THROWBACK
On Feb. 8, 1952, students formed a line in the bitter cold and passed books from the old library in Rosary Hall to their new home in the library we know today as Jennings Library.
The column “Up on College Hill” in the local newspaper, the Caldwell Progress, recounts: “Never, but never will there be another day at Caldwell College, as was Friday, February 8. This was the sort of day our grandchildren will hear about”…the day on which the students formed “an almost endless line from one building to another,” and it was bitterly cold. “As they passed the books in such order that they were placed immediately in their proper place in the new library, the students were led in a song by Sister Francis…the faculty served coffee and donuts.”
– From “Celebrating the Past, Shaping the Future: A Short History of Caldwell College, 1939-1989” by Sister Rita Margaret Chambers, O.P., Ph.D.
