Lancaster Theological Seminary
Pennsylvania
1825
Detailed information about the history of Lancaster Theological Seminary’s scarlet and gold school colors is not available at this time.
The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) may have assigned Lancaster Theological Seminary a hood lining around 1946 because the seminary is cited in an IBAC hood list from that period but with the hood information left blank, as though the IBAC had been in the process of gathering that data when the hood list was published. In Academic Heraldry in America (1962), Kevin Sheard described Lancaster’s hood lining as scarlet with a gold chevron, and an IBAC list from 1972 had the same information.
In an earlier (c.1925) hood list the IBAC had cited both the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy (NY) and Fredericksburg College (VA) as using hoods that were scarlet with a gold chevron, but neither of these schools appear to have been formally registered by the IBAC. Today both the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy and Fredericksburg College are defunct.