Women -- Education

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1 interview with Eleanor S. (Bliss) Heurtley, Class of 1959, by Natalie Norman. During the interview, Heurtley discusses the chemistry major; family legacy; women at college; sororities; the relationship between Middlebury College and the town of Middlebury, Vermont; political passivity; the status of women; single parenting; alumni activities; and changes at the College.

Scope and Contents 1 audio cassette tape containing interview with Mary Williams Brackett, Class of 1936. Topics discussed include Brackett's 60th reunion, her post-graduate experience, her honorary degree, the German major, the Institute of International Education, her teaching assistantship as a graduate student, her time as Director of Admissions for women and as Dean of Women at Middlebury, the merging of men's and women's colleges across the country, her Stanford PhD, depression, the role of women in...

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1 interview with Ruth Mercer (Brown) Ells-Crane, Middlebury College Class of 1934. During the interview, Ells-Crane discusses the Mountain Club; why she came to Middlebury; President Moody; life at Middlebury for women; environmental issues; war; Depression; sororities and fraternities; academics; life after Middlebury; motion pictures in the 1930s; travel and Alaska; family; and the future of Middlebury College.

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The records of the Middlebury College Board of Trustees are the official records of Middlebury College. The College Archives preserves institutional documents (charter, college seal, printed by-laws), meeting minutes, and standing and special committee records and reports. Included in the record group are files containing biographical information on individual trustees. Additional and related material can be found in the Office of the President (A2) record sub-group.As of...

Scope and Contents Collection contains school-related documents including trustee documents and minutes, school bylaws, trust agreements, student test results, student council and other student activity documents, published brochures, school calendars, catalogs, year books and real estate records. Collection also contains corporation records including correspondence, student academic records, and financial records. Also included are three embossing machines for House in the Pines documents, HITP silverware,...

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Materials in the collection include works generated by Julian Willis Abernethy including manuscripts of creative and critical works, holograph notes, newspaper clippings, announcements, articles, tributes, reviews and letters. Some materials are in bound volumes. Note that few documents in the collection are dated. For detailed item listing, see "Other Finding Aids" note.

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Marion Munford, Class of 1932. During the interview, Munford discusses her 60th reunion; freshmen women's in-town housing; the disappointment of freshman year; the biology major; compulsory daily and Sunday chapel; campus activities; honorary societies; sororities and fraternities; the relationship between Middlebury College students and the town of Middlebury, Vermont; student life; dress code; weekends; college as career preparation; her career; teaching; libraries;...

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Paper produced by Adrienne Goldstein, Class of 2020, during Professor Bill Hart's Spring 2019 HIST 0600 History Research Seminar class.

Scope and Contents 1 interview with Evelyn Wheeler Stagg, Middlebury College Class of 1939, by Natalie Norman. During the interview, Stagg discusses being born in Vermont; the English major; the president of the women's college; the attitude towards Vermont students at Middlebury; Vermont education; state legislature; issues of communications in politics and education; the problem of trustee power; her dislike of President Stratton; semantics; finding work during the Depression; definitions of progress;...