Adelphi University - Oracle Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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 Jhroa h the ears Mary Savacool, sculptress, who exhibited at the New York World s Fair . . . Virginia Griswald. artist and National Academy winner . . . Marie Bennon Ray. well-known psychologist and writer , . . Jane Smith Cramer, lawyer . . . Dorothy Locke. Olympic fencing champion . . . Ida Adelberg Webster, archi- tect . . . Dorothy Longacre. scientist and author . . . Helen H. Ringe, member of the War Manpower Commission . . . and. of course. Ruth S. Harley, former Registrar, and now Dean of the College itself . . . Furthermore. Adelphi has been blessed with a group of administrative directors who have constantly and vigorously urged and abetted our progress . . . our first President, Dr. Charles Levcrmore. outstanding in the lield of International Relations, and winner of the f$ok Peace Prize . . . succeeded by Dr. S. Parkes Cadman . . . Dr. Frank Blodgett, appointed in 1915... largely responsible for our removal to Garden City . . . Dr. Paul Dawson Eddy. Adelphis President since 1957 . . . infusing in faculty and students, his pro- gressive. forward-looking spirit . . . speeding our growth and development . . . encouraging the expansion of curriculum offered by the College . . . while he him- self instructs in the department of Religion . . . stimu- lating mutual understanding between faiths . . . during his administration, we have seen ... an increase of the number of buildings to double the original . . . we have added new departments of . . . Home Economics . . . Social Work . . . Business . . . Medical I echnology . . . and we have formed an affiliation with the Mills School in New York City . . . since 1955, an expansion of our two-vear kindergarten program . . . above all. Adelphi has always excelled in the Arts . . . we have had as faculty members in this department . . . George Bockman. Ruth St. Denis. Jack Cole. Hanya Holm. 7

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 dclelplxi Adelphi College . . . we, the only women s col- lege on Long lsla nd . . . originally a boys academy, established during the Civil War . . . February, 1865 . . . at 412. Adelphi Street . . . continued expan- sion . . . and a new building, erected on the corner of Lafayette Avenue and St. James Place . . . total enrollment: three hundred boys! . . . and then. 1896: Adelphi College, founded and incorporated by the Regents of the State of New York . . . under a new co-educational plan . . . until 1917. when Adelphi became reserved for femmes . . . originally worked under the two-year Junior College program . . . later, gave way to the demand for a four-year course . . . although a site of land was first bought in Brooklyn in 1929, this was given up in favor of Garden City . . . October 1929. historical in Adelphi s life . . . the open- ing of our first semester in Nassau County . . . while work on the buildings and surroundings was still in progress . . . Dean Harley recalls walking from the Administration to the Science Buildings on planks, holding her skirts up because of the mud . . . during the planning period: heated discussion concerning a gymnasium and pool . . . the decision to include these features, in spite of the criticism which followed, be- cause of the expense involved . . . Adelphi visionaries saw' even then, the need for athletic facilities . . . the necessity of building a school which would completely satisfy oncoming generations of Adelphians . . . Our history reflects a roster of outstanding alumnae . . . Genevieve Beavers Earle, first woman member of the Brooklyn Civic Council . . . Ruth Waldo, executive in the J. Walter Thompson’s Adver- tising Company and one of the highest salaried w omen in the country ... Dr. Maybelle Blake, former Presi- dent of the Chicago 1 eachers College . . . 6

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and Karl Dremp ... all widely recognized in their fields ... all inculcating in Adelphians, a creative spirit . . . and in 1957, we added the Children's 1 heatre . . . under the super- vision of Miss Grace Stanistreet. a member of our Speech and Dramatics department ... its New York debut took place during Christmas week of 1944 . . with performance of I he Golden Cockerel . . . Adelphians are proud of still another his- tory-making feature of the College . . . the estab- lishment of the School of Nursing . . . helping us to contribute a large part to the War Effort . . . training Nurse Cadets for later duty with the United States Army . . . Adelphi, selected by the New York State Nursing Council for War Service , . . after division of the state into seven emergency training areas, in which there were no or very few schools or hospitals . . . the first class in the School of Nursing was held on January 28. 1945 ... a red-letter day for Adelphi . . . under a program which provided for cooperation between the College and selected I ong Island hospitals . . . our School of Nursing was legalized by the Bolten Act . . . which gives Federal aid to Nursing students . . . lor a period of thirty months of concentrated professional preparation . . . study which is divided into two parts . . . completing the requirements for the state licensing examination . . . with a fourth year required for a degree in Bachelor of Sciences . . . May 6. 1944 . . . and the official dedication of the two new dormitories . . . architecture which is akin to that of the buildings already in use . . . large, comfortable lounges open to all Adelphians . . . cheerful double- bedrooms made personal by the addition of college banners and pictures of families and friends . . . Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt . . . our First Lady, and chief speaker of the big day . . . with Dr. Thomas Parren. Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service . . . Miss Lucille Petry. director of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps . . . and other notables . . , present . . . the event was highlighted by an official march of the Cadet Nurses from the R building to the East Dormitory . . . uniforms, et al. . . . the fall of 1944 . . . and ground broken for a new Dining Hall . . . big news at Adelphi . . . but the New York reporters claim that the mushroom-like sprouting of the buildings on the Garden City campus is just too much for the press . . . it’s not loo much for Adelphi however ... for we have visions of full realization of the blue- print . . . and. after fifty years, look ahead to still better things . . . 8