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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
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Compiled by:
NYS College of Home Economics
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Date completed:
2001
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EAD encoding:
Peter Martinez, March 2002
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© 2001 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
CHRONOLOGY: COLLEGE OF HOME ECONOMICS |
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| 1900 | Martha Van Rensselaer arrived at Cornell to organize a reading course for farmers' wives | |
| 1901 | First bulletin of the Cornell Reading Course for Farmer's Wives, Saving Steps, published and distributed | |
| 1903 | Three courses relating to home and family life offered for credit at Cornell University | |
| 1905 | First winter course taught in home economics. The program was non-credit, open to any woman in the state, and it continued until 1921 | |
| 1907 | First curriculum for the four-year course in home economics completed | |
| Flora Rose joined the staff of home economics | ||
| Department of Home Economics established | ||
| 1909 | Martha Van Rensselaer received her A.B. from Cornell University | |
| 1911 | First three students graduated from the Department of Home Economics | |
| Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose granted the first full professorships for women at Cornell | ||
| 1912 | Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose voted members of the Cornell faculty and named co-directors of the Department of Home Economics in the College of Agriculture | |
| 1913 | Department of Home Economics moved into its own building, called Comstock Hall, today the Computing & Communications Center | |
| 1914 | Smith-Lever Act passed by United States Congress | |
| 1919 | Department of Home Economics became the School of Home Economics within the New York State College of Agriculture | |
| 1922 | Department of Hotel Administration established in the School of Home Economics | |
| First M.S. in Home Economics awarded to Amy L. Hunter | ||
| 1923 | Martha Van Rensselaer named one of the twelve greatest women in the country by the League of Women Voters | |
| 1925 | New York State College of Home Economics established at Cornell | |
| Purnell Act made federal research funding available through 1930 | ||
| 1930 | First Ph.D. in Home Economics at Cornell University awarded to Helen Canon | |
| 1932 | Martha Van Rensselaer died | |
| 1933 | College of Home Economics moved into Martha Van Rensselaer Hall | |
| 1936 | Flemmie Kittrell awarded a Ph.D. in Home Economics, the first African American in the United States to earn such a degree | |
| 1940 | Flora Rose retired and Mary Henry appointed acting director of the College | |
| 1941 | Sarah Blanding appointed director of the College | |
| 1942 | Sarah Blanding became the first female dean at Cornell | |
| 1944 | Van Rensselaer and Rose Lectures established to bring distinguished women, such as Margaret Mead, to campus | |
| 1946 | Sarah Blanding resigned to become first female president of Vassar College | |
| Elizabeth Vincent appointed dean of the College | ||
| Home Economics Education became a department in the College | ||
| 1947 | First television broadcast planned and produced by the College of Home Economics | |
| Catherine Personius, Head of the Department of Food and Nutrition, appointed coordinator of research and assistant director of Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station | ||
| 1949 | College of Home Economics became one of thirty-two constituent units of the State University of New York (SUNY) | |
| 1952 | Mann Library opened, combining the libraries of the College of Agriculture and the College of Home Economics | |
| 1953 | Elizabeth Vincent retired | |
| Helen Canoyer became dean of the College | ||
| 1954 | The School of Hotel Administration separated from the College of Home Economics and became its own college, with H. B. Meek as dean | |
| 1955 | Home Bureau Federation established | |
| 1958 | Fifty-seven home economists from twenty countries gathered for the first time at the Institute and Workshop on International Education in Home Economics | |
| 1959 | Flora Rose died | |
| 1960 | Catherine Personius elected as the first female faculty trustee | |
| 1962 | Television and Film Center completed | |
| 1963 | Ghana Project established to assist women's education in Africa | |
| 1964 | Home Economics International Activities Office established | |
| 1966 | Head Start Program initiated | |
| President's Committee to Study the College of Home Economics convened with Sara Blackwell as chair | ||
| 1967 | Final report of the President's Committee to Study the College of Home Economics submitted | |
| 1968 | North Wing of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall dedicated | |
| Dean Helen Canoyer retired | ||
| 1969 | David Knapp appointed dean | |
| New York State College of Home Economics reorganized and renamed the New York State College of Human Ecology | ||
CHRONOLOGY: MARTHA VAN RENSSELAER |
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| June 21, 1864 | Born in Randolph, N.Y. | |
| 1884 | Graduated from Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, N.Y. | |
| For 10 years taught in public schools of western N.Y. | ||
| 1894 | Elected school commissioner of Cattaraugus County, N.Y. and served for 6 years. | |
| 1896-1903 | Lecturer in teacher's institutes and Secretary of the State Summer School at Chautauqua. | |
| 1900 | Called to Cornell and started educational extension courses. | |
| 1907 | Instructor in Home Economics at Cornell. | |
| 1909 | A.B. degree from Cornell. | |
| 1911 | Professor at Cornell. | |
| 1914-1916 | President of the American Home Economics Association. | |
| 1917 | During World War I made head of the food conservation work in NYS and was appointed to the office of director of the food conservation division of the U.S. Food Administration by Herbert Hoover. | |
| 1920 | Appointed joint head of Home Economics at Cornell with Flora Rose. | |
| 1923 | Sent to Belgium to study the educational needs of women for the Commission for Relief in Belgium. | |
| 1929 | Appointed director of the White House Conference for Child Health and Protection by Herbert Hoover. | |
| 1930 | Received honorary D.Ped. from the NYS College of Teachers. | |
| 1932 | Martha Van Rensselaer Hall built; Martha Van Rensselaer died in NYC May 26, 1932. | |
CHRONOLOGY: FLORA ROSE |
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| Oct. 13, 1874 | Born in Denver, Colorado. | |
| 1932-1940 | Instructor at Kansas State Agricultural College. | |
| 1904 | B.S. from Kansas State Agricultural College. | |
| 1907-1911 | Lecturer at Cornell in Home Economics. | |
| 1909 | M.S. from Columbia University. | |
| 1911-1940 | Professor and head of the Department of Home Economics at Cornell. | |
| 1917-1919 | Director of food conservation program in N.Y. | |
| 1923 | Belgian study of nutrition of school children for the Educational Foundation of the Commission on Relief for Belgium. | |
| 1924 | Member of Weight Control Conference called by N.Y. Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association. | |
| 1931 | Ph.D. from Albany State Teachers College. | |
| 1932-1940 | Director of the College of Home Economics. | |
| 1940 | Retired from Cornell as Emeritus Director. | |
| July 25, 1959 | Died in LaJolla, California. | |
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Date
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Description
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Container
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Organizational structure of the College - change in organization from School to College
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Box 1 | Folder 1 | |
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Changes made in instructional & organizational policy
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Box 1 | Folder 2 | |
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Organizational charts of the College
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Box 1 | Folder 3 | |
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Policies, rules, and regulations, 1932-40
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Box 1 | Folder 4 | |
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Policies, rules, and regulations, 1940-46
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Box 1 | Folder 5 | |
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Salary policies in the N.Y.S. Colleges, Schools & Experiment Stations administered by Cornell
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Box 1 | Folder 6 | |
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College Council - misc
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Box 1 | Folder 7 | |
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College Council - 1920
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Box 1 | Folder 8 | |
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College Council - 1922-23
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Box 1 | Folder 9 | |
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College Council - 1929-31
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Box 1 | Folder 10 | |
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College Council - 1938-39
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Box 1 | Folder 11 | |
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College Council - 1940-41
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Box 1 | Folder 12 | |
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College Council - 1941-42
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Box 1 | Folder 13 | |
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College Council - 1942-43
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Box 1 | Folder 14 | |
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College Council - 1943-44
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Box 1 | Folder 15 | |
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College Council - 1944-45
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Box 1 | Folder 16 | |
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College Council - 1945-46
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Box 1 | Folder 17 | |
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College Council Membership 1945-1953
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Box 1 | Folder 18 | |
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College Council 1946-47
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Box 1 | Folder 19 | |
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College Council, 1947-48
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Box 1 | Folder 20 | |
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College Council, 1948-49
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Box 1 | Folder 21 | |
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College Council 1949-50
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Box 1 | Folder 22 | |
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College Council, 1950-51
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Box 1 | Folder 23 | |
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College Council, 1951-52
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Box 1 | Folder 24 | |
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College Council, 1952-53
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Box 1 | Folder 25 | |
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Committee on Higher Education for Women, 1951
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Box 1 | Folder 26 | |
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Plan Committee, 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 27 | |
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Committee on Admissions, 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 28 | |
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Committee to Evaluate & integrate the Homemaking Core, 1947-1952
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Box 1 | Folder 29 | |
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Extension Educational Policy Committee, 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 30 | |
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Committee on Program for Extension Staff Members, 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 31 | |
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Committee on 5-year Teaching Program, 1939-40
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Box 1 | Folder 32 | |
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Graduate Staff Committee
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Box 1 | Folder 33 | |
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Educational Policies Committee
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Box 1 | Folder 34 | |
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Resident Educational Policy Committee 1922-40
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Box 1 | Folder 35-36 | |
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Resident Educational Policy Committee 1947-49
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Box 1 | Folder 37-38 | |
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Resident Educational Policy Committee 1949-50
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Box 1 | Folder 39-40 | |
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Resident Educational Policy Committee Jan. 1952-July 1953
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Box 1 | Folder 41-43 | |
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Resident Educational Policy Committee Sept. 1953-54
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Box 1 | Folder 44-45 | |
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Honor Committees 1924-32
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Box 1 | Folder 46 | |
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Library Committee 1945-46
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Box 1 | Folder 47 | |
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Nominating Committee 1946-54
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Box 1 | Folder 48 | |
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Publication Committee 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 49 | |
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Committee on Scholarship 1945-46
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Box 1 | Folder 50 | |
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Committee for selection of students to attend Merrill Palmer School 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 51 | |
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Committee on selection of students for preparation for secondary school teaching 1937-40
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Box 1 | Folder 52 | |
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Committee on selection of students for teacher training (proposed) 1945-46
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Box 1 | Folder 53 | |
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Committee on selection of students for professional training in Food & Nutrition and Institutional Management 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 54 | |
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Social Committee College of Home Economics 1945-46
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Box 1 | Folder 55-56 | |
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Committee on student petitions and academic standing 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 57 | |
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Working Rules Committee material 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 58 | |
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Committee on Working Rules - Minutes - 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 59 | |
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Working Rules Committee 1947-48
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Box 1 | Folder 60 | |
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Special Committee on Working Rules for the Faculty 1945-60
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Box 1 | Folder 61-63 | |
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Appendix A 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 64 | |
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Appendix B 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 65 | |
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Appendix C 1946
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Box 1 | Folder 66 | |
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Departments, Divisions
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Organization of Departments in the College 1920-25
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Box 2 | Folder 1 | |
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Child Development & Family Relationships: History 1925-30
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Box 2 | Folder 2 | |
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Child Development & Family Relationships Dept. 1925-26
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Box 2 | Folder 3-4 | |
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Child Development & Family Relationships Dept. 1927-29
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Box 2 | Folder 5-9 | |
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Child Development & Family Relationships Dept. 1930-37
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Box 2 | Folder 10-13 | |
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Child Development & Family Relationships Dept. 1940-51
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Box 2 | Folder 14 | |
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Child Development & Family Relationships Dept: Parental Education 1928-31
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Box 2 | Folder 15-17 | |
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Child Development and Family Relationships Course: Nursery School 1925-30
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Box 2 | Folder 18-20 | |
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Child Development and Family Relationships Course - Nursery School 1923-24
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Box 2 | Folder 21-22 | |
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Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial for Child Training 1924-25
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Box 2 | Folder 23 | |
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Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial for Child Training 1928-29
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Box 2 | Folder 24 | |
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Nursery School Teacher Preparation Curriculum Second Report Committee-of-Six (Draft I) - tentative
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Box 2 | Folder 25-26 | |
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Committee - Nursery School Teacher Curriculum 1945-46
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Box 2 | Folder 27 | |
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Student Guidance
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Box 2 | Folder 28 | |
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Family Life 1937-38
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Box 2 | Folder 29-30 | |
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Extension Teaching and information 1941-47
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Box 2 | Folder 31 | |
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Extension Teaching and Information 1916-28
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Box 2 | Folder 32-33 | |
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Food and Nutrition Dept. 1927-45
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Box 2 | Folder 34-35 | |
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Economics of the Household & Household Management Dept. 1925-39
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Box 2 | Folder 36-37 | |
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Economics of the Household with photographs of the Home Improvement Living Room
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Box 2 | Folder 38 | |
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Household Economics and Management: Early Development and History 1908-29
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Box 2 | Folder 39 | |
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Dept. Household Economics and Management 1929
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Box 2 | Folder 40 | |
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Institutional Management: History 1920
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Box 2 | Folder 41 | |
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Housing and Design Dept. (household art) 1920-44
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Box 2 | Folder 42-44 | |
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Institution Management Dept. 1919-45
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Box 2 | Folder 45-46 | |
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Textiles and Clothing: History 1922
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Box 2 | Folder 47 | |
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Textiles and Clothing Dept. 1927-43
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Box 2 | Folder 48 | |
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Other Divisions, Former Departments, etc
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Home Economics Cafeteria: Correspondence and Advertising Matter on Food & Food Products to 1921
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Box 3 | Folder 1 | |
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Home Economics Cafeteria: equipment, correspondence, to 1921
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Box 3 | Folder 2 | |
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Home Economics Cafeteria: general operation, correspondence, to 1921
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Box 3 | Folder 3 | |
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Home Economics Cafeteria: staff, to 1921
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Box 3 | Folder 4 | |
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SATC Mess Hall in Home Economics Cafeteria 1918-19
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Box 3 | Folder 5-6 | |
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Library and books: correspondence and advertising matter,includes correspondence from Institution of Nutrition, Manila, Philippines,
1948
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Box 3 | Folder 7-8 | |
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Department's laundry service 1919-20
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Box 3 | Folder 9 | |
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M.V.R. Hall Library and Library Handbook
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Box 3 | Folder 10 | |
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School of Hotel Administration History from 1920-29
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Box 3 | Folder 11 | |
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Hotel School 1921-32
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Box 3 | Folder 12-15 | |
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Hotel Administration 1919-26
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Box 3 | Folder 16-21 | |
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(became Department in the College in 1922) (fld. 16 has photographs of Hotel Management Classes)
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Hotel Summary 1944-51
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Box 3 | Folder 22 | |
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Hotel Administration 1927-37
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Box 3 | Folder 23-28 | |
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Hotel Administration 1938-48
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Box 3 | Folder 29 | |
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Hotel Administration 1949-52
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Box 3 | Folder 30-32 | |
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Personnel
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Directors and Deans of the College of Home Economics 1907-53
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Box 3 | Folder 33 | |
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Changes in Personnel 1925-28
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Box 3 | Folder 34 | |
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Head of College 1931-32
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Box 3 | Folder 35-37 | |
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Application for Headship of Home Economics 1906
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Box 3 | Folder 38 | |
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Applicants for Deanship 1946
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Box 3 | Folder 39 | |
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Applicants for Assistant Deanship 1944-47
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Box 3 | Folder 40 | |
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Appointment of Director of College 1940
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Box 3 | Folder 41 | |
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Head of Department of Home Economics Education for 1958
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Box 3 | Folder 42 | |
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Vincent, Dr. E. Lee (photographs)
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Box 3 | Folder 43 | |
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Vincent, Dr. E. Lee
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Box 3 | Folder 44-46 | |
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Head of Department of Child Development and Family Relationships 1942-44
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Box 3 | Folder 47-48 | |
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Index cards - for very early staff members who do not have folders
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Box 3 | Folder 49 | |
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Correspondence: misc. professional staff and prospective staff to 1921
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Box 3 | Folder 50-57 | |
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Duties questionnaires sent to professional personnel
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Box 4 | Folder 1-5 | |
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Alphabetical file of professional personnel
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Graduate assistants - A
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Box 4 | Folder 6 | |
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Acheson, Marjorie
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Box 4 | Folder 7 | |
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Adams, Gladys - photograph
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Box 4 | Folder 8 | |
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Aiken, Ann - biography - resigned August 16, 1951, Died Sept. 15, 1952
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Box 4 | Folder 9 | |
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Aitken, Linnie Beulah
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Box 4 | Folder 10 | |
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Albers, Dorothy Juanita - biography, photograph
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Box 4 | Folder 11 | |
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Aldrich, Mrs. Eleanora L
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Box 4 | Folder 12 | |
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Allen, Lillian May
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Box 4 | Folder 13 | |
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Allen, Laura C
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Box 4 | Folder 14 | |
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Altman, Dr. Margaret - includes photograph
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Box 4 | Folder 15 | |
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Armstrong, Marjorie includes photograph
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Box 4 | Folder 16 | |
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Armstrong, Blanche photographs
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Box 4 | Folder 17 | |
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Atzenhoffer, Phyllis Jane
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Box 4 | Folder 18 | |
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Aust, Lucille Bernice
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Box 4 | Folder 19 | |
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Ayers, Helen Lou
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Box 4 | Folder 20 | |
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Graduate Students - B
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Box 4 | Folder 21-22 | |
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Baay, Gwendolyn
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Box 4 | Folder 23 | |
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Baird, Thomas J
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Box 4 | Folder 24 | |
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Margaret E. Maxwell - includes photographs
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Box 4 | Folder 25 | |
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Ball, Josephine; Barber, Lorna; Barnard, Louise E.; Barnum, Anna H.; Barrett, James H. Barry, Edyth E. - includes photographs
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Box 4 | Folder 26 | |
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Barts, Adelaide A. - includes photograph; Bateman, Mrs. Jessie Walker; Bates, Eleanor; Bates, Margaret; Bates, Mrs. Miriam
B
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Box 4 | Folder 27-28 | |
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Bauder, Mrs. Dorothy; Beardsley, Mrs. Marilyn; Beck, Jeanette - includes photograph; Behnke, Catherine
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Box 4 | Folder 29 | |
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Bell, 0. Jean; Bell, Mrs. R. Rietta; Bell, Mary Louise; Bernor, Inez A
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Box 4 | Folder 30 | |
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Bertrams, Mathilda C.; Besse, Mary; Betten, Cornelius; Betten, Gertrude; Better, Mrs. Myrtle
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Box 4 | Folder 31 | |
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Beyer, Wilma - includes photographs
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Box 4 | Folder 32 | |
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Billings, Beatrice E.; Binzel, Alma; Binzel, Cora E.; Birdseye, Miriam
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Box 4 | Folder 33 | |
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Bissell, Mrs. Helen; Bizal, Rachel Sanders; Blaker, Gertrude G.; Blanchard Mrs. Ruth H.; Blinn, Alice - includes photograph;
Bogart, Hazel; Boggs, Lilian Bishop; Boicort
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Box 4 | Folder 34 | |
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Bond, Barbara, Bower, Gertrude; Boys, Mrs. Jessie Austin -includes photograph
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Box 4 | Folder 35 | |
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Braithwaite, Royden C. - includes photograph
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Box 4 | Folder 36 | |
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Brasie, Muriel - includes photograph
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Box 4 | Folder 37 | |
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Brennan, Margaret Jane
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Box 4 | Folder 38 | |
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Brewer, Lucile - includes photograph; Britt, Martha; Brookins, Frances
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Box 4 | Folder 39 | |
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Brooks, Margaret - includes photograph; Brucher, Frances A. Libbee; Buckman, Mrs. Elizabeth M.; Bull, Dr. Helen - includes
photograph
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Box 4 | Folder 40 | |
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Bunnell, Phebe (Mrs.); Burger, Mrs. Florence D.; Burgess, Constance; Burnside, Lenior; Byrd, Evelyn
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Box 4 | Folder 41 | |
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Graduate assistants - C
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Box 4 | Folder 42 | |
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Callan, Sannie - includes photograph; Cameron, Elizabeth - includes photograph; Campbell, Elva Theodora; Campbell, Louise
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Box 4 | Folder 43 | |
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Canon, Helen - includes negative and photographs
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Box 4 | Folder 44 | |
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Caplan, Miss Ruth - includes photograph; Card, Mary Emma; Chadeayne, Olive - includes photocopied transcripts; Cleveland,
Cockefair, Mary L
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Box 4 | Folder 45 | |
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Coffin, Marguerite L.; Collins, Bertine - includes photograph, Craig, Agnes Huston
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Box 4 | Folder 46 | |
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Crawford, Mrs. H. B.; Crosby, Marion wood - includes photograph
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Box 4 | Folder 47 | |
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Crouch, Helen; Cunningham, Roberta Lee - includes photograph; Cutler, Doris S.; Cutler, Marjorie P
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Box 4 | Folder 48 | |
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Graduate assistants - D
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Box 4 | Folder 49 | |
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Davis, Faith Evelyn; Dawson, Mrs. Elsie H.; Day, President Edmund E. - includes 2 photographs; Day, Ella J
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Box 4 | Folder 50 | |
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Dennett, Mrs. L. C.; Detweiler, Thelma; Diehl, Helen; Dillon, Mrs. Ira K,; Dimcok, Annette Chase
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Box 4 | Folder 51 | |
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Di Stefhano, Joan; Dube, Rachel (Mrs.); Dundas, Muriel; Dunkle, Donald; Dunn, Hazel S.; Dunn, Mary J.; Dwyer, Mrs. Frances
Markey; Dziegiel, Genevieve
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Box 4 | Folder 52 | |