1969
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Winterim sessions are introduced, enabling undergraduates to use the January break between semesters to complete three to six credits or special projects that lend themselves to intensive study.
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1969
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The School of Social Work is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
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1969
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Sister M. St. Mary Orr, I.H.M., submits her resignation to the Board of Trustees, effective June 1970,Fall. The chairperson of the Board of Trustees, Clarence Walton, names a search committee composed of representatives of the trustees, alumnae, the I.H.M. Congregation, the religious and lay faculty, and the student body. The committee evaluates nineteen applications for the position and selects Sister M. Coleman Nee, I.H.M., as their preferred candidate. This recommendation is unanimously accepted by the Board, and its voting members under the revised bylaws: seven lay people, one priest, and seven Sisters select Sister Coleman as Marywood's ninth President.
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1969
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The Bay Leaf literary magazine captures first place in the Columbia University Intercollegiate Competition.
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1969
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The Department of Religion is renamed the Department of Theology.
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1969
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Sister M. St. Mary Orr s eight years of leadership are saluted at a luncheon of the Alumnae Association at which personal tributes are enhanced by a more public one: a framed copy of the commendation of Sister St. Mary read by Congressman Joseph McDade into the Congressional Record, November.
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c.1969
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Sister Marie Gillet Reap, I.H.M., Dean of Students, dies. Sister M. Gabriel Kane, I.H.M., assumes the responsibilities of Sister Marie Gillet's administrative post in addition to her own for the remainder of the year.
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1969-1970
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Sister St. Mary leads Marywood to join seven other area colleges and universities in the Lehigh Regional Consortium for Graduate Teacher Education, designed to provide post-certification studies for area teachers.
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