Annhurst College was a private

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 Catholic

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 college

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 in South Woodstock

South Woodstock, Connecticut

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, Connecticut

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. The college's curriculum

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 was career

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-focused.

It was founded by Mother Louis du Sacré-Coeur, D.H.S., the Provincial of the American Province of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit

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 in 1940 as an all women's college. The college was officially dedicated on September 23, 1941 as Ker-Anna Junior College and changed its name two years later. It closed in 1980, after which its rural 200 acre (0.809372 km²) campus was sold to the Data General

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 Corporation.

Annhurst was a women's college

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 for most of its history, and began accepting male students in the Fall 1972.