Rice University MargarettRoot Brown College Records 1965-2002

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Rice University MargarettRoot Brown College Records 1965-2002

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Correspondence,newsclippings, obituaries, minutes, freshman materials, publications,governmental and budget documents as well as other information relating to thegeneral operation of Brown College. There are also files on the Brown studentssuch as lists of members and room assignments. Brown College was dedicated onOctober 3, 1965 and was filled primarily by women who had volunteered to leaveJones College, then the only women's college, to start a newcollege.

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Rice University Archives, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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In 1963 Jones was the only women's college at Rice, and there was such a severe housing shortage that some Rice women were being housed in another university's dorms. In October of that year, George R. Brown and his wife Alice Pratt Brown donated one million dollars through the Brown Foundation to build a new dorm for women at Rice. The new college was established in memory of their sister-in-law, Margarett Root Brown, (1896-1963) who was the wife of the also late Hermann Brown. Mar...

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