Middlebury College -- History

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Coverage of the American Collegiate Consortium for East-West Cultural and Academic Exchange featuring Tom Bayer, Olin Robinson, Raymond Benson, and Mikhail Alexandrovich.

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The collection includes silk screen posters printed by the Vermont Silk Screen Company for Middlebury College events, including plays, conferences and Winter Carnival. There are also business records (invoices) for the Bristol Press and Vermont Silk Screen Company pertaining to Middlebury jobs, including the printed items in the collection.

Abstract Spanning 130 years in the history of four families, the Freeman Family Archives traces the ancestry, education and professional career of Dr. Stephen A. Freeman, culminating in his pivotal role at Middlebury College. Photographs, letters and documents illuminate Freeman’s ancestors as well as those of his wife, Ruth Hayden Freeman, and allow for a comparative study of four middle-class families (Freeman, Reed, Hayden, and Smith) from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. The archive also...

Scope and Contents Six archival boxes of materials pertaining to the Hadleys, Starrs, Merrills and all the families that married into theirs, and into whose families they married. These include Allens, Goves, Cottons, Dibbles, Rowans, Robbins’, Finches, Williams’, Warners, Wells’, Partridges and others. Many hundreds of letters from family members from several generations, genealogies, research into earliest known ancestors and their war records, emigration from country of origin; identification of colleges...

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Includes two copies of the 1999 first printing of Middlebury Women, 1959- by Millicent Fairhurst, 1999 galley proof of Middlebury Women, 1959-, and correspondence and questionnaire responses sent by Fairhurst to her female classmates.

Note that a number of survey responses in the collection were received after the first printing and were subsequently included in a second printing.

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Collection contains five holograph letters addressed to William H. Parker and/or his wife Catherine Denton Parker between 1838 and 1862.

Abstract Letters from Leigh Updike, Middlebury College Class of 1956, to her boyfriend, Richard Jewett ’55, while he attended graduate school at MIT. From 1955 to 1956, through almost daily correspondence that reads like a diary, Ms. Updike describes the details of her life as a councilor at a summer camp for disabled children and as a college senior during the 1950s. Updike was involved in the Student Educational Policy Committee during a period of curricular change and the formative years of the...

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Typescript copy of "Teachers at Middlebury College: A Case Study of the Under Representation of Women in America" by Bill Landry, Middlebury College Class of 1974. The paper was submitted by Landry on May 8, 1974, as his senior thesis in sociology.