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LITS Annual Report 2003-2004

• Introduction  
• Reference  
• Collection Development  
• Collection Processing  
• Outreach/Collaboration 
• Adminstrative/LITS/MHC-Wide Activities
• Professional Development  
• Personnel  
• Policies and Procedures  
• Professional Activities 
• Appendix 1

Introduction
Archives and Special Collections continued to develop, and provide the Mount Holyoke College community with excellent access to, the College’s archival, manuscript, and rare book collection. Primary activities during 2003-2004 were providing reference services, giving instruction to undergraduate classes, displaying exhibits, collaborating with administrative and academic units or departments, as well as accessioning materials into the collection. The service was accomplished in spite of a change in department leadership and, at the end of the year, the loss of the librarian who managed the rare book collection.

Reference
In 2003-2004 Archives and Special Collections had 1,855 visitors and 1020 requests for materials in the collection from 449 researchers. Use of the collection increased an average of 30% over the previous year. Primary users of the collection were Mount Holyoke College students, alumnae, and staff in offices and departments. Other researchers include MHC faculty and researchers from outside of the college. The “outsider” researchers were the public, faculty and staff from various institutions, and students at all levels (graduate, undergraduate, high school, middle school, and elementary school students.)

In addition to researchers who visited the collection, the department handled 489 reference telephone calls and 1123 written reference requests.

The department facilitated 112 digital reproductions, of documents or photographs in the collection, for 60 individual requests.

See appendix for complete reference information, including notable reference projects and topics of research.

Collection Development
Accessions:

Accessioned 234 collections/items, totaling 164.25 linear feet. (Slightly more than 2002/2003: 158 linear feet, 1/2 inch in 241 numbered accessions.)

Notable accessions include

• Course records for English 101, History of Education, Sarah Willburn, instructor, spring 2004
• Records of the Board of Trustees; Facilities Management Office; President's Office; Registrar's Office
• Records for the Faculty Show of 2002
• Records of the Jewish Student Union, Lesbian Alliance, and True Colors student organizations
• Records of the Mount Holyoke Club of Chicago
• Records of the Classes of 1940, 1949, and 1968
• Personal papers of Anna E. Benton, Class of 1852; Mary Augur Dudley, x-Class of 1873; Ellen Crane Miller, Class of 1887; Mabel M. Atkins, x-Class of 1893; Edith Simpson Schleicher, Class of 1922; Margaret Stallman Ruth., Class of 1932; Barbara Johnson White, Class of 1939; Rosamund Purdy Bell, Class of 1942; Mary Koether, Class of 1951; Chuckie Raye Blaney, Class of 1959; Sarah Jones West, Class of 1959; Christine Stone Thomforde, Class of 1969; and Molly D. Hazelton, Class of 2002
• Additional papers of Jean Grossholtz (faculty); Hannah Louisa Plimpton Peet Hartwell, Class of 1848; Christine Hubbard Pickett, Class of 1921; Helene Phillips Herzig, Class of 1949; Letitia Noss Mutter, Class of 1950; Wendy Wasserstein, Class of 1971
• Scrapbooks compiled by Emma Betsey Farley Jacoby, Class of 1911; Alma Quakenbush, Class of 1912; Anne Wuichet Wells, Class of 1945; Carolyn Belisle Dickson, Class of 1959

Collection Processing
Staff processed a total of 73 linear feet, 8.5 inches of archival records and manuscript items. Processing was about half of what was accomplished the year prior; reflecting this year’s increased reference activity and reduction in staff. Processing of collections was accomplished by Patricia Albright, with assistance from Nancy Birkrem, assistant Molly Hazelton, student assistants and interns

• Total feet of material processed: 73 linear feet, 8.5 inches of material
  2002/2003: 140 linear feet, 5.5 inches of material

Processing by categories of material:

• Manuscript collections: 5 (7.5 linear inches of material)
  2002/2003: 47 (42 linear feet, 9 linear inches of material)
  
• Archival collections: 1 (6 linear feet of material)
  2002/2003: 16 (20 linear feet, 3.5 linear inches of material)
  
• Items catalogued for Archives: 22 items (1 linear foot, 10 inches of material)
  2002/2003: 12 items (1 linear foot, 4 linear inches)
  
• Material from accessions (including material deaccessioned):
  145 items (65 linear feet, 3 inches of material)
  2002/2003: 210 items (76 linear feet, 1 inch of material)

Finding aids for collections written or revised, encoded in XML, and published online:

Revised Finding Aids:

• Virginia Apgar Papers
• Edith M. Coon Papers
• Harriet Johnson Hale Papers
• Gail Hamilton Papers
• Ethel Breitenstein Robinson Papers
• Julia Brooks Spaulding Correspondence
• Belle Thomas Correspondence
• Mary I. Ward Papers
• Karen Jackson Williams Papers

New Finding Aids:

• John H. Fuqua receipt
• Susan Hitchcock Kalma Papers
• Mount Holyoke College Physical Education Department Records
• Laura D. Ward Papers

Outreach/Collaboration
Instruction: Archives and Special Collections staff (Peter Carini, P Albright, M Hazelton, N Birkrem) taught 17 undergraduate classes, comprised of 221 students, how to conduct research using historic collections (both primary resources and rare books.) The number of classes and students averaged 70% more than the prior year’s numbers (2002/2003 only 42 students attended a course taught by the Archives and Special Collections. This statistic is skewed; however, as number of classes taught by N Birkrem (Special Collections) is not immediately available.)

ARCHIVES

• Anthropology 275, Doing Ethnography: Research Methods in Anthropology, Joshua Roth, instructor (18 students)
• Art History 301, Topics in Art History: Exhibiting the Female Athlete, Marianne Doezema, instructor (10 students)
• English 101, Seminar in Reading, Writing, and Reasoning: Pontigny at Mount Holyoke, Christopher Benfey, instructor (11 students)
• English 101, Gender and War, Leah Glasser, instructor (12 students)
• English 101, History of Education, Sarah Willburn, instructor (8 students)
• German Studies 100, Memories of War and Exile: The Second World War in Photographs, Memoirs, and Fiction, Karen Remmler, instructor (16 students)
• History 283, Topics in the Recent History of the United States: Mapping the Memorable, a Cultural and Environmental History of the Mount Holyoke College Campus, Robert Schwartz, instructor (11 students). Peter also gave a walking tour of the campus for students in this course
• History 338, Gender and Empire: Masculinities, Feminisms, and the Making of Imperial Authority, Durba Ghosh, instructor (6 students)
• History 381, Recent American History: American Labor History, the Struggle for Justice, Robert Weir, instructor (15 students
• Music 371, Topics in Music: Music in Times of Revolution and War, Louise Litterick, instructor (6 students)
• Sociology 224, Practicing Sociology: Archival and Field Methods for Sociology Majors, Eleanor Townsley, instructor (19 students; this class met in the Archives for two classes)
• Also, History 594M (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Writing Seminar: Massachusetts Greats, Anne B. Clark, instructor (15 students)
  

RARE BOOKS

• English 210, Development of Literature in English: Medieval through Commonwealth, Eugene Hill, instructor (11 students)
• English 311, Chaucer's Stories and Storytellers, Jamie Fumo, instructor (31 students)
• English 313, Milton, Eugene Hill, instructor (8 students)
• Medieval Studies 101: Picturing the Middle Ages (16 students)
• Spanish 244, Foundations of Spanish Literature, Julio Gonzalez-Ruiz, instructor (8 students)

Electronic Historic Atlas – Professor Robert Schwartz

• P Carini (with collaboration from other LITS departments) oversaw the creation of a database to capture metadata for all of the images scanned and stored for use in Professor Schwartz’s Historic Atlas database)
• Supervised by P Carini, student assistant Ralitsa Donkova entered metadata for 855 documents and photographs (comprising 1,514 digital files she scanned while employed by Professor Schwartz) into an Access database for the electronic historical atlas of MHC
• Students in History 283, Mapping the Memorable, made extensive use of sources in the archives during the fall semester and gave presentations about the results of their work on the historical atlas project in a December 12 program that was open to members of the MHC community and MH alumnae

Tours

• Carini conducted an invited tour MHC campus during Family Weekend
• J King gave a tour of Archives and Special Collections to George Clark, Environmental Resources Librarian and Curator of the Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment 6/16/04

Loans
Archives and Special Collections lent documents, photographs (or reproductions) and objects for use in local and national exhibits. Exhibits are listed here.

• Canal Gallery & Artist Studios (Holyoke, Mass.): "The Art of Baseball"
• Mount Holyoke College Art Museum: "Mount Holyoke Encounters: The Artists of Pontigny-in-America;" "The Sporting Woman: The Female Athlete in American Culture"
• National Library of Medicine: "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians"
• Wistariahurst Museum (Holyoke, Mass.): The Skinner family and the Orchards golf course
  

Exhibits in Dwight/Archives Lobby

• “Valentines from the Archives” (Feb. 2004)
• “All about the Archives” (Feb. 2004 – April 2004)
• Memorabilia and photographs for reunions of the Classes of 1954 (50th) and 1979 (25th) (May 2004)
• “Writings about Mount Holyoke” (June 2004)
• “Writings Based on Collections” (July 2003 – January 2004)

Reunion Weekend

Archives and Special Collections was open to the public from 1-5 on Saturday during both Reunion weekends
Reunion I (May 22) - 204 Visitors
Reunion II (May 29) – 66 Visitors

Five College Archivists
A representative from Archives and Special Collections attended and participated in most of the Five College Archivists meetings

Five College Finding Aid Database:

• Archives and Special Collections have contributed 178 finding aids to the database, ensuring wider access and interoperability of the XML encoded and published documents.

Website
Staff members revised and updated the Archives Web site, mostly updating templates, fixing broken links, and adding some content like: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/news/sp2004/findingaids.shtml
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/news/sp2004/altas.shtml

Administrative/LITS/MHC-Wide Activities
Search Committee for Head of Archives and Special Collections
P. Albright
N. Birkrem participated in Q&A

Web Review Team
J. King appointed member of LITS Web Review Team

ILS Vendors
N Birkrem went to demonstrations by vendors for the integrated library systems that may replace Triple I; she also attended a meeting of the Five College Archivists to discuss the systems under review

Campus Design Advisory Committee (CDAC)
J. King was appointed to the MHC Campus Design Advisory Committee, an advisory board that considers major and minor renovations, additions, or removals of aspects of the campus design.

Professional Development
JOB X
P. Albright attended a training session about the new JobX data base for hiring student assistants and used the system to hire students for the summer

TEI Workshop
J King attended the Center for Technology funded TEI Workshop at Wheaton College 6/2-4/2004

Personnel

• Archives and Special Collections came under the overall supervision of Gail Scanlon, Director of Access and Technical Services
• Peter Carini’s last work day as Director of Archives and Special Collections was November 21, 2003
• Jennifer Gunter King began working as the new Director on May 24, 2004
• N.Birkrem’s last day as a Cataloger and Special Collections Librarian was April 23, 2004
• Molly D. Hazelton, Class of 2002, was an assistant in the Archives from November 11, 2003 until May 28, 2004

Student Assistants – The department employed 10 student assistants in 2003/2004

• Natalie Araujo, 2004 (July 2003): reference questions, reshelving, re-description of Karen Jackson Williams Papers
• Amber Cushing, 2004 (September 2003-May 2004): reference questions; reshelving; Jeannette Marks Papers; checking sales catalogs for Special Collections material
• Ralitsa Donkova, 2005 (July 2003-June 2004): electronic historical atlas project; Website work; Five College Finding Aids Project work; reference questions; reshelving; deceased alumnae files
• Sarah Hayes, 2004 (September 2003): reference questions; control files; Susan Hitchcock Kalma Papers; review of Special Collections books for Nancy and Peter
• Erin McCarthy, 2006 (October 2003-May 2004) reshelving; reference questions control files; internal filing, Class of 2003 files; College Street Journal index
• Julia Mensah, 2004 (July-August 2003): reference questions; reshelving; indexing of Mount Holyoke News and College Street Journal; re-description of Mildred Allen papers
• Tolu Ojo, 2004 (July-August 2003): reference questions; reshelving; Christine Hubbard Pickett papers
• Kristina Pueschel, 2004 (September 2003-April 2004): Physical Education Dept. records; President's Office records; processing of items from accessions; supervising student assistants; updating of Archives budget information; computer troubleshooting; reference questions
• Denista Tilkidjieva, 2005 (November 2003-Jaunary 2004): electronic historical atlas project
• Allision Trzop, 2004 (September 2003-April 2004): reference questions; finished processing Laura D. Ward papers, Mary D. Ward Papers, Edith Coon Papers, Karen Jackson Williams Papers, Helen Barnes Papers, Ruth Rafferty Papers, Isabelle Thomas Papers
  

Interns from the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Program at MHC

• Vickie Williams (fall 2003): began processing 1 manuscript collection

• Clara R. Ludwig, Class of 1937 (September 2002-June 2003): prepared summaries of 6 manuscript collection

  Sara Rzeszutek, Class of 2003, processed papers of Mary Ellen Padin,Class of 1947, during the summer of 2003

Policies and Procedures

Reading Room Sign-In Form new
All guests visiting the Archives and Special Collections sign-in with their name, date, time, purpose for visit and affiliation. This data allows for quick analysis of use of the collections, informing how to staff the reading room and the hours we are open to the public.

Meeting Maker calendar for Arch/Spec
Created a new calendar for all staff and students to keep track of hours on the Reference Desk.

Professional Activities

• P Carini and P Albright attended the fall meeting of New England Archivists at the University of Connecticut
• P Albright participated in an "Advanced Reference" workshop offered by New England Archivists and attended other programs at the New England Archivists spring meeting in Worcester, Mass.
• P Albright completed another course at Holyoke Community College as part of her work toward a certificate from the American Management Association
• J. King renewed memberships in the Society of American Archivists and the American Library Associations’ Association of College and Research Libraries’ Rare Books and Manuscript Section (ALA ACRL RBMS)

APPENDIX 1

REFERENCE DETAILS

100 forms were completed representing the use of 139 honors papers; 3 forms were completed for the use of 3 Masters theses. 2002/2003: 97 forms were completed representing the use of 154 honors papers; 3 forms were completed for the use of 3 Masters Theses

Forms completed by Mount Holyoke students: 455 forms by 153 people.
2002/2003: 267 forms by 138 people

Forms completed by Mount Holyoke faculty: 33 forms by 21 people.
2002/2003: 57 forms by 23 people

Forms completed by Mount Holyoke staff: 12 forms by 7 people.
2002/2003: 9 form by 8 people

Forms completed by Mount Holyoke family members: None.
2002/2003: 6 forms by 6 people

Forms completed by Mount Holyoke alumnae: 64 forms by 49 people.
2002/2003: 41 forms by 30 people

Forms completed reflecting use by Mount Holyoke offices/departments: 107 forms for 25 offices/departments. 2002/2003: 123 forms for 14 offices/departments

 

In 2003/2004 the following offices and departments used the Archives (one form was completed for each office/department unless otherwise indicated):

Admissions Office (2 forms)
Alumnae Association (12 forms)
Alumnae Quarterly (12 forms)
Art Museum (16 forms)
Biological Sciences Department
Botanic Garden (3 forms)
Career Development Center (2 forms)
Dean of the College
Dean of the Faculty’s Office
Development Office (6 forms)
Enrollment Office
Facilities Management Office (5 forms)
Institutional Research Office
International Affairs Office
LITS (10 forms)
Office of Communications (16 forms)
Physical Education Department
Politics Department
President’s Office (2 forms)
Psychology and Education Department
Registrar’s Office (8 forms)
Sociology Department
Theatre Arts Department
Weissman Center for Leadership

Forms completed by faculty at other institutions:
50 forms by 33 people from 30 institutions
2002/2003: 64 forms by 48 people from 40 institutions/organizations (the affiliations of 3 people were unknown).

In 2003/2004 faculty from the following institutions used the collection (one person and one form completed per institution, unless otherwise indicated):

Bucknell University
Case Western Reserve University
Central Michigan University
City University of New York
College of St. Elizabeth
Fuller Theological Seminary
Goucher College (8 forms)
Hampshire College
Manchester College
Michigan State University (3 forms)
Middle Tennessee State University (2 forms)
National-Louis University
Northwestern University
Pennsylvania State University
Sage College
Saint Mary's University (Nova Scotia) (3 forms)
Shenandoah University (2 forms)
Tokyo Woman's Christian University
University of California at Los Angeles
University of Costa Rica
University of Massachusetts at Amherst (9 forms)
University of Miami
University of Oklahoma
University of Rochester
University of Tennessee
University of Texas at Austin
University of Waterloo (Canada)
University of York (UK)
Urbana University (Ohio)
Washington University
Wellesley College

Forms completed by staff at other organizations:
58 forms by 49 people at 45 organizations.
2002/2003: 46 forms by 39 people at 38 organizations

In 2003/2004 staff from the following institutions used the collection (one person and one form completed per organization, unless otherwise indicated; the affiliation of one person was unknown)

American Board in Turkey
Amherst College
Authentic Entertainment (3 forms)
Bedford/St. Martin's
Boston Athenauem
California State University at Northridge
Canal Gallery & Artist Studios (Holyoke, Mass.) (2 forms)
Claremont Historic Resources (3 forms)
Daughters of the American Revolution Museum
Deerfield Valley Refab
Dickinson Homestead
Financial Times
First Congregational Church of South Hadley
Harvard University
Historic Deerfield, Inc.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Houghton Mifflin Company
Ideals Publications
Institute for International Education
John P. Parker Museum
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Kentucky Historical Society
Middle Tennessee State University
Millbrook Press
Mosier Elementary School (South Hadley, Mass.)
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts (London)
Newbridge Educational Publishing
Ockenga Institute
Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Redeemer University College (Canada)
Robertson Laboratories (UK)
Rosen Publishing Group
Simmons College
Travel + Leisure Magazine
United States National Student Association
University Press of New England
WCET-TV (Ohio)
WGBH-TV(Boston)
WGBY-TV (Springfield, Mass.) (6 forms)
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Wistariahurst Museum (Holyoke, Mass.)
Woodbridges Restaurant (South Hadley, Mass.) (2 forms)

Forms completed by students at other schools: 94 forms by 50 students at 37 schools (the schools for 3 people were unknown).
2002/2003: 56 forms by 38 students at 26 schools (the schools for 3 people were unknown).

In 2003/2004 students from the following schools used the collection (one person and one form completed per school, unless otherwise indicated):

Amherst College (2 forms)
Auburn University
Beijing Foreign Studies University (China)
Brown University (5 forms)
Case Western Reserve University (3 forms)
Charleston Southern University
Chisago Lakes Middle School (Illinois)
Deerfield Academy
Fieldston School (New York)
Florida State University
Hampshire College (3 forms)
Harvard University
Hingham (Mass.) High School
Indiana University
Kyoto University
Leipzig Universitat (Germany)
Middlebury College
Pennsylvania State University
Prane Central High School (Illinois)
Smith College (2 forms)
Springfield Technical Community College
Temple University
Texas Tech University
Universidade De Sao Paulo (Brazil)
University of California at Santa Barbara
University of Chicago (18 forms)
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Massachusetts at Amherst (17 forms)
University of Michigan (7 forms)
University of Minnesota
University of New Hampshire-Manchester
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (4 forms)
University of St. Thomas
University of Virginia
Washington University
Westminster College
Yale University

Forms completed by "miscellaneous outside" researchers: 115 forms by 74 people.
2002/2003: 69 forms by 64 people

RESEARCH TOPICS OF NOTE

Research by Mount Holyoke students

• Correspondence of Mary Browning Nelson, Class of 1951 and statistical information about members of the Class of 1955 (19 students in Sociology 224, Practicing Sociology: Archival and Field Methods for Sociology Majors, Eleanor Townsley, instructor)
• Aspects of Mount Holyoke's history especially as reflected by the campus (10 students in History 283, Mapping the Memorable: A Cultural and Environmental History of the Mount Holyoke College Campus, Robert Schwartz, instructor)
• History of the Entretiens de Pontigny conferences at MHC during World War II (5 students in Art History 110, Art, Architecture, and Exile, Karen Koehler, instructor; 2 students in English 101, Pontigny at Mount Holyoke, Christopher Benfey, instructor; 3 students in German Studies 100, Memories of War and Exile: The Second World War in Photographs, Memoirs, and Fiction, Karen Remmler, instructor; 4 students in English 202, Introduction to Journalism, Martha Ackmann, instructor)
• Topics relating to the academic and cultural history of MHC (8 students in English 101, History of Education, Sarah Willburn, instructor)
• Correspondence of alumnae missionaries in Africa and India (6 students in History 338, Gender and Empire: Masculinities, Feminisms, and the Making of Imperial Authority, Durba Ghosh, instructor)
• Mount Holyoke College and the Vietnam War (4 students in English 101, Gender and War, Leah Glasser, instructor)
• Physical education and athletics at Mount Holyoke (3 students in Art History 301, Exhibiting the Female Athlete, Marianne Doezema, instructor)
• Frances Perkins and labor reform, Amy Hewes and work by women during World War II, and alumnae who worked as secretaries (3 students in History 381, American Labor History: the Struggle for Justice, Robert Weir, instructor)
• Political activities of Mary E. Woolley and MHC students (3 students in History 381, American Radicalism, Daniel Czitrom, instructor)
• Experiences of American women during World War II (3 students in History 171, American People Since 1865, Daniel Czitrom, instructor)
• History of student activism at MHC (2 students, for Women's Studies Program independent studies)
• Ecological history of Prospect Hill (1 student for an Environmental Studies independent study)

Research by Mount Holyoke faculty

• Refugee faculty and foreign students at MHC during World War II (Karen Remmler, Co-Director of the Weissman Center for Leadership, for remarks given at the Entretiens de Pontigny conference in November and for her own research)
• History of the Entretiens de Pontigny conferences (Christopher Benfey, Co-Director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and English professor, for an article published in Travel + Leisure Magazine)
• Playwrights Wendy Wassterstein, Class of 1971, and Suzan-Lori Parks, Class of 1985 (John Lemly, English, for a talk to alumnae and a scholarly article)
• Photographs relating to the history of the MHC Glee Club (for a Glee Club newsletter compiled by Catharine Melhorn, Music)
• Lives of MHC dance faculty from 1980 to the present (Charles Flachs, Dance, for an exhibit celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Five College Dance Program)

Research by Mount Holyoke staff

• History physical education and athletics at MHC (Marianne Doezema, Director of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, for an exhibit about "The Sporting Woman: The Female Athelete and American Culture")
• History of MHC buildings and the campus (Marietta Clement, for the Geographic Information Systems component of the electronic historical atlas of the College project)

Research by or for Mount Holyoke offices/departments

• Admissions Office, for a Web site concerning the history of the Harriet Newhall Center
• Art Museum, for exhibits about Entretiens de Pontigny and women in athletics
• Biological Sciences Department, for a Web site and a memorial service concerning Professor Isabelle B. Sprague
• Botanic Garden, for a Web site concerning campus trees
• Dean of the College, concerning the history of the honor code
• Dean of the Faculty's Office, concerning the history of race relations at MHC
• Development Office, for a fund-raising brochure that features photographs from the Archives
• Facilities Management Office, for a replanting project along the lakes on campus, the renovation of Safford Hall, and the restoration of the Field Memorial Gateway
• Five College Women's Studies Center, for a Web site featuring photographs of women at MHC between 1900 and the 1920s
• Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly, for articles about Entretiens de Pontigny, golf and the Orchards golf course, interdisciplinary programs, dining on campus, and deceased faculty members
• Office of Communications for "Take the Lead!" program brochure, an Admissions Office brochure, and College Street Journal articles about the golf and the Orchards golf course; scholarships, fellowships and prizes for students, the Frances Perkins Program, Mount Holyoke in the early 1950s, and deceased faculty members
• Politics Department and Psychology and Education Department, for sections of departmental reports concerning honors work in those disciplines

Research by Mount Holyoke alumnae

• History of town-gown relations (Irene Cronin, Class of 1943, for a book published in conjunction with South Hadley's 250th anniversary celebration)
• Life of former MHC president David B. Truman (Mary Tuttle, Class of 1937, for a memorial service)
• MHC between 1949-1953 (Eva S. Moseley, Class of 1953, for an autobiography)
• MHC during the 1980s (Julia Liberman, Class of 2000, for a novel)
  

Research by other students

• Science faculty at MHC (Joshua Palmer, a research assistant for Miriam Levin, Case Western Reserve University, for a book)
• Sex education at women's colleges (E. Pailin Hornbeck Gaither, Brown University, for a dissertation)
• College women and sexuality (Babette Faehmel, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, for a dissertation and Debra Michaud, a University of Chicago graduate student, for a course paper)
• Writing by women in the mid-19th century (Suzanne Spring, University of Michigan, for a dissertation)
• History of missionary work in south Asia (Sunmi Park, Kyoto University, for a dissertation)
• Nancy Brown, Class of 1892, as an early advice columnist (Anne Danahy, Pennsylvania State University, for a Master's thesis and Amanda Squire, Amherst College, for an independent study)
• Mary Lyon and her educational influence on MH (Darra Tolle, a Westminster College graduate student, for a presentation in a History & Philosophy of Education course)
• Diet of college women during the 19th century (Ilana Richman, Harvard University, for a senior thesis)
• History of anti-imperialism in the U.S. during the 19th century (Sam Baden, Hampshire College, for a Division III paper)
• Life of China missionary Katharine Merrill, Class of 1917 (1 student in History 594M, Massachusetts Greats: Biographical Writing, Anne Clark, instructor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
• History of Mountain Day at MHC (Jennifer Negro, for a University of Massachusetts at Amherst course paper about traditions)
• History of MHC in the early 1970s (background information for a production of Wendy Wasserstein's play, Uncommon Women and Others at Florida State University)
• American volunteers in Europe during World War I (Phoebe Robinson, Deerfield Academy, for a paper)
• Mount Holyoke alumnae who served as teachers of freedman after the Civil War (Jennifer Brady, Hingham, Mass. High School, for a National History Day paper)

Research by other faculty

• History of science faculty at MHC (Miriam Levin, Case Western Reserve University, for a book)
• Alumnae missionary work among Native Americans (Jeanne Kay Guelke, MHC Class of 1971, University of Waterloo, Canada for a book)
• Women and religion in 19th century America (Anne B. Clark, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, for a book)
• History of Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs at colleges (Olivia Bloechl, Bucknell University, for a book)
• Sylvia Plath and Marianne Moore at the 1955 Kathryn Irene Glascock Poetry Prize contest (Vivian Pollak, Washington University, for an article)
• Life of Costa Rican social reformer, educator and philanthropist Hilda Apuy, MHC Special Student 1943/44 (Manuel Araya-Incera, University of Costa Rica, for a documentary)
• Life of Viola Barnes, historian and MHC history faculty (John Reid, Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, for a biography)
• History of Ipswich Female Seminary (Nancy Bunge, Michigan State University, for an edited edition of letters written by an Ipswich student)
• Experiences of Chinese men sent to the U.S. to be educated between 1872-1881 who were assisted by MH alumnae (Edward Rhoads, University of Texas at Austin, for a book)
• Development of American sociology at women's colleges (2 faculty members at Middle Tennessee State University)
• History of the MHC Astronomy Department (William Irvine, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, for a book about astronomy at the Five Colleges)
• Early connections between MH and Wellesley College (Ann Congleton, Wellesley College, for a book about the early history of Wellesley)
• Associations between Jane Addams and MHC (Louise Knight, Northwestern University, for a biography of Addams)
• Life of Bertha Mellish, x-Class of 1899 (Gail Husch, Goucher College, for a novel)

Research by other staff

• History of the Field Memorial Gateway (Deerfield Valley Refab, for a renovation of that structure)
• History of the Entretiens de Pontigny conferences at MHC during World War II (Travel + Leisure Magazine request for photographs to illustrate an article written by Christopher Benfey, English faculty and Co-Director of the Weissman Center for Leadership)
• History of the Orchards golf course (WGBY-TV, the Springfield, Mass. PBS station, for a documentary and Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, Mass. for an exhibit, both in conjunction with the U.S. Women's Open tournament at the course)
• Life of Hortense Parker, Class of 1883, the first black women known to have attended Mount Holyoke (for a publication and documentary about the Underground Railroad prepared by WCET-TV, a PBS station in Ohio)
• Ghost stories and other traditions at MHC (Authentic Entertainment staff, for a Travel Channel program featuring the College)
• Photographs of Virginia Apgar, Class of 1929, developer of the Apgar Score for assessing the health of newborns (WGBH-Boston public television station, for a web site featuring notable women)
• Life and influence of Mary Lyon (Debbie Boehner, a Mosier Elementary School teacher preparing a 3rd grade biography of Lyon for use by her students)
• Lives of scholars assisted by the Institute for International Education Scholar Rescue Fund during World War II (Elizabeth Arleo, a consultant for that organization who is looking for information about the descendants of those individuals)
• "The Art of Baseball" (for an exhibit at the Canal Gallery and Artist Studios in Holyoke, Mass.)

Research by others

• Analysis of objects found during excavations of the Seminary Building site by students in archaeology classes at MHC, 1997 and 1998 (Patricia Mangan, instructor for the courses, for an article)
• The development of and changes in the curriculum of MHC (John Fellows, for a comparative study of the 5 Colleges)
• History of the school in Persia founded by Fidelia Fiske, Class of 1842 (Fara Faramarzpour and Turan Tuman, for a book)
• Robert Frost's visits to MHC (Stewart Lyndh, for a biography)

Submitted by Jennifer King
Head of Archives and Special Collections
August 19, 2004