Scope and Contents The collection consists of the scrapbook Simpson kept as a Davidson student. The scrapbook begins with quotes and comments from fellow students, Simpson's reflections on the faculty and classes he took. It also contains numerous candid photographs of college life, tickets and programs for college events, newspaper clippings for sports events, including coverage of races at the new Charlotte Speedway. It also contains a comic section on coeducation with Simpson using magazine cutouts and...

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The collection contains newspaper articles related to the founding of the group. Also, screen shots from their Bosom Buddies website.

Scope and Contents The records consist of administrative files (RG 7/1) and publications (RG 7/2) of the Admission's Office. There are 2 subseries within the administrative files. Subseries 1 includes reports, self-study records, policy files, and correspondence. These files contain information on admission policies, athletics, minority student issues, the Love of Learning Program, and budgets. Subseries 2 includes records from the Admissions Trustee committee, faculty committees with responsibility for...

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The files consist primarily printed materials, especially invitations and programs. There are also some clippings and correspondence. Events documented include Campaign activities, Homecoming, Parents Weekend, Ne Ultra Society dinners, the 20th anniversary of women at Davidson, the opening of the Visual Arts Center, Board of Visitors meetings, the Speas Colloquium, the Bernard Society of Mathematics programs, and Institutional Advancement departmental activities.

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Ann Hayes Browning. Ann Hayes Browning graduated from Davidson College in 1979. She was a History major, hall counselor, and member of Rusk Eating House. The interview was conducted by Eoin Mills and Michael (Mike) McClelland. Interviewers were in Davidson, NC as well as the narrator. Browning discussed her experiences of her classes, professors, social life, and reflections on Davidson College in general. The interview was conducted as part of an Associated...

Scope and Contents Becca Stimson graduated from Davidson College in 1977. She was a Chemistry major, a member of Emanon eating house and the basketball, field hockey and tennis teams. The interview was conducted by Katharine Cabot and Annabel Winters-McCabe. Interviewers were in Davidson, NC, and Alum was in Chattanooga, TN. Becca Stimson discussed her experiences of classes, residential life, being a student athlete and her life-long Davidson friendships. She referred to Former Davidson Presidents Sam Spencer...

Scope and Contents In this interview, Carol Connor Willingham, class of 1977, discusses why she chose to attend Davidson College, her experiences with professors Charlie Ratliff (and his wife Mary Virginia Ratliff), Louise Nelson, Donald Kimmel, Jr., Robert Avinger, Jr. (and his wife Jane Avinger), and what it was like to attend Davidson College as part of the first class of freshman women. She comments on dating at Davidson, and reactions to her engagement to Ed Willingham, which occurred while she was a...

Scope and Contents Cissi Fulenwider Lyles graduated from Davidson College in ‘79, and at the time of the interview is working at the college as the manager of isolation and quarantine housing at the Davidson Guest House. She was a part of the third class of women to come to Davidson. She describes her decision to come to Davidson, experience as a woman and Davidson student including academics, daily life, friendships and the social scene on campus. She emphasized the positive impact Davidson has had on her...

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Gardner Roller Ligo. Gardner Roller Ligo was an exchange student from Mary Baldwin College (now Mary Baldwin University) during the 1971-1972 school year. During this interview, she discussed her academic and social experiences, the atmosphere on the Davidson College campus, and the friendships that she made. Through a number of telling stories, she recounted the discrimination and challenges that she and her fellow female students faced, as well as the rewarding...

Scope and Contents Meg Kimmel came to Davidson with her husband who landed his first job as a psychology professor. During the interview Meg discusses what it was like being a part of the first coed graduating class of Davidson. Her unique experience includes interactions with both students and faculty as a wife of a professor and what it was like being both pregnant and a mom while going to school at Davidson. Meg’s experiences add a distinctive glimpse into the life of one of the original female students at...

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Olivia Ware, Davidson College class of 1979, discusses her experience at Davidson College as a black female. She discusses academic life, dorm life (including a humorous experience with the bathrooms in Watts), social life (she was a member of Pax Eating House), and her experience after Davidson. She recalls overall a very fond college experience at Davidson. The interview was conducted as part of an Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) grant-funded course led by Dr. Rose Stremlau.

Scope and Contents The following is an interview conducted by Davidson College students, Ross Hickman, McNeill Franklin, and Madeline Chanfrau, and narrated by Renee Denise Fanuiel Blackwell. Denise Blackwell was the first Black woman to graduate from the college in 1977. She graduated with a degree in Psychology. In the transcription, Ross, McNeill and Madeline pose questions to Blackwell about her experience as a student at Davidson. Blackwell details her involvement in ROTC (she was the first female student...

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Interview of Dr. Samuel Reid Spencer, Jr. ‘40 by John P. Scherer (Class of 1989) as part of his senior project for the history department. Spencer describes the Vietnam War issue on Davidson’s campus through the late 1960s and early 1970s. Spencer discusses his presidency, coeducation, integration, activism, and compulsory ROTC and vespers and chapel attendance.

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Sue McAvoy. Sue McAvoy graduated from Davidson College in 1977. She was an Economics major, a hall counselor, played on the women’s tennis and field hockey teams, and worked for the school’s yearbook during all four years (eventually, as the Co-Editor her senior year). McAvoy discussed her experiences at Davidson College, as well as her experiences pre and post–Davidson. She recounted her experiences of athletics, academics, the yearbook, working as a Resident...

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Van Williamson Garrison. Garrison discusses her experience at Davidson College, including academics, social life, the hardships she faced, and life after college. Garrison was a part of the class of 1977 and later became a high school teacher. This interview was conducted over Zoom with Garrison in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and the interviewers in Davidson, North Carolina. The individuals mentioned in this interview are Laurie, Miles Ward, John, Frank Bliss,...

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Vicki Switzer member of the Davidson College class of 1974. The following is an interview conducted by Davidson students, Mimi Schrimsher and Emily Rankin, and narrated by Dr. Vicki Switzer. Dr. Switzer was the first woman to officially enroll at Davidson College. Dr. Switzer transferred to Davidson her junior year after completing two years at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She graduated from Davidson in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. Dr....

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A Union Board production in conjunction with the Davidsonian Show and Davidson Women's Activity Council. The video has interviews with Gardner Ligo, Job Thomas, and Caroline Fache along with short answer responses from Davidson students to questions such as when did coeducation begin at Davidson, what is a MRS degree, attitudes about gender relations on campus.

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The collection contains a copy of the group's contitution, lists of members from 1986 and 1987, newspaper articles about the closing of the house, and invitations to parties.

Scope and Contents Please note that Presidential records are closed fifty years prior to the current year.The files from President Spencer's office consist primarily of correspondence and reports. These files cover all aspects of his administration including information on coeducation, minority students, self-selection for fraternities, the college's relationship with the Presbyterian Church, integration, student unrest and the Vietnam War, the changing role of athletics, College Bowl competitions,...

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The collection contains a newspaper article about the founding of the group, an article form the 1978 Quips and Cranks, and numerous invitations to parties. There is also e-mail correspondence regarding the house events, and also includes a Davidsonian article concerning their Operation Smile project, as well as an application form for the Sig Ep 2003 Turkey Trot. The Presidents folder contains photocopied pictures of past presidents, and the Photos folder contains assorted photos.

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The collection contains two articles about the closing of the house and many party invitations.

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The file contains minutes and the final report of the Commission on Coeducation.

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The files contain minutes from the meetings, results from the Educational Testing Service College and University Environment Scales survey, the 1969 Report of the Commission, and the Minority report Dissenting from Anti-Fraternity Section. Both of the reports cover the differing role of fraternities on campus and coeducational issues.

Scope and Contents The files begin with the inclusion on the Academic Regulations as designed by the Educational Policy Committee. The folder on "Coeducation" contains the committees report on coeducation at Davidson. The correspondence files contain information on self-scheduled exams as well as approval for various courses taught on campus throughout the years. A specific folder is set aside for the Davidson in Washington Program. Two folders contain information on the Extended Studies Program and the...

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The files contain information about the program as well as correspondence with the committee.