Summertime at
CNR
In 1907, the first summer session
was held at the College, probably at the suggestion of the
chaplain, Fr. Patrick Halpin, a former Jesuit who had begun
summer sessions at Boston College in the 1880’s and was a
co-founder of the very popular Catholic Summer School program
for teachers.
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1907 New Rochelle Pioneer
article on the First Summer Session.
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The summer sessions gave public
and parochial school teachers an opportunity to study for a BA.
In the early years, there were sessions devoted to school
administration as well as to study of liberal arts courses.
For cloistered nuns who were not
able to “go out,” living and studying summers at CNR gave many
Sisters the opportunity to get a BA and to meet and mingle with
a variety of other students.
Leland Castle c. 1940’s: A long
line of Ursulines on a then-quiet summer day
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Maura Hall in the summer; the
fish pond on the lawn was removed by the 1960’s
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CNR held summer sessions into the
1930’s and revived them again in the late 1960’s as more
teachers needed masters’ degrees for certification or tenure.
1927-28 CNR enrollment
statistics; summer enrollment peaked in 1919 with 110 students 7
of whom were Graduate students
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Other graduate programs followed, and the Graduate School grew
rapidly. When the School of New Resources was founded in 1972,
it too began annual summer programs. The first summer programs
included cultural enrichment possibilities; later travel/study
programs continue to be available for credit to CNR students in
all the Schools.
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Summer 1952
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Summer 1972
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Summer 1979
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Summer Session
2004
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Heeding the College’s student motto, “Serviam”
over the years, CNR students have also given precious vacation
time to rural and poor parishes, to tutoring, and to volunteer
work with needy persons at home or abroad.
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Summer 1982
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Article from october
18, 1961. CNR Missionaries Travel to mexico, Oklahoma,
N.C.
In the 1914 Summer Session catalog, in addition to course descriptions, cultural opportunities were
available and a series of visiting lecturers spoke on the 15th Century; Tennyson; Montessori Education; and Cross Currents in
Education. Tuition for any number of courses was $25; there was
a $5 fee for laboratory classes
Works Cited in Exhibit
Smutney, Joan Franklin. ed.
Designing and Developing Programs for Gifted Students.
Corwin Press, 2003.
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Summer programs provide special
opportunities for gifted students
Borman, Geoffrey D., et al.
Making the Most
of Summer School: A Meta-analytic and Narrative Review.
Monographs of the Society for Research in child Development.
2000
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