Rowland Hall-st. Mark's School history

Thus, in 1873 the St Mark’s Boys’ School on First South opposite the City Hall east of State Street welcomed male students to the new building.

Rowland Hall opened in 1880 as a boarding school for girls from ranches in neighboring states; the school opened on the First Avenue campus in Salt Lake City.

In 1882, Rowland Hall graduated its first students, Daisy Senter and Lucy Cook.

William G. Farrington, D.D.. ed., American Church Almanac and Year Book (New York: The Protestant Episcopal Tract Society, 1887) 59.

In 1891, Rowland Hall’s early childhood education program began with kindergarten classes.

Despite its popularity and efficacy, St Mark’s Boys School, along with many other private parochial schools that had grown up over the decades, chose to close its doors after the Territory became a state with mandated free public education in 1896.

The first official Candle and Carol service was in 1917.

A Rowland Hall tradition beginning in 1925 and continuing for nearly 60 years, the annual bazaar was a student fundraiser with an international theme.

The first literary magazine featuring the work of Winged Lions was Flashlight, dating back to 1947.

Elizabeth "Betty" Corr became the headmistress of Rowland Hall in 1948.

In 1956, St Mark's re-opened as an independent day school for boys in two historic houses and a so-called tin shed that were located next door to Rowland Hall, sharing the same city block.

James W. Beless, Jr., “Daniel S. Tuttle, Missionary Bishop of Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly 27 (1959): 362.

St Mark's merged with Rowland Hall in 1964 to become Rowland Hall-St Mark's, an independent coeducational school.

The winter sports program began in 1965 as an auxiliary program for all grades.

The school’s experiential learning program predates Interim, but this tradition of weeklong excursions and hands-on learning for high schoolers began in 1975

Julie Barrett first joined the Rowland Hall community as a parent in 1978.

Physical Education Teacher Pat Ammon’s vision for Color Day was first realized in 1983, and has been a favorite memory for students for almost 35 years.

Rowland Hall volunteers initiated a partnership with Crossroads Urban Center in 1995 to provide holiday dinners for hundreds of local families in need.

The Lower and Beginning Schools moved to the McCarthey Campus on Guardsman Way in 2002.

The annual fall gathering of the entire school began in 2009.