| 1945 |
A contingent from the College marches for the first time in the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade, an informal school tradition upheld for a number of years.
|
|
| 1945 |
The National Association of Schools of Music elects Marywood to membership, the first Pennsylvania College so honored and one of the few ever to be approved after only one inspection.
|
|
| 1945 |
The Health and Physical Education Department presents the first Water Pageant. Later called Water Ballets, these synchronized spectacles become a tradition at the College.
|
Water Ballet |
| 1945 |
A new institutional manual, The Green Book, is published and distributed to all students, September.
|
|
| 1945 |
The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, celebrate their centenary, September 26. The Apostolic Delegate to the United States, the Most Reverend Amleto Cicognani, celebrates a commemorative High Mass in St. Peter's Cathedral.
|
|
| 1945 |
Nearly a hundred Marywoodians are members of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and begin giving religious instruction by mail to area children who live too far from churches to attend regular catechetical classes in winter.
|
|
| 1945 |
The Pennsylvania Department of Education inspects and accredits the Marywood Reading Clinic, thereby granting Marywood the right to certify public school psychologists.
|
|
| 1946 |
St. Mary's Hall is purchased to house twenty-one students.
|
|
| 1946 |
The Marywood Players stage a production of The Importance of Being Earnest.
|
|
| 1946 |
The Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching administers its test on campus to compare Marywood's students with those of other colleges.
|
|
| 1946 |
The American Library Association sanctions the Department of Librarianship after an on-site visit, conferring general approval to prepare school, college, and public librarians.
|
|
| 1947 |
The Reverend Thomas McHugh is succeeded as Chaplain by Father Thomas Horan and as Philosophy Department member by the Reverend William Pakutka.
|
|
| 1947 |
The College community mourns the loss of Sister M. Immaculata Gillespie, who served as Dean from the opening of the College to1943, October 24. Having been born on the day that President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, and having died on the second anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Sister Immaculata's lifetime encompassed a period of unprecedented change. She is eulogized by Bishop William J. Hafey as a woman of “light heart and great vision” who took the growing institution (Marywood College) through a climate of worldwide growth and upheaval.
|
|
| 1948 |
The Marywood Players stage a production of an original play by Jean Collins Kerr '43, Jenny Kissed Me.
|
|
| 1949 |
Marywood's President, Sister M. Sylvia Morgan, directs that the College seal—until now essentially the seal of the I.H.M. Congregation—be redesigned to symbolize more graphically the physical and spiritual roots of Marywood as an institution, Spring.
|
|
| 1949 |
Sister M. Eugenia Kealey, I.H.M., succeeds Sister M. Sylvia Morgan to become the seventh President of Marywood College. |
Sister M. Eugenia Kealey, I.H.M. |
| 1949 |
The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine extends its mission beyond Marywood as some of its members spend their vacations in Alabama, teaching religion to children and adults. Others take a course in reading and writing Braille and begin transcribing articles for the Braille Digest, Summer.
|
|
| 1949 |
The Marian Camera Club is organized, moderated by Sister Josephine Brennan. Over the next two decades, Sister and members of the group capture many awards on the local and national levels of photography contests sponsored by The Scranton Tribune and The Scranton Times.
|
|
| 1950 |
Antigone is performed at Marywood.
|
|
| 1950 |
The College’s first professional audit is conducted by Public Accountant-Auditor Joseph Rocereto. For fiscal year 1949-50, College revenues total $456,550, exceeding by $61,541 the expenditures of $395,009. Plant funds, which represent the College's cumulative investment in the campus facilities, total $2,737,603. The appraised value of Marywood’s land, buildings, and contents is $2,666,958. Marywood’s endowment stands at $6,199. The contributed services of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, amount to $144,445.
|
|
| 1950 |
Sister M. Eugenia Kealey launches Marywood's first fund drive, with a goal of $2 million dollars for four new campus buildings.
|
|
| 1950 |
Bishop William J. Hafey breaks ground for four new buildings—the largest expansion program in the history of the College, October 7. Work begins simultaneously on all four structures: Alumnae Residence Hall, renamed Immaculata Hall in 1954; Good Counsel Science Hall, a three-story building to contain a 150-seat lecture hall/science auditorium/movie theater, named the Comerford Theater in honor of its donors, owners of an area movie theater chain; Rosary Field House, to contain the largest collegiate pool in the East; and Assumption Hall, to house the Fine Arts and the 1,200-seat auditorium. The architects are Henry D. Dagit and Sons, Philadelphia. For the construction of Assumption Hall, better known as the Fine Arts building, Marywood expands across the street, incorporating the new site into the campus by demolishing the stone wall along Adams Avenue that had marked the previous boundary line.
|
Groundbreaking: Reverend Mother M. Marcella Gill, I.H.M.; Most Reverend William J. Hafey, Honorary President of Marywood College; Sister M. Eugenia Kealey, I.H.M.,
President of Marywood College; Hon. John Murphy, Board of Trustees |
| 1951 |
Maria Goretti Lounge is constructed on the terrace floor of the Liberal Arts Building.
|
|
| 1951 |
The Alumni Association contributes $8,000 towards Alumnae Hall.
|
|
| 1951 |
Marywood celebrates its first Parents' Day, May.
|
|
| 1951 |
Marywood becomes a charter member of the Foundation for Independent Colleges. Established by a group of private institutions in Pennsylvania because they are as yet ineligible for federal or state aid, the organization acts collectively, through its presidents, to tap industry for a general fund of financial donations and then distribute them among members according to need.
|
|
| 1951 |
Marywood's programs are granted continued accreditation for ten years following a visit by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
|
|
| 1952 |
Marywood celebrates its first Marriage and Family Life Institute, the first of six, sponsored by the Religion and Social Sciences Departments, Lent. As a public service, free tickets are distributed to regional social workers of all faiths. The Institute furnishes area adults with exceptional lectures by prominent speakers on the subject of family roles and relationships.
|
|
| 1952 |
The Music Department holds a workshop for area teachers, addressing the novel concept of an integrated school music program from kindergarten through the senior year.
|
|
| 1952 |
Bishop Hafey dedicates four new buildings: Alumnae Residence Hall, Good Counsel Science Hall, Rosary Field House, and Assumption Hall (Fine Arts Building/Auditorium), October 7. Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle of Washington, D.C., is the principal speaker for the occasion. Mayor James Hanlon proclaims "Marywood Week" throughout the city to coincide with the dedication ceremonies.
|
|
| |
Bishop O'Connor and Sisters Eugenia and Cuthbert outside Alumnae Hall, under construction
|
Good Counsel Science Hall |
Rosary Field House |
Assumption Hall |
| 1952 |
The Marywood Players present Brigadoon for five nights. The leading man is played by Joseph Barrett, a student at The University of Scranton and later a member of Marywood's graduate Psychology Department.
|
|
| 1952 |
Marywood receives approval for the Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Technology.
|
|
| 1952 |
The St. Cuthbert chapter of the Future Teachers of America is established at Marywood.
|
|
| 1952 |
The Drama Department's course, Aesthetics, an outgrowth of Catholic University's experiments with the subject, wins mention in a Theatre Arts magazine editorial for its efforts to foster in students the capacity for artistic discrimination.
|
|
| 1953 |
Marywood holds its first Institute of Theology for Sisters, Summer. The sponsoring Dominican Fathers return for the next three summers. Sisters completing the first three sessions earn a certificate in Theology; those continuing through the fourth year receive a Master's degree in Theology.
|
|
| 1953 |
Marywood receives approval for the Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Music.
|
|
| 1953 |
For the first time, Marywood holds its commencement exercises in the Fine Arts auditorium.
|
Fine Arts Auditorium, Assumption Hall |
| 1953 |
The Marywood Players present Finian's Rainbow for five nights. Again, Joseph Barrett plays the lead male role. Helen Hayes, America's "First Lady of the Theater," is the guest of honor at one of the performances and at a reception held afterward at O'Reilly Hall.
|
|
| 1954 |
The Statue of Our Lady's Asssumption is unveiled in front of Assumption Hall.
|
|
| 1954 |
Alumnae Residence Hall is renamed Immaculata Hall in honor of Sister Immaculata Gillespie, beloved first Dean of Marywood College.
|
Immaculata Hall |
| 1954 |
Ground is broken for the Marian Convent (a residence for the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary).
|
|
| 1954 |
The Music Department coordinates the Pennsylvania State Collegiate Orchestra Festival, hosting 104 students on campus from seventeen Commonwealth colleges. The group rehearses and then performs under the direction of Alfredo Antonini, musical director of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
|
|
| 1954 |
Bishop Hafey dies, May. The Most Reverend Jerome D. Hannan becomes his successor in the activities of the Diocese and of Marywood.
|
|
| 1954 |
Marywood's Sodality of Our Lady sponsors a city-wide campaign with the slogan "Put Christ back into Christmas," December. The members erect a large billboard with a scene of the Nativity in the center of the Downtown Scranton shopping area.
|
|
| 1954 |
Marywood is presented with a carillon. It is the gift of the Reverend Francis McGinley, pastor of St. Thomas Church in Archbald and a former Marywood teacher, and the Home and Foreign Missions Committee of his parish. The bells are played for the first time in January and set the grounds ringing with Christmas carols and hymns. In spring the carillon provides musical accompaniment for the commencement marches and the May Crowning Day processions as they move from shrine to shrine.
|
|
| 1954 |
Marywood welcomes the first of many annual Shakespearean presentations by the Catholic University Players, a production of Othello.
|
|
| 1950s |
The curriclum evolves into two components known as the lower and upper divisions or biennia.
|
|
| 1950s |
The grade system again alters slightly and stays that way through the 1950s, eliminating the A+ and reinstating the A to cover 95-100. A C- covers the grades 70-74.
|
|
| 1950s |
Louis de Wahl, author, lectures at Marywood.
|
|
| 1950s |
Walter Kerr, Professor of Drama at Catholic University, lectures at Marywood.
|
|
| 1950s |
Tom Dooley, a medical doctor whose mission to Vietnam preceded American involvement there, lectures at Marywood.
|
|
| 1950s |
The Student Government Association donates a statue of St. Maria Goretti for the student lounge in the Liberal Arts building.
|
|
| 1950s |
Freshmen are expected to wear their identifying beanies at all possible times; seniors are distinguished by their trademark green blazers.
|
Student wearing beanie, O'Reilly Hall, 1950 |
| 1950s |
Candle Night, a ceremony within the graduation exercises, is celebrated at Marywood. Students, attired in caps and gowns and carrying lighted candles, form a procession around the campus walks, singing the alma mater and other traditional songs. Underclassmen's tassels are turned to the right, and juniors wear their newly acquired green tassels. |
|
