Marycrest College - Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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TWENTY YEARS 1945-1950 Students spark an opening drive for the 3B300,000 North Hall . . . the first Marycrest yearbook is printed 1939-1945 With the purchase of Petersen Hall Marycrest opens as the Women's Divi- sion of Saint Ambrose College . . . A 382251100 Liberal Arts building is con- structed . . . Fifteen faculty members open classes for seventy day students . . . The Student Association is formed, organizing their first formal Thanksgiv- ing dance . . . Plans are made for a hall to include resident students . . . The Crest makes its appearance . . . The Choral Club and Double Trio concerts and the premiere of The ,loyous Sea- son launch the Fine Arts departments . . . Saturday and evening classes open . . . Archduke Otto Von Hapsburg is a luncheon guest . . . the Crest interviews Andre Maurois . . . the Eugene Walsh home is purchased for seniors. . . . a Coffee House student wins a 351,000 short-story prize . . . Marycrest holds a War Commencement for thirty-six Marycrest and fifteen St. Ambrose graduates, June 2, 1946 . . . a student-sponsored Starvation Dayn brings help to needy European students . . . the first foreign girls register from Santiago and Paris . . . tennis courts are paved : . . A large anniversary cake from our beloved patron and friend Mrs. T. J. Walsh com- memorates our first decade of Marycrest history.

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X 1 y 4 Q X N ,.....-,-,,' . . MOTHER MARY GERALDINE, C.H.M President of Marycrest College

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...OF MARYCREST LIFE 1955-1960 Freshman Hall opens . . . Marycrest is visited by His Grace the Most Rev. Paul Yu-Pin, exiled archbishop of China . . . Barbara Meister, '11-8, performs in concert with former Met star James Melton in the Marycrest auditorium . . . a book lift and open house launch the new 3S250,000 library . . . Marycrest initiates can- cer research with grant from Damon Runyon Fund . . . Marycrest president Mother M. Geraldine receives an honorary degree from St. Ambrose . . . faculty and students rejoice in the new Ottumwa Heights . . . Marycrest holds the tenth Regional NFCCS Congress . . . Commission for Assumption High facade statue given to art faculty member . . . Kismet scores a tri- umph as the first big Marycrest-St. Ambrose musical . . . radiological monitoring included in Marycrest cur- riculum . . . Marycrest is received into the American Association of University Women . . . a twentieth-year brochure honors Mother Mary Geraldine as founder and president during Marycrest's first twenty years. Sisters and students the Sodality inaugurates the Big Sister Brother program at St Vmcents Authors Rev John L Bonn Maisie Ward Sheed Robert Lowell Joseph Devel en liven campus literary cucles Mother M Geraldine attends Papal audience in the Vatican a Byzantine Mass in English is offered m Sacred Heart chapel Wayne King visits camp us wlth troupe member Barbara Becker, ex 49 Maivcrest is accredited as a separate institution by the North Central As sociatlon of Colleges March 19 1955