Margaret Stallman Ruth Papers, 1928-2001.

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Margaret Stallman Ruth Papers, 1928-2001.

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Ruth, Margaret Sayre Stallman, 1911-; Secretary and homemaker. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1932. Papers consist of correspondence, a notebook for a zoology course, correspondence, newsletters and slides relating to the Mount Holyoke College Class of 1932, a newspaper clipping about Ruth, and photographs, including an album of photographs of Mount Holyoke students, buildings and the campus. Letters written during her years as a student describe her studies, a sex education class, faculty, friends, books that she read for pleasure, College traditions such as freshman hazing and May Day, regulations concerning student behavior (particularly smoking), her participation in sports, her social life, her thoughts about marriage, her campus jobs, and her summer work as a camp counselor. The zoology notebook that Ruth and a classmate, Martha G. Town Randall, prepared in 1931 contains drawings of insects and other inhabitants of ponds, streams and marshes at Mount Holyoke.

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Randall, Martha Gandy Town, 1912-1989.

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Ruth, Margaret Stallman, 1911-

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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...