Candace Widmer papers, 1983-1988.
Collection Number: 7858
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Candace Widmer papers, 1983-1988.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7858
Abstract:
Collection contains minutes and agendas of the Women's Encampment for a Future of
Peace & Justice mailed to Widner from January 1984 through May 1988, logistics for
the July 29-August 1, 1983 action and protest, notes and correspondence of the Ithaca
Women's Affinity Group, and 2 news stories about the camp (1983, 1984).
Creator:
Widmer, Candace.
Quanitities:
.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Member of the Ithaca Women's Affinity Group for the Women's Encampment for a Future
of Peace & Justice. She lived on Swamp Hill Farm in Ithaca, earned a Ph.D. from Cornell
in organizational behavior, and taught for 20 years at Elmira College where she helped
create the Women's Studies Program and pass a nondiscrimination policy. She wrote
about nonprofit boards and consulted with organizations. In addition to the feminist
peace activism reflected in these papers, she worked to make the Ithaca school system
responsive to the needs of African-American children and co-founded the Ithaca Cancer
Network (ICaN) and the Tompkins County Working Group on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender
Aging. She raised 3 children, and her life partner of 25 years was Sue Robinson. She
died at age 62 on November 23, 2005.
Collection contains minutes and agendas of the Women's Encampment for a Future of
Peace & Justice mailed to Widner from January 1984 through May 1988, logistics for
the July 29-August 1, 1983 action and protest, notes and correspondence of the Ithaca
Women's Affinity Group, and 2 news stories about the camp (1983, 1984).
Similar topics in collection CU 5474, Feminism, pedagogy and the institution of intimacy.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Candace Widmer papers, #7858. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Subjects:
Women's rights.
Women and peace.
Social action.
Peace
Peace movements -- United States.
Pacifism.
Nuclear disarmament.
Nonviolence.
Lesbians.
Land use.
Feminists.
Disarmament.
Communal living -- United States.
Civil disobedience.
Antinuclear movement.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Meeting minutes
|
1984-01-21 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Meeting minutes
|
1984-09-15-1984-09-16 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Meeting minutes
|
1985-01-13 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Meeting minutes
|
1985-02-02 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Meeting minutes
|
1985-10-12 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Meeting minutes
|
1985-11-02-1985-11-03 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Meeting minutes
|
1985-11-16-1985-11-17 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Meeting minutes
|
1986-01 |
|
Scope and Contents
Includes archives discussion
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Meeting minutes
|
1986-02-25 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Meeting minutes
|
1986-03 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Meeting minutes
|
1986-05-03 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Meeting minutes
|
1986-06-18 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Meeting minutes
|
1986-07-30 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Meeting minutes
|
1986-09-08 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Meeting minutes
|
1986-11-20 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Meeting minutes
|
1987-05 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Meeting minutes
|
1987-11-01 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Meeting minutes
|
1987-11-28 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Meeting minutes
|
1988-02-13-1988-02-14 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Meeting minutes
|
1988-03-19 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Meeting minutes
|
1988-05-22 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Logistics for protest
|
1983-07-29-1983-08-01 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
News stories
|
1983-1984 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Ithaca Women's Affinity Group
|
1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Mailings
|
1986-04 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Mailing with meeting notes, agenda
|
1986-08-26 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Report and health survey with mailings
|
1988 |