St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn

This 1916 poster advertises Long Island’s first Catholic women’s college. That Fall St. Joseph’s College opened in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn with twelve students. Founded under the auspices of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, until 1956 its president was a priest of the Brooklyn Diocese. Since then it’s had a Josephite president. In 1920 it graduated its first class, and in 1929 it obtained its permanent charter. In 1969 the college went co-ed. Today St. Joseph’s has a Long Island campus and a graduate school, with a student body near six thousand.