Talk:Chatham University

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message: I have been researching my family history, and there is a record that one of my relatives, Rebecca Nash of Whitemarsh, Montgomery County, PA, graduated from Pennsylvania Female College in 1865. It was also indicated that there was a Pennsylvania Female College that was incorporated around 1858 in Collegeville.  
The Wikipedia article indicates it was founded in 1869.  
Is there any connection between the college in that is now Chatham University and the Pennsylvania Female College in Montgomery County:?
The following is from a link to http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/montgomery/history/local/mchb0030.txt
ALUMNI OF PENNSYLVANIA FEMALE COLLEGE 
Class of 1865
* Calista Aiman, Whitemarsh
* Mrs. B. Wright (Emma T. Black), Tullytown
* Mary P. Crawford, Lower Merion
* Henrietta M. Hahn, Clifton Springs, NY
* Clarissa V. Hahn, Washington, DC
* Rebecca Nash, Whitemarsh
* Anna Townsend, Royal Oak, Md
* Sarah F. Valliant, St. Michael's, Md
PENNSYLVANIA FEMALE COLLEGE (Collegeville, Pa.).  -Prominent among the
educators of Montgomery County are Professor J. Warrenne Sunderland, LL.D.,
and Luannie Sunderland, who, with the Rev. Abraham Hunsicker, organized the
Montgomery Female Institute or Seminary as early as 1851.  In their
"announcement" they proclaimed what was then a new departure, and boldly
advocated the necessity of a higher education for women in terms which,
however well accepted and popular now, were deemed by many well-disposed and
influential persons visionary then.  These advanced educators then said, "We
believe the female mind endowed with powers and capabilities quite equal to
those of the other sex, and no sufficient reason can be assigned why they
should not be as fully and carefully developed.  In projecting this
institution, therefore, we have a twofold object in view, -first, to provide,
correct and thorough instruction in the ordinary branches of learning at so
cheap a rate as to bring it within the reach of all; second, to afford to
such young ladies as may desire to pursue a more extensive course in the
sciences and liberal arts an opportunity of doing so under circumstances as
favorable as those enjoyed by the other sex at our most reputable colleges." 
They further assured parents, guardians and the public that "any young lady
completing the course of studies prescribed, and sustaining satisfactory
examinations, would receive an appropriate diploma, and be entitled to a
laureate as significant and valuable is that conferred on young men at
institutions of a corresponding grade."
    The foundation was now laid for a "Female College" in Montgomery County. 
If it was an experiment, it had liberal-minded, progressive and determined
projectors, and measures were speedily taken to obtain such chartered
privileges from the commonwealth as would place the institution in such a
position as to command the respect, interest and
public favor originally solicited for it by its founders.  In 1853 an act of
incorporation was obtained, vesting the following named trustees with the
necessary corporate powers: James Warrenne Sunderland, John R. Grigg, Mathias
Haldeman, William B. Hahn and Wright Bringhurst.  These trustees were
empowered to appoint a president and faculty of instruction, "who shall be
charged with the direction and management of the literary affairs of the
college, etc."  The Charter provided that "the faculty shall have power to
confer such literary degrees and academic honors as are usually granted by
colleges upon such pupils as shall have completed in a satisfactory manner
the prescribed course of study." [NOTE]
    [NOTE]  Act to incorporate the Pennsylvania Female, College, Pamphlet 
Laws, 1858, page:127.
    This pioneer female college gave a new and startling impulse to the
advance of woman, and its annual commencements called together the most
learned and progressive audiences that ever assembled in the Perkiomen
Valley.  It was indeed something new for the mothers of Eastern Pennsylvania
to witness the graduation of daughters with collegiate honors; and on all
these occasions the "class," surrounded by corporators and faculty, having
passed the examination required by the high standard prescribed, and
otherwise acquitted themselves in accordance with the commencement exercises,
elated with their success as students flushed with tributes of substantial
friendship and the congratulations of senior college sisters, waited in
common with an expectant public for the parting address of the president, who
was required to disarm all unfriendly criticism, justify the pronounced
innovation upon rules of education and approve the advent of the graduates
upon the threshold of a higher and broader life than had been vouchsafed to
the earlier generations of womanhood in Pennsylvania.  This task Professor
Sunderland always performed during his presidency with distinguished ability
and marked public approval, and to no one more than him is due the credit and
honor of moulding that public opinion which a quarter of a century ago and
since has demanded equal educational advantages for woman, fitting her for
the employment of teacher and all the higher pursuits of life in which she is
now found.
Joepmyers (talk) 02:52, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about date of oringin of Pennsylvania Female College 

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message: # Is Chatham pronounced  (like "chat 'em"), like Chatham, Kent, is? Or is it pronounced  to rhyme with "math 'em"?
# Does the university admit men or not? The opening sentence says it "has coeducational academic programs through the doctoral level", but in the History section it merely says the university was considering admitting men back in 2014, and there's no word on what's happened on that front in the past 6 years. —Mahāgaja · talk 15:26, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two questions