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  • Classification number: 1SD
  • Title of Record Series: Publicity Office
  • Record Group: College
  • Sub Group:
  • Date: December 16, 1985
  • Accession Number:
  • Source:
  • Restrictions: none
  • Volume: 18 boxes
Description:

Records of the Publicity Office; dating from 1912 to June 1969; found in the Wellesley Collection Room in two groups upon arrival of the Archivist; including correspondence, press releases, reports, programs, pamphlets, lists, clippings, speeches, statistics, questionnaires, maps; arranged alphabetically by subject and sometimes chronologically within the individual folders; covering such topics as alumnae, buildings, Commencement, Honors Convocation, Float Night, Tree Day and other events and meetings held on campus, departments and faculty, students, financial aid and fundraising, Seven College cooperation; with material on the Clapp and Adams Inaugurations, M.I.T. Exchange and Wellesley Clubs.

Box 1
  • Academic Council: 1951, 1967-1968
  • Admissions (1957-1969) (with review of requirements 1878-1953)
  • Alumnae
  • Alumnae Association (1945-1969) (includes historical notes)
  • Alumnae Council (1934-1969)
  • American College Public Relations Association (1961-1969); American Council on Education
  • American Council on Education Research Reports: Volume 1 (1966)
  • American Council on Education Research Reports: Volume 2 (1966-1967)
  • American Council on Education Research Reports: Volume 3 (1968)
Box 2
  • American Council on Education Research Reports: Volume 4 (1969)
  • Anniversary Dinner (1959-1968), Associates
  • Baccalaureate Sermon (1961-1967)
  • Bates, Katharine Lee., Murals: Correspondence (1967-1968)
  • Bequests: Black Students
  • Budget
  • Buildings: General: Alumnae Hall; Bates and Freeman (1952); College Club
  • Buildings: General: College Hall II; Co-operative Houses (1932-1936); Dormitories; Dower House; Farsnworth (1928-1958); Green (1931-1963)
  • Buildings: Hathaway House (1926-1933); Hemenway; Homestead; Horton, Hallowell, Shepard Houses (1929-1931); Houghton Memorial Chapel; Hunnewell Gardens
  • Buildings: McAfee (1959-1962); Munger (1932-1933); Navy (1947-1961); Pendleton (1934-1936); President's House; Recreation Building
  • Buildings: Sage; Service Buildings; Severance (1926-1944); Simpson (1941-1942); Stone and Davis; Tower Court; Whitin Observatory
  • C; Campus Information
  • Campus Guides
Box 3
  • Career Services Office (1966-1969)
  • Catalog (1932-1969); Calendar (1963-1969)
  • Chapel Speakers; Charter Flights
  • Choir (1932-1969) (includes history)
  • Margaret Clapp
  • College Government Handbook; College News; Collegiate Cauldron; College Directory
Box 4
  • Commencement (1950-1965)
  • Commencement (1966-1968)
  • Commencement (1969)
  • Commencement: Speakers (1957-1967) (includes copies of speeches)
  • Conferences: Education (1949, 1952)
  • Conferences: Craigville (1969); Foreign Students Institute (1947-1950); Summer Institutes (1933-1952)
Box 5
  • Conferences: Science (1949)
  • Conferences: Carnegie (1952); Social Science (1954)
  • Comparative Guide Questionnaire; Cooperative Programs; Cornerstones; Crew; Crimson; Curriculum
  • Correspondence: Alumnae
  • Correspondence: Other Colleges; Parents (Sample)
  • Departments: Interdepartmental; Art (1926-1968); Astronomy (1940-1968); Biblical History (1926-1969)
Box 6
  • Departments: Biological Sciences (1960-1969); Botany and Bacteriology (1925-1963); Chemistry (1930-1967); Chinese
  • Departments: Education (1952-1965); Departments: English (1918-1967)
  • Departments: Economics (1926-1966); French (1931-1966); Geography (1942-1961); Geology (1926-1936)
  • Departments: German (1926-1964); Greek (1934-1968); History (1925-1963); Italian (1928-1964); Latin (1926-1960)
  • Departments: Mathematics (1926-1950); Music (1920-1967)
  • Departments: Philosophy; Physical Education (1925-1963, 1968); Physics (1936-1962); Political Science (1936-1969); Psychology (1928-1936)
Box 7
  • Departments: Sociology and Anthropology; Russian (1944-1959); Spanish (1924-1963); Speech (1927-1963); Zoology and Physiology (1935-1961)
  • Designs; Development
  • Events (1962-1968)
  • Fact Sheets
  • Faculty: Awards, Appointments and Promotions
  • Faculty: Leaves; Policy; Publications; Retirement
  • Faculty: Salaries
  • Fashions
  • Fellowships
  • Financial Aid
Box 8
  • Fellowships: Slater (1968-1969)
  • Float Night (1926-1947); Ford Foundation Project (1959-1963); Friends of the Library (1941-1947)
  • Film Festival (1966-1967)
  • Foreign Students; Freshman
  • Freshman Handbook: Class of 1971, 1972
  • Friends of Art: General (1965-1969)
  • Funds; Gifts and Grants; Graduate Students (1967-1969)
  • Funds: 75th Anniversary
  • Granddaughters and Great Granddaughters of Wellesley (Classes of 1968-1969, 1972); Hathaway House (1960-1963)
  • Head Start Program (1968)
  • History: Reference: 1914 Fire; Depression; 1938 Hurricane
Box 9
  • History: World War II
  • Honorary Degrees
  • Honors and Honors Convocations (1960-1969)
  • Honors and Honors Convocations (1939-1965)
  • Hoop Rolling (1926-1969)
  • Inauguration: Clapp, 1950
  • Inauguration: Adams, 1966
  • Infirmary (1960)
Box 10
  • Institute in Chemistry
  • International Nickel Grants; Internship Program (1950-1964); Inter-Office Memos (miscellaneous); Introductory Physical Science Program
  • Jewett Arts Center
  • Jewett Arts Center: Exhibitions (1958-1969)
  • Jewett Arts Center: Magazines
  • Jewett Arts Center: Opening (1958)
  • Junior Show (1955-1968)
Box 11
  • Junior Miss; Junior Year in North; Junior Year Abroad
  • Language Laboratory
  • Legenda; Literary Magazine; Literature Revision; Lowell Institute
  • Library: General (1928-1966)
  • Library: Building (1949-1958)
  • Library: Book Arts Laboratory (1944-1960); Browning Collection (1930-1952)
  • Library: Exhibits and Specials Collections (1924-1969)
  • Madame Chiang Kai Shek Visit (December 7-8, 1965)
  • Magazines I
Box 12
  • Magazines II
  • Mailings; Majors; MIT Co-operation (1967)
  • Maps
  • Mayling Soong Foundation (1943-1967); Madame Pandit (1966)
  • Mildred McAfee (1936-1953)
  • National Achievement Scholarship (1968)
  • National Science Foundation (1962-1965)
  • New England Colleges Fund (1954-1967)
  • New York, New Haven & Hartford RR Co (1967-1968); NSA-CIA Controversy (1967)
  • News Bureau (1912-1924); News from Wellesley (1967-1969)
  • Newspapers (1959-1967)
Box 13
  • Opening of College (1948-1968)
  • Oriental Interests (1924-1950)
  • Ellen Pendleton (1924-1936)
  • Pennants; Personnel (1954-1969)
  • Photographers
  • Picture Spreads; Policy; PUP Letters (1954-1966)
  • Placement Office (1928-64 [see also Career Services]
  • Political Opinions of Students (1924-1964); Prizes
  • Presidents (1923-1966)
  • President's Staff Meetings (1969); Procedures (1966-1969)
  • Publicity Office (history of)
Box 14
  • Questionnaires: General (1968-1969)
  • Questionnaires; Radio Stations; Rally on Curriculum (1967); Recording ("Musical Memories of Wellesley" 1959)
  • Religious Forum (1926-1966)
  • Senate Notes (1968-1969); Senior Arts Festival (1962-1967)
  • Requests (1962-1967)
  • Requests (1968)
  • Requests 1969); Reunion (1934-1942, 1966-1967)
  • Seal and Coat-of-Arms (1969)
Box 15
  • Semi-Centennial
  • Service Organization (1928-1962, 1969)
  • Seven College: Admission
  • Seven College: Booklet (Recruitment); Publicity; 1928-1929 Report
  • Seven College: Correspondence (1955-1961)
  • Seven College: Correspondence (1962-1969)
Box 16
  • Seven College: Trips
  • Seven College: Radio Program; Vocational Guidance Workshop (1962)
  • Sophomore Father's Day (1947-1967)
  • Slides
  • Speaker's Committee (1956-1969)
  • Special Programs (1968-1969)
  • Statistics: General
  • Statistics (1924-1957) (includes "Report on Questionnaires Sent to Wellesley College Alumnae" by Carolyn Shaw Bell)
  • Statistics (1958-1967)
Box 17
  • Students: Student Activism (1968)
  • Student Organizations and Societies (1924-1969)
  • Symposiums: Dante (1964); Natural Law (1965); Latin America (1963); Africa (1960)
  • Television (1953-1965); Town (Wellesley); Trustees; Tutorial Experiment (1960-1961)
  • Theater (1957-1969)
  • Theater: Experimental Theater (1963-1969); Summer Theater (1947)
  • Theater Workshop (1930-1941)
Box 18
  • Tree Day (1924-1968)
  • Tradition Night (1924-1934); U.S. Post Office (1966-1969)
  • United Board for Christian Education (1961-1965); Vassar; Viewbook (1968)
  • WBS (1942-1963); Washington Internship Program (1942-1968)
  • Wellesley Clubs
  • Wellesley Weekend (1956-1966); Winter Carousel (1927-1958); WISO Wellesley Independent Study Opportunity (1957-1963)
  • Wilson Lectures (1962-1968)
  • Winter Weekend (1968-1969)
  • White House Fellows (1968)

Created By: Dorothy Brown '09 || Maintained By: Wilma Slaight and Ian Graham || Date Created: January 10, 2008 || Last Modified: April 24, 2008