Mount Vernon Seminary and College Alumnae Association Records 1889-1940.

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Mount Vernon Seminary and College Alumnae Association Records 1889-1940.

This collection contains the publications of the Mount Vernon Seminary and College Alumnae Association. The material dates from 1889 to 1940. Annual Reports of the Alumnae Association date from 1889 to 1933; The Roll Call dates from 1913 to 1933; Alumnae Roll Call dates from 1934 to 1940; and the The Alumnae Asosociation of Mount Vernon Seminary was only published for one year, 1933. Materials contain information on campus life, Mount Vernon Seminary Council, meetings, alumnae reunions and luncheons, legacy daughters and granddaughters, reports on the treasury, marriages, births, engagements, deaths, memorials, faculty and alumnae personals, lists of members, chapter news, school notes, Founders Day, faculty notes, and M.V.S Day celebrations.

3.5 linear feet 7 document boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8115061

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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...