Saint Louis University Bicentennial

Saint Louis University in Missouri is celebrating the bicentennial of its founding in 1818 as Saint Louis Academy and later, Saint Louis College.  You can visit the university web site for a variety of resources that include a timeline, an innovative app that can be downloaded for the SLU 200-Years-In-One Challenge where the broader SLU community is asked to complete 200 years of volunteer service or the equivalent of 1.75 million hours, bicentennial events, and information for ordering a bicentennial history, Always at the Frontier: Saint Louis University 1818-2018, written by Dolores Byrnes, with John Padberg, S.J. and John Waide.

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