College of Saint Teresa

[1] In an age when few women attended college, Molloy earned her way through Ohio State University and graduated, in 1903, with more honors than anyone else up to that time.

By the 1970s the college felt the effects of the shifted dedication of smaller religious communities, such as the Sister of Saint Francis, to broader social service.

[3] Recruiting was to some degree hurt by the school's insistence on maintaining a strict code of student conduct years after such things had been abandoned at other colleges.

Such rules as nightly curfews and bed checks for first-semester freshmen and a total, campus-wide ban on alcohol were not eased until the early 1980s, and then only slightly.

A model unit was built and prospective residents found but the school was unable to find a bank willing to lend the necessary funds.

While this proved in the end to be short-sighted, at the time St. Teresa College had a larger enrollment, higher admissions standards and a superior physical plant.