Everything about Manhattanville College totally explained
Manhattanville College is a private,
coeducational liberal arts college located in
Purchase,
New York,
USA. Manhattanville's mission is to "educate students to become ethically and socially responsible leaders for the global community."
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Today approximately 1700 undergraduate students attend Manhattanville. Renowned for its commitment to diversity, Manhattanville students come from 70 countries and 40 states. In accordance with the college's Portfolio System, which is the nation's oldest such system, graduate candidates must present a freshman year assessment essay; a study plan outlining all course work counted toward the degree; a program evaluation essay, which gives a rationale for the student's choice of courses, as well as a personal evaluation of the course; and specific examples of work in writing and research.
Current president Richard Berman has served for nearly 14 years.
History
In 1841 in a three-story house on Houston Street on
Manhattan's
Lower East Side, the Academy of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic boarding school for girls, was founded. The Academy relocated in 1847 to an area in the north western part of Manhattan Island on a hill overlooking the village of
Manhattanville. Destroyed by a fire in 1888, the Academy was rebuilt on the same foundation and continued to grow, both in curriculum and physical environment.
In March of 1917, 76 years after its founding as an academy, Manhattanville was chartered as a college by the New York State Board of Regents, empowering it to grant both undergraduate and graduate degrees. In 1952, the college moved to
Purchase to the former estate of
Whitelaw Reid. Long heralded as the most prestigious Catholic women's college, after becoming co-educational and non denominational Manhattanville began to experience difficult financial problems. In the past decade however, the college has been successfully raising its capital funds which has enabled it to build new facilities and increase its endowment. Today, Manhattanville's "Castle" looks out over the green of the quadrangle to the renovated residence halls, academic buildings and the housing complex for faculty and staff from around the globe.
Co-educational since 1969 and non-denominational in its governance since 1971, Manhattanville's original vision lives on in the tradition of service begun by the
Society of the Sacred Heart, extending from the students to the global community. During the Depression and World War II, President Grace Cowardin Dammann, RSCJ, instilled in Manhattanville's students a keen awareness of social problems by encouraging them to spend one day a week working with children at the Barat Settlement in the Bowery and at Casita Maria in East Harlem. Mother Dammann's widely published speech, "Principles vs. Prejudice," inspired other colleges to break down racial barriers.
Campus
Manhattanville is located on a 100 acre wooded campus in Purchase, New York, on the former estate of
Whitelaw Reid. The centerpiece of the campus is a quadrangle designed by
Frederick Law Olmstead which is flanked on its north end by Reid Hall, a massive granite
crenellated mansion, built in 1895 to designs by
McKim, Mead & White and now fondly known simply as "the castle." Reid Hall which was a potential site for the United Nations, and its grounds were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The Manhattanville library is a 24 hour facility with full time cafe and computer use. There is also a graveyard on campus which contains the remains of nearly 50 nuns. Additionally, the Lady Chapel and biology classroom in the Ohnell Environmental Park were designed by
Maya Lin who designed the
Vietnam War Memorial. During the 1964 World's Fair the Japan Pavilion was given as a gift from the Japanese government to the college, but proved impossible to reconstruct; the lava stones were instead used to form a sculpture garden on campus.
Newspaper
Now in its 61st year, the Touchstone remains the only newspaper serving the Manhattanville community. Two other student-run publications also exist: The Right World View a conservative publication funded by The Leadership Institute; and The Link, a progressive publication created with the help of the Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action.
Traditions
Manhattanville Library Rare Book and Manuscripts Room
The Rare Book and Manuscripts Room preserves both manuscripts and printed materials from the Manhattanville College Library. The book collection consists of approximately 2,400 titles that span the history of the book in the United States and Europe. Subject fields represented include history, religion, literature, biography, and philosophy. The collection also includes other formats such as periodicals, Jewish pamphlets, government documents, maps, and manuscripts. Particularly noteworthy are five incunabula (books printed before 1500) and several bound manuscript volumes, also from the like a hundred years ago. The latter include individual collections of psalms and prayers intended as an aid to private devotion, known as Books of Hours. The most notable of these is the Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, Cum Calendario -- also known as the Manhattanville Book of Hours.
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Sport
Recently, the college has received much media attention through the success of the men's
ice hockey team coached by Keith Levinthal. The team spent most of the 2006-07 season ranked #1 in the nation.
In Film, Television and the Arts
Film, television and art productions that feature Manhattanville:
Thomas Crown Affair(1999) which utilized the interior of Reid Hall and featured a character who is from Manhattanville
Law and Order SVU which used the interior of the President's Cottage
The Funeral(1996) in which a main character says she graduated from Manhattanville.
Richard Rodgers visited Manhattanville's Pius X School of Liturgical Music (1918-1969) in 1959 to conduct research for The Sound of Music and according to college documents Rodgers was inspired to write the song, The Hills are Alive With the Sound of Music while on campus.
Current Projects
Manhattanville Creative Arts and Student Center (Opened April 2008)
The Ohnell Environmental Park, featuring the restored "Lady Chapel" and "Living Classroom" designed by Maya Lin (dedicated Fall 2006)
Presidents of Manhattanville College
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1917-1918 Mary Moran, RSCJ
1918-1924 Ruth Burnett, RSCJ
1924-1930 Charlotte Lewis, RSCJ
1930-1945 Grace Dammann, RSCJ
1945-1965 Eleanor O'Byrne, RSCJ
1965-1974 Elizabeth McCormack
1974-1975 Harold Delaney
1975-1985 Barbara Knowles Debs
[1981-1982] [JaneC. Maggin, acting]
1985-1995 Marcia Savage
1995-present Richard Berman
Notable alumni
Rose Kennedy, mother of John F. Kennedy, President of the United States
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Special Olympics; Executive President of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation
Joan Bennett Kennedy
Olga Nollapoet, writer, journalist, professor
Kitty Pilgrim News anchor
Patrick Hughes Fashion Designer
Rosario Ferré Writer, poet, essayist
Dalmazio Santini composer
Meg Bussert Broadway actress
Rosemary MurphyBroadway, film and TV actress
Daryl A. Mundis, the Deputy Attorney at The Hague for the Slobodan Milošević trial
Ethel Kennedy, founder of Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center
Josie Natori, President of Natori Co. International
Jean Kennedy, US Ambassador to Ireland
Barbara Farrell Vucanovich (R) US House of Representatives Nevada 2nd District
Flora Miller Biddle, President of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Karen Akers, Singer, actress and Tony Award winner
Carmen Marc Valvo Fashion Designer
Sergio Danguillecourt Director of the Board, Bacardi
Anita Florio, New York Supreme Court Justice
Barbara Boggs Sigmund, Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey
Gov. Sila Calderón, Governor of Puerto Rico
Michaela Walsh, President and founder of Women's World Banking
Marcia P. DeWitt, President and CEO of GuilfordPare
James Badge Dale, Film and Television Actor
Maria Elena Lagomasino Chairman and CEO JP Morgan
Doris Magsaysay Ho, Entrepreneure Of The Year Philippines 2004
Linn Thomas, Playboy Playmate of the Month, May 1997 & Penthouse Pet of the Month, .October 2000Further Information
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