Holmes, Marion (Class of 1933), March 4, 1986
Scope and Contents
1 interview with Marion Holmes, Class of 1933. Holmes discussed gender segregation on campus; women lacking quality professors because they could only have female professors; sororities; her work as secretary to the registrar and to faculty; her salary; changes to college size; rising cost of tutition; positives about Middlebury College; Winter Carnival; Breadloaf; Forrest Hall; classes in the chapel; compulsory chapel; Hamlin Hall burned down by a student; Robert Frost; President Stratton; World War II; disbandment of ROTC; Student Dining Union; New majors; and President Armstrong.
Dates
- March 4, 1986
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research without restriction.
Biographical / Historical
Marion Elizabeth Holmes (1912-1993) was born to Robert N. and Rena (Johns) Holmes in Charlotte, Vermont, and graduated from Middlebury College in 1933. Holmes attended Packard Secretarial School in New York and worked at Middlebury College from 1937 to 1977 as Secretary to the Registrar (1937-1949), Assistant Registrar (1949-1951), Registrar (1951-1969), and Secretary of the Faculty (1969-1977).
Extent
From the Collection: 147+ Objects
Physical Location
w.2.2
Physical Description
1 audio cassette
General
Assigned identifier:
- Coeducation
- College administrators
- College students -- United States -- Social life and customs
- Education of women
- Fires
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
- Greek letter societies
- Middlebury College -- Alumni and alumnae
- Middlebury College -- Fires
- Middlebury College -- Tuition
- Oral Histories
- Sex discrimination
- Stratton, Samuel S. (Samuel Sommerville)
- Students -- Social life and customs
- Winter Carnival
- Women in higher education
- World War, 1939-1945
Repository Details
Part of the Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives Repository
Middlebury College
Davis Family Library
110 Storrs Avenue
Middlebury Vermont 05753 United States
specialcollections@middlebury.edu
