Florida State College for Women/ Florida State University Tarpon Club collection, 1931-1994 (inclusive).

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Florida State College for Women/ Florida State University Tarpon Club collection, 1931-1994 (inclusive).

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The FSCW/FSU Tarpon Club Collection consists of club records documenting its administration and activities, such as minutes, constitutions, correspondence, and financial records; scripts; performance materials such as programs, publicity, and choreography notes; photographs; newspaper clippings, video recordings, scrapbooks, and club ephemera from its establishment to its disbandment, such as 40th and 50th anniversary celebration guest books and the first sketch for the Tarpon pin. The collection also contains materials from its founding group, the Florida State College for Women's Lifesaving Corps (1931-1936), including programs from the first aquatic exhibitions put on by the Corps and materials documenting Montgomery Pool activities from 1932-1933.

37.52 linear ft.

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Tarpon Club

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The Tarpon Club began during the early 1920s as the Florida State College for Women Life Saving Corps. In the spring of 1937, members of the Corps under the direction of Betty Washburn formed the Tarpon Club, choosing the tarpon fish as its mascot due to its reputation of being an acrobat of Florida waters. The club presented its first "water pageant" in the fall of that year featuring swimming stroke demonstrations and floating patterns performed with musical accompaniment. The Club continued t...

Crew, Alicia.

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Washburn, Betty.

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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...

Rice, Grantland, 1880-1954.

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American sportswriter. From the description of Letter to Lola L. Kovener, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50998045 ...

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...

Norwood, Mary Lou

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Tallahassee native Mary Lou Norwood was a Florida State College for Women/Florida State University student, class of 1947 (BA, English). She grew up within a block of the FSCW and the campus was her childhood playground. During her years as a student she served in the Student Senate, wrote for the Florida Flambeau and Distaff, participated heavily in Odd Demonstrations and Junior Minstrels and belonged to Cotillion, Spirogira (Garnet and Gold Key) and Mortified. After leaving FSU she also studie...

Montgomery, Katherine W. (Katherine Williams), 1894-1958

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Life Saving Corps (Florida State College for Women).

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Eaton, Jack, -1968

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