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Penn State Abington and the Ogontz School / Frank D. Quattrone ; foreword by Dr. Karen Wiley Sandler, Chancellor Emerita.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quattrone, Frank D., author.
- Series:
- Campus history series.
- Campus history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ogontz School--History.
- Ogontz School.
- Pennsylvania--History.
- Pennsylvania.
- Chestnut Street Female Seminary (Philadelphia, Pa.)--History.
- Chestnut Street Female Seminary (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Chestnut Street Female Seminary (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Pictorial works.
- Ogontz School--Pictorial works.
- Pennsylvania State College. Ogontz Center--History.
- Pennsylvania State College.
- Pennsylvania State College. Ogontz Center--Pictorial works.
- Pennsylvania State University. Ogontz Campus--History.
- Pennsylvania State University.
- Pennsylvania State University. Ogontz Campus--Pictorial works.
- Pennsylvania State University. Abington-Ogontz Campus--History.
- Pennsylvania State University. Abington-Ogontz Campus--Pictorial works.
- Penn State Abington--History.
- Penn State Abington.
- Penn State Abington--Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- Anyone traversing the hilly, tree-lined paths of Penn State Abington would be hard-pressed to imagine the college in its first incarnation. Among the most diverse of Penn State University's commonwealth campuses today, the college's lineage dates to 1850 as the Chestnut Street Female Seminary in Philadelphia. This pictorial history traces its evolution from a private finishing school for affluent girls to an affordable public college that draws students from 17 states and 29 countries. Among the celebrated figures who contributed handsomely to the school's prestige and growth are Civil War financier Jay Cooke, who transformed his suburban Ogontz mansion into the renamed Ogontz School for Young Ladies; Abby A. Sutherland, the school's most influential principal/president, who astutely moved the school to a handsome tract of land in Abington Township, which she donated to Penn State University in 1950; and famed aviator Amelia Earhart. In the past two decades, under the direction of Dr. Karen Wiley Sandler, chancellor emerita, the college has become the thriving degree-granting residential institution that it is today.
- Contents:
- Foreword - Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- For Ladies Only
- The Abby Sutherland Years
- Ogontz Evolves into Abington
- Amelia Earhart and Outstanding Students
- Learning and Training
- Student Life and Special Events.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4396-5777-7
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