manosca93 Smith College Medal Committee Records, 1962-[ongoing] Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Alissa Chadburn. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Smith College Archives
Northampton, MA
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 Finding aid encoded using Perl scripts and edited in XMetal 2.0. Encoded by Laura Cutter. 2003-06-09 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 manosca93 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Smith College Archives Smith College Medal Committee Records, 1962-[ongoing] Finding Aid RG 12 Alissa Chadburn 1998, 2010 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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 Collection Overview Smith College. Medal Committee. Smith College Medal Committee Records1962-[ongoing] RG 12 27 boxes (12 linear ft.) Smith College Archives
Northampton, MA
The Smith College Medal Committee records consist of minutes of Committee meetings, correspondence, press releases, news clippings, memorandums, biographical information on medalists and nominees, nominations forms, letters of recommendation, photographs of medalists and various other papers which document the Committee's complicated process of researching possible candidates and selecting Medal recipients. English. Historical Note

The Smith College Medal was first awarded in November 1964 as a means of honoring the "distinguished service" of alumnae. The Medal is awarded annually to those alumnae, and in exceptional cases, faculty, who "exemplify in their lives and service to the community or the College the true purpose of a liberal arts education."

The Smith College Medal Committee was formed in 1962 to establish the guidelines for awarding the Medal. Composed of faculty, alumnae and members of the College administration appointed by the president, the Smith College Medal Committee meets several times a year to research and present possible candidates and to choose the medal recipients. They also make preparations for the Medal Awards Ceremony held each year at Rally Day (before 1972-73 it was held in October).

Since 1964, the Committee has awarded over 150 Medals to those from a diverse range of interests and fields who have been an outstanding service to their communities and to the College.

 Scope and Contents of the Collection Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into three series:

Series I. Business Series II. Medalists Series III. Nominees

The Business series consists of material about the medals, committee business, restricted committee files, and committee preparations for the Medal Awards Ceremony. Although the smallest of the four series, it provides a look into the internal workings of the Committee. Included are items concerning the design of the medal itself, statistics on the Medalists, photographs, procedural guides for Committee members, minutes, and meeting notices.

The series also has material about the Committee's preparations for each year's Medal Awards Ceremony. For each year, these papers are divided into general, correspondence, and preparation between the medalists and the Committee. The documents detail the planning process of the event itself.

The Medalists series include a file for each medalist, ordered alphabetically by the name they received the medal under. These files include such items as a medalist's published works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and other biographical information. The restricted files include letters of recommendation, nomination forms and any other material that mentions names of those who nominated or recommended as a medal recipient.

The Nominees series are entirely restricted.

 Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Smith College Archives, with some exceptions. All boxes marked RESTRICTED contain strictly confidential information. They are open only to the College Archivists, the members of the Medal Committee, the President of the College and the Board of Trustees. Medalists may have access to their own confidential file. Confidential materials include: all nominee files, letters of recommendation and nomination forms for medalists, and any Committee document that states the names of nominees.

Permission is required for publication beyond "fair use."

 Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Smith College Medal Committee Records, Box #, Smith College Archives.

 History of the Collection

Processed by Alissa Chadburn.

 Search Terms Smith College. Medal Committee. Smith College--Awards. Smith College--Alumni and alumnae. SERIES I. BUSINESS FILES 1 1 Medal Design - Baskin 1 2 Medal Design - Offner 1 3 General n.d. 1 4 Photographs of groups of medalists 1 5 Photographs of medal 1 6 Statistics 2 1-21 Business files 1962-93

RESTRICTED

 3 1-24 Business files 1964-98

RESTRICTED

 3 Awards Ceremony Preparations 4 1 General 1964-65 4 2 General 1965-66 4 3 Preparation, Correspondence 1965-66 4 4 General 1966-67 4 5 Preparation 1966-67 4 6 General 1967-68 4 7 Correspondence 1967-68 4 8 Preparation 1968-69 4 9 Correspondence 1968-69 4 10 Preparation 1968-69 4 11 General 1969-70 4 12 Correspondence 1969-70 4 13 Preparation 1969-70 4 14 General 1970-71 4 15 Correspondence 1970-71 4 16 Preparation 1970-71 4 17 General 1971-72 4 18 Correspondence 1971-72 4 19 Preparation 1971-72 4 20 General 1972-73 4 21 Correspondence 1972-73 4 22 Preparation 1972-73 4 23 General 1973-74 4 24 Correspondence 1973-74 4 25 Preparation 1973-74 4 26 General, Correspondence 1974-75 4 27 General 1975-76 4 28 Correspondence 1975-76 4 29 Preparation 1975-76 4 30 General 1976-77 4 31 Correspondence 1976-77 4 32 Preparation 1976-77 5 1 General 1977-78 5 2 Correspondence 1977-78 5 3 Preparation 1977-78 5 4 General 1978-79 5 5 Preparation 1978-79 5 6 General 1979-80 5 7 General 1980-81 5 8 General 1981-82 5 9 General 1982-83 5 10 General 1983-84 5 11 General 1984-85 5 12 General 1985-86 5 13 General 1986-87 5 14 General 1987-88 5 15 General 1988-89 5 16 General 1989-90 5 17 Preparation 1990-91 5 18 Preparation, Correspondence 1991-92 5 19 Correspondence 1992-93 5 20 Preparation 1992-93 5 21 General 1994-95 5 22 Correspondence 1995-96 5 23 General, Correspondence 1997-98 SERIES II. MEDALISTS 6 Adachi, Barbara Curtis 1945 1986 6 Adams, Aileen 1966 1993 6 Addiss, Susan Silliman Tracy 1951 1981 6 Allensworth, Dorothy Etzensperger 1929 1980 6 Altschul, Marylin Bender 1944 1978 6 Andersen, Margret Booth 1946 1979 6 Babbott, Joan Griggs 1948 1994 6 Bailey, Ethel Z. 1911 1970 6 Bank, Mirra 1967 1970 6 Bates, Barbara 1949 1990 6 Bates, Janet MacDonald 1937 1988 6 Bauman, Margaret Lang 1960 1988 6 Bennett, Margaret Goldthwait 1921 1969 6 Benson, Lucy Wilson 1949 1969 6 Beshar, Christine von Wedemeyer 1953 1974 6 Bing, Lucia Johnson 1906 1964 6 Bissell, Nancy Keebler 1961 1991 6 Blum, Priscilla Haas 1946 1989 6 Bodden, William 1965 6 Bornholdt, Laura 1940 1987 6 Borton, Nan Darling 1962 1994 6 Bourne, Dorothy Dulles 1915 1968 6 Brinckerhoff, Constance 1963 6 Brown, Janet Welsh 1953 6 Burack, Sylvia Kamerman 1938 1995 7 Campbell, William I.P. 1978 7 Chacko, Dorothy Dunning 1925 1970 7 Chase, Julia 1964 1986

CLOSED

 7 Chester, Ruth 1914 1966 7 Child, Julia McWilliams 1934 1969 7 Clark, Eleanor MSS 1951 1965 7 Chess, Stella 1935 1999 7 Chun, Dora 1938 1981 7 Cohen, Joan Lebold 1954 1990 7 Conover, Anne Rudolph 1928 1977 7 Consagra, Sophie Chandler 1949 1986 7 Corkin, Suzanne Hammond 1959 1995 7 Curtis, Lucille Atcherson 1913 1980 7 Dale, Madeline McWhinney 1943 1971 7 Dalrymple, Bernice Barber 1910 1969 7 Darrow, Louise de Schweinitz 1918 1981

see also separate box

 7 Davinroy, Claire 1973 posthumously 7 Davis, Natalie Zemon 1949 1996 7 de Schweinitz, Dorothea 1912 1974

CLOSED, see also finding aid

 7 Desmond, Murdina MacFarquhar 1938 1993 7 Diamond, Liebe Sokol 1951 1996 7 Dillon, Joan Kent 1947 1993 8 Fanning, Katherine Woodruff 1949 1980 8 Farenthold, Sally Curtis 1959 1988 8 Fish, Marie Poland 1921 1964 8 Fogg, Helen Louise 1924 1964 8 Frantz, M. Alison 1924 1967 8 Galvin, Ruth B. Mehrtens 1942 1974 8 Gatov, Elizabeth Rudel 1933 1988 8 Giffin, Mary Elizabeth 1939 1978 8 Glover, Virginia Dougherty 1942 1976 8 Golden, Thelma 1987 1997

NO FILE

 8 Goodwin, Dorothy C. 1937 1984 8 Grierson, Margaret Storrs 1922 1968

CLOSED, see also finding aid

 8 Gulliver, Adelaide Cromwell 1940 1971

CLOSED

 8 Hakim, Joy 1951 1999 8 Harpur, Eleanor MacKenzie 1934 1969 8 Haseltine, Miriam 1916 1971

see also separate boxes

 8 Heath, Gloria Whitton 1943 1971

see also separate boxes

 8 Hiatt, Iva Dee 1979

no file, see also finding aid

 8 Hill, Helen Zimmerman 1950 1997

CLOSED

 8 Hirsch, Hortense Mayer 1907 1968 8 Hirschberg, Nell 1928 1978

see also separate boxes

 8 Hodgkinson, Laura Cabot 1922 1965 8 Holmberg, Ruth Sulzberer 1943 1988 8 Howard, Katherine Graham 1920 1967 8 Hoyt, Nelly Schargo 1943 1989

no file, see finding aid

 8 Ikeda, Sue Yung Li 1955 1983 8 Isaacs, Marion Scranton 1930 1978 8 Jamison, Marjorie Carr 1909 1966 8 Kahn, Louise Wolff 1931 1987 8 Kaminer, Wendy 1971 1998 8 Kelley, Peggy Clark 1935 1977 8 Kilgore, Emilie Smith 1957 1995 8 King, Carolyn Dineen 1959 1997 8 Lappas, Alexandra 1960 1979 8 L'Engle, Madeleine 1941 1981 8 Levine, Rhea Cotter 1960 1994 8 Lippard, Lucy 1958 1992 8 Lucas, Elizabeth Low 1917 1971 8 MacClintock, Dorcas Easton 1954 1987 8 MacKinnon, Catharine 1969 1991 8 Mayer, Hortense Brigham 1951 1984 8 McMenamin, Joan Stitt 1946 1985 8 Means, Helen Hotchkin 1919 1981 8 Mellon, Gwen Grant 1934 1997

OPEN FILE

 8 Mendenhall, Cornelia Baker no file 1975 8 Miner, Francis 1927 1964 8 Miller, Lynden Breed 1960 1995 8 Miller, Pamela Gundersen 1960 1998 8 Moldow, Susan 1967 2003 8 Molthan, Marian 1949 1987 8 Moore, Eudorah Morse 1940 1973 8 Morgan, Constance Morrow 1935 S 1974 8 Morse, Meroe Marston 1945 1968 8 Mosee, Lillian B. Witten 1918 1974 8 Moss, Cynthia 1962 1985 8 Munro, Eleanor 1949 1994 8 Oakes, Helen Baum 1945 1991 8 Oberlander, Cornelia Hahn 1944 1982 10 Peabody, Francis Wilson 1925 1992 10 Pell, Mary Chase 1937 1993 10 Perkins, Emelie Munson 1910 1977 10 Phelps, Edith Blakeslee 1938 1971 10 Picker, Jean Sovatkin 1942 1977 10 Porter, Barbara Cooney 1938 1976 10 Poole, Joyce H. 1979 1996 10 Pyle, Alice Parker 1947 1982 10 Read, Helen Appleton 1908 1968 10 Reed, Glenda Copes 1966 1982 10 Reid, M. Lucile 1967 2003 10 Rich, Francis Luther 1931 1973

CLOSED

 10 Riger, Eleanor Sanger 1950 1982 10 Rityo, Miriam Meyers 1937 1991 10 Roberts, Mary Gordon 1960 1985 10 Ronk, Sally Stewat 1934 1979 10 Rozendaal, Katherine Scranton 1931 1986

no file

 10 Sammartino, Sylvia Scaramelli 1925 1967 10 Sanger, Eleanor 1950

see Riger, Eleanor Sanger 1950

 10 Schafran, Lynn Hecht 1962 1992 10 Schwartz, Felice Nierenberg 1946 1976 10 Shipley, Elizabeth McCard 1928 1990 10 Siegel, Joyce Bernhard 1955 1970 10 Sivard, Ruth Leger 1937 1985 10 Skogland, Sandra 1968 2003 11 Smith, Alice Orme 1911 1973

see also separate box

 11 Smith, Marilyn Ray 1965 2003 11 Solomon, Maida Herman 1912 1979 11 Stage, Elizabeth K. 1972 1996

CLOSED

 11 Stanton, Madeline Earle 1919 1973

see also separate box

 11 Stella, Gertrude Ridgeway 1937 May 1981

no file

 11 Stern, Joanne Melniker 1944 1983 11 Sterne, Dorah Heyman 1919 1985 11 Stevenson, Ferdinan Nancy Backer 1949 1984 11 Straus, Ellen Sulzberger 1946 1971 11 Strickland, Katherine Gabel 1959 1976

no file

 11 Tangeman, Clementine Miller 1927 1967 11 Taylor, Juliet 1967 1990 11 Thacher, Gladys Stevens 1950 1992 11 Thompson, Margaret Cook 1911 1965 11 Thompson, Mary Rines 1940 May 1981 11 Thompson, Myrtle Fish 1992 1966 11 Tippie, Virginia 1972 1999 11 Toy, Pearl Tak-Chu Yau 1969 1991 11 Treuhaft, Elizabeth Marting 1926 1973 11 Tyson, Laura D'Andrea 1969 1994 11 Valentine, Joan Selverstone 1967 1991 12 Wallace, Jane House Wallace 1947 1992 12 Walmsley, Dorothy Hamilton 1917 1967 12 Washburn, Barbara Polk 1935 1980 12 Webster, Kate Belcher 1946 1982 12 Weil, Gertrude 1901 1964 12 Weldon, Virginia Verral 1957 1984 12 Weltman, Esther Ziskind 1922 1976 12 Will, Madeline Marion 1967 1989

no file

 12 Winchester, Alice 1929 1968 12 Wing, Virginia 1945 no file 1989 12 Wintersteen, Bernice McIlhenny 1945 May 1981 12 Wright, Jane 1942 1968 12 Wright, Katharyn Stubbs 1935 1970 12 Yang, Caroline Matano 1958 1989 12 Yolen, Jane 1960 1990 13-19 Medalists A-Z

(RESTRICTED)

 SERIES III. NOMINEES 20-24 A-Z

(RESTRICTED)