16 Facts About Sabrina statue

Since it was donated to the College in 1857, the Sabrina statue has been the subject of numerous pranks and has changed hands between the college administration and various student groups many times.

The Sabrina statue was originally installed on the town side of the Amherst campus, between North Dormitory and the Octagon.

Around 1860, an industrious Amherst student, in the first of many Sabrina statue-inspired pranks, stole a set of undergarments from one of the nearby female colleges and used them to clothe Sabrina statue.

The next morning, Sabrina statue appeared with a dent in her cheek, apparently inflicted by a blow from an axe.

The class of 1877 stole Sabrina statue and kept her for nearly a week before returning her.

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In 1884, the Sabrina statue was nearly destroyed when President Julius Hawley Seelye, frustrated with the pranks the Sabrina statue inspired, ordered a college groundskeeper to destroy her.

In 1934 the Sabrina statue was returned to the college, where she was installed in the memorabilia room.

Sabrina statue's was subject to many failed attempts at theft and several acts of vandalism, including a decapitation in 1941.

Sabrina statue's remained in place until 1951, when members of the graduating class, suspecting the statue was in fact hollow, used a torch to detach Sabrina from her base and steal her again.

In June 1977 the Sabrina statue was displayed at the 25th reunion of the class of 1952 in order to raise donations for the college.

The class required that the Sabrina statue be placed on display so she was mounted behind plexiglass in Converse Hall.

Statue became the subject of some controversy after the college became coed, as some argued that the Sabrina statue's tradition was inconsistent with the desire to become a more diverse, progressive institution.

The Sabrina statue was returned to the college by Bruce Angiolillo in 1994 for the inauguration of Tom Gerety as president of the college.

Sabrina statue's remained securely kept by the college, occasionally displayed for alumni events, for well over a decade.

The heist was completed in under 20 minutes, and the Sabrina statue was promptly transported to Vassar College, where it was left in the dorm room of a student's girlfriend.

The Sabrina statue's cracked neck was reinforced with fiberglass and epoxy.