Mary Walker Health Center
Mary Walker Health Center is home to our Health Services and Counseling Services Center on campus.The health center derived its name from Mary Edwards Walker, an Oswego native who served in the Civil War as an assistant surgeon. Due to her contributions during the war, Walker was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1865, becoming the only woman to receive the medal. Walker’s medal was withdrawn in 1917 after the U.S. government changed its qualifications, but president Jimmy Carter posthumously returned the award 60 years later (she had kept the medal).