July 2011
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Cotteyphile Updates →
Additions this week:
Added 2010s page to the timeline, including the FUTURE
Updated 2000s page with new events
Added a recent photo of Michigan suite
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savannahstreethassle replied to your post: Cottey Regulations (1936)
Sounds an awful lot like the old code of conduct for Stephens Susies form the 30’s.
That makes sense. :) I can’t imagine living under such restrictions.
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Cottey Regulations (1936)
I. Guests Guests are expected to observe college regulations. Guests should not go upstairs except by permission from the Dean of Residence.
II. Moving pictures, Plays Students may attend moving pictures or plays in the afternoons and Friday and Saturday evenings when attendance does not interfere with regular college duties or entertainments.
III. Out of Town Visits Occasional out of town visits...
June 2011
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Senior Class Prophecy, 1908
“Birdseye view of Senior Table”
Text:
At same table, the Class Prophecy, as follows, on the eve of the seventh day of May, ninteen [sic] hundred eight, was made, by our dearly beloved Patron Saint, Georgia Glover.
Juliet “old maid music teacher.”
Lucile “marry a farmer.”
Lois “starr [sic] in...
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Chellie Club Remodel
learnforlife replied to your post: learnforlife replied to your photo: The basement…
It was just an update in style. However, they also expanded the exercise room to be larger and with glass windows 4 years ago. I do think the area outside of the immediate Chellie Club needs updating though now that I think about it.
Ahh, interesting. I hadn’t realized they had already begun their...
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learnforlife replied to your photo: The basement of Hinkhouse Center is to be…
The Chellie Club was “updated” about 5 years ago I believe. Don’t know why they’re doing a remodel now, but I can understand why if they want to impress others.
That’s weird. Was it renovated, or just the style updated? It sounds like they’re changing the whole layout this time, but I could be wrong.
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that moment when people ask if you've met a guy...
allweneedismomentum:
but if you mean mostly douchey frat bros, yes.
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Waterworks
Nevada’s waterworks, which was also the town’s power plant, used to be literally a block west of Cottey at the turn of the 19th century. Imagine how smelly that was!
“Nevada Water Plant and Power House,” c. 1910, overlooking the reservoir toward the northeast:
1914 map of the waterworks and power plant: (Cottey’s Main Hall would be a block to the right.)
It...
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Basketball Photos from 1908
The Emerson basketball team sits on the steps of Rosemary Hall:
The Magnoperian basketball team on the grass-covered basketball court (likely decorated in Mag colors of green and white):
Mid-shot of a Mag-Em basketball game:
May 2011
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“The decision by the board of trustees to admit men to Cottey’s faculty and...”
– Dr. Mary Rhodes on the addition of men to the faculty of Cottey, Dried Flowers, pg. 179
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“Proffering professional status and recognition to her women faculty members by...”
– Dr. Mary Rhodes on the addition of men to the faculty of Cottey, Dried Flowers, pg. 178
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1900s Report Cards
A couple report cards of Miss Beulah Schenck, who attended Cottey College from 1904 to 1908.
Fall Semester of 1905:
The note on the side reads “Good girl. Good work.”
Spring Semester of 1908 (as a College Senior):
April 2011
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“Student pranks always have been an element of Cottey life. Addie Evans, who...”
– Dr. Mary Rhodes, “Dried Flowers: The History of Women’s Culture at Cottey College, 1884-1965,” pg. 80-81.
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“Stockard had envisioned women’s higher education as a means to achieve exalted...”
– Dr. Mary Rhodes, “Dried Flowers: The History of Women’s Culture at Cottey College, 1884-1965,” pg. 155-56.
themirrortribble asked: Re. Nimoy Gate
Can you enlighten me why students would want to boycott the lecture? Because if the audience was kind of hostile that would explain some of the things going on, I guess.
Can you enlighten me why students would want to boycott the lecture? Because if the audience was kind of hostile that would explain some of the things going on, I guess.
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Nimoy-Gate
On April 3rd, 1973, Leonard Nimoy came to Cottey. He gave an evening lecture, “The Life and Death of a Series Character”, to a full audience in Rosemary Auditorium.1,2 Nimoy was scheduled to meet informally with students at the B.I.L. Lodge earlier that day, but canceled it at the last minute.3 (Oddly, the Nevada Daily Mail states that this meeting did happen, and even recounts what was supposedly...
March 2011
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St. Patrick's Day Feast
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here’s an invitation to a Senior luncheon hosted by the Juniors in 1908. Senior Beulah Schenck describes the event:
Most beautiful and well appointed luncheon [I] have ever seen or been too [sic] – was given to Seniors by Juniors in parlors and hall. Color scheme green and white – smilax decorations – chapel in shamrocks. Refreshments great. All was formal,...
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February 2011
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Integration at Cottey College
“The subject of the admission of a Negro student was broached many times on the campus. Both faculty and students went on record as unequivocally approving an admissions policy based solely on personal character and academic preparation. Throughout its first seventy-five years, however, Cottey had no Negro student.”
-Orpha Stockard, Cottey College: The First 75 Years (pp. 115), 1961
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November 2010
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Women's Education in 1937
The whole trend in the higher education of women has been toward proving that women have intellectual equality with men. We think that has been proved. We think it has been successfully demonstrated also that women can put their disciplined intellects to work effectively at the tasks that are engaging the efforts of men. We are now ready to enter upon a new era in the education of women. We women...
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Senior Skating Party of 1908
On January 22, 1908, Cottey seniors (all 12 of them) were given the special privilege of a rollerskating party in the basement of Main Hall. The night’s activities were recorded in the campus newspaper:
THE SKATING PARTY OF THE SENIORS. More than delighted were the Seniors to receive in capitals round and jovial an invitation to skate in the divinely smooth floor of the college gymnasium to...
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The Quotes Project
Alright, I admit it. I forgot about the project I had been working on for months: a compilation of quotes about the purpose of women’s education and Cottey College through the years. Now I’m enveloped in redesigning the site, so the quotes project must take a backseat. Here’s a quote to make up for the wait:
Men’s cultural values replaced women’s cultural values at Cottey College...
August 2010
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The Perpetual Pay Gap
The following selection is taken from an article that Cottey president Evelyn Milam wrote for The P.E.O. Record in 1977. Dr. Milam not only points out the massive inequality of women’s paychecks and career opportunities, but also calls out women for buying into and perpetuating sexism by putting down other women. (Emphasis is mine.)
So far as I know there has never been any serious objection...
July 2010
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“If you mean, when you say ‘women’s lib,’ the opportunity for women to pursue...”
– Dr. Evelyn Milam, in response to being asked whether she was a member of the women’s liberation movement in 1974.
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Women in Aerospace
I was at one of my favorite places around Seattle today, the Museum of Flight, and saw Cottey alumna Dora Dougherty’s photo in a new exhibit: “Chasing Horizons: Women in Aerospace.” (She’s also featured in the museum’s WWII wing. You can see the display here.)
(Dougherty is third from left in the above photo. She was one of the first two women to pilot a B-29.)
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Answering Some Questions from 1940
In her convocation speech in September of 1940, Cottey President Marjorie Mitchell asked some critical questions about the future — so I’m gonna help her out and answer those right now:
Dr. Mitchell asks:
Shall it be Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Wilkie?
Roosevelt.
Shall we become involved in the shameful catastrophe which is Europe?
Yes.
What of our economic future? We are...
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“Many of the things which I had hoped for in life, I have never enjoyed. But –...”
– The lovely Dr. Marjorie Mitchell, Cottey President, in a convocation address to students, 1938
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Trends of Cottey Presidents
(View the high-res image here.)
This is a continuation of some of Dr. Mary Rhodes’ research of 20 years ago on “the decline of women’s culture at Cottey College.”
Note how every Cottey president was a single woman whose doctorate work focused on women — until McCarrel was appointed.
Notes:
McCarrel was chairperson of Cottey’s board of trustees in 1964,...
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“In a thousand subtle ways young women in college and even in high school are...”
– Anna L. Rose Hawkes (Dean of Cottey Students), “The Fault, Dear Brutus…”, P.E.O. Record (June 1964)
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“Yet, it’s possible these particular posts get lots of page views and comment...”
– Shelby Knox, “When Feminists Attack Other Feminists For Page Views,” Feministe.
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