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Title	Bishop's Gold Cross
Subject	Ohio Women Religion in Ohio Literary Ohio Education Universities and colleges Catholic Church Church colleges
Place	South Euclid (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	This bishop's gold cross was awarded to Harriet Trossen in 1938 for her essay, "The Holy Eucharist, the Hope of World Peace and Unity." The award was given annually to the best religious essay written by a senior Notre Dame College student on an assigned topic. It first appears in college annuals in the late 1920s and continued into the 1940s until the death of Bishop Joseph T. Schrembs. At the intersection of the two arms of the cross on the reverse is the personal insignia of Bishop Schrembs. The cross measures 3" x 2" (7.62 x 5.08 cm), and the chain is 9" (22.86 cm) long. Archbishop Joseph T. Schrembs, S.T.D., was born in Bavaria. He was a Domestic Prelate of Pope Pius X, but came to America as a missionary. He became the first Bishop in Toledo, Ohio in 1911, and he then became the bishop of Cleveland in 1921. Schrembs gave the Sisters of Notre Dame permission to establish a college, and became the "honorary president" of Notre Dame College. He laid the cornerstone, was a frequent visitor to the campus, and traditionally celebrated opening Mass for the students in Christ the King Chapel. He died on November 2, 1945. Harriet Trossen received a four-year scholarship to attend Notre Dame College. She was an active member of the class of 1938 and majored in economics. She received her J.D. degree in 1944 from the Cleveland Law School. Trossen met her future husband (Robert More) there and married in 1948. She raised three children, and returned to the Notre Dame campus in 1959 as a part-time assistant to the development director. Trossen expanded the development office, and established the alumnae affairs office, becoming the first alumnae coordinator. She also established offices of institutional research and planning to implement a Title III grant. Trossen helped to develop a social services program that brought male police officers to the all-women campus in the mid-1970s to obtain associates degree in sociology. She wrote handbooks for faculty and staff, and served as the coordinator for grievances and sexual harassment. She and her husband also taught business law at the college, and she gathered and arranged historical materials for what would become the Notre Dame College Archives (1989). When she finally retired from employment at the college in 1984, she continued on as an active member of the alumnae association and was named Woman of the Year in 1989. Harriet Trossen More died in 2002. The Sisters of Notre Dame established Notre Dame College in 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded as a private, Catholic, liberal arts college for women, Notre Dame College opened on September 18, 1922 on the campus of Notre Dame Academy on Ansel Road. As the college grew, it became necessary to build a separate campus. Land east of Cleveland in South Euclid was prepared for the new college site, and the first building opened in September 1928.
Date of Original	1938
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
Submitting Institution	Notre Dame College
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; objects

Title	Om2245_2687031_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2245_2687031_001.tif
Image Height	1956
Image Width	1833
File Size	1025.527 KB

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