| 1955 |
The Extension Division of the College, coupled with the summer session, is producing as many graduates as the regular College session.
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| 1955 |
The Library owns 45,000 volumes and offers an interlibrary loan service linking it to the facilities of many other public and collegiate libraries in the United States. It subscribes to two hundred American and foreign publications and shelves 26,000 bound periodicals in its stacks.
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| 1955 |
Marywood College observes its fortieth aniversary, November 13.
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| 1955 |
Marywood and WARM TV cooperate to offer a course, "The History of Drama," which airs on Channel 16 on Thursday evenings for thirteen weeks with George Perry of the Drama Department as lecturer. This is the area's first program of its kind.
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| 1955 |
By this time, the Psych-Educational Clinic has received over 2,600 referrals and has managed to accept and work with over half of these cases. Youngsters are treated for disabilities of cerebral palsy, speech impairments, faulty muscular control and coordination, and difficulties with reading, writing, and arithmetic. Over sixty percent of the treatment is charitable.
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| 1955 |
Murder in the Cathedral is performed at Marywood.
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| 1955 |
Marywood's Sodality of Our Lady makes several trips to the Lackawanna County Prison to sing for the inmates, and to the Maloney Home, where they aid the Little Sisters of the Poor with domestic tasks.
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| 1955 |
Each of the senior members of the St. Elizabeth's Guild volunteers thirty hours at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, working among the infants and in the formula kitchens.
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The Student Government Association begins participation in the Perpetual Rosary Crusade, reciting the rosary aloud each day in the rotunda for the spiritual and material needs of the world.
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| 1956 |
Marywood's fortieth anniversary festivities continue as Bishop Hannan celebrates a Solemn Pontifical Mass at St. Peter's Cathedral in Scranton, with the Most Reverend John O'Hara, Archbishop of Philadelphia, presiding. Afterwards, 250 guests gather in the Rotunda for a reception, followed by an elegant dinner in the O'Reilly Hall dining room, February 8.
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| 1956 |
Bishop Jerome D. Hannan dedicates the Marian Convent, April 9.
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| 1956 |
I.H.M. Sisters' pictures begin to appear in the Tourmaline.
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| 1956 |
The Scranton Transit Bus Line establishes the Marywood Bus Stop.
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| 1957 |
The terrace floor of the Liberal Arts building is remodelled into offices, laboratories and classrooms.
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| 1957 |
Sister Sylvia Morgan, I.H.M., Science Department chair, is elected a fellow of the American Institute of Chemists.
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| 1957 |
Victoria Regina is performed at Marywood.
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| 1957 |
Marywood is included for the first time among recipients of the Ford Foundation Endowment Grants, receiving $168,000 in two installments.
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| 1958 |
"Martha's Cottage" is renovated and opens as the Marywood Post Office.
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Blessing of Post Office, 1958; pictured are Rev. Thomas C. Horan, Chaplain of Marywood College; Sister Margaret Mary Howley; Mother M. Kathleen Hart, Reverend Mother of the Congregation; Sister M. Eugenia Kealy, President of Marywood College; and Sister Johann Barry
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| 1958 |
Thomas Brennan of the Physics Department coordinates the campus presentation of "Continental Classroom," an experiment in television education that produces a series of TV lectures on atomic physics by Dr. Harvey White of the University of California, Berkeley.
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| 1959 |
The College community, past and present, is saddened by the death of Monsignor Thomas McHugh, Chaplain of Marywood for two terms that totaled eighteen years.
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| 1959 |
The members of three undergraduate departments cooperate with Sister M. Michel Keenan, I.H.M., chairperson of the Graduate Program and member of the Education Department, to present a summer graduate course called "Comparative Education."
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| c.1959 |
By this time, Marywood is conferring the Bachelor of Arts, the Bachelor of Music, and the Bachelor of Science in Economics, Education, and Home Economics.
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| c.1959 |
Marywood continues to cooperate with St. Joseph's Hospital in Carbondale and Pittston Hospital in Pittston in a training program for nursing candidates, as it has since 1943-45, when the United States Cadet Nurses took their liberal arts courses at the College during World War II.
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| c.1959 |
A program of classes from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on four evenings per week, and from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on three Saturdays a month, is in operation.
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| c.1959 |
The Graduate School expands, providing the Master of Science in Education, Librarianship, and Psychology.
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| c.1959 |
Freshman Orientation becomes more formal. While members of the junior class continue to serve as helpful, personal "big sisters" to freshmen, the psychological examination of the American Council on Education is administered, as are placement tests in Religion, English, and Modern Languages. Faculty advisors are assigned to incoming students for their first two years at Marywood. Once students become juniors and select fields of concentration, their department chairpersons supervise their advisement.
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| 1960 |
Bishop Hannan breaks ground for the I.H.M. Novitiate Building.
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| 1960 |
A Language Laboratory is installed in Liberal Arts building.
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| 1960 |
A Mezzanine Floor is constructed in the Library, housed in the Liberal Arts building. Extending above the main floor, twenty feet wide on each side and five feet wide above the entrance, it doubles seating capacity and adds shelves for nearly ten thousand volumes.
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| 1960 |
The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) approves Marywood for teacher training.
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| 1960 |
Sister M. St. Anthony Radzikowski, I.H.M., gives an address before the Inorganic Chemistry section of the American Chemical Society in New York City.
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| 1960 |
The Marywood Players stage a production of The Glass Menagerie.
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| 1960 |
The Department of Natural Sciences receives a $9,500 grant from the Atomic Energy Commission to purchase equipment for a nuclear laboratory.
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| 1960 |
By this time, Russian courses have been added to the curriculum of the Modern Foreign Languages Department.
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| 1960 |
Marywood receives the Edgar J. Schmiedler award at the National Catholic Family Life Convention for its six-year sponsorship of the Family Life Lecture series; only three of the nearly three hundred participating colleges are so honored.
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| 1960 |
Marywood is represented for the first time at the University Women's Forum in New York City, sponsored by fifty-two colleges and university groups and the New York Branch of the American Association of University Women.
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| 1960 |
Marywood advances from associate to permanent membership in the American Association of University Women.
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| 1961 |
Sister M. Eugenia Kealey resigns as President of Marywood after twelve years of service in that office, and Sister M. St. Mary Orr, I.H.M., a member of the College's Board of Trustees, is selected to become the eighth President of Marywood College. Sister M. St. Mary received her Bachelor of Arts degree with Marywood's first graduating class before entering the I.H.M. Congregation. |
Sister M. St. Mary Orr, I.H.M. |
| 1961 |
Elizabeth Blewitt arrives as Marywood's first full-time lay faculty member, to be followed by four others by the end of the 1960s.
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| 1961 |
The Marywood Players stage productions of Gaslight and a play written and directed by Matthew Lynch, a member of the Speech and Drama Department, entitled Another Autumn.
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| 1961 |
From this point on, Student Government at Marywood is called the Community Government Association and is divided into four groups: Faculty and Administration, Faculty Council, Students, and Student Council.
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| 1961 |
Mary Reap, Marywood's future tenth President, enters the Marywood Novitiate.
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| 1961 |
A Club Evaluation Committee is formed to monitor the accomplishments of Marywood's thirty-five campus organizations and forward the names of the top three to the Student Council, which gives a cash prize to the "Organization of the Year." The Marian Camera Club, active since 1948 and boasting a membership of forty enthusiastic amateur photographers, is voted the first winner of the award.
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| 1961 |
Ann Marie Greco is appointed as Marywood's first Director of Placement.
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From this academic year onward, the Department of Natural Sciences sponsors annual Science Fairs for area high school students.
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| 1962 |
Bishop Hannan dedicates the I.H.M. Novitiate Building, May 30. Later called the I.H.M. Center, the building is designed as a residence for young women preparing to enter the I.H.M. Congregation and remove them from the crowded Motherhouse-Seminary.
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| 1962 |
The Department of Classical Languages sponsors the formation of the Delta Gamma chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, the honor society for students of Latin and Greek.
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| 1962 |
The Federal Finance Agency in Washington, D.C., grants Marywood a $2 million loan to help finance its building program.
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| 1962 |
Sabbath and Other Poems, by English Department members Sister Paulinus Sullivan and her sister, Sister M. Davida Sullivan, I.H.M., is published.
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| 1962 |
Sister M. Davida Sullivan, I.H.M., and Sister M. Immaculata Norton, I.H.M., attend Oxford University for six weeks of study on a scholarship provided by the I.H.M. Guild, Summer.
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| 1962 |
The Classics Forum sponsors the first annual Virgilian Latin Contest for high school students.
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| 1962 |
Monsignor Horan leaves Marywood to serve as Rector of Pius X Seminary in Dalton, Pennsylvania. The Reverend William Pakutka, member of the Philosophy faculty for fifteen years, follows him as Chaplain of the College.
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| 1962 |
Sister M. Eva Connors, I.H.M., Treasurer, assembles a Manual of Employment Practices, a prototype of numerous subsequent codifications of the College's policies with regard to faculty and staff.
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| 1963 |
Marywood initiates the construction of three of the most needed additions to the campus: a student residence, Madonna Hall; a faculty residence, Emmanuel Hall; and a student union, Nazareth Hall, March. All three buildings are completed by 1964.
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| 1963 |
Sister Josephine Brennan of the Department of Classical Languages is the only woman appointed to the editorial board of The Fathers of the Church, a series of translations for publication of Latin writings by early Catholic theologians.
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| 1963 |
The entrance to Immaculata Hall is renovated.
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| 1963 |
Marywood receives full permanent accreditation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teachers of Education (NCATE).
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| 1963 |
Sister M. St. Mary creates the office of Director of Admissions, and Sister M. Jogues Earley, I.H.M., becomes the first to hold the position.
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| 1963 |
Francisco Borja becomes the first lay member of the Philosophy Department.
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| 1963 |
The Department of Natural Sciences receives a grant from the Atomic Energy Commission for a training program in radioisotopes.
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| 1963 |
The National Science Foundation grants the Chemistry Department $5,120 to purchase instruments for Analytical Chemistry.
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| 1963 |
Marywood receives Approvals from the National Association of Schools of Music, the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
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| 1963 |
A Solemn High Requiem Mass is offered in the College chapel in memory of fallen President John F. Kennedy, November.
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| 1963 |
The Marywood chapter of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, which revamped its constitution early in the decade, emerges as the largest club on campus.
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| 1964 |
Madonna Hall, a newly constructed residence for 250 students, opens with a private ceremony of blessing by the Bishop’s designee, Rev. William J. Pakutka, S.T.B., January 24. For the first time in a number of years, all students with resident status are housed on campus.
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Emmanuel Hall, an attractive, modern faculty residence, is dedicated, January 24.
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Emmanuel Hall |
| 1964 |
Most Reverend Jerome D. Hannan, D.D., Bishop of Scranton, officiates at the solemn blessing of Nazareth Hall, the newly constructed student center, March 19. An informal Pink Lounge is flanked by the carpeted Blue Lounge. The Gold Room, designed as a multi-purpose area, is equipped with moveable partitions to provide settings for formal and informal occasions. It will eventually hold the elegant chandeliers from the dining room in O'Reilly Hall and become known as the Crystal Room. A snack bar and a campus store managed by Isabella Bruno occupy part of the building, but Nazareth Hall's major facility is its cafeteria system. All the food services of the College are centralized in one place, and the spacious and high-ceilinged dining room seats 750.
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Main Dining Room, Nazareth Hall, 1965
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Main Dining Room, Nazareth Hall,
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| 1964 |
Through the third amendment to its charter, Marywood's statement of purpose changes from "...the higher education of young women..." to "...the higher education of youth and adults...." Marywood College is also granted a universal charter, April 29. The chief of the Division of Professional and Graduate Education of the Pennsylvania Department of Education reveals later that this amendment to Marywood's charter is the sort that the State stopped granting more than thirty years earlier. According to his letter, "While this charter should not have been approved as written, we must take the attitude that it was, and therefore is legally binding. No institution except for Marywood has received this type of charter since 1933." Twenty-five years later, when the College decides to become a coeducational institution with on-campus housing for male students, it is the "flexibility" of this anachronistic charter that makes the transition legally possible.
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| 1964 |
Marywood's new construction projects are linked to the rest of the campus by a new system of roads and lighting.
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| 1964 |
The stone arch at the entrance to the grounds gains a bus stop shelter and a pedestrian walkway.
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| 1964 |
The Mathematics Department founds the Delta chapter of Kappa Mu Epsilon, the Mathematics honor society.
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| 1964 |
The tennis courts are relocated to the upper campus.
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| 1964 |
A new power plant and maintenance building are completed, at a cost of $814,000, to shelter and service the plumbing and electrical units of the expanding College.
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| 1964 |
The Financial Management, Registrar, Admissions, and Alumnae offices move into the former college cafeteria or Colonial Room.
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| 1964 |
O'Reilly Hall becomes known as Regina Hall, September.
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Regina Hall |
| 1964 |
After an evaluation in November, Marywood is granted "program approval" by the Pennsylvania State Department of Education.
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| 1964 |
The Psychology Department sponsors its first conference on mental retardation, its majors receiving invaluable practical experience in dealing with emotional problems at two neighboring institutions, the Maloney Home and St. Joseph's Children's and Maternity Hospital.
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| 1964 |
Sister M. St. Mary announces the Golden Jubilee Fund Drive, Marywood's first major fund campaign managed by outside professionals, Community Counseling Service, Inc., of New York City, Fall. The goal is $1,250,000 to erect a new library in a building of its own, to make additions to the campus roads and lighting, and to relocate the tennis courts and hockey field. When the drive finally ends, pledges generously surpass the goal.
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| 1964 |
The Marywood Players stage a production of The Miracle Worker and a Children's Theater presentation of Pinocchio.
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| 1960s |
Two-credit courses are gradually replaced by three-credit offerings, and the core curriculum requires twelve hours of both Religion and Philosophy.
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| 1960s |
Author Vance Packard speaks on campus.
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| 1960s |
Poet Sean O'Faolain speaks on campus.
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| 1960s |
Educator Clarence Walton, Senator Thomas Dodd, and Marietta Tree—first woman ambassador to the United Nations—share their diverse experiences from the lecture podium.
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| 1960s |
Goldovsky's Grand Opera presents Mozart's Don Giovanni at Marywood.
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| 1960s |
The Tamburitzans of Duquesne University offer an evening of Slavic and East European music and dance.
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| 1960s |
The Catholic University players perform The Merchant of Venice.
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| 1960s |
The Reverend Gustave Weigel, S.J., discusses "The Significance of Vatican II."
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| 1960s |
The Reverend Thurston Davis, S.J., analyzes "The Dilemma of Hope and Despair."
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| 1960s |
Three Marywood faculty members—the Reverend William Pakutka and Donald Inverso of the Philosophy Department, and Ronald Terranella of the English Department—fill the Nazareth Hall Blue Lounge to overflowing with a symposium on the topic "God is Dead."
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| 1960s |
A dual major in Mathematics and Physics is established, as is a Mathematics program in cooperation with the Business Department.
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| 1960s |
The Mathematics Department adds the following undergraduate courses to the curriculum: Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Linear Algebra, and Probability and Statistics.
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| 1960s |
The Mathematics Department receives a National Science Grant to provide continuing education courses in Mathematics for high school teachers.
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| 1960s |
The Religion Department adds its first full-time lay teacher, John Zaums, who later becomes its first lay chairperson.
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| 1960s |
On the terrace floor of the Liberal Arts building, a coffee shop opens, as well as a bookstore managed by Helen Vanson. Also installed are a duplicating room; secondary, elementary, and developmental reading laboratories; and a photography darkroom.
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| 1960s |
The Modern Foreign Languages Department gains a fully equipped language laboratory in the Liberal Arts building.
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| 1960s |
The Delta Delta chapter of Alpha Gamma Mu, the honor society for Foreign Language students, is organized.
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| 1960s |
Students have the opportunity to qualify for membership in two schoolwide honor societies: Kappa Gamma Pi, the national honor society for students at women's colleges, and Delta Epsilon Sigma, the national scholastic honor society for students of Catholic colleges and universities.
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| 1960s |
The Classics Forum develops at Marywood, fostering appreciation of the Graeco-Roman heritage.
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| 1960s |
The Slavic Club forms and sponsors an annual dinner of traditional ethnic foods.
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| 1960s |
The Semi Group is initiated for students of Mathematics.
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| 1960s |
A Day Student Committee is organized, representing and regulating commuting students as the House Committee does for residents.
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| 1960s |
A chapter of the International Conference on Government is inaugurated, fostering instruction in parliamentary procedures.
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| 1960s |
The Ushers' Club is established, providing Marywood with a gracious and efficient corps of young women, clad in black caps and gowns and white gloves, who greet and seat audiences at formal campus events. Admission to the Ushers' Club is limited to forty, and new members enter only by the invitation of an outgoing senior.
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| 1960s |
The Marywood Players take Forty-five Minutes from Broadway on tour, presenting it before thirty-six audiences over a period of four months. |
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