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unusual facts about Marymount College, Tarrytown



158th New York State Legislature

For the first time there were three women in the Legislature: Ex-Assemblywoman Rhoda Fox Graves (Rep.), of Gouverneur, a former school teacher who after her marriage became active in women's organisations and politics, was the first woman elected to the State Senate; Assemblywoman Doris I. Byrne (Dem.), a lawyer from the Bronx, was re-elected; and Jane H. Todd (Rep.), of Tarrytown, was also elected to the Assembly.

Ed Hula

Ed Hula (born June 17, 1951 in Tarrytown, New York) is the editor and founder of Around the Rings(ATR), a leading publication specializing in business news about the Olympics.

Gus Schumacher

Schumacher is Vice President of Policy of the Wholesome Wave Foundation of Westport, Connecticut, serves on the boards of FreshFarm Markets in Washington DC, the Environmental Power Corporation, Tarrytown, New York and GrainPro, LLC of Concord, Massachusetts.

Hillcrest, Rockland County, New York

In 1955, the Tappan Zee Bridge opened (connecting Tarrytown in Westchester County with Nyack in Rockland County), increasing traffic into the community and making access to New York City easier for the local population.

John Hinsdale

In 1995, Hinsdale returned the full thrust of his energies back to software development, founding the consultancy Alma Mater Software, Inc. in New York City, later moving to Tarrytown, New York and from there to Princeton Junction, New Jersey.

Keith Ackerman

He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Marymount College in Salina, Kansas in 1971, while working at the St. Francis Boys Home in nearby Ellsworth.

Lucius E. Chittenden

When he resigned from the Lincoln Administration, he returned to Vermont to regain his health, but by 1866 was living in Tarrytown, New York, where he practiced as an attorney until at least 1894.

Luigi Galleani

Galleanists were involved in at least two bombings in New York after police forcibly dispersed a protest at John D. Rockefeller's home in Tarrytown.

Michelle Valentine

Valentine graduated from Manhattan's Marymount College with a degree in Speech, Drama and Communications, and minors in Marketing and Creative Writing.

However, as music changed and the spotlight dimmed, she eventually put down the mic and went on to graduate Cum Laude from Marymount College, earning her Bachelor's Degree in Speech, Drama & Communications, while minoring in Marketing & Creative Writing.

Patricia Gaffney

She earned a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, and also studied literature at the Royal Holloway College at the University of London, at George Washington University, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Robert Hoe

Robert II (19 July 1815 New York City - 13 September 1884 Tarrytown, New York) was associated with his father and elder brother in business.

Samuel Youngs

He served as a lieutenant in the American Revolutionary War, and was honoured, along with other residents of Tarrytown who fought in that war, with a monument erected in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

The Curse of the Cat People

Lewton grew up not far from Tarrytown, where the story is set, and was fond of ghost stories such as "The Headless Horseman" (Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") which is cited in The Curse of the Cat People.

Wolfert Acker

One person who bought his land was Washington Irving who took an existing structure and made it into his romantic Sunnyside out of it.


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