B R Y A N T ’ S U N I Q U E 1 5 0 -Y E A R H I S T O R Y of growth and innovation can be traced back to when Civil War veterans wisely sought to invest their “mustering out” pay in a Bryant education at the college’s first home on Westminster Street in Providence. In
, veterans rarely met the rigid entrance require-
ments for liberal arts colleges, which included knowledge of Latin and Greek. Bryant welcomed them into a program that did not require a commitment of four years but of only several months.
BRYANT GOES TO WAR Among its distinguished faculty, Bryant is fortunate to count accomplished historian and prolific author Professor Judy Barrett Litoff, Ph.D. Teaching at Bryant since 1975, Professor Litoff is the recipient of many prestigious awards and honors including recognition by Bryant alumni with the Distinguished Faculty Member Award and receipt of the Honorary Chairs Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities. Professor Litoff’s areas of interest and scholarship include U.S. Women and World War II. Most recently, she delivered the Norton Institute Lecture at Wheaton College in May. Her lecture was titled: “One Women’s War in China: An American Red Cross Club Director in World War II.” To add to her impressive body of previously published work, this autumn will see the publication of a new volume: Bryant Goes to War. Produced in concert with Bryant’s 150th anniversary, Bryant Goes to War tells
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the rich stories of wartime correspondence.