Wynnefield
WYNNEFIELD
… its strength is its community members!
The Setting
Philadelphia is known worldwide as a City of neighborhoods. Wynnefield, is a city line neighborhood in West Philadelphia, and is considered to be one of Philadelphia’s most widely recognized neighborhood names. The Wynnefield residents and their community are well represented in the history of the City and its development. 
Ms Katie B. Jackson, dubbed the “Queen of Wynnfield”, founder of the Wynnefield Academy.
Ms. Jackson @ Academy.
- Rev felix Barbelin
Saint Joseph University also called SJU or St. Joe’s is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic university, was founded in 1851 by the Society of Jesus. The college is located partially in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia. In 1927, in recognition of population shifts toward the western part of the city and into the western suburbs, the college moved to its current location, 54th and City Avenue, at the entrance to Philadelphia’s fashionable Main Line.
For the very first time, in the fall of 1970, the undergraduate day college opened its doors to women. The Institution was later recognized as a university by the Secretary of Education of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on July 24, 1978. Saint Joseph’s has grown in physical size and scope since 2000, and as of 2008, was ranked eighth among Best Universities-Master’s (North) in U.S. News and World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2009″ edition while the Haub School of Business is ranked 57th nationally.
