From The Archives

Welland Hall

From The Archives

During the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918, the Red Cross pressed the college’s women’s dormitory, known as the Welland (above), into service as an emergency hospital, and, according to the official history of SUNY Oswego, “faculty volunteers cooked and tended the ill.”

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