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1971: The Mount Goes Co-Ed
by James Rada, Jr.
Although Mount St. Mary’s While the agreement seemed to begin admitting women as non- it was a good academic decision
University was named for a woman, address the educational reasons for resident students beginning with the for the school. According to the
she wouldn’t have been able to the Mount going co-educational, 1971-72 school year. They would newspaper, in 1969, 40 colleges
attend the college until 1971. It it didn’t address the cultural or be admitted as resident students the and universities had gone co-ed. It
was only in its 164th year that the financial issues. following year. was a move being made to attract
college decided to admit female high-caliber students, of which,
students. St. Joseph’s College announced To ensure that students from 81 percent said in a Princeton
that it would close in 1973. This St. Joseph’s College wouldn’t be University survey that they wanted
Some females from nearby St. caused concern at Mount St. delayed in their graduation because co-educational schools.
Joseph’s College had been attending Mary’s, which had also seen its of the transition, the Mount also
a limited number of classes at the enrollment dropping. The school waived some of the curriculum However, not everyone was
Mount beginning in 1970. The had 1,100 students during the requirements at the Mount for happy. Women who were losing
two colleges had entered into a 1970-71 school year. students who needed it, according their college with the closure of
cooperative agreement that allowed to the Emmitsburg Chronicle. St. Joseph’s College lead the way
students from either school to “We are, of course, saddened with this group. One woman wrote
take a class at the other school by the Saint Joseph announcement While admitting female students a letter against the move in The
if it wasn’t offered at their home but we do not feel that the wave of helped the women of St. Joseph’s Valley Echo called “Better Dead
college. The schools even provided bleak prophecy which has pervaded College, it also helped the Mount, than Co-Ed.”
transportation between the two our own campus is justified. Our which had been seeing fewer
campuses to aid the students. situations are in no way similar applications. The overlapping between the
During the 1970-71 school year, even though we face the same admittance of female students and
119 men from the Mount attended serious problems of most of the “I feel that the tragedy at Saint the closing of Mount St. Mary’s
one or more classes at St. Joseph’s, nation’s private colleges,” Mount Joseph can make us a stronger allowed for a gradual transition.
and 100 women from St. Joseph’s President John J. Dillon Jr. said college if we all work in that Today, women make up the
attended one or more classes at the during a speech. direction,” Dillon said. “Mount St. majority of the student body (55
Mount. Mary’s is, after all, your college.” percent) at the Mount.
In June of 1971, it was
announced that the Mount would The Mount student body
celebrated the decision. David
Fielder wrote in the Mountain
Echo, “This year, however, we
have witnessed the emergence
of the Mount into the twentieth
century with the administration’s
radical new policy concerning co-
education. We actually have female
names listed in the registrar’s office,
and, come next year, Mounties may
even find men and women living
near each other within the campus
grounds. Thus one might conclude
that we’ve been granted the other
half of what it takes to have a
student body.”
While the males were certainly
happy to see women on campus, the
Mountain Echo pointed out that
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1971: The Mount Goes Co-Ed
by James Rada, Jr.
Although Mount St. Mary’s While the agreement seemed to begin admitting women as non- it was a good academic decision
University was named for a woman, address the educational reasons for resident students beginning with the for the school. According to the
she wouldn’t have been able to the Mount going co-educational, 1971-72 school year. They would newspaper, in 1969, 40 colleges
attend the college until 1971. It it didn’t address the cultural or be admitted as resident students the and universities had gone co-ed. It
was only in its 164th year that the financial issues. following year. was a move being made to attract
college decided to admit female high-caliber students, of which,
students. St. Joseph’s College announced To ensure that students from 81 percent said in a Princeton
that it would close in 1973. This St. Joseph’s College wouldn’t be University survey that they wanted
Some females from nearby St. caused concern at Mount St. delayed in their graduation because co-educational schools.
Joseph’s College had been attending Mary’s, which had also seen its of the transition, the Mount also
a limited number of classes at the enrollment dropping. The school waived some of the curriculum However, not everyone was
Mount beginning in 1970. The had 1,100 students during the requirements at the Mount for happy. Women who were losing
two colleges had entered into a 1970-71 school year. students who needed it, according their college with the closure of
cooperative agreement that allowed to the Emmitsburg Chronicle. St. Joseph’s College lead the way
students from either school to “We are, of course, saddened with this group. One woman wrote
take a class at the other school by the Saint Joseph announcement While admitting female students a letter against the move in The
if it wasn’t offered at their home but we do not feel that the wave of helped the women of St. Joseph’s Valley Echo called “Better Dead
college. The schools even provided bleak prophecy which has pervaded College, it also helped the Mount, than Co-Ed.”
transportation between the two our own campus is justified. Our which had been seeing fewer
campuses to aid the students. situations are in no way similar applications. The overlapping between the
During the 1970-71 school year, even though we face the same admittance of female students and
119 men from the Mount attended serious problems of most of the “I feel that the tragedy at Saint the closing of Mount St. Mary’s
one or more classes at St. Joseph’s, nation’s private colleges,” Mount Joseph can make us a stronger allowed for a gradual transition.
and 100 women from St. Joseph’s President John J. Dillon Jr. said college if we all work in that Today, women make up the
attended one or more classes at the during a speech. direction,” Dillon said. “Mount St. majority of the student body (55
Mount. Mary’s is, after all, your college.” percent) at the Mount.
In June of 1971, it was
announced that the Mount would The Mount student body
celebrated the decision. David
Fielder wrote in the Mountain
Echo, “This year, however, we
have witnessed the emergence
of the Mount into the twentieth
century with the administration’s
radical new policy concerning co-
education. We actually have female
names listed in the registrar’s office,
and, come next year, Mounties may
even find men and women living
near each other within the campus
grounds. Thus one might conclude
that we’ve been granted the other
half of what it takes to have a
student body.”
While the males were certainly
happy to see women on campus, the
Mountain Echo pointed out that
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