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The Coeducation Decade: The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Women At Wofford, Phillip Stone, Luke Meagher Apr 2021

The Coeducation Decade: The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Women At Wofford, Phillip Stone, Luke Meagher

Library Exhibits

THE COEDUCATION DECADE: The 50th anniversary of Women at Wofford In February 1971, four women enrolled as day students at Wofford under a new policy that allowed for day student coeducation. The Board of Trustees had changed the policy to allow the admission of women in greater numbers, although women had been part of the student body in small numbers since the 1890s. Within five years, the college moved to full residential coeducation. No matter the status at Wofford, women have made contributions to the campus community. This exhibit celebrates the history of women at Wofford and the ways that …


Lorenzo Romero-Ramos Oral History Interview February 23rd, 2021, Henry B. Hammel Feb 2021

Lorenzo Romero-Ramos Oral History Interview February 23rd, 2021, Henry B. Hammel

Oral Histories HIST300, Spring 2021

Oral History Interview with Lorenzo Romero-Ramos


Umaine College Republican Group Under New Executive Management, Leela Stockley Feb 2020

Umaine College Republican Group Under New Executive Management, Leela Stockley

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

In an unprecedented turn of events, the University of Maine Student Government (UMSG) approved the primary recognition of the UMaine College Republican organization, which has changed leadership. The executive members of the newly reformed UMaine College Republican group are President Anna Zmistowski, a third year political science student, Vice President Caitlyn McKenney, a first year student, and Treasurer Parker Lambert, a fourth year political science and history student.


Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2019

Tichenor Collection (Mss 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 678. Correspondence, papers and photographs of the Tichenor family of McLean County, Kentucky, and related families, especially Cherry, Short, and Hutchison. Much relates to the home front during World War II during the Navy service of high school teacher Thomas Cherry Tichenor.


10 Ways To Make A Difference At Umaine, Sarah O'Malley Mar 2018

10 Ways To Make A Difference At Umaine, Sarah O'Malley

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

One of the many amazing things about the college of our hearts always is its endless opportunities to make an impact, whether it be on this campus, in the state of Maine, for the United States or on a global scale. The best way to get involved is to collaborate with some of the amazing service, activist or political student clubs. With so many options, meetings and events it’s hard to know where to begin. Here are 10 organizations that are a great place to start.


Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 552), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 552. Personal and professional correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian. Includes ancestral and family correspondence and papers, photographs, and genealogical research on the Helm, Carson, Porter, Blakey and related families.


Davidson, Benjamin Gideon, Iii, 1914-1998 (Mss 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Davidson, Benjamin Gideon, Iii, 1914-1998 (Mss 559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 559. Letters to Benjamin Gideon Davidson “B.G.,” III, Bowling Green, Kentucky, written primarily by female friends when he was a student at Bowling Green High School and Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. Includes some letters from his mother and miscellaneous papers.


Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2014

Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 - Collector (Mss 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 482. Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs and miscellaneous papers of Mildred (Potter) Lissauer of Bowling Green and Louisville, Kentucky and of her family, especially her mother, Martha (Woods) Potter and her aunt, Elizabeth Moseley Woods. Includes a World War I scrapbook created for and about Mildred's brother John (Click on "Additional Files" below).


Kentucky Military Institute - Lyndon, Kentucky - Alumni (Sc 686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Kentucky Military Institute - Lyndon, Kentucky - Alumni (Sc 686), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and sample scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 686. Letters from alumni or family members of alumni of the Kentucky Military Institute, Lyndon, Kentucky, to the Alumni Association, providing information about their military service and other activities. A 1901 graduate includes his reminiscences of KMI.


Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Wilson, Alexander Gordon, 1888-1970 (Mss 445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 445. Correspondence, published and unpublished writing, and research of Alexander Gordon Wilson, faculty member in the English department of Western Kentucky University from 1915-1959. Includes genealogical and autobiographical material as well as extensive research data and writing on the ornithology of Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky, on folklore and linguistics, and on the ornithology and folkways of the Mammoth Cave region of Edmonson County, Kentucky.


Mckenna, George (Sc 2430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Mckenna, George (Sc 2430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2430. Letters to George McKenna, of Brooklyn, New York, written while he was serving with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and in Vietnam. Friends write of their college, military, work and social lives. McKenna’s mother provides family news. Includes two of McKenna’s letters to a friend and to a young woman he met while on leave in Australia.


Ms-114: Elizabeth Peeling Lyon Collection, Laura Heffner Jun 2010

Ms-114: Elizabeth Peeling Lyon Collection, Laura Heffner

All Finding Aids

This collection consists primarily of 75 letters Betty wrote to her family during her two years at Gettysburg College. They date from September 18, 1950 through May 19, 1952, excluding the summer holiday. The letters chronicle Betty’s college activities, showing specifically her participation in band, choir, the Independent Women, Kappa Delta Rho (her brother’s fraternity), and dorm life. This collection also contains one scrapbook sheet of four photographs taken on campus and Lyon’s freshman name sign.

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Moody, Thomas Newton, 1938-2024 (Mss 287), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2010

Moody, Thomas Newton, 1938-2024 (Mss 287), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Chiefly letters from Moody, a Franklin, Kentucky native, written to his parents while attending college at Southwestern at Memphis and the University of Kentucky, and while teaching afterward in Elizabethtown. Also includes letters of the family of Moody’s grandmother, Drucilla Jane (Harris) Short.


The Isle Of Tranquility In An Age Of Turbulence: Student Life At Wofford In The Sixties And Seventies, David Morgan May 1981

The Isle Of Tranquility In An Age Of Turbulence: Student Life At Wofford In The Sixties And Seventies, David Morgan

College Books

A senior thesis, prepared in 1981, about student life at Wofford College during the 1960s and 1970s. The author makes use of student newspaper articles and some interviews to describe student reaction during a period of change.


The Grizzly, September 29, 1978, Jack Hauler, Donna L. Phillips, Ranelle Petrucelli, Robert Pfeiffer, Lawrence Mroz, Jennifer Bassett, Thomas A. Reilly, Brian Barlow, Kevin Ludwig, Mark Woodland, Wesley Emmons, John O'Neill Sep 1978

The Grizzly, September 29, 1978, Jack Hauler, Donna L. Phillips, Ranelle Petrucelli, Robert Pfeiffer, Lawrence Mroz, Jennifer Bassett, Thomas A. Reilly, Brian Barlow, Kevin Ludwig, Mark Woodland, Wesley Emmons, John O'Neill

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Social changes open Fall term • Student Deans reorganized • Rebuck stresses individuality • News in brief: Lindback award presented to profs; Student dies suddenly; Miller heads Advance Ursinus; Women's council meets; Fields speaks at VPI; Nine faculty appointed; Music director honored; New Alumni Secretary named • Ursinus middle class • Dr. Snyder, interim Dean • Letters to the editor: Damage policy questioned • Life on these American campuses • I. F. picnic: Let's do it again • Good bands are available: Price shouldn't be primary concern • Keith Moon: The life and death of The Who? • Richter welcomes …


1901 Ruby Yearbook, John Alexander, William Samuel Keiter, Ursinus College Junior Class Jan 1901

1901 Ruby Yearbook, John Alexander, William Samuel Keiter, Ursinus College Junior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1901 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.


The Purple, July 1899 Jul 1899

The Purple, July 1899

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

  • Fiftieth Graduation Day at Holy Cross College
  • From South Worcester to Cuba and Back
  • Editorial
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • College World
  • Athletics
  • Includes photographs of Class of '99, ;99 football team, commencement

Volume information for this issue appears on p. 33.


The Purple, December 1898 Dec 1898

The Purple, December 1898

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

  • Some Thirty Years Ago
  • A Foot-ball Soliloquy
  • The Story of the Class Journal
  • From Rome to Ireland
  • The Locomotive's Christmas Whistle
  • A Football Game (?) Played at Christmas, A. D. 1400
  • Bill Brown's Campaign
  • Ballade
  • Christmas: A Short History
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • College World
  • Athletics
  • A Tribute of Gratitude
  • Photograph of 1898-99 Football team, A.B.R. Sprague, Irving Swan Brown, Henry S. Pratt, Matthew B. Lamb, A.A. McLoughlin, John F. Harrigan, Daniel Downey, Rev. T.J. Campbell SJ …


The Purple, November 1898 Nov 1898

The Purple, November 1898

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

  • Some Uses and Abuses of Novel-Reading
  • Villanelle
  • College Athletics-Are They Good or Bad?
  • A Dream of Football
  • Some Personal Experiences of a Surgeon in the Late War
  • The Happy Leaves
  • Was Gladstone's Attitude Toward the Church Honest and Consistent?
  • Rondeau
  • Campaigning With the 12th U.S. Infantry
  • Rondeau
  • The Snowflakes
  • Editorials
  • The College Chronicle
  • Alumni
  • College World
  • Athletics
  • From the Editor's Table
  • Photographs of Peter O'Shea '92, Thomas P. Conneff '96, Rev. James Healy '49,

Volume information appears …


The Purple, October 1898 Oct 1898

The Purple, October 1898

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

  • The Imagination; Its Importance and Its Cultivation
  • Campaigning with the 12th U.S. infantry
  • Dear Little Rose
  • What Have the Monks Done for English Literature?
  • Ballade
  • A Few Phases of Senior Life at Holy Cross
  • Editorials
  • College Chronicle
  • The Alumni
  • College World
  • Athletics
  • From the Editor's Table
  • A Strange Communication
  • Photographs of rooms in Fenwick Hall, Allie H. Farmer '98

Volume information appears on p. 93.


The Purple, October 1897 Oct 1897

The Purple, October 1897

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

  • An Idealized Letter
  • Voices of the Night
  • Scenes and Songs of the Old Plantation Life
  • A True Educational Reformer
  • Autumn
  • Forgiven-A Story
  • The Guardian of the Night
  • A Retrospect and a Prospect
  • To the Old Boys of Holy Cross: - Greeting
  • A Word on Athletics
  • Our Advertisers
  • The Class of '97
  • In Memoriam
  • The College Chronicle
  • The Alumni
  • Athletics
  • From the Editors Table

Masthead appears on p. 199


The Purple, June 1896 Jun 1896

The Purple, June 1896

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

  • The First Catholic College in New England
  • The Alumni Bishops of Holy Cross
  • Alma's Soldier Sons
  • Holy Cross Students in the Civil War
  • Holy Cross Students on the Judiciary Bench
  • Duty of the College and of College Men to the Summer School
  • To the Sacred Heart
  • A Word with the Young Man Who Is to Take Up the Study of Law
  • Vesper
  • Some Words of Counsel to Those About to Take Up the Study of Medicine
  • Fancy …