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Theater & Identity At Gettysburg College, Spring 1971, Jamie A. Riches Feb 2023

Theater & Identity At Gettysburg College, Spring 1971, Jamie A. Riches

CAFE Symposium 2023

In 1971, the country was still in the process of extreme social upheaval and transformation brought on by the 1960s, and that included small, secluded communities like Gettysburg College. In the Owl & Nightingale Society, the school's theater program, many students found ways to express and explore themselves creatively and personally. Both historically and currently, theater tends to draw in queer people, and can be a comfortable and interesting way to embrace your identity and learn to build and work with communities. These are things queer people often didn't--and still don't--have access to in their everyday lives, making theater a …


The Royal Family May 2002

The Royal Family

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2002 performance of The Royal Family by _George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber


"What Happened To Jones" Program, Cedarville College Jan 1920

"What Happened To Jones" Program, Cedarville College

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"A College Town" Program, Cedarville College Jun 1914

"A College Town" Program, Cedarville College

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"A Kentucky Belle" Program, Cedarville College Apr 1914

"A Kentucky Belle" Program, Cedarville College

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"As You Like It" Program, Cedarville College Jun 1912

"As You Like It" Program, Cedarville College

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"The Ulster" Program, Cedarville College Apr 1912

"The Ulster" Program, Cedarville College

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"One Of The Eight" Program, Cedarville College May 1911

"One Of The Eight" Program, Cedarville College

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Maude Truxal Burtner Scrapbook, Maude Truxal Burtner Jan 1907

Maude Truxal Burtner Scrapbook, Maude Truxal Burtner

Maude Truxal Burtner

Maude Zetta Burtner, née Truxal (1882-1962) was a graduate of Otterbein University in 1907. The daughter of Reverend J. P. and Sarah Truxal, she was born in Pennsylvania before coming to Westerville. After graduation she married Elmer E. Burtner in 1910, a minister for the United Brethren Church in Westerville. After his death in 1923, she became an elementary school teacher, and was the principal of the Longfellow School when she retired. She had two children, Edwin and Margaret.

This scrapbook was her creation in 1907 and contains photographs and names of many Otterbein students and includes the playbill and …