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Hollins Columns (2001 Dec 3), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Spring abroad enrollment low
• Words, song help Hollins take back the night
• News Briefs
• Student directors bring one act plays to life
• 'Big' volunteers bond with community children
• Exam Schedule
• Model U.N. convention a learning experience
• 'Harry Potter' blockbuster magic lights up big screen
• Campus Scenes
• 'Some Can Whistle' eccentric, touching
• Electric Light House Film Society reels in community
• Recycling News
• Panels of art showcase community's response
• Study Tips
• Ring Night November 2001
• 'Normal Girl' full of painful humor
• Hollins Short Term 2002 New York City
• Art exhibit utilizes paint, photographs in collages
• Short term Events
• Past, …

Hollins Columns (2001 Nov 5), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Changing race relations at Hollins
• Admissions creates fresh approach
• News Briefs
• Carbon Leaf, Janitors entertain at Fall Formal
• Malcolm discuses women making history
• Fall dance mix innovative, with unexpected surprises
• Costa brings unique background to Hollins
• 'Monsters' incorporate life lessons into comic bundle
• Community School Halloween party treat for kids
• Gubernational race to find the right 'Mark'
• 'Macbeth' receives mixed student reactions
• Grapheon, anon join to bring tragedy reactions out
• Hey you!
• Don't Quote Me
• A redneck tour of Roanoke
• Tying it Together
• Recognizing Hollins' Unsung
• Lights! Camera! Ring Night!
• Letters to the Editor
• Volleyball team works …

Hollins Columns (2001 Oct 22), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Vandalism, theft at Hollins
• Double, double, toil and trouble comes to Hollins
• News Briefs
• 'Macbeth' doth come to Hollins theatre
• A moving story about a woman and her inch
• Solazo's simmering sounds dazzle Hollins
• 'Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress' disappoints
• Origami
• Mahaffy encourages students' artistic expression
• 'Zoolander' at times funny, but not quite perfect
• Grapheon provides creative outlet for students
• Horoscopes
• Date, acquaintance rape on neighboring campuses
• Date Rape Drugs
• Campus Scenes
• Hey you!
• The men who own the top of Tinker Mountain
• Tinker Day
• Don't Quote Me
• Examining the persistence of memory
• Tying it …

Hollins Columns (2001 Oct 8), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Hollins celebrates diversity with Hispanic Heritage Month
• News Briefs
• Pride in the Park celebrates Roanoke gay community
• Campus Scenes
• New religion professor well-received by Hollins
• Star's patriotic display unites Roanoke community
• SHARE Olympiad raises spirits and money
• Saltori's switches from shakes to swordfish
• Senior organizes inclusive dialogue
• Reminiscences of Tinker Day, 1952
• Eccentric characters drive "Ava's Man"
• Miss Chief Productions pin points new medium
• Recent national tragedy viewed through art lens
• Let "Emperor's New Groove" into your VCRs
• Writing Center Hours
• Hey You!
• Editor's Column
• A senior view on traditions
• Tying It Together
• Horoscopes

Hollins Columns (2001 Sept 27), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Rugaber ready to accept challenges
• News Briefs
• Interim president has long road to hoe
• Construction projects proceed on Hollins campus
• Hollins campus becomes forum for marijuana debate
• Groups in the Roanoke community choose not to forget
• Campus Scenes
• Emerging clubs attempt to fill voids on campus
• 'Curse of the Jade Scorpion' not a blessing in disguise
• A Nation's Tragedy: Hollins community feels effects, student respond
• Our generation has awoken to a new world
• Ways to help during the nation's time of need
• Firefighters take to the streets for colleagues
• Literary magazines, old and new, provide creative outlet …

Mr. Edgar Anderson On Employment, Amber Panzella

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Mr. Edgar Anderson Full Interview

Edgar Anderson was born in Chicago in 1950, the second-oldest of six children. On his mother’s side, he has black, German, and Cree Native American ancestry; on his father’s side, he is descended from sharecroppers and former slaves from Mississippi. He attended high school in Chicago, and then went to the Military Academy at West Point in 1968, where he was one of ten black cadets in his class of 1200. He spent time in the Army as a basic training officer, and then received a graduate degree from Yale in business management and human …

Mr. Edgar Anderson On Education, Amber Panzella

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Mr. Edgar Anderson Full Interview

Edgar Anderson was born in Chicago in 1950, the second-oldest of six children. On his mother’s side, he has black, German, and Cree Native American ancestry; on his father’s side, he is descended from sharecroppers and former slaves from Mississippi. He attended high school in Chicago, and then went to the Military Academy at West Point in 1968, where he was one of ten black cadets in his class of 1200. He spent time in the Army as a basic training officer, and then received a graduate degree from Yale in business management and human …

Mrs. Rose Jackson On Education, Hamida Suja

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Mrs. Rose Jackson Full Interview

Rose Jackson was born in Louisville, Mississippi, to Willie O Clayton Hathorne and Bertha Ophelia (Young) Hathorne; she had three sisters and three brothers. She left school at fifteen to marry her first husband, with whom she had five children; after his death, she married John Jackson, with whom she had another daughter. She worked as a cleaner and hairdresser, and received her diploma from Portland High night school. At the time of this interview, she had been living in Maine 40 years; her family moved here because she had a brother-in-law who had been …

Mrs. June Mckenzie On Education And Employment, Aretha Williams

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Mrs. June McKenzie Full Interview

June McKenzie, a fifth-generation Mainer, was born in Portland, Maine, in 1929, one of twelve children. Her mother, Florence Eastman Williams, was a Portland native; her father, a truck driver, was a graduate of Tuskegee Institute. She graduated from Portland High School in 1947; she attended Northeastern Business College for one year, and took several classes at the American Institute of Banking while employed at People’s Heritage Bank, where she worked for twenty-two years. She married and had eight children, and at the time of this interview had two grandchildren. She is a longtime member …

Mrs. June Mckenzie On Education, Aretha Williams

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Mrs. June McKenzie Full Interview

June McKenzie, a fifth-generation Mainer, was born in Portland, Maine, in 1929, one of twelve children. Her mother, Florence Eastman Williams, was a Portland native; her father, a truck driver, was a graduate of Tuskegee Institute. She graduated from Portland High School in 1947; she attended Northeastern Business College for one year, and took several classes at the American Institute of Banking while employed at People’s Heritage Bank, where she worked for twenty-two years. She married and had eight children, and at the time of this interview had two grandchildren. She is a longtime member …

Hollins Columns (2001 May 7), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Student stage May Day demonstration
• Hollins Columns needs fresh meat
• Seniors make plans to start over as graduation nears
• Student recital: Stephanie Berstein
• Senior Wills
• Nude protestors arrested on campus
• Pies and Tie Dyes: Arts Fest 2001
• Honors Convocation
• Senior recitals show off talented Hollins students
• Virginia Tech professor speaks about the politics of global warming
• Letters to the Editor
• Wills

Hollins Columns (2001 Apr 27), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• President Rasmussen to leave Hollins at end of semester
• Judy Shepard speaks on campus
• Better Dead than Coed
• SGA 2001-2002 Elections
• Grandin Theater: the only grand theater in Roanoke
• Going Retro in Roanoke: a thrift store review
• Discussion started on future housing arrangements for Hollins campus
• Dillard chosen as voice of the South
• On schizophrenic evening
• Madigan's photograms inspire
• HOP charts a new course
• Fencing Editorial
• Wanted: some wide-open spaces
• Letters to the Editor

Hollins Columns (2001 Apr 13), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Campus approves revisions to the SGA Constitution
• Hot or Not? T&A on the web
• Editor's Note
• Coed rumors spread throughout the country
• "Chicken Man" Charles Cullen to perform at Hollins
• Hollins enlightens the American College Dance Festival of New Mexico
• New Music Reviews
• Why I Love Hollins...
• Hollins Crossword
• From the East
• The toughest job I'll ever love?
• Letter to the Editor
• Strong dedication on the Lacrosse Field

Hollins Columns (2001 Apr 1), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Gang Wars at Hollins
• Hollins Little Instruction Book
• Moody to be Alien Landing Zone
• "ADA's on the campus! ADA's on the scene..."
• Three Hollins girls hijacked a Krispy-Kreme truck
• Witch mountain, Tinker Mountain
• Britney didn't like the Dawgs
• Best Pick-up lines of the year...

Mr. James Mathews On Employment, Maureen Elgersman-Lee

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Mr. James Mathews Full Interview

James Mathews was born at Maine General Hospital in Portland, Maine, in 1941. He had four siblings; his father, Oscar Mathews, Jr., was a cook for the railroad that ran between Portland and Boston, and his mother, Llewena Hill Mathews, was one of the first graduates of the Gorham Normal School. His father’s family emigrated from Nova Scotia. As a child, he lived with his aunt and uncle in South Portland; the family moved to another home in South Portland when the state took their home to build I-295. Mathews graduated from Portland High School …

Ms. Beverly Bowens On Education, Vanessa Saric

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Ms. Beverly Bowens Full Interview

Beverly Bowens was born in Portland, Maine, in 1934, and grew up on Munjoy Hill. She had one older brother. Her father was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin; her mother’s family had been in Portland for generations. She graduated from Portland High School, attended Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, and then moved to New York City to attend Teacher’s College at Columbia University; as of this interview, she had a bachelor’s degree in nursing, a master’s degree in nursing administration, and a master’s degree in institutional education. She married a surgeon and they had one daughter; …

Ms. Beverly Bowens On Employment, Vanessa Saric

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Ms. Beverly Bowens. Full Interview

Beverly Bowens was born in Portland, Maine, in 1934, and grew up on Munjoy Hill. She had one older brother. Her father was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin; her mother’s family had been in Portland for generations. She graduated from Portland High School, attended Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, and then moved to New York City to attend Teacher’s College at Columbia University; as of this interview, she had a bachelor’s degree in nursing, a master’s degree in nursing administration, and a master’s degree in institutional education. She married a surgeon and they had one …

Mr. James Mathews On Employment, Maureen Elgersman-Lee

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Mr. James Mathews Full Interview

James Mathews was born at Maine General Hospital in Portland, Maine, in 1941. He had four siblings; his father, Oscar Mathews, Jr., was a cook for the railroad that ran between Portland and Boston, and his mother, Llewena Hill Mathews, was one of the first graduates of the Gorham Normal School. His father’s family emigrated from Nova Scotia. As a child, he lived with his aunt and uncle in South Portland; the family moved to another home in South Portland when the state took their home to build I-295. Mathews graduated from Portland High …

Ms. Beverly Bowens On Education And Employment, Vanessa Saric

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Ms. Beverly Bowens Full Interview

Beverly Bowens was born in Portland, Maine, in 1934, and grew up on Munjoy Hill. She had one older brother. Her father was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin; her mother’s family had been in Portland for generations. She graduated from Portland High School, attended Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, and then moved to New York City to attend Teacher’s College at Columbia University; as of this interview, she had a bachelor’s degree in nursing, a master’s degree in nursing administration, and a master’s degree in institutional education. She married a surgeon and they had one daughter; …

Mr. James Mathews On Education And Employment, Maureen Elgersman-Lee

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Mr. James Mathews Full Interview

James Mathews was born at Maine General Hospital in Portland, Maine, in 1941. He had four siblings; his father, Oscar Mathews, Jr., was a cook for the railroad that ran between Portland and Boston, and his mother, Llewena Hill Mathews, was one of the first graduates of the Gorham Normal School. His father’s family emigrated from Nova Scotia. As a child, he lived with his aunt and uncle in South Portland; the family moved to another home in South Portland when the state took their home to build I-295. Mathews graduated from Portland High School …

Ms. Lucille Young On Employment, Anah Osman

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Ms. Lucille Young Full Interview

Lucille Young was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1928. Her father and her five brothers and sisters lived on eight different plantations throughout Mississippi during her childhood; her mother became ill and died when she was an infant. Lucille attended school up to tenth grade, then worked at the Swift Packing Company, a box factory, and as a house cleaner and nanny. She married and had eight children, seventeen grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren.

She moved to Portland, Maine, in 1967, after her eldest daughter got a JobCorps position in the city.

On Employment:

“Well, I'd …

Mr. James Sheppard On Education And Employment, Sanela Zukic

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You can listen to the full interview and read a transcript HERE.

James Sheppard was born in New York City in 1924, to parents who had just emigrated from Antigua. He was the eldest of four siblings. He graduated high school in 1942, and served in the Army during World War II. He worked as an aviation mechanic after the war; in 1957 he was hired by the Federal Aviation Administration as an inspector, a job he continued until he retired in 1985. He married twice, and had five children and seven grandchildren. His family moved to Westbrook, Maine, …

Hollins Columns (2001 Mar 5), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Hollins women rally against "Informed Consent" bill
• Old traditions die hard
• Enrollment numbers declining
• Pipeline offers a mixed bag, received mixed reviews
• Debate over Harmony's name change is turning heads
• Hollins highlights Women's Day
• Local area events
• Student parking vs. security
• Power yoga challenges body, focuses mind
• Hannibal: a sequel that picks your brain
• Hollins Flashback- November 4, 1985
• Class of 2001 celebrates 100th
• Dave Matthews' newest in an "Everyday" classic
• In defense of "Temptation Island"
• A day in the life of a rider
• Hollins swimmers complete season at ODAC meet

Hollins Columns (2001 Feb 26), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Hollins interns take front row seat at Inauguration
• Tax-cut fever in Washington
• What's to come is up to you
• New course and housing options expand Hollins London Abroad
• This Traffic is worth the wait
• Forsythe Hailey encourages finding "inner old lady"
• Spotlight on J-Term 2001
• BUDRO'S on the campus
• Finding Forrester Falls Short
• Angler's Cafe- An eclectic menu for all to enjoy
• Allies promotes diversity at Hollins
• What would your vagina say?
• V-Day brings victory, controversy
• From the East
• Letters to the Editor

Gen Ms 10 Harriet Sweetser Letters, John D. Knowlton

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Provenance: Donated by Elizabeth Sweetser Baxter in 1999. Ownership & Literary Rights: The Harriet Sweetser Letters are the physical property of the University of Southern Maine Library. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the creator or his legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Head of Special Collections. Cite as: Harriet Sweetser Letters, Special Collections, University of Southern Maine Libraries. Restrictions on access: This collection is open for research.

The Spinster (2001), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)