Examples from DePauw
Indiana Asbury-DePauw University, 1837-1937. William Warren Sweet, 1937.
LD1618.585
The American College and University. Frederick Rudolph, 1962.
LA226.1272
The First Coeds. Lilian Hughes
Neiswanger, 1935.
DPU v.f.
DePauw Publications
Alumni Directories, 1900-1995. The 1920 Alumnal Record, Martha Ridpath,
editor, contains the most complete information on alumni who graduated before
1921.
LD1615.5.A3
Various magazines including the Boulder, 1938-1952, and the humor magazines, Yellow Crab, 1920-1932 and Hoot, 1952-1957, contain stories, poetry, cartoons and photographs depicting life at DePauw.
The DePauw, 1904-present
Reunion books, 1983-1995, contain descriptions of alumni who are members of the fifth through fiftieth year reunion classes for each year. Usually included is a section for the alumnus to comment on DePauw and their life since graduation.
Manuscript Collections
Mary Ritter Beard (1897)
Historian and co-worker with husband, Charles Beard (1898). Papers include correspondence, speeches, photographs and biographical information.
Scrapbooks include notes, drawings, photographs, tickets, dance cards, ribbons,
pressed flowers, hair and other memorabilia important to the alumnus while at
DePauw. Scrapbooks in the collection include those made by the following
alumni:
Emily Gould Crockett (1907)
Natalie Coffin Sims (1919)
Helena "Pete"
Wheeler (1925)
Patricia Ann Otis (1951).
Papers by students written about women at DePauw
1. Natalie Brown. Women at DePauw: The Early Years, Alum. v.f.
2. Amy Cox. Breaking Ground: College Women in the Early 19th Century, DC1593
3. Lauren Crawford & Nichole Adams. Women at DePauw: Education and Campus Life During the 1920s, 1950s and 1980s, DC1937
4. Michael Ko & Jen Schumer. Women, DePauw, Education and the Graduating Classes of 1920, 1940 and 1960, DC1937
5. Melissa C. Martin. Women's Equality and the Sorority, Alum. v.f.
6. Laura O'Keefe. Women at DePauw, DC1279
7. Glenn T. Randolph. War for Acceptance: The First Women at Asbury University, DC481