Campus Defense Council, Florida State College for Women (FSCW), 1940-1944.

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Campus Defense Council, Florida State College for Women (FSCW), 1940-1944.

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Papers, dated from 1940-1944, include correspondence, memorabilia, photographs, publications and working files of the Campus Defense Council of the Florida State College for Women (FSCW).

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Florida State College for Women. Campus Defense Council

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In 1905, Through the Buckman Act, The State Legislature established a school for male students in Gainesville, and a school for female students in Tallahassee, which was named the Florida Female College, and in 1909 was renamed the Florida State College for Women (FSCW). In 1946 a branch of the University of Florida opened a school for 500 men in Tallahassee at Dale Mabry Field (a former Army installation), and in 1947 the name of FSCW was changed to Florida State University, & became coeduc...

Florida State College for Women

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According to Robin Sellers' Femina Perfecta, in 1914 members of the even-year classes of Florida State College for Women (juniors and freshmen) wore their green and yellow class colors to chapel on the Saturday morning before Thanksgiving. A spontaneous pep rally ensued. On the following Wednesday, odd-year class members (seniors, sophomores, and sub-freshmen) carried canes wrapped with ribbons in their individual class colors of red, white, and purple. On Thanksgiving Day the odd-year classes d...