Talk:Fairmont Seminary

Alpha Kappa Psi (sorority)

Is the fraternity and sorority almanac at the University of Illinois wrong when it states that there was a chapter Alpha Kappa Psi at the seminary? Apparently, the sorority's website mentions a school by the same name in Tennessee. Rublamb (talk) 20:40, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Alpha Kappa Psi Sorority's chapter is in Tennessee. See https://books.google.com/books?id=3jPtAAAAMAAJ (page 778, as the internal page numbers in the pages say).Naraht (talk) 20:56, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for checking on that. I have removed it from the article (I guess JAX can let Fran know about the mistake in the almanac). However, this adds another Fairmont Seminary to our redlinked school project.... Rublamb (talk) 21:25, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Yup.Naraht (talk) 21:43, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Closing date

The other source for the 1899 reference (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2864659&seq=43&q1=fairmont) is from 1943 and still shows it open. I'm not sure that the article should change from "the 1940s" though based on that.Naraht (talk) 21:25, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I can't find anything after 1942 in the newspaper. I think 1941-1942 or 1942-1943 was the last year based on yearbooks. The founder died sometime around then too but I have not yet found his obituary. Maybe the school died with him? Rublamb (talk) 21:28, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Okay--this is a good clue. Looks like the name changed to Fairmont Junior College which is in the newspapers. Rublamb (talk) 21:32, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Found an article about its closing. This is the third women's college in the D.C. area that I have come across that was taken over as part of the war effort. Rublamb (talk) 22:59, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Arlington Hall, this one and National Park Seminary. But oddly not Chevy Chase.Naraht (talk) 01:01, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Name change

In 1940, the name changed from Fairmont School and Junior College to Fairmont Junior College and Senior Preparatory School. (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2864659&seq=43&q1=fairmont) (building a complete list of name changes might be difficult)Naraht (talk) 21:28, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I am finding that name in newspapers in the 1920s. It looks like the name changed with the new owner but that is just a working theory. Rublamb (talk) 23:00, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Closing date more

Or at least a closing that I'd be *very* surprised that it came back from. A few snippet searches from the same document.

• https://www.google.com/search?q=%22fairmont+junior+college+was+closed+december+15%22
• https://www.google.com/search?q=%22december+journal+that+the+casements%22
• https://www.google.com/search?q=%22maud+von+woy%2C+who+was+also%22

I think this is december 15, 1943, since it is fairly far into the document, but not impossible that it is december 15, 1942.

And Maud Von Woy did continue the school on. (Von or Van??) Naraht (talk) 21:41, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Its complicated. Check out my addition to the history section. Thanks for finding the source with her name and the second name of the college. Rublamb (talk) 23:46, 18 January 2024 (UTC)