Newcomb and our campaign to restore Newcomb College has made news twice this week in New Orleans—both on television and in print.
WDSU-TV ran a “Lost Landmarks” survey, asking viewers to vote on-line for their favorite New Orleans out-of-business landmark, and promising that they would get answers about whether it will be rebuilt, etc.
In […]

“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
–A. A. Milne (Christopher Robin to Pooh)
When creating the success formula for the Renewal Plan that dissolved Newcomb College, an important factor seems to have been overlooked: the Newcomb Woman.
Such disregard is not surprising, for […]

A 90-year-old Newcomb alumna offers The Future of Newcomb College a check for $5,000 and challenges others to match her gift.
CHALLENGE LETTER
In 1870, Josephine Louise Newcomb began searching for the right way to memorialize her daughter, Sophie, who died at fifteen years of age. Sixteen years later, she founded The H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, […]