Louise Richardson collection, 1920-1964.

Florida Library Association

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Florida State university

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The Florida State College for Women (FSCW) Artist Series began in 1923. Dean Ella Opperman was the first person in charge of organizing the series. The series was intended to bring renowned artists to FSCW. After FSCW became Florida State University (FSU), the FSU School of Music managed the series. However, in 1974 the FSU Artist Series Committee assumed control. Because of financial difficulties in the early 1990s, the Artist Series was briefly discontinued. The series was then entitled the "C...

Campbell, Doak S. (Doak Sheridan), 1888-1973

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President, Florida State University. Doak Sheridan Campbell, third president of the Florida State College for Women (1941-1957), was born near Waldron, Arkansas, on November 16, 1888. He attended public school in Arkansas, after which he obtained his teaching license. He taught for one year, then went to Ouachita College at Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he graduated with a teaching degree in 1911, emphasizing music and speech. He then became superintendent of school at Co...

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...

Richardson, Louise, 1889-1963.

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Librarian. Louise Richardson was born in South Carolina on November 22, 1889. She received her AB degree from Limestone College in 1909, a Graduate certificate from the Pratt Institute Library School in 1913, and an MA in Library Studies in 1927 from the University of South Carolina. She initiated the first classes offered in library science studies at the Florida State College for Women in 1926. As Director of the FSCW Library, Richardson taught the course t...