1. Students do a broadcast in Cottey’s radio workshop, 1956.

    Students do a broadcast in Cottey’s radio workshop, 1956.

  2. Portrait of three members of Cottey’s faculty and staff (two men and one woman) from the 1959 yearbook. They are standing in a corridor after collecting their mail. In the background is a bulletin board with “Calendar” written on it, and a block of mailboxes.

    Portrait of three members of Cottey’s faculty and staff (two men and one woman) from the 1959 yearbook.

    They are standing in a corridor after collecting their mail. In the background is a bulletin board with “Calendar” written on it, and a block of mailboxes.

  3. "The decision by the board of trustees to admit men to Cottey’s faculty and administration undermined the status of women faculty members and administrators and eventually brought a challenge to [Cottey President Dr. Blanche Hinman] Dow’s control of college governance. The faculty of 19 included five men when Dow became president in 1949. When she left in 1965, however, 17 men and 20 women made up the faculty. Dow also added men to the administration. Only women served as administrators when she took office, but by the time she left, three men held major administrative posts—the Dean of Faculty, Registrar, and Business Manager, although a woman was Dean of Students and other women held middle management positions as Director of Public Relations and the Director of the Alumnae Office. Masculinization of Cottey brought several significant changes to the institution. Men soon came to dominate the higher ranks of the faculty and were paid more than women; faculty minutes reflect that men tended to dominate most faculty meetings; and men aggressively sought institutional changes in governance."
    Dr. Mary Rhodes on the addition of men to the faculty of Cottey, Dried Flowers, pg. 179

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