Papers 1907-1979 (bulk 1907-1911).

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Papers 1907-1979 (bulk 1907-1911).

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The Jennie Gilbert Jerome Papers consist of correspondence, a scrapbook, writings, art work, memorabilia, an oral history transcript, biographical information, a mah jong game, and photographs. Much of the material relates to her years as a student at Mount Holyoke College, 1907-1911. In letters written to her mother, grandmother Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome, and brother Gilbert Nelson Jerome she describes traditions such as Freshman Frolic, Mountain Day and Junior Show, mentions her "crushes" on classmates, and talks about many faculty members and administrators, particularly President Mary Emma Woolley and botany professor Henrietta E. Hooker. She describes a basketball tournament, trying out for choir, the grading system, and a mock political convention and parade of suffragists that students held in 1908. She also discusses her health, expenses, food, clothing and the religious life at the school. A scrapbook primarily from her years at Mount Holyoke contains programs, invitations, and other memorabilia; notes from friends and teachers; a "Table of Measurements" giving her physical dimensions and lung capacity in 1907 and 1910; examinations; "Basket-Ball Songs"; material relating to Senior Mountain Day in 1911; drawings and poetry by Jerome; and photographs. Other correspondence postcards and notes from Mount Holyoke friends and classmates (1940-1979). Her writings include short stories published in her high school newspaper (1904-1907), a description of a visit to "the ancient home of the Gilberts" in England (1924), and a published recollection of her high-school years (1947). The memorabilia consists of a songbook for the Class of 1911 Junior Show and a catalogue for a 1936 art exhibit in New Haven. The oral history transcript is of interviews of Jerome by Roberta Yerkes Blanshard in 1975. Biographical information (ca. 1918-1979) includes newspaper articles, her obituary, and tributes written after her death. Jerome's mah jong game probably dates from the 1920s. The photographs date from ca.1907-1952 and primarily consist of pictures of her.

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Gilbert family.

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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...

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Hooker, Henrietta Edgecomb, 1851-1929

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Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker was born on December 12, 1851 in Gardiner, Maine to George Washington Hooker and Eliza Annis Ballentine Hooker. She entered Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1869 and graduated in 1873. Following her graduation, she worked at Mount Holyoke teaching algebra and botany. In 1888 she received her doctorate from the University of Syracuse. In 1889 she went to Königliche Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin University) to continue her studies. She returned to Mount...

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...

Jerome, Elizabeth Maude.

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Jerome family.

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Jerome, Jennie Gilbert, 1888-1979

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Jennie Gilbert Jerome was born May 15, 1888 in New Haven, Connecticut. She was the eldest of two children of Yuan Phou Lee of Canton, China, a Yale University graduate and professional lecturer, and Elizabeth Maude Jerome of New Haven. Her parents divorced when she was very young and she and her brother, Gilbert Nelson Jerome, were raised by her mother and grandmother, Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome, in New Haven. She attended private grammar schools and New Haven High School, then went to Mount Holyo...

Jerome, Gilbert Nelson, -1918

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