Busse Library Digital Archive

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- May crowning ceremony by the grotto pond (1940s).
- A May crowning ceremony culminated in a campus processional through the grotto. Here, students follow the newly, selected May queen through the grotto, near the pond (1940s).
- Mount Mercy Photographs
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- May Crowning ceremony in the Mount Mercy grotto (1940s).
- A May crowning ceremony celebrated the arrival of spring for the campus. Here, the processional winds its way through the campus grotto, adjacent to the pond (1940s).
- Mount Mercy Photographs
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- Sister Mary Ildephonse Holland.
- Sister Mary Ildephonse Holland served twice as president for the institution. Her first term of office (1928-1933) coincided with the launch of Mount Mercy Junior College and its first graduates. Her second term, as the fourth president for the...
- Mount Mercy Photographs
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- Sister Mary Agnes Hennessey.
- Sister Mary Agnes Hennessey served Mount Mercy College as president from 1961-1977, the first person solely selected to fill the role. While in office, Hennessey led the campus through monumental change -- the opening of the McAuley library and...
- Mount Mercy Photographs
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- Side view of McAuley Hall, the first campus dormitory.
- In March, 1955, the Sisters of Mercy began work on a new, college dormitory; the cornerstone laying ceremony followed on October 3 of that year. In September 1956, McAuley Hall welcomed college students into its seven-story structure; the first...
- Mount Mercy Photographs