The Marymount Manhattan College Papers
The Marymount Manhattan College Papers Marymount Manhattan College 221 East 71st Street New York, New York 10021 Archives Collection #002 Ongoing Processing; Updated April 24, 2002 Finding Guide by Mary Elizabeth Brown 1 Contents Introduction 3 Overview of Organization 5 Inventories: Series 1, Charter and By-laws 19 Series I, College 19 Series 2, Trustees 41 Series 3, Academic Affairs 42 Series 4, Students 74 Series 5, Business Office 82 Series 6, Admissions 83 Series 7, Registrar 84 Series 8, Development 85 Series 9, Faculty 102 Series 10, Library 106 Series 11, Theatre 107 Series 12, Parents’ Council 108 Series 13, Gallery 108 Series 20, Lifelong Learning 108 Series 21, Division of Fine and Performing Arts and Communication Arts and Sciences 116 Series 22, Division of Psychology and Education 119 Series 23, Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics 124 Series 24, Division of Humanities 125 2 Series 25, Division of Social Sciences 126 Series 26, Division of Business Management and Accounting 127 3 Introduction Marymount Manhattan College began its archives on May 2, 1974, when the Board of Trustees appointed Sister Agnes Elliott, R.S.H.M., the first archivist of the college.1 In April 1975, Sister Agnes moved to her new office space, a glass-walled room on the eastern side of the third floor of the Thomas J. Shanahan Library. She began Marymount’s collection with papers that Professor Margaret M. Sheahan, a charter member of the faculty, happened to have saved.2 Her mission was to make saving Marymount’s history not a matter of accident but of planning.
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