A Medical Society & a College

Today in New Jersey history:

July 23, 1766: The New Jersey Medical Society, the first such organization in America, was founded.

July 23,1923: The Felician Sisters founded Immaculate Conception Normal School in Lodi as a two-year college intended to train nuns for careers as teachers. The school began enrolling lay women in 1964 and became a four-year degree-granting institution in 1967 under the name Felician College. It has been coeducational since 1986.