Laura Quayle Benson scrapbook, 1917-1919 (inclusive).

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Laura Quayle Benson scrapbook, 1917-1919 (inclusive).

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Scrapbook contains memorabilia and ephemera related to Laura Quayle Benson's student years at Florida State College for Women. Material includes photographs, certificates, correspondence, fliers, invitations, lists, name tags, newspaper clippings, poems, postcards, programs, receipts and ticket stubs. Album consists of photographs of various FSCW buildings, faculty and students. Buildings include Bryan Hall, Reynolds Hall, East Hall, Broward Hall, The Annex and the Carnegie Library at FAMU. Faculty members include psychology professor Edwin Andrew Hayden, zoology and horticulture professor Lanas Spurgeon Barber, assistant professor of education Inga Olla Helseth and Dean Nathaniel Moss Salley. Album includes the following newspaper clippings: "Florida State sends greetings to England", "Hallowe'en celebration", "Beautiful junior-freshman wedding", "Junior benefit dance", "Dean Arnold guest at college", "President Wilson's message on healing the hurts of our wounded", "New staff elected", "Student government officers elected", "To interest women in electricity", "Our centenary motto", "Senior vaudeville at college auditorium", "Christening of the new education building", and "Gems of war poetry". Album consists of programs for the following events: "Women Christmas Vespers" (December 1918), "Faculty recital" (undated), "A Modern Point of View" (Mar. 25, 1919), "FSCW 'Eager Heart'" (Dec. 16, 1918), "FSCW certificate recital" (May 12, 1919), "FSCW pupils recital" (May 22, 1919), "Junior play Monday night" (undated), "Class night for senior normal class of '19", "Florida State College for Women Announcements for 14th Annual Commencement" (May 31-June 4, 1919), "Southern Intercollegiate Association of student government conference" (undated), "Florida State College for Women 6th annual field day" (Mar. 18-19 1918), "Florida State College for Women Thanksgiving" (Nov. 29, 1917), "Florida State College for Women Christmas Vespers (Dec. 16, 1917), "Phoebe's Romance" (Nov. 26, 1917), "Florida State College for Women School of Music student recital (Mar. 12, 1918), and "Francesca Zarad recital" (undated).

1 album (83 pages)

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Napoleon Bonaparte Broward Hall (Tallahassee, Fla.).

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Melissa E. Cochrane Reynolds Hall (Tallahassee, Fla.).

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Katherine W. Montgomery Hall (Tallahassee, Fla.)

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William James Bryan Hall (Tallahassee, Fla.).

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William H. Johnston Building (Tallahassee, Fla.).

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Helseth, Inga Olla, 1888-1987

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Barber, Lanas Spurgeon, -1946

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East Hall (Tallahassee, Fla.).

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Carnegie Library (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University)

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Hayden, Edwin Andrew, 1871-1921

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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...

Salley, Nathaniel Moss

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Florida State University. Heritage Protocol

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Benson, Laura Quayle

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Milwaukee native, Laura Quayle Benson (formerly Laura Quayle) was a Florida State College for Women student, class of 1919 (L.I.). After graduating she taught school in Boyton Beach, Florida where she met her husband, Fred Benson. She is the mother of Lenore Benson Raborn Boonstra (formerly Lenore Benson), class of 1945 (BS, Commerce). From the description of Laura Quayle Benson scrapbook, 1917-1919 (inclusive). (Florida State University). WorldCat record id: 501943202 ...