The original Mary Hemenway gymnasium was razed to make room for the new field house. Major portions of the Recreation Building were preserved and incorporated into the new center, although the original Davenport Pool became the site of sqash and racquetball courts.
The fields were built at the west end of campus beyond the Field House on the former Paint Shop Pond site. This new status is thanks in part to a partnership with the Dana Hall School for use of their newly-built regulation size squash courts, which will allow the Wellesley squash team to practice and compete at this state-of-the-art facility. Sticco-Ivins also finishes as national runner-up in the 1-meter event.
The Blue are the first women's college to win a national championship in rowing. Two days later she would become the first to ever win three by capturing her second career 3-meter diving title. While certain factual information is available from the college archives and records, Wellesley College Athletics especially welcomes first-hand accounts and pictures from its alumnae, former administrators and friends of the College which will help complete this timeline and to portray it in the rich human dimension it deserves.
The History of Wellesley College Athletics. Morse, Baseball; Dorothy Bolte, Golf. Do Not Show Again Close. Services Government Community Directory. Home Community History of Wellesley. History of Wellesley More than years ago, when a handful of men first settled the area around the Charles River that is now known as Wellesley, they were so delighted with their new town that they named it "Contentment.
Centennial Celebration For many residents, this feeling of community was best summed up in the Centennial Celebration, a year-long discovery of Wellesley which brought a new sense of awareness of its history, a new enjoyment of its present, and a renewed commitment to its future.
Through a history book, two multi-media shows, a time capsule, a historical play starring current elected officials as Wellesley's founding fathers, town-wide parties and birthday cakes, and skits for schools and summer camps, Wellesley spent a year learning about its past. Early Pioneers It learned that in the s, after negotiations with Indian Chiefs Nehoiden and Maugus whose names are still seen in town today , the first nineteen hardy pioneers paid five pounds of currency and three pounds of corn for the land which would become Wellesley.
At the time, it made up part of a larger town, named Dedham. The land was good and within 75 years enough families were living in a section of Dedham so that a new town split off, named Needham.
The western part of this new town, the part which was to become Wellesley, was called West Needham, and spent most of the 18th and 19th centuries as a small, quiet farming town.
Men from West Needham joined their neighbors to fight and die at the beginning of the Revolutionary War at Concord on April 18, , and at Gettysburg less than a century later. Then, in the s, the railroad came to town, bringing Boston businessmen and the most modern way of life, forever changing the face of the quiet town. Henry Durant One of the businessmen attracted to this pretty, restful place was Henry Durant, who in startled the countryside by founding Wellesley College , a college for women which has become one of the most respected colleges in the country, on its beautiful lakeside campus.
He named the college to honor his next-door neighbor, Horatio Hollis Hunnewell, a wealthy businessman and town benefactor whose mansion was named "Wellesley" in commemoration of his wife, whose maiden name was Welles. Separation from Needham By the pace of life in town was quickening.
The first students, numbering , moved into College Hall and began classes in From that first class, 18 were graduated in Over the next 25 years, Wellesley College developed from a nascent institution into a vibrant academic community built upon a strong liberal arts foundation. Student Government was established in On March 17, , College Hall was destroyed by fire.
Though no lives were lost, Wellesley College suffered greatly from the loss of the oldest and most central building on campus. As the College rebuilt following the tragedy, nine major buildings were constructed in the next 17 years, and the academic center of the campus was relocated atop Norumbega Hill.
Navy and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in
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