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March 28, 1984

The Women's Center Newsletter is produced by the Women's Center of Dickinson College.

Selected highlights from this issue include:

  • "Greetings from the Women's Center" 
  • Schedule of upcoming activities. 
  • Information on pre-registration for classes. 
  • Updates on the progress of the Women's Center's "Book Corner."

Format: Newspapers and Magazines

Location: RG 9/8, 2.5.3

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: Women's Center Newsletter (Mar. 1984)

Fall 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. 

Format: Newspapers and Magazines

Location: RG 9/8 - 2.5.1

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: Women's Center Newsletter (Fall 1984)

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 presentation such as " Title IX Legislation and the College Campus: What Lies Ahead?" and a presentation by Professor Ellen Rosenman entitled "Women's Work and Modern Art, or, What Do a California Housewife and a Bulgarian Avant-Garde Sculptor Have In Common?"

Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera

Location: RG 9/8 - 2.5.2

Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Organizations, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: 100th Anniversary of Women at Dickinson

November 9, 1984

In this letter to his Uncle Allen Tanner, Robert Tanner describes his genealogical research and reconnection with distant family members. Transcript included.

Format: Letters/Correspondence

Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F82

Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Personal and Family Life

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: Letter from Robert Tanner to Allen Tanner

1985

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.

Format: Notes and Notebooks

Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6

Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: Notebook for Black Arts Festival 1985

March 3-9, 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 prominent members of the African-American community and a musical production of Ain't Misbehavin'.

Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera

Location: RG 8/93, B1, F5

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: "A Cultural Celebration": Black Arts Festival 1985

March 8, 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.

Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera

Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Visual and Performing Arts

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: Black Arts Festival: Ain't Misbehavin'

May 30, 1985

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 arts curriculum, collaboration with other on-campus groups, and the Women's Center's drive to present program to the campus, including  Elisabeth Griffith lecture on her widely-acclaimed biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Format: Reports

Location: RG 9/8 - 2.1.1

Subject: Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: Report on Activities of the Women’s Center, 1984-85

September 6, 1985

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 new bulletins.

Format: Newspapers and Magazines

Location: RG 9/8 - 2.5.4

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: Women's Center Newsletter (Sep. 1985)

October 30, 1985

The Hillel Newsletter is produced by the Hillel Council of Dickinson College:

Selected highlights from this issue include:

  • Updates on a summer study abroad opportunity in "Study in Israel."
  • Shabbat dinner with Rabbi Leah Wald (Class of 1981) conducting services. 

Format: Newspapers and Magazines

Location: RG 9/9, Series 5

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Religion and Spirituality

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: Hillel Newsletter (Oct. 1985)

1986

Coach Wilbur J. Gobrecht's history of basketball at Dickinson between 1899 and 1985. Gobrecht is a member of the Class of 1952.

Format: Books and Pamphlets

Location: DC 1952 G575ba

Subject: Dickinson College History, Sport and Recreation

Time Period: 1980-1999

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1986

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 courses offered, requirements for enrollment, requirements for graduation, tuition and other fees, and campus facilities, college policies, and lists of teaching faculty, college trustees, and various administrators.

Format: Books and Pamphlets

Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals

Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education

Time Period: 1980-1999

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March 3-March 9, 1986

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.”

Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera

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

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: Black Arts Festival 1986

March 3- April 10, 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-Atlantic States” exhibition. These artists' are selected because of their themes and motivation towards raising “sensitivity” within their community. This program includes a short biography, personal statement, and paintings for each artist.

Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera

Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: "Black Artists Living in the Mid-Atlantic States": Black Arts Festival 1986

1987

Coach Wilber J. Gobrecht's history of football at Dickinson College from 1970 to 1986.

Format: Books and Pamphlets

Location: DC 1952 G575f2

Subject: Dickinson College History, Sport and Recreation

Time Period: 1980-1999

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March 5-March 8, 1987

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.

Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera

Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: Black Arts Festival 1987

March 17, 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.

Format: Books and Pamphlets

Location: I-Friends-1987-1

Subject: Visual and Performing Arts

Time Period: 1980-1999

View Item: Cover of “Form and Content: The Art of the Book in Pioneer Valley”

Undated

In this draft letter, Allen Tanner writes to author Parker Tyler to assist Tyler in writing his book The Divine Comedy of Pavel Tchelitchew. Tanner discusses the dissolution of his and Pavel Tchelitchew's friendship with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and other personal matters from their life together in Paris during the 1920s.

Format: Letters/Correspondence

Location: MC 2013.3, B2, F6

Subject: LGBT History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life

Time Period:

View Item: Letter from Allen Tanner to Parker Tyler

Undated

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.

Format: Essays and Dissertations

Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F30

Subject: Literary Pursuits

Time Period:

View Item: "Joyce Obscenity Trial" by Allen Tanner

Undated

In this letter to R. Kirk Askew, owner of the Durlacher Bros. art gallery, Allen Tanner tells Askew that he wants Askew's wife Constance to have one of Pavel Tchelitchew's drawings--the "Ode" sketch. The last page appears to be part of a different letter, or essay, and focuses on Russian music. Transcript included.

Format: Letters/Correspondence

Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F8

Subject: Visual and Performing Arts

Time Period:

View Item: Letter from Allen Tanner to Kirk Askew

Undated

In this letter to R. Kirk Askew, owner of the Durlacher Bros. art gallery, Allen Tanner discusses the sale of several Pavel Tchelitchew paintings in Askew's gallery. He also mentions his health and the death of one of Tchelitchew's sisters. Transcript included.

Format: Letters/Correspondence

Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F8

Subject: Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts

Time Period:

View Item: Letter from Allen Tanner to Kirk Askew

Undated

In this draft essay, Allen Tanner writes about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

Format: Essays and Dissertations

Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F49

Subject: Literary Pursuits

Time Period:

View Item: "Alice B. Toklas" by Allen Tanner

Undated

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.

Format: Notes and Notebooks

Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F41

Subject: LGBT History

Time Period:

View Item: Notes on Gay Life in Chicago during the 1910s by Allen Tanner

Undated

In this draft essay, Allen Tanner writes about Edith Sitwell's autobiography.

Format: Essays and Dissertations

Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F36

Subject: Literary Pursuits

Time Period:

View Item: "Edith Sitwell," by Allen Tanner

Undated

In this draft essay, Allen Tanner writes about piano technique, specifically the Cortot piano method.

Format: Essays and Dissertations

Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F34

Subject: Visual and Performing Arts

Time Period:

View Item: Piano Technique by Allen Tanner