2228 JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

NO. 8.
(House Joint Resolution 10)

A Joint Resolution requesting that St. Mary's Seminary at
St. Mary's, Maryland, be continued as a part of the State's
educational system.

WHEREAS, the Maryland Commission on Higher Education,
the so-called Marbury Commission, in its report issued as of
February 1, 1947, has recommended the discontinuance of St.
Mary's Seminary; and

WHEREAS, St. Mary's Seminary located at St. Mary's City,
the birthplace of our great State, has a long and scholarly
record as an integral part of the program of public education
in Maryland; and

WHEREAS, the proposal to discontinue established and sub-
stantial school facilities raises a serious question of con-
sistency, it being advanced at a time when much consideration
is being given to a general program of junior college educa-
tion as a part of the public school system; and

WHEREAS, this institution was founded one hundred years
ago to commemorate the founding of Maryland two hundred
years previous; and

WHEREAS, it has served the State well by providing an edu-
tion for many of the young women of the State, down through,
the years; and

WHEREAS, this is the only institution of higher learning in
Southern Maryland; now therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That this
means be used to express the disapproval of this legislative
body to any proposal to discontinue St. Mary's Seminary; and
be it further

Resolved, That this body herewith registers its protest
against any educational policy which would abandon the use
of a valuable educational plant and leave one great section of
the State without the educational opportunities it long has;
enjoyed and utilized.

Approved April 16, 1947.