Mary Surratt Biography | Pantheon

Sister Mary Matthew Baltus was instrumental in the creation of our observatory atop of Zurn Hall which now bears her name as the Baltus Observatory. In 2014 she relived her love of flying and flew over campus and Presque Isle in a restored 1944 Boeing Stearman. Sister Baltus contributed to campus in many ways from being the dean of students, an interim academic dean, the first president of the college senate, an advisor to Mercyhurst Student Government, founder of the earth science department, a