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Postcard showing the campus before the fire. What is now known as Clarke University was established in 1843 as St. Mary's Female Academy by Irish emigrant Mother Mary Frances Clarke, the founder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. [3] It was one of the first such schools for women built west of the Mississippi River. [4]
In 1849 there was a fire at St. Joseph Prairie; there was a 1955 fire at the infirmary at the Dubuque motherhouse, a 1958 fire at Our Lady of the Angels (a BVM grammar school in Chicago), and a 1984 fire at Clarke College. Previously the habit had a distinct cover in the shape of a horseshoe. The habit changed in 1959. [9]
Sister Catherine Dunn, BVM, is a former President of Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa. She was named the 14th President of the school on January 27, 1984. She retired on June 30, 2006. Dunn earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Arizona State University. She then joined Clarke College as a member of the education faculty.
Clarke was an advocate of human rights. Being a Boston Latin School alumnus, he served on a committee of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women which was greatly instrumental in establishing Girls' Latin School in 1878.
A large brush brush fire at a forest reserve on the Drew University campus in Madison on Saturday was brought under control by 1 p.m., the borough reported, adding that all personnel have been ...
A fire at a market in Nairobi, Kenya, killed 15 and injured 70. [291] August 25 – 2018 Harbin hotel fire. A fire at a hotel in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, killed 19 and injured 23. September 2 – National Museum of Brazil fire. The National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro caught fire and lost more than 90% of its collection. [292]
Four members of San Diego State University's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity are facing felony charges after a skit performed at a party last year led to a pledge being set on fire.. The member set on ...
Fire engines were on campus and helicopters were dropping water collected from lakes in the school's Alumni Park onto the fire. ap24345440557346.jpg “The university understands the worst of the ...