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The club originated from the Xavier Alumni Sodality, organized in 1863, in connection with the College of St. Francis Xavier.It was directed by Rev. P.F. Dealy, S.J. The club was formally opened 13 March 1871, with a membership of about 150, and Joseph Thoron was elected its first president, in the March of the same year.
In the early 1900s, the organization was renamed the Newman Club. Similar groups began at the University of Michigan in 1889, Brown University in 1892, and Harvard University in 1893. [3] Cornell's Newman Club, like most, was composed mainly of Irish students and was primarily a literary society, with a strong element of dancing and socializing.
The Church of the Holy Family was founded in 1913 as an independent parish in response to overcrowding at St. Gabriel's Church and a growing Catholic population of Irish and Germans in the North End of New Rochelle, which was then predominantly farmland. At the time of its establishment, the church had no dedicated physical structure.
College Fair: Each year, St. Michael Academy hosted a Catholic college fair at the school as a gift to the community. Admission was free, and students from Catholic schools across the city attended to learn about Catholic colleges across the country. This was the only college fair in the region that focused on Catholic higher education.
Molloy University is a private Roman Catholic university in Rockville Centre, New York. [2] Initially founded as a school for women, it is now co-educational. It provides more than 50 academic undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs for over 4800 students.
Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women is a private all-girls Catholic school teaching grades 6–12, located in Brighton, Monroe County, New York, United States, near Rochester. It is located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester .
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