In 1886, Josephine Louise Newcomb wrote a letter to the Board of Administrators of Tulane University to indicate her “design” to donate $100,000 to establish within Tulane University the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College for women as an “appropriate and lasting memorial” to her daughter.
On November 9, 1886, the Tulane Board of Administrators […]

Susan Henderson Montgomery v. Administrators of the Tulane Education Fund is the case pending in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, Section I, Division B, No. 08-8619.
Mrs. Montgomery, the great, great, great niece of Mrs. Newcomb, is asking the court to enforce the terms of Mrs. Newcomb’s will […]

On the bright and beautiful afternoon of Friday, October 3, 2008, some 60 supporters of TFoNC and of Newcomb’s future as a college within Tulane University gathered in New Orleans for the Bring Newcomb Home reception. Many were Newcomb women representing classes from 1933 to 2009, who were there to reacquaint with old friends, […]