Humanities Kansas will be closed December 23 – January 1

Skip Navigation
Get Involved
Overview
Grants & Programs About
Overview
Contact Donate
 

Get Involved

 
 

About

 
Background Image photo of female 1940s college students at a party

Hotline: Marymount College

Visits from Santa, parties for orphan children, stockings outside dorm rooms – these are just some of the holiday traditions of Marymount College, Kansas’s first four-year college for women. Dr. Patricia Ackerman, freelance writer and professor of language arts at Kansas State University, shares the story on the Humanities Holiday Hotline.

Listen

Read a Transcript 

This recording is part of the Humanities Kansas Hotline, a series of bite-sized micropresentations about Kansas stories – both serious and light-hearted – that are researched and presented by experts across the state. 

 

Kansans Have
Joined the Movement