Lake Erie College
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Former name | Lake Erie Female Seminary (1856–1898)[1] |
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| Type | Private liberal arts college |
| Established | 1856 |
Academic affiliations | Council of Independent Colleges, Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges |
| President | Jennifer Schuller |
| Location | , U.S. 41°43′00″N 81°15′06″W / 41.71667°N 81.25167°W |
| Campus | Suburban, 52 acres (21 ha)[2] |
| Colors | Green and white[2] |
| Nickname | Storm |
Sporting affiliations | NCAA Division II – G-MAC |
| Mascot | Stormy the Cyclone[3] |
| Website | lec |
Lake Erie College is a private liberal arts college in Painesville, Ohio. Founded in 1856 as a female seminary, the college converted to a coeducational institution in 1985.[4]
History
[edit]Lake Erie Female Seminary
[edit]The seminary was relocated to Painesville after Willoughby Seminary, founded in 1847, burned to the ground.[4] Its founders include prominent local citizens Timothy Rockwell, general store owner Silas Trumbull Ladd, Judge William Lee Perkins, Mayor and Judge Aaron Wilcox, Charles Austin Avery and Judge Reuben Hitchcock, a president of the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad and cousin of Edward Hitchcock.[4]
Scholarship was not a chief concern at the Seminary in its earliest years, however. Educating future mothers through domestic work, physical education and etiquette ranked among the Seminary's chief aims. For a tuition of $160, seminarians trained as teachers.[5]
Expansion
[edit]The Arts took up a home in the halls of Lake Erie. Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Music Building, opened in 1927 – its classic Greek design, Corinthian pillars, seating for more than 1,000, and four-manual E.M. Skinner organ with 4,359 pipes.[6] The building was designed by Abram Garfield.[7]
The Civil Aeronautics Authority approved Lake Erie for a civilian pilot program in 1939, several years after Amelia Earhart visited the campus to speak to its Aviators Club.[8]
In the 1940s, President Helen D. Bragdon, a Harvard alumna, moved the college from more Victorian ideals toward an active, responsible citizenry.[4]
A special exhibit of Modern art signaled the opening of Royce Hall for the Fine and Performing Arts in 1970. Prints, sculpture, graphics and more by celebrated artists such as Dali, dekooning, Magritte, Miro and Picasso were on display. R. Buckminster Fuller spoke at the facility's ground-breaking.[9]
In 1985, Lake Erie College became coeducational, merging Garfield Senior College with Lake Erie College for Women, and men were admitted officially as students.[10]
Academics
[edit]Lake Erie College houses five academic schools: the School of Business, the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the School of Education and Professional Studies, and the School of Equine Studies. Each maintains its own majors, minors, and programs under the direction of its respective dean. All students complete a general curriculum, called CORE, as a foundation to courses required by their major field(s) of study.
School of Business
[edit]The IACBE-accredited School of Business offers its students ten undergraduate majors and six minors.[11]
School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
[edit]The School of Arts and Humanities offers its students 13 undergraduate majors and 16 minors. Some popular majors include criminal justice, psychology, communication and English. Minors such as gender, sexuality & women's studies as well as comedy studies fall outside the scope of major fields of study. While most major fields lead to a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is also offered.[12]
School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
[edit]The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics offers its students four majors.[13] Students have access to regional land preserves due to the School's partnership with The Nature Conservancy.[14]
School of Education and Professional Studies
[edit]In addition to three undergraduate programs, the School of Education and Professional Studies also offers endorsements in TESOL and reading, post-baccalaureate programming, and an M.Ed. degree.[15]
School of Equine Studies
[edit]The School of Equine Studies offers its students four majors.[16] It was founded in 1955 and there have been 304 Equine Studies graduates since 2000.[17]
Athletics
[edit]The official nickname of the college's athletics teams is the Storm. This name was chosen after Lake Erie College started competing nationally, at which point they held a contest to name the team. "Contestants had to supply the name and a suitable logo and rationale for the name. A Madison woman won by suggesting the name the Storm."[4] The name was chosen to replace the nickname Unicorns when the college added men's intercollegiate athletics beginning in 1988. Their mascot is Stormy.[18]
Lake Erie College sponsored the first women's national collegiate tennis tournament in 1922, won by Evelyn Ennes of Sandusky, Ohio.[19][20]
Notable alumni
[edit]- Dawn Powell, author and playwright[21]
- Frances Jennings Casement, suffragist[22]
- Joe Dolce, American-Australian singer-songwriter[22]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lake Erie College". ohiohistorycentral.org. Ohio History Central. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ a b Lake Erie College - Facts at a Glance
- ^ Traditions – Stormy Archived 2010-01-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e Gross, Margaret Geissman (1993). Dancing on the table: a history of Lake Erie College. Burnsville, N.C: Celo Valley Books. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-923687-28-1.
- ^ Geissman., Gross, Margaret (1993). Dancing on the table : a history of Lake Erie College. Burnsville, N.C.: Celo Valley Books. pp. 8–9. ISBN 0923687289. OCLC 29442846.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Opus 647: Lake Erie College - Music Hall (Painesville, OH)". organhistoricalsociety.org. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
- ^ https://revfrankhughesjr.org/images/About_the_Organ_and_Morley_Music_Hall.pdf
- ^ "Resources". The Ninety-Nines, Inc. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ Geissman., Gross, Margaret (1993). Dancing on the table : a history of Lake Erie College. Burnsville, N.C.: Celo Valley Books. pp. 56–57. ISBN 0923687289. OCLC 29442846.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "LAKE ERIE COLLEGE | Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University". case.edu. 2021-11-07. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
- ^ "School of Business | Lake Erie College". www.lec.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ "The School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | Lake Erie College". www.lec.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ "School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Lake Erie College". www.lec.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ "Lake Erie College partners with The Nature Conservancy to provide new educational opportunities". www.lec.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ "School of Education and Professional Studies | Lake Erie College". www.lec.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ "Equine Studies, Lake Erie College". www.lec.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ "School of Equine Studies". www.lec.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ "Department of Athletics General Quick Facts". Lake Erie College. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
- ^ "Ohio girl wins intercollegiate tennis crown". Albuquerque Morning Journal. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 4 July 1922. p. 5. Retrieved 2021-05-25.
- ^ "Pre-NCAA women's collegiate tennis". Tennis Forum. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ "Minding Other People's Business: On Dawn Powell - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ a b "Points of Pride". www.lec.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-16.