Lombard College
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Lombard College was a
History
Lombard College was founded in 1853 by the
Lombard was
Lombard College was a member of the
The Great Depression proved to be too much for Lombard; the last class was graduated in 1930. While Lombard did not merge, some of its students transferred to nearby Knox College, and its alumni activities take place at Knox. Sigma Nu fraternity's Delta Theta chapter, which formed at Lombard in 1867 as the Delta Theta Society (local) and became a part of Sigma Nu in 1891, continues its activities at Knox to this day. Until 1973, the Alpha chapter of Alpha Xi Delta also continued at Knox.
The former Lombard College building and campus is currently used as Lombard Middle School.
When the college closed in 1930, the Lombard charter was transferred to Meadville Theological School in Chicago, a Unitarian seminary, bringing with it Lombard's privilege of a tax exemption, "one of only three in Illinois granting full tax-exempt status in perpetuity for all college-owned property."[3] In 1964 the school adopted the name "Meadville Theological School of Lombard College".[2] The combined institution later became Meadville Lombard Theological School.
Notable alumni
- Ken Carpenter - radio-TV announcer
- Edwin H. Conger – U.S. Congressman, diplomat, and Minister to Brazil, China, and Mexico
- Jennie Florella Holmes — American temperance activist and suffragist
- Effie McCollum Jones - Universalist minister, suffragist
- William Bramwell Powell - educator, co-founder of National Geographic Society
- Carl Sandburg (non-graduate) – author, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Paul Jordan Smith– editor, educator, poet
- footballplayer
- Vespasian Warner – politician, lawyer, businessman.
- Owen B. West - Illinois state legislator, farmer, and businessman
- Sewall G. Wright– geneticist
- Quincy Wright – educator, poet, economist
- Civil Aeronautics Administration
Notable faculty
- Anna Groff Bryant — vocal teacher, head of music department
- Philip Green Wright
- David Starr Jordan – ichthyologist, president of Indiana University; founding president of Stanford University
- Frederick William Rich-Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Conger Professor of Chemistry and Physics [Catalogue of Lombard College, 1906-1908]
- Wilhelmine Key - geneticist, eugenics
References
- ^ Whitney, Carrie Westlake (1908). Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908. Vol. II. Chicago: S.J. Clarke. p. 384. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
- ^ a b Wilson, Tom (July 12, 2014). "Former Lombard College name is resurrected". The Register-Mail. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
- ^ "Lombard College, alive and well in Chicago". The Zephyr. October 20, 1999.
External links
Media related to Lombard College at Wikimedia Commons
- Lombard history
- The Lombard College Collection at Knox College