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A Look Back: Celebrating The Centennial Of Donahue And Alumni Halls, Nicole Casper

Stonehill College History

In 1905, Frederick Lothrop Ames and his wife moved into their new estate. The estate included a 2 1/2 story, fifty-five room Georgian style mansion house and a separate recreation building with an indoor marble swimming pool and clay tennis court. On the occasion of the building's centennial this publication was written to highlight the buildings and their use first by the Ames family and then as the first two buildings of Stonehill College.

Stonehill Alumni Magazine Fall 1998, Stonehill College Office Of Communications And Media Relations

Stonehill Alumni Magazine

This issue of the magazine includes the following features:

• Academic Convocation '98: Stonehill's third annual Academic Convocation formally marked the start of the College's 50th academic year
• Embracing Light & Hope By Fr. Richard Gribble, C.S.C.: Fr. Gribble, author of Fulfilling a Dream: Stonehill College 1948-1998, shares his favorite moments in Stonehill's history.
• Reflections on Stonehill: Ed Nordberg '52 A member of Stonehill's first class reminisces.
• The Lay of the Land A recent aerial shot of the campus captures Stonehill today.

Fullfilling A Dream: Stonehill College 1948-1998, Richard Gribble, Csc

Stonehill Faculty Scholarship

Stonehill College, from hesitant beginnings in the years shortly after World War II, has more than realized its founders' hopes. In a mere fifty years, it has become a securely established, highly selective, and nationally esteemed liberal arts college. The story of Stonehill's development and the path taken to its present academic quality and impres­sive physical plant is one of faith, devoted effort, and sacrifices by many faculty, staff, and alumni and of a community of ever­constant supporters.

Under the leadership of Bartley MacPhaidfn, CSC, president for two decades, Stonehill has seen exceptional growth without losing its caring community atmosphere. …