Rosemont College
Pennsylvania
1921
Students at Rosemont College, a Roman Catholic women’s college, adopted rose and gray as their school colors in 1922. The “rose” shade was originally pink, not the cerise color used today.
Citations in the World Almanac (listed by cover date; color information is from the previous year): rose/gray (1934-1935)
Academic hood lists published by the Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume in 1948 and 1972 described Rosemont College as having a hood lined old rose with a gray chevron. This was probably a hood lining pattern the Bureau assigned using color samples sent by the college, and was a unique combination of colors not used by any other college or university at the time. “Old rose” is a grayish pink shade that resembles the faded pedals of a dying cerise-colored rose flower. It was a popular shade of pink during the Victorian period. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described Rosemont’s hood lining using the official college color designations: rose with a gray chevron.
