Covenant College
Georgia
1955
Formerly “Covenant College and Theological Seminary”
In Missouri, Covenant College and Theological Seminary used the Scottish and Presbyterian colors of blue and white as its school colors and the traditional Scottish “Clergy” pattern as its official tartan. After the undergraduate liberal arts college separated from the seminary in 1964, moved to Georgia, and became “Covenant College”, it adopted a unique tartan pattern (shown below) that was registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans. Presbyterian blue, light blue, and white are the college colors.
The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume never assigned a hood lining pattern to Covenant College, but in Academic Dress and Insignia of the World (1970), Kevin Sheard wrote that Covenant was using the “Clergy” pattern tartan as its academic hood lining. This was the same lining pattern that Covenant Theological Seminary continued to use after the college separated from the seminary in 1964, so to differentiate between the academic hoods from the two schools, at some point after 1970 the college began using its unique “Covenant College” tartan pattern in the lining of its hoods.
