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- In 1965, College
President Rev. Vincent A. McQuade, O.S.A., and the Board of Trustees
decide that the next building constructed would be a new library.
- On April 6, 1966,
a groundbreaking ceremony for the new library building is held.
- Merrimack College
selects the Boston architectural firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson
and Abbott to design the new library. Phillip J. McNiff, city of Boston
librarian, served as a consultant.
- Construction work
is done by Volpe Construction Company.
- The new library
opens in September, 1967, and is dedicated on Friday, April 26, 1968.
Presiding at the dedication was His Eminence Richard Cardinal Cushing
of Boston. Guest speakers at the dedication ceremony were Walter Muir
Whitehill, Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, and the Honorable
John A. Volpe, Governor of Massachusetts.
- After 21 years
at Merrimack College, Rev. Vincent A. McQuade, the founder and first
President of Merrimack College, resigned his post to accept the position
of Provincial Treasurer of the Augustinian Province of St. Thomas at
Villanova. The college Board of Trustees decide to name the library
in his honor, as a fitting tribute to the final building erected during
his time at Merrimack College.
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