Scrapbook of Social Activities, 1924-1953

Creator:
Weeks, Mabel F.
Abstract:
This collection consists of invitations, ticket stubs, playbills and other materials related to the social events going on at Barnard College from 1924 to 1953.
Extent:
3.34 Linear Feet 8 document boxes
Language:
English .
Scope and content:

This collection includes invitations, ticket stubs, playbills and materials related to social events going on at Barnard College from 1924 to 1953. The invitations include events such as the Greek Games, French Club, the Senior Ball, Seven Sisters Presidents meeting, debate tea, lectures, alumnae dinners, faculty lunchroom, foreign students tea and Christmas caroling in foreign languages. Events of note are a reading by Robert Frost and a Wigs and Cues performance which Dwight D. Eisenhower, then president of Columbia University, attended.

Biographical / historical:

These leaves, which were originally compiled in scrapbooks by the Assistant to the Dean in charge of Social Activities, Miss Mabel Foote Weeks, chronicle student life from the academic year 1924-1925 through 1952-1953. Weeks' position was described as "general supervision under the Dean and the faculty committee on student organizations, of extra-curricular activities and of the social life of the students who live outside the dormitories." Over the years, the position changed to titles such as Assistant to the Dean in charge of Student Organizations and Director of the Office of Student Affairs. After her retirement in 1939 various other women such as Miss Krueger, Mrs. English, Mrs. Read, Mrs. Coles, Dr. Christina Grant, Miss Maack and Miss Harrington oversaw the social events. The Committee on Student Affairs ceased compiling the scrapbooks in 1952 when Mrs. English left office.

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. The Barnard Archives and Special Collections approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Photocopies or scans may be made for research purposes.

Preferred citation:

Scrapbook of Social Activities, 1924-1953; Box and Folder; Barnard College Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.

Location of this collection:
Barnard Archives & Special Collections
Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning 423
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027, USA
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