In 1952, St. Norbert College enrolled twenty-four full time female students, although some women had already been attending part time for years. Most of the history of women at St. Norbert College remains unwritten, carefully kept in the stories of the women who experienced it. The Killeen Chair is delighted, as a part of this year’s theme in conjunction with the Center for Norbertine Studies of Women in the Norbertine, Catholic and Liberal Arts Tradition, to hear these women’s stories, some of them for the first time. 

The panel will consist of a group of women alums from the first few co-educational years, each women relating her memories. They will be joined by current women students here at SNC. Topics of conversation and exploration will include academic and social interactions between male and female students, limitations on women, their sense of participating in a change in higher education, the value and distinction of the education they received at SNC and how it has contributed to their lives over the years. Many of the first women students at and graduates from St. Norbert College have remained active citizens in the De Pere and Green Bay area.