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January 19, 2019

MLK Jr. Day of Service & Reflection

Commencement of the Centennial Service Challenge
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March 13, 2019

History Exhibit & Panel Discussion

Ever Changing, Ever Emmanuel: 100 Years of Adaptation
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May 30, 2019

Sr. Janet Eisner, SNDdeN 40th Anniversary Gala

Save the date: More details to follow!
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May 31, 2019 - June 02, 2019

Alumni Weekend

Save the date for Alumni Weekend 2019—May 31–June 2, 2019—during Emmanuel College's Centennial year!
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June 01, 2019

All-Alumni Celebration

Join us for a Liturgy celebrating Sr. Janet Eisner, SNDdeN's 40th anniversary as president and an All-Alumni Centennial Celebration!
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September 19, 2019

Centennial Convocation

Join us as we celebrate Convocation on the 100th anniversary of Emmanuel College's first day of classes in 1919.
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October 01, 2019 - October 31, 2019

Second Century Academic Symposium

Join us as we celebrate Emmanuel College's Centennial with the Second Century Academic Symposium in October 2019.
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December 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Concluding Liturgy

Emmanuel College will close our year of centennial celebrations with a Concluding Liturgy in December 2019.
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Your Memories

What is your favorite Emmanuel tradition?

"Singing the Alma Mater our senior year... True beauty."
Gretel S, ‘77
"30 years later, we still have our annual Thanksgiving dinner."
Mary Jo F, ‘89
"Anything that involves family..."
Kathleen G, ‘16
"Midnight Madness"
Ashanti J, ‘15
"Senior Week 2010!"
Jenna K, ‘10
"Loved the emphasis on service and community involvement..."
Kathleen G, ‘72
"The Giving Tree in the Campus Ministry office."
Catherine R, ‘90
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100 Facts for 100 Years

#8
327 Barbaras
327 Barbaras have attended Emmanuel College since 1919.
#72
Grape Boycott
Emmanuel College students joined other area college students in 1967 to aid migrant farmers’ struggle for unionization by supporting the grape boycott, led by Cesar Chavez, who later spoke on campus in 1969.
#39
Historic President
Sr. Janet Eisner '63, SNDdeN is the longest serving woman president in U.S. higher education history. She was named Acting President in 1978 and inaugurated in 1979. She celebrates her 40th anniversary during the College's Centennial year.
#4
JFK Speaks
President John F. Kennedy—then a US Representative from the Eleventh Congressional District of Massachusetts—gave the 1949 Commencement Address.
#2
816 Wins
Coach Andy Yosinoff is the winningest coach in NCAA D-III Women's Basketball history.
#13
There She Is...
Four Emmanuel alumnae have been named Miss Massachusetts and competed for the national title of Miss America, including the first-ever Miss MA of color, Gabriela Taveras '17.
#82
450,000
450,000 bricks were used to build the new 18-story residence hall, which opened in Fall 2018.
#29
Enemy List
Journalist and alumna Mary McGrory '39 won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1975 for her articles about the Watergate Scandal. McGrory was on Richard Nixon's famed "enemies list."
#44
Molasses Flood
Emmanuel College opened the same year as Boston's Great Molasses Flood, when a holding tank burst and sent 2.3 million gallons of the sticky liquid sweeping through the streets of Boston.
#96
27.1
Campus was hit with 27.1 inches in the Blizzard of ‘78.
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