Lake Erie College highlights their history with an interesting web page. There is a timeline with links with more detail by decade and a fascinating insert covering the period from 1856-2006.
The institution's history is traced to Willoughby Female Seminary founded in 1847 in Willoughby, OH. In 1856 it was destroyed by fire and moved to Painesville, OH. It reopened as Lake Erie Female Seminary in 1857. The name was changed to Lake Erie Seminary College in 1898 and to Lake Erie College in 1908. Lake Erie became coeducational after 1985, though a separate program for men existed for a number of years through what was known as Garfield Senior College.
Would that be Garfield as in James?
ReplyDeleteI believe he was from Ohio.
Recently read "Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President" by Candice Millard. We don't read much about Garfield in our history books about Garfield but I suspect it was a big loss for the United States. I wonder whether Garfield Senior College was named in his honor. Do you know what years it existed?
Terry, it would certainly make sense. Maybe someone with a connection to Garfield Senior College and Lake Erie can check and post a response. The insert for the Lake Erie magazine at the url in the post includes the following text, "Ground was later broken for The Garfield Center on June 6, 1950 and the building was dedicated in 1952. The College maintained a separate identity for the program
ReplyDeleteuntil 1985, when Garfield Senior College was eliminated and male students were admitted as fulltime traditional and residential students. From that point on, with the merging of Lake Erie College for Women and Garfi eld Senior College, all students were graduates of Lake Erie College."
It was named in honor of his son who served on the board of lEC
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