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THE CLASS OF NINETEEN SEVENTY-TWO PRESENTS THE MERRIMACKAN MERRIMACK COLLEGE NORTH ANDOVER, MASS.
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1947 Very Rev. Vincent A. McQuade, O.S.A. 1909-1971 Merrimack College was founded in 1946 by the priests of the Au- gustinian Order. The Very Reverend Vincent A. McQuade, O.S.A., was appointed the first president of the college in December, 1946. Located in the towns of Andover and North Andover just outside the city of Lawrence on the Salem Turnpike, Merrimack College re- ceived it’s charter on April 27, 1947 from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, empowering it to confer degrees customarily granted by a lleges and universities. The first building of the college, a)mpleted in the summer of 1947, was a one story, E-shaped cinderblock structure containing seven classrooms, a library, a chapel, two laboratories and adminis- tration offices. Merrimack College now encompasses seventeen buildings on a two hundred and twenty acre campus. Eight different buildings have been constructed since 1957: O’Reilly Hall, the Busi- ness Administration building in 1958; Tagastan Hall, the student union building; and two dormitories Austin and Monican Centres were completed in 1961. In 1967 a new library, named after Fr. McQuade, the college’s first president, was opened for use by Merri- mack College students and Merrimack Valley residents. The McQuade Library, valued in excess of two million dollars when con- structed presently contains sixty-eight thousand volumes and has a projected capacity for two hundred and fifty thousand volumes. A different concept in dormitory living was initiated on the campus in 1970 with the construction of three towne house com- plexes. With the addition of these towne houses, Merrimack College is now able to provide campus residence facilities for eight hundred and fifty two students. The first academic year commenced on September 29, 1947 with a faculty comprised of eight Augustinian priests and five lay instruc- tors. One hundred and sixty five men constituted the student body. These first students were divided among three areas of study: Busi- 2
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