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Office of the Provost. Vice Provost for University Life Women's Oral History Project

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Call Number:
UPA 6.11
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Extent:
5 cubic feet
Language:
English
Date:
1949-1983 (inclusive)
Abstract:

The Oral History Project documents the experiences of over 100 prominent female University of Pennsylvania students, administrators, faculty and faculty family members.

An Advisory Board to the Vice Provost for University Life began the project in 1983 to tape the history of women at the University over the previous six decades. Included are budget estimations, steering committee meeting minutes and narrator and interviewee guides and lists. These documents mainly chronicle the organization of the project and its attempt to enlist the support of the University community. A handbook for interviewers was also compiled as a reference aid for the oral histories.

The biographical material consists of newspaper clippings and other articles about each of the women interviewed on tape. These portfolios are organized alphabetically and most include the years of involvement and University affiliation; some also describe the current profession of the woman profiled.

The tape and cassette interviews are arranged chronologically according to the person interviewed. The labeling and content of the tapes is not consistent; also included are several video taped interviews and duplicate tapes. The tapes represent primarily the recollections of the oldest University affiliates recorded during the six decade span. The project is on-going and many of the women profiled in the biographical material have yet to be recorded on tape.

Two scrapbooks round out the collection: one chronicles alumnus Rosemary Mazzatenta's experiences at the School of Education 1949-1953, and the other records the founding of the first professional educational sorority at the University (Kappa Delta Epsilon, 1951-1953).

The information for the Oral History Project is arranged in four series. They include: Information on the Organization of the Project (Box #1), Biographical Material, Narrator and Interviewer Binders (Box #2), Tape and Cassette interviews (Box #3 and #4), Video Cassettes (Box #4), and Scrapbooks (Box #5).

The first series is arranged chronologically, while the remaining series are organized alphabetically.

These papers, tapes, cassettes and scrapbooks were transferred to the University of Pennsylvania Archives and Records Center from Dr. R. Jean Brownlee, Dean of Women, 1989, and from the Penn Women's Center, 1990.

On the web. Dates go to 1983, No restricted material.

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Finding Aid Author
Tina Goldberg Under the direction of Theresa R. Snyder
Finding Aid Date
March 1991
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Articles: History Articles.
Box 1 Folder 1
Articles: Related Articles.
Box 1 Folder 2
Articles: Methods Bibliography.
Box 1 Folder 3
Audiovisual Center.
Box 1 Folder 4
Old Versions of Handbook.
Box 1 Folder 5
Beginning Materials: Materials.
Box 1 Folder 6
Beginning Materials: Objectives.
Box 1 Folder 7
Beginning Materials: Statement.
Box 1 Folder 8
Budget: 1983-1984.
Box 1 Folder 9
Budget: Past Budget.
Box 1 Folder 10
Budget: NHPRC Grant Application.
Box 1 Folder 11
Interviewers: Correspondence.
Box 1 Folder 12
Interviewers: Interviewer Lists.
Box 1 Folder 13
Interviewers: Workshop: Handbook Drafts.
Box 1 Folder 14
Interviewers: Workshop: Interview Documents Packet.
Box 1 Folder 15
Interviewers: Workshop: Log for Tape Registration.
Box 1 Folder 16
Interviewers: Workshop: Materials.
Box 1 Folder 17
Interviewers: Workshop: Suggested Questions for Interviewers.
Box 1 Folder 18
Narrators: Correspondence.
Box 1 Folder 19
Narrators: Inventory Lists.
Box 1 Folder 20
Narrators: Legal Agreements (blank).
Box 1 Folder 21
Narrators: Narrator Lists.
Box 1 Folder 22
OHP Contacts: Alumnae Association.
Box 1 Folder 23
OHP Contacts: Brochure Distribution.
Box 1 Folder 24
OHP Contacts: Brochure Returns.
Box 1 Folder 25
OHP Contacts: OH-MAR Notes.
Box 1 Folder 26
OHP Contacts: Outreach Correspondence.
Box 1 Folder 27
Research Review.
Box 1 Folder 28
Steering Committee: Attendance Checklists.
Box 1 Folder 29
Steering Committee: Attendance: Past Mtgs.
Box 1 Folder 30
Steering Committe: Correspondence: Potential Members.
Box 1 Folder 31
Steering Committee: Correspondence: Committee.
Box 1 Folder 32
Steering Committee: Membership.
Box 1 Folder 33
Steering Committee: Minutes: 5-82 to 8-82.
Box 1 Folder 34
Steering Committee: Minutes: 8-82 to 11-83.
Box 1 Folder 35
Steering Committee: Minutes: Written Committee Notes and Related Correspondence.
Box 1 Folder 36
Transcription Services and Transcriptions.
Box 1 Folder 37
Work Study.
Box 1 Folder 38
Biographical Material: Neysa Cristol Adams.
Box 2 Folder 1
Biographical Material: Jean Shaw Adelman.
Box 2 Folder 2
Biographical Material: Sadie Alexander.
Box 2 Folder 3
Biographical Material: Tobe Amsterdam.
Box 2 Folder 4
Biographical Material: Fanchon Marks Apfel.
Box 2 Folder 5
Biographical Material: Norma Savin Ashbrook.
Box 2 Folder 6
Biographical Material: Dorothy L. Barbieri.
Box 2 Folder 7
Biographical Material: Helen R. Barnshaw.
Box 2 Folder 8
Biographical Material: Muriel I. Barr.
Box 2 Folder 9
Biographical Material: Audrey Bedford.
Box 2 Folder 10
Biographical Material: Emma Beerman.
Box 2 Folder 11
Biographical Material: Erika Behrend.
Box 2 Folder 12
Biographical Material: Dr. Mary Bennett.
Box 2 Folder 13
Biographical Material: Candice Bergen.
Box 2 Folder 14
Biographical Material: Emma Beven.
Box 2 Folder 15
Biographical Material: Lillian Blackman.
Box 2 Folder 16
Biographical Material: Stella Botelho.
Box 2 Folder 17
Biographical Material: Alicia Boyd.
Box 2 Folder 18
Biographical Material: Norma Braun.
Box 2 Folder 19
Biographical Material: R. Jean Brownlee.
Box 2 Folder 20
Biographical Material: Julia Bukowski.
Box 2 Folder 21
Biographical Material: Elizabeth Rossiter Carfagno.
Box 2 Folder 22
Biographical Material: Dorothy Chaney.
Box 2 Folder 23
Biographical Material: Wanda Chocallo.
Box 2 Folder 24
Biographical Material: Ellen Churchill.
Box 2 Folder 25
Biographical Material: Helena Clark.
Box 2 Folder 26
Biographical Material: Dr. Mildred Cohn.
Box 2 Folder 27
Biographical Material: Eleanor Cox.
Box 2 Folder 28
Biographical Material: Dorothy Crawford.
Box 2 Folder 29
Biographical Material: Mary Lyon Crooks.
Box 2 Folder 30
Biographical Material: Virginia Curtin.
Box 2 Folder 31
Biographical Material: Helen Dechert.
Box 2 Folder 32
Biographical Material: Pauline Dengler.
Box 2 Folder 33
Biographical Material: Carolyn Dosker.
Box 2 Folder 34
Biographical Material: Mary Mumford Douty.
Box 2 Folder 35
Biographical Material: Lee Ducat.
Box 2 Folder 36
Biographical Material: Dr. Marion Elderton.
Box 2 Folder 37
Biographical Material: Katherine Elsom, M.D.
Box 2 Folder 38
Biographical Material: Alice Emerson.
Box 2 Folder 39
Biographical Material: Mary Evans.
Box 2 Folder 40
Biographical Material: Virginia Ewer.
Box 2 Folder 41
Biographical Material: Alice Hubbard Frey.
Box 2 Folder 42
Biographical Material: Dr. Helen Giles.
Box 2 Folder 43
Biographical Material: Betty Gisborne.
Box 2 Folder 44
Biographical Material: Teru Nakano Graves.
Box 2 Folder 45
Biographical Material: Barbara Greenfield.
Box 2 Folder 46
Biographical Material: Molly Harnwell.
Box 2 Folder 47
Biographical Material: Carol Rodgers Harrison.
Box 2 Folder 48
Biographical Material: Pauline Sensenig Hart.
Box 2 Folder 49
Biographical Material: Mildred Heimark.
Box 2 Folder 50
Biographical Material: Virginia K. Henderson.
Box 2 Folder 51
Biographical Material: Thelma Hon.
Box 2 Folder 52
Biographical Material: Grace M. Hopper.
Box 2 Folder 53
Biographical Material: Holly James.
Box 2 Folder 54
Biographical Material: Katherine Jones.
Box 2 Folder 55
Biographical Material: Esther Kahn.
Box 2 Folder 56
Biographical Material: Dr. Rajunder Kaur.
Box 2 Folder 57
Biographical Material: Mildred Keil.
Box 2 Folder 58
Biographical Material: Ann Elizabeth Kelley.
Box 2 Folder 59
Biographical Material: Lois Isabelle King.
Box 2 Folder 60
Biographical Material: Laura R.M. Klein.
Box 2 Folder 61
Biographical Material: Virginia Knauer.
Box 2 Folder 62
Biographical Material: Laureine Knight.
Box 2 Folder 63
Biographical Material: Fay Fetterolf Kramer.
Box 2 Folder 64
Biographical Material: Kristin Hunter Lattany.
Box 2 Folder 65
Biographical Material: Phoebe Leboy.
Box 2 Folder 66
Biographical Material: Sydney Lefkoe.
Box 2 Folder 67
Biographical Material: Anne S. Lenox.
Box 2 Folder 68
Biographical Material: Elizabeth Kelly LeVine.
Box 2 Folder 69
Biographical Material: Sara Lee Lippincott.
Box 2 Folder 70
Biographical Material: Irma Spritz Lustig.
Box 2 Folder 71
Biographical Material: Ann Matter.
Box 2 Folder 72
Biographical Material: Margaret Mainwaring.
Box 2 Folder 73
Biographical Material: Rosemary Mazzatenta.
Box 2 Folder 74
Biographical Material: Margaret McGowan.
Box 2 Folder 75
Biographical Material: Mary Ann Meyers.
Box 2 Folder 76
Biographical Material: Margie Meyerson.
Box 2 Folder 77
Biographical Material: Marjorie Margolis Mezvinsky.
Box 2 Folder 78
Biographical Material: Ruth Weir Miller.
Box 2 Folder 79
Biographical Material: Warren Shafer Miller.
Box 2 Folder 80
Biographical Material: Andrea Mitchell.
Box 2 Folder 81
Biographical Material: Juanita Jackson Mitchell.
Box 2 Folder 82
Biographical Material: Barbara Moxon.
Box 2 Folder 83
Biographical Material: Emily Hartshorne Mudd.
Box 2 Folder 84
Biographical Material: Emma Mullen.
Box 2 Folder 85
Biographical Material: Guna S. Mundheim.
Box 2 Folder 86
Biographical Material: Genevieve McDermott Murphy.
Box 2 Folder 87
Biographical Material: Elaine H. Nagler.
Box 2 Folder 88
Biographical Material: Faye Olivieri.
Box 2 Folder 89
Biographical Material: Mary Monaghan O'Neil.
Box 2 Folder 90
Biographical Material: Maureen Parris.
Box 2 Folder 91
Biographical Material: Etta Pettyjohn.
Box 2 Folder 92
Biographical Material: A. Dorothea Pohlman.
Box 2 Folder 93
Biographical Material: Marian Pond.
Box 2 Folder 94
Biographical Material: Ruth Ann Price.
Box 2 Folder 95
Biographical Material: Dorothy Stanert Race.
Box 2 Folder 96
Biographical Material: Natalie Saxe Randall.
Box 2 Folder 97
Biographical Material: Marjorie Osterlund Rendell.
Box 2 Folder 98
Biographical Material: Sonya Richman.
Box 2 Folder 99
Biographical Material: Kathryn Steed Riordin.
Box 2 Folder 100
Biographical Material: Alice Lowengrund Rosenthal.
Box 2 Folder 101
Biographical Material: Lynn Salvage.
Box 2 Folder 102
Biographical Material: Anita Sama.
Box 2 Folder 103
Biographical Material: Alta Grant Samuels.
Box 2 Folder 104
Biographical Material: Dr. Loretta Esposito Scuderi.
Box 2 Folder 105
Biographical Material: Evelyn Ay Sempier.
Box 2 Folder 106
Biographical Material: Sara Spedden Senior.
Box 2 Folder 107
Biographical Material: Norma Levy Shapiro.
Box 2 Folder 108
Biographical Material: Marciarose Shestack.
Box 2 Folder 109
Biographical Material: Louise Proehl Shoemaker.
Box 2 Folder 110
Biographical Material: Rheva Shryock.
Box 2 Folder 111
Biographical Material: Clare Spackman.
Box 2 Folder 112
Biographical Material: Anne Speirs.
Box 2 Folder 113
Biographical Material: Bonnie Stern Squires.
Box 2 Folder 114
Biographical Material: Ione Apfelbaum Strauss.
Box 2 Folder 115
Biographical Material: Lucy Artman Stretch.
Box 2 Folder 116
Biographical Material: Nancy Leech Sweeten.
Box 2 Folder 117
Biographical Material: Barbara Singer Thomas.
Box 2 Folder 118
Biographical Material: Barbara Fox Thornton.
Box 2 Folder 119
Biographical Material: Marietta Peabody Tree.
Box 2 Folder 120
Biographical Material: Helen Whitney Vittorini.
Box 2 Folder 121
Biographical Material: Dr. Ingrid Waldron.
Box 2 Folder 122
Biographical Material: Patricia Wade Wales.
Box 2 Folder 123
Biographical Material: Carol Ann Trimble Weisenfeld.
Box 2 Folder 124
Biographical Material: Barbara Wilson.
Box 2 Folder 125
OHP: Narrator File Binder.
Box 2 Folder 125
OHP: Interview Schedule Binder.
Box 2 Folder 125
OHP: Miscellaneous to be Filed.
Box 2 Folder 126
Tape: Sadie Alexander interviewed by Lucy Hackney.
Box 3
Tape: Gloria Allred interview by Susan Cary Nicholas and Nancy Weiss.
Box 3
Tape: Muriel Barr interviewed by Althea Hottel.
Box 3
Tape: Doris Bolger interviewed by Mary Elizabeth Ruwell (DVD copy).
Box 3
Tape: Doris Bolger interviewed by Mary Elizabeth Ruwell, part 2 (DVD).
Box 3
Tape: R. Jean Brownlee interviewed by Ann Matter.
Box 3
Tape: R. Jean Brownlee interviewed by Ann Matter part 2.
Box 3
Tape: Dr. Mildred Cohn interviewed by Rena Burstein.
Box 3
Tape: Dr. Mildred Cohn interviewed by Rena Burstein part 2.
Box 3
Tape: Eleanor M. Cox interviewed by Dilys Winegrad.
Box 3
Tape: Dorothy Crawford interviewed by Barbara Bravo.
Box 3
Tape: Dr. Helen Octavia Dickens interviewed by Beth Brown.
Box 3
Tape: Caroline Dosker interviewed by Dilys Winegrad.
Box 3
Tape: Caroline Dosker interviewed by Dilys Winegrad part 2.
Box 3
Tape: Dr. Rose Green interviewed by Anna Marie Raimondo.
Box 3
Tape: Dr. Ruth Hayre interviewed by Alicia Boyd.
Box 3
Tape: Carry Hochsteadt interviewed by Lillian Blackman.
Box 3
Tape: Althea Hottel (copy).
Box 3
Tape: Althea Hottel interviewed by Ann Matter.
Box 3
Tape: Fay Fetteroff Kramer interviewed by Althea Hottel.
Box 3
Tape: Ruth Malloy.
Box 3
Tape: Ann Matter interviewed by Althea Hottel.
Box 3
Tape: Barbara Moxon interviewed by Althea Hottel part 2.
Box 3
Tape: Barbara Moxon interviewed by Althea Hottel part 3.
Box 3
Tape: Barbara Moxon interviewed by Althea Hottel part 4.
Box 3
Tape: Emily Mudd interviewed by Dilys Winegrad.
Box 3
Tape: Emily Mudd interviewed by Dilys Winegrad part 2.
Box 3
Tape: Emily Mudd interviewed by Dilys Winegrad part 3.
Box 3
Tape: Evelyn Read interviewed by Betty Small.
Box 3
Tape: Rheva Ott Shryock interviewed by Althea Hottel.
Box 3
Tape: Rheva Ott Shryock interviewed by Althea Hottel part 2.
Box 3
Tape: Ruth Weir Miller interviewed by Althea Hottel.
Box 3
Tape: Margaret Wettlin interviewed by Lucy Hackney part 1 (with a Cassette tape and a CD reproduced by Modern Audio Productions in 2006 December).
Box 3
Tape: Margaret Wettlin interviewed by Lucy Hackney part 2 (with a Cassette tape and a CD reproduced by Modern Audio Productions in 2006 December).
Box 3
Tape: Barbara Wischon (Moxon) interviewed by Althea Hottel (master).
Box 3
Cassette: Gloria Allred.
Box 3
Cassette: Doris Bolger and Mary Ruwell.
Box 3
Cassette: Doris Bolger and Mary Ruwell part 2.
Box 3
Cassette: Doris Bolger and Mary Ruwell (copy).
Box 3
Cassette: Dorothy Crawford with Barbara Bravo.
Box 3
Cassette: Dorothy Crawford with Barbara Bravo (copy).
Box 3
Cassette: Dr.Rose Green with Anna Marie Raimondo.
Box 3
Cassette: Dr. Rose Green with Ann Marie Raimondo.
Box 3
Cassette: The Terri Gross Lecture side 1.
Box 3
Cassette: The Terri Gross Lecture side 2.
Box 3
Cassette: Dr. Ruth Hayre interviewed by Alicia Boyd.
Box 3
Cassette: Carrie Hochstadt interviewed by Lillian Blackman.
Box 3
Cassette: Kevin Holland.
Box 3
Cassette: Ann Kreiger and Angela Hordott part 1.
Box 3
Cassette: Angela Hordott part 2 and Richard Moron.
Box 3
Cassette: Althea Hottel by Ann Matter.
Box 3
Cassette: Althea Hottel (copy).
Box 3
Cassette: Esther Kahn part 2.
Box 3
Cassette: Marion Masland side 1.
Box 3
Cassette: Ann Matter and R. Jean Brownlee.
Box 3
Cassette: interview with Margaret McGowan.
Box 3
Cassette: Ruth Weir Miller by Craig Snyder.
Box 3
Cassette: Ruth Weir Miller by Craig Snyder part 2.
Box 3
Cassette: Ruth Weir Miller side 2 (copy).
Box 3
Cassette: Ruth Weir Miller side 3 (copy).
Box 3
Cassette: Barbara Moxon and Althea Hottel.
Box 3
Cassette: Dr. Mudd and Dr. Winegrad.
Box 3
Cassette: Dr. Mudd and Dr. Winegrad side 1.
Box 3
Cassette: Dr. Mudd and Dr. Winegrad part 2.
Box 3
Cassette: Betty Small and Evelyn Read.
Box 3
Cassette: Nancy Weiss.
Box 3
Cassette: An Interview of Gloria Allred with Susan Cary Nicholas and Nancy Weiss (Master).
Box 4
Cassette: Interview with Ruth Malloy.
Box 4
Cassette: Marion Masland interviewed by Barbara Klacsynska.
Box 4
Cassette: Althea Hottel interviewed by Ann Matter.
Box 4
Cassette: Althea Hottel interviewed by Ann Matter.
Box 4
Cassette: Esther Kahn interviewed by Dorothy Chaney.
Box 4
Cassette: Margaret McGowan.
Box 4
Cassette: Carol Tracy and Ariadne Valsamis.
Box 4
Cassette: Carol Tracy and Ariadne Valsamis.
Box 4
Cassette: Carol Tracy and Ariadne Valsamis.
Box 4
Tape: Dr. Jessie A. Rodman interviewed by Ruth Molloy with Doris Bolger slide inside wrapper: Doris Bolger and Jessie Rodman making tape.
Box 4
Video Cassette: Dawn and Wanda.
Box 4
Video Cassette: Apple, contents unknown.
Box 4
Video Cassette: Problem Solving in Groups: 11-20-80.
Box 4
Scrapbook: Rosemary D. Mazzatenta, School of Education, 1949-1953.
Box 5
1951-1953 First U. of P. chapter.
Box 5
Scrapbook: Kappa Delta Epsilon professional education sorority.
Box 5

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