1950
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Antigone is performed at Marywood.
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1950
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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.
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1950
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Sister M. Eugenia Kealey launches Marywood's first fund drive, with a goal of $2 million dollars for four new campus buildings.
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1950
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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.
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1950s
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The curriclum evolves into two components known as the lower and upper divisions or biennia.
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1950s
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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.
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1950s
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Louis de Wahl, author, lectures at Marywood.
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1950s
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Walter Kerr, Professor of Drama at Catholic University, lectures at Marywood.
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1950s
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Tom Dooley, a medical doctor whose mission to Vietnam preceded American involvement there, lectures at Marywood.
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1950s
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The Student Government Association donates a statue of St. Maria Goretti for the student lounge in the Liberal Arts building.
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1950s
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Freshmen are expected to wear their identifying beanies at all possible times; seniors are distinguished by their trademark green blazers.
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1950s
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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.
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