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The Women's Center Newsletter is produced by the Women's Center of Dickinson College.
Selected highlights from this issue include:
Location: RG 9/8, 2.5.3
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1980-1999
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Women's Center Newsletter (Mar. 1984)
The Women's Center Executive Committee welcomes students back to campus and asks anyone interested in joining the Board of Directors for the Women's Center to attend a meeting.
Location: RG 9/8 - 2.5.1
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Women's Center Newsletter (Fall 1984)
This flier announces upcoming events for the 100th Anniversary of Women at Dickinson, including lectures like "A History of Women at Dickinson," seminars like "American Understandings of College Reunions As Seen In Literature and Film," panel...
Location: RG 9/8 - 2.5.2
Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Organizations, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: 100th Anniversary of Women at Dickinson
In this letter to his Uncle Allen Tanner, Robert Tanner describes his genealogical research and reconnection with distant family members. Transcript included.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F82
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Letter from Robert Tanner to Allen Tanner
This notebook details the process of scheduling and planning the 1985 Black Arts Festival, including information on budget allocations, questions for lecturers, and the formulation of an advertising campaign.
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Notes and Notebooks
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Notebook for Black Arts Festival 1985
The 1985 Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "A Cultural Celebration,” 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: "A Cultural Celebration": Black Arts Festival 1985
A program for a the Tony Award winning musical Ain’t Misbehavin’, which is performed in Mathers Theatre as part of the 1985 Black Arts Festival.
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Black Arts Festival: Ain't Misbehavin'
The Women's Center Executive Committee writes President Samuel A. Banks and reports on the activities of the Women's Center during the 1984-85 academic year. This report highlights the discussions on the role of Women's Studies in the liberal...
Location: RG 9/8 - 2.1.1
Subject: Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Reports
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Report on Activities of the Women’s Center, 1984-85
The Women's Center Newsletter is produced by the Women's Center of Dickinson College, this short issue welcomes new students, calls for student feminists for a feminist support group on campus, and informs the student body to watch for...
Location: RG 9/8 - 2.5.4
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Women's Center Newsletter (Sep. 1985)
The Hillel Newsletter is produced by the Hillel Council of Dickinson College:
Selected highlights from this issue include:
Location: RG 9/9, Series 5
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Hillel Newsletter (Oct. 1985)
Coach Wilbur J. Gobrecht's history of basketball at Dickinson between 1899 and 1985. Gobrecht is a member of the Class of 1952.
Location: DC 1952 G575ba
Subject: Dickinson College History, Sport and Recreation
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
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The Dickinson College catalog for the 1986-1987 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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This brochure outlines the schedule for the Dickinson College's Congress of African Students' 18th Black Arts Festival. Events include lectures and workshops by three artists, a jazz ensemble, a disc jockey show, and a “program of gospel music...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Black Arts Festival 1986
The 18th Annual Black Artists Festival program highlights the three artists - Willie Birch, Vincent Smith, and Gilberto Wilson - whose work is on display in the Emil R. Weiss Center of the Arts as part of the “Black Artists Living in the Mid-...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: "Black Artists Living in the Mid-Atlantic States": Black Arts Festival 1986
Coach Wilber J. Gobrecht's history of football at Dickinson College from 1970 to 1986.
Location: DC 1952 G575f2
Subject: Dickinson College History, Sport and Recreation
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
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This brochure outlines the schedule for the Dickinson College's Congress of African Students' 19th Black Arts Festival. Events include a comedy show, a film festival, a production of the musical One Mo’ Time, and a Catholic mass.
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Black Arts Festival 1987
The cover of a keepsake book produced for "Form and Content: The Art of the Book in the Pioneer Valley," an exhibition at the Northampton Center for the Arts including works by Weiss Prize recipient Leonard Baskin.
Location: I-Friends-1987-1
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
View Item: Cover of “Form and Content: The Art of the Book in Pioneer Valley”
Allen Tanner describes Margaret Anderson's reaction to being fingerprinted after her conviction for publishing obscene material in the Little Review, James Joyce's Ulysses.
Allen Tanner recalls his impressions of gay life (camp) in Chicago during the 1910s including the origin of the use of the word "drag." Transcript included.
In this essay, pianist Allen Tanner recalls the end of his relationship with his partner of 12 years, Russian artist Pavel Tchelitchew. Tanner writes: "The parting--at the station--was dreafully tragic--for his face bore the quiet, withdrawn...
In this essay draft, Allen Tanner writes about growing up in a musical family in rural Illinois, and his disappointment regarding Edith Sitwell's depiction of Pavel Tchelitchew in her autobiography. Transcript included.
In this draft essay, Allen Tanner writes about the women with whom Pavel Tchelitchew associated, including Hadley Hemingway, Russian ballerina Catherine Devilliers, and artist Stella Bowen....
In this draft essay, Allen Tanner describes Pavel Tchelitchew's artistic style, comparing his style with neo-romanticism and surrealism. Transcript included.
In this brief essay draft, Allen Tanner describes the ballet "Ode," which Pavel Tchelitchew designed the sets for. Transcript included.
In this draft Allen Tanner describes his trip to Tunisia with Pavel Tchelitchew in 1926. Transcript included.