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Moravian University is the sixth-oldest college in the United States and the first to educate women in the original 13 colonies. It traces its roots to the Bethlehem Female Seminary, which was founded in 1742, as the second boarding school for young women in the U.S. behind just the Ursuline Academy in New Orleans.
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In 1785, due to increasing demand, the Bethlehem Female Seminary reorganized as a secondary educational institution that became known as the Moravian Female Seminary. The newly reorganized female seminary also became open to all denominations. [2] From its first opening, the seminary admitted girls starting at age five or six for elementary ...
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The Female Seminary (1742) merged with the Men's College (1807) in 1957 resulting in the Moravian College and Theological Seminary as we know it today. The Moravian Academy in Bethlehem also traces its roots back to the 1742 date in Germantown -- Headman13 15:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC) [ reply ]
Ervin Rokke completed his time at Moravian in the summer of 2006. At the commencement ceremonies that year, he received an honorary doctorate from the college. Mrs. Priscilla Payne Hurd, Chair of the Moravian Board of Trustees, observed that “Erv Rokke has been one of Moravian’s finest and most successful presidents.