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Oral History Interview: Irene D. Broh, Irene D. Broh

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Irene D. Broh was born on November 20, 1880, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Through the influence of her mother, a suffragist who worked with Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Broh joined the suffrage movement and helped women earn the right to vote. After marrying Ephraim Broh in 1909, she moved to Huntington, WV, where she organized a suffrage club in 1915. Mrs. Broh became the first woman to vote in Cabell County, WV, in 1920. In her interview, Mrs. Broh focuses on her work for women’s suffrage. She describes how she organized her club, the voting facilities in Huntington, and her experience …

Hollins Columns (1974 Nov), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Tradition
• From the Editor
• Practice Makes Perfect
• Comment and Opinion
• The Trauma of being a Freshman!
• Throwing the Book at Sexists
• From Tots to Taught
• ...A time to keep, a time to cast away...
• Too many rules

Quadrangle (1974 Nov 1), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• New Faculty Accent Career Possibilities
• Committee Reviews Parking Regulations
• Pre-Law Aspirants Assemble
• Community Members Unite Against Hunger
• H.O.W. Illumines Job Disparities
• Classified
• Turner Accommodates Housing and Offices
• Community Activities Expand, Amplify Publication Activities

Hollins Columns (1975 Sept 12), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Brewster speaks on women's education
• "D" and "F" return; legislature revises grading system
• College receives summer face lift
• Editor states policy
• Main social hub for years
• Letters to the editor
• All about Hollins
• Keep on truckin'
• Head 'em up, move 'em out!
• RLA announces activities
• Fall sports: upbeat outlook
• H.O.W. hosts "year of women" celebration
• Missing Links

Quadrangle (1974 Sept 9), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Dr. Logan Resigns
• GSF Lures Lindfors Plus Charles Kuralt
• Classes Drift Into Rathhaus
• Shakespeare, Hitchcock Headline Film Expositions
• Scholars Secure Funding
• Bringing The Outside In...
• The Star City Sparkles Red, White, And Blue
• Swizzle Stick
• Alumnae Spotlight Careers
• Rathhaus, Snackbar Merge Down Under
• Community House Gains Recognition

Oral History Interview: Fay Ball, Fay Ball

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Fay Ball was born on March 28, 1904, in Lincoln County, West Virginia. She was raised on a farm and shared most of the farming responsibilities with her family. Mrs. Ball discusses social interactions within the farming community of Lincoln County, including barn raisings and harvesting. She focuses on entertainment during her childhood and explains styles of popular music and games. In the audio clip provided, Mrs. Ball discusses how to play games like “Blind Man,” “Aunt Me Over,” and “Nay Hide.”

Oral History Interview: William Allen Cross, William Allen Cross

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

In his interview, William Allen Cross discusses Prohibition and bootlegging in Huntington, West Virginia. Mr. Cross was a theater manager for the Keith Albee Theater (referred to as the State Theater) in Huntington, WV. Although he did not make moonshine, he was a buyer during Prohibition. He discusses how bootleggers sold their whiskey and provides locations for stills. Mr. Cross also focuses on how to make moonshine, whiskey, and wine. He reminiscences about “the Strip” between 10^th and 11^th Streets in Huntington, WV, that served from 1925-1945 as a red-light, gambling, and bootlegging district. In the audio clip …

Hollins Columns (1974 May), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• From the Editors
• Comment and Opinion
• Pilgrims in Progress
• Don't Cancel the Classics
• Skip the Shishkabob
• Another Point-of-View
• We Call Ourselves "Students"...
• In Conscious and Catalogue: When the Academia Goes Fishing
• The Day Student Dilemma
• Commitment to Community
• Hollywood and Vine: Second Base is Broadway
• 'The Graduates'
• Job Hunting Tips
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• London at Last
• The Transfers: How Different Elsewhere?
• The Dogwoods Grew And So Did I...
• Recycle of Sexual Styles
• Dance is a Poem of the Mind

Quadrangle (1974 Apr 26), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Visiting Artists Perform
• Collegians End Career
• Community Welcomes Parents; Playbill Combines Drama, Music
• Cargoes Returns
• 'Relations' Committee Interacts
• Freshman Censures Critic
• Waldo Refutes Charges
• Swizzle Stick
• Student Commends Historian
• Senior Class Files Policy Evaluation
• Ac Pol Chairman Examines Independent Exam System
• Legislature Affirms Single-sex Tradition
• Friddell Keynotes Banquet
• Job Prospects Favor Women
• CBS To Sponsor Black Ball
• Freshmen Auction Domestic Services
• Student Mocks Election Forum
• New Aids To Assume Positions
• Seniors
• Art Students Document Relics; Prepare "Scrimshaw" Display
• Chaplaincy Dons Habit
• Beardslee Vacates Position
• '76ers Rock
• Riders Show
• Back in Business
• Classified
• Board Delineates Common Market
• Lacrosse …

Oral History Interview: Doris Copley Miller, Doris Copley Miller

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Doris Copley Miller resided in Wayne and Cabell Counties, West Virginia, for the majority of her life. She discusses the history of Marshall Academy and its progression to college and university status. She also focuses on education in West Virginia. In the audio clip provided, Mrs. Miller discusses teaching in Wayne County, West Virginia. She focuses the decor of her classrooms, the number of students, and the typical school day schedule. She also discusses games and recreation played by her students.

Oral History Interview: Lucy Quarrier, Lucy Quarrier

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Lucy Quarrier was a renowned weaver and a member of the Southern Highlands Handicraft Guild. During the Depression, representatives from the state of West Virginia chose Mrs. Quarrier to teach rural women how to weave. She was also an accomplished gardener and used her green thumb to create vegetable dyes for her thread and weaving materials. Mrs. Quarrier taught weaving classes and her pupils became known as “The Lucy Quarrier Weavers.” She showcased her talents at arts and crafts festivals and often gave tutorials during the festivals. In her interview, Mrs. Quarrier discusses how she learned to weave. She focuses …

Quadrangle (1974 Apr 3), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Legislature Abolishes Fall Break
• Organization Of Women Forms
• 'General Speakers' To Subsidize Californian Shakespeare Troupe
• Expert Reviews Energy Crisis
• Wheeler Retains Position
• Spare Room
• Ross Commends Hollins Blood Donors
• Executive To Address Graduates
• Director of Studies Evaluates Projects
• Student Questions Speaker
• Students Support, Reject Waldo Claim
• Accretion Precipitates Constitutional Change
• Scholar Appeals Decision
• Trustees Set Aside SGA Scholarship Fund
• Careers Elicit Interchange
• Bookstore To Stock Old Texts
• Program Hosts Hollins Faculty
• Turner Dormitory To House Male Guests, College Visitors
• Program Discusses Attitudes
• Krakauers To Spearhead The Wildflower Pilgrimage
• "Cherry Orchard' Bears Fruit
• Classified
• Wait Until Dark
• Team …

Hollins Columns (1974 April), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• From the Editors
• A Woman's College: To Be or Not To Be
• Exchange Student Thrives at Hollins College Country Club
• I Couldn't Find a Bathroom
• Castle--a Moat = Only a 5 Minute Walk
• Parietal System Causes 'Suitcase Syndrome'
• Financial Distress Comes out of Closet
• Now is the Time
• What's Your Line?
• Remember Those!? Typing Discussions
• Those Were the Days
• Do We Have Surfeit Faculty?
• Our Education: A Life or Death Process?
• Confessions of a Streaker
• Alfred Cregger

Quadrangle (1974 Mar 7), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Literary Festival Introduces Writer-in-Residence Wakoski
• Jason, Spontanes Enliven Cotillion
• Society Honors Fifteen
• Careers Counseling Begin Conversation
• Highly Flammable
• Historian Seeks Open Discussion
• Give Us This Day
• Former Student Thanks Community
• U.N. General Assembly Grants Women's Year
• Bubbles, Bangles, and Beads
• U.N. Public Information Officer To Head Model Security Roster
• MSC Under - Secretary Relates Her Experience
• Council To Discuss Universal Concerns
• Professor Promotes Contacts
• Pilgrim Connotes Progress
• Two Students Publish Works
• Author Localizes Book Setting; Recalls Undergraduate Years
• Author Recalls
• Student Service Offers European Employment
• Elvis To Render Big Lick Blues
• Team Swims Past Randy-Mac
• Classified

Quadrangle (1974 Feb 12), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Short Term Affords Students Variety of Concentrated Study
• SGA Requests Establishment of Trustee Grant for Research
• Senator, Governor To Speak
• Note Authoress to Partake in Celebration of Her Work
• Reflections To Be Shared
• Student Describes Experience
• Groups Program Human Sexuality
• Short Term '74: A Practical Potpourri
• Hollins Hosts Winter Series; Local Citizenry Attend Seminars
• Ecologist, Folksinger Perform
• Botetourt Boasts International Cuisine
• Varsity Scores Tied Season; Team Dribbles to Tournament
• No, No Roanoke
• Swizzle Stick

Hollins Index (1974), Hollins College

Student Handbooks

No abstract provided.

The Spinster (1974), Hollins College

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins College (later University)

Tower 1974, Une Library Services Westbrook College History Collection

Yearbooks

1974 yearbook of Westbrook College in Portland, Maine.

Inside Hollins (1974), Hollins University

Inside Hollins

No abstract provided.

Hollins Columns (1974 Jan), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• From the Editor
• Women in Sport: "She Dives Like A Man"
• A look at admissions
• Re: women's education Caliber and Comparison
• Short Term

Christine South Gee Papers - Accession 10, Christine South Gee

Manuscript Collection

The Christine South Gee Papers include family histories; biographical data; annual reports of home demonstration work in South Carolina (1920-1922) compiled by Mrs. Gee; speeches; magazine articles (1935-1963); newspaper clippings (1934-1968); photographs (1903-1954) and certificates of awards. The collection primarily pertains to Mrs. Gee’s work as South Carolina State Home Demonstration Agent (1918-1923); her role in the formation of the South Carolina Extension Homemakers’ Council (1921), formerly the South Carolina Council of Farm Women; her activities as president of the South Carolina Council for the Common Good (1943-1945); her study of development in programs for adult education and rural women; …

Juanita H. Neely Papers - Accession 6, Juanita H. Neely

Manuscript Collection

The Juanita H. Neely Papers consist of correspondence, autobiographical and biographical data, speeches, radio talks, clippings, photographs, and articles mainly relating to her work with the South Carolina Home Demonstration Extension Service. There is also family history material relating to the Neely family. This collection is a good source of information concerning the South Carolina Home Economics Extension program in the first half of the twentieth century. While the papers range from 1911 to about 1970, the more valuable and greater part of the collection extends from the mid-1920s to 1957, when Juanita Neely rose from a county home economics …

Mary E. Frayser Papers - Accession 1, Mary E. Frayser

Manuscript Collection

The Mary E. Frayser Papers consist of correspondence, speeches, reports, clippings, minutes, histories, family histories, constitutions and bylaws, membership lists, program notes, photographs, and other papers, relating to her work with the South Carolina Extension Service (1912-1940) Winthrop College, her involvement with the South Carolina Council for the Common Good (1935-1952), the South Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs (1926-1952), the South Carolina Status of Women Conference (1945-1952), the South Carolina Division of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) (1929, 1935-1949), the South Carolina Interracial Institute (1938-1942), the South Carolina Division of the Southern Regional Council (1944-1951), and the South …

Frances Lander Spain Papers - Accession 4, Frances Lander Spain

Manuscript Collection

The Frances Lander Spain Papers consist of correspondence, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, and copies of her publications relating to her involvement with professional library organizations such as the American Library Association; her library work in Thailand as a Fulbright and Rockefeller Foundation grantee (1951-1952 and 1964-1965); and her work as coordinator of children’s services at the N.Y. Public Library (1953-1961). Correspondents include librarian Louis Round Wilson. There is also a family history which includes the family names Chambers, Collier, Cook, Crossland, Dantzler, Gran, Hardeman, Lander, McDaniel, McPherson, Miller, Pearce, Pierce, Schenk, Snead, Spain, Sparks, Warlick and Zimmerman.