Mount Vernon Seminary and College Commencement Collection 1877-1999 1877 - 1999.

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Mount Vernon Seminary and College Commencement Collection 1877-1999 1877 - 1999.

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This collection contains programs, invitations, correspondence, speeches and addresses, memoranda, notes, personal files, newspaper clippings, playbills, class songs, and photographs. The materials date from 1877 to 2000. These are the commencement, baccalaureate, convocation, and other special event programs and files of Mount Vernon College, which includes Mount Vernon Seminary, Mount Vernon Junior College, and Mount Vernon Preparatory School. Programs from most years between 1877-1999 are represented, which include lists of the graduates in each class year. This collection includes personal files of Mount Vernon College Presidents, Peter D. Pelham, Victoria Schuck, and M. Jane Evans, from 1968-1987, relating to commencement and other event planning, which were maintained in the Presidential Office of the College.

6.0 linear feet.

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George Washington University

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Pelham, Peter

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Mount Vernon Seminary

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The Mount Vernon Seminary was officially established by Elizabeth Somers in 1875 with classes held at her residence on F Street; she named it after her brother's church in Baltimore, Mount Vernon Place Methodist. The Seminary began as a six year prepatory school, with four years of high school level classes, and two years of post-high school curriculum, calling it a "Family and Day School for Young Ladies." In order to graduate, students had to complete a formal process of "Senior Essays" in whi...

Mount Vernon College

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Mount Vernon Seminary and Junior College moved from its Nebraska Avenue location in 1942 to make way for the United States Navy, and remained in temporary quarters in the Spring Valley neighborhood until 1946, when it reopened at 2100 Foxhall Road. This collection documents the Foxhall Road campus with photos of students, campus events, and buildings from 1946 to 1999, when the college and its campus became part of The George Washington University. It also includes some documents such as minutes...