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Then & Now: 44 Elm St., Worcester
With World War II underway, Becker School of Business Administration was faced with a depleted student body. Like many colleges, with a good percentage of its students leaving for the military, staying afloat was a struggle.
Becker began to consolidate. One of its bigger buildings, on Front Street in downtown, was suddenly quiet, near empty. School officials figured the most efficient option was to consolidate.
In 1942, the school bought the Washburn Estate at Elm and Linden streets, shown in our Then photo.
It was renamed Converse Hall, and for the following decades it was used for offices, classrooms, a library and student housing.
History of Becker College, dating to 1784 (Leicester Academy)
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The earliest documented presence of female students at the Academy is found in the diaries of student Ruth Henshaw, who would become early 19th-century portrait artist Ruth Henshaw Miles Bascom.
1834
John Barton of Nova Scotia and Horace Dickenson of Montreal become the first-known international students at Leicester Academy.
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1880
First perfect game in Major League Baseball is pitched by J. Lee Richmond of the Worcester Worcesters at the Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds, now the Weller Academic Center quad on the Worcester campus.
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1886
Elliott P. Joslin, the first doctor in the United States to specialize in diabetes and the founder of today’s Joslin Diabetes Center, graduates.