Mount Holyoke in the twentieth century. 1971-1972.

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Mount Holyoke in the twentieth century. 1971-1972.

Typescripts. Transcripts of tape-recorded interviews and written recollections of long-time members of the Mount Holyoke College faculty and administration, and the South Hadley, Mass. community. Interviews were conducted by Elizabeth Green. Material covers institutional and personal histories from 1903 through 1963, with particular emphasis on Mary E. Woolley's tenure as president of the College. Interviewees/authors are: Mary Higley Mills, Sidney Robertson McLean, Viola F. Barnes, Helen Loomis Wheeler, Constance Meadnis Saintonge, Anna J. Mill, Earl J. Buss, Pattie J. Groves, Ellen Deborah Ellis, Susan Reed Stifler, Olive Copeland, Christianna Smith, Genevieve F. Pratt, Harriet Newhall.

14 v. ; 29 cm.

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Saintonge, Constance Meadnis, 1905-1977

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Mill, Anna Jean

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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...

McLean, Sydney R. (Sydney Robertson), 1900-1973

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Pratt, Genevieve F. (Genevieve Frances), 1898-1976

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Genevieve Frances Pratt was born on June 24, 1898 in Westfield, Massachusetts to George F. Pratt, a whipmaker, and Ermina Ford Pratt. She graduated from Westfield High School then entered Mount Holyoke College, alma mater of her sister, Gladys, in 1916. She received senior honors and a B.A. in English Literature. After graduating in 1920, Pratt worked at the Mount Holyoke Library as an assistant from 1920-1921. She then worked in New York City as a translator for the Western Electric Engineering...

Wheeler, Helen Loomis

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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...

Stifler, Susan Reed, 1884-1987

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Susan Martha Reed was born on August 16, 1884 in Roxbury, Massachusetts to Martha Dudman and John R. Reed. Her sister Edith H. Smith graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1901. Susan Stifler graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1907. She then received an M.A and a PhD from the University of Illinois in 1908 and 1913, respectively. While studying there, she also taught history. In 1913 she became chair of the History Department at Lake Erie College. In 1915 she married William Warren Stifler, and th...

Ellis, Ellen Deborah, 1878-1974

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Ellen Deborah Ellis was born on November 25, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended Philadelphia public schools and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1901. She received an A.M. in 1902, and a Ph.D. in 1905, both from Bryn Mawr. In 1905 she began teaching Economics and Political Science at Mount Holyoke College. She became chair of the Political Science Department in 1939, and she retired in 1944. She wrote many books and articles for various journals and magazines. Ellen Deborah Elli...

Copeland, Olive, 1895-1981

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Newhall, Harriet, 1893-1973

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Buss, Earl J.

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Smith, Christianna, 1893-1983

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Groves, Pattie J. (Pattie Johnston), 1895-1990

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Barnes, Viola Florence, 1885-1979

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Viola Florence Barnes was born on August 28, 1885 in Albion, Nebraska. She was the third of five children of Cass Groves Barns (who spelled the family name without an "e"), a physician and newspaper editor, and Isabella Smith Barns. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Nebraska School of Music in 1906 and, after a brief period as a piano teacher, returned to the University to complete work for a B.A. in 1909 and a M.A. in 1910. She joined the University's faculty as a h...

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Mills, Mary Higley, 1898-

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