Pace University - New York, NY
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N 40° 42.702 W 074° 00.347
18T E 583978 N 4507229
One of many historical markers in downtown Manhattan.
Waymark Code: WMRKGZ
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/04/2016
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The sign says, "Founded in 1906 as a small private accounting school – its first class including just 13 students, meeting in a rented room – Pace has grown into a major university that prepares students for a wide range of professions. Although it boasts a law school in White Plains, an environmental center in Pleasantville, and international programs on four continents, Pace has never lost sight of its roots: a school offering innovation and opportunity to a student body drawn from the strivers among each new generation of New Yorkers.
On “Newspaper Row”
Pace University has been located near Park Row – once known as “Newspaper Row” because of the many newspaper headquarters there – since the Pace brothers rented their first classroom at 154 Nassau Street, home of the old New York Tribune.
The Pace Brothers
Homer St. Clair Pace, preparing for a certified public accountant exam, found “very little and very poor instruction along these lines” – an extraordinary lack here in the country’s financial center. Seeing and opportunity, Homer and his brother Charles borrowed $600 to open a one-classroom business school. Pace University – that classroom’s descendant, now expanded into multiple campuses, not to mention Pace global centers in China, Brazil and Italy – recently celebrated its hundredth anniversary.
Student Body
Pace’s student body has been effortlessly diverse from its beginnings. The first class of 13 included three women – 17 years before the constitutional amendment granted women the vote in 1920 – and students of color joined the Pace community early in its history. Over the decades, countless Pace students – including newcomers from across the country and around the world – have been the first in their family to attend college."
Group that erected the marker: The Alliance for Downtown New York, Inc.
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary: New York City, NY
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed
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