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April 02, 2020

Wyant Lecture featuring LaToya Ruby Frazier

Join us for the 2020 Wyant Lecture featuring artist LaToya Ruby Frazier.
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April 26, 2020

Dorothy Day Lecture featuring Patrick Radden Keefe

Save the date for the 2020 Dorothy Day Lecture, featuring bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe.
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May 29, 2020 - May 31, 2020

Alumni Weekend 2020

Join us for the first Alumni Weekend of our second century: May 29-31, 2020
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Your Memories

What is your favorite Emmanuel tradition?

"Graduating WITH my mom in 2016!"
Rebecca H, ‘16
"Social and political activism including anti-war, ERA and de-segregation efforts organized on campus."
Susan C, ‘74
"Sister Mary T... need I say more?"
Jeana D, ‘84
"Wearing our robes all Senior year..."
Judi G, ‘64
"I was the Black Student Union Vice President for one year. Being part of that club helped me to learn leadership..."
"Midnight Madness"
Ashanti J, ‘15
"Loved the emphasis on service and community involvement..."
Kathleen G, ‘72
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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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