1959
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Graduate School expands, providing the Master of Science in Education, Librarianship, and Psychology.
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c.1959
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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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