John F. Kennedy visits Mount Mercy Junior College campus in 1959.
Senator John F. Kennedy visited the Mount Mercy Junior College campus in 1959, following a campaign stop in Marion, Iowa. Kennedy spoke from the McAuley veranda to an audience of Sisters, students, and visitors. Following the speech, Sister Mary...
An aerial view of the Mount Mercy, campus apartments complex, built to meet the immediate housing needs for male students following the college's change to a co-educational institution. Construction was complete in September 1976, with four...
By the spring of 1964, there was an immediate need for additional, student housing. A campus master plan was constructed, and following the Sisters of Mercy moving to their new convent in March of that year, crews demolished the Greene Mansion,...