1937
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Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, visits Marywood College, April 27.
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1937
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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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1937
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Marywood is invited to merge with St. Thomas College but declines the offer.
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1937
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The Bachelor of Science degree in Library Science receives state approval.
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1937
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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
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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
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The Shrine of St. Joseph is completed on campus.
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