Coeducation

Abstract

The Alpha Delta Phi Records consist of materials related to the Middletown Chapter at Wesleyan University including its alumni groups, the Adelphic Educational Fund (AEF) and the Alumni Literary Society (ALS).

Content Description From the Collection:

This collection consists of oral history interviews with members of the Wesleyan University community, including faculty emeriti, administration officials, and others. They are sponsored by the Wesleyan University Wasch Center for Retired Faculty and are added to on an ongoing basis.

Abstract Kirsten Delegard, a member of the class of 1990, wrote her senior thesis for the CSS major on the experience of women Wesleyan graduates from the beginning of the second period of coeducation in 1968 onward. The Kristin Delegard coeducation thesis research notes consist of over 800 completed surveys received from women graduates from the classes of 1970-79, 1984, and 1990 and the computer printouts of data. The surveys were sent to about 2,000 women, and questions related to the...

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The Louise Wilby Knight papers consist of questionnaires completed by female members of classes during Wesleyan's first period of coeducation (1872-1913) and research notes used to write her senior thesis in 1972.

Abstract The William North Rice papers contain diaries, correspondence, account books, teaching materials, writings, lectures, and sermons related to Rice's interests in Wesleyan University, science, religion, and education in general. Specific topics include coeducation at Wesleyan University, campus politics and activities, and issues related to students, faculty, and trustees. Rice's interests in geology, botany, mineralogy, crystallography, and zoology are represented, as is his interest in the...

Scope and Contents

Report from SEPP and the Office of the Academic Vice President to the Wesleyan community related to whether women undergraduates should be readmitted to Wesleyan. As part of the report a questionnaire was sent to students with responses included here in the appendicies. Also icluded are faculty opinions, a blank questionnaire, and additional related materials.

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Planning files, invitations, ephemera, and news coverage of the twentieth anniversary celebration of the second round of coeducation in October 1990. Campus committee members included Jean Shaw, Carol Lynch, Ann-Louise Shapiro, Mary Ann Clawson, Kirsten Delegard, Ellen D'Oench, Nancy Smith, Richard Vann, Linda Secord, and Linda Wong.

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This collection contains anecdotes written by Wesleyan alumni from the classes of 1859 to 1936. Major topics include their experiences with former Wesleyan professors, pranks performed with their classmates, the burning of North College in 1906, and the arrival of women on campus in 1872.

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The coeducation collection includes notes, letters, records, clippings, photographs, and meeting transcripts from Wesleyan University's first phase of coeducation (1872-1909). These materials date from 1871 to 1998.