| 1935 |
The Cafeteria, on the terrace floor of the Liberal Arts Building, is renovated and named the "Colonial Room."
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The Colonial Room |
| 1935 |
The Comerford Theatre Corporation donates 35-millimeter and 16-millimeter sound motion picture projectors to the College.
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| 1935 |
The Dramatic Society changes its name to The Marywood Players.
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The Familiar Essay class publishes several volumes of a special collection entitled "The Whinflower." |
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| 1936 |
The Vocational Home Economics program receives state approval.
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| 1936 |
Through the encouragement of Mother Josepha, a shrine of St. Joseph is erected on the campus.
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St. Joseph Shrine |
| 1936 |
The Class of 1936 initiates a long-standing tradition at Marywood: holding the Class Day ceremonies outdoors.
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| 1936 |
A fire breaks out at the conclusion of commencement at the West Side Theater; nobody is hurt, and the theater is saved.
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| 1936 |
The "Our Lady of Marywood" statue is unveiled in the ravine as a gift of the student body to the Dean of the College, Sister M. Immaculata Gillespie, IHM, December 8.
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Our Lady of Marywood statue, The Ravine, 1935 |
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The Student Advisory Board is formed to assist the faculty in dealing with matters significant to student life on and off campus.
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| 1937 |
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, visits Marywood College, April 27. |
Eleanor Roosevelt at Marywood College |
| 1937 |
Roman Artist Gonippo Raggi completes a major enhancement project, the adorning of the Liberal Arts Rotunda interior. The entire project, with marble floors and pillars, murals and dome decorations, is accomplished for the amazingly modest cost of $68,387. It transforms the bare walls and dome, steel columns, the mezzanine and floor into a Marywood College mission statement in marble and murals. Raggi's murals evoke the history and principles of Christian education in a singularly American context with deserved recognition of the significant contribution of the I.H.M. Sisters. A graduate of Rome's eminent School of Art, Professor Raggi earned the honors of popes and kings for his illumination of one hundred cathedrals, basilicas, and churches across Europe and North and South America. |
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Gym class in the Rotunda, 1935 |
The Rotunda
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Rotunda ceiling, c.2005
photo courtesy of Dr. Peter Spader,
Professor, Philosophy Department |
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| 1937 |
Marywood is invited to merge with St. Thomas College but declines the offer.
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| 1937 |
The Bachelor of Science degree in Library Science receives state approval.
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| 1937 |
Reverend William J. Hafey, serving as coadjutor Bishop of Scranton during Bishop O'Reilly's illness, visits Marywood on a number of occasions.
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| 1937 |
An independent publication, Dew on the Thorn—A Springtime Anthology of Verse, makes its first appearance. It is published each year through 1940.
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| 1937 |
The Shrine of St. Joseph is completed on campus.
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| 1938 |
Landscaping of the campus is completed by members of the Roger Bacon Society.
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| 1938 |
Father McHugh is reassigned to Marywood College and serves, once again, as Chaplain.
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| 1938 |
The Marywood Players stage a production of Berkeley Square.
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| 1938 |
Bishop O'Reilly dies; Reverend William J. Hafey becomes the fourth Bishop of Scranton and Honorary President of Marywood College.
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| 1938 |
The Honorable George Earle, Governor of Pennsylvania, visits Marywood. Students welcome him in sixteen different languages that represent their heritages, living proof of the ethnic diversity of both Northeastern Pennsylvania and the College itself.
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| 1938 |
Marywood receives State approval for the training of the mentally retarded and for guidance counseling.
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| 1939 |
The Sandy Weisberger Post, No. 1615, of the Jewish Veterans of Foreign Wars presents the College with a flag and flagpole, raised in front of O'Reilly Hall, in recognition of Marywood's efforts in the cause of world peace, November. Students in caps and gowns stand in the Rotunda as Bishop Hafey presides. Others attending the ceremony are representatives from the Council of Jewish Women, the Gold Star Mothers, the American War Mothers, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and its Auxiliary, the Diocesan Council of Catholic Men, and the Catholic Daughters of America. The Mayor of Scranton is present, as is the Burgess of Dunmore, with area businessmen, members of the press, and many priests and sisters from the region.
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Flag raising in front of O'Reilly Hall, 1939 |
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Sister M. Norberta Streilly, I.H.M., persuades the Spanish Embassy to donate a Spanish set of foreign encyclopedias and the Scranton-Lackawanna Jewish Council to donate a Jewish set, for the library. Chaplain McHugh purchases an Italian set.
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Library, Liberal Arts Building |
| 1940 |
Marywood College celebrates its Silver Jubilee, commemorated by a three-day gala including a civic fete in the Masonic Temple on May 24. Over seven hundred alumnae attend a Mass on campus celebrated by Bishop Hafey, a breakfast in O'Reilly Hall, dramatic skits recalling the classes of 1919 and 1920, an afternoon reception, and the annual candlelight procession.
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| 1940 |
The St. Cecilia Music Society continues to cultivate Gregorian and Ambrosian chant through its a cappella choir and also sponsors a Music Festival, an event of three recitals—orchestral, vocal, and instrumental—followed by a Symphony Ball, Spring.
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| 1940 |
The Marywood Reading Clinic begins in a storage room of the Liberal Arts building.
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| 1940 |
The Italian Club celebrates the four hundredth anniversary of the death of Copernicus.
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| 1940 |
Marywood receives State Certification for the degree in Dramatic Arts
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| 1940 |
For the first and only time in Marywood's history, grading standards become less stringent: the range for every letter grade drops by five points.
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| 1940 |
Mother Josepha Hurly dies; her assistant, Sister M. Marcella Gill, I.H.M., completes the term, serving as the fifth President of Marywood for three years. She is the last to serve the dual role of President of the College and Mother Superior of the Congregation.
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Mother M. Marcella Gill, I.H.M. |
| 1941 |
Dorothy Day, editor of The Catholic Worker, discusses her experiences among the poor in a visiting lecture.
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| 1941 |
McCarty Hall, a newly-built management house absolutely required by the Home Economics Department to maintain its accreditation, is dedicated, November. The two-and-a-half-story Colonial home is the first building at Marywood financed by private philanthropy, the gift of Ellen McCarty in memory of her brother George. It becomes the practice house in which students majoring in Vocational Home Economics live, six at a time, for a period of six weeks, receiving hands-on experience in the art and science of running a household. The students take turns acting as hostess, cook, assistant cook, housekeeper, laundress and waitress, thereby completing state requirements for their degrees and certification.
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McCarty Hall |
| 1941 |
The International Relations Club and its companion group, the Sienna Social Forum, host a Tri-college Conference at Marywood, welcoming students from The University of Scranton and College Misericordia to a discussion of international civil and social problems. The IRC members of both Marywood and The University of Scranton also cooperate in a series of round-table discussions on WARM radio.
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| 1941 |
The Marywood Players stage productions of The School for Scandal and Ladies in Retirement.
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| 1941 |
Representatives of Marywood and The University of Scranton design and ride together on a float in a downtown parade celebrating the centenary of the city.
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| 1942 |
Having expanded its services to the public into reading and psychological testing under the direction of Sister M. Bernardina McAndrew, the name of the Reading Clinic is changed to Psych-Educational Clinic with expanded offices in the Liberal Arts Building.
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| 1942 |
The Reverend Basil Matthews, O.S.B., shares some early civil rights perspectives in a talk on "The Negro Question and Christian Unity."
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| 1942 |
Marywood students form a chapter of the National Foundation of Catholic College Students.
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| 1942 |
The Education Club presents, as it has each year since 1921, a program in observation of Education Week.
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| 1942 |
Marywood shares a lyrical evening with the local community, sponsoring the Trapp Family Singers of Austria in a performance at the downtown Masonic Temple.
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| 1942 |
Mother Cyril Conway, the woman who prepared the groundwork for Marywood's opening in 1915, dies, June.
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| 1943 |
For the first time, separate elections are held for the positions of Mother Superior of the Congregation and President of the College. Mother Marcella is chosen to be Superior of the Congregation, and Sister M. Sylvia Morgan, I.H.M., who taught all the Science courses offered when Marywood opened in 1915 and then became the first chairperson of the Department, is selected to serve as the sixth President of Marywood College. |
Sister M. Sylvia Morgan, I.H.M. |
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Several contingents of United States Cadet Nurses attend the College for one semester of accelerated classes in a wide spectrum of courses. Later, Marywood will sponsor a complete nursing program of its own.
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Cadet Nurses, 1944 |
| 1943 |
Sister Immaculata Gillespie retires after nearly thirty years as Dean, and Sister Cuthbert Donovan assumes the Deanship, beginning a term of service that will flourish for a quarter of a century.
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| 1943 |
The entire Marywood community is involved in the first Orientation Week to acquaint freshmen socially and academically with their new environment.
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| 1944 |
The statue of "Our Lady of Marywood," blessed by Rev. Dr. Thomas McHugh, College Chaplain, is moved from the Ravine and enthroned by the Alumnae Association in the mezzanine of the Rotunda on a marble pedestal with gold inlaid capital, "In honor of Sister M. Immaculata, Dean of the College from 1915 to 1944," October 13. The dedication program states, "Ecclesastical Permission has been given for the title 'Our Lady of Marywood.'" The pedestal is inscribed December 8, perhaps to recognize Sister Immaculata's upcoming feastday.
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Our Lady of Marywood statue, The Rotunda
photo courtesy of Dr. Peter Spader, Professor, Philosophy Department |
| 1944 |
The Marywood Players stage a production of The Song of Bernadette, adapted from Franz Werfel's book by alumna Jean Collins Kerr '43 and her husband, Walter Kerr.
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| 1944 |
Marywood's chapter of the National Foundation of Catholic College Students sponsors the first campus observation of National Interracial Justice Week.
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| 1944 |
Members of the Spanish Club sponsor a Pan-American Day program, hanging the flags of the twenty-one North and South American republics from the second floor of the Rotunda and costuming themselves in the native garb of each.
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| 1944 |
Mortimer Adler, Professor of the Philosophy of Law at the University of Chicago and later mentor of the Great Books program, lectures on "The Problems of Freedom in the Modern World."
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Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, visits and speaks at Marywood College, as does Padraic Colum, Irish poet and founder of the Abbey Theater in his homeland.
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During World War II, Marywood joins forces with the League for Religious Assistance to Poland and forms the Polish Relief Corps, whose members hope to bring medical and social service to Poland once peace is restored. However, post-war politics in Europe prevent the Corps from completing the mission.
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