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Cate House on Foxhall Road Campus. expanded library, the gate house and the new Held house. In 1962, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd retired and Mr. Peter D. Pelham became the new President of the school. Mount Vernon had once more shown both its strength and its adaptability. It would continue to develop as a well-established educational institution. However, on Novem- ber l, l965, Mount Vernon received its most crushing blow: the announcement was made Laura Kirby-Smith by the Board of Trustees that the Seminary would be closed and that Mount Vernon would continue to live on only as the Junior College. Although the year 1969 marks the closing of a beloved institution, it is our belief as stated by Mrs. Somers that 'Kwhatever has been most noble in the spiritual and intellectual culture of the school will be sacredly conserved. 'There shall never be one lost good! Wliat was shall live as before' D Cindy Garner
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fs. .. 7 'wap-q .fr W' Academic Building at 2100 Foxhall Road in 1946. stock only the first tloor. Remembering that Mrs. Somers had lent his father the money with which to open the first Carlinckel store Mr. Julius Garfinckel, Ir. allowed Mount Vernon to rent that second floor in the Valley. It was turned into classrooms, a library and an assem- bly hall with the help of cardboard and ply- wood. Wlhat experiences the girls had attend- ing school therel Because the arrangement in Spring Valley was only for the duration of the war, search began immediately for a new homesite. The land on Foxhall Road was found in 1944, and in 1945 the ground was dedicated to the service of Cod through the education of llis children. ln the fall of 1946, Mount Vernon made one Hnal move to this new campus. An academic building, four dormitories and a dining room were built, then gradually were added the gymnasium, science building, Post Hall with Academic Building in 1968.
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CHAPTER l Airy, delightful as an arabesque Our lives appear to dance like those of elves Lightfoot about the void, Eneompassing our present being with our future selves . . . m:nMAN Hr-'ssp
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