joanne Gonter, V.H.M., former Mount de Chantal superior, pose in front of the G.P.A. Healy painting of Romaine Goddard, the first harp graduate of Mount de Chantal. The painting, now in the Georgetown Visitation Monastery, hung for decades in the front hall of the Mount. A reproduction will hang in the Sisters of the Visitation Gallery in the Conservatory at WJU.