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  • Classification Number: 1H/1975
  • Title of Record Series: Centennial Historian
  • Record Group: College
  • Date: September 9, 1977
  • Accession Number: A73-4, A75-33, A73-56
  • Sub Group: Histories
  • Source: Jean Glasscock
  • Restrictions: some materials restricted; consult Archives for details
  • Volume: 5 boxes
Description:

Records of Jean Glasscock, Centennial Historian; dating 1941, 1970-1974; consisting correspondence of oral history interview transcripts (most contain contents list and index, summary of interview,) and reports, collected as part of the preparation of WELLESLEY COLLEGE 1875-1975: A CENTURY OF WOMEN; concerning Pauline Durant, the role of trustees, students and their organizations and activities, faculty and departmental histories, staff, buildings and grounds, financial affairs, donors and gifts to the college, presidents and their selection, deans and their roles, traditions and legends, visitors to campus, healthcare, faculty-student relationships, Wellesley in World War I and World War II, strengths of Wellesley in comparison to other colleges, exchange programs, graduate education, combining a career and a family, and other aspects of the history of Wellesley College; including the association of Wellesley with Yenching University, Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, and the service employees union.

Box 1
  • List of People interviewed by Jean Glasscock (1971-1974)
  • Agnes A. Abbot interviewed by Jean Glasscock (December 11, 1971), includes correspondence (1972, 1974)
  • Katharine C. Balderston interviewed by Jean Glasscock (March 23, 1972)
  • M. Margaret Ball interviewed by Jean Glasscock (April 11, 1971)
  • Dr. Elizabeth L.Broyles interviewed by Jean Glasscock (January 5, 1972)
  • Margaret Clapp interviewed by Jean Glasscock (June 19, 1972)
  • Nell Zuckerman Cohen interviewed by Jean Glasscock (June 18, 1972), includes correspondence (July 14, 1972)
  • Ellen Cushman interviewed by Jean Glasscock (Summary) June 5, 1971)
  • Blanche DePuy interviewed by Jean Glasscock (August 26, 1972)
  • Andrew Fiske interviewed by Jean Glasscock (March 6, 1974)
  • Teresa G. Frisch interviewed by Jean Glasscock (December 4, 1971)
  • Mary Cooper Jewett Gaiser interviewed by Jean Glasscock (January 16, 1973)
Box 2
  • Geraldine Gordon interviewed by Jean Glasscock (May 20, 1971)
  • Edna Heidbreder interviewed by Jean Glasscock (March 16, 1971)
  • Mary Katherine Britton Henderson interviewed by Jean Glasscock (February 29, 1972), includes correspondence May 5, 1972
  • Mildred McAfee Horton interviewed by Jean Glasscock (November 2-4, 1971), original transcript
  • Mildred McAfee Horton interviewed by Jean Glasscock (November 2-4, 1971), photocopy
  • Leland H. Jenks interviewed by Jean Glasscock (March 9, 1971)
  • E. Elizabeth Jones interviewed by Jean Glasscock (August 29, 1971)
  • Lucy W. Killough interviewed by Jean Glasscock (April 7, 1971)
  • Clemewell Lay '19 interviewed by Jean Glasscock (September 14, 1973)
  • Carolyn Bartel Lyon interviewed by Jean Glasscock (November 19, 1970)
  • Joan B. Melvin interviewed by Grace E. Hawk (July 20, 1973)
Box 3
  • Elisabeth Luce Moore interviewed by Jean Glasscock (September 3, 1971), includes February 24, 172 letter Mrs. Maurice T. Moore to Miss Gates
  • Elizabeth King Morey interviewed by Jean Glasscock (August 28, 1973)
  • Barbara Wayne Newell interviewed by Jean Glasscock (February 1, 1973)
  • Louise Overacker interviewed by Jean Glasscock (November 20 1970), includes copies of 1st annual report (1941) and History of the Department of Political Science
  • Mary Eleanor Prentiss interviewed by Jean Glasscock (March 12, 1971)
  • Thomas Hayes Proctor interviewed by Jean Glasscock (March 8, 1971)
  • Alice T. Schafer interviewed by Jean Glasscock (January 26, 1972)
  • Carol Rhodes Johnston Sibley interviewed by Jean Glasscock (May 30, 1973)
  • Maxine Simonds interviewed by Jean Glasscock (March 3, 1971)
  • Louise Pettibone Smith interviewed by Jean Glasscock (September 2, 1971), includes correspondence (1971)
Box 4
  • Eva Terry interviewed by Jean Glasscock (June 5, 1971), includes Correspondence (1971)
  • Edith Jones Tower interviewed by Jean Glasscock (November 16, 1970)
  • Anne Wellington interviewed by Jean Glasscock (September 14, 1973)
  • E. Faye Wilson interviewed by Jean Glasscock (November 17, 1970
  • Lucy Wilson interviewed by Jean Glasscock (February 33 and 26, March 1, 1971)
  • Mary Ellen Crawford Ames and Helen Anderson interviewed by Jean Glasscock (September 26, 1972)
  • Helen T. Jones and Jean V. Crawford interviewed by Jean Glasscock (May 9, 1972)
  • Maintenance: Charles Holmgren and Andrew Gnome interviewed by Jean Glasscock (June 26, 1972)
  • Victor and Rose Maccini, College Taxi Company, interviewed by Jean Glasscock (July 13, 1971)
Box 5
  • Presidents of Wellesley College, Selection of: Mary Sime West (June 1, 1973), Kathie Whipple (September 26, 1973), Ella Keats Whiting (September 11, 1973) interviewed by Jean Glasscock
  • Traditions of Wellesley: Marsha Howland, Abigail Franklin, Amy Meltzer interviewed by Barbara McCarthy (May 22, 1973)

Created By: Dorothy Brown '09 || Maintained By: Jane Callahan and Ian Graham || Date Created: January 10, 2008 || Last Modified: October 15, 2012