the purchase of an 18-acre parcel of land in New Rochelle's Beechmont neighborhood for $85,000 from the land owner, retired Presbyterian minister Thomas Hall.
In 1940, the idea of the college's founding community of Brothers was to start a small, affordable college for the sons of New York's working class. At the time, the Christian Brothers taught in seven high schools in the Archdiocese of New York, including Iona Prep, All Hallows, Rice High School, and Power Memorial. They recognized that many of their graduates could not afford the cost of local universities, and so began to form Iona College.
In June 1940, members of the Iona School community, along with members of the school's Mothers' Club, gathered to dedicate a new science building on the school's campus—the building that the Mothers' Club has raised $100,000 to build. It was there that they learned that just one day prior, not only had permission been granted to form Iona College on the same campus as the Iona School, but that the college would be …
SAT EBRW 25%
525
SAT EBRW 75%
645
SAT Math 25th %
530
SAT Math 75th %
620
ACT Composite 25th %
20
ACT Composite 50th %
23
ACT Composite 75th %
28
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