Adelphi University - Oracle Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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lAJe t edicate After fifty years of growth and progress, Adelphi has reached a new high ... we are proud of our new Dorms, our liberal Administration, our increasing en- rollment . . . most of all, we are proud to have DR. PICKENS E. HARRIS as our new Academic Dean . . . Dean Harris is always ready to greet Adelphians and to hear our problems ... to spend an hour 'jusi talking ... to encourage and to advise . . . and to in- spire our dreams into realization ... we are proud of his vision . . . grateful for his tolerance . . . eager for his sympathy . . . and because he symbolizes for us what we hope the Future of Adelphi will be. we, the Class of 46, dedicate our Oracle to Dean Harris . . .

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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