Van Rensselaer Dedication Ceremony

The exhibition contains photographs and news clippings pertaining to the cornerstone laying ceremony for the Van Rensselaer Dormitory. Sara ("Sallie") Rozet Drexel was born in 1860, the fourth child of Anthony J. and Ellen R. Drexel. She married John R. Fell in 1879. They had five children together: Amanda, Ellen, Mae, Francis and John. After John Fell's death, Sara married Alexander Van Rensselaer, founder of the Philadelphia Orchestra and President of the Board of the Drexel Institute. Sara died in 1929. The Drexel Institute's Sara Drexel Van Rensselaer Dormitory, dedicated in 1931, was named in her honor to commemorate her charity work