Presentation College is a Catholic private college, with campuses located in Aberdeen and Eagle Butte, South Dakota, and Fairmont, Minnesota. The college, founded in 1922, has a current enrollment of 786 students. Presentation College is an independent Catholic educational institution, sponsored by the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary . The college began in Mitchell, S.D. in 1922, when the Right Reverend Monsignor J.M. Brady, Pastor of Holy Family Church, established Notre Dame Junior College, a parochial junior college. Notre Dame Junior College operated in Mitchell... until 1951, when Brady gave sponsorship of the school to the Presentation Sisters, who staffed the school from its inception. The name was changed to Presentation College and the campus moved to Aberdeen. The campus was housed in Butler Hall at the Presentation Convent for three years before moving to its present 100-acre location. In 1968 the college became co-educational. The 1,200-seat Strode Activity Center was dedicated in 1998 as the home of Saints Athletics.
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