Committee of Nine Records 1933-1937

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Committee of Nine Records 1933-1937

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Records of the Committee of Nine, established as the Committee of Four in 1934 to select a successor for Mary Emma Woolley as President of Mount Holyoke College and enlarged to nine members in 1935, consist of minutes, correspondence, reports, petitions, questionnaires, surveys, speeches, lists, newspaper and magazine articles, press releases, and publications. Most materials concern the controversy over the selection of Roswell Gray Ham as Mount Holyoke's first male president.

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Mount Holyoke College. Board of Trustees. Committee of Four.

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Mount Holyoke College.

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The first official publication of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was a catalogue issued in 1837 containing information about trustees, teachers, terms of admission, the course of study, the schedule for the year, Family Accommodations, and the Moral and Religious Influence at the school. Subsequent catalogues (with periodic updates) trace the growth of the institution and provide detailed information about the academic program and residential life for students at the College. These publications h...

Morrison, Alva, 1879-1969

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Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947

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Mary Emma Woolley, college professor and President of Mount Holyoke College from 1901-1937, was born on July 13, 1863 in South Norwalk, Connecticut to Joseph Judah Woolley, a Congregational minister, and Mary August Ferris Woolley, a schoolteacher. She attended Mrs. Fannie Augur's school in Meriden, Connecticut until her family moved to Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1871, when she enrolled in Providence High School. In 1882 she began attending Wheaton Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, graduating i...

Ham, Roswell Gray, 1891-1983

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Mount Holyoke College. Board of Trustees. Committee of Nine

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The Committee of Nine was established in 1935 as an enlarged version of the Committee of Four, which had been formed in 1934 to select a successor for Mary Emma Woolley as President of Mount Holyoke College. Trustees serving on the Committee were Lottie Bishop (Class of 1906), Howell Cheney, Paul Davis, Edgar Furniss, Henry P. Kendall, Rowena Keyes (Class of 1902), Mary Hume Maguire (Class of 1918), and Helene Pope Whitman (Class of 1904), and Alva Morrison, Chairman of the Board. The Committee ...