1960
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Bishop Hannan breaks ground for the I.H.M. Novitiate Building.
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1960
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A Language Laboratory is installed in Liberal Arts building.
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1960
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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
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The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) approves Marywood for teacher training.
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1960
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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
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The Marywood Players stage a production of The Glass Menagerie.
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1960
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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
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By this time, Russian courses have been added to the curriculum of the Modern Foreign Languages Department.
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1960
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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
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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
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Marywood advances from associate to permanent membership in the American Association of University Women.
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1960s
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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
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Author Vance Packard speaks on campus.
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1960s
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Poet Sean O'Faolain speaks on campus.
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1960s
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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
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Goldovsky's Grand Opera presents Mozart's Don Giovanni at Marywood.
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1960s
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The Tamburitzans of Duquesne University offer an evening of Slavic and East European music and dance.
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1960s
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The Catholic University players perform The Merchant of Venice.
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1960s
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The Reverend Gustave Weigel, S.J., discusses "The Significance of Vatican II."
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1960s
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The Reverend Thurston Davis, S.J., analyzes "The Dilemma of Hope and Despair."
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1960s
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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
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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
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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
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The Mathematics Department receives a National Science Grant to provide continuing education courses in Mathematics for high school teachers.
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1960s
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The Religion Department adds its first full-time lay teacher, John Zaums, who later becomes its first lay chairperson.
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1960s
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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
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The Modern Foreign Languages Department gains a fully equipped language laboratory in the Liberal Arts building.
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1960s
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The Delta Delta chapter of Alpha Gamma Mu, the honor society for Foreign Language students, is organized.
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1960s
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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
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The Classics Forum develops at Marywood, fostering appreciation of the Graeco-Roman heritage.
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1960s
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The Slavic Club forms and sponsors an annual dinner of traditional ethnic foods.
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1960s
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The Semi Group is initiated for students of Mathematics.
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1960s
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A Day Student Committee is organized, representing and regulating commuting students as the House Committee does for residents.
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1960s
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A chapter of the International Conference on Government is inaugurated, fostering instruction in parliamentary procedures.
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1960s
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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
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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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