Sister Marie Majella Berg

Sister Marie Majella Berg (1916–2004) was an American Catholic nun in the order of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. She served as president of Marymount University from 1960 through 1993.

Biography Berg was born Mae Katherine Berg on July 7, 1916, in Brooklyn, New York. In 1934, when she was 18, she entered the Catholic order Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary.

Berg's educational career began in 1936 at the Marymount School of New York where she taught though 1948. She went on to teach at Marymount Manhattan College also serving as registrar. From 1958 through 1960 she was the registrar of Marymount College, Tarrytown. At the time, Marymount was a two-year women's college During her tenure Marymount expanded its curriculum to offer bachelor's degrees and master's degrees. Marymount became coeducational in 1986. At the time of her death Marie Majella Berg was the longest serving woman college president in the United States.

In 2006 Berg was honored by the Virginia Women in History, sponsored by the Library of Virginia and Virginia Foundation for Women.