[1] American diplomat Alexander Hill Everett briefly served as its head thereafter.

[1] In 1860, when it experienced financial difficulties and was on the verge of total collapse, plantation owner Valcour Aime rescued the complex by purchasing it.

[2] From 1860 to 1862, the campus operated for the first time under the name Jefferson College, and a chapel was added.

According to some accounts, his motivation in securing this transfer to a sectarian entity was to prevent the state from obligating the school to open its doors to freed blacks.

[3] Another source states, as an alternative explanation, that Aime was merely "anxious to see the college re-opened", and therefore "gave his shares to the [priests] that they might conduct the school".