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The Women's Resource Center Newsletter is produced by the Women's Resource Committee of Dickinson College.
Selected highlights from this issue include:
Location: RG 8/206, B1, F7
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1960-1979
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1979-1980 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1960-1979
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Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
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The Women's Resource Center Newsletter is produced by the Women's Resource Committee of Dickinson College.
Selected highlights from this issue include:
Location: RG 8/206, B1, F7
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Health and Medicine, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1960-1979
The 10th Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "Have We Overcome,” as the schedule includes a dramatic interpretation entitled, “An Evening...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F2
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Politics and Government, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1960-1979
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"Have We Overcome": Black Arts Festival 1979
The Congress of African Students (CAS) requests grant funds from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts to support their 11th Annual Black Arts Festival. The CAS argues that the festival is their "means of culturally expressing [themselves] to the...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F3
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Economics and Finance, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Financial Documents
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Project Grant for Black Arts Festival
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Location: DC 1929 W587 Bk. 1
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: "A Family Chronicle: The Story of Charles Nisbet and His Descendants," by R. Wallace White (Book 1)
A description of this item is not currently available.
Location: DC 1929 W587 Bk. 2
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: "A Family Chronicle: The Story of Charles Nisbet and His Descendants," by R. Wallace White (Book 2)
Chemist and 1979 Priestley Award recipient Melvin Calvin responds to an inquiry from Barry Fortson, explaining that the "most exciting moment in my life in chemistry" was "clos[ing] the carbon cycle one day in my head."
Location: I-Friends-1983-3
Subject: Science and Technology
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Letter from Melvin Calvin to Barry Fortson
The Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. This brochure highlights major events at the festival, including a talk by author Claude Brown, and a lecture by Benjamin Hooks, the executive director of...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F3
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Black Arts Festival 1980
The 1980 Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "Versatility in Blackness,” as the schedule includes a workshop with Gwendolyn Bradley, a...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F3
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: "Versatility in Blackness": Black Arts Festival 1980
Judith B. Jones writes to Allen Tanner regarding a biography of Edith Sitwell written by Victoria Glendinning.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F43
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Letter from Judith B. Jones to Allen Tanner
Allen Tanner writes to Victoria Glendinning regarding her biography on Edith Sitwell, and expresses his disappointment that Glendinning did not contact him for information on Sitwell.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F43
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
In this letter to author Victoria Glendinning, Allen Tanner writes about his and Pavel Tchelitchew's friendship with English poet Edith Sitwell, as well as the end of their friendship with Gertrude Stein.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F44
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
In this letter, Allen Tanner writes that he is displeased with how author Victoria Glendinning has characterized him in her biography of English poet Edith Sitwell.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F44
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
Ralph Wallace White provides 21 charts that trace the genealogy of Charles Nisbet's descendants.
Location: DC 1929 W587g
Subject: Genealogy and Family History
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1981-1982 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
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In this flier, the Congress of African Students announces the schedule for the 1981 Black Arts Festival. Events include the performance of the Chuck Davis Dance Company, a lecture from bio-chemist Dr. Richard Goldsby, and a concert by Mildred...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F3
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Black Arts Festival 1981
The 1981 Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "Versatility in Blackness,” as the schedule includes lectures by Acel Moore and ...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F3
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: "Versatility in Blackness": Black Arts Festival 1981
This flier outlines the schedule for Dickinson College's Congress of African Students' "A Black Arts Festival." Events include lectures by Oliver LaGrone and Carl B. Stokes, a Sound Entertainment party, and poetry reading from Nikki Giovanni.
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F4
Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Black Arts Festival 1982
The 1982 Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "Expression in Black,” as the schedule includes lectures by Oliver LaGrone, Carl B. Stokes,...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F4
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
The Senator II is a weekly newsletter that covers Student Senate news, sports, social events and club meetings, and announces upcoming events to the student body.
Location: RG 8/1 - 7.3.1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: The Senator II
The 1983 Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "A Message in the Arts,” as the schedule includes an art exhibition, lectures by Catti James...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F4
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: "A Message in the Arts": Black Arts Festival 1983
“An Assessment of the GPU Nuclear Corporation Organization and Senior Management and Its Competence to Operate TMI-1” by Admiral H. G. Rickover. The report provides an assessment of and recommendations for Three Mile Island following the accident...
Location: Three Mile Island Alert Collection - 4.9.9.14
Subject: Three Mile Island
Format: Reports
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Admiral Hyman George Rickover's Assessment of Three Mile Island
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1984-1985 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of...
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
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The 1984 Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "Reflections on a Culture,” as the schedule includes numerous lectures and performance from...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F5
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: "Reflections on a Culture": Black Arts Festival 1984