Villanova is taking over, but first, decisions must be made about the future of Mother Cabrini’s belongings and more.
They are just one group among hundreds of possessions — the order’s and the school’s — that Cabrini must deal with before“There’s not a book or manual on Amazon that tells you how to do that,” said Heather Potts, Villanova University’s associate vice president for development.the campus, has said it will take the next year to decide what it will do with the 112-acre grounds, though it has solicited input from its community.
In the Iadarola Center, they discussed a portrait of building namesake Antoinette “Toni” Iadarola, Cabrini’s first lay president and longest-serving at 16 years. With a mounting deficit, Cabrini University eliminates academic leadership positions, including the provost They also toured the iconic mansion, an Elizabethan Tudor-style building designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for the son-in-law of Philadelphia banker Anthony Drexel and later sold to John T. Dorrance, president of the Campbell Soup Co. The Missionary Sisters bought it in 1953.
Sullivan was a student of Sister Ursula Infante, Cabrini’s founding president, one of the last sisters welcomed into the order in 1915 by Mother Cabrini, who died in 1917.