McDaniel College

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McDaniel College

McDaniel College seal
Established 1867
Type Private
President Dr. Joan Develin Coley
Staff 90
Undergraduates 1,650
Location Westminster, Maryland, USA
Campus Suburban, 160 acre (647,000 m²)
Colors Green and Gold
Mascot Green Terror
Website www.mcdaniel.edu

McDaniel College is a small, semi-selective, private college of the liberal arts and sciences in Westminster, Maryland, located 30 miles northwest of Baltimore, with a branch college in Budapest, Hungary.


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[edit] Number of students

As of 2004 there were 1,658 students from 23 states and 19 countries; 45 percent are men, 55 percent are women. The average class size is fewer than 20 students.


[edit] History

The college was founded in 1867 as Western Maryland College, and was named for the Western Maryland Railroad because the College's first Board chairman was also the president of the railroad. (The railroad contributed some funds to facilitate the establishiment of the college, although the Methodist Church did not.) (See The Democratic Advocate for...1867) It had a voluntary fraternal affiliation with the United Methodist Church from 1868 until 1974. The ties with the United Methodist Church were cut over a court case in which Western Maryland and other religiously affiliated schools in Maryland were being challenged over state funding received by the colleges because of their religious ties. The other schools retained their affiliations and won the case.

The college's first building went up in 1867, with an inaugural class of 37 men and women. Western Maryland was the first coeducational institution south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and among the first in the nation. The school's original charter read that the school would exist: "For the benefit of students without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national or ethnic origin ... without requiring or enforcing any sectarian, racial or civil test, and without discrimination on the basis of sex, national or ethnic origin, nor shall any prejudice be made in the choice of any officer, teacher, or other employee in the said college on account of these factors." However the record stands that Western Maryland College was primarily a school without minority representation until well into the 1960's.

McDaniel College Budapest (formerly known as Western Maryland College Budapest) was established in collaboration with College International Budapest in 1994.

On January 11, 2002, the trustees announced their unanimous decision to change the name of the college. On July 1, 2002, WMC officially became McDaniel College, honoring alumnus William Roberts McDaniel and his 65-year association with the school. The naming process during the Spring of 2002 included input from students, faculty and alumni about possible names. Also, William's great grandson John Thomas Sullivan presently attends the small college. However, many students and alumni were and still are against the name-change.[1]

On January 12, 2007 the college suffered a tragic loss when its second-year men's basketball coach, Bob Flynn, died of a massive heart attack at his home in Catonsville, Md. Flynn was 49. Flynn had guided McDaniel to a 7-6 record through the first two months of the 2006-07 season, its best start in two decades.


[edit] Presidents

  • Reverend J. T. Ward (1867-1886)
  • Dr. Thomas Hamilton Lewis (1886-1920)
  • Dr. Albert Norman Ward (1920-1935)
  • Bishop Fred G. Holloway (1935-1947)
  • Dr. Lowell S. Ensor (1947-1972)
  • Dr. Ralph C. John (1972-1984)
  • Dr. Robert H. Chambers (1984-2000)
  • Dr. Joan Develin Coley (2000-present)


[edit] Trivia

  • A number of buildings on the campus are considered haunted by students and alums, including Alumni Hall, Elderdice Hall, Whiteford Hall, McDaniel Hall and Carpe Diem (the gazebo between Hill Hall and McDaniel Hall).
  • There is a U.S. government bunker in Lewis Hall that was used for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. So in case of a national emergency the Department of Agriculture would come to the college out in Westminster, Maryland.[citation needed]
  • The mascot is a Green Terror, but no one knows what that looks like. Many years ago, they were the Warriors, but after a particularly fierce football game against a conference rival, it was reported that the home team played like a bunch of "green terrors."
  • The campus includes a nine-hole golf course, the longest hole in Maryland was on this course (605 yards).[citation needed]
  • McDaniel College refused to hire Joseph Heller, the author of Catch 22 and Something Happened when he applied for a position in the English department in his pre-fame days.


[edit] Notable Alumni


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[edit] External links


Centennial Conference
Bryn Mawr • Dickinson • Franklin & Marshall • Gettysburg • Haverford • Johns Hopkins • McDaniel • Muhlenberg • Swarthmore • Ursinus • Washington Col.
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